Apache WM6 Clean, No Junk Version

[richjolliff]

Rob,
After using the new kitchen for two days, I have gone back to your Version 6 for Sprint. I am not sure why, but I had lock up after lock up w/ current Helmi version. I am glad to say that your wm6 ver. 6 is amazing, and no more lock ups!

[robmayer]

Originally Posted by besouro

Rob, your update was great and it worked really weel. but in my newness i download and old verizion update and now i cannot get the wm6 ROM to flash for me. Do you have any sugguestion. I keep getting a connection error now when i try to reflash the ROM>>>>thanks

Email me at support@6700development.com and I will walk you through it.

Originally Posted by rxb216

Hi Rob, I am one of the many many people who DO have an unlimited data plan so having the "data connection always on" is important to me and many others. If we need to do an extra step to enable this (sounds like you are turning this off in the next build?), please let us know.

Also, what about leaving Windows Live Seach out of the ROM? Since there are updates all the time from Microsoft regarding this product, if we upgrade the program won't this leave the old files in place since they are part of your cooked ROM? I also think Live Search uses a lot of program space, and some people like me install this to a storage card. I think letting users add this seperatly is better, what ya think? Storage space is so limited in the first place, so less is better, else Apache = sluggggggggish

The way to turn the data connection always on is in HKLM\Comm\ConnMgr\Providers\{7C4B7A38-5FF7-4bc1-80F6-5DA7870BB1AA}\Connections\YOUR CONNECTION NAME
AlwaysOn=dword:1

Obviously, to turn it off... AlwaysOn=dword:0

Originally Posted by hunter

Currently running helmi's first wm6 rom on my xv6700, my phone is hooked up via USB in bootloader mode version 1.04 fixed my vista computer with the ruu driver, downloaded and ran robs rom build 6 for verizon. Phone connected, info was retrieved then i clicked next to do upgrade and received this error
ERROR 150: ROM UPGRADE UTILITY ERROR
This Rom Upgrade Utility is not designed for your device
Please get proper rom upgrade utility

what next?

Might be bootloader 1.04. Take the nk.nbf from my package, and replace the nk.nbf in the original Helmi release, then flash. You probably downloaded the bootloader 1.04 version from Helmi, however my versions only work with bootloader v.2.02. So essentially, you will be putting my cooked ROM into Helmi's RUU. Edit by luv2chill: Please see naigaboy's post a couple down from this one for information about this. Bootloader 1.04 is not a problem--just requires a different utility to flash the ROM.

Originally Posted by cjbreisch

BTW, Rob...when I went to Vista-32, my problems with PocketController went away. It works perfectly now, so I'm sure the problem was on my machine somehow. It's not a Vista-64 issue, because it was working on Vista-64 previously. It was just something screwed up on my PC.

Wonderful.. that's good to hear. Let me know if you need anything else though. I'm here to help out whenever somebody needs it.

Originally Posted by richjolliff

Rob,
After using the new kitchen for two days, I have gone back to your Version 6 for Sprint. I am not sure why, but I had lock up after lock up w/ current Helmi version. I am glad to say that your wm6 ver. 6 is amazing, and no more lock ups!

Good news! Thanks for posting your thoughts... and it makes me glad to hear you enjoy my work. I am happy it is working out well for you. Also, build 7 is right around the corner, so keep an eye out.

[hunter]

Originally Posted by robmayer

Might be bootloader 1.04. Take the nk.nbf from my package, and replace the nk.nbf in the original Helmi release, then flash. You probably downloaded the bootloader 1.04 version from Helmi, however my versions only work with bootloader v.2.02. So essentially, you will be putting my cooked ROM into Helmi's RUU.

Thank you for the answer, b4 i do this, 2 questions. 1) can i upgrade to bootloader 2.02 so i dont have to do this fix on your future builds, and 2) should i wait till build 7 is ready, or your kitchen.

I am new to being a member of the forum but have read it for quite some time, I really appreciate the way you do your work, and think the guys working on Helmi's kitchen could learn a thing or two from you. Keep up the good work.

[naigaboy]

Originally Posted by hunter

Thank you for the answer, b4 i do this, 2 questions. 1) can i upgrade to bootloader 2.02 so i dont have to do this fix on your future builds, and 2) should i wait till build 7 is ready, or your kitchen.

I am new to being a member of the forum but have read it for quite some time, I really appreciate the way you do your work, and think the guys working on Helmi's kitchen could learn a thing or two from you. Keep up the good work.

Just giving important information for those that need it in regards to bootloaders.

There are 2 different versions of the 6700 same as the wizard. G3 and G4 device.
G3 devices are the older devices and they either have 1.00 or 1.02 as the bootloader.
G4 devices are semi newer devices and have 2.02 as the bootloader.
When Bell released their official 3.3 AKU ROM it included bootloader upgrades to both devices to 1.04/2.04 respectively.
When Verizon released their official 3.3 AKU ROM it included bootloader upgrades to both devices to 1.04/2.05 respectively.

