[31-Dec-2007] XDA Mobile 6 Release 5 FINAL - Full and Lite versions

[mfrazzz]

XDA Mobile 6 Release 5 FINAL - Full / Lite
Happy New Year!

If you want to use XM6r5 as a base, check out the XDA Mobile 6 Release 5 Cooking Pack!

XDA Mobile 6 Release 5 (XM6r5 for short) is the fifth version (and most likely my last since I now have a Tilt/Kaiser phone) of the popular XM6 rom series for the Wizard. This ROM brings back the stability of XM6r3. There is a Full and Lite version. Also I'm releasing a cooking pack so you can build your own version of XM6r5.

XM6r5 is built on the OS 5.2.318 Build 15342.4.0.01 rom that was provided to us by InGeNeTiCs from Howard Forums. While this is not the "newest" release of WM6, it is the last known release that was built for the Wizard (ie: its not a port from another HTC Device). Various pieces of the base rom have been upgraded, so some of it is stuff ported from other phones so that it can have newer functionality. Overall, I feel this base is very stable and fast and makes a great base to cook on.

Please Note: this ROM was NOT intended to push the limits on speed optimization or memory optimization. It was made to be functional, stable, and something that I myself wanted and will use. If you have a Battery Drain issue, make sure you flash back to an official rom before you upgrade to this one, as that should correct extended rom corruption that has been shown to cause battery draining. If you want to overclock or use other features of BatteryStatus, you can download and install the latest version of BatteryStatus. I used it when I had my Wizard, and had OMAP set to 247MHz with CPUscalar set from 143 to 247 and Boost set to 260Mhz.

Base ROM Information
The base rom was an "Official" Wizard WM6 ROM that was part of the development cycle of WM6 inside of Microsoft (Dogfood as they call it). The base rom was not a port of another device rom with drivers and stuff pieced and parted onto this one, but this was an actual Wizard WM6.

• Windows Mobile 6, OS 5.2.318 Build 15342.4.0.01
• ROM Version: 10.1.0.811 WWE
• ROM Date: 08/11/06
• Protocol: 4.1.13.09
• PagePool: 6MB

There is no Radio, IPL, SPL or Extended ROM included in this (so its G4 "safe").

What's In XDA Mobile 6 Release 5?
Bolded items are new / upgraded from XM6r4

Lite and Full

• .NET CF 3.5
• Aserg's Touch Scroll Only
• HTC TOUCH Dialer with enhanced keypad numbers by peu
• HTC Voice Recorder
• PPC Contacts Manager
• Internet Sharing via BlueTooth DUN (like WM5); WM6 Internet Sharing is still there, the BT DUN is in addition to that!
• Office 2007
• 9 Button "Touch" Style CommManager from the Kaiser
• VoIP (See next post for instructions to set this up)
• SQLCE
• Arcsoft Composer 4.2.8.1 (SMS and MMS are split apart and not merged) The bug in r4 has been corrected in r5
• Notepad editor
• Pocket RAR
• SIP Config
• Total Commander Beta 2.5 Beta 3
• PIM Backup to 2.5
• Oxios Memory
• Windows Live Search searches via Google
• SIM Manager
• dotFred TaskManager (with registry editor link setup and associations built in for .reg files)
• delayedexec.exe is in \Windows but is not configured. See this post for details on using this.
• Mortscript 4.1
• PeekPocket 1.5
• MoDaCo NoData (so you can turn off data sources)
• Camera 3

Full version also contains:

• WkTask 1.1.7.3b (Latest Version)
• HButton (Enable multiple apps on hardware buttons)
• HTC Action
• WMP Touch style skin
• QuickMenu
• MortPlayer
• Schap's Advanced Configuration Tool v1.1 and VoIP Setup Tool
• SK tsync (Time Synchronization)
• Esmertec Java Manager (replaces the standard Midlet Manager)
• WM5torage 1.78Beta4
• WinXplore 0.4
• Blue / Gray Onscreen Keyboard
• 20 Onscreen Keyboard skins that you can choose to use!
• Mobile Justice (a security app that will send an SMS if an unauthorized SIM is placed in your phone)
• StartClean
• PocketScreen (Screen Capture tool)
• 1-Calc Lite
• Smartskey 0.60 (DPAD is set to 0 in the .ini so the up and down scrolling works in the Phone dialer as expected in WM6)
• DotFred's SoftKeyAppletEx
• WM5NewMenu
• BT Crawler
• Call2Contact
• Freecell (a Solitaire card game)
• Tetris - game

