Originally Posted by GameDoctor (Post 106354)

I see WM6 development as a scene effort, with many people working with others previous accomplishments. Lets not let egos ruin what should be a joint effort.

Do we all really need to post a full disclaimer detailing every code fragment and list credits for every item like the credits at the end of a movie?

Robmayer is just trying to help the masses and keep the noobs off the backs of others.

My thanks go to EVERYONE helping out here and on other sites.

Originally Posted by Torx (Post 106386)

first off, this couldve easily been handled via PM, email or in the irc chat.
IT IS BEING REVIEWED.

second, i think WE ALL know and agree that anything we flash or do with these phones is our liable fault..
It IS BEING REVIEWED.

third, have you not thought that maybe he wanted to take the flack if the bootloader fix didnt work?? If he had mentioned "the inside guys" as being the creators, and it ended up not working everyone in the world would be on you guys backs.. instead he lightly mentions a thanks to those who helped with the fix, and posted it up.. knowing if it didnt work people would be ringing on robs doorbell and not yours.. All im saying, is maybe he was looking out for you.
IT IS BEING REVIEWED.

forth, everyone needs to CALM the F*** down and work together to get this ball rolling forward.

I mean seriously, thats the beauty of these forums and you guys work... we have options. We got the stock helmi rom, we got an unofficial kitchen and we have a super stripped down rom.. I think its great people are eleborating on others projects in the mean time of a "finalized kitchen"

Originally Posted by daveedem (Post 106396)

I agree.. I'm a noob when it comes to this forum. But I read with amazement some of the posts. I manage an entire group of developers from India plus some stateside, and I know what it means to take credit for something you didn't do. I also know that the written word isn't the same as us all sitting in a room together giving credit where credit is due. HOWEVER, in all of the posts I've seen from Robmayer, he was giving credit. Now granted I'm not privvy to the chat room chat, but he's apologized, posted it ... so let's all move on.

Isn't the purpose of all of this to make a good device better? I don't see any blatant "plagarism" here... what is see as a noob and an outside is some ego's getting in the way.

I wonder if Bill Gates gets his nose hairs all twisted with someone tries to make his products better.....

Let's all work together... hell if you read some of the posts, we're all violating MS licensing policy by doing ANYTHING to our devices.

let's get back to doing what we all do best... Helmi, Luv2chill, tiermann, colonel, robmayer, kirvin et al and the rest of the devs making our device better and we lowly noobs, using your tweaks.

I love you guys.. Come on -- come give me a big hug!!!! :headbang:

Originally Posted by daveedem (Post 106402)

Ok... I've installed RobMayer's ROM based on Helmi's original WM6 ROM.

I can attest to it working with bootloader v 1.00 and Vista with the Vista RUU workaround (googled and found on Modaco's site - dam another forum I just joined LOL).

The fact that it never hit the ExtROM customization was awesome - I was all poised to soft reset before it hit them.

I have about 40MB free after this ROM installed. It also seems to run pretty fast.

Only issue I experienced was that the hard reset didn't take at first... thing booted in and then I saw my iphone theme pop up... did another hardreset and it took. I think I fat fingered the 1st hard reset.

UGH.. now re-installing all my customizations.

Thanks RobMayer... and the rest of the dev guys here... my g/f asks me constantly why she can't reach me on my phone.. and I tell her "I'm flashing it again, with something cool from PPCGeeks"... she thinks I'm nuts.

Originally Posted by Herules (Post 106461)

I am running the WM6 Clean, No Junk Version and my radio reads version 1.10.00. I would like to upgrade to the 1.43, what is the best way to go about doing so with this?

Thanks to all for your work, I am grateful!


**What have you gained if you obtain the whole world and all its riches yet loose your soul?

Originally Posted by daveedem (Post 106396)

hell if you read some of the posts, we're all violating MS licensing policy by doing ANYTHING to our devices.

Originally Posted by cjbreisch (Post 105868)

Just upgraded to v4. A couple thoughts.

First, so far, this may be the best ROM I've ever had on this device. Admittedly, I've only had it on for an hour, so I've not tested everything yet, but I love how clean it is.

