yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] bobbk55:
This is for a different model of the phone. My phone is the 5353 model with the Marvell PXA310 CPU and 800x480 resolution. I've got plenty of Chinese ROMs but still no English ROM for it...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] b0gdi:
the T5353 has a k3 hisilicon cpu, check with profilelevel.exe, I also have a chinese phone mfu w71 and looking for english WM6.5 rom.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mertozmen1:
ok guys ive been following this thread and i too have a clone t5353 phone. i downloaded the flash.bin and loader.bin files, have put them on my sd card but i cannot figure out how to install wm6.5. i have tried a number of combinations of buttons: return key + end key + power button brings me to a calibrating screen (hangs for a minute and shuts off), send key + windows key + power button brings me to a screen that gives me an error and says img file couldnt be found, send key + end key + power button shows me a downloading screen (hangs for a minute and shuts off). can anyone help me with flashing this rom i am desperate!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mertozmen1:
hello everyone,

i figured everything out on how to flash my roms but now that i downloaded the flash.bin i cant install it because it says the file does not exist when i run bootloader. i have a chinese wm6.5 i am using now and everything is in chinese so i dont understand a word except the time :mad: please give me an english wm6.5 rom in .bin format that works! thank you
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] bobbk55:
You need to have Flash.bin and Loader.bin on the SD card. Then (1) Turn off the phone, (2) while holding the "Hang-up" AND "Back" buttons, press and hold the power button. The phone will vibrate and go to a while screen with boot loader information. At least that's how it works on mine.

Still looking for an English 6.5 ROM though...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] fvadim:
any know about russian rom for clone t5353?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] bobbk55:
Best would be to figure out how to build Flash.bin ourselves otherwise we'll always have to hope ROMs get posted on the Chinese web sites.

What I was hoping is to extract the OS image from an official HTC ROM (English, Russian, etc) and rebuild Flash.bin with it. So far what I have is:

Extracting the official HTC ROM

1. Download the exe from HTC or other site and extract the exe using 7-zip.

2. NBHExtract.exe RUU_signed.nbh

3. osnbtool -sp OS.nb

4. osnbtool -d OS.nb.OS.nb 1 xip.bin

5. osnbtool -d OS.nb.OS.nb 2 imgfs.bin

Now using the Chinese ROM, you can also do something similar:

1. osnbtool -sp flash.bin

2. osnbtool -sp flash.bin.BIN.NB0

3. osnbtool -d flash.bin.BIN.NB0.OS.NB 1 xip.bin

4. osnbtool -d flash.bin.BIN.NB0.OS.NB 2 imgfs.bin

But I'm now sure now, how to swap the OS part and rebuild Flash.bin. Some site talk about using osnbtool -2bin. Haven't figured it out yet. If someone knows about this, please chime in!

Thanks,

Bob
[General Questions and Answers] edict:
I got chinese "HTC Diamond 2 T5353" with WM6.1 inside. This phone was with french language and I have tried to set up english msimru.dll. Because I had some mistakes, phone now cannot boot up and sleep on splash screen "HTC" :(

Who know how do hard reset of this phone? It seems like M88 or TM09 inside, have Nand OS.

Haves anybody english or russian language version of update.img for this phone?

PLEASE HELP!
[General Questions and Answers] N.Creep:
http://www.hardreset.eu/htc_touch_diamond_2_hard_reset_soft_reset_en.html

Found something hope fully it will work for you!
[General Questions and Answers] edict:
It's not original T5353 and this combination not work :(
[General Questions and Answers] edict:
I found keys combination for hard reset.

