[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] ahirshfield:
1.8 findings & future...

Hi Dutty et al,

The unfortunate thing about these forums is that most posts will be critical, pointing out issues, addressing problems and asking questions in general. Apart from the odd thank you and complimentary post, people usually have no reason to simply list all the things that DO work, so appear to be outnumbered by posts of criticism or negativity.

With that in mind I want to start by saying how much I (and this community) appreciates this ROM and all your ongoing work and support. I had to start this post like that so as not to appear to only concentrate on problems. Far from it - this is our ROM of choice and hence the occasional list of bugs, glitches, requests and questions that we hope you can resolve for future releases...

In addition to your usual load of OEM updates, newer core etc, please could you also consider updating the following 'extra' apps to their latest versions:

Total Commander 2.50 (2.51)

Pocket RAR 3.8 b3 (1.8 beta 4)

ClearTemp 0.9.8.4 (1.0.3) - 4 versions old!

Task Manager-dotfreds 3.0 (3.1) (any chance of including his PIMBackup tool as it is vital after a ROM update?)

Pocket Screen 1.3 (up-to-date)

PocketNotepad 4.0.10 (up-to-date)

GB-SOFT Tweak 10.07.2008 (up-to-date)

Paint-pdacraft - gone in 1.8. Is there any particular reason you decided to abandon this app? Perhaps PocketPicture would be a worthy replacement? http://osdmsoftware.googlepages.com/pocketpicture

PHM Regedit - Not in the rom but still listed on the first post. I assume this was replaced in functionality by both Total Commander and Task Manager's plugins?

Here are some minor bugs or cosmetic issues. Dutty, we'd love your clarification on the questions when you get a sec. Please could other users confirm or let us know of their own opinions and experiences.:

MS Word shortcut name.

Rename Office Word Mobile to just "Word Mobile" in keeping with other office apps.​

SMS Confirmation Bubble (ongoing)

Allow user-setting of 'SMS Sent/Failed' Notification bubble through registry edit/tools. Currently user is unable to disable though known registry key. No idea why this doesn't work as it would allow changing in 1.6. My preference is enabled by default, which I'm certain no one would have an issue with if they could disable it themselves.​

CABs are unable to create shortcuts into supplied start-menu sub-folders.

User installed apps that attempt to create shortcuts into your supplied start-menu folders fail to create shortcuts. E.g. the Microsoft OneNoteMobile cab from your site will try to create a shortcut in the "Office Mobile" start-menu/programs folder, however it seems to fail creating this shortcut. Manual creation of shortcuts into these folders is working though. Any ideas?​

File-menu White-out bug.

Some apps have a 'different' style bottom menu bar which has the SIP selector at the far right e.g. Total Commander (File/Show) and Pocket RAR (File/Tools). With these apps, clicking the file menu items at the bottom makes the 'selected' menu item totally white so the selected word becomes invisible. This glitch was not the case on previous roms.​

MS Voice Command UK-localised for number format & dialling?

Is your included MSVC the US or UK version? My colleagues and myself seem to have problems using it to dial numbers. The spoken command "DIAL" followed by a UK format telephone number is hardly ever recognised accurately. The general idea from this guide http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=391262 is to always install the UK-localised version of voice command as a base, then overwrite with the few newer versioned replacement files. This leaves all the settings, voices and dependancies as UK specific versions.​

Power Button mapped PSShutXP

Have you seen the cab (holyfox's_poweroff-diamond.cab) at the very bottom of this post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2405349&postcount=3

It is a version of PSShutXP newer than available on the applications own home-page. It includes the 'best/most accurate' Diamond skin available and maps to a long hold of the actual power button. Short press still does usual standby, just long press displays PSShutXP - much more useful that the standard Power Off warning box! Give it a whirl and I'm sure it will end up as a permanent fixture!​

User Customization

Any possibility to support 'User Customisation' in future (does sdconfig.txt even work with internal storage folder?!) If not, can I direct interested users to SASHIMI http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=392983​

Calculator Skin (sorry-other!)

Really sorry to propose this one again. I know you already changed the Calc skin so sorry if this is a pain. Being an app that we rely on very frequently, please can you use this skin instead as it fits better with Manilla and the dialler: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=419777.
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If you need any of the files or CABs for each of the above (inc UK MSVC if it's not what you used) please let me know and I am happy to oblige.

Okay, that concludes another of my ridiculously long posts (does anybody read them when they're this long?!). Apologies for any long-windedness.

Waffle,

Adam

T-Mobile (UK) Ltd.

P.S. TMUK staff been heavily using Radio .08 from your site and have no concerns to warrant downgrading. Battery, GPS, HSDPA, etc are all cool on this front. Now if only they'd pull their finger out, stop pissing about with magenta customisation and release their own ROM updates for Jo-public. I'll still be recommending this one though! (Oh, and not heard a peep in office about MDAc4 recall for those interested.)