[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] TheWebMachine:
My report on v4.6S-Fuze

I've been intensively beating up on v4.6S-Fuze since it was posted...I have found a few issues I'm not seeing reported here yet. So here goes...

#1

We'll start with the keyboard, since that's already been mentioned:

I will simply say that the slow keyboard responsiveness (and related crap) is far more annoying than PTTMod not working. I send/receive over 7000 SMS messages a month (I use SMS to dispatch and communicate with my staff, and generally prefer SMS to talking on the phone.) and I hate typing the entire message out only to have to wait another 5-10 seconds for the rest of the message to appear on the screen.

#2

I'm curious if anyone else is having this issue, which would likely remain unnoticed by virtually everyone...but I couldn't help but notice that my phone makes a sound everytime it connects the cellular data. I went into Settings>Personal>Sounds and Notifications, and chose the "Connection Established" event to find that it is loading the options for "Phone: Incoming Call" in place of the usual event notification options. This is the only event this is happening for. I even tried changing the settings for "Connection Established" to find that it actually changes the "Phone: Incoming Call" options!

I haven't checked it immediately after a hard reset because my internet at home is currently screwed up so my only option for getting online right now is to tether. (I did the initial ROM flash to v4.6 while at work.) But I figured if no one else sees phone ring options in place of "Connection Established" sound event options, then I'd begin ripping apart apps for the cause...although, I'm running the exact same software on v4.6 that I ran on v4.5 without issue.

#3

Speaking of slow...I tend to benchmark file system access speeds by seeing how long Resco Explorer 2008 takes to load the \Windows folder. In v4.5, this took about 2 seconds...in v4.6, this is taking 10-15 seconds! I haven't seen FSys access speeds this slow in quite a long while!

#4

The new Rhodium Notification popups don't fair so well in landscape. The next time you get a new notification, slide open and then pull up the notification...you will see it cuts off about 1/4 of the notification window. I consider this a minor issue as I don't use popup notifications...but I thought I'd report the find anyway. It's just a carry over from WVGA (which I'm guessing is where the cab came from ;)).

#5

Something about this version's outlook is making it nuttier than a fruitcake! First off, when someone sends me more than two or more SMS messages back-to-back while I'm in the SMS thread, the first one will sound and display, the remainder sound off but do not display at all until I exit the thread. It seems like as soon as it has a "new" message displayed in the thread, it stops dynamically updating the thread with new messages as they come in, until that message is marked "read" either by scrolling up to the new message or by closing and reopening the thread. There have also been a few times where I'll be in the middle of composing a new message or a reply to SMS or email and poutlook will just crash and close.

----------

All in all, I'd say that v4.5 (and the associated WM build) runs with far less glitches than the v4.6 build does. NATF, why did you decide to change OS builds again?

Since I'm too busy as of late to spend a lot of time bug hunting, I'm going to perform a hard reset to check on the existence of any of the above with a fresh start, then revert to v4.5 and restore from my backup for now.

Stevedogg, any chance I can get my hands on a copy of your nbh? Thanks!