yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gistofit:
just purchased second epix to replace wife's old phone.

brand new on ebay they are going for $235!!! i paid 180 a long time ago for a like new one. got the wife's for $70 with one scratch on the screen.

still a great phone for those willing to put in the time to figure them out right.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jde984:
I'd never had a problem with any of your ROMs before. I installed one of the 128 dpi roms and was having the same stability issues. I think I figured it out though. It was having to do with opera mobile being installed to the storage card (although I'm fairly sure I've always installed in there). So I'm now running just fine. I don't know if that was related to the Bing/Netflix issue and I haven't decided yet if I'm going to try the 96 dpi again. (I hate reinstalling everything).

One issue I've had with all 3 or 4 of your roms I've used is with text messaging. Sometimes when I exit the threaded message view from my wife, the phone will freeze for a few minutes, or sometimes require a battery pull. It's never happened with texts from anyone else.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] sofene:
I guess he is referring to skipping the screen alignment step after flashing or hard reset like in some i900 roms I have flashed recently.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jde984:
Well I finally pulled the plug on my epix. I was going to hold out a little longer, but radio shack had the captivate for free, so I couldn't pass that up. I appreciate all the support and roms and good luck to everyone who keeps going.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] goldenpipes:
I too have retired my Epix, i picked up a Focus WP7.

ill hop in from time to time to see what kind of updates there are in the WM6.5 world.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] lttung:
Hope up Android to Epix I907 :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Bloody Baron:
Samsung today Screen

hi,

Someone exports Samsung today screen in cab, please! :o

Thanks!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] vanphibk:
hi, just use "Remote Screen Alignment"
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] xsaix5:
android epix

would be awesome if someone could make epix into an android phone XD
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] keff:
It now occured to me that I may have restored some bad power-management registry values during restore after updating to beta2_fixed - when I'll have time, or on next update of ROM, I'll restore only personal data, no system settings, and see if preserving of default ROM HW settings had some effect...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] .fenrir:
Hm that's a possibility, hopefully its the case.

Also just want to re-iterate what I said in my last post in case people miss it:

Here's another updated ROM for everyone with fixes to WMP, phone canvas and in-call screen. USB still no good, seems like I'm going to need some help from other chefs on that one.

Beta 2.2 - Switched to sendspace for hosting. Sorry for the inconsistent naming conventions I'm using.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] loumeiyin:
Hi .ifenrir,

I wonder that while you update your cooked rom, of course sometimes you will get a bad cooked rom that your i907 could not boot successful, so how could you reflash another cooked Rom? is there a method to flash rom when i907 could not connected with pc via active sync and modem?

Thanks so much for your sharing experience.

Edit:

Here is the answer: Watch here
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] heineken78:
Yes you can flash anything in "PDA". System just will stuck on Samsung logo and you still be able to load rom again.

But if you flash "LOADER"(bootloader) or "PHONE" parts with wrong firmware, in first case you will get total "brick", in second- not working phone part, and will not be able to reflash it again, w/o replacing of mobo.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gistofit:
???

i have very recently learned of the similarities between the epix i907 and omnia i900. i don't know how close or far apart the actually are....BUT it seems that the roms are close enough to use the same kitchens....and i happend to notice that on the windows mobile 6.5 update page they list the phones "to be" updates and when. our epix being on that list with a NOT fulfilled update in april. what is interesting is that the omnia i900 is NOT on the list but if you look up the software updates on the samsung page it DID receive an update in april 2010. i don't know if it is wm 6.5 or what BUT maybe parts of it could be similar enough to address our epix. maybe the mouse drivers? i don't know. sometimes software that is REALLY close actually is the same software with just tweaks here and there.

might be worth looking into by someone with plenty more skill in these areas....cough fenrir cough

(not to take away from the noble project at hand i.e. clean epix rommy goodness)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] .fenrir:
Pretty much what heineken said. These ROMs only flash the PDA part, its near impossible for you to get a bricked phone. There's been plenty of ROMs I've made that didn't boot but my phone still worked fine when I cooked in a bootable ROM.

