I am still with Motley's stable. Battery life is good, getting minimum 1 hour SOT per 20% on heavy wifi usage . If I am doing things like mostly reading articles on Pocket or etc, can see it jump to 1 hour and a half or more with 20%. I have not tried the recently updated kernels by other devs since I am happy with the battery life and performance with CM M2, no slow down/lags even when I compare it with a friend's stock N4. Pretty happy with the current setup, so I only do the occasional xda checking to check whether M3 CM is out or new motley's stable.

that'll drain your battery more. Use BBS and Greenify those apps that are holding partial wakelocks after tweaking the colour with motley's settings, this was way back, when molesarecoming of PA first started tweaking, I noticed that there are actually grey background in G+ app. Definitely liking the tweaked colour, they look richer. depends on the ROM, CM and other CM based ROMs that have addon.d support, you don't have to flash gapps again, for other ROMs that don't have addon.d script feature, you'll have to. BTW, you can try to fix permission if there are FCs.

perhaps some of the voltages are a bit too low. Use scaling test to check the stability of the voltages.

not all chips are equal, if you are getting random reboot, the UV might be a bit too low for yours.

falcon have my vote too. A very polished experience I'd say. Used to love Tweakdeck.

this! I used to switch kernels every weekend when I first got the phone, and I can honestly say that most of them are roughly the same in terms of SOT(this was back then) . Why I prefer motley's, I can tweak most of the settings like screen colour via userinit.d, and detailed changelogs. I have a preference for detailed changelogs. in the end, just go for a kernel that you feel comfortable with, they all strive for good battery life. The only changes I made on motley's is to tweak the colours, everything else is on default settings.

I am still on CM M2, a friend is using AOKP b6, the extra tweaks in AOKP are nice, but I don't really use them, so I have not jumped to AOKP as daily driver. Can vouch for CM M2, rock solid.

http://get.cm/?device=mako&type=snapshot
yeap, feature wise, other distributions have more features than CM. CM is AOSP like with some added features. AOKP/Xylon/Carbon/PA or other distributions provide more features out of the box.

my flashing period has ended, it lasted for two or three weeks when I first got the N4. I have settled down with CM+motley

yeap, just dirty flash cm m2 again, and then flash motley.

with CM, you only need to flash gapps once(cm have addon.d backup function), so if you are switching kernels and currently running CM, just dirty flash CM again, and flash the new kernel. your gapps would be automatically backed up.

regarding the cost of device. buying off contract vs on contract comes down to your usage. original LG malaysia set is available at 1.5k now (search at lelong). I find prepaid plans by various telcos to be more flexible than Digi's postpaid. with RM48 Umobile, you'll get 100 mins calls to any network + 2GB of high speed data, after which it'll be throttled. I am using RM28 per month, 100 mins + 500mb data, so far, it is adequate for me. so RM28 or RM48 monthly cost, it is still affordable for a student.

my advice is to calculate your rough usage and compare the various available plans with your usage.

regarding battery life, I can survive a day of class in uni (social networks, viewing notes etc). if it is not enough for your usage, get a powerbank. they are always handy.

still at exp b40. the newer versions add in touch sensitivity option and faux's audio enhancement option for the speaker. I am still at b40 since there are not much changes to the performance parts of the kernel and I don't use the newer touch sensitivity and audio tweaks. (there have been some setups for these new options in the thread that you can try if you want)

Would probably update if there is a newer version after b49, or when CM releases M3.

polarzbearz ultra crystal is a fingerprint magnet. it is quite hard to make it less fingerprint magnet unless you are will to sacrifice clarity (matte sp). the naked glass is definitely better

just give it a try for a week and see how it goes!

If speed is the most important thing that you look for in a browser, I'd say give Naked Browser a try.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...ev.nakedbrowser

It is very spartan in UI, and there is a bit of learning to do on how to use it, but it is the fastest browser I have used. It even works better than stock webkit browser in my aging Desire Z.

