yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] zocster:
I guess it is best practice still to have installed a shipped rom first, then flashing it? hey what do I know, I have only had my jasjam for a month:p and not experiencing some of the problems that you guys are experiencing?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] raburton:
So it was like this for you before, but not anymore? What did you do different, or did it resolve on moving to CRC?

I can try putting an original Orange rom on tomorrow then reflashing CRC, but I did have an Orange rom on originally so I don't know if that's likely to fix it. Are there actually any hardware settings that would be set by an original rom, that would remain after reflashing anyway?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] zocster:
I seem to like flashing with att rom with 1.54.07 radio first then downgrade my radio to 1.43.00.00 then crc .. att seem to be the most solid base, as i tried others and don't seem to be as stable? dunno why.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jws3:
I remeber from earlier ROMS installations that SetAcousticParam takes a rather long time to run. There was a caution not to do anything with the device, even if it looked like the installation had stopped.

I did a quick Google search on SetAcousticParam and found the following link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=319382. Look at Post #5 by Faria.

I looked at my Windows directory and everything that Faria refers to is there; including the SetAcousticParam shortcut. I am thinking about testing his procedure. The worst that will happen is that I'll screw-up something and have to reflash.

I checked my Startup folder and it had a SetAcousticParam shortcut. I checked the shortcut properties and it should be executing SetAcousticParam.exe /run on startup.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] washi:
excel crashes

can someone plz retake my steps and confirm or not that excel crashes on every device or only on mine.

im still running 10.8 since there weren't any great changes.

1. start excel and start a new document

2. enter some numbers in one field

3. menu->format->cells

check the font tab here plz. mine is always empty and i have to set a font.

and the font size is set to 29+ always

4. tap ok - here excel crashes and the document is not saved
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] tj924:
Just confirmed it crashes for me as well. Font is initially blank but when I set it the size defaults to 0.75!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] zocster:
This is weird, as i transferred a xls file from PC to the PDA and works fine even edited fine. I guess you're not meant to start up something new and edit new things on PDA
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jws3:
Just tried it. Opened a new spreadsheet and entered a number in cell A1. Font shown: Tahoma. Font Size: 10. Tapped ok. No problems. Exited Excel normally.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] washi:
i will install crc 11.0 now and try again.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] washi:
fresh install of crc 11.0.

created new excel file. i cannot format any cells without a crash.

but i can confirm that formating cells in an existing excel file works fine.

strange
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] zocster:
As my comment above, editing existing file is fine, just not creating and editing new one.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] washi:
i found a workaround.

download the official upgrade from the microsoft windows mobile website.

after that i can create new files and edit them.

the old file i created with the excel from crc 11.0 is still crashing the program.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] zocster:
Got a link please? too lazy to look :p
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jws3:
The official 6.1 upgrade is an older version than what is installed in CRC V11. When you ran the upgrade MSI file, you should have received a warning that the version on the device is newer than the version you are trying to install. You would have had to unistall the current version before installing the official upgrade version. If you created a corrupt file with the installed version, it probably will crash the new program.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] washi:
used the file from here and got no warning.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] quarlow:
I don't mean the today screen live search. I mean the application that lets you search businesses, movie times, traffic, maps, and directions. Its not a big deal that the wm6 and wm5 versions don't work, the 2003 version is smaller and is only missing weather and gas prices, I didn't use either of those. I just wanted to report the bug.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] thedogger:
I'm having a strange issue with ringer volume going muted spontaneously. It only happens after setting the phone to vibrate, then setting it back to normal ringer volume. A few minutes later, if a call comes in, the ringer and system volume goes to off. I've had this on other WM6.1 ROMS from time to time. This started a few days after installing the ROM - anyone else seeing this?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] raburton:
Well, I tried going to this AT&T rom, but it had the same engaged tone problem.

So I went to downgrade my radio back to 1.47.30.10, but there was a 30 minute wait on rapidshare for the download link from the wiki, so I tried downloading the copy from CRCs page. This version of 1.47.30.10 (which has a different CRC to the one on rapidshare) failed to flash and looked like it had bricked it. I was a bit concerned for a while as the phone sat at the bootloader and I tried to reflash the same radio to no avail.

In the end I tried to reflash r11, and that worked and it was able to boot again. So it appeared the radio rom had wiped out my OS. By the time I'd finished with all this I was able to able to download from rapidshare again and grabbed the other radio package and that worked fine.

Anyway, all back to normal, inc. unfortunately the engaged tone problem.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] zocster:
Hmm what model is your hermes? Didn't think you mentioned any of that sorry if you did.

