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Originally Posted by DaveNagy
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(d) sync - make sure its current
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I have no idea what this even means.  Are we talking about Activesync some more? |
Yep, sorry... I mean, do another ActiveSync just before you start - if you're like me, you think your AS backup is current, but it's usually not!
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Skipping to "g". The mysterious allusion to our carrier's extended_rom. I still don't know what that is, but here's my guesses:
* It's the add-on stuff that comes preloaded on your phone, kinda like the useless virus-checker that Dell installs on every computer they sell. On my Sprint phone, I see the "Audible Player" and "GetGood". Perhaps these were in the ext-rom?
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Yes, the extended_rom stuff is unique to each carrier, and installs a bunch of apps
and OS updates, and registry settings automagically on a hard boot. There are threads here on customizing your extended_rom, and on problems with the extended roms (which were designed to patch AKU 2.0, NOT AKU 3.x) when used with newer roms. I had hopes of tracking all that down (I've narrowed my Sprint stuff down to a handful of needed cabs, and the Verizon users also have figured out which of theirs are needed and which are bad, but I've not gathered the info all in one place.)
Your job is to hunt down that info for your carrier, and learn how to modify your extended rom so you can remove the problem CABs.
One simple way is to unlock the extended rom (again, that info is here somewhere, I need to link it) and copy all the cabs off it onto your storage card, and then delete them from the extended rom - you'll have 10MB free there now if you run with it unlocked, and on a hard reset *nothing* extra will be installed.
So, after a hard reset, you just go to your storage card and manually install the carrier CABs needed.