Which ROM has the shortest Ring delay?
 

I know that the answer to this is just gonna be, "Hey, why do you just try 'em all out and see for yourself." 'Cause honestly I don't want to have to keep flashing and calling myself.

I just flashed to Mighty's and it seems to start ringing a little under a half second after the second ring (from the callers end. Yes I know that there is an arbitrary first ring that all sprint users have.) So, I guess this is pretty good. However, my phone's display does light up well before the first ring on my end, about a second before it starts ringing.

Any out there that are any better?

Even if the ROM you are using isn't faster than this, would you mind sharing your experiences? Maybe this thread can serve as a compilation of all of the ring delays.

Re: Which ROM has the shortest Ring delay?
 

There are a couple of different answers. Most of the cooked roms are much speedier and will respond way better than stock.

Then the other answer is you can adjust settings in the EPST so your phone polls the tower more often and will pick up calls much speedier.

Re: Which ROM has the shortest Ring delay?
 

Ditto what the Sporkster said. Also consider disabling the tf3d dial skin with Advanced Config 3.3

Re: Which ROM has the shortest Ring delay?
 

This also depends on where you are saving your ringers.

Are you using default ringers?
Are they on the mem card or in windows dir?
Do you leave app running in the background?

Re: Which ROM has the shortest Ring delay?
 

I think that the phone polls often enough with the ROM, at least the phone's display activates at lot quicker than it did with the stock rom. However, it there is still a bit of lag before it starts to ring. Yes I am using a default ringer which I guess is stored on the device.

Re: Which ROM has the shortest Ring delay?
 

I don't think polling has anything to do with the rom. It's in the EPST settings. Those settings are independent of any custom rom.

Re: Which ROM has the shortest Ring delay?
 

Here's what affects this:

1) Your phone won't start anything related to ringing until a tower poll tells it that it is being called. You don't want to change the slot cycle index (poll frequency) - this will whack your battery life, especially if your signal is weak.

2) The "ring" process in your phone can incur a number of delays. The HTC phone canvas is good for about a solid second of sound delay (light flashing, but no ring or vibrate). The stock WM dialer has no such delay (but also won't recognize ##xxx programming / service dials).

3) The ring tone type and save location and size can also affect this (previous post). Fastest is a .WAV file stored on the phone's main memory and NOT cooked into the ROM (has to be decompressed first if cooked in). Slowest is an MP3 or WMA stored on the storage card. Smaller files load faster than big ones, but you knew that. Convert your ring tone or MP3 to 8-bit unsigned mono, 22 KHz and it should give you a small file size.

4) Other stuff running in the background or a slow (stock) ROM will of course contribute delays.

Re: Which ROM has the shortest Ring delay?
 

I have been using the stock WinMo dialer skin since last November as it totally eliminates that ridiculous ring lag.

To Fix ## CODES use this registry entry.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\DialParser]
"DLL-OEM"="phonecanvas.dll"

~John

Re: Which ROM has the shortest Ring delay?
 

I have tried several roms that i cooked and all were much faster than the stock alltel rom and mightymike's roms have been the fastest. When i place a call from another phone on the first ring almost immediately the light ring comes on and then at or before the 2nd ring that the caller hears the TP is ringing audibly.

Re: Which ROM has the shortest Ring delay?
 

That's how the phone will ring with ANY ROM if you dump the bloated HTC dialer.

~John