Apache WM6 Kitchen CE OS 5.2.1908 (Build 18508.0.7.0) - UPDATED 20071217

[Snager]

Originally Posted by familydog

Running Win 2000 Sp4 ... (new Install On Freshly Partitioned Disk)
Athalon 4800 Dual Core, 4g Of Very Fast Ram, I Installed Your
Rom Kitchen, It Worked One Time, And Then Fried Itself... You Tryed To Tell Me It Was A Flakey Active Sync. I Saw It Fry Itself In The Middle Of A Build, (rom Only Not Upgrade To Phone) And It Had To Be
Uninstalled And Deleted And Reinstalled .... After That It Was
Absolutly Flakey And Unpredictable As To What It Would Do To Active Sync... Now.. When Active Sync Connects Properly And Instantly Upon Windows Booting Up... And It Works Perfectly... You Are Not Going To Blame This On Activesync...or..my Pc.. Both Are
Fresh, Clean, Tight And Run Properly. I Watch Your Program Kill Active Sync Every Single Time It Trys To Upgrade The Phone...you Get To The Page Where It Says...dont Touch The Device... And Then It Kills Active Sync.. It Just Goes Away...leaves The A/s Icon In The Tray White...you get a cant connect to device error from your program The 6700 Screen Says Upgrade Completed And Everything Is Dead In The Water... Have Retried About 20 Times..
Nothing Makes A Difference ... Now The 6700 Works Ok From The First Rom Flash... However I, As Others ..would Like To Make A Few Adjustments After The First Try... And We Are Hozed....

This Is Your Rom Doing This...i Dont Care What You Say To Try And Deny It... It Whacks Active Sync (4.5) And Kills It At The Beginning Of The Upgrade...

I Have Tossed In The Excellent Build Of Xp Pro I Have From Hp...
And Upgraded Win2k Up To Xp Pro On A Fresh Partitioned Disk...
The Upgrade When Fine.. It Is Working Excellently...

So What Do I Get From Your Bugged Up Programming... I Download A New Copy Of The Kitchen.... Install It... And What Do I Get...

A Friggin Error Box That Says... " The Application Could Not Initialize And Some Stupid Numbers..like 10000134 Or Something..


The Ppc Geeks Oem Is In The Proper Place... Direct X 9c Is Installed.. I Have Xp Sp 2 Installed ......


So... To Put It Politely.... Your Friggin Rom Is Flakyey...it Hozes
Active Sync ...and I Have Proven It... I Have Also Proven That It
Is So Flakey It Wont Even Install Itself On Xp Properly And Run.... Leaving Me With A Working But Unwanted Rom Version...


I Have Read Every Single Page Of This Thread And The Bug Forum...
There Are Alot Of People Who Are Having These Two Problems...
So.. Before You Begin To Blame Your Buggly Application On My System... Id Think Twice About That....

Now.... I Am Not Knocking Your Accomplishment Here.. It Is Very Outstanding...and Does Work...now And Then.... When It Feels Like It.....

And I Am One Who Has Already Sent You Quite A Substantial Reward For Your Efforts....a Couple Days Ago... But That Is
Not The Issue....

The Problem Is Your Denial That Your Work Has A Problem , A Very Serious One... And I Expect You To Take This In A Professional And Technical Manner And Own Up To Fixing It.... Not Blaming It On Active Sync... Which Was Working Fine Untill Your Kitchen Whacks It....

Ok...so.. What Do You Want From Me..any Log Or Description Or What....lets Get Started On Fixing This....

The First Thing Is We Cant Do Anything Untill You Tell Me How To Fix The Installed Application....and Its Error That It Cant
Initialize.... And Dont Tell Me To Rebuild The Shortcuts...been There Done That Dude....

Next Idea... Im Waiting.....

dood are you drunk or high on something? its good that you donated for all the work these guys put into this project, but I don't think you have any RIGHT to bitch about errors that you are getting from using this kitchen.

if it was a commercial product and you paid for it ...then yes you can try and complain and try to get support for it but dood .... no one is forcing you to use this kitchen...i think you should go back to your stock ROM before some of the guys on the forum decides to give Bin Laden YOUR own GPS coordinates

[gguruusa]

Originally Posted by charleskincade

i went through the buildOS and put in all of my settings and clicked on build rom. I get a message that states " can't open ppcgeeks oem.rar"

Update your kitchen to the one posted last night, or download the PPCGeeks_OEM.rar (also available from the main kitchen post), or both. I recomend both.

[Gervy]

Originally Posted by familydog

I Have Been A Hands On Professional College Degreed And U.s. Military Career Electronics And Pc Technician For 25 Years.... Im Not Some Punk With A Couple Of Frankensystems Under His Belt... I Know What Im Doing And What Im Talking About As A Troubleshooting Tech.... Your App Is Hozing Active Sync For Whatever Reason I Dont Know... But Ive Just Proven It....
...

What a total pole-smoker. If you don't like the product, STFU and get the f**K out of here.
You obviously don't belong if you don't "get" the spirit of the heros of this site working their asses off on experimental software to make OUR phone experience better.

Not to mention, I can't place any weight on the words of a "military PC technician".
1) Computer techs in the military tend to suck ass until they get selected to work on important systems, and not PC's. 2) You're title as PC technician means that you're A++ or Helpdesk rat. When you boost up to Network technician, or security engineer, let us know. 3) The fact that you're a PC tech of 25 years means you must really suck ass not to move on to bigger and better things in 25 freaking years 4) anyone who has to boast their title and experience in an email is a liar or has serious insecurity issues.


