yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HTC Excalibur] gr33k:
Work in Progress

Agreed - Like I said I can't hate on progress - if anything it's a GOOD thing. I'm just wondering is all - You're also correct that these betas kick the @$$ of any of the final version released by HTC and definitely by T-Mobile...

Anyone used the "official" T-Mobile 6.0 upgrade (from 5.0)? - If you did you'd notice how slow, unstable, and the lack of memory available (due to a memory leak) it was compared to this one

These roms are the best performers of any that I've ever used by far! I'm always happy to upgrade for a major revision, but minor revisions should be (in my opinion) held back until enough changes have been made to "justify" a new version. Updating the version is great for those who are just flashing for the first time, thus should continue - but we're nearly at 1 a day - do we really need that many?

So far I've reflashed my phone about 7+ times in the past month - I MUST admit though - At least the flashing process is a piece of cake if you follow the simple instructions!

(Not talking trash - it's a reasonable question, so nobody flame on me please :o )
[HTC Excalibur] ItsDon:
They are all different versions with different features, pick what you want and roll with it. I am happily running V5 which for me is the sweet spot. I tried V15 but it seemed to be too bloated with stuff I'll never use. V5 is stable and the only tweak it needs is the ET9 update, I can add anything else I want to it later.

WM6.1 on my Dash is simply incredible!
[HTC Excalibur] Se7eN43:
a true final version will be when the official 6.1 rom is released and the rom is extracted and cleaned up. ive flashed many times the past month and now only takes me less than an hour to fully setup my phone. dont bother to flash if u dont think what is added in a new rom will be useful.
[HTC Excalibur] gr33k:
ItsDon

@ ItsDon

have you noticed that there are newer version of the ROM in the newer releases? v4 and v5 worked great for me...but I'm mainly concerned about getting that most refined (and hopefully stable) ROM image. The apps are just a bonus, and can be added on to practically any 6.1 rom I'd think.
[HTC Excalibur] ItsDon:
No, I didn't notice that. What's different on the newer ROMS? My phone is rock solid (never crashes) and with Omapclock set to 240 is speedy as well. Since nothing is broken what would the new ROM 'fix'?
[HTC Excalibur] gr33k:
Not quite sure exactly

Newer version probably have bug fixes in them (what exactly? You'd have to check the changelog if you can find one for it).

This latest one 080408 I believe introduced a new BlueTooth Stack "driver"...They are like any beta OS/application - Refine any bugs, and issues - Sometimes a bug may never actually affect you if you don't access the problematic program on your device, or a program that depends on that buggy app/dll/etc...

Ricky's been adding new apps and stuff like that, but has up till now released roms with 3 different versions...if I'm not mistaken - one of them might have even included a Radio upgrade.

Ultimately - if you're happy with what you have - newer versions don't have a feature that you care fore...then:

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

:D
[HTC Excalibur] Poser:
What is "Clinks" panel for?
[HTC Excalibur] Poser:
Ok... I am sure that there is a more elegant solution, but I found a way to remove unwanted panels from chome. For me, simply removing them from my slidebrown(2).xml was not getting it done.

So I simply editted the names of the panels in my registry (in my case renaming Cphotos and Cmusic to Cphotos0 and Cmusic0 respectively). I figure, if I ever want to utilize these panels, I can simply remove the 0 from the key names .... and voila, back in business.

Just remember, this must be done in both HKLM\Software and HKLM\Security

...
[HTC Excalibur] Svoms:
Links to websites from your homescreen
[HTC Excalibur] cjs28:
I was wondering if we have looked into displaying weather on the homescreen. I miss that not having it on my new homescreen.
[HTC Excalibur] Poser:
you know what... I knew that, I suck:D
[HTC Excalibur] Svoms:
hey man dont worry bout it:)
[HTC Excalibur] gr33k:
Weather Updates

Now THAT is something that would definitely make me upgrade ;) Links on the homescreen is not something i personally want, but I'm sure other people find it useful :)
[HTC Excalibur] ItsDon:
V5 is rock solid. I don't use any obscure programs but I do use Opera Mini 4, Slingbox Mobile, Palringo IM, Google Maps etc. and not one of them has caused an issue. I'm sure the later builds are better but I agree with you, if it ain't broke.... ;)
[HTC Excalibur] SDJB:
ROM problem Help

Every time I try to upgrade to this new Rom and after running Auto.bat I get an error saying that "Windows can not find the ROMupdateUtility.exe"... What am I doing wrong?

