[Touch Cruise ROM Development] Christoph21x:
My short & subjective interim summary

Maybe also as an absolute newbee I'm allowed to say "thank you" to jerpelea and also ("in advance" :D ) to -Belial-.

Thank you for sharing your great work, your thoughts, your valuable time.. and your insights.

After having played around for many hours now with the build I would like to share my experiences with you - it might be of interest even though I'm rather representing the "user group" than the developer side. Excuse me for any potential repetition and/or trivialities that might be obvious to you all but is a "breakthrough" for me ;)

Maybe the one or other user, that is searching for a kind of similar package as I do, may get some information out of this post.

User group: Business user, maybe 50 mails per day (sync'ed approx. 200 only), approx. 5 up to 9 meetings per day (sync'ed approx. 700 meetings with content), 600 sync'ed contacts with multiple phone numbers and detailed contact data. Sync 80% GPRS, 20% Wifi, only few syncs using PC connection, extensive usage of the phone as... phone :D

Experience

- Nice package, GUI is complete, looks like TF2D 2.0? How did you do this?? ;)

- Rather usable for private user than for business purposes

- Looks too much packed to me; I'm asking myself "why does it actually IS so packed? Many packages have been left out! And - I excluded even some more packages - partly following Belial's intention earlier in this thread)

- I just moved from a Trinity to Polaris and the Trinity had an excellent 23003-based package - including all of what I'm missing here - but even only on below 60% level, here Im at 89% - reached even 99%! :D Yes - reboot ;) but... WHY is that?)

What's NOT working on my Polaris

- Wifi: After getting it into Comm Manager (advanced config is also not in the package), it recognizes available access points but the "Ok" does not work when asked which network to connect with.

Manual configuration fails, Wifi gets no connection at all. (YES, I DID try with various radio versions, also the original HTC one which was perfectly working - 1.59.xx ;) )

--> not usable

- Tomtom: ttn doesn't recognize the GPS, manually configuration needed. Sometimes it "forgets" this setting. And it sometimes quits without warning. Even WITH manual configuration, it sometimes (50% of cases) will not be able to get a valid GPS signal (YES, I DID try with various radio versions, also the original HTC one which was perfectly working - 1.59.xx ;) )

--> not usable in this setup

- QuickGPS can't establish connection to download newest positions --> useless

- Camera: it IS working (just use to shoot not the camera button but action button) but with the already earlier in this thread mentioned restrictions: 2MB only, no autofocus, no zoom)

- OneBridge (external application for sync with Lotus Domino Server): huge difficulties to have the initial sync run, took hours and failed a couple of (felt: hundreds ;) ) times. Due to lack of free memory, not very smoothly

- Internet Explorer can't establish connection (but I didn't invest much time)

What I'm missing (as BUSINESS-Power-USER [includes: NOT developer ;) ]) - means it's not in

- As somebody who uses development packages on a business phone, I need a couple of basic tools -> I have to create the "reliability" of my working tool by myself ;). Tools are missing in this package in general. And... NO, I didn't install ALL of them ;) in case you now wanted to tell me WHY I'm lacking of memory :p

- Basic but it hurts [me]: simple WM calculator calc.exe is missing

- Total Commander

- M2DC to adjust TF2D - needed it for layout of launcher - too few apps

- Advanced Config - needed for Wifi @ Comm Mgr

- Advanced Network configuration (automated / supported GPRS, GSM-settings etc.)

- Any Regedit - needed it for touch delay issue

- CleanRAM - need it always in such exploits :D

- WM5torage - need it always for file transfers

- QuickClear / ClearTemp

- Shutdown/Reboot-Utility (e.g. psShutXP)

- Any usable Music player ;) - WMP and internal player both NOT usable!

What's not in but can be found in comparable packages - just for those who inform themselves to make a decision, maybe it's a small help

- Office mobile (I personally don't miss it)

- Java-Package

- PDF-Viewer

But once again. This shall not be a COMPLAIN! Just the opposite: if I think this weren't a good (and right) approach, I would not post such a lengthy comment - once again: thanks to all of you for making me bloody user being able to participate in such a thrilling topic.

Kindest Regards from Switzerland - Christoph