Your Opinions please! (tried searching!)

[MrVarioII]

Hey folks,

I've tried searching and there's no forthcoming result on this (despite that I suspect it *must* have been covered somewhere) - perhaps it's my dyslexia?

Anyway:

I'm now ready to install a WM6 ROM on my currently WM5 hermes from Tmobile.

I'm looking for people's opinions as to whether it's worth my while and what the performance differences are? (obviously it's a lot of work getting things set up again so I want to be sure it's worthwhile).

Is WM6 running slower on hermes that WM5? or faster?

Has anyone a ROM they would reccomend? Else I'll go with the Tmobile standard.

So opinions please!

Thanks a lot guys. I appreciate it!

[XtreMe_G]

cmon!!! you cant be serious!!!!

ppl are looking to upgrade their devices to wm6.1 and you want us to compare wm5 to wm6? i mean seriously......look at every device thread, even the older devices, you can practically see wm6/6.1 for almost every single devices, even devices which are waaaay older than wm6. and you probaby wont find anyone getting excited over any wm5 releases anywhere.......doesnt that tell you something?/

if you searched hard enough, you could probably find someone who compared the performance of wm5 to wm6 but those will probably be with older builds of wm6, and those just dont compare with the current builds. your best bet i would say is to try it out urself, its not that hard.

[MrVarioII]

I know it's not that hard to test it - I'm already running it on my blue-angel.

And it's running well.

But comparing hermes to blue angel is comparing apples to oranges.

It's a *huge* amount of work doing the upgrade. Not the actual upgrade. That's, as you say, rediculously easy. But installing 20/30 medical textbooks? dozens of other programs, fixing out my network setup on it....

these take hours, and in a casual not setting hours aside for it fashion a couple of weeks.

So I'm understandibly not wanting to take the risk and plung in until I'm sure it'll be worthwhile.

Anyone got any experience? Has WM6 upgraded the speed? or is the slight graphical revamp a strain on the processor?

Also should I go with tmobile's own ROMs for WM6 or a community alternative?

Opinions pretty pretty please to save me hours of work! :-)

[XtreMe_G]

2 words.......user customization

[molesaied88]

there truly is a HUGE diffrence between wm5 and wm6/6.1. i would recomend going with a WM6.1 build from the get go considering all the programs you say you load on your hermes.
I am currently using the DVH Rom build 19400(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=387516 ). I find it to be the fastest, loaded but not bloated, and honestly is the best i've used in quit some time. He has apparently released a new rom (build 19701) but i have yet to try it out. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=388747)

best of luck

[ultramag69]

molesaied88, TRY 19701, ITS FREAKIN AWESOME!!!!!!!Quick and VERY stable... I love it.:D

[MrVarioII]

Thanks folks.

Sorry I took ages to reply i had exams! Right so you guys are advocating using a custom home cooked WM6 Rom rather than an original one?

(I'm assuming these are faster? Are they fully featured though?)

Now I'll need to decide whether to go with Ultra or molesaid's suggestion. Anyone know which is currently running more spritely?


Again thanks again! I know the forum must be deluged with this kind of stuff ;)

[dzelaya18]

I have found WM6 to be much, much more stable than when I had WM5. Not as many lock ups of freezing as before. I used to have to soft reset my phone all the time because of lock ups, but with WM6 I rarely reset my phone anymore.

I would say that stability and the larger pool of programs for it made WM6 the choice for me.