Safest WM6 Rom

[tjohnso1]

All,
i've tried several Roms in the last few months, and they all have their advantages and disadvantages. Each one has some nice applications and functions, which others do not have.
It's all fun to play with....but, with a risk: problems.
Unfortunately, my Prophet is also the one i must use on a daily basis for business use, so really must minimize the risk, i.e. freezes, lock ups, hard resets, etc.
Now the question might be a bit unfair, because we all have fun playing with the various ROMs, but, which WM6 is the safest ROM?
I mean, which does not have the following problems

Regular Freezes (occassionally is ok, but not regularly)
Hard resets (deadly)
Bluetooth not working
WLAN not working
Charging not working from USB or car or etc.
etc.

Again, don't misunderstand me: i have as much fun playing with the various ROMs as anyone, but the problem's mentioned above are starting to really bother me.
So, in the absence of someone telling me i must go back to WM5 (not!), which is the most robust WM6 rom?
thanks.

[gc9n]

All,
i've tried several Roms in the last few months, and they all have their advantages and disadvantages. Each one has some nice applications and functions, which others do not have.
It's all fun to play with....but, with a risk: problems.
Unfortunately, my Prophet is also the one i must use on a daily basis for business use, so really must minimize the risk, i.e. freezes, lock ups, hard resets, etc.
Now the question might be a bit unfair, because we all have fun playing with the various ROMs, but, which WM6 is the safest ROM?
I mean, which does not have the following problems

Regular Freezes (occassionally is ok, but not regularly)
Hard resets (deadly)
Bluetooth not working
WLAN not working
Charging not working from USB or car or etc.
etc.

Again, don't misunderstand me: i have as much fun playing with the various ROMs as anyone, but the problem's mentioned above are starting to really bother me.
So, in the absence of someone telling me i must go back to WM5 (not!), which is the most robust WM6 rom?
thanks.


Your prophet is a QTEKS200?

[tjohnso1]

It is a Neo (O2)

[mr_yellow]

I think the best thing for you is to use WM5 since there are too many known issues with WM6 on the prophet. the most stable ROM I've personally ever used was the shipped ROM from the manufacturer. Otherwise, you should have a good idea of what wm6 rom works for you since you've already tried them all.

[rondol1]

I agree with Yellow. If you have to depend on your device for bussiness purposes, don't fool around. If your budget can carry it, find yourself an other for fun!

[triplejay]

well, to be fair he only said he'd tried several, not all of them...

I agree with you, though, people should stick with WM5 for now if you/your work depends upon reliable features and rock-solid stability...Having said that, IMO the later WM6's are getting pretty good, general consensus seems to be pdaviet atm although i found fantastic mobiz to be pretty stable too.
I'm also hearing good things about Gullum's efforts...

to be honest I doubt there will ever be a fully bug-free+stable WM6, but then what do I know?*


*answer=not much but I'm learning (thanks to this forum! Cheers everyone! :D)

[spaxxilein]

i also got the o2 neo, and there are no problems with the newest WM6 RomZ witz freezing or WLAN or whatever. I suggest u try the newest touch releases 4.0.0.6 . if it dosnt fit your needs just flash back to original o2 release u can find on the o2 homepage. greetz vince^^

[tjohnso1]

just flash back to original o2 release u can find on the o2 homepage. ^^

Just wondering if O2 has release an official english version of WM6 somewhere?

[Rokoavleon]

I am using my s200 for business to. But as the autor said is funny to play with our gadget. I am using now CrystalV4(personal).I will not say is the best rom here but is the best for my needs. Fast,not many programs inside(The programs are good) but i dont need them. I just want office-some util for maintance-Gps softare & some games.Cube also is great but after sometime it get boring.
So +1 CrystalV4

[invd]

All,
So, in the absence of someone telling me i must go back to WM5 (not!), which is the most robust WM6 rom?
thanks.

I use my XDA Neo for work related purposes, too. I use Crystal V4 for about 3 or 4 days now and I have had no problems at all. And it is a very fast and responsive release, too. So this might be worth a try.

[littld]

I have tried several and found gullm's Touch VIII to be the best allround. It hasn't locked up and battery doesn't drain away. Everything I use seems to work fine.

[Riel]

Touch IX is absolutedly problem free here.

Some beauty-glitches, but works, and is pretty darn stable. Just avoid soft-resetting too much (bootscreenlockup, i believe every wm6 has that now and then). I have a full spritebackup on my SD, so when things do go wrong, hard reset, sprite, and in 5 minutes full running again. Now, I don't reset anymore. And, in 3 weeks, I did not HAVE to reset either ... It happens about 1 resets out of 10.

[philocritus]

Touch IX is absolutedly problem free here.

Some beauty-glitches, but works, and is pretty darn stable. Just avoid soft-resetting too much (bootscreenlockup, i believe every wm6 has that now and then). I have a full spritebackup on my SD, so when things do go wrong, hard reset, sprite, and in 5 minutes full running again. Now, I don't reset anymore. And, in 3 weeks, I did not HAVE to reset either ... It happens about 1 resets out of 10.

