yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
Official Update 11/16/08...

We've acquired a new build and are working towards getting it booted on the Athena soon. This is working towards a pre-alpha build for internal testing. We'll stablize it, work out any kinks then go from there. Hopefully, time permitting, we'll have an alpha build by end of next week. Takes a while when we all work and some of us have the flu. :/

Hang in there people. We'll work towards releasing an RC1 after a few internal alpha and beta tests so we can include everyone in the fun.

Once released I don't want to hear...this ROM sucks. LOL

It's a RC not a final build so jump in and help build a good ROM. :)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] retroqwe:
That is great news looking forward to testing on my athena

who ever has the flu take it easy :-)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] sergiopi:
We discussed in the MOD section about when to set a thread as sticky. There isn't a "general purpose rule" but in Athena WM6 section there is a sticky thread about ALL the ATHENA ROMs.

To avoid to have to stick every rom thread the "all in one" was created

The only stuck are the VANILLA, the BASE ROM, AND the 0Mb pagepool, as they are "particular" versions

"Particular" means:

The sogarth base and the other ROM have its kicken released and it could be used as test bed for new chefs newest ROM, plus we haven't many vanilla or 0Mb ROM :)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
stickied or unstickied...doesn't matter we're back :)

I'm not sure what this is about...all i know is that this thread has now gone from posted to sticky to unstickied to back to stickied and now back to unstickied.

I'm not a mod, you guys do what you need to do, I'm just confused. lol

I figured for a ROM that has such community support and involvement that it would be great to keep it stickied for the community members, maybe not. I'm not arguing for or against it, just my thoughts.

It's not up to us though...it's up to the mods and or members. I guess if there is enough demand for a sticky on a particular thread, since there is no official rule, it might end up sticky, maybe not.

Either way, we all know where this thread is and it's soon to get very busy in here.

Everyone READY??? :p
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] PBL1:
If you guys provide a better one than AP4, you have my support to have it stickied, superglued, nailed, cemented and soldered:p

looking forward to the build:)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] D1ab70:
Hellz Yeah!

You kno im READY! YEAH!

You Got My Full Support, Bring Dat Sticky Bak! :P

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[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] marka2k:
I read the thread but did not see if you mentioned if this will be SPL 1.2 and or 3.5? for me 1.2 is the best due to compability for programs that wont work in SPL 3.5

Thank you for coming back and the effort
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] D1ab70:
Its mentioned there will be both a lite and regular versions.Since this is gonna be an upgrade from ap4 and ap4 was 3.5 spl only,the regular version I can tell you off the bat will be spl 3.5 as well.As for lite version of this rom its possible there will be both a 1.2 and 3.5 spl versions,due to the fact light will be stripped down small enough to fit on a 1.2 spl partition.As for regular versions,ap team usually hooks it up with stuff in result requiring the partition resize to 3.5 spl.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] cmonex:
sorry, what programs won't work? can you tell me more details?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] marka2k:
One that I know of for sure is a older program (heard that this was a issue with some older software) WeatherPanel on SPL3.5 it installs fine but after a soft reset hangs the device, after doing the SPL downgrade no problems the issue continued with different ROMS (tried to eliminate being a ROM issue) on SPL3.5
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] phatsua:
how close are you guys from a release ?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
Have no idea.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] rdosti:
LTxda - hows your daugther doing ? hope things are fine. my dad's a cardiologist ..very well known..but again not in the area of your daughter but if you need anything PM me anytime.

Regards
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] johnripper:
we can wait as long as it takes for the new rom but what we need to know is how the progress goes we have destroyed many f5 .

news please?

thanks
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
You're saying that WeatherPanel worked on ROMs with the older SPL but not with SPL3.5? I know that WeatherPanel was broken also because I use it but I don't remember if it broke before or after 3.5 was released.

Anyone here using WeatherPanel on the older SPL?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
She's doing great. Great in spirit, energy and appetite :)

Thanks for the offer and I will keep that in mind.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
Same news as last time. Experimenting with different builds and trying to determine the best build for performance and stability.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] D1ab70:
best builds

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imho b.20273 is pretty good and stable, just needs multiselection hack like in 20931 in michy 6.1.Im wondering if cmonex can hack better display drivers for athena as I remember she was doing so for kaiser?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] larsuck:
20273 has my support as well. It takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. Seems no matter what weird stuff I do to Michy's 4.1 it is still solid.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] rorydaredkign:
I see how im all forgotten...

:)

I too am dusting off my Athena for all the pre flashing, and stuff. Never use it anymore except onece a few weeks ago as a modem when I was on a coach.

