Saridnours’ AKU 3.5+ Rom. Current 3/19 v3.5pr5 w/SP1

[saridnour]

cebain: Glad to hear your up and running.
I did not think of ths SD card either. Good call on checking it. Hope everything else is good. Let me know what you find.

jendand: Null Keyboard was requested to hide the SIP keybaord at all times. The files are really small so I included it as no reg changes were needed. It should just be another option in the virtual keybard selection (Thats the option of using it). As to the reader, I have the MS reader already intigrated into the PR6 release candiate. I am still testing the changes as a whole (not testing the reader other than verifing that it opens, etc as I don't really know what to test and why I left it to you guys) But unless you rally support for another reader it will probably be whats going to be in it. Just put it out to you all to get me the files and keys and this was the first (and only) reader that was sent in Its not a hard intigration so if you can rally support and get me the files/keys I can look at adding in the other in it's place as I trust you when you say it might have issues. Thanks for verifing the BT that was on my to do list today. 3.5 has so many features nowdays it rough checking them all

Looks like pr6 will be a bit faster. I cleaned the reg a lot more and it seemd to pep it up more. Might add mortplayer to the rom Still not sure but I do like the Mp3 playback and I was able to get the bt a2dp quality to run at a quality of 80 and no skipping. Still don't know way WMP runs the device.exe at 100% for 20 sec for each song. Like WMP as to pause/play from the headset so this is killing me. May need to see if I can get this (play/pause for headset) working in another app. Did someone say that asociating TCPMP to the VC contorl did acomplish this? As I am testing I did not want to start hacking this build just yet.

Anyone verify ringer yet with sp1? How about .net CF apps?

-saridnour

[mgioia2]

Originally Posted by saridnour

Looks like pr6 will be a bit faster. I cleaned the reg a lot more and it seemd to pep it up more.
-saridnour

BRING IT ON!!!

[wvufan]

saridnour, I'd like to compliment you on an impressive ROM. I only discovered these custom ROMs last week, and the responsiveness is awesome.

You asked about CF apps. I've read through this entire thread, and I guess I must be alone in having issues with CF apps. I run several CF 1 apps, and they all have some issues when running under this ROM that I did not have under AKU2.2.

I haven't had the opportunity to test under other 3.x ROMs, but I notice two consistent problems. One app I use routinely is FeederReaderCF, an RSS reader. It's not the best for reading, but I think it's the best as a podcast client. However, under this ROM, it is now unusable due to frequent fatal exceptions that rarely if ever happened before. I've seen something similar on another app that used the OpenNetCF libraries, and this library may not be 100% thread safe, thus the errors, but the apps behave much worse under this ROM.

The other issue seems to be related to multiple CF apps running simultaneously. It seems that if I switch between the CF apps, some of them stop responding, and even after killing them, will not run again until a soft reset.

Other than these problems, this ROM is awesome and I would like to express my appreciation for all your effort. I know this is a very time-consuming pursuit, and we all benefit from your hard work. I hope you keep up the great work!

-wvufan

btw... this post filter won't allow me to enter dot net without spelling dot. I think it needs relaxing a bit

[saridnour]

wvufan: are you running the sp1 cab? Just made changes that add some missing .net pieces that could resolve your issue. I know some cf1 apps wont work under cf2. You may also try installing cf1 back on to your device if these apps are reqyured for you. Thanks for the feedback.. keep it up


On wisbar? I have yet to have any more closing issues. So my first post may be in error. Anyone else have any issues with it since the sp1?

-saridnour

[wvufan]

saridnour, I am running sp1. I will try installing CF1, and if that doesn't fix it, I'll try installing the full CF2sp1.

Thanks again for your great work.

-wvufan

[wvufan]

saridnour,

Installing CF1 did the trick. In the short while I've tested tonight, no app crashes. I'll need to verify a bit more with the app switching issue, but I'd say the .net version was the problem.

Any chance the CF1 files could make it into the ROM?

Thanks for the help!

-wvufan

[jendand]

saridnour--

You asked about the extent of VC control in other players besides WMP. All of my searching in other forums and my own experimentation with TCPMP and Conduit's Pocket Player indicate the VC control in these players (after the reg hack associating an alternate player in place of WMP) is limited to the "play ..." command. This isn't just through the headset with BT, either. This is straight though the device, also. I haven't worked much with Mortplayer. I'm not sure VC works at all with Mortplayer -- at least, during my brief experimentation I couldn't get it to work. That's all I know about that. If you can find a way to get more VC control in these apps, that would be mighty fine with me!

jendand

[Raging Idiot]

Cebain said:

Thanks especially to Raging Idiot, nuguy, and saridnour for all your help. I really appreciate it, and I've got a much better insight into the abilities (and limitations), as well as customizations on this phone.

=D>

A round of applause to you for coming back and letting us know it was the memory card causing the problems. I had thought about that being the case very briefly, but then seen it was happening on your friends phone so I dismissed that as a possibility. However, now I understand you were likely sharing the sound card to test playing the music on it.
God that was confusing.


One more thing to test, unless someone responds otherwise, is
to see if the low battery warning kills the current phone conversation.

I'm on a different rom right now, but this disconnect problem is really making me rage.

[jendand]

I'm not a rabid campaigner for Mobipocket, but it definitely has the advantage over MS Reader of allowing for the downloading of secure books directly to the device without going through the PC. At least on one of the book sites, MS Reader is disabled for auto readback of secure books. Mobipocket is smaller (1.6 compared to 2.3 mb). And Mobipocket is used extensively on fictionwise and ebooks.com, the two places where I get most of my books. (Mobipocket seems to be the "recommended" reader on Fictionwise.) However, all of that being said, I won't be terribly disappointed if MS Reader gets the green light ...

Here's the link to the manual install download site for Mobipocket (something else you cannot do with MS Reader; that is, install the reader without a PC!):

http://www.mobipocket.com/en/Downloa...ualInstall.asp

Thanks,

jendand

[cebain]

Raging Idiot: Exactly right on the SD card. my friend's got one of the phones with the super-spring in it. The last time he saw his SD card, it was launching itself out of the phone and overboard while bass fishing. He was showing off the phone to the guy he was fishing with. The demonstation was less than effective.