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[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] cybermaus:
Well, even though I was quite happy with my C03.020 ENG, I tried the V1 ROM.

For some reason the start button is not working. I know the soft-button is removed, but nothing happens when I press the hardware button.

So I used CeReg to remotely edit the registry and re-add the soft-button. It is also not working. I can see the soft button, I see it 'depress' when I touch it, but no menu appears. So I guess the hardware button does work too, but for some reason, nothing is behind it. No Start button action defined, or something.

Any idea's? Surely not everybody has this, it would have been mentioned. Maybe just flash the same ROM again?

One other small item: While 2 SIM cards work, and the Titatium show both networks, on the top status, there is only one signal strength indicator. Not as big a problem as the start button, but still, I liked my double signal strength indicators.

I'd comment on the fact whether this ROM is really so fast, but with no start button, I cannot do anything other than make calls, so I cannot tell about any speed......

Edt2: Wow, XDA was down, and came back up up loosing a good 24 hours of data. Must have restored a tape. Anyway, to mention again: Just flashing the same V1 ROM a 2nd time solved the issues. My advise is one of the following: At firstboot, let the device sit for a minute or two before actually commencing with the screen calibration. And/Or: Maybe we need to flash twice by default.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] bgcngm:
Hmmmm... cybermaus, you got two strange problems that I've never seen. While trying many WM builds none of that problems occured. You should see the network indicator for the second phone and start should work also.

Can you please try to reflash C03.020 and then my custom V1 again?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] bgcngm:
I did noticed this little issue in my car hands free kit and also want to find a solution for that.

While looking in the OEM registry, I found out these keys:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\WaveDev\Volume]
"AcodecCallBtDacAdcVol"=dword:fffff1ad

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Drivers\BuiltIn\WaveDev\Acoustic]
"AcodecCallBtDacAdcVol"=dword:fffff1ad

Those keys may be related to BT, so try tweaking the values to see if you can get improvements.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] alprinz:
New ROM

Today I've done flashing by IDT.

At first I've the same problems like

@cybermaus: only one signal strength indicator - so I flashed twice and now it works.

@BIG666: From time to time, when device wakes up, the Storage Card behaves it self like it was ejected and then inserted again.

I'm not sure, but I have in fleeting memory to choose separate ring-tones for SIM1 and SIM2 :confused:

Generally speeking: well done, perfect !
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] Eer:
Possible: TouchFLO 3D on HTC 5388++?

@Bln27 Did you have a 5388++ firmware version before including TouchFLO 3D? If yes, can you share this version with us? Maybe Bruno can make a build based on this version :D
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MicAlter:
Hi everybody,

this post regards to the V1 Version of bgcngm:

@everybody:

Does anyone has problems with this camera software version (HiSilicon Camera V1.1)?

Most time the app crashes during the initialization:

Screen goes black, the camera symbol rotates and when the symbol is fixed in the middle the app crashes after 1-3 sec. But WHEN the app can be started everything is going fine. :confused:

It also makes no difference switching between the two storage options (Storage card/Device)...

EDIT1:

@all:

When I am lucky and the camera software starts successfully I can see that the settings aren't stored.

E.g. when I switch the camera from "normal" to "wide screen" or change the resolution and quit the camera without any crash or (visible?!) error. The next time the camera starts the settings are set back to default! Can anybody confirm this behaviour?

Similar problem:

I got the same problem when starting the Try&Buy version of Mobile Navigator 7 software. The application starts, the splash screen is displayed and then the app crashes without error. Only ONE start was successfull (of 30-50) but the app crashes in the first dialog displayed.

I guess that there may be a problem with the display (or graphics) driver. Or do I have a hardware problem? But in that case this problem should occur in any other fullscreen application which I can deny. ???? Does anyone has an idea???

Or can this problem be related to the sdcard I've used (SanDisk 16GB, Kingston 8GB, Noname 2GB (the delivered one))?

