Downgrading to ICS

Hello world, i've just talk about this bluntly on my Audio podcast, which i'll give you the link at the bottom. I'm downgrading to Ice cream sandwich from jellybean and well i've got a couple of reasons why. Jellybean is the fastest operating system i've ever played with and it's much better than their froyo days, i'll tell you that. but i've got a few problems which are mainly the roms fault.

First there's no camera app, the Gallery app is there with all the pictures that i've taken with the previous roms i've had. I was at John bishop's Tour on thursday night (famous english scows comedian, Very funny) and i was going to take a picture of the event and post it on Facebook, just because i'm that sad and i was looking through the apps and i couldn't find the app at all. So then i was laughing my head off thinking how could they include an OS with no camera app and plus there was no camera drivers installed so even if i downloaded a camera app from the play store, i couldn't possibly get it to work. so i installed a new version of Jellybean but a different rom and i checked the rom was there which it was but when i installed the Gapps Zip file, the camera app just disappeared again and it turns out people have had the same problem when installing the gapps and they've been able to fix it. I'm not going to go into details but the nesscessary APK file that i needed wasn't there.

Second reason was, there was a lot of apps in the play store that weren't compatible with the device, Facebook and Twitter worked but games like Bad piggies or Jetpack joyride didn't. sure i can live without bad piggies and jetpack joyride but it's just that i want those apps and yet i'm so close to having them.

The third reason, it's the decrease in battery life, i used to get about 3 days worth of battery life with ICS but when i updated to Jellybean rom1, i'd get about 36 hours of battery life and when i tried to run the same OS but different rom, i got about 18 hours and i would have to charge it up at night to ensure i didn't run out of battery the second day.

One more reason is, when i got a text message, the phone wouldn't buzz at all. i would have to have the pulse notification lights to see if i got a message, sure i could just unlock the phone and it's effort to actually see if you've got a text. I would get vibration if i got a phone call.

Thank for reading