[Release Thing_21040_21051] - Lotsa RAM V1.1

[thingonaspring]

Thingonaspring WM6.1_21040_21051 V1.1

V1.1 Changes :-

- WM5Torage updated to 1.9 and working
- Fixes to file associations
- Flash Disk 28mb (IE Cache, cookies and history default to this drive)
- TCPMP 0.81 now has better WMV support (WMA9pro not working yet)
- Bluetooth headsets and wireless stereo (A2DP) now work
- A2DP is difficult to test as my wireless headset is not great, your mileage may vary
- Buttonsetting page - added extended buttonsettings.
- PocketRAR updated to latest version
- More execution trust certificates removed
- Additional Certificate Authority root certificate added

Universal WM6.1 21040_21051
21040 XIP
21051 SYS

4mb Pagepool
33.8Mb free RAM on clean boot
28mb Flash Disk

Removed :-
- Windows Media Player
- Office OneNote
- Customer Satisfaction (SQM)
- FirmWareUpdate
- Catalog
- Entertainment (games)
- Transcriber
- Getting started
- Backdrop and bootsplash images
- and lots more annoying MS nonsense ;-)


Included :-
- TCPMP 0.81 fully integrated to replace Windows Media. Suports WMA/WMV/FLV/FLAC/OGG/DIVX/MP3.......
- PocketNotepad
- PocketRAR
- XPDF
- PSShutXP
- Dutty's SDHC driver package (tested with 2/4/8/16gb)
- PimBackup
- JWright's Network Plugin
- TaskManager 3.1
- TotalCommander 2.5
- MSN Messenger (the old one that eats less RAM)
- Remote Desktop Client
- FDCTaskSwitcher (press the backlight button)
- WM5torage (working and updated to v1.9)

This build uses extremely simple layouts for Today and Dialer screens.
The spartan white backgrounds may look clunky, but the fact that they use no backdrop image saves >1mb of ram at all times :-)
This rom also leaves out bootsplash screens, so you will see a black screen on boot, followed by a white screen.

Tap the white screen to begin using the device on 1st boot.

Drivers, XIP section, registry, pagepool and filesystem have all been optimised for speed and RAM.
Priviledge execution certificate checking (and unnecessary certificates) have been removed to save CPU cycles, registry space and whatever other resources that crap was wasting.
Every single EXE, DLL, MUI, CPL and plugin has been made into a module - with the exception of .NET libs (can't be modular) and one or two specific DLLs that will not boot in modular form.

I wanted to remove everything unnecessary and leave the maximum resources available.

Download Link :-

Kitchen V1.1
http://www.4shared.com/file/112850773/6f1f7901/Uni_21051_kitchen_v11.html

ROM V1.1
http://www.4shared.com/file/112850779/8fca901f/Uni_21051_Release_v11.html

[ultravox]

long time no see!

nice to hear from you. a new ROM is always nice.

maybe I'll try it later.

Cheers

EDIT: can you provide a kitchen to add some apps like fingerkb and fingermenu, or even better provide a new version with it?
btw i still keep some a your previous kitchen/rom modded with some oem that i added, hehe cooking was funny.

[orb3000]

Thanks a lot thingonaspring!

Nice to see you back cooking for Uni!:D

[b0z0k]

It's nice to see a performance oriented ROM for our UNI.
Will try to flash it tonight.. Is there a performance option to overclock the CPU speed?

just to share my thought, I think a vanilla ROM optimised for performance should have these mandatory apps:

1. performance setting to overclock CPU speed
2. Advanced config
3. wkTASK manager (the best i ever used) / other task manager
4. SDHC support
5. WM5torage
6. mortscript support for oxios hibernate
7. Of course, oxios hibernate or other apps to recover our precious, precious RAM.

for multimedia, the best & RAM efficient apps that i've ever used :
1. TCPMP player for video
2. S2P for music
3. S2V for picture viewer

it's just my thought.. for our Uni has very little RAM (at least for 64mb standard version) any other suggestion will be nice :)

--

b0z0k
HTC Universal (Dopod900)
Tomal 8.9 - Radio 1.17 - 8GB SDHC class6
HTC Kovsky (SEX1)
Valkyrie v1.7 - Radio 1.10.25.18 - 2GB MicroSD
HTC Alpine (02 XDA2i)
WM2003SE ver.1.11.00WWE - Radio-1.04.00 - 2GB SD

[kalya]

Downloading.
Good to see someone working on this device.
Would post my experience.

One question to EXPERTS

Is there any limit how many times the DOC of Unoversal can be formatted?
Because I use Cotulla Q3 rom and to change to some other rom I have to format DOC everytime....so please comment.
(Or should I start a new thread for my querry):D

[-Jonny-]

Wow, nice to have you back Thing. Thought we'd lost you. Loved your last ROM... along with it's kitchen... however as you say, I think that was well over a year ago.

I've just flashed and installed another ROM. However, I'll give this one a go now.

Awe come on, "This file is neither allocated to a Premium Account, or a Collector's Account, and can therefore only be downloaded 10 times"
Can someone upload somewhere else please?

[faandrabi]

Thingonaspring WM6.1_21040_21051

It's been a VERY long time since I released a ROM, so without further delay...

