yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Excalibur] Greg530:
Works great!

My first observations after 15 minutes of play time:

-all my data is synced with the corporate exchange server (push), and after configuring my GPRS connection it synced back all my contacts, calendar, emails...pretty sweet

-how do I disable T9???

-Home screens are too few, ugly colors

-where is the "Find" function they advertised for searching emails ON the remote exchange server??
[HTC Excalibur] lukybandit:
great news...finally, it's here...ok, i need some help

can someone please tell me if they were successfully able to CID Unlock their device through gsm liberty as i can just put it on my credit card and go about doing it..i see sim unlock but i'm not sure if they cid unlock as well, has someone done it?

now ok i have all the files i need but i was wondering what does vox audio manager do and is it better to install the german rom over the WWE rom as it has lesser languages, etc? please help, thanks.

can't wait to install it.
[HTC Excalibur] johnnylavah:
I successfully cid unlocked my phone using the services provided by GSM Liberty. I paid with a credit card. After you pay, they provide you with the unlock file for your phone. then download the dash unlock program to execute the file.

worked great for me
[HTC Excalibur] da_mayhem:
This thread is now filled with CID Unlocking problems. Not wondering why.

CID Unlocking and flashing queries should be discussed HERE
[HTC Excalibur] chaznet:
WM6 Standard doesn't include Voice Command or Office, however, it's made available to the device manufacturer to lisence and include at an extra cost. Apparently HTC decided not to pay to provide either, whereas T-Mobile gave us both. I wound up using neither and would rather have a less bloated ROM.
[HTC Excalibur] Technology:
Windows Media Player Works Fine In Full Screen

I have not encountered any problems playing the Windows Media Player in the full screen landscape/portrait mode. Also the Slingbox/SlingPlayer works perfect with this ROM.
[HTC Excalibur] gocana:
You´ll need to unlock it. I also have one from Telcel Mexico and works ok.

You will have to unlock it, I also have one from Telcel Mexico and had to pay for unlocking the unit. After that everithing work ok. I reccommend the UK guys.
[HTC Excalibur] chaznet:
May or may not be related, but, I ran into the same thing (although I unlocked via GSM Liberty). Just for the heck of it, I tried using my XP laptop instead of the Vista (64-bit Ultimate) one it wasn't working on. It worked via XP -- no idea why...
[HTC Excalibur] GuardianZX9:
Anyone tested VOIP yet?
[HTC Excalibur] Tonerod:
HTC ROM vs Russia ROM

Hi All. I have now downloaded the new HTC WM6 ROM, myself, but I'm thinking, before I install it, do I really need it, (or even want it)? Many of the comments I've read in this thread so far makes me think I better of sticking with this good old Russia ROM that I have been using flawlessly for over a month now I wonder if this new HTC WM6 ROM will be as problematic as that buggy T-Mobile WM6 ROM that read so much about. It seems that T-Mobile was just trying to please all when that dumped that ROM on the unsuspecting masses. It seems to me that so many were screaming at HTC for this new WM6 ROM for so long that they may just be doing the same to keep many quite! be carefully what you wish for, you may get it! Cheers!
[HTC Excalibur] UnicornKaz:
"" ... If it ain't broke, why fixed it ?? "" :p

:D
[HTC Excalibur] jhwo99:
I keep also the RUS WM6. I think this one is better. Now more people stay at the RUS WM6 can anybody figure out to get rid of the TEST ONLY !
[HTC Excalibur] chaznet:
I flashed my TMo Dash, haven't worked with the RUS ROM. The screen doesn't look any paler than the TMo WM6, not sure what you're referring to -- but it all looks the same. As much as users don't seem to care for the T-Mobile branding, the new ugly green with the HTC ROM is worse. That green HTC bar that appears in the dial screen, etc, is pretty bad and sticks out alot more than the TMobile stuff. Even worse: the Call Status and Comm Manager screens...

