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ROM's, hard-spl and languages

Guys,
I have spend the last days in gathering info about the latest ROM's and maybe you can answer some questions for me.
I have a Herald (A Dutch P4350) from Vodafone.
After I got it, I immidiately upgraded the Herald to WM6.0 Dutch and added some nice goodies to make it look like a Touch.
No complaints, everything worked flawless.
This weekend I thought it was time for something new so the first thing I did was to hard-SPL the 4350 and to try some of the latest ROM's.
Right now I am using the Open Touch v3.0 SlimLine WM6.1 ROM with Duprade's keyboard fix.
Here again, no problems at all and although English is perfect for me I would love to switch back to a Dutch WM6.0 (or better 6.1) cooked ROM.
So my questions are...
Can I, although the thing is hard'spl'ed, use the official HTC RUU tool to downgrade it back to WM6.0 Dutch (plus some extra addons) ???
Is it possible, and I search and read and search the forum for hours (who likes to be called a n00b ), to "adjust" one of the home cooked ROM's into Dutch or any other language ???
Respect to all the guys who have spend hours, days, months in cooking these great ROM's

I was able to install the original ROM (HTC WM6 Dutch) over the hard-spl'ed Herald. The trick was to delete the included SPL.nbh first.
All is working fine now... in Dutch but.
Checking the memory I have just 17 Mb free from a total of 31 Mb
What happened with the rest of the memory ?
Anyone who can answer this for me ?

3rd party ROMs usually have a lot more free memory. Also your pagepool is probably set to 12mb.
Technically... I could expand my kitchen with different translations... but it's a lot of work and as it is, my time is very limited... How big of a demand is there for a translated kitchen?

I think there is a fast demand for translated (Dutch) kitches because almost every model of HTC is very populair here in Holland and there is, as far as I know, no cook for Dutch kitchens.

I'd say a spanish kitchen would be awesome... but i'm afraid i would be one in a very few.
You don't usually see lots of spanish-talking people in the wing-herald section. Anyone interested?
PS: i won't mind at all helping with that kitchen

It would be wonderful if there would come a dutch version for p4350!

What TouchFlo 3d for wm6.5??

Hi Guys
I install a Rom WM6.5 Windows Mobile 6.5 for Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 -[W4X.23+BAREBONE]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=509891
this Rom run very fast and all its OK. But I miss the TouchFlo 3d (Rom Touch it)
Im test Touchflo 3D manila (Touch-HD cabs here. full manila HD cab)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442154&highlight=manila+3d
I Install this Cab... but its not the same like the rom touch it... this run Slowly and Comunication button respond at the second try.
The question is what Touchflo run nice in Winmo 6.5?
Thanks a lot guys and sorry for the english. I only speak Spanish.

the banished said:
Hi Guys
I install a Rom WM6.5 Windows Mobile 6.5 for Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 -[W4X.23+BAREBONE]
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=509891
this Rom run very fast and all its OK. But I miss the TouchFlo 3d (Rom Touch it)
Im test Touchflo 3D manila (Touch-HD cabs here. full manila HD cab)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442154&highlight=manila+3d
I Install this Cab... but its not the same like the rom touch it... this run Slowly and Comunication button respond at the second try.
The question is what Touchflo run nice in Winmo 6.5?
Thanks a lot guys and sorry for the english. I only speak Spanish.
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try shadowmikes rom as wm6.5 with manila as well. best of both worlds.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505321

another Flash?? I count Five this weekend jajaja poor Xperia
Ok Men Thanks Im Gonna test the Rom.

the banished said:
another Flash?? I count Five this weekend jajaja poor Xperia
Ok Men Thanks Im Gonna test the Rom.
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thats what this forum is all about. you try everything till you find one that suits you. think you will like this one. everything works. youtube app, manila. rom is huge and has got everything you can think off
stopped count on how many times flash mine testing for Wild Childs roms. W5x out today and we working a surprise for everyone

shingers5 I remember... I test The Rom shadowmikes the Sunday
and I remember the rom brings several Programs i don not use. and this rom is a bit heavy (ram Usage) . Correct me if I'm wrong please.
Thanks again shingers5

the banished said:
shingers5 I remember... I test The Rom shadowmikes the Sunday
and I remember the rom brings several Programs i don not use. and this rom is a bit heavy (ram Usage) . Correct me if I'm wrong please.
Thanks again shingers5
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new one was released monday 4.5.09. i have used it and yeah it is loaded. fully loaded but it works well. rom you are currently using does not have manila support for it. ya can try jerp's new rom but seems to be issues with it - bluetooth not working and sms issues. ithas got manila as well. also agent 47 has released one with manila too but not checked it out
jerps
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=511893
agent47
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512050
not sure of them but agent47 has blue touch -it 7 highlights. you may like it