Help...Thnx'

SDJB
[HTC Excalibur] karimartine:
Are you running the update from the Zip file, if yes, try to extract everything first to your hard then run the update.
[HTC Excalibur] Shining Light:
There seem to be a prob with the Data button can't be selected to turn it on, it does this a lot.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=384026

Another prob is that, the Wifi can only remember one router that have the same name. Let say you are at work and there is one called belkin54g that needs a key then you put in that key, and there is one at home that don't need a key. It won't log on for the one at home until you check "the key is provided automatically" but then that will lose the key for the one at work. This can be a real pain when the key is very long.
[HTC Excalibur] niko5:
Not sure where to put this and I dont particuraly want to make a new thread because tis probly an easy fix :)

On the sliding panels media under "my pictures" how can you get that to look onto the storage card for your pictures?

I have the camera to store on the storage card and all ove my other pics go there but from the home screen it appears like it only looks on the device storage "my pictures" folder.
[HTC Excalibur] skisteven1:
Has anyone had an issue making calls? Last night for the first time I experienced some problems. I would make a call, and while it was "dialing", I would hear echos. Anything I said into the microphone came back to me through the speaker, and there was nobody on the other end. It would "connect", but I would never hear the preson on the other end. They reported getting a phone call from me for one ring, and then nothing.

I am currently using v5. Has anyone seen something similar to this? or is this something I should just ignore and hope it doesn't happen again? :-)
[HTC Excalibur] rchamberlin:
You can also add a DWORD key called "Disabled" and set it to 1 and it'll do the same thing. A few of the panels already have the key so you just need to set it to 1. I only had to do this in HKLM\Software for it to work.
[HTC Excalibur] Profezza:
Change the name of the one at home, if possible.
[HTC Excalibur] oldcotton:
Thanks OP for the hard work!

A quick question: My phone is a T-Mobile (USA) Dash. After updated to OP's v13 ROM, some symbols such as @ $ etc. can not be entered by using the qwerty. Every time when I try to input @, the one come out is £. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
[HTC Excalibur] rchamberlin:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=378608&page=42#post2074418
[HTC Excalibur] ItsDon:
Has anyone had any problems with the clock losing time? Just yesterday my phone started displaying the wrong time, I woke up this morning and it was off by 2 hours. This is the first problem I've had with V5, I don't think I've changed (added or deleted) anything on it recently.
[HTC Excalibur] oldcotton:
Thank you very much for the lightning response. People in this forum are really friendly and helpful! Hat off to you guys! :)
[HTC Excalibur] :
hey ricky... how about a 080408 version of the vanilla rom? that would be very cool since there seems to actually have been some rom updates to 080408 vs. just the program tweaking and such.
[HTC Excalibur] killswitch:
Happens to me sometimes too :confused:
[HTC Excalibur] gottifour:
I think that happens on all windows mobile devices at some point. It has happened to me on several phones running several different roms and windows versions..
[HTC Excalibur] freyes01:
It's very bad to see that people are using software that we developed for the Shadow: Photo Dialer, CHome Menu, etc... using all the icons that we moded with Photoshop, even the same URL for Action Keys... and nobody gives credit for it.

The Photo dialer instructions were taken from my website....

I don't mind sharing software with people (that is why I put together a site for it) but some credit would be appreciated.

Everytime I use an idea from someone (e.g. Dialer using vjay dialer, cyberbuddha's/ShadowMike interface tweaks, Rinku's iconbar) at least I mention that people in the description of the software.
[HTC Excalibur] rickwyatt:
sorry if i didt give credit for this but i just used your pics then i whent here http://www.vijay555.com/?Releases:VJPhoneTools
[HTC Excalibur] freyes01:
...and the file structure (Dial_Contact1xxx.lnk files), naming, content (34#"\Storage Card\Program Files\Shadow Photo Dialer\VJDialer.exe" +1-555-555-1234), etc....

but it's ok. I'm glad that you guys can use it in wm6.1

No hard feelings.
[HTC Excalibur] rickwyatt:
ok sorry again
[HTC Excalibur] rickwyatt:
later on ill be posting my final

:mad:later on ill be posting my final rom its my final rom because im feed up with people always moaning about my work i spend so much time making these roms for eveyone there
[HTC Excalibur] freyes01:
No problem.

