[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] cajunflavoredbob:
236xx branch results

This branch was a PITA to test. It wasn't a bad branch or anything. There were thirty-one builds to test. It took me 18 hours over three days to finish this branch. I even missed my free Veteran's Day meal at Applebees to finish them. :D

This branch is another solid one. All the way through, there were a few problems, but nothing serious. The biggest thing to note about this branch is the fantastic video and flash performance. This branch has some of the best flash video performances I've seen so far. If you're cooking a ROM for media purposes, this is the branch to use. The results in speed fluctuate over the course of the branch, but all are relatively similar in terms of speed.

The overall downside in this branch is that the directory opening is kind of slow no matter which one is used. I also wasn't terribly impressed with CPU management. There were sometimes when the scrolling and opening apps were buggy. The scroll would perform like normal and then jump back to the previous spot. When opening apps, the app would load and then show the today screen again. This seemed to happen randomly across several builds, but wasn't frequent. The only other thing was that on a couple of builds, the radio wouldn't pick up anything but GPRS. I have both EDGE and 3G around my area, but neither were picked up on some builds. Other than the slow directory listings, the other problems were pretty infrequent.

I had serious issues with a only few builds. The branch started off slowly with 23651. I was worried off the bat that the slow directory listings were going to be a problem. Unfortunately I was right. This continued randomly throughout the branch as I mentioned previously. 23690 was painfully slow in almost everything. This one was the build that I was hung up on the longest.

I noticed the CPU management most apparently on this one, and went back to a couple of others that I thought I saw the same thing on. I was able to confirm that, while 23690 was worse than most, the CPU management was very randomized in several builds. I noticed the same activity in 23654, 23664, 23670, and 23688. It wasn't very noticeable in those, however. I can't say that this caused any real problems, though. I didn't see it until I went back and looked for it.

On the bright side of this branch, media playback is phenomenal. I really loved watching the XHQ videos on all of these. 23658 was easily my favorite. Where the branch lacks capabilities in CPU processing, it makes up for it with truly superb GPU capabilities. The videos were stunning. I can't even stress that. There was no lag whatsoever in the videos. It seemed that every pixel was being used fully. I was extremely impressed. Flash was also top notch on this one. Results confirmed these opinions as well.

It ended up getting worse towards the end of the testing as I came to the last few builds. 23690 was the fast in loading things when it played nicely, but scrolling was very slow. There was a total turnaround in 23691 where directory listings were extremely fast as well as scrolling and opening apps. 23694 brought another flip with awful results again. It only got worse from there all the way to the last one: 23698. I don't know who's in charge of this branch, but they suck. It's going downhill from here on. Good thing there's only space for one more build in this branch. It's time to shut it down.

The bottom line:

23683 - statistically the best

23694 - statistically the worst

23658 - my opinion the best

23698 - my opinion the worst

In other news, I'm going to zip all the results up except for the last results file and the masterlist starting with the next set of results (246xx). This is because of the eight file limit per post. So if you want a previous file, download and extract the files from the zip in the future. I think I should have the 246xx builds up by the end of the weekend, but I've been wrong before. :)