yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] GerardSamija:
I've had only 1 SOD on my Kaiser, under ROM version 23541, which I'm still using due to lack of free time for a flash and rebuild. My preference with the phone is to allow 'fast suspend' as set in AdvancedConfig, so I don't accidentally launch apps with my ear, or hang up the phone the same way. So the call continues but the phone screen is blank. Two days ago I was in about a 20 minute call, started at about 85% battery. When the person on the other end hung up, I tried to as well with the End key. Screen stayed blank. So I tried powering on with the Power button (at this point I could still hear some noise, the phone line still 'open' though not connected to anyone), but nothing. After a few seconds the line went quiet. Still couldn't power on the phone so I soft reset. That worked... but not fun. So I'm guessing this is the SOD. Someone please fill me in if that's not how they happen.

Since that time the phone has been behaving erratically. For example, while the settings under Backlight and Power indicate my preference is being preserved (1minute backlight dim, 2minutes suspend), the phone now routinely suspends in 10 seconds without input. So there's no way to change the suspend timeout any more, it's just doing its own thing no matter how I adjust the settings. The first time this happened after my SOD experience I checked the settings, and backlight timeout had reset itself to 10seconds. After that it's always appeared to be the same as I set it, just doesn't behave like that.

Other than that it seems functional, more or less. Guess I'll update to '44 whenever ahmedfikry gets time to put that together. I wonder, in the name of saving time... and I know it's a noob question so feel free to slap me down for it... Could I just flash 23544 then restore wholesale from a Resco Backup file set? I'm really under a lot of work pressure, just no time for mucking around with setting up from scratch (generally takes me about half a day), but also need the phone to work properly. Is it completely foolish to ask, or is there enough similarity (registry and such) that I could get away with this?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] nauriceprivat:
nice

I just installed, I will check out those days,

in the mean time, looks nice

Thank you
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] GerardSamija:
Oh right, forgot to note that with '41 my camera worked initially, at least after applying the HTC Camera Quality CAB, but now it's flaking out again. Starts with a dark green screen and just stays there, eventually brightening to slightly brighter green. Hard to close out of it, but eventually it responds to the X. Seems I might have to flash '42 soon if '44 isn't here for a bit, as it's really handy having the camera available when I don't have my proper camera on me.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] burtcom:
I've been using my 28205 build for several months now -- haven't had a SOD yet.

I'm using Showcase -- if that makes any difference.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
the camera works fine in my rom

why are you messing with it & installing unnecessary stuff :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
i like your roms ... but the isea is to have & test the latest & most recent builds ...not to stay with old stuff from month ago

SOD is something releated to some third party applications, too much memory leaks, or the MS build files themselfs...we have to test & fix...to gt to the best & latest rom at the end

i appreciate your work but please keep your comments about your rom on your thread...if you have a comment regarding my work, you are welcome to post it here

thanks again
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] GerardSamija:
Well, like I said, initially the camera worked perfectly well with your ROM, for both stills and video. Even the hand-over-lens/suspend/power on trick worked to shoot much higher frame-rate video. But then after a couple of days it stopped working reliably. At first just a glitch, then eventually every time to the point I had to try installing HTC's old camera patch. That seemed to work. Now it doesn't, even after a soft reset. There seems to be some sort of decay, some instability which I'm experiencing. No idea why. Sure, I install a lot of software, so maybe that's it. I'm using Arkswitch. When I get a bit more time I'll try shutting that down and removing from startup, and maybe using WKTask instead. Got to have some sort of quick-access task manager though. Going cold turkey, just letting open apps pile up in the background would drive me crazy, and of course it'd bog down the device until it no longer worked. I've used PPCs for 10 years and know from lots of experience that a task manager is essential, unless all one does with a PPC is play the odd game or make phone calls. Then, I guess, no task manager would be needed.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
i am not having any decay or malfunctions after many hours of using the camera

maybe it is a software that you install that conflicts with it?

or maybe you have many things running that leave the camera without enough memory?

regarding task managers, i am testing the latest arkswitch 1.1.1 that seems to be better...but i will post a note when i test for longer hours
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] GerardSamija:
That's what I've been using, ArkSwitch 1.1.1, for about a week or so with a couple of your ROM versions, '40 and '41. I don't use the camera for hours and hours... more like a couple of minutes per day, sometimes a bit more. It's just frustrating that when I want it to work, it often doesn't.

