tested on aries ntt & epic4g cm-11 too, actually it always show the contact picture in 2nd ring (heared by caller). in first ring (heared by caller) only sound appear.HUGE incoming call lag (5s)
I mean, this is basic's phone funcionality. Please try to improve it.
THanks very much for your work.
maybe this a new feature that introduce in kitkat like someone already explained few pages back.