Universal WM6.1 21040_21051
21040 XIP
21051 SYS

4mb Pagepool
33.9Mb free RAM on clean boot

Removed :-
- Windows Media Player
- Office OneNote
- Customer Satisfaction (SQM)
- FirmWareUpdate
- Catalog
- Entertainment (games)
- Transcriber
- Getting started
- Backdrop and bootsplash images
- and lots more annoying MS nonsense ;-)


Included :-
- TCPMP 0.81 fully integrated to replace Windows Media. Suports WMA/WMV/FLV/FLAC/OGG/DIVX/MP3.......
- PocketNotepad
- PocketRAR
- XPDF
- PSShutXP
- Dutty's SDHC driver package (tested with 2/4/8/16gb)
- PimBackup
- JWright's Network Plugin
- TaskManager 3.1
- TotalCommander 2.5
- MSN Messenger (the old one that eats less RAM)
- Remote Desktop Client
- WKTaskSwitcher (press the backlight button)
- WM5torage

This build uses extremely simple layouts for Today and Dialer screens.
The spartan white backgrounds may look clunky, but the fact that they use no backdrop image saves >1mb of ram at all times :-)
This rom also leaves out bootsplash screens, so you will see a black screen on boot, followed by a white screen.

Tap the white screen to begin using the device on 1st boot.

Drivers, XIP section, registry, pagepool and filesystem have all been optimised for speed and RAM.
Priviledge execution certificate checking (and unnecessary certificates) have been removed to save CPU cycles, registry space and whatever other resources that crap was wasting.
Every single EXE, DLL, MUI, CPL and plugin has been made into a module - with the exception of .NET libs (can't be modular) and one or two specific DLLs that will not boot in modular form.

I wanted to remove everything unnecessary and leave the maximum resources available.

Download Link :-
http://rapidshare.com/files/243788276/Thing_21040_21051.zip.html


Dear TonS surprised to see u after a long gap
please reload the file or upload it to vidmes.com

[rajivshahi]

well nice have you back in uni for ....... i'm desperate to try this but rapidshare error...... can you re up load it....... thanx for the beautiful rom in advance.... and it would be great if you can provide the kitchen as well:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::D:D:D:D:D:D

[-Jonny-]

snip
faandrabi, I don't think we need a quote of the whole of the first post again!

[phezthie]

long time no see!

EDIT: can you provide a kitchen to add some apps like fingerkb and fingermenu, or even better provide a new version with it?
btw i still keep some a your previous kitchen/rom modded with some oem that i added, hehe cooking was funny.

+1 :D thanks in advance.. regards

[thingonaspring]

Had no idea rapidshare started putting a 10 file limit on uploads. Not nice.
Less nice is that I don't have the file with me - it's at work.

Sorry to mess everyone about, I'll re-up the ROM on monday morniing (GMT) and up the kitchen too.

[rajivshahi]

Had no idea rapidshare started putting a 10 file limit on uploads. Not nice.
Less nice is that I don't have the file with me - it's at work.

Sorry to mess everyone about, I'll re-up the ROM on monday morniing (GMT) and up the kitchen too.

Thank you very much..... will be anxiously waiting......:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
Thanks for the kitchen............:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[-Jonny-]

I'll re-up the ROM on monday morniing (GMT) and up the kitchen too.
That's great, thanks thing.
Who were the 10 who downloaded the file? Perhaps they'd be kind enough to post it for now?

[faandrabi]

Thanks in advance will wait eagerly upto monday morning

[eneva78]

mirror link...tanks

[responderman]

Welcome back Thingonaspring, this looks an interesting build. Maybe one of the 10 downloaders would like to share their copy and mirror it for others to try, then we can do the same?
Jay

[kalya]

Bluetooth not working...do I need some 3rd party app?

Standard ringtone only!And I can't add another ringtone,is there any way ?

On soft reset it has 33 MB RAM.:D

With all the apps (Resco / MSVC etc... but no SPB stuff) I still get ~30MB.:D

Looks are lesser than pure vanilla though.But it is already expected.

Is it a final release or beta.

[Klbtr]

http://www.4shared.com/file/111573130/73f464c0/Thing_21040_21051.html

[rajivshahi]

http://www.4shared.com/file/111573130/73f464c0/Thing_21040_21051.html

Thanx a lot...:D:D:D:D

[-Jonny-]

http://www.4shared.com/file/111573130/73f464c0/Thing_21040_21051.html
Thanks klbtr, you're one in ten (no, really you are!!) :D

[-Jonny-]

First impressions...
takes me a little while to install all my favourite apps, as it really is vanilla! However, even after filling up with all my favourite junk, I'm still at 25-30MB free! woohoo!

No known problems yet. iGo working well (even though File system cache is disabled)
Could do with getting rid of MSN stuff, so awaiting the kitchen :) (fring so much more versatile). Also prefer Adobe to xpdf, but again, kitchen will sort that.

Old skin on calculator and the phone doesn't look so good with white screen. Zips look blank in Total Commander, but they do open ok. The today screen (as thing promised) is extremely bland. However, adding all my stuff to is (last shot) still didn't dent the memory too much :D

There is no Flash Disk and no extendedROM Storage. This is a huge disappointment :(. However as I tend to use mainly one SD card, it is liveable with, but I would like to see this wasted memory utilised if possible?

wm not supported in TCMP, you'll need to put the usual .dll into windows.

[responderman]

http://www.4shared.com/file/111573130/73f464c0/Thing_21040_21051.html

Many Thanks:D, that keeps things moving:)
Jay

[faandrabi]

Than you very much for uploading the file

[-Jonny-]

Ok, there is one problem that I can't live with. Because there's no flash/storage I put my email and IECache on SD card. However on reset, a folder 'Storage Card' gets created, and the SD card gets name 'Storage Card2'. Of course this mucks up all shortcuts.
Thing, please give us Storage or/and ExtendedROM.
Also I cannot change the Ring sound - it just doesn't find any (they're wma).
With everything else, I am well impressed.

[tomal]

Ok, there is one problem that I can't live with. Because there's no flash/storage I put my email and IECache on SD card. However on reset, a folder 'Storage Card' gets created, and the SD card gets name 'Storage Card2'. Of course this mucks up all shortcuts.
Thing, please give us Storage or/and ExtendedROM.
With everything else, I am well impressed.
Moving IECache to SD is not a good idea as IE may behave very strange!

