+Feb 5+ *SSK 1.2 Stable* {CE OS 21109} Kitchen and ROM

[scrosler]

Windows Mobile 6.5 Beta is out for beta testing

I have sent it out to the testers that REGULARLY get them and the three who asked in post 351.

Its nice!

Not a whole lot of major changes but some nice ones....
Look here for the files i used for this:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...483#post664483

Conflipper is THE MAN!!!!

So if you would like me to continue working on this beta please consider thanking this post to show me your Support!

[phattooth]

Originally Posted by scrosler

You brought this arrogance. I used to be humble! ahgahahaha




You all know I am joking right?







I was alway this arrogant!




Nc(

That right there.... that was funny!

[TwoDawgs]

Originally Posted by scrosler

Windows Mobile 6.5 Beta is out for beta testing

This is why I should never sleep again! Great things always seem to happen after I hit the rack!

[kyle4269]

haha I agree! I went to sleep just before he announced it.

[phattooth]

Is anyone using the black animated (tlr) manila theme and noticing super slowness in the tAlbume app?

its so slow for me i cant even use it!

anyone know of a good tweek to speed it up?

i hate to think im gonna have to change themes!

[TwoDawgs]

Originally Posted by phattooth

Is anyone using the black animated (tlr) manila theme and noticing super slowness in the tAlbume app?

i hate to think im gonna have to change themes!

I was using the same theme. It was so slow in the album and email that I couldn't take it anymore and changed to a different theme.

If you find something that speeds it up let me know!

[phattooth]

Originally Posted by TwoDawgs

I was using the same theme. It was so slow in the album and email that I couldn't take it anymore and changed to a different theme.

If you find something that speeds it up let me know!

yeah man, i dont know what it is, but i really like this theme! ill poke around for something and if i find it ill be sure to post back!

driving through Iowa right now, and service is shotty... might not be for a while though!

[libbycm]

ROM Version:Deluxe Rom
Speed: Very fast, much better than stock obviously.. been cooking since last feb with my xv6800; main reason I went for the xv6850 was the "open sourceness"
SSK Online!: Great idea..would like to see a download for the taskbar icon set you put in your original XV6850 roms.. I have found a few around the forums, but none seem as good as the ones you had in your original roms
Stability: Very stable... few bugs (maybe) see below..
Encryption: Good add, but not for me.. nothing I care enough about encrypting...

First of all, thanks for the great roms.. they are excellent! In this latest rom though, 3 possible bugs I have found. First one is when I send a text message, the outbound message seems to stay in my outbox and constantly resends itself a random amount of times. Especially occurs after a reboot, at which time all items I have ever sent (but not manually deleted from my outbox) keep getting recent. My g/f was getting irritated last night and was wondering why every txt I sent her was sent 15 times. I have noticed though if I go and manually delete all of the items from my SMS outbox, it doesnt do it (until I send more messages).

Second "bug" appears to be with the today themes... I dont really care of touchflo, so I just use a standard today screen, and when I select a today screen "theme" (including some of the ones you packaged in rom) the background wallpaper does not show up. Only happens on certain themes but it seems to be random. Also when I try using some 480x640 themes I downloaded online, the image is either so blown up as wallpaper you cant even make out the image or it doesnt show up at all.

Finally, when using the GPS, I have to use applications that allow me to specify a COM port for the GPS. If I try using an app that uses the windows GPS management I will never get a fix and it does not work, but If I point the application at com4, works great. GPS control panel applet is set correctly too, and VZ navigator functions correctly as well, which is odd b/c I thought it used the windows GPS managemetn as well. Maybe its a PRI thing or with the verizon GPS driver that everyone knows about and I shouldtn be making this point, lol, but I thought I would ask. AGPS seems to be working tho via COM4 as I get 7+ satellites within 5-10 seconds of a cold start, versus reg. GPS when you are lucky to get 4 sats in a minute or more. Just installed agps cab and setup AGPS settings in QPST.

Any insight you can give would be cool, otherwise I will just hold out for the WM6.5 rom. Keep up the good work and thanks!

[ka911]

First off, thanks a lot for letting me be one of many people how is testing your beta1 of 6.5
Now the good part, I as part of the system goes, its good start but there is way to go!
I run the beta and I can see its fast but there are photos and video it does not work and the Camera it does not work too, I did not install any software because it part if the sys test. there is times when it just freez.
Its good start from MS part and they know for sure that we are doing there work (testing) ;D.

[bast525]

SCOTT - I'm hoping... man I hope to God I can get you to take a look at this. One thing I have HATED about the Touch Pro since I got it, and even your ROM didn't fix, is that for whatever reason, the graphics drawing/rendering in Landscape mode is FAR worse than when the phone is in Portrait mode. I had noticed it in Opera Mobile and Mini and a few other apps, and then confirmed it using some benchmarking software (the Bitmap Draw test in SK Tools in particular). The phone renders some 30% slower in Landscape mode! This is noticeable as a drop in frame rate and as Vsync tearing.

At any rate, I ran across a thread on XDA that is about this specific issue, and a few people posted how a new custom ROM from Da_G specifically for the AT&T Fuze, had new drivers that finally fix this problem. Not only is it claimed to fix the Landscape redraw, but it is supposed to be a nice boost in overall graphics performance. I sent him a PM to ask about getting the drivers, but he said the main file which fixes this, ddi.dll (which is from new Diamond official ROMS, and he also apparently uses some Blackstone/Touch HD files), is now part of the XIP and is not a file you can simply post for people to write over their existing driver with. He did say that the file is easily extracted from his XIP for cooking into other custom ROMS.

I wanted to ask... no... BEG... if there is any possible way you can get this ddi.dll (and other graphics drivers such as d3dm_ati.dll and disptools.dll) into your kitchen so that we too can enjoy the increased graphics performance, and, more importantly, no more huge loss in performance in Landscape mode. Is there ANY way you can do this? I would be glad to beta test this... until now I basically treat my TP like a Diamond... I never use the hardware keyboard because the performance in landscape is so bad!

Oh, here is the link to the ROM/Kitchen: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=446652

And here is the thread where everyone is talking about how bad the redraw is in Landscape: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=443466

Scott, if you don't want to mess with this XIP or ddi file, can you tell me how I might be able to incorporate this into your Simple Kitchen, at least to be able to try the drivers out and see how they work? I dont' know if it's as easy as dropping an OEM folder into the kitchen or what....