SuperD-Lite! WM6 Optimal Base Rom [Archive] - Page 2

edhaas

2nd November 2007, 07:13 AM

a8yss: Thanks for the update. I'd like you to try putting in half of your programs, then stopping, then resetting, then adding some more. If you could note where exactly in the process you get the inability to reboot, that would be great. Keeping backups to each stable point will also help you not lose your work.

larsuck: I suppose it could be bad blocks, although usually those are compensated for by the hardware. I personally think its usually a software issue though. There have been over 700 downloads of my superstorage roms, (more with mirrors I can't monitor) and really only 1 or 2 people have cited any issue with my roms and the reset issue. I think I had it once also, but cured it by the process I noted above to a8yss. I have also definitely run across software that didn't like the superstorage. Anyway, I'm disappointed its not working great for everyone. :confused:

Thanks for everyone's help,

gerald_s

10th November 2007, 08:53 AM

Now its more or less official because Karhu updated the Rom Benchmarks:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=320370#post1651968

Although this Rom is not using the newest Base its one of the fastest. And its running without any issues!!!!!

So once again congratulations, Mr. Edhaas.

edhaas

15th November 2007, 08:07 AM

Hi gerald_s,

Thanks for the comment. Nice to see the speed is just as good as the later builds, and with the proven stability and smaller size. I'll take it! :)

I know its been quiet on this thread, but that's how it should be really. Once people settle down to actually using the rom instead of flashing for variety's sake (of course you can change the look and feel in other ways), you begin to see the benefits.

Best wishes everyone,

klabton

16th November 2007, 10:35 AM

larsuck

24th February 2008, 04:24 AM

This rom is like Land Rover Defender :D There are many other roms, with newer builds, but this one is still the best. I've changes roms like 2-3 times in a month. Until i've installed this one :)

Thank You Edhass again, for Your job. :D

Like a guilty husband who keeps stepping out on his wife, I keep coming back to this ROM after forays to try other ROMs. Until this last time she kept taking me back with no issues.

However, after a long stint trying different Pandora builds and different 6.1 builds I started experiencing the hard reset problem mentioned by Olioaglio a few posts earlier.

First, I apologized profusely - but she wasn't having any of it.

Then I checked for bad blocks, but mtty couldn't find any.

Finally I flashed with a stock ROM (as suggested by Edhaas), flashed back with SuperDLite and all was well again.

The moral to this story is when you have found a ROM you like and have settled down - stay faithful. The other moral is that this ROM still rocks.

shunsai

25th February 2008, 01:52 AM

larsuck, i hesitate to ask, but i figure you might have some good suggestions.

i'm in japan too. using a 1.14.10 sim-locked x01ht. i used to check these boards more often, until the flaming got so bad i just decided to stop visiting as frequently (not flaming towards me... i'm not in the habit of asking questions without prior research). but now i guess i'm a bit pressed for time. spent hours i really don't have trying to catch back up with what's changed in the past 6 months or so. i'm leaving japan for about a month in just a few days and am trying to get everything ready in time. one of those issues is my softbank phone.

i've been contemplating whether to just suffer whatever unknown charges softbank will lob at me for international roaming (in both N and S America), or whether to just go ahead and sim-unlock my phone. before i sim-unlock though, i kinda want to upgrade to a nice lite, fast cooked ROM.

the reason i'm asking you larsuck is because, like you (i think), i use my phone both for japanese and english. i've been researching which english OS/ROM would allow me to input and output japanese characters without too much trouble. i have several kanji/japanese study apps on my phone, a kanji/edict dictionary, and also tend to send mms messages with japanese every now and then. currently, i'm on the official softbank ROM with Asukal's MUI installed... but i feel i'm finally outgrowing the limitations of this ROM. i don't use half the apps on it and am tired of a slow, increasingly unresponsive phone with no free memory or storage space.

