[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] svein01:
Great ROM. Some issues though - please review

Hi,

first of all, great ROM, very good overall performance considering it's jammed with excellent graphics and apps. I've been using 8.40 on my Blackstone now since it came out, and have only a handful of issues that I've experienced:

1. When first opening Opera and turning the phone sideways, Opera will endet landscape mode. It then crashes (disappears) silently and the phone returns to the HTC home screen. However, it's stuck in landscape mode. I can revert to portrait mode by rotating the display manually (Programs > Tools > Rotate Screen). This behavior is pretty persistent (ie, it happens 9 out of 10 times). On occasion, Opera does *not* enter landscape mode at all when the phone is turned sideways. Also, I once turned the phone to the *right* not *left (ie, clockwise, not counter-clockwise) and Opera did not crash. I have not been able to consistently achieve the latter behavior. UPDATE: Not found to be an issue on 9.00.

2. Selecting text in unsent SMS message (ie draft message; I'm using SMS conversation mode) locks the device up. Cannot return to the home screen. However, pressing the phone button enters phone mode, but I cannot leave phone mode again.

3. There are still Asian fonts next to the To and Cc fields when reading email messages (ie, the To and Cc field labels are in Asian text). When replying and forwarding email, the field labels are in International English. UPDATE: Still an issue on 9.00. Search this forum for further comments and explanation by grzegorz.

4. This has happened *once* and I don't know if it's an issue or a one time occurrence: I recently sent an SMS while in SMS conversation mode, and had already selected and was viewing the thread I wanted to respond to. However, the SMS was actually sent to and received by the *previous* party I had texted. The SMS was still displayed as part of the thread I had intended to respond to (I received a text from the previous recipient asking why I had sent the text to her). Precursor: the phone had been turned on and not reset for 36 hours when this happened. I normally reset once a day, depending on sluggishness (not for ROM-specific reasons, WinMo tends to get sluggish after a while). UPDATE: Not found to be an issue on 9.00 but proceeding very cautiously for now. Note that I've since done a task 29 and the ROM is much faster and stable now :D

5. Please bring back the standard HTC volume control as default. The one packaged with the ROM has too few levels (only 5) and also the rendering tends to get messed up (transparent backdrop, graphics not aligned properly, etc.) I understand I can click the volume control on the dropdown "task bar" and have it change back to the HTC volume control until I reset the device again. UPDATE: Covered elsewhere in this thread. Apparently, a hard thing to "fix" and the workaround will have to do for now.

6. Navigation buttons (left, right, up, down arrow buttons) do not work when editing SMS, email, or Word documents. UPDATE: Still an issue, but *could* be related to bad behavior from the built in keyboard. As mentioned, I've done a task 29 prior to flashing 9.00 so the device is "clean." The arrow keys will work at first, then stop working. They *sometimes* start working again if I switch keyboard layouts then revert to extended qwerty...

7. Finally, a minor issue that can easily be worked around: when reading an SMS thread, there's no way to leave the screen without either reverting to the "Home" screen or selecting "All messages" from the Menu. Pressing the left arrow button at the bottom (hardware button) vibrates the phone but does not accomplish anything. Also, there's no "Back" button to revert to the previous screen. UPDATE: No change on 9.00.

Thank you for considering these issues. Again, an excellent ROM that I thoroughly enjoy, even with these issues :)

Thanks,

Svein