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[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] farkah:
i flashed the new 2.2 rom, and got messy graphics and things seemed to be a bit pooped.

i am using hardSPL.

so i pressed the power button off and on and the screen came back. then nothing, so i went and had a coffee (after reading up on it to discover its a known thing)... fek

after a series of reboots and power button pressing, i get to the tap stylus to continue part of the install.

i'm now using this rom, with hardSPL and not stock SPL.

did a hard reset, as the device reboots after a few minutes. i don't have a windows desktop so cant put stockSPL back.

now, the phone works fine. what I must not do is look at the device information, as this just gives me a spinning timer and then eventually reboots - i can handle this for now. also, when powered up the phone still comes up with the dodgy graphics and i tap the power button for the screen off and on - this seems to be the only two downsides so far as the phone appears to be stable :D
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
I'm sorry for that, but unfortunately its not my fault at all :).

You are free to re-cook the rom with the "old" disptools driver, however I'm not going to do this, as it works just fine for me.

kwbr also provided a cab, but I don't know if it works :).
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] vangrieg:
Unfortunately, replacing just disptools.dll causes lots of other issues.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] farkah:
dude, i know that! no worries.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] farkah:
- there are several threads i found about this.

alas, after putting on original 114 SPL, flashing an older original HTC ROM with earlier radio (spat the dummy at some stage...), putting 1.56 ROM from HTC on, then putting barebone 2.2 onto SD card and using USPL - it works a charm and is indeed mighty quick!!
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
Thats what I did :), works just fine, but is a little bit complicated :(.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] kalhimeo:
If you can find a solution to have the new topaz dialer on this ROM, i would be very interested as well. Would make this ROM perfect :)

Anyway, thank you john for all your hard work.

note: did anyone succeed to install the new HTC keyboard ? The EzInput 2.0 does not work on the 2.2 ROM (breaks the SIP selection menu, impossible to select an other one than default keyboard).

The only solution if found was to install the 2 cabs attached below (first one came from the Lite&Superlite topic and the second one adds multilanguage support) but some features like the vibration when typing is borken + bug with spacebar in some layouts.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] vangrieg:
Which ROM are you talking about? Barebone 2.2? Unfortunately, johnpatcher just put all the 1.56 Blackstone packages, not a Blackstone/Topaz/Rhodium combination like in 2.1, so it will be difficult to make sure the new Topaz dialer works as nobody really knows what it needs. Overall, 2.2 is more like a Lite version rather than a base for experimenting with new stuff. For the latter purpose, 2.1 is much more suitable.

Because I'm not using Barebone ROMs myself I can't really test these things, so I doubt I can help with this stuff, sorry. Maybe one day when I finally complete my RAW ROM... Alas, I'm too time-constrained to make public versions.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
I've just created two cabs: IME Engine Western and IME EzInput Western. I haven't tried them as I don't use EzInput, so please report back (look at the second post).

But you have to remove the old installation first, otherwise it won't work.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] kalhimeo:
Thank you very much to both of you for your (very quick) answers.

vangrieg: i didn't know it was only packages from the new 1.56 ROM. It's looks very stable in fact.

john: thank you for your cabs. I tested on a fresh install and the original HTC keyboard was correctly installed. The only thing is that I was looking for the new htc keyboard (Topaz/Rhodium) :p I was already able to install the orginal keyboard with EzInput 1.5, but EzInput 2.0 does not work (i even tryed to install your IME Engine cab before but with no success).

Would it be possible for you to create a cab for the new HTC keyboard (Topaz/Rhodium) as well ? Thx in advance.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] vangrieg:
I made the cabs for you, although I can't test them - I'm using previous versions of IME and EzInput because the new ones don't have Russian.

IME

EzInput

Like I said earlier, there's a big change they won't work because Barebone 2.2 may miss necessary packages.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] kalhimeo:
as you expected it does not work, same problem than using EzInput 2.0 from the other xda thread (menu to select input method won t show up, blocked on default "keyboard").

thx anyway vangrieg
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] vangrieg:
I would advise you to roll back to 2.1 than - like I said, 2.2 isn't good for adding new Topaz/Rhodium programs.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] K3BOL:
hi bro

what about the uspl and green screen :D ?
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
Just read up. Any rom using 1.56 as base (or at least the drivers) needs SPL 1.54. As HSPL is based on 1.14 it does not work with HSPL.

So you need a stock SPL and USPL for flashing custom roms.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] kalhimeo:
i never cooked a rom but i suppose that installing those packages will require that knowledge, I will take a look ;)

Thank you for your inputs
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
You just need to know which packages it depends on, I can make cabs out of these packages then.

But, as I'm not keen on ezInput, I'm not going to do any research about it :(.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] kalhimeo:
ok thank you john, i will try to investigate that.

