[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] ioannisman:
Hello lennie and friends:)

After riding this beauty for about 24 hours its time to write down my own (subjective all the way) observations. Due to economy of space and time I will try to be as brief and descriptive as I can, so let the dice rumble:

1. Energy consumption: Testing period roughly 6.30 hours, started at 16:00, 100% charge(first flashing), finished at 22:30 10% battery left. Found the behaviour a little slow so I changed the pagepool from 3 to 6 and reflashed (so count 2 flashings during this period).

Radio 1.50, Wifi on, phone on, bluetooth on, beam off , advanced configuration power settings all enable, power off in 2 minutes, backlight off in 30 sec's, screen backlight on full. And the results are:

1 hour wifi + 1 hour gps + 1 hour video playing in CorePlayer (full screen) + 1-1.5 hours playing around + 20 photos + 15 min talking through my bluetooth headset, not bad at all don't you think?

Another thing worth mentioning is that with your rom lennie my Ameo is able to charge up to a full 100% (activated or not). With all other rom's tested previously the Ameo would stop charging at 96-97% max and start recharging when below the 95% level.Perhaps it is an issue with the new 6.5.3 builds but nevertheless its surely a big.. thumps up:)

2. GPS sensitivity: A little dissapointed here since it took more than 3 minutes to lock on and the signal was weak, it kept losing it as I returned back home from the local Mall by train. Michy's latest 6.1 is the best imo in this area, less than 40 sec to lock under open sky, about 3-4 minutes to lock on from cold boot inside a moving car!

Update: I retest it again a couple hours ago after installing Quick Position and flashing radio 1.58. Excellent results on par with Michy's 6.1, about 30 sec to lock on 7-8 satellites from my house's top floor, signal reception through a moving vehicle unknown though but I strongly believe that it would be most satisfying:)

Update 2: Final gps testing with radio 1.50 which seems to be the best as phone and wifi reception is concerned. After installing GPS qgps the gps found 11 satellites and locked 5 of them in less than 1 minute, without it after 1 minute no satellites were found so I strongly believe that this program has something to do with it. No time to test Quick Position's performance, I have included the .cab's to make your own observations;).

3. Phone reception: Tested with radio 1.50 through my bluetooth headset. No problems here, bluetooth connection was strong, never lost and voice was heard clearly with no noticeable delay both ways.

Update: After testing all three radios, 1.50-1.57-1.58, I have reached the conclusion that the 1.50 is the way to go.In my room where even my Sony Ericsson K850 has difficilty maintening a steady signal, my Ameo with 1.50 radio kept 1-2 bars constantly on, whereas with radio 1.57-1.58 after 5-10 minutes was out of network permamently.

4. Memory behaviour: Never liked the 6.5 interface so I have installed Michy's Big HTC Home + today wireless plugin + messaging, tasks, calendar, device lock options and here we go. Started at 60-62 MB and after 6.30 hours was at 52-53 MB's, very nice imo (if you prefer standard 6.5 interface expect minus 2/4MB's more or less to the previous measurements, pagepool 6)

Update: The use of the unlocking slider takes away 2-4 MB's permanently and starts a memory leakage afterthat!

5. WiFi reception: Frankly lennie I believe that somehow the previous 2.10 had better wifi reception but perhaps that is just me afterall:) Radio 1.50 produced marginal better results than 1.58, tested through the excellent WiFIMonster utility. Performance on par with latest Michy's and avengerpenguin builds which means mediocre as compared to the amazing wifi performance of latest taxist, irus and AP4 roms.

Update: After testing all three radios I must propose radio 1.50 as the clear winner. Although the Ameo's performance was lower as compared to the previous roms wifi behaviour, it managed to find and connect to more networks faster and more reliable than the other two.

6. Program compatibility: Excellent, it runs everything, even all my GPS programs, IGO 8.3.4, Destinator 7-8, Automapa:)

7. Themes compatibility: I don't know how you did it lennie but your rom is fully compatible with all my 6.1 vga themes, which means that all the buttons in the bottom bar are fully visible and operative (standard 192dpi). As a bonus to that you get the <<compressed>> view in all in programs menus, very nice lennie indeed:)

8. Video performance: CorePlayer produced lower results as compared to Michy's latest 6.1 and HTC official rom's. For the same video the Hulk managed to produce 14-15 fps where the opposition even reached 16-16.9 fps (bouou Hulk:p).

Update:After experimenting with CorePlayer's settings (Hulk was just sitting there offering no help at all:D), I managed to squeeze out a couple more fps which means that we are now in the league of champions, hip, hip, hura!

9. Strange things worth mentioning:eek:: 2 VueFLO icons (both operative), 2 Comm Managers (both operative), Network Wizard (doesn't work), Voice Speed Dial (too fast I must mention, open it and see for yourselves:)), when activesync is operating the wifi option in the (fantastic) comm manager is blanc, remove the cable from your phone and voila:) (wifi can be activated through the connections/wlan: turn wifi on or through connections/wifi :search for networks options though, no real problem here), the use of the unlocking slider takes away 2-4 MB's permanently:eek:, the comm manager's switches (on-off) do not operate properly in landscape mode.

10. Things I liked: The new communications manager is a m a z i n g !!!, it is the same as in the HTC HD and HD2 I think, congratulations lennie!, the four row start menu is a piece of art cl!, the hulk theme is top notch cl:), automatic configuration of my sim card according to my phone provider in Greece was a breeze cl!, programs are installed very,very fast cl!, the fact that when my Ameo is connected through active sync to my PC and put in suspend mode it does not wake up every other minute but stays <<asleep>> cl! and last but not least syncing works perfectly amen cl!

11. Things I missed: RealVGA1.1 with lennie's 128dpi resources (i tried a classical RealVGA installation and it messed up everything, highly not recommended), Total Commander CE 2.52B2, HTC QuickGPS, AdobePDF Reader 2.5, Teeter, the elven beauty.

Although all the above can be installed independently (except RealVGA:eek: and the elven lass) it would be nice to have them already included in your rom lennie, you know just to save some precious storage MB's:)

As a conclusion lennie's AGB V2.10.1 is definitely the very best 6.5.3 rom (up to now off course:)) and as my experience showed it can be used as it is for all our everyday needs and also it is damn beautiful (but...bouou Hulk bring back the elven princess!)

Congratulations my friend and a very, very big thank you lennie!