Yes, the i900 and the i907 are very similar, but they do have differences as well. The i907 can actually use the i900 kitchens, but it needs to be tweaked before it'll cook a properly working ROM. trashcan had mentioned in the past that he used a omnia kitchen, but I guess no one really looked into it till I tried at it.

The Omnia received a 6.1 update in April, not a 6.5 update. The most likely reason that the Omnia isn't on the 6.5 update list is because it came out in June 08, while the Epix came out in Oct/Nov 08. The Omnia was probably opted out of a 6.5 updated cause it was deemed too old, though its not like we've gotten one either though. If the Omnia did get a 6.5 update, there would've been a huge explosion of i900 ROMs.

In the case of the drivers it either works with the phone or not. There are very few people out there who know how to actually edit WM drivers. The i900 community has been able to use the i907 gps drivers in the past if I remember correctly. We're the only device with a finger mouse that even has a tiny shred of hope for an official 6.5 update. Omnia II doesn't have a finger mouse, and I'm sure the Omnia I community is hoping the i907 gets an official update as well so they have a fix for the finger mouse too. Though to be honest, the mouse is really just a minor problem now with the mortscript work around.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] eugenile:
I appreciate your effort.

The trashcan one has been very stable for me, so I went with the "set it and forget it approach"

The problem with the epix was there really was not much modifying support with it. Hopefully the more people bring things like this up, the more interests.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] keff:
I flashed with 2.2, restored just personal settings, and so far seems great - 60% battery left after a day with quite heavy internet usage, just as I was used to. Thank you for the fix!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] m.e.:
I flashed 2.2 as well, seems good so far. I don't see any new stuff compared to trashcan's build, but I did not expect any.

With trashcan's build I still had to pull the batteries once in a week or two - let's see how this one works.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] lttung:
Thank, I will try.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] keff:
There is a few - imho the ROM feels faster, and there is 'preview' feature for emails - you see 2 first lines of e-mail in an inbox.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Captain_Throwback:
Taking it out is always the easiest solution; however if you start getting obsessive-compulsive like me, and just want it to work *because it should*, even though you'll never use it - I believe the issue with "Getting Started" is that it actually requires .NET CF 2.0 to work properly. Oddly enough, that version of .NET CF is no longer included in the COM5 builds, so I don't think Getting Started works in any of them. You would have to acquire it from the M$ download center, or cook in the version from an older SYS, but that should get it working (if you ever choose to put it back). Just thought I'd offer a word of assistance, for a fellow chef ;). My wife had an Epix, but the first one stopped charging, and the replacement was sent with ID1 pre-installed, and the GPS just stopped working completely. Asurion offered her an HTC Pure as a replacement, and she's been living in WVGA Sense 2.5 bliss ever since :). But I think she'll always have a place in her heart for thie Epix.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] m.e.:
Yes, indeed. Also, Weather panel is Home Screen has less visual artifacts, and actually useful now.

One thing I can't find: control panel that allows to change when the keys are lighted. Did it get lost, or I'm just looking the wrong places?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] .fenrir:
That's good news. My battery's holding up pretty well, just as good if not better then it use to.

Not just easiest solution but also the laziest solution. Haha if I wasn't distracted by my finals the past couple of days I probably would be pretty obsessive compulsive right now about the Getting started and the USB problem. Thanks for the tip, I'll try it out before I pull it out completely. WVGA Sense 2.5...I'm so jealous. Its a shame it doesn't work on older phones. Can't blame her the Epix is a pretty nice phone even if it is showing some age.

Oh that's good to hear. The setting for the keys backlight is in Settings -> System -> Backlight and then gonig left or right till you get to keyboard. You probably just forgot where it is, I'm pretty sure it didn't change places.

