After upgrading to 1.1r I was in your same boat (im on Verizon as well). I read and re-read this post and numerous others to get my sending of mms to function and, you will hate to hear this, I did nothing specific for it to work... just one day at the office my mms outbox was empty. I checked, and sure enough both mms messages I had there had sent. Very odd. I only have SPB Phone suite installed outside of BigJ's goodies.
Like I said, if I knew of one specific thing I did, I would post it, but I simply left it alone and 3 days after I installed the 1.1r ROM it worked. Good luck.

make a shortcut for epst with the ## code and run it. there is a walkthrough somewhere in this thread and there are also shortcuts already made for you on the PPCGeeks ftp.

glad you guys are figuring out most of your issues.

J when I am using your kitchen and I build the os everything works like a charm. When I run create rom.bat towards the end it bombs in XP in the command prompt at the line zuma-arm.exe And then the windows pop up error buildlmgfs.exe has encountered a problem. You can choose debug or close. So I click on close and the cmd prompt says hooray. The NBA file is all there so I covert it and flash. But all I get is a snow looking spash screen and then the second screen that comes up is white with no text. Yay! So I will just flash back to your 1.1r for now. Any clue to get this working?

Fixed rom was too loaded.

Remember the ROM is FULL, and if you get the snow screen, that means you overfilled it.

zuma is 1.3 megs, so youll have to remove at least 1.3 megs of programs before checking this one off.

I wish there was more room in there man, i really do!

(zuma is one of my favorites, i just use a cab though >< )

I havne't been able to active-sync with my desktop since installing this rom - has anyone else seen this?

Also - I have gotten a few notification errors when turning on the phone...
-mark

pocketbreeze (and pocket weather) work fine on this.
-m

I found epst in windows dir but when I open it nothing comes up. is that the right dir. this is killing me. I have your rom bigj and all is well except the dun.
thanks for all your work on the rom .

I'm having problems pairing my Motorola HS815 BT headset. It pairs, but shows no services available. I'm using 1.1r. Has anyone else had any problems with their headsets?

Have you tried using the Internet Sharing Program he included? It works with no need to do the ## try it. Simlpy start the program, make sure usb is selected, then hit 'connect' and then plug into your computer via USB, bam you are all set :-)

I assume you did a soft reset after adding the key? I always do after all registry changes, just in case...

I tried the non Sprint build and it almost works. The vibrate mode does not work on my phone, which I need since I am in a lot of meetings. I sync with Outlook on my laptop and got sync errors saying that I didn't have enough room on my phone to complete the sync. So, I tried to build a new rom with less apps from the kitchen, but the BuildOS will not run.

Any ideas...

Thanks,
Ben

...Please read the thread! I seriously am afraid that if enough people keep asking this same question, that JBabey will simply stop making ROMS for us :cry:

The first post of this thread tells you which registry edit to make to bring the vibrate mode back.

As an FYI, Internet Sharing only works for me when Bluetooth is off.

DodgeV83,
Thanks for the vibrate info, I though I had seen something about it, I will look for it. But I really want to be able to use the Kitchen (there are too many apps in the prebuilt rom). Has anyone else been able to use the Kitchen?


Thanks,
Ben

I have a couple questions about this ROM. I am new to the whole smartphone/pda phone world. From Everything I have read this ROM sounds awesome. I do have a couple questions though that I did not see in this thread. Is there a slide lock app on this ROM or one out there I can install (kinda like the iPhone slide lock) also are there any screenshots of what the theme looks like with this ROM? Thanks for all your help and I am sure I will be asking a lot of questions and probably mostly newbie questions. So thanks for everything.

Tyler

Thanks BigJ for all the hard work you have put into this. I was chugging along with Verizon 2.07.20 dated 02/24/06 fairly well but what a difference your creation has made! I am a heavy tweaker but always reluctant to flash anything... Your included instructions and contributions in these threads simplified everything.

1 minor issue (more of an annoyance). Most everytime I do a soft reset via either the stylus (manually) or via program request (changing a setting within memMaid for example), upon bootup I get an eternal hang with the big picture of the clock which finally causes me after many minutes ...have waited up to 10... to simply manually force another soft reset w/ the stylus. Upon doing that 9 times out of 10, this 2nd boot is successful.

