Is anyone more happy with Phoenx06's Clean and Simple over WM6?

[bimmerd00d]

I am for some reason. I want some stuff from each of the ROM's in my own, but im too scared to cook up my own and flash it. I wish I had a broken one I could play with first! Is there any chance I can brick my phone? Ultimately I could just start in bootloader and reflash using a working one? I don't want to kill this thing from my own lack of knowledge!

[omegax]

Then by all means dont cook one. If you cannot get an understanding of the step by step in the readme, then it would be best to leave it to us. WM6 is a beta. So as such it has a few things that need tweaked.

[bimmerd00d]

Originally Posted by omegax

Then by all means dont cook one. If you cannot get an understanding of the step by step in the readme, then it would be best to leave it to us. WM6 is a beta. So as such it has a few things that need tweaked.

I'm finally getting down to reading the threads and docs on cooking up my own. I like BigJ's rom, but it's got a LOT of stuff i don't need. Attempting to slim it down.

[bimmerd00d]

NICE, i built my own version with nothing extra, just what i wanted and it works great!!!!!! SO much faster, can't wait til the WM6 kitchen comes out. The only problem i'm seeing now is that the backlight turns on every minute or two regardless of what setting i use.

[FastRX8]

Originally Posted by bimmerd00d

I am for some reason. I want some stuff from each of the ROM's in my own, but im too scared to cook up my own and flash it. I wish I had a broken one I could play with first! Is there any chance I can brick my phone? Ultimately I could just start in bootloader and reflash using a working one? I don't want to kill this thing from my own lack of knowledge!

Well, I can't imagine what you could do to brick it. I've done some stupid stuff cooking my own roms, and everytime managed to get back to a working rom. I think cooking your own is very intimidating the 1st time. Once you've done it, it's pretty simple.
I'm actually working on putting a Dummies Guide to Cooking.
Nothing special really. Just using the kitchen and the bare minimum to cook a simple rom.
Once you do the 1st one, adding other OEM's or making your own OEM's can be tackled a little easier.

Originally Posted by bimmerd00d

NICE, i built my own version with nothing extra, just what i wanted and it works great!!!!!! SO much faster, can't wait til the WM6 kitchen comes out. The only problem i'm seeing now is that the backlight turns on every minute or two regardless of what setting i use.

I posted this on another forum, and I think I found the info somewhere on PPCGeeks.
Anyways try this.

There is actually a very easy fix for this, although it does not make sense why it fixes it.

Go to the Backlight screen.
Set your battery power time to whatever you want. (i.e. 1min, 2min, etc.)

Then you need to make a change to the registry.

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/ControlPanel/Backlight

There is a folder called LockLevel
Rename the folder to LockLevelx (the "x" can be any number or letter)
Then restart the device.

Basically, renaming the folder does not fix the problem, but forces WM5 to remake the folder.
For some reason, when it remakes the folder, the settings 'stick' and they stop resetting to 10secs.

The same result could probably be achieved by deleting "LockLevel", but I haven't tried deleting it yet.

I can say that the rename method worked for both my phone, and my wife's phone. Now I just have a folder called LockLevelx and a folder called LockLevel.

[bimmerd00d]

Originally Posted by FastRX8

Well, I can't imagine what you could do to brick it. I've done some stupid stuff cooking my own roms, and everytime managed to get back to a working rom. I think cooking your own is very intimidating the 1st time. Once you've done it, it's pretty simple.
I'm actually working on putting a Dummies Guide to Cooking.
Nothing special really. Just using the kitchen and the bare minimum to cook a simple rom.
Once you do the 1st one, adding other OEM's or making your own OEM's can be tackled a little easier.


I posted this on another forum, and I think I found the info somewhere on PPCGeeks.
Anyways try this.

There is actually a very easy fix for this, although it does not make sense why it fixes it.

Go to the Backlight screen.
Set your battery power time to whatever you want. (i.e. 1min, 2min, etc.)

Then you need to make a change to the registry.

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/ControlPanel/Backlight

There is a folder called LockLevel
Rename the folder to LockLevelx (the "x" can be any number or letter)
Then restart the device.

Basically, renaming the folder does not fix the problem, but forces WM5 to remake the folder.
For some reason, when it remakes the folder, the settings 'stick' and they stop resetting to 10secs.

The same result could probably be achieved by deleting "LockLevel", but I haven't tried deleting it yet.

I can say that the rename method worked for both my phone, and my wife's phone. Now I just have a folder called LockLevelx and a folder called LockLevel.

Thanks for the quick fix, I ended up re-doing the rom, as I found some stuff i wanted and didn't want, now everything's working fine. NO idea what caused it, but it's gone and i'm happy. Debating whether WM6 is that much better now. i'm sure i'll give it a whirl when the kitchen comes out. I'm not sure if what i did was actually "cooking" my own rom. I just opened BuildOS.exe, checked and unchecked what i wanted, and then ran the rest of the steps. Is that it? If so, that was cake.

[dth4310]

1. Verify you are enrolled in the equipment protection program
2. Cook rom
3. Flash rom
4. If bricked, put in bootlader and return to step 3 with known rom. If that doesn't work claim stupidity and return to store for replacement.

I've never bricked a phone either. I've had roms that wouldn't boot, but nothing a hard reset followed by bootloader mode and a known rom couldn't fix.

[bimmerd00d]

Originally Posted by dth4310

1. Verify you are enrolled in the equipment protection program
2. Cook rom
3. Flash rom
4. If bricked, put in bootlader and return to step 3 with known rom. If that doesn't work claim stupidity and return to store for replacement.

I've never bricked a phone either. I've had roms that wouldn't boot, but nothing a hard reset followed by bootloader mode and a known rom couldn't fix.

thx, can't get equipment protection on a phone that i bought used on Craigslist.

[yotoad]

i used wm6 today and enjoyed it, but it was a bit too buggy for me -- i'll wait for the kitchen-i'm using a custom 3.5 rom