[rajivshahi]

First impression really good... after installing all my fav app still around 23mb free..... liked TCPMP replacing windows media player.... wish IE could also be replaced with something lite..... the only concern is the dialer screen ... looks so unusual as got in habit of black and no flash disk & extenal rom ????:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

But stable and fast....:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[ultravox]

Ok, there is one problem that I can't live with. Because there's no flash/storage I put my email and IECache on SD card. However on reset, a folder 'Storage Card' gets created, and the SD card gets name 'Storage Card2'. Of course this mucks up all shortcuts.
Thing, please give us Storage or/and ExtendedROM.
Also I cannot change the Ring sound - it just doesn't find any (they're wma).
With everything else, I am well impressed.

that's maybe because email is being checked before the sd is available. if the email check gets delayed, most probably is solved.

i also use sd for ie cache and if for some reason the sd isn't available the storage card directory is created.

cheers

[orb3000]

Moving IECache to SD is not a good idea as IE may behave very strange!

This is very good to know!
Thanks!!

[tailazoom]

Very interesting rom. Bluetooth not working. Manual phone band setting not working. White background color on dialer page is unpleasent. Well worth solving these easy to solve problems to get the best wm6 vanilla rom! Thank you Thing!

[thingonaspring]

Morning all,

Thanks for all the feedback and testing.
The kitchen is uploading as we speak, and I'll get looking into those problems - not least the lack of flash disk.

[Edit] - kitchen is up, see 1st post.

[-Jonny-]

That's great, thanks Thing.
Just another one that's a little annoying - the last page in settings/buttons is missing, so I can't stop phone turning on by pressing any button.
Also, I know you save loads of memory by using white backdrop (as phone is always on in background etc), but is it possible to make it black or grey backdrop without loosing memory?

[thingonaspring]

>Black backdrop
>
Sadly the setting for today/phone backdrop colour resides in the SysColor blob in the registry. The setting from today/phone backdrop also changes the backdrop for all windows, notifications and the colour of the Phone's signal strength bar on the taskbar.

When you set this to black, every window on the device is unreadable (black text on black background), plus you can't see the signal strength (black bars on black background). It is of course possible to fix part of this by setting text colours to white, but even then most applications are coded to expect a white background and black text, so any custom window layouts are usually unreadable (e.g. TaskManager ends up with white text on a light grey background).

After a long plane ride fiddling with the settings myself, I couldn't come up with anything workable, but if someone more talented can come up with a SysColor setting that leaves windows legible and allows a non-white background colour, I'd be happy to incorporate it.

[rbalu72]

Downloaded the kitchen and extracted full.

Could not run BuildROM.CMD ... its throwing error 'The specified programm could not be executed' ... When tried to run the BuildOs.exe standalone and that is causing this error.

Anyone got the kitchen working?

[tangk]

Hello Thingonaspring,
I could say that it is really a good rom in term of performance and battery life, extreme last even in with wifi in used. :)
I would love to re-build your rom for personal use, but don't know how to do it with your kitchen,
Can you please provide a guide on this matter,
Thanks a lot,
Tang

[tailazoom]

Downloaded the kitchen and extracted full.

Could not run BuildROM.CMD ... its throwing error 'The specified programm could not be executed' ... When tried to run the BuildOs.exe standalone and that is causing this error.

Anyone got the kitchen working?

Same error here.

[rajivshahi]

i'm trying it now so far so good will let you guyz know in a moment.....:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Cheers
Rajiv

[rajivshahi]

Downloaded the kitchen and extracted full.

Could not run BuildROM.CMD ... its throwing error 'The specified programm could not be executed' ... When tried to run the BuildOs.exe standalone and that is causing this error.

Anyone got the kitchen working?

Well i got it working great and fine till the end where i can't encode the FAT16 image file it says "Unable encode FAT16 Image file" while encoding.... and i have to manually chose the fat16 file i.e. nk.new.nba or nk.nba same error... Am i doing any thing wrong ?????

well first thing you need to extract it to the main drive like c:\ or d:\ not inside any folders and try again should work except the last part where i'm currently stuck......

Cheers
Rajiv

[thingonaspring]

Right - quick recap on lots of feedback - keep it coming!

- Buttonsetting page - added extended buttonsettings to v1.1.
- Phonesetting pages - I can't find anything wrong with it, what was the problem again?
- Ringtone changing - you can change ringtones in file explorer as normal "set as ringtone", but only WAV is supported. Having MP3 ringtones will require reinstating large amounts of Windows Media Player junk. Unless someone knows of a windowless standalone MP3player exe/dll?
- AdvancedConfig - it's not included in the ROM as you'll only ever run it once or twice to set things up how you like them. So just install it, make any changes, then uninstall it.
- File system caching disabled - As far as I can tell, this is a bug in advancedconfig. It believes the old "CacheSize" value, over the updated (WM5+) "FATCacheSize" and "DataCacheSize" settings. I've no idea why so many people persist in using the old registry settings, when the MSDN pages have listed "CacheSize" as legacy for several years now.
- Flash disk - I have this working in v1.1 - 28MB of it.
- WMVFile playback - can't reproduce the error - every WMV I've tried works fine.

Other stuff in v1.1 - to be released sometime this week.
- WM5torage updated to v1.9, I was using a very old 1.5
- PocketRAR updated to 3.9b3
- More junk removed (Office manifest files, more certificates, a couple of unused DLLs)
- Additional root certificate added (some sites failed CA check on v1)
- Attempted a fix to bluetooth audio gateway. Untested as yet, will try my Jabra 320s tonight.

Kitchen Problems
The kitchen should be unpacked as C:\uni_21051.
In this location all paths and settings will just work, no need to browse around for files.
You will need .NET 2.0 or better installed to run BuildOS.

[tailazoom]

Thanks for the info! I will try again and report back.