Install a safe boot mode and you'll be able to bypass bootscreenlockup and avoid hardreset ;)

[shafaet]

Personally, i prefer Mysterious, its been so nice on my o2 neo. no hangup, no freezing, moreover its fast and stable.

but its totaly depends on your way of using prophet.

[yamilrx]

WM 5 is the safest but I have WM6 touch VIII and its been a few months with very rare soft resets. I do notice that you may also think it has to do with the rom but it really is the radio rom that is causing the freezes. My main rare issue is I cannot hang up the phone when it is linked to my car's bluetooth. This happens once a month.

[rfox]

I use Mysterious on an O2 Neo with only ONE annoying problem - battery drain! The advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. Soon the Polaris (P3650) is coming to O2 Germany (called Orbit II) - and I will switch! Until then, my trusted Neo will bet there!

Cheers -

[wanwarlock]

i was using touch 8 for a while then contemplated on whether to upgrade to touch 9, but after following the thread, opted for crystal v4.

v4 is running quite fast & stable at the moment. no hangups or anything.

haven;t tried mysterious or pdaviet at all, so can't really comment on them.

[Mwalid]

Personally i found that Prophet Touch IX is the most stable ROM i am using the same PDA as yours O2 XDA Neo German ROM downgraded to Aku2.2 and then flashed Prophet Touch IX and the device is working fine so far no bugs i have encountered (( i have been using the ROM for about 1 week now )) .:cool:

[littld]

I've stuck with Touch VIII and had less problems with it than IX. Generally it's very, very good.

[doomasala]

I prefer Crystal V4 with 4MB pagepool. Runnin SPB PocketPlus 4, HTC Cube, HTC Home, QuickMenu, S2U2, BatteryStatus, Lexisgoo/PocketMusic/SPB Insight/SPB Time/SPB Diary - all integrated into PocketPlus

And stil have 24.5MB of free RAM after loading them all up after a soft reset (and then closing all, ofcourse)

I haven't restarted my fon for 4 days now. And now hav 18.6MB after using IE, ActiveSync and many other pgms.

Its a solid ROM too... thanks to HMA for keeping it clean so that i could fill up wat ever I want ;)

[xsoulreaver]

Just wondering if O2 has release an official english version of WM6 somewhere?

nopes they dun hv any.. frst of all O2 neo is a germany only phone so if O2 does release a rom it will be in german jus like other rom updates for neo.. all we can hope is for a jamin rom from imate..

but w/e.. i got my fingers crossed for prophet touch X hopefully it will be the best one around..;)

[rkde]

This may help.

I use WM5 now, whilst I have tried WM6 I feel its much better on my other devices.

I did find out however that by installing the HTC touchflo on to WM5 it ran smooth and much faster! accompanied with the X button 1.5 I always have a quick running device.

I run 5.1.195 and its very stable! don't know what the touchflo does as it just makes everything run faster...

[Klayer]

All the WinCE 6 version seem to loose WLAN settings and email account information.
This is for me the most problematic bug.
Does anyone know a workaround?

[invd]

All the WinCE 6 version seem to loose WLAN settings and email account information.
This is for me the most problematic bug.
Does anyone know a workaround?

Yes. I use Sprite Backup to fix it: Set all settings (WLAN, email and so on) and after that, make a complete backup with Sprite. After it has finished u can SR as often as u want, ure settings won't get lost again.
Another - more simple - solution should also work: Shutdown the prophet by pressing the power button for about 4 sec. After that, turn the device on again and u should be able to SR without loosing settings.
Good luck!

[Klayer]

@invd

Thanks the last tip was great and seems to work.

[vprabu]

Started off with Crossbow, moved on to Crystal V1 and I have run into a lot of problems with these. For me EMail settings and Bluetooth settings kept washing away with every soft reset and for me these were very critical. Tried various suggestions given to me in this forum, but no avail.

These were a bit slow ROMs and I have had boot screen freeze with HTC Home plug-in as well.

I almost gave up and decided to revert to WM5 on my iMate JAMin. However, as a last attempt, I tried TNT and feel it is pretty good in retaining all my settings even after SR. Had boot screen freeze once with HTC Home plug-in and disabled it for good.

Has a bit of battery drain, but this okay rather than lost settings.

Since then, i do not have any problems.

[d1srupt3r]

I recommend to try TNT v5 Official or Pro (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=330289&highlight=tnt+official). It's my ROM for months now and I have 32mb free memory. It is free, clean and very stable. :) Try it..

[Me_dusa]

I am using EVO8 at the moment, it runs fine and smooth. Tested WLAN, PushMail syncing with Exchange and Live Messenger.

Also no strange battery drain.

All works great, i really recomend it!

ps. get the EVO8en version, not the Chinese one :p

[l3v5y]

For me the fastest and most stable was a ROM created from the simplified core WM6 ROM, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=309057. It lacks some features, and others can be cut out to leave a simple fast ROM with only what you want/need.