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[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] wavesshock:
I meant this icon. Would it be possible to use this instead of the other one? I think this fits better to Sense
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] qwilliam:
+1. i believe the icon is the same one used in cracing's rom.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] EgorLev:
\\\\\\\\ sorry guys, wrong post (dont knaw how dalate it)\\\\\\\\\
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] sapphire_pro:
@ prabhat

Very Nice Rom!

Where is the advantage of the hardware acceleration (ati driver?)

Hopefully you are still testing your new build with integrated memory tweaks:)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] J12345T:
Zip Password

Hi,

What is the zip password please?

JT
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
@@rakusson:

Thanks for your feedback :).

@@wavesshock & qwilliam:

Thanks for additional input. I will see that is take care of. The current icon is the default icon for the Internet TAB that I have... And the icon you referred looks good though...

@@sapphire_pro:

ATI Display: You can see the graphics acceleration speed in new rom when compared to OLD one. I agree that there is NOT much difference, but this is faster. Also Diamond2 hardware is NOT that great that we can expect much ;).

BTW: I am still working on new additional ROM....

Hey there is no password for the compress file (.7z) file. You can download latest version of 7-ZIP and open/extract the file, as described in first post. Let me know if you still has any issues?

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] Rosya:
hey prabhat

your ROM is just the most perfect rom i used for my TD2 on this forum

but i have 2 little problems

the first one is the sms time stamp always wrong about 5 to 10 min... which destroy the sms thread order i tried DST solutions and everything and i dont know what to do .. even i dont care about time just if i can have my sms in order whatever the time is

the second one is when i close a program and open the task manager i found the program is still running and i must close it from the task manager..

i'm using v 1.6 does the new 1.7 will solve that ?

thanks again for that great rom
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] EgorLev:
it`s a common situation for all WM since the beggining of the world:D you should use additional programs to close opened apps. I prefere Ameba service.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] J12345T:
Re Zip Password

OK Thanks,

It appears that the v1.7 file I downlaoded from your link was either corrupt or incomplete. That was that cause of the problem. I ended up finding and downloading the v1.6 from another site which worked perfectly.

Photon 6.5 Lite is a great ROM and perfect for what I want. Thanks.

JT.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
@@Rosya:

Reg. SMS time stamp and order of SMS: I never encountered this issue and DST should be working in all area as this ROM had good feedback on that and even I have tested with another timezone during DST changeover. But I want to understand the SMS issue. Do you have any other related app on your device?

Reg. Task Closing issue: EgorLev already replied that.

Thanks EgorLev for the reply.

@@J12345T:

Good to know you could solve the issue and thanks for the feedback for Lite ROM.

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] creatie:
why not integrate Opera 10?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] Rosya:
@prabhat

thank you for your reply

i got this problem with every ROM i used ... at first the time stamp show wrong time with 1 hour delay so i searched and it showed that due to DST changes i got this problem ... so i disabled it form the registry using registry editor and now i got 10 min delay like if someone send me sms at 5:30 the time stamp show it 5:20

but the sent sms time stamp just works fine

i know the problem is not in the ROM but i dont know what causing this

i didnt install anything on the mobile except SPB Time application and opera 10 , mobidiv multilingual support 3 , phm registry editor

thanks again your ROM is just great

@EgorLev

thanks man and i'll try using Ameba service.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
This ROM is close to stock ROM so I have latest version of 9.7 in the ROM. Opera 10 is designed for high end device with more processing power and does not support hardware zoom too. So 9.7 is in the ROM as default.. but any one wanted to have Opera 10, can install as instructed in Post# 3 (Additional Recommended Applications).

@@Rosya:

Thanks for more info. The problem looks strange though... may be the SBP time is causing something :confused:.

Can you try my ROM without any other App installed and see if the SMS issue is solved? Lets see what happen...

Thanks.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] Rosya:
@prabhat

okay i'll download the new 1.7 ROM and test this ..

but i have a great feelings that it's not the ROM at all .. maybe it's from my service provider vodafone
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] Rosya:
no use my friend :( ... i had the dst problem at first then i disabled it form the registry then i had the 10 min problem .

but forget it , i love your ROM and started to adapt
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
::Updates::

::Updates::

Microsoft Services:

Every one is aware that Microsoft is shutting down their Online Services for "Windows Marketplace" and "My Phone" for WinMo 6.5 users.

