what's special about AKU2.3

[xdaradar]

I'v been searching and reading FAQ's, but can't find an explanation on what AKU stands for and what's special about 2.3 everyone seems to want to have it.

[spkr4thdd]

It's basically the same idea as SP2 for XP (after you've upgraded from WM2003SE [WinME] to WM5 [XP]), it's like a service pack, and this new one includes things like MSFP which enables Push Email and is overall a smoother base ROM for us to start with... the newer HTC models like the Universal and Wizard and(O2 Atom?) have versions available for download but we lowly BA owners won't get an offical one hence all the ruckus about the one we've got available...

[xdaradar]

thanks, that's a clear answer. I'm now running tuma's 1.3, waiting for 1.5 after his peanut is born.

any suggestions if i should try another aku2.3 rom inbetween?

i'm an active business user with wifi, bt, gps, 5 emailboxes, including exchange with certificates, using mms and a lot of sms and phone and IE.

and navigating with tomtom, ozi and igo.

and listening to internet radio, sometimes looking at the news and sportevents via streaming video.

and the little one likes my qtec9090 as a dvd-player in the car, while tomtom is telling me how to drive in the background.

and offcource using word, excel and pdf to read mail attachment.

and all the special data safely stored away in ewallet.

so it's my mobile office :D

[spkr4thdd]

I too use mine extensively (and as I'm in the IT business I need to reflash at night after playing with all the new ROM's to make sure it's working for the next day :D ) and have been using Ivan's 4.3 Rom with the RAMDisk provided by thingonaspring... it has been very stable and very fast (for WM5), I'm now using helmi's 32MB Ramdisk AKU 2.3 ROM and it seems equally as stable and also as fast...

One caveat with the AKU 2.3 ROMs is that we are still in the 'beta' stage even though they are stable.. and with that in mind there's no guarantee...

Having said that, the WiFi, BT and messaging all work so you should have no problems there, and if your work uses Exchange 2003 SP2 then you can have your email from work 'pushed' to your BA! (At least one tester is already using this and has it working...)

I use it with 4 email accounts, bt headset (unfortunately just handsfree, not wireless stereo atm), gps (TomTom, GPStoGoogleEarth,SmartMap & Navigator II), tcpmp and all the office apps... PocketMSN isn't working yet, but I don't use hotmail for much other than spam anyway... mms works, as does sms and phone... I also use ewallet etc, so our needs are very similar...

In the end, the choice is yours ;)

[xdaradar]

and if you now tell me that you sometimes use citrix as well and work for a multinational IT-company than i'm sure a got a twinbrother or sister.

anyway, i got the aka2.3 rom from helmi installed. works perfect on connectivity and speed.

now some time to spend to get it personalized..

thanks a lot

[spkr4thdd]

well actually... :twisted:

nah :D don't use citrix, but as for the IT co... more global than multinational ;)

glad to be of some assistance :)

(just need to get the ptb to allow push email from work now!)

[wodonwong]

Just curious, did u guys loose the IMAP account after changing the battery? I am not using pop3 on my O2, but the IMAP will disappear every time. Applies to Tuma 1.4 and Helmi 1 Beta. Any cure except resetting the machine during boot screen when the word "R None" appears?
BTW, cannot get the Helmi 1 ROM running Active Sync in "PUSH" mode, manually connection is OK though.