As for leaving many programs running, no. Like I said, a task manager is essential for me. In general use, I keep just one program running, and even then only about half the time. That's nPOPuk, a tiny plaintext email application which I help test in the dev group. But that uses less than 2MB of memory according to ArkSwitch. of course Activesync keeps turning itself on a lot, so I turn that off a lot, basically whenever I see it in ArkSwitch. I don't synch with my PC nor with a server, so I don't know what that's about. I use Softick CardExport to run the device as an external storage device connected to my PC once in a while for faster file transfers. So perhaps CardExport is causing a problem?

I also use SPB Mobile Shell lately, as Titanium is often glitchy in my experience, unresponsive by comparison. I will try shutting both these things off for a while and whether that corrects the power-off in 10 seconds issue (which is now very persistent) and the camera inconsistency.

Otherwise, the only other thing I could think of which I run in the background is Resco Audio Recorder, for recording calls. But a lot of people run that, or Vito's recorder, and I've not heard complaints about backlight/suspend issues nor camera issues relating to that kind of app.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] burtcom:
:confused:

I rather think the point of these forums is to share information -- I shared info with you on other threads -- and I certainly don't care if folks use my ROMS or not.

Lets not be sensitive about this, OK.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] GerardSamija:
Word of caution on that subject. This thread isn't yet ridiculously long, it's something one can sit down and read in an evening if you like. Compare that to dsixda's thread for his ROMs made for the Elf/Elfin HTC Touch models. The thread is so long, it's like diving into War & Peace trying to wade through it... only the writing isn't generally very interesting. There are SO many sidetracks and repetitions that it's impossible for a new visitor to make much sense of it all, and even for those like myself who, on encountering it (when I bought my Elfin), read it from start to finish and remain subscribed to it, remembering everything useful from it is just not likely.

I would suggest a middle road. Tolerance for input not directly relating to the ROM (please?), but with a general sense that the main purpose here is to explore what ahmedfikry is releasing, with an eye to making it better with him by our input. Most of our reported errors will of course be user error, software conflicts, or device faults, as that's the case in any software testing environment. But if we try to be somewhat disciplined, the thread won't run out of control and new visitors will have less trouble interpreting the many messages.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
no no...don't get me wrong...read my post again: i said thanks few time & that i appreciate your work & help...and that you mentioned my rom on yr thread

i was just suggesting that we keep it here on issues related to my rom problems ... thats all

all info, input, & sharing is appreciated

i dont care who use my rom or yrs ..i care that the users who use my rom would be happy
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
I agree :) thanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] GerardSamija:
For what it's worth, I just disabled CardExport for the last hour or so and am finding that the settings for suspend are still messed up. Oddly, it's not dimming so far. Just shutting off in about 15 seconds... which makes no sense in terms of the menu options in settings. There is no 15 second option there, only 10 and 30 etc. So I just tried setting the power-off timeout to 1 minute in another interface, the Power tab on PocketTweak. Still shuts off in 15 seconds now.

The camera's working fine so far since shutting off CardExport... so maybe that's the culprit. If it works fine for a couple of days then I'll be satisfied to call it a sure thing, and just use CardExport manually rather than having it run in startup.

So it seems at least part of my problems are in fact a software conflict, at least tentatively, awaiting the test of time for confirmation. Sorry if I wasted any of your time with this.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
i think the camera issue is a conflict for sure... i spent alot of time on camera/video playback combitability thing... it was a big part of the final touchs in my rom ... many other roms won't play video...and i am actually still trying to get info that can make the camera work & the videos to play if I use 6.5 native files (many cheifs say they have native drivers but they dont use the full thing & use many older files to mix)

as for the backlight issue, do you (or did you) install or use S2U (slide to unlock)....it changes registry settings of backlight...

I personally dont have any backlight issues & it works exactly at the time it supposed to according to my settings
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
new XDA_UC folder in first post

it has some updated CABs

I also removed many of the cabs that were originally in it & placed a separate link for each of them

you can install alone or you can drop them into XDA_UC folder in your memory card if you like to make the ones you like a part of your User Customization

i also placed a link to a word documents describing the contents of XDA_UC and what each cab does
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] GerardSamija:
I tried the default dialer, but really have trouble with the tiny on-screen buttons for answering and ignoring, so installed the 'TPC mega_dialer_new_builds.cab' which contains a slide to answer/ignore. Is that what you mean? Since in my experience so far the Kaiser doesn't have a problem staying powered off in my pocket (unlike a lot of devices, which turn on when any button is pressed, sometimes but not always, regardless of my preference in the button lock applet) I don't find a need for a slide to unlock feature. Besides, that messes up the smooth video capture trick. Can't cycle power correctly to have that trick work if there's an unlock screen on wakeup, just doesn't work. So short answer; no, I didn't install S2U2, but yes, I did install a different phone canvas. Could that be the problem? I'd hate to lose it, as the dialer buttons are bigger too, and I just cannot get used to using hardware buttons to answer calls.

