[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] anssibragge:
First time experiences

Hello everyone,

So I too lost my virginity with custom made ROMs.

I have been reading these threads here for some months now and flashed my HD for the first time on last Saturday. Dutty's 2.4 and newest radio from the radio thread (1.13...)

Unfortunately, I am not too pleased.

First of tall, it took some time to realise, that USPL is not vista x64-compatible. Well, got an xp at home so that got fixed and I could flash - it was nicely easy and quick, no prob.

Then the next part was to configure the personal stuff. Caller-id, a couple email accounts, Today and other small stuff, you know the drill. It would actually be quite nice to have a personalizable script to run the personal stuff. Especially if flashing often.

I bought the HD in early December, so I had so far only the stock roms from November or so.

So here are the feelings from the last 4 some days...

I have installed only two 3rd party programs, an irc client and a very small tool running in the background to copy all SMS in the calendar as they arrive.

And I am a careful enough person to notice if I have configured a tone or silence or whatever wrong. So please don't advice me to check if sound is enabled for a certain function. I do have used wm/wince telephones for 5+ years.

And I am not blaming here dutty for these problems, these are general notes that I have thought of during the usage.

The Bluetooth/data connections problem I managed to solve no prob. And it has been also mentioned here already often enough.

PROs

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* I like the new start menu

CONs

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* Something is broken with the radio. It can't hold a 3G-connection for an hour. I notice this because I have the irc client running all the time and it keeps dropping from the net. I'll try to downgrade the radio FW this evening in the hotel (can't flash all the time as I am with the customer far away from home). This hasn't happened with the stock radio 1.09...

* The Manila/phone jams at least 3 times a day, at worst days 5-6 times and I have to soft reset. (I did hard reset the phone after the flashing). WIth the stock rom I only needed 1-2 soft resets a month.

* Often the incoming calls do not play a tone, SMS come often without sound (vibration works) and this morning the alarms did not work ( I even resetted the phone just before midnight to make sure the alarms would work!). On other mornings with this ROM the alarms have woken me up.

* I miss the snooze 5/10/15/60mins/24h in calendar events. Now it's just 5mins or dismiss?!

* Activesync (locally with vista x64 and 32b, no exchange) lasts now forever, at worst it's been over 4 hours. Especially the first sync after hard reset, but also sometimes the phone says something has changed server side and everything needs to be re-synced. With the old ROM with the same cables etc. it was 10mins max.

* The new calendar is missing weekly view - or is it? I don't like the idea of showing only the whole month or one day, I often do take a look at the weekly view.

* Stock rates does not save the setting that I want to see first the % changes, not absolute values (well, problem of the application anyway)

* the new contact info editing and viewing disturbs me, I always need to somehow change to the traditional view of the contacts to edit them.

* My feeling is, that the newer Manila is slower than the stock

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So.. well, I'll downgrade the radio and see what happens. If it does not immediately make things better until saturday, I will try some wm6.5 ROM to try the difference. This dropping out of irc is really annoying me. *sigh*

(well I do drop off also when I only have EDGE and get a call, but this new feature of not being able to hold 1 hour of connection in Frankfurt city, HSDPA from T-Mobile, is very frustrating)

Best regards,

abe