[madscientistomaha]

Here's my problem with flashing a new ROM. You guys (all presumably very smart) get going on all these new updates and releases of the latest and greatest stuff from MS or HTC, and then it gets "cooked" into some new release of a ROM. This requires me to do several things:

1) Break the warranty on my very expensive phone
2) Possibly risk some new operating system will brick my phone

I usually get very excited about the latest release, but then I skip to the end of these VERY long threads, and hear the same thing: "Hey (whoever)! This doesn't work, and this doesn't work, and why can't I send text messages, and wow, it's cool, but I can't seem to take any pictures" etc...

Some of these issues seem to have been fixed in earlier releases, but may have been tweaked and then don't work again later. What do I do if I just want a nice, fully working alternative, to my stock Sprint ROM?

On my old Mogul, I could add the Manila stuff with just some cab files. No harm no foul. Just uninstall if they're not working, hard reset and away you go. I need my phone to work, and if it's not, then I'm screwed.

It just seems like there needs to be a better "testbed" or review process for this. I'm willing to wait for something if it's fully working. I've noticed this on all the cooked ROMS (Mighty Mike, Juicy, CFay, Calkulin, etc...) and I seem to have picked up on a similar sentiment from others as well. I'm about ready to just throw in the towel and wait until something official comes out from Sprint, but then I get sucked back in by some claim that "no really, this one is better!!"

Maybe I'm just not looking in the right place? Is there a better SPRINT WM 6.5 Sense 2.5 ROM that actually works on TP2 without much cabbing and registry editing?