Moving to universal from BA

[thingonaspring]

Hi Guys,

I hate to just appear to be begging for info on this board, but having answered a few questions in the BA forums in my time, I hope I'll be allowed to take the easy route just this once.

I've just upgraded my BlueAngel to a Universal and I'm looking to immediately install WM6 and start cooking roms.

I've been furiously reading everything I can find on the subject, but I've still got quite a few questions that seem to be unanswered.

- Pre-cooked Rom version
To get started, I'd just like to flash a known good WM6 ROM and find my way around.
- Laurentis 26?
- Ivan v6a?
- Helmi?

Laurentis seems to be the only one actively developed at the moment, but I'm unsure as to the stability/speed tradeoffs offered by any of the above roms.

- Kitchen
Which is the most up-to-date (AKU and scene bug fixes) kitchen? So far I've found about 5 of them.

- Known bugs
The BA had plenty of known bugs in WM5 (BT wakeup being chief amongst them). Which bugs are unsolved or ever-present in WM6 on universal? I hear dark murmurings of memory leaks in old versions of WM6, and plenty of chatter about videocalling not working fully. What's the status on all this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[CWKJ]

Before I start, my Uni died in July just not too long after when Video Call is available on WM6 athough non Video Call WM6 exists since Dec 06 from Helmi.

So my Uni died with Helmi's WM5 Aku3.5 v1.3, one of the most stable around, not much problem using for more than half a year.

WM6 ROM I have not used, but from the active reading following from Dec 06 which was mean to prepare for upgrade, Laurantius WM6 V7 Video should be one you should try and also the improve Video Call from Indra.

As for Kitchen, I think you should use the one created by Laurentius too.

By the way, where did you get your Uni, used or brand new?

Thinking of getting 1 new, but I think it is difficult. I miss my Uni very much.

[thingonaspring]

Thanks for the advice CWKJ. Laurentius' ROM/Kitchen it is.

Sorry to hear about yor uni. If it helps, I was gutted when my trusty BA finally fell apart.

My Uni came used from ebay UK. £170 including 2gb SD card. I had to keep the costs down, so a used phone was my only real option.

If you have the time then you can snipe an auction and push the price down a little more, but not a great deal (I've seen them sell for £130 without a memcard).

At retail they seem to cost > £400.

[beast0898]

Thanks for the advice CWKJ. Laurentius' ROM/Kitchen it is.

Sorry to hear about yor uni. If it helps, I was gutted when my trusty BA finally fell apart.

My Uni came used from ebay UK. £170 including 2gb SD card. I had to keep the costs down, so a used phone was my only real option.

If you have the time then you can snipe an auction and push the price down a little more, but not a great deal (I've seen them sell for £130 without a memcard).

At retail they seem to cost > £400.

Hi Thingonaspring,

If you hang fire on flashing, Laurentius and I should be release a new WM6 Rom this week......... well worth waiting for.

If you take a look at the last page of the Video Call Poll thread, you'll see a list (incomplete at the moment) of what is in the Rom.


It is well worth waiting for, huge improvements in performace and stability over all previous Wm6builds for the Uni.

We should hopefully have a kitchen out with the new build by the end of the year.

Welcome to the Uni forum!


Cheers,


Beast

[rhmartin]

hi thingonaspring,
so we meet again. was a BA user for a quite a while before i broke it.
upgraded to Uni (Vodaphone variant) since last month & currently playing around with it too!

tried most of the new WM6 ROMs (except Indra's XOJ) the major problems are frequent hangs or freeze either when receiving sms or calls & memory leak. Some say that those problems are specific to ROM-Uni variant combination (O2, Dopod, T-Mo, Voda, etc.), so I won't be specific to which one is better. speed is relatively similar in all these ROM's as pagepool is set either 6 or 8 Mb. you'll be missing the large memory resource of the BA!

anyway, other than those you mentioned, there's also a Indra's XOJ, PDAViet & KDSKamal WM6 ROMs. a new one is coming from Laurentius & Beast. i think video call will be solved soon. i'm currently back to Darkforce WM5 ROM for stability reasons, hate missing calls during work!

you may check this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=324669) too.
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@CWKJ,
a brand new "unsold left over" UNI (O2 Exec variant) retails around S$ 895 in Jakarta, might be worth giving a try since it's close by Singapore.

[thingonaspring]

@rhmartin
Good to see you too. It's reassuring to see how much of the BA crowd has got behind the Uni. Have helmi_c or lt_cmdr_ivan been around lately?

