Well, here's my thoughts on this puppy. So far, I'm loving it. It has its quirks, though...first the bad ones, then the good ones...:
Bad 1.) I had this thing actually freeze on me ONE TIME just now. And upon rebooting, A LOT of my apps were missing. I actually had to go into Market/Play for a bit and then go back to the home screen to get the missing apps to show themselves. Maybe it's slow to load up everything if you have a lot of apps?
Bad 2.) Another thing: even with iPhone Ringtones flashed into place, that ONE TONE wasn't in my list (Apple Da-Ding, you called it). Not that it's a big deal, but I thought you should be made aware of that.
Bad 3.) I'm NOT feeling how you can't arrange the app icons on-screen from one page to another, or on that same page. (It's REALLY hard to do here, I don't recall it being this difficult with iOS...gonna have to take a peek at my ex's iPhone 4S again...) I find that VERY annoying, I'd like to have - for example - all four Zenonia icons together...and I can't seem to do that.
Bad 4.) Titanium Backup. It got really weird on me. There were six apps that it WOULD NOT restore at all. One of those, S-Voice, is perfectly understandable as that's an ICS-based app. But Words with Friends, Zenonia 3 & 4, The World of Magic, and Youtube!? Things that have likely been around forever!? (I KNOW Zenonia 3 has to have been around, I had that
well before Sprint rolled out the OTA GB/ZVJ update) Unacceptable...
Bad 5...or is it!?) The iOS style music player's here, but the video player ain't...it's that gawdawful default GB video player!!! (Admittedly, I *like* the ICS video player better than this crap.)
Good 1.) Battery life seems even better here than with STOCK GINGERBREAD. IN fact, the ZVJ update was when my Optimus started having problems with rapid battery drain, made a bit worse with the Cold As Ice ROM...but this? This sips battery instead of chewing it like Cookie Monster on cookies. VERY NICE!!! Even with the EXACT SAME overclock settings that I ran in CAI (Min600/Max864/Performance), this still simply sips on battery.
Good 2.) Nice how the app icons that DON'T have borders get them. Looks cool.
Good 3.) JoyMusic just rocks. It's a damn shame that the video player wasn't included here. That's how awesome it is. I am wondering, though: how does that online lyrics feature work?
Good 4...sort of.) A notepad built in? Wow...but I hid it since I already have Color Note...(which TB was able to restore...except I had to go with App Only, as App+Data would hang.)
Good 5.) I said this already: the reactions you can get from iPhone users are SO FRIGGIN WORTH IT.
It's too bad that the CM9 version wasn't working for you so far. Hopefully you'll find a way to make it happen. And oh...um...why does one of those iPhone "wallpapers" look A LOT like the HydroROM background? (that water wave/splash one)