I'm not sure if my installing Wisbar 2 advance has anything to do with this as that is the only thing I've added post install program wise and with a "startup" entry. Any suggestions besides Uninstalling Wisbar to troubleshoot? - Should I rearrange the startup via MemMaid to anything specific or somehow remove Handyswitcher or whatever thinking it might have a boot conflict with Wisbar? :?

I have built several roms from the kitchen. So far every one has worked with no problems other than finding programs that i didn't need or use. I have even added some other oems and everything is great. I'm on alltel so that may be why i haven't had any issues

I can't build a rom. When I try to run BuildOS it crashes. That is as far as I can get.

Thanks,
Ben

I just tried that now with no luck. it seems I dont have a CDMA modem listed in my laptop phone/modems settings and xp is not asking me to setup one when I plug the 6700 to USB.
Also I tried WModem, hit start and got the error "could not prepare vision services, please initiate IOTA on device and try again" Which sounds like the DUN is not activated. So I need to get the ## working.

I struggled with this initially as well. Internet Sharing is the only thing that actually worked for me and here is how I did it:

1) TURN OFF BLUETOOTH
2) Click on Internet Sharing
3) Make sure the PC Connection setting shows USB. Also, Network Connection shows Sprint PCS Vision, so I don't know what it would show on Verizon.
4) Click on Connect.
5) WARNING - only after the above four steps can you plug-in your phone using the USB connection. You might have to plug/unplug a couple of times for it to work, although it generally works the first time.

Good luck!

Try this..
 

Hey BigJ,

Love your release but occasionally I would get system lockups or sometimes my storagecard would disappear. So for the hell of it, I decide to try a Colonels release and build one without all the bells and whistles that you have in yours. As it turns out, it was quite stable no problems at all. Then I decided to install the colorful battery status that you have above your start screen. "VistaHide Battery Gauge.exe" (you have this on your ROM) I then again noticed the random lockups and storagecard started disappearing.
You may want to take a look at this..

Varaff

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What DC said is right, except I don't have to turn off bluetooth. This APP doesn't install as a modem, so you aren't looking for CDMA modem at all. When you are conncected properly it will show as a new network connection, and you will be able to access the web through this network. No need to dial up, configure a modem or anything like that. DUN isn't needed.

Re: Try this..
 

I think you are on to something here. As per the previous page of this thread and my post... Add to the soft-reset/lockup upon initial bootup this problem with my storage card also disappearing requiring two soft resets to get back up and running.

? - What is the best way for us to remove this app completely since not in Add/Remove as its integrated within this rom? Going to look into atleast removing it from startup now for further testing.

Thanks

Re: Try this..
 

You can just stop it from starting by deleting it from your windows\startup folder, The shortcut is called battv, then soft reset.

However, I'm not conviced that is the real problem, as I've been using it forever, and have never had any sorage cards disappearing or strange lockups, and I'm even running PhoneAlarm as an OEM, and it all works fine... Maybe I'm just lucky. who really knows.

What DC said is right, except I don't have to turn off bluetooth. This APP doesn't install as a modem, so you aren't looking for CDMA modem at all. When you are conncected properly it will show as a new network connection, and you will be able to access the web through this network. No need to dial up, configure a modem or anything like that. DUN isn't needed.[/quote]



That worked for me. I had done that before not knowing I was connected, then trying to connect with Wmodem or EPST.
Also lokking at network connections on my laptop it would come up with a status of connected but with limited or no connectivity. That must have been from all the other things I was trying. Thank you very much for the info, I am a happy camper now with this rom.

Go BigJ,
that's my BigJ
Go BigJ,

Yes, wisbar is a pile of garbage... if you remember sarid's rom suffered these types of lockups with wisbar and it did actually have to do with the startup order. I would defenitely disable handyswitcher, its always a bad idea to run two task manager programs at the same time.

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regarding the vista guage battery (battv). I to do not suffer any lockups or random storage card dissapearences. I used to but i changed SD cards and format it in FAT and not FAT32. I would be hard pressed to think that a 3.2k program running completely in RAM and polling only every 15 minutes is causing the SD card to dissapear.

I know the apache driver for the sd card is wack, i would more lean towards that, than something else. It is bizzare though that colonel ROM does not suffer the same ghost SD issues because my understanding is that it is an apache driver issue.

huh, I cant really speculate, if that is what causes issues on your handset, just remove it from the startup and install batti, or just put your battery bar back on the top and remove the clock from up there.

