Official Sprint 6.5 ROM Touch Pro 2 RELEASE (Official Discussion Thread)

[kirstein]

OK, here's my quick review:

Best stock ROM I've ever seen. Any other US carriers with SenseUI 2.5?
It's fast. Remember, this is Sense 2.5. I've tried lots of custom ROMs and they all were a bit laggy in 2.5 This one seems pretty quick and responsive. Seems stable . Haven't had a lockup or glitch yet. (I don't archive 1000+ texts on my phone)


My thoughts on people's biggest complaints.

1. No stealth tethering. REALLY? Did anyone actually expect Sprint to include a method to steal data service from them on this ROM? I'm surprised the workarounds still work.
2. Flipclock 1:02 “bug”. That's the way HTC wrote it, been there on all the stock SENSEUI roms. Most of the chefs killed it. Some people like it, most don't. Good news, there's a cab to kill it.
3. Not enough home screen links. I agree, but that's how HTC wrote Sense 2.5 What were they thinking? At least 2 ways to fix it: Cookietab, and all those 4x4 tab mods.
4. Splash screens. People are pissed because HTC used their real logo colors on the splash? What did you expect them to use?
5. No task manager in the upper right. Hmmm. Maybe a valid point here. I always hated how hard it was to open in there, I was always opening the HTC notification manager by mistake. Now I miss it. Of course you can always make a link to it if you really miss it. (I did).
6. Can't set programs to kill on close instead of suspend. Again, maybe a valid point. On the other hand, the same people who complain that X to kill is gone will boast all day about how Windows Phone has multitasking. I guess I'll force myself to see how things work without killing every program I use. If it's a problem there's a cab to change it.
7. My favorite program doesn't work on this ROM. Really? I haven't had this problem. Anything I have that worked on the chefs' 6.5/2.5 roms works for me now. That includes Sashimi and cookietab.
8. Too much Sprint stuff. REALLY? You know it's a Sprint phone, right? You can always delete the link, or turn off the tab.

Anyway, I'm going to try and go cold turkey from my flashing addiction. This ROM is nice and stable, and it's got everything I wanted in the Custom roms. YMMV.

[bit1]

For my two cents this stock Rom is amazing! I would almost mistake it for an early chef's rom except for the Sprint TV, etc on it. It seems pretty stable, it has 2.5 on it. Nice job Sprint! I can't even believe they bothered with it but I think that's pretty cool of them.

[ObviousMan]

I've read through most pages in this thread, and I either missed or nobody complained that for some reason vibration response on dialer key press can not be turned on for some reason. No matter if check box is checked or unchecked it vibrates. I really do not like that, is there a fix to turn this off?
OM

[lallen3]

Originally Posted by kirstein

OK, here's my quick review:

Best stock ROM I've ever seen. Any other US carriers with SenseUI 2.5?
It's fast. Remember, this is Sense 2.5. I've tried lots of custom ROMs and they all were a bit laggy in 2.5 This one seems pretty quick and responsive. Seems stable . Haven't had a lockup or glitch yet. (I don't archive 1000+ texts on my phone)


My thoughts on people's biggest complaints.

1. No stealth tethering. REALLY? Did anyone actually expect Sprint to include a method to steal data service from them on this ROM? I'm surprised the workarounds still work.
2. Flipclock 1:02 “bug”. That's the way HTC wrote it, been there on all the stock SENSEUI roms. Most of the chefs killed it. Some people like it, most don't. Good news, there's a cab to kill it.
3. Not enough home screen links. I agree, but that's how HTC wrote Sense 2.5 What were they thinking? At least 2 ways to fix it: Cookietab, and all those 4x4 tab mods.
4. Splash screens. People are pissed because HTC used their real logo colors on the splash? What did you expect them to use?
5. No task manager in the upper right. Hmmm. Maybe a valid point here. I always hated how hard it was to open in there, I was always opening the HTC notification manager by mistake. Now I miss it. Of course you can always make a link to it if you really miss it. (I did).
6. Can't set programs to kill on close instead of suspend. Again, maybe a valid point. On the other hand, the same people who complain that X to kill is gone will boast all day about how Windows Phone has multitasking. I guess I'll force myself to see how things work without killing every program I use. If it's a problem there's a cab to change it.
7. My favorite program doesn't work on this ROM. Really? I haven't had this problem. Anything I have that worked on the chefs' 6.5/2.5 roms works for me now. That includes Sashimi and cookietab.
8. Too much Sprint stuff. REALLY? You know it's a Sprint phone, right? You can always delete the link, or turn off the tab.

Anyway, I'm going to try and go cold turkey from my flashing addiction. This ROM is nice and stable, and it's got everything I wanted in the Custom roms. YMMV.

I couldn't agree more. I'll get my 'x' back, enable stealth tethering and finally be completely happy all stock. I've run every ROM out there, and despite this one lacking a few minor tweaks applied to the customs, it's STABLE. No more flashing for me. Now I must decide between the Supersonic and Windows Phone 7 in the coming months. But this has made me happy with my TP2 once again. =D

[oZo]

Well, I for one was disappointed. Too many weird quirks and issues (all have been covered here).
I went back to MightyROM.
I'm sure this will be disassembled, tweaked and slimmed down. Then I'll try it again.

[CosmoPilot]

Been using Might Rom for the longest time now...have grown acustom to 6.5...

This ROM is sweet. I know the chefs will have some tweeks and mods as the weeks roll by. However, I believe Sprint has thrown us a winner.

Just noticed you can now delete email messages from the Sense preview panel. Awesome!!!

Still playing around with it...more to follow

Cosmo

[ObviousMan]

Originally Posted by djqwikcut

how much3 bloatware is in the new rom?? I still think I'll be sticking with my custom ROM.. SENSE 2.5 isnt that big of a deal..

Well. It has NFL, Nextel Cup, Sprint Navigation - bloatware in my book. Opera is 9.7, I think version of Bing is older too. i.e. Obsoware.
Nothing really unexpected. I would have been surprised if Sprint did not stick all of the above in there, spare for NFL, since it is gone within a month to VZW.
OM

[AB33]

Yeah, I agree with those who think is the ROM is the best thing Sprint has done in a while, I have flashed many ROMs from the Mogul, TP1, and TP2 and this thing here may be my last flash. I was using Mr. X 6.5/2.5 and they are almost identical except for minor cosmetic issues. The Sprint ROM may be a tiny bit more stable, but I still have to see how it holds up after a week.

[kirstein]

One other nice thing I've noticed. I've set the main clock to "My Location", and it seems to actually stay in the right time zone. All the custom roms would bounce around 1 or 2 hours off randomly. Maybe it's fixed. I'll let you know in a week.

[CaliBoyPhillip]

Originally Posted by 2kmy477

I'm still try to figuring out where the "Owner" icon is at there i can enter my name,it used to call owner info. or something in 6.1 rom,any1 knows?

Originally Posted by rushco

Wirelessly posted (Opera/9.5 (Microsoft Windows; PPC; Opera Mobi/17992; U; en))



They hid it. Search to find out how to unhide it.

Originally Posted by HB

Dude,here
start/setting/personal/owner info

I was reading the whole thread... Here is how to unhide it Feel free to thank me lol! I had to look thru like 50 pages.

Under HKLM/ControlPanel/Owner, change the hide from 1 to 0, reboot and good to go.

credit goes to user appzattak.