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[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] famewolf:
MobileConfig 1.3 Beta

I think I ran mfrazzz off with all of my questions. ;)

Here is a program someone wrote to help "newbies" do registry edits. Might be a worthy addition for next release or of interest to users of current release. (mfrazzz if you want me to stop posting these as they might be cluttering up the thread please let me know)

http://www.infinityball.com/GetFile.aspx?FileID=73

Description:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=292583&highlight=infinityball

"MobileConfig

I've written a little utility to help novice users make registry hacks. Its written for WM Smartphone (no touchscreen functions work) using the .Net CF and only tested on the Blackjack, 8125, and PPC6700 but it should work on most Windows Mobile devices (reg values may have to be adjusted)....anway, you can download it http://www.infinityball.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=134. I should have the source code posted on my site in the next few days, so if anybody wants to make the touchscreen work better they can have at it.

-Ryan"

I can also report that wm5newmenu works fine under this rom. (as I said..everything just bloody works!)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Aelliott:
Battery life?

I just got a unlocked tmobile MDA, install this lovely rom (kudos by the way... it's great!). I install the 2.25 radio and installed the cab to fix reception for cingular networks. I'm wondering what people with a similar setup are experiencing as far as battery life goes. It seems to me that mine is running down pretty fast. But i have nothing to compare to since as soon as i got the phone i made these changes.

Thanks.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] famewolf:
I'm getting really good battery life with this rom on a MDA however I do turn off bluetooth and wifi when I am out and about and I do have the extended battery on my MDA. With a charger in the house and in the car alot of time my phone can be plugged in also.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Aelliott:
Didnt even know they had an extended battery. Any way to tell if i have the regular one or an extended one? I got it off of ebay, so i have no clue.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] dCY:
Just a small question (beginner):

When i update my MDA Vario with the XM6r2a Lite Version will i be able to use the radio that is currently installed/used.?

Or do i still need to flash the radio separately? (if i need to still flash the radio, what program do i use.? i got the .nbf files of all radios).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] famewolf:
The extended battery I have actually requires a new back cover because it sticks out some. If you don't have a special backplate you probably have the normal one.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] famewolf:
Your IPL/SPL and radio should not be changed by installing the rom. I'd make sure you installed mfrazzz radio fix cab from his first post though to make sure you don't get any missed calls.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Aelliott:
What radio version are you running? and what service provider do you use?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] dCY:
Thank you very much..!!!

My IPL/SPL is version 2.16 atm.. is there away to upgrade separately it too 2.26? (also the radio version is a bit dated.. GSM version: 02.07.10).

I sure wanna give it a go tonite.. :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Nah... I'm trying to read and finish the new Harry Potter. XDA has taken a backseat for now (sorry).

I do check in and read the thread but Famewolf appears to be my offical support line now (no problem with that at all! Thanks!)

With TodayAgenda 1.0 Beta out, PIM backup now at 2.5, and a few others, I may have to dust out the kitchen and do an r3 soon. I'll have to go back through this thread and reread some of the suggestions. Wififofum will probably be removed in favor of PeekPocket too.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] :
Probably this is a bug of psshutxp, not from rom....i never see the shutdown button working...always turn of the display.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] corky:
ok thanks for that, i tried removing it from the windows folder but i guess it's a protected file or something, it refused to go. Its not in my startup anymore as i unticked the shortcut option.

Any ideas how to remove it ?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] scowltura:
Question about Messages App

mfrazzz.... first off let me say Thank you for your excellent roms. I'm currently running Crossbow Reloaded 1.7 and loving it. Very few problems. Only real one I've noticed lately is that my phone app locks up every once and a while and I have to soft reset to be able to dial a number... but that is a matter for a different thread.

I have a question about this rom and it's messaging app. One of the features I needed from WM6 was the messaging app's ability to flag messages which it got from an exchange server and to share those flags with the server... i.e. if I flagged a message on the webclient, then it would show up flagged on the phone... and vice-versa. Flagging was new all together for WM6... I saw it in many reviews of WM6, but did not find it in crossbow reloaded 1.7... it that because of the rom... will I find it in this rom?

Thanks again for the wonderful work you do.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] calouro:
I'm not having this issue with PSShutXP. It works great for me. When you run Shutdown it also creates a link for display off, is that what you are hitting?

I've beta tested this ROM for a week and have not had the startup issue. Hmm.. Maybe try a hard reset.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Pvanwelt:
I have read the flash thread and wanted to try this rom.

I have a qtek 9100 (G4) and it shouldn't have a CID-Lock on it.

When i try to update from win XP with ActiveSync 4.5

my device reboots to a red,green,blue,white screen and the flash utility displays :

the update utility cannot be used for your pda phone.