For Your information (I think all chinese clones of T5353 haves this things) - press "send button"+"power button" together. After screen blink immediately press "send key" again (not release "power key"). You should see boot menu. Using volume keys select menu item and press "windows" key.
[General Questions and Answers] vasendak:
how do you like the phone

Is it OK

does it work good

how much CPU, RAM, ROM

and is this really the hard reset combination

thank you very much
[General Questions and Answers] elebourgeois:
htc diamond 2 hard reset

I try to perform a hard reset too on htc diamond 2 (from china), but unsuccessul; anybody know how to do?? thank you!
[General Questions and Answers] Kucko34:
Press Talk button, End button and then Power button and wait... :)
[General Questions and Answers] carlo16v:
Buttons hard reset, turn off the HTC? I can not speak English well.thank
[General Questions and Answers] nismox:
Any updates or progress? I'm desperately in need for an english rom for my t5353, be it wm6.1 or WM6.5, obviously wm6.5 would be better ;)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Phrozt:
I've been on some other forums wondering what phone to buy, and it seems the tilt2 is the best for me. That being said, I'm not totally sold on it. For you people who've had it long enough, would you recommend it? I'm committed to learning about the best ROM to install over it, so I'm going to try to get away from as many freezes as possible. Of course, I was recommended to *this* wonderful site!

Does anyone have a good place to start for learning on here? There's a freakton of information on here, and I have no problem reading through lots of info, but I don't know where to start!

I would be much appreciative. Thanks!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] orb3000:
Welcome to forums

Yes!

Go and get it!!

Rhodium is the best hardware keyboard device to this date!

I´m very happy with mine:cool:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] p51d007:
This is my 3rd HTC device. With my big fingers, a hardware keyboard is a MUST. The Tilt had a good keyboard, the Fuze had a better keyboard, the Tilt2 has the best keyboard for someone like me. And now that I have to have bifocal glasses :rolleyes:, the larger screen is MUCH appreciated.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] dwboston:
I say get it as well. I had the Fuze, AT&T's version of the original Touch Pro, for a week and hated it. I just got a Tilt 2 and it's a much better device. I've been using it for a few days and haven't noticed any freezing or bad lag. I've loaded a few programs and done a few registry tweaks and so far I've been very happy with the results. Slingplayer Mobile looks great on this device and I get GPS locks in seconds in both Google Maps and Bing Mobile. The touch screen is very responsive and TouchFlo 3D has really improved in a year. I noticed some complaints about the Widcomm Bluetooth stack but the phone paired right away with my Motorola headset and the handsfree system in my Acura RL and has worked flawlessly with both.

I plan on deleting as many of the stock bloatware programs as I can to free up some memory, but so far the stock AT&T ROM has been fine. The keyboard is awesome - I don't mind having the symbols in the top row as I seem to use them more when typing emails. This is a really nice device.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Phrozt:
So what's the favorite ROM around here? Might be a week (or a few evne) before I pick this up, and I want to make sure I have my technology down so I don't keep on flashing.

I have a Motorola Q9h at the moment.... it's what got me hooked on windows mobile. I couldn't believe that I could actually edit the registry! So yeah, I'm all about tweaks, but I remember my first couple weeks and I was all over the place trying to find all the tweaks I needed.

I'm hoping to go into this next move prepared.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] IMissPalmOS:
My advice is this - make sure you try the phone out first. Try to have a conversation in a moderately noisy environment and see if you can hear the other person, even with the volume on full.

Loud enough for you? If so, then get the phone. Everything else about it is awesome.

If not loud enough, forget it, find a different phone made by a company who doesn't assume all their customers have bionic ears. It will drive you crazy and frustrate you every phone call, and there is no fix.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] gmanunited:
The best rom for me which is closest to stock as possible is here. I currently have been running for about a month and this is stable and great. Very close to the ATT stock rom.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] DaveTheTytnIIGuy:
It's a terrific phone, I highly recommend it. The keyboard is the best I've ever used, the screen is gorgeous, and the build quality is fantastic. If you're looking to start somewhere, I recommend the following links: XDA-Developers Wiki article on the Rhodium and Flashing your first Rhodium ROM. Of all the places to start, those are probably best. The stickies at the top of the forums are also good to read, as they often contain important information.

Also, as many will tell you, there is no best ROM. I personally like EnergyROM Leo for my purposes, but other ROMs may work best for what you prefer to do with your Rhodium. I would recommend looking in peoples' signatures and seeing what ROMs people are using, or better yet, flash them all and see what works for you. Now that that's out of the way, welcome to XDA-Developers!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Phrozt:
Perfect Dave!! Thanks a ton!

