yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] vizier:
First beta release

This should have been released earlier but I was unable to allocate enough time. Nevertheless, now we have the first beta release.

Upon the installation, the program will ask you a username/password. (If you do not have a username, you can also sign up within the application). After login the program will start first sync operation. Sync includes:

Getting the list from RIL site

Getting the Page Texts for offline viewing

So if you have a long reading ist, this may take a few minutes. Just be patient. :)

After sync is completed, you can use the reading list button to start enjoying the app.

Long tapping on a row on the list triggers a popup menu.

Remember that this is a beta release, thus contains bugs and some incomplete implementations. I disabled the buttons/menus that are not currently implemented.

I tested the beta in my HD2 and HD.

It works really smooth in HD2. In HD kinetic scrolling is not smooth at all (I will see to that in a later release), but all other functionalities seem fine.

Hope to see your comments for the first beta.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] hugocbp:
Yes! Thank you!

I will begin the tests as soon as work time is over and post here.

I'll edit the first post with this info.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] TheGoD:
Wooww, very impressive progress, will test your app as soon as I am home.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] vizier:
Before spreading the news, we should better test the application and resolve bugs and annoyances, I guess. :cool:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] spyrale:
wow, fantastic! i use read it later since the beginning, i have to try this, thank you!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] vizier:
There are some bugs/annoyances that I am aware of, and there are features yet to be implemented, but still it is a usable beta (at least on my HD2).

Please share your findings and opinions.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] spyrale:
i'm trying it right now...but there is still waiting cursor, i logged in five minutes ago :D it is supposed to take so long? i have circa 35 websites on the list...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] spyrale:
ok, i stopped it with taskmanager, launched again and now seems to work just fine...very good work, bravo! :D

this app has a lot a potential, i hope you will continue to work on it.

i suggest you to open a whole new thread for that.

p.s. now this thread is on my read it later list :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] vizier:
I will open a separate thread for this app, but I still need some more time to fix some bugs.

For the initial waiting you mentioned; I guess you have a very long list in RIL. I will make syncing in the background in a later release, so you will not need to wait until all downloading is finished.

Thanks for your comments.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] spyrale:
any news? :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] hugocbp:
Yes, I thought that later. I'll let you create it.

By the way... I asked for the program and can't run it, hehehe.

Don't know if it is because I have more than 300 itens, it stays loading for a long time then freezes completely. I've tried to unistall and install again and it is freezing every time after loading for about 15 min.

Then if I restart, I can initiate the app, but if I click on reading list ou current reading, it just hangs again.

I saw that the app created a bunch of xml files in Program Files/Late Reader folder.

Can this be because of the huge reading list?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] leoparis:
thanks, sweet! although i tried it with a short list, it works great. thank you very much!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] vizier:
The program requires .NET CF 3.5 or newer. Also currently the program uses a lot of RAM (5-6 MB etc) depending on the item you are reading.

I am not sure why you can not get the thing running. Let's try to understand it with a few questions.

1- After running the program, do you see the Login/Signup screen?

2- Does the application freeze after login (during first syncing)?

3- What is your device? You know I tested on HD and HD2, and these devices have huge RAM and powerful CPUs. I have not yet optimized my code, so it may be that the app uses too much RAM or CPU for older devices as of now.

4- Do you have a Storage Card on your device? (Currently the app requires this)

5- Do you have a mapped network path on your device? And what is the name of the network folder? (Mapped network folders can be perceived as a Storage Card)

I hope to find a solution after seing your answers.:cool:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] vizier:
By the way, I am currently working on background syncing with progress info. After that, most probably tomorrow night, I will post the application on the WM Dev&Hack forum.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] otherworld:
Have you tried Evernote (Free)?

It let's me save web pages on my pc and they're synced to my phone (and vice versa). Also lets you sync audio / text / drawings over the cloud between phone pc and a web site. You get an addon for firefox or chrome or which ever browser you use and just press it when you want to save all or part of a web page. It's a pretty cool app, I use it a lot for snapping pics of things I don't want to forget whilst out as I have swiss cheese for memory.

Not saying there isn't room for something more focused / better as the winmo evernote app could be a lot better (and you have to replace a dll to get it working on 6.5.3). It might be of use to you to know evernote has an api which you could use in the background for your app so someone is handling all the cloud storage for you.

Looking forward to trying yours out :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] otherworld:
p.s.

Just found the beta cab and had a play with it - amazing work so far - already a really useful app. Can't believe you got it to that standard so quickly :eek:

Really looking forward to future versions, and hadn't seen the Read it later web site before.

Thanks!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] hugocbp:
Let's go, hehehe.

1. Yes. I put my login and password and it starts syncing.

2. It freezes after about 10 min of syncing. The loading/waiting dots starts "dancing" in the screen for this time, and then the hole phone freezes.