Finally done with finals, so hopefully in the next few days I'll be able to figure out a way to fix the USB problem. Glad everyone's enjoying the ROM thus far and 2.2 is running smoothly. It feels a bit strange to call the 3rd ROM 2.2...I'll think ahead next time on the number scheme instead of being inconsistent and going from 1, 2 and then 2.2.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] m.e.:
Indeed :) Thanks!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] .fenrir:
I have good news for everyone. I believe I've finally fixed the USB problem, just plugged in the USB on a test ROM and the phone didn't freeze. It's charging and ActiveSync is working perfectly. I think I found out the problem, but I'm going to test and try a few things just to make sure what I believe is the problem, is actually the problem, if that made any sense at all.

Good thing my finals are over, I probably wouldn't have been able to sit down and work on this for so many hours straight.

EDIT: Also some bad news, well depending if you use it. I'm going to remove the SD Encryption (Settings>System>Encryption) I'm pretty sure most people don't use this, since it does lock it down to the phone only, but if there's any objections to this now's the time to have your voice heard. Reasoning for this: It's causing some conflict with ROM building.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] heineken78:
Congrat's Chief! ;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] quadzilla122:
great to hear and waiting to try out!! :D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gistofit:
remove it! no spies have epix....and we probably won't loose our phones like apple. (we like our phones)

keep up the great final free work! I feel a new sweet rom any time now!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] .fenrir:
Thanks ;) Can't say I did it entirely without your help. A mix of both your solution and mine.

New ROM is up on first post. As I mentioned earlier USB freeze up has been fixed and should be working flawlessly, at least as flawlessly as it use to be. Other changes are listed in the first post as well.

I'm going to consider this my first stable release now that the USB has been fixed. Enjoy everyone!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Bloody Baron:
Can you cook this ROM in 96DPI version :D?

Thanks :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] quadzilla122:
Does anybody know if there are any themes or taskbars from developers here on XDA? I always see nice ones but even when they are made for VGA they dont work. I've seen these android traskbars from about 4 developers here and they have all failed to look good. I have tried them on another phone I have that's qvga and literally everything works...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] .fenrir:
Easier said then done. Requires a lot of file editing if I'm to do it myself.

I have tried using the SYS from heineken's which he has tailored to 96dpi for the i780, but for some reason it doesn't work as well on the i907. It leaves artifacts and a black bar right above the toolbar. I'll look into this sometime in the future when I have free time, but as much as I do like 96dpi its not my main concern. For now, the 96dpi RealVGA cab that was posted by technode in trashcan's thread here is probably the best bet for now. It should still work properly even with 23563.

Yeah, I had to make edits to the battery icons to get it to work with the Epix. Its probably cause the Epix shrinks the VGA icons weird and causes them to not work, something long those lines. Personally I love Livven's theme. It works flawlessly with our phones. Been considering cooking it into the ROM but I do want to keep the 'Lite' idea for the ROM and just leave it up to the user.

I remember keff posted his modded version of the Red & black theme in trashcan's thread too, but I don't remember if it was in a cab form for easy installation, which does remind me that I need to cook that into a ROM to try out.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gistofit:
for the win 78 64 bit flashers out there

found this and it works for flashing epix in win 7 64 bit from an older epix forum. quoting therealzam:

Assumptions = I am using Win 7 64bit, w/ windows mobile device center in normal setup, My windows is genuine which may be required to get the driver from Windows Update

1 = make sure phone is off with battery removed. I'd have the usb cable in so you can get it going as quick as possible.

2 = download and run an application called USDL Grand Prix (the vista version works on win7). You'll have 2 find the dl yourself unfortunately, but googling 'usdl grand prix vista' is your best bet.

3 = under select a profile, choose: Grand Prix LV Image

4 = hit the pda button &browse to the 'bin' format image you downloaded at the start of the thread

5 = review step 7 so you can be ready to do it in a timely manner!

6 = under 'grand prix's step 3, select detect

7 = place the battery back in the samsung and hold the vol up key, the ok key, and hte power key and wait for grand prix to start doing its thing and a green status bar to begin growing freakishly at the bottom of the 'samsung' screen.

8 = once the 'grand prix' says 'pda finished!!' in the status area, you are ready to remove and replace your battery then power on as normal!