The following items that were in XM6r4 have been removed in XM6r5

• REMOVED: FingerFriendlyFriends This is now a commercial product
• REMOVED: TodayAgenda 1.0 Due to a bug in r4 - Install via cab and the bug doesn't happen.
• REMOVED: Adobe Reader LE
• REMOVED: Battery Gauge - WkTask now does this
• REMOVED: SuperDoku v1.1 - Install via cab now

Mods made in XM6r5 (Lite and Full versions)
In addition to the apps listed above, the following fixes and mods were made to improve the user experience on XM6r5

• Using press and hold on CommManager button toggles vibrate on and off, and phone does NOT stay stuck in vibrate / no ring mode
• Regional Settings default to English (United States) and use a slash for the date seperator (M/dd/yyyy)
• Menu sounds work by default
• Pressing the "End Call" button does not disconnect GPRS but minimized the active application. Pressing and holding the "End Call" button for about 5 seconds will do a GPRS Disconnect
• Internet access over ActiveSync (USB) connection works (You must apply a registry fix on your PC first. See the next post for the fix)
• D pad now works differently with PIE. Up and down presses on the D Pad stay the same, but pressing right jumps forward a page and pressing left jumps backwards a page. Makes going through websites easier (IMO).
• Fixed the A2DP registry for sampling
• Registry Entries for PIE Connections to speed page loading
• Registry Entries to increase In Call Volume
• Press Button 1 for messaging (like normal) or hold it a little longer and HTC Action will come up (via HButton)
• WkTask setup to not show Phone and Activesync as running apps in task bar
• QuickMenu enabled for nice drop down and cascading start menu
• Touch Scroll only is active so use your finger to scroll in most places
• Button 4 starts the WkTask Launcher by default. Press and hold Button 4 to start Voice Recorder app
• ROM now remembers new words in custom dictionary
• Fixes found in XM6r5 RC1 have also been implemented in this Final version.

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Requirements
You MUST have an IPL and SPL at 2.xx or higher (BOTH not just one or the other).

You MUST be running ActiveSync 4.5 on Windows XP (Vista comes with the correct sync utility, although there have been issues reported about Vista and sync'ing with PPC's so be aware of that).

Before you attempt to upgrade to this ROM, Please follow this thread to learn how to flash roms, CID unlock your phone, and how to fix issues you may run into! It is also recommended that you flash your phone with a Windows XP computer and not Vista. It will work with Vista, but if you run into problems Vista can't talk to a phone in Bootloader mode!


Recomendations

• I HIGHLY Recommend that you flash back to an official rom before upgrading to this (or any) custom rom so you have a clean base (and correct any Extended ROM corruption you might have). G4 users would flash back to their provider's latest official release or the Wizard Love ROM. G3 users can use T-Mobile 2.26 for a good base.
• If you use BatteryStatus (its NOT included in the rom!) to overclock, I don't recommend overclocking above 260Mhz, and the CPUscaler settings in BatteryStatus should not be set to a min lower than 143MHz (or your device may not wake back up after going to sleep).
• Newer Radio ROMs on WM6 have had issues in the past (especially for Cingular / AT&T users). T-Mobile 2.19 (UK or NL versions) seems to be the most stable, but you can now run newer radios with the attached cab. This cab also works for some other providers but not for all, so its up to you to test what works for your phone.

Credits
I would like to thank the following in help (directly and indirectly) with XDA Mobile 6:

• Faria for providing the initial ROM Kitchen that got me cooking
• anichillus for the fantastic Hyper Core ROM Kitchen which was exclusively used in the production of this ROM
• Dr Puttingham for the guides, information he has provided to all of us
• Molski for having a nice tutorial on various cooking tools and providing easy access to info at http://www.molski.biz
• mattk_r and theloon for inspiration and pushing the envelope and for the fantastic set of OEM packages
• Famewolf for constantly pointing me to new apps, new versions, and posts about features like BlueTooth DUN to add into the rom.
• mengesb for providing an http download location and bandwidth for my roms!
• its right for some fixes and packages I've used in this and other of my roms
• Those that took the time to help alpha and beta test XM6 Release 4 (Rudi, Peter, and Ben). We worked out a number of issues with a nice quick beta test (XM6r3 beta worked out most of the real bugs so this one was "easy" )!
• Everyone that installed and gave feedback and support on the other XDA Mobile 6 threads
• Everyone that I thanked in my other ROM releases!