3. I have an HD2 with 576 MB of RAM enabled. Using Miri's ROM, WM 6.5.5 v. 15.1.

4. Yes. 16 gb with lots of free space.

5. Nope.

I really think that's something to do with my huge list, hehehe. As I said, I use RIL heavily for work also, so I can go up to 500 itens until I have time to check it all and go back down to 0.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] hugocbp:
I use Evernote a lot, but they're different apps. RIL is more straightfoward and better for text you just found interesting and want to take a look.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] vizier:
OK, then the problem is definitely related with the size of reading list. I will add the option to download only the list and no pagetext before I release the next version then. Also currently I download page text of every item, including READ items. When I fix these, we can have another go.

By the time, can you just signup with another user/pass for the sake of testing. This would be very helpful for me.:cool:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] djet:
It shows codes for letters in Russian text. Absolutely unreadable.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] vizier:
Using the codepage of the pagetext in rendering is in my todo list. :)

I hope this will solve the problem, when I finish it.:cool:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] hugocbp:
I'll do it. I thought about starting a new list, hehehe.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] leoparis:
I have another question. Sometimes I am interested in reading pages with equations, tables etc. Is it possible to have support for those? For example, if we are to add a wikipedia page with equations and/or a table, can we have a visually okay copy of the page with the full content? That is almost asking for an offline html browser without the fancy stuff like flash, java etc.

Once again, thank you very much for your hard work!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] vizier:
I guess what you are asking is in my todo list, although under a very rough name : better rendering/better html tag support. However, I must admit that this is a very low priority item, at least for now. :(

Also I should give a summary of the current status:

I could not work on this project during the last week. I am working hard to allocate some time for this these days. Hopefully I will resume my work on this project this week.

Thank you for your comments.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] immune69@gmail.com:
Hey great App, fixing codepage issue will make it perfectly usable even on my old diamond touch ! Keep us posted !
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] vizier:
I started working on the project again this evening. Currently my main focus is to perform pagetext downloading selectively and in a background thread.

By the way I guess I fixed the codepage issue, at least I tried with a russian web site and I see russian characters correctly rendered now. I will open a new thread as soon as I am finished and let you know.

Thanks again for your support and comments.:cool:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] spyrale:
thanks to you, we are all waiting for this:D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] vizier:
New release...

Hi there, we have a dedicated thread now at: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=682845:cool:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] n2s2k2india:
Read it later.

Have you tried the RIL Digest? It's new and you can try it for free for 10 days.

I like it so much that I bought it ($5). Works well on my samsung Omnia.:D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] hugocbp:
I've tried it during the beta period but didn't like at all.

Maybe because most of my itens are in Portugueses, RIL couldn't sort them corretly.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] the_scotsman:
[Cabs]

- Camera Fix

4shared

Rapidshare

MegaUpload

- Manila tweaks - Home tab, Calendar tab, Picture tab and Twitter tab speed improvements (I recommend installing this, it will be integrated in future releases)

4shared

Rapidshare

MegaUpload

- QuickGPS

4shared

Rapidshare

MegaUpload
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] the_scotsman:
Reserved #2
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] the_scotsman:
Reserved #3
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] csjneek:
looks really promising.

let's try it :)

waht rilphone.dll is included? 1.15.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] longice:
Wow, this sounds exciting, scotsman! Great work, I think I'll try this out :)

But how about available program storage?

And as soon as someone gets this downloaded, there seems to be a serious need for mirrors! :p

What is the difference between the Qilin dialer and the other ones (Tachi, Rhodium)??

Oh, and last question: Which keyboard is included and what languages? Just the standard 6 or also additional languages (e.g. norwegian)?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Leakhanak:
I am also going to try ...................! ThAnK YoU cHeF.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] donsalari:
Nice nice! Finally released :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] the_scotsman:
Hmmm...good question...which ever one is included in build 21889. I shall include a known good one for next release. Thanks for reminding me about it!

At the moment there is 65MB free storage. This may change if I decide to remove some applications and let users decide to install them.

Opera 10 takes up 10MB of space, so this is a lot of space if people don't need Opera.

Quilin dialer uses a little less RAM and has support for video calling. But video calling is not yet working.

Only the default languages are included.

Remember this is my first proper attempt at a decent ROM, so there may be problems...just let me know :)

hehe yep! It was your ROM that inspired me to have a go myself...you have done such an awesome job and created probably the best ROM for the Diamond...I think it will take me a long time to get mine performing like yours!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] longice:
Okay, thanks! I hope that next release will have some more storage available, but without removing Opera ;)

Regarding languages, I suppose the ezInput from Gen.Y ROM is possible to install after flashing? (See first post on this thread, under 'Attached cabs')
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] microang:
Mirror

I'm downloading it now, sounds promising. Will mirror to Megaupload if I like it! :D

How's Don Salari know you?

