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Originally Posted by DavidNM
Hi! I'm not a neophyte by any means and have been around the Palm and PPC world for years - but this is a bit scary when I look at posts that contain ROM upgrades - and the posts contain over a thousand replies.
Is there somewhere that has a definitive, most up to date, most recent set of ROM upgrades with instructions, etc.? It's not that I'm lazy and don't want to look through threads - but I get the impression that there is some definite advantage to doing the upgrade - but quite frankly I don't have the time to read five thousand posts to make sure I'm going after the latest and greatest with the most up to date installation instructions.
Thanks if you can help.
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I know exactly what you mean about the ROM threads, it's definitely ridiculous to read through 300+ pages of garbage to get the info you are looking for. (A wiki would probably work great for this purpose, but nobody's set one up yet. Hmm, there's an idea) I got my flashing instructions from theidoctor.org/omnia.html which was written in the good old days of the CC20 beta rom, but the instructions are the same for the new one. If you haven't flashed already, here you go, otherwise here's a reference for anyone else:
Turn off USB connections in Activesync, download the necessary software (UMDL flashing program and the ROM), open UMDL, select Unified Image File and browse to your flash file, then click detect, turn your phone off completely, plug it in then power it up again. Your phone's screen should say Entering Download Mode...Do Not Disconnect. Then just wait for it to finish.
PS - The new rom is called CF03 and there is actually a customer flashing tool available directly from Samsung:
http://ars.samsung.com/customer/usa/...0&AT_ID=157996
Go on that page and select Windows XP or Vista, then you will go to a page with the download and info. The layout is a bit hard to follow but you should be able to get to it. After you flash the official firmware, you can flash the custom ROMs with UMDL by following the same steps as before but by clicking PDA and browsing to the downloaded BIN file.
All of the latest roms will be in the Omnia Upgrades section and should be in the first post (Adrynalyne's ROMs, for example, always have the latest info in the first post and the thread title is updated accordingly; all of the other ROMs should be the same).
Here's Adrynalyne's latest thread made specifically for the CF03 update:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=75064