@bgcngm:

I have read a little bit about the "Extendir" driver. Sounds good! Am I right that you are planning to release a ROM ("v1E - Not released yet") with this driver included?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MicAlter:
It's getting really HOT!

Uhhhh, that's very nasty:

I don't know if this problem is related to this rom (V1) but I will have to mention here:

After running two days without problems (Phone, GPS, GPRS) the phone has stopped working. The phone was locked with the build-in WM6.5 lock screen and in suspend mode (on/off hardkey). Last time I hold the phone in my hands: 10:00am.

When I take the phone out of my pocket it was VERY hot :eek:. I mean really very hot. Time: 16:00pm.

When pushing the on-/off button the display awaked and showed the lock screen. I saw an appointment in the bottom and in the taskbar the two signal indicators with full signal and additional an active gprs connection. WLAN, GPS both turned off. The clock said 11:53am.

I don't know what has happend at this time. Maybe it has lost the gsm connection because I went for nearly 10 minutes to the basement where the radio signal is weak.

Hmmm...last week I was in a rural landscape with very bad gsm radio reception. I think I had restart the phone 20-30 times because it hangs in the pin code dialog (or before). When getting back in an area with a good reception I had/have no problem to start the device.

Sounds a little bit that there a (huge) bug in the radio firmware or may it be a problem with the antenna?

Has anybody made equal experiences when having a bad radio signal?

BTW: Am I right than this is not called the "comatose" problem?

EDIT:

After cooling down the device I inserted the battery again and started the phone again. The battery was completely drained off! That's very strange...
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] manueldg:
V1 Test

Hi, bgcngm, thank you very much for your work. I downloaded your rom a few days ago because I was very busy.

I did tests and I notice this:

-People say that v1 rom is very fast, I don´t agree (I don´t know with wich rom they are comparing it). It is VERY slow. Your first beta was faster than this v1 (a lot).

-It is unstable, this is a problem that I only had with your roms, sometimes phone becomes slow, very slow, and it is needed take off battery because even power off button doesn´t work. (It also happens in your second beta, not in first).

-Power on button sometimes take time to respond to wake up the phone.

-Memory card sometimes disconnects (it happened in all roms, even official)

-Keyboard installed fails. (It is no problem to me because I use IMM)

-Is it necessary this amount of apps??? (marketplace, Microsoft my phone, msn money, msn weather, remote desktop, Office mobile 2010, CorePlayer, PHM registry editor, ....) I only like Office, but I would prefer that each one installs his own programs that need (with separate cabs).

Total: nice rom, nice black theme (I also would delete start animation), only one SOD in one week (very good statistic), fine wifi, bluetooth, battery. I only found that main errors: unstable and slow (power button also is annoying sometimes)

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Nice work!!!

PS.- Is it impossible to define different ringtones to each sim? Did you try use chinese rom as base and change only language? (That rom worked perfect)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] javiertxepas:
Hi

I have been using this rom for a week.

The rom is OK, congratulations, but it has problems when it reads Sd Card, sometimes the folders have name with strange letters.

One question, how do i can switch off the lock that appears when you press the home buttom.

Thanks in advance.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] pits:
I have serious SD card problem!

I lost connection to it frequently
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MicAlter:
Hey,

NO CROSS-POSTING PLEASE!!!

Please remove one of your replies.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] BIG666:
Confirm. Thats serious problem. Preventing me from using the phone as PDA.

I have try different hacks in registry but no luck.

I have to even wrote small program that calls SetPowerRequirement(D0) for "dsk1:" also w/o effect.

Any ideas?

May be it possible to copy some SD-card drivers from official C03.020.01 ROM to that custom one and look what will change?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] BIG666:
Dear bgcngm , it's seems you no longer working with this ROM. Can you please upload the kitchen so anybody else could try to improve this ROM?:rolleyes:
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] bgcngm:
Don't take precipitate conclusions. I haven't had much time for releasing new ROMs, but I'm still "here".

