[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] libove:
Custom ROM (and hand-holding) request

Hi Kareem,

First of all, obviously, you're amazing for doing this for so many people!

As we've been discussing in email, here's my overly greedy request for your time... :-)

Thanks!

Jay

Background – what my phone is today:

- KAIS100 8925 / AT&T Tilt branded device

- SIM/network unlocked

Current ROM, radio, etc:

R 1.65.21.18

G 25.88.40.05h

D 3.57.00.00

ROM version: 3.57.502.2 WWE

ROM date: 07/17/08

Basics I'm sure I want:

- WM 6.1 most current stable

- a radio well suited for use with Vodafone in SPAIN:

I've found these two files in an XDA Developers posting of radios:

* Kaiser-ES-N-ReconstructedTestFix02.rar

* kaiser-ES-N-VodafoneReconstructed.rar

Of course, I don't really know what's in the .nbh files in these two archives. Some hand-holding here would be much appreciated. How to look in to the .nbh and determine what radio these really are?

- BlueTooth integrated properly - such as, press the button on my Jawbone headset and the MS Voice Command prompt comes up; audio gateway always enabled if the headset is enabled and on, including incoming ringers, phone calls, media sounds, calendar reminders, ... Maybe a more feature-ful BlueTooth control program?

- I have a preference for commercial ROMs (plus your cooking of remove-junk add-good programs, of course) rather than totally custom operating system images ... on the (possibly mistaken!) assumption that these will be more stable. Stable is more valuable to me than cutting edge functionality, most of the time. If, to get what I'm asking for below, the only good way is going totally custom, and you're comfortable that it will still produce an experience as stable as one can get from WindowsMobile anyway... (heh!) then go for it, thanks!

Cooked-in Programs:

- Comm Manager including Band selection (that is, the tab in the comm manager to be able to select GSM/WCDMA/auto)

- ActiveSync

- Camera and album / pictures and video functionality equal to standard WM 6.1, or somewhat better if that's easy and doesn't bloat the device too badly

- Voice Recorder

- Pocked Internet Explorer

- Microsoft Office all applications, including Outlook/Messaging, Calendar, Contacts, etc

- QuickGPS + whatever other GPS Utilities make sense for Google Maps or other simple uses

- HTC Home (newest), + reasonable configuration software for me to customize what appears, and where, on the home page – I prefer less-busy home screens, but I do want to be able to pick, choose, and arrange various pieces of information

- Remote DeskTop

- Task Manager

- File Explorer

- AT&T Tilt keyboard fix (my device is an AT&T Tilt branded HTC KAIS100 / 8925)

- Microsoft Voice Command (I have a license for this already) – unless you think this is better installed as a layered product? In which case I need help finding the .cab ...

- regedit

- quickreset

- Internet sharing (tethering)

- calculator

- a screen lock which uses large numbers-only on the screen, to make it easy for me to unlock with a finger rather than having to haul out the stylus every time. I'm a bit on the paranoid side, so I keep my devices set to auto-lock fairly quickly, and am often unlocking them. I have noticed that, if BBConnect is installed, the full (small) keyboard seems to be the only option at unlock time - it would be quite nice if that could be overridden. I'm thinking S2U2

- a really good Task Manager. The standard one is a bit limited. I like to be able to see all running programs, all running processes / threads, and within those lists go to the program, or kill it. It would also be nice to be able to see how much CPU each program / thread is taking, for those times when the device gets slow, to learn if I’ve got a problem with something specific, or just with WM in general... Seems like the newest Task Manager will work for you.

- no MMS, or MMS present but able to be hidden until – if ever – I actually want it

- battery status on the main page

- TouchFLO

Other programs as installable .cab files instead of cooked in, because I expect they'll get updated from time to time. Please provide the cabs for the following programs (other than the ones I indicate that I already have):

- Opera Mobile 9.5b2 (I have this .cab already)

- Resco File Explorer and Add-Ons (I have these .cabs and license already)

- Google Maps (I'll get this myself)

- Skype (I'll get this myself)

- Java

- Live Messenger

- BBConnect current (I have 4.0.0.103, is there newer available?)

- one of the more advanced calculators

- PDF viewer(s)

- WiFi Router

- Some kind of very reliable simple media player which can handle the most common formats. I don't use my device for watching movies or listening to music; just once in a while I need to view or hear an attachment to an email (most common: .wav files attached to my Vonage voicemail)

- some working flash player - preferably one that I can turn off most of the time (so it looks like it isn't there when web pages try to activate flash), and which I can turn on for that rare occasion when I really need a flash web page to work properly

- maybe a YouTube player, if there’s one which won’t make non-YouTube web pages burn CPU

- maybe, just maybe, a flash downloader, if it stays within the confines of being able to stay stealthed from web pages except when I want it (to avoid web browsing going from the usual Windows Mobile painful experience to a totally useless experience) and doesn't bloat the device too much

- some kind of notepad / wordpad small app

- Advanced Config - I think this meets my need for management / tweak tools to enable convenient control of many WM settings, for example whether the data connections stay on, to force BOTH BlackBerry and ActiveSync to stay active in parallel, controlling backlight and lock timeouts; in short, KaiserTweak probably plus more... ?

- Total Commander (or is this extraneous since I've bought Resco File Explorer?)

- Bluetooth Explorer

- Clear Temp

- Pocket Rar

- Adobe Reader

- maybe a WiFi locator / strength / security reporting tools? (If you’re familiar with the ZyXEL AG-225H, something like that...)

- an FTP client (or maybe not - Resco File Explorer has a reasonable-seeming FTP client add-on)

- a ZIP exploder (is there a WindowsMobile version of 7-Zip? I found a link from the official 7-Zip site to a Russian site, which I admit makes me a tad nervous...)

- HTC Home Customizer Final with Apperances

- Pocket Screen

- proxy manager

Things I might want if I understood what they were :-) or what the pros/cons of various options (such as the different possible dialers) are. What do you suggest about these?

- Dialer(s)? I haven't played with many; the only thing I know I DON'T like is the huge delays I suffer when typing in phone numbers as the overworked CPU of the phone tries to match against the 1000 or so entries in my Contacts. Is there a dialer which can do the matching more efficiently? Is there a thread you recommend which compares / contrasts available dialers to help me choose? Thanks!

Options / Registry edits

- Configuration for storing stuff on the MicroSD card where those configurations are known not (or at least not known!) to screw stuff up. I suffered badly from the IE Temp on Storage Card slow/hang bug recently...

- scroll wheel and jog pad in IE to scroll the whole page, NOT jump from hyperlink to hyperlink

- G for GPRS; E for EDGE; H for HSDPA; something for WCDMA (if that’s not the same as HSDPA); etc... I don’t care exactly what each indicator letter is, just that I can see at a glance which type and speed of network I’m presently enjoying / suffering

- AT&T Tilt PTT button mapped to launch MS Voice Command

- App unlocked

- Data connections set to not timeout/disconnect by default

To be continued, since my request is too long!!!!!