Wizard (Vario) & Magician (MDA Compact II)

[njcoussell]

Hiya Guys & Dolls,

I'm back after a long break and have been reading all through the various posts i have missed in the last year or so.

I used to be an xda user (still am but am upgrading)

In the next couple of weeks I will be getting an MDA Vario (with Co-pilot)
and my wife will be getting a girlie pink MDA Compact II (with Co-pilot)

The big question is, what tweaks do you all think are necessary to make the devices "Liveable with" I gather they need a bit of help in the speed department! I gather overclocking is a necessity?

Also I have just been reading in one of the forums and the Wiki section about "BIG Storage" What will this achieve for me? What benefits is is likely to give me?

Hopefully I will be an active member of the forums once again; very shortly! Whats the point in having these things if you dont tinker! Theres no fun in just leaving well alone!

Hope some of you out there will give me some pointers in the right direction and some suggestions on what i might feel necessary to do.

Thanks in advance. its great to be back and hopefully I will find all the memebers on this site just as friendly and helpful as they used to be.

Look forward to hearing from you all soon. :wink:

[rob61280]

your first step a bit more speed is to remove the tmobile customisation.

to do this hard reset the vario (or at first boot) then after all the windows regional settings, digitiser screens you will get a windows that says installing customisation (or words to that affect) quickly soft reset the vario and it will reboot without all the bloat.

there are lots of other tweaks in this forum, that will make your vario very useable

welcome back

R

[Tulaine]

So just to be clear...

If I do a soft reset while the screen is showing the T-Mobile installer working *after* the device is loaded and running WM5, my MDA Vario will still work and connect to the T-Mobile network for calls, GPRS, etc., just quicker?

If I later decide I'm missing something, can I just hard reset and let T-Mobile load all it's bloat?

[dave106]

the mdac2 is actually a charmer not a magician, so go following any guides for a magician regarding roms or you'll wreck the phone.

[njcoussell]

Thanks for that dave, there are so many names for these things I managed to get myself confused already! Its a definite mine field!

I shall have to start looking in a different place to get the missus's phone sorted now!

I knew you guys were great, you just saved me a costly misfortune from the outset!

[njcoussell]

Just looked on the Wiki pages and there is bugger all for the Charmer..!

Does that mean i'm gonna be limited to my options for making it useable?

Hope thats not gonna be the case? :cry:

[njcoussell]

Just looked on the Wiki pages and there is bugger all for the Charmer..!

Does that mean i'm gonna be limited to my options for making it useable?

Hope thats not gonna be the case? :cry:

[pjam]

The mdac 2 is great and you can mod it as much as anything else. The overclocking works fine as do most other tweaks that work on the Vario.