I have been following the posts regarding the SD card issues, but honestly I can't understand replicate the problems. I have never had a problem related to SD card in my T5388++ using my custom ROMs. What type of card are you using? I'm using a 4GB Kingston Class4 card.

My ROM is based on OEM Drivers from official C03.020.01 ROM, so obviously, the SD card driver is part of it. The problem must be something else.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] mr nick:
This was quite a common issue with T5388++ phones a while back - I had the exact same issue with this phone. It was supplied with a generic unbranded card which would forever appear and disappear causing no end of problems. I swapped it for a Kingston card and have never had a days problem since. On inspection, the cheap generic card was noticeably slimmer so maybe it just wasn't getting held against the contacts fully by the retaining clip.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] bgcngm:
Guys, please read the previous post from mr nick, and take you own conclusions.

That explains why I'm not having any of the SD card problems reported by some users.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MicAlter:
But I cannot confirm this...

I tried four different sd cards. The original NoName 2GB SD card, a Kingston 4GB SDHC, a Kingston 6GB SDHC and finally a 16GB Sandisc SDHC card.

With every card I got this problems, too!

The first access to the storage card takes about 8 seconds to display the root directory. After that everything is fine - for a while. E.g. when I use S2P the app starts with a directory scan a this takes a lot a of time. After that I can play my mp3 as desired. But after maybe 10 songs the app stops responding and the phone/wm is crashed. The only hard key that works is the power button to switch on/off the display. After some crashes all data on the sdcard was lost or corrupt!

At the moment I removed the sdcard completely and I also removed one sim card, because my phone is not as reliable as a phone should. It hangs once a day or every two days and I have to be rechable for my customers.

After taking so much time I think that the phone is second quality. Bad gps antenna, bad radio rom when gsm signal is weak, sdcard problems, this comatose state, different unknown app crashes, ... It's a pity because it combines a well designed phone with a huge display and a dual sim function. And that the only reason why I didn't threw it out of my window...for now
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] bgcngm:
This has been said very times: there are different manufacturers for the chinese clones, not only for the T5388++. Your clone can be better and mine can be worse, and vice-versa. This can happen, even with different batches from the same manufacturer.

What I can garantee is that, with my T5388++, I have never had a single SoD (and sometimes I have it running for more than a week without a reboot), never had bad GPS reception (the fix may take a few minutes but after the satellites fix it works flawlessly with different GPS programs) and never had SD cards problems.

It's bad to hear that some of you are having some problems, but as far as it concerns to software, I can try to help. When things are related to hardware, I can't do anything, not even replicate the problem...
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] BIG666:
On original C03.020.001 there was SoD several times a day , but no SD-card problems.

So i can suggest it's the software problem :)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] mr nick:
I have the same phone and the same software and have zero problems with it. The phone has never once frozen on me or gone comatose so I would suggest there may be more of a hardware issue than software. If it is software then it may be caused by installed apps rather than the base ROM.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] cybermaus:
May I suggest that we should not assume SoD has a *single* cause?

SoD is only called "sleep of death" because the screen is black. But in my opinion, it is simply Windows "hanging". Its just hanging while the screen is black.

And just like PC Windows (especially pre-XP so 98 and 95) is hanging a lot, and for a multitude of possible causes. Bad programs, Bad drivers, Loose connections, Bad peripherals and Bad OS programming.

And it can hang at several points: While it was in the middle of a calculation, causing it to loop and run hot, or it may trow a unresolved interrupt causing it to stand still.

On our phones, because it has the screen off most of the times, when it hangs it remains to have the screen off. But that is just a coincidence. I am sure some of you had "hanging" events with the screen on too.

