[jsavin]

So after about three hours of messing around with it last night, and maybe 6 or 8 reflashes, my phone is ringing again. Unfortunately I have no idea why it's working now, in spite of the fact that I tried to be really systematic about figuring out what the problem was.

I started off with my original OEM selections, removing them one-by-one, reflashing, and testing the ringer.

At some point, I think after removing the big-button dialer, it rang but only after a long delay. But as it turned out, that was probably a fluke.

In the end, I ended up flashing with almost exactly the same thing I had before, but with MS Voice Command instead of Voice commander (which was smaller storage-wise, but I didn't like much). I removed a couple of games, and the extra sounds and themes, in order to make the space up.

All through the process, I was doing the *228 trick to program the phone (Verizon's provisioning tool), so it's probably possible that this is what fixed the problem.

Even after the phone started ringing, I found it took a long time, so I applied the slot-cycle hack (set it to 1) so it would be more responsive.

And now I have a phone that rings in responsive fashion, but I still don't know why it didn't ring in the first place.

I do have the two selections.txt files, and saved all my custom OEMs that were used on the original one that wasn't working. I'd be happy to share these if anyone working on the kitcken, on the OEMizer, or on BuildOS wants to have a look.