official 3.3 rom release from utstarcom?

elitegreek · #1 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 10:37 AM

Monday, July 02, 2007 10:01 AM 46624001
PPC6700BM Production WM5.0 AKU3.3.1.zip

An official 3.3 rom from utstar? supposedly its for Bell Mobility?
Can anyone confirm this? Any hope for a verizon upgrade?

WARNING:

Do not flash this ROM package directly. It contains a new bootloader for r the device which will prevent you from downgrading to any other ROM.

The only safe way to flash this is to extract the nk.nbf file from the package and flash it using the noid flashing app or another version of the regular apache flashing app (if you have encoded it with the correct carrier ID).

-luv2chill

Bushrod · #2 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 10:57 AM

Why would it need confirming?

xmind2006 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 12:30 PM

Wow, finally (although still not for Verizon or Sprint). Too bad it isn't a 3.5.

vboyz103 · #4 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 12:58 PM

Man UTStar is lightyears away from PPCGeeks

**colonel** · #5 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 02:23 PM

Actually, the build of the 3.3 is newer than the 3.5 we are using. Kitchen soon.

kevdawg · #6 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 03:32 PM

Is this going to be good to help us build an even more stable 3.5?

black88mx6 · #7 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 03:34 PM

Looking forward to this.

**luv2chill** · #8 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 04:02 PM

Nothing huge in this ROM at the surface, but a couple things people may want to check out:

1. Active/Inactive data arrows working! Many of us really missed losing this function with the unofficial AKU3 ROMs.

2. A2DP is built-in and much improved. I had a lot of success with my old HP/Logitech A2DP headphones, which skipped horribly with any other A2DP hack, including the most recent 3.3/3.5/New Core kitchens. There is not a single glitch now, and the SQ is as good as it currently gets with A2DP (wired still sounds better, but not much).

I also tried my cheapo MSI FS300 headset but the audio cut out on that in the first two seconds and didn't come back. I haven't charged the battery on that lately though so I'm gonna do that and try again later.

One caveat:

I haven't been able to get time to sync. I am wondering if it depends on the newer radio ROM included with this package (version 1.41). Might get adventurous and flash that later on today to see if it gets time sync working again without causing any other problems.

The future:

No one get their hopes up (PLEASE) but there is a possibility that this ROM will enable us to get WM6 working on the Apache. I have notified helmi_c, but he's a very busy guy and it may take him a while to take a look at it to see if its core files are compatible with WM6.

There is reason for some optimism though, at least a bit more than we had before this ROM came out!

And many thanks to Bell Mobility for ponying up the money to HTC to get this ROM made. I know they did not intend for non-BM users to have it, but thanks just the same!

kevdawg · #9 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 04:07 PM

WM6? Ok. That would just be cool. Mogul? .... what mogul :D

degeiso · #10 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 04:08 PM

Sounds awesome~