This + send to my computer + chrome to phone + LastPass bookmarklets is enough for me to move over from Chrome

time to install a good anti theft app. I have had a similar experience and Cerberus performed brilliantly.

short story, accidentally left my phone somewhere quite public, noticed the phone went missing, triggered the lock command via Cerberus website. triggered GPS remotely and pinpoint the rough location, sent the take picture remotely command (this allowwed me to narrow down the area), and lastly when I was around the area, I sent the ring alarm command and managed to find my Desire Z.

paid one time license fee of $4(RM12.23 by today ER) for the app, and managed to find my Desire Z that costed me RM999. That is just 1.2% of the value of my Desire Z and you can use the same license up for five devices simultaneously (still have it on the Desire Z, and now on my N4)

the most noteworthy feature of Cerberus is if you have an unlocked bootloader, you can flash the Cerberus zip file into /system, so that it'll survive a factory reset, so you can still activate it even if the thief do a factory reset, granted that he is not savvy enough to flash a full factory image. this is one of the benefits of having an unlocked bootloader, if you are rooted, you can use Bootunlocker app to relock your bootloader on the fly.

you can read Android Police's security apps review here
[Mobile Security App Shootout, Final Roundup] Out Of A Sea Of Apps, Just One Emerges As A Clear Winner In Keeping Your Device Safe

Android Police's full review of Cerberus here
[Mobile Security App Shootout, Part 3] Cerberus Faithfully Guards All Your Devices With Ease

flashable zip of Cerberus available here Cerberus Flashable Zip - Download

IINM there is a two weeks trial period for the app, so you can try it out first before purchasing. Remember to enable the options like device administrator, and remote wipe feature if everything else fails.

you can get it from the Play Store too, but I'd recommend getting the flashable zip since it'll push it to /system. personally I am using the hidden/disguised version of the flashable zip.

Good luck, hope this'll help someone too

This post has been edited by azrash: Apr 6 2013, 03:13 AM

it is not tied to your Google Play account, it will be tied to an email that you provide.

so say you want to flash/install it in your sister's phone, just open the Cerberus app and login using the credentials that you have used when you signed up, and tick the options that you want to enable, and you are all set.

very minimal, only a few seconds of partial wakelocks frommy oobservation. It'll hold a longer wakelock only when you have triggered the tracking mode, and other commands etc.

there are other nifty features like take a picture without the screen showing anything, and also send a text message that can be played as a speech. During my initial test, I also tried the remote wipe feature on my Desire Z and it did wiped the phone and Cerberus is still active.

There is no noticeable battery drain when the app is notttriggered from my observations via BBS.

The UI of the app is however very spartan. I have emailed the developer the other day and the next version would support CM's addon.d backup script so you don't have to reflash the Cerberus zip file when updating your CM ROM. you can already do this now by changing some values In the gapps script.

that is correct, hence my previous advice in the previous thread about using bootunlocker to lock the bootloader if you are rooted. The thief would need to wipe your device if they want to unlock it, so it'll at least keep your personal info relatively safe.

This post has been edited by azrash: Apr 6 2013, 05:07 PM

most likely they'll announce Nexus 7 only at IO.

Nexus phones are normally announced in Q4. Both N4 and Gnex were announced in October and available for purchase in November. Nexus S was announced and available in December.

But who knows what Google is thinking.

Hmm I highly doubt this. If the app is not triggered or activated remotely, it will just stay 'asleep' like it is not installed.

Pretty sure others can corroborate this, I have used it since the Desire Z. Are you sure it is draining your battery while it is inactive? Check your BBS.

This could be because of many things, might be your nandroid backups too. What I'd suggest is to install storage analyser, enablethe root feature, and let it scan /data ppartition. You'll find out what have been using your storage. Disk Usage is another app that does the same thing

so if you use the Cerberus remote app, it won't work, but it'll work just fine with the Cerberus website? If that is the case, email the developer. They'llddefinitely response to your email. They are beta testing a new release now.