Is there much point in Flashing the Touch Pro?

[x10guy]

Originally Posted by Canadaka

My girlfriend just got the Touch Pro, so I’ve been tweaking it out. I myself have had the HTC Touch (Vogue) for over a year and flashed it early on and have switch ROM's several times, mostly trying to get the GPS to work properly. But through all that i learnt what programs and tweaks I like, so now I don't load new ROM's in very often.

With my girlfriends Touch Pro, i can't find a good reason to flash it and load custom ROM's. With the touch there was good reason, to get the GPS unlocked, to get WM 6.1 and REVA. The Touch Pro already has all of these things. And the GPS hacks using QPST work without flashing the phone. I did the GPS tweaks today and now her GPS works perfectly.

So what are the reasons to flash the Touch Pro? The only one I can think of, is to get the new IE6 Mobile. But I use Opera Mobile anyways.

I know it's old but you know how the saying goes. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

I have flashed my TP simply because I assumed it would be like flashing with the Mogul/Apache... With the TP it is a bit different. You'll see incremental improvements.

Yes you can get rid of some of the bloatware but... funny thing, some of the bloatware that Sprint included is actually somehwat useful and I ended up re-installing it anyways (Worldcard, TP3D, SprintTV). By FAR that biggest bloatware is TP3D but most custom ROMS still keep it.

As for speed, you might see some slight speed increases but once you start adding more stuff to your TP you probably won't see much of a difference.

Really about 95% of what you see in Custom ROMS can be done with Cab installations and Registry tweaks.

Now I'm not saying that Custom ROMS are bad. Quite the contrary, some of them are quite impressive. Just don't expect a whole new phone with New ROMs.