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[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] soup006:
I wonder how much slower 6.5 would run on the Epix? In any regard, I hope there is still progress being made on the cooked rom upload in this thread. Lets not let this die. :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] :
Slower you kidding right? the epix has a marvell cpu running at 623mhz, besides 6.5 its an update to 6.1 e.g cosmetic,gesture,finger friendly updates, nothing like the upcoming wm7 which is going to be a core change THIS will be a big ass difference.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] lostsoul3471:
well, haven't given up yet, just taking a momentary break to figure out the right route to take. Ran into a snag trying to cook the slightly modified WM6.5 rom and once I get past that, I'll give it a shot.

As for speed. The Epix, bugs aside, has more memory and a more powerful cpu than 90% of the current phones out there, Omnia included. (It has a hair more ram, than the Omnia from what I noticed.) So, Rafy is right. There should be no noticeable degradation of performance if any at all--just major UI improvements overall.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ~~Tito~~:
I am excited with all this development for the Epix, since, I should get it via mail tomorrow.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] opn6:
Great news.. Hope to see a cooked rom with a working gps for the epix .
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ~~Tito~~:
I hear that all you need to do is install the at&t gps software that they want to use, then just toss it since it enables the ports??

Ahhh, tracking status says that the package has arrived in vegas :D, cant wait for morning. :p
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mailliw_17:
congrats with your new epix....
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ~~Tito~~:
UPS is being slow in delivering it . . .. I still haven't got it even though it says its on the truck.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] atown305:
lol, i remember when i was waiting for my epix... good times
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] opn6:
Finally ... I got the GPs working. If it's not working for you try this.

http://www.mysamsungepix.com/forum/how-to/how-to-fix-gps-after-epix-id1-update/#p897

I tried this before with with com 1 and it didnt work. But it seems that com4 was the key ;) ..

I also recommend this Epix Performance CAB found here for your new Epix .

http://www.epixwiki.com/hacks:epix_performance_cab

But your probably like me and have all the tweak stuff ready to go :)

good Luck..
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ~~Tito~~:
YES! I had it delivered :P. It was around 6. There is one thing that is bugging me though. There's this little piece of lint or fabrinc in the digitizer. . . Any way to get it out?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] laronz:
Great! A cooked rom is great. and getting the flashing tool is the greatest.

First of all , we should work to get a clean and unlocked official rom. I mean all the at&r apps,and any other lock to at&t, just like GPS, is removed and unlocked.

when we get a perfect 6.1 rom, porting to 6.5 may cost less time and make fewer mistakes.

Here is a official WM6.5:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...FamilyID=20686a1d-97a8-4f80-bc6a-ae010e085a6e

download the square edition, then get the *.bin file from the *.msi using some tools ,which can extract files and reg from MSI.

run :

NBSplit -emu *.bin

osnbtool -d *.BIN.payload 1 xip.bin

osnbtool -d *.BIN.payload 2 imgfs.bin

dump the imgfs.bin ,then run pkgtool to get sys.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] alkoholic:
It's not just getting it working, but getting it to NOT eat battery power even after it is turned off. My GPS always "worked" after the ID1 update, even without running AT&T navigator (although locks were really slow), but my battery wouldn't even make it through the day unless I reset the phone after using the GPS.

I would advise anyone with an Epix to NOT update to ID1.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mailliw_17:
just updated my epix. any advise on what to do.....
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] atown305:
i dont see what all the fuss is all about, my gps works fine, and i dont get any slog dump error:confused:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] beerbaronstatic:
The problem is that once your GPS is active, your device.exe process spikes to ~70% and won't drop down when you're done with the app, which causes massive battery drain. To see the issue, run your GPS software of choice, then open task manager, view -> processes. It should be near the top, wait a few seconds and you'll see it jump.

