[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] eaglesteve:
MiChY,

Have installed your ROM and am exploring it now. I think those who use their Athena notebook style will really appreciate the XPish look.

My initial impression is that it is very fast and stable, althoug quite a number of times the device tend to freeze up after a soft reset. Repeated soft resets seem to solve the problem eventually. The only "bug" which was also found in Sogarth Vanillla is that upon installing Resco File Explorer, all cab installation will no longer be possible unless we first do a soft reset. Otherwise, no matter which application we try to continue installing, we will see the same message saying that Resco File Explorer has been sucessfully installed. Not a big deal.

I have a few questions and comments.

1) I noticed that you Contact application is still the older version without the alphabetical scroll bar. I tried installing the Random Access Cab from Irus' add on for his Sorgarth Vanilla but could not upgrade it. Do you have a way of upgrading this?

2) What does the keyboard layout changer do? I tried various different langauges but did not notice any change.

3) Did you cook in Flash Player 7 yet?

4) What about Compact Netframe ? Is it already in and if so, which version is that?

5) Your XP theme is nice, but is there a way to repair the broken gradient look for the taskbar? Part of it is flat while the rest is 3D. It kind of spoils the otherwise beautiful theme.

6) Any progress on the cab to install drivers for Gsensor applications?

7) Noticed that you have cooked in FtouchFLO without the Ftouchflo config application. Thought that you might want to know this is incomplete, as there would be no way to make application such as Opera Mobile work properly. A better option is to cook in FtouchSL rather than FtouchFLO. FtouchSL has the configuration component inbuilt in one single program whereas FtouchFLO requires a separate configurator.

8) Your HTC Sensor driver appears to be more for HTC TouchFLO, and also VueFLO. You might want to remove that cab as the presence of HTC TouchFLO will interfere with FtouchFLO. They can't be both in, or the scrolling action will act strangely. On the other hand, if you have cooked in FtouchSL, then it's okay to also have HTCTouchFLO because FtouchSL has a facility to detect the presence of HTC TouchFLO and to disable it.

9) Your cab files has fixed the HSDPA icon. The big menu has also works. However, the big menu does not seem to be using the application icon if the applications is one that is installed on microdrive. It uses generic icon for such applications. Strange.

10) I was having problems with the Sogarth base ROM, Sogarth Vanilla ROM in the email department. The problem is that I was not able to delete my mail. Each time I delete it, it does not get removed, so in the next send/receive operation all the old mail comes back again. This was a problem that did not happen in the stock ROM and I'm happy to note that your ROM also does not have this problem.

11) I'm pleased to see that bluetooth, LAN, data connection, GPS all works without any problem. I have not fully tested GPS yet though. Your data connection is very excellent and fast, thanks for using 1.58 radio.

12) I love your 1-calc calculator. It is an excellent replacement for the standard terrible calculator.

13) I am not able to get VoIPCall to work. Is there any trick that I have to be aware of here? In the Add Account dialog, I see the Name and Voip Number. But where do I specify the other stuff such as Password and the proxy domain. Another strange thing that I found was that although I could set up my Favourite calling party, using it result in some completely unrelated telephone number being dialled.

14) Your soft reset time is quick and fast! Very good.

15) I love your concept of add-on installation. It is so easy and conveniet.

16) I like your SP style shutdown application, with the ability to blank screen, reset, suspend, and lock the device all in one. The ability to have a timer is also fantastic. That is a very attractive program to have. Did you make this application yourself?

17) I noticed that there are two occurance of the Sync Bluetooth Service (ASB0: ) and I am unable to disable them like I could in the other ROM. Could you explain why there are double occurance?

18) Until Cottingham mentioned it, I almost forgot. I am not able to perform multiple select of email (by holding down and drag) for deleting purposes.

This is a very high quality ROM I must say, and congratulation for coming up with this ROM, and THANK YOU for your excellent effort.