yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gistofit:
what system are you running xp,vista,7?

are you using the omnia kitchen?

care to post a link to it?

what about this? anyone?

http://www.xda-developers.com/windows-mobile/oskitchen-visual-rom-kitchen-for-winmo/

which flasher? grandprix for vista?

the last time i flashed my phone i used xp but now i am running 7 and feel like i am re-learning this flashing business again so any help in the right direction sames me and anyone else reading this some time.

thanks for your work. epix work was kinda fizzling, running on samsung update hopes and dreams.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Michael Entin:
I totally support this. I only noticed these two, since they make it easier to bootstrap the phone and install all the other apps (actually just Marketplace would be enough, since it can install the latest My Phone). But I'm totally fine with installing Marketplace from the SD card :).

Regarding Media Player - yes, look similar to IE/Taskman problem. It also does not exist in Start Menu. I do see it in Windows folder, but it would not start.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] heineken78:
Fenrir, snd me rom, sys, oem folders pls. il check for problem and clean.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] keff:
I don't think Marketplace and MyPhone should be in ROM, because they are often updated and updates are mandatory - which means that after about a month, you will still have to redownload Marketplace and MyPhone, otherwise they will be old and won't let you do anything except upgrade.

(Also, I don't use them much, I do upgrading via Sprite Backup, so I prefer clean ROM).
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] keff:
Fenrir, I tried the fixed beta2, and I think we still have the battery problem - my epix (about 3 month old 1800 mAh battery) lasted about 20 hours of use with only occasional checking of e-mail and web - approx. 1 hour of those twenty, otherwise it was connected to 3g, but in standby and with no data downloading - I don't have a direct comparison or benchmark, but I think that it lasted about 2 days with trashcans rom and similar usage.

I'll keep using your rom, and will post more findings about battery.

BTW, thanks for fixed IE! That was quite a serious bug, because since I (or some app) tried to load it, the start menu stopped opening. Now it is OK.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] .fenrir:
The calculator's the stock one that comes with the build. I'm going to leave it as is but if you'd like a nicer calculator you can try out the HTC Calculator that was reskinned for the i780 but works just fine for the i907 since they're both SQVGA. Link

I use both XP and 7, though for the purposes of flashing and cooking ROMs I use XP only. I'm using the Omnia kitchen. Technically any Omnia kitchen should work, but I've had mixed results. osKitchen would've worked and did create a bootable ROM but it caused problems since it assumed it was Omnia's resolution. You should be using Grandprix for the flashing, I guess I'll update the first post with instructions for those who have forgotten. Here's a link to the kitchen I'm using: Link

Mid way through April I was thinking chances are nothing's gonna be released, maybe I should finally attempt to cook a ROM myself. Fortunately I was successful with help of course.

I was just about to make a cab of the Marketplace, when I realized, its already been done. Its also updated frequently from what I can tell. Marketplace cab

Turns out WMP did infact have the same problem. I forgot to put WMP in the start menu list, so I'll be sure not to leave it out again. I'm going to try to fix a few more things before I post an updated ROM so please bare with it in the meantime.

Hmmm on the bright side at least it wasn't as bad as the first beta ROM. I'm not sure what else I can do to improve it aside from some registry edits but I'll look around and see what I can do. Unfortunately I cancelled my data plan a few months ago so I don't have any way of testing myself, and these past few days I've just been home studying away or working on the ROM so not much usage on my phone. Keep me updated on the battery.

Haha yeah the IE was a pretty bad one.

Edit: Oh yeah I forgot I found some other minor problems as well. Phone canvas with the keypad shows an unnecessary scroll bar. Also in-call screen, top row middle button which is suppose to be the Mute button is blank and not working. Both fixed in upcoming ROM. Getting started refuses to work properly so I'll end up pulling it out, rather put the efforts into fixing other things. I doubt anyone uses it but the built in Help (Windows Mobile) will be gone as well if I choose to take this route.