[ultravox]

...Other stuff in v1.1 - to be released sometime this week.
- WM5torage updated to v1.9, I was using a very old 1.5
- PocketRAR updated to 3.9b3
- More junk removed (Office manifest files, more certificates, a couple of unused DLLs)
- Additional root certificate added (some sites failed CA check on v1)
- Attempted a fix to bluetooth audio gateway. Untested as yet, will try my Jabra 320s tonight.
...

Could you please add fingerkeyboard and fingermenu?
Dialpad skin could also be improved ( I know you are working on this)

Cheers

[-Jonny-]

- File system caching disabled - As far as I can tell, this is a bug in advancedconfig. It believes the old "CacheSize" value, over the updated (WM5+) "FATCacheSize" and "DataCacheSize" settings. I've no idea why so many people persist in using the old registry settings, when the MSDN pages have listed "CacheSize" as legacy for several years now.
Thanks for drawing our attention to this. It's persisted because it's used in AdvancedConfig - even v3.3. I don't know why Julien uses it if redundant from CE 5.0.
Anyway, we simple peop's didn't know any better. Perhaps it's time to re-look at Advanced Config.

[thingonaspring]

Hehe, by no means did I intend to beat up AdvancedConfig or its author - that tool rocks.
Until MS get a bit clearer on how their registry settings work, we're all guessing to some extent.

More progress on 1.1 - extended rom and flash disk are now exposed as disks and working nicely. IE now stores cache/cookies/history on flash disk by default.

Removed the strange skin from psshutXP, cleaned out some more junk, checked and fixed some file associations and tidied up the "Set as ringtone" context menu settings. Now WAV, WMA, and MIDI files are all tested as working ringtone formats.

[edit] - fingerkeyboard. I've found an OEM for it here that should integrate with the kitchen nicely.
http://www.ppckitchen.org/forums/local_links.php?catid=1&sort=N&pp=10
It's a bit big and heavy to make it part of the main ROM though, I'm trying to keep it as "Sub-Vanilla" as possible.
Anyone spotted an OEM for fingermenu?

[-Jonny-]

thing, I think your comments are positive and helpful.. and I'm sure Julien would regard feedback and changes on AdvanceConfig - he's made a tool that we can all add to and change very easily. It would be a mighty task for anyone to keep up with MSDEV and their changes, redundancies etc!

I'm looking into creating an xml for AdvanceConfig for our Uni's. Does anyone know of an 'alive' thread for AdvanceConfig?

[ultravox]

...[edit] - fingerkeyboard. I've found an OEM for it here that should integrate with the kitchen nicely.
http://www.ppckitchen.org/forums/local_links.php?catid=1&sort=N&pp=10
It's a bit big and heavy to make it part of the main ROM though, I'm trying to keep it as "Sub-Vanilla" as possible.
...

I couldn't agree more, thx.

[rbalu72]

Well i got it working great and fine till the end where i can't encode the FAT16 image file it says "Unable encode FAT16 Image file" while encoding.... and i have to manually chose the fat16 file i.e. nk.new.nba or nk.nba same error... Am i doing any thing wrong ?????

well first thing you need to extract it to the main drive like c:\ or d:\ not inside any folders and try again should work except the last part where i'm currently stuck......

Cheers
Rajiv

I did installed the kitchen in C:\ ... but as Thing explained i have re-installed latest .net framework and now everything working fine. Am able to build the ROM with this kitchen as is..

Thanks for sharing

[-Jonny-]

>Black backdrop > Sadly the setting for today/phone backdrop colour resides in the SysColor blob in the registry.
Is it possible to create a simple jpeg image for the backdrop? Or does this incorporate switching too much back in to the ROM?
WMVFile playback - can't reproduce the error - every WMV I've tried works fine.
Error: Player: Audio codec (Windows Media Audio 9 Professional) not supported by the player!

As for kitchen, I'm getting stuck on G'reloc with error 'Cannot open file C:\Uni_21051\temp\dump\hidparse.dll\\tmp' - notice the last double slash, and I don't know how to correct it.

[tailazoom]

After installing netFramework 3.5 i builded and flashed several roms without errors. I added bluetooth driver, replaced headset driver and today black theme but this did not solve my problems: i can pair jabra headset but can't hear or talk, and the white backgroun of dialing page is still there.

[ultravox]

...
As for kitchen, I'm getting stuck on G'reloc with error 'Cannot open file C:\Uni_21051\temp\dump\hidparse.dll\\tmp' - notice the last double slash, and I don't know how to correct it.

did you add any new files/apps to the ROM?
Does this file belong to one of those apps?

Did you delete that file when removing some apps? maybe there is a link to it some wehre that calls the file during the build process (I don't remember well because I don't "cook" since Thing's last kitchen but look for *.rgu and initflashfiles)

Cheers

PS: i'm waiting for 1.1 to play a bit ( it's always nice!!!)

[tsichles]

Just the best ROM currently for universal

thanks an looking forward for your new release.

Please donnot add many fancy thing like fullscreen menus etc

keep it simple and fast

thanks again

[-Jonny-]

did you add any new files/apps to the ROM?
Does this file belong to one of those apps?

Did you delete that file when removing some apps? maybe there is a link to it some wehre that calls the file during the build process (I don't remember well because I don't "cook" since Thing's last kitchen but look for *.rgu and initflashfiles)

Cheers

PS: i'm waiting for 1.1 to play a bit ( it's always nice!!!)
no, it's from a 'fresh' unzip to the C:\ drive

[thingonaspring]

Hiya,

I've been quiet today, had lots of work to do, but time for a quick update at the end of the day.

Last night I had a horrible problem, my attempts at adding a flash disk (unsing VInt's flash disk kit) had corrupted the partition table on both my day-to-day Uni and the one I use for testing. The result was a pair of unbootable unis that refused to reflash :-(

The solution was to use MTTY and issue command "task 28 55aa" (totally clear and repartition flash rom) followed by "task 0" (reboot). A reflash from the bootloader then had everything working again.