Cant wai

Rory
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] responderman:
If you press and hold the little round silver button on the right hand bottom corner the pretty coloured screen lights up Mr errr...uumm! whats the name again???

Hows it going Dude? can everyone notice how self disciplined I'm being? I've not asked once ......yet...

Regards

Jay
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] rorydaredkign:
I'm great mate, you... Still saving lives?

I'm just back for the fun of the wait, and my F5 on this keyboard needs to get worn out...

Then I have an excuse for a DiNovo edge.

(I have a Logitech G15, was the most expensive (i thought best) keyboard I could get with my dell, so I got it. its actually pretty crap, A gaming keyboard..)

Anyway, wheres marbury?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] gtm55:
any news regarding the project?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] wsayed:
Feedback

Hey folks, is there any update regrading the new rom?

Cheers
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] johnripper:
will the new year bring us a new rom from apteam?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Mark Sly:
WeatherPanel on AP3

I'm using WeatherPanel on the AP3 ROM. I'm not sure what version, but I'm fairly sure it's on SPL 1.2. WeatherPanel works great and I love it.

I don't know for sure because I bought the 7500 used from Kong Kong. The previous owner re-flashed the ROM with AP3. This was long before AP4 came out.

I thought that WeatherPanel was working in the AP5.0 beta, but I can't find the message in that thread that led me to that conclusion.

It's great to have you guys back; I've been wanting to upgrade my ROM - especially to include the auto-portrait/landscape feature. A co-worker had an Athena and upgraded his to AP4. It was pretty cool, but seemed a little too slow for me to want to switch. (That, and I'd lose my beloved WeatherPanel.)

Is the new release based on the AP5.0 beta, or on new work on AP4?

Waiting... Waiting... Waiting... :( :) :( :)

-MarkSly
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Caid444:
Nice work.

Hello everyone, I'm kinda new to the board. I've been reading here for a while since my first HTC (diamond touch). Now I'm using an x7500.

I recently upgraded my phone to AP 4 SPL 3.5, however I'm noticing that I can't run a couple of the games I could before. Namely Undercroft.

My actual question is, will there be more application support in the new AP Rom? I was able to run these apps in the last OS (just an English wm6.0 rom) but now I'm unable to.

I'm not altogether sure if it's an spl related thing, or just some sort of general incompatibility with AP4. Who knows.

So, yes, will there be more support in the new AP ROM?

Thanks for all the wicked work so far, my phone's the most functional it's been since I bought it.

Caid.

P.S. Prayers were sent in long ago for your daughter. ;) Good hope to you and your family.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Montecristo:
this is a fake?:(
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] gtm55:
Any news regarding this project?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] ComPas-V:
Sadly, but looks like the project ... went for holidays? May be it will "be back" ...
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
Update...

Due to the holidays and a few other things happening in the real world, we're a bit behind.

We're still planning on putting out this ROM and if things change we will post.

I have my hands full right now with my daughter and once things settle we'll be back in full swing.

If you're wondering about my daughter's situation, click the link in my signature. I appreciate any prayers you can send our way and thank you in advance.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] AstainHellbring:
Hey guys sorry for the long delays we had gotten side tracked with a few things in our lives but are back into the swing of things expect to see more posts flowing here and more excitement and fun!:D
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] larsuck:
Yea! My flashing-finger has been itching since December!
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] AstainHellbring:
Also in everyone's excitement for this, please let us know of anything that you would like to see in the rom, games apps whatever let us know
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] gtm55:
anxiously waiting

it will be for spl 3.5 or spl 1.2?

for me it will be nice to have a full rom, up to date, with a bluetooth stack compatible with the sonyerricson mbw watches (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=408380) and as much as possible from the goodies that can be ported from HD and Diamond (including keyboard and teeter game)...

Thank you!
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] wsayed:
I totally agree with gtm55. Me as well would like to have a full rom with latest application from Diamond and HD for spl 3.5

Cheers
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Rabia:
my very very tired advantage is waiting for that rom, am runing on michy's rom after AP 3.5 and i would say this guys work is amazing, i guess am lucky to have 7500 and HTC shift, probably the most HTC phone awaiting huge projects and changes unlike otherphones which we flash to improve only :)

yalla we are waiting :)

regards
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] hdbueller:
We are working on it folks....please be patient. It will be worth the wait!