Info: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2557520

Targets by Microsoft:

Windows Marketplace will be stop starting July 15, 2011. (We really don't care about this service)

My Phone Sync will be stop starting August 7, 2011. (So we have an issue here as most of us depends on this Cloud based Sync Service)

So starting on August 7, 2011, Microsoft will begin moving your My Phone content to Windows Live SkyDrive. SkyDrive is Microsoft's free online storage service that helps you access and share your files such as photos and Microsoft Office documents. Contacts, calendar entries, text messages and photos will be moved to SkyDrive for you.

On October 6, 2011, the My Phone web site at http://www.microsoft.com/myphone will no longer be available.

New Service (m:IQ):

After many search we were not able to find an free alternate for My Phone.

There are several Backup & Restore apps available for backing up mobile content like Contacts, Calender, SMS, Documents etc, but there was no FULL Sync service like My Phone. Google has came up with Google Sync which was somewhat close to My Phone but Without SMS Sync.

But NOW We have another Free Cloud Service m:IQ. This looks like everything similar to My Phone (No Mobile Tracking though :( ). We have Contacts, Text Messages (SMS), Calender, Calls, Photos & Video and bookmarks to Sync now. So I think we are good :)

The best thing is we can use My Phone service "NOW" to get all our data sync to mobile from Microsoft and use m:IQ to sync those back to Cloud :). Hope this will work for all users. We need to see how the sync is working for all supported components like 2 way sync for all components...

HTC Peep:

HTC is still working on the fix for its Peep Client for Twitter after it stop working couple of months ago.

But suddenly the HTC Peep client started working since last two weeks and we are able to connect.

Hope it is working for all regions, but I am not sure.

Note: HTC Peep has not received any update yet... but we are not sure how suddenly it started working :).

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] vyis:
Tried m:IQ with contact, calendar and text messange. i have google sync working on contact and calender (manual).

It's working good for calendar and text messange, but it won't sync my contact. Anyway i just take it as an sms alternative.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] TD2IN:
Thanks for the update.

I use my Outlook for all Sync like Calender, Contact, Task etc but was using My Phone for SMS only and thanks for the m:IQ info.

I have also tried m:IQ and found that is not good for contacts, but SMS is good. So I can use that as my alternate for My Phone to Sync my SMS.

I have also put my feedback on m:IQ website and they said they will work to resolve the issue for Contact Sync.

For Peep: Yes it is working now.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] vyis:
hmm,i backup my sms with m:IQ and make a hard reset and sync, but those message backup in the server wont sync back into my phone... although the contact backup is already working. ( it will read my contact into the cloud , but not sure it will sync back to phone after a hard reset )

HTC peep also working for me.

p/s: for those that can't withstand the slowness of HTC menu enhancement pop-up speed (and you don't want to use default winmo style), The key that control the speed of animation is at

HKLM/software/HTC/HTCMenus/AnimationRadio, ( OR AnimationRadio_LS that control landscape menu )

The default value is 16, changing to higher value will speed up the animation OR change to 0 will have no animation at all.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] TD2IN:
Yes the m:IQ is not mature but for me SMS is good, I can keep all my SMS there and rest my outlook will take care.

Thanks vyis for the tip :).
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
Photon 6.5 Release (v.1.8) | 25 Jun 2011

Release time for my NEW ROM (ver. 1.8) with UX (User eXperience) Edition.

::: Now introducing UX (User eXperience) Edition of Photon ROM :::

Note:

- The UX edition ROM is having ALL same SYS and Features like FULL ROM, but with extra tweaks and add-on applications.

- The Lite edition ROM is having ALL same SYS and Features like FULL ROM, but without Manila / Sense.

Downloads:

Photon 6.5 FULL Edition ROM

Photon 6.5 UX Edition ROM

Photon 6.5 Lite Edition ROM

What is New (General):

- Added UX Edition for Photon ROM.