Known Issues

• After the initial flash, some have reported that QuickMenu pops open the start menu when you are supposed to tap the screen to start the phone setup. Just wait a second or two and it will close by itself. Or tap anywhere on the screen and it should close so you can begin the normal setup procedure.
• The base rom has a bug / feature where if GPRS is active, unanswered calls may not show up as a missed call and may not give notification of the unanswered call. If this happens, the unanswered call shows up in the history as an answered call with a duration of 1 or 2 seconds.
• I inadvertently reintroduced the problem where when you go into the Settings->Phone that if you don't change your ringtone that the ringtone will revert to the default one. Also this causes switching the phone to Vibrate with the comm button to sometimes stick and stay on Vibrate even though the phone shows the ringtone should be on. Famewolf posted a mortscript for the fix in this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...&postcount=117. If you want to do it by hand, then just open the registry editor and navigate to HKLM\Security\System then remove the entire FDRM key.

Official Download Sites for XDA Mobile 6 Release 5
I'll upload with more mirrors as they become available.

XM6r5 Full Version

HTTP Download - Thanks mengesb!

Sendspace Mirror


XM6r5 Lite Version

HTTP Download - Thanks mengesb!

Sendspace Mirror



If you want to use XM6r5 as a base, check out the XDA Mobile 6 Release 5 Cooking Pack!


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[mfrazzz]

How To Upgrade to XM6r5 from XM6r5 RC1 without Flashing
If you are running XM6r5 RC1 and want to upgrade to the Final version without having to Reflash, I'm providing a CAB to do this. You will find the CAB attached to this post. Files installed by this are installed in storage memory and NOT in the ROM (you have to flash to put things in the ROM), so if you hard reset, you will have to reinstall this CAB. You must choose to install this on your device and not on the storage card (It shouldn't ask you but if it does choose device) for this to work.

This cab does the following:

• Updates PIM Backup to 2.7
• Changes WkTask left and right setting so it doesn't hide VoiceMail (and similar) notification icon
• removes the tools folder icon from the Windows folder
• Changes the Wait Cursor to be the Touch one
• Change Start->Settings->System->About to show XM6r5 instead of XM6r4
• Fixes Smartdialing Options in the dialpad menu
• Add default registry entries so when (if) BatteryStatus is installed, Phone and Camera are set to 195Mhz
• Make PocketRAR the default app for .zip files

You will need to soft reset after this install completes.

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A Couple of Apps left out of XM6r5

Attached to this post are some cabs for apps that were left out of XM6r5 Final.

SuperDoku is a Sudoku game that I enjoy and I know others liked to play also.

TodayAgenda is a Today plugin to show your Tasks and Appotinments. Unfortunately in r4 and beta versions of r5, there was a bug when this was built into the rom so I opted to leave it out. You can just install the cab and you'll have TodayAgenda back and the options bug will not happen this way.

Marshall's Touch Wait Cursor was left out due to a space limitation. This changes the default WaitCursor (The red/green/yellow spinner) to a wait cursor like on the Touch phone.

Info on Included Apps

Keyboard Skins
I've included in the rom an application called Keyboard Skins that allows you to change the onscreen (SIP) keyboard colors. The app is in Start->Programs->System. There are 20 different keyboard skins you can choose from! Just choose from the list, and after the program ends you will need to do a soft reset to see the new skin. Enjoy!

WkTask
WkTask is a Task Manager that has a lot of functionality. Its small, quick, and powerful. You can find out more about it (including a video demo) by going here: http://soft.photoracer.net/docs/wktask_en.html

QuickMenu
Quick menu is enabled by default and gives the Start menu a drop down style. Use the QuickMenu settings (found under the Start Menu) to configure the options. More information can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=340358

Note: QuickMenu has task manager functionality (which is NOT enabled by default). If you don't want / need the features of WkTask, you could disable it, and enable the QuickMenu task manager instead. Do NOT enable QuickMenu's task manager features without disabling WkTask (or other Task Managers you may load) as they can conflict with each other and cause unpredictable results).

SK tsync
Included in this rom is SK tsync, which will synchronize your phone to time servers. I've included in \Windows a special link called tsync silent.lnk . You can copy this link (with TotalCommander or use WinXplore) to your \Windows\Startup folder and it will allow your phone to sync its time after a reboot. Famewolf also wrote a Mortscript for easy install (since Mortscript is part of this rom). Click Here to download this script, then just place it on your phone and run it, and it will copy this shortcut to your Startup folder for you.

