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[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] ken52787:
You did indeed remove the programming from the initial setup. Here is a time line of what I did:

1. Flashed the ROM. Phone was still programmed and connecting to Verizon right off the bat.

2. Attempt to restore my SMSes with SMSBackup, but it messes up the contact list. I couldn't get the live account to sync so I gave up on it.

3. Did factory restore. Noticed I had the triangle which means the phone needs programming. It didn't try during initial setup. I left it alone for 10-15 minutes while I got ready for the day.

4. Dialed *228 and chose option 1. I had the music go for awhile then it said my phone was programmed. Verizon showed up as the carrier and I had my 3G label pop up so I figured I was fine. I tried checking my voicemails but Verizon lady said there was an error. I rebooted and still nothing. I tried making a call to my other phone and that also didn't go through.

I will play around with it some more and see if I can get it going. Thankfully there is no rush in getting my phone operational again (god bless the weekends) so I have time to do some experimenting.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] s10010001:
Day 2, rom is working great! After the newest post tango radio, I battery has gone thru the roof! I was using zune for half the day this morning and im still 50%, normally half a day of music kicks on my battery saver. (This is the stock 1400 battery)

I agree perfect blend of stock vs custom.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] tonbonz:
Lost my internet sharing also.No connection to share although I was still showing 3G and phone, SMS, and mail worked fine. Also kept getting no data signal while trying to connect to the HTC Marketplace. Could it have been the Marketplace Config app set to region free that caused it? Could not reset default and stuck in region free unlocked. *228 and ##778# were no help. Finally did a reset and all is well however seemed to be the standard setup. I don't recall calling *228 during setup when I first flashed the rom.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] Jola66:
When you say you did a reset, you dont mean just a reboot, but the reset option from Settings, About?
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] tonbonz:
Yes, the factory reset from About in the Settings. Has internet sharing worked at all for you with this rom? Everything was running great, nice and smooth and I'm pretty sure it was an app or tweak that caused me to lose internet sharing. Just curious if you had installed any of the same ones as I did. Only other thing I can think of is I forgot my SIM pin and locked it screwing around and had to call Verizon for an unlock code.Is your SIM security on? This is all new to me and learning as I go but I love messing with this stuff so willing to help. I will tell you that I have tried all the Spark_W roms from the different developers here and I know the devs put alot of much appreciated work into them but you can't beat a fully upgradeable custom rom. After all this IS only the beta release and I'm sure TheXev will figure out your ICS issue. :)
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] Jola66:
Hmm. No, Im not sure anything I installed would have done it though perhaps it did. I know when I first used this ROM, I did not check the Internet Sharing right away. A day or so later, when I needed it, I tried what they said to do in the first post of the thread, and it did not work.

Ive only tried 3 ROMs so far. The only one that I could use IS was DFT Freedom Spark W 1. That was a ROM from back in April/May.

I dont use a SIM, Ive got Verizon in the states with a grandfathered plan. I really liked this ROM, so at some point today, I am going to reflash it and see what happens.

Thanks for your response.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
I really don't understand why anyone is having issues with ICS unless people are not following the instructions I posted in my first post. If you have Verzion service and metered data, it should work with no changes.. if it doesn't, you should try the same change as Unlimited users. Its odd cause I don't even need to make the change that unlimited users are saying they have had to made. Tethering is working fine for me with no additional changes for me, and I don't pay extra for tethering on my Verizon plan. For anyone who is using the SIM card to get service, read my instructions in the first post, you MUST apply the tethering fix until I integrate it into my rom.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] ken52787:
Reactivating my old phone and then switching back to the Trophy did fix the problem. So far I have had zero issues with the ROM, I'm loving it. I was a little confused by the first text message I got because I had not heard the Nokia tones before haha
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] Jola66:
Tried the ROM again, so far no luck with Internet Sharing. This time, as soon as I flashed the ROM, I programed, then changed the setting under PST and rebooted.

Last time, it would immediately tell me Connection Not Shared. This time, it atleast tries for a moment, but then I end up getting the 'Connection Not Shared There's no cellular data connection to share right now. Check your cellular settings and try again.'

I do have 3G signal now, so not sure why this happens.

UPDATE: Ok so now I show 1X on my phone vice 3G (dont have the greatest signal where im at) and its working. Not sure what the heck is going on. So far, ive seen that if I show 3G, it doesnt work. If I show 1X, it does. How does that even happen?
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] s10010001:
Cancel that, I got my Exchange working :)
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] Jola66:
Im not having any problems with my Exchange
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
I haven't made any system modifications, so it should work the same as if you were running it stock in regards to Exchange. I have no way to test Exchange so.. :/
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] tonbonz:
Has everyone installed the latest update through Zune? TheXev, is it possible any issues could be caused by not having the latest update or vice versa, i.e. a bug in the update itself?
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] s10010001:
I did the updates they work fine, and you get the newest radio that is not yet available for download in the radio thread. It seems to be working as good or better that v3 mango radio.

