Is the ROM based on new drivers from the latest HTC ROM?

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Tim:

Nice job putting this ROM together. I was hoping for something like this. Could you please tell me what build it is based on and if it has the new drivers from the 5.11 ROM from HTC? I may not be very accurate in naming the builds, but please let me know what's included in this ROM. I plan to flash it some time after knowing what is the feedback on installing TF3D2 as a cab on top of this ROM. Thanks.

Good job, I like the idea. I will give it a go and report any bugs I find.

You said that there was currently a conflict with the lock screen and the dialer... What dialer does not conflict with the lock screen on wm6.5?

Please let me know and I will install that one.

Thanks Timolol's!!!!

Working great so far - no bugs, except this one:

@timolol, is this the dialer bug you are talking about?

Just a few questions - how come that there is about 100 MB free RAM after soft reset? With WM 6.1 I was getting about 130-140, with TF3D enabled. Also, I saw in some other threads that some ROMs have 120 or more free RAM upon boot (with cHome enabled, just like in your ROM). What could be the "RAM eater" in this ROM? Even if I disable cHome, I get only 109 MB...

And one more thing, you forgot to include Esmertec JBED, and it is the default Java emulator on HTC WWE based ROMs.

Thanks again for this ROM - it is working great. Of cource, I'll test it more and report any bug that I find. Hopefully there will be none.

Older changes

5.10.060.3TH (23569)

• Updated Opera Mobile 9.7 to 35994
• Updated many HTC packages
• Updated HTC Task Manager Icon

5.10.042.6TH (23563)

• Updated Comm Manager suite
• Fixed Comm Manager switches in landscape
• Updated Opera Mobile 9.7 to 35989
• Updated HTC Scroll
• Updated SIM Manager

5.10.041.0TH (23557)

• Updated Full Screen Player
• Updated My Phone and Marketplace
• Updated Opera Mobile 9.7 to build 35964
• Excluded positionfix due to redundancy
• Fixed Long Press End Key
• Fixed dialer SIP toggle button graphical bug
• Small changes to HTC Black theme

5.10.031.7TH (23547)

• Added HTC-style WM 6.5 theme
• Added HTC-style large start menu labels
• Added IE6Enhancement
• Moved Opera Mobile up in start menu
• Fixed lockscreen delay
• Updated Contact Utility Engine, New Contact Card, Notification Enhancement, Shared Modules and Video Telephony
• Updated Opera Mobile 9.7 to 35857
• Updated Marketplace
• Updated Topaz video drivers
• Updated Java exe icon

5.10.020.7TH (23529)

• WM6.5.5 build is from the COM5 tree and includes Office 2010 and threaded emails
• Updated the following HTC packages: Contact Utility Engine, HTC Framework, HTC Scroll, Notification Enhancement, Shared Modules, Shared Resource, Ringtone Plugin, Task Manager, YouTube, New Contact Card
• New Contact Card now supports landscape
• Enabled phone canvas vibration
• Fixed "Alarm-Beeps" sound
• Added 3 more HTC ringtones
• Updated a few icons
• Updated Opera 9.7 to build 35801
• Enabled scroll wheel panning in Opera
• Updated Microsoft MyPhone to latest version
• Excluded welcome center

5.09.111.9TH (23089)

• 'Save to contacts' now working (+ added dependent packages)
• Added Leo Notification Enhancement and Shared modules
• Updated Marketplace, HTCFontLink, Adobe Reader LE (now touch friendly), Video drivers, Phone setting, HTC Scroll, SIM Manager, Power off warning and Long press end key
• Updated several start menu icons
• Reordered Settings folder icons

5.09.102.7TH (23081)

• Updated Calculator, Task Manager, Audio Booster, HTC Scroll, MP3 Trimmer, Streaming Media, Phone canvas, Opera 9.7 & Ringtone Plugin
• Updated the icons of many applications to match latest HTC OEM icons
• Added new 2D & 3D video drivers
• Disabled volume buttons whilst locked
• Other minor changes

