[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kojakojakoja:
Hello everyone. Thank you all for your contribution and for this (obviously) good and usefull thing.

I am new around here, just bought ASUS P525 Mobile Phone (or PDA), and have no clue what this little cutie can do. Of course, I immediately realized WM5 is far less than expected, so I did a search on torrent-finder dot com and found cute programs from SPB adn Resco ... and tried them.

SPB gave new dimension to WM5, really!

I think I tried "SpbMobileShell3.arm.cab", but am not sure. I actually tried 5-6, maybe 7 SPB products (Weather, Keyboard, etc.) and it all worked very nice.

Unfortunately, for some reason WM5 seems to stop for no reason from time to time, resets (turnes off), or simply freezes (with white screen adn only START top line visible, usualy after ending a call and pressing red button at the same time as the other connected party), and - the most strange behaviour - the phone finaly stopped working. Just the phone, not the P525 computer. It receives calls, but doesn't show signs of it; people can call me, they receive ringing signal, but I have no idea that someone was calling.

That's when I decided to reset it to fabric settings (well, it all happened during only 3 days). :-)

Then I realized there is something called ROM, and downloaded it from ASUS web-site. (Mine was 3.32, theirs was 3.43, WWE.)

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Anyway, when all hope was gone, Google gave me your thread as an N-th resource. However... :-) It seems this was the right place!

...Ok, minus DownJones' provocative and childish games, in which he managed to pull in even mr AndrewSh. I really hope that mr DowNJones will keep within certain bounds, i.e. continue to explore endless possibilities od fine ROMs of mr AndrewSh and - of course - continue to inform us all about interesting findings and results of his unique lab testings, and I hope mr AndrewSh will benefit from tedious work of mr DowNJones and will continue to enjoy his precious work and will continue to share his work with the rest of the world.

Please don't argue any more. Especialy since you are both Russians.

...Well, DowNJones is also European, whatever that might be...

But anyways...

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What I would like to know and where you all might help me is the following: I would like to know what programs you reccomend for P525.

I read that some of you are searching for this or that programs. That means there are good and not-so-good programs in the wild, just like with ordinary Windows OS. Since I am newbee here, I would really, really need help with that matter: which programs should one install, and where can one find them?

To help you understand my needs, let's say I would like to use this ASUS P525 to make my everyday life easier, so I need those sorts of programs that people usually use on everyday basis, like:

1. Opera

2. The Bat!

3. Total Commander

4. Office (MS or any other)

5. PDF, DJVu and other readers (and, perhaps, makers/writers)

6. FTP manager

7. nicer phone interface, simple like ordinary old school Nokia black-and-white mobile (with simple selections for simple tasks, like: LEFT BUTTON = Menu, RIGHT BUTTON = OK)

8. program for easier navigation with camera

9. program that will start LED lamp when I need it in the dark :-)

...and that's about it.

I have no clue what Titanium is, nor what some other programs some people mentioned are used for, so if someone could make a compilation of answers...

Short answers would be fine, too; just an explanation in a sentence or two about mostly used programs. ...Sort of a VIP list for mobile phone.

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Well, that's it.

Thank you for your previous help and work, thanks for future help, and I wish you all the best, to all of you.

Special thanks to AndrewSh who does all this job for us!

Cheers!

Koja