can you tell me some of the issues i can expect when changing over to an english ROM? i think i don't mind keeping the softbank external ROM if it will make japanese keyboard issues a moot issue. and also, as much as softbank's MMS program aggravates me, i'm not feeling adventurous enough to try and setup the other thing. the ROMs i've been contemplating are Shamanix ULTIMATE, some variation of Schap's Lite, or maybe the D-Lite Dopod ROM i see in your sig. any suggestions/input you can give me from your japanese/english hybrid experience?

and the reason i put this in public as opposed to a PM is because i would like anyone's ideas who has faced this particular japanese/english ROM dilemma.

i'll keep doing more research while i await your responses. :)

edhaas

25th February 2008, 05:57 AM

Like a guilty husband who keeps stepping out on his wife, I keep coming back to this ROM after forays to try other ROMs. ...(snip)...
The moral to this story is when you have found a ROM you like and have settled down - stay faithful. The other moral is that this ROM still rocks.

Hello larsuck!

It's nice to hear your eloquent voice again. I've watched your sig evolve over time, and can't say I haven't been a bit jealous of those other roms at times, but it's nice to have you back. ;)

I do keep seeing steady downloads of this rom, and very little comment on the thread, so I'm assuming others continue to be attracted to, and happy with, this plain-Jane though subtly sophisticated rom as well.

Having said that, if you've seen any recent innovations that really should be put into an updated version (not promising anything), let me know. I kind of hate to do it though, because I've been really lucky with these two roms, and its nice spending time doing other things.

Best wishes,

azmie67

25th February 2008, 02:45 PM

Hello to all,
I installed V1.0 and has been enjoying zippy performance on my device for the past two months. I must say that I was tempted to try out Shap's. However, considering the fact that the performance is good, I don't see a reason to try out other ROMs. I guess my next progression would be the V1.2 before settling on S/DLite. Thanks Ed for your hard work.

I do have one question for all of EdHaas' fans. Read in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=360637
that SDHC works on WM6 base ROM. Since Ed's ROM is based on WM6 stock ROM, I am wondering if anyone has installed any SDHC on and if there is any compatibility issue in recognizing the card. Thanks everyone.

alancstan

25th February 2008, 03:46 PM

Edhaas,

Nice to see that you r still around. Busy with any projects lately? I am still using the rom that you have made eventhough it is very tempting to change to newer roms around! But why change when it is not broken?!

shunsai

25th February 2008, 11:41 PM

hey edhaas, i installed your d-lite 1.2 ROM yesterday, and all seems to be going well so far. i decided that i wasn't ready to get rid of my Extended ROM partition yet, so i just decided to try out v1.2 (just in case i needed to switch to another ROM soon after). this is the first ROM i've ever installed, so i have to say, i was a bit worried. but it looks like i made the right choice.

so i decided to forego sleep last night and try and get my X01HT back to my previous customizations. i installed japanese fonts and IME without a problem. still have others of my programs to reinstall, and haven't setup my Softbank AP yet. also, still looking around for a manner mode solution (i'm keeping the Vibra switch as a last resort). otherwise, yeh, great job on the ROM! i'm looking forward to breaking it in even more (once i get some sleep)... thank you!!

larsuck

26th February 2008, 12:14 AM

Having said that, if you've seen any recent innovations that really should be put into an updated version (not promising anything), let me know. I kind of hate to do it though, because I've been really lucky with these two roms, and its nice spending time doing other things.

Best wishes,

Oh ho! What is this? Have I awoken the beast?

Yes, when I was out philandering with other ROMs, I noticed a few nice things:

3.62 Superstorage (from RanDomIze's Storm using Schaps' 4.31 innards)
First, the icons are revamped and look a lot nicer - especially the comm manager icon in the taskbar which switches depending on what connectivity you have turned on and off.
Also, (and this could be pure speculation) but the Wifi seems to connect faster, be more reliable and draw much less power than 3.60.
All 3.62 builds I used were very stable, but the apps are not as snappy or responsive as SuperDLite. They obviously suffer from a severe lack of EdHaasification.

