yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] ADB100:
Didn't you buy yourself a replacement with the donations or didn't you get enough :(

Andy
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] golfernutnflorida:
I swear I did that last night, it wasnt working right though but now it updated just fine. Weird!!!

:D
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] faria:
no...not that I'm complaining! but i was quoted £344 to fix it plus postage....and there is no way in hell i will give them that pleasure:D

I'm looking at ebay for a new device or motherboard....but a rather have a motherboard,i grown somehow attached to the dam thing!:D

some of the donated money was used to update developing software etc...and also to take the wife out a couple of times.....got to make up for those neglected nites. the rest still in the wizard fund acount.

meanwhile i still use my wizard for testing and when i can, i use my wife fully functional wizard to do a quick test....[usually at 2am] but it has to be in the same state every morning or hell will break lose!

this is somewhat tiring.

and of course my phone money went towards the hermes....after all i do need a ppc phone,ans since my carrier was offering as an upgrade.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] newtomda:
So when are you going to release this bad boy to the public anyway? Actually, I'm just screwing with you. I am looking forward to its release; but I'm not one of those people who think we have a God-given right to what you cooks produce.

By the way, many of your replies make me laugh. My favorite was "are you serious or are you just a plank". It's amazing how many times I could use that reply at work.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] newtomda:
What development software do you use?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Yep, this ROM has been super stable and I honestly am not looking forward to reflashing to the real version when it comes out as I finally feel I have a really nice ROM. The NotTooSmart and XPlore ones were great too, but something about this one really feels like an official release and not just a custom rom.

I did not take the advice (I had to be different to see what would happen) and after flashing when the timezone setup came up, I did choose to set mine to Mountain. After the soft reset my phone was still Mountain. I never saw Africa. The regional settings were for English UK so I just changed those to English US, and tapped on the date seperator so it would be a slash instead of a period. All took and held.

This is an issue with the carriers. Cingular confirmed to me (I got a really good tech guy on line when I was complaining about this a month ago) that the "fix" for the DST change was really more of a hack. For most phones thats fine as they are just showing the time offsets. But on PDA phones that actually show regions (not just offsets) you get random results as to what your region is (but your offset will be correct). He indicated Cingular (and T-Mobile and all) were aware of this, but it wasn't seen as a major issue and very low priority as it will correct itself (he thought) after this weekend.

To "fix" this, turn off the Automatic change timezone setting (Settings > Personal > Phone > Time Zones)

Yeah this is because there is a link in both the Start Menu and the Programs area. I do this "trick" too so I have items in my Start Menu and in the Programs (or other folders I create). But this could confuse people that aren't used to this.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Ok, here's something... I don't think this is specific to this beta rom, as I'm pretty sure I've seen this in all WM6 roms I've tried... Changing the volume for the ringtone has no effect when the phone rings. While I can use the slider to change the ringtone volume (and the 'dink" sound it makes changes volume when I do that) but when the phone actually rings, its always the same volume. If I go to Settings > Personal > Phone > Phone, and play the ring tone, the volume here is correct based on the slider setting. It only seems to impact the actual ringing of the phone.

Have others noticed this?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] golfernutnflorida:
WOW!!! your absolutely correct, However, I always have this setting disabled so that is why I never have had or heard of the issue. Thanks for steering me in the right direction.

I have added all my programs onto my storage card, and installed a few into main memory, no big issues or anything. Runs pretty darn good.

:D
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] golfernutnflorida:
Ok I have another question

Tonight I noticed I cant use the dpad to scroll up and down through my contact list. I am not talking about when opening the contact list but am talking about scrolling through the phone program. See attached picture, thought it was smartskey that controlled that but I guess not because I copied the smartkey.ini file from a working version on another phone and replaced it on my phone to see if that would cure it .

:confused:

EDIT: Fixed by setting DPAD to 0 in the smartskey.ini file.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] giojoe:
THANX

F A R I A your the BEST !!!!!

Thank you... it's 6 am and i was working whole night... and just checking back right now to see your PM :) :D :) :D ... Thanx

I will flash it until some sleep!... and give you response
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Ranger666:
I'd Love to Beta Test This!

It's been a while since I posted (or even been on XDA-Dev). Work has been just kicking my behind right and left. I see some good stuff here. I sure would love to test this ROM. Currently running the Faria Real Thing on one of my MDA's. Would definitely like to try this on my other MDA.

Faria, how can I get hooked up with this?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] giojoe:
1st comment

Wow great ROM faria!!

1. No problem during flashing

2. Boot was OK!

3. No probs. changing regions settings

4. In buttonssettings the Button 4 ... Press and Holding .. interchanged with the other Button4

.. until now... nothing else but GREAT ROM
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] aitzindari:
Thanks guys

I am looking forward to try this ROM. Thank you FARIA for your hard work.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] golfernutnflorida:
Resuming from standby

SOLVED

:confused:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Noonski:
Very Curious about this Version!

