Help a noobie out...

[dswartze]

I plan on flashing my VZW xv6800 this weekend and I am kinda nervous.

I have read the tutorial on how to flash the phone. I have downloaded nueSPL-2.47 and Titan radio rom 3.42.40. I have yet to decide on an OS ROM.

If I read the tutorial, I will:
1) Flash nueSPL-2.47 to update my bootloader.
2) Then flash Titan radio rom 3.42.40 as the default radio ROM is not compatible with the SPL.
3) Lastly I need to flash an OS ROM of my choice.

I understand I will need to call VZW to get the phone re-activated.

I plan on using a 2GB microSD card to perform all my flashing (still need to purchase one).

The only thing I need to settle on is which OS ROM to install. I primarily use my 6800 for quick Internet browsing, email triage and podcast listening via PocketPlayer. I hope to use the phone to share its Inet connection to my laptop via wifi. My biggest complaint has been the lack of free memory, so an OS ROM that has a lot of free RAM after boot would be great. Of course, I am interested in WinMo 6.5.

Any thoughts / suggestions?

[dmb60614]

for wm6.5, i like this one: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=67673 . you are just going to have to try them and see what works for you. on 6.5 you may also need to try some of the memory tricks...disabling the camera and changing the page pool size. you can use the search function to find out more about those work.

if you find 6.5 to not have enough free memory, search out some of the dcd 6.1 roms.

did your phone come with a micro sd card? i use the included 512mb card to flash stuff.

[dswartze]

Originally Posted by dmb60614

did your phone come with a micro sd card? i use the included 512mb card to flash stuff.

No, it did not come with any memory card. I assume I can easily pick up a card at Walmart or Radio Shack.

[yearn]

This thread might help you out-->

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=69834

And I agree about DCDs ROMs. I have always heard they are some of the best

[demonlordoftheround]

Get a sandisk card. Hear some other brands have issues.

[yearn]

Originally Posted by demonlordoftheround

Get a sandisk card. Hear some other brands have issues.

+1 on that.
Iv also had pretty good luck with kingston

[bertrenolds]

forget 3.42.40, people said .30 was better then .40, If I were you I would get 3.42.50 and forget wasting money on a 2gb sd card, waste of money. Buy an 8gb card of ebay for the same price and just set your phone up via usb, it's not hard and only requires you install olipro 1.2 to install the new 3.42.50 titan radio. Other then that usb is the way to go, like I said save your money and use this usb method I used below;

I feel like everyone is having the same problem and here is everything you need to know, cook a rom it's worth it! get 6.5

best USB cable option is to start with olipro 1.2 here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=332381 then boot to the windows touch screen message and then install the new Titan Radio ROM 3.42.50 here http://www.geek-pages.com/rom/Titan%...%203.42.50.rar with active sync and RUU through the windows touch screen setup window, your computer/activesync will see your phone in the touch screen setup window. Titan Radio ROM 3.42.50 is awsome, I get 2 bars in my house when I couldn't even get a signal with sprints crappy radio. You use RUU to install the titan radio which you get here ftp://up.ppcgeeks.com/Titan/RUU/RUU.rar you extract the .nbh titan radio file out of the zipped folder and put it in the RUU folder where ever you extracted it to. Then you run the romupdateutility.exe and install the radio to the phone, you have to have activesync connected to run RUU. Reboot the phone and when it get's to the windows message telling you to touch the screen run active sync again to install olipro 2.4 here ftp://up.ppcgeeks.com/Titan/Users/Im...rd-SPL-MFG.exe
and boot back to the windows touch screen once again(if you can't boot out of olipro2.4 use this cmd line ftp://up.ppcgeeks.com/Titan/Users/Im...tan_exitbl.rar and make sure Wcesmgr.exe Wcescomm.exe Rapimgr.exe are all disabled in task manager before you do)
Then run active sync when the phone is at the windows touch screen message again and cook up a rom, I personally am now a big fan of wm6.5 21501 which has been great so far, might upgrade to 21815. To cook get build OS http://ppckitchen.org/Downloads/BuildOS.msi and get cooking! pretty self explanitory, make sure you update and also select titan in update selection area. Building a rom is the best option because you choose what you wan't and can be assured that that rom was made for your cell phone provider e.g sprint/verison.

A side note, You have to use olipro 1.2 to install the new titan radio if you are using a usb cable, otherwise if you have a sd card you can just install olipro 2.4 ftp://up.ppcgeeks.com/Titan/Users/Im...rd-SPL-MFG.exe
and then install the titan radio with a >2gb sd card with titan on it in the bootloader without installing olipro 1.2, your choice. Not worth buying a sd card for!!