MobileJustice v0.8
MobileJustice is an Anti-theft app that you can configure on your phone. Just go to Start > Programs > Accessories and click on the MJConfig icon (first time in you will get a message that there isn't a config file, just click ok and it will be created). To us this, check the Enabled box, then click Add on the Allowed line. You can then setup your SIM card as an authorized one, and add other SIM cards IMSI numbers if you use more than one. Next click on Add next to Report to: and setup an SMS number (wife, friend, colleague) where you want the text message to go to if an unauthorized SIM is put into your phone. You can add multiple SMS numbers if you want. At this point, your phone will now be setup so that if an unauthorized sim is put in it, then it will send an SMS (with no record of it being sent) to your Report To list on the next boot (you can test this by not setting up (or removing) the Allowed and then doing a soft reset).

For more advanced, you can turn on the Disp MsgBox at the top and then put in some text in the MsgBox text line. This will pop up a Message box on the screen of the phone after a boot, if an unknown sim is in the phone.

You can also enable RMon (bottom half of the screen), put in a pass phrase, and then turn on MsgBox (GPS and LocCall do not work on Wizards, and the other options haven't been implemented in this version). By doing this, you can now send an SMS to your phone in the following format:

+m passphrase message

Rmon will intercept the sms message (so it will not show up as a received message), and if the passphrase matches the one you put in the configuration, then it will pop up a message box on the phone with your message in it (so you can secretly send messages to the thief to possibly intimediate them (or whatever).

The project page for MobileJustice is located at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mjustice/

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Radio ROMs
Here are links to a few of the Radio ROMs that I've used with XM6r4. Remember that Radio's newer than the 2.19 radio may require the WM6 Fix CAB that is attached to the first post of this thread.

• T-Mobile 2.19.11 UK
• Cingular 2.25.11
• 2.61.11
• 2.69.11

Voice Command

• MS Voice Command 1.6 US HERE and HERE and HERE
• MS Voice Command 1.6 German HERE and HERE and HERE
• MS Voice Command 1.6 FR HERE and HERE and HERE
• MS Voice Command 1.6 UK HERE
• MS Voice Command 1.5 UK HERE and HERE

How to not have a 24hour Clock (or how to show AM/PM)

This works on all WM6 roms

• Go to Start > Settings > System > Regional Settings
• Make sure you have the correct Region selected
• Click on the Time tab
• Click on the drop down box for Time Style
• Notice the little up and down arrows? This is a scrolling region in this dropdown. Click the up arrow a couple of times and you'll find h:mm:ss tt

Thats it. Microsoft is amazing at having a 2 line scrolling region on this dropdown. You'd think they would have had at least 3 or 4 lines show up for chosing (and it would be more obvious that its a scrolling region then too).


GPRS / MMS Setups

First, here is The Ultimate Thread with people posting operator settings for about all providers! In the first post is a link to the thread where walshieau is creating an automated way of setting up all of these!

What follows is a list of automated and manual ways of setting up GPRS and MMS for various cell providers and regions that I've collected:

• The cab file for Cingular users to setup GPRS and MMS - Click Here.
• For T-Mobile US users, here's a link to a thread by Lurch with 3 cabs for the various plans. Famewolf tested the 3rd one and it worked for him.
• For T-Mobile US users, here's a link to a post by FZZF that has info for your setup of GPRS and MMS by hand
• Here's another link with cab files for T-Mobile US users:
• MMS auto config t-mobile.cab (Thanks to marscandybars for posting this)
• Here's the settings for the original (Pre-Cingular) AT&T Wireless (blue sim)
• Rogers Canada CAB
• German users check HERE
• Greek users, Tna posted a cab for Greek Operators, or check HERE
• European carriers should check out this thread by praneetsrivastav.

VoIP Setup Instructions
Thanks to joaosousa for the following steps!

!!! Only Tested in a Wifi network !!!

• Install the wm6voip.cab.
• Restart your Wizard (Soft Reset).
• Go to Start > Programs > Toobox and open Setup VoIp Aplication.
• Insert your VoIP account information.
• Restart your wizard (Soft Reset).
• Now you should be able to use VoIP, check the status of the service in the today screen.

