Re: Stock Rom vs Custom Rom - Exxagerated?
 

I have a Sprint TP, I tried tweaking the stock but still wasn't satisfied. So I started flashing some rom's that are out there and there has been an improvement. I like RSTouyGuys rom for the TP. I finally got brave and read his tutorials and I used GC's kitchen and made a rom there using a PP of 8-I have 384.55MB of internal storage and 234.17MB in programs. And the rom is snappy and allows me to do what I need. So it is also a matter of preference on what you are looking to do. Happy Modding!!!

Re: Stock Rom vs Custom Rom - Exxagerated?
 

Guess I must be doing something wrong. I keep getting "This Update Utility cannot be used for you PDA Phone. Please check your update utility"

I did the hard-spl to 0.37.CMONEX

Then got the Sprint Radio from here...

Then uncompressed to desktop and ran the ROMUpdateUtility.exe

I am guessing the RUU bundled in with the radio doesn't work with my phone? But why? And what should I do about it?

Re: Stock Rom vs Custom Rom - Exxagerated?
 

Make sure you downloaded the correct radio first, the Raphael 1.11.00F. As long as you know you're unlocked, you should be fine. Nake sure your battery is at least 50% charged, too. Does it progress at all, or does the message pop up from the beginning?

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Gets to about 5%

I did get the Raphael 1.11.00F.

Maybe I am just a noob and am still locked. How can I confirm I am unlocked?

Re: Stock Rom vs Custom Rom - Exxagerated?
 

Press and hold the Power and Volume Down buttons and use the stylus to reset your phone while holding those 2 buttons. OR completely power down your phone, then press and hold the Power and Volume Down buttons until the phone powers on in the boot loader screen. It will say it's unlocked at the top of the screen. That means nothing! Verify that it says 0.35.CMONEX. Then your phone is officially unlocked.

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Hmmmm. Mine said 0.37.CMONEX. I am going to try the unlock again just for good measure. Thanks dude!

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BTW, is your screen name an homage to Artie Lange?

Re: Stock Rom vs Custom Rom - Exxagerated?
 

No its not... have no clue who Artie Lange is actually. Its Jamaican patois dialect for "fire". I am Jamaican.

By the by... can't seem to figure out this 244 error with the radio. Everything I have searched on it points to me having used the wrong unlocker... but I verified I got the right one more than once. I think I am going to go back and relock it and start over.

Re: Stock Rom vs Custom Rom - Exxagerated?
 

I only read half the this thread but I figured I give my 2cents since I have a good idea of whats going on with cooking and been lurking and writing a bit myself. Im on the same boat as you I use the stock roms myself as well and have my own method of customization. So here goes:

All custom roms and stock roms really have no differnce. No one here is skilled or smart anough (no offence) to write a hardware operating system from scratch for a hardware platform they do not know everything about (these phones). What they do is take the stock roms and backwards engineer them. In the long run this is no differnt then me taking a windows install and turning off services I dont need. Yes this does make them faster out of a box.

Example 1: You buy a dell laptop it comes loaded with dell software and gadgets you must like will never use. If you use a fresh windows OEM windows disk you get windows and thats it no extra software. These custom roms are alot like a oem disk.

This said as I know was stated in the first few posts by doing your own custom tweaks (registry edits and application modifications) you technicly have a custom rom. The only differnce is if you hard reset your going back to sprints default rom and you have to do all those changes yourself again.

*Some features that make custom roms alittle better*
Leaked radios.... Im sure you have heard people talk about using better radios. These are like anougher rom but its rom for the tranmission unit that i think the most perferred one for the TP saves you a bit of battery life. Alot of custom roms make these easy to get the better radio installed easy since if i remember correctly you have to unlock to flash a radio anyways.

**** MY Solution ****
I have a build cab file that has all my registery tweaks and program modifcations and all my program cabs on my storage card. So I can hard reset to stock rom whenever and whereever I want and still set it back up the way I like without going back to a computer or anything. This is kinda like cooking my own rom but less work.

That said from the work Ive followed No2Chem stuff has come closest to being the most stripped down for performance Ive seen. Which gives you a good base to do your own customization.

I use to run a custom rom on my mogul but with my TP it got more then anough memory and more then anough power where I dont care.

Ok let the flame begin from all the rom chefts.

Re: Stock Rom vs Custom Rom - Exxagerated?
 

I got my TP Wednesday and I flashed to Mighty 4.13 today, I don't know why I waited so long! Although I'm new to the TP, I've flashed a few HTC phones and I've found the sd flash method to be a whole lot more reliable than the pc method. Good luck, baby gorilla! ;)