[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] JVH3:
Flash of Energy.RHODIUM.29008.Sense2.5.Cookie.2.0.Mar.08

Flash of Energy.RHODIUM.29008.Sense2.5.Cookie.2.0.Mar.08 with normal XDA_UC applied.

I have now been running with this since flashing on the 9th.

Since I had already flashed, I hard reset on the 9th and the let XDA_UC do its thing.

For my review without XDA_UC, see post here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11967921&postcount=33650

This morning, I noticed that my available RAM was at 34 MB with nothing running. I am pretty sure that I had disabled the Start Menu with WinStart, but to be sure, I did it again, just now and soft reset.

After Sense had fully reloaded, BattClock reports 84 MB free. I received an email and it went down to 83. Went to the email tab. Selected the account and tapped the message. Closed the message and pressed End to return to the home page. Memory is down to 81 MB. That's not bad. Going back and forth to the email tab does not cause additional memorry to disappear.

With the home page displayed, battClock reports a pretty consistent battery usage around 100mA. It goes higher when things are loading, and it goes lower (to about 30mA) when the screen is dimmed.

I got my initial GPS lock in about 4 seconds after the hard reset. That is with the nokia supl gps settings.

All email accounts work fine. I own a domain hosted at godadddy.com. My email account that they also host works fine. My Gmail accounts, my comcast acount, and my exchange account work fine.

I placed a call with Voice Command over bluetooth. That worked fine.

My XDA_UC settings have now changed slightly from my post here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11758354&postcount=33463

I now add BattClock. I use some different settings.

And I have altered my Tarkim Keyboard config settings slightly.

I will be attaching the reg file for battclock and the keyboard later.

Since flashing this ROM, the UI navigation seems very smooth. No lags.

I had installed WinMoSpeed to my storage card previously. I was not running it until today. I only OC to 710. I know I can go higher, but I have not had a need.

I am going to be monitoring memory usage, since I saw only 34MB available today.

Programmers can often times increase speed by caching / storing more in memory. This also would reduce battery consumption, since the specific pieces of information have already been loaded and do not need to be searched for. So, it is very possible that we are seeing the better battery life and smoother performance because of additonal caching. This of course would lead to higher memory consumption.

I am not sure how to quantify the data, since every day of usage will very from any other day of usage. And we have no real way of knowing how much is being cached. Maybe when cfb does his benchmarking, he can analyze the memory growth of certain processes such as gwes.exe.

The only flaw I can see is the compatibility of the total commander toolbar. I got a PM from NRGZ28 indicating that it is likely a problem with Total commander not being compatible with the latest build. I have exhaustively analysed the registry and files between this ROM and the last equivalent 28244 ROM. There were plenty of differences, but none that shoud affect Total Commander. This supports his PM to me on that.

Overall, the ROM looks great, but still looking forward to trying the other new builds numbrs that will soon be coming our way.