[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro ROM Development] rdosti:
Hey Ted & ALL,

I JUST RELEASED 8.5 with "upto" 80MB Storage! (Mostly because of Mr.RamDisk) - Camera issue of 8 has been solved as well. New Ringtones, Misscall/sms alerts added !

I hear you (Ted) and understand what you want or need. Sadly, I don't think a flashdisk is something I really want to add right now. By the way as of 8.5 (yes I just released it) you can now get RAMDISK (Temporary Storage) upto 32mb making your total Storage 80MB!!!

I know theres a lot of greatness in Flashdisk, but personally I don't like it and have heard (unverfied) of issues with Flashdisk storage of email attachments rather than StorageCard (which has higher capacities). With RamDisk you can bypass that (First insert StorageCard then create Ramdisk). I believe that should help solve the issue with flashdisk.

Anyhow, I'm a ramdisk fan really. The simple reason is I dont want to make too much coding changes that might result (or be the cause of the 6.1 hangs known on other roms). I also want YOU to decide how much storage you really want. The truth is most people have good sized memory cards to store most "save and keep files" and don't still like adding internet cache cleaners,etc. That's where RamDisk does the job well. WE don't know what the reason really is (or atleast I dont), so its better to play with the "STABLER Kitchen" (notice the 'r' in stable). Hopefully in a few weeks or month/s I will implement flashdisk but right now I feel giving the customer CONTROL is more important in vanilla roms, rather than implementing what I want. Thats why RAMDISK is OPTIONAL in the ext-rom (users can delete it totally), rather than set it up at 10mb or cause issues later on with attachment storages,etc.

I appreciate your feedback both good and bad. I have been releasing updates a bit too fast and I'm sure some guys are annoyed feeling I should test longer. The main reason I cook faster and release faster (and test less) is because as far as Stability goes All my editions have been fairly stable (if not perfect) thats why testing has less of a role and adding items (or removing non-destructive items) or modifying here and there (knowing there will be no effect on stability) has been the fair reason Ive kept releasing updates. I get these really funny ideas every few hours and want to get them out before I forget or make a mess...but unless there's a crash bug or a major issue 8.5 will be the main rom here for a week (or so).

Regarding Video Call I have started playing with it, but doesn't look too good. I will specify Im a cooking "stripper" rather than a coder or programmer so I might not even come out with VC and might indeed wait for Tomal or someone else release it. The latest "Beta Release" is far from stable and is not good enough to release in my rom (unlike another cooker). I personally don't want to throw in half baked items because it causes issues alongside and breaks the "stability" record I'm happy with "serving" you with. However, I have been testing out a few "very unstable roms" with a few testers. If you are interested in trying out my "Unstable Explosive Bombs" you may PM me. But as mentioned my forte is not the VC and they are far from even being "Beta" according to me. So I prefer to let the "Professionals for VC" do that :)

I would like to thank everyone - for their support and help and patience. Hopefully 8.5 meets to the standards of everyone. I wanted to release this as version 9 but I felt that would be unfair, since a small bug fix and a realization that 32mb ramdisk would work is hardly worth a major update, plus I already titled Version 9 Alpha/Beta for my VC Rom (which is still alpha).

Thanks to everyone - critics and supporters. Hopefully you all find this the best rom yet.