OMJ's WM6.1 Custom Touch ROM w/ UC, GPS, REV A! Updated 5/29/08

[mwfielder]

Glad you both have it working now.....

[hobbes9]

I had a quick question. I'm thinking of flashing the ROM tonight and wanted to know if I just flash to the OMJ ROM right after the Alltel ROM or not? Is there another ROM I should flash to before that? Just curious. Thanks in advance.

Nevermind...I was getting the steps in the consolidated tutorial (which uses the Alltel ROM) confused with this thread, which has the Sprint beta ROM and makes no use of the Alltel radio. Going to have to give this a shot when I get home.

[goathahalol]

OMJ,

Just wanted to thank you for your awesome guide, and your Full Custom Verizon Rom. My friend and I both are running the XV6900 Verizon Touch, and we were able to get our phones running with GPS & Rev a. I havn't tried any other available roms out there yet for my phone but it seems that this one is very stable. My GPS generally takes about 5 minutes to lock on with GPS Viewer if I am outside or sitting still in my car which is okay by me. I actually used a bit of your guide along with dharvey4651's guide and a little deductive reasoning to make it work properly. I hope you don't mind but I plan on writing up a HOW TO explicitly for Verizon Customers and I will be revamping your guide just a bit with a little extra info that would have been nice if I had when I did mine. Once again I would like to thank you for the work that you have put into your Rom's and guide. I think that having GPS totally makes this phone worth having, and rev a is very nice as well.

A quick side question, is there any way to tell if you are running REV A as opposed to EVDO, just by looking at your phone without doing a speed test? I am currently getting around 800 kbps on dslreports mobile test and that just doesn't seem very much faster than it was before the flash. Thanks in advance for any info.

[taidan]

goat,

Good Idea with the guide, use verizon users definitly got the short end of the stick as far as support from our provider.

Just curious though, You said u had GPS working. Is this consistent? And did you do anything other than flash the sprint then OMJ's rom?

thanks

[sanderz6900]

yeah, i can't seem to get my gps to lock. i've tried a lot of different things.

any suggestions goat?

[cj1171]

Sprint here...I'm having issues with GPS as well...it rarely works and when it does, it takes forever....
also, I'm having an issue with EVDO because it seems like it's not rev A...only seeing speeds maxing out around 600k on speedtest with good signal

[sanderz6900]

are these upload speeds or download speeds?

if those are d/l speeds then that is not a good gauge.

you need to look at the difference in upload speeds to determine, for sure, whether or not you are on Rev. A

[goathahalol]

Originally Posted by taidan

goat,

Good Idea with the guide, use verizon users definitly got the short end of the stick as far as support from our provider.

Just curious though, You said u had GPS working. Is this consistent? And did you do anything other than flash the sprint then OMJ's rom?

thanks

I don't know if this is a requirement but to get my GPS to lock on I had to open the "Phone Menu" and hit menu > options > services tab > Location Settings > get settings > and set that to Location on. Also I always open GPS Viewer and set it to com 4 and Open GPS. Then I just click on the GPS Status tab and go outside and wait for a few minutes till it locks on. Like I said it takes approximately 5 minutes to get a lock on 3 - 5 sats, and after that i can go back inside the building or wherever i am and it continues to work as it should. Now I must say that I just got this working Last night, so I am certainly not implying that my GPS is rock steady and has been working for long. Good luck.

Edit: Also I forgot to mention that I will be trying to write up our Verizon Flashing Guide tonight if I have time and the baby gets to bed early enough. Aaronk76 and I both did the flashing together so he will be assisting me in the writeup. I must once again mention that if it were not for OMJ and dharvey I would be nowhere so props go to them over me for sure.

[SpudNuts11]

OMJ,

The ROM is working great now.

I did have a few questions:

1. Why is that nothing shuts down. What I mean is that when I open a program and hit the "X" to close it, it still shows that its open and I have to go through the menu to close it.
2. The phone pad always comes up in the background, not sure why but when i'm done with something and hit the "X", the phone dialer is left on the screen.
3. The quick tabs for contacts disappear. When I first open my contacts, there is vertical list of letters on the right of the screen that I can quickly alphabetically get to a name but after closing the contacts and re-opening contacts, the vertical alphabetical list is gone and it is just a scroll bar. To get it back, I have to through the menus to close out the contacts completely and then re-open.

Look, you guys have done an excellent job and this is small compared to what you have done. It is just an inconvience and if it can't be fixed, its a inconvience that I can live with.

[tom_m]

for gps like goathahalol said.. you gotta turn it on in the phone settings there.. but search for quickgps (think htc makes it??) you should find a link to download it (and a fixed exe if you have trouble downloading the info) ... that app will go out on the internet and download some information that should make aquiring a lock faster. i think it gets the current locations of the satellites to faster pinpoint where they are or something. not sure how it works. i have noticed it locks a little faster though.

two times i got gps up and going, i waited anywhere from 10-20 min to get a lock... so nothing that quick. of course i'm also in nyc with tall buildings.