Tried to duplicate the issue mentioned about not being able to speed-type to pull up a contact 'filed as' Company (Last, Firstname) -- typing in the first name brought it up for me.

The inclusion of the beta version of Yahoo Go is odd -- must've been someone who wanted to go home from work but had to find one more thing to include in the ROM. Live Search for Windows Mobile is a much nicer application. I don't use Yahoo much, maybe I'd think otherwise if I did. But beta?

Nice that selecting to create a new text message now takes me right to it -- with the TMo WM6 ROM, they created an extra step where you had to also choose whether it was MMS or SMS. Also, I like that the iconbar shows a different icon when you have a new text message as when you have a new email message -- maybe the HTC ROM has had this since release, it's not present in the TMobile WM5/6 ROMs -- they have the same icon for a new email or SMS message. Nice touch.

The Dash is zippier now -- TMobile runs a bunch of stuff in the background that slows up the device. Really like having the voice-speed-dial back. VoiceCommand turned out to be more device-slowing and frustrating to use than anything, the simpler voice-dial is much more useful (to me).

The call quality before was great, but now seems even clearer -- but as with the poster thinking the screen colors were 'pale' -- I could be wrong about that. Oddly, instead of 'T-Mobile' being displayed as the carrier on the homescreen, it now says 'Get More...' -- it's their slogan, which for some reason is now picked up on my Dash. I put my SIM card in my old SDA (iMate WM5 ROM) and powered it up -- it still shows 'T-Mobile' ....?

The auto-time and timezone setting is now maintained. With the TMo ROM, if you turned it off, it would come back on the next time you rebooted.

Finally, my Mobile Favorites sync again -- with the TMo WM5 and WM6 ROMs, they didn't. With the HTC ROM, they do. Windows Mobile Device Center, in general, is much better behaved with the HTC ROM: it connects faster, and every time, whether via bluetooth or the USB cable -- no errors, no internet connection errors, no dropped connections. I think there were to-many-cooks-in-the-kitchen with the TMo ROM, the HTC one seems much 'cleaner'...
[HTC Excalibur] SecureGSM:
Just something that I would like to ask forum about:

I have noticed that I have lost device specific icon in the Windows Mobile Centre screen. Instead of nice picture of HTC Excalibur there is now generic picture of Smartphone.

RUS ROM had no such an issue. Please correct me if I am wrong. too many phones to remember all specifics. :(
[HTC Excalibur] chaznet:
Using the just released WWE HTC WM6 ROM, I have the Dash icon with Vista Ultimate 64-bit and WMDC. It says HTC S620. Unfortunately, I also still have the T-Mobile Dash icon in 'My Computer', though it turned 'generic'. I deleted the partnership, but it remains -- right-clicking on it doesn't show an option to delete it.
[HTC Excalibur] Greg530:
* So where is VOIP in this release??

* And can anyone post a download link for voice command?

* What's this PR talk about "accessing corporate network drives and sharepoint documents"? How?
[HTC Excalibur] chaznet:
Voice Command: http://www.handango.com/PlatformPro...0&Ntt=voice command&R=199595&productId=199595
[HTC Excalibur] McHale:
Anyone else having issues getting to the XDA FTP site?
[HTC Excalibur] megaman.t:
OK, amm, i pay and i unlocked with the uk guys, the process went ok, an when i try to install the update it sitll isn't working, please help me.

----EDIT----

ok U R the masters XD.

ok for the other who had the same problem, firs unloc uith the uk guys and after that use this ftp://xda:xda@ftp.xda-developers.com/smartphones/Excalibur/RUU_Excalibur_SPL-1.11_UpgradeOnly.exe, make the update, the use the htc release.