Please get newer update utility.

I have searched the forum but couldn't find a solution :(

Can anybody help me ?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] :
search on g4 forum for shell tools
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] nycelitemaster:
For Some reason, my wifi won't activate. I tried soft-resetting the fone it still doesn't help
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] funkadesi:
wow mfrazz, another release , looks good, was wondering if this is the same rom thats used in see no evil 2.0, i was on XM6 for a very long time (until trialware started expiring) haha soo i tried see no evil, and that rom is faster, so is it the same base rom rom that dude (sorry i dont know his name)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] corky:
i'm reffering to the red button at the bottom of the screen, you get a smaller screen up with standby, reset and turn off. turn off just turns off display.

that's all i was on about.

Ta....
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] nycelitemaster:
nvm it works now. lol dont know what happened b4
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] corky:
i guess i will have to reflash this rom again !! i just done a hard reset and i still have problems going into programs. What happens is only some icons load up and are visible with a large blank area were icons should be, then after about 30 - 40 seconds all the icons appear ? and this keeps happening.

oh well here we go again :(
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mendy7511:
Okay, I am using XDA62 for about 12 hours now. Three times when I tried to access the programs folder it froze up. This it froze as a call was about to ring.

Thats four freezes in half a day (I was getting maybe one with Faria)

Either it still has some bugs or I did something wrong.

Everything works fine though, and I really like the way it looks.

BTW the phone is a lot more stable than Faria, it used to take time to find the network amd randomly loose the signal, no such problems anymore!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] corky:
well i just flashed again this rom, not done anything else at this point, and it is still having trouble when scrolling up and down the programs icons, it seems to struggle and get stuck ?

wonder if this is easily fixed ?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
I've been running R2 for a week and have never seen issues with programs or settings. I had multiple people doing beta testing on this and it did not come up for them either. I honestly don't know what to tell you. What ipl/spl are you? And did you use RUU or ShellTools to install this?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] corky:
hi mfrazz, i have to use shelltool as mine is g4 locked. i have tried loads of roms on here, and none have ever had this effect where if you scroll up and down in programs there is a severe delay in the refresh of the icons, and it gets that bad that i locks for many seconds before catching up with itself.

Don't know what else to say really, it's weird ?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mendy7511:
I have the same issue, just not as bad. There is a little lag when scrolling through programs and as I mentioned previously it froze 3 times when I tried to acceess the programs folder
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] corky:
Glad it's not just me, i was beginning to get paraniod :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Yep was trying to determine the difference. Are you using the Full or Lite version?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] corky:
full version tried twice... using the proper method of going back to my default wm5 rom, then installing cabs etc, then flashing to new rom etc...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mendy7511:
I am using the lite, I couldn't get the full to load so I tried the lite.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mnotz:
Battery Life

Even that this was not directed at me, here are some experiences:

I have to say that so far (5 days) since installing this ROM I get the best battery life out of my MDA out of all the WM6 ROM's I tried so far.

I am on T-Mobile and run the 2.25 radio at the moment.

Before that I ran a different WM6 ROM (forgot exactly which one, might have been a Faria one, with the 2.69 radio, and even without BT and WiFi (hardly ever use them), but with Exchange Activesync and Push Email I would get just about 24h out of the battery with very few, short phone calls made.

This has increased to probably about 60h now when I am at home, just judging by still having 25% battery life after 48h.

I do realize a big difference in battery life if I am at work or at home. Must have something to do with the signal strength I guess, or rather the distance to the next tower.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
I've updated the first post with a new WM6 Radio Fix cab. This is based on the findings in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=312834&page=22 (start around post 214).

While this is mainly for Cingular users, it appears some on T-Mobile and other providers are having good luck with this also (but as always, YMMV and you need to test this and see what works for you).

Further discussion on this cab should be posted in the thread above and not in this thread. I just wanted to point out I had changed the cab in the first post.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] famewolf:
I would recommend Contact Manager V11 for a contact manager and some program to simplify registry changes( I posted on a couple)..also slipstreaming the new .net into the rom will save some space currently being wasted.

Hows the new book? Our local Library does not have it in yet.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] famewolf:
I think you have to install the official rom from your provider that has the IPL/SPL included to get the 2.26. The radio rom's can be installed seperate and you might want to go to at least 2.19 since that is what mrfrazzz recommends.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] charly_mx:
memory leak and battery drain.

Well I like very much this ROM. However i want to point some little issues that are happening randomly.

First of all, sometime when my device is at stand by and i press the power on button, the device didnt wake up on the first try.