Later
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] johnripper:
teeter working on x7500....

can you please add this to the new rom?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=3231471#post3231471
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] AstainHellbring:
Thank you for the suggestion! we will take a look at adding that in for you.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] GuardianZX9:
Will this rom include any of the finger freindly features that are in the HD rom? Would be nice to see all the Clean large menus, like the start menu, and soft button menus. maybe the HTC large keyboards? how about the USB auto menu for mass storage/internet share/activesync?

I have an HD so if I can be of any help let me know.

G
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] mabury10:
This is great, has been such a long time a great AP ROM was being released. I tried a few others, but would love to go AP again. I shall resist asking anything about any ETA.

Mabury ;)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] responderman:
And where have You been!? go on, ask. you know you want too. LOL :)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] mokhabarat:
m2d

hey all

will it be possible to m2d in the rom? not the useless landscape version with the 6 icons, but the touchflo one the shows in portrait mode to show in landscape mode...cz lets face it, we rarely use the athena in portrait mode! will this be possible?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] AstainHellbring:
Hey all ltxda himself wanted to post this but has been very busy trying to take care of his daughter and her unfortunate situation. For information on that, please look here

Glad you all are so excited for some amazing new life in your Athenas we are excited to bring it to you! One thing that would help if anyone can is if you have an Athena you can loan/donate to the project and the effort. Please PM AstainHellbring with anything that you can do to help in this reguard. We will do what we can to keep this all moving as fast as possible but having a device in the our current cooks hands would make things progress faster. We appreciate all your time and energy spent on this and look forward to all the good things we can bring you. Be excited, very excited!
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] AstainHellbring:
We'll see what we can do. Unfortunately so far no one has ported touchflo to landscape yet but that doesn't mean it can't happen :)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] larsuck:
I and many others are really looking forward to this ROM, and hope it comes out soon. If it is going to take much more time, it might be nice for the Elite Team to report on their progress every couple of days.

That way all of us following this thread could give support and encouragement to you guys, and we can relax a little knowing the progress of the ROM development.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] AstainHellbring:
Sure I'll do my best to keep this thread updated and going and let you all know to stay excited and get more excited and things progress along
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] is4:
Yes a lot of us may have maintain silence watching behind the screens. But we are standing with you guys and would remain so as far as we feel that some progress is taking place.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] barney9304:
I have just come across this site after getting a used 7500. I was all excited about loading a new rom with all the classy screenshots that have been shown.

I tried more than 7 times to unlock and then flash, each time redownloading all the software again. It has got to be me doing something wrong, could I ask that when the new rom is released that you could layout an idiots guide for me and then dumb it down a bit just to make sure i can follow it?

Do you still need donations?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] wsayed:
Update

Hullo folks, what is the progress of the new rom? Hope it will be released in the near future
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] dreynam2:
any updates???

any updates??/:(
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] wsayed:
Would the spring bring us any good news about your new release?!!
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
sorry for delays...

Sorry for the delays. I'm currently taking care of my daughter who is battling cancer and have no time. Astainhellbring is going to be coordinating much of the effort while I handle my family business.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] wsayed:
No worries man and no need to say sorry. Wish your daughter all the best and speedy recovery. I will pray for her buddy.

May god bless her
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] haitiankid4lyf:
too late to hop in the Band wagon?

hey just put some WD40 in my Athena to get the parts moving want to hear what all the excitement was about, thought i was dreaming :)

i was lost in android development with my htc Dream but now i found my true home :)

also Avant Browser solved your F5 problem they call it Auto-Refresh :D

LTxda sorry to hear about you daughter she is still in my prayers.

triple bump bump bump
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] wsayed:
Hullo AstainHellbring; would you kindly update us on the progress of thus rom?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] AstainHellbring:
Yes donations are always appreciated and always loved. We are espically looking for someone that could maybe donate/loan us an athena for the myself, the current project cook. If you have one you can send to me, please pm me. Any donations other than that you want to send please send to: Donations

If you still are having issues with your Athena and getting it hardspl'd feel free to pm me and I'll see what I can arange for some help either off forum or on.

Yes I will gladly update you. I have been had my own setback in life as my wife recently had her gal bladder out and has been recovering from that. I am back in the swing of things and working on porting the latest 6.1 rom to our device. I hope to provide more info as I go with this.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] wsayed:
Thank u so much buddy for the update and thank god for the recovery of your wife. May god bless her.

Cheers
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] DystopiaDelusion:
I've been reading up a lot on the different Athena mod threads here, and decided to register. :D

'Really looking forward to this rom, especially some of the ideas about a portrait TouchFlo port for the Athena.

