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I am the happy owner of a T-Mobile labeled XDA and now a QTek Tanager. I was wondering if anyone was working on a similar ROM load for the Tanager/SPVx and/or the SPV MS SmartPhones?
Thanks!
for all stuffs concerning SPV have a look at www.modaco.com, and our french site www.smartphony.org
There is not much evolution on smartphone OS since ROM 1.45
Oh, I'm already addicted to those sites (and use babelfish.altavista.com to translate smartphony for me- my years of French in high school has failed me miserably). I just haven't seen any movement on customized ROMS a la the XDA clones.
Optimize the GPRS stack- load apps into ROM (space permitting)- stabilize the phone... you get the idea. If I were enterprising enough, I might even try the tools on this site to hack away, but alas my coding skills are far out of date.
We've seen that all Windows CE-like ROMs are very similar in structure to the XDAs ROM. However, we presently have little time to extend our work to other devices: we're already spendng quite a bit too much time on this hobby as it is.
Is the SPV still buggy as hell, or have they improved it?
Well buggy as hell isnt the right description for the problems in the SPV!!!
The best thing is that each day you discover something new "New Bug" and that is the best thing in the SPV each day you have a surprise so you can benefit from it all day long. Lockups are fun for exemple.... they keep you busy, battery is excellent for 24h i mean why should we talk allot mobile phone are made for their looks only not to be used!
And ifffffffffff by mistake you have removed the SD card dont think you can use it again till you turn off - on the device nice ehhhh?
What more i think this is the short list, hope your happy if you need more info i am glad to have a full detailed report for you about maybe 100 pages?
I was hopping for a ROM update from SMART for my SPV and the good news is that they got one 2 days ago... the updates "NO BUG FIXES" yeah i know isnt it great....... oops one more thing i am just waiting for my QTEK to come back from the dealer for some modifications and then i am throwing my SPV out of the balcony
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hehehe ARZLEb got a tooth against the SPV
Well i ve been using it for its early beginning when working on the project with Orange france last year, that is right The OS is very buggy but i works even.
The Radio stack was part of the first major upgrade 4 month ago and it has been improved a lot.
The main problem is that SPV is underclocked voluntary from 133 to 84 mghz and only have 16 M Rom aviable.
And people using it deserve to have a PDA like, i m sorry guys but this is more a phone than a PDA
so the more software and skins and stuff the put into it the slower and buggy it runs
The teenage (SPV E100) is nothing more than a SPV in a new plastic package. same hardware except for the screen that has been improved (personnaly i found the rigianl one quite good 65 K on a phone that s great).
People are working on hacks, you might have heard of us at the early beginning of the year for our crack of the orange signature that allowed users to put unsigned softwares on the SPV, and make this phone maket share growth in France.
Such kind of phone without software isn t worth buying it.
We all are waiting for the new rom based like ppc2003 on the .net framework
it is a bit harder to hack the SPV ROM because it is mainly based on the PPC framework, but we have nearly no documentations about the specificities and modifications applied to SPV.
Argh. 'tis disappointing!
I believe that a ROM update similar to the XDA's would do wonders for the platform! Stabilize it, add more features, and maybe make its radio a little more sensitive. I understand the overall reluctance due to minimal documentation and fewer devices sold (and the Gods of the XDA ROM are busy updating the image for those awesome PPCPEs!).
Grrrr. What a platform this little Tanager could be...
In fact I'm using dumprom to study our beloved SPV ... with the separate XIP images (oem, sfon, lang, oper) - if dumprom works, makerom should probably work too, and be less dangerous than a full flash as we have (theorically) no possiblity to fry the bootloader ... just need more people with free time to try it 8)
If I can get assistance with step-by-steps on how to save my current ROM, then sign me up!
Hi,
does any one know where can i get Windows Mobile 5.0 upgrade for XDA 2i?
