[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] GerardSamija:
Yeah, sadly I am approaching the same conclusion. Over the past 5 days my phone has had about 15 separate incidents where a) sound failed so I missed calls and when I tried to make calls they connected but I could not hear the other party (that's kind of embarrassing), b) phone stayed on by itself and drained the battery to zero (my settings are always 1 minute to dim, 2 minutes to suspend), c) after soft reset following b, the backlight dim reset to 10 seconds, d) sound preferences partially reset to defaults, such as various phone/messaging tones changing spontaneously, alarm setting itself to vibrate though I had made no change to settings, and e), the camera works about half the time, the other half showing a dark green screen when I launch it, forcing about a 2 minute wait for a soft reset if I want to take a picture. I'm playing baby-sitter to my phone, often having to check in on it though I don't actually need to use it, just to make sure that when a client calls my phone actually works.

I am using the same ROM and radio versions as ahmedfikry, and flashed the Rogers WM6.1 ROM between my last WM6.5 and this one. I also re-flashed the radio after flashing this latest ROM since initially it was not responding well to screen taps (very hard pressure and multiple taps were required to make anything respond), which seemed to improve device function somewhat. I installed some elements using the UC folder, just these:

- 2_Way_Plus_InCall_Recording.cab (necessary with Kaiser for recording both sides of calls)

- Backup_n_PowerTools.cab

- fexploreext v2.06.CAB

- Filter.reg

- MyExtraShortcutIcons.cab

- Owner.reg (my owner info page)

- printing_SIP.reg (enable Letter Recognizer SIP as an option, which I then set as default)

- Resco_FTP.reg (my website FTP connection settings for Resco Explorer's FTP element)

- sipchange.cab

- TaskSwitch.cab

- TPC 4-ROW_HONEYCOMB.cab (the 3-row setup makes me scroll the menu too much)

Today's little game from my phone is that it's suspending at 30 seconds, no backlight dim, just suspending. I check the settings and see that 1 minute backlight dim, 2 minute suspend are still there, so there is no way to correct this malfunction. The device suspends just the same whether I run Don'tSleep or not, as though that app isn't running. If I run Keep Alive v1.07 the device stays running. But that's a bit dangerous, as if somehow the phone comes on in my pocket (ie: if an alarm occurs or an incoming call - blocked by firewall or just not heard because sounds fail)) then the device will remain running and quickly drain the battery, rendering the phone useless.

I am of course running a number of other applications, installed either by CAB file or as standalone EXE files. I understand that ahmedfikry does not run a lot, or perhaps not any additional applications, and envy his discipline. However my daily life requires that I use my phone for a number of other functions. Here are the CAB-installed apps first:

- J.S. Advanced Configuration Tool (many dozens of changes to settings to render the device properly usable, as default settings make me want to use a different ROM)

- Resco Audio Recorder v4.62 (set to auto-record all phone calls to the microSD in MP3)

- CoreCodec COREPlayer

- francarl HtcMenuEnhancement (WAY nicer thumb tip menu navigation!)

- francarl HTCMenuLoader

- Google Maps

- Gsoft SynchroTime (manually synch clock with internet time servers occasionally)

- HTC Comm Manager (need access to slightly more connection functions than default)

- Access NetFront Browser v3.5

- HTC Diamond MP3 Trimmer (useful for trimming voicemail-recorded messages once in a while, to remove the operator's voice and other nonsense)

- Phatware dbExplorer (one of several tools I use to ensure redundant backups of my PIM)

- Resco Backup

- Resco Explorer

- Spb Mobile Shell

- Spb Phone Suite (for profiles and call filtering - the firewall you offer in the UC folder does not allow me to import my big whitelist, and manually entering it would be a huge chore on every new ROM install, where Spb imports that list in a couple of seconds and it runs very well, blocking spammers)

- Resco Photo Manager 7.03 (many photo editing tools I want for the camera's pictures, that is when the camera is working...)

- Spb Wireless Monitor (so I don't go over my data plan limit)

- Tillanosoft pNotepad (the only notepad I like)

- Tillanosoft tGetFile.dll (allows Open dialogue to browse whole device)

Then for standalones I have these:

- Softmaker Office Suite (TextMaker, PlanMaker, Presentations)

- uBook.exe

- Conversion.exe (by Scott Seligman)

- PocketDHCP.exe

- FreqTune.exe (instrument tuner)

- Jpeg2Pdf.exe

- KeepAlive.exe

- PocketXpdf.exe

That's it. The only things I can think of from this list which might interfere with use are those which run in the background, namely these:

- AudioRecServStarter

- HTCMenuLoader

- Spb Wireless Srv

- SpbMobileShell

Those are the items added by my installed software to the Startup folder. In the recent past when encountering problems with device timeouts, alarms and sounds, and the camera, I have tested uninstalling or disabling each of these items. These tests have at times been difficult, and I got fooled once into thinking one of them had been the guilty party... but no, even with nothing installed on the above lists I still see some problems with these recent ROM versions of the same kind. The past few days the device even shuts itself off several times after a soft reset, and does not fully load into usable state unless I prevent it from doing so by tapping the screen before it suspends. This too makes it useless as a phone unless I babysit soft resets.

I will continue trying to make this ROM series work for me for another little while, but it seems that there is some fundamental stability problem with Microsoft's recently leaked ROMs at least as regards some piece of software or combination of softwares which I use. Work is keeping me too busy to run exhaustive tests on everything, and then there's the fact that the device exhibits at least some serious problems with a fresh, clean ROM install, even if I skip the XDA_UC folder install by hiding it in another folder before an upgrade. It seems doubtful that this is a hardware problem specific to my device since it changes at apparently random times and days, and also randomly affects quite a few seemingly unrelated functions of the device, while allowing it to work correctly about half the time. Normally I have been a fairly good detective where software bugs are concerned, but it seems to me that the problems here are too many to isolate, and that they are at a fairly deep system level which cannot be accessed via the GUI.