Official Sprint 6.5 ROM Touch Pro 2 RELEASE (Official Discussion Thread) - Page 111

Brett In SoCal · #**1101** (**permalink**) 03-28-2010, 08:47 PM

Sense 2.5 Outlook Contacts Integration Workaround

Good news, after much rumination and tinkering, I now have my 6.5 upgrade running in an acceptable manner. The problem was that the large size of my Outlook Contacts file (3,500+), when accessed through Sense 2.5’s “People” tab, would bog the OS to the point of a total freeze. Accessing the file to add to my favorites list in the “People” tab OR searching “All Contacts” from within that tab, caused havoc. Interestingly, when running the phone in “Titanium only” mode everything worked fine, as did everything else in HTC’s otherwise delightful UI.

With this in mind, I removed the “People” tab from the Sense UI task bar and installed instead “Contacts” as a home page quick link. Problem solved. Apparently, the “Contacts” program accesses these files directly w/o the involvement of Sense. Consequently, phone now runs smoothly and I can revel in the knowledge that my days of going mano-a-mano with that dreadful Windows interface are over!

samprabhu · #**1102** (**permalink**) 03-29-2010, 08:04 PM

I updated to the Sprint 6.5 ROM. It was pretty good until I loaded MaxManila 3.0. Now the phone is pretty slow and the controls lag.

tbird22 · #**1103** (**permalink**) 03-31-2010, 12:26 AM

If its beend discussed already, please feel free to direct me to the post #.....
But I flashed this rom the day it came out. For some reason, my email settings are not as I originally set them on my phone. But when I try to go into the email settings to correct this, my phone does not allow me to select an email account? They are listed, but greyed out and Im not getting my emails as I should.....

anish88 · #**1104** (**permalink**) 03-31-2010, 08:48 PM

Does anyone know how I would have the battery and the time stay in the status bar at the same time?

Also, how do i stop error code: 67 from coming? I dont have internet and its been blocked

fatmac1982 · #**1105** (**permalink**) 03-31-2010, 09:39 PM

Do you guys know of any CAB FILES that will disable the auto rotation in TXT MESSAGING mode?

**Mr. X** · #**1106** (**permalink**) 04-01-2010, 09:51 AM

I just removed 3 pages of crap, lets keep this thread on topic. Users are not subscribed to it to be notified of others useless banter and junk posts.

thank you!

**jakdillard** · #**1107** (**permalink**) 04-01-2010, 12:28 PM

ok the sprint upgrade has several problems:

1 there has been a dramatic change in the native kernal which may cause some apps not to work correctly like soft reset programs and such

2 the change in some of the drivers cause a conflict between opera and youtube playback : open m.youtube.com in opera and try to play a video using the standard player, when you finally get to the youtube app playback will not happen

3 the change in the drivers cause SOD (sleep of death) issues, this may be a result of using an unlocked radio with the newer drivers but nonetheless it does happen

4 the responsiveness of sense will be slowed down considerably when using older parts with the newer parts : there have been some changes in sense since the GSM rhodium sense 2.5 was released so using Maxmanila or cookie may cause problems also you will have to keep in mind that sense 2.5 is an OS overlay meaning that you will have to treat it like windows is the host OS and sense is the guest like running windows 98 inside of vista .... you can do it but that dont mean everything is gonna work 100%

5 overall the speed of the upgrade is slow, its not the version of the OS but the OEM tweaks that was applied to it

most of the chefs that are with SPCS want to use the SPCS upgrade as a base for projects and they may have taken time to fix each of these issues (I know it took me some time to match everything up right) but I would advise people to use a custom ROM and make complaints to Sprint about this upgrade .... IT WAS NOT GOOD.

BrianPAdams · #**1108** (**permalink**) 04-01-2010, 02:15 PM

[EDIT]
Never mind! I cranked up Visual Kitchen, broke down the stock rom and found the user agent in the OperatorPkg rgu file. For anyone needing it in the future, it is: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 8.12; MSIEMobile6.0) Sprint T7380"
[ENDEDIT]

Would someone mind opening up Opera, browsing to opera:config, expanding the User Prefs section and pasting into a reply the Custom User-Agent string that comes with the stock Sprint WM 6.5 release please? I've flashed a new ROM and wiped it out and don't want to have to flash back to stock just to get it.

Thanks!

anish88 · #**1109** (**permalink**) 04-01-2010, 04:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anish88

Does anyone know how I would have the battery and the time stay in the status bar at the same time?

Also, how do i stop error code: 67 from coming? I dont have internet and its been blocked

anybody find the solution to these?

also i did some searches for the error code, and the solutions are all about people who have internet. The main reason to stop.

Also, I dont want to install any cabs for the battery and time on the status bar issue. I figure there is some registry edit for it?

I also wanted to know if the mode of operation menu for 1x only use has been found.

Please help as 1. i dont know how much my battery is being used, and 2. my battery gets used quickly because i text a lot.

**Mr. X** · #**1110** (**permalink**) 04-01-2010, 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jakdillard

ok the sprint upgrade has several problems:

1 there has been a dramatic change in the native kernal which may cause some apps not to work correctly like soft reset programs and such

2 the change in some of the drivers cause a conflict between opera and youtube playback : open m.youtube.com in opera and try to play a video using the standard player, when you finally get to the youtube app playback will not happen

3 the change in the drivers cause SOD (sleep of death) issues, this may be a result of using an unlocked radio with the newer drivers but nonetheless it does happen

4 the responsiveness of sense will be slowed down considerably when using older parts with the newer parts : there have been some changes in sense since the GSM rhodium sense 2.5 was released so using Maxmanila or cookie may cause problems also you will have to keep in mind that sense 2.5 is an OS overlay meaning that you will have to treat it like windows is the host OS and sense is the guest like running windows 98 inside of vista .... you can do it but that dont mean everything is gonna work 100%

5 overall the speed of the upgrade is slow, its not the version of the OS but the OEM tweaks that was applied to it

most of the chefs that are with SPCS want to use the SPCS upgrade as a base for projects and they may have taken time to fix each of these issues (I know it took me some time to match everything up right) but I would advise people to use a custom ROM and make complaints to Sprint about this upgrade .... IT WAS NOT GOOD.

1) the kernel and drivers are based closely on the USC, infact many of the drivers are the same, i have based my latest rom on this and so has mightymike. I have no issues with any apps i have installed. Neither have my testers.

I doubt that its the kernel and drivers causing this.

2) Again the drivers and kernel have nothing to do with this bug, Im on full Sprint drivers and xip/kernel and dont have this issue. its just bugs in the rom its self it was compiled poorly there are many bugs.

3) for the third time the drivers have nothing to do with this. I dont have this issue either, been running these drivers since the rom dropped in my rom. However i did get the sleep of death on the sprint rom when i flashed it. Its the radio by the way. The older VZW radio used to cause random sleep of death as well.

4) the sprint manila was compiled for them. it is junk, don't bother with it.

5) i can agree 100% Smart chefs will only take the kernel, drivers and a handful of packages. most of it is utter crap.