Athena ROMs

[fowljr]

A question for neilm really...

Neilm, how are you finding he AP4 ROM that you flashed to your Athena? I'm feeling a little braver but just wanted to get some insights from you before proceeding!

[neilm]

Hi Jim

AP4 was a good ROM, but a bit heavy on included apps, leaving memory a little low- iGO wouldn't always start, and some thing ran a little slow.

I've since tred AP5 Bta, but same arguments, though it is better than AP4.

For the past 3 weeks I've settled on the Irus/Taxist ultra light ROM from Here . When the say Ulta light, they mean it! No File Explorer (has TotalCamander instead); no Windows Media Pl;ayer (has TCPMP), no Touchflo anfew bells & whistles.

But it is superfast, and has 120MB free storage memory plus about 70MB free Program memory under SPL3.5. It is also available for the original SPL1.2, with even more free storage memory.

As always, there are some glitches- the system font is too big by default, but a reg hack fixes that. The G, 3G and H icons don't always show in the title bar; again there is a reg hack, or Schaps Configurator can fix it, but it's still hit & miss. Also, the 'Flash Light for..' for new Emails doesn't work.

Other than that, its good. Irus is reportedly working on a final version, but I'd be happy to keep this one even with its faults.

[fowljr]

I like the sound of the speed, I could live with the hacks and I tend to use Resco over the built in file explorer!! I may just wait a little longer for the final version then! I'm assuming the ROMs are available over at XDA?

[fowljr]

PS, thanks for the feedback neilm!! Appreciated as always!

[neilm]

My pleasure Jim- and the link is in my post If you try it, I'd stick with the original version. The later version seems to have added little, and caused a few more glitches.

Release version probably 2 weeks away.

[fowljr]

Thanks neilm, I didn't notice the link earlier!