Reasons to upgrade to WM6.1?

[hass]

Hi,

I have just seen the posts about the availability of WM6.1. Can someone please post why this is worth doing? As I understand it I will lose all my customization (Media Player theme, SU2U, etc.) which is tiresome but acceptable if the benefits are good.

[sonus]

-Newer build, so most likely enhanced stability
-threaded sms
-better ie w/ faster loading and full page zoom
-autopair bluetooth
-Domain Enroll

[lukesky]

i love autopair bluetooth!:p

[hass]

Well, I now upgraded... I think the phone is a little faster. Otherwise I haven't noticed any huge differences.

But the upgrade was easy, I backed up my phone with spbBackup and then upgraded the ROM. Then I did a "ROM upgrade restore" from spbBackup to get most of my programs (Gmail and Opera don't work - will have to reinstall java and them I think) and all of my contacts and settings and phone lists back.

[meisterlampe2000]

Is it really possible to Backup & Restore from an older build ?

I think, Sprite Backup and SPB Backup ALSO creates some Backup of the windows folder, which would lead you to get your "old" rom again ?!

[Khrushy]

Nope. It might *try* to (I haven't looked at how either of those programs actually perform their backups), but the ROM files are always locked, being part of the ROM itself and all.

Like when you go into \Windows you can't delete most of the files there - So the backup wouldn't be able to over-write them either.

[the_alpz]

Wondering if this has happened to anyone else, I upgraded about a week ago and since then I haven't been able to download the weather, it always says....unable to retrieve data after it attempts to connect. Anyone know similar cases?

[sonus]

Wondering if this has happened to anyone else, I upgraded about a week ago and since then I haven't been able to download the weather, it always says....unable to retrieve data after it attempts to connect. Anyone know similar cases?

If you are on ATT, uncheck the proxy setting in connections.