Verizon XV6900 upgrading tutorial and troubleshooting!!! GPS enabled!!!

[negamann]

Originally Posted by arianhojat

"HARD RESET BY HOLDING THE SEND, END, AND RESET BUTTONS". i would change this to press the Send, then while pressing that press the End, and then while holding those 2, press and keep holding the RESET button (aka all 3 now being held down) until you get the grey screen. i accidentally sometimes goof this step and do a more control+alt+ delete action, like ill hold them all in and assume when reset is pressed ill get the grey screen.

Ill would also add all the roms that we have tried on vz and have worked at the front of the thread. and also votes for each one. like list ghetto, omj, hulk, jds clean, etc and links to their threads roms.
the votes can be changed so just list who votes for what rom. I think theres maybe 20 of us verizon users here so i dont think it would get crazy unmanagable. something like this:
Votes:
Ghetto 3 (arianhojat-v713, jakemalone-v715, blahblah-v71
OMJ Clean 2(blehblah-v3.03, janesmith-v3.03)
Hulk 1 (johnsmith-v6.66)
JD Clean 2 (...etc)

I will try to reword that better. I was going to have a vote for best preferred roms by you guys but completely spaced it out! lol any other promising ones?

[DopeWeasel]

Just bought my 6900 today for about $300 so of course the first thing I did was to void that pesty warranty as soon as possible. After much trial and error I now have GPS and everything working (using the 3.02 Kitchen). Strange thing is that it takes about 15 minutes to find a signal after a soft reset. It was tripping me out for awhile and I thought I broke my phone, but it's just dog-***** slow to start up.

Has anyone else experienced this? I think I'm going to cook another ROM tonight and see what happens.

[arianhojat]

Originally Posted by negamann

I will try to reword that better. I was going to have a vote for best preferred roms by you guys but completely spaced it out! lol any other promising ones?

I wasnt sure which ones. i thought maybe just generalize them and let users say what versions they using.
maybe add dhharverys rom and option for custom/ppc kitcken.

Im gonna try a few more roms tonight. upgraded to latest sprint dcd rom. omj still not giving me gps locks at all really. will try dharveys and jds clean then go back to ghetto if not satisfactory...

EDIT: dharveys is really different/interesting. but no gps locks or with jds. hmmm its at night here, maybe its cloudy outside. ill test tomorrow with both.
EDIT: sun just came up.... jds clean got a lock in 2 minutes. gonna try dharverys now.
EDIT: dharveys i retested, also took 2minutes. most unique looking rom yet, Vista-ish, but also a little laggy.
EDIT: ghettos didnt lock after 8m, i soft reset and didnt lock after 5m, unusual cause it locked so quick the first time i installed it last month and is my favorate rom... onto the next rom.
EDIT: OMJ's took about 6minutes. feels like forever when waiting this long hehe...
EDIT: now back to JD's clean rom... took about 5seconds. hmmm i wonder if the gps chip remembers where it was based on last roms data? i dunno switching between first few didnt seem that way.
EDIT: testing dharveys again... took about 5seconds.
I think ill settle with dharveys for now unless it does something i dont like...
dharvey had quite alot of preinstalled things and a lil tiny bit laggy. JDs is quick and clean, nothing inside.
I used dharveys: Verizon V1.0 24MB PP and JDs: 7-10-08.a.rar

[DopeWeasel]

My phone still searches for about 10-15 minutes to find service after a reboot. I've dialed *22899 and *228, 2 to update the phone, but it doesn't seem to help.

Everything seems ok besides that... but it shoudn't take THAT long to get service should it? My Apache would find a tower as soon as it got to the Today screen but this thing takes forever... :s

[arianhojat]

Originally Posted by DopeWeasel

My phone still searches for about 10-15 minutes to find service after a reboot. I've dialed *22899 and *228, 2 to update the phone, but it doesn't seem to help.

Everything seems ok besides that... but it shoudn't take THAT long to get service should it? My Apache would find a tower as soon as it got to the Today screen but this thing takes forever... :s

why not test with another persons rom? try ghettoryders or OMJ. GPS is a iffy with verizons. I assume you talking about Verizon phone service. i dunno, i never cooked, try another persons rom versus home cooked your first day haha

[DopeWeasel]

Same thing with Ghettoryders 718... takes anywhere from 15-30 min to get a signal after the phone restarts. After that I have four bars of service and everything else seems smooth. I think something must have happened to my radio during the upgrade process and it's having troubles starting up.

EDIT: Same results with OMJ rom.

[arianhojat]

Originally Posted by DopeWeasel

Same thing with Ghettoryders 718... takes anywhere from 15-30 min to get a signal after the phone restarts. After that I have four bars of service and everything else seems smooth. I think something must have happened to my radio during the upgrade process and it's having troubles starting up.

EDIT: Same results with OMJ rom.

hmmmm what does the radio say in the Settings -> Device Info? is it 3.42.30?
can you reinstall the sprint leaked rom, and then right as green screen comes up, hard reset, then as green screen comes up again, activesync with computer and reinstall Ghetto's 715 rom right there (heard it was more stable).

[Magicality]

Originally Posted by DopeWeasel

Same thing with Ghettoryders 718... takes anywhere from 15-30 min to get a signal after the phone restarts. After that I have four bars of service and everything else seems smooth. I think something must have happened to my radio during the upgrade process and it's having troubles starting up.

EDIT: Same results with OMJ rom.

Turn your phone off and REMOVE the battery for at least one minute.

[DopeWeasel]

Thanks for the tips guys... unfortunately, I've already tried all that... I will try to reflash to the Sprint rom again tonight and see what happens, but I've already done that twice now.

[krishnajetti]

I upgraded my verizon xv6900 to Alltel ROM, but i am having problem with vogue gps 3.02 or the later version as they don't have install exe file. appreciate any reply.

thanks negamann
















I upgraded my verizon xv6900 to Alltel ROM, but i am having problem with vogue gps 3.02 or the later version as they don't have install exe file. appreciate any reply.

thanks negamann