And no, I did not manually change any registry settings for backlight timeout before tonight. Tonight I did try to use the Power tab in PocketTweak to confirm the 1minute preference, and that's a remote registry tweak app... but the problem existed before that and hasn't changed since.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] mr_bisso:
htc menu enhancement

HI Ahmad,

Can you include htc menu enhancement in your roms?

I have been using 23529 rom of yours and I must say its the best rom ever.

Also if you have a solution for the back button in the menu?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
menu enhancement can be added by a CAB, i will look for it & post a note when i have a link for it in first post

what problem do you have with "back button in menu"? i am not sure what are you talking about? more details please
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
23544 rom link is now in first post
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
I prefer to cook com 5 branch builds because they are finger friendly & have threaded email feature

for users who like other com branchs, you may want to try the roms on these threads

esperOS roms by burtcom:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=609942

or

T.i.R. roms by UltimoJedi:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=636366

they do great work with light roms there & their efforts are enough with these branchs & i will continue to focus on com 5
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] tamas970:
Testing it in an hour... Is radio ver. 1.70.19.09 a good match for your recent builds?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] aggelosp:
After trying another 9 cooked ROMs (detailed review), I end up returning to this one and will try this new build. Thanks Ahmedfikry!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
i remember trying it before then going back to the one in my signature

cant remeber what exactly was the issue i had with it but it was not the best for me
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
:) makes me happy to know that my rom got yr attention again...thanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
it seems that you have few issues with the rom (more than other users)...

i have 2 theories:

maybe your phone is different, mine is from AT&T, and it may need different drivers???? that one i cant help with...since i have no way of testing.

another theory, which i think is the bigger possibility, is that it is in fact a software conflict,,, in that case i suggest that you just flash the rom and take the memory card out...and just use it "plain" & simple straight after flashing & see if you have bugs or glitchs....i know you will need & miss your needed applications but for the sake of testing try to do it
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] fernseher:
newer Manila?

Hi Ahmed!

Thanks for the new version!!!

Any chance to get the newer version of manila from you to install via UC?

I would be happy (and maybe others too)! :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] fernseher:
Hi Ahmed

it´s me again ;)

When i try to download the 23544 i get a virus warning from my antivirus software! The file is OK? :confused:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ledenjes:
Changes in 23544?

Hi,

I was wondering what's changed in 23544, in comparison with 23542. :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] GerardSamija:
Yet again, after completing this ROM flash I find that screen alignment is just way off. I had to use hardware buttons to navigate to the screen alignment dialogue and correct it. Not a big deal since I know now that it always happens with your ROMs and my Kaiser (not with Shifu's, nor with the one Rogers beta WM6.1), but something which might be better corrected if it happens for anyone besides just me.

I have tested the bare-bones ROM with my SIM in place. So far there is no issue with power/backlight. So I am beginning to add in my PIM databases and sound files and other personal/business related items, a bit at a time. Then I will start testing my programs, adding one at a time and seeing whether one of them triggers this fault, which it seems now must be a software incompatibility. I will report here if and when I find the guilty program, so that others might avoid such a problem.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
when i get time i will see what i can do....i already know that the newer manila is larger in size & its not much different in fuction (only obvious thing that it has weather in today screen which i dont think is a big deal)...but i will see what i can do later
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
my files are clean, i check with norton antivirus all the time
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
better speed & memory management are usually the main 2 things in a newer build

also original build comes with newer version of office, but with my roms we use the office CAB anyway so thats not going to be noticed here
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
anyone else having this "alignment" issue? i do not get it & no one else reported it so far????

good luck finding the offending software that messes up your backlight....
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] jforme:
23544 solved SOD for me

I have flashed every single ROM you have put out there and I have not experienced any alignment issue so far in any of your ROMs.

With 23542, I was experiencing a lot of SOD problem and I flashed 23544 like 6 hours ago and haven't experienced any SOD so far.

thanks a lot for this fast and furious ROM Ahmed.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
link HTC meny enhancement cabs is now at first post
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] Blauvster:
Excellent work ahmedfikry! Best ROM I have used to date!

Coreplayer has always been a little slow, but somehow in this latest ROM it works perfectly, along with about everything else.