Edit2: Dunno if anyone has noticed and I neglected to mention this, but the only 'extra' app I've put into the ROMs is a finger keyboard, same one that heineken uses in his ROMs. Its an SIP keyboard so to switch to it either go to Input in settings or press and hold the keyboard button and then select Finger Keyboard. Originally I was just messing around and trying it out, but I'll leave it in if people like it. Though probably unnecessary with our QWERTY keyboards =\
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] heineken78:
Startup - upside down, some programs are wrong otrientated, and battery usage for 1 hour, laggy scrolling?

Thats your manual rotation :)

Dont screw your system, use fixed driver!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] pojir:
Well... you spent too much time on it, but not me :) I'm not disgusted with it yet so I'll try to find something. I think that if there IS a way to turn on AGPS for omnia i910 (which has originally no AGPS at all, only standalone, and uses the same GPS chipset) then there MUST be a way to do it on Epix. So.... just wish me good luck :D :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] .fenrir:
To non-AT&T users who are having connection problems, is everyone using the ADC (Auto Data Config) on the first boot after a hard reset/flashed ROM? That usually sets up the settings for your network, and SHOULD make them default, ignoring the AT&T ims.cingular.com settings. I'll try deleting them in the next ROM, but they're pretty well hidden in the cooking stages so it'll take some time.

Hmmm you could edit the Titanium to make a bigger clock or look for some today screen replacement out there I guess. I use to use pointUI and ThrottleLauncher at some point but that was back in the 6.1 days, you could try your luck with that. Manilla 2D (2.0.x) works on our phone, the QVGA version of course but it needs porting since it assumes the phone is 240x320, though if it assumed it was 320x240 it'd probably work a lot better.

You can try out Smartlock if you want the phone to auto-lock to the default 6.5 lockscreen, or you can use S2U2. Most of the AT&T reg keys have been deleted, there's probably some that I've missed, and others that are incredibly difficult to find (like when I was deleting Video Share, they don't even call it that in the registry). Notif Blinker was included as a replacement to the original LED driver. The original Samsung LED driver was deleted because its incredibly bloated, by deleting it the phone's performance should be better.

Yeah I tried doing the same, no success. QuickGPS didn't help and our GPS driver doesn't seem to use the xtra file no matter what you do. I was working on this prior to the 6.5 update, but I'm going to try taking the i900's GPS driver from their last update and using that on our phones hoping we can get the xtra.bin to work. Its hard to say whether I'll be successful or not.

Yeah but the i910 starts to stem away from the i907 though the GPS portion's probably fine. Besides the i910 had mixed results with it, half the people who tried it said it worked fine the other half said it didn't do crap.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] pojir:
I'm not sure if I understand the question. As for me, after the flash (hard reset) with your latest ROM there is no "new data connection wizard" as on some other devices/ROMs or anything like that. There are just two hidden AT&T connections - AT&T IMS and MEdia Net. I can't see them in the connections control panel, but I see them in the registry and in programs like NoData or Advanced Config. For configuring data connection I always use an old cab with the configuration which creates two connections (for the internet and for MMS) and with this the phone works just fine.

I managed to delete the hidden AT&T connections by running \Windows\GPRSMgr, it replaced all the connections with two non-hidden (I picked some random - it doesn't know my carrier), I deleted them and replaced them with working ones for my carrier. But the AGPS still doesn't work, it just stopped dialing that AT&T connection.

Maybe the only thing to do is somewhere replacing some value saying which data connection to use, or somewhere removing some value saying that only one particular data connection should be used.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] keff:
I do!:)

I read somewhere that i900 has most similar hardware to Epix, and working GPS, so porting the driver could work.

Also, I played with it some more today, and after installation of several utilities (QuickGPS, GPS_XTRA) and tweaking of the mentioned GPS registry keys, and putting the xtra.bin both to / and /Windows, it suddenly happened that GPS locked position in 10-15s after cold start - I couldn't believe my eyes! (after battery taken out; when I don't do this, my Samsung remembers some locking data and locks faster next time (after soft reset), taking battery out forces it to always do the long lock, and this time it was ultra-fast even after cold start!).

