[Captivate Android Development] Charles Brennan:
Gotta disagree, Adam . . . . .

Other ROMs "die off and get forgot about" because they didn't really do the job in the first place. How many times have you seen a thread that goes:

"This is a GREAT ROM!!!" :)

"Oh, yeah. The camera doesn't work, audio occasionally locks up, won't make phone calls on odd-numbered hours and automatically "bricks" on the 28th of each month so don't power it on, that day!!" :o

Got my Captivate last July.

Rooted it in August.

Read every freakin' thread in this forum from August until December and finally installed a ROM with the least apologies for non-working components (Phoenix 1.0) on New Year's Eve.

Phoenix Unleashed, is what AT&T shoulda sold me last July.

Unless you're willing to bite the bullet and jump to GB, (IMHO) you've hit the Wall on this platform, My Man.

About the only thing I could see as an "improvement" would be more built-in customization for noobs.

For example, I've been through all the various battery icons and ideas.

But I LIKE the colored non-segmented circle battery that I installed last September. On these tired old eyes, I can see the color to see if I'm trouble at a glance, then look at the relative size of the circle to see a little more refined idea of charge left and finally look closely to see exact number of charge remaining. Ergonomically speaking, I can go from the general to the specific easier with the colored circle battery than with any other scheme. So I modified the R64 theme and now I HAVE it. I always install a new rev of Phoenix, admire the theme briefly, and install my circle battery theme. Same thing with the power off screen. I LIKE the android 2.2.1 colored icons and dislike the themed color (or lack thereof) icons.

Another thing I like is the AT&T Deathstar boot screen. A little hard to install the first time, but I like that. Following that is the SGH-i897 screen from the Speedmod kernels. I dislike that. The Onyx blue circle is still better, but WHY can't we jam in our OWN kernel screens? What? :confused: The kernel can't shell out to a .png file and then load it and keep going? For example, after the DeathStar boot, why couldn't the kernel boot screen be a pic of the HAL9000 saying: "I'm sorry Charles I can't do that." ?? I LOVE the most recent boot animation, with the Droid informing me that disruptors are armed, but I miss not having audio with it. I also like the shut-down screen and have added an audio .ogg saying "Droid" for no other reason than to annoy my co-workers that have Motorolas.

Point of all this, is that instead of having various fixed values baked into the ROM, couldn't you have a configuration page that allows you to set 40 or 50 parameters to allow individual customization?? It could be similar to the Windows 7 "god-mode" that allows you to control everything on the OS on a single page.

You wanna challenge? :confused:

There ya go! :)

And a forward-thinking young man might even delegate components of this project to various Team Phoenix members and use that on his resume to demonstrate his ability to successfully organize a project with disparate resources amongst wildly different individuals. ;)

For all your infatuation with the HTC Inspire 4G (my daugher and son-in-law each have one, so I can hardly wait for the outcome!) :) what are you REALLY going to do, besides bring the "Phoenix Philosophy" to it?

I see a lot of "cross-pollination" among XDA members as they all help each other.

I think a "scriptable ROM" (or however you want to conceive of it) would be the next major evolution (and likely the last) for 2.2.1

I thank you greatly for your Herculean Labors to date, and I hope to thank you even more warmly for what has to be some AMAZING future endeavors!! :)

One guy's opinion, Charles Brennan