New ROM VZW 3.04 Shipped

[jeff_roey]

Thanks to those that replied to my battery life post. I'm at a point now with this ROM that any new 'growing pains' should've settled out by now. I'm going to go the hard reset route and restore with SPB. Maybe that'll fix the problem. I'll let you know how I make out.

[yatman60]

Looks like it's official now on Verizon's Support site. If you go to http://support.vzw.com/clc/index.htm...29&m=&x=20&y=9 and click on software updates, it will take you to http://www.pcdphones.com/phone_downl...zon%20Wireless

[djp952]

For anyone that's concerned about the official ROM from Verizon vs. the one posted here in advance, the .NBH files are identical. No worries (not that I had any, but it's always good to check just in case, right?)

I have had some performance problems with 3.04 of late, not sure if it's something I'm doing that I wasn't before, I seem to have to power the device off and on again more often, like every 2 days, to restore overall performance. Worth it for the improvements!!

[jbh00jh]

I always soft re-set my phone when I get up in the morning just to give it a fresh start. Less problems during the day.

[satsun]

Originally Posted by yatman60

Looks like it's official now on Verizon's Support site. If you go to http://support.vzw.com/clc/index.htm...29&m=&x=20&y=9 and click on software updates, it will take you to http://www.pcdphones.com/phone_downl...zon%20Wireless

when i download it says its a mr1 and is 174mb in size.... is this the correct file?

[liquidi3ladz]

^^yeah it is.

[Imagioo]

Originally Posted by jbh00jh

I always soft re-set my phone when I get up in the morning just to give it a fresh start. Less problems during the day.

I wonder why we all leave our phones "on" at night while we sleep in the first place? Why don't we just power down and give them the night off? Don't ask me; I leave mine on all the time too...

[satsun]

Originally Posted by liquidi3ladz

^^yeah it is.

thanks liquid.. unfortuanatly Verizon doesnt like to use intuitive file names haha

[skidogger]

The documentation with the ROM states:

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

[Wojo]

I may have identified a potential cause for the battery problems with the updated ROM. After updating to the 3.04 ROM, and waiting a few days for the battery meter to re-calibrate I started noticing that my phone would occasionally get warm and the battery was draining much faster than before the upgrade. I tried adjusting a few things like switching away from push email for my exchange server, but the problem persisted.

This evening, I installed some tools and found that the process mflo_starter.exe had consumed a large amount of CPU time over the past 24 hours and was spinning at about 30% CPU usage. I'm not sure why this didn't impact me before, but I think this is related to the battery problems that surfaced for me with the new ROM. In case this helps others, the following thread helped me get rid of this process (which is related to Verizon's mobile TV application that I never use) as well as the mobile TV icons.

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=90838&page=4

I installed the PHM registry editor and deleted both the "Depends95" and "Launch95" values under HKLM\Init, as well as added an exclaimation point as a prefix for the "Dll" value under the HKLM\Services\MFLORSSI as described on the linked thread. After rebooting the phone, the offending process isn't running and the icon is gone. Hopefully this will resolve my issue -- and potentially help others. Thanks again to those that posted this new ROM which fixed the 3G issues.