Unfortunately, I wanted to know what caused it, so I did some more tweaking, and the magic was lost - now it is back to normal 10 minutes lock :((.

But it worked once, so that at least some hope :))).
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Darkpyr0:
sorry, newb

noticed that when I flashed the new ROM that I can't assign new .mp3s as ringtones, only the default ones. help?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] veener79:
I installed 23668 after I installed the new offical update. The Offical update my phone was solid but I had a lot of bloatware. So I thought I would try 23668. All of the software is installed the same. But I am having some issues.

When using Google maps I get the warning:

Dialed. IMS.cingular

Cannot connect for a unknown reason. It is stating to check my conection settings and change them if needed.

Also with the new OEM upgrade I could get GPS signal in my house. I can not get it with this update.

I also have had a problem sending texts. About 30min later I get a message that a text could not be sent. I can only sync Windows Live Hotmial about 2-3 times before I get sync errors and I have to reboot my phone to get my e-mails.

Before I go back to the OEM firmware upgrade I am trying to find out if maybe there is a setting I am missing causing all of this. I am on the ATT network. Do you think maybe I need to try and reload this 23668 update?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] vjalle:
AGPS

Hi,

I'm living in Europe, no AT&T here. After the official 6.5 update I had the same problem: error message, dialing wap.cingular failed.

I used gprsmgr.exe to get rid of the preconfigured connections. After that my carrier is dialed here, the connection established successfully.

But I think AGPS is not working, nothing is downloaded.

Questions:

1. What to set to the HKLM\Software\Samsung\RIL\GPS\AccessPoint? Leave it blank, or use my real APN?

2. Server xtra1.gpsonextra.net: is it OK, or should a different server be used in Europe?

3. How can the AGPS operation be checked? I started the GPS when the PDA was connected via ActiveSync, and checked the network traffic through my firewall. xtra1.gpsonextra.net is never contacted, nothing is downloaded.

Anyway, I don't like 6.5. The new start menu is unusable on my small screen. (I have Epix i907) Is it possible to switch it back to the 'classic' view?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gistofit:
two small requests...and minor glitch maybe...

1. kill the "magnifier" in the taskbar. is this good for anything?

2. option for silent boot/shutdown. LOVE the new animation but sometimes its nice to be silent.

glitch:

funny ghosting of deleted message on the message screen.

noticed it also BEFORE the new 6.5 but with fenrirs first rom.

haven't been able to nail down a conflicting program yet so i am not sure if it is my setup or the roms. just wondering if anyone else has seen this?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] plumsauce:
comments on official 6.5 + epix

If your phone works well, you may not want to flash to the official 6.5.

in addition to booting slower

The eye candy gets in the way of functionality. Trying to turn an epix into an iphone is just so wrong in so many ways. The epix is chosen by those who are want to *use* a phone device efficiently, not just poke at pretty pictures with oily fingers.

The buzz of "finger friendly" is not required when the device has a mouse and therefore, a mouse cursor with a tip on it that is finer than any finger. This also extends to the fact that the epix has a keyboard.

The result of the effort is that lots of menus now have scroll buttons *in* the menu. These are menus that used to be complete as drawn. But, in making the menu "finger friendly" they have become mouse unfriendly.

Then there is that god-forsaken new start menu. No scroll bars! You have to try to drag the screen up and down using the mouse.

And the today screen ... the active item is always at the center, while everything else is scrolled up or down past the center highlight bar. The date/time bar is nice and readable but useless because there is no easy way to just dock the date/time at the top of the screen where you can see it easily. Depending on where the page has been scrolled to, it could be past the top, past the bottom, or somewhere in between.