The radio on my signature opens up a lot more radios. Sounds like you do need to grab the stuff from WIKI or even older win 5 for it. I honestly don't experience that!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] raburton:
It's a Herm100, Orange (UK) SPV M3100. Not sure what else to say about it, have I missed anything?

I suspect it's not a radio issue anyway. I only had to mess about with that because the AT&T rom you recommended included one, and I only mentioned it because of the dud radio flash from CRC gave me grief.

I rather suspect it'll be some OS setting, I can't see that where the engaged tone plays out is going to be defined anywhere else. Though why I'm the only person that gets it I have no idea.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] zocster:
And you have flashed with your shipped ROM from the wiki? I tried flashing with different radios etc too and now I am trying out the 1.38.30.10 base radio with imate upgrade as I still find the 1.43.00.00 radio goes through too much battery.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] hardcore:
I think I found the reason behind this - I believe its the HTC X-Button Task Manager.

There are 2 options you can try, both involve changing stuff in the Registry.

Option 1: Disable AutoKill.

HKCU\Software\HTC\TaskManager

Change the value of "EnableAutoKill" to 0. (Default is 1).

Option 2: Change the AutoKill free memory threshold.

HKCU\Software\HTC\TaskManager

Leave "EnableAutoKill" at 1.

Changing the value of "MemoryThreshold" from its default of 0x900000 (hex) to something smaller like 0x300000 (hex).

This will make the AutoKill happen when you have about 3.1Mb free RAM left.

Reboot for any changes to take effect (do a shutdown and startup).
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jws3:
washi,

Tried to duplicate the error again this morning and got the results that you reported. My previous trial was not with a new spreadsheet. I'll try the MS Mobile Office download again.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] washi:
for me the download works. it just asks me if i want to repair or remove office mobile.

i did not uninstall it before.

if it still promts "newer version" for you.

it is possible that it works for me because i tried many diffrent cabs and exe installers before i tried the original. messed my storage down to 20 mb

's with all the installing because the uninstall did not remove everything now and than. but still after installing a fresh rom i could install the original from microsoft.

it could be that i "messed" some settings into active sync that it thinks i have an older version installed.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jws3:
I tried the uninstall route. It seemed to uninstall OK, but when I tried to install the download, I got the "already installed" message again. I checked my office folder and excel, word, and powerpoint were removed. The uninstall probably left some registry entries behind. It is likely that the new msi install checks the registry before running. Anyway, I reinstalled the office cab that is located in the extended ROM without any problems. The cab probably doesn't check the same things as the msi install.

Had to delete and create a new ActiveSynce partnership because Office OneNotes was removed then readded to the sync list during the exercise. Started to get sync error messages and uncompleted syncs.

Anyway, back to square zero!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] washi:
you can try to extract the cab out of the msi file.

it should install without checking.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] hardcore:
The uninstall leaves some registry entries. Go to the registry at:

HKLM\Softwar\Microsoft\Office Mobile\

And delete the stuff there. Then you should be able to install the official Office Mobile Update.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jws3:
That worked. However, the upgrade msi wouldn't work because there was no "official" WM Office 6 installed. So, I used a WM Office 6.1 cab (office_wpc_WM6.CAB), which I have in my bag of tricks, to reinstall WM Office 6. I didn't use the cab that CRC installed in the extended ROM.

Tried the msi file again with the same newer version installed message. Also had to separately reinstall One Note Mobile (I have cabs for individual components in WM Office 6.1). Anyway, Excel works OK now; no font issues.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] stan23:
As long as I can't imagine what effect that should have (because I overwrite the software by reflashing), I won't follow that practice :D

It was like that before, and is now.

Might depend on the radio an the network...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] hardcore:
Cool. Same case for me too.

Here's a trick: You can grab the official .cab file from your Pocket PC's \Windows\AppMgr\Install folder. Run the install from the PC, when your Pocket PC is prompting you if you want to install the Microsoft Office Mobile.cab, go to that folder and copy out the .cab file.

That .cab file should install directly (so you can install it directly after a hard-reset, for example). The install .cab file for OneNote 2007 is included with Office 2007 if you have the PC version.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jws3:
The install folder is empty. Probably because I installed WM Office 6.1 to my storage card. Kind of like having WM Office 6.1 installed in storage. It freed up some space in my device.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jblakk:
Does this rom have the "Number keys in call locked" patch installed?

I'm using Pays right now, and this rom looks great, just one of my pet peeves not to be able to text while in a call.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
Yes. You can use the keyboard while in a call.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
Which Office 6.1 CAB file are you guys using? I'm not too happy with the one I'm currently using - and I too have noticed every now and again that it crashes when switching fonts. This being said, it only happened for me now and again - so I didn't place too much emphasis on it.

