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Originally Posted by freeza

Let me start off by saying thank you for your interest in the ROM. I hope to be able to address all of your concerns.

You can run either of the 2.1 or 2.5 CABs to install Sense, and it should install without a hitch. Most, if not all the OEM software is available in the OEMCABs folder, and if not, I will most certainly CAB anything that is missing up for you. I should probably do a description of each CAB so that it will make it easier to decide what you would like to install.

First off let me say freeza, thanks for the quick, thorough and polite reply, don’t often see that kind of service.

But just to clarify just in case I didn’t make myself clear or maybe I did an you were just kindly giving me more info.

Basically I was asking if I can take my device as is without wiping out anything existing on it or installing anything else you have including the bare ROM and just run either the 2.1 or 2.5 Sence cabs you have in your FTP folder to install 2.1 or 2.5 on my device exactly as it is now.

The only reason I mention that again is that in regards to your above reply, provided this worked with a hitch, I don’t imagine I would need any of the cabs or anything else as I won’t be taking anything off the device by doing it this way, in fact that kinda is the whole point of doing it this way as I won’t need to do anything else and my device will be exactly the same except it will have Sence 2.1 or 2.5 on it, correct? (I know that last thing is a hard question to answer but I trust your best educated opinion).

Originally Posted by freeza

Sense CABs are uninstallable not because they can't be uninstalled, but because the CAB uninstaller fails (probably because files are in use) even if you uncheck Sense and soft-reset. That's not to say that you can't get rid of it, however, it is a bit tedious. Basically you'd just have to remove all the Manila files as well as a few others related to your Sense version. Annoying, but not impossible.

This makes sense, its kinda like when your doing a backup and it has to shut down most of the services. Basically the system is designed not allow any actions, especially a deletion, to something that is currently being used and since this is stuff that is of the core operations, most of the time a great deal of it is being used all the time so a uninstall would be tough.

Originally Posted by freeza

As for installing them on top of each other, that would probably create more problems than anything else. I hope to make fully uninstallable versions in the near future so that you don't have to manually do it or pick one version to stick with, as the whole point of this ROM is to be able to uninstall and install things at will.

That would be great but until then, especially in lue of both of the above conditions that you can’t uninstall and can’t swap upgrades, I guess that best thing to do would be to do a complete backup and then if something needs to be changed or isn’t working, just do a flash with my original ROM and then do a backup restore.

This really isn’t too much of an issue and I would assume is not too time consuming, although I have never done it so I don’t know how well SPB Backup restores a system but all in all I just wanted to discuss what currently you thought was the best method.

Originally Posted by freeza

I will definitely work to help resolve any issues or get your phone back exactly how you like/had it if you decide to give this ROM a try.

T-Mobile like customer service via one person on a forum. How awesome is that?! lol

Yup defiantly get a A++ from me!