yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
Hi Mate,

Good to see your input...

1. There is a standard setting to run NOTES during a call when you pool out the Pen from the device. It's very useful.

It does work in the ROM and I have tested it working.

2. It's going to be very cool to integrate an auto lock command for the Lock Screen. It's not present in the Stock version i think, but helps a lot.

Many people does not to be auto lock. Even I do not like to get lock automatically by Phone until I lock my self. So if we have to autolock in say 1 min, which may be irritating for others as other may need 2 min :).

3. The actual lock screen is kind of heavy, performance wise. You can return to the stock windows one, just a clock and a small left / right slide button.

I agree with you. But this lock screen can be edited using CHT to give a look of Win Phone 7 style Lock screen.

4. I have modified a Start Menu Mod, it's not mine design, i have just tweaked it up so it can be used with normal windows mobile design. It makes the Star Menu to look like a list. It's very fast and smooth. I will add the cab, so you can test it if you have any interest. The point is ... the diamond 2 is not the fastest performer, and all new things HTC developed, were made for the HD2. So even overclocked to 710mhz , my Topaz is not rendering the Star menu smoothly. This cab makes it very lite and fast, graphically, even better (for my taste :P)

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4GPslFRQSc - here is a video of what i mean )

I agree about the new software and Topaz is slow... Also I love the start menu to similar to Win Phone 7 Style... but I may not include that in ROM for now and leave to users to install if they want.

I think the two roms are using different drivers ... i can be wrong though.

I am not sure about this...but my drivers are stock driver for Topaz. I will check those again :confused:

Thanks.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] porkovich:
:)

I agree with you, about every point. The slowing thing, it can be something wrong with my device, because i install / uninstall many cabs, so maybe the problem wasn't in the Rom at all.

btw. the start menu i attached to the previous post, it does not work, somehow, with the Photon Rom. I have used it with the Energy one. I have no clue why? It can be the build, or the stock start menu itself ... no idea :)

I am staying with the Photon rom now, it't the most balanced one so far. I will keep waiting for the next releases, especially the 29xxx build ! Many thanks mate ! :)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] mari8b:
When would time come?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
Sorry mate for the delay... I may release the kitchen some time later... as currently I am doing some experiments :rolleyes:

Thanks.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
Beta test started for my Next ROM ver.1.3

Hello Friends,

I have just started testing my Next ROM with lots of features after aprox ~400 downloads of my 1.2 release :).

The NEW Rom will be out soon...

Thanks.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] TD2IN:
I think 23153 build is also leaked, Have you got change to use this build and does the new release will have this build?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
Yes I have seen that and it is already in my next ROM.... BTW I am testing the build to see if that is better than 29022 :confused:

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] :
Thank you sir, waiting to use the new ROM...
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] JazLiew:
Hello prabhat,

can you upload your ROMs to some other link? The link is very slow in my country. I have trouble downloading them.

Regards,

Jaz
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] TD2IN:
Hello you can try to get from this post (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=17796523&postcount=376) with a mirror link.

thanks.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] JazLiew:
Haven't seen that, thanks! :)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
Photon ROM 6.5 Release (v.2.1) | 15 Oct 2011

::: Photon ROM 6.5 - ver. 2.1 Release :::

Note:

- The Standard ROM is the base and Original Photon ROM for Diamond2.

- The UX Edition (User eXperience) of the ROM is having ALL same SYS and Features like Standard ROM, but with extra tweaks and add-on applications and is CHT (Cookies Home Tab) Based Home.

- UX edition has NO more Titanium Home, as this ROM is CHT based.

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

Downloads/ROM Updates:

Photon ROM 6.5 Standard Edition

Photon ROM 6.5 UX Edition

Photon ROM 6.5 Lite Edition

Get What you want from ROM Update Folder.

What is New (General/ALL Editions):

- Updated ROM to use SYS 23153.

- This SYS has default "Windows Embedded Handheld" in Welcome and About dialog.

