MY solution for a perfect german X1 with Sense 2.1

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First I wanna thank all the ROM devs around here for their work and time spend to bring us all the new user interfaces to our X1´s. After working for years in developing a linux system I think I know what time and effort you put into this development.

I wanna share how I found MY perfect solution for a ROM which had to fulfill my needs which are:

- fully german localized, because I am a german Kraut
- no major bugs, if possible also no minor bugs
- eye candy
- smooth operation
- good battery performance
- Sense UI 2.1 with weather clock

You have to know I am a "power user", which means I am using the phone for managing my mails (Profimail), surfing the web, chatting, watching Youtube vids, doing phone calls (even that!), playing games, listen to web radio and also FM radio and much more.

After flashing a huge amount of the available ROMs, tweaking them and finally being disappointed after using them for a few days because of the bugs here and there, this is what is working for me for a handful of days now and as far as I can tell, this will be a keeper on my phone:

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I flashed Itjes Touch It v3 (german edition) which can be found here: KLICK ME!
This ROM at least was fully german, smooth, with a good RAM usage and a good default software setup. Also it doesnt drain the battery as much as the Manila 2.5 ROMs do.

But this ROM disappointed me in two things, which now are solved for me:

Bug:
There was a (known) problem with the hardware keyboard when trying to type formula data inside Opera browser.
Solution:
Installing Opera 9.7 solved the issue. Cab can be found here: http://www.opera.com/mobile/download/

Bug:
In the german rom the software dialer pad was misaligned and unusable, see this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...9&postcount=39
Solution:
As I wrote above, I also was looking for eyecandy on my Xperia. I did experiment with various themes and finally settled on the Dusk theme.
Installing the Dusk (Rhodium) dialer fixed the dialer issue!
The complete Dusk theme for Sense 2.1 can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=570322
Addons (the dialer!) can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=524797

For completion I added S2U2 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=527523) with dusk theme (http://s2u2.lifestylepics.de/?page=b&e_id=63).

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For me this combination seems a perfect solution, maybe some of my german mates here can benefit from my experience.

Again a big THANK YOU! to the ROM devs, in this case especially to Itje!

Have fun,
OldNick

Thank you for sharing these informations with us and especially thank you, those who made these nice Rom's and Cab's.

I flashed many Rom's and jumped from one to the other and there are so many, that I have lost the overview. What I miss, is a list with ratings of the Rom's and some kind of clearly laid out list of critique.

But to cut a long story short, great Rom, great Cabs, great advice.

greez

Great solution, although the original dailer would be better than the dusk dialer.

and unfortunately still the mms issue here which I haven't been able to solve...

I added the X2 dialer. Looks rather precious.

dialer from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=587176

Originally Posted by DonGeilo

Great solution, although the original dailer would be better than the dusk dialer.

and unfortunately still the mms issue here which I haven't been able to solve...

Whats wrong with the Dusk dialer? I like how it integrates in the rest of the dusk-themed system. The original dialer would look a bit strange... At least for my taste.

MMS: Cannot help here, I dont use MMS.

Have fun,
OldNick

questions?

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Can you tell me some more about the ram-usage?
How much ram is available after some time of normal usage?

On my device its around 50-60% after use of some apps and stays there. Beside running different apps I also have a handful of appointments with reminders active each day and I am using the phone as router for my notebook too. I didnt face any RAM problems up to now. Of course a small bit of the RAM is needed by the dusk theme, so you wont be able to come down to 40-45%.

Great

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That sounds great ! I will give it a try
Thank you for sharing your experiences with this rom.
My last WM6.5 was a catastrophy and I was just on my way back to the original wm6.1 rom.


Greetz
Marc

Good luck!

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Good luck and tell us your experience with this combination!

Thanks man, finally a WM6.5 which works. Every other german RON I tried, was deleted just a few hours later. Everytime switchd back to cmex 0.8 WM6.1.