Clean and simple AKU 3.5 for any Apache
 

First, the bona fides...

Based on Unified ROM Project 1.2 Pre-release

Removed:
Cyberon Voice Dial (if you're going to use voice dial at all, get Microsoft's Voice Command 1.6)
Clear Storage (hold down both soft buttons while pressing in on the reset switch to hard reset if you need to)
MSN (all of it)
IntelliPad (the goofy T9 SIP)
IA_Zip (Unnecessary with Total Commander)
SMS Retry (might be useful if it was automatic, but it's not...)
Wireless Modem (doesn't work on 3.5, use Internet Sharing instead)

Added:
1-Calc Lite (better calculator)
MMS with Sprint settings (self-explanatory)
Midlet Manager (Java Virtual Machine)
Total Commander 2.5 (freeware filemanager, FTP client and registry editor; also makes great fries!)
Windows Live Search (better than Google Maps)

.NET 2.0 Compact Frameworks are preinstalled.

Okay, here's how you use this. Follow this step by step, and nobody gets hurt.

1. Hard reset your phone. As mentioned above, you don't need Clear Storage to do this. Hold down both soft buttons with one hand and poke the reset hole with the other, ideally while holding a stylus in the second hand, unless you have really pointy fingers.

2. Put your phone in Bootloader mode. This is a special condition that prepares the phone to rewrite the ROM. While holding down both the power and record buttons, poke the reset switch, again with a stylus. The backlight should go off and the screen will say "Serial". When you put it in the crade, the screen will change to say "USB" and the backlight will stay off. This is normal. Wait for Windows to recognize the new USB device before moving on.

3. Run Kirvin AKU 3.5 NoJunk.exe. Keep clicking Next until it's done. Do NOT remove your phone from the cradle until it tells you to! Seriously. Don't make me come over there.

4. When told to remove your phone from the cradle, pull it out and hard reset it again. Congratulations! You're running AKU 3.5, probably the closest to Windows Mobile 6 we Apache owners will ever get!

Finally, the download link:

ftp://ppcgeeks:ezupload@up.ppcgeeks....3.5_NoJunk.zip

cool, might give it a try tonight, thanks

I am getting “error 120: Country id error" anyone else?

you running it in bootloader mode?

Yep yep.

I extracted the exe and ran the "ROMUpgradeUt.exe" and it installed fine.
I guess the exe autoruns "MaUpgradeUt_noID.exe" which was giving me the error 120.

Seems to be an issue with the .exe. Winrar the .exe file and you will see the components that make it up. Take the nk.nbf and drop it into any other ROM installation file that you have and it will flash okay - just did it, so I know it works.

mms with Sprint settings
 

Since this was for "any Apache" I was wondering how easy it was to convert the MMS with Sprint settings to Verizon. Is this straightforward?

Thanks for getting up ROMS based on the unified project.

Jeff,

I just flashed your ROM - thought I'd give it a try. I've been using Colonel's 3.5 which is really nice as well - he is working on fixing a freezing problem it's having.

Since you removed the basic voice dialer, have you thought about including 1.6 in the ROM, allowing just the installation of the .exe for those who have it. Since this is a 4meg program, it's nice not to have to eat all that program memory.

Just a thought...

Thanks for what you've put up today!

Chris

I left it out because a) I don't use it, and b) I'm trying to keep this one as clean as possible, which means no unnecessary .dll files lying around where they might conflict with something else. Software is tricky and the more features you add, the exponentially more conflicts you might have. This is why the Colonel's ROM, which is jam packed with goodies, is less stable than this one.

There are several ROMs out there that do include the VC 1.6 support files, or you can bake your own from the kitchen Shaun posted that I used to make this.

Well said. Just flashed it; this is beautiful. If this is a pre-release, I'm hard pressed to see where improvements can be made (in the spirit of what you said here and elsewhere - the more crap you add, the less appealing it becomes to people). A huge "nice work" to everyone involved in this project for giving our Apaches new life! Thank you so much!