If you can point me to a new 6.1 CAB, I might be able to put in OneNote and use that to fix this issue once and for all..
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] lagoskon:
Abusalza has very good Office cabs
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
Maybe - but they have bundled stuff that is certainly not office... Some kind of notepad, and something else in the one CAB... Not really interested in putting anything else but what is required for Office 2007 in there...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] washi:
im using the official from the ms homepage.

somehow i managed that i can install it via activesync. i think its because i installed it first with the cab. after trying the official german office i reinstalled with activesync and the "newer version" warning was gone.

that was on 10.8. because i messed up my memory i flashed 11.0.

the strange thing is that i could install the offical office over the rom version on 11.0 via activesync without first installing the cab file. i think activesync does not check the device version if it installed it once.

i did not test it yet but i read that the official office mobile is not able to handly powerpoint 2007 files very good. when im home i will copy over a persantation and test it.

sadly its not possible to install just the german cab to get an german office. it installs fine. office folder is there with the programs. but the applications wont start up. i there a simple solution to get the german office working?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jws3:
Removed message.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] hardcore:
I find the opposite is true - the official Office Mobile from MS handles Powerpoint much better than the other ones out there that I've tried. The others would mess up the screen sometimes, and lose the menu, in the worst case cause the device to hang. But the official one works well and is stable, the menu options work fine, etc. Very happy.

CRC, recommend that you download the official version from MS and check it out. You can actually grab the .CAB from the Hermes \Windows\AppMgr\Install folder during the Activesync/WMDC install process.

Another plus point is that the official version can actually be installed and works fine from the SD card.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jws3:
Hardcore,

I tried your procedure a couple of times and the cab never shows up in the install folder be fore the termination message. However, I seem to be able to extract the cab from the msi file using 7-Zip. I haven't tried the extracted cab yet.

No guts; no glory!

I looked inside the cab file, which I extracted from the msi file, and saw that there were cabs for wpc and smartphones. I extracted the wpc cab and ended up with a file called office_wpc_WM6.CAB. This is the same cab that I used for my own new WM Office 6.1 installation. The cab is 2.95MB. I'll try to upload it in my next message.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] washi:
mmh is my english that bad? it's not my native language :)

as i wrote before i am running the official office mobile. i just did not test it out for myself.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] hardcore:
Ah yes! The cab I found was also 2.95MB. Guess its the same one. We may not be able to post that cab here though, not sure.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] jws3:
Definitely can't upload it. Oh well, I used it anyway to fix my WM Office 6.1. I guess CRC could also extract the cab and use it in his ROM.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] alucardlive:
Threaded SMS for CRC 11.0

Hi,

quick question... does this ROM included threaded SMS and if so how does one enable it. If not, is it a limitation of the Acrsoft MMS app?

Thanks in advance
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] raburton:
Yes it includes threaded SMS, this is standard in WM 6.1. It's enabled by default.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] alucardlive:
awesome.. thanks for the quick response..
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] hardcore:
Memory (RAM) optimization tips:

Hi guys, been using CRCs r11 for a while now and just want to share my tweaks to maximize the amount of usable free RAM for multitasking. Some people have mentioned that the stock r11 ROM tends to have this problem where programs are automatically closed even though there seems to be a lot of free RAM left. Here is how I fixed that problem.

These tips involve making changes to the registry.

1. Reduce the HTC Task Manager auto-kill memory threshold to 2MB.

HKCU\Software\HTC\TaskManager

"EnableAutoKill" should be set at 1.

Changing the value of "MemoryThreshold" from its default of 0x900000 (hex) to 0x200000 (hex). This will make auto-kill happen only when the free memory reaches 2Mb (default setting was to start auto-kill at 9Mb free!).

2. Reduce / limit the FATFS CacheSize.

HKLM\System\StorageManager\FATFS\CacheSize

Default is 0 which means the cache size is auto-determined by the OS. Set it to

0x0200 (hex) or 512 decimal (limits cache to 512 sectors or 256KB of RAM). There seems to be little benefit setting this value too large.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
Good pick up. I'll change this to 2Mb in future releases.

I still believe this is better for the OS to decide. Simply as it can then dynamically resize the cache for max performance or max RAM as required.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] hardcore:
Thats great CRC. I remember reading somewhere that the default value seems to be 3MB (0x300000). I set it to 2MB because I found that it seems to be okay too (best to try it yourself first to see if there are any adverse affects).

BTW about the SetAcousticParam thing, I was looking at the SetAcousticParam.exe file and it seems to be that it either uses, reprograms or patches certain DLLs in \Windows\ such as ril.dll, COREDLL.dll, CEShell.dll. It also uses Windows CE functions such as AVHAL_CRIL_WriteAcousticParam, AVHAL_CRIL_ReadAcousticParam, and AVHAL_CRIL_SaveAcousticParam.