This didn't work? Then please check this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299950


Connecting XM6r5 to the Internet via ActiveSync 4.5 on Windows XP

• For those having issues connecting to the internet via Active Sync, cut and paste this code onto your PC in a file called net_over_activesync.reg and run it (on your PC not your phone)
  

  Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
  
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows CE Services]
  "AllowLSP"=dword:00000000

Splash Screens and Splash Only RUU for G4

• For G4 users, Click Here for the RUU with the Splash Screens of this rom (since you don't get them when you use the shell tool). As I understand it, this is completely safe for a G4 as its nothing but splash screens (no OS, IPL, SPL, Extended ROM, etc, just splash and htc logo screens). I've also placed the .bmp files that make up the splash screen in the zip file so you can see them directly before flashing this.
• If you have problems flashing the above RUU on a G4, then extract this http://forum.xda-developers.com/atta...8&d=1152698784 and pull the nk.nbf file out of the above Splash Screen file and put it into the directory of this one and run this RUU. You can use the same method for flashing the Radio Only ROM (pull the nk.nbf file out of the radio only rom and put it into the directory of this RUU and run it). Thanks anichillus for that link! You can also check this thread for another RUU that is in English and seems to work for most G4 users. Thanks Vippie!

Weather Panel Setup

See my post in the Wizard forum on how I setup WeatherPanel. It will give you a fixed dll with correct moon phases through 2008, new/better Moon phase icons, and a cool theme called Chameleon-240 QVGA. I dumped SBSH Pocket Weather after seeing this setup

Hermes Black Cabs that may be of Interest
Transcriber can be added back into XM6r4 by using the Black 3 Add-on CABs file. There may be others in it that may be of interest also for some. Included in this file is Cyberon VoiceCommander, Cyberon Voice Dial, VIjay555 utils, and a Slingbox patch (none of these I've tested).

Turning off Word Auto Completion
Some people do not like how Windows Mobile tries to suggest words that you may be typing. If you are one of those people, jacob-mda wrote up a post on how to turn it off. Check out This Thread.

Auto Completion for Spanish
User peu found the file to change the auto completion of words to Spanish. You can check his post here for details and a link.


Skinning the Dialpad
You can find skins for this dialpad HERE. See image attached below for an example.

Skinning MortPlayer
MortPlayer is very skinnable. Check out the qVista example attached below. You can find qVista here: http://www.aximsite.com/boards/theme...it-square.html

More skins can be found here: http://www.sto-helit.de/index.php?mo...st&category=23

Or create your own skins by reading this: http://www.sto-helit.de/freeware/poc.../skinhelp.html

BatteryStatus (for Overclocking, CPUScalar, and much much more)
BatteryStatus is a very popular utility around here and for good reasons. Currently its in a beta phase and the author is releasing new versions of the beta constantly so I decided not to put it in the rom and let people install whatever build of it they want. Also, some versions of BatteryStatus have been known to cause excessive battery drain, so be aware of that too. You can find it in the Official BatteryStatus thread and if you do use it, feel free to give feedback on it in that thread as they are always looking for ways to improve it.

NOTE: If you do use overclocking, I recommend you use the OMAP Apps tab to setup Camera to be at 195Mhz as it can mess up the display if you are overclocked and doing the camera.

How to change Keyboard for other languages and layouts

This thread has information for changing the keyboard to work for other layouts.

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[mfrazzz]

Upgrading and Patching XM6r5

XM6r5.1 Patch (6-Jan-2007)

NOTE: To install this patch, you will need to turn off Smartskey first (or you will get an error about not enough permission to install this). To do this, go to Start -> Settings -> Smartskey . This should then ask you if you want to stop it from running, answer yes. Then you can install the CAB.

This patch does the following:

• Change Settings -> System -> About screen to read XM6r5.1
• Upgrade dotFred's TaskMgr to 2.9 and set it to not minimize to the systray by default
• Downgrade Smartskey to .56 to fix some issues with volume control
• Installs Camera Patches to reduce speckle and improve camera performance
• Install Battery Saving fixes to help improve battery life on the device

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[tekknogenius]

Downloading now...

[dominicanodcora]

downloading now. thanks. i'll let you know what happends. new years present came in early

[jeffla]

I can't wait, flashing carrier rom as we speak. Then onto the new R5 I have been waiting for. Thanks for all your hard work. Will miss seeing new roms from you, but am happy with what you have given to the community.

Jeff

[hayduke]

thanks again mfrazzz. Works like a champ

I already tried RC1, so I expected this to be fine.