Above is a video that I have made of this rom in action! I love to have the latest ROM! I check XDA just about every single day. And today they have released the LEGEND of roms today! The reason why is because they have finally found a way to get the camera working for Ice Cream Sandwich! I knew that they would get it done very soon as we have an amazing team of developers working on our phone. Just one thing to keep in mind is that the rom is still in some sort of beta. So as you are about to find out, not everything is working.Here is a link to the thread if you didnt come from there so you can download the ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1428866. So, without anything else holding me back, here is my review of the Virtuous Quattro RC1 ROM!
POPULAR PROBLEMS:
Ok Even though the camera does work you have to know that it wont always work. I have an example in the video above where when you sometimes open the camera app it will go to a black screen. The way that I have found to fix that is by taking a picture the way that it is. After you do that it will work normal.
Taking video and taking a panorama shot does not work either. It will force close if you try to use it.
There will be some sort of graphical glitches as you run the rom. There is no doubt about that. You will see what I mean in the video. The application icons will disappear and or look wrong. after you restart your phone or launcher it will work fine. I recommend restarting though because when it does start having those problems it will look like that through some apps (like youtube for example) and just killing them wont work.
Other than that everything has been working fine for me and most others. Some people have reported that the sound doesn't work for calling. I tested this and I could hear on both sides. Also some people have said that the music had trouble syncing but again, that worked fine for me. I have music on my sd card and in my google account and everything has worked just fine!
SPEED!!!!
BROWSER:
I don't know what it is about the browser but it has a really nice speed of caching or something. For an example when I go to any page it will ZOOM when I scroll up and down the page. I think that this is a ICS feature. Not a Quattro feature.
CPU OVERCLOCKING:
I believe that the kernel allows you to overclock the cpu to around 1900 mhz. I did this for a few minutes and it was SUPER fast! Still some lag from here and there but still I was amazed.
OVERALL:
Now the speed I have to say isn't the greatest, as there is a bit of a lag from now and then. But if you love to browse, multi-task, and dont mind a little problem here and there then I say GO FOR IT!!!
FEATURES!!!
SETTINGS:
The greatest part about this ROM and one of the many reasons you should pick this ROM over the other ICS ROMs available is because of the settings. I know that it sounds silly. But it is one of the major things that is different than the other ICS options out there.
What you can do in the settings are great. You can do all sorts of things from setting the battery % to be in the notification bar, turn the crt animation on/off, make it so you can just scroll into the widgets instead of having to press the tab "widgets", and many many more.
BROWSER
I think that the browser is the coolest part of the ICS experience. The fact that you can sync all of your bookmarks and many other things through the browser between your phone and your computer makes it so cool and just easy. Its just another thing that makes your life simple. I think that this is just another thing that makes google so amazing as well. The fact that they have made everything to be in one place with google plus, picasa, google music and so on. They have put it all in ICS making it one of the greatest things ever made. (a little off topic sorta, But its late)
CONCLUSION!!!
So, If you haven't tried out this rom yet, I would suggest to do so as it is the best experience with ICS that you will get on this phone at least for the present. Yes there are a few problems with it but if you dot mind having to reboot your phone at least 3 times a day to fix the graphical problems, not being able to record a video or take a panorama shot, then you could use this as a daily driver.
It isn't that much that you would have to put up with if you want the best of the best. I just can't myself for the reason that I need the video recorder because I have an amazing family that I just cant miss certain moments.
I say that if you can, GO for it! The rom has obviously had a lot of work put in to it. And it is thee greatest team around, so be sure to check back to xda for their updates. I am sure that they would also really appreciate a little donation for all of their hard work!
I hope you enjoyed my review! Thanks for reading!
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