Is it possible to upgrade if ROM is not available right now in future?
tia for comments
there is not any 2005 for IIi
that i know off
the official word from the people who sell the alpine / andes which the IIi a part of is that there will never be an 2005 update for it
so unless it's leaked like the himalaya version
or if somebody manage to move the rom from himalaya to other htc devices
then it will never be possible
Hi There,
thanks for reply.
so sofar only Windows Mobile 5.0 ROM is available for only XDA II ?
no other O2/HTC Models ( Pocket PC Phone) has Windows Mobile 5.0 ROM ?
well the himalaya is leaked as in it was never supposed to have gotten out from htc
and the official words from imate who also oem these devices along with o2, tmobile....
then there will be no 2005 for any of the current devices
the first 2005 device will be the utms phone called universal which will be prob be released this fall
there is also an 2005 smartphone rom leaked for the thyphone smartphone
hmm.. :x
seems like its good to buy a second hand XDA II and upgrade ROM to windows mobile.. :-( compared to buying new XDA IIi. :?
i wonder why HTC/O2/ is doing this.. :?:
why do you think 2005 is that important ?
it's more about having the latest and greatst
much software still run on ppc 2000 and even earlier
your device will continue to work for a long time if you just stick with your current 2003 or 2003SE
Maybe because WM2005 is:
More stable
Looks nicer
Easier to use
Better UI as a phone
Better Office support
And now Buzz has finally merged the Disk on Chip partitions to get 32mb persistant storage, it's even better as you will never lose your data if the batteries run down
AlanJC said:
Maybe because WM2005 is:
More stable
Looks nicer
Easier to use
Better UI as a phone
Better Office support
And now Buzz has finally merged the Disk on Chip partitions to get 32mb persistant storage, it's even better as you will never lose your data if the batteries run down
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yeah.. future safe better battery life( or same battery life, but longer usage to be precise.) and new UI..
Don't know if this old news for some ...
http://www.theunwired.net/./?itemid=2696
An identical device to the Magican with WM5, WiFI, 128MB and 2 replaced buttons!
I spoke to our logistics manager today (TMUK) and he confirmed that the Compact II looks the same as the original with Windows 5 OS. Didn't have anymore tech specs to hand although don't be surprised if some more case colours appear. If I get anymore info I'll update.
BulletTime,
many thanks for your reply. Looks like we might get the long awaited WM5 through "official" channels then!
Hence my excitement!
Athena anyone?
I'm not entirely sure if this is the Athena or not. I heard rumours that this could be the athena but I also heard rumours of an athena that has a different shape than the Magician altogether. I think we'll have to wait and see ...
Could be the HTC Prophet
German tmobile also claims a new release of our mdacompact should appear before christmas. And "yes" they say its planned to be equipped with WM2005 wlan and 128mb.
Greetings
T-mobile compact II (HTC - ???)
http://msmobiles.com/news.php/4493.html
Pro: shaped as magician but with windows and OK buttons; wifi; wm 5.0
Cons: no hardware buttons for wm 5.0 softbuttons.
XDA Atom (Quanta - Athena)
http://msmobiles.com/news.php/4453.html
HTC Prophet
http://msmobiles.com/news.php/4436.html
Pro: wm 5.0; 2MP camera; fm radio; softbuttons; wifi
Cons: only MiniSD!!!
Obviously, images and specs may change before release. We have only rumors.
Bye bye
Isidoro
No more a rumour!!!!
The word is out!!! :
German tmobile is offering the mdacompact 2 around middle of novembert2005.
Specs:
128mb
Windows mobile 2005!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seemingly NO wlan!!!!
See photo from official catalogue:
Are u sure the photo is not a fake? Compact II should have Start and OK hardware buttons instead of contacts and agenda. See
this link.
Isidoro
risidoro said:
Are u sure the photo is not a fake? Compact II should have Start and OK hardware buttons instead of contacts and agenda. See
this link.
Isidoro
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Definately not a fake!!!!!
Picked up the new catalogue for november just an hour ago!
Greetings
So Compact II will be a S110 with windows mobile 5.0? Nothing more, nothing less? Well, at least i think we'll be able to install its rom in our magician in short times!!!