@beast
Good news that a new build is on the way, I'll wait to use that one first then, may as well start from the best point possible.
Good luck with your+laurentius' efforts.

[rhmartin]

@rhmartin
Good to see you too. It's reassuring to see how much of the BA crowd has got behind the Uni. Have helmi_c or lt_cmdr_ivan been around lately?.
Helmi_c replaced his Uni & don't know what new device he owns, last post I saw from him is on PPCGeeks forum.

Not so many active UNI ROM developer around now, thanks to the time, effort & talent of Laurentius, Beast, Indra, KDSKamal, PDAViet & Darkforce. Through them we get ROM refresh/updates, unfortunately most of the core are based on midget_1990's old WM6 build. We hope someone can port a newer WM6 build from other devices (hopefully a newer VGA & 3G device).

Maybe you can help! :)

[thingonaspring]

Well, I've put laurentius v7 on the thing and it's running nicely.

I've also nabbed a copy of the latest Athena ROM to see what's in there. Perhaps some of it can be useful.

On a sadder note, I noticed the news about tofclock today. :-(

[beast0898]

Well, I've put laurentius v7 on the thing and it's running nicely.

I've also nabbed a copy of the latest Athena ROM to see what's in there. Perhaps some of it can be useful.

On a sadder note, I noticed the news about tofclock today. :-(

Hi,

I'm an ex BA user too, how I miss that memory and overclocking ability (still have her fully functional though)

Leo's V7 is a good choice, hopefully we'll have the new one out soon enough.

Very sad news about TofClock, everyone was shocked, such a great guy, always happy to help, will be sadly missed by us all.

The Athena isn't much use, it's ATI based, but you could still port some stuff if you wanted.

Cheers,

Beast

[CWKJ]

@CWKJ,
a brand new "unsold left over" UNI (O2 Exec variant) retails around S$ 895 in Jakarta, might be worth giving a try since it's close by Singapore.Thanks for your info.

You mean S$895 = SGD895 and new?

you'll be missing the large memory resource of the BA!Miss the large resource, come to O2 XDA Flame, it has 2GB Flash and 128MB Ram.

[CWKJ]

Have helmi_c or lt_cmdr_ivan been around lately?The last Uni Rom Release by Helmi was Uni WM6 v1.1 and its kitchen (one of the earlier ones) and I think he broke the Uni and he is I think in the forum of another device (I cannot remember), make a search for him and you will know which device forum he frequent.

Ivan also declared he has release the last Uni WM6 ROM.

The active person here is Leo & Beast.

[rhmartin]

Thanks for your info.
You mean S$895 = SGD895 and new?
Yes my friend, SGD895 or IDR 5.500.000,- to be exact. Brand new O2 Exec package complete with box, adapter, cd, headset, & 1 year warranty from O2. That particular store in Roxy Mas (can't remember the name) had 3 units on stock early July (last month).

It was a bargain considering that latest branded 3G Smartphones are more or less priced the same. The stores are currently promoting HTC Athena & Nokia E90 (~IDR 14.000.000,-) & getting rid of older HTC PPC's. I didn't took note of the WM5 shipped ROM build since I'm "really green" on Uni that time.

I wish I could help more but I seldom visit Roxy & right now busy at work, hope you have friends or relatives in Jakarta that could scout for it!

[genocide]

hi there, still using my xda 2s( BA variant) for its ram( o gawd, the best machine ever created) but exec is way too cool to be not used, if only exec ram is also as big as ba....perfect machine :D

got mine 2nd hand too, miracle part, flawless condition.

i believe wm5 and 6 almost the same in every aspect, maybe some icon tweak but while waiting for beast 0898, why not try the variant of wm5 rom??

my favourite for now will be kdskamal rom.stable and way better then the original o2 rom.


@rhmartin
wow e90 in indo so expensive yah ^^; in singapore you can get it for just SGD 1328 (x6000) not to mention that price is the launching price.

jakarta mana btw ni man :D

[thingonaspring]

@beast - Athena not much use
Good point about the ATI chip - what did midget port from originally?

[rhmartin]

@rhmartin
wow e90 in indo so expensive yah ^^; in singapore you can get it for just SGD 1328 (x6000) not to mention that price is the launching price.
That was the launching & booking price!

jakarta mana btw ni man :D
you mean Roxy Mas? It's like the elex stores Sim Lim or Fu Nan in Singapore, you ask for the cell phone/pda center in Jakarta & people would lead you there!