YAY, how easy is that?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gistofit:
wallpapers

here are some wallpapers I have found on the interweb and various other places. I have resized them to 320x320. enjoy! these thumbnails are a few just samples. there are 42 in all.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gistofit:
some tweaks

to turn off 3G:

type in *#1546792*#

Select Network Call Setting, then Network Mode. Auto enables 3G, GSM turns it off.

adjust touch screen sensitivity:

Registry Address

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ HARDWARE \ DEVICEMAP \ TOUCH

Value Name

* Click

* DownUp

Value Data

* Change ‘Click’ value from 1280 to 2000

* Change ‘DownUp’ value from 256 to 750

Change the thickness of scrollbars:

To change the thickness of the scrollbars at the right/bottom of documents larger than the screen, adjust...

For the horizontal (bottom) scrollbar:

HKLM\System\GWE\cyHScr = 9 (DWORD decimal)

For the vertical (right) scrollbar:

HKLM\System\GWE\cxVScr = 9 (DWORD decimal)

The default thickness is 13. You can set the value to anything you may like

Change the length of scrollbar arrow buttons

To go with changing the thickness of the scrollbars, you may wish to change the length of the scrollbar arrow buttons...

For the horizontal (bottom) scrollbar arrows:

HKLM\System\GWE\cyVScr = 0 (DWORD decimal)

For the vertical (right) scrollbar:

HKLM\System\GWE\cxHScr = 0 (DWORD decimal)

The default length is 13. You can set the value to pretty much anything you like

Disable Auto Keyboard Deployment at locations in the device:

Registry Address

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sip\

Value Name

TurnOffAutoDeploy

Value Data

0 = To enable Auto Deploy

1 = To disable Auto Deploy

(haven't tested all on latest build (23563) but I don't see why they wouldn't work I did use in 23052)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] justDave:
You're off to a great start, .fenrir! A couple of things I noticed after a few minutes of playing. I haven't started loading it up yet...

> Finger mouse is on 4 way navigation by default.

Not too helpful. I still need to toggle to mouse mode and back or I see redraw glitches in the center of the screen.

> Mouse is still a problem. A given with all 6.1 native phones with mouses. Nothing can be done about this right now until there's an official update.

I think there's a mortscript around that flips the mouse mode back and forth. Might work better than starting in 4-way.

> Slight increase in free RAM available, very negligible but an increase nonetheless.

The stock 6.1 ROM showed 77.34 free out of 107.91. Why so much less even after cleaning up the 6.5 ROM? Over in the Kaiser world, I see some ROMs have something they refer to as the 101mb patch. Do we need something like that here?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] quadzilla122:
adjust touch screen sensitivity:

Registry Address

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ HARDWARE \ DEVICEMAP \ TOUCH

Value Name

* Click

* DownUp

Value Data

* Change ‘Click’ value from 1280 to 2000

* Change ‘DownUp’ value from 256 to 750

I couldn't find this in that location just CalibrationData, DriverName, and MaxCalError with value datas not even close to those...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] .fenrir:
The finger mouse on 4way navigation by default isn't to fix the mouse artifacts. Its on it cause its unnecessary for it to be on finger mouse when the UI is now much more finger friendly, in my opinion. I'm very aware of the mortscript fix, I wrote one myself before realizing there was one as well. As stated, there is no way to fix the mouse without an official update with a finger mouse driver for WM6.5 Even the mortscript isn't much of a fix, more so of a work around. I keep neglecting to cook that in, although I'm not sure if I want to force it on people since it does slow down boot up time and some people might not like that.

Concerning the free RAM, has there ever been a newer OS that uses less RAM than the preceding? Very rare. Take for example Windows for PC. If WinXP managed to use less RAM than Win95, then either they did a damn good job, or nothing changed.. As for the total RAM of 107.91, that's because the stock 6.1 ROM used a 4mb page pool as many stock ROMs use to as well. I upped the page pool to 12mb for my ROMs for the performance boost.

