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Re: How big is too big for a ROM? Mine does not work

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Originally Posted by meanfishy View Post
Yes to both accounts, I am currently coking my 5th ROM on a trial and error method; here are the points of interest that I have come across so far with add as more knowledge is gained.

1: the SD method of flashing the ROM onto the phone but also seems to enable to phone to be more stable and faster. I came to this conclusion by flashing the same ROM using both the USB cable and the SD method

2: once you perform your hard reset and the phone is progressing through the different flash screens, you perform another soft reset during the stage when you are asked to setup the phone seems to have GREATLY increased the performance and speed of the phone.

3: there are areas in BuilderOS that you can only select 1 item even if they are check boxes are you are able to select multiple items, these areas seem to be; Today Plug ins, Task Managers, Multimedia, and some others I can't remember off the top of my head.

4: the overwrite errors that were being received were due to having duplicate items selected from different areas, such as having colonel's personal setting (which have sounds) and then selecting a box in that area or another area that also has that sound

5: as far as size goes having a ROM around the size of 90mb (or smaller) seems to work the best

Thanks again for the input
Meanfishy,

As for only being able to select one (checkbox) item in certain areas of BuildOS, I recall that I could select as many today screen plugins as I wanted. Odd that you cannot.

Also, a tip regarding Task Managers - Have you tried QuickMenu? It's tiny, and in addition to functioning as a task manager, it also reorganizes the Start menu to look and act more like a desktop PC, and it can display the battery level and available memory on the status bar at all times. It also can allow you to quickly recover memory by using its built-in Hibernate command or quickly do a soft reset, among other things. I have the Hibernate feature mapped so that all I have to do is press and hold the Start menu until a notification box comes up showing how much memory was recovered. I don't even have to dismiss the notification; it auto-closes in about 2 seconds.
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