Reasons for upgrading ?

[vIERJa]

Hi,

Can anybody tell me the benefits of upgrading the ROM version? I have Spain's Telefonica Movistar XDA (branded as TSM 400) with ROM Version 3.18.10 ESP dated 08/15/03. I'm thinking of upgrading mainly to remove the simlock since I live most of the time in France and I'd like to put an Orange simcard in it.

However, what are the additional benefits of upgrading? I know it's geek and it's cool, but is it really worth the risk? I've read many posts from frustrated users than have ended up with useless PDAs and I don't really feel like it.

But I'm sure I'm missing something important here. Why are you guys taking all that hassle to upgrade? Convince me!! :-)

Thanks.

vIERJa

[Rudegar]

if you just want to unlock it then this site have a program which if you have a seriel sync cable you can unlock your xda without
flashing or burning anything on your device

a possible reason beside the geekfactor to upgrade ones rom could be that you can place programs you like to use in the rom so they dont take up any of your ram

if you dont mess around with newer radiostacks
and have a sdcard and a sdcard reader for your pc you should not end up with a dead device

and backing up your current rom is a good idea

personaly i havent upgraded yet
but my device were never locked and
i have a 256MB sdcard so i got ok room for
programs for now :)

[vIERJa]

I see...

I don't have the sync cable and removing simlock is really important for me...

I do have the card reader and I have already a backup of my ROM.

I'm using a 128Mb card so I don't have storage problems (yet), but I guess programs run faster from ROM than from the SD card...

Risks aside, I use the Spanish dictionnary for SMS writting quite a lot and if I upgrade to an English version I'm afraid I'd lose it... do you (or other readers) know if there's a tool to extract the Dictionnary from a localized ROM and make it available in the ENG versions? That'd be so cool...

vIERJa

[Rudegar]

I don't have the sync cable and removing simlock is really important for me...
well they are not expensive


I'm using a 128Mb card so I don't have storage problems (yet), but I guess programs run faster from ROM than from the SD card...

yep but since the sdcard is not a part of the "working" mem but a part of the storage mem it's only starting them which is slower kinda like having a slower harddisk on a pc

Risks aside, I use the Spanish dictionnary for SMS writting quite a lot and if I upgrade to an English version I'm afraid I'd lose it... do you (or other readers) know if there's a tool to extract the Dictionnary from a localized ROM and make it available in the ENG versions? That'd be so cool...

read about transfering dictonary files from windows and adding them to their pda and that way changing the language of the dic that way but i also read people who end up messing their spellchecking that way so no dic file is being used the same thing should work on using the dic file from another language version of the xda software[/quote]