Thanks to all the Wizard forum members!

[saeba]

All,

Just wanted to add my thanks to all the talented people who roam these forums :-)! I've benefited greatly from your work. Particular thanks to faria who provided me with working ROMs when I was beginning to wonder if I should just go buy another phone. Also to funman who guided me through building my own Roms when I thought that was beyond my skills.

I'm heading over to the Hermes forums now. A friend gave up on figuring his out and so he sold it to me for $200 (he didn't know about xda-developers!). I couldn't pass that up! I hope the guys over there are as nice :-)!

Best wishes to you all!

saeba
Proud new owner of a Cingular 8525 :-)!

[badbert]

All,

Just wanted to add my thanks to all the talented people who roam these forums :-)! I've benefited greatly from your work. Particular thanks to faria who provided me with working ROMs when I was beginning to wonder if I should just go buy another phone. Also to funman who guided me through building my own Roms when I thought that was beyond my skills.

I'm heading over to the Hermes forums now. A friend gave up on figuring his out and so he sold it to me for $200 (he didn't know about xda-developers!). I couldn't pass that up! I hope the guys over there are as nice :-)!

Best wishes to you all!

saeba
Proud new owner of a Cingular 8525 :-)!


Lucky Dog!! Bring back the ggod stuff you find over there!

[Dr Puttingham]

A few of us are in the Hermes FORUM, myself and Jose included.

Jump in, the water's fine!

[Johnston411]

Got myself a hermes today. Insurance company typo so got a vario 2 instead of 1 :D .

Just flashed olipro hard spl followed by pro black 3. Happy days

Helpful bunch too

[saeba]

Great to hear!

I've gotten off to a terrific start thanks to the Hermes forums. Installed Custel 2.5 WM6 and I'm back to almost the same setup that I had on my Wizard. I was very happy to find most everything transfered over (PocketBreeze, iLauncher, PocketWeather, phonealarm, rlToday, IM+, muns keyboard skin, and the JPL big button phone dialer :-)!! About the only thing missing is BatteryStatus. The FAQ says there's no overclocking software for the Hermes?

And the speed using 3G! WOW!!! Absolutely worth it :-)!!

[nstefanelli]

To everyone that has a hermes,
There are already offical WM6 versions out.. maybe you should test some first before you brick your phone... i dont mean to sound the way it does but i'm still hoping t-mobile or at&t are gonna release an offical Wm6 for my MDA.. so i do haev to say good luck to everyone with there new hermes

[saeba]

To everyone that has a hermes,
There are already offical WM6 versions out.. maybe you should test some first before you brick your phone...

I did. The first thing I did upon receiving the phone was load the official Cingular WM6 rom on it. Given that there was a WM6 for the hermes, I thought that maybe I'd just stick with that version.

However, I ran into some small annoyances (activesync problems) and it was missing some software apps that I gotten used to having (Task Manager as an example), so that's when I decided to try one of the "unofficial" roms. I did my homework and read through the load process and basically followed the instructions. Custel focuses on making Cingular compatible roms, so it was a good fit for my needs.

I guess I was very cautious about installing custom roms when I first got my wizard (prior to my hermes). But after all the annoyances with it (daily soft-resets, monthly hard-resets, ongoing network problems, etc., etc.), if I hadn't installed one, I would have given up on the phone. Another example of that: I got my hermes because a friend got fed up with it and got a Treo instead. From installing custom roms, I got into customizing them myself using faria's kitchen apps.

It's not for everyone and I understand that, but I've greatly benefited from the efforts of the guys who work so hard to build these custom roms :-)!