Regarding the topaz/rhodium dialer, do you plan to include it in further releases ?
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
I don't know yet :(. I'm quite happy with the latest version of the rom (based on Blackstone packages).

In order to make the Topaz dialer working, you need to include the latest Util package from the Topaz rom as well. Unfortunately this package is a little bit buggy on the Blackstone, as you can't adjust the backlight anymore.

Since I'm using Lumos in order to adjust the backlight automatically, this is something I can't live with, so probably I will stay at the "normal" dialer.

But, as usual, you are free to make own tries :).
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] vangrieg:
Did this change with 2.2 somehow? Are you sure it's HTCUtil? I have a custom ROM based on 2.1's SYS and OEMDrivers, with Blackstone HTCUtil, and the Topaz dialer works perfectly.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
It works, but it doesn't work properly. As far as I know the slider should be moved more smoothly, but with the HTCUtil it is either there, or not, nothing in between.

Or am I wrong?
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] vangrieg:
In my ROM it works perfectly, and I have the same Blackstone HTCUtil as you do. I have changed a lot of other packages though, taking all from the official Topaz ROM (no Rhodium stuff). Among those that may affect the dialer (I suspect) are HTCGesture (yours is from Blackstone, mine is from Topaz), and all the utility packages like Concurrence manager which in 2.1 are from Rhodium. Rhodium and Topaz packages don't always live well together. Dialer is known to have problems with Rhodium Manila, for example.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
Ok, thanks, good to know, althoug I'll stay at Blackstone packages right now :).
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] vangrieg:
I've installed the suite and judging by the way it looks it needs the new Menu enhancement package. Try to install the one available as a cab, you can get it in the Development and Hacking forum.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] kalhimeo:
Unfortunately the Menu enhancement cab from rhodium did not help (i used the one here).

Is there any place where i could find all the packages from Blackstone, Topaz and Rodium easily ? Or do i have to search all over the forum ?

Thx for your help
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] vangrieg:
It was a bad advice, I've already figured it out, sorry about misleading you. I looked at it again and found that in my case the keyboard doesn't start after reset. I get the Microsoft keyboard and there's no menu after I try to choose another one. Sounds familiar?

So the culprit in my case is the HTC SIP Service (HTCSipSrvc), which is set to autostart in the registry but fails to do so. You can start it manually using, say, FDCSoft Task Manager - go to Services, long tap on HTCSipSrvc, Start. Set to Automatic if it's set to Manual. This workaround doesn't survive reset but works for me until I find a permanent solution, which should be located somewhere in the packages missing in Barebone and my ROM, like ExtraFilesPkg etc.

In Topaz and Rhodium forums on xda-developers.com, of course! :) You'll have to download the ROMs and extract them using a kitchen.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] kalhimeo:
You are totally right, i started the service and it worked but it does not survive soft reset (for infos the service was already set to automatic start).

Found it , thx
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] vangrieg:
So the good news is that it's not a package dependency issue.

The bad news is that I don't understand why it doesn't start.

The good news is that I found a workaround (used Bootlauncher instead of standard WM Service launch registry key), which works perfectly for me now. Try this cab (uninstall the previous one first).
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] kalhimeo:
It works !! Thank you very much vangrieg.

If you send me your paypal email address in PM, you will get a coffee ;)

Same for John, i love your ROM, you deserve a coffee as well ! If i can only do a suggestion, your ROM would be perfect with the new HTC dialer because this old one shipped with Blackstone is optimised for D-Pad use (ie to switch between mobile/home/work for a contact) while the new one is optimised for finger touch only.

Greets,

Laurent
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
You can switch between mobile/home/work with sliding to the left or right, not very intuitional, but working.

Maybe you can talk to vangrieg as he has the Topaz dialer. Maybe he will share his rom (or at least his knowledge) with you :).

Thanks for the donation!
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] vangrieg:
Awesome, so the cabs can now be added to the first page I guess. Glad I could help.

I don't have a paypal account - for some strange reason I never receive registration confirmation emails from them, and I tried several accounts including my work address and a paid account!

Anyway, I'll drink that coffee, and would be happy if you sent this donation to john - he deserves it, and I couldn't make my donation exactly because I don't have paypal. :)
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] kalhimeo:
Oh very nice, i never noticed that !! Selecting a different number for a contact was my major concern with this old dialer, great tip :D

No problem, i did a second donation to john then ;)

Greets to you 2

Laurent
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
What excactly needs to be installed? I think its too complicated in order to just link to it.

Maybe you should consider opening an own thread, were you describe what to install.

I thank you both very much!

