[kurioslives]

Greetings Everyone,

First I would like to say that I enjoy learning on these forums as I am completely new to this world of smartphones. So indepth explanations and written out abbreviations would be appreciated as I am still getting use to them.

Secondly, I sort of got myself in a pickle - not a completely bad one but nonetheless a challenge. Here is the summary:

I bought an PPC 6800 that works on the alltel network off of ebay. The ESN checks out clean and I am using it on Alltel network (after manually configuring it through EPST). I learned through this process that this phone was indeed a Sprint Mogul flashed with Alltel software thus enabling it to work on Alltel network. HOWEVER, there are a few things I would like to fix/upgrade but I don't know where to start.

1. I want to fix the persistant digital roaming triangle that shows up on the top of the screen. I don't know yet if I am truly roaming and will be charged until a few days from now when I get the bill. I learned of others having similiar issues and roaming was caused by the radio searching for Sprint network and when it can't find it, it finds Alltels thus causing the endless "digital roaming" though, I am not supposedly being charged for roaming according to how my Alltel plan is laid out. I would really want to fix this but I haven't a clue how.... my guess I need an Alltel ROM for the radio not the sprints?

2. I want to upgrade this phone from Windows Mobile 6 to 6.1. With my phone sort of in a non-standard state of software (meaning, my Sprint Mogul is running on Alltel network with a few quarks mentioned above), I'm not quite sure what to expect when attempting to reflash anything nor have I done anything like this before....

3. I also want to put Office 6.1 on my ppc 6800.

4. I heard about GPS - I've never used it and was curious how some have gotten it to work on the Mogul.

That is about it as far as goals and hopes to accomplish with this phone. I would sincerely appreciate anyone to provide links and any information about what I need to do.

To give you all an understanding where I am at with my knowledge, I have gone to XDA Developers and read the wiki of definitions but still, I am a bit confused on some things. Just need clarification as I go I suppose. I'm just afraid of making a brick out of my phone so I decided to create a thread.


Thank you for your time.
kurios