[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] dcline:
The First day of Life, Death, and Resurrection of my Tilt

The following may be a complete waste of your time, but might offer some insight to someone else who has the same issues I had.

I had to get a new rom on my Tilt when it came in. I scoured the XDA forums, finally selecting the super all in one rom Alex put up most recently. Found the Wiki on how to do everything, just like I did with my 8525. I'm like, "Ah, this is gonna be simple, just like my old phone with the scratch on it so I can't press the number zero."

I get kaiser-HardSPLv1 running following all the instructions, and what do I get? white screen. hmm. Wonder why its not switching to the red green n blue...

I start looking through the forums and finally find there is an answer to this problem. JumpSPL1.56-KAIS.zip

Just another White Screen... grrr....JumpSPL1.93-KAIS.zip.... SAME THING!!! There wasn't anything about if this didn't work...

I start scouring the forums again, taking searching to a new extreme, only to find KaiserUnlocker.exe.

Ok, this must be it, let's see if it does the trick. Start following the instructions. Got an active sync, decent battery, start it up.

Flash hard spl..... It's working!

Flash radio.... It worked too!!

ok, the phone reboots, shows the nice boot screen, AT&T animation screen comes up, and I'm like "Great, now I can get rid of that animation..." until, uhoh,

Black screen.... ok, reboot it, animation...black screen

What the hell... start searching again..... nothing.....grrr... search google, search using the xda search, search using another pc, nothing....

Then it dawns on me, I heard it sync. I check, and I can see the files on the Tilt. I go and find mymobiler, install it. Run it and get a remote connection to the PDA. Everything is on the remote screen that isnt displaying on the unit...

Ok, Finish the unlock procedures that I couldn't see before. Easy enough. I think I did it right. Reboot the phone again... still goes to a black screen... ok, put the sim card back in, not sure why I had to take it out... still a black screen after the reboot...

Ok, at this point I'm thinking, how am I going to explain this to AT&T and get me another phone? One last try, just try and install the new rom. Alex's rom. I run the included exe, it actually looks like its working... but it is taking a while.... ok, go smoke.

I come back in, and its still updating... ok, it said 10 minutes. It's never taken that long so far, but hey, maybe. It's still actually updating. It goes to 100%. Great! The phone reboots, and I see the same AT&T screen, and I'm thinking, nope... it didn't work. Crap! then I see the radio has changed, for the second time.... maybe?? same animation screen.... probably not. I start searching the web to hopefully find someone else with the same black screen, and I hear tones in the background. I look over, and my Tilt is back with the "tap the screen to set stuff on it"! Yes!! no more worries. Now it's just too damned late for me to call anyone to see if it's working, wish I had a landline... lol

Thanks to all who put all the wonderful unlock, update, and add the kitchen sink to your phone stuff together, especially Olipro, Alex, and pof...well, maybe not pof... (just kidding!!)