The only way to bring it down to normal is to soft reset the phone, or open the comm manager and disable the phone then reenable.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] atown305:
Oh, I wouldnt know then because I dont use my gps much because i dont have a data plan
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ~~Tito~~:
Any progress on wm 6.5?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] opn6:
I have not noticed any spikes or battery drain as of yet . But I have only been using google and bing. Going to install Garmin mobile this weekend. i'll let you know how it goes.

Update

I ran gpstest 1.0.4 .

Found the 4 sats in about 15 sec . 20 mins later I have 9 .

But device.exe at 50% - 60%

Well that sucks
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mailliw_17:
please update
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mailliw_17:
any new rom update
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] thunk:
So, I did alcoholik's ROM update, it got hung up at writing a dummy CSC header but if you just unplug it and reboot it it works.

I also tried to use the eboot, it just hung up. I had to unplug it and reflash it.

Using Grand Prix, just follow Alcoholik's instructions, they're pretty self-explanatory. Probably the only trick bit is that a) you have to use the GrandPrix LV image and b) of the 4 catagories, you only have to select a PDA image; you can leave the eboot, csc and multilang bit empty.

Question: I didn't pay for GPS service, do I have to disable it? Or is it free, because I read something about the Epix basically figuring out your location based on the nearest cell phone tower.

Because of this, I have no idea if the GPS works or not.

Problems with the flash:

I couldn't access the internet for the longest time. But I soft reset for enough times and it suddenly worked for some reason. I don't know if it's the cooked rom or just my phone. Other than that, it looks good.

If I were to start cooking, where would I start? How would I dump the rom/modifiy the rom/resemble the rom?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mitch1:
Thanks

Thanks for the update. This was just what I was looking for. As for GPS on Google Maps, it does use data as I used it without the phone being on and it wouldn't work. Don't know about other GPS software. Too bad you can't tell us if there is a big battery drain with using the GPS after the new ROM. This would prove that we all should re-flash our phones. Report in soon to tell us how your phone is behaving.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] trashcan:
I just created a "clean" pda.bin for the Epix. I believe most of the AT&T crap were yanked and I added few utilities apps and also the capability of reading and writing chinese. I can yank out the chinese capability and post a link for anyone wanna try.

- original ID1 rom dump

- All AT&T crap removed

- Single date line

- Battery percentage

- Softkey changer

- HTC network wizard

- Security warning disabled

- mapped "My Documents" to storage card

- TCPMP 0.72RC1

- PHM RegEdit

- Pocket RAR

- Pocket screen capture

- PsShutXP

- Totalcmd

- NetCF 3.5

*page pool is set to default..didn't test a larger page pool yet*

*will need to manually set "at&t media net button to IE*

Download link 1: *with chinese read/write capability* http://rapidshare.com/files/258600983/PDA.bin.html

Download link 2: *non-chinese, UPX compressed files* http://rapidshare.com/files/258610513/PDA.bin
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gurs:
Nice work trashcan! Will the phone be fully application unlocked with your ROM? I've had trouble unlocking the phone to allow full read/write access to all portions of internal memory and registry.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] XA Hydra:
This excites the heck outta me... I've been hoping someone who knew what they were doing would start cooking up a better firmware! Can't wait to see what develops out of this!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] lostsoul3471:
I've been trying hard to get a WM6.5 rom to cook for this but have been hung up at every attempt. Either an existing cooked rom won't "uncook" or the Norwegian version someplace won't cook completely. Run into exception errors every time I try. Saykr's tool for the omnia doesn't seem to add anything to Alcoholik's rom so fixing that up didn't work either. Things are close to same but not really with the tools available, so I'm stuck on this end so far.

