[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] ahirshfield:
Two more update suggestions for 2.4

I seriously don't think there is much, if anything, for Dutty to learn from AlphaZero! Unless of course you want Dutty to inject age-old bugs back into his rom, use older OEM app versions, take credit for fixes found by other people without even explaining or understanding how they work, poach users by criticising other cooks on their own threads, oh yes, and beg constantly for donations! Speed vs quality is subjective and even benchmarks are not totally infallible when comparing rom speeds. That's enough of my defensive rant here as I know Dutty doesn't like these discussions as evident from the incident a few posts back - and his rom speaks for itself without me or anyone else defending it.

Dutty, on that note there really is one fantastic thing that both Bepe and Swtos have now managed to incorporate into their roms from the Raphael: Landscape Manila Menu - as built into TouchFlo3D on stock Raphael. Both these cooks have used their own g-sensor rotation controller applications "Gnes" & "Flip_It" respectively, but from what I understand, these apps simply control the rotation while the actual Landscape Menu is built into Manila and activated somehow. If you could figure out and enable the feature in Manila, then the user may be able to actually use the feature by installing their own rotation app such as 'Brins0net_Gyrator' or 'GSEN'. Please take a look at my post from their forum: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=2746082#post2746082

Your previous roms had the following entries in 26948339_manila XML file which are for some reason missing from the 2.3a Manila. I don't know if the actual Manila version is newer in 2.3a, but the fact that these are missing, likely indicates that this Manila is not from the Raphael:

<PreloadImage Path="HTC\Assets\Images\LandscapeMenu\BackgroundBorder.qtc" />

<PreloadImage Path="HTC\Assets\Images\LandscapeMenu\BackgroundTile.qtc" />

<PreloadImage Path="HTC\Assets\Images\LandscapeMenu\Button.qtc" />

<PreloadImage Path="HTC\Assets\Images\LandscapeMenu\ButtonFocus.qtc" />

<PreloadImage Path="HTC\Assets\Images\LandscapeMenu\Bookmarks.qtc" />

<PreloadImage Path="HTC\Assets\Images\LandscapeMenu\Calendar.qtc" />

<PreloadImage Path="HTC\Assets\Images\LandscapeMenu\Contacts.qtc" />

<PreloadImage Path="HTC\Assets\Images\LandscapeMenu\Email.qtc" />

<PreloadImage Path="HTC\Assets\Images\LandscapeMenu\Notes.qtc" />

<PreloadImage Path="HTC\Assets\Images\LandscapeMenu\Messages.qtc" />

<PreloadImage Path="HTC\Assets\Images\LandscapeMenu\Icon_newTask.qtc" />

<PreloadImage Path="HTC\Assets\Images\LandscapeMenu\Icon_webSearch.qtc" />​

Please can you confirm from which device this Manila version is sourced and whether it is the newest version available?

Two last things to update: you already included Opera 9.5 Build 2392 however have not included the updated "standard_skin.zip". As a fellow fan of the Touch HD, please can you include this new version as it includes the zoom-slider scroll-bar. The best VGA non-upscaled version is here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=2722816&postcount=1400

After copying the attached "standard_skin.zip" file (as it is, not extracted) to '/Windows/Opera9/skin/' you must add the following registry keys to enable the zoom-slider bar:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Opera\Defaults]

"ZoomSliderEnabled"=dword:00000001

"ZoomSliderTimeout"=dword:000007d0​

Both the necessary .zip and .reg files are attached to this post for your convenience and the use of anyone else...

Lastly, Google Maps 2.2.0.20 is available somewhere, though I can't find it anywhere on this forum, only cooked into SwiftBlade's rom.

Best regards,

Adam R. Hirshfield

T-Mobile (UK) Ltd.

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