[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] EastExpert:
Report from E.E.

I've installed the Midget's 1.0 ROM yesterday.

Good work, out and about.

Loved the installation routine, easy & simple -- just install, no "reboot to bootloader" bull****.

Delighted to see .XLSX Excel 2007 files readable now. The new ROM has Office 2007 files supported, which brings an end to the time when I carried Off-2007 files round but had to convert them for the PDA to 97/2003 format...

Quite enough memory for smooth operation.

Dunno why people cuss at HTC HomePlug or HTC Task Manager -- they do what's on the tin, and they're in the ROM.

Probably the Author would be interested to know my problems, too :)

1) Push e-mail.

Under standard WM5 I can easily download a certificate from Cert Authority and it gets saved on the device in Personal store.

Now under WM6 there are Personal, Intermediate and Root instead of just Personal and Root stores on the PDA.

After I configured Exchange push mail, I don't see a valid certificate present. I only have it working till soft reset, and then... it's all gone and error xxxxxx27h "Personal Certificate Required" pops up, and I have to Delete server association and reconfigure it again.

Which royally pisses me off, naturally :)

2) VPN Configuration.

It's quite easy to configure data connection as usually.

Something is wrong with VPN configuration, however.

Our company uses Cisco Altiga VPN concentrators, so I have to "disable software compression" in connection options to successfully connect to VPN.

Then I go to VPN configuration, and there's an option "This network connects to the Internet" and "Use proxy server". I tried to enable this first checkbox, because when connected through VPN I shouldn't need to connect to Internet separately. When I try to save these settings, they don't get saved. However if I also enable the second checkbox "Use proxy server", the "... connects to Internet" settings is successfully saved.

3) OneNote Mobile.

Somehow the "big" OneNote doesn't recognise that there is already its smaller counterpart installed and still offers me the installation prompt. I could ignore this and just install OneNote Mobile again. Hmm... synchronisation plays games.

4) I installed MS Voice Command 1.6 UK version because I don't yet understand how to activate the one that's in the ROM. Everything works fine first. There was Voice Command configuration icon in Settings at the end, I assigned Voice Command to Speech button, and it worked fine.

I installed it to SD Card, because memory version speaks too fast to my liking. (It warned me that it's recommended to install it to main memory). That worked fine.

Now after some time, Voice Command doesn't activate, and Voice Command icon in Settings has no title.

Bummer -- I always rely on Voice Command. The one in JWright's ROM worked OK, albeit waited until listening state a bit longer.

That's it for now.

P.S. Wish I would understand how to "activate" parts of this ROM by CABs. Where are they sitting - in ROM or ExtROM?

(and I sometimes wish I had a E-TEN Glofiish X800 and forget about betas and the need for a separate external GPS unit... Or is it time to buy Garmin nüvi 660?... and have it all just bloody working: pop it to the cradle & there we go, mate)...