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Re: Way to capture present ROM image prior to experimenting

ImCokeMan

I found this post from you
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...tock+rom+titan
but I'm not seeing any stock roms for the Titan -- mosty the touch.

I did find this
ftp://up.ppcgeeks.com/Titan/CarrierR...Ruu_signed.nbh

Do you know if this shows up as 2.09.605.8, radio 1.30.60 as my phone did from the factory? Verizon exe? (nothing on http://www.htc.com/us yet or on vzw)

FWIW - I want to experiment with the kitchen, but I already played with the Alltel phone I had and I have quite a bit of experience with the Apache (6700). My 6700 was never stable -- random locks, etc. I tried everything and really suspect a bad/quirky piece of HW.

I turned on GPS and flashed the Alltel to the 6.1 kitchen and lost the icons for rotation, power, and comm manager -- I could go find where they are in the registry but it used to be so easy with Yuma 6700 tweaks and that wouldn't load with the new kitchen -- again, I could have hacked it, but it was just chewing up too much time. VZW wouldn't activate the Alltel so I took it back to stock and was successful going backwards from GPS -- with OliPro, I ran the Alltel 3.16 ROM to get back a fairly pure Alltel image, relocked it to 1.06 and ran the alltel 2.14 stock ROM. I am certain the radio was 3.27 and I was on OliPro 2.4 and I am certain that right now it is radio 1.40 (stock) with bootloader 1.06 (stock) and it also runs the carrier setups so it looks factory. I fully expected to make a brick per your warnings but it was that or it wasn't salable so I braved it and lucked out.

I would NEVER question your expertise so I'll trust there might be some remnants of GPS, but the whole experience got me to thinking about backout strategies because my goal right now is lots of usable space since I seem to run out when I load the "normal way", but stable, and reversible if I have quirky issues -- I hate the stock ROMs but sadly they have been the most stable for me -- probably because it is too hard to load them up the way I want.

I noticed some mention of "dumped ROMs" being repackaged to where they were flashable -- any suggestions on that? I'm not finding much on searching (which I ALWAYS do first)

Lastly -- any good ways to test stability incrementally? I tend to like a launcher (cLaunch or iStatus) but I suspect that might be the culprit. I like WeatherPanel but have also suspected it at times. I run a Bible program (eSword) that requires CE2.0 (won't run on 3.5) and I've suspected conflict there. I also like TCPMP 0.81 rather than 0.72 but have flip-flopped when I had issues. Could be some other thing -- I actually select about 30 in my selections but most are simple stuff that everyone uses like Resco, reg tweaks, optimizing, etc. Switching to the 6800 from the 6700 I'm missing the icons I used to have and really longing fro the integrated today message app the scrolled through sms, email, vmail, etc.

I'd like to contribute to the cause in the way of help testing, tweaking, integrating which I am quite capable of but I haven't wanted to bug people because I am SO grateful for your hard work and just wanted to be respectful. I'm pretty hit-or-miss on time with 2 young kids and a wife with terminal cancer so that factors into my hobby time like this.

Sorry so long, I'll understand if you can't respond.

If you read only one thing -- THANKS.
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