- Updated Menu Enhancement related packages.

- Updated Several Packages to be more compatible with Windows Mobile Professional 6.5.3.

- Few important package(s) from the list are:

Advanced Network

Appointment Editor

Audio Booster

CM Internet Sharing

CM Phone

CM Call Forwarding

CM Call Waiting

Contact Picker

Contact Utility Engine

Email Setup Wizard

Group Editor

HTC Application

HTC Message

HTC Messaging Client

IE6 Enhancement

Menu Enhancement

Message Enhancement

New Contact Card

Quick GPS

RSS Hub

Sensor SDK

Social Networks Engine

Voice Recorder

What is New (UX Edition):

- Enabled Lock Screen Selection from Settings.

- Updated Photon ROM Collection Wallpapers.

Bug Fixes:

- Fixed the Menu display that was having a white line gap.

Also added new Signature Banner for ROM users.

Hope you will enjoy using this ROM.

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] :
Thanks for the update prabhat. It is good to see so many update in this release. I am downloading now...

thank you.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] pepinos:
Hi, could you upload your latest ROMs to an other place please? Thank you.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] JazLiew:
Hi prabhat,

I have trouble downloading the Standard Edition of your rom in this link,

the UX Edition however, is having no problem at all.

Thanks. Cheers! :D
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
Hello,

The above Link/Mirror is a backup/mirror place for my ROMs for the user who has trouble downloading from Main Download Site.

I mostly start upload to mirror once the upload is finished to Main site.... as the mirror site does not support FTP etc and is slow for me as well.

Looks like uploading to mirror is completed. So can you please confirm is the file is working? Else I need to re-upload to mirror site. But from Main Download ALL SHOULD BE WORKING :).

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] fantasticangle:
mediafire please for 2.1 rom
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] umarhant:
No incoming call screen.

I am using Lite version of your latest rom( v2.1) on my t5353 imported from europe. I am not getting the screen shown in third screenshot by you, during incoming call. The one which shows answer/ reject sliders. Also there is no way to mute the incoming call(usually called silent).Ignore will send busy message to the caller, I just want ringer to become silent without caller coming to know about it. Also there is no way I can make video calls.

Regards

Nishant
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] ilyadan:
Hi umarhant, in "diamond2" (Topaz), to silent the call ringer you need to press the "volume down" button. It will silent the ringer for current incoming call. This behavior is same in all ROMs. If you install something like "pocketshield", then you can customize the call screen (but it will slow down the device!)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
You can get the link in the post just above your question :). Here.

Hi Nishant,

I will flash the lite edition this week end and update you on your queries.

Reg The call screen (3rd screen): I did get that and the capture is from that. Any how I will retest to confirm.

Reg. Mute: The Mute button is a feature in HTC Phone canvas. I am not sure if this button is available in standard WM builds. I will have a look for that.

Also you can get that as ilyadan suggested: "to silent the call ringer you need to press the "volume down" button. It will silent the ringer for current incoming call."

Reg. Video call: I will see if there is any settings or if we can have this without the HTC Phone canvas :confused:

Thanks for your input/feedback :).

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] sl_the_hedgehog:
Lite:

Error when trying to set 'reject call with SMS'
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
I will test this today/tomorrow... as it is long time I have tested this edition :(.

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] zooster:
Does this new build have improvements over the previous 29022?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] TD2IN:
This new build is using 23153 SYS and I think this one has Windows Embedded Handheld related stuffs in-built as I can see in About dialog. And I think this is not modified files by Prabhat like 2.0 UX edition.

Also I see several packages are updated in this build for more compatible with 6.5.3, which is a good thing for the ROM. Performance I see it is similar to 2.0, I have not done my benchmark yet.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] troyleeguy:
Thanks for this ROM, i've tried it and i love it, but can you make it in French ?