Now the comments.
A) I like the fact that you didn't include SDHC support. I need it, but I've heard people with non-SDHC cards have had problems. I don't mind installing this piece myself. I have the .cab on my PC, so it's no issue installing it whenever I need it. This might be a good thing for your downloads section though.

B) Office 2007! Thanks!

C) Still appears to be HTC Home 1.5.x. I'm guessing that upgrade didn't go as well as you'd hoped. That's ok. I more than appreciate the effort.

D) There are contacts in my HTC Home dialer tab. Vision, Bryan, and Customer Support. Did I screw up and get those in there somehow, or are they in the ROM?

E) While I don't think the HTC Home Customizer should be in the ROM, could you add it to your download links, please? Thanks.

F) With v2, there was a "Documents" shortcut in my Start menu that opened up File Explorer to "My Documents" folder. That's gone and it doesn't appear that I can add it using the "Menus" setting. Is there a magic trick I can do to get that back?

G) I'm still having my issue with Pocket Controller, but I've narrowed it down a bit. It and ActiveSync appear to be fighting. It's trying to connect to the device before ActiveSync has completed its connection. I need to wait for ActiveSync to establish a connection before Pocket Controller takes over. I doubt you did anything with that, so I'm going to check to see if Pocket Controller has a support site. If not, I'll post something here. For now, I can set up Pocket Controller not to automatically start up, and I'm fine.

Ok, so that's 7 things. It probably sounds like I hate this ROM, but I don't. Other than my Pocket Controller issue, which I don't think is caused by your stuff, everything is teeny tiny.


A few weeks ago, I realized that my phone's almost 2 years old and that I can get an upgrade soon and I was a little nervous and excited about that. Now I have no reason to upgrade, and its thanks to the efforts of people like you and helmi.

Originally Posted by WT (Post 105904)

Well I installed the newest one for Verizon and since last night its was doing good but everytime I soft restart the phone it all seems good but after a second if I open any application it loads and functions fine but if I try to close the app it doesn't work and seesm to sit there in a locked state. The odd part here is that after about 3 minuites or so it performs the close for me and exists to the main screen. I did load 3 things so not sure if its a compatibility issue and if anyone else has had any problems like this.
Apps loaded:
XCPUScaler 2007
Pocket CM newest version
Spb Pocket Plus

I have it all set up the way I want but think maybe I should try to re-load it again. Any advise would be appricated.

Thanks

PS the Rom looks great so good work there....

Oh One last question anyone know a way to transfer contacts to there cars Bluetooth setup ? I searched but had no luck finding how to perform this function or if its just something that should happen on its own.

Originally Posted by cjbreisch (Post 106684)

To get things back on track...

As for issue "F", it appears to me that the default File Explorer has changed in v4 from what it was in v2. The one in v2 was similar to Resco, but not quite (Resco was also installed, I think). The one in v4 appears to be the same thing I had in WM5. Or am I missing something?

Originally Posted by edufur (Post 106563)

hey. i think this version rocks... except one thing. has anyone else tried using FlexMail? I used it on the original helmi release and functionally, it worked fine but was slow. i tried it on this build and it responds much faster, but now it is functionally flakey. flexmail is supposed to be able to "take over" as default mail and SMS. it did do that, but now the phone periodically gives me the original default app or the flexmail app. sometimes, i get two indicators of a text message (one from each app). this never happened before. could you look into this strangeness?

Originally Posted by cjbreisch (Post 106684)

To get things back on track...




I had to hard reset my device this morning. Several soft resets froze up on my Today screen. That's the first time I've ever had to do that. If it happens again, I will try to start looking for a pattern.

As for issue "F", it appears to me that the default File Explorer has changed in v4 from what it was in v2. The one in v2 was similar to Resco, but not quite (Resco was also installed, I think). The one in v4 appears to be the same thing I had in WM5. Or am I missing something?

Originally Posted by WT (Post 106703)

So any one with similar issues ? I starting to think it maybe pocket plus ..

Originally Posted by cjbreisch (Post 106727)

I think it was GSFinder 1.99 cleverly disguised as File Explorer.

Originally Posted by daveedem (Post 106730)

Ok.... I'm now on V4.

I don't see the my documents on the start menu either. I tried messing around with the registry and the start menu and haven't had any luck yet, but I'm sure you can get it back on the menu from there. Although there may be a cleaner way to do it.