I've just updated the third post with information about the used versions of each package.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] farkah:
hi, i realise this question is probably not directly related to barebone rom but could be something for you anyways - do you know where in registry i can change the 'start' menu from displaying 'start'? it annoys the heck out of me, and reminds me of trying to delete the word start from windows95 when it came out. i only need an icon, and since i use quickmenu which has the option of a simple 'q' icon could delete the entire base start menu system from displaying. i try to avoid installing tweak utilities per se.

edit, ignore me... found that wktask does it, and nicely adds running icons to the top of the taskbar :D http://soft.photoracer.net/docs/wktask_en.html
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] devdarshan:
Just installed your 2.2 version and quite impressed with it...will run for a few days and see how it goes and then donation surely on the way for all the effort.

3 queries if you can answer please:

a) The menu options that come up are too huge (The start menu is fine - small) but all other menu's are a very large font. How can I reduce their size? I have reduced the setting in display everything else reduces - but the menu options...!

b) I have exchange setup and also Gmail and downloading fine - but the activesync still keeps running - I have seen somewhere on how to stop this from popping up when not in use any idea how I can do this?

c) I am using the latest Radio - 1.13.25.24 - and feel that my signal has detoriated at home (Was getting 2-3 bars now only one and sometimes searching signal) since I was using 1.09.25.14 - is it advisable to downgrade the radio to 1.09.25.14 version? Can I use this ROM with the earlier radio?

Thanks

Dev
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
Have you already set the text size (Start -> Settings -> System -> Screen -> Text Size)? After setting it to a proper value its just fine for me.

You need to add a fake server. This is described within this thread.

For me the latest radio (1.13) works best so far, so personally I wouldn't downgrade. Furthermore there is the latest version of rilphone.dll in my rom (which is designed to work best with the 1.13 radio version). You could try another version, any information on this will be given here.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] devdarshan:
-- Screenshots attached - see the 3rd Screen...all other settings are fine. 1st and 2nd Screen look ok. Only the options on the 3rd screen are too big!

I will try this and see thx.

-- Read through this thread - since I am using Exchange Sync realtime - Activesync needs to be running - Bugger!

Sounds logical. Will keep for a few days and see how it goes. Mayb a few more resets etc may bring it alive!
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
You can change this using HDTweak or AdvancedConfig. Default value is 1000, it should be just right then.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] pdafuzzi:
Nice rom, i love it.

But where can i find the USBToPCPopUp as cab-installer?

Thanks.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] chris5304:
Attached cab file.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] pdafuzzi:
Works fine.

Thanks
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] demoneyes1981:
I tried a lot of Roms but yours is by far the best keep up the good job
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
I will, but there aren't any new ressources so far, so it doesn't make sense to change anything at the moment.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] henrik.dk:
Thanks for this great ROM. awaiting for the release based on new 156 rom.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] pdafuzzi:
Version 2.2 is based on 1.56.401.0.

Read the first post :)
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
As already said 2.2 is already based upon 1.56, so either you haven't read the first post, or you are running an old version :).
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] henrik.dk:
Sorry for the misunderstanding by quick reading your first post. I thought that: you are to release .... actually you are ready to ....

I have just flashed your ROM but I got problem to setup the phone network.

How to set it up manually? Thanks.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
What do you mean by that? Do you mean the data connection? You need the login data of your provider in order to set it up manually. I've deleted ConnectionSetupDB, because normally you use it once, but it takes storage and memory all time, so I see no need for it.

But: I have attached a cab file in the second post, so if you have to much trouble with your data connection, you could try this out.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] henrik.dk:
I am starting to use it now. Its lighting fast. Thanks for the great work.

What I was wondering:

#1. without usbtopcpopup, how you set the 3 options of usb connection

#2. without CommManager, how you control the communication?

BTW: I tried to install the cab at your page, but failed with not enough

permission.

#3. how about including

NET 3.5

SqlCeMobile

office + onenote?

Are these all easily accessible in this site.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] vangrieg:
You can control connections in Settings - Connections. USB settings should be there as well.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
Thanks :).

You can do this in Start -> Settings -> "USB to PC".

Quite the same as above: Start -> Settings -> "Wireless Manager".

Both are really simple, but almost as powerful as the HTC versions are.

Which one? CommManager? To be honest, I haven't tried it yet, I will do so later.

Although it works great (and is needed by some applications) it is still a beta. I'm using my rom productivly on a daily basis, therefore I'm not interessted to be a beta tester ;).

Its included as you can see on the first page (third post):

Office is also included. I've deleted OneNote, because personally I think it is quite the same as the old-fashioned "Notes".

I know, but I've decided to delete (not add) them, for the reasons mentioned above.

