Thoughts on HX-V11 for the Omnia HD

HX-V11 — Spectacular

As you prob­a­bly know, HX-V11 just came out and I’ve been tak­ing it for a spin. The HX Team has done it again. This is the best ver­sion of the HX ROMs yet (I know I keep say­ing that!). It’s faster than before and the HX patcher is becom­ing more and more powerful.

Besides the usual set of fea­tures that the patcher had, Hyperx and crew added dynamic scal­ing options together with bet­ter phone ID switch­ing. The dynamic scal­ing allows you to set the oper­at­ing clock fre­quen­cies of your phone for dif­fer­ent states i.e, when it’s idle or active . This also deter­mines how much power your phone draws. The team has con­ve­niently defined sev­eral pre­sets to get you started. I haven’t really noticed much of a dif­fer­ence in chang­ing these fre­quen­cies — prob­a­bly to do with the fact that although processes run faster the through­put of the oper­a­tions remains about the same. For this imple­men­ta­tion to have a greater impact we’d have to go even deeper to opti­mize oper­a­tions — but that’s another story. Over­all, the phone is faster than it’s ever been in every aspect.

The Phone ID in HX patcher works like a charm. I was able to install Ovi store,  install apps from it and even syn­chro­nize with Nokia soft­ware! That’s what I call magic. The same goes for video pre-focus and UI cus­tomiza­tion, all work­ing per­fectly with­out a hitch. I did have a slight issue with the com­bi­na­tion of kinetic scrolling and the 3D home­screen– so I dis­abled kinetic scrolling. The phone seems to work bet­ter for me with­out this.

Also new to the mix is a Qt backup tool from mad­hacker that allows you to backup every­thing — apps, Bluetooth reg­istry, files — you name it. Plus, you can install Swype, which works quite well, and all the other tools that are avail­able from the HX web­site.

HX-V11 is well exe­cuted and hey, it’s free. Do drop some dona­tions to the HX Team, they deserve it. Con­tin­ued col­lab­o­ra­tion with other mod­ders and hack­ers is mak­ing the HX rev­o­lu­tion more pow­er­ful by the day. Hope to see more awe­some iter­a­tions in the near future. With Hyperx sup­port­ing it, the N8 , with all its flaws, is start­ing to look like a good option  after all huh?