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Old 11-15-2007, 03:35 PM
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Regarding the question about the Telus ROM from the first page, it has no issues with BT connecting or shutting off on it's own, but the quality is horrendous. Completely unusable. The ear piece volume is too low to hear your caller with ANY background noise. Also, the mic has a problem with the automatic gain control and fades in and out.

I then tried the Alltel (2.14) ROM and it fixed all my BT quality problems but developed a new one that I'm not sure if it's related to BT or not. Quite often the phone would lock up while suspended and require a soft reset. Just as often (mostly when the battery is low) I would not be notified of my incoming calls. As soon as I woke the device up with the power button the last call that I missed would flash up on the screen and the ringer would start for a split second. I would have to soft reset after this or I would not be able to receive any incoming calls unless my screen was on.

This was completely unacceptable and not worth the improvement in BT quality. But I toughed it out until the Sprint 2.16 ROM was released. Since then I have tried all the different variations including those with the Touch BT stack and they all exhibit the same BT shutdown and disconnect problems.

Currently I am testing the Qwest 2.13 ROM with Radio 1.40 and it has been better, but still buggy. So far I have had far less disconnects than previously and most of the time it will reconnect my headset if I do a long press on my headset button (sometimes 2 consecutive presses are required, usually when the screen is off). This is better since I don't have to manually run the comm manager and toggle bluetooth back on (which is a pain when trying to talk on the phone). I should also mention that I modified HKLM\SOFTWARE\OEM\VoiceCommand\ to disable SDDailer so that when I press my headset it just opens the audio gateway.

So far I have had a moderate improvement in usability by modifying my profiles in SPB Phone Suite to keep BT on like a previous poster mentioned. It has decreased the number of disconnects, also when it does shut off I can re-enable it from the today sceen. It's interesting to note that the Qwest ROM had the sys value set to 1 already (This may have been what Phone Suite did to help) and my phone has no issues going into sleep mode automatically.

I'm going to test setting this sys value to 2 and see what happens. I'm pretty much ready to try WM5 on this thing. There's really not that much different between the 2 as far as I can tell (aside from the fact the WM5 does not have these issues).
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