Complete Hermes NEWBIE, need urgent advice!

[Foampositive]

If you all will excuse my ignorance, I just purchased a Hermes with Windows Mobile 5 with practically no applications on it.

I'm leaving the country in a couple days and may not have internet access so I don't have time to look through all the threads to get all this info (my apologies!) but I'd like to know the best for the following:

What ROM for WM6 should I get? I heard some people put the WM6 from the 'Touch' on the 8525 to get the scrolling feature of the iPhone?

What programs are essential for a student? I'm going to China and would like to be able to write and read Chinese characters on the device if it has the ability to do that.

What is the best carrying case? What does everyone feel is the best way to carry the device?

What are better alternatives to the crummy native earbud/microphone accessory that came in the box? I am not much for the Motorola S9, I'd prefer something wired to the phone.

There's definitely some questions that I'm leaving out but basically I'm asking for a crash-course in the Hermes. Hermes for a dummy if you will.

Thank you and your tolerance is much appreciated!

[wpbear]

You will need more than a couple days to get into this!

[todd_jg]

Well, first off, WPBear is right, you will need more than a couple of days to get into this.

The one urgent piece of info you need is that you can not put a Touch ROM on a Hermes . The truth is significantly more complicated - there is a patched application from the Touch loaded onto a Hermes ROM to enable some of teh TouchFLO features.

Regarding WM6 ROMs, may are good - Black Satin, VP3G, Sleuth, Dutty - I am sure there are others. However, if you have a total of 2 days and are starting from basically zero knowledge, I would not try it. There is much to learn and there is a good chance that you could do it and have no problems. However, if you do have problems, there is a good chance it could take more time than you have to recover.

Regarding the other stuff - I am sure that a search of the Hermes Accessories forum will get you good info on cases and headsets.

[chunkymonkey]

Echo all of the above mate - if you've got to go away in a day or two I wouldn't start messing with your OS or you'll very likely find yourself panicking over fixing the thing instead of preparing for your trip.

It's not hard at all to flash etc if you follow instructions, but if it goes wrong you won't have time to learn how to fix it. Just install the apps you want and get into upgrading OS when you're back.

By the way, you didn't mention what kind of Hermes you've got. There are a number of WM6 ROMs out there already so your variant of Hermes might be catered for with WM6 already (though you'll doubtless want to upgrade later to a 'cooked' ROM anyway for even better usage.)

Leave it till after your trip mate. :)

[maximuz329]

Depend how many days you have. For best with chinese. go for Dopod 838Pro WM6 chinese rom.

[Dinty]

If you want to keep the English ROM and still want Chinese input and display, then give CE-Star a try.
http://www.mobem.com/products/cestarwm5.php
I've found that it works quite well. It has character recognition as well as pinyin input.

But to also reiterate what was said above, a couple of days to experiment is definately not enough haha :p

Anyway, have fun in China :D