If 7.8 get released official for this phone do you think it will update via Zune to this rom? if other updates work, I don't see why not.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
Unless there are compatibility issues with the unlocker, I don't see why not....

Speaking of which, it seems 8835 roms are hitting.. guess I'll have to build a version. @_@ I'll probably build a 7.8 version and keep the "stable" 8773. Let's see what I can get done in the few hours I have today. I got on hoping to get an international version done.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
Okay, no one has done a real sys dump of 8835, and most of the roms out have protected scemes.. WTF. I'll be stuck with an English only release for 8835, but my testing phones USB port finally gave up. Hope I win this phone on ebay, then I can transplant digitizers and have another decent test phone. I'll see if my 8835 build works on my primary phone tomorrow, but I don't have enough time to test it myself today...

.....and no, I'm not posting it here cause I don't even know if the rom boots yet. XD
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] jibgilmon:
GAAAAAAAAAAAAH You read my mind :P

On a side note, I installed this two or three days ago, and it's running fantastically. Great ram improvements from the DFT rom. I spent like three hours reinstalling and setting things up yesterday, and I'm not looking forward to doing it again with the 7.8 rom hahaha
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] s10010001:
Please let us know :) im ready for the 7.8 start screen.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] tonbonz:
Would it be possible to create custom cab updates with the new 7.8 features rather than having to flash a new rom and going through reinstalling everything? Honestly this rom is running great and unless there are extremely cool features in a new custom rom other than the start screen I can wait for the official 7.8 update.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] s10010001:
I can agree with you there, the current from XevRev put out is really really good. I identical to the stability of my Wifes stock HTC trophy (running Tango).

I hope there is no major problems with his 7.8 build.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
Download a program from the market place called "Reinstaller" next time, saves bundles of time. I wanted to include it in my rom, but with Microsoft changing the market place encryption, I doubt that is going to happen now.

I think with enough time and effort, a custom cab upgrade path could be created, but this is a MASSIVE package overhall. Looking at the package versioning to 8835, we're talking almost every SYS package (It might even be EVERY one) being replaced (and that doesn't include the XIP OS drivers, since no one ever seems to get those in SYS dumps :P). When this finally hits as an official build, it will probably be larger then the update from NoDo to Mango... it's that massive of a difference. The other problem is, even with a custom cab path, you would need to get yet another custom.cab path to update to an official build if that build turns out newer. If you want to maintain upgradability at this point, stick with a 8779 rom...

I'm still testing to make sure I can create custom.cabs for my rom in case I wanted to push XevRev updates, but its such a pain in the ass I can see why no rom chief has done it yet.

I hate to push things back to next weekend, but my job is eating all of my time, and I just bought a 3rd Verizon Trophy (that's right) off of ebay that needs a new digitizer, but has a good charge port. I might get to it sooner, but right now it is simply too much of a pain to be flashing my primary phone. After this, I should have two Verizon Trophy's that are in "good" condition....

...now if only I could find a good deal on a Spark GSM. XD I'm also looking at maybe getting a US Cellular GoldC and porting it to Verzion (legally.. cause it can be done, but its a pain).

*edit* I bought a busted GoldC too... and a digitizer to fix it.. yeah.. this is guna be a heck of a weekend.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] jibgilmon:
Unfortunately, that app doesn't save much time when you've downloaded and tested 300+ apps and you still use some apps from 2010 hahaha. I just wrote down the apps I wanted and used Phone7Market to deploy them. I also put the direct download links for homebrew apps through a QR code creator to install those easily.

Long story short, typing the apps I want into Phone7Market seems to be a faster process than going through every app I've ever installed on reinstaller.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
That is a bit harsh.

To update, I should have my "next" Spark_W tomorrow, but I'll probably do the digitizer transplant Saturday after I get out of work. I will try to get 7.8 roms + International language roms out Sat-Sunday if I am able to do everything smoothly. I will keep doing Tango 8779 releases for stability, and experimental 7.8 roms. Even if I get a 7.8 rom together, I'm going to try and have the font fix installed by default (one less evil to worry about). My job is going to eat up my next 2 weeks, so I'll be working with NO days off for 3 weeks total. Its guna be brutal but I'm want to try and work on roms as much as possible to blow off the steam. :)
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] jibgilmon:
Sounds excellent! I love seeing the amount of work you do to provide for us! Best of luck with the real work.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] mangojain:
Xev, if it's that big a package overhaul then there must surely be some new features in 8835? I'm getting seriously tempted to try Sianto's rom, tell me what to do !!! I can mess around with his rom for a couple of days, if you're sure you'll come up with yours by Sun night. Like i wrote before, and like others have written too, your rom was the best . . . and i wish 8835 hadn't come along !
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
So, the digitizer transplant was a success! I had to break the phone down again to make sure I had the cables all tight, but that was my only real snafu..........