Uploaded! - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VVKD2MX9

Now Testing thr ROM...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Nirak:
can't resist this one.....downloading right now, gonna try this weekend.

Tx for sharing scotsman!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] xaoc747:
Good job The_Scotsman!!! Wait from you Romz with 28*** build! Thx!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] chrisd1a1:
swapped from Don's version 2 to give this a try. (for me its the best sense 2.5 there is for diamond so i'm using it as a benchmark)

first well done with the release. i love the look and feel. working through setting everything up and so far

email set up is lovely. runs smooth as silk.

wallpaper works fine

installed the 16 shortcut option. (could be worth adding to the rom)

calander works fine. adds appointments fine

issues with the Album. (it doesnt swap between shots) used the cab from Don's thread which fixed the issues.

auto update on weather works fine

twitter tab works fine :)

facebook intergration works fine.

contact picker for the contacts tab works fine. and the fb intergration for contact pics works well.

after playing for 30 Mins setting this up running at 72% ram

only had a short play with opera but seems to be running without memory issues.

wifi connecting fine, no issues.

i've not had chance to test gps (i'm old fasioned and dont use quick gps. i have patience but i'll report on my tomtom tomorrow)

in general. i'm not having an issue so have to say you are competing with Don for the most usable 2.5 on the diamond thread.

i would advice adding clean ram 1.9.3 to the rom as it is running on the border of ram usability but full credit for the beta. can't wait for the RC

kind regards, and many thanks

Chris
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] microang:
Camera not working!!!

The Camera App appears not to be working I tried from HTC Sense and the Start Menu but it just won't start!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] griny:
cabs

Can somebody give other link to download , I can't download from rapidshare.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] microang:
check my post above with the megaupload link! ;)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] the_scotsman:
Thanks for the great breakdown...it's good to know that so everything is being given a thorough test by others...there will always be things that I forget to check.

How is the overall speed? Acceptable or does it feel sluggish? I tried to compromise between speed, ram and having all features included.

The albmu issue you mention...do you mean pressing "albums" in the pictures tab and viewing the pictures in full screen? Which cab are you meaning from Don's thread?

You're right, thanks for the heads up, I just checked myself. I twas working in previous builds, so I must have made a booboo somewhere! :o

4shared: http://www.4shared.com/dir/28270497/46fba2a6/sharing.html

Megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VVKD2MX9 (thanks microang!)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] microang:
I'll try to help you the best I can with your ROM as it seems promising! Maybe you should put the Megaupload link in your Post 1 to make it easier for people. :D

Do you know where we can get the working Camera app?

I'm looking to maybe cook my own ROM in the near future. What Kitchen do you recommend?

Thanks for your hard work Chef! ;)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] griny:
thank for the links
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] jimmy_tag:
good rom... but eats battery a bit more..

overall performance is good... as its wm 6.5 n that too on TD...

It wud be good if you add the "empty deleted msgs" option in SMS... n also "select msgs" option...

Else ur Rom is nice... Thanx buddy..:)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Instinct64:
I have never put a custom ROM on my phone, I notice you mention how to put the rom onto the phone and reset using Vol down + Back + Reset.

Do i need HardSPL or any other pre-requisites ? My phone just came up with a loading... screen and got stuck !
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Instinct64:
my bad :S Installing it now. Didn't think it was required for the method posted.

Must remember to READ the tutorials xD
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] mickey1200:
I flashed this rom this weekend, and ITS GREAT. I did it THIS way, didn't use MTTY. I had a probleme using MTTY last time. (I thought I bricked it) Not sure what went wrong.

Had no probleme flashing this way.

BEST ROM EVER
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Instinct64:
I really like this ROM, However:

The reply button to text messages appears to do nothing for me :S

Does anyone know how to fix this ?

The setting in the Personalise settings is set to vibrate on keypress' etc however this does not happen.

And Manilla Locker crashes Sense 2.5 :(

Can anyone help with these !! :) Thanks!!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Christoph21x:
As mentioned just one page back: before activating the internal locker for the first time:

"To fix it, just FIRST go to start menu > settings > sound settings > notifications tab. Then close it...the manila settings tabs will now work"

Greetz - Christoph
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] writeCL:
hey scotsman, the strangest thing happend yesterday :( i turned on my diamond and it opened with CALENDAR tab... every time i tried to reselect HOME tab, after a few second it jumps back to CALENDAR... this is just one part of the weirdness...

another thing, it seems my screen is not aligned anymore, but not quite the normal behavior... i try to select settings tab, it jumps and gets stuck at twitter tab... the tabs move when i try to get to another tab, but jumps right back at twitter..

the start button is impossible to press (tried to go to align) ...everything is kinda messed up and i don't think i can explain it ... nothing i try to tap, seems to respond..

