Working on a noSprint leaves-EXTROM-alone version right now, as a matter of fact.

Because Today plugins have to be available immediately on boot up, and storage cards, even the EXT_ROM, load just a little bit after boot up. Same deal for device drivers.

As for things that create alarms, I don't know if this is still a problem, but with older versions of WM, the card wouldn't "wake up" until about a second after the device, so if an alarm goes off, tries to access the program that called it and the program doesn't "exist" for another second, bad things.

I agree!

I will look into it when I go on break.

I see your point, though other ROMs have the 02 today screen stuff in them and they load fine (much faster than my Calendar+ which is in regular memory). I also saw a new 3.5 ROM with Spb Diary (which runs on the today screen) in it.

That's different, that's actual ROM instead of the "Extended ROM" partition. What Sprint calles Extended ROM is really more like Safe Store on the old iPAQs. It's a internal, non-removable storage card.

As for why I didn't stick a bunch of Today plugins in the actual ROM, heck, I'm catching heat from people who think I shouldn't have put Live Search in a "clean and simple" ROM. Can't please everyone.

BTW, the ROM I run on my own device has Spb Diary, Spb Weather and Pocket Player built into ROM. But I've paid for all that, so it's fine for me. I didn't want to release a ROM with stuff that will bug you for reg codes eventually.

Thanks, I understand now. I'll probably have to consider trying to make my own ROM to really get the stuff I want into it and get rid of what I don't. I think I'll wait first for a 3.5 ROM that I find solid and then will consider working on it when I've got some free time (which I don't have now).

The Unified ROM Project makes this really, really easy. The hard part is building the OEM modules (collections of what a Cab file does) for the stuff you want. I still haven't been able to do it, so I'm just relying on the OEMs others make.

Thanks. I'll have to look into it all when I find some time.

Is this the sfaure03 kitchen, just packaged up? Looks like the same base. The nice thing about his kitchen is it allows add/remove of OEM's which are becoming quite abundant. MSVC1.6 is the only one that I cannot get to work.

Anyways, nice work with the step by step instructions. With all these prepackaged versions out there now, most users should be able to find soemthing that suits them quite well.