[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] NRGZ28:
Just to add to what nvious had to say....

I don't mind people giving me feedback about apps to include or to remove. Let's get THAT out of the way. Hehe What I do mind is people demanding it to be remove or included :)

Keep in mind that *I*, just like you guys, am a user of my phone. Therefore I'm always interested in the latest apps, hacks, themese modifications etc to do to it and... include in my ROM. The other I stumbled across the silver icons in the 040209 ROM in the Xperia forum and I thought they look cool enough to put on my phone... and in my ROM. After a couple days with them.. yeah.. I like my old blue icons more :D

I get a few PMs from people saying they hate the new release because the icons are changed. It seemed like a lot of emotion over some icons that can be EASILY changed by installing a cab... but eh... It seems that 90% of agree the old icons were better, and... I agree... so in the next release they're coming back.

To reveal a little bit of what happened and why there was a week's gap in releases... In the process of transferring data from my old laptop to the new one, the data on the new one got corrupted for some stupid reason. That data included the 032609 kitchen :( Luckily I had older backups, but the latest one was a 21032 SYS build so it was quite a few releases back. Obviously I was able to rebuild it just fine, but some of the bugs stayed (GPS, camera... etc). Now that I'm aware of them, they will be fixed.

I talked to xboxmod and he sent me the update files for his 1D bug fixes. However he asked that I do not release the ROM with the fixes until he releases it in his thread. I will respect his wish, after all, the TP2 VGA Manila would have never happened if it wasn't for his hard work.

For some insight into what's going on.... The new manila engine from the recently dumped TMobile US Rhodium device doesn't require a loader that brings the keyboard up on the screen when Manila loads. It's great news, because THAT still is a personal pet peeve of mine, that we just can't get around. However, the bad news is... the new manila requires the newer phone canvas (dialer) from the rhodium as well. And we all know that wont fit on our screens. Dharvey started a tread in the dev forum asking developers to try to shrink it down to VGA size. We'll see how that works out. Once that's done, you can bet the new dialer will be in this ROM as well. However porting THAt won't be nearly as easy as Manila, as there's no "mode9" or "XML" files to edit :( We'll see what happens though....

I'm not 100% sure there will be a release tonight as I just got in(Friday nite after all!) and not really feeling like "cooking" ROMs, but we'll see. I want the next release to be worthy of flashing and it should include xboxmod's latest fixes. I'm thinking I'm going to make turning on the new start menu an option in the tweaks folder, just we have it now with the finger menus and the notif manager. Any developers wanna whip up a little utility to make some quick registry changes and make it easy for the user to switch options like that on and off ? :)

One more thing before I forget.... The album bugs that are reported, are present even in the Rhodium ROMs. So it's definitely HTC's issue, just like the timezone bug in this verison of Manila. The good news is, the new manila from the tmobile rhodium roms FIXES this DST bug. It's too bad we can't get it to load on our devices because like I said in the previous paragraph, it requires the new dialer as wel..

Anyway enough rambling for tonight.... :p