So why do I mention this: Because I feel we need to stop arguments like: "It has to be this one cause, because my phone ...." or "It cannot be this other cause, because my phone....." They are probably both equally true.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MicAlter:
I totally agree

Good answer...I agree completely.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] bgcngm:
Just for you to know, I'm extracting OEM drivers from T5388i C03.021.08 ROM and working to get an updated ROM for our T5388++. You can expect a new release in the next few days. I will also integrate ArcsoftMMS and HTC Connection Setup in the ROM.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] BIG666:
Oh my god!! Please don't do it!!! MMS is a whole bull****:)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] duhhh:
sry for off,but can you add animated welcome screen in T5388i C03.021.08 ROM?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] bgcngm:
Well, I have released the new ROM soon that I expected. You can find the info in the second post of this thread. Please enjoy and if you like it, please feel free to donate. V1 had almost 100 downloads and not even one person donated a single $. The only time that some users made donations was when I released the previous beta ROMs.

You can say it's bull****, but some people use it. It's not because of ArcsoftMMS is integrated or not that the phone will work worse or better.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MicAlter:
Downloading... :D

I will test the ROM this evening and hope that this will fix some problems.

@all:

Hey, why don't you spent a few bucks??? He is present in the forum and still working to build new ROMs - and last but not least he's helping all of us to get a working mobile...
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] cybermaus:
Cool, Thanks

Done: 6YG64683A5979315R

Though, for the record, I did also donate before, during beta, but I agree, I am sure you spend plenty of time inbetween then and now.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] bgcngm:
I know, I do remeber that you were one of the three users that donated. Thank you for that and now again. The message was for the users that have downloaded the ROM and didn't even left their feedback here nor donated.

EDIT: Regarding the latest ROM release: You'll find in Device Information that it still reports that ROM version is C03.020.01 ENG, but discard this information. The base is really C03.021.08. I just don't know how to change that string yet.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] Eer:
Thanks a lot for your hard work again, bgcngm. I think I was the first donator to you for the T5388++ phone :D You are faster again then you expected your self. Thats very nice for us. I still have to wait until my phone comes back... :cool:
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MicAlter:
v2 ROM: 1st Test

Hi everybody,

I've updated my phone to the v2 ROM successfully and can say that's it is (til now) more stable than all the other ones. GREAT WORK!

Most important things I found out:

SD-Card access fast and stable :) (tested with S2P with 16GB sdcard)

Better performance (e.g. Display,System)

btw:

I've read the post from "mr nick" about the sdcard problems due to a weak card holder. I placed a small folded piece of paper to make the sdcard be placed more stable. Maybe this is made my sdcard also more stable?!

Further test report coming soon...

------> YOUR THE MAN, bgcngm<------
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] BIG666:
I've just checked the new ROM.

Problem with SD-card still there.

I've tried the solution with folded paper but no luck.

SD-card is Apacer 16GB class 4 (fat32)

PS: For comparing i've just flashed C03.020.01 GER(from http://www.solonomi.com/rom/T5388++/T5388++_german.bin).

The SD-card works perfectly (now expecting SoD's ....)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MicAlter:
v2 ROM: 2nd Test

All I can say is that this ROM is the most stable ROM I've gad installed on this device!

VIDEO:

With this ROM I'm able to play divx videos from sdcard (without scaling). In all other ROM's the CorePlayer/WMPlayer crashed after a few seconds.

SDCard:

Now I can use the phone as a mobile music player, too. In all other ROM's my favorite player S2P crashed during initialization or after some minutes of playback.

But there are still a few problems left:

I recharged the phone during the night and in the morning the sdcard directory is shown with strange letters. Also the card disappears after a long time in standby.

To check if the problem is caused by the power management I disabled it:

Added two DWORD registry keys named "DisablePowerManagement" in:

HKLM\Drivers\SDCard\ClientDrivers\Class\SDMemory_Class

HKLM\Drivers\SDCard\ClientDrivers\Class\SDMemory_Class\High_Capacity

Both values are set to 1.

I report later if it will solve the described problem.

