Welp I held my breath and took the plunge into ROM country with this. The installation went pretty smooth, thanks to the clear instructions provided here and by the developers in the MOD's thread (there's also videos now 
) and also thanks to my ability to FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS, which apparently is tough for a lot of the folks flashing the MOD, lol. So far my impressions:
1. Can't say I'm an immediate fan of the blacked out look to everything (I added the 3xp3ri3nc3 mod with it which I guess blacks out the look and feel even more) but its not bad, its change and I need to adjust. I guess to be fair it looks cool in most cases but I'm not sure I like it in things like the Contacts menu and certain contextual menus, just kinda makes it harder to read things..
2. Its definitely smoother and faster, operationally and boot times, etc, everything is definitely more refined and better tweaked than the stock experience.
3. In terms of my Apps restoring... This was not as sweet as I would have liked. Many of them did automatically redownload and install when I first signed in. However many of them I had to reinstall from Titanium Backup using the backups I had. Wouldn't have been that bad, but TiBu seemed to have trouble when I instructed it to do a batch restore of multiple apps, especially larger ones (mostly games and the like), and would stall out. So I discovered it would be better to do most of the bigger apps one at a time. Not difficult, but time consuming. Hoping maybe someone can correct something I did or suggest a better way to handle that stuff.
4. Related to (3) would be app data.. but I guess that comes with the turf. Things like game progress, as well as just settings for many apps and bookmarks in my browser and all sorts of stuff like that.. Thankfully TiBu has the option to quickly restore an app's data with the backup copy, its just also pretty time consuming.
5. Contact restoring was fine once I figured out how to make sure all my contacts were backed up to Google before wiping. Linking them again to their facebooks and stuff was annoying as hell.. any workaround that will save them like that for next time??
6. 1% battery MOD is very cool as are the toggles in the pulldown menu. Pluses all around.
7. Did the Powerboost script as well (there's a vid tutorial for that also) which should enhance the sd read tweaks, battery saving, signal strength and speed... can't say I've noticed much difference yet but haven't had time to delve..
Overall seems cool, not fantastic or anything, but I'm glad I got through my first ROMing experience relatively unscathed, thanks to the help of some guys here as well. Will update as I get more accustomed to things.
) and also thanks to my ability to FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS, which apparently is tough for a lot of the folks flashing the MOD, lol. So far my impressions:1. Can't say I'm an immediate fan of the blacked out look to everything (I added the 3xp3ri3nc3 mod with it which I guess blacks out the look and feel even more) but its not bad, its change and I need to adjust. I guess to be fair it looks cool in most cases but I'm not sure I like it in things like the Contacts menu and certain contextual menus, just kinda makes it harder to read things..
2. Its definitely smoother and faster, operationally and boot times, etc, everything is definitely more refined and better tweaked than the stock experience.
3. In terms of my Apps restoring... This was not as sweet as I would have liked. Many of them did automatically redownload and install when I first signed in. However many of them I had to reinstall from Titanium Backup using the backups I had. Wouldn't have been that bad, but TiBu seemed to have trouble when I instructed it to do a batch restore of multiple apps, especially larger ones (mostly games and the like), and would stall out. So I discovered it would be better to do most of the bigger apps one at a time. Not difficult, but time consuming. Hoping maybe someone can correct something I did or suggest a better way to handle that stuff.
4. Related to (3) would be app data.. but I guess that comes with the turf. Things like game progress, as well as just settings for many apps and bookmarks in my browser and all sorts of stuff like that.. Thankfully TiBu has the option to quickly restore an app's data with the backup copy, its just also pretty time consuming.
5. Contact restoring was fine once I figured out how to make sure all my contacts were backed up to Google before wiping. Linking them again to their facebooks and stuff was annoying as hell.. any workaround that will save them like that for next time??
6. 1% battery MOD is very cool as are the toggles in the pulldown menu. Pluses all around.
7. Did the Powerboost script as well (there's a vid tutorial for that also) which should enhance the sd read tweaks, battery saving, signal strength and speed... can't say I've noticed much difference yet but haven't had time to delve..
Overall seems cool, not fantastic or anything, but I'm glad I got through my first ROMing experience relatively unscathed, thanks to the help of some guys here as well. Will update as I get more accustomed to things.
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