You can still flash ROMs to the new bootloaders, you just need the newer RUUs and smaller ROM sizes.

If you would like to downgrade your bootloader or see in some detail what it takes, information about bootloader downgrade is posted here.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=7820

[Josh_131]

is there a reason i can't get codes to work with these releases? I have Build 4 for sprint and I can't get the life data on the phone. I tried ##786# but to no avail. It just doesn't work.

[cjbreisch]

Well, been an interesting week. Had a tiff with a moderator. Car battery died. Re-imaged my PC (32-bit Vista this time rather than 64-bit). And my radio died on my phone and am waiting on a replacement.

Rob, looks like you're continuing to do some awesome work. I think I'll try out your build 6 (or build 7) and a custom one using the new kitchen when I get my new (refurb) phone. I may switch over to using the kitchen, but I still feel like what you do is important. I know I've been flashing ROMs on my phones for months and this is the first time I've felt brave enough to try to cook my own (and I may decide never to do so again once I've flashed it!), so keep up the good work!

[robmayer]

Originally Posted by Josh_131

is there a reason i can't get codes to work with these releases? I have Build 4 for sprint and I can't get the life data on the phone. I tried ##786# but to no avail. It just doesn't work.

Wow, I didn't realize that. Just tried it on my newest build 7(in testing) based off the new kitchen and it does not work. I assume this worked in WM5? If so, I bet it's a WM6 issue.

Originally Posted by cjbreisch

Well, been an interesting week. Had a tiff with a moderator. Car battery died. Re-imaged my PC (32-bit Vista this time rather than 64-bit). And my radio died on my phone and am waiting on a replacement.

Rob, looks like you're continuing to do some awesome work. I think I'll try out your build 6 (or build 7) and a custom one using the new kitchen when I get my new (refurb) phone. I may switch over to using the kitchen, but I still feel like what you do is important. I know I've been flashing ROMs on my phones for months and this is the first time I've felt brave enough to try to cook my own (and I may decide never to do so again once I've flashed it!), so keep up the good work!

Ouch, your phone radio died... just out of nowhere? That really sucks. Good thing you are getting a replacement one though. I've only replaced my xv6700 once, and that's just because I felt like getting a new one... and I did .
Also, re-imaging a pc can be a pain... seems like I've done 500 of them this week(XP and Vista). I do quite a bit of clean installing, because half the people I visit that have computer trouble have screwed their systems up way beyond repair! Nobody understands spyware threats or safe internet browsing habits anymore either... then there goes their pc.
Anyway, thanks a lot for checking back here even though the kitchen is out. I have had a few problems with it, but it looks like it has a lot of potential to make some nice roms. I am still going to continue my work because the kitchen can only do so much. Sure, you can add OEM's if somebody packages them up and posts them. You can also customize what's already there, ect. But what about more advanced changes like registry edits, and adding stuff that's not in the oem packages?
This is where I have been stepping in. For example, the kitchen still leaves the registry value HKLM\System\VOIP\SIP to enable port 5060 disabled. Well, you can go in and manually change it everytime you hard reset or reflash. But I just go and change it in the ROM and re-encode it, so it's always there. I think you know where I'm going though. I mean... I'll see what happens, but I'm pretty sure I'll continue my work. Maybe I'll start making OEM's for the kitchen too, I dunno. But thanks for the support, I appreciate it!

[daveedem]

[quote=robmayer;115044]Wow, I didn't realize that. Just tried it on my newest build 7(in testing) based off the new kitchen and it does not work. I assume this worked in WM5? If so, I bet it's a WM6 issue.

****Disregard the first part of my reply*****
Strange... it's not WM6... I had it working a few days ago as I was in there poking around... I also tried ##vocoder# and I get it to flash but then that is it.

I can't recall if I was on an earlier Robmayer rev when I did it or not.

EDIT:::: DUH... I knew I had done something different when I got in there... do ##778# not ##776#

I knew I had gone searching for this on the net before and had found it. Check out http://www.sprintmogul.net/FAQ/HaizisMogulHacks.aspx ... very interesting stuff in there too for WM6....(on the mogul)

[besouro]

Rob, your update was great and it worked really weel. but in my newness i download and old verizion update and now i cannot get the wm6 ROM to flash for me. Do you have any sugguestion. I keep getting a connection error now when i try to reflash the ROM>>>>thanks

[bmx045]

Originally Posted by besouro

Rob, your update was great and it worked really weel. but in my newness i download and old verizion update and now i cannot get the wm6 ROM to flash for me. Do you have any sugguestion. I keep getting a connection error now when i try to reflash the ROM>>>>thanks

what bootloader version do you have?