We just get the same questions over and over
I know I've typed it in a few times.
But let's turn it around the other way.
(a) it's an expensive bit of gear, are you sure you want to turn it into a testbed for unoffical roms? You really should have a good answer for that one.
(b) ok, you're crazy like me, so you answered "yes"! Proceed
(c) first real step!
you must have activesync working, and a full sync of cal/contacts/todo - or assume you will lose them. Read that again. Understand it? Sure? Really?
(d) sync - make sure its current
(e) do you have all the various bits you've already installed? By bits I mean, you have the installer exes, or the CABS, NOT on your phone internal store? Sure? Really Really? Ok... Oh, and you have all your serial number/reg key/whatevers for your commercial apps?
(f) last chance... You Will Be Wiping Internal Memory Very Soon...
(g) last bit of homework. You're going to be doing stuff that isn't going to play well with your carrier extended_rom stuff. We'll get to that in a moment, but unfortunately that's a huge hairy branch of choices from there... and I'm not going to be able to type it all up in one go.
(h) but I wanna do it now!
Ok, so you are itching to go... the SAFE way to get SOME benefit, without the hairy spiders of AKU3.x attacking, is to just go for AKU2.2 from Wideawake, right here:
http://www.ppcgeeks.com/updated1-2ho...700-t1515.html
Why do that? Couple reasons
(1) it's "carrier safe" - you don't need to understand the extended rom.
(2) it's good pratice - you'll be flashing your rom, and getting a feel for the whole hard reset dance...
(3) AKU 2.2 is very much like AKU 2.0, it has BT DUN, everything works, etc, just a little faster.
It's still a mighty fine bit of work that's often overlooked.
My suggestion is to cut your teeth on that puppy and then if you're still itching to go into uncharted territory, continue on from there.
Oh, and one last thing -
you should make sure you have done a full rom update with the latest offical rom you can get from your carrier. Two good reasons to do that - your extended_rom and radio firmware will be updated to the latest and greatest (none of these ROMS do that, they just update the OS) and you will be sure to have your carrier ROM flash handy, and know how to do it, should something go slightly wrong - that's your recovery option right there... you have to reflash some other OS if things go bad, and you might as well do the carrier one.
Onward and Upward - AKU 3.3, 3.5, and all the variants thereof
Ok, the above, and the sketch of the section that should come below this last bold bit above, is now on the wiki HERE:
http://wiki.ppcgeeks.com/index.php?t...ROMUpdateGuide
Please folks, chip in and write some of it