I was trying to stay away from WA2 and WAD (yah I'm a girl - I like the iphone theme) so I thought I'd try Grumps NoWAD iphone theme, but the damn thing kept locking up my device. While it's cool, and I like some of the icons, I like the interactive nature of Lazyboy's theme. So Grump -- props to you, I am gonna use some of your icons.

I'm going to try and get VSBeta 2008 and some emulators running today so I can try and get the iphone theme ported to WA3. That'll be interesting. If you have any experience with that --- let me know. I know you can't do ROM's with it, but apps should be a different story. I just don't want to HS my device trying stuff out.

CJB --- As for #G. I'm using PC 5.07 Build 966 --- thus far I've not had any lock up issues with it.

Did you use the VistaRUU workaround? I think I saw you were using Vista. I'm on a vista box and haven't had any issues connecting. HOWEVER, I have had some customers using one of our pps on various WM5 devices and both in XP and Vista there are some weird variances wth having to connect and disconnect the devices numerous times to get active sync to recognize the device. No AS recognize no PC working.

I also can't remember, but I know that I've seen a pop up with PC that indicates using an alternative method of connecting. Did you try that?

For D -- not sure that is in the ROM as I don't have those names i my HTC home. BUT... now that I think about it... I did sync right after without looking at it, so... nope.. scratch that thought... I don't have them as contacts on my PC.

WT -- I'd lean to PocketPlus. Try uninstalling that and see if you get any stability. While a great program, I've seen it use a fair amount of memory.

Originally Posted by shawnhenson (Post 106775)

robmayer. you didnt answer my question... Im assumeing that you know what you have changed or left out of the original version that you worked with. I know you said its a clean rom but so was the one that came on my phone and it still locked up before. so do you have any idea what you have changed to cause the phone not to lock up anymore.
Im not talking about add'ons or extra software. just straight up roms yours vs colonial vs sprint_htc rom

Originally Posted by daveedem (Post 106730)

Ok.... I'm now on V4.

CJB --- As for #G. I'm using PC 5.07 Build 966 --- thus far I've not had any lock up issues with it.

Did you use the VistaRUU workaround? I think I saw you were using Vista. I'm on a vista box and haven't had any issues connecting. HOWEVER, I have had some customers using one of our pps on various WM5 devices and both in XP and Vista there are some weird variances wth having to connect and disconnect the devices numerous times to get active sync to recognize the device. No AS recognize no PC working.

I also can't remember, but I know that I've seen a pop up with PC that indicates using an alternative method of connecting. Did you try that?

Originally Posted by robmayer (Post 106746)

I am sorry about build 4 still having HTC Home 1.5. I really didn't have the time to fit that in. I will in time though. As far as the weird contacts... those are not in the ROM, you must have gotten those in there somehow.

Yep, the file explorer in Helmi's, and my v.1 was not default(although it tricked me for a while, I thought MS finally wised up and gave us a file explorer worth using). however, it was not stock and that was my main intention in my build 4. I wanted to put out a ROM as if it came straight from an OEM HTC device.. or as close as possible.

Originally Posted by arckt2 (Post 106893)

Hey First off I'd like to thank you for making an awesome upgrade even better.

But the problem I'm having is that after upgrading to your version 3 of the Verizon ROM and upgrading the radio to 1.43, i'm experinencing more DSOD's and lockups than ever, usually about 3 a day.

Do you think the problem would be the version 3 of your ROM, or just the radio being upgraded to 1.43, I know you said you were having problems with the Radio upgrade.

What would be anyones best suggestion for avoiding lockups or DSOD's in the first place?

Also:
I'm running a Verizon xv6700 on build 3 with radio 1.43

Originally Posted by cjbreisch (Post 106791)

No problem on HTC Home 1.5. I'm patient. And if it never makes it in, that's ok too.

As for the file explorer issue, that's fine. I'm happy with having just stock stuff in the ROM. My only issue is that I wanted to add that file explorer back in myself and didn't know what it was. Like you, I was fooled into thinking that what was in the ROM was the default explorer from MS.

If you can add that "Documents" item to your Downloads section when you get a chance, that would be great. No rush, though.

