[ROM|KITCHEN] 6.5.5 Drellisdee Whitestone RC1.6 23569 07/13/10

[Getitnowmarketing]

One thing I think I should mention to everyone is I've been growing tired of WinMo HTC's which I've used exclusively for nearly 5 years. Android is growing more and more appealing to me and I've had a company issued Moto Droid for some time that I've refused to activate as I'm a very loyal HTC fan. I've built some custom roms for it and also a few HTC android phones which are done very differently but still very enjoyable to me. My wife just gave me the go ahead to buy an HTC Incredible which I've been eyeing for awhile. I've been watching development for that device and once the nand unlock method for flashing custom rom is made public or leaked off the record to me I will be buying one and building roms for it as my main device. It may not happen today or tommorow or in the next week or so but I've made up my mind I'm switching and the unreleased failure of Windows Phone 7 for power users will not be keeping me on windows mobile. I hate to say it but android & other linux based deriviatives are the future of smartphones.

[Sit Bits]

Originally Posted by drellisdee

One thing I think I should mention to everyone is I've been growing tired of WinMo HTC's which I've used exclusively for nearly 5 years. Android is growing more and more appealing to me and I've had a company issued Moto Droid for some time that I've refused to activate as I'm a very loyal HTC fan. I've built some custom roms for it and also a few HTC android phones which are done very differently but still very enjoyable to me. My wife just gave me the go ahead to buy an HTC Incredible which I've been eyeing for awhile. I've been watching development for that device and once the nand unlock method for flashing custom rom is made public or leaked off the record to me I will be buying one and building roms for it as my main device. It may not happen today or tommorow or in the next week or so but I've made up my mind I'm switching and the unreleased failure of Windows Phone 7 for power users will not be keeping me on windows mobile. I hate to say it but android & other linux based deriviatives are the future of smartphones.

I feel the same way about winmo. I'll be moving to android in november when my contract with verizon is up. Maybe sprint Evo 4g or driodx,but who knows what will be there in november. I think your right about the future of smartphones.

[willywonkaisrsh]

Wanted to know if anyone could build me (or show me how to do it myself) a ROM similar to the latest release but with an updated dialer (not skin but full dialer) and an updated RSS Hub app?

I have been using these ROM's since they have been available and the latest release is the closest to being perfect then any of the others. The only problem is the dialer is an old version that doesn’t incorporate Facebook profile pictures and the RSS Hub app is broke when it comes to searching the internet for feeds.

I would greatly appreciate some help so that I can finally be content with a ROM and stop flashing my phone. Thanks in advance.

[willywonkaisrsh]

Originally Posted by willywonkaisrsh

Wanted to know if anyone could build me (or show me how to do it myself) a ROM similar to the latest release but with an updated dialer (not skin but full dialer) and an updated RSS Hub app?

I have been using these ROM's since they have been available and the latest release is the closest to being perfect then any of the others. The only problem is the dialer is an old version that doesn’t incorporate Facebook profile pictures and the RSS Hub app is broke when it comes to searching the internet for feeds.

I would greatly appreciate some help so that I can finally be content with a ROM and stop flashing my phone. Thanks in advance.

Can anyone help?

[cjm2576]

Originally Posted by drellisdee

...It may not happen today or tommorow or in the next week or so but I've made up my mind I'm switching and the unreleased failure of Windows Phone 7 for power users will not be keeping me on windows mobile. I hate to say it but android & other linux based deriviatives are the future of smartphones.

Can't say I blame you one bit, if I had the funds I'd be right behind you. I just want to say thanks, again, for taking this phone and making it fun and functional for the rest of us.

What ever happened to the Andriod on Imagio project you were working on? Does the phone even have the power to run the OS passably?

[Getitnowmarketing]

Originally Posted by cjm2576

Can't say I blame you one bit, if I had the funds I'd be right behind you. I just want to say thanks, again, for taking this phone and making it fun and functional for the rest of us.

What ever happened to the Andriod on Imagio project you were working on? Does the phone even have the power to run the OS passably?

Yes it most surely does. It runs almost exactly the same processor as the heroc/eris the difference in the processor verison is the global capibilities of the imagio. It has the same amount of hardware rom/ram as eris and has a larger wvga screen instead of the eris smaller hvga screen. To get it booting kernel support for the htcwhitestone board needs to be added to the kernel souce of htc-linux and someone has to map all the gpio's for buttons and such for functionality. I don't have the time to help on it

[thepolishguy]

Originally Posted by drellisdee

One thing I think I should mention to everyone is I've been growing tired of WinMo HTC's which I've used exclusively for nearly 5 years. Android is growing more and more appealing to me and I've had a company issued Moto Droid for some time that I've refused to activate as I'm a very loyal HTC fan. I've built some custom roms for it and also a few HTC android phones which are done very differently but still very enjoyable to me. My wife just gave me the go ahead to buy an HTC Incredible which I've been eyeing for awhile. I've been watching development for that device and once the nand unlock method for flashing custom rom is made public or leaked off the record to me I will be buying one and building roms for it as my main device. It may not happen today or tommorow or in the next week or so but I've made up my mind I'm switching and the unreleased failure of Windows Phone 7 for power users will not be keeping me on windows mobile. I hate to say it but android & other linux based deriviatives are the future of smartphones.

I am bummed out that you won't be cooking roms for the Imagio. But I am glad to hear you are getting a new device. The Incredible looks awesome. And I agree that Android is going to take over. I think by being open source they really set themselves up to be a killer OS. It seems (to me at least) that the people at MS are out of touch with what the consumer wants from a device.

I am hoping that you will do a final kitchen update that includes some templates for 2016 roms?

Out of curiosity - would it be possible to make Modem.lnk into a .cab?

thanks for all your hard work and help.

[djp952]

Originally Posted by maisonpulaski

I am bummed out that you won't be cooking roms for the Imagio

Seconded. Your efforts have made the device significantly better than the stock software could have ever hoped for. You got as close to perfect as anyone could hope for (if, like me, they wanted the same basic OS+SenseUI stuff), and you have my thanks. I like 1.5e the best

[gcianc]

Originally Posted by drellisdee

I hate to say it but android & other linux based deriviatives are the future of smartphones.

Future of smartphone "geeks" for sure. They'll spend all day wasting time doing nothing useful with a phone and don't mind 3 hour battery life.

Furture of smartphones though... not a sure bet by any stretch.

[thepolishguy]

Hello Drellisdee-

Did you acquire your new device?

I was wondering...

1) NRG is going to be the only gentlemen left actively developing roms for the Imagio. He does not include the files for modem link in his roms and does not respond to any inquiries from me. Could you just post a list of the files necessary to make modem link work and I will see if I can gather them up?

2) Will you upload your kitchen with the new 2016 files and a 2016 rom template? (I don't really want to use an NRG rom - love and appreciate all the hard work he does and you all have done for the community - but not really my style).

thanks for any help

Oh yeah - I used to have a different user name but switched it bc of security issues.