[Wing, P4350 ROM development] quicksite:
Ivan, I've had sudden and extensive slowness of this ROM...

I understand that I may load stuff up that impairs its inherent performance, but I always "uninstall" new things I try when they are part of a set of nerw things I might have tried to solve some UI problems.

For example, I tried various versions of the Rhodium Menu cabs for QVGA... none have worked; a few having been blocked dead in water by "you do not have a signed ............."

One or two did install but I could see no chnage, so I uninstalled them. One of them continues to show up on list of program to REMOVE, and i remove again and it says that familiar message "not all parts have been removed, so you want to remove this from list?" (I click yes to remove but it always leaves it there. I've never had the system respect that "yes, remove it from list" command, which makes me wonder why they even bother having it in the so-called functionality)

I have used RC Mod to change the highlight color and internal interface parts of settings pages, including tabs at bottom of screens.

I tried to use HTC Home Customizer but that was a bust, for all I know maybe it screwed up something. But I removed it.

I installed SK Tools to try to clean up problems, but it ran so slowly, I had to soft-reset several times. (Is this a good utility to have, or do you recommend against it?)

But overall performance? I am talking about the difference between tapping the start menu and getting pretty instantaneus drop down of the menu -- to waiting easily 5 whole seconds, sometimes more.

The biggest suspicion I have -- and am looking for some corroboration or feedback on this -- is that it may be from an unsuccessful installation of Conduit's Pocket Player. Truth is I got so tired of Audio Manager having such a slow performance, S2P having no playlist, WMP being poorly designed from functional design POV, that I decided "I am going to just plunk the money down and pay for Pocket Player, since I have seen people on XDA raving about it as "the best" mp3 player, hands down"

I saw that you could trial-use it, so I followed installation instructions... Which were the most obtuse thing I have ever experienced with windows mobile in the fast 4 years. The download is a .EXE file that must be run on my PC thru active sync. I had so many problems just getting this established ---- (min rant at Windows app developers) I really really hate and resent that I can't just install stuff via SD card (as cab or zip) or by drag & drop from PC to card using File Explorer, vs all this Active Sync crap. I hate active sync. I can see why those of you on enterprise mail systems need it, but why it must be part of my life I don't understand.)

So I have an active sync connection and run the .exe setup on my PC, it launches some Pocket Player setup interface, but then some strange interface shows up, looks like it is part of Windows, which shows all the apps I have on my phone.... and some are checked and some are unchecked and I actually have to work or I lose my apps that have nothing to do with pocket player. I have to leave checked those apps that I want to keep, and uncheck the apps that I want to uninstall, or else they will be deleted.

wtf kind of installer is this?

Anyway I followed this process several times, checking and unchecking as required, and hit submit button, and Pocket Player wizard says "Finished" ... but then after removing usb cord, I cannot see any Pocket Player app on my phone.

Now that I think of it, this was prob the start of some terrible performance chnages whiuch get worse and worse.

** I will flash to your new one, but want to know: (1) has anyone else ever run into this stupid interface inspecting your whole phone? and (2) can you think of anything from those failed installation attempts which would have seriously interfered with the operation of this ROM?

Lastly -- afterwards I did that Active Sync fake server trick, but ACtive Sync still loads... I have not tracked to see if it only loads upon each new soft-reset, and once i close it it stays closed... but geez I would pay someone to kill active sync on my phone, and eliminate it from my PC as well. 90% of evertything I have ever installed to my phone I do via a mac using MicroSD card reader. No wasted time with Active Sync B.S.

/rant :D