- Updated Connection Setup DB.

- Manila Internet - Updated.

- Removed MarketPlace.

- Minor tweaks and issues fixed.

- *** My Phone will be removed in NEXT Release; kept so that you can sync your stuffs back *** .

UX Edition:

- FULL Kernel Mode

- Now UI shows "Windows Embedded Handheld" (Actually 6.5.3 branch belongs to this family)

- ALL New Splash Screen

- All New Taskbar Icons

- Start Menu re-arrangements

- Shutdown & Restart Application (Quick access from power button long press)

- Integrated uTask/Task Manager (Quick access from Home Screen)

- Lock Phone from Home Screen - Using the long press Task Manager softkey)

- Quick List enabled by default for long press END key.

- Tweaks for fast response with same battery life of FULL Rom.

Bug Fixes:

- Some minor fixes & Performance issues.

Hope you will like this :).

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] sapphire_pro:
Thank you very much for that!

Iam going to update the ROM next week.

One question so far: Have you integrated the memory tweks mentioned a few pages before?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
@@sapphire_pro,

Yes the new UX edition has many small tweaks and FULL kernel mode enabled.

Also when I said about the removing language files from Manila... when I checked, the kitchen was already doing that.

Also you can see couple of user related tweaks by ilyadan (here) and vyis (here) aswell which you may like.

Hope you will enjoy the new UX Edition.

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] TD2IN:
Downloaded the new UX edition and it is as good as the FULL rom with new icons at top and well organized start menu. Thanks for this edition :).

I am very new , but these are some of the tweaks that I add (which some may find useful):

Getting True 5MP in Camera Shoot:

To get 5MP instead of 4MP resolution we must switch off "widescreen" mode in the "Advanced" Menu.

Normal screen = 2592 x 1944 pixels = 5,038,848 pixels = 5MP

Widescreen = 2592 x 1552 pixels = 4,022,784 pixels = 4MP

Additional Video Recording Formats

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Camera\P2]

"EncodeFormat"=2147483647

This will unlock all modes/resolutions listed below:

H263(3gp): CIF 352x288 \ M 176x144

MPEG4: L 320x240 \ CIF 352x288 \ VGA 640x480

3GPP2: S 128x96 \ M 176x144 \ L 320x240 \ CIF 352x288 \ VGA 640x480

MOTION JPEG: S 128x96 \ M 176x144 \ L 320x240 \ CIF 352x288 \ VGA 640x480

H264: L 320x240 \ CIF 352x288

But I use the default format ;)

Exclude directories from the windows media player library

This will help avoiding all ringtones etc to playlist

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences]

"FoldersExcludedFromLibrary"="\\Documents and Settings;\\Temp;\\Ramdisk;\\My Documents;\\Windows;\\Storage Card\\Ringtones;\\Storage Card\\My Documents;\\Application Data;\\Storage Card\\Temp;\\Storage Card\\My Backups;"

Put whatever folders you want excluded.

Enable the SMS sent notification, If you want

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Jataayu\Messaging]

"DisableSMSSuccess"=0

I prefer have this default in this rom/disabled.

Disable vSync to speed up menu, but you will loose htc animation style for menu opening

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\HTCMenus]

EnableVSync=0

Real Exit for HTC Album

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\HTC\HTCAlbum]

ok_minimize=0

This will help close Album instead of minimize and save memory :). @Prabhat I think you can add this Album Close reg in UX edition as default.

Enable Audio Booster without headset

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\State\Hardware]

Headset=1

*** This will automatically will be changed to ZERO on softreset.

Remap Manila softkeys

[HKLM/Software/HTC/manila]

HomeLSKPath= The left softkey (Standard = Phonepad) application you want...

HomeLSKText = Left softkey text for your new application

HomeRSKPath = The right softkey application.

HomeRSKText = Right softkey text.

You can change these with the location of the programs you want to link to.

Hope this will help some one :confused:
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] morpheuszg:
Try to fix the gap on top of the menu enhancement with this one: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=925594

That's just one bug I found so far.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] vyis:
For HTC volume control, if you want to display system sound page at start-up, change the key at

HKLM/software/htc/volumeOverlay/DefaultPage

from 1 to 0.