Looking forward to trying Trashcan's attempt to see how that turns out as well. This stuff is turning out to be akin to some high magic more than logical progressions--and I'm a seasoned tech guy saying this.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BWheezy:
Any chance you can UPX compress the .exes and cook those in? Someone posted a full set on howard forums a while back but the links seem to be dead. UPX cuts the file sizes down significantly and seems to make the apps a little snappier.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] trashcan:
download link updated. will try to update the UPX compressed files on the non-chinese capability build.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] trashcan:
personally, I think Winmo 6.5 is a joke but if anyone interested, I will try to cooke one when I get some free time.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] trashcan:
Non chinese version with UPX compressed files is up for download. see post 92.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] soup006:
I would love for you to try and cook a 6.5 rom.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BWheezy:
You sir, are the man, I'll try this out later this evening.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BWheezy:
Trashcan's US firmware works great so far, couple thoughts though, remote desktop could be a good addition, and maybe a the VGA patch? Also it still has the ATT startup and shutdown screens but I just nuked them with the .cab someone made a while back.

Also if you want me to mirror this on my personal site let me know, I can throw it up for a while, rapidshare kinda sucks for files this big.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] subbie268:
installing trashcans rom

what are the steps can anyone let me know or point me to a place to read?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jays6768:
good stuff

Let me first say thanks a million for providing something Samsung should have done in the first place. I've had my Epix for about a month and was about to switch back to my Treo 750 and throw the Epix on Ebay. After a week of reading, flashing, and running Activesync in the ground I have new life in my Epix and the Treo is going to be listed on Ebay.

Alkoholic's ROM worked for me 100% perfect. GPS connected right up and all was fine. I flashed trash can's ROM yesterday and I have a few issues. First off I do get the big "H" icon when I browse that I never got before on this phone and I love it (small things). Something is screwy with my network settings though and I wonder if it is attributed to the Network Wizard. For one I am unable to deselect the proxy server bypass box in the proxy manager. I can uncheck it but when I go back it is checked again. Also the network settings just look completely different than I remember with the Samsung and Alkoholic ROM. I don't remember them well enough to edit them myself so now starts the troubleshooting phase. As of now I can use the phone and texts work, Manilla 2D only updates the weather via wi-fi and I am unable to get any POP emails. Surfing the web works just fine.

I'm in the Phoenix, USA area and I have an unlimited data plan. Would love to offer any testing assistance needed. Good job guys!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jays6768:
update

EDIT: it ended up being the Epix performance pack.cab I installed. I removed it and all is well.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jgreen7:
Trouble loading ROM on Epix

I've been trying to load one of the ROM's on my epix but have had no luck.

The problem I am having is with getting Grandprix to find my device. I followed the instructions listed earlier in this thread:

Modem drivers are installed & loaded.

I shutoff epix and disconnect.

I start Grandprix, select pda.bin and click on 'Detect'.

I then connect the phone again and wait.... Nothing ever happens after that. No devices are found or listed.

I have tried on Vista & on XP. I have tried three versions of Grandprix: 1.5.2, 1.6.4 (Vista), and 1.9.2.

Here is what is returned in the log area of Grandprix:

Service stopped successfully

Calculating file parameters(DISKIMAGE)....

Calculating file parameters(DISKIMAGE) Done!!

OnDeviceChange: DBT_DEVICEARRIVAL

PDA Device not found.

The "PDA Device not found" appears after the phone times out and goes to sleep.

Can anyone think of any other settings I might need to change? I was able to successfully update my phone to ID1 right after it was released so I know it can be updated. Does ID1 prevent this from working?

Thanks for any help
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] XSafire:
is there anything I can do to help get a 6.5 rom working? also, which of the 2 roms out for the epix is the better one?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BWheezy:
You have to connect the phone while it's off and then turn it on for it to be detected, I'm not getting the sense you did that from your post? It should stop at the SAMSUNG screen when it first starts up and then register in GrandPrix as ready to flash.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BWheezy:
I'd go with trashcan's ROM from page 10, it's more customized with less crapware. Alkoholic was attempting to use the older GPS drivers to fix the high GPS CPU utilization problems, but it didn't appear to fix them so far.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jgreen7:
That was exactly the problem I was having. I was not powering off the phone, I was only putting it to sleep. Once I did that everything worked. I have flashed the new image and all seems to be working well.

