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

[rostern]

Originally Posted by scrosler

One thing I think you are missing and that is the simplicity factor. I dont like a bunch of OEM's and many users agreed and thank me for the simplicity. You should go to the PPC Kitchen and use there OEM's. They have TONS of them and 99% of them should be plug and play with my kitchen. Just drop them in the OEM folder. very easy. Let me know if you want more detail.

Secondly on OEM's: They are just a 10 second process to make. I would be glad to explain how ifyoua re interested. This way you can make the kitchen to youtr likings... Its no hard. Let me know if you want some schooling on this as well.

Whoa!!

Does this mean I can just place CAB files in the OEM folder of SSK and they will be able to be "checked off" in the cooking process and then loaded into ROM? Is it that simple? What if the CAB installation requires user input in the process of loading?

[scrosler]

Originally Posted by stanglifemike

OK, so.....for next ROM/Kitchen
1. You solder in more memory
2. FM Radio working
J/K man
-I think what we have now is very good. SSK Online could use more apps and a facial.
-Splash screens are nice, but not seen very often
-A MUST(which I know you have already said would happen) is lllboredlll's name in Location Settings.
-I think a good cab for SSK Online would be the "no curtains" cab(one of my favorites!!)
-Obviously anything you can do to speed and memory will be GREATLY appreciated

I'll think of more later. Time for sleep now, hope I made since, dosed off a min while typing......

I got you.. the same here...

later all!

[oldman]

Good Sensor App sites

http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=1320
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=430541

[bast525]

Originally Posted by scrosler

BTW: taking suggestions for next REV.

Scott - I desperately... desperately would like to see you somehow get ahold of and incorporate the graphics drivers that Da_G over on XDA forums is incorporating into his new AT&T Fuze ROM. I have been trying to accomplish this with your kitchen (he's been trying to help me as well), but working with XIP's and all this stuff is way over my head, considering your first kitchen was the first I'd ever used!

But, a lot of people have claimed that these newer drivers (from a more recent diamond rom, and I'm not just talking about d3dm_ati.dll which does NOTHING for anything outside of Direct 3d rendering!) apparently go a long ways towards fixing the horrible performance in landscape mode... I know I've brought this up a few times, but this is my request

Other than that, I would love to see you work something for the IE6 Beta... I know you warn it is "VERY BETA", but I've been using the hell out of it and it works really well, and renders a lot of stuff that Opera Mobile and other browsers just won't touch. My only complaints are that it renders a little slowly (not any worse than old PIE, really), and that Flash 3.1 isn't integrated, which if I remember right, it CAN be used with this new PIE version. I've had no stability issues or crashing with this browser though, and I think if you could somehow make it a little faster, and get flash support cooked in for it, this would probably be the best mobile browser as far as rendering ability (w/o relying on proxy servers like Skyfire).

Last request - if at all possible, make the Home and Back keys programmable in Settings - Personal - Buttons!! I would really love to be able to assign these buttons to other functions, and AE Button plus doesn't allow me to keep them from performing their built in function!

[pbrown148]

Originally Posted by phattooth

WOW... ok, so for the very first time i just had the continuous vibrate email notification thing happen.

Here's the senario:
Was not using the phone but the screen was active sitting on the home tab, no power plugged in.
Email notifications are set to play an alarm and vibrate. I have 1 exchange account, 1 gmail account (IMAP4 hybrid) and 3 IMPA4 accounts.

I received a notification on the exchange account and before that one was finished 2 more notifications came in on one of the IMAP4 accounts. The second notification just simply never stopped vibrating until i click the email icon in the taskbar.

Not sure what all that means, i was just lucky enough to see exactly what happened to get that symptom.

Maybe if anyone else having this issue can add to this... maybe we can figure it out. Just thought i would share.

definitely has happened to me more than a few times. i can only remember it happening when it's face up on a desk. i do have it set to sound + vibrate, but while at work i have it on vibrate only and it has happened when on that setting. also, it's definitely happened when i have only recieved one SMS or e-mail - haven't really noticed it with the multiple notifications. has happened when plugged in and unplugged, screen active and inactive. i've been lucky enough to be around when it happens, but i'd be nervous to leave my phone for just a little bit so i dont burn out my battery or do damage to the phone.

on a seperate note, has anyone gotten the pandora app from ppckitchen to work on their vzw TP?

[dimitri]

For all those that are wondering if they should use the newest Radio with this ROM I say yes. I had the 1.04 telus and tried this ROM. Battery went quick. Then I flashed to the 1.11 Sprint Radio and now my battery is the best it has ever been with this ROM or any other ROM. Just wanted to share my thoughts.

[stanglifemike]

I agree dimitri, Sprint Radio 1.11 is giving me the best battery life as well.

[RONMAC]

Scott,

I would love to see a hybrid of 6.5 and 6.1 (only the stuff we know works).

Could that include PIE "8" from 6.5?

The ususal stuff in your kitchens is great as I install all the stuff I want afterwards via cab.

[dimitri]

Originally Posted by RONMAC

Scott,

I would love to see a hybrid of 6.5 and 6.1 (only the stuff we know works).

Could that include PIE "8" from 6.5?

The ususal stuff in your kitchens is great as I install all the stuff I want afterwards via cab.

I don't know about a hybrid but I do know that Scrosler is working on a new kitchen where you can install either 6.5 or 6.1 so that might give you what you want.

[FormerPalmOS]

Scott,

I've been studying the performance some more now with the modified XIP. The next low-hanging fruit is the number of files in the \windows directory. With no caching, when you access any file in the Windows directory (or when an application needs a DLL), WM loads the directory from flash, then starts at the top looking for what you need. It isn't stored alphabetically or anything - it's a straight sequential search. The average time of the search is directly related to the number of files in the directory. Once found, a file or module is copied from IMGFS, decompressed and loaded into the pagepool.

Now, you can increase the pagepool size to reduce thrashing within the pagepool, and I can increase the FAT and directory meta-data cache to speed up this overall process - but all is at the expense of memory.

As an alternative, it would be worthwhile to figure out what applications installed in your OEM folders could be installed to directories (\Program Files\{appname} for example) instead of to \windows. Manilla for example has tons of files loaded to \windows. Microsoft is guilty as well - there are a boatload of resources (bitmaps, .pngs, etc) all loaded to Windows.

Note - this also explains why a stripped ROM is so much faster - far fewer files to search through in the \Windows directory.

Also - for chefs - fewer apps go for smaller pagepool (6 would be fine for a totally stripped ROM). Loaded go for 12. Anything bigger than 12 and you are asking for memory problems.

Oh - Scott, BTW - nuke HTC_CM_Guardian from your OEM folders (I already killed it so I can't go searching for it to tell you where to remove it). THis file monitors and resets certain settings back to "carrier stock" - not sure which ones, but it is always resident taking up memory and I don't like that. No stability problems with it killed so-far.

BTW - two other memory hogs that can be killed are SIP_GTAPP and QuickGPS. The SIP app is responsible for the keyboard pop-up that allows you to change pop-up keyboards. It is possible to default SIP to one keyboard (I use Full QWERTY) then blow away the bootlauncher key that auto-starts it. QuickGPS can only be prevented from starting by killing the bootlauncher GPSAUX.DLL service - which also kills the underlying functionality QuickGPS brings. If you want fast locks, this is unfortunately a necessary evil. HTC could have easily split this into two programs so the resident one is much smaller - but they did not.