WM6.1 (builds 19716 and 19199)
Very snappy, but lots of buggaroos. IMHO, 6.1 is not ready for prime time yet - but when it finally is ready, lookout!
The one thing that is worthwile in 6.1 is the new PIE. It doesn't look like much compared with slicker alternatives like NetFront 3.5 and Opera 9.5, but it is a major advance in its own right. There is a .cab install that allows it to work quite well on 6.0, but I figure that if someone (cough) were to cook an optimized version into a 3.62 ROM then that ROM might stand out from the pack a bit.

Trolls
The last thing I have noticed lately is the rapidly increasing amount of "my keyboard doesn't work right after I flashed your ROM" and "can I use (program x) with this ROM?" posts. I don't mind people who don't know what they are doing - we were all that way at one point or another - but the sheer volume of people not doing their homework before posting is something else you may want to consider before diving back into the kitchen. However, if you do decide to cook another Edhaas ROM, you can count on me to police your thread as much as I am able to.

@shunsai: The above Troll comments were totally not aimed at you. I've PMed you regarding your questions.

shunsai

26th February 2008, 07:48 AM

Hello to all,
I do have one question for all of EdHaas' fans. Read in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=360637
that SDHC works on WM6 base ROM. Since Ed's ROM is based on WM6 stock ROM, I am wondering if anyone has installed any SDHC on and if there is any compatibility issue in recognizing the card. Thanks everyone.

actually, yeh i meant to ask that very same question. i never found it expressly stated, but is SDHC compatibility built into this ROM? have people been able to use 4 gb and higher cards (i mention 'higher' because i hear that some 8 gb cards work on some cooked ROMs... but it only recognizes data up to a 4 gb limit). can anyone give some clarification on that pertaining to this ROM? firsthand experiences?

jdc

26th February 2008, 08:34 PM

actually, yeh i meant to ask that very same question. i never found it expressly stated, but is SDHC compatibility built into this ROM? have people been able to use 4 gb and higher cards (i mention 'higher' because i hear that some 8 gb cards work on some cooked ROMs... but it only recognizes data up to a 4 gb limit). can anyone give some clarification on that pertaining to this ROM? firsthand experiences?By the spec, a 4 gig MicroSD card is SHDC.

I know mine says it is.

I've never seen nor heard anything about an artificial 8 gig limit.

And for the record, I just installed this ROM as nothing else was as lean. Pay's WM6 Lite, while was pretty stripped down, did have more than I really wanted.

So far, so good. Very fast ROM, good amount of storage and free memory, just have that annoying activesync issue (have to disable advanced network functionality to get the connection to stay working). I don't believe that I had the this issue with Pay's, but I did have it with the stock ROM that shipped with the phone.

shunsai

27th February 2008, 02:09 AM

thanx for the response jdc. yeh, i agree on the lean factor. and so far, i'm really enjoying this ROM, as this is my very first jump into WM6 (previously stock softbank wm5).

can anyone personally vouch for sdhc cards on this particular ROM higher than 4gb? a 6 or 8gb maybe? i would just like to be absolutely sure before i purchase one.

edhaas

27th February 2008, 06:00 PM

Hi All,
Nice seeing some activity here.

azmie67 and shunsai: Thanks for trying the rom. Hope you enjoy it. The downside to this rom seems to be that once people load it they are done, and tend to not hang out on the forum as much as folks who flash constantly. (alancstan and larsuck being noted exceptions) I suspect the reason no one has responded to the 6mb or 8mb SDHC card question is that the people who have pm'd me in the past with this question don't frequent the forum that much. I personally have not filled up my 2gb card, so can't be positive, but there is no reason a 6 or 8gb card wouldn't work in this rom if they work in any rom. I've told people this by pm in the past (actually I just told them it would work) and no one has come back to say it didn't work, so I assume its not an issue. If you could leave a message on the thread when you get yours, that would help "document" things for the next person. Thanks.

jdc: Welcome, and thanks for helping out! I agree, I think an SDHC is an SDHC, and if one works they likely all work.

larsuck: Thanks for your suggestions. Real Life is busy right now, but it might be fun to dust off the zip files and have a go at cooking again. I looked at 3.62 back when it first came out, and didn't really see much of a reason to change. As far as the icons and wifi, I'll try to check out the Randomize rom you mentioned. The new IE "should" be easy enough to cook in though.

