[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] MadSci:
Flashing the new WWE ROM (3.15) onto a Telstra HD2 Part 2 Getting It On!

Part 2: How I got the new ROM onto my Australian HD2 with enough memory to work with

If you've read my previous post than you know I am now starting out with what amounts to a stock Telstra HD2. In order to flash the New WWE ROM I was going to have to get somthing that would load a non-Austrailian Stock ROM onto the phone. There are several options here, ranging from SSPL to HSPL1 thru 3. I spent several hours reading the stuff on this Thread and concluded that my best combination of protection and available RAM would come from HSPL2. If you want to know why you'll need to troll around like I did - it would take too long for me to explain it badly. Just trust me - it works, beter than HSPL3 (and SPL :-)) without the risks of bricking that go with SSPL.

So I then installed HSPL2, and this is the key, I didn't install HSPL3 but rather 2.000.HSPL

Then I installed the New ROM, and I ended up with ~140/60. Stripped out as much of the Windows HTC bloatware and unwanted eye candy, the result was 160/60. Not brilliant but enough to work with until one of the geniuses around here mods HSPL3 to work well with this ROM!

So if I was approaching this with what I know now, I would be starting with a Telstra HD2 with some version of HSPL on it along with a WWE ROM, probably 1.x. I would suggest the following:

Download the Official Telstra ROM from the HTC Australia site. You can use any version I expect, but I used the most recent (1.72.x). Connect your phone to your computer by USB and flash this ROM to your phone. This will put SPL 1.42 onto your phone.

Download the package for HSPL2 from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=611433

Unzip, install and run the package. Follow the directions, and when it comes to choosing which version of HSPL to install choose 2.000.HSPL (NOT 2.000.000!).

After the installation is complete you can re-boot the phone into the Bootloader (Hold down the down-arrow key and press the power button). You will see the tri-colour screen. Check the numbers and look for:

"SPL-2.08.HSPL" & "CotullaHSPL"

If you see it, proceed to Flash the New ROM. If you don't see it, go back and try again to install HSPL.

Take off the battery cover, remove the battery for a moment and place it back and re-install the cover. Re-boot the phone.

Run the Installer for the new ROM. Connect your phone to the computer via USB when prompted, follow the instructions to flash our new ROM. When complete, disconnect the USB and re-boot.

Hooray! You've put a brand new, much faster ROM onto your phone despite HTC and Telstra's best efforts to prevent you from doing so. Go to Settings and check your free Storage and Program memory. You should have around 150/60!

That's it! Now go forth and populate your phone with Contacts, Appointments and Apps as you wish. Remember you are low on memory, particularly Program memory, so install everything you can to the Storage Card. I hope that the real Brains around here will mod the ROM so that it gets along with HSPL3, or perhaps mod HSPL3, so that the combinantion frees up alot more memory, and the full 528M that's in our phones. Until that happy day we will just have to be a bit careful of our phones.

Best wishes and Good Luck!

MadSci