Boot Loader = Power button + Record button + Reset button.
The phone will go into boot loader mode and at the bottom of the screen it will tell you which one you have. Download appropriate one and enjoy.

Your back up is not for the entire rom, if you want to go back just go to the UTStar.com website to revert back to appropriate. Also your provider should have to download as well.

As far as your last question, I'm not that familiar with all the intricacies.

If you want to restore your backup you must re-flash the ROM you were using when that backup was made (whether that was the stock carrier ROM or one of the Helmi custom WM5 ROMs from here). Once you have that done then you can restore your backup.

The way Windows Mobile's file system works is that absolutely everything that's in the ROM is in the root of the \Windows directory. Anything you see in any other folder (even subfolders of \Windows!) is not in the ROM but in your storage partition.

I don't ever plan on doing this but what do you think Sprint's response would be? I'm not close to dumb enough to do it. I'm mainly asking out of morbid curiousity. How have they reacted to homebrew ROMs before (if you average Sprint store employee would know any better)

That's exactly what I ended up doing and it worked just great. It has the added bonus of if something screws up a hard reset fixes it.

I can't believe how much better my phone works with this ROM. It's extremely stable and much faster then WM5 AKU 2.2.

Thanks!

I also have the purchased 1.6 VC running on a Verizon unit with Helmi's new rom with no problem.

I have VC 1.6 that installed on top of helmi's ROM. I did a hard reset after installing helmi's Rom first. 1.6 is working great for me but I didn't test bluetooth connectivity with VC as I don't like a bluetooth earpiece irradiating my brain all day.

Can I Return The PPC 6700 To It's Current State
 

Which brings up my PPC 6700, Apache, Boot Loader, Ext_Ram, Newbie Questions. I've read and reread every post on this thread and I THINK I know the answers, just double checking my understanding (or correcting my lack thereof) before I start this.

1) Is there a way to return my PPC 6700 to the state Sprint/Nextel delivered this phone to me?

Currently my "Device Information" is:

ROM version: 2.06.00 WWE
ROM date: 02/22/06
Radio version: 1.27.00
Protocol version: SNAZ-40306
ExtROM version: 2.05.303 WWE
PRI version: 1.19_003
Browser version MSIE 4.01

CPU: Intel(R) PXA2700
Speed: 416MHZ
RAM size: 64 MB
Flash size: 128 MB
Flash chip type: M-Systems
Model No.: PA10A1
Platform: PocketPC
Data bus: 32 bits
Storage size: 39.59 MB

2) Sprint recently applied the most recent patch to my phone a couple of weeks ago. Will running APA_SPCS_20_600_303_1270_0_WWE_Ship return my device back to Sprint's latest update?

3) After I apply APAC_WM6_R0_Sprint or Helmi_APAC_OFFICIAL_AKU3.5_Kitchen_1.0.4 can I "backout" of the changes? Will either or both of these patches overwrite the current \Extended_ROM\ if I haven't previously unlocked it?

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to clear this up in my mind, especially if that person happens to live in Larryville, Kansas and loves to chill...:drunken:

Helmi, great job but I have already started finding bugs.. Here are just a few that I have come across so far..
1) when sending a mms, the program cant access the storage card to pull pics.
1.5) when in the mms app, you cant take pics to send but it will allow you to take video.
2) when taking a pic and then trying to send it via mms, the phone freezes, soft reset needed..
3) the phone wont download email based on current internet settings but will access the web and can be used as a modem
4) there is a glitch in the txt msg feature that seems to delete the text messages on its own once they are opened.
5) when on the web, the option of the favorites menu is missing
6) when being sent a picture and being re-directed to the sprint web site to view it, I can see a small version of the pic (thanks, I couldnt even do that before) but I cant click on any of the links or tabs to download the pic.
7) the storage card is picked up in some applications but not all (ie, mms)
8) the phone now stalls when loading up after soft reset and I am noticing that I am doing far more soft resets than before to fix performance issues..

Thats all that I have found so far but I will keep you posted as I find others. Feel free to pm me with things that you feel might fix the issue. I dont mind being a test dummy for this type of project. Out side of the few bugs that I have found, the new ROM rocks, just as with all of your roms.. I just figure that its time that I became of some help instead of just a leech.. Get involved people. This crap aint easy...lol...

"Top of da world ma"

Yes, running the APA_SPCS...exe will restore your device back to factory defaults. Your extended ROM will revert back to the stock Sprint one as well. Always revert back to default before bringing the phone in for any kind of service.

sorry...original post didn't show up at first so I posted a second one. The first post then showed up :)