Thanks very much for your help.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Cascade2:
Count me interested!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] RonRoc:
trashcan's ROM from page 10

what [id] and [key] am i supposed to use
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] TravisN:
Count me in as very interested as well. This phone could actually be really good with the right OS on it. WM 6.5 addresses many UI deficiencies that 6.1 has. If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mitch1:
Dont need any

If you run GrandPrix 1.9.2, then you don't need an keys. Good luck.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] RonRoc:
thanks a lot
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mailliw_17:
thanks for the update
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jgreen7:
I've been playing with Trashcan's image on my Epix for a couple of days now. It seems much faster and more responsive. I like it a lot. I did run into two problems.

The first problem was a couple of my apps that I installed were not working. I was able to solve that problem by installing .NET 3.5 framework.

The other problem that I'm having is Wifi connectivity. I've loaded the image twice now and it takes many soft resets before I can get a successful connection to my access point. I've tried both DHCP and a static address thinking maybe that would help but so far no luck. It just continues to try connecting. There is never an error message displayed. I don't even get an error that the password is wrong when I tried typing it in wrong.

Is anyone else having problems with wifi or is it just me? :)

Thanks for your efforts here Trashcan!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BWheezy:
I noticed the Wifi was somewhat spotty early on, but it seemed to get better, will have to monitor that for a while to make sure it's not an issue.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mailliw_17:
no problem with my wifi
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ~~Tito~~:
Hey trashcan, any status on the WM6.5 rom?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gistofit:
some experience updates:

noticing weird wifi issues.

can't receive email from gmail. i connect and can see that i have emails but it disconnect before downloading the whole message.

while at the same time internet works perfectly.

other times i get no internet but my weather tab in manila2d is able to update via wifi. weird

have tried uninstalling potential problems i.e. epix performance.cab, s2u2.cab.

things done before noticing problem: installed epix_performance.cab. attempted getting gps to work (no yet but haven't tried hard)

previous to these things everything was smooth pudding!

edit:

now I'm thinking it was conflicts between epix_performance.cab and the silent startup/shutdown.cab and the camera silencer cab. they change similar things and I don't think hey all got along well.

edit 2(8-3-09):

seems the conflicts are now gone. been using a few days. everything works perfectly. battery life is as good as before and i even run the thing at full brightness and wifi on continuously (which i think is off when the screen is blank) for a whole charge and it lasted a good three days. I also used gps tonight and it worked perfectly. i am using google maps with gps settings set to GPS program port: COM1 and GPS hardware port: COM9 with baud rate 9600 and Manage GPS automatically box CHECKED. in google maps the settings are just managed by windows. i don't have a data plan so again i am just using wifi which is EXTREMELY sporadic driving around. :) just updating FYI.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] trashcan:
Working on it..just ported the WM6.5 XIP and looks like it's booting.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] TravisN:
WinMo 6.5 ROM

trash-can!

trash-can!

trash-can!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ~~Tito~~:
WOOOOOOOOT!!!! How long do you think it will be, hehe :p

I'm using your clean rom right now! :D, I'm happy to say its speedy and working just fine with out the epix performance cab.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] atown305:
but with wm 6.5 wouldnt there be problems with the screen resolution and apps cuz most qvga apps are the standard 240x320
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] maillota:
ill chime in too. I would love to see a 6.5 rom!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ~~Tito~~:
I am running things just fine? Just not WM 6.5.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mailliw_17:
6.5!!!!

6.5!!!!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ioneng:
Anyone can help me flash back to orginal rom? the one before ID1 update. cos I really need the GPS to work. I tried everything but with the new rom GPS can never get a lock at all.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] cherrybombaz:
I'm eagerly awaiting the 6.5 rom.

