[Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Other] TimelesslyPrecise:
Ketchup :P

Sorry to be long in responding at the forums.. school is in full force; I'm in the middle of doing homework as we speak... Lol

Gahbmwm5,

Thanks for the links above; and such great detailed info reporting back..

for the Beta's,

the first was okay.. the second really hurt.. (sorry for a lack of dates. it would cost more to look back and figure out exact times.lol.) I was missing sms send and recieve.

Honestly, i'm back on B9 and things are running well so far..

it was treating me great until i checked the forum and noticed you guys had some issues with it.. really, for me it was only the double alarm clock occurring..

(maybe there is a ccleaner software for winmob.. Lol)

hey, get with me off the record via pm\email, i may be able to point something about the Outlook situation... ;]

Alright,

I like this; we are both grilling Dermann pretty hard here with our testing.. Haha

I've got sync over-air covered, i noticed you use usb in most cases.

(maybe this has something to do with B9, the issues you had, and how smooth it is running for me..)

i've been using over-the-air to sync with my gmail, and things couldn't be better.. i try and reserve the usb cable for tethering, ICS access, and initial Flashing Roms.

off topic, and just a 'good-to-know',

drawback to over-air:

occasionally, I've learned if i make a lot of changes to contacts, not on the phone, and try to sync it will stop and say something like 'there has been a change on the server which requires you to resync... any data you may have might get lost'.. so, i learn to take things slow, and sync by phone mostly..

that was once, hahah.. haven't experienced it since i've itemized tasks one at a time...(adding pictures to contacts, changing addresses, other contact info, etc.)

Alright...

Drivers for Win7 (x64, or w\e else...)

Definitely like that Win7 handles the phone automatically..(mobdevctr)

Gave up when i read about official driver support for vista, but none for win7..

(of course here again, we could probably still turn off driver signing, and force the vista drivers manually)

I, personally, would steer clear of turning off driver signing.. no real reason, other to stay as near to vanilla with my OS as possible..

i do know of other programs i use which needed driver signing turned off (just means they didn't want to fork out the big bucks for certs to work with MS out of the box, that stuff gets pricey)

to concur, if it is easier for you, there is no problem with the method...

I'm sure whomever modified the .inf files, and whatever else may have been involved with the process, must have known well enough of what and how they were doing what they had done..

Personally, on Win7-64, i was using windows Xp Mode, (or their virtual machine of a sort) to run all my rom flashing in there.. everything else worked out of the box with win7-64.

If, however, you don't have a CPU that supports v-ti (or whatever the virtual support acronym is), it very well may be best suited using the modified (or if possible, force-vista) drivers.

For all others, i think when it comes to potentially messing up your rom, i use the solid 'tried and true' XP environment to do my flashing..

(side note: lately i have been using a dedicated Xp machine to flash, and it may just be placebo, or a figment of my imagination, but it seems to run through the flash at a consistent rate, and very smoothly) (though, i hadn't any issues over VM either)

whichever method floats your boat, as long as the job gets done..

i might just try the win7 flash method when i can finally get a new laptop.

it's unfortunate; i don't know if the new samsung phones use the same drivers for flashing the device... now, i hear the phone uses Zune software to manage everything... there may not be a need to create official drivers, so the unsigned method might just be the best.

It's great to see everybody else who have joined, the snowball is slowly starting to grow!! :D Welcome Aboard!!

I look forward to more great posts, more great testing, and more great Roms!!

Dermann,

I think Gahbmwm5 said it best, in saying 'Take Your Time, and have plenty of drinks in between!! :D

(ps, the keyboard workaround for Word is funny... lol I'll give it a try, just what a awkward bug.. Lol)

Nice to meet everybody!!

Country,

it sounds like your addiction might be just the additional technical background we all need!!

great testing, great research!! keep up with us my friend, it's good to have you!!