Stock AKU 3.5 for any Apache

[Jeff Kirvin]

First, the bona fides...

Based on Unified ROM Project 1.2 Pre-release. This is as close as you can get to UT Starcom's AKU release and still get the benefits of AKU 3.5.

Removed:
Wireless Modem (doesn't work on 3.5, use Internet Sharing instead)

Added:
.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 Stock.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_Stock.zip

[konceptz]

Thanks for the updates, you may want to tie these into one thread, and i'll link the discussion to your main thread page on Custom Installers sticky.

This way they won't get lost.

[boe]

Thanks - I've got the original Helmi 3.5. I'm looking for something as base as possible but that let's me use my contact links in Live Search. This is a known issue in the original release and there is no new live search out yet. Do you know if you can use your contacts to select a destination in Live Search?

[Jeff Kirvin]

Originally Posted by boe

Thanks - I've got the original Helmi 3.5. I'm looking for something as base as possible but that let's me use my contact links in Live Search. This is a known issue in the original release and there is no new live search out yet. Do you know if you can use your contacts to select a destination in Live Search?

Works fine for me. Just pulled one up.

[boe]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kirvin

Works fine for me. Just pulled one up.

You used Live Search, selected a new destination and from the Contacts FROM WITHIN live search it posted the new destination? I'm not talking about the default contact app that has nothing to do with live search.

[Jeff Kirvin]

Originally Posted by boe

You used Live Search, selected a new destination and from the Contacts FROM WITHIN live search it posted the new destination? I'm not talking about the default contact app that has nothing to do with live search.

Yeah, I understood what you meant. It works fine. I selected a buddy of mine in Wichita from within Live Search as a destination, it found his address and when I tapped Map, there was Wichita. (I live in Denver.)

[boe]

Thanks - I don't mean to talk down but when I originally posted the issue in a few threads - everyone kept on testing contacts outside of live search and assuming that was what I meant.

I don't know squat about cooking my own rom so I appreciate everyone who keeps making these things. I'm tempted to learn just so I can make one with a few standards that I want to see if I can shove into the rom so it doesn't use my precious memory for apps I load afterwards.

[boe]

Just thought I'd let you know - I've flashed my phone 12 times and this is the first one that didn't work. It got stuck on the UTStar screen. I tried flashing it again with your rom a second time just in case - same issue.

I'll go back to my original 3.5 rom - yours may not work with the Sprint one just in case anyone has a sprint phone.

[Jeff Kirvin]

Originally Posted by boe

Just thought I'd let you know - I've flashed my phone 12 times and this is the first one that didn't work. It got stuck on the UTStar screen. I tried flashing it again with your rom a second time just in case - same issue.

I'll go back to my original 3.5 rom - yours may not work with the Sprint one just in case anyone has a sprint phone.

Weird, I wonder if anyone else has that problem...

[boe]

Maybe I don't understand which two soft buttons you want me to use to hard reset my phone - my phone has a lot of soft buttons.