BTW: I've been running 071105_2 for 2 days (won't upgrade until more significant improvements, as I'm content), and this Kitchen freaking ROCKS!!!!!!
Fast, no crashes yet, and highly functional.



Gervy

[charleskincade]

gguruusa, I just downloaded both again and ran the ppcgeeks buildOS. During the build status I still get the message that it can't open ppcgeeks_oem.rar

[charleskincade]

I also notice that when looking at the buildOS, I don't have any other utilities other that comm manager

[Kolano]

Originally Posted by familydog

Running Win 2000 Sp4 ... (new Install On Freshly Partitioned Disk)
Athalon 4800 Dual Core, 4g Of Very Fast Ram, I Installed Your
Rom Kitchen, It Worked One Time, And Then Fried Itself... You Tryed To Tell Me It Was A Flakey Active Sync. I Saw It Fry Itself In The Middle Of A Build, (rom Only Not Upgrade To Phone) And It Had To Be
Uninstalled And Deleted And Reinstalled .... After That It Was
Absolutly Flakey And Unpredictable As To What It Would Do To Active Sync... Now.. When Active Sync Connects Properly And Instantly Upon Windows Booting Up... And It Works Perfectly... You Are Not Going To Blame This On Activesync...or..my Pc.. Both Are
Fresh, Clean, Tight And Run Properly. I Watch Your Program Kill Active Sync Every Single Time It Trys To Upgrade The Phone...you Get To The Page Where It Says...dont Touch The Device... And Then It Kills Active Sync.. It Just Goes Away...leaves The A/s Icon In The Tray White...you get a cant connect to device error from your program The 6700 Screen Says Upgrade Completed And Everything Is Dead In The Water...

Hi familydog,

You should be posting issues to the bug thread. It took a while to read through your rant to even tell there was an issue in there.

Your symptoms are typical of flashing a slightly oversized or misconfigured ROM, and usually can be resolved by:

1. Holding the power+notes buttons, and pressing the stylus reset
2. Returning the phone in it's cradle
3. Flashing a smaller, or properly configured ROM.

If problems persist, try flashing back to a stock ROM.

[dpdurst]

Originally Posted by charleskincade

gguruusa, I just downloaded both again and ran the ppcgeeks buildOS. During the build status I still get the message that it can't open ppcgeeks_oem.rar

The ppcgeeks_oem.rar copy the file into the main c:\buildos folder you have, you do not run this at all just copy it in there and try again.

If you still have problems I might be able to do a remote session for you and see what is going on. Let me know

[gguruusa]

Originally Posted by familydog

Woooo Hooo ! You Are Very Lucky Guy.... I Have Fixed 1 Of Your 2 Problems..
Lets Address That First...

No Where In Your Instructions During The Setup And Install Of Your Kitchen Does It Say The Following Very Important Message ....

"if You Dont Have Dotnet 2.o Installed On Your Xp ...this Kitchen Will Not Work.."

Once You Install It... The "cant Initalize The Application Errors Go Away And The Kitchen Starts........

A Good Reccomendation To You... Put That In Your Setup Up Gui !!!!!!!!!!
It Will Keep People From Wanting To Give Your Gps Coordinates To Bin Laden.....

.Net is required. We will add that to the instructions. I'll also add that Windows 2000 sp4 is the minimum OS supported.

Originally Posted by familydog

Ran Kitchen Agian..same Error..cant Connect To Device...killed Activesync

Second Problem... Some Weird But Substantial And Important Information... On The "cant Connect To Device Error Problem.." And It Was As I Suspected...

I Was Determined To Try And Stop It From Killing Active Sync... And I Succeded... When I Clicked The Button To Start The Rom Upgrade To The 6700 ... I Immediatly Started Clicking The "sync" Button In Active Sync Making It Run...and Continously Clicking It Kept Your Program From Killing It... And Your Rom Upgrade Completed To The Phone !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Have Been A Hands On Professional College Degreed And U.s. Military Career Electronics And Pc Technician For 25 Years.... Im Not Some Punk With A Couple Of Frankensystems Under His Belt... I Know What Im Doing And What Im Talking About As A Troubleshooting Tech.... Your App Is Hozing Active Sync For Whatever Reason I Dont Know... But Ive Just Proven It....

Its Undeniable... So...ive Done The Hard Work...and Proven You Have A Problem And That It Is Your App Doing It... To A Hell Of Alot Of People...
Go Fix The Thing....

The app that does the actual ROM upgrade is HTC's (the same people that made your phone). As such, it's unlikely that it will a) be updated, or b) has a problem of the nature you describe. Furthermore, HTC's ROM update software MUST disconnect Activesync in order to perform the ROM upgrade. That ActiveSync becomes unstable and/or dies is a problem w/ Activesync or your OS. What version of ActiveSync are you using? Have you applied all the updates from Windows Update?

As Kolano pointed out, if your problem is that the PPC LCD display turns white at the end of flashing, that's a result of trying to put too much stuff in the ROM.

P.S. - when you capitalize the first letter of every word, it makes your post very hard to read.

[Torx]

just an FYI, resco file explorer isnt the latest 6.16 as mentioned in the buildos app.
on the about screen it says 6.00

[OMJ]

When an updated kitchen is released do we need to download both the kitchen installer & OEM package or just the kitchen installer?

thx