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Originally Posted by rdcrds
2 questions.
1. what are people using to back up their software? i don't wanna keep writing in the long slingbox code everytime i reinstall a new rom or update one.
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I highly recommend Sashimi 8, which you can find on winmo-experts.com.
Murducky has a good guide on these forums. You can search for it. Unfortunately, I don't have enough posts on the forums to post links, so you'll have to search for it.
Sashimi will let you get your device almost fully customized after flashing. I have mine setup to provision my exchange/email provider (GMail), which loads my email, contacts and calendar without any intervention on my part. It also sets up my wifi settings for several locations I use commonly, installs my own programs, and loads settings for those programs, including SlingPlayer, which I use also.
I was initially afraid it looked too complicated, but once you work through the guide, it's actually very easy.
Now when I flash a new Rom, I leave my device untouched for about 10 minutes, while all my programs load, and my settings are loaded, and ActiveSync connects to GMail and syncs.
I do have one tweak I came up with to handle device restarts during Sashimi. Sashimi tries to circumvent programs that automatically restart during install, but I have had a few that it could not work around. That left me unsure whether Sashimi finished, and after a reboot I'd have to try to figure out whether I need to start up Sashimi again.
To fix it, I first followed the instructions on post 60 of the murducky guide, but I changed the copy to put the file in the windows startup folder instead of the TMP folder, and exec it from there. This way, if the device restarts in the middle of Sashimi installing CABs, Sashimi starts back up and continues from where it left off. The only catch is that you need to delete the link from the startup folder after Sashimi finished. Fortunately, Sashimi's deleteops.ini file will delete any file you indicate when Sashimi is at the end of it's processing. Just add the startup link file to deleteops.ini.
Good luck. Once you get it setup, you'll find that the only really tricky part is finding where any given program stores it's settings. Some searches on the forums will find posts that give this info on many common programs.