[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] Howshall:
SOD is still present with TAI_21899_2013.2815_WWE

In my current search for a stable WM6.5 w Sense 2.5 and Cookie Mod have been trying out this ROM for the last 48hrs.

Unfortunately experienced Standby of Death (SOD) problem on second morning of testing so I'm moving on to other ROMs but wanted to feedback a review of this ROM for others who may be interested in Tai's work here.

Note that this ROM did successfully survive 12hrs SOD free when 1st flashed and left unconfigured, but SOD'd within 1hr of being taken off mains charge the second night after setup, which did not include any new apps, cabs, or registry edits and minimal changes to phone default settings (most advanced settings hidden in the ROM by blocking of access to WM's own Settings screens)

Update: This ROM seemed to get much more unstable after or if I tried to restore any old SMS via PIMBackup. Now had total of 5x SOD plus a lot of freezes and lock-ups over a longer 5 days test period, didn't seem to be any pattern to lockups that I could work out, some were related to aspect changes, some in Contacts, some in SMS, some while phone was just powered on plugged into mains! Your luck may vary, especially if you have less contacts, calendar, email and SMS items than me (although I don't consider my amounts excessive, they are quite comprehensive)

General info for TAI_21899_2013.2815_WWE:

- ROM is based on HTC Sense and associated apps from Touch Diamond 2

- Sense version is not fully landscape in that some panels such Internet do not stretch to new width, and Calendar does not display at all :(, but Home, Contacts, SMS and Mail tabs are all fully landscape compliant

- Liked Windows Phone 7 theme start animation...shame there's no full stable hacked WP7 theme available yet (but good progress is going on so I've got my fingers crossed there as my new UI soonish :) )

- Access to WM standard 'Settings' has been removed. 'Settings' icon in start menu takes you to Sense Tab setting menu :(

(Means certain deep settings like 'Sound alarms even when phone in silent' are no longer available - Will look for Registry property in due course after stability testing as I prefer to set phone to silent overnight to ignore SMS, Emails, etc, but want to use Alarm to wake in morning)

- An earlier version of Sense Cookie Mod is pre-installed with 3 screens of quicklinks and default look and feel. CHT Editor is not pre-installed, but offered option of download as menu item is present from Home 'Menu' list

- Twitter, but not Facebook tab, is present, although when selected tab twitter icon on strip shows solid grey. Fine when not selected tab

- ROM pre-configured to give old style WM notifications which allow 'Snooze by x' minutes, not just Snooze or Dismiss :)

- Opera 10 pre-installed and working with X1 hardware keyboard :)

- Phone set as default to 2G mode in Comms Manager to get better battery life :)

- No 'Action menu' included by default in this ROM (either as Home softkey, or as my preference on long hold of power button - as this allows instant activation from wherever you are in phone)

- Noticed slight graphic glitch on mail page. Small mail icon on right side (under create new mail icon) is offset from surrounding frame (with the little up down arrows). Functions fine, just graphical glitch.

- Noticed that 'Teeter' game is included, but not functional on X1 as no Accelerometer present. (Could be removed to slim ROM down)

- Noticed that without access to WM Settings menus you can't de-select/re-select Sense from Home Items menu as you can never get to that menu!

- Facebook Integration: Not perfect but most worked. Didn't have much luck with Online Albums feature. Most people I know have albums came back with none, and some that did list albums allowed click through but then never showed actual images just correct number of placeholders that then changed from in progress to denied indicators. Tried setting auto login into MS Facebook app to see if that would help if a permissions thing.

- When making Data connection phone pops up older style Dialing panel with 'Disconnect' and 'Hide' options while actually establishing connection

- 'Show on Map' doesn't work from contacts. Google Maps never triggered to load. :(

- 1x Screen corruption of Sense UI during normal usage (No known trigger, phone was in standby. Was persistent glitch once triggered, had to be fixed by soft reset)

- Touch Input soft keyboard got stuck in numbers only mode with button to toggle back to QWERTY blank and unresponsive. :(

As suggested on other threads, easiest fix was create a new contact within People seemed to fix. (Unfortunately this happened to me when phone was in standby and I needed to enter letters as part of phone unlock password...thankfully X1 still has it's hardware keyboard or I would have been stuck!)

More info:

See attached for a full (yes even longer!) step by step description of my experience and setup with this ROM.

Many thanks to Tai for putting this out here.