If I could rep you guys on these boards I would!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] DaveTheTytnIIGuy:
I'm happy I could help :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] khaytsus:
Unless he's having specific issues or a WM veteran I don't see why you'd point him to how to flash a ROM first thing... Probably let him use the device out-of-box for a bit.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] DaveTheTytnIIGuy:
The OP was interested in information concerning cooked ROMs, and where a good place to start would be. I figured that they'd want to know the process of installing one since they were inquiring about which one they should flash, and I thought that link would be a good place to start (when concerning ROMs). It's not like they have to flash one just because I linked there, and if they'd seen the instructions already there's no harm, so I thought I was being helpful by posting a useful related link. IMO there's nothing wrong with using a device out of the box (I did for ~1 year), but the OP requested more info on ROMs and I simply gave it to them.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] 69Pwned:
I've had my Tilt 2, for 2 weeks.

And I LOVE IT !!!

And i'm already a flashing whore .......... :D
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Phrozt:
Yeah, I've been using WM for 2 years now on my motorola q9h. The tweaking aspect is the reason I *want* to stay w/WM... and I was definitely looking for exactly what dave posted!

Also, as I indicated in a few posts, I want to know as much as I can before actually getting the phone so I can flash it, tweak it, set it up how I want it, and then not touch it so that I can keep a stable environment. I don't want to lose my messages and things...

Let's leave your mom out of this :P

(I'm sorry, I have a chronic condition involving mom jokes)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Phrozt:
well.... I just picked up the tilt 2 :). it's pretty cool so far but I do notice all the lag people have been talking about... will prolly just take some getting used to.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] eknutson:
My advice would be to try and get the out-of-the-box system working, install a few apps / shells / tweaks, figure out what's important to you and then flash. Pretty much any stock rom will be lag-free or lag-minimal. There's a lot of good ROMs / chefs out there. Flashing several will definitely whet your appetite.

~Eric
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Phrozt:
After owning this thing for awhile.. good LORD does it freeze up a lot :/. I mean, I get used to it and "deal" with it, but it becomes painfull noticeable when my friend has his droid out.

Maybe it's time to start looking into those homebrews for better efficiency, heh.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] burtonsnow8:
I rarely reset my phone for freezing issues, especially on sense 2.1 ROMs. Sense 2.5 ROMs maybe once a week at most. At the end of the day to get a phone that more closely functions how you want it to, a custom ROM is the way to go.

I will say the most stable release I ever used was the stock VZW 6.1 TF3D 2.0. I could run that thing for weeks and still idle at 49%.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] sirphunkee:
There's a couple of things that should be done with all new TP2's to help reduce memory hogging and help performance in general:

First, run the first two cabs below. One switches off push internet for a big resource savings. The other one switches on dynamic memory allocation, which does a much better job of freeing up memory when apps aren't using it.

Next, run the Advanced Config cab below...it's a utility that gives you access to all sorts of deeper-level settings in the phone. When you run it, navigate to the "power management" section, and make the first 7 entries there set to "enabled (advised)"

Do a soft-reset after these, and you should see a significant reduction in memory use and lock-ups.

Lastly, use the Crud Scraper attached below...copy it to your SD card and just run the .exe from there (not your PC). It allows you to uninstall a fair amount of the bloat AT&T was generous enough to include on the phone ;)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Will_nonya:
Some pretty good advice in this thread for new users. I've been playing with WM since well before it was WM and I've had an overwhelmingly positive experience with it, that is until i moved from the kaiser to the tilt2. I was ready to chunk it and get something else but decided to flash a few roms first. Not expecting much i was surprised by the significant performance improvements and overall appeal the device gained over the stock At&t rom.

My advice, I woudl only try "fixing" the issues with teh stock rom if you are absolutley stuck with it. if you are not stuck using the AT&T rom for some reason flash one, there are several good ones out there and all of them seem to be an improvement over the At&t rom in terms of stability and performance.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] sirphunkee:
Yes, and a lot of the custom ROM's here do incorporate most if not all of the fixes I posted above for stock ROMs
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] mileskb:
Great info, however the Advanced Config, and Crud remover both fail with me needing a newer version of the .NET compact framework...