Best wishes everyone!

edhaas

2nd March 2008, 07:51 PM

Hi All,

I updated the second post to include a link to Cloudyfa's modified Esmertec Jbed Java cab. This has been working for a good while but I neglected to update the post. This is a nice, fast, smaller alternative to the Tao Java for those of you using the Java-stripped versions.

Also, when I have a little time, I plan on updating one of the first posts with suggested registry mods. The only one I can think of off hand is the one to turn off the beep when a call connects. Most others are more a matter of preference. But I'm open to other suggestions.

Larsuck: I checked out the Storm rom you mentioned. Seems like a nice full rom. I didn't use it long enough to notice any problems with it. Nice eye candy, and a useful selection of applications. Battery drain is a bit high, but that may be because there is lots of internet data access built in by default. The data access is nice and smooth, but again the battery drain may be the trade-off.

I think an efficient approach might be to wait until Faria or Schaps or one of the other cooks here with more experience and time on their hands works out the kinks in 6.1, then I can take their work and do the "edhaasification" bit. :p Maybe Randomize's rom is getting close?

Take care,

claymen

14th March 2008, 12:19 AM

Updated links

Downloads (http://www.parkingdenied.com/downloads/Hermes/D-Lite%20and%20Super%20D-Lite/)

azmie67

24th March 2008, 04:06 PM

Hi All,
Nice seeing some activity here.

azmie67 and shunsai: ..... I personally have not filled up my 2gb card, so can't be positive, but there is no reason a 6 or 8gb card wouldn't work in this rom if they work in any rom. I've told people this by pm in the past (actually I just told them it would work) and no one has come back to say it didn't work, so I assume its not an issue. If you could leave a message on the thread when you get yours, that would help "document" things for the next person. Thanks.

Best wishes everyone!

UPDATE: I recently purchased a Sandisk 4 GB SDHC (CL 2); couldn't get any faster card locally. It works fine out of box. No problem whatsoever in reading and writing (note: I've so far filled up to 1/2 GB only). Hope this info may help others. TQ

jdc

12th April 2008, 05:56 AM

I've looked around in the forums and I can't seem to find anything close to this.

Randomly, when I'm taking pictures with the back camera, the colour depth in the preview window drops to what appears to be 256 colours (aka 8 bit colour).

Some further experiments when it does this show that saved images are also in the same low colour depth.

Occasionally it will jump back to normal, but more often than not, I have to exit the camera app and fire it up again.

Obviously, this is somewhat annoying.

Does anyone have any ideas?

edhaas

13th April 2008, 02:22 AM

azmie67: Thanks for the report!

jdc: Sorry about your T-Mobile issue. :mad: With respect to the camera, I can't say I've ever had that happen, but then I only use it once in a blue moon. :confused: Some things to check: 1) Make sure you're saving your pictures to SD card. I wonder if a low memory condition might force the camera to "Basic" quality. For that matter if you are clipping pictures rapidly maybe the SD card can't save them quickly enough? Think about a faster card if that seems to be a factor. Or defrag or reformat your current card. Different cluster sizes (larger) might help. Are you using the 4mb page pool or 6mb page pool version? 2) Make sure your quality settings are set to fine or superfine. Let us know if you can figure out how to reproduce the problem. Although I'm not sure I'd be able to fix it, at least we'd know how to avoid it! :o

Best wishes,

abid885

14th April 2008, 12:04 PM

After I successfully flash this ROM, I installed Netcf3.5 and schap's adv conf 2.1 then my Dopod hang .. after a while I soft reset manually it hang and wont bootup.

Pls help.

-/Abid.

abid885

14th April 2008, 12:11 PM

pcboyy

14th April 2008, 03:30 PM

Successfully flashed the ROM and some tweaks using Schap's Adv .. now my Dopod 838 Pro is very light :D .. thanks so much.. i like it!

abid885

14th April 2008, 05:23 PM

Hard Reset also has no effect .. pls tell me what to do!
thanks in advance.

-/Abid.