As my rom is unprotected you are free to include any application you want, if you have some basic knowledge :).
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Neurobasher64:
Hi, I am kind of new to this. :)

I downloaded the latest ROM in the first post and followed the flashing info found on the wiki.

After running CustomRUU.exe, I see the screen on my HTC Touch HD switch to a progress bar at 0%.

It stays at 0% for 5 minutes and CustomRUU reports loosing contact with my device.

The USB cable I use for syncing normally works, I tried another one, I disabled my antivirus... no luck.

Like I said, I am new to this stuff...

Any ideas what I am doing wrong here? :confused:
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] henrik.dk:
How about using the wrapper?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=435110

BlackstoneRUUWrapper.zip

I don't use the CustomRUU due to virus warning.

I have tried different ROM including this and had no problem at all.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] henrik.dk:
Now I can managed to setup everything I need on your barebone ROM.

I did try different ROMs and I really like your release.

The CommManager is download from below link.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=482258

So I will just report it there.

I fully understand you philosophy and like your attitude and actually have more trust on your ROM. :)

The only thing I feel a bit odd is that every time I open the start menu after soft reset, the menu popped up with significant delay & flickering.

Also I like the big font size from HTP official ROM. Is that possible to get it?
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
Thats just fine :).

Great :).

I haven't noticed this? Have you tried to hard-reset your device already? Maybe this could fix the problem.

What font size do you mean? You can adjust this within the "Start -> Settings -> System -> Screen -> Text Size".

AdvancedConfig (or HDTweak) even grants some more options, so just try to get it adjusted there.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] henrik.dk:
advanceConfig required .net 3.5. :mad:
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
Then jsut install it? Its no problem to have both versions installed.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Neurobasher64:
Thanks for you help henrik.dk!

I downloaded the wrapper but still get the same result.

The exact message is: ERROR [262] : UPDATE ERROR.

Then I just have to reset the battery, insert my SIM and mSD card and back to its orginal state.

Maybe its better I start a different thread, because my problem is not related to this ROM.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] henrik.dk:
seems like you haven't run SPL. I prefer USPL. The steps are below:

HOW TO FLASH TOUCH HD

1. Go to ActiveSync properties and disable "Allow USB Connections" option

2. Turn off your device (long press "Power" key or remove/replace battery),

3. enter SPL bootloader mode (tri-color) by pressing and holding "Power" and "VolDown" keys simultaneously.

4. make sure "USB" label appeared in the white portion of the screen on your device.

5. Run the GUI wrapper "USPL.exe" to set the SPL

download here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=508361

6. Run the flash wrapper.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] henrik.dk:
Just installed. Seem like it is out of Beta. I could be wrong.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
Seems so, maybe I will include it in my next version.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Neurobasher64:
Thanks again henrik.dk :)

I realized this last night and updated my HSPL.

After loading the ROM, my device was updated! :)

But I noticed two weird things:

- every time I power on the device, the Windows splash screen looks funny, I can fix this my just doing a quick off/on

- the cell phone service is no longer working (like if there was no radio?); when I try to enable the cell service, the device hangs

So I loaded the original ROM and back to square one!

I think I need to read more... :D
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
You are still running the old version of HSPL.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Neurobasher64:
Thanks for the info johnpatcher. :)

I am a bit confused as to which HSPL is the right one... :confused:
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
1.56 of course :).
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Neurobasher64:
It's working great now! :p

Thanks henrik.dk and johnpatcher for your assistance!

This ROM is indeed really fast compared to the HTC one :)

I would like to make a donation, but I can't find Canada in the country list?
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
Love to hear that :)[/quote]

According to this page there is a localized version of PayPal for Canada, but it is not supported at all, which doesn't make any sense :(.

Do you know which (good) services are supported in Canada, maybe I will have to create a new account, as you are already the second one that actually want to donate, but is not able to :(
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] core7x:
im in trying now :)
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Neurobasher64:
Other then Paypal, I don't know any other good service...

Is there another "safe" way to send money directly ?
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] henrik.dk:
The delay of the start menu seems to be there even after hard reset.

What I have observed is that:

First comes the menu item "Today" and after a while (might be 2 second delay) comes all the other menus items.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
Have you noticed that with any other ROM? The only thing I can think of is that you have enabled some kind of animation. As far as I know you can set this up using AdvancedConfig (or HDTweak?), so maybe thats the reason.

Personally I haven't noticed this, nor have I received any other report for that :(.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] henrik.dk:
I can live with this for now. It is just minor.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] dusty_nz:
Feedback

Thanks heaps John.

Well impressive rom. First time I have been impressed with the roms being released here.

Read this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=3774227#post3774227
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] johnpatcher:
I'm happy to hear this :).
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] chrisque1:
THXS

Awesome rom, now i´m free of all the trash.

Greetings from Costa Rica!