Yes, you can choose the old today screen. But, the new start menu remains. And the battery icon is no longer functional as a quick means of checking the need to charge the battery. One click with the mouse just became: click start, drag down to settings, click settings, drag down to power, click power. That's right, 1 click becomes 5 operations in the name of finger friendliness.

And looking around inside, yes more bloatware in the pda base functionality. More dependency on convuluted ways of doing things.

So, the plan might be:

1. flash the upgrade to get the new radio firmware

2. revert to 6.1 for the pda firmware

Anyone got a link to a clean or stock 6.1 firmware in addition to trashcan's?

Or a way to extract the pre ID1 pda from a pre ID1 phone?

(no offense, but that one is post ID1, although being only the pda part, it may not be a problem other than the inclusion of someone else's choice of additions)

(note to chefs: a stripped rom with optional cabs might be the best of all worlds in that additional software can be selected according to taste, and by not locking to a particular software version)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gistofit:
some healthy competition

I am liking the rom development these days!

check this guy out too!

http://ip208-100-42-21.static.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=689107
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] m_1000rr6:
>>AGPS and Google maps dialing ims.cingular fix (AT&T)<<

1. In File Explorer - navigate to the windows folder and run gprsmgr.exe and select USA AT&T.

2. Click save. The program will attempt to set the proper settings and when it has done so, a "Provisioning succeeded" message will appear. Click close.

3. Click start and go to settings/connections/connections/advanced/select networks. Select "My WAP Networks". Click edit and select "MEdia Net - wap.cingular". Click OK. (Before this My WAP Networks was not editable)

4. In File Explorer - navigate to the windows folder and run gpstest.exe. Click menu->option->gps. Under Operating Type make sure "Assisted" is active, if it isn't, make it so. Click done twice to exit gpstest.

Someone please verify this. Thanks.

Prior to my doing this, Google maps would always dial out to ims.cingular even though I have created a new profile with wap.cingular as the modem and made it the default connection. At the same time AGPS wouldn't work because it was dialing out the wrong connection + "assisted mode" wasn't the operating type. Now, Google maps dials out to MEdia Net (wap.cingular) and I'll get a gps fix in less than a minute.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] keff:
You can do this by setting HKLM/System/GWE/Magnifier/Enable to 0

Also, to plumsauce:

This thread is about getting WM 6.5.x on Epix, for people that want it and like it (like me :))), nobody forces you to do this, so I guess this isn't a place to complain about how WM 6.5 sucks...

Simply writing 'Do you know about some non-crapware 6.1 ROM as i like it more than 6.5' would be OK and wouldn't generate negative emotions.

This has some custom software and some changes that you can undo with a bit of study, but it is the only uncrapped 6.1 ROM I know about: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=539376
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] justDave:
That's pretty much what I did to get everything working. I've been switching back and forth between "Assisted" and "MS Based" and don't see much difference. Both lock quickly and seem to perform about the same.

I *am* on AT&T.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] .fenrir:
My summer course has just started so starting from now I'll be far less active. Regardless I'll work out the connection problems a lot of people are having asap.

Hmm I'll try sniffing around the files again to see if I can find the AT&T settings prior to cooking. Seems like this is pretty problematic for the non-AT&T users so I'll try my best to fix it. Also, I've attached a screenshot of the Auto Data Config that I was talking about. It should show up right after a hard reset/flash. Pic

Hmm strange I thought it was working...I'll check it out =\

1. That registry isn't there by default so having something there might not even make a difference.

2. It'll be fine, the xtra.bin only tells the gps the location of the satellites, doesn't matter where you are. However the problem is that from my tests and others the i907 doesn't seem to even use the xtra.bin although keff does seem to have some mild success.

3. Again, its because the i907 gps driver doesn't use the xtra.bin or even connect trying to figure out to get that to work...

Sorry the 6.5 start menu is here to stay. No way of reverting it back to the 6.1 aside from actually going back to a 6.1 ROM. At most if you don't like the hexagonal layout, you can change it to a single column menu.

