[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
XDA Mobile 6 Release 5 FINAL - Full / Lite

Happy New Year!

If you want to use XM6r5 as a base, check out the XDA Mobile 6 Release 5 Cooking Pack!

XDA Mobile 6 Release 5 (XM6r5 for short) is the fifth version (and most likely my last since I now have a Tilt/Kaiser phone) of the popular XM6 rom series for the Wizard. This ROM brings back the stability of XM6r3. There is a Full and Lite version. Also I'm releasing a cooking pack so you can build your own version of XM6r5.

XM6r5 is built on the OS 5.2.318 Build 15342.4.0.01 rom that was provided to us by InGeNeTiCs from Howard Forums. While this is not the "newest" release of WM6, it is the last known release that was built for the Wizard (ie: its not a port from another HTC Device). Various pieces of the base rom have been upgraded, so some of it is stuff ported from other phones so that it can have newer functionality. Overall, I feel this base is very stable and fast and makes a great base to cook on.

Please Note: this ROM was NOT intended to push the limits on speed optimization or memory optimization. It was made to be functional, stable, and something that I myself wanted and will use. If you have a Battery Drain issue, make sure you flash back to an official rom before you upgrade to this one, as that should correct extended rom corruption that has been shown to cause battery draining. If you want to overclock or use other features of BatteryStatus, you can download and install the latest version of BatteryStatus. I used it when I had my Wizard, and had OMAP set to 247MHz with CPUscalar set from 143 to 247 and Boost set to 260Mhz.

Base ROM Information

The base rom was an "Official" Wizard WM6 ROM that was part of the development cycle of WM6 inside of Microsoft (Dogfood as they call it). The base rom was not a port of another device rom with drivers and stuff pieced and parted onto this one, but this was an actual Wizard WM6.

Windows Mobile 6, OS 5.2.318 Build 15342.4.0.01

ROM Version: 10.1.0.811 WWE

ROM Date: 08/11/06

Protocol: 4.1.13.09

PagePool: 6MB

There is no Radio, IPL, SPL or Extended ROM included in this (so its G4 "safe").

What's In XDA Mobile 6 Release 5?

Bolded items are new / upgraded from XM6r4

Lite and Full

.NET CF 3.5

Aserg's Touch Scroll Only

HTC TOUCH Dialer with enhanced keypad numbers by peu

HTC Voice Recorder

PPC Contacts Manager

Internet Sharing via BlueTooth DUN (like WM5); WM6 Internet Sharing is still there, the BT DUN is in addition to that!

Office 2007

9 Button "Touch" Style CommManager from the Kaiser

VoIP (See next post for instructions to set this up)

SQLCE

Arcsoft Composer 4.2.8.1 (SMS and MMS are split apart and not merged) The bug in r4 has been corrected in r5

Notepad editor

Pocket RAR

SIP Config

Total Commander Beta 2.5 Beta 3

PIM Backup to 2.5

Oxios Memory

Windows Live Search searches via Google

SIM Manager

dotFred TaskManager (with registry editor link setup and associations built in for .reg files)

delayedexec.exe is in \Windows but is not configured. See this post for details on using this.

Mortscript 4.1

PeekPocket 1.5

MoDaCo NoData (so you can turn off data sources)

Camera 3

Full version also contains:

WkTask 1.1.7.3b (Latest Version)

HButton (Enable multiple apps on hardware buttons)

HTC Action

WMP Touch style skin

QuickMenu

MortPlayer

Schap's Advanced Configuration Tool v1.1 and VoIP Setup Tool

SK tsync (Time Synchronization)

Esmertec Java Manager (replaces the standard Midlet Manager)

WM5torage 1.78Beta4

WinXplore 0.4

Blue / Gray Onscreen Keyboard

20 Onscreen Keyboard skins that you can choose to use!

Mobile Justice (a security app that will send an SMS if an unauthorized SIM is placed in your phone)

StartClean

PocketScreen (Screen Capture tool)

1-Calc Lite

Smartskey 0.60 (DPAD is set to 0 in the .ini so the up and down scrolling works in the Phone dialer as expected in WM6)

DotFred's SoftKeyAppletEx

WM5NewMenu

BT Crawler

Call2Contact

Freecell (a Solitaire card game)

Tetris - game

The following items that were in XM6r4 have been removed in XM6r5

REMOVED: FingerFriendlyFriends This is now a commercial product

REMOVED: TodayAgenda 1.0 Due to a bug in r4 - Install via cab and the bug doesn't happen.

REMOVED: Adobe Reader LE

REMOVED: Battery Gauge - WkTask now does this

REMOVED: SuperDoku v1.1 - Install via cab now

Mods made in XM6r5 (Lite and Full versions)

In addition to the apps listed above, the following fixes and mods were made to improve the user experience on XM6r5

Using press and hold on CommManager button toggles vibrate on and off, and phone does NOT stay stuck in vibrate / no ring mode

Regional Settings default to English (United States) and use a slash for the date seperator (M/dd/yyyy)

Menu sounds work by default

Pressing the "End Call" button does not disconnect GPRS but minimized the active application. Pressing and holding the "End Call" button for about 5 seconds will do a GPRS Disconnect

Internet access over ActiveSync (USB) connection works (You must apply a registry fix on your PC first. See the next post for the fix)

D pad now works differently with PIE. Up and down presses on the D Pad stay the same, but pressing right jumps forward a page and pressing left jumps backwards a page. Makes going through websites easier (IMO).

Fixed the A2DP registry for sampling

Registry Entries for PIE Connections to speed page loading

Registry Entries to increase In Call Volume

Press Button 1 for messaging (like normal) or hold it a little longer and HTC Action will come up (via HButton)

WkTask setup to not show Phone and Activesync as running apps in task bar

QuickMenu enabled for nice drop down and cascading start menu

Touch Scroll only is active so use your finger to scroll in most places

Button 4 starts the WkTask Launcher by default. Press and hold Button 4 to start Voice Recorder app

ROM now remembers new words in custom dictionary

Fixes found in XM6r5 RC1 have also been implemented in this Final version.