[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] derylmccarty:
1 July 23569 Cookie

I did an quick review of NRG's 1 July 23569 Cookie last night and sent it by pm to NRG..here's what I said then:

"Installed too quick but all went well. 30 minutes stem to stern including 15 minutes to sync with Outlook using WMDC. I even got a call as AT&T connection applet was in the process of loading but, strangely, all went well - conversation AND connection setting and XDA_UC. XDA_UC, Settings Exporter and PIM Backup went perfectly even as I was conversing. All preceeded by T29 and HR. The only manual tweaks I do are CHT related and I use a flat black background to all screens.

BT and WiFi found my local 802.11N Linksys secure net and Jabra SP700 and connected without incident. Battery drain normal for this stage, perhaps even a bit less. Discharge in normal operation is hanging around 100ma some of the early June loads were in the 150-175ma drains for me. Although yesterday's 569 load gave me a few Spooncharge readings in the 50-60ma range. It'll be ok in 12 or fewer hours. (Spooncharge)

Free memory is staying at about 65-67M (arkswitch)

FYI I am not much of an Opera lover (either kind, thank you), so use IE when surfing. Except, of course, the NRG Twitter app which uses Opera. That is slow, but eventually I can read your tweets. The IE stuff I have done tonight is much faster. I do a fair amount of texting, but none has been necessary since loading the 1 Jul 569 Cookie.

I can't help in the testing for mic and conference calling since I don't use those features. Besides I can only handle the one woman I married (and even then mostly iffy) so conference calling is not necessary.

I did not change from the .91 Radio that I have used since the day it came out last year and all radio activity is good. Including 2-3 bars at the house which is the best I get from ATT and 1-2 bars better than I got from Verizon and Sprint.

Camera works fine except I take lousy pics. Weather and Time updates are as normal, though the Weather forecasts are cool, overcast and rainy. I think you program in nice weather for yourself in LV and crap for us in western Washington."

Well, I may have spoken too soon. Everything continued to go well last night until I got this wild itch to install Bing for the first time (on any PDA I have had.) It may have been a dumb move on my part.

The download and install went ok, but battery drain jumped precipitously...from average of 100ma to 280ma this morning. So I uninstalled Bing and still 280-240ma. Ugly. I am reflashing the 1 July 23569 Cookie in hopes of recapturing the goodness. Available memory, on the other hand, reacted as you would expect. It was 67mb then dropped to 65mb after Bing then back to 67mb this morning after uninstalling Bing. It is certainly possible that the battery drain change was caused elsewhere, but Bing was the only difference in the pre- and post- amp use increase....that I can see at any rate. I have not been able to find a program that could break down amperage use by process or application (like arkswitch or taskmanager does for mem use). Ah well, I am a flashaholic, so this pig is again wallowing in ....