Tutorial to upgrade your ROM to WM6

**guitardoc64** · #1 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 10:28 AM

Good info Ga. Medic! This is what's been needed for the new kitchen since it came out!
Someone ought to excerpt this into a txt file and include it with the kitchen. My only addition would be to recommend deleting the device profile in activesync (I do that when I unplug to put mine in bootloader) to eliminate sync errors. Excellent job!

**GaMedic** · #2 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by guitardoc64

Good info Ga. Medic! This is what's been needed for the new kitchen since it came out!
Someone ought to excerpt this into a txt file and include it with the kitchen. My only addition would be to recommend deleting the device profile in active sync (I do that when I unplug to put mine in bootloader) to eliminate sync errors. Excellent job!

I don't have any problems with any sync errors. I simply hook up my USB and Check everything except contacts. I let it sync, then go back and check contacts. For some reason if i check contacts on the first sync it does not load them. So I just leave it off until after the first sync then add it on the second one. Other than that I have no issues at all. One thing I would recommend is using a PIM backup in case you are ever away from your home PC and need o do a hard reset, you can load your contacts and calender from the PIM backup. I noticed tough that if I load via PIM backup and then sync with Active sync it will duplicate all my calender info, so I try not to use the backup unless I have to. It is a tedious process to have to go in and delete the duplicates.

**guitardoc64** · #3 (**permalink**) 01-04-2008, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Ga. Medic

I don't have any problems with any sync errors. I simply hook up my USB and Check everything except contacts. I let it sync, then go back and check contacts. For some reason if i check contacts on the first sync it does not load them. So I just leave it off until after the first sync then add it on the second one. Other than that I have no issues at all. One thing I would recommend is using a PIM backup in case you are ever away from your home PC and need o do a hard reset, you can load your contacts and calender from the PIM backup. I noticed tough that if I load via PIM backup and then sync with Active sync it will duplicate all my calender info, so I try not to use the backup unless I have to. It is a tedious process to have to go in and delete the duplicates.

That's why I delete the devic in activesync. It resyncs everything the first time and causes zero problems. Back in the Verizonguy WM6 days I had a sync error that blanked ALL my contacts in outlook. Wasn't pretty. Restoring from backups I ended up with every contact at least duplicated some tripled and quadrupled. That is when I found out that 200 contacts is about the limit for the 6700. Opened contacts and about 10 minutes later....

I have had zero problems with sync with the new WM6 other than the slowdown during the sync cycle of the PPC.