I've been running thorough benchmarks since I've cooked a stable ROM. As of now there are some benefits to both a 8mb and 12mb page pool, both in different fields. I'm fairly certain though that I won't be returning to a 4mb page pool since from the benchmarks I've done so far, it has been out performed by a larger page pool in every field. Though I do want to note that I'm not deciding solely based on benchmarks. From personal use the 4mb page pool does show some lag and staggering on things more so then others, such as going through the storage card or scrolling in the start menu. Though one could argue its all in my head.

@gistofit & quadzilla

Those registry keys for touch screen sensitivity aren't found on the i907. They're for the most part found in HTC phones, though I have seen other phones have it too. To be honest when I tried them out in the past I didn't notice any difference, so take that as you will.

If you do want to increase the sensitivity when you do the touch screen calibration tap the crosses lightly rather than pressing into it with force, they do help slightly.

Also the auto keyboard deployment is already disabled in my ROMs. I just checked the rgu's, so no worries there.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] quadzilla122:
Thanks alot Fenrir. Here are some pics of my i907 with your rom and some things I put in it.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] justDave:
> The finger mouse on 4way navigation by default isn't to fix the mouse artifacts. Its on it cause its unnecessary for it to be on finger mouse when the UI is now much more finger friendly

That makes sense. Downside is I have to flip the mouse setting twice now to get rid of artifacts :-(

> I'm very aware of the mortscript fix... I'm not sure if I want to force it on people since it does slow down boot up time and some people might not like that.

Yeah. I don't want mortscript cooked in either. We should start a collection of cab's and fixes.

One more thing I noticed. There seems to be a problem with using IE over Wifi. IE works fine over 3G. Opera works just fine both ways. Presumably a proxy issue. I tried to disable it with proxy manager, but there's something wrong there too. The setting seems to get stuck. Try to change it, click ok. Go back in and try to toggle it back. Last flash it was stuck off, this time it's stuck on. IE over Wifi didn't work either time.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] .fenrir:
No problem. Just glad others are enjoying it. I gotta say I always love seeing people using that wallpaper. Even if it is used by alot of people...

Yeah I know what you mean, its annoying. Lately I've just pressed Fn + M twice while on the home screen after I turn on the phone. Toggles the finger mouse its the FN Button setting that was from 6.1, well use to be N but I changed it to M since it makes more sense.

Yeah been planning to do that. For now I'll just post helpful links and what not in the first post or second post if it gets too crowded. I guess I could start building it up with a cab version of the mortscript MouseFix...unless the one posted in trashcan's was a cab file.

That's strange, I'll see what I can do. Not sure what would cause that setting to get stuck though. I should have expected not everything would work with my 'luck'...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] m.e.:
Interesting, I had this problem with 3G connection (with v2.2, did not flash latest ROM yet) - the proxy was stuck as well, and IE could not work over 3G. :confused:

It appears like the default 'My ISP' network is locked down, so under Settings\Connections\Tasks there were no 'Setup my proxy server'. Also the setting in Proxy Manager were stuck - even if I change it, next time it would open with the same value.

I created a new network, with the same settings as 'My ISP', and it fixed all the problems - the option to setup proxy server appeared, and IE works now.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] justDave:
> Lately I've just pressed Fn + M twice while on the home screen after I turn on the phone.

Thanks! Easier than going through the system settings.

> That's strange, I'll see what I can do. Not sure what would cause that setting to get stuck though. I should have expected not everything would work with my 'luck'...

Seems to be a known AT&T ROM issue. Fix (from here):

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings]

The default setting (that uses the proxy) is:

"EnableAutoDetect"=dword:00000000

Change it to:

"EnableAutoDetect"=dword:00000001

Worked for me, anyway.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] quadzilla122:
Confirmed! I am using IE over wifi now which I coudnt do before I put this fix in. Thanks!:D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] danbutter:
Anyone having the issue with this ROM where the phone will go to sleep and not be able to be woke up unless you pull the battery?

I'm not using it and don't even have an epix...it's my wife's and she is having the phone shut off on her like this. No buttons respond...battery must be pulled to get phone back on.

Would like to get her on 6.5 so if nobody has this issue in this ROM I'll likely flash it for her. :)