For Ex.. I opened dialer with key ... typing doesn't work, if i try to close it ,the conference button gets pressed (not every time, but it happened ) .. please help me with some ideas.. at least how to backup my stuff :( if the ultimate solution is Hard resetting :((
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] nikoskobo:
i have try many roms but this is the BEST

THE BEST ROM

Η καλυτερη rom .
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Christoph21x:
Hi CL!

I had a quite similar issue, not exactly but it sounds as if it could have the same root cause.

With me it was the amount of messages (SMS, Mails), that were stored on the device (I suppose, rather the SMS).

Use the PIMBackup that is installed in Start/Tools to backup your messages, delete them and watch, if it happens again. (You can lateron "merge" them into new ones with the PIMBackup, but I would rather consider to leave them away)

Also you should try to write SMS using the "list/Inbox" view to reply. Don't use the new way (tapping on the message in the Tab-View and replying there), you can watch there the icons going corrupt after a time, thus, there must be some bugs in this view, probably memory leaks or corruption)

=> (backup and) delete messages

=> use the inbox view for reading and replying

=> softreset the device

... and then let us know if this solved your issues

if not... sorry, then it's not the same. Maybe then you have to HR your Diamond.

Hope I could help - Christoph
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] writeCL:
thanks for the reply Christoph21x .. it brought hope to my soul :) really... i'll try and test today what you, so perfectly, put together in your post.

be back with feedback later today...

(i'll even HR just to be sure, and will restore with pim everything but messages)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] writeCL:
:(( i've HR .. but the same problem... it worked oke for a few minutes, aligned the screen, set up the clocks, it hard reseted, i've installed totalcmd.. the tabs were working properly.. but suddenly gets stuck as if i kept my finger pressed on one side(i think) .. it jumps from tabs to tabs.. it's really impossible to use in this state :(( frankly, i'm beginning to think my touch (display) is having trouble... may be defective or something :((((( .... not even restored my pims this time ...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] mickey1200:
MTTY

You will have to do MTTY. I didn't do MTTY, and phone was fine for a few days, then it started acting strange. Did MTTY, and all is solved.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] the_scotsman:
Sorry for not responding for a few days...been busy with work...and working on my HD2 ROM :D

I suggest if you have any strange errors mentioned above, please do MTTY...this will fix 99% of the issues.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] writeCL:
following you for a while, scotsman, i ALWAYS use MTTY :)

btw, i went to see a "mechanic" today.. he told me that it could be a touch problem, and that i have to replace the whole display :(( can't believe it .. anyway.. they'll test it on monday to see for sure.. and if that is the real problem, i'll have to buy a new display + touch ... (not really expensive, but still...)

strage though, if i keep my diamond in warm places (chest pocket, my hand) for a while, it works splendid.. but if i use it outside, it starts acting weird again :) (outside meaning -5, -10 Celsius :) )
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Christoph21x:
Hi CL, sad to hear this. But actually what you describe could really be a touch issue.

But before spending this money, try to flash back the original ROM - if it turns out to have the same issues - yes, could be right. If not...?

Greetz from Switzerland - Christoph
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] writeCL:
I did.. tried 4 different roms, including the ORANGE original one :) (and YES, used MTTY every single time)..

Warm means OKE, cold means WIERD BEHAVIOR :)) ... I have 3 options :)

1. to try and keep it warm, at least untill summer gets here :) hoping that there will be no more issues (at least 'till fall.. when I should be able to have the money to replace the touch)

2. buy now a new touch and replace it

or ...

3 aa, uhm ... ask scotsman to ship me his :) since his diamond is bricked :D

Thanx Chris for your help and support :) and.. greetings from Romania :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Nirak:
You could send it in for warranty i think. HTC Europe offers 24 months on their devices. No diamond has reached that age yet, since it was launched in may 2008
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] writeCL:
it was bought from Vodafone with 12 month warranty .. + the warranty is void when hard flashing (even if my problem is a hardware problem not software one)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] the_scotsman:
Flash back to a stock ROM/SPL and they won't know you had a hardSPL on it :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] writeCL:
hey scotsman, I have :

radio version R 1.13.25.24..

It works oke, meaning that i didn't run into any trouble using it.. but i was wondering if you recommend a better version .. a newer one :)

and G 52.62.25.34H

(i think that's the hardspl.. not sure)

I'm asking because i wanna have my diamond running uptodate, and highest performance.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] the_scotsman:
I always liked using the 1.17.25.14 radio :)

http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=dtz8mynx5m