[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] mfranov1:
Feedback after using COLAB for a few days

Hi,

I installed Colab few days ago and have been playing with it since. I already posted this on wcxxperia-nce.com forums but since there are more people here I will post here also:

Here are some of my impressions and comparisons to Xperia X1.5 which I used the most.

1. Colab is a little bit faster, not much but it can be seen when scrolling for example in File Explorer or in Email

2. I had a problem with Media Experience panel suddenly quitting to the Today screen without apparent reason - this was not happening on X1.5

3. I also have freezes when changing background image on Today screen from Settings menu

4. Panel manager can sometimes be unresponsive and stuck for a minute or two then just proceeds as normal

5. I am using it without Manilla and with SPB MS 3.5.1. Everything works OK beside these issues I mentioned in points 2, 3 and 4. I know there is also a pure ROM but I actually like some of the stuff from Manilla (like Long Press End Key functionality) that don't need GUI to be fully loaded.

6. X1.5 has security model set to "Security Off" and Colab has it set to Three-Tier Security Off model. This presents problem when using IBM EasySync Pro so one has to fiddle with MS Security Config Manager to reset it and use some scripts to start it properly. Not much work but can get annoying when you don't know what is going on.

7. What I find most interesting is this: SKTools benchmarks show HUGE advantage for X1.5 in Main Storage and Storage Card benchmarks (Reads and writes) - more than 2.5x reads and more than 5x writes!? BUT, when you actually do load apps or copy files either there is no difference or Colab gets the job done faster!!! So Colab is better at initial loading of apps and installation even though benchmarks say something completely different.

8. Lotus Traveler works with both ROMs without any problems. With BB Connect I had problems in this ROM but since Traveler is better option I don't care.

9. MrRusch's Touch X 10.8.2 is faster than any 6.5 ROM I tried but I still like the 6.5 because it is more refined, scrolling works in all apps, lock screen is good, I actually like new start menu and I like gesture support. So 6.5 is staying on my X1

10. AgendaOne has some problems with scrolling which I didn't exeprience in any other ROM. In Day and Agenda Views if you try to scroll using your finger, it would usually start to scroll kinetically, very fast and very responsive. On Colab it just tries to flick page at a time, with no scrolling at all. Don't know what is causing this. What is even funnier, on Contacts view everything is working as expected and very fast.

11. Bluetooth - I had some problems with incoming calls, I couldn't hear anything through SE BT car speakerphone I got with my X1. I installed patch provide dhere in this forum and seems it is solved now but will see in a couple of days. Still can not hear music through this BT device though (I am using SE Media Experiance Panel for this).

12. Unlike X1.5, on Colab you actually see what you are typing when going from portrait to landscape mode and starting typing messages. Also, switching between landscape and portrait is way faster.

13. Battery time is on average, meaning I can squeeze out full day without recharging. X1.5 and UnOff Ininite could make to two days, some other ROMs could not make through whole day. This is with Lotus Traveler push mail being on all the time.

14. I lost ringtone settings one time during this four days. I changed back, now everything seems fine, we'll see how it goes after a while (seems to be connected to Manilla ROMS since I didn't had this problem with any of the Pure ROMs).

Overall, very good, if not best 6.5 ROM until now and I tested a lot of them in the past 2 months. Minor issues, Panel manager/MXP and AgendaOne kinetic scrolling being something that annoys me more since I am using it almost all the time but overall very, very good.

Enough for now, hope it helps someone (at least MrRusch - I've been using your Touch X 10.8.2 before UnOff and X1.5 and it was THE best 6.1 ROM EVER).

Best regards,

Marijan