OK .. Problem solved .. after hours of thinking/trying on how to get the my pc connect to my pda suddenly I remmembered the "mtty" method .. so I press ok button + power button + manuall soft reset (at the bottom) .. then i managed to flash to my official Dopod WM6 ROM without the active snyc connecting.

jdc

15th April 2008, 09:48 AM

With respect to the camera, I can't say I've ever had that happen, but then I only use it once in a blue moon. :confused: Some things to check:

1) Make sure you're saving your pictures to SD card.

2) I wonder if a low memory condition might force the camera to "Basic" quality. For that matter if you are clipping pictures rapidly maybe the SD card can't save them quickly enough?

3) Think about a faster card if that seems to be a factor. Or defrag or reformat your current card. Different cluster sizes (larger) might help.

4) Are you using the 4mb page pool or 6mb page pool version?

5) Make sure your quality settings are set to fine or superfine. Let us know if you can figure out how to reproduce the problem. Although I'm not sure I'd be able to fix it, at least we'd know how to avoid it! :oOK, let's see...

1- They are being saved to the SD card

2- I don't think it's low memory. I reproduced this issue with coolcam, and the free memory amount was around 20 to 23 megs. Nor the SD card. It's a SanDisk class 2 card, and I was not taking/saving pictures rapidly. Also, I looked at the settings and I didn't even see a setting for changing the colour depth, just the jpeg compression (basic, fine, super fine, etc)

3- Defragmenting the card... While I've never thought to try this, I'm not seeing how that would affect the live preview.

4- Wow, you know, I don't recall what version I flashed. Is there a way for me to tell?

5- Quality settings are at fine.

edhaas

17th April 2008, 03:23 AM

Hi jdc,

Is this a coolcam issue? Or does the same thing happen with the built-in camera app? If you have a good back-up utility, you could try making a back-up, then doing a cold reboot. Then test the camera without anything else installed. Sometimes with extended usage "bugs" get into the system and muck things up. Also, with a cold reboot you can check your free memory to see if you have the 6mb or 4 mb page pool versions. (The first post has the numbers to expect.)

Every so often I have to do a cold reboot and reinstall all my apps and data (not from backups!) to get my PPC back to full functionality. Rarely, now, but when I used to experiment with lots of things I had to do it more frequently.

I agree the SD card is not the most likely issue, especially since you say you weren't shooting rapidly.

I hope you get it figured out!

Regards,

jdc

17th April 2008, 04:56 AM

Hi jdc,Hello edhaas! :)

Is this a coolcam issue? Or does the same thing happen with the built-in camera app? If you have a good back-up utility, you could try making a back-up, then doing a cold reboot. Then test the camera without anything else installed. Sometimes with extended usage "bugs" get into the system and muck things up. Also, with a cold reboot you can check your free memory to see if you have the 6mb or 4 mb page pool versions. (The first post has the numbers to expect.)Coolcam: No, this happens with the built in camera app as well. I tried coolcam, hoping that it was just the HTC camera app, but no joy, both camera apps exhibited the 8-bit colour thing.

Page pool- I have, according to the memory applet:
74.80 MB total storage memory
48.77 total program memory

This would point to a 4 meg PP, correct?

And really, I'm not sure if this particular issue is worth a hard reset. I rarely use the camera, much less for anything serious, so I'm willing to live with it if it comes down to a hard reset.

This, of course, doesn't mean that I don't want to figure it out. :D

Every so often I have to do a cold reboot and reinstall all my apps and data (not from backups!) to get my PPC back to full functionality. Rarely, now, but when I used to experiment with lots of things I had to do it more frequently. Bah, I have to deal with this enough with desktop windows. :p

I hope you get it figured out!I hope so as well. It's in no way a show stopper bug, but it is semi-annoying.

Nescafem

19th April 2008, 07:27 PM

After I successfully flash this ROM, I installed Netcf3.5 and schap's adv conf 2.1 then my Dopod hang .. after a while I soft reset manually it hang and wont bootup.

Pls help.

-/Abid.

My Jasjam has the same problem Edhaas.It happend 2 or 3 times.Just hangs and only boots up with hardreset :( At the end I flashed to Dopod Official Rom.And works again like a charm.For ur info...

