[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 ROM Development] Chef_Tony:
hey nice, the bugs i reported were not really bugs, i see that now, but i always feel like there is a lot to do after flashing a new rom, so i was stressed out and didn't have the time to try out all the options before posting, it was just some first impressions and from my previous experiences with wm6.5 i was used to a rather full settings screen, whereas now it is rather slim and vanilla, which i like even more.

@swiss:

i wasn't offended by anything you said, you seem to have misunderstood me, i was rather a little bit jealous that you made it work so simple while i have been trying for quite some time now and was just small steps away from realizing it, but more on that further down.

let me first say: "way to go, buddy!"

i think no rom has seen this many screenshots before, which i think is great for the community, they really know what they're getting with this rom, when they have such a great look at it before. i also said i would make some and already prepared the device mask to put the screenshots in, but you saved me a lot of work.

about windows 7 xp mode:

just a few quick questions

1. i set up xp mode and it worked out fine

2. i installed activesync in there

3. i connected the device to the pc (still on, no bootloader yet)

4. i clicked on usb and linked the device to the vm, so disconnecting it from the host system

5. synced favorites (no outlook in the vm)

and then the problems started, because for entering the bootloader i disconnected the device, put it in bootloader mode and re-connected it, windows 7 was searching drivers, and in the vm i could only see "unknown device" in usb, so i connected that. but then my bootloader was gone, the device's display was entirely grey, which i unfortunately just saw after starting the upgrade, which seemed to get a connection but didn't show any values except for the new rom version i was going to have, so getdevicedata didn't work, and after starting it got stuck at 0% with a completely grey display.

so my problem seems rather special, it wasn't the problem setting up the general environment, but connecting the device, when it is in bootloader mode, because there are no working drivers for my system, so the "unknown device" issue would pass, and if there were any, would i still need the xp mode? i mean that would be quite similar to the flashing in vista method, once there is a driver for the device in bootloader mode, the flashing works, right?

if you managed to bypass that or went a completely different way, please let me know so that maybe we can work out a working wiki for upgrades on windows 7 to be integrated in the wizard. btw i use windows 7 ultimate x64 build 7600 msdn.

@d-two:

after reading all the new posts that were written just since yesterday night, i realized that my last post was not written as positive as i originally intended.

this rom is great, it is fast, it looks great, it is so vanilla, and since the things i reported earlier were merely my own fault, i have to say, there is no real bug in it!

i actually have a lot of stuff to install to set the device up to my purposes, but i think i'll wait for your extrom and what you have to offer there, because i would set up my own extrom with it.

i hope more people try this rom and give it a chance, which is actually the reason i wrote in english, let's not exclude anybody or scare them off by using another language than english, as stated in the forum rules.