Crossbow Underground Help Please

[Bizigi]

25 minutes looking on the forums didn't really help me with what i need help with. i flashed Crossbow from a CID unlocked ex Faria aku 3.3 XDA Mini S, and i couldn't get signal, or play any sounds, in addition...the phone was extremely slow! i read that this is due to my device being CID unlocked, when i should flash an operator rom (to reCID lock it), then continue with the upgrade. surely this contradicts what threads say about phones MUST be CID unlocked otherwise you'll brick your phone etc. how can i get Crossbow Underground to be stable, and run normally?

also, my Faria 8mb aku 3.3 has moments of being lightning fast, and long periods of being stupidly slow (i.e. 10 seconds to unlock the phone from standby), does anybody know why it does this, and what i could do to fix it. Hard reset didn't do anything, and it's only getting slower. if i just left the phone after it being really slow, normally it will sort itself out and run fast again, after half an hour or so. the processor is set to default (not that this makes a difference as 260mhz doesn't speed it up), and i only have the normal programs on there.

any help atall will be greatly appreciated,
thanks,
thepolice

[mfrazzz]

25 minutes looking on the forums didn't really help me with what i need help with. i flashed Crossbow from a CID unlocked ex Faria aku 3.3 XDA Mini S, and i couldn't get signal, or play any sounds, in addition...the phone was extremely slow! i read that this is due to my device being CID unlocked, when i should flash an operator rom (to reCID lock it), then continue with the upgrade. surely this contradicts what threads say about phones MUST be CID unlocked otherwise you'll brick your phone etc. how can i get Crossbow Underground to be stable, and run normally?
I'm running Most Beautiful Edition so can't comment on Underground specific issues, but I don't think anyone has said that you should re-CID Lock your phone (actually I don't think you can, but thats another topic ;)). What I have suggested (and seen others suggest) is to always go back to an official ship ROM before upgrading. I went from Faria's AKU 3.3 straight to MBE and had all sorts of weird issues (active sync problems, Outlook complaining the calendar was corrupt, and more). I was frustrated and reflashed the TMobile 2.26 rom to go back to Faria's then it hit me I didn't do this before doing WM6. So I put MBE back on, and its worked great since. So I'm a firm believer now to take the extra time to move back to a shipped official ROM before loading a new custom one..
...the processor is set to default (not that this makes a difference as 260mhz doesn't speed it up)
Use batterystatus (for me I'm using .04.200 and not the beta 1.x one as it caused me issues) and have that overclock your device. If you can't see a difference, then I wonder if you have some hardware issue with your Wizard. I'm now running overclocked at 260Mhz via BatteryStatus and its been very stable and there is a definite improvement.

[Bizigi]

I'm running Most Beautiful Edition so can't comment on Underground specific issues

Thanks, that was really useful :)

I can't run Most Beautiful, when i flashed it, it wouldn't boot atall. But this may be because i didn't flash the shipped rom before, is this likely?

When i flash the shipped rom, upon boot, the spl and ipl go back to 2.26...surely this means it's relocked. Should i flash the t-mobile rom instead? or wont this work as it wasn't the shipped rom - if that makes sense.

anyway, thanks so much for you help, you've explained a lot to me

[mfrazzz]

I can't run Most Beautiful, when i flashed it, it wouldn't boot atall. But this may be because i didn't flash the shipped rom before, is this likely?
Thats possible. can't say its likely, but its possible
When i flash the shipped rom, upon boot, the spl and ipl go back to 2.26...surely this means it's relocked. Should i flash the t-mobile rom instead? or wont this work as it wasn't the shipped rom - if that makes sense.
Yes when you flash the shipped rom the IPL/SPL will change to what comes with that ROM (for TMobile one it will be 2.26). That does NOT relock it. Only if you go back to a 1.x ROM will you have to deal with being relocked.

Example, I'm on a Cingular 8125. If I tried (out of the box) to flash the TMobile 2.26, it wouldn't work as its CID Locked. But after doing the CID Unlock, I can now flash TMobile, QTEK, O2, or whatever because it is CID Unlocked. And as long as I stay with 2.x roms, I can switch around as much as I want (it does't get relocked).

So definetly go back to an official shipped rom (and Tmobile 2.26 is the highly recommended one by about everyone), and then flash whichever custom rom you want to try. Its extra work to reflash an official rom but I think it removes problems some people see when they go from custom to custom.

[Bizigi]

thank you very much, i got my phone sorted now, and everything is clear to me. :D

[Bizigi]

It's okay now...got it sorted :D

[mfrazzz]

Just curious, but what are you running now? And what worked for you?

[Bizigi]

Just curious, but what are you running now? And what worked for you?

Right now i'm running the Faria 8mb. i was running Crossbow Underground, but i didn't see the point in going to all the efforts to fix the keyboard problems (because then I'd have to fix the predictive text) as the Faria Crossbow rom is coming out soon, i'll just get that...can't wait!

All the problems i had seemed to be becuase i wasn't flashing the shipped rom before the new one.