Good luck with the rom guys. And I hope your wife recovers well Astainhellbring, and the best of wishes for your daughter LTxda.

EDIT: Also, as a side note, I was wondering if any ports of the x7510's TouchFlo are available currently for use on the x7500/x7501? I'm going to be upgrading to WM6.1 [or possibly 6.5 demo] soon, and I'd love to have TouchFlo on it. Thanks. :)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] wsayed:
News

Any news about this rom?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] AstainHellbring:
Yes should definately be able to have TouchFlo on it. working on seeing what we can load up into this beastie now :)

Rom is progressing. I have sent 2 roms to the testers to see what they can get out of it. Not having an Athena of my own to test with does make it harder to progress but we are moving along the best we can. As stated above any donations of money or an Athena if you can spare one would be very gladly appretiated. Thanks for your interest and stay excited!
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] wsayed:
Are we still in track or the rom has been stopped or cancelled?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] DystopiaDelusion:
If someone donated an Athena, how long do you vaguely estimate it would take before return?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] AstainHellbring:
I want to Issue a very special thank you to Confusious. He graciously donated a device to us and I have it now and am working as hard as I can to get the rom moving along LTxda can tell you I've been flashing roms like a mad man. hoping to have our internal alpha rom by end of week
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Confucious:
Glad you got it OK. This community has given me a lot, glad I could give something back. Enjoy :)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] pigeonking:
hello,AstainHellbring:

This is my first time to talk to you.

Thanks for your effort on this project.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] AstainHellbring:
Hey guys quick update just wanted to let you know we have TouchFlo working on the athena and its working well. working on everything still and yes I have distributed working roms to my testers and will have a list of apps we plan on including in the rom. If there is anything you all would like to see please let me know! Thank you!
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] rpmbnsf:
The one and only thing that I would love to see is a driver that allows the Athena to take advantage of the graphic chip in this thing:D

I know...not something we are ever likely to see..just so frustrating :(

I'm sure the ROM will be a work of art..thank you for working so hard on it!
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] sakplat:
+1! that would be the best gift to the athena community...
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
Update...

New build in ROM is working well, even though it's only of Alpha quality. AstianHellBring got it booting fine and is working out a few other kinks. After those things are ironed out we start tweaking and figuring out how the ROM will be staged, etc. If we need more testers we'll post here with the details but we're not there yet.

Thank you all on behalf of the team for your continued support. We're going to try to start heating things up around here.

We continue to welcome your suggestions, ideas, and that good old craziness from back in the day. :)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] mokhabarat:
i was just wondering...have you managed to get touch flo working in landscape mode?!
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] nursallt:
Tester

Hey if you want another tester for athena roms im always happy to try and help out.:)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] pigeonking:
+1, I am wondering if the new rom working with the ati graphic chip perfectly.

And thanks for all of your effort.

I have one suggestion:

Could you plz give us some information about the new rom?? Like what I said if the ati graphic chip working or not?? or some new function comparing to other roms?
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] rorydaredkign:
Looks like I made my monthly visit at the right time then.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] LTxda:
Project Update 05.20.09

The ROM is testing out well with some issues of course, it is after all still alpha quality.

Astainhellbring is continuing to work out some kinks while I do some real world testing with the device. After applying some tweaks I found the ROM to be much more responsive. We still have more tweaking to do so this is a very welcome result.

Issues we're working through currently are:

- MicroDrive

- BlueTooth

- Buttons

- Trying to decide which WM build is best for this latest effort

Again, thank you fll for your continued support. I'm once again excited about my Athena ;)
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] Brau0303:
Thanks very much for the update LT.

Cheers

BR
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] is4:
That's right. (i.e. there's no point in choosing some non-responsive-latest-build for no good reason). The thing that distinguishes AP is that it's got some clear reason for every step forward. And the end result is always something that makes us favour our Athena (or the fact of having a PPC) over any other competitor.

Notice also that AP is loyal to RealVGA.

Internet is one important issue you'd need to be aware of. Every decent internet-based application needs to be considered. The G1 is taking a lot of space in the market.

And thanks for the effort.
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] lakeman:
I havent tried this yet but apparrently there is a way to do this with the touch HD

Dutty throy has a package to enable this but I think it interferes with some other programmes

hope this helps
[Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo ROM Development] chappatti:
TO LTxda...I am sorry to hear your news....

You must be a tremendously strong man. My heart goes out to you...deeeply and dearly. I could not bear reading your site since I would have broken down instantly...I hope you do not mind me posting here...

God bless!

PS: Sorry all for the mix up with previous message.