BTW you are doing a great job with those roms.....!

My wife has my old Dash I will try to install it on it.
[HTC Excalibur] ItsDon:
Can't really blame you, I've seen some of the posts you are talking about. I for one would like to profusely thank you for all you've done. I love my Dash now and it's all because of the work you, Kavana and a bunch of others here have put in for our benefit.

Thanks again and God Bless.
[HTC Excalibur] lovemy65stang:
I don't blame you Ricky, but I just wanted you to know that I appreciate all your hard work. I've been watching your ROM progress since v7 and have used ALL of your ROM's since v11 ( I'm kind of a newb, so it was tough for me getting started :) ). I'd try to continue your work, but I just don't have your intelligence. I personally will SORELY miss keeping tabs on your work. Today is a sad day...
[HTC Excalibur] adaway:
THANKS YOU! For spending your time on this rom :)

I've updated my HTC s620, and it's running fine. I love WM 6.1 :D

My little experience about rom flashing:

I was a little afraid because I'm using Windows XP x64 SP2 + ActiveSync 4.5.

I was having some activesync connection/disconnection problems (meaning: I connect the phone, and activesync see it, I disconnect the phone, and activesync don't notice that, I reconnect the phone, and I need to terminate and restart all activesync process to connect my phone again)

All these connection problems disappeared after a good "clear storage" procedure did before the rom flashing.

And the rom flashing went without any problems, Eureka! :cool:

Now I only need to fix some keyboard mapping problem (I bought my phone in Italy)

Thanks you for making this rom :-)

And finally, some useful software I use on my Phone:

*) Xnview Smartphone 1.10 - a REAL image viewer

*) Keep Recordin' v1.0 - audio recorder

*) SCalc10SP2101 - scientific calculator

*) SmartSS - screen capture

*) Total Commander 2.5 beta3 - file manager

*) MobileRegistryEditor 1.1 - Use your computer to remote-edit Windows Mobile phone registry
[HTC Excalibur] rickwyatt:
use this to kill activesync
[HTC Excalibur] waltcoleman:
I'm new to these forums...came across the site about a week ago when looking for upgrades for my Dash running WM5.

I've installed Ricky's 6.1 ROM, resolved a few minor issues thru some research here, and have configured my Dash as I like. I absolutely LOVE what you've done for so many of us Dash/Excalibur users. I know there's a handful of those who will always complain, but for what it's worth, I think you've done an OUTSTANDING job and your hard work is GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Thanks a million...
[HTC Excalibur] adaway:
[removed my duplicated message]
[HTC Excalibur] gr33k:
Ricky

Why are you letting the b1tching and moaning get to you? Screw those who aren't appreciative and don't offer help for them ;)

You're ROM is the only home cooked rom I've ever used and so far - It's by far the best I've ever seen or used! It's sad to see your project go :(

Thank you very much for your time and efforts, and I hope to see more great software from you in the future :)

(BTW - The majority of the world is full of unappreciative @55holes - ya can't let them get to you!)
[HTC Excalibur] adaway:
Cool! Thank you! :)
[HTC Excalibur] skaroger867:
its a sad day :(...i really appreciate the work youve done on these roms, brought new life to my and my friends dash. hope you keep working on new features and let us know about them lol
[HTC Excalibur] AbsoluteDesignz:
yea man, I've appreciated your work since I first caught wind of it when v3 was the most current. But leave it to a few bad apples to spoil the whole bunch. I hope you get back at it when the official ROMs come out later on in the year. Your work is much appreciated on my end.
[HTC Excalibur] gottifour:
Hey ricky!

Thanks for all the roms and also all of the help getting them to run. Most people on most forums do not appreciate the hard work people like you do to help them out. They have come to expect it for some reason. I say phuck them all!! You should keep working on you projects and post screen shots of them with no downloads. See how they like that....Thanks again....d
[HTC Excalibur] ed02:
Hey rickwyatt, its sad that you are planning on doing your last rom, just like the few last post I wanted to thank you for doing all that work and sharing it with all of us, I got my dash from my friend for free and its been the best phone ever even my friend that i got my dash from after he seen that i went from wm5 to the roms you guys cooked he wanted his phone back. well lets hope you change your mind and keep up the great work on the Dash.
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
Thanks Ricky and too all the rest of the creators for all their hard work :)
[HTC Excalibur] AbsoluteDesignz:
lol that would be cruel.
[HTC Excalibur] rchamberlin:
I said it before about 20 pages back and I'll say it again:

THANK YOU

The work you've done has inspired me (and I'm sure others) to learn more about how these things are done, and I really hope you don't let a few ungrateful people stop you from doing something you're REALLY good at.
[HTC Excalibur] leo_excalibur:
dont gooooo boy

RICKY !!! Hey man.. TX for all roms.. tx for everything.. dont let small mind put u down my man.. 99,9% here loves ur job.. keep ur hard work.. we need u.. and we´re wainting for the CHome based on shadows.. stay rock dude.. always.. and txs again;)
[HTC Excalibur] taylor_b92:
Yeah man he's rightpit up and "F" the haters, man. Before I found 6.1 I hated my Dash and was looking for the first opportunity to replace it. Now I think I'll keep it a little longer to see what more can be done with it. Thanks, guy.
[HTC Excalibur] Se7eN43:
hey rick.. appreciate all the time u spent in the kitchen. i had felt this was gonna happen soon. now that this whole 6.1 rom project is pretty much finalized, i think more should be focused on getting other device homescreen plugins to function with the dash/s620. anyway... take a break from all this and go smoke u some good ol' sticky icky jane. haha... lookin forward to ur future mods and creations. thanks for everything
[HTC Excalibur] Poser:
That is indeed a more elegant solution:D

thanks
[HTC Excalibur] Poser:
Regardless of what you choose to do... thanks for all the hard work, time and great releases.

You are the single reason I still own and use on a daily basis my dash

Thanks again, Rick... you're the tops!
[HTC Excalibur] Shining Light:
Hope you are considering getting these two problems solved on your future releases.

PS When is the link for v17 coming out? :)
[HTC Excalibur] rickwyatt:
new rom v17 ready for download

My v17 Rom Is ready To Download now

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Whats changed in this Version?

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1) Fixed spelling in clinks form goolge to google

2) Added some pages to clinks now has 10 pages

3) Fixed icons next to clinks,cmyapplication,cphotodialer

Is this my final?

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;) This is not my final rom thanks for all your nice comments

i just had the hump:D

Remember to read the hole of my font page!!!!

here some icons for you lot but i didt make them

heres the link http://rapidshare.com/files/106537381/PNG.zip
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[HTC Excalibur] goraps:
Hey Rick

I just wanted to say I really appreciate the work that Kavana and yourself put into these ROMs. I am using v.5 of your ROM and I love it. I hope that any negative feedback you get doesn't discourage you from continuing your great work. Just remember that it is only those with something to complain about that are likely to post something. For each of those people there are 10's or 100's of users like myself who are completely satisfied and thus don't feel the need to really post anything.

So this is just my post to say thanks. No Complaints Here!
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
hey ricky can you upload clinks only in your files?
[HTC Excalibur] rickwyatt:
what you mean mikey?
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
Can you upload just the clinks files (to update them) not to reinstall the whole rom) for the extra 5 pages. Cause i already have clink installed
[HTC Excalibur] Poser:
very cool little app... thanks
[HTC Excalibur] Svoms:
seriously thank you for everything! My phone kicks ass now because of you! Keep up the hard work! cause I know I could never do any of this!
[HTC Excalibur] rickwyatt:
hrere you go mikey1022
[HTC Excalibur] Mikey:
Thank you

1 more question....can we change it from using IE opening the links? to let say Opera Mobile. :)
[HTC Excalibur] vwgtiron:
THANK YOU

I cannot thank you enough Ricky for the work that you have done on the ROMS. Between you, technology and Mikey 1022, NRGZ and KAVANA of course, You have all made me a happy camper with my dash. I take great pride in showing my friends the "NEW DASH" that T-Mobile just released. Its funny when they go to the mall -come back and say oh the tmobile guy said that they don't carry the new version yet at this store. Then they wanted to know how I got mine. LOL. Little do they know that I have uploaded a new ROM. I told them that I did an RMA to TMOBILE and now they have been calling customer service trying to RMA their dashes for a V2 model. Oh the humanity, HAHA suckers. Will I share this website, not till 6.1 Rom comes out from Tmobile. HA HA
[HTC Excalibur] Shining Light:
I 2nd that. Opera Mini is a lot better than IE.;)

Tweaking it to perfection, thanks Rick.
[HTC Excalibur] superminipoo:
THANK YOU SO MUCH. i been trying to find some.