I'm now puting the new german 2.69 Radio on my Wiz to see how it works with your Real Thing version in The Netherlands (haven't had any issues with German Radio's ever so this should do fine here). I really hope the Tytn doesn't take all your attention away from the Wizard. I really would like to have this clean version just so i can play around with it to try and make a complete T-Mobile NL Version of it. (Even Thought Molski Propably will make one) The only reason i can't wait for this realease is because i want to compare it against your RT version. I wish you some good nights sleep.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] petrosk73:
Hi Faria,

Been Testing it since Friday and its great so far! :)

As I have already said in my PM initial setting of timezone worked fine and settings were for English Uk.

I found this rom to be super fast to the point that I have not yet used any overclocking and I am not using fewer or different applications that before.

No stability problems so far. Haven't reset since initial setup and everything runs smoothly! :)

It also very kind on the battery...but that could be due to no overclocking.

Overall, I think I found the WM6 rom I was looking for! Thank you very much Faria for all your effort.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Hi Faria,

Can I get a copy of the first splash screen (the HTC one) in this beta rom? I want to keep that one but also add a second splash screen (I hate the T-Mobile one that shows up now from the 2.26 ROM base I laid down before installing this Beta). If the official release of this rom is coming out I guess I can wait, but just wanted to play around with splash screens some ;).

FWIW: Its not like I see these splash screens much. Since having the beta on, its been VERY stable. But I keep playing and then doing soft resets, and as I said I'm tired of seeing T-Mobile (when I'm on Cingular) for the second splash screen.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] jwzg:
edited cause I can't read
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] dy2592:
Yes Faria, I too would like to get my hands on this to test. I'm sure theres no better way to work out the kinks than to just the a lot of people test it.

Thanks in advance
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Ok, while I'd still like to get a copy of this first screen, I really don't need it at the moment. I figured out I could create an nk.nbf that just consists of the 2nd Splash Screen, so I got rid of the TMobile this way and replaced it with the black screen with the world and windows logo over it. I added "Loading Faria Crossbow" at the bottom.

So for those of you beta testing, if you want a 2nd Splash screen, here's an RUU you can flash and thats all thats in it. Should work on G3 and G4 since its only a splash screen. Included in the file is the splash.bmp so you can view what the screen looks like before installing it. Just change the extension of this file from .zip to .exe and run it (or extract the zip contents to a folder and run the RUU).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] epimazzo:
Amazing

Hi all!

I've been playing around little bit during this weekend with this beta version and my overall vision is that we are close to have a really awesome and amazing ROM ever made!:D

Faria this time is creating a monster! Different one! Different from the others made my Faria. On my opinion, he's using a secret oven to cook this time!:p

It's fast without overclocking and set to 273, performance gets really cool!

Unlike others betatesters, after I'd flashed first time, I got Buenos Aires as city location. No worries as I could change it in settings later.;)

Issues:

GPRS Monitor works fine.

No missed calls

Good making and receive calls

No droped calls over GPRS/EDGE connectivity

PushMail (Mail2web) works like a charm

Destinator 6 working

Wifi reception works great...

No issues over 2.19.11 RADIO

Well, that's all for while.. Lot to do yet...Excelent operational impressions so far...

As a request..Faria, I really missed Smartkey feature. I love the fact that we can operate all functions by button without any touch to stylus! Think it over seriously to include this little app before release the final one!

Best regards. ;)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Tna:
since it is going to be a vanilha ... I don;t think that smartskey should be included... After all it is up to the user to install it...

Anyway... the rest of us (non testers - but eagerly waiting for FARIA ROM users) we are waiting for the Master CHEF FARIA ...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] kison:
Where is Faria Vanilla ROM

I have stopped reading the post since page 16, juz came back online again to find faria Vanilla rom is out, but juz can't find it anywhere.

Can someone point me a download link?

Thanks in advance.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Tna:
It is still in beta-test mode .... so only testers have it
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] kison:
Thanks, thought I missed something...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Bug Report

I've never seen this on other WM6 ROMs (I was doing the same on XPlore) so I'm going to file this as a "Bug Report". Hopefully another beta tester can try this to see if they can reproduce this...