6.5 & tf3d one package
what i recommend, have tested and like the speed of it, my top 3 and only chefs that has the mix is drumm rolllll
shadowmikes: i like the RC 2.3 175mb as it worked better for me than the new one RC 3.1 200mb file, couldn't even install this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505321
timurs: the 1st chef to do this and his seems to be fastest, only thing is he has alot of programs you might use or not, up to you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502641
agent 47: new release it's pretty fast i havn't messed with it much before i flashed again
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512050
im in a mix between these as my choice. timurs and agent 47 file is around 130mb whereas shadowmikes 175mb. i don't know why it matters but i like to have the option of both. i just ended up with itjes v7 as it's lighting fast and im just as happy with it. hope that helps. have fun reading

himuraken said:
what i recommend, have tested and like the speed of it, my top 3 and only chefs that has the mix is drumm rolllll
shadowmikes: i like the RC 2.3 175mb as it worked better for me than the new one RC 3.1 200mb file, couldn't even install this one
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=505321
timurs: the 1st chef to do this and his seems to be fastest, only thing is he has alot of programs you might use or not, up to you
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=502641
agent 47: new release it's pretty fast i havn't messed with it much before i flashed again
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=512050
im in a mix between these as my choice. timurs and agent 47 file is around 130mb whereas shadowmikes 175mb. i don't know why it matters but i like to have the option of both. i just ended up with itjes v7 as it's lighting fast and im just as happy with it. hope that helps. have fun reading
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thanks for the answer Himuraken
i test the rom Valkyrie of agent 47 but it was very difficult to install. after the third try the rom run ok. but i remove i dont like for the problem of the begin. dont want to tink a hard reset and this rom.
the another rom Timurs looks great. im gonna try in the night at home.
thanks for the link.
so i understand... a rom is better to install with built in manila
thanks a lot again for the answers guys

ba upgrade wm6 to 6.5

Hi can anyone please tell me how to upgrade my ba to wm 6.5 from wm 6? , i used the wizard to upgrade from wm2003 to wm6 about 2 yrs ago, any help much appreciated, love this pda and i love using it as a phone too

basicly, when your device is already upgraded, there is not much to do.
you probably don't have to worry about sim lock and radio roms and storage sizes anymore, since apparently, it all worked fine so far.
so all you need to do is download any wm6.5 rom, unpack it, and make a RUU folder, containing the rom itself (nk.nbf) and a few other files named for example maupgradeut_noid.exe and getdevicedata and so on.
then you hard reset your device by pressing camera+record+power+reset and set the menu options clear registry hive and format storage to "YES" and enable kitl to "NO" using the camera and record buttons to flip and switch, confirm that with the mail button.
then you put your device into bootloader mode by pressing reset+record+power, kill active sync, connect the device to the pc and start maupgradeut_noid. if the 2nd screen shows you at least the version of the rom you go to, you are fine and can start the upgrade.
as soon as it is finished, use the hard reset method described above to prepare the device for the first start and then you might want to use "getting started" on the device to set it up and set up sync to get your pim data back. i shortened this description as you might remember a lot of stuff, or so i hope. most of what i wrote should ring a bell, if not, please feel free to have a look in the wizard for upgrades from wm5 to wm6 -=here=- or simply ask again, what troubles you.
with best regards
Chef_Tony

hi Tony thanks 4 ure help, when u say any rom is that only those specific for ba or are they all universal? i downloaded WM65-23052 & EnergyROM_RAPHAEL_20090811_Titanium or should i stick to the ones on the ba wizard page eg r6? i guess its the latter

of course you can only use blueangel roms found in the ba wm6 section, i mean, if you have a dvd writer that can read any disk, you wouldn't shove a slice of salami in there, would you?
the roms are so far interchangable as being WWE and work with every BA worldwide, but you need a blueangel rom, because of the rom's structure, memory consumption, drivers and so on, and after all, the buttons and the display resolution.
i once had a case, where someone tried to flash a charmer rom to a ba, that rom was way too big, and also the files were completely different, so he couldn't get through with it on his own and asked, because he would have messed up his ba with that pretty bad.
so, conclusively, 23052 builds are nice, but wait, till it's coming for the BA. i think d-two is working on it, maybe you want to have a look at the 23004 german rom thread, i asked him and he is gonna make an english version too, but until then you might want to catch status updates there.