Second . Ive noticed a memory leak. When I fresh boot at the morning, I have around 28-29 megs of free RAM. Past 7pm i have around only 20 megs free without any program running.

In a normal day i dial like 20 ~ 25 calls per day and i understand that my battery will drain because of this, however in the weekend im not doing that many phone calls and the battery still drains at the same pace.

Anyone else has this issues?? Any suggestion???
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] famewolf:
For your 2nd one...it has to be a program you are running because I've found my memory free to be rock steady...I was using slide2unlock and it was stealing memory but once I removed it my mem free has been consistant.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] charly_mx:
I agree, the only software i start as a service is the program MagiCall. Its signature is not to big however i think it has poor memory management and that is causing the mem lo leak somehow.

For eh slide2unlock, did you tried setting the option closeprogram=1?? That way the 5 megs the software requeries are freed when you unlock the phone.

Best regards.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] famewolf:
RE: SlidetoUnlock closeprogram=1

I think I had all default settings...I might go back and look at it again...I really liked the program but was getting down to 4 or 5 meg free of memory.

I tried v 1.18 and set the registry to close slide.exe when done..free's the memory but takes a second for it to start...screenshot included.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Andre Koster:
A small off topic question, why would one upgrade the radio if the current one is working fine? (Note, my current one is 1.04.10 !!! And I have no problems with it...)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] famewolf:
Different versions of radio roms will give better or worse reception in different areas...a spot you currently don't get reception in might work with a newer rom. Another issue is some rom's give better reception but end up draining the battery more then others.

In the end though, if you are happy with the performance and you don't find yourself missing calls (which the radio fix should take care of) then there is nothing wrong with staying with the rom you have.

For example..I run the cingular 2.25.11 rom that is probably the most popular one..it is considered a balanced rom as far as reception and battery usage.... mfrazzz runs the older 2.19 tmobile radio rom which is known for NOT missing any calls but has slightly worse reception than 2.25.11....the latest radio rom's are around 2.61.xx
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] faisman:
Internet through PC problems..

I can't seem to connect my device to the net through the PC whilst connected via Activesync 4.5. I read the post about the issue but can't seem to get it to work. Could somebody please help with detailed instructions. Thanks
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Actually, I've been running the 2.69 radio for close to 2 weeks now. I think there is more battery drain with it than 2.19 had, but definelty less drain that 2.61 causes.

But yeah, if you have a radio that works fine for you, then stay with it. No reason to switch. Some around here think you have to have the highest version number of everything and things are broken if the highest version doesn't work. But my feeling is if it gets the job done, then why sit on the bleeding edge and complain about things not working right ;)

Did you make the file and put run it on your PC so that the registry entry has been set? Thats all I did, and then my connection seems to work fine for me.

If your PC uses a proxy to connect to the internet, you could have issues that way.

You could also (on your phone) go to Settings > Connections > USB to PC and either check or uncheck that box to see if it helps (personally I have to uncheck it or I can't use active sync).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] khangozzy:
Hi mfrazzz

I'm one user of ur ROM, and I like it much. Great work man.

But I have problem with my cooked Ext rom. It didn't work after I flashed XM6r2a, it's work fine when I using another ROM (PDAViet 4), did you enabled ext rom in the ROM? Would you pls help me to fix it.

Thank in advance and again thank for good ROM.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] xfooser:
Bluetooth microphone not working

Thanks for the great ROM, mfrazzz. I tried other WM6 ROMs before but this one appears to be the most stable on my MDA. I am using T-mobile 2.26 radio and everything seems to work great... all except one function.

I seem to have a problem with my bluetooth headset that was posted by someone else before. I searched for a solution but no success. I tried a different bluetooth headset but the problem is the same... No microphone. The ear piece works fine but no mic input. Did anyone solve this problem in the past?

BTW, I had to install it on top of a clean T-Mobile Update ROM that I downloaded from T-Mobile site.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] famewolf:
Hmm in that case I may install the 2.69.11 radio rom..I just happen to have downloaded it last night along with the latest ipl/spl.

Any benefit to staying with the 2.xx series of ipl/spl instead of the 3.xx set?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] jody518:
Streaming Video

Hey everybody,

when I get a mms message with 3gp and tap it, streaming video opens and starts playing but all I see is filmstrip icon, no video. I have searched thread and do not see info settings.

So far everything works really good on this rom and I'm very very happy with it.

Can someone point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] famewolf:
Hmm why are my ears burning?

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[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Too funny :)

Nope, not picking on anyone, I just find it funny though as some around here see this is a 318 rom and immediately move on to "newer" roms as the number is higher and it has to be better. Not putting down the newer roms (as many are very good in other ways) but higher number doesn't always mean better.