The work-in-progress v1.1 does not use the same flash disk method as VInt described. Instead it relies on the Uni generating the partition table and formatting partitions on boot. Much simpler and safer and I've had no problem with this approach so far.

Bluetooth - With v1.0 I see the same problems everyone else does - no audio in headset mode and wonky connections to the Uni.
I seem to have this fixed in v1.1. My Jabra BT320s will work as a headset and A2DP. This has not happened before even with official WM5 ROMs, so I'm pretty pleased.

I won't promise faultless a2dp operation though, it'll be as weird and quirky as it is on most ROMs.

WMA9 - can you link to the DLL you installed to fix the error? I'll add it to the ROM, and probably remove some of the sillier codecs to make space for it. Anyone using speex? smartlyric? wavpack? They seem pretty obscure and unnecessary to me.

I'll run some more tests tonight and if I don't find any nasties, I'll release the ROM+kitchen tomorrow.

Cheers,

Thing

[cutecool]

ur rom is simply amazing, it is one of the best i have ever used, the only annoying part is wmstorage which doesnt works, n hope u fix it in ur next release... + i wish if u cud add wktask instead of taskswitcher... cuz it also indicates battery level & its more user friendly...

neways thanx a lot mate

[thingonaspring]

@cutecool
WM5torage - found the bug and fixed it for v1.1, also removed another unused DLL while I was looking at it, thanks for the tip!

[tailazoom]

Thanks you Thing for sharing your work.

[cutecool]

do look for wk task, as a replacement, n also can u please replace tcpmp0.81 with 0.72, cuz 0.72 seems more stable

[tangk]

Hi Thing,
Waiting for your new rom...
Thank you very much,
Tang

[-Jonny-]

WMA9 - can you link to the DLL you installed to fix the error? I'll add it to the ROM, and probably remove some of the sillier codecs to make space for it. Anyone using speex? smartlyric? wavpack? They seem pretty obscure and unnecessary to me.
I think these can safely be removed. I expect a minority may use them, and they can always add them back in. You could most probably get rid of Atari (asap.plg), Matroska (matroska.plg) and maybe the Ogg-Vorbis (vorbishq.plg, vorbislq.plg) and Musepack (mpc.plg). Remove lang_sls.txt along with smart_lyric.plg.

I've attached the wma/wmv decoders. Here's what values I had used:

WMA_0200=wmadecoder.dll
WMA_0201=wma9Prodecoder.dll
WMV_0200=wmvdecoder.dll
WMV_0201=wmv9decoder.dll
WMAV0200=wmavdecoder.dll
WMAV0201=wma9Prodecoder.dll
WMVA0200=wmv9decoder.dll
WMVA0201=wmv9decoder.dll
WMS_0200=wmsdmod.dll
WMS_0201=wmv9decoder.dll

However, I still have not managed to get WMA9Pro working.
There was a more compatible (with WM6.1) recompile of TCPMP found here, which may be of more use. I'll continue to play and see what I can do.

TCPMP v0.72RC1 for WM6.1 (thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=380387)|download (http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=88539&d=1211902452))

[thingonaspring]

Hi All,

@Jonny - thanks for those links, saved me a lot of effort.
Seems most people prefer TCPMP 0.72, so I'll use that and get the best Windows media support I can for it.

On the subject of WKTask - I've used FDCTaskswitcher deliberately as it does not reside in memory and use resources. When you press the "light" button it launches. When you've finished using it, it exits, freeing all resources. WKTask would use memory and CPU at all times. Obviously if you have a huge preference for WKTask, you can always use the kitchen to replace taskswitcher.

I'm readying the release just now, so once I have tcpmp working, it'll be uploaded.

One thing - A2DP works, but is not great with my jabra bt320s. This particular headset has never worked properly for wireless stereo on any Uni ROM, so testing A2DP for me is very difficult. I'd be interested to hear what experiences other people have with A2DP, but do bear in mind that I'll have a difficult time reproducing bug reports.

Using the Jabra as a wireless headset seems to work fine, which again is a rare occurrence with this device, so I'm confident it should be OK for others.

[edit] - uuuurgh. TCPMP 0.72-recomp does not modularise well (some DLLs won't modularise, and others are extremely crashy). When flashed to the ROM as files, it benchmarks about 10-20% lower than my 0.81 build on all codecs and crashes on FLVs a lot. WMV's work though, which is nice - I'll try to incorporate some of that into 0.81 I think.

[cutecool]

well a sincere thanx 2 u mate, for u great effort....;)


Suggestion to delete MSN messenger, who ever want it can install himself, or can use Nimbuzz,IM+, or any other software...

[-Jonny-]

[edit] - uuuurgh. TCPMP 0.72-recomp does not modularise well (some DLLs won't modularise, and others are extremely crashy). When flashed to the ROM as files, it benchmarks about 10-20% lower than my 0.81 build on all codecs and crashes on FLVs a lot. WMV's work though, which is nice - I'll try to incorporate some of that into 0.81 I think.
Ok, you could try also attached versions. I'm sorry I haven't had time to try them yet. Again, I'll have a play in due course!!

In the recomp, all files and plg's were different.
In these attachments, only the common.dll, interface.plg and player.exe differ (except for ffmpeg.plgand splitter.plg in GF5500Edition-Alpha4.1)

[-Jonny-]

Ok, it looks like it's impossible to play wma9pro using TCPMP (only in WMP). Best keep your 0.81 setup I think.

[thingonaspring]

V1.1 is up, check 1st post.

[tailazoom]

Thanks again! Downloading and testing.

[cutecool]

Thanks mate! Downloading now, will update the report soon:D

[rajivshahi]

:D:DThanx for the hard work and will test it asap......:D:D

[rbalu72]

Thanks Thing for this Nice ROM with lots of RAM and quite fast.

