[Palm Treo 750 ROM Development] einsteinecker:
A special preview of Version 3.0 before I upload the ROMs

Well, the time has come. A year ago, on this month, I reignited the Treo750 forums with hope that the perfect ROM is just over the horizon. I think that perfect ROM is here :)

Windows Mobile 6.1 Hermann Version 3.0 Final, the (undisputed?) best WM6.1 Treo ROM in all of the world

Unique features:

-A unique, finger-scrolling enabled build without the need for TouchFlo!

--This means menus are scrollable too.

-This ROM is dedicated to navenedrob, the fellow who thought well, but could not follow through. The ROM utilizes his memory allocation-saving DLL's to provide an amazing speed increase of the device's overall handling, with no hit on RAM performance.

-Video playback updated to Hardware rendering, similar to fjtorsol's but with better support.

-Once again Big Storage is used for maximum storage space availability.

-Another Treo first, Windows Mobile's Haptic Feedback is unlocked, and fully working! (Thanks to my Epix for this)

-The Herman series of ROMs strive to support Network Time synchronization, the automated ability to set your device time to your network's time.

-Palm's official Hard Reset utility is used for maximum compatibility.

-CSD Line Type and GPRS authentication settings are standard for continued support of networks around the world.

-Microphone AGC, when enabled, can really boost anything utilizing the mic on the Treo, even video recording. No more quiet video recordings.

-Real Bluetooth Obex support, now you do not need to enable "File sharing" in the bluetooth "FTP" tab. Remember that "Receive all beams" is enabled by default, if you do not bluetooth often remember to turn it off.

Bug fixes:

-(XPR COMPRESSED ROM ONLY) Fixed the Option symbol icon bug beside the SIP icon*

-Fixed Speed Dial "Advanced" tab bug

-Fixed ringer notifications

-Fixed non-existent hardware button shortcuts

-(Untested) Fixed muted notifications?**

-Fixed Keyguard bug, screen now fully locked

-Camera performance is more speedier now.

-For the first time, the Camera's "Burst" mode now takes full colored pictures (In non-Hermann 3.0 ROMs, Burst mode used to take some dark stills when Burst mode is used)

Additions/Hermann exclusives:

-DivX video support, as well as RealMedia file support is inside the ROM, but not enough time to test them. Codecs left inside the ROM in case someone gets it to work.

-Camera picture taking defaulted to "High Quality", Video recording defaulted to "No time limit".

-HTC Task Manager (X-button) Version 1.51 Build 34317 installs after device setup, can be uninstalled at the users choice.

-Updated JPEG encoding/decoding on the device.

-Unlocked Haptic Feedback (device vibrates when screen is touched). Can be configured and disabled in "Sounds & Notifications" in the Control Panel (Settings->Personal).

-Speed Dial had to be updated to Palm's last updated files.

-(on your PC) Windows Mobile Device Center "Support" page directs to this thread when you connect your phone to a USB port on your computer (Windows 7/Vista only)

Known bugs

All bugs listed are the fault of the phone, as I have really done what a non-Palm employee could do to fix this phone to be very usable.

-The backlight bug (do not use brightness levels 2 and 3) will remain in all ROM's unless someone is kind enough to share Palm's 2.31 ROM, the only known ROM to fix this bug.

-Sometimes the keyboard backlight flickers very bright for a split second, this is hardware related

-If you do not use the included HTC Taskmanager, the Phone Dialer will not fully close itself. A software problem, Palm's software.

Windows Mobile 6.5.0

It includes all of the above, but there are some things to note:

--This ROM is rather slower than WM6.1. Not bad when you see that Palm's Native Kernel only supports up to WM6.1 (Yeah, they really did support 6.1)

--WM6.5 has graphical problems, see *

--About 5MB of RAM is used compared to the 6.1 ROM

--Personally I recommend the 6.1 ROM, as it's very much faster and, well, better :p

*The Option Symbol bug took me weeks to figure out, and I finally realized the boot order is possible at it's highest (#255). There is a catch though: if you install a program that resides on the screen, such as a battery program, and if it has an order close to 255, chances are you will break the Option Symbol, as it simply refused to work when I just changed the registry. On WM6.5, these Option symbols "for Caps and fn" will only work if the theme you used is the default one, in this case a less graphic-heavy one. The redraw bug when you press the "Alt" key happens, simply because the Caps and fn (white) button icons are directly tied to the behavior of "Alt Keys". Yes, Palm for some reason thought it was a good idea to have these icons work only when Alt Keys work. The Option Symbol will not work at all with an LZX compressed ROM.

**Muted notifications happened to me when I used my phone for a long period of time without restarting. Now, this remains untested as it takes me a really long time to stay with one ROM, and as you can guess, I flash a lot of test builds, so I cannot test this function.