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

[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

[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.

[noogies]

Originally Posted by goathahalol

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.

WOOT!!!! That DID IT!!!

I have been flashing, reflashing, Enabling AGPS, Disabling AGPS, and any other thing i could find, but no joy. Can't see ANY satellites.

goathahalol pointed me in the right direction.

open the "Phone Menu" and hit menu > options > services tab > Location Settings > get settings > and set that to Location on.

Thank you Thank you Thank you goathahalol !!!!! =D>

[johnnymac]

Originally Posted by noogies

WOOT!!!! That DID IT!!!

I have been flashing, reflashing, Enabling AGPS, Disabling AGPS, and any other thing i could find, but no joy. Can't see ANY satellites.

goathahalol pointed me in the right direction.

open the "Phone Menu" and hit menu > options > services tab > Location Settings > get settings > and set that to Location on.

Thank you Thank you Thank you goathahalol !!!!! =D>

I don't know why yours was set to off, but I've never had a ROM that this wasn't already "On".

[noogies]

Originally Posted by johnnymac

I don't know why yours was set to off, but I've never had a ROM that this wasn't already "On".

Oh, I definitely know how it got turned off. Long before I dared upgrade my Radio and Roms, I turned the GPS radio off in the Phone Settings to extend battery life as suggested in the registry tweaks thread. I had just totally forgotten about it.

[OMJ]

sorry guys but I've been very busy lately, havent been here since last week.....I started a new postition @ work, still waiting for my new laptop.

My time is limited also, so if I dont answer your question....dont fret

I probably wont have time to work on any new roms for the next week or so.....I may just wait to see if Sprint releases the new official rom on 6/20.

Originally Posted by 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.

np, good idea for the VZ ppl.

there's no real way to verify rev a except for a speed test.

Originally Posted by 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.

which rom are you using? it sounds like you're using the sprint oem version? if so, the close apps, you have to choose that option in task manager options.

if you're using the custom version, is has QuickMenu, which should already be setup to close all apps w/ the X button.

I'm not sure about the contacts issue, I have seen it once or twice but didnt spend any time on it.

Originally Posted by k000

Do I need 3.37.15 or is 3.37.10 good enough ? And do I have to install the test.exe beforeI install the other OMJ...Sprint GPS instal ?

I would recommend 3.37.15 but .10 should work.....you would only need to install the test.ext if you want to upgrade the radio to 3.37.15.

Originally Posted by Archius

There is something wrong with the camera OMJ. Before, with your old ROM without GPS and such it was great and fast like the original oem rom. But with this one now (either sprint or bell, same thing I've used both), when there isn't enough light, the cam is slow and low in FPS, maybe around 5 fps. But when I point it towards light, either inside or outside, it's fast again around 40 fps. As soon as I move away from the light it goes down to 20 fps let's say and then to 5 again let's say. How come? Any regedit tweak ? Anyone else experiencing this?

just tested, I did not see this issue......the camera is all stock though....no changes/tweaks were made.

Originally Posted by houston713

good day, i am currently using your custom rom and wanted to know how do i get sprint music store back on my phone, ive searched numerous files and other phones to see if there were a cab file or something, thanks in advance.

which rom are you using? I though Music was in both sprint roms...

[geistritter]

Thanks for all the hard work. I Unlocked then flashed the leaked Sprint ROM but did not cancel the customization and I am on Verizon. I installed the custom Verizon ROM but I have no data connection and it keeps trying to initialize Sprint Vision. What should I do?

[armus]

i'm guessing the customization messed you over. The worst case senario I'd flash the stock rom from VZ (available in another thread), then the leaked sprint - skipping customization - then OMJ. Might not take all that but I don't see any reason why it wouldnt work.

[rstoyguy]

Originally Posted by geistritter

Thanks for all the hard work. I Unlocked then flashed the leaked Sprint ROM but did not cancel the customization and I am on Verizon. I installed the custom Verizon ROM but I have no data connection and it keeps trying to initialize Sprint Vision. What should I do?

re-flash the sprint rom and try the proccess again.