[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] fazz:
MaesusLeo ROM v2.7.2 \(^_^)/ ...nine days later

Hey all and 'H' how are we all?! [^_^]

Well it's been 9 days solid on the v2.7.2 and I really can't moan that much, just praise and enjoy more and more everyday. OK so I said something similar in my previous post and also would update with any issues I'm experiencing.

The first would be the battery life. Yes, another moaning about the same thing, however, I've done my homework and been through all the radio's from v2.08.50.08_2 up and found .10 and .12 to be the best for both reception, quality of calls and battery life. I've stuck with .12 to feel more up to date, but also to random 3G connection on our London Underground [^_^] ...OK, so why bother to mention the battery issue... well it's being drained mainly because of a combination of 'proximity' feature random turning on the screen every 5-10 minutes which of course drains it faster and also the screen not fully locking. Yes it will lock when I instruct it too, but somehow unlocks on it's own when it my pocket! This of course causes all sorts of random things to be opened and run, but also then drains the battery even faster.

This brings me on to my second part of 'locking' again. I'm still very unhappy with this part of my phone, due to it not ever working so well. Where shall I begin. The fun side with say music playback, I use TCPMP (as you know and ever so kindly include in your lovely ROM's) and whilst it plays music, if you hit the off button, it kills the audio. If you try this with the awful MS's Media Player, the audio is always fine and continues to play. OK, so I don't ever turn it off, I just use the inbuilt 'screen lock' that comes with WM6.5. Again this isn't so nice, although the custom made lock that included 'H' is nice actually and like it too. I've also tried using the custom CHT route, but this also doesn't work so well and cuts the audio off when the screen goes off, when locked. I so wish TCPMP could be integrated more, so you could see the playing track on the home screens, possible have basic controls and see the current track playing and thumb image on the lock screen. Dreaming, I know.

Third part... still with locking... since the changes to the ROM's themselves some time back, I can never use the Phone Pin Code as this kicks in everytime the screen locks. It USED to work when you tell it not to lock for a set number of hours, say 6 hours, so even if you lock the screen and go to unlock it 20 minutes later, you don't need to put in the Phone Pin Code, but if you set up a Phone Pin Lock, it asks every time. Both now annoying and insecure not to have one in place. I have one for my SiM card of course, but this only asks once during the bootup (not 100%) but usually fine, but not enough of course. There is more to this, but that about somes up another moan of mine that I mentioned some weeks back in much longer post with no feedback.

Google searching. Why does Google search via the Internet Tab ALWAYS give the results it German? I know German, but would prefer my native English. It's been like this for a long time and always end up going to the iGoogle page instead and search from their. My country region is set to UK and all is set to UK English... Hmm?!

I'm still using Tonality to alter all the audio, but this is becoming dated software as it hasn't been updated in a long time (WM6.1) and is both starting to show it's age and errors a lot. Any other ideas or thoughts on this one? Can one access the assigned audio in the registry easier and maybe back up the settings/alterations for the next ROM flash?

What is the best way to back up the setting/registry so it can be restored when we a re-flash our beloved HTC HD2's, rather than sit there for hours re-doing it all?

Forth. Making calls seems a little slow at time. I press on a contacts face/mug/image in Favourite people, contacts or call history and it always takes anything from 5-10 seconds to make the call. The call itself is fine and hanging up is fine, but just making the call initially can be slow at random times (even after a hard-reboot).

Lastly for now and probably a stupid one, but is .NET Compact Framework 3.5 included in the ROM? been trying to use a very buggy application called TFLmobile and keeps moaning I don't have it, but not sure if I do and if it's just this random bug-filled application being stupid, as it's the only error I've come across really.

Ok... last last (really) but more in regards to what you have been busy with and what seems like what others are asking for. I like really like CHT and will continue to use it, unless someone else does something even better with it slowing down the phone any further. MaxSense personally looks more like old sKooL WM6.1 with more ugly small text, to busy and not sure I like the way it works. However, I know it's early stages and still lots to do, so will look forward to using it when it's more complete, with more functions over CHT.

As for including Keyboard/pads, I use TouchPal from www.cootek.com and definitely the best I've used. Not perfect for sure, but very close and much more customizable than most others, fast, skin-able and supports many other languages if you need too.

OK... that's it for me... writing this via your ROM on the HD2... on a long tube journey today [^_^] Have a great weekend all and keep up the fantastic work 'H'... you ARE the best!!!