My experience with AKU3.5 CF1 or CF2 - Pros and Cons

[lightsail]

I have been running AKU3.5 for a week now. For those still hesitating whether to upgrade, here are some pros and cons based on my experience:

PROS:

--With Kiten OEM, you can put more program in, my OEM folder is 39.4M.
--Fast portrait and lanscape switching (at least 4 or 5 seconds faster) if you have quite a few today plugins.
--Start - Program much faster (before it is slow when you have a lot of programs installed and you want to find the progrsm which is on the end of the list).
--A few new programs (RDP, Mobile Live..).
--Smart dialer, speed dial ## code all work now with tweaks and fixes.
--Without push and with EVDO disconnected, battery life is better.


CONS:

--GPSDash does not work with CF2 (program hang when open, hourglass stays forever).

--IGuidance 3.0, 3.01 crashs when switching between fullscreen and regular mode. Since there is no way to stop the switching (IGuidance switch it automatically when it detects the motion), it seems to me no solution yet. This happens with both CF1 and CF2 with or without other programs installed. This seems a low level dll thing. What is strange is that other programs like pie full scrren mode works fine.

--Occasionally lockup when start a large program (in sd card) from SPB Pocket plus. Program will not start and hourglass stays forever. But there is no errors. Have to softreset.

-- Bluetooth GPS connection will break in most cases after power off even with the following registry tweak
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Power\State\Suspend]
"btl1:"=dword:00000002

--EVDO icon will not diffentiate between idle and active states. But this does not cause any battery problem.

[haus]

Are you using a theme.ini file for iGuidance, or are you starting iGuidanceQVGA with the "nowarning" parameter? I'm using the Stock 3.5 for any Apache ROM (Kirvin's ROM) and running iGuidance 3.01 just fine. When I plug in a destination and hit "demo" it switches to full screen and navigates fine.

An issue very much like this has been hammered out on pdaphonehome.com for awhile; I'm trying to figure out if it's the same problem or something new.

[naigaboy]

Originally Posted by haus

Are you using a theme.ini file for iGuidance, or are you starting iGuidanceQVGA with the "nowarning" parameter? I'm using the Stock 3.5 for any Apache ROM (Kirvin's ROM) and running iGuidance 3.01 just fine. When I plug in a destination and hit "demo" it switches to full screen and navigates fine.

An issue very much like this has been hammered out on pdaphonehome.com for awhile; I'm trying to figure out if it's the same problem or something new.

I was just about to say the same thing. We ended up figuring out that it was the theme.ini and no warning parameters that is causing the full screen mode to crash. I removed both and havent had any problems with any of the roms that i have flashed. Do the same if you havent already and report back.

[lightsail]

In my case, it does not make any difference or with or without theme.ini. It just crash.
For the large program lockup issue, I noticed after I open messaging application then close it, the NetFront 3.3 application will hang. I do not have attachment stored on the sd card.

[lightsail]

I tried the HELMI_Apache_3.5_KITCHEN_PPC-GEEKS_r1.2-pre2.rar as suggested. iGuidance still crashes. PocketOutlook still blocks Netfront from lanuching for whatever reason. In some cases, clicking a program get no response, no error, nothing open. WM5Torage become unreliable. GPSGate and WM5Torage conflict with each other. Bluetooth GPS session breaks when power off, has to restart bluetooth after power on again. I finally gave up AKU3.5. It may be stable for other users. But not for me. I decide to go back to 2.06. It's slower but at least everything functions.

[haus]

Try Kirvin's ROM. I had a pleasant surprise the other day (maybe I was dreaming this but...) while using iGuidance 3.01 in an emergency without a power cord plugged into the 6700, the 6700 shut off after my 1 minute timeout. When I turned it back on I cursed a bit because that always means I have to go back to settings...bluetooth and turn it back on, then wait for the GPS to talk to the 6700 again, etc. - well I'll be danged if GPS lady didn't chime right in with the next turn before I even hit the start button. So it appears that the BT signal wasn't completely lost/dropped/whatever during my suspend. That's new to me from Kirvin's ROM.

As for your other issues, it sounds like you've got some "utility" software running. WMStorage, GPSGate, etc. - this is exactly why I abhor ROMs that bundle in a whole bunch of utilities. Utilities do things, read things, change things, and they can interact with one another in strange ways. Who knows what's causing the issues, but I'd start really clean, then add your *must haves* one at a time and see how things go. Maybe then you can nail down the culprit. iGuidance 3.01 does work fine as naigaboy and I have both said. I used it to nav in the car the other night without issue. So there is something else on your machine that we don't have that is causing your crashes.

[jack_2231]

Originally Posted by haus

iGuidance 3.01 does work fine as naigaboy and I have both said.

Haus,

Iguidance 3.01 crashes as soon as it gets the new position (5 seconds) for me, running BigJ's AKU 3.5 Mario version 9.3 of March 8. I removed batti from startup, rebooted. I went back to the windows default theme. Still crashes. (Mind you, however, that BigJ's themes and pictures are all heavily modified.) Where is the theme.ini file? I searched using resco explorer and came up empty. Deleting it, if it existed, appears to be my last option? Please help.

Jack

EDIT March 16 2007: I solved the problem with some help from others. See here.

[lightsail]

I downgraded to 2.06. I found out Netfront3.3 lockup issue is not AKU3.3 specific. For whatever reason, GPSGate2.5 and PocketOutlook can block Netfron 3.3 from launching. NetFron3.4 TP seems fine. But I still think iGuidance crashing issue is AKU3.3 or 3.5 specific. I do not even use any theme. No other application installed, but it just crashs.