[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] Z80-Man:
I guarantee it's not specific to this ROM.

When you reconnect your device to your PC for the first time after a flash, it's never recognized as being the same device, to you don't have to just resync : you must also re-identify it.

That said, you're offered two choices :

- Either to replace all your phone contents with your PC's

- Or to Sync your device's contents with your PC's.

The first solution is interesting, as you can't get duplicates, but your Outlook has to be up to date. It will overwrite all that's present on the phone, even if you first restored your data using PIM Backup.

The problem with it, is Outlook will always have a priority over your device, so if you ever modify a contact, you'll notice your changes are overwritten by the old information next time you'll sync. Only newly created contacts from the phone will be correctly added in outlook.

So now let's study what happens using the second solution.

You can use it too, provided you've not previously restored your data with PIM Backup, or you'll unavoidably get duplicates !!!

It's guaranteed to happen.

Now what if you do that and hadn't restored your data first ? Well, it should theorically be OK, but you could also end up with an all empty Outlook, so I personally use to avoid this method too. :D

So how do I proceed ? :)

It's simple, indeed :

- Before flashing, I always backup my data

- After flashing, I quickly remove the USB cable to avoid unwanted sync, or I cancel the operation so I can still access the storage memory, but don't sync.

- I first install my fixes CAB (yes, there are a few bugs in Energy ROMs, always the same ones actually, and much more in localized ROMs than in WWE ones, due to incorrect MUI files), then my personal settings CAB (most of the information can be recovered using NRGZ's nice settings backup utility, however), in order to recover my identification information, time zone, etc.

- Once this is correctly setup (it can be done automatically using XDA-UC), I set up date and time too (or it can fool Outlook's appointments)

- Once all this is done, and only then, I restore my data using PIM Backup, then my favorite contacts order using Zenyee Backup FavPeople Up!

- Then I launch Outlook on my PC, and I mercilessly delete all it's contents : contacts, appointments, tasks, all ! :p

- Now I plug the USB cable back in, and I choose the second option : sync the device (and not replace the device with the PC's (empty) contents, of course !)

What do I get doing that ?

- No duplicates, ever ;

- Favorite contacts are OK (it does a hell of a mess if you don't do that, as favorites contacts are saved using index numbers only, and they differ from Outlook's ones) ;

- Up-to-date information, back to the exact state before flashing.

I totally agree on this. Alas, CHT Lock is still totally disastrous.

You can't use CHT Editor without crashing your phone, whatever you do there.

Almost everytime you awake your phone, you've got the Sense slider displaying on top of the CHT unlock slider, and both are responsive !

It's a mess on phone calls. On the HD, I couldn't use TouchInCall (the HD doesn't have a proximity sensor, so the screen otherwise gets all black, even if you wave it way form your ear, so you can't read nformation from the screen, nor search for contacts, files or anything else) without crashing all the stuff.

The're one and only solution to all this trouble : disable CHT Lock.

And magically, you get absolutely no crash anymore, no freeze, no fancy unlock slider, no nothing : you can actually have your WinMo running weeks without rebooting.

So I'm sorry, but

I'd love it worked so well, but, no, it's too buggy to be useable.

I really regret it... But my problems are gone after turning CHT Lock off, and it has nothing to do with NRGZ28's work.

You'd better use S2U2/S2P if you really want a lockscreen doing all that without crashing. :) Though I strongly advise you don' activate the phone call features, or you'll have even more trouble ! :D

I Personally don't need tons of gadgets on a lockcscreen. I consider its task is mostly to keep the touchscreen locked ! :D I just like it to be nice looking, so I just went back to the Android-style lockscreen.

Yesterday, I helped my friend settig up his HD this way, as he had all the problems I cited above, too, and now they are all gone.