CM10 vs stock-rooted; observations after a few weeks.

[curiousmike]

I find myself running CM10 most of the time (circa 12/31), but also being aggravated by spotty performance.
Primary performance concerns include:
- slower startup time
- sluggish running after initial startup ( have to wait for the system to 'settle'; feels like booting Windows XP from 5 years ago. )
- Really poor performance if something is writing to the card while trying to launch another app; i.e., if Google Play is updating an app while I'm switching or launching apps, it really chugs.
- Aggravating issue with sleep / wifi.
I'm running this on two different 32 GB Sandisk C4 cards.

Stock-rooted (running Nova Launcher) performs faster in all the above scenarios; not always markedly faster, but certainly noticeable.
Stock-root has issue with audio in various games I play ( i.e., no audio.)
But I'd have to say it feels snappier.
Stock-root gives up the top row and bottom row real-estate for BN status bars; the bottom row has the useless BN app button.
Stock-root has a markedly inferior Settings interface/number of options.

Perhaps the glory of installing CMxyz on internal memory will happen someday.

 

[lkmiller]

I've made the "useless BN app button" into a reading now button which I use all the time. Go to Settings > Applications > Home and uncheck Show my Recent Drawer. It will open epubs in other readers too. I use it to open whatever I'm reading with Mantano.