[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] sanos99:
Hi Indie,

just flashed my hd2 today for the first time and after trying several ROMS (installed HSPL3 first), I finally went on your Omega XT with Dinik's Anastasia customisation.

After flashing the ROM I have discovered the following:

- Voice recorder didn't play, it just recorded but hang whenever I wanted to replay a recording; It also dated the recordings as being from 1600 (just wondering what kind of PDA were there in the Middle Ages lol). I had to reinstall a voice recorder.cab found on xda and it solved the problem. Amazingly it was the only bug I have found.

- there was a nasty bug in the stock 1.48 ROM I had on my HD2 originally: I use my own mail server and the username is usually the complete email address (I use qmail with multiple domains). I typed my email address in the username field (cristian@jointelecom.ro) but somehow the application stripped the domain part and the username was always saved and "cristian". Obviously I could not log in onto the mail server. I state that the Omega XT ROM I have flashed solved this nasty bug and I *can* read my own emails without any problems. One thing remains: I wonder if the SMTP port could be changed from 25 to some other port, My mobile operator (Vodafone) intercepts port 25 and I can't send any email from my phone. My mail server, however, works also on port 2525 (because of the reson described above) and it would be nice to be able to have a custom SMTP port, in order to escape these corporate anti-freedom measures.

I have installed also the following apps (in no particular order):

- AceITCalc and RealCalculator - the standard calculator just sucks, doesn't know binary or hex (I am a sysadmin) nor doest in know that 2+2*2 equals 6, not 8.

- I couldn't figure how the in_call_recorder works, so I have installed Ahen incall recorder, even though it is known it records one-way better than the other way. Maybe you could enlighten us how your ROM app is working???

- CoreCodec Player and TCPMP - in order to play unmodified divx files, saved from my desktop.

- hd2wobble - I am a man and therefore I am weak :)

- changescreen - seems the easiest to configure screen rotator

- Klaxon2 - the stock alarms already made me miss my job in the morning

- Opera 10 - even though there is no pinch-to-zoom

- swype, vgakey and fingerkeyb

- phm registry editor

- pocketputty with ssh, ssh2 and telnet support.

Later Edit: I have found on xda a good instant messenger that works with yahoo,, msn etc.

What I would like to explain to most ROM users is the fact that flashing a good ROM with cooked applications (i.e. already pre-installed in the ROM itself) saves you memory for more of your own applications and are making the software run faster.

I believe that, except for regular people and businessmen working with MS apps, who do not require a lot more than almost stock ROMs, there are 2 kinds of custom ROM users:

- teenagers, eager for communication, internet-apps and multimedia players;

- IT professionals like me, requiring networking and computing tools to do their daily job.

Could you consider, as long as time allows you, to try and make ROM builds based on your current knowhow, which would include also applications targeted to these two categories?

Finally, I just want to congratulate you for your fine work, just keep doing what you do, you are on the right track!

Kind Regards,

Christian from Bucharest.