Thoughts on Sprint Rom upgrade

Originally Posted by Dr.8820

it was great for me...i downloaded, it didn't work, and i got a tp2 for my troubles!

LOL that was a good story to tell them

[cuellarm]

I love it. I've been on it for several weeks now with no issues at all. Much faster and smoother Touch Flo, longer-lasting battery.

[slimmkudy]

i liked but the only things i had an issue with was opera never closed buy using the x button and couldn't be found on the task bar so i had to open a new page to bring it up and the mms was still sloooooow lol so i flashed to a custom rom now i get winmo 6.5 and a working mms lol

[saibot]

Not looking good for the update so far. Seems like just as many are having problems as those who aren't. Wonder if any problems were caused by having a custom rom before. Might try a hard reset before trying this.

[strra]

i tried it and it worked well for me... but i wouldn't recommend any stock rom over a custom rom

also,

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am i the only one that finds the first two lines humorous? is your name tobias?

[ezza2117]

I've regretted the update ever since I did it. I thought I'd just get used to it or find ways to make adjustments, but nope. My battery drains much more quickly (and I wasn't bothered by the battery life prior to the upgrade). I haven't noticed any improvement in speed or lagging...just as bad as before. The memory is always used at around 50% and I can't figure out what is running to cause that. I can't get anything to work around the internet sharing block they did even though it looks like it should work. I'm randomly losing contacts out of my saved list. My saved text messages disappear on their own and I just think it's annoying that they disabled the ability to select several messages/emails to delete...now you have to go through steps in order to "select several." I don't like the Opera setup and can't find the cab I used before for Opera. I honestly see no benefit from the upgrade and I'm frustrated!

[shaggylive]

@ezza I would recommend a re-flash via activesync (not sd) and running my cm killer before any other tweaks.

[saibot]

Originally Posted by strra

am i the only one that finds the first two lines humorous? is your name tobias?

Thanks for getting it. I'm a Noob, so Saibot popped into my head when I created the account. Now that I've gone from lurker to n00b it's even better. Sorry I'm not John Tobias or Ed Boon. Makes you wonder if there are any celebrities on here with a secret identity, though.

Still wondering why the differing results with the rom upgrade. Some say better battery some say worse. Some say faster, some say slower. Shouldn't the rom work the same for everyone?

[shaggylive]

Originally Posted by saibot

Still wondering why the differing results with the rom upgrade. Some say better battery some say worse. Some say faster, some say slower. Shouldn't the rom work the same for everyone?

I hate to say, but it's the user(s). there are different ways to flash, some people don't do an extra hard reset, some don't remember to get everything tweaked the same...

I recommend the upgrade for the simple fact it's one of the very last official wm6.1 builds. also this build is more compatible with 6.5 stuff than privious builds.

[sfhub]

Originally Posted by saibot

Not looking good for the update so far. Seems like just as many are having problems as those who aren't. Wonder if any problems were caused by having a custom rom before. Might try a hard reset before trying this.

Doubtful, the Sprint 2.01 ROM flashes new PRI, PRL, and ROM. Actually many people rollback to the 2.01 MR to *fix* bad flashes with custom ROMs.