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Originally Posted by petermg

I used the kitchen.. and I used the 5060 version because that's what the guide at the beginning of this thread says to use... should I use something else?

the first "official" GPS ROM was 3.35 (not counting the beta - but thats' whole another can of worms )
this guide says to use 5060 cuz that was current when it was wrote...

Originally Posted by petermg

Ok, now I'm totally lost. According to the directions at the beginning of this thread, I have to update the radio to version 3.35.04. Where did this 3.42.50 version come from? Is there any benefit from using one over the other? I've read it's a really bad idea to try to downgrade the radio.

RANT!!:
Is it POSSIBLE for me to somehow RESTORE all my customizations that I had PRIOR to the ROM flash? I used SPB BACKUP to back up my entire flash storage. I spent a LOT of time customizing things and would really like a way to simply RESTORE everything that got wiped in the flash as far as my customizations go. VERY frustrating spending so much time customizing my phone then have it all wiped if I want to upgrade the rom and have to manually do it all over again!!!

ok. any radio 3.35 or above should work, personally i'm still running 3.35
as far as backup goes, yes it's possible... but not 100% guaranteed

so if you backup contacts only, or text only it may work vs a full restore...
sometimes it can be a huge factor when you change build versions,
while other times it will work flawlessly...

there's also several tools that will allow you to auto install applications...

Originally Posted by petermg

hmmm... weird.. now my Gmail account on my phone is set to IMAP rather than pop3.... and it won't let me change it or create a GMAIL account as pop3 as when it sees it's a gmail account it gets all happy and tells me that the settings have been found. So now for some reason all the emails I had restored to it from my PIM backup are not showing...

When you setup your gmail account, just misspell it like yourname@gamil.com and enter settings manually...
then go back and edit the email address

Originally Posted by petermg

After I build a ROM.. is there a way I can save the file? Like if I want to test different rom selections? It takes a long time to build a rom and I keep getting "Do you wish to overwrite this file?" messages about 100 times each time I build the rom, so I have to hold down the Y or N button forever. I have to babysit it.

Is there a way to save the rom files and then select which rom you wish to use to flash with?

You can save the .nbh file...
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\hIq Inc\PPC-BuildOS\9.05.2.7 Temp
your ROM will be the RUU_signed.nbh

Originally Posted by petermg

BTW the "OZ Instant Messenger" client ALWAYS returns the error "USER DOES NOT EXIST" when I try to use it to log into AIM or MSN.. anyone else have any experience with this app?

Never worked for me... Try Palringo - its free