mmoroz
11th January 2008, 04:25 AM
I tried the RSS Hub (included in some shipped roms I believe; I got it with Dutty's latest rom). It is a lite (and free / OEM) version of Newsbreak, which is one of the top RSS readers.
Unfortunately, I ran into two problems -- one minor, and one serious. I wanted to warn everyone about this.
1. Small problem. Upon installation, I told RSS Hub to store articles on the storage card (through a menu option). It let me choose the amount of storage to use, but the smallest amount is 10% of the card size, which comes to 383 MB in my case -- way too much for my taste.
2. Big problem. Upon installation and first refresh, I told RSS Hub to mark everything as read. This caused the RSS Hub and Windows to freeze for more than 20 minutes, until I gave up and rebooted. During the freeze time, I could still interact with the phone, but each button press took about 5 minutes to register. After about 10 min, I managed to close RSS Hub, but the freeze didn't end -- maybe RSS Hub continued doing something after it's GUI shut down.
I don't think these two problems are related, since the amount of storage *actually* used up on the storage card at the time of my failed "mark as read" operation was just 2 MB. But the number of news stories marked unread was about 800.
I moved everything from storage card to main memory, and this problem didn't re-occur.
P.S. Iliumsoft confirmed that HSS Hub is actually identical to Newsbreak, and not a "lite" version.
Unfortunately, I ran into two problems -- one minor, and one serious. I wanted to warn everyone about this.
1. Small problem. Upon installation, I told RSS Hub to store articles on the storage card (through a menu option). It let me choose the amount of storage to use, but the smallest amount is 10% of the card size, which comes to 383 MB in my case -- way too much for my taste.
2. Big problem. Upon installation and first refresh, I told RSS Hub to mark everything as read. This caused the RSS Hub and Windows to freeze for more than 20 minutes, until I gave up and rebooted. During the freeze time, I could still interact with the phone, but each button press took about 5 minutes to register. After about 10 min, I managed to close RSS Hub, but the freeze didn't end -- maybe RSS Hub continued doing something after it's GUI shut down.
I don't think these two problems are related, since the amount of storage *actually* used up on the storage card at the time of my failed "mark as read" operation was just 2 MB. But the number of news stories marked unread was about 800.
I moved everything from storage card to main memory, and this problem didn't re-occur.
P.S. Iliumsoft confirmed that HSS Hub is actually identical to Newsbreak, and not a "lite" version.