.....so after I finished the transplant (which I just got lazy on and transplanted the entire LCD assembly because I need a heat gun), go to update the new frank-n-phone doing some updates just to test its flash-ability... turn on PC.... nothing.. DEAD.. DED Dead. My desktop has taken a crap.

Not a big deal (I was expecting this sooner or later) I decided to take my hard drive out with the rom files and put it into an external hard drive bay I have. Go to turn that on..... the light on the PSU for it starts blinking. Try to power on my PC.. its powering on, but dead.

Crap, this is what my last PC did.. must have been this hard drive. @_@

So... thankfully I haven't gotten too into a new version of XevRev yet, I can deconstruct the beta rom and start with that... but I got lots of crap to get downloaded. T_T Guess I'll start building a new desktop from scratch, time to stop using hand-me-down parts.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] mangojain:
Ok, am trying out his v 1.5.4 right now, but will prefer your 1a beta core whenever you upload it.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] mangojain:
The 1.5.4 works ok, without any flaws so far, but it is not Zune updatable . . and the drivers are pretty outdated. I was able to save my sms this time, after a little bit of juggling around with store.vol. Realized that i should have tried harder last time, and not given up so quickly :(

Waiting for your rom, this one is just a stop-gap . .
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] jibgilmon:
How positive are you that it's your harddrive? What exactly happens?
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
I put the hard drive into a drive bay, and it zapps the power right out of the PSU for it.. like it flashes and stuff. I left the computer on and sleeping, so it might have been doing who knows what for almost 9 hours. I after taking the drive out, the computer starts, but won't POST. This is the 2ND time this has happened, to me, so I'm wondering if this hard drive was the culprit all along. Its strange it'd take almost 3 years to make the problem reoccur though. I'm making okay money at my current job, so I should be able to slap something new together.

The bitter irony for me is that I was stuck with the choice of buying a new hard drive, or getting some new phones to develop. I'd prob have gotten the hard drive if it wasn't for 7.8 leaking last week. XD
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] jibgilmon:
Have you tried testing the power supply? Try removing all components you don't need (eg:video card), and see if it works.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
I'll give that a go tommorrow.. I didn't think about removing the video card to see if it gives a post error. Too much crap going on. I'm working on getting my rom back up and cooking. Got some new ideas to test, along with a 7.8 build. Might take some time to replace the digitizer in this Alltel HTC Pro 7 I just bought too... I'm a bit let down it won't activate on Verizon anymore (bastards, wish I'd known about this phone sooner, I'd have gotten one last year!? I thought only Sprint and US Cell had it).
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
Alrighty~, kitchen is back up and running! Let's see about a .. whatever codename 7.8 is rom and international stuff today! Also will try one small tweak to try and quash the programming issues again (even in my own testing, PRL updating is broken).
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] mangojain:
Good to hear that . . 'cooked' roms, chefs, kitchens! . . . hope u use approved preservatives ? :)
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] sianto1997:
I'm sorry to interupt, but what's the deal with newer drivers? Because on computers it wasn't recommended to update drivers unless you had problems with the previous one!
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] s10010001:
So XevRev, how does what your working on now with 7.8 compare to what yout tango rom is?

It obviously not a Verizon rom? Or is it cooking 7.8 to the Verizon rom? Sorry, I dont understand this as good as I should. Im using the other 7.8 rom for the Verizon Trophy, its nice and so far everything works but its a bit slow. Im thinking about going back to your tango rom and doing the zune updates again, that was a nice setup.

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Well the newer radio drivers are more like firmware, the v3 mango radio borough better batter life, and reception. I really haven't noticed much improvements since those.

I think XevRev used a original Wifi driver, and that why his current rom can Zune update.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] sianto1997:
Well if it's okay, I can use that driver too in my rom!
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] jibgilmon:
I'm sure he wouldn't mind if:

1. You give him proper credit for it.

2. You don't password protect your rom for "thieves". There's nothing wrong with locking it, but the purpose of locking should be to prevent hotlinking, and the password should be in the thread. Locking it so people don't steal your work is only feasible if it's a 100% original composition.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
This is because with older roms, internet sharing wasn't supported on this phone. Even if you had a separate policies package in your rom, the sharing function was disabled at some higher level. With the newest update from Verizon, we get internet sharing officially, so internet sharing doesn't "disappear" or stop working like it had in the past.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
OP post has been updated. All Verizon users need to perform the dun modification to use tethering for free. ALL Verizon users must purchase a tethering plan for $30 a month to legitimately use this feature dun mod works for ALL Verizon users, so I am going to exploder another XML mod to see if that will fix sharing for everyone.