If you can't translate, ask me or give me the code to translate

thanks for your reply :)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
@@Nishant:

The third screen for incoming call that you asked:

You will get the screen as per the post, If the device is locked and you receive any call. When device is NOT locked your incoming calls will be prompted as an alert/message dialog at bottom of screen.

Reg. Mute incoming calls: ilyadan and me has replied this before.

Reg. Video call: I am not sure if that is possible as in HTC Phone canvas with only WM style build. I will look around and see if that can be done.

@@sl_the_hedgehog:

I could not see the option for "reject call with SMS" in Lite edition. Can you please point me to the area so that I can see the issue?

Thanks TD2IN for the answers :).

@@troyleeguy:

I can have this done by collecting the respected files for each pkg, but this is so much time taking... I will surely need your help when I will start doing this.

Also please note that PIM backup has been updated to 2.8.5 and the download/info links for this is updated on Post#3.

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
Re-Uploading Lite Edition ver.2.1.

::: Re-Uploading Photon ROM 6.5 - ver. 2.1 Lite Edition ONLY :::

NOTE: This is ONLY for the Lite Edition 2.1 of Photon ROM

Looks like during my 2.1 build the Lite Edition Kitchen did not saved new updated packages as per the release notes :confused:. I realized when I opened the kitchen to see the issues reported by users. I am extremely sorry for this issue.

So, I have updated the Lite edition Kitchen with the correct updated packages and done a new build for same 2.1 version and the new ROM (Only Lite Edition) is uploaded. Please download the new updated Lite ROM and do a flash.

Note: There is NO Additional changes from the last 2.1 release notes. Also Download reference for Lite Edition ROM has been changed all over.

Downloads/ROM Updates:

Photon ROM 6.5 Lite Edition

Get What you want from ROM Update Folder.

Thank you for understanding the issue :).
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] :
Can I have a HTC Phone Dialer for this Lite edition for my self?

thanks.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] sceep:
Hi there :)

I'm with standard edition. How can i lock the screen when having a conversation?

10x
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
Hi mur_bbsr,

I will try to have a build for your use and PM you the link, possible this week end.

Hi sceep,

I think you are looking for switch off the screen when in phone call. By default the ROM does not have any tool/utility to off the screen. You can get that by pressing the top hardware button to switch off the screen when in a call.

You may install this nice app (Touch IncallScreenTweak) which will do this for you automatically.

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] sceep:
10x dude :)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] felix_gorgas:
Hi,

i flashed your ROM bt now the green LED is blinking all the time. No missed call and no messages. what can it be???

Regards
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
You are welcome friend :).

Which edition of the ROM you are referring to?

Also I never see such issue. Can you please do a HardReset and after that check if the problem persists? Do let me know so that I can help you and improve the ROM as well :).

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] ilyadan:
The Photon ROMs

I tried both UX and standard editions and this is what I experienced:

UX Pros:

1) I really liked the task manager.

2) I did like the CHT 1.85 integrated.

3) Seems faster.

UX Cons:

1) My favorite navigation program "Waze" wold not run (probably because of the "full kernel" mode).

2) The battery indicator chosen had too small digits, I had to replace it with this one

3) Phone would freeze sometimes (about once in 2 days). (I also blame the full kernel here, as same software package works in "Standard" edition).

The Standard edition pros:

1) Very stable.

2) Very close to original

3) Can be freely customized (No pre-installed apps)

Standard cons:

1) It's basic, and many additional programs have to be installed (not a biggie).

2) As the original, it have the "HTC messaging" installed. This messaging is not that good, original is better IMHO.

I would suggest making a "UX2" version, with no fancy stuff, just better battery indicator (with bigger digits), task manager, CHT (2 or 1.85), and have the HTC messaging removed.

I stayed with the standard version and I'm very very happy. Thanks!

