[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Development] Alcatrazx:
Thanks for sharing

I will try resolve some of your problems with the folowing:

- For starters the overheating problem... funnily enough had he same issue when I was running a lower Class SD card which was a Sandisk. The moment I moved on to a Class 6 microsdhc card, I saw an instant difference in how the apps handled on the phone. There are several class 6 cards out there... just dont go for counterfeit ones or cards which do not offer genuine lifetime warranty.

- This in turn affects also your second issue re app deployment and sync transfers. Even overall performance on the OS.

- To further improve transfer turn your antivirus to gaming mode or silent mode ... Trust me this does all the difference apps load significantly faster (you can time it). tp give you a rough example. Assassins Creed with antivirus on my fast sd card took AGES (literally overnight) ... whereas with the antivirus set into silent mode or gaming mode took significantly less. . .

- Last but not least as far as battery drain is concerned there are at least 3 things you can do to improve your overall experience and I am sure everyone will agree.

- Use Radio 2.15 and TURN ON 3g if you are not on 3G then use 2.12

- Use the Soft Radio which everyone is recommending, typically you just replace a file in data.zip prior to flashing and you're ready to go ... If im not mistaken YukiDa's thread offers this soft Radio.

- Use the camera trick which basically is nothing but laoding the camera. flipping it to video camera mode (by pressing the icon on the lower right) ... wait for it to autofocus and close the app. Believe it or not this nice little trick puts down battery drain significantly and you get more juice out of your battery.

- Make sure battery is fully charged prior to flashing because WP7 tends to get the stats of your battery wrong. To recalibrate it I advise you to drain it completely , charge it to 50% drain it again ... charge it full capacity. You should have better calibration on your battery. Battery tool will also give you a solid indication of what your full charge value is like... it should be aruund 1230 on full charge ...if you're not try repeating process again to recalibrate ...it worked for me.

- Turn on all battery saving options under battery saver .... Option 2 goes off as soon as you reconnect your usb cable ... so make sure to give this feature a visit again.

- Turn off all auto checking of emails from sync settings under your email tab ... this drains battery significantly.

And for all those in the endless debate of whether the HD2 was eligible or not to run WP7 ... the answer is YES. it was technically capable (fully) but everyone seems to cover it up . ...Build 7592 is not a beta in my opinion primarily because I don't feel to be forgiving with respect to M$ end of. .... the problem is that Mango has 2 other builds preceding it .... so most of the bugs had to be pulled out ages ago ... I am speculating now but I personally think that HD2 was ditched most probably because it has a removeable MicroSd card as it's the only difference it sports compared to the existing WP7's on the market.... The latter all have a removeable card but it's not readily accessible ... for a reason ..... we'll have to figure it out in the future I guess

With the progress that's being made on WP7 I sincerely hope that we get hold of the source and remive the abstraction layer between the low level drivers and the OS (now that's one hell of a dream ......)