I have a working 7.8 rom I'm testing. I want to try and update the OEM package first before release, as apps like HTC Hub aren't working right. I don't believe one bit that 8835.35 will be a release build, as the new start screen doesn't' allow for apps to take up the entire screen after you make them use a smaller square size. HTC will have no choice but to update their OEM apps in an official release for the first time ever since this phone launched, which is awesome because its long overdue.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
The only difference is the SYS. The SYS is setup weird in the leaked 8835 roms, as most of the packages are in the OEM for some damn reason. I've moved all the packages around so they are in the SYS like they should be (doesn't change how the rom works, but it makes is much easier for me to organize as a chief). So, its just the 8835 SYS with the same OEM I ran in my Tango rom (at least right now). That means it will still have all the Verizon stuff, since that is all OEM packages.

That's no problem, you can just port the newest OEM cab if you want, grab it out of my rom if you want too (since I've already gone threw the pain in the ass part of syncing all the packages so they'd cook correctly). I'm still missing the one driver package, but users have to run the Zune update to get the newest radio anyway.

Remember, in the official Verizon rom, the operatorpkg/CSConn_DB/and OEM theme are all in the same package(operatorpkg), that is why my rom isn't a simple/direct port of Dynamics 1.21, since this package setup makes it a royal pain to keep updating and have a different OEM theme. Getting all that setup is part of the reason why updating works on my rom (where as roms like DFT/ansar also couldn't Zune update, because they had CSConn_DB package in the rom+ Verizon's.. so updating was all weird)... well, to reword that, I based my rom on a OEM Verizon rom, so they always would update(sorry, those roms weren't public, it was all just me testing crap), but it wasn't recommended because it'd break Internet Sharing. Since Internet Sharing works no.. you can just let the update install now.

I think for my builds, I'll prob move my default Tango SYS back to 8773, to insure that that rom will update to 7.8 with no issues. I would recommend people that won't a rom to sit on to use 8773 after my next set of builds, and use 8835 to play around with. I only really need to get my Custom packages like Bazaar and Reinstaller installed (even though the app itself has been broken again since Sept 13th XD). I had a package that used to let me install Bazaar, but I'll have to rewrite it.. (oh well XD not a huge deal since it stopped working when I switched to ultrashot unlock in my personal rom).

http://sdrv.ms/OzhjFW My XevRev build currently with 8835. This is just with the SYS swapped, so everything else is identical to Tango, and radio update can still be installed via Zune. I'm aiming for a release tomorrow at some point.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] mangojain:
Sorry, couldn't quite follow you - what will you release tomorrow? And the link above isn't working (it's taking me to a SkyDrive page), can you check please . . .
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] kordellas:
anyone to post detailed instructions onhow to flash this in an unbranded device?
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
An unbranded Spark is a Spark.. not a SparkW, you cannot flash this rom. This rom is only for Verizon Wireless branded phones. Try Dynamics 1.21 or one of the 7.8 roms.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
It is a SkyDrive link, you need to login to your live account to view... although I thought I made a public link. I'll post a different link after work.

Here is the pic via imageshack. Can't see it, disable ad-blocker on XDA and help support the site!!
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] mangojain:
Oh, i could see the image . . i was hoping for the rom!
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] mikhalcharon:
new 7.8 rom installed and working well on my SparkW. Thanks Xev!

Just one thing, it did an update right after i connected to Zune. I'm not sure what updated.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
Rom uploaded, enjoy. Will work on international builds after work.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] mangojain:
Thanks, will install later today . . am sure it'll work fine
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] TheXev:
It updates the radio to Tango v1 and another driver I haven't been able to cook in. It skips the rest of the driver update because that stuff is already cooked in (which is why it doesn't take very long).

I'm glad that everything is working well. I wish HTC Hub worked correctly with a wide tile, but we'll have to wait for an app update. I've run this sam rom on my other SparkW and its been smooth.

I'm thinking for beta 2, that I'll roll back my Tango build to 8773 vs 8779, since I don't know if any phones are officially running 8779, and I don't want to break updatability.
[Trophy Windows Phone 7 Development] s10010001:
Cool!

how does the camera work? Flash work? how about getting tiles to go back to wide mode? I want to try it but the first 7.8 rom I tried was junk, and I had to go back to Xev's wonderful tango rom. Its running so good, im not sure the new start screen is worth bugs.

Anyways, if someone could report the functionality of this ROM as a daily use ROM that would be great.