All said is my opinion only.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] :
Thanks ilyadan for the detail. I think may be prabhat will remove the full kernel mode from UX will be much better?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] TD2IN:
Agree with mur_bbsr.

thanks.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] rati:
I used the Standard Edition Rom .. everything was ok , the rom was fast enough .. but suddenly i had problems connecting my phone to PC as mass storage ... because the SD card Encryption was activated on the phone and i couldn´t desactivate it .. i hard reseted my phone several times and i formated the sd card too , but with no luck . The Encryption is still activated and it can not be desactivated (the option is not greyed out or something .. i deselect the option , but when i enter again in that ´´option´´ , it´s activated again) ..

So yea .. i think it´s a bug .. a big one .. xD
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] :
What is the advantage of the SD card encryption?

Also prabhat can we have the UX edition with the changes ilyadan asked for (full kernel mode removed)?

thanks.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
@ilyadan:

Thanks for your analysis :), Good work. I will see if suggestion from @mur_bbsr will do the trick :).

@mur_bbsr:

Thanks for your input.

@rati:

Thanks for your feedback. I dont think connecting phone to PC will have any issue because of SD Encryption. Infact I never used the SD encryption yet :p. Can you try accessing/formatting the SD from a PC using FAT32 file system and see if that help? I will also have a look around to see what could be the issue for you :confused: Also I will grab a small SD and play around that too :).

@mur_bbsr

SD Encryption: You can read below articles for all details:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jasonlan/ar...card-wipe-and-encryption-what-s-the-deal.aspx

and

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsmobi...ows-mobile-6-storage-card-encryption-faq.aspx

Hope those will help you.

Reg. the modified UX edition, I will do a build some time tomorrow/dayafter and give you and ilyadan a copy to verify before I release that. That will help me to find if the issue is actually resolved.

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] wavesshock:
Nice update.

But I found out two minor things:

There is no Messaging-Icon (.exe) in Startmenue. If I try to put a Shortcut of messaging-app to the home-screen, I won't find one... By copying the right file from \Windows direction the problem is solved, but maybe future releases could include that natively. :P

Second: HTC Peep shortcut is availeable two times, In the startmenue you'll find two Peep Icons.

Thanks
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
Thanks wavesshock for your feedback. I think you are referring to Standard Edition of the ROM.

Correct me if you are referring to other edition.

I will have a look at the shortcut issue and these will be resolved in next release.

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] Regor24:
Bad link

Hello!

i d like to try the UX edition but the download stops around 24 MB.

Can you fix it?

thanks a lot

R.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
Downloads are working fine from main download site... just verified that. You can also try from backup site here.

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] Regor24:
Thanks!

got it from the backup
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] :
Prabhat, Thanks for the link about SD Encryption.

Also now I am downloading the new UX edition beta from the link that you sent and will let you know the details soon.

Question: I have seen somewhere about .NET Framework 3.7. Is that possible to have that in this rom as well?

thanks.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
It is my pleasure to help :).

Yes, I have also seen the .NET FW 3.7 and I do have the cab installer as well. But that looks like a leaked copy. As MS has not release any .NET FW after 3.5 and officially the next version may be 4.0. As most has reported overall performance improve on this FW so I am testing this now. Also till now I am not sure if I should include in ROM or give as a CAB to install :confused:

Also waiting for the feedback about the beta ROM.

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] stirkac:
soooo nice to see atleast one rom still kickin' here :):)

i use td2 as my second phone, and i hate how laggy it is on stock FW..:D
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] TD2IN:
Thanks Prabhat for all help and keeping this ROM updated :).

Can you please share the cab so that we can install and see before you decice to include in ROM.

Thanks again.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
Hi stirkac, Welcome to my ROM thread :). Hope you will enjoy this ROM. I know there not much update on WM side... still I am trying to give what I have/doing on my device to my friends here :).

It is my pleasure to give what I have for my device (TD2) :).

Here is the .NET FW 3.7 cab that I have and testing on my device since last one week.

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] the1980ar:
Thank you for this ROM Update.

I have downloaded the Standard and UX edition of this ROM, but thinking which one will suite me :confused: May be I will try the standard first and then UX? Any suggestions/Input?