@bgcngm:

In the last ROMs (beta,v1,v2) there is an armed default alarm set to 07:00. Can you please remove or disable it in the upcoming ROMs?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] bgcngm:
MicAlter, thank you for the feedback. I will disable the alarms in the next ROM releases.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] BIG666:
The "strange letters" is result of SD-card content corruption caused by wrong power management. One day you will find the important data lost or broken on SD-card.

This is main problem (after SoD).

This will not work. Many people had tried this.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] cybermaus:
No, don't disable. I usually have a standard alarm at 07h00, so this is a perfect ROM :D
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MicAlter:
v2 ROM: 3nd Test

I've got still problems using the camera. In 1 of 8 tries the camera app crashes back to the home screen without error. I also can see that the camera settings aren't stored, e.g. when I can run the camera app, change the resolution and close the app. The next time I can start the camera the settings are set back to default?

I've googled for a new build of the camera app and found a post in an italian forum (google translation to eng.). The author mentioned:

@bgcngm:

Is it possible to move to an higher camera app version if we can get one? What ingredients (files,registry) do you need for cooking :) ???
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] bgcngm:
That build is more recent than the one (v1.1 Build 201003301357) I'm using in my ROMs. If you manage to get the .cab or at least know the ROM that includes that version, I can obviously integrate it into the ROM.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MicAlter:
After a reset everything's ok - no corrupted files. But I will backup my contents to be save :)

On my ASUS P535 I have solved such problems with this tweak. Maybe it depends only to the hardware and cannot be solved...
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MicAlter:
Hi, I found out that the described W73 is the outside-china version of the W72 which is sold within china. The W72 ROM is available at solonomi.com website. Look here.

Maybe this helps. I didn't found any other websites that provides other ROMs. Hope that solonomi has the latest ROM with the camera app version talked about.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] bgcngm:
MicAlter, I have sucessfully extracted the needed files from the W72 ROM regarding camera and today I will check if it's the newest version. At least the files are more recent, so I hope it's a new version.

Additionally, while comparing the other OEM Drivers (W72 is also based on a K3 CPU), I found out a new sdhc.dll in that same ROM. I can use that "updated" driver and check if it solves your SD card related problems. Are you, MicAlter and BIG666 willing to try a beta ROM?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MicAlter:
Hi bgcngm,

that sounds good!

I've no problem to use your beta ROM :D
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] bgcngm:
Well, then I will send you the beta ROM today evening. I don't want to release it to public without being tested first, and given that you and BIG666 are the users that are reporting SD card problems, it would be great if you can test the ROM. In my T5388++, I can't replicate that problem, so I'm relying on you as my beta testers. :D
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] BIG666:
Sounds great :D

Upload the ROM somewhere and send me a link. :rolleyes:

Meanwhile ... the past three days, I used official C03.020.001 GER on two T5388++ (I have a lot of these devices among friends and relatives :) ). No SoD and no problems with memory card! Das ist fantastisch!!

Now i'm going to disassembly german and english version and compare it's sdhc drivers.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] bgcngm:
BIG666, I've sent you a private message. Please check your inbox.

Have you used C03.020.01 GER from Solonomi? I will compare the SDHC driver from that ROM with the ones I'm using.

EDIT: Let me share the findings regarding sdhc.dll (which I suppose is the driver that controls SD card adapter):

C03.020.01 ENG - File date: 08.02.2010

C03.020.01 GER - File date: 30.03.2010

C03.021.08 ENG - File date: 22.04.2010

Driver from W72 - File date: 30.04.2010

Comparing C03.020.01 ENG with GER, we can see that changes have been made. Let's see if sdhc.dll from W72 ROM works at all and hopefully solve your SD card problems.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] BIG666:
Yeah, from solonomi.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] Trepanator56:
Ringtone SIM ???

You are doing a great job with this phone.

With this ROM (v2) you can select a different ringtone for each sim?

Thanks and regards,
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MicAlter:
No. But I miss this "bug", too.

Read a detailed answer from cybermaus here.