As a newby, I have upgraded my Orbit to WM6, but looking on the forums I see many people have upgraded to new/different roms? Are these roms just different skins or is there more to them than that? Also, can anybody recommend a good one to upgrade to? Does Touchflo make the Orbit work a bit like the iphone? Thanks.
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I'm looking to move to one of these as my 8125 has died, what should I know? Also I have a few questions...
- What's video dialing? Is this a video conference feature?
- ATT says they will offer an upgrade to WM6 in Q3, anyone know if you will have to pay for it?
- How many of you have upgraded your phones to WM6? Was it hard? Worth it?
- Is it available in silver and black? I seem to see different descriptions of the phone.
8125 has died, what should I know? Also I have a few questions...
- What's video dialing? Is this a video conference feature?
Yes, not quite useful so far in my opinion
- ATT says they will offer an upgrade to WM6 in Q3, anyone know if you will have to pay for it?
Nobody really knows what is officialy going on with WM6, there are allready great cooked roms available that may be far better than the official one
- How many of you have upgraded your phones to WM6? Was it hard? Worth it?
I did, toyed with allmost all roms available for my hermes, and I was pretty happy with most of those
- Is it available in silver and black? I seem to see different descriptions of the phone.
No idea, as I have an Orange branded one
Thanks for the quick response What was your favorite ROM out of all of them? The newest "Black" one? Also where could I find a guide on how to upgrade the ROM for it?
You can find all the information you in the WIKI .. go figure...
Really? He can find out which ROM was fun_key's favorite in the Wiki? Care to provide the link?
Hey folks,
I've tried searching and there's no forthcoming result on this (despite that I suspect it *must* have been covered somewhere) - perhaps it's my dyslexia?
Anyway:
I'm now ready to install a WM6 ROM on my currently WM5 hermes from Tmobile.
I'm looking for people's opinions as to whether it's worth my while and what the performance differences are? (obviously it's a lot of work getting things set up again so I want to be sure it's worthwhile).
Is WM6 running slower on hermes that WM5? or faster?
Has anyone a ROM they would reccomend? Else I'll go with the Tmobile standard.
So opinions please!
Thanks a lot guys. I appreciate it!
cmon!!! you cant be serious!!!!
ppl are looking to upgrade their devices to wm6.1 and you want us to compare wm5 to wm6? i mean seriously......look at every device thread, even the older devices, you can practically see wm6/6.1 for almost every single devices, even devices which are waaaay older than wm6. and you probaby wont find anyone getting excited over any wm5 releases anywhere.......doesnt that tell you something?/
if you searched hard enough, you could probably find someone who compared the performance of wm5 to wm6 but those will probably be with older builds of wm6, and those just dont compare with the current builds. your best bet i would say is to try it out urself, its not that hard.
I know it's not that hard to test it - I'm already running it on my blue-angel.
And it's running well.
But comparing hermes to blue angel is comparing apples to oranges.
It's a *huge* amount of work doing the upgrade. Not the actual upgrade. That's, as you say, rediculously easy. But installing 20/30 medical textbooks? dozens of other programs, fixing out my network setup on it....
these take hours, and in a casual not setting hours aside for it fashion a couple of weeks.
So I'm understandibly not wanting to take the risk and plung in until I'm sure it'll be worthwhile.
Anyone got any experience? Has WM6 upgraded the speed? or is the slight graphical revamp a strain on the processor?
Also should I go with tmobile's own ROMs for WM6 or a community alternative?
Opinions pretty pretty please to save me hours of work!
2 words.......user customization
there truly is a HUGE diffrence between wm5 and wm6/6.1. i would recomend going with a WM6.1 build from the get go considering all the programs you say you load on your hermes.
I am currently using the DVH Rom build 19400(http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=387516 ). I find it to be the fastest, loaded but not bloated, and honestly is the best i've used in quit some time. He has apparently released a new rom (build 19701) but i have yet to try it out. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=388747)
best of luck
molesaied88, TRY 19701, ITS FREAKIN AWESOME!!!!!!!Quick and VERY stable... I love it.
Thanks folks.
Sorry I took ages to reply i had exams! Right so you guys are advocating using a custom home cooked WM6 Rom rather than an original one?
(I'm assuming these are faster? Are they fully featured though?)
Now I'll need to decide whether to go with Ultra or molesaid's suggestion. Anyone know which is currently running more spritely?
Again thanks again! I know the forum must be deluged with this kind of stuff
I have found WM6 to be much, much more stable than when I had WM5. Not as many lock ups of freezing as before. I used to have to soft reset my phone all the time because of lock ups, but with WM6 I rarely reset my phone anymore.
I would say that stability and the larger pool of programs for it made WM6 the choice for me.
Hi,
I have a WM6.11 release I installed on my SPV in April. No problems to date. But I was wondering what the 'best' one to update to is nowadays? I use the WiFi (internet) and BT (gps) facilities the most..
Thanks,
Steve
A difficult question?
There's Xplode, Sundream, pv dvh...
which one of these is most stable and quick?
I think it really comes down to personal preference, and hardware differences. I've heard good things about each one. I think I've had the least amount of troubles with Xplode's and the one from the wiki's wizard.
I'm personally trying to figure out how to cook my own ROM so it has only what I want, but so far I've only figured out how to customize the extended rom file on my storage card.
There are so many different threads that explain bits and pieces on how to cook ROMs, and the wiki seems to tell different approaches that conflict with one another or something. So it's awefully confusing and it doesn't help that I can't get upgrading ROMs to work on my Vista machines at home.
How about which release has the most up-to-date code base?
Followed by which release is the most stable?
Thanks.
Ok. Have settled on Xplode's v20273 release.
Very impressed with it!
Thanks
Xplode
Hi, I'm replacing my little brother's stolen phone with a vogue.
He wanted Diamond like mine but I don't have that kind of funds at the moment so it will have to do.
I have been looking around like crazy in cooked rom department and found several roms to my likings.
1.) v1.6 WDM's 2D Diamond ROM w/ UC by whosdaman.
2.) NFSFAN's Custom WM6.1 ROMs by NFSFAN.
I was leaning towards these two because I can give my brother a phone that feels likes a diamond without giving the actual diamond. (we love Touch Flo 3D)
From someone who has used these roms,
what are the pros and cons of these roms and what are known bugs?
Recommendations? Are there better roms?
I'm currently using Sprint as carrier and will these roms include all the default sprint program cabs? I only ask this because there are separate releases for different carriers. If I'm wrong, where can I find these cabs? (GPS, Radio, TV etc)
I'm also using Vogue_unlocker_MFG_2.31 to unlock my phone.
Am I missing anything?
Just wanted to cover all my bases here.
Thanks in advance,
Siptang
READ READ READ before you flash! If you look through the ROM contents, you will see what is included in the Sprint ROMs.
I am reading.
Where do you think I'm getting all the info that I posted above??
Hello everyone
First of all, awesome forum and lots of respect to u all!
I just have a small but important question, Im in the market for a HTC Blackstone and is the anything in particular I should think of before buying it? Like ROM version etc?
I've had mine a few months now and delighted with it. The standard ROM was OK, but it was transformed when I start trying new ROMS's.
Have tried a fair few and currently using Dutty's 6.5 Leo R4 ROM. It's fantastic. Stable, fast and has everthing I need on it.
Way better than those feckin' Apple phones which I briefly looked at!!
Dazza