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Originally Posted by luv2chill
Your understanding is pretty much correct. Flashing this WM6 ROM will not touch your extended ROM... so after you flash and perform the welcome wizard stuff (screen calibration, time zone, etc.) you should be ready to soft reset when you see the "Customize your device in 3 seconds" screen. You can then proceed to unlock your extrom and delete everything out of there if you want. There's no harm in doing so and that will prevent it from trying to install that old stuff again.
And yes if you ever want the phone's ROMs (all three of them) restored to the Sprint-provided versions then you just download the appropriate ROM package from utstarcom's web site (the one you mentioned is the latest Sprint one--which sadly is extremely old and slow).
Rock Chalk Jayhawk!
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Well I guess all that preparation was worth it, I had not a single problem although I haven't played around very much yet. I did confirmed basic functionality of the phone (incoming and outgoing) , browser, EVDO, and orientation switching.
I noticed a couple of people claiming that several "hard resets" cleared up a wide variety of problems, so I did six hard resets in a row figuring it might not help but it couldn't (or at least shouldn't) hurt either. Each time I interrupted the process before the "3 second" timeout. I did notice that every time I saw WM6 it caused me to giggle like a little girl. Although I do blame Helmi for these embarrassing outbursts, to be fair there probably is not a lot than can be done about it at this point in time.
As a point of comparison my "Device Information" was:
ROM version: 2.06.00 WWE
ROM date: 02/22/06
Radio version: 1.27.00
Protocol version: SNAZ-40306
ExtROM version: 2.05.303 WWE
PRI version: 1.19_003
Browser version MSIE 4.01
CPU: Intel(R) PXA2700
Speed: 416MHZ
RAM size: 64 MB
Flash size: 128 MB
Flash chip type: M-Systems
Model No.: PA10A1
Platform: PocketPC
Data bus: 32 bits
Storage size: 39.59 MB
Here is my "Device Information" after flashing:
ROM version: 3.50.00 WWE
ROM date: 04/25/07
Radio Version: 1.27.00
Protocol version: SNAZ-40306
ExtROM version: <blank>
Hardware version: 0041
PRL version: 20229
PRI version: 1.19_003
Browser version: MSIE 6.0
CPU: Intel(R) PXA270
Speed: 416 MHz
RAM Size: 64MB
Flash Size: 128 MB
Flash chip type: M-Systems
Data bus: 32 bits
Storage size: 39.59
Model No.: PA10A1
Platform: PocketPC
My new WM6.0 "System Information" shows:
Windows Mobile 6.0 (WinCE 5.02)
PA10A1
Program Memory - 40% 50.2MB/20.14MB
Storage Memory - 8% 39.6MB/3.2MB
Extended_ROM2 - 98% 9.9MB/9.77MB
Storage Card - 6% 968.3MB/58.19MB
I am not familiar with "Extended_ROM2" but I suspect this is where all the new stuff went. I also suspect that \Extended_ROM\ is still there although I normally access that with Total Commander/CE 2.0 (Pocket PC ARM/XSCALE) which I haven't installed yet. And when I set up "Weather" it listed me as "Lawrence, US" and I would have prefered "The Peoples Republic of Lawrence, KS" More later as I begin to resync with my laptop, text message, and amaze my fellow cow orkers.