I've started using WiFi and Opera Mini to surf XDA-Developers. Allows me to keep up with posts here, and not have my wife griping that I'm upstairs on the computer ;). I've now had 3 times where the phone just locks up while doing this, and one time where it just rebooted. Everytime I've seen this, I'm running Opera Mini (so Midlet Manager in this rom which is the .1023 version) and running over WiFi. I've also been away from home and surfed this site a number of times running Opera Mini over GPRS and have not seen the lockups or reboots. The lockups seem to come after more than 15mins of usage (one time I had just set the phone down and it went to sleep. When I picked it up at the next commercial break I couldn't wake it up with the power button or anything (lights were still blinking). In all cases a soft reset is required. When the phone comes back I see the WiFi tower Icon at the top when it first comes on, then the tower goes away (I've never seen that tower show up on a regular soft reset, only after this situation).

As I said, I was doing this same thing with the XPlore rom and never saw this behavior. XPlore has the .1029 Midlet Manager in it, so that is one difference (anyone have a CAB of the .1029 Midlet Manager? I'll poke around to see if I can find it too, as I'd like to try that to see if that fixes this issue).

So if someone wants to try this, just install Opera Mini (I'm running 3.1.17196 which came from www.operamini.com ) and then turn on Wifi and surf for about 15 - 30 mins to see if the phone locks up. Everytime it happened I was surfing XDA-Developers, but to be honest thats about all I've surfed on this phone during this beta test (so I can't say it doesn't happen with other sites, just that thats where I was when its happened).

And yes, before someone says it, I will be installing the full blown Opera to try out, but I was just using Opera Mini, so thats what this bug report is about.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] epimazzo:
Interesting comment...

I´m an Opera heavy user since 8.50 version and never came up with an issue in any WM6 out there. But never tried Mini one! So, I´ll try it out and let you know later!

Cheers!:cool:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] epimazzo:
Mfrazzz,

I installed Midlet Manager 10.1.7.551 build 20060317 and then Opera mini to test. I didn´t find 1019 version, so...No problem so far over this version. I have the cab if you wish a try! It´s working fine, accessing many sites including our XDA.

Cheers
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Did you not try it with the Midlet manager that came with the Faria Beta? Not sure I want to go back to 10.x as I think Gmail requires 11.x.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] giojoe:
Little bug

Hi Faria!

I found a bug concerning the regional settings. The "short date:" is not changing if you set a different language!! Still stays on HKLM\nls\overrides\SSDte = "M.d.yy "
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Out of curiosity, I clicked on Start > Programs > Bluetooth Explorer today. Now I'm having problems with Camera, CoolCamera and other programs when saving files that were set to go to Storage Card. They all want to go to Bluetooth instead! I was able to change the default storage location for CoolCamera back to my storage card, but in the HTC Camera that came on this ROM, the drop down box for where to store the pics only gives me Main Memory and Bluetooth. I've switched it back to Main Memory, but I can't get it to let me store pics on the Storage Card (sure, I can hack the registry, but I'm curious why this has happened and how to fix it).

FWIW: When I did the Bluetooth Explorer, there were no bluetooth devices (other than my headset) in the area. I've done a soft reset since then and still no joy. Using Totalcommander and GSfinder, in both I now see bluetooth listed like a device on my phone (same icon like storage card).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] graybip:
I had the same problem with opera 8.65.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Zer0:
Possible entry into beta?

Please consider me for a potential beta tester. I would like to help beta test this rom for radio compatibility. I am on the Cingular network in the US but have been having issuses with missed calls even using the official cingular 2.25 radio with WM6. (On all WM6 versions I have tried so far. Currently using "real thing" with 2.19 TMO UK Radio without issues) I see that another beta tester is even using 2.69 on Cingular, reportedly without issues. Please let me know.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] rkwhyte2:
No Ringer

Sorry if this has been asked already. I scanned the posts and didn't see anything. So yesterday I miss several phone calls and it turns out that the phone is vibrating instead of ringing. It wasn't set to vibrate but that is what it was doing. I don't see anything obvious that would cause this to happen. Has anybody else seen this behavior or is it just me?

Kirby
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] camorales:
This happens to me too. I am using WM6 Underground Edition. The problem looks like it happens after I set the ringer to vibration (And sometimes just zero volume), and then I try to set it back to the regular ringtone. Then, even when the phone is set to ring instead of vibrate, it keeps vibrating. The only workaround I have found so far, is to go to Settings->Sounds and Notifications->Notifications (tab), and select the "Incoming Call" Event, and manually play the file once. After that, it seems to keep ringing instead of vibrating.... until the next time I set it to vibrate, where this process starts again.

Carlos
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
I was just about to post this exact issue. While I can't reproduce this at will, I have had 2 times now (the second being this morning) where my phone seems to stay in vibrate mode even though I've put it back to playing the ringtone.

I do recall I had a similar issue when I was running MBE. Not sure I ever saw this in the mUn variations.