@prabhat

Do you mind upload a hotfile/mediafire mirror? My ISP doesn't support uploaded.to. i will be redirect back to the download page everytime it's starting download unless i use proxy (but proxy it's hard to queue on open proxy)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
@@TD2IN:

Thanks for all your tweaks.

@@morpheuszg:

I will have a look at the fix and implement those. Thanks for the feedback and link.

@@vyis:

Thanks for the tweak. You can use same old MediaFire mirror.

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] mari8b:
Thx for releasing new ROM (for nearly dead platform on a dead phone), but would you also release your kitchen (as promised on Photon beginning)? I still wanna make a czech version...
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] vmollz:
hi

please disable htc messeging in rom
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] vyis:
@vmollz

you can disable/uninstall htc messanging client yourself, there are detail instruction on winmo development sub-forum.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=739400

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=741179
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] neocyke:
Darn it man.. I just flashed 1.7 a couple of week back.. hahaha :P

Seriously though, thanks prabhat for continuing cooking on an already old platform.. at least we still have other things to look forward to than just android (which doesn't seem to be moving that much either.. -sigh-)

Great work as usual.. I'll flash it in time for 1.9.. haha
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] sapphire_pro:
1.9 should be availabe soon as 29022 is already available;)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] neocyke:
O_O"

What?! Ok.. then I just wait for 1.9... :P
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] ilyadan:
Too happy now

I'm too happy with the my current version. But if 1.9 with new core comes out I'll update too. So I'm waiting.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] EgorLev:
After some time of testing it seems to me that 29020 builds eats more power than previous builds. Is it only me?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
@@mari8b:

Thanks for your interest, but kitchen will not be released soon. But it is sure I will release that when I feel I should.

@@vmollz:

HTC Messaging is default in Stock ROM so it will continue in Original and UX editions along with HTC sense. The Lite edition is one that comes with MS version of messaging client. Also you can disable the HTC messaging if you like, as suggested by vyis.

@@neocyke/@@ilyadan:

Thanks for your feedback. Yes 1.9 should be out soon after I am back from my vacation with new SYS as sapphire_pro said :).

@@EgorLev:

Is that the UX edition you are referring to?

Because in Original edition there is not much changes which may impact power consumption :confused:. Also as the UX edition is very new in the Photon series and need more testing/improvements.

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] EgorLev:
i mean full version. Again, it's just a feeling that 1.5 has slightly more life time.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MXT3:
Nice Rom, I like the 'no-fancy' :)

About the Full Kernel mode aspect of the UX version, it runs every program in kernel mode and skips the security mechanisms that normally prevent (in usermode) a program from going into kernel mode, so that it works faster. But doesn't it contain some stability and security risks, or are these minor compared to the performance improvements?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] vyis:
For the UX edition, it may be a bit convenient to build in some app. Things like Arkswitch (task manager), MMappLauncher/QuickMenu (start menu replacement), FdcSoft task manager (Reg editor), utask ( x key management) and etc ....

Also i notice there are some memory leak/reduction after using some programs like Opera 10/mini, which is around 3-4MB and is not recoverable unless reboot.

For the UX edition, i continuesly use it for around 5 days without any restart, my memory drop to only around 50MB when nothing is running ( using MMapplauncher )
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] lsyh:
Previous 1.7, after changed the key "FilenameType", it worked well;

but after flash 1.8 and changed the key, but is didnot work.

so would you please give another way to deal with it?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] vyis:
mine didn't work even on 1.7 and others rom that i have tried. i wonder how you get it working .....
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] ilyadan:
For me it didn't work on 1.6, but ""EnableDateFolder"=dword:00000001" does work well. For me it's enough, as it puts new pictures in different folder every new day.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
OK, thanks for confirmation. I think there is no major changes... but still I will have a look at my change log on my PC and see if there is any.

Yes you are absolutely right. Usually we know what app we install on device. This full mode will not check for security for every dll/exe get loaded even if they are genuine and also skip the cert check etc during add-on app installation. Yes, this may lead to some stability and security risk, but as a advance user I think these does not matter as we know what we feed to device :).