Also thank you for the .NET FW 3.7 cab that I have installed on my mobile and all good :).

Thank you all.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] :
I like the UX edition and hope you will like that too.

The standard edition is very close to Stock ROM and is rock solid and stable and very good baterry life as well. While the UX is having extra included software like comes out-of-box with CHT, Shutdown/Restart application and good toolbar icon set etc...
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] the1980ar:
Thank you for clarifying. Now I am running with the Standard ROM and all looks good.

But a little issue. When I try to install some other cab for icons at top/taskbar icons: It does not install and give error telling it cant install in "device" and try to install in other location. What could be the issue and how can I install those icons?

I want to try those before I go for the UX edition.

Thank you all.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] alexander555:
Hello,

I'm back from my android excursion and use further windows mobile (Too much cloud in the concept and to much rights for most - bad apps ).

I hope the windows mobile comunity will be going on.

Alex
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] sam789:
Try to install skcert before
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] the1980ar:
Thank you, I have tried several sdkcert cab in different thread and those get installed (I am not sure if the internal certificate is still valid/expired of those cab :confused:) but after that I still cant install the icon cab that I want.

can you please give me a working cab?

Thank you all.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] Hakim Rahman:
did you try with sdkcertsnew ??
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] the1980ar:
Thank you friend for this. I have installed this cab but still not getting working.

I am trying to install this icons from here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=584772

Thank you all.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] Hakim Rahman:
hi bro! for the taskbar icon of a link that you gave I have not tried, but I always use the taskbar icon by tsowen and it works without having to install sdkcert ...

if you're interested and want to try, just look at the thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=512971
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] sam789:
Regarding your problem, it seems the cab is too old for this built
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] the1980ar:
Thank you Hakim Rahman for the link. This cab infact works on ROM and looks cool too. But I am wondering why the other cab (that I tried) did not worked :confused: May be what sam789 said is correct.

Thanks sam789 for the input. I think you are right.

But still I am not getting a cool simple icon based cab. Let me keep searching...

Also another question to all friends here:

I have see the inbuilt HTC Peep/Tweeter client is not that good and no option to exit etc.... So can some one here suggest a better client that I can use?

Thank you all.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] prabhat:
Thanks "Hakim Rahman" and "sam789" for the replies/help.

@the1980ar: There are several cab availabe that you can try to see which one will fit your taste :). The UX edition already has a modified taskbar included, hope you will like that. Also for next release I am working on some changes to the UX edition taskbar icons as per user requests where we will have better battery icon :).

I hope I will be able release that soon.

Reg. HTC Peep/Tweeter client:

This is still working and as there is no update from WinMo side so HTC also stopped any update for WinMO based devices and HTC Peep Client. So we dont have new updates from HTC on this and will have to leave with this, even if Tweeter is keep updating their Server and Authentication mode etc.

Infact we have better Tweeter client that we can use in WinMO that is very good for latest tweeter server. Like we have "Mo Tweets". I like this and I use this in my device :). This is FREE but Ad-supported app. There are several others too.

Hope this will help you.

Cheers!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] :
Thanks for the suggestion. I just installed Mo Tweets and it is really much better than the inbuilt Peep.

Also today I came across another Application (Free) Efficasoft Mobile Express for Sending/Managing SMS from PC via Mobile Device. So thought to share that here :). The main advantage is that I can easyly compose sms from PC while working and send those via Mobile Phone :).
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] sam789:
If you have some time and knowledge you can have a look at this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=437307

Basiclly, you have to replace a lot of icons via reshaker in some dll

Try
[Touch Diamond2, Pure ROM Development] alexander555:
Phone 7 Photon Rom

@prabhat

I like your rom. What do you think about a phone 7 version photon rom version?

See. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1281239

I experimented with this and your Titanium ROM -the UX feels good, but it's hard to configure if it's not included in a rom (with the correct links).

Thanks, Alex