I searched, but I can't seem to find a recent version....
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] mileskb:
Nevermind... I found it... helps if one spells things correctly when one uses search late at night.... :(
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Phrozt:
Yeah, I gotta say this is probably one of the most helpful forums I've ever visited and I've been through a bejeezus amount of forums for the majority of my life because of all the different things I do.

@sirphunkee, thanks... I'll try those out ASAP. Maybe not the push thing though, because I do use my phone pretty regularly to keep up w/company email. I have a work BB, but I don't like to carry it around that much.

@Deafcyclist, I'll look into those as well. I *did* see the thread about android and it looks pretty interesting. At the very least I'd like to try it and run things side by side w/my friend to compare the results.

I'm really appreciative that you guys took the time to post these suggestions on this thread, because I spent quite a bit of time looking through a lot of threads on these forums and as a "fairly light cell phone techy," I was a bit lost to some of the suggestions. It seems that some of these kind of expect some inherent knowledge before going through them. It would be nice if there was a thread for noobs that goes even further noobish on some of these topics (SPL unlocks, tweeks, etc). Of course the knowledge is all there if you know how to look for it, but it can be pretty overwhelming to people who haven't done a *lot* of customization, yet want to try some things.

Finally, I see that a lot of these customizations were originally for the TP2, and though they can be used for the Tilt2, I sometimes wonder about compatibility issues (working w/the keyboard and all).

Anyway, thanks again for all the helpful resources... this certainly helps refresh my resolve to work out some of these issues!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] epoh:
Dude, you can load up some different customized volume files to fix any low-volume issues. This was covered several months ago when lots of people were annoyed with at&t's low volume.

There's not much you can't tweak. I am loving my phone.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Phrozt:
@epoh: The freezes aren't driving you nuts?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Miami_Son:
Not sure what prompted this, but I have hearing loss and tinitus and have no problem with the in-call sound volume on my Tilt 2.
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] dadastar:
I want apk file to work on my CLIQ. Thank you!
[HD2 General] gargon01:
Hi Guys,

I'm having a little problem with my phone. After a lot of tweaking yesterday, I finally had my phone working perfectly. In a final change, I just tried to change the lockscreen wallpaper to a custom picture. I'm not sure what happened but, on restarting the phone, I'm getting:

'unable to start HTC Sense, tap here to try again'

and obviously can't get back to the home screen to change the wallpaper back via the sense settings although I can navigate the regular settings menu via the start tab and Sense is ticked in the settings. I've gone to the gallery and deleted the picture I assigned to the wallpaper but it's still showing when I restart the device.

Now, as I said, I've added a lot of cabs and made a lot of reg-tweaks and would really prefer not to do a hard reset if I can help it and have to do them all again. I changed the font on the device yesterday and don't know if that is related to the problem but I navaigated through the settings and removed that cab but still no joy.

Any help would be great, more specifically if I can restore the phone to earlier settings or maybe change the lockscreen wallpaper via the registry?

Thanks in advance
[HD2 General] ghost-5:
I don't know if this will work but try, windows, settings, (menu - all settings), today and unclick use this wallpaper as a background. You can also tab across and untick HTC sence and try restartng your phone
[HD2 General] gargon01:
Thanks for the tip. I just ended up hard resetting anyway and everything's working ok now. I tried unticking sense but no joy.

Thanks
[HD2 General] cayotte:
I think I've found the solution (at least before hardresetting):

Goto KHEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC

Just delete the key MANILA (back up to a file before you delete if you want)

Reset
[HD2 General] __BlackEyed__:
When transferring an album to the HD2 and then in Music opening gives a wrong sort order. I cannot make a distinction what the sort order is, but it is wrong. Any ideas?
[HD2 General] gshdtwo:
Yeah me too I have this problem... Doesn't seem to be alphabetical order I don't understand the logic around the order...?
[HD2 General] jrvenge:
I have all my tracked numbered, and it still mixes them up

???
[HD2 General] appelflap:
I hope you all have shuffle turned off. :)
[HD2 General] srw985:
Mine are all fine
[HD2 General] gshdtwo:
>I hope you all have shuffle turned off.