What do you mean by funny ghosting? I'm not sure if its the same as what you're saying but I do remember when I was testing although I haven't been able to replicate it since, a strange glitch where messages would auto delete themselves when I tried to view from the Today screen.

Hey that's your personal opinion but there are others who do prefer the finger friendliness. True the phone has a mouse, but it also has a touch screen. It wouldn't make sense to not utilize a phone that has a touch screen. I respect others opinions and although you may not like where WM is moving, towards a finger friendly OS, the market has shown that others do. Although it'll probably be difficult to find, the 6.1 clean ROM that trashcan made long before his 6.5 ROM is probably still lurking around some where so you can use that if you do manage to find it. Though I do agree that sometimes it is annoying, but using the right themes improves the usability of the finger friendliness.

Oh and that's what I'm aiming for with my ROMs, a base ROM with nothing extra so others can customize as they see put. nhathoa's ROMs have a touch of HTC to it and a more customized UI, well and he's far more experienced in cooking ROMs than I am.

If you ever figure it out, be sure to share =P Unfortunately I've had no luck while I was trying to work with the GPS.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] pojir:
As I've said, no Auto Data Config for me with your ROM. Maybe because of my carrier?

BTW I've found out that just letting the GPS to connect isn't enough. I unlocked the data connection profiles via *#92782#, then changed the APN in the profile GPS is using. Now when trying to connect to GPS in MS Based or Assisted mode the phone succcesfully automatically connects to the GPRS (I checked that the connection is working in IE) but the GPS still doesn't work :(
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] plumsauce:
Yes, it is a personal opinion, and I never held it out to be otherwise.

Trashcan's 6.1 can be found, not a problem. The reluctance is in whether the post ID1 status might undo any improvements from the update. Although the reasoning should be that the pda.bin should not affect the GPS receiver, there is still that uh-oh nagging feeling.

Moving on ... is the kitchen available?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] .fenrir:
Could be...I'm surprised it doesn't show up for you since I had it pop up on T-Mobile and while I was overseas on my vacation. Hmm seems an alternative is needed if this is the case... I'm not sure about the GPS. I've had no problems with it and I haven't changed any of the GPS settings from their factory ones so its the same as the official update. Its been difficult working on that one since I'm having difficulties replicating the problem and the problem seems to be mixed...

The ID1 update broke the GPS on the 'Phone' part. Any and all i907 ROMs only deal with the PDA part, so even if its based off the ID1, it won't break the GPS after you used the official 6.5 update. Only way to break it again is to apply the actual ID1 update. Worse case scenario you can always re-apply the 6.5 update to fix it.

I don't have the kitchen all nice and tidy not to mention I'm not on my computer but as its been said before the i900 kitchens work for the i907, granted with slight modifications. Though I'll probably end up posting it as my time to work on this dwindles.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] plumsauce:
Thanks for the confirmation of the separation between the radio rom and the pda rom.

Which predecessor kitchen is yours based on?

Perhaps a simpler way is to just publish notes on the conversion from one kitchen to another.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] plumsauce:
That's funny. There must be something wrong with the forum software.

The moderator title isn't showing under your user name.

When it shows up I'll be sure to clear all posts with you in advance.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] danbutter:
Keep acting like that and a moderator WILL show up.

Not necessary to behave this way and keff was right IMHO.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] UsernameB:
I just upgraded to the new build 23668. Is anyone else having trouble seeing new SMS messages in their inbox? I see new messages on the Today screen, but nothing ever shows up in my inbox.

*** Disregard Previous Issue ***

I had to perform a hard reset for other reasons and now it is working. Whatever it was, it wasn't a problem with the ROM. Great job on these ROMs, .fenrir! I had been using your previous ROM before the Samsung update. It was much, much more stable than the Samsung update. Eventually the Samsung update would no longer boot, so I upgraded to yours as soon as I could.

Thanks for all of the hard work!