[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] justin0679@gmail.com:
Informal battery test & a few observations...

Hi Dutty,

Thank you for your dedication and clever work.

I suspect the last thing you need is another adoring fan. I write to share my experience and as a guide to others within our forum.

I am using your very fine Leo_Sense_2.5_5.2.21891.5.0.88_2.07_HG_V0.8_Radio_2.07.50.27_2_WWE

I always flash from PC using ActiveSync + hard reset after.

Regarding battery life I use a couple of Chinese “good value” spare batteries along with the original. At midday today I slipped in a fully charged “good value” battery and terminated the data connection using the long_end screen. I have the weather set to 3hrs update and one email a/c set to snd/rcv every 2hrs – the other a/c’s on manual.

Twitter is also set to manual.

An Informal Battery Test

TIME & BATTLIFE

12:00	100%

No calls (it’s Sunday on Valentines Day)

13:00	98%

15 minute call + data remains off – read a short email

14:00	93%

Data on for 6mins – ended connection + made notes

15:00	92%

Roast duck lunch for three (myself the missus & offspring) in “Canteen” Baker St. London £60 inc service charge – it was good…

16:00	92%

Data off – 2 x 5min calls

17:00	85%

Data off – had a quick look at notes + email. Using task_mgr (long_send) ended notes, email & ActiveSync

18:00	84%

Data off – 3min call which I recorded (pity that the caller can barely be heard – I gather this a hardware problem which hopefully software will magically resolve at some point…) Installed Co-Pilot as have to drive to W10 in the morning – takes 5mins to setup and opens a data connection which I noticed had closed after completion, when I looked at the long_end screen.

19:00	79%

Data on for 27mins… looked at a couple of emails… ended data connection and ended mail task…

20:00	77%

Data off – reading the paper version of the Sunday Times, telly on… cup of tea with a Cumberland sausage left over from a late breakfast…

21:00	74%

Data on - Sent and received a couple of SMS (Welsh good/Irish sadly were rubbish (rugby)) - data connection auto ended

22:00	72%

Data off – watching the telly… thinking about some cold chicken in the fridge… phone resting…

23:00	72%

Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto” continues on BBC2… what a load of old toffee…

00:00	70%

Data switched on when I switched on screen…“Apocalypto” gets better… after 14mins the data had remained on so as usual I terminated it using the long_end window before zzz…

00:15	68%

Data off - I would usually have a look at Twitter or Facebook or a round of Call of Duty before sleep – didn’t bother this evening but at the same time I didn’t sync since the start of the test so the phone has received zero charge…

09:00	62%

Data on for 07:10:30 – ended data connection with long_end screen – collected x13 email during the night…

09:45	59%

Data off – phone struggling to get a signal for 15mins – was in underground carpark sorting something + 5min call on ground level

10:00	50%

Data off & start Co-Pilot for my journey west…

10:30	38%

Arr at dest – data off + Co-Pilot turned off

10:45	38%

Co-pilot on – data off

11:15	23%

Arr at dest – data off + C-Pilot turned off

12:00	20%

At 11:50 I made x2 3min calls.

End of my 24 hour informal battery test - Not bad imo. (I suspect the results would have been very similar or slightly improved with an HTC original battery.

I have a WORKAROUND for a difficulty I came across in a number of the current cooked ROM’s available. I am not sure if it is something I have done – I doubt it as I have only changed the REG to opera thumbnails working when nav’ing back, work with iplayer, and the tweak HKLM/Comm/BCMSDDHD1/Parms set to “0” to speed up opera page loading + I have the following installed:

Chainfire-HD2-3D-Driver-Patch-1.1

FPUEnabler_0.70 patch

Skype - latest version

GPRS_5_Minute_Auto_Disconnect

MarkAllReadInbox

TCPMP-0.72RC1-ARM-PPC-recomp-03

I have a few games installed and only use Chainfire’s 3D driver when playing NFS v17.0.19 – don’t bother with it anymore as level 3 runs at snails pace and crashes (anyone got any ideas?)…

Nothing else done or added…

I have about 1400 contacts and a few of the more commonly used have years of notes. If I add a commonly used contact to HTC favourite people and in a call to one, “sometimes” when trying to end the lengthy call, the end call key does not work and everything else locks up (as if I was recording the call and ran out of memory space which is not the case)… after this syncing takes forever + there is only about 1k of the contacts notes left. Obviously I have the contacts and notes backed up in a PST but it’s a bit of a nuisance to pull out… BTW there are no odd bits of stuff in the notes ie it is all plain txt…

…in any case my WORKAROUND is to use Vovichek_Jamrecords 16 TT UPDATED.cab which means I add the commonly used peeps to the today page on the now 16 quicklinks… however these do not show the green unread txt/email indicators. As mentioned in an earlier post by an observant user, in the contact email tab, one cannot access the emails. Not a big issue for me.

I like Swype. I accept it takes a bit of getting used to – I find it best to have the predictive txt switched on. The HD2 is my first journey into PDAs without a hardware keyboard. My daughter can type like greased lighting on her iphone and has encouraged me to persevere… meanwhile my TP2 & TP lie redundant, slowly dying whilst I cavort with my slim-fast tart… only time will tell if the relationship will work long-term. At the time of writing I have to say it looks promising. Swype is certainly helping and a damn fine addition to any ROM… ??? Edit: I have to say I am not so sure about Swypw afterall - seems that I can type faster and more acccuratly just using the keyboard ???

IMO, and at the time of writing, this is one of the best ROMs available. For regular daily use when regular soft resets and time consuming bugs cannot be tolerated, this is a very good option. I only soft reset when bored or wanting to clear RAM before playing a game or syncing with outlook.

I respect and admire all chefs’ cooking food or otherwise, my comments are based purely on my experiences/requirements.

Thanks again Mr Dutty.

Rgs,

J