Oh Prophet, we are u???
Bye
Could you please scan page 12 and link it for us?
Or at least tell us what further information about the MDAcII is given on page 12?
Edit:
It seems that the missing page/information is given here.
That's great, because we could use the firmware and have wm5 on our magican i suppose... If anyone have the solution for that please provide us with it.thx
Done for prophet
succesfully done the upgrade from german rom to wwe rom
grazie isidoro
elconte said:
succesfully done the upgrade from german rom to wwe rom
grazie isidoro
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I don't see the relationship of this post with respect to the main topic.
It seems that the very first windows 7 rom is out ...it has appears here on xda and DA_g is already working on it..it seems that the first device to get the updates it will obviusly be the HD2...
Anyway I don't know what think, I'm not very impressed from windows phone 7, expecialy I don't want to lost manila..
here is the thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=681659
cool news!!
maybe our s200 chiefs get it running on our devices ;-)
We should make some kind of fund to interest some people to port it to acer since there aren't that much developers for the neotouch?
Or is Arto or brainmaster interested?
it's not so easy ...at the moment just do the dumpo is preatty difficoult...don't expect anythin in the mid-term...
I am interested in cooking WM7 for NeoTouch, so i will stay in touch and follow the development of ROM.
Now i am on vacation and be back in 2 Weeks.
I will stay tuned too on this but I dont expect to much the possibility of cooking that...
as for me until microsoft don't bring multitasking and third party app support I'm not very interested to that...if I wanna an embedded device I would have bought a nokia or something else...
by the way I have seen the multitasking of the palm pixi...and I have to say that it's very nice ! would be awsome to bring that interface on windows mobile.
You can seen in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI5tLZH4nEY .arto what do you think ?
Getting wp7 on the acer s200 or any other qsd8xxxx platform device wont be as straight foward as it was getting 6.5 to our current devices, da-g has said it the devices will brick, jtag will be needed, and lots of other things will go wrong, wp7 wont be as easy as porting 6.5 to an arm7 device, this will require a lot of skill and luck and most of all time, i can bet my neck that we wont see a half working rom for atleast a year, hell maybe more, lets just be patient and hope that da_g can find a way to flash this new generation of rom's on to the current qsd8xxx platform devices.
I see, anyway as for me, until mocrosoft won't bring multitasking support and third party apps I'm not very interested in it ...
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by the way I have seen the multitasking of the palm pixi...and I have to say that it's very nice ! would be awsome to bring that interface on windows mobile.
You can seen in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI5tLZH4nEY .arto what do you think ?
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:O very very nice, this is what i call multitasking .i really want to have this on my acer neotouch
Hoping that microsoft will release WP7 soon......
Another 'let's donate to con-men' thread... Forget it, if you need an iPhone go buy it and be happy... I don't get why those people've bought a 'classic' WM smartphone if they want a thing similar to iPhone/ Android (which is in fact, a substitute/clone of an iPhone)
Hi i've just bought a XDA 2i/ Alipine as a cheap phone as i put my HD7 through the wash. Not too good i know. Whats the latest ROM that i can put on it EG WM6.5 ETC and how do i do it and where abouts are the links for downloads?
LOL of all the old HTC phones u could have get, u end up getting the one that has never been any custom updated rom (not even WM5 ), sorry mate, but i think u have better luck with the good ol' blue angel, or even the magician as i think they have at least WM 6 on it
P/S not sure whats the update now, as i own the alpine years back, u might wanna check the alpine section in the legacy device section of the forum just in case i am wrong
Assuming you do have an Alpine and not a Himalaya, sorry to say it but the latest for the Alpine is WM2003, somewhere I may have the latest UK-O2 ROM.
I still have my Alpine and a Himalaya which I have upgraded to WM6.5. battery life on both is woeful.
Have to ask, why an Alpine given the plethora of newer devices on EBay?
Hi thanks for the reply. It's because im at UNiversity and my phone broke so i just thought get a cheap