Trying to install SPB Mobile Shell and could not do it... it says software not digitally signed so cant be installed... any workaround?


Anyone looking for RS Links for Kitchen and ROM

http://rapidshare.com/files/246515998/Uni_21051_kitchen_v1.1.zip
http://rapidshare.com/files/246525395/Uni_21051_Release_v1.1.zip


Regards

[cutecool]

Amazing,
RAM 31MB after installing (mach5 browser,SPB phone,Java,fileex ext..)
eats less battery, very fast and stable, BT & wifi working fine,


For me SOME video's when i try 2 full screen them the tcpmp player exits...
also when i tap a video file in landscape mode it turns to portrait for playing it.

also active sync b's alive even after closing all prog.(doest it eats ram)
Rest no issue till now..

[-Jonny-]

I'm still getting stuck with the kitchen. This is a clean unzip to C:\

I'm getting stuck on G'reloc with error 'Cannot open file C:\Uni_21051\temp\dump\hidparse.dll\\tmp' - notice the last double slash, and I don't know how to correct it.

Is this a problem with Vista - I know it can be more fussy about \\ than XP? (I'm using Vista)

[rbalu72]

It could be issue with Vista... the Kitchen working fine in XP SP3

[rajivshahi]

I'm still getting stuck with the kitchen. This is a clean unzip to C:\

I'm getting stuck on G'reloc with error 'Cannot open file C:\Uni_21051\temp\dump\hidparse.dll\\tmp' - notice the last double slash, and I don't know how to correct it.

Is this a problem with Vista - I know it can be more fussy about \\ than XP? (I'm using Vista)

Hey john i'm using Vista its running fine for me i used winRar to unzip .... try to delete and unzip the kitchen again and see....

[thingonaspring]

Hi Jonny,

That is a weird problem you're having. I've used the kitchen under both XP and Win 7 without problems. I'd be surprised if Win7 was significantly different to Vista in how it deals wirth \\ in paths, but I suppose stranger things have happened.

As a possible line of inquiry - have you tried extracting the archive using a different tool? I'd be interested to see if unpacking it with 7Zip or WinRAR made a difference.

[tangk]

Hi Thing
Thank you very much for your hard work,
Huge ram, good flash disk size and so on. :-)
Regarding the new rom, i have some problems :-(:
1. When I install new Vietnamese unicode font (tahoma which is often done with any other rom), the ppc still cannot display the right Vietnamese characters as usual. Then, I cannot remove this font from the Windows mobile.
2. When open the message (email or sms in individual mode), it always displays the middle of the message, not the beginning as normal.
Please look at this issue when you have time
Thank you and regards

[enigma1nz]

Can anyone please post a mirror, blasted 4shared is not working, made many unsuccessful attempts, either the download doesn't start at all, or starts and hangs on both, the kitchen and the ROM, I am giving up, spent the last 2 hours trying to get the Thing1.1.

[tangk]

Try to upload but my home network is too bad at this moment. Sorry for not being able to help.

[enigma1nz]

Try to upload but my home network is too bad at this moment. Sorry for not being able to help.

No worries, got it after god knows how many failed attempts.

[thingonaspring]

@cutecool

Just noticed your question about activesync launching on boot.
Yes activesync eats quite a lot of ram, even when it's not doing anything.

To stop it launching on boot, perform at least one sync, then disconnect from USB/wifi/3g or whatever other sync method you were using.

Now run activesync from "programs". Select "schedule" and set it both drop-down boxes to "manual". When you reboot, activesync will not launch until you connect the USB cable or manually perform a sync over wifi/3g.

[tonymm78]

Hi thingonaspring
This ROM is really amazing but I have a problem with it, The S2P doesn`t work well.
The error that it reports is: "the handle is invalid"
Do you have any solution to solve this problem?

Thanks
Regards

[rbalu72]

Can anyone please post a mirror, blasted 4shared is not working, made many unsuccessful attempts, either the download doesn't start at all, or starts and hangs on both, the kitchen and the ROM, I am giving up, spent the last 2 hours trying to get the Thing1.1.

please see Post #66 ...

May be Thing can update these links on first post :)

[enigma1nz]

please see Post #66 ...

May be Thing can update these links on first post :)

See post #75 :o

[enigma1nz]

Had been a fan of your ROMs for some time (well, from way back):p

Great ROM generally, with lots of free memory, like the clean look. SRS_WOW, 16Gb SD, connections worked without a glitch, but V1.1 had proven to be somewhat more problematic than the Beta - couldn't get quite a few things to work properly - TCPMP, Voice Command and Pocket Player to name a few. TCPMP 0.81 has a tendency to turn portrait on me and kept the wrong screen orientation even when closed, closing and opening the screen fixed it, but didn't matter much, because codecs are still wrong and all I could get was sound.
The XPDF reader could read 1 file out of nearly 100 and even then the rendering was way off no matter what I did, could be my conversion... so had to resort to Diamond PDF eventually. Old MSN might be good for some, but I prefer my WLM - thanks for the trip down memory lane though, hehe.

Will try my luck with kitchen once it downloads.
:D I guess my perfect ROM would lose PIE, WMP, external GPS, Remote Desktop, Task Switcher, One Note and other 'candy' and gain Advanced Config, Opera9.5 (9.7 has proven to be a memory hog), Reg Editor, Voice Command and Pocket Player (because it's great and sends my audio to mono bluetooth headset) :D

[Haque]

Hi! Thingsonspring,

I faced a strange problem when flashed the ROM. I was using Tomal's ROM ver 8.9 on my SPV M5000 with 128MB RAM. After a successful flashing the ROM, I restored my text messages and contact details using PIMSBackup. The things were smooth. I installed TouchFlo3d just to test and after a successful install, rebooted the phone. That was the end of it. Despite soft and hard resets, the phone did not turned on.

