[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] pbrook:
My 6.1 update experiences

After being seduced by imate’s website I upgraded my 9502 to WM6.1 3 weeks ago and found the myriad of problems already covered in this thread (I should have looked here first). With imate’s and telstra’s total lack of support, I eventually found this thread and have now accepted that there is no going back and am getting used to the new OS. The fact that larger cards are now supported is a major plus and I can report that 16GB cards can be used. Also 45-50 MB of free program memory after deleting the imate files in the startup folder has to be another bonus. Most of my issues are with third party software – Collins cobuild dictionary no longer loads, phoneAlarm Pro (the only program that I have found that automatically answers calls without having to press a button on the phone or on the bluetooth headset) still autoanswers if a caller number is displayed, but when connected to a Bluetooth headset the phone answers then hangs, neither party can hear each other and the 9502 needs a soft reset (which also happens when dictating using protone if the phone rings with a bluetooth device attached). Has anyone found a good program to autoanswer with/without Bluetooth headset?

I still have some conflicts in WM 6.1 that seemed to be happening in WM 6.0 in that the camera button will not launch the camera program but when in camera mode, the button will take the picture, the messaging button (top left) does not work at all and the screen does not auto rotate when the keyboard is slid out (yet it still rotates in screen settings). These three faults all happen together and after several master clears and slowly reinstalling programs it seems to be that once I configure a server in activesync, these three faults occur as soon as I have synced my contacts, calendar and email. Has anyone else struck this with exchange server? By the way when syncing with a server, using SPBbackup to restore data resulted in duplication of approx 2/3rds of my calendar and about 90% of contacts which was another tedious weekend correcting this.

Despite all of this, I still think the 9502 is a fantastic machine and with the help of this thread VtAp.dll corrected the misaligned lines in the dialer, I have managed to reconfigure the Telstra settings and have got the live streaming AFL football working by following the instructions in post #4 in

xda-developers > Kaiser > Kaiser general

Telstra NextG - My Place / Foxtel ?

(step 3 was not necessary on my device)

The Default_i-mate_MyPlace file gives you back Telstra’s MyPlace shortcut if you want it but the Telstra proxy and business shortcuts that come in Telstra_V5.5 and Default_Imate_AUS_HR_V3.60.00 also crashed my 3G access and I have not reinstalled these after my latest reflashing. I do think the 9502’s earpiece audio is a little low and AudioParams_655010 did not change this but using Bluetooth headsets solve this. The camera definitely is lower quality than before and Qcamera.zip has not changed this (I am not able to install it properly – have unzipped Qcamera.dll and copied it over the one in the Windows folder and the camera then doesn’t work at all).

I have tried to install Xenomorph’s HomeCooked WM6.1 v1.77 for i-Mate 9502 and have not had any luck. I tried on an XP machine from both the initial beta 1.73 ROM and from the official imate 1.77 ROM (which I have now stayed with) and got the error message “Unable to open source/host file, Error code: 2” and then the next screen shows “Error [203]: Connect Fail”. I also tried on a Vista machine from the 1.77 ROM and got the same message (except the first part was “Error code: 3” instead of 2). Now that I have most things working again I am reluctant to reflash again but would like to improve the camera’s resolution – does your home cooked ROM fix this and what else does it address Xenomorph? Any suggestions as to my difficulties with reflashing with your ROM and/or how do I use the Qcamera.zip file?

While I have clever people looking at this – is there a way of activating device lock from a shortcut or menu rather than the today screen so that for example if windows media is playing and you turn on device lock from that screen – when you touch the (blank) screen you will see windows media briefly rather than the today screen? Hopefully I have not overstepped the boundaries of this thread and thank you in advance to anyone who has useful suggestions.

Dr Phil