Of course, but the problem is before playback, it's the order in which the songs appear in the player under the "album" view, they don't come under alphabetical order of the file name or mp3 tag...

They're in the correct order (alphabetical) when looking at them via file explorer though.
[HD2 General] appelflap:
I thought so, but you never know.

Just a thought, could it be that the songs are ordered by artist name? The HTC music player doesn't use the "album artist" tag, but the "artist" tag instead. Meaning that, although you have selected an album, it may well be that it treats the individual songs as seperated and group them by artist.

Anyway, best practice is to substitute all "artist name" tags with the "album artist" tag. That way, you don't have a gazillion artist under "artists" when you browse through you collection by artist.

I can recommend MP3 Tag editor, free and powerfull tool
[HD2 General] __BlackEyed__:
All my songs are perfectly "tagged" in iTunes. Artist and album artist are the same. Songs are x from y songs. So on the HTC clicking on Artists it shows the artists perfectly sorted. When I click on the album of the artist, then the songs appears in random order.

And still I cannot see the way HTC orders the songs.
[HD2 General] appelflap:
Aha, iTunes you say? Now you mention it, I have two albums I bought via the iTunes store and with those albums I have exactly the same problem as you described. I therefore suspect it has something to do with the apple m4a format.

I have no problems with the other 140 albums I have in my library (all in mp3 format).

Because it frustrates me to I'm gonna play a little bit with the MP3 tag editor and report back to this thread if I found out the magic trick.

(BTW do you also have a pile of the same album covers displayed when you play an album?)
[HD2 General] __BlackEyed__:
Yep.

And also your conclusion is completely right. mp3 is fine, but m4a is wrong (and I have over 3.300 m4a's so it's quite an annoying bug for me).
[HD2 General] d3l1:
have you tried tagging the music files manually? I tag all my mp3s with mp3tag (freeware) and I have no issues, windows and my hd2 always index them in the correct order with the album art included etc.
[HD2 General] Gajet:
I suspect you would have to convert all the .m4a's to .mp3's then check the tags and then sync. Alternatively create a playlist for the offending album in the correct order.
[HD2 General] d3l1:
I don't have any .m4a's but can't you just tag them like any other media?

http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html

Mp3tag supports the following audio formats:

* Advanced Audio Coding (aac)

* Free Lossless Audio Codec (flac)

* Monkey's Audio (ape)

* Mpeg Layer 3 (mp3)

* MPEG-4 (mp4 / m4a / m4b / iTunes compatible)

* Musepack (mpc)

* Ogg Vorbis (ogg)

* OptimFROG (ofr)

* OptimFROG DualStream (ofs)

* Speex (spx)

* Tom's Audio Kompressor (tak)

* True Audio (tta)

* Windows Media Audio (wma)

* WavPack (wv)
[HD2 General] __BlackEyed__:
I don't want to tag all these files again as they are perfectly tagged. HTC should fix this.
[HD2 General] appelflap:
I've tried it and unfortunately re-tagging them won't work. I think that the problems lies in the way the HTC music player is parsing the tags embedded in mp4 files (m4a)
[HD2 General] appelflap:
I agree with you on this one. For now the only option is to convert the mp4 files to mp3 files. One way to do it. And yes, it's a hassle :)
[HD2 General] NZtechfreak:
Why should HTC fix it? Its not their fault that Apple uses a stupid proprietary music format....
[HD2 General] appelflap:
I don't know what is wise, but I think that for some consumers it is a point of consideration. Anyway, for a producer like HTC it's a clever thing that they decided to support the Apple format.
[HD2 General] cyclingfan74:
As I am experiencing the same problem with WMA-Tracks, I think HTC should really get into this. HD2 is running on a Windows platform, isn't it?
[HD2 General] __BlackEyed__:
The problem still remains.

All songs are perfectly tagged (iTunes) and are according to the accepted format shown on the technical specifications on the HTC-site (aac, mp3 and m4a).

Any registry setting maybe?
[General Topics] burakkilic:
Hi. I see the new Sony Ericsson Aino Android phone that is used as a remote for ps3. Is there any android application for other Android phones? I need it for my Htc Hero.