Good look and thanks for all.
[HTC Excalibur] countfloyd:
Bleh,

I am having the same problem I did with the Tmob rom on my Dash. When I go and install programs, upon reboot, I hang on the WM6 splash screen and then it goes into reboot loop mode :mad:
[HTC Excalibur] sergiopi:
Any link for office mobile ?
[HTC Excalibur] johnnylavah:
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[HTC Excalibur] sergiopi:
Sorry, I've missed the post, thank's

This version hasn't the 2007 support, any new release?
[HTC Excalibur] lubs:
I have a Rogers S621 that I bought already running the T-Mobile WM6 ROM. I'm getting Error 244: Wrong Model ID when I try to upgrade to the HTC WM6 ROM. I tried running the SPL and get Error 260: Connection.

I thought the phone would be Caller ID unlocked because it has the T-Mobile ROM running. Why can't I flash to the new ROM?
[HTC Excalibur] user8125:
Reception

Has anyone else noticed more dropped calls and static with this rom?

originally had

Radio version 4.1.13.24_02.48.90

And now running with new rom:

Radio version 4.1.13.44_02.94.90
[HTC Excalibur] ehebel:
Quite dissapointed...

I had to CID unlock the phone. Once I made it and installed the new ROM, I realized that it was not in Spanish. I had the hope to transform this superb smartphone to my motherlanguage.

Does anyone know if there are more Rom's to come or a language pack to install?

Thanks

Esteban
[HTC Excalibur] chaznet:
Not sure who your carrier is, or where you're at. With T-Mobile here in the states, on the west coast, call quality seems even better. With the TMobile WM6 ROM, call quality was excellent -- now with the HTC WM6 version, it seems to be even better -- though I can't really 'prove' it. Definitely though, it's not worse...
[HTC Excalibur] chaznet:
Did you by any chance run Windows Live? I haven't, and have not yet run into the endless reboot nightmare. Previously, with the TMobile WM5 & 6 ROMs, I constantly experienced this -- but it didn't seem to happen until I initialized Windows Live.
[HTC Excalibur] Ice_Cube:
Hi Everyone,

First post here, so I would very much appreciate your help.

I have a S621 which I just got from Rogers today and I'm trying to upgrade to WM6. I downloaded the HTC WM6 from e-club, and that obviously didn't work because I didn't apply the SPL patch, as it gave me the invalid model error message. Now, when I am trying to run the SPL RUU to unlock the CID, it gives me error message 260, which means it can't even connect. It just goes to the bootloader, then freezes for good. This is in contrast to the WM6 RUU upgrade which actually gets to the grey screen with the bar. With the SPL it doesn't even get there. I'm running Vista, and tried both x86 and x64 systems.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

IceCube.
[HTC Excalibur] Kichigai:
I think the only Mobile Office utility with Office 2007 support is Documents To Go 3, but honestly: does it really matter that much that you HAVE to use DOCx? Outside of Office 2k7, not much else can read it (even the Mac OS X versions of MS Office, even though MS promised us a patch over half a year ago)
[HTC Excalibur] Kichigai:
T-Mo issue too

Try popping out your MicroSD card, if you have one. That's always been the cause of that problem for me.
[HTC Excalibur] Kichigai:
Problem: Vista

Vista might just be your problem, period. I've heard of more than a couple issues where the problem was Vista. Try installing Windows XP into a Virtual Machine (MS's VirtualPC for x86 is supposed to be free, and I think the QEmu project hasa Windows build too, if you wanna go FOSS), and see what the update does there.
[HTC Excalibur] Kichigai:
T-Mo WM6 -> HTC WM6? A good idea or not?

I'm considering switching from T-Mo WM6 to HTC WM6. I'm all for 22 MB of free RAM at start up (nearly a 100% improvement over 12 MB for T-Mo's ROM), but there's a couple things that concern me.

First, just how big is Office Mobile after installation? I switch between Docs to Go and Office Mobile for different reasons (OM is faster, DtG gives me more formatting options, etc.), and I'm not huge on the idea of having three document solutions on my device if they're going to chew up tons of storage.

Second, will I be stuck with that God awful baby-poo-green color scheme I see in all the pictures of the S620? Is there some way to change that?

