[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gistofit:
Thread Summary Attemp #1

A small consolidation of this thread thus far. These are clips from posts throughout that I found most useful and that I used to make my Epix WAY better! (thanks to everyone involved!!)

My humble report using trashcan's rom:

Easy Flash worked first time using this method/information:

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quote from post #92

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 2: *non-chinese, UPX compressed files* http://rapidshare.com/files/258610513/PDA.bin

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quote post #57

Used GrandPrix 1.9.2 to load PDA.bin

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Flashed using XP

quote post #42

Here are the steps (for XP):

Install Samsung Modem Drivers (if you did the ID1 update, you probably already did this)

Turn USB Mode to Modem (This is really just part of the modem installation process...the drivers don't really install until you plug the phone in in modem mode)

Turn USB Mode back to ActiveSync

Unplug phone, turn off

Open GrandPrix (Search xda for the file)

Click PDA and choose the pda.bin file

Uncheck "Format large..."

Click Detect

Plug in phone and turn on

It should detect the phone - click "Start Downloading"

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quote post #67

Just for academics (and cause info is still pretty sketchy across the web on this):

1) EBOOT or bootloader is phone specific and is used to start the phone.

2) PDA.bin is the actual OS image.

3) Phone.bin is the radio data that controls the hardware for cell/Wifi/BT/GPS

4) Customer.csc is usually where the carrier goes ahead and adds stuff to the base install and configures the phone accordingly.

So based on this observation/assumption just uploading the pda.bin should do it for most of our issues with maybe the customer.csc file as well depending on if it was used in setting up. ID1 doesn't have a customer.csc or a phone.bin which makes me wonder what we're missing out of this.

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.

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quote post #108:

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.

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My Personal Contribution.....

Added these addition changes:

AKToggleWifiCab.CAB --------------------toggles wifi on click set to right softkey

BerBibleEsvPpcStarterKit.PPC_ARM.CAB---------wm6 Bible ESV

boardgamesMO1_PPC_All.PPC_2577.WM5.CAB-------various board games

epix_manila2d_96dpi.CAB------------Best today screen plugin/theme(my opinion NEEDED!)

GoogleMaps.CAB--------google maps used with no data just wifi(so no driving around :( )

iContact.CAB---------iphoneish contact program nicely intigrated

iDialer.CAB------works with iContact.CAB finger friendly dialer

M2DC_v0.29.235.CAB------manila2d customizer a "must have" with manila2d

nonescalatingring.CAB----------just loud right away

RealVGA_11.CAB-----------change screen from 128dpi to 96dpi MORE SCREEN!

S2U2------can't remember the actual file but iphoneish screen locker.

WkTaskL_1202.CAB-------another highly recommend program makes using and closing programs way easier!

smartskey.cab-----needed volume rocker to scroll switch! (makes scrolling pages WAY easier!)

plus various games and other stuff!

might use epixvga.cab or epix_respack_96.cab instead of RealVGA_11.cab to change screen res. but i am happy with Realvga right now. I can't remember which one I used before the new flash.

these are most of my additions found from scrounging the web and this forum(yeah xda!). i've also done some other little tweaks to make things just for me but this is the majority of it. hope this helps some people catch up!

-Haven't mess with gps enough yet to know if there are any issues.

-Wifi worked right away with less setup then the manufacture settings.

-epix perfomance pack v.0.04 may have caused some wifi errors.

-i have noticed increased performance by clearing all unused startup programs from windows\startup. i don't know what most are used for so i just copied them to a backup folder and left the programs i knew i wanted.

-in regards to post #84 Maybe slight battery drain...of course I have been using the phone more since the new rom!!