I tried to reflash with other cooked versions of Tomal and even tried to flash the phone with the original Orange WM5. Nothing went successful. Then I thought of DOC Formatting my phone, and then reinstalled Orange WM5 and then reflashed it with the Tomal Ver.8.2. The phone is operative now.

I just wanted to know, what actually went wrong.

Regards,

Haque

[-Jonny-]

Hi Jonny,

That is a weird problem you're having. I've used the kitchen under both XP and Win 7 without problems. I'd be surprised if Win7 was significantly different to Vista in how it deals wirth \\ in paths, but I suppose stranger things have happened.

As a possible line of inquiry - have you tried extracting the archive using a different tool? I'd be interested to see if unpacking it with 7Zip or WinRAR made a difference.
Yes. I was using 7zip, so now tried Windows Zip and WinRAR - and none have worked. It seems no-one else is having problems cooking from your kitchen? Perhaps someone can zip up and send me their thingonaspring 1.1 kitchen, and I'll see if that works?

[tailazoom]

I need help in verifying two problems:
1) In settings/soundsAndNotifications/notifications i have no text in dropdown text boxes
2) In dialpad page menu options cannot access phone settings page
Everything else is working fine for me. Thanks in advance.

Both problems solved by reflashing! Fastest starting latest tomtom7 rom!

[ultravox]

Yes. I was using 7zip, so now tried Windows Zip and WinRAR - and none have worked. It seems no-one else is having problems cooking from your kitchen? Perhaps someone can zip up and send me their thingonaspring 1.1 kitchen, and I'll see if that works?

I've just downloaded v 1.1 to this pc and encoded the rom as it was in the kitchen. process finished successfully.

it must be something on your pc. antivirus?

[-Jonny-]

I've just downloaded v 1.1 to this pc and encoded the rom as it was in the kitchen. process finished successfully.

it must be something on your pc. antivirus?

thanks a million ultravox. yes, switched off ac for build and it works! :D

[330e]

Thank you thingonaspring for this vanilla-rom and the great kitchen. It's fantastic to have a new rom with a lot of free ram. Very good work!
At present I try to create oem-packages for opera and some today-plugins (today agenda and pocket digital clock) with the package-creator, but until now I wasn't successful. Can someone give me tip where I can find a tutorial or finished oem-packages?

[cutecool]

i wanna ask u tat y does screen tilts to potrait from landscape while playing a media...
also when i try 2 play a flash clip thru tcpmp it give an error or rtsp protocol...

[rbalu72]

I am experiencing delay when new text message or call comes. Uni shows 'call status' and icon on top changes and after 3-4 seconds it starts ringing. Similar experience for text message...

I use radio 1.15, Airtel network and Hyderabad India is the location.

What could be the problem :confused:? sometimes the other party disconnecting the call even before i realise that there was an incoming call. i.e., the other party hearing 3-4 rings before i actualy get to know that there is a call to be answered.

any solution? I am experiencing with almost all wm6.1 ROMS.

Regards

[tsichles]

Hi! Thingsonspring,

I faced a strange problem when flashed the ROM. I was using Tomal's ROM ver 8.9 on my SPV M5000 with 128MB RAM. After a successful flashing the ROM, I restored my text messages and contact details using PIMSBackup. The things were smooth. I installed TouchFlo3d just to test and after a successful install, rebooted the phone. That was the end of it. Despite soft and hard resets, the phone did not turned on.

I tried to reflash with other cooked versions of Tomal and even tried to flash the phone with the original Orange WM5. Nothing went successful. Then I thought of DOC Formatting my phone, and then reinstalled Orange WM5 and then reflashed it with the Tomal Ver.8.2. The phone is operative now.

I just wanted to know, what actually went wrong.

Regards,

Haque

The same think occurs also on my G4 Uni with 64MB RAM.

But :

1) this is not the only ROM this issue occurs. Also in UNI 5.2.20931 G3/G4 FINAL VERSION by VNInt /w WinXP theme same think happens

2) funny think is that UP TO THE LASTEST BETA of Thing's ROM the issue was not existant (May be memory leak + flash rom ???)

'Thing' I would like to congratulate you for the best ROM for my uni only it is unusable due to this issue.

Thanks again

[rajivshahi]

I just wanted to know, what actually went wrong.


Hi actually it is TouchFlo3d that caused the problem... i think TouchFlo3d can not be operated in uni because of some issues... but you can try TouchFlo2d which should works...

[BLRplex]

thanks, it's good and very fast ROM. all trash has been deleted. but, WMP is needed... for assign mp3 sound on ring...

[pmi]

Very good ROM with the huge Free RAM and top speed

Battery life is good too

[zoltar100]

Hi,

great rom, works very good on my Xda Exec (64MB).

But ... I have a problem with G-Alarm 2.2.
Problem is with Windows Media Player, which G-Alarm is using.
Is there any possibility to add/install WMP to this ROM?

Zoltar

[cutecool]

mate i think u shud now make 1.2 with minor changes in it... :D

[rajivshahi]

mate i think u shud now make 1.2 with minor changes in it... :D

Well he has provided the kitchen so you can do some cooking.lol..:D:D:D:D and wait for the master chef to come up with some great dish .:D:D:D:D not v1.2 but even better...

[cutecool]

Well he has provided the kitchen so you can do some cooking.lol..:D:D:D:D and wait for the master chef to come up with some great dish .:D:D:D:D not v1.2 but even better...

well u r right bro... dude we r hungry, we didnt tasted a good rom since days... tats y requested ;)

[rajivshahi]

well u r right bro... dude we r hungry, we didnt tasted a good rom since days... tats y requested ;)

Well after the 6.5 becomes more stable then we will see lots of rom coming...

