[Desire HD Android Development] Dude360:
Just a quick word regarding mods etc. Need to itterate that Im not having a go at anybody in particular but to there are certain posts that to the casual reader/flasher makes it look as if there is very little going off with the rom.

This will hopefully clear up some common misconceptions to the best of my knowledge:

New base & new framework.

Things have changed within the actual code with these new bases plain and simple. Mods which were easy to achieve before have to be completely redone to fit this new code.

There is alot of 'bugs' with these new bases as well. These come from HTC, not Mike. The beauty of mikes mantra is you get what what HTC give you but better. Warts and all. Devs spend a hellova lotta time trying to fix these bugs for you.

The code we play with isnt 'code' as such, its decompiled Java and what we refer to as Samali.

These mods arent as simple as loading up a class in Eclipse and changing a few things, its full on Reverse-Engineering.

Its hard and it takes time. Over the last couple of days I have flashed SystemUI over a thousand times trying out different ways to achieve these mods.

Majority of us arent programmers by nature either, I personally have very very little knowledge of samali which makes things a lot harder.

We dont get paid and do this for fun. Im 'lucky' in the fact Im single, jobless and fat. I have the time to sit read, edit code and flash for 19/20hrs at a time. Many of us arent this lucky. They have jobs, partners and families. Just like you.

I do this because I want to. I enjoy the journey and have learnt a sh|t load doing it.

The roms been out for a day or two. Mike was amazing at releasing it so fast. He wanted to share it with you as fast as his upload would let him. You had it when we did. Usually we get a chance to get a head start on mods and such but this was such a big release that it wasnt possible this time. Im not as kind as Mike, Id have hold off till there was more in place. You should appreciate that.

Rosie Mods

HTCs code changed has rendered existing m10 tools a little useless at present. Blame HTC, not us or the freaking talented devs of the tools.

As soon as they have cracked it mods will start flying out.

CRT/APM

This is a fooker. The code to display the CRT animation sits right in the middle of the power management code. This isnt something that can be just hacked together. Again, its changed, existing techniques need to be tailored to suit this new code.

APM is pretty similar.

As far as Im aware, Capy is working on a brand new codeset for these new bases. Dont hustle him about it, dont hassle us about it. It gets done when it gets done.

Im personally sick of seeing posts/PMs/IRC chats saying "where this, wheres that, whys it not done yet" every few pages hence why Im not as active in this thread as I used to be. Ive blocked my PMs and somedays I dont even boot up IRC (apologies to rest of team for that btw).

Yes this thread is huge, we know that. Keeping up with things is hard. We know that to. But at least have the decency to take the time and read 10,20 even 30 pages back before posting. This is what, 15mins quick reading max?

I love you guys I really do, but waking up after 15hrs of wading through samali and the first thing I read is "wheres the CRT" does nothing but make me think "f*ck ya Im having another cig".

If everyone would be so kind as to redirect any of these future questions to this post it would be much appreciated ;)