YOU'RE AWESOME

YOUR ROMS AWESOME

AWESOME-NESS!!!!!!!!
[HTC Excalibur] killswitch:
Well I'd like to say thanks again for all your time and hard work. It has indeed given my dash which I was looking to trash new life and without your roms I would've wasted another 300 or so bucks on a new smartphone which thanks to you I no longer need. Everyone should know this is a beta release and bugs here and there are expected I haven't encounter any major issues that made me say "I need to switch back!". But again thank you very much you've been an marvelous asset to the community and we do hope u take a break and reconsider. :)
[HTC Excalibur] :
i'd still love to see ss's of that photo dialer thing in action.

i've already contributed to the love but will do so again as i know what it's like to have to deal with forum haters.

thanks ricky! great stuff you do. looking forward to that 08 version of the vanilla rom whenever you're able to cook that one up... in the mean time, well done with all these custom and updated versions!!!
[HTC Excalibur] skaroger867:
glad to hear its not your final rom.

also thanks for the icons, i was about to make some of thoes lol.
[HTC Excalibur] gr33k:
Opera and PNG's

Glad to hear the roms will continue! :) You rock Ricky

I wanted to also say that Opera kicks IE's arse in the smartphone browser department...i think Opera is the best browser for our mobiles - it's fast has, zooming capabilities, and also multiple windows! IE - just finally got zoom feature, slow, and sluggish (like Vista...sheesh)

If any other people would like to contribute sweet PNG files those would be greatly appreciated!

PNG files for Windows Live! Search, Total Commander, Google Maps, OZ instant messenger, Skype, and Opera are my personal requests - I'm sure other peepz use those applications too :)

That's again everyone!
[HTC Excalibur] Poser:
Opera and icons

Peoples:

for those of you seeking to use clinks with opera I would advise checking out Truggles "complete opera solution thread. It will provide you with the steps to make opera your "default" browser.

(I am not sure that this alone will solve the issue, as I have not toyed with clinks yet... however, I think that this plus a registry tweak will get you where you need to be)

I will check out clinks later and see what details need to be changed if any, to fully utilize Rick's clinks and truggles complete opera solution.

As far as an opera .png, there are a couple of nice ones in this thread, just search:D

EDIT: After taking a look at the reg entries for Clinks, I think the only change that needs to be made after the opera solution is installed... is to change "MSPIE" in the ActionURL and SK2URL to reflect the Opera excutable or shortcut (.lnk). If I have time later I will experiment.
[HTC Excalibur] gr33k:
Opera and PNG's

Thanks for the reply :) I've seen the Opera PNG's and they're pretty good, though I'd like to see if anyone else has some different ones (i'm pretty picky about that stuff :D )

I'm not quite sure about the Clinks personally as I haven't used them yet - BUT, I use Opera Mobile 8.65 - That gives me the option to set Opera as my default browser - Also...just to clarify - the version i am using is NOT the java one. This came in a nicely packaged .CAB file and is working awesome.

Oh, and it's also not a free app for those wondering...

PNG's - keep em coming! Transparent ones are the best (what's that mean? Example: the "O" in opera is just the letter 'O' without a background color or anything...so if you were to have it on a black desktop...the middle of the "o" would show black and the surrounding edges of "o" wouldn't have a white border or anything else that would make it look weird)
[HTC Excalibur] Menza:
MRU Programs List

Is there a way to add the MRU program icon bar and/or a launch bar to the sliding home screen?
[HTC Excalibur] SDJB:
ERROR 240

Thnx' for trying to help... I still CAN'T run the latest ROM.

I have copied all the files from the zip to my pc hard drive and it seem to work for the first steps but after running the RomUpdateUtility it is giving me an ERROR240... What is that? Anyone plz'

Thnx'

SDJB
[HTC Excalibur] ItsDon:
Same problem I had. Your screen is not turning "nearly white", is it? I couldn't get the later versions to install because the phone was not being unlocked properly first. V5 of Ricky's has a working unlock. Use that first (just until the unlock is successful, not the whole install) then abort. At that point you should be able to start any other ROM update you want.
[HTC Excalibur] rickwyatt:
use sda unlocker