Noob Upgrading Questions

[frascone]

I had a lot of fun with Rom Kitchen when I had an original XDA (Siemens Branded)

Now I have a Wizard (Cingular 8125), and it's behaving funky. Since it's time for yet-another-fresh-install to clean things up, I thought I'd check the status here, and see if it was rom-kitchen time again.

Basically, I have a few desires:

1) To put some of the common aps I use into rom (iSilo, rdcalc, a sudoku game or two, and spb backup / utils)
2) Hopefully with the above aps installed, I won't have to spend as much time reloading / restoring from a backup.
3) WM6 -- should i? It would at least be worth a try.

So -- onto my questions: I've read a bit, and can follow the unlocking steps, etc, but -- I don't see any easy rom kitchen links. Does it still exist? Do people use something else instead? I see the pre-packaged roms -- but I have to ask: Why bother? If you're not upgrading to WM6, do the make that much difference?

And, are there any reasons *to* upgrade to WM6? Are WM5 apps mostly compatiable?

Thanks in advance,


-Dave

[frascone]

Anyone? Bueller?

[mestrini]

Check WM6 or G4 sections. You'll find a LOT of cooked ROMs and some kitchens. Also look in main forum "Development and Hacking" ;)

[stevebonning]

Another suggestion if you're 8125 is acting funky is to flash back to an original shipped ROM for a clean start. I've also noticed in some of the threads that spb pgms seems to cause some probs. Maybe look at them as well. But certainly go back to a "clean start"

[frascone]

Do you mean, instead of doing a hard-reset, reload the official rom? (It's running the official Cingular rom right now).