Newbie question

[stabloid]

Hi, still trying to decide which ROM to flash, but...
Will the programs originally installed on the device eg. mobile office, remain on the device or will they be removed?

[calouro]

It depends on what the new ROM has in it. Most of the ROMS I've seen have mobile office plus a lot of other great apps.

Also, once you flash, you loose all of your personal files, I always keep them on the SD Card.

[N1kko]

Before anyone else may tell this to you...
DON'T DARE TO FLASH YOUR DEVICE!!!!

Reading your doubt, it's clear you haven't read any piece of informations written on this forum and it's clear you'll end up bricking your device.

I'm writing this to you cause as you can see from my posts number I'm a newbie too... but reading-reading and reading again I succeed to flash my 2 htc device whitout the need to ask anything... everything is just explained.

But you need to follow word by word what is written and, let me say that, you havent read a lot, dont you???

BTW, to be more usefull, flashing your device will erase everything (OS included) on it and then install newer versions of originally shipped programs and many other goodies (if you are upgrading, of course... and depending on the ROM you choose). (Extended-ROM is a discussion apart ... again: read&read&read!)

[stabloid]

Before anyone else may tell this to you...
DON'T DARE TO FLASH YOUR DEVICE!!!!

Reading your doubt, it's clear you haven't read any piece of informations written on this forum and it's clear you'll end up bricking your device.

I'm writing this to you cause as you can see from my posts number I'm a newbie too... but reading-reading and reading again I succeed to flash my 2 htc device whitout the need to ask anything... everything is just explained.

But you need to follow word by word what is written and, let me say that, you havent read a lot, dont you???

BTW, to be more usefull, flashing your device will erase everything (OS included) on it. (Extended-ROM is a discussion apart ... again: read&read&read!)

Thanks for your concern.
I must say though, that I am reading everything I come across.
I haven't as of yet decided which ROM I will use, but I'm not stupid. I won't flash until I'm confident I have learned enough to do so, and asking questions helps you learn.

[bbobeckyj]

get a list of things which you want in your rom, pick the one which meets most of them or the most important ones.
faria, molski and ppctuning seem to have the best roms. some programs are not yet fully working on wm6 (spb time is one example i use a lot), the (now quite old) 2.3 aku are the fastest roms. then wm6. then aku 3+
faria has a lot of apps in the rom so if you use those, you can save a lot of space for installing other stuff (games etc) which are less commonly used by others.
YMMV. this is just what i have found by trying nearly 20 different roms, i don't use my phone for much so most of the stuff in roms i don't use, i just use the fastest rom, which for me is the ppctuning superrom1.1

[stabloid]

get a list of things which you want in your rom, pick the one which meets most of them or the most important ones.
faria, molski and ppctuning seem to have the best roms. some programs are not yet fully working on wm6 (spb time is one example i use a lot), the (now quite old) 2.3 aku are the fastest roms. then wm6. then aku 3+
faria has a lot of apps in the rom so if you use those, you can save a lot of space for installing other stuff (games etc) which are less commonly used by others.
YMMV. this is just what i have found by trying nearly 20 different roms, i don't use my phone for much so most of the stuff in roms i don't use, i just use the fastest rom, which for me is the ppctuning superrom1.1

Thanks, now I know what I'm looking for I can look in the right places.:D