And yes, either playing the ringtone via Sounds and Notifications, or via the Phone settings will then fix this. But you don't know its happened until you feel / hear your phone vibrate instead of ring.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] vbulkin:
Vibrate on push email while suspended

Does vibrate work for email notifications when device is suspended? I've seen reports that folks can't get it to work in WM6 roms published so far. This is the bug that was fixed I believe in WM5 AKU2.3 and may not have been slipstreamed into the WM6 codebase that our good rom cookers are using.

Thanks!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] rkwhyte2:
Yes I have seen this before. The problem this time is I didn't change anything it appears that the unit has done this on it's own. I will have to keep my eye on it and see if it occurs again.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] epimazzo:
Beta feedback

Guys,

I experienced what it seems to be a problem, dunno yet...a behaviour that turns my wizard off without notice and reason. It happened twice this week. So, I didn´t know if it is because an app I installed or not. I made a hard reset and I´ll be aware if it happens again.

Regards:cool:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Ok, so not technical really, but I created a first and second splash screen for the two Faria WM6 roms. Thanks to KarhU over in the Hermes forum for posting these, that I then tweaked a little (very little) and he said people were free to use them. Here are the two images, and then attached is the RUU to run to install them on your phone (splash screens only, so should be safe for G4, but I take no responsibility if they aren't). They work great on my G3.

And yes the first one is a little grainier but I had to do that to get it to the right byte size (its more complex due to the extra colors).

Change the .zip to .exe and just run it, or extract the files to a directory and run the RUU.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] epimazzo:
Awesome and cool splashes Mfrazzz!

Liked a lot!:D

Gonna install right away!:cool:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] epimazzo:
Yep...I tried with Faria Beta built in and didn´t get into trouble!:rolleyes:

I surfed some sites and all opened without problem!:)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] z00m:
can anyone point me to the download link to the lastest vanilla version?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] giojoe:
Sorry it's not public. Just for betatester.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] jnmlme:
If i want to become a beta tester, what is the path ?

I have tested at home all the rom i found since i get my wizard (faria, xplore, Molski...). I still have some problems withe the current one (phone buzzing instead of ringing, problems with edge/gprs). So if i could help...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Zer0:
If it hasn't already been mentioned, I had an issuse with "The Real Thing" resetting the ringtone to the default. (Ring-WindowsMobile.wma) If you go in and change it under Sounds&Notifications you could actually watch it switch back right before the menu closes. I just saw in another thread another user experiencing the same problem.

I fixed my device by editing all reg entires of Ring-WindowsMobile.wma to the ringtone I wanted but this may not be the best fix for everyone.

Has anyone else had this problem?

Oh and I am not looking for support on this, I just thought I would let you know about it for your upcoming Vanilla.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] aitzindari:
Appointments doesn´t work

Sorry if I am posting this in the wrong thread. I am using Faria´s ROM on my wizard g4 with the 2.69.11 radio and works great almost in every circumstance. No missed calls or lost messages and really really quick. But something I have noticed (appart from the ringtone that changed on its own once) is that with the agenda included in the ROM the tasks work ok but it seems to refuse all the appointments entries. After you set one up does not appear neither in the agenda or in the calendar. Has anyone come across this too? Ta
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mdasent:
Eagerly Awaiting

Anyone know when this will be released to the General Public. I am a huge fan of Faria's work and was unable to get his Real Thing to load on my G4 Wizard. Everybody elses works..

Currently running Nottoosmart Vanilla with Radio 2.69 works like a charm.. But guess what the addiction of flashing has made me a junkie and knowingthe quality of Faria's work i am fieding for a quick fix
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] trojan9x:
Anyone on US Cingular service testing this rom at the moment? If so, have you had any missed calls/texts and what radio version are you using?

Thanks
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Ranger666:
The ROM cooker has to invite you. The only way to get noticed is by contributing to the threads.....with meaningful/helpful conversations and hopefully you get noticed by the chefs.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
I'm on Cingular in Colorado running the Beta ROM and 2.19 Radio. I've had no missed calls or SMS. I may try upgrading to another radio just to see what happens, but can't do that before the weekend due to stuff happening at work this week. But 2.19 radio has been fine for me (like it has on all other WM6 roms).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] trojan9x:
I was asked a while ago to test this, but was never sent the file :(
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] faria:
rom will be released with a rom kitchen....so all of you can costumize it.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Very cool. Really looking forward to the official release. I'm sold on this beta and plan on upgrading to the official when it comes out and probably staying put on this for some time (until I start cooking my own version with the herbs and spices I like to taste) ;)

Any ETA on when the official release of this may be? Not looking for a hard date, just a general idea (like in the next two weeks or somesuch).

Thanks!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] faria:
with in 12 hours,
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] faria:
do you read my mind! dam i got a similiar one....