[jmorton10]

Well, I recently redid my system from scratch (I actually used an entirely different phone, but it was the same thing "a Verizon XV6800" as the original) & there was NO WAY I was reinstalling a bloated, memory hogging, buggy app like Kinoma on the new setup.

I flashed the stock Verizon XV6800 to radio 3.42.50 & ROM to dcd 3.2.6 so I now had WM 6.1 & a working internal GPS as opposed to the external Bluetooth setup I was using. After implementing all the GPS tricks with GPST & DMrouter etc, I get a consistent 6-8 satellite lock within 4 or 5 seconds in CoPilot Live 7, Google maps etc etc etc

The new system is fast as hell & has 21 MB of free memory at startup & even running Slingbox Mobile I still have 12 MB of free memory.

With the original WM version of Kinoma, I was getting out of memory errors even when the system had 14 MB free before it started that useless scanning "feature".

I had no idea that a new version had come out two days ago, I just happened to stumble across a posting about it & went to the Kinoma site to check it out.

I saw that some of the bugs that certain people (me) where complaining about had reportedly been fixed & others had not. I figured maybe I should give it another chance as I did pay for it & I really wanted it to work for me.

I did a new BU of the perfectly working system with SPB BU so if I was as unhappy with the new version as I was with the original, I could do a hard reset & restore the BU & be rid of it again.........

I have been playing with the new version of Kinoma for a while now & it is certainly a HUGE improvement from the original. Unfortunately, there is still no way to turn off the scanning & yes it still steals ALL the file associations without asking permission (this is a major serious programming flaw IMHO)

Other than that, the app is much better. The picture directory now actually contains the pics on my device & none of the 1700 GPS gifs etc that the original version showed as pics. The scanning now seems to exclude scanning from program apps etc so it doesn't take as long. It still irritates the hell out of me that if you open Kinoma, wait for it to scan, change absolutely NOTHING & then shut it down that five minutes later when you open it again it still insists on scanning once again (this is beyond ridiculous IMHO)

The new version seems to make it through the scanning of my 8 gig SD card pretty quickly, but I haven't put on the 2-3 full length movies I usually keep there in the video directory. I will load a couple movies tonight & then I will get a much fairer test of the new version vs the original.

~John