[G1 Android Development] arefin:
My review of this ROM

Hallo all,

I am once again going to put on my experiences for those who look for something like this :-)

I tried the ROM for 11 hours - not so long, I agree. I usually stick to a rom longer when I cant avoid it :-)

Well, I look for two things in a ROM - speed and stability, lets see how it compares to others I used,

1. Speed: my speedology is,

CSDI> BONSAI> AOSP> SuperD/Fasttest> Laszlo & rests

so yes, this is the fastest donut ROM I have ever used on my G1!

The others dont even come close to it in terms of speed.

2. Stability[/B]: my stabilitology is,

AOSP> WG> rests

3. EXPERIENCES:

a. First off, it costs me 2 reboots before the Sign-in Wizard, no other ROM ever showed up like this.

b. It takes for every reboot the time as if it was booting for the first time - very slow - rebooting is nightmare on this ROM

c. The entire ROM has a new appearance and setup...so it takes a while to get used to it, common behaviors are uncommon here, APPS2SD, paid apps, clocking, terminal, free space, everything will pose a sense of difference to a new user - and the app responsible for most of this is Supersetup2. This apps do most things in this ROM on behalf of many apps on other peoples ROMs. The app is not bad but u need to get used to it.

d. Go to Better terminal, slide out the hard-keybrd, type something, play a while, come back to home, Slide the Keybrd back --- voila your home screen is permanently landscaped, accelerometer does not change it back to portrait! move the Phone upright, rotate, whatever the screen stays landscaped.

There is more fun here, go to settings, wow it Force closes on you!!

Try to FC or Wait or go back home. Things may settle down after a while.

I was bit curious and tried to imitate the FC agai by repeating all above and my phone went blank entirely; had to take the baattery out - which i dont do for few months now :-S

e. built in metamorph changes the theme but only partially, leaving the Phone in a mixed state of Art :-D

f. there is a ghost in the Phone somehow, no matetr what you do with your APNDROID, the phone connects or dicconnects to the net on its own. Retrieving the default APN settings does not help 100%, I am O2 user but it offers me Vodafon and that works as well :-)

g. Now some goodies,

- the apps drawer is amazingly responsive, none other does the same smoothness

- load as many apps as u wish and still coming back tohome with all the icons visible is possible, no blank screens which is an issue with most ROMs; they heave a sigh before settling back to normal and in that process they show up with a blank screen for at least 10 secs.

- switching between apps is a fantastic experience with this ROM

- no lag

- everythings works, you just have to know few things - sppecially super setup2 :)

- lots of built in thinggy - BTFTP, EStrong file, Metaporph, Supersetup2, QuickBoot, FreeRAM, etc etc. (warez may be??!!)

- Black themed, looks good

- No RH, so go ahead and play your fav 3D games...very smooth, no frane drop

- take some video at night, with any other rom you ll get a 3 to 9 fps video, with this one even in the dark u ll get 20 fps!!! amazing indeed.

- many people like me disable rotation coz it takes a while and slow things down, with this ROM (and AOSP) you dont have to disable that coz it is so fast, just rotate the phone and see it for urself.

This is all for now, I devide ROMs in two - 'everyday ROMs' and 'live-dangerously ROms' for those who have enuf time to deal with difficulties posed by their ROms every now and then shud be good with this ROM as it falls in the later category. For those who want something reliable in their pockets witjout bother what is going to happen to my phone the next day, this is just a trial ROM may be.

Thanks and cheers,

Arefin