@jody518 - Veryify your MMS setup and all. I assume you did the cab / setup steps mentioned in the 2nd post for your provider?

@xfooser - Unfortunately, not all BT devices are compatible with WM6 it seems. I know on various roms (that I've done, and that others have done) I've seen people say certain devices don't work on the rom. Not much of anything I can do there (as I recall, the sys packages from mattk_r that I used had an updated BT driver in it I believe. But you might try other roms to see if ti works on them. Crossbow Reloaded is similar to this rom but running on the Faria base rom. The other option is to switch to a build running on one of the mUn base roms (like NBD, NTS Vanilla, Xplore, etc). There are so many roms now, I can't remember which is running on which base, so look at the first post of each to determine this (most cooks post that info in the first post).

@khangozzy - I didn't do anything around Extended rom (not aware of that it was set not to work or anything). There is no extended rom in this build though (unlike Crossbow Reloaded which had the Faria "fake" extended rom (built into the rom and not really a true extended rom).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] famewolf:
mfrazzz,

So if I was feeling particularly brave (i.e. stupid) how would I go about using the new "build your own rom" tools to take your rom as a base and tweak it such as including the apps I want installed by default etc?

Did you look over pbar? Looks just like your wisbar lite but is free.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Just getting around to some of this stuff. This is a very cool utility. May have to look at trying to squeeze it in for people to use.

I'll have to look at why it is showing these to be not set. I'm almost positive I set these in my rom build, but maybe I had a typo or something.

As for pbar, I'm looking at it now. I had played with it a few months ago, but there were issues with it on WM6. It seems they may have been addressed so I'm looking at it again.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
I personally recommend the Core Kitchen... You can take the nk.nbf file from my RUU and drop it in the extract folder area (sorry, don't have it in front of me). There are extract tools you can then run that will dump it and then even format it into the proper ROM / SYS / OEM folders you need. Then you can move these to the kitchen area, and then start hacking away (adding new packages, removing ones that are there, etc)...

Somethig I wanted to do was sit down and write up how to use the Core Kitchen. Just haven't had time to do that yet.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Hallis:
I'll be checking that configuration tool out as soon as i get home.

Shane
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] Rattlehead.ie:
:( poop I think I just pricked my phone.

I was upgrading to this ROM using the shelltool and after the hard reset it doesnt go any furhter than the Wizard Love ROM boot screen I had previously

IPL 2.21.001

SLP 2.21.001

GSM 2.25.11

OS 10.1.0.811

Going to try it again now and hopefully it might work, fingers crossed.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] famewolf:
Step1

Before installing ANY rom the first thing you should do is dump a working rom to a 64mb miniSD card. No matter what happens..if I can turn the bloody phone on I can get to that minisd and it will prompt me to load from sd...then I can boot and get to one of the executable backups I've made.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
Still playing with it, but I have to say, its better than I remember it before. The turn off device button doesn't work (just turns off the screen the way psShutXP did instead of really turning it off, but soft reset and stuff worked. I did have to do some configuration changes on it (under the Indicator tab I had to set Main number and Sub number to none since I have BatteryStatus putting the Overclocking speed and CPU Percent busy under the timestamp). This also fixed the color issue behind the clock and menu triangle. I also love the tap & move feature so you can slide your stylus on the X and it minimizes instead of closing it. Thanks!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] famewolf:
Recommendations for 2b that I have not made yet...

I can provide cabs for any of these...

wm5newmenu - installed and works fine on my right soft button...left is contacts...

imov messenger 2.21e basic (free jabber im client that logs onto aim, msn, yahoo and icq , google chat and does not expire EVER) (movsoftware.com) This may not be the BEST im client out there but you will ALWAYS be able to use it to logon.

Oxios Memory (http://www.oxios.com/memory/) has a memory reclaimer and a "close all" equivalent.

Vicsoft's ClearTemp - http://mobile-sg.com/software/?p=ClearTemp&platform=ppc

Software Name: ClearTemp

Software Version: 0.9.3

Release Date: 30th June 2007

Supports: Windows Mobile 2003 and above

Developer: Vicott Wong

Related Software: QuickClear

Description: ClearTemp is an application for you to clear temporary/unused files and unused registry keys/values on your system easily. It also allows you to clear your Recent Program List, Internet Address History and boot count. You can even change the location of the temporary folders (Cache, History & Cookies) or e-mail attachment folder to the Storage Card. If you have custom folders which you wish to clear, you can also add them in. (Can be setup to autorun on startup)

and lets see..I already mentioned Contact Manager V.011, pbar, cf SP2, peekpocket......hmm latest version of windows live? The java gmail app?

<pads off into the shadows and hides>