Thanks again for all the hard work. I apologize if I ever sound impatient or if it feels like I'm pressuring you. DEFINITELY NOT my intention.

Originally Posted by WesWilkey (Post 106907)

I too have random lockups that I've been trying to isolate. For what it's worth here's what I've found out so far:

1. I'm running the Sprint V3 ROM with the 1.41 radio
2. I find the lockups generally clear after 5 to 10 minutes if you are patient enough. However this is not always true for me.
3. I use my phone primarily in an area where I bounce in and out of EVDO mode and 1xRTT often.
4. My data connection will stop responding and the only way I can get it back, short of a soft reset, is to disable and renable the phone in comm manager. Reseting the "Data Connection" in comm manager doesn't fix it.
5. I've tried various configurations from the straight ROM with no patches and still get the problem. However I can confirm this is the same behavior I get whether on Helmi_c's untouched ROM or this "Clean" version of his ROM.

Otherwise, very happy. Thanks Rob and Helmi for making this so.

Originally Posted by rxb216 (Post 106924)

OK rob, so i have been running your build 4 stock for sprint for 3 days, and thus far its been fantastic. I can't complain about anything. speed is better and no major lockups. man i am one happy camper!

My only wishes at this point:

my documents shortcut on start menu - yea i want that too :)

htc home 1.5 - can this be installed via a cab, or do we need to wait till next rom?

sdhc cab file - a link on your downloads page to this would be nice :)

radio upgrade to 1.43 for sprint - i heard there are other ways to extract the files from your verizon install, but I am hoping there might be a way one can build a simple exe for us sprint users to upgrade the radio....


i will make my donation to both you and the ppcgeeks site, I need to please upper management right? :)

Originally Posted by bmx045 (Post 107797)

Hi guys, I'm having a problem upgrading to this! I put it into bootloader mode fine, connected to PC (tried both an xp and vista), but it says use correct rom upgrade utility! Both xp and vista said that. I used vista to upgrade to verizons latest radio/rom just fine (actually perfect upgrade, no hiccups!). I wonder why this program is doing this?

Originally Posted by GameDoctor (Post 107877)

I'm wondering if Helmi_c has given up on Apache development, or just lost interest in PPCGeeks. He hasn't even made a post since Sept. 3rd.

I would not hold my breath for an "official" kitchen from him. I know it takes a lot of development time for these things, but the lack of any postings is not a good sign, especially when you are a Super Moderator.

Originally Posted by SidDuced (Post 107886)

Hey man I really need help now. I downloaded the wm6 build and I don't know what happened. I extracted the files into my storage card than I touched the "ENTERBL" file and now everything is wiped out. I tried to do a hard reset but nothing starts. Please help.

Originally Posted by raymondh (Post 107894)

I just installed this and everything seems to be working with the exception of caller ID on phone calls and text messages. It just shows the number and doesn't match that number with my contacts in my address book. Is there a solution to this?

Originally Posted by robmayer (Post 107898)

First, you did restore all of your contacts after the update, right? If so, have you messed around with the slot cycle index? I changed it to a higher number once to try and increase battery life, but it caused my incoming calls not to mach up with me address book too. If you have changed this setting, make sure to put it back to default, otherwise don't worry about it.

Originally Posted by GameDoctor (Post 107877)

I'm wondering if Helmi_c has given up on Apache development, or just lost interest in PPCGeeks. He hasn't even made a post since Sept. 3rd.

I would not hold my breath for an "official" kitchen from him. I know it takes a lot of development time for these things, but the lack of any postings is not a good sign, especially when you are a Super Moderator.

Originally Posted by robmayer (Post 107837)

Might have bootloader 2.05. What does it say at the bottom of the screen when you put it into bootloader? If it says v. 2.05, that's why and you will have to talk to somebody in the chatroom to get help, or pm me and I will walk to through getting back to v. 2.02 so you can flash WM6.

Originally Posted by SirBadWolf (Post 108181)

I was just wondering rob. Can all the cabs be deleted that are in the extended rom from the clean install? Is there anything that needs to be left in there? Does unlocking the rom add it to a device memory? Or is it always going to be a separate partition?
Thanks for all your hard work

Originally Posted by adrian2pm (Post 108258)

how do i get my mogul to look like this with the big clock on top . is this for the 6700 only?