Need ur Help

edhaas

22nd April 2008, 04:29 AM

jdc: I can understand your reticence about a hard reset, but if you have a backup program that works well, you can always just restore, and you're back where you started 10 minutes earlier. (Actually perhaps better, there's some controversy about fragmentation in the storage memory area.) I use Spb backup and it works well. You'll need to do it to check for the "free memory" after a hard reset, which is the only way to check the page pool you've got installed. I just did it and I show 29.68 mb free program memory, and I'm running the 6mb page pool. With the 4 mb page pool you'll show 31+ mb free.

abid885 and Nescafem: My only guess is that Netcf3.5 or Schaps config 2.1 are sensitive to there not being an extended-rom partition. I'm using the built-in Netcf 2-something with Schaps 2.02 I think, and it works fine. You can try the D-Lite 1.2 or lower and they should eliminate that problem if you absolutely need the netcf3.5. Flash a stock rom first (as you've done) to restore a stable extended-rom, then flash one of the lower versions.

Have fun!

abid885

22nd April 2008, 04:43 AM

You can try the D-Lite 1.2 or lower and they should eliminate that problem if you absolutely need the netcf3.5. Flash a stock rom first (as you've done) to restore a stable extended-rom, then flash one of the lower versions.

Have fun!

Already did I'm using D-lite 1.2 now... and it works like a charm .. when is the next realease ?

thanks again :)

-/Abid.

edhaas

22nd April 2008, 04:57 AM

Already did I'm using D-lite 1.2 now... and it works like a charm .. when is the next realease ?

thanks again :)

-/Abid.

Actually, right now I'm not sure there will be one. My interests are drifting into other areas, and the compulsion to tinker with my Hermes is fading. When there is an "official" 6.1 or greater released, which looks stable, I may try my hand at it again. I'm glad you resolved your problem. Enjoy the rom. :)

BTW, those of you using the Super D-Lite: Don't tinker with extended-rom stuff in Schaps advanced config (or any other tweak app). You will get hangs. There is no extended rom to hide or unhide in that rom.

Best wishes,

Nescafem

22nd April 2008, 01:39 PM

Actually, right now I'm not sure there will be one. My interests are drifting into other areas, and the compulsion to tinker with my Hermes is fading. When there is an "official" 6.1 or greater released, which looks stable, I may try my hand at it again. I'm glad you resolved your problem. Enjoy the rom. :)

BTW, those of you using the Super D-Lite: Don't tinker with extended-rom stuff in Schaps advanced config (or any other tweak app). You will get hangs. There is no extended rom to hide or unhide in that rom.

Best wishes,

I flashed back to D Lite v1.2 and there is no issues :) Working perfect....

Thnx:D

abid885

22nd April 2008, 02:24 PM

Actually, right now I'm not sure there will be one. My interests are drifting into other areas, and the compulsion to tinker with my Hermes is fading. When there is an "official" 6.1 or greater released, which looks stable, I may try my hand at it again. I'm glad you resolved your problem. Enjoy the rom. :)

BTW, those of you using the Super D-Lite: Don't tinker with extended-rom stuff in Schaps advanced config (or any other tweak app). You will get hangs. There is no extended rom to hide or unhide in that rom.

Best wishes,

Great .. maybe you can do WM6 3.62 and WM6.1 19209 together .. atleast i can play around a bit ;) :)

or Non-Bigstorage and Big-Storage ... I always like Non-bigStorage btw...

-/Abid.

p/s: hope not asking too much :)

shagratt

7th May 2008, 09:59 AM

edhaas

8th May 2008, 05:00 AM

When I press HANG KEY (the one with the red telephone) I hear the sound of "dpadctl.mid" , I want to disable this, but I removed it from all the registry and still is activating.

Someone know how to disable that please?

Nice! I like this one... :)

Using your favorite registry editor, go to HKCU > ControlPanel > Sounds > Ending. In the Script key, delete the value "p". Exit the program, do a soft reset using the power off method.