Thanks trashcan.:)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BWheezy:
Anyone else notice they can't make an MMS message with the rom Trashcan customized? Or am I just missing something?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ~~Tito~~:
Yea, I couldn't and I used arcsoft mms. It doesn't work all the way. . .like show folder icons in its file explorer. But its a start.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] ~~Tito~~:
I got it to work! When I was seeing what the problem was, i found out that the OEM MMS application was missing. So I gave up a late night and flashed and restored my back up. Well what ever happened my palm threaded text messaging worked!! I had previously installed it in my back up and it couldn't send any, now i tested it just to see and it works! You can find it here.

Ok, it stops being able to send after a soft reset. . . I will see what I can do to fix it. If anyone wants to pitch in, then pitch in :). This is the latest version of the palm threaded messaging that works!

Edit #2: Ok, I got it. Just delete the MMS Key in the registry that samsung has. If you have installed Arcsoft Uninstall it and delete that key as well. Delete: "HLM\Software\Samsung\MMS" and if you installed arcsoft and uninstalled it delete: "HLM\Software\Arcsoft"

I've soft resetted twice with no issues.

We got the best mms/sms app around, 0 lag and 100% mms working!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] trashcan:
Windows Mobile 6.5 build 23017 is working on my test build. I will upload it later today. There's still a lot of tweakings and removing AT&T apps but it's promising and working.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] soup006:
awesome!! thank you!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BWheezy:
Awesome, any chance you can redo the 6.1 rom with the missing MMS app? Tito's link does work but I kinda liked the original arcsoft based MMS app, installing a standalone arcsoft doesn't seem to work, the original integrated better into the phone's messaging system.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] trashcan:
I will fix the MMS app as soon as I am done making the WM6.5 rom. the MMS issue should be just some OEM settings that I removed.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] danbutter:
I am very interested in the 6.5 version, but have another question and since there aren't too many people doing the whole epix thing...I thought I'd ask here.

I have tried to flash the official samsung update and I tried and tried, but couldn't get the PDA to be seen by the flashing utility. I tried Win7, vista and XP. Finally XP saw it and went about its merry flashing way. Thing is it froze before it would finish... leaving the PDA part updated, but the phone part the same as shipped. Tried again...same thing...won't update phone.

Anyone have any idea what I can try?

P.S. Sorry to hijack the thread...just hard to find epix users!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gistofit:
i only flashed the pda. i didn't touch the phone part.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] lttung:
Thank. Waiting !
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] trashcan:
See the following post for the download link of WM6.5 23017 build.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=544101
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] justDave:
I haven't gone to ID1 yet, but I did get the OTA upgrade (slog dump/notes sync) fix. Anyone know whether that touched the phone rom?

Main problem I'd upgrade for now is the phone freeze problem introduced with the OTA upgrade. Will flashing to 6.5 fix that or is it a phone rom problem?

If anyone knows...

Also, is there a way to dump the phone rom so we can switch among the various versions?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gistofit:
i don't have a super specific answer but i think i read somewhere that there is a phone.bin update of sorts coming from samsung at some point.

i also came across this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=544101&page=3

post #22 of the new 6.5 flashing thread

so you could try the ID1 upgrade first (COMES HIGHLY UNRECOMMENDED!!!)and then go to 6.5. otherwise hope for some way to either revert the phone.bin to original or the new upgrade if that happens.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] XA Hydra:
Hopefully the MMS issue is sorted out soon... WinMo 6.5 is awesome but has some interesting new issues all its own. Wish I could help out in some way. I really need to learn the "ways of the ROM Chef"
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] BWheezy:
I don't know if anyone has flashed directly without going to ID1, but if you're adventurous I'd skip ID1 completely since it seems to be the culprit in the GPS/Device.exe debacle. Dunno about the freezing issue, I skipped the OTA so I never had it.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] TeNsTrKe15:
i didnt quite see it on this thread but could anybody plz upload a link to the original wm6.1 professional rom for the samsung epix
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] nino2:
download link updated. will try to update the UPX compressed files on the with chinese read/write capability build.thanks