[G4] Bigdad_1:
mestrini - regarding the Hard SPL thread under the HTC Wizard G4 forum...

don't know if you have number 96, yet, but that's what I got... wizard phone off ebay came from ontario, canada from another xda-developer's forum member (don't know handle, it was just mentioned...).

if you need any info, please let me know.

the HardSPL worked great! the wizard was replacement for my 'backup' phone that my boy lost. we both got new at&t tilts, he busted his lcd, i bought him a new lcd & downloaded instructions to repair off xda-developer's forum, left him 'borrow' wizard to use 'til he fixed his tilt (which he did, btw), he 'promised' to take extra special care of my 'uber master control mini-wifi-notebook multi-media center phone' the same night he went out & lost it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyways, gotta love him, he's a great kid or I wouldn't have offered it the first place. So, the 'new' wizard comes with a HTC TNT WM6.1 setup which intrigued me (was always too scared to burn new rom, and had a nice setup with WM5!). But didn't like performance at all. Read, read, read, read, and read, again... had to learn about g3 or g4, what having a g4 meant as far as options available and cautions to take, about the different roms available and their unique setups. decided on cornelha's WizFlo 2D Home 6.1.2.2 Update SP-1 ROM (Woo-fricken' Hoo, man! I say, Woo-fricken' Hoo!). Now, had everything I needed - had updated activesync from 4.2 to 4.5, read everything three times, again - copied the ROM nk.nbf file into the SoftSPL folder copied to C:\ drive and ran the executable! everything was great until my gateway laptop running the activesync shutoff before 100%!!!!!! AAAAUUUUURRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH. I got one of them monsters by gateway with a full blown 2.8ghz pentium 4 hyper-threading cpu - not a mobile version or a centrino or ... a regular p4 in a laptop! sucker seriously kicks butt! got it refurbed, like both my phones were. but, when i get all excited and carried away at the same time, like when working on my phones, well, you-know-what-i-mean, dontcha' know, now? Darn thing gets overheated to the point of an immediate shutoff. so i do the delicate dance of the seriously obsessed, balancing the performance hit taken for a modicum of security provided by monitors, optimizers and other specialized utilities. meantime, i'm doing a Homer Simpson dance of the obviously guilty over my potential brick. had to 'wait' til the laptop cooled - bout half hour. finally, hard reset on phone brought back phone and re-run of SoftSPL accomplished the masking of the phone's cid status, allowing the new setup to be burned to rom. also upgraded gsm to 2.71.11 same way. anyways, to make an already way too long story even longer...

Thanks to The-Equinoxe, for your inspired moderation and creation!

Thanks to Mestrini, who made the DOC checker so that only G4 can be flashed, and G3's can't, thus saving them from certain death! (aka, Idiot-Proof). And Thanks for making the Wizard Service Tool, as well!

Thanks to Olipro who patched the G4 SPL!

Thanks to DES and Pof, from whom The-Equinoxe apparently took the idea and even some of the scripts!

Thanks to SAA044 who beta tested all the sSPL and hard SPL versions, and lost a wizard in the process, but kept his head cool, and kept on testing with his brand new wizard, respect to you, and thanks my friend! [This is actually a 'Thanks!' from The-Equinoxe to SAA044 - I thought it important to leave it my reply because I firmly believe that, at the end of the day, if a man still has his reputation intact, he has the ability to accomplish practically anything, starting tomorrow! This compliment says worlds about who SAA044 is - and 'Thanks!' for that!]

Thanks to all I didn't mention but had an input in this project. This should especially be true of all the members who participated with reports of bugs, fixes, etc. in final fine-tuning of this awesome utility.

And one final piece of advice to all the senior members that try so very, very hard to keep their cool in the face of such daunting odds; I have noticed that the possibility of a member posting a question asking exactly how to do the procedure, how to find the file, how to find the step-by-step (with photos) instructions THAT YOU HAD JUST POSTED ABOUT!!! increases exponentially, with the size of your post and the amount of work that went into the 'fix' in question. Example: you post instructions that consists of 25 paragraphs over 17 separate steps, composed by 6 different members efforts, then 50% of all posts immediately after that post will, in increasingly, ridiculously stupid manner, ask how to do what you just posted directions how to do!!!!! Its human nature - twisted human nature, but human nature, none-the-less! I would suggest ignoring such posts, but again, I have noticed that the way it is now actually works in the forum's favor - you guys finally snap at one of these posts, responding with excrutiatingly detailed and accurate step-by-step instructions when you know for a fact that the person being replied to hasn't a shot in hades of being able to follow them! but in blowing off steam this way, you have demonstrated exactly how much the replyee doesn't know about the topic of discussion. and, these 'rants' end up being stickies, which then become first posts in major threads offering the exact information needed! you guys rock! Not really sure if you knew that about yourselves, but there ya go! Hope it doesn't cause the collapse of civilization as we kn... oh, what the hell!

Thanks!

BigDad_1