Long story short, I think it may be specific to those DLLs or certain versions of WM6, which could mean that it'll never work on WM6.1 ROMs. But I'm not sure. Oh well, the volume seems fine to be without it anyway (except that I still wish the speakerphone volume would be softer...).
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] harleym:
issue with Google navigator

Hi, I finally got around to making the upgrade from 9.1 to 11 over the weekend. Same issue as a few with SPL not auto-detecting correctly, but the installation was otherwise smooth. Having loaded up my programs since, the only problem I have now is that Google Navigator no longer works. I've tried to contact them regards to this issue, but don't expect much help less a reply. I get an error "Can't find an entry point 'memset' in a PInvoke DLL 'coredll.dll' Anyone know what that's all about? or whether it even relates to this new 6.1 build?

CRC, from what I can see so far, you've done a great job with this ROM! Well done!!!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] WatskeBart:
Excellent rom very fast en very stable. Great work.

Peace Out
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] canman:
I've been using this rom for a couple of weeks now and it's without doubt the fastest I've used out of say 7 different option in the last few months. The rest seemed either too loaded or not loaded enough or seemed unstable but this is pretty much spot on.

One issue I am having though which is frustrating is that the Bluetooth compatability seems to be off.

I'll describe. Before with the standard Imate build of WM5 or Schaps builds, I could happily pair with my laptop or PC at home and then used dialup networking if I needed to route out through the phone and it worked really well.

Since going to CRC's build, I can't pair properly, I put in the pin code and it just tells me that the pairing failed, then prompts me again, sometime when I put it in a second time it works OK and pairs up, but mostly it just fails.

Sometimes I've been able to get it paired, but when I try and use the dialup networking it just says it can't connect the service when I know the details are correct.......... doesn't really help me much.

Rolling back to Schaps WM6 build sorts the issues and I'm back to working perfectly again.

If I could somehow fix this issue I'd never need another WM6 build :)

Hoping someone can help me.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Bardia Garsha:
CRC, i tried ur 11.0 rom today. excellent job, man.

there are two things i don't understand.

1) so far as ur rom shows the name of the operator with prefix "UMTS" (in my case UMTS Orange) and i don't like the prefix, i tried to change the value of 'Enable3GLongName' in HKLM /Software/OEM/Phone Setting

from 1 to 0. did that in many roms before without any problem.

but after SR the value changes back to 1. (the first rom with this behavior).

2) i cannot "overwrite" any .dll in windows folder. (again the first time i'd come across such behavior in any rom).

any idea ?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] CRCinAU:
Turn your device off via the power switch, not via a SR. This will cause the cache to be flushed and everything written to flash. When you boot again, your changes will still be there...

Can you give me an example? You might be trying to delete something in use.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Martl-san:
Hi,

I just have a quick question to this quit good ROM.

In the right-top corner there is an icon which shows the assigned memory and it's possible to close running programs.

It's really a nice tool, but I don't know the name of that tool.

Can anybody figure out, how is the name of that tool?

tx,

Martl
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Bardia Garsha:
hey you wily magician ! the more i use this rom the more i like it. you've done a wonderful job , dog. Excellent & smooth.

unless something extraordinary comes out, this will be a definite keeper.

now let's talk about the rom:

1) Reg_edit : i powered switch and it did stick. thanks but all the other roms are good with just a SR. if this is the price to pay for every reg_edit, then be it.

2) "overwrite": it was NOT rom's fault. apologies. i bought Resco Exp2008 3 weeks ago and it used to overwrite files to windows with no problem. after it failed yesterday, i wrote to Resco & complained. they asked me to download Exp2008 v7.02 . it's ok now.

However, i still have some questions:

1) The Time doesn't stick. It changes. This has happened 3 times. Last night I set the time and this morning (at about 9 a.m.) it showed 2:30 a.m.! Very strange issue that i had not come across with any rom/device.

2) most roms (except Dutty's) do not show the "day" of the week in htc_home. i want it to show (e.g. Wednesday 02/07/08). I always change this habit with a registry tweak by changing the value of SSDte in HKLM\nls\overides.

your rom does not even have SSDte string in the registry :( You must have done something with the date settings because even the "Long date" in Regional Settings which normally has at least 4 options (MMMM dd, yyyy ...etc.) in all versions of windows, shows only 2 options in your rom.

I am extremely careful with rom flashing process (see my moto in the signature) and god only knows how many hundreds of roms i've flashed. so i'm sure it doesn't have anything to do with the way i flashed the rom.