Tony thanks it worked awsome phone, i used xplodes english rom, is there much difference between that & the german one? who needs an iphone eh again many thanks will lookout for d2s new ba release cheers

with the current releases there are no major differences between d-two's and xplode's build (except for the language) but what i wrote was about the next builds, they're both working on 23047 or 23052 builds, but d-two has the advantage that he has overcome the know sync and sms bugs, so his build will probably be the first of those two to come out. although he is rather new to this forum and so far he only supported his own wm6.5 build 23004 german, that is a guy you better keep an eye on. he is making fast progress and maybe will become one of the major chefs soon.

hi again please can you tell me how to do a wm6.5 hard reset & also how to get into into bootloader mode as to reload a new rom eg d2's, also i did notice there were 2 excel icons in msoffice maybe a bug many thanks

actually i solved it myself, just gotta be quicker with the camera & record buttons cheers

Hi Tony everything on explodes exroms installed ok except jbed, is that java? Also i looked at xplodes manila thats really nice, i guess thats on the latest phones , its like a mini o/s, so u would just install that after u install a 6.5 rom?

yes, jbed is the java applet manager.
for manila, i wouldn't say it is a mini os, it is more of an alternative gui, it replaces the titanium today screen with a touchflo one, but it also just features basic functions, photo viewing, music playing and does not alter the start menu or any add-on apps, most of the functions are also available in titanium or for titanium as an add-in, let's say facebook or stuff like that.
the time to install doesn't really matter, you can also install other apps first, whatever, you only need to know that after you install it, you have to deactivate "default" in today plug-ins and also all the others, because you can have only manila as your today plugin then and then you should find a "touch to start touchflo" button on your today screen and then you'll see, whether it works or not. that really depends from user to user, and between the different devices, roms, countries and manila versions, maybe you have to try several versions before you actually find one that runs in an acceptable speed, because that seems to be the general issue when it comes to porting manila.

thanks i may just stick 2 what i have, d2,s new 6.5.1 rom is beta so would that except xplodes extrom 23004 cabs? or is it best to wait for him to put his own one out?

thanks i may just stick with what i have, D2's new rom 6.5.1 is that compatible with xplodes 23004 extrom or is it best to wait for d2 to bring his own one out?

d-two said he wanted to release one, maybe till the weekend he's done putting it together.

Need plain 6.5 rom with just touch flo 3d

hello everybody.
I have been absent for so long time but I was too busy to follow up all your work guys.
I have 2 simple questions that couldnt be answered by a little search I did.
I am looking for the fastest more stable and plain wm 6.5 rom with only touch flo 3d on it.
I am not a heavy user of this pda. It is mostly used as a simple phone and a gps navigator using destinator 7. (i may switch to i-go 8 in the near future)
I really do basic stuff so I really dont need all the nice goodies you preinstall on the cooked roms I have read about.
i forgot to mention that i currently have my touch cruise with
official rom wm 6.1 3.13.405.0 WWE
radio 1.59.42.15
Any help?
p.s. sorry if my search wasnt good enough but I was absent for a year and a half and it seems really difficult to discover the exact things I am asking.
cheerios

hm......i have succesfully installed hard-spl and also succesfully installed latest radio rom 1.59.46.12
i also installed succesfully pcarvalho's rom. now only thing to do is to find a clean 6.5 rom. I saw that installing the driver for touch flo 3d is really easy.
sigh...i feel sleepy now but at least i didnt bother any of you guys with my silly first questions

I'm not a pro here but have been following that 3D driver development for Polaris and tested that TF3D port on my Cruise. Unfortunately current TF3D on Polaris is good only for testing/fun/lulz/whatever and a lot of headache in everyday use (the first second I saw it, I knew I couldn't live with that slowness and bugness every day ).
My unpretentious advice is you better get latest pcarvalho's 6.5 rom (usin it for everyday - works good) and install Manila 2D v2.0 from HTC Mega on top of that. You may also consider the Kostas244-Rom with Manila 2D v.2 already cooked in there. As for those tons of extra stuff - I don't need it either but just don't mind it being there if it doesn't hit RAM or processor time too hard
P.S. My opinion is the dream of properly working TF3D on Polaris will never come true :sigh
Cheers!

thanks for the response mate.
I will try kostas's rom later this week.for now i am pleased in general with pcarvalho's one.