5.09.101.5TH (23071)

• Updated phone canvas (video calling working!)
• Fixed battery icon bug
• Other minor fixes

5.09.101.4TH (23069)

• Added HTC Bandswitching applet
• Updated to Rhodium VGA phone canvas
• Updated Opera Mobile to 9.7
• Updated G-Sensor Calibrator
• Updated My Phone
• Updated Native Kernel
• Build date and starting date now correct
• Included position fix for Resco Explorer (and Manila)
• Fixed mislabeled internet sharing soft key labels
• UI updates including new contact card

5.09.090.5TH (23409)

• Excluded HTC Notification Enhancement and Volume Control due to incompatibility
• Updated Comm Manager and Wifi Internet Sharing
• Fixed Connection Setup graphical error
• Task manager icon now hidden to prevent overlap with UI
• Many awesome UI changes to Windows Mobile

5.09.073.1TH (23016)

• Added HTC Wifi Internet Sharing
• Updated various packages

5.09.071.8TH (23007)

• Minor update
• Opera Mobile now fully functional

5.09.070.6TH (23003)

• Start menu now contains 4 icons per row in landscape
• Updated numerous packages
• Updated Opera Mobile to build 16983
• Opera Mobile is now uninstallable
• Significantly more RAM available (>130mb RAM following soft reset)
• Now using modularised drivers
• Microsoft Voice Command now excluded

5.09.062.8TH (21820)

• Fixed incorrect ROM version displayed in wrapper (thanks to B4PJS)
• UPX compressed Adobe Reader, World Card Mobile, Album and Opera Mobile
• Removed extraneous Opera files saving a few megabytes of storage space
• Updated FM Radio, FullScreen Player, HTCFontLink and Youtube (thanks to herg62123 and indagroove)
• FM Radio now supports more saved frequencies
• YouTube now supports scrolling and 'Program Guide'
• Unobtrusive volume control overlay now works in YouTube and FullScreen Player
• Using un-modularised OEMDrivers until updated

5.09.062.1TH (21815 v2)

• Added Jbed Java
• Fixed excessive memory consumption issue (freed up 20mb of RAM)
• Reverted to Raphael MP3 Trimmer
• Disabled AutoDataConfig (redundant)

5.09.061.8TH (21815)

• Initial public release

Originally Posted by demonknight9

Good job, I like the idea. I will give it a go and report any bugs I find.

You said that there was currently a conflict with the lock screen and the dialer... What dialer does not conflict with the lock screen on wm6.5?

Please let me know and I will install that one.

Thanks Timolol's!!!!

The new Tachi dialer does not conflict with the WM6.5 lock screen, and you're most welcome to install this as a cab. However, in my experience I've found it to be buggy (call history is broken, breaks video calling + others i forgot). It does however, also fix the bug shown by pilgrim011 below. In my opinion, the tradeoff isn't worth it, but if you want to try it by all means go ahead.

Originally Posted by pilgrim011

Working great so far - no bugs, except this one:
@timolol, is this the dialer bug you are talking about?

Just a few questions - how come that there is about 100 MB free RAM after soft reset? With WM 6.1 I was getting about 130-140, with TF3D enabled. Also, I saw in some other threads that some ROMs have 120 or more free RAM upon boot (with cHome enabled, just like in your ROM). What could be the "RAM eater" in this ROM? Even if I disable cHome, I get only 109 MB...

And one more thing, you forgot to include Esmertec JBED, and it is the default Java emulator on HTC WWE based ROMs.

Thanks again for this ROM - it is working great. Of cource, I'll test it more and report any bug that I find. Hopefully there will be none.

That's not the conflict with the lockscreen - that's another well known bug which I forgot to list. That bug can't be fixed either, but it doesn't bother me much. If the new Tachi dialer is bug-fixed, I'll include that in future ROms because it fixes the lockscreen bug as well as this bug.

I suspect the RAM eater is the Topaz notification enhancement system, but I'm not 100% sure about that. I'm not actually sure why it takes up so much RAM, but i'll look into it. Do you think that I should include it in future ROMs?