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internet sharing/wmodem issues are bizzare. One user clued me in on a program called PDAnet that works fantastic. Ive used it myself now and it works rather well. Ill make a cab file later this week so it installs without putting that stupid icon in the bottom right corner. It relies on some PC side files though so youll still need to install it.

8)

I only have epst.epst and epst2.epst
No epst.exe, maybe thats why my ## codes dont work.
can you PM me the epst.exe

oh ya, that bluetooth explorer is here

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=311908

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the EPST codes need SHORTCUTS, not a new exe.

the shortcuts are on the ppcgeeks ftp here

/Apache/New Core OEMs/Hetal_Patel/Z_OEM_EPST_Shortcuts/

just copy those to the handset, these shortcuts will allow the PST codes for the shortcuts you need

---to make it easy for you lazy people or those that dont know how to use the FTP ,,, here is the zip file. its a complete OEM package, just pull the .lnk files for what you need.

I did removed the battv and handyswitcher from my startup and the softreset - initial lockup along with the vanishing SD seems to have resolved itself now. Not to blame either one of those programs though from the sounds of things its the combination when running wisbar as I am.

Thanks for the info on wisbar though. I will consider removing if any more problems arise. I like it's theming capabilities, start menu like regular windows, ect... but I'm sure I could get used to an alternate.

Great job again BigJ! This is truly a remarkable upgrade from the regular stock setup. Much appreciated :)

Today was the first time my battery has gotten low enough to trigger the 'battery low' and 'battery dangerously low' alerts. Strangely enough I got some bizarre errors shortly thereafter:

1) A box popped up saying it cant find the USB driver and please enter the name. I canceled it and it kept popping up over and over.

2) my text messages stopped going through and show as red in the SMS app. My friend said she didnt get them.

3) the phone dialer looked messed up, but it eventually reset itself (I use the touch dialer)

4) my ringtone reverted to the windows default (and stayed there thru a reset!)

After putting it on the charger, and soft reset, all the above went back to normal, except the ringtone.

notification bubble
 

Hello All,

first off, I am really enjoying this ROM - it is packed full of items, I really dont have to to install any program as they are all included in the ROM which is great should I need to hard reset :o)

I was wondering though, is anyone experiencing an issue with the notifications bubble for appointments?

I for some reason, am not getting a notifcation bubble pop up for meeting - it seem to be working for task, but not appointments.

Device: 6700
ROM: BigJ 1.1r
Carrier: Telus Mobility (Canada)
Storage: 2Gig Scandisk (no programs installed on it)
Programs installed to device after ROM Flash:
- SPB Mobile Shell (1.0)
- SPB Backup (1.6.1)
- SPB Phone Suite (1.1)

Thanks.

no vibrate
 

with your new rom i have no vibrate it says that it is on it just wont vibrate is there any paticular reason why this might be

Re: no vibrate
 

Please read the first post. It lists a reg edit you must perform to make the vibrate work again.

Re: no vibrate
 

Are you on Verizon by any chance?

nope on the sprint network

Re: no vibrate
 

The same reg edit works for Verizon users

Re: no vibrate
 

thanks must have over looked it

if anyone noticed boor battery preformance were you using weather panel?
i noticed a significant increase when i removed the animated icons. It may my screen flash every few seconds and killed my battery in just a few hours

Re: Try this..
 

I have also experienced a lot of lock-ups or freezes especially when trying to answer a ringing call. I don't use any custom ring-tone or anything but I do have a company-specific push-mail system installed. I noticed that this seemed to occur more often since I started using the BigJ ROMs - but I still loved them.

I removed the startup for the battv three days ago and have not had a single lockup since. Don't know if that is really the cause - I thought more likely it was the push-mail system, but I'll go a few more days to see if it holds. If not, then I'll disable the push-mail to see if that is it.

I am on Verizon and use a 2gb Sandisk SD card. I don't really have any other programs loaded and I always disabled the handyswitcher too.

Randy

WeatherPanel icons
 

Does anyone have the DEFAULT (non-animated) icon set for WeatherPanel? It's not available for download on their site. I'm assuming BigJ removed them to save space.