Please let us know how you get on - I would like to do the same thing.

with full wm6.5 coming out now, I'd like a clean light 6.5 too.
Need more memory.
Just the plain stuff, with .net and not so many apps installed, just the defaults from htc like opera and quickgps.

[ROM]|"SensePhone"|WM6.5.3|23152|Sense 2018|3.14.531.1|

Introduction:
I have been around for a few years "cooking" Windows Mobile ROMs for various CDMA devices from the Titan and ending with the Rhodium. I took a break form Windows Mobile and bought an EVO and had cook a few android ROMS, but had gotten very bored with the lack of internal customization of Android, so I decided to buy another WM 6.5 phone and restart my favorite pass-time hobby.
Concept:
The "concept" of this ROM is based off of what HTC did with its Sense interface and how deeply HTC embedded Sense within the Android OS. I like using Sense on Windows Mobile and wanted to do the same with what I believe HTC should have done with WM 6.5.3, so this ROM is alot different from your normal ROM as it is solely based and dependant on Sense.
Features:
This is not a "feature" ROM in fact most of your normal Sense features like Facebook intergration, Twitter, and Footprints have been disabled and removed for the time being since those are services that I do not heavily rely on, however if interest persist I may add Twitter and Facebook intergration later. The ROM does contain most of HTC's common Sense software such as Audio Booster to the Voice Recorder with the removal of the "bloat" software such as the WorldCard Business Card Reader, Java Blend, and JetCet Printing.
Summary:
This basis of this is to remove as much un-neccessary parts of the WM 6.5.3 OS to replace it with Sense to make Sense as much of the main OS as possible.
Instructions for flashing:
Code:
This ROM is compatible with all HD2 devices manufactured by HTC.
If you're a beginner, please read as there's a few things you need to do first.
•You need to install a modified SPL on your device that allows installation of custom ROMs such as this one. It's called a Hard SPL and it's here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=611433.
•You need to install a compatible radio that works with this ROM. The radios that work with this ROM all have ".50" in their name.
If you have a TMobile USA branded device, then you don't need to flash a radio. The ROM will work just fine with it. However, if you own an asian or european HD2 then you NEED to flash a .50 radio.
* :HSPL 1.66 Minimum recommended.
* :No Radio is included in this release.
* :Correct radio needed to enable 576 ram for NON-T-Mous HD2 users.
* :Please hard reset after flashing.
Info about the ROM:
* Base official T-Mous stock 3.14.531 (T-Mobile US HD2 and HTC HD2 EU compatible)
* MS build 23152 WM6.5.3
*Only compatible with radio version: 2.xx.50.xx
Available memory:
Storage: over 750 mb
Program: over 300 mb
576mb ram enabled
It's a very light rom with all of the HTC "stock" look, there is no user customization built in
Added:
Code:
Adobe Reader
RSS Hub
Digital Compass
YouTube
Teeter
FM Radio
MP3 Trimmer
Audio Booster
Streaming Media
HTC Album (6.5.3 version No Facebook album viewing)
Quick GPS
Voice Recorder
HTC Wi-Fi Router
Opera Browser
HTC Messaging Client
Removed:
Code:
Windows Live
Windows Messenger
Solitaire
MS Office
Adobe Flash
Internet Explorer 6
Remote Desktop
WM Widgets
MS MyPhone
WM 6.5 Lockscreen
Google Maps
JetCet Printing
Java
All WM 6.5.3 Themes
HTC NaviPanel
Foot Prints
WorldCard Mobile
MS Facebook
IME Tutorial
MS Market (you have a better chance visiting a ppc freeware site)
Leo Manila 2018 (No RSS Home)
Tabs Included:
Home
Contacts
Sms
Email
Internet
Calendar
Album
Music
Weather
Settings
TESTING THE ROM FOR PERFORMANCE
* Flash the ROM
* Hard reset after ROM Flash orTask 29 before Flashing ROM either choice
* DO NOT INSTALL ANY 3RD PARTY APPS UNTIL TRYING THE ROM FIRST AND READING IF YOUR SOFTWARE IS COMPATIBLE WITH WM6.5.3, This will help to give you the experience of the base ROM
* I dont use 3rd party apps or tweak since my rom is tweaked how i use it daily.
* After testing the rom and your'e happy, Install your software one at a time then soft reset and try the device to see if anything any bugs occur.
Disclaimer:
This is a ROM that I created for myself with me in mind, that I am sharing with the XDA community. If enough general interest is surfaces any feature that is not present or that should be remove will be taken into consideration in future ROMS.
DOWNLOAD
http://www.mediafire.com/?jhn239kfztxd5xs

RESERVED ..........

