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MaesusLeo | v2.6 ...not just yet

Sorry, I've been out of touch... lots of film projects going about and my main HTPC has had yet another HDD failure... looking into SSD's which are killer £$£! Grr!!

Anywho... due to the above, I'm stuck on v2.5 for now and probably best due to some issues I'm seeing here. I'd love to install anywho, but need my phone working 100% for now for business reasons until early next week.

So things I feel aren't working or not liking and to respond you questions via Twitter:

Long Key Presses. Is not possible to assign all Hard Button keys, for example Long Press: 'Pick up = Voice Comm', 'Home = Rotate', 'Win Key = Task Manager of some kind', 'Back key = Locks phone', 'Hand up = Usual Action feature'.

Time and dates: I live in the UK and the formation of the date always bugs me. I usually set it to 24hr's (01:23) and would prefer the date in UK formation, Friday 18th June 2010 for example.

People short cut-screen. Is there no way to keep the order they are placed in? Everytime I recover and re-sync my contacts with Outlook, MS MyPhone or PiM it looses the order I placed them.

E-mail accounts. I usually have four e-mails account set-up on my phone, such as 1x iMAP personal accounts, 2x iMAP business account, 1x Google Gmail account and 1x Microsoft Windows Live account, but each and every time I re-flash/re-install, I have to set each up account from the beginning. Very boring and long!

HTC Sense Slider: Always seems out of alignment (slightly higher and to right) even if install my own sliders? It's more obvious when you get an SMS or E-mail and the number shows within a green dot. Any ideas?

Facebook Sense tab: Can the auto-update time be shortened, so rather than every two hours as it says, be more like every 30 minutes.

Footprints: Haven't used this hugely, but each time I re-flash/re-install it looses the footprints I've created previously.

Alarm clock: It does wake the phone up at least and does use the assigned sound (if very limited to only what is in the Windows folder) but it does not pop up to the front, always in the backdrop and can only be got at via the top Task/Icon bar to either switch off or (my favourite) Snooze.

Calendar: Nothing bad, but the number for today's date always seems rather small and not in the center.

AudioBooster/Audio tweaking/3D Audio: Anyway to really/truly have this running always without having to re-enable every time or at least when you plug in a 3.5mm accessory (ear/headphones)?

Music playback: You know already I'm a fan of TCPMP, but can this be in some way, made to be the default player over the inbuilt crappy MS Media Player? When you press play on ear/headphones with remote buttons, it always uses MS Media Player. What about replacing the the Sense Music Tab with TCPMP... huge job I'd image? If not, what about making MS Media Player just see and play single folders at the users choice?

Included programs: I see you've addressed this issue in v2.6 (haven't used it yet though), but in my case, I just moved them all to the SD memory card and rebuilt short-cuts to an assigned genre folder. This way in future after re-flashing/re-installing, they are always there and I just recover the Start-up folder in Windows directory.

The tacchan23whiteblack theme: I do like the fact that it's available to manipulate in almost anyway one likes! I've changed a fair amount of the png's to be how I want them, with a Windows Start button as my company logo for example and because it's in the 'My documents' folder, it will sync with MS MyPhone, Windows Device Sync thing etc and never loose what was built... however... has this now been moved/changed since v2.6?

Lock screen: I have to use the boring HTC's Manila because it's the only one that will allow me to lock my phone and still have audio play from TCPMP without killing it or cause buffering issues like crazy!

Theme/Icons/Design/GUi: 'H' you know I love your work (above ALL other chefs) but I if there's one thing I disagree on, it's the design. I know it's always a tough one to decided on and we ALL haven't different tastes, not that ANYONE has bad taste, just different. Different is good and love different, but also prefer a different design to chosen one. Recently I've seen the power of basic tools such as CMSi and JWMD so am starting to build up my own theme for icons, customer Wallpapers (480x800, 800x480 and 960x800) for the brilliant CoOkie, but one thing I can't do (yet) is alter the GUi of Sense. The whole white line around all boxes doesn't work for me and the included icons. However, this is not to say change it, as many of course like it as well as yourself, this just my opinion and what I do to every ROM I install of yours.

I know, it's a lot of dislikes and moans, but just think... my likes for your ROM's must be far greater for me to stick with (and donate) for your brilliant ROM's, especially with your given support via the XDA forum, unlike the majority of other (more popular) chefs!

My current top used software:

TCPMP - As it's best/simplest for all music and video playback I know of

Googe Maps - Always and have Latitude enabled always too

Mobile TFL - I live in London and need it for live public transport updates

HTC Camera - I make sure it's always handy and ready to shoot, which then I always upload to my Facebook account... great fun and good conversations!

London Evening Standard - Mobile newspaper, because using paper to print is bad use of precious resources!

YomoMedia - My favourite RSS reader that is just brilliant!

Palringo - On-line comms for all your usual social stuff

HTC Twitter - Just easy to use and fast enough for me to catch up on with

HTC Facebook - Not great and infact awful, but still use it everyday to keep update with my group of human friends.

HTC Flashlight - Always SO handy

AutoBacklighting - Allows me to toggle be easily between my usually setting on battery of 90% backlight to auto-backlight

Resco file Explorer - Best file manager (at a small price)

Tonality - One of my most favourite tweaking programs that is very over looked by so many! It allows one to change every sound on the OS to any assigned WAV sound. Not 100%, looks ugly, terrible if not, no support now and crashes during the setup sometimes, but once done, it makes using your phone a lot more pleasant and audibly pleasing!

Games - So many, from Spore to Flight Commander and from Worms to Tower Defence... but most of them are rather crappy. Such a shame and such a waste!

Current Software Keyboard - I was using Resco's Keyboard Pro v6.0 beta and even though it's very good, I'm still not 100% about it. Anywho, I'm now trying CooTek's TouchPal v4.0 keyboard and it's VERY good!

Well, some random food for thought and look forward to Maesus v2.7 because by the time I'm done re-building my HTPC with an updated Raid config, you'll be uploading v2.7 no doubt...

...I'm drooling at the thought already! \[^_^]/