Yes correct about the add-on applications or 3rd party apps.

Reg Memory: I have not tested these yet and this is in its first stage :) ... but will need to test going forward.

@@lsyh, @@vyis, @@ilyadan,

I have not tested these keys, but I have seen these existing in forum around. May be we can validate similar keys/or area :confused:

Also I am back form my vacation and I will start working on new builds :).

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] ilyadan:
Do you have any suggestion? I'm here if you need to test something.

I hope that you had a wonderful vacation! Happy to hear that you are back, I can't wait to have the 29022 build :)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] EgorLev:
could some poor made program break down hardware part of the device?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MXT3:
I noticed a little esthetic bug in the manila calender tab. There is a gap between the monday and tuesday column, and also between the last 3 rows. Not so important, because it doesn't decrease functionality, but it would look nicer without the gap :)

I also saw that the background of the slider is now black, and the icons are colored in stead of the old black and white icons:

Old, ( got it from albums):

Is it possible to get the old tab icons and background back? I have a full manila backup of my old orignal htc rom made with CHTS, so if you would point me the right files, I could replace them with the old ones.

Thank you for the great rom, it runs very smooth
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] wavesshock:
@Prabhat

I wanted to share some graphical "tweaks". I love your ROM - so I decided to share my customizations :O Hope other user like it

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1174863
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
Rom is currently under test... hope to release this week end.

Hey EgorLev... I could not understand what you mean here :confused:

I have not done changes to get this... but will surely look into to see if I get the manila file that causes this :confused:

I am not sure if I know of this file, as these are not altered by me though... but will give a try.

Thanks for the great work wavesshock :) .

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] EgorLev:
I mean if programs bypass windows security they access hardware directly, right? If so, could they damage hardware somehow?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] TD2IN:
I don't think anyway the 3rd party app can damage the hardware... instead they will target soft parts like OS, PIM etc. Also the bypass is only for verifying the signature of DLLs and EXEs which should skip a step and add to speed I think.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MXT3:
I did some c++ programming the last days. I'm just a beginner in c++, so of course I made some stupid mistakes and when using arrays I often got an 'acces violation' error from windows because c++ doesn't check the array bounds, and so my program was trying to overwrite data from other programs. In normal user mode, windows gives an error and stops my program, but the question is: what will happen in kernel mode? Will windows (mobile) give an error and stop the program, or will it simple let the program overwriting and cause some strange crashes, and maybe also hardware damage, because who knows what the program is overwriting. If Windows does nothing, a program made by a bad programmer (like me :p) could cause some (serious) stability problems.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] TD2IN:
Yes you are right. But I think here we know (for me I know) what I/we install on device so that we know what we get :). May be others/prabhat can add more here.

Also it is depend on user if some one will choose the UX edition or stick to good stock edition here.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
Photon 6.5 Release (v.1.9) | 25 Jul 2011

::: Release time for NEW ROM (ver. 1.9) with new SYS: 29022 :::

Note:

- The UX edition ROM is having ALL same SYS and Features like FULL ROM, but with extra tweaks and add-on applications.

- The Lite edition ROM is having ALL same SYS and Features like FULL ROM, but without Manila / Sense.

Downloads:

Photon 6.5 FULL Edition ROM

Photon 6.5 UX Edition ROM

Photon 6.5 Lite Edition ROM

What is New (General):

- Using new SYS 29022 for all edition of ROM.

- Updated HTC Framework & Scroll.

- Removed Microsoft My Phone & MarketPlace.

Bug Fixes:

- None.

Hope you will like this :).

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] MXT3:
thanks, installed it. I am now trying the Ux edition, fast and no (stability)problems so far. It is a great rom.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] wavesshock:
Thanks Prabhat! I really appreciate your effort on development for such an old device! Nice work - as usual!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] ilyadan:
Thank you prabhat! But it seems that "Uploaded.to" is now blocked for me :( and have only 40Mb/day limit. The mediafire mirror also stopped working (bad link). Can you please reupload the mediafire mirror?