Lastly, I don't use Java emulation, and as I didn't initially plan to publicly release this ROM I didn't include it. From all subsequent releases, I'll be sure to include it in the ROM.

Originally Posted by timolol

It is based on the 5.11 AT&T ROM from HTC and includes all the drivers from this build. I haven't actually tried installing TF3D on top of this ROM, but there is no reason that it would be any different to installing it on top of any other ROM. Let me know how it goes if you end up trying it

Thanks for the quick response. I certainly will let you know how it turns out when I install this ROM with TF3D2.

Originally Posted by timolol

That's not the conflict with the lockscreen - that's another well known bug which I forgot to list. That bug can't be fixed either, but it doesn't bother me much. If the new Tachi dialer is bug-fixed, I'll include that in future ROms because it fixes the lockscreen bug as well as this bug.

I suspect the RAM eater is the Topaz notification enhancement system, but I'm not 100% sure about that. I'm not actually sure why it takes up so much RAM, but i'll look into it. Do you think that I should include it in future ROMs?

Lastly, I don't use Java emulation, and as I didn't initially plan to publicly release this ROM I didn't include it. From all subsequent releases, I'll be sure to include it in the ROM.

OK, thanks for clarifying the above mentioned bug. It doesn't bother me that much.

And regarding RAM, I thought that was the Microsoft Voice command fault, so I tried to disable it via Dotfred's TaskMgr, but it's still the same. To me this is the only serious issue I ran across until now, because I am so called "power user" and RAM is crucial for me for multitasking. If that is the Topaz notification's fault, do you know is there any way for disabling it? I assume the answer is no. I do know that initially (10-15 seconds after boot) I do have about 130 MB RAM, and suddenly it drops to about 105.

Originally Posted by pilgrim011

OK, thanks for clarifying the above mentioned bug. It doesn't bother me that much.

And regarding RAM, I thought that was the Microsoft Voice command fault, so I tried to disable it via Dotfred's TaskMgr, but it's still the same. To me this is the only serious issue I ran across until now, because I am so called "power user" and RAM is crucial for me for multitasking. If that is the Topaz notification's fault, do you know is there any way for disabling it? I assume the answer is no. I do know that initially (10-15 seconds after boot) I do have about 130 MB RAM, and suddenly it drops to about 105.

I'm flashing a test Rom as we speak - basically the same ROM without the Topaz notification enhancement. I'll let you know how it goes.

EDIT:
Well, I've found that the memory issue has not gone away when excluding the Topaz notification enhancement system (which I'm actually almost happy about because I actually really like the notification enhancement). I'm working through my recent changes at the moment trying to find out what's causing the memory issue.

EDIT 2:
I've narrowed it down to a small handful of programs and settings. It shouldnt be long before I find the offending program.

EDIT 3:
I've found and fixed the memory problem. It turns out one of the dll files associated with the Tachi MP3 Trimmer (and also the HTC Calculator) was causing excessive memory usage. Reverting back to the Raphael MP3 Trimmer (identical as far as I can see) fixes this problem. This change frees up about 20mb of RAM. =) It took a while, but I think the effort was well worthwhile. I'll upload the new version of the ROM as soon as I can (not at the computer right now - posting this with my Touch Pro). I'll make sure I include the Java emulator in the new ROM.

Tim

Originally Posted by timolol

I've found and fixed the memory problem. It turns out one of the dll files associated with the Tachi MP3 Trimmer (and also the HTC Calculator) was causing excessive memory usage. Reverting back to the Raphael MP3 Trimmer (identical as far as I can see) fixes this problem. This change frees up about 20mb of RAM. =) It took a while, but I think the effort was well worthwhile. I'll upload the new version of the ROM as soon as I can (not at the computer right now - posting this with my Touch Pro). I'll make sure I include the Java emulator in the new ROM.

Great job. It's weird that the problem was caused by irrelevant app like MP3 Trimmer.