[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] quicksite:
Hello, I have read many threads here over past month re various ROMS people here have developed to upgrade various mobile devices. I have the MDA from T-Mobile (HTC wizard). As all of you know, t-mobile would not support this device for windows6. But I read the various pinned threads re: step by step instructions for how a user would prep his phone then flash rom. Despite the clarity of the steps, I am not at all confident I can handle this stuff.

Newbies make many mistakes at specialized forums like this one, and one of them may be what I am asking: But, is there a place on this forum where one can engage an XDA pro to do the flash rom upgrade and install a few upgrade apps like slide2unlock?

If so, please point me to the correct place. If this is not officially supported here, then if someone can do this, could you PM me?

I would like to ask publically, in the event this kind of service is allowed here, what is a fair & reasonable price for doing this?

Also, I understand the risks -- and though it has become very unlikely, i understand it is possible that a flash rom procedure could brick my phone. Thus, I am just guessing that anyone who would undertake the task of doing this for me would have me first sign a release form which states that I understand the risks and that I accept that should there be a glitch which ends up bricking my phone, I am 100% liable for that risk, and that the person performing the upgrade work would be in no way liable for any malfunctions that would arise.

I am at the point where I would accept losing the value of my phone -- with the high probablility that the upgrade would work just fine, thus improving my productivity and capabilities in using my phone.

For example, I just installed skype for PocketPC on my phone, and it works. A year ago I had tried this and it didn't. So I know that though my processor and ram are fixed and are inherent limitations, but that with the new OS (wM 6) plus other mods, the overall performance capability of the phone is increased by large measure.

It's funny but I tried a friend's iphone the other day and he, without prompting, asked me to type an email. I did, using the multi-touch keyboard. Still, with its recognition capabiities, I made errors every 3rd or 4th letter entered. Conversely, when I use the stylus on my MDA, I have much better success. Sure, training would improve -- maybe -- but I for one don;t accept the basic premise that the stylus is inferior, and that finger touch is the only way to go. When it comes to scrolling, absolutely the finger brushing seems 100 times better than any stylus. But I guess my point is, I think there is still quite a bit of good life remianing in my MDA.

And I absolutely use the handwriting note taker everyday... and would want to retain the abilityt to use the "transcriber" app on windows, because i find it pretty reliable to me, with the only downside being the non-smart Windows OS that fails to auto-toggle to KEYBOARD whenever i have to enter a user name or password, thus requiring manual switch to keyboard, then back again to transcriber.

Sorry for the length. I'm been delaying for months getting this addressed, and so I wnated to just ask: can someone do this for me? If so, how much will it cost? And what would be the shipping & payment arrangements.

Thank you much,

Richard in SF