Thanks for your dedication!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] tamas970:
Thanks for sharing the info - i changed to radio 1.71.09.01 as well and my GPS locks at a fraction of the time like before! The price is, that it eats up my battery especially using 3G and bluetooth:(
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ledenjes:
I NEVER had ANY issues with screen alignment in your ROMs (I started off with version 23524, I believe). My only ROM related issue until now has been that my ringtone didn't stick (23541), but it does now (23544). :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] 3nigm4:
I stiil using 23540 V3 and no issue so far, only lose my ringtone twice, but seems solved moving it inside Application Data/Sounds...

I'm using ShowCase Suite as my TaskManager 'cause ArkSwitch slows down touch response some time.

Using PhoneEx 2.2 as my phone application and works very well.

With radio 1.71: satellite fix ok, 3G ok, battery good (about 4 days with 20 mins of call per day)(I use a PolarCell Li-Pol 1400mAh); last day a walked off-road for about an hour (5 Km) with OziCE active in loggin my path, and used a 20% of battery, that seams good anought if you think the display remains on.

l0v3r
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] gilligan8:
How do you disable threaded SMS? I tried a cab I had used previously but it didn't seem to work.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] RasputinUK:
Hi ahmedfikry,

After moving upto 6.5 and trying many of the loaded ROM's. Too much stuff that I normally don't use in them. I came across the light versions including yours in fact the 28217 v8, 23534 and now the 23540 series.

With the 23542 I had various problems the included dialer was the main problem failing to dial and when it did failing to hangup having to reset the Kaiser. S2U2 caused problems with corrupting the SD card. So I gave up on it and returned to 23541 which was slow and sluggish, otherwise no problems.

Now I'm upto 23544, The only problem I have had with this is the Radio 1.71.09.01 for some reason when dialling it would not connect. To cure I had to hang-up and re-dial the number....The person I called would often complain that I called them but when they answered there was no-one there. I'm using radio 1.70.19.09 with Daves SPL 3.34 hard and all seems fine, and so far no issues with S2U2 either....

Finally is it possible to remove Internet explorer from the ROM and add it as an CAB ?

Keep up the good work. This one is certainly faster and more responsive. Thanks

RasputinUK:cool:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
i prefer radio 1.71.09.01

it may fix your calling issue

internet explorer can NOT be removed its necessary part of windows structure
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] maniekk:
No sim contacts visible?

Rom is realy fast and has a lot of free RAM memory.

I've just updated to 544 and it seems that SIM contacts are not present in the list as it was in 542.

Thanks for really good job.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] RasputinUK:
Hi ahmedfikry,

Thanks for the reply. It was radio 1.71.09.01 that caused the problem, maybe because it is an ATT radio...reflashing the radio 1.70.19.09 cured the problem for me in the UK at least.....

That's a shame about internet explorer, not many people that I know like or use mobile i.e

RasputinUK
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ledenjes:
No sound when incoming call or text message

Hi ahmedfikry,

I just realised there is an issue I've been had, from the moment I didn't flash my own radio ROM, anymore.

Until recently I always flashed radio ROM

1.71.09.01

(Neon) after I flashed your ROM. Recently someone told me that your ROM already contains this radio ROM. So, from that time I stopped flashing my own radio ROM. I never saw the pattern, until today. If I

don't

flash my own radio ROM, my phone does

not

play any sound when someone calls me or sends me a text message. But as soon as I flash the radio ROM the sound works, again.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
my rom does not contain any radios

radio has to be flashed separatly...you must pick the radio that works for your network

for me & for AT&T users in USA i recommend the one in my signature
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
ooops... i guess i forgot to click to include the fix for that when i cooked the new 23544

i will re-cook when i get home & it will be fixed in V2

thanks for pointing it out
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] gilligan8:
I am also having an issue where my contacts don't referrece for incoming calls/text and in the call history for new calls.

I used sprite to backup/restore my pim (including call/text history).. so old numbers show up in history correctly referrenced to the contact name but new ones do not.

This may have been covered before but this is the first time I've experienced and my genious ass decided to flash at 2:30am and I need to get busy today. :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ledenjes:
Right...that explains a lot. :o My brain must have misled me by telling me that your signature indicates that your ROM comes with that specific radio ROM included. :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] aggelosp:
I used latest ROM (23544 build) all day today with tons of e-mails, calls, messages, gps use and had absolutely no problems. Good job! ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ahmedfikry:
23544 V2 link is in first post

small fix to show SIM card contacts
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] dy2592:
is Marketplace preinstalled on this rom? if it isnt, where can I get it so that I may install it on it. Thanks in advance. Great site