[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Flying Kiwi:
No I meant easier than having to install hardSPL and then find a program to do the flashing/the upgrade from that link and risk affecting your warranty. The official upgrade still overwrites everthing but as all my important stuff is stored on my storage card and I'm not worried about loosing my call history/other things stored in internal memory (Tomtom can easily be reinstalled with Activesync), it was easiest for me. I see that for some users with the official HTC ROM and SPL (but not the Sprite backup software that came in the box with my Kaiser) it may be easier to do it the hardSPL way if they want to keep internal storage as is.

Fair enough, I guess I shouldn't assume that users of the official HTC provided ROM wont have lots of 'data' in internal storage as well and no simple way of backing it up and restoring it (to the same ROM version).

Having never used it I'm surprised to know that.:eek: I would have thought HTCs upgrades would check for dotted Is and crossed Ts before allowing itself to run, including whether the existing ROM and SPL were HTC approved. I guess there are some things they can't clamp down on :D

We know that the only difference between the old and new release is the Radio version and we both know there's an improvement with GPS performance, what else could it be?

I don't know why HTC's senior tech had told me that I'm the ONLY one who complained about this issue as far as he knows when it's clear from here that other people have made contact with them about it - not all questions involving others have clear answers but I know what I've found. I'd call it more of a Hail Mary finding though, it doesn't rate at Hallelulah! level yet for me, that would take graphics acceleration drivers and restoration of original GPS performance. We can but pray!

Even if that was the case then that still means it was a problem fixed with a new Radio. They're not going to start putting unrelated code into the radio for problems elsewhere on the PPC.... in fact given the pressure they must have been under with (what I considered) a clear indication of where the fault lay, I'm surprised they didn't try to do it the other way around and sneak out some sort of non-radio looking patch and try and explain all the detailed research and hours spent slaving away to come up with a solution, just for us, the customers they care so much about :rolleyes:

Given the signal reception bars still fluctuate on a second to second basis even after getting a fix (although not as bad as they used to under the last Radio), I suspect the existing performance shortfall is still due to driver issues (or perhaps changed priorities) within the Radio code but you are right in that there may be other problems such as a bug with QuickGPS which isn't helping with getting a quick fix. We can only go by what we see and can test for and I see indications (still) of a driver issue, I see no indication of a QuickGPS issue given quick GPS once run should provide the same data through to the GPS software for up to 7 days. If after 7 days (or a quickgps update) I immediately start getting erratic GPS performance, then that would point me in that direction. Conversly, if after 7 days or immediately after an update, I see a noticable improvement in GPS fix times that would tell me it's working. I'm not sure it's realistic to expect the latter though and I've not noticed that even with the WM 6.0 GPS setup.