It is always a good news to have a new cook cooking a cooked rom for hd2
Please add additional info on the rom you cooked, such as version, radio, spl, etc
Congrats and thanks for sharing your rom
Cheers...

Coming back from WP7, will flash soon and let you know.

Virus! Virus!! Virus!!!
So said my norton antivirus

will download it now ,and w'll see what happens.

hummy15 said:
So said my norton antivirus
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AVG and Microsoft security essentials they say no.
Fat boy Norton scaremongering again?

Hey thanks you guys let me know what you think I have to finish my OP but it will be later and we will call this a beta

So far so good, no freezes, crashes or glitches.
All connections work.
Good work.

Thanks 10 char

http://www.mediafire.com/?jhn239kfztxd5xs Updated ROM and updated first OP ... don't sleep on this one I will put my old rep on the line and say that this one is as stable as the most popular ROMs

So this is stock Sense ROM, but based on WM 6.5.3 and without twitter, facebook and bloatware?
If yes, it's really cool! However I miss twitter, is it possible to bring it back?

"results"
hello,
well, i got back from droid as few of things i need did not worked. so needed something to start again with
so .. i flashed this and i must say i am pleased very nice, everything thats needed, nothing more. ok, i need some of my usual stuff, but thats MINE .. but ..
of course there should be "but.." you cannot satisfy everyone
the only thing i really miss in this rom are buttons. close/back/send in combo with back .. you get the idea .. one of the main problems in droid is missing those buttons, and destroying hw buttons on the bottom of the phone. yes, i know those hardware buttons are there for that, but as we all know, they are not so good in quality .. so .. if this could be solved, this would be the perfect rom .. well, for me anyway
cheers

raven_raven said:
So this is stock Sense ROM, but based on WM 6.5.3 and without twitter, facebook and bloatware?
If yes, it's really cool! However I miss twitter, is it possible to bring it back?
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yes completely stock no bloatware
I am working on another update since a new "sense" version was released I will try to work something out for an add-on
vicai said:
hello,
well, i got back from droid as few of things i need did not worked. so needed something to start again with
so .. i flashed this and i must say i am pleased very nice, everything thats needed, nothing more. ok, i need some of my usual stuff, but thats MINE .. but ..
of course there should be "but.." you cannot satisfy everyone
the only thing i really miss in this rom are buttons. close/back/send in combo with back .. you get the idea .. one of the main problems in droid is missing those buttons, and destroying hw buttons on the bottom of the phone. yes, i know those hardware buttons are there for that, but as we all know, they are not so good in quality .. so .. if this could be solved, this would be the perfect rom .. well, for me anyway
cheers
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I will make a cab for this it is just a registry tweak

If it's just a registry tweak, you can simply post it, I think we can do it ourselves .

raven_raven said:
If it's just a registry tweak, you can simply post it, I think we can do it ourselves .
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After some testing I decided to add the virtual buttons back will be "fixed" or added in the next upload

jakdillard said:
I will make a cab for this it is just a registry tweak
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raven_raven said:
If it's just a registry tweak, you can simply post it, I think we can do it ourselves .
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cabs are silly for simple registry tweaks.
Since you did not get an answer raven, the entries are listed below. Change them to 0 or delete them if you want the stock 6.5.x interface.
Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\BubbleTiles]
"TextModeEnabled"=dword:00000001
"HardwareStartKeyEnabled"=dword:00000001
"HardwareDoneKeyEnabled"=dword:00000001

mwalt2 said:
cabs are silly for simple registry tweaks.
Since you did not get an answer raven, the entries are listed below. Change them to 0 or delete them if you want the stock 6.5.x interface.
Code:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shell\BubbleTiles]
"TextModeEnabled"=dword:00000001
"HardwareStartKeyEnabled"=dword:00000001
"HardwareDoneKeyEnabled"=dword:00000001
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Thanks for posting this registry tweak, however you are coming off little aggressive and negetive, could you not do that please as the emotion is not necessary to help someone out. Thanks JD

jakdillard said:
Thanks for posting this registry tweak, however you are coming off little aggressive and negative, could you not do that please as the emotion is not necessary to help someone out. Thanks JD
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Sorry, that was not my intention at all.

mwalt2 said:
Sorry, that was not my intention at all.
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No problamo I am just glad we got that sorted and cleared up again that for posting that tweak since I didn't get back to it