Third, is there any major performance increase? I'll do nearly anything to increase my device's responsiveness, so if this'll do it, I'm all over it.

Fourth, do I have to do any major hacking to make it useful in the United States?

Thanks for all the help!
[HTC Excalibur] lafester:
just install office and docs to go to the sd...

homescreens are easily changed. the incall screen is a bit tougher. working on that now.

major increase? no. there is an increase though.

just switch to us english and remap the keyboard.
[HTC Excalibur] mofoliar:
anyone on the tmobile network that has the tmobile rom switched to the HTC rom? and if so, it is worth it.. i know someone ask it its work it.. but it looked like they were on the att network.. I am on the tmobile network.. i am not into my favs or tzones.. can the $5.99 hack still work with the new htc rom?
[HTC Excalibur] johnnylavah:
is it worth it? that will be determined by you.

tmobile proxy? yes, works great!
[HTC Excalibur] chaznet:
There's a lot of this info posted in the few topics here directly relating to the HTC update, read through them -- here's some initial stuff I experienced after updating my TMo Dash: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=1476645&postcount=47

Overall, I'm very pleased with the update -- hate all that green crap that remains even after you change your homescreen and color scheme. Kinda miss the alpha dial functionality of the Dash -- rarely used it, but thought it was damn slick when I did...
[HTC Excalibur] PhoenixAG:
Hi,

I am considering switching my Dopod C720W to this new HTC WM6 rom. Anyone had any experience with this? I ran the SPL Upgrader and then ran the WM6 upgrader but it gave me an error still (could not connect or something). I am running Vista and I am off to try it on my XPMCE machine.

One thing. My phone is not carrier locked. But it may be CID locked. What exactly is a CID lock? I can use it with any network.
[HTC Excalibur] chaznet:
Couldn't do the update via my Vista system, but it worked fine using my XP laptop. Not sure about your CID stuff, had to cough up $40 myself :( Have to say though, the Dash is a lot less sluggish with the HTC ROM...
[HTC Excalibur] PhoenixAG:
Well, I had to pay $40 too, to get it unlocked from imei-check.

I then ran the SPL upgrader. It gave me a Vendor ID error. After that I ran the WM6 upgrade utility and it upgraded

Gave me a scare when it stayed at the Windows Mobile screen for some time but it was just configuring itself.

Works great now and I have no problems, except for the keyboard mapping having changed a minor bit.

Btw chaz, can you please send me the homescreen you are currently using? The blue version with the weather? I am using an older one for WM5 and would love to use the WM6 version. Thanks!
[HTC Excalibur] Ice_Cube:
Thanks for your response. It does get to the grey screen with the bar when I run it on XP, but now I get error code 294 (vendor id) when I'm trying to apply the SPL RUU. Help? Please?
[HTC Excalibur] baza23:
All working now.:D
[HTC Excalibur] chaznet:
I may decide to post the homescreen at some point, I'll let you know. If I do, it'll be at the Facade forum, where you can find tons of good ones already -- including a very similar one I made (which I believe you were using at one point): http://forums.sbsh.net/index.php?showtopic=14372&hl=

Here's the color scheme if you want to paste it into whatever you're using now:

<scheme>

<color name="COLOR_WINDOW" value="#FFFFFF"/>

<color name="COLOR_WINDOWTEXT" value="#000000"/>

<color name="COLOR_STATIC" value="#FFFFFF"/>

<color name="COLOR_STATICTEXT" value="#000000"/>

<color name="COLOR_HIGHLIGHT" value="#3485ce"/>

<color name="COLOR_HIGHLIGHTTEXT" value="#FFFFFF"/>

<color name="COLOR_TEXTSELECT" value="#FFFFFF"/>

<color name="COLOR_MENU" value="#FFFFFF"/>

<color name="COLOR_MENUTEXT" value="#000000"/>

<color name="COLOR_GRAYTEXT" value="#CCCCCC"/>

<color name="COLOR_GRADLEFT" value="#FFFFFF"/>

<color name="COLOR_GRADRIGHT" value="#FFFFFF"/>

<color name="COLOR_INTGRADLEFT" value="#FFFFFF"/>

<color name="COLOR_INTGRADRIGHT" value="#FFFFFF"/>

<color name="COLOR_TRAYGRADLEFT" value="#0a4476"/>

<color name="COLOR_TRAYGRADRIGHT" value="#155D9C"/>

<color name="COLOR_HIGHGRADLEFT" value="#3485ce"/>

<color name="COLOR_HIGHGRADRIGHT" value="#3485ce"/>

<color name="COLOR_TRAYTEXT" value="#FFFFFF"/>

<color name="COLOR_WINDOWFRAME" value="#000000"/>

<color name="COLOR_BTNFACE" value="#FFFFFF"/>

<color name="COLOR_BTNTEXT" value="#000000"/>

<color name="COLOR_SCROLLBAR" value="#3485ce"/>

<color name="COLOR_HOMETEXT" value="#FFFFFF"/>

<color name="COLOR_HOMEHIGHLIGHT" value="#2092F5"/>

<color name="COLOR_HOMEHIGHLIGHTTEXT" value="#FFFFFF"/>

<color name="COLOR_HOMERULE" value="#3485ce"/>

<color name="COLOR_ALERTWINDOW" value="#FFFFFF"/>

<color name="COLOR_ALERTTITLE" value="#444444"/>

<color name="COLOR_ALERTRULE" value="#000000"/>

<color name="COLOR_TITLEFLATCENTER" value="#3485ce"/>

<color name="COLOR_SOFTKEYFLATCENTER" value="#3485ce"/>

</scheme>
[HTC Excalibur] PhoenixAG:
Frankly, I am really not very good with homescreens. If you can do me a favour, please PM me a link to the one you are using.

Or, if not,

Then can I use your old one with this new colour scheme on WM6? Will it look the same as the one you are using then?

Do you want to continue this discussion over at the SBSH forums?
[HTC Excalibur] chaznet:
There's no link to PM you -- I made the homescreen, it's not available. The one I did make available is the link in the previous post. No need to continue a discussion at SBSH.

There's tons of info on editing homescreens in a lot places including XDA, Micorosft, SBSH... pretty much any WM Smartphone related forum. From your questions, sounds like you haven't looked into it at all. Here's a couple links, the ones I used as a starting point -- have fun:

Homescreen basics: http://forums.sbsh.net/index.php?showtopic=7017

Working with color schemes: http://forums.sbsh.net/index.php?showtopic=16971
[HTC Excalibur] PhoenixAG:
Ok, thanks.

I meant if you could copy the files from your Home folder and upload it to rapidshare or some such service. I see you clearly don't want to and I respect that. Thanks for the help. I'll try and figure it out on my own.
[HTC Excalibur] vivid22:
Anybody has an idea how to get the Task manager on the right software button...i remember in the WM5, there was a point under Settings where you could virtually choose any thing u want...how does it work here? Dont want to go to the Expert Menu always to clear up the ram...
[HTC Excalibur] chaznet:
There's probably a way, but I don't know what it is. Until then, take a look at 'speed dial', I assigned a #2 to task manager.
[HTC Excalibur] UnicornKaz:
if you use it once .. it will end up on the today screen as yout MRU list( most recent used ) ... does it not ???

why have to go into "expert" evey time ?? :confused: :confused:
[HTC Excalibur] vivid22:
Alright, thats true, but doesnt really answer my question now does it...:rolleyes:
[HTC Excalibur] lafester:
as far as i know you can't remap the soft keys in the registry.

there is a program called right menu that you can use to map shortcuts to either softkey though.
[HTC Excalibur] Kichigai:
Is it possible to delete the ClearVue and Yahoo! Go files (if files within \Windows can be edited, which implies a lot of other files can be manipulated) to recoup lost space? I know that's not the orthodox way to "uninstall" programs, but having tinkered enough with UNIX systems, it's often good enough. Any idea?
[HTC Excalibur] chaznet:
I don't think you can't delete ROM files -- hide them maybe though, but they're never really gone..
[HTC Excalibur] chenga61:
SPL1.11

Could someone clarify if flashing the SPL would clear the Cid???

or Do I have t use some other service to unlock this first, then Flash the SPL, then run the ROM update????? Pls help.

