New ROM VZW 3.04 Shipped

[drhankz]

Originally Posted by azieba

Looks like this ROM is officially out on PCDPhones (Verizon's Outsourced WM Support Site). http://www.pcdphones.com/phone_downl...zon%20Wireless

The doc in the download says:

The upgrade performs the following improvements:
1) Improvements to Mobile TV client experience.


But as many others have seen, there is a lot of bug fixes that improve the device itself.

It's on VZW's site yet, but they usually have more info on the fixes when they post it.

Thanks for the info and the LINK - now I feel safer upgrading my Wife's Imagio

My upgrade has been working great all week

[jbh00jh]

Originally Posted by drhankz

Thanks for the info and the LINK - now I feel safer upgrading my Wife's Imagio

My upgrade has been working great all week

THe ROM on pdc phones is 15 MBs larger than the Rom on conflippers thread.
I wonder what else the ROM on PDC PHONE contains that conflippers dosn't have. Guess I will have to flash it to find out.

[ftropea]

Please let us know... if there is anything significant, I'll give it a shot otherwise I'm running nice and stable with this rom and most of the tweaks from the tweaks thread.

[azieba]

Originally Posted by jbh00jh

THe ROM on pdc phones is 15 MBs larger than the Rom on conflippers thread.
I wonder what else the ROM on PDC PHONE contains that conflippers dosn't have. Guess I will have to flash it to find out.

I believe the PCD and Conflippers is the same, or at least based on the filename versions. Conflipper just did a better job of compressing it in his installation file setup. Or the additional how to word document and all of it's pictures accounts for the extra size.

[slumpey326]

yes, please let us know. I noticed that also. More goodies hopefully........

[Breadbutcher]

Ok so I'm new to this whole "flashing thing", and I got REALLY confused at first. So I think I figured it out but was more confused later in the process. Let me explain.

So first I looked for an .nbh file in the RUU.zip. Was confused for about 5 minutes. Then I figured out I was looking in the wrong file. So I ended up copying the .nbh file from the original rom update utility in the link from Con's post, put it in the RUU file downloaded from the first post then started the RUU.exe from the RUU folder.

Two Questions:
1 Did that make any freaking sense?
2 Did I do it right?


Thanks in advance guys

[liquidi3ladz]

Originally Posted by Breadbutcher

Ok so I'm new to this whole "flashing thing", and I got REALLY confused at first. So I think I figured it out but was more confused later in the process. Let me explain.

So first I looked for an .nbh file in the RUU.zip. Was confused for about 5 minutes. Then I figured out I was looking in the wrong file. So I ended up copying the .nbh file from the original rom update utility in the link from Con's post, put it in the RUU file downloaded from the first post then started the RUU.exe from the RUU folder.

Two Questions:
1 Did that make any freaking sense?
2 Did I do it right?


Thanks in advance guys

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.p...&postcount=177
This should be much easier to follow.

[jeff_roey]

Originally Posted by Breadbutcher

Ok so I'm new to this whole "flashing thing", and I got REALLY confused at first. So I think I figured it out but was more confused later in the process. Let me explain.

So first I looked for an .nbh file in the RUU.zip. Was confused for about 5 minutes. Then I figured out I was looking in the wrong file. So I ended up copying the .nbh file from the original rom update utility in the link from Con's post, put it in the RUU file downloaded from the first post then started the RUU.exe from the RUU folder.

Two Questions:
1 Did that make any freaking sense?
2 Did I do it right?


Thanks in advance guys

All you really need to do with the ROM attached to this thread or the one at PCD is just download the ROM executable to your desktop, connect via activesync, and then double click on the RUU executable. The wizzard takes you the rest of the way. No need to move the executable to your phone or do any file swapping.

[cslawren]

Battery life for me seems to be MUCH better than the old ROM, running Sense 2.5.2011.

[Blackice000]

OK...I finally bit the bullet and did the ROM update.

I really did not want to start reinstalling from scratch so I did a bit of research. Seems that Sprite Backup 6.5.5.6 will do a proper ROM UPDATE data migration including e-mails settings, etc. I figured I would backup before with the old ROM. Perform the ROM update then another backup with the fresh ROM installed (just in case). After this I did a complete restore with Sprite.

First one was using MERGE Level 2. DO NOT DO THIS!!! It does not include all your start menu customizations (4 column, 31 choices)

Second one was with a MERGE Level of 1 this worked quite well. The only anomaly was the Getting started link still ran the phone setup. Though all the settings were already there so you can just click straight through to DONE.

All my PIM info including messages, phone log, email and databases are intact and working. Favorites seemed to not transfer (?) though that was easy enough to fix.

All programs seem to be working fine, I am still testing.

As for memory, I seem to be at 62% at startup, up from 58% from the old ROM it seems to hover around 70% with use and time. More on this as I use the phone.

Subjectively, the phone redraws faster and seems more responsive. I have to check to see if the D3Dxxx.dll transferred, though it still looks quite crisp.

I MAY have the "no body text" in the POP mail HTC graphic, but it may clear itself up.

I believe that I have some leftovers and duplicates on the system as teh TODAY choices still show Touchflo....these are likely using memory/storage and will have to be found.

More info as I experiment...

Rick