Benefits of the Alltel ROM?

[dynaxfl]

Last night I flashed the Alltel ROM into my Bell PPC6800 without any problem.

1. Improved screen
with the old Bell ROM, the screen is so sensitive, a slight pressure from stylus will change the touch screen's color tone. I thought this was a hardware problem, but all the PPC6800 sold in the store has the same problem. I helped my friend upgraded his Telus P4000 from WM5 to WM6, after the upgrade, his screen had the same issue as mine. Alltel's ROM solved and I no longer notice the color tone changes on the screen.

2. BT Headset problem is fixed.
I haven't made a lot of calls yet. Ever since I got the 6800, I stopped using BT headset so it is weird to use headset again, haha. Today I made a few calls and some calls last over 20 min. I constantly asked my friend about the sound quality and they all replied fine. I'm using Jabra JX10, so I think Alltel rom has fixed the BT headset problem, at least for JX10.

3. BT Stereo headphone (A2DP support) is better.
with the Bell Rom, A2DP was good but not perfect. Alltel ROM seems even better and I haven't had skipping problems so far.

4. RAM usage is the same as Bell ROM.

Overall I'm pretty happy with Alltell rom.

[sandiegodude]

That's it... I think I'm ready to jump in.
It's been so long since I've been with my BT headset, I've missed her so much.

[Krusty_47]

Ok so it seems as if when I installed the other rom it seems to have overriden some important settings that deal with the internet. I could be wrong because I did pull this from the Debunking Multi Nai thread from the second write up. If that is the case then I would have to take it into the store to get it fixed. Which really sucks but I would love to get a second opinion from someone else who might of came across the same issue.

[Ph33zy]

Originally Posted by klurf8881

heres a good one- is anyone running the wm5 altell rom except olipro?

id think that wm5 wouldnt have memory leaks since we never experienced it on other PDAs.... im wondering if its worth reverting back to wm5 for now to at least solve that which is my main gripe with the 6800.

it cant hurt i guess, mostly any program still runs in wm5 anyways, all you loose is html email (if u use exchange 2007 which mail2web doesnt even support yet anyways) really and some corporate security stuff i never use. I dont see a downside unless someone can point one out...

look in ImCokeMan's ftp directory...

[EtherealRemnant]

Hmm... so from reading this thread, when my Mogul comes in on Monday, the first thing I should do is grab up the Alltel ROM?

Should I let it flash, then reset it when it starts installing customizations so I don't lose Sprint-specific settings?

[stroths]

I don't know if it fixed the RAM issue, but it is "snapper" according to someone on the #ppcgeeks chat channel yesterday

[dcd]

Originally Posted by specv

my biggest concern is the memory leak, which i assume is not fixed

seriously. theres no damn memory leak. its been covered a million times and its not the topic here. i vote for no more memory leak bs on this thread.

Originally Posted by pro_b

Does anyone know how to change the splash screen to Sprint from Alltel Rom. I actually like the little Sprint Animation.

there is a sprint_splash_screens.zip or something in my directory that is just that. wont write anything but the splash screens with original spcs logo. no animation.

Originally Posted by Shaska

It appears that Alltel has applied many of the speed tweaks that you would need to apply to a sprint rom right off the bat.

my findings are the opposite - the alltel OS was only modified by alltel where apparently necessary for a functioning device. its as close to stock WM as we have on the titan. the sprint rom has been highly screwed with and bogged down by spcs.

[hippity.hoppity]

Originally Posted by klurf8881

um dude i dunno what youre smoking but theres a memory leak. soft reset your phone, youll have 24mb or whatever it is exactly. open a few programs close them FULLY with memaid or such program. Once everything is closed watch your ram go down to 15-17mb. I dont know how thats not some kinda leak its going somewhere obviously didnt just disappear- its not being released by the OS (SEE BELOW). By definition it s a leak and your wrong.

"Memory leak
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In computer science, a memory leak is a particular kind of unintentional memory consumption by a computer program where the program fails to release memory when no longer needed. This condition is normally the result of a bug in a program that prevents it from freeing up memory that it no longer needs."

Good post. That should be clear enough for anyone to understand.

[steps]

Memory leaks pretty much come from uneducated software programmers who rush software before fully testing/tweaking it to make a quick buck i.e. Microsoft.

[DogGuy]

Alright, so I decided that if there was any possibility of using my well-loved and heavily missed Plantronics 665 BT headset again, then it was worth trying. After flashing to just the Alltel WM6 OS on my Sprint Mogul (which was a super easy process even for a newbie to PPCs, great job ImCokeMan) here are my findings, the good, the bad and the ugly. YMMV.

Good -

Ram: After hard reset I was sitting at 25, a full 1 - 2mb higher than a hard reset with Sprint. Comparing exact same running programs, I am consistently 3 mb + more free ram at any given moment using the Alltel rom vs the Sprint one. Since I've been deciding on what my preferred software set will be with my Mogul, I've been watching my Ram, soft resets, use of Oxios, etc very very closely. There is a significant improvement with the Alltel rom.

Speed: Visibly noticeable increase in speed. By my stopwatch, I would see a full second or more difference in loading PocketCM. Definitely as someone else described, "snappier".

BT: Most important..... I can use my headset again! (sorta, see "ugly"). Callers have no complaints, and I am fully comprehensible. Lots of testing on this, and while it is still not the phenomenal audio quality I've seen with my 665 on other phones, it is perfectly useable. From day 1 of my Mogul, I have not been able to get through a single phone call with my BT. Every person complained within the first minute of conversation that the audio was choppy. Totally unusable. Not the case with the Alltel rom, and I've asked every single caller with some calls lasting less than 3 minutes, and others going over 45.


Bad -

Picsel Browser: Can't figure it out, but for some reason I cannot get it to allow a reflow of the page. Haven't looked into it heavily yet, but it is odd to say the least.

Ugly -

Stability: And now the downfall..... while my BT headset is functional and useable, it causes me to experience the exact same wake from standby issue that the early Telus WM6 folks were complaining about on pdaphonehome. If BT is disabled, no issues at all. When BT is enabled I'd say there is a 1 in 3 chance of the device not waking with the power button and needing a soft reset. This is the case immediately after a hard reset, so I know it is *not* a third party software issue. This is my deal breaker. I flashed for the BT headset ability, but if I have to set my phone to not go into standby whenever I want to use BT, it's not really any better than not using it at all with the heavy battery drain etc etc. So, at the moment I'm testing every temp solution and workaround I can come up with. Tomorrow I'll be testing against multiple headsets. I really don't want to give up my 665, so more than likely if I can't find an answer I'll be jumping back to WM5 and seeing how that runs.

Anyways, thats my .02, hopefully it proves helpful to someone else planning on following the same path,

- DogGuy