Thanks very mcuh.......Chenga61;)
[HTC Excalibur] PhoenixAG:
Flashing the SPL will not clear CID. You have to get it CID unlocked first, then run the SPL flasher, then run the rom upgrade.
[HTC Excalibur] prsepulv:
Hello,

Based on my own experience (last weekend I flashed two T-Mobile Dash WM5 with differents flavors of originals WM6, I could say that RUU SPL 1.11 UpgradeOnly only unlock CID "temporary". I start with a standard Dash w/WM5, and my goal was to install WM6 Spanish version. I download it and try to install it on my SIM unlocked Dash. The flashing finished abruptly after 3% and I've got error message "Invalid Vendor ID", it means that my Dash was CID locked. After that I try flashing RUU SPL 1.1 Upgrade Only, it finished without problems. Then I tried flashing WM6 Spanish version again, this time the process finished fine and my Dash had WM6 SPA on it.

Later, I read some posts on xda-developers related to different sizes on WM6 version and I download WM6 WWE and tried to flash it on my Dash with WM6 SPA, again I've got "Invalid Vendor ID" error message. Then I flashed it again with SPL 1.1, and after that I tried WM6 WWE, this time I've got no problems. Finally I've decided goto back to WM6 SPA and I need to flash SPL 1.1 before.

My conclusion is that SPL 1.1 "temporary" CID unlock the device, but after flash a whole new WM6 version that unlock is "rewritten" and the device is CID locked again.

Regards.

Pedro.
[HTC Excalibur] jsp_m:
it was not temporally CID unlocked (grrrrr), you obviously have a CID unlocked device, SPL 1.11 enabled you to flash WM6, then you have WM6 SPL that does not enable further flashing trough vendors. Flash SPL 1.11 and flash again another WM6 as you like.

People, stop the philosophy;

1. try flash the SPL 1.11 and then WM6; if:

1.a) GO; you're fine and over

1.b) NOGO; goto step 2

2. CID unlock

3. Flash SPL 1.11 and then

4. Flash WM6

That's all there is!! Please stop with the endless clogging the forum and questions on the CID unlocking and flashing, it's really annoying!
[HTC Excalibur] lou1386:
Any idea how I can copletely remove the T9 dictionary functionality, my Win Mob 6 runs smoother and better than Win Mob5, no probs whatsoever, only this irritating t9 dictionary popping up everywhere!
[HTC Excalibur] vivid22:
Press Fn and then Space while writing a msg, there u can disable it...
[HTC Excalibur] DennisFRT:
The Problem is not all that simple. There are alot of people that have purchaced unlocked phones that are not branded to a specific carrier S621 HTC... The Rogers and Dash the CID works. Where the confusion is all the posts providing a solution to error 244 are posted by people assuming that the CID will enable the update from to a 621. The Update written checks the units version (hence the 244 error) if the phone is unlocked and is a 621 and not a 620 it will not work. Quite frankly I believe most "solution posters" may know this and are causing several people to go out and waste $40 to unlock a phone that is not locked. Additionally---CID and SIM unlocking are one in the same just a different term. Correct me if I am wrong on that.

Now the purpose of these forums is to help people out and not get all upset because one thinks its a waste of time. Perhaps if you had an issue you needed to get resolved you would post to try and find a solution as well.

Now, with that said does anyone have a solution for those with a 621 completly unlocked? I have called HTC directly and they informed me that the 620 update is for a 620 and not the 621. And that the Dash and Rogers is can either be a 621 or 620. (which would make sence as to why some people have no issue and others dont.)