Team DIRT AOKP for Evo 3D

This review is long overdue, as it has been over two weeks since my CM10 review.  It's been hard to find time to change ROMs, but I finally was able to switch this afternoon.  This review will cover Team DIRT's build of AOKP for EVO 3D. Keep in mind that this ROM was intended for the Sprint phone, but I am using an EVO V on Virgin Mobile, and my results may not be indicative this ROM's behavior for Sprint devices.  Version 3.5.2 was used in this evaluation.

Pros

• Working video camera, camera and photo sphere
• Highly configurable
• Stock keyboard supports swipe gestures
• UI feels like AOSP
• Working Maps and GPS

Cons

• Sluggish UI
• Wi-fi connectivity issues
• Keyboard swipe animation lag badly
• In call volume too low to hear in moderately noisy environments
• No MMS support
• Battery life not as good as CM10 or Sense
• Wake locks keep phone awake more often than it should be

AOKP for EVO 3D,  while not an awful ROM, never felt production quality.  There was an ever present lag throughout the whole UI, which was only amplified as I switched between applications or copied files to the phone.   The keyboard worked fine fine when using swipe gestures, but the floating word preview was always laggy, and the font used for the word preview gave the keyboard a hacked up feel.  

In addition to UI problems, on several occasions I needed to pull the battery from my phone.  After pushing the screen-on button, the backlit capacitive buttons would glow but nothing would appear on the screen.  Even after multiple attempts to wake the phone, nothing would display on the screen.  There never seemed to be any rhyme or reason for this to occur.  Apps also crashed on numerous occasions, usually the System UI or messaging following heavy usage.

Battery life was nothing stellar either.  While I was able to make it through normal usage every day, I usually ended up with 30 - 40 % remaining.  Most days usage consisted of 10 -20 minutes of talk, 40 -50 texts (sent and received) and very light web browsing (two or three Google searches).  

Wireless connectivity was also troublesome with this ROM.  Even after connecting to a wi-fi network, the phone would become stuck using the 3G connection, which was too poor in most cases to even transmit data, resulting no Internet connectivity at all.  I experienced this issue with multiple wi-fi networks in multiple cities, therefore, the issue lies with the ROM, not the wi-fi access points.

This ROM suffers from too many issues for me to consider using it on a permanent basis.  Its benefits are far outweighed by its alpha quality feel and behavior.   Anyone who values speed and stability over new features and customization should not use this ROM.