Enjoy,

MrVarioII

4th June 2008, 09:13 PM

hey folks,

wonder if I could ask for a hand here! I'm dyslexic and reading all these limitless pages of text to figure out which version is best and most stable is a real headache ;)

Since I install loads and loads of medical ebooks (which I own) and software on my PDA it will take a good 6 hours getting any new install set up - since I don't have that much time we're talking weeks.

I've had this version of WM6/6.1 reccomended to me for speed and stability but there's so many versions etc....

Can I ask if someone would mind PMing me the latest (stable) version number (and link) as I've got an exam next week and don't want to spend hours playing catch up ;)

Thanks again folks!

TheBoxMan.

edhaas

4th June 2008, 09:42 PM

MrVarioII

6th June 2008, 11:50 PM

Hi BoxMan,

They are all quite stable. My personal favorite, and the one with the most available storage is the Super D-Lite 6mb Pagepool version. The link is in the first post. Or here (http://rapidshare.com/files/53281265/SuperD-LiteWM6Hermes6mbPP.rar). I also have lots of apps and medical texts etc, and I've never had a problem.

This is a WM 6.0 rom. I've recently been trying out some of the newer 6.1 builds (by other cookers), but always come back due to intermittent stability issues. I also suggest 1.50 or earlier radio roms as I've had issues with higher builds.

Keep frequent backups with a backup program such as SPB Backup as you are installing your programs and tweaks, that way if you find an incompatibility you can restore a previous setup easily. Later on, after you start to trust the rom, you'll need to to that less frequently. ;)

As you have time, I'd suggest reading the thread, as there are lots of good tips, etc in here.

Good luck in your studies, and enjoy the rom! :)

Thanks edhaas!

Installed it and loving it in terms of speed so far. Hit a couple of problems thought I would ask for a hand. Forgive me if I'm breaking protocol asking here :)

Basically there are two problems I've hit:

1. Hotmail isn't syncing....or restoring from my PIM backup (getting an error). Was something related to this stripped out the OS? How do I restore that as I use hotmail as my main email address ;)

2. I can't figure out how to get my Copilot Bluetooth GPS reciever working...In truth this is potentially my fault but I'm unable to figure out if the problem is me or the new OS....anyone able to give me a few pointers in the right direction with this?

Broadly though I'm very impressed. It's fast, shiny, and great (I notice this version's today isn't as 'pimped' as a few of the other screenshots - anyone got any suggestions for good pimping today screen progs)?

Cheers Folks,

TheBoxMan

edhaas

7th June 2008, 08:26 AM

No worries about protocol. This is the place.

As far as your Hotmail issue: As I remember, there was a change in the internal structure of PIM data between WM5 and WM6 which caused lots of issues when that first happened. You might search on those terms to see how people dealt with it. I always used activesync so never had that issue personally. This is probably the issue with your PIM backup not restoring. I think the workaround was to install a later version of PIM backup software on the old rom, before upgrading the rom. If you are wanting to re-sync Hotmail "over the air" with Microsoft directly, I'd suggest using a WiFi connection to do it, as it's otherwise very slow, and prone to transmission issues. Install the latest version of Windows Live for Windows Mobile from Microsoft beforehand.

The GPS connection thing is potentially an art form. There's a bit of a learning curve with these things, but not too bad. It took me awhile to get the settings right for my bluetooth GPS as well. It also depends on what GPS program you want to use. Some prefer the "External GPS" app in System>Settings be set up, and others don't seem to work well with it. There are several "GPS" threads on the forum which might help. I have my GPS playing nice with TomTom and with Google Maps at this point, though whenever I re-flash I end up tinkering with it awhile to get it working. Generally, pair the device with bluetooth first, set up a comm port, don't use beam authentication, then run the "External GPS" app (or not).

If others have your specific GPS and can pitch in with help, hopefully they can do that. If you can't figure it out, come back with more specifics and I'll try to help.

As far as decorating your screen, there are experts at that around, but as you can tell I'm not one of them. I just supply the canvas. Have fun experimenting, but keep your backups around until you find a stable setup you like. :rolleyes:

Regards, and thanks for the props. :)