Pros
- Interface is very smooth
- GPS and navigation works well
- 4G works (I was in San Francisco)
- Video camera records
- Calls and SMS work fine
- Built in tethering works beautifully
- Battery life is good with moderate usage
Cons
- MMS is totally broken on VM
- Video playback of recorded videos does not work
- Wake locks keep phone awake more than it should be
- No 3D (I don't care)
- Maximum in call volume is often too low
- Stock keyboard blows
After using CM10 for my EVO 3D for two weeks, I would consider keeping it permanently on my phone. Despite all of it's flaws, CM10 is very stable and smooth. In over two weeks of use, I have yet to experience any issue too severe to live with.
Battery life is very important to me as a smartphone user. Typically I care more about idle battery life; I am a fairly light user on most days. On most days, my battery life was over 50% by the end of the day (15-20 hours on battery.) The only time when I came close to running out of juice was during a trip to San Francisco when I used Google maps and 4G all day long. Even though the build of CM10 I was running seemed to have a wake lock issue, it never seemed to cause excessive battery drain.
Some other thoughts about the ROM:
- The stock keyboard was so irritating to use that I installed my old favorite, Swiftkey.
- Many time when I had to take a call in a loud(ish) environment, I couldn't hear the other person talking because I couldn't turn the volume up loud enough.
- Although I could shoot video on my phone, I couldn't play it back later. Even MX player failed to play back my videos correctly. However, I could play back all the videos on my computer.
- Since MMS doesn't work on this phone for non Sense 3.6 ROMS on VM, I've just been telling people to email me pictures instead.
This next week I will test Team Dirt AOKP. I did plan to test Paranoid Android, but the dev has been banned from XDA and the thread was closed as well.
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