[cutecool]

Well after the 6.5 becomes more stable then we will see lots of rom coming...


not tat good news mate, as it is 64 mb ram is not enough...:confused:

[orb3000]

64mb is good if you deactivate windows default, but of course better if you upgrade to 128mb:cool:

[gaiolo]

Hi Thingsonspring,

Good rom, fast, battery efficient.....

But the sync files with pda and PC, don´t work....

EDIT: using XP and activesync 4.5. and I mean the "files" that did not synchronize, and not outlook (task,appointment ...)

[pj94z]

Hey guys,

total newbie here.

I download this ROM b/c my 6.5 stock ROM is super slow and I want a much faster phone.

can anyone tell me if my GPS telenav will still work as normal after I install this ROM ?

Is there anything else I should be aware of before I change to this ROM? any tutorials?

[rajivshahi]

can anyone tell me if my GPS telenav will still work as normal after I install this ROM ?

well as 6.5 rom have less ram so might have trouble to run programs consuming huge memory like navigation,etc..

Is there anything else I should be aware of before I change to this ROM? any tutorials?

the only thing you should know is how to flash that's it... if you don't know have a look at wiki or orbs tutorial (the first post in universal 6 forum)

cheers
Rajiv

[pj94z]

well as 6.5 rom have less ram so might have trouble to run programs consuming huge memory like navigation,etc..



the only thing you should know is how to flash that's it... if you don't know have a look at wiki or orbs tutorial (the first post in universal 6 forum)

cheers
Rajiv


sorry...i actually have 6.1 rom stock from HTC

[bfebrian]

is there any mirror? i can't connect to 4shared for one or many reasons :)

[yodap]

is there any mirror? i can't connect to 4shared for one or many reasons :)

+1 on that, could someone upload the ROM once again please? I'm sure many of us including me would appreciate it!

Thanks a lot!

[pjc007]

Have to admit, I was far too late looking for this, too, so if anybody does have it and can re-up it somewhere (hint rapidshare hint) that'd be awesome.

-PJC

[-Jonny-]

Uploaded here (http://www.filedropper.com/thing21051v11) Thing21051v1.1 (http://www.filedropper.com/thing21051v11)

[Insert Coin]

Uploaded here (http://www.filedropper.com/thing21051v11) Thing21051v1.1 (http://www.filedropper.com/thing21051v11)

Thanks!!:)

[tinti93]

hi:)
it's amazing ;)
very fast:eek:
i like it :)
but, how to change the ringtone? :confused:
thanks :)

[blackSVK]

can anyone reupload kitchen ?

[Insert Coin]

First impression is very good: after installing all my apps and settings (took me 2 hours...) I still have 31 MB RAM free. Amazing! Speed is OK. One issue found though: TCPMP refuses to turn to landscape, not even via View - Orientation. But I can live with that :).

[yodap]

Uploaded here (http://www.filedropper.com/thing21051v11) Thing21051v1.1 (http://www.filedropper.com/thing21051v11)

Thank you very much, you're a great guy!

[nndzry]

you can change ringtones in file explorer as normal "set as ringtone", but only WAV is supported
Look here(#38)http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3966104&highlight=change+ringtone#post3966104

[nndzry]

Very good rom,thanks a lot!

[-Jonny-]

can anyone reupload kitchen ?

Yeah, sorry for the delay... here (http://www.mediafire.com/?ytlokz2nzum).

[JouSePo]

Yeah, sorry for the delay... here (http://www.filedropper.com/thing21051kitchenv11).

can't download, file not showed :(

[blackSVK]

i can't download it too ...

[-Jonny-]

can anyone reupload kitchen ?

sorry, file went missing, it's uploaded here (http://www.mediafire.com/?ytlokz2nzum)

[bfebrian]

just upgrade with this rom, but i found something strange
with battery, i barely able to see the display, but while chargin, i can see the display fine.
already play with the display setting with no luck.

[PalDragan]

Did you check the backlight settings ? It can simply be that the backlight strenght is set up different for when on battery power and when on a charger. usually it is like that,for battery power to a minimum ,and on charger it lights up as a christmas tree :)

[thingonaspring]

@bfebrian

if the backlight goes dark, just hold power button for 2 seconds and it'll be fine again.

[nndzry]

Hi，thingonaspring，I`m looking forword your rom of WM6.1 21068_21051.

[nndzry]

Very good rom,I like this one.

[vk2000]

the ROM link isn't working and I am having trouble with the kitchen
can you post the link for a ROM again??

[willhard1986]

Great!Thanks a lot!

The problem with the SD card is resolved?

[HarryTheSatman]

Hi Thing,

A question or two if I may :-)...

I have been reading about your 6.1 v2.xx. I am interested in trying to flash my uni. But does your ROM support the scandinavian alfabet? Second question is: you removed media player. I use G-Alarm, and from what I understood, G-Alarm uses Media player. Is that correct? Any suggestions on if this will have any impact on G-Alarm?



Thingonaspring WM6.1_21040_21051 V1.1

V1.1 Changes :-

Removed :-
- Windows Media Player
Included :-
- TCPMP 0.81 fully integrated to replace Windows Media. Suports WMA/WMV/FLV/FLAC/OGG/DIVX/MP3.......

I wanted to remove everything unnecessary and leave the maximum resources available.

Download Link :-

Kitchen V1.1
http://www.4shared.com/file/112850773/6f1f7901/Uni_21051_kitchen_v11.html

ROM V1.1
http://www.4shared.com/file/112850779/8fca901f/Uni_21051_Release_v11.html

[choison]

Thanks a lot thingonaspring!

[midnightsights]

Hello, would like to try if this will work and how great it is but there is no download link? I mean it has expired would you please reup the rom so we could take it for use? thank you very much :)

[orb3000]

Have a look on my sig link to find the available ROM´s