Uscc 6800 Gps, Custom Roms, Downgrading Guide

[justpctech]

Originally Posted by mykleh35

Great write up maverick351ci! thanks for taking the time to write it down and of course for the 'big ones" to get where few of us USCC people have gone! On a related subject we are often asked to THANK SOMEONE when they help you... how do you actually do it??? because you get a big THANK YOU from me!!=D>

this explains how the Thank You system works here> http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=23898 , but it boils down to you need 50 posts minimum to use it. then it will show up at the bottom right side of each post.

[maverick351ci]

so mykleh35, i take it you finally couldnt take it anymore and tyred it out! so im guessing all is well with your phone my guide worked, no problems?

everyone that has used my guide thus far please give me feed back as to how to make it better or if you encounter any problems!

[mykleh35]

No I haven't upgraded yet... I'm reading everything over 3 times.. righting down everything I might need... you know the typical anal things... this is my work phone so I want to make sure it gets up and running.... dum questions.... I really don't mind the way my phone works now (lots of people post I hate this, hate that) but want to add GPS to it. what is the best approach to only add gps? I get into this whole kitchen thing and it gets confusiing.. all I reallly want to do for my first attempt is turn on GPS and leave the rest as it is now... know what I mean? then I'll tinker...

[maverick351ci]

i know exactly what you mean, thats all i wanted to add the first time myself and have been working on building a kitchen thats as close to origonal as possible. although there are some handy things in the kitchen that i have added like the "Slide to unlock" and the WMP today plugin and GPStoday. i also have a little cab that will revert the text msg back to individual text messages instead of the threaded type (i hate that) the one thing i wish i could find is the origonal 7 button comm manager but im probably going to have to figure out how to port it into the kitchen off of my backups

[mykleh35]

maveric why did you recommend the No2Chem_5060 instead of the PPCKitchen standard 5060?? did you upgrade via USB or the card? just curious.. thanks so much for walking me through this..

[Getitnowmarketing]

Originally Posted by ImCoKeMaN

Um, Trust me its WAY more risky than just normal OS flashing. There is part of the radio that will never be overwritten after going to GPS radios (by current known means) despite the version number actually changing. This can lead to bricks (see sig) but not always immediately. Additionally, there could be some random incompatibilites with an inconsistent radio image.

Thanks for the heads up there. I successfully or so I thought took my xv6800 back to stock 2.09 ce and 1.30.60 radio and used it for a week stock with no apparent ill effects after reverting from dcd 3.01 and 3.35 radio. Won't do it again unless I need to FRU it.

[maverick351ci]

Originally Posted by mykleh35

maveric why did you recommend the No2Chem_5060 instead of the PPCKitchen standard 5060?? did you upgrade via USB or the card? just curious.. thanks so much for walking me through this..

In the PPCkitchen BuildOS in the No2Chem selections you can choose US. Cellular as the carrier the others you cannot, unless it has been updated to do so in the past few days. thats why i say to use the No2Chem 5060 WM6.1 setup

Hope tha clarifys it a little bit

[mykleh35]

well I took the plunge and upgraded yesterday.... there was one very anxious moment but I logged into chat here and someone fixed me up quick!! GPS works, but the phone is much slower than before. next dumb question how do I get some of the programs off the phone as I was so nervous picking stuff in the Kitchen I ended up with more than I need, stuff I don't like and duplicates but under remove programs I don't see any programs... I'm hoping this will help with the speed and memory.. only other comment for some reseaon my phone says CellSouth in phone mode or main page but I did change it to US Cellular in NAM settings.... don't want to advertise I hacked it.. Do I go through the Kitchen and unselect stuff I want off and reflash?? thanks again for all the help and support!!

Yes, you will need to do another build to remove the selected programs.
When you changed the name in the NAM settings, did they stay after a soft-reset?
I have tried chaning mine and it always changes back.

[mykleh35]

the name stays in the settings its on the screen that is goofy... I'm thinking its hard coded in the front page I'm using.... going to remove some stuff and see if I can get this thing moving I'm at 73% running hardly anything...