[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] FazZfilmz:
after a week of using 1.50d on HTC Touch HD

Well, it's been a good week now since I started using the updated 1.50d and although I love it, I will be uninstalling it until the next release on whenever it becomes less resource hungry and less buggy. :rolleyes:

As I say, I do love it and makes my HTC Touch HD look even better, especially with that seriously UGLY Windows 6.1 still running in the background. I think the problem is, which isn't anyone’s fault so to speak, is the HTC's have the flow thingy running, to help our human eyes deal with the screen, until we need to make use of the phone, say SMS or phone book and it's back to eye-sore Windows (which looks like is what made in the f**k**g 1980's and was ported from Windows 3.1. :p

Anywho, I'll say this for now, as I'm sure you've all heard this rubbish before, so I'll just state the issues I'm having:

1. The analogue clock is nice, but needs some work to easier to be seen, such as thicker lines and larger, so that it fills the screen left to right (portrait) and nested to the top leaving more room underneath for other options. Along with the analogue clock, the ability to turn off am/pm, as I know whether it's am or pm... as I'm human... so I'm told.

2.The date could have some more/better options. Say like today e.g Wed.4.Mar'09 rather than the silly ones it currently has.

3. If the clock (as suggested about in 1) was nest top, the date could be larger, but also the weather icons could also be a lot larger and usable.

4. Again if the clock was moved, the 'slide to unlock' could also be slightly larger/thinker, but not such an issue, just more aesthetic.

5. How can I find out what my phone provider tag is? You list a quiet few, yet O2 are UK's largest mobile supplier, but can't seem to figure this one out?

6. How the hell does the '.exe' thing work? SO many programs get trashed and forced to close badly, due to S2U2 locking up whilst in use. I don't mean over the hundreds over random programs out there, I mean the basics, like take some video footage and S2U2 hasn't recognized this of course, so ends the video and locks. I tried adding some to the '.exe' list, but to have to do this for every program is rather crap and not exactly the easiest thing to keep doing. I'm a mobile phone user, not a technical genius.

7. Even using just one plain image of my own, stored on my microSD card and no auto-changing, no gifs, just a nice correct sized Jpeg, the system still seems too slow. Tried even going to the sad default images, but that wasn't much better either.

8. OK... I'm moaning a lot, even though I still love S2U2, but the main issue is, HTC thought it would be funny to have keep opening up the stupid case to soft-reset. I know, there's lots of soft-reset apps out there, but hardly useful if the whole thing is grinding to a halt. So with S2U2 slowing down by the day, eating away at resources more and more, daily, the only way to keep using it, is to reset every couple of days. This is one of the main reasons I'm giving up on v1.50d.

9. I think the setting application is good, but not great. Doesn't really have the layout it should have, nor explains well what each does/will do. Even an inbuilt text field listing each options would be something and very small too. I think the whole thing could be a little smaller and better laid out, which is easier to find what you are looking for or tab pages even.

10. The caller iD thing I guess is getting there, but still very random. I use images for all my contact (700+) and prefer to always. I have like most people, a top 20 or so of people I call most often and for those, I have set them to a better resolution image (800x480), so it works in higher quality full-screen with S2U2, but still get the default image popping up or very slowly the chosen one I have set.

11. I've kind of said this already, but it's eating too much of resources up, I think the code needs a serious rethink. Remember WinMo 6.5 will have the same/similar ability to your great program, so unless you get the it working better than it is and then start enhancing it with more options and eye-candy, it's not going to go much further.

I'm not being harsh, just direct and from solid usage of over a week. The phone is relatively new, so has little else on it that would hinder S2U2 or eat up other resources. :mad:

I look forward to your next release and have already recommended it (with caution) to a few other friends... all I might add will be donating to you, should this work for them. ;)