[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] egzthunder1:
Actually, the problem that you are describing with the "None" instead of version numbers is widely known (and has been around since WM5). Basically, before you take out the battery, press the on/off button (to turn the device off) and wait for something like 10 seconds. Then, turn your device on again. Getting out of the "None" thing is as simple as doing a soft reset though.

Now, here is what you wrote regarding your issues:

NOT WORKING

- Close Button in wireless manager doesn't work, but you can exit using the hang-up button (as others have posted, too) [highlight]confirmed[/highlight]

- Home Button to return to the start screen doesn't work on my BA [highlight]the Home button will open up the Start Menu from any screen other than Today, which is pretty normal behavior except for the fact that the Start menu should open at Today as well[/highlight]

- I think there was another place where the OK/EXIT Button didn't work, but i can't remember where [highlight]beats me :)[/highlight]

I am very happy with this so far, thanks for your work, d-two.

A few problems accounted on my BA, maybe they have nothing to do with your ROM release, but perhaps someone can help.

After changing the SIM card or just taking out the battery and putting it back in the booting process stops at the 4 colored screen. "R" and "G" display "NONE", just the Device CE Image Version "D" says 5M6.5.1.Softreset doesn't fix it, I have to perform a hard reset, go into bootloader mode and clean the registry and format the storage (Enable KITL: NO, Clean Registry Hive: YES und Format Storage: YES). Now the BA will start up and boot the OS but I have set up all the settings, etc. again. Does someone know how to fix this? [highlight]See my explanation above[/highlight]

A few general questions about installing apps on my BA.

I already know a bit about flashing and installing ROMs (debranded a t-mobile BA, etc.). First I wanted to have a relatively stable version of WM6 running before installing apps. Which apps should I install? I know I pretty much depends on what you want to do and like. [highlight]there is no unique answer for this as it depends on your usage of the device.[/highlight]

But which apps are a must have. For example increasing stability/power of the BA. I have read a lot threads but it's a vast amount of applications people use.

I got the cabs from Helmi's release and the EXTROM from explode's release. [highlight]there are some apps for overclocking the device but doing that will only drain your battery and you will not notice much of a change in using this. cleanRam is actually pretty useful to keep your device running at full speed.[/highlight]

One last topic. I haven't merged EXTROM and storage yet. Should I do that? I know that WM5 and WM6 in contrast to WM2003 don't use non persisting memory for storing programs.

In the EXTROM on the BA are there are currently the old T-Mobile cabs lying around. Can I roll back the memory merging and split it again in case I want to downgrade to 2003?

I know that you can install cabs either from a sd card or from the EXTROM. Is it a good idea to put the cabs you like in the EXTROM folder, so they're executed automatically

via autorun.exe and cfg.txt after a hardreset? I'd like to do so, but I need to unlock the EXTROM first.

I tweaked the registry once with PHM Registry Edit to make the EXTROM visible (changing "MountFlags" key in the registry from 1 to 0) but this doesn't work with WM6.

I tried the xda-developers_Unlocker.CAB but it doesn't work. Tried unhide and then unlock. Error message tells me that ""unlockextrom" could not be opened.

It either hasn't a trustable security certificate or one of the components can't be found." How can I fix this and successfully unlock the EXTROM?

[highlight]In order to unhide, repart and clean the ExtRom that shipped with the device, you have to roll back to 2003, do all the pertinent changes there, and then upgrade to any version that you want. There are a bunch of advantages by doing this. For once, you get more free memory inside of your device. Second, the device actually runs smoother since it will not load all the crap from T-mobile (or whatever the carrier may be), which will make it easier on the memory consumption for the running programs. If you wanted to get all the stuff back, you can always reflash the stock rom.

As far as putting the cabs in a Storage card, in my opinion this is a must. In fact, since you will not have an ExtRom inside of your device trying to run every time you reflash (or hard reset) your device, this will allow you to create your own personalized ExtRom to run from the SD card, where you can install anything that is on your mind as well as preconfigure settings. I hope this helps.[/highlight]

[highlight]Thanks for changing everything to English. You see? It paid off in the end since I was able to give you a hand with your issues :D. BTW, here is the tutorial to unlocking, unhiding, and resizing the ExtROm[/highlight]