[Samsung Galaxy S 5 Unified Development] KingAmir:
11/01/17 build review

[MENTION=2693412]haggertk[/MENTION] here's my experience with the ROM so far.

Been following the project since it started, flashed the 11 jan build on my g900f and have been using it for a few days now. I was using cm13 previously.

I flashed the latest samsung stock firmware first from sammobile - G900FXXS1CPLV G900FVFR1CPJ1 released in december 2016. I then clean flashed the ROM using the latest Philz recovery wiping everything first and then flashed the nano 7.1 arm gapps.

Nearly everything works great, rarely any force closes but the camera is a little buggy. Not sure if this is to do with rotation issues. It does force close when changing modes, sometimes also needs a few taps to get recording started. Minor things really. GPS is perfect. Haven't had a chance to test out BT yet.

Battery life is great I get about 20 hours with 3hrs15min SOT.

When sleeping it holds power really well. Overnight I lose about 1-3%.

LineageOS system seems to be using quite a lot of power. I have attached screenshots. Android system also uses a bit of power. Not sure if this is the NFC bug where it needs to be deleted in explorer.

The main bug I have is the mic problem. With the phone to my ear during calls people on the other side hear me perfectly.

When I put the call on loudspeaker the other side can barely hear me if at all. Even when I am shouting.

Also, when I try and record audio using the recorder app I can barely hear myself and it sounds muffled.

I remember I did not have this issue with the very early builds of cm13.

I recall CM blocked call recording as it was banned in some countries and I am not sure whether this broke the mic in later builds. I have been having that problem ever since. I have cleaned the mic, tried the MIC gain mod which didn't really help and tried the mic without using a case. None of which really solved the problem.

BTW will we be getting native call recording back in the ROM? I did try other call recording apps but on cm13 I could never record the other side of the conversation.

I am also getting the flickering problem, raising the brightness a little does sort it out. I tried disabling HW overlays but it didn't help. I guess that's just my hardware. It does sometimes take about 20seconds to wake the screen.

Really tiny bug is that during music playback artwork on lockscreen settings aren't saved with every restart of the music app. Also when your fingers are a little bit wet and you try and use the scanner it does make the phone freeze for a short while. Though I do understand it's due to a lack of code from samsung that the scanner isn't perfect so I am very thankful that you managed to get it to work. It is faster than on cm13.

I did get the APN issue where I couldn't edit my default APN (vodafone). The default has some errors in it which stop data from working which is why I edit it every new rom I flash. Easy fix just created a new one and manually input settings.

small suggestion - could we get the sound/volume tile back for the status bar pull down?

Thank you for your work, overall it's a really stable ROM perfect as a daily driver.