Official Bell Mobility GPS/Sat Radio/Rev A. Update!

[Gazoo22]

I have loaded this rom to the t_ts, I have Mobile Shell 2.1,Ultimate Launcher, Weatherpanel, Windows Live,S2U2, and a 4 sided cube running on this rom. I have CorePlayer going or YouTube player(runs smooth) going, it doesn't heat up, battery life is very good. That is a first for this phone.

BONUS........ GPS works great.

When I flashed this rom I had like 70 megs +++ of program ram free, now I have like 50 to 55 mgs free after a reboot, I am really draining the resources of this phone and it is solid, a pig in speed but solid.

I don't know what is happenning with the 1X/EVDO but my speed test are real good and haven't noticed any speed slowdowns on the internet and my push email works good too.

I haven't made or received many calls but my phone seems solid, I think it would most likely be so as this is a stock rom.

Who would of thunk it but the scorned Bell has the best data plan going and the best software to boot.

[w100d001]

I flashed up from the "official" Sprint ROM to the new Bell ROM... I had igo8 on my SD card so naturally it wanted to automatically install it. igo8 launches but hangs when the word "STARTING" appears. Basically it won't boot. I even hard reset the phone several times and reinstalled igo8... same thing. Anyone have any success installing and actually using igo8? What's the secret? Perhaps Bell has done something?

[aspalaasn]

Originally Posted by w100d001

I flashed up from the "official" Sprint ROM to the new Bell ROM... I had igo8 on my SD card so naturally it wanted to automatically install it. igo8 launches but hangs when the word "STARTING" appears. Basically it won't boot. I even hard reset the phone several times and reinstalled igo8... same thing. Anyone have any success installing and actually using igo8? What's the secret? Perhaps Bell has done something?

some have successfully had it work, i wasn't one of them. I didn't try too many times so I don't know if a hard reset would work. I just flashed to a custom rom. You may want to try hard resetting, if not a kitchen rom would work as it did for me. The only thing I don't know is what other goodies Bell had before I reflashed. I do know that the changes to get great working GPS didn't change.

[w100d001]

I'm going to keep trying different things til I get it to work... this is crazy... it was working good with my previous Sprint ROM. I must be a glutton for punishment.

[dieselz85]

man ... i just got skyfire to work ... and heck this rom and sky fire make it a sweet phone ... finally i can be happy for a while .. untill sumthing better comes along

[w100d001]

Originally Posted by w100d001

I'm going to keep trying different things til I get it to work... this is crazy... it was working good with my previous Sprint ROM. I must be a glutton for punishment.

OK... I got igo8 to work. (see very bottom for the short story)

Long Story:
1) I removed my sd card from the phone (SD Card has igo8 folders on it).
2) I then did a hard reset as to erase any trace of igo8 from the phone (not a big deal since I just upgraded to new Bell ROM anyhow and haven't fully customized yet)
3) I installed the AstroGPS primer and then placed the accompaning igo8 launcher file in: Device/Windows/Startup Menu/Programs
4) I then reinserted the SD card and let igo8 install itself automatically on the phone. Once installed, igo8 will attempt to boot up... it will either boot up successfully or it will stall when it shows the word "Starting".
5) Close igo8 any way you can. (I pressed the power button off and on repeatedly to get a different window to show until eventually i got igo8 closed. You could also soft restart the phone)
5) From now on, launch igo8 by clicking on the "igo8 launcher" icon and not the igo8 application icon
This should work.

Short Story:
I have experimented several times with different methods and have since come to realize that all you really need to do is to launch igo8 from the igo8Launcher (primer) file instead of the igo8 application itself.

[markDWeasel]

Hey all, Newbie here.

Just flashed my Touch with the new rom ( phone was stock unlocked original bell rom). Wow, talk about a massive improvement. This phone rocks!

I have couple of quick questions:
1. In regards to data use, are we charged for roaming data use, say, if we're outside the GTA ( ie. Kitchener )? or is it only for state side?
2. Never heard of igo, but based on the ranting and raving here, I am dying to try it. First, where can i get it (I would really appreciate a PM). Second, how much space does it take as TT is massive and I simply don't have the room for it.

Thanks a mill.

Mark

[avdude]

Originally Posted by aspalaasn

I also found that TT doesn't lock without using astrolauncher. I thought it would lock without priming since others reported it locking without priming but it is probably because they used the official bell rom. I flashed back to a custom rom I made using the 20270 kitchen. It seems whatever bell did, it was changed when I flashed back to the kitchen rom. I hope there aren't anything else that the official bell rom have that the kitchen doesn't. I had problems with igo with the official bell rom so i flashed back to kitchen rom and didn't really test it out that long so I'm not sure what other goodies Bell put in that I no longer have with the kitchen rom.

Ya mine worked with stock bell rom but after flash to a cooked rom TT needed to primed again .. No biggie at the moment but it will be nice when one of the guru's here figures out why this is happening.. But other than that I have had no issues with the touch after the bell update and reloading a custom rom.... Sprint and verizon roms got nothing on this puppy... Simply the best stock upgrade out there at the moment for the touch ... LOL now all the cooks will be building roms from the "bell" rom and it will be others begging for custom roms for there phones .... Oh how quickly things change ... lol

Avdude....

[Pitobread]

<p>VIRSER_GPS.dll, you can find it in the old kitchen posts...typing on my touch keyboard, so sometimes i loose the end of words due to fat fingers. I use the latest version of google maps, locks within a few seconds... no issues at all. </p>

[aspalaasn]

Originally Posted by dieselz85

man ... i just got skyfire to work ... and heck this rom and sky fire make it a sweet phone ... finally i can be happy for a while .. untill sumthing better comes along

i thought we cant get skyfire in canada? how'd you get it?