[Touch Cruise General] raskell:
Polaris Project IS STILL MOVING FORWARD

Many of you seem to be quite impatient, but be assured that improved ROM's are forthcoming. By now, most of you are benefitting from the Team's efforts on HARDSPL, thanks to the magnificent efforts of Olipro.

You're actually using the MFG SPL from my device, modded by Olipro to be useable on your new devices. From the sounds of (gripes) here on the forum, it appears that some may under estimate the amount of time and effort already expended on your behalf.

The first device funded by the project actually got trashed attempting to perfect the HARDSPL. These things happen. We could not make any progress using my device since it already had the MFG SPL, so we needed the first device because it had the production SPL. Olipro and others on the team expended an enormous amount of time and effort to recover the first device and to GIVE YOU the SPL needed for flashing future ROMS. We are indebted to them for their time and dedication, wanting to satisfy your additiction to flashing ROMS.

Overall, I am still quite pleased with my Polaris. I have had negliglble problems with it since late November. (That's less than three months ago). Last April (07) when I first got my Athena, it seemed like it took forever for the HTC WM6 upgrade to roll out in late July (four months later). The Athena project team then picked up the ball and have been cooking and improving it ever since then.

Several from the Athena Team volunteered to pickup on the Polaris Project, prompted in part by my early acquisition of a pre-production device and their help in dumping the ROM got the ball rolling. I could have chosen to work with others, but in my own experience and opinion, this team is the best hope for our device.

PK and Itxda have stated ahead of this post where we are on the project. It isn't about money and it isn't about getting the cook a phone to test ROMs on. Both of these are quite necessary, but the end game is a fast, stable, enhanced quality ROM. Let's leave the video driver fix off the discussion board for now. This team isn't about doing that just yet. With the addition of Bepe to the team, there is much to look forward to.

If, in your state of impatience, you want the team to release 'alpha quality' ROMS, you'll only have more to (gripe) about. Our Polaris devices are cutting edge technology already. Many of the tweaks and customization tools from other devices are out there and they work on our device. Take my advice, enjoy your Polaris, tweak it as much and as often as you like. If you want to playback videos on it, do as I do and encode them for 320x240. Until the hardware acceleration gets turned on, that's the reality of what we need to do.

As for upcoming ROMs, they will come when the quality is testesd and assured. Expect slight improvements at first, with larger gains to follow, but do show the team some respect. All are volunteering their personal time which YOU will benefit freely from. I will close this rather lengthy post with this thought, "IF you shoot the horse, you'll walk". This team can pack up and move out any time they want. We should be encouraging them and supporting the effort, certainly if we expect to be given the results for free.

Respectfully - Raskell