[Wing, P4350 ROM development] ipeverywhere:
I have a USA T-Mobile Wing

As everyone else has said excellent ROM and much appreciated. I've been looking for a decent ROM for a year and I think I have found it. Most excellent and here are my notes.

As with everyone else weather shows no cities.

WiFi is a bit tricky to get turned on/off and always shows off in Comm Manager

.jar files are not associated with Esmertec

Actually it seems like there are no file associations as none of my windows (.ppt, .doc, .xls, etc.) files from e-mail are opening by clicking on them and giving association error.

My biggest complaint isn't about the ROM but SPB Moble Shell. I use my phone one handed all the time and have a tendency to hit the "OK" button a lot. This was dropping me into a blank screen which is the Windows "Today" screen. Since "Today" is blank in this ROM that was what I saw whenever hitting "OK". More on this later.

I also had a bit of an issue getting this ROM loaded. For those having trouble here is the procedure I used:

1) Backup however you feel comfortable backing up or don't; makes no difference to me :)

2) Go to T-Mobile website and get the stock ROM from their website. Load this onto the phone.

3) Download HERALD-USPL-beta3 from the first post of this thread. Unzip it into your c:\ root directory.

4) Download OpenTouch v5.0, I used Lite_Diamond and unzip this anywhere.

5) Put the .nbh file in the RUU directory under Flash Center (this would be c:\Flash Center\RUU\Open Touch v5.0 Lite Diamand.nbh)

6) Run herald-uspl.exe and follow the directions

7) When it says "your screen will go blank and ActiveSync will disconnect" this is true. You'll need to rerun hearld-uspl.exe if this does not happen. I was getting a black screen with green text a lot of the time. The screen should be white.

8) Hit return and the ROM Update will start. Just check the boxes and keep clicking next.

9) After the update completes you should have OpenTouch v5.0 on your device.

10) Now download OpenTouch v6.0 and unzip it. Take the Open Touch v6.0 Lite Diamond.nbh file and put it in c:\Flash Center\RUU directory.

11) Delete the older OpenTouch v5.0 nbh file.

12) Run herald-uspl.exe and do the same thing you did for 5.0.

After all that I have v6.0 on my Wing and functioning as well as everyone describes here.

Going a few steps further since I was frustrated with SPB Moble. I went and downloaded the trial version on SBP moblile and did an install. Of course all of the great icons of OpenTouch v6.0 are gone but it gave me a much better idea of how SPB Mobile works. The color scheme and background graphics are unchanged. Additionally I got the today screen back as well as some additional goodies from the SPB site (including the fact weather now works). Now when I hit "OK" and end up on the today screen I still can see missed calls, mail, SMS, lock the phone, etc. Additionally, as one other poster pointed out, iContact is difficult to get to. Especially after re-loading SPB Mobile. It seems to always want to throw me on the Contacts screen with the dialer on the lower half of the screen. The only "quick" way I've found to get to iContacts is to put Contacts on the Windows Menu. This brings up iContacts every time now.

I'm happier with this combination then the stock ROM but not thrilled with SPB Mobile. Personally, for what SPB wants to charge for Mobile I'd rather give ttran001 as a donation.

I'm very much looking forward to seeing what is dropped on the site Monday and will be trying that straight away.

My favorite feature? The dialer of course. Oh and the speed! This thing has brought new life to my wing. Again, very well done.

Additional software I use and works fine:

Opera Mobile (not mini)

Agile Messenger

MS Live Search (although I've not tested it with my BT GPS yet)

GMail Applet

Google Maps (not tested with GPS yet but it is getting my location from cell signal)

Adobe Reader Mobile 2.0

Software that almost works:

Exchange Push E-mail - This seems to be working but upon initial sync it didn't sync everything in my inbox. It does seem to be syncing new items. Also, the ability to turn off push is missing from the Comm Manager. Not sure if this is going to drive me crazy at some point as I leave push on 99% but it's that 1% when I really don't want to be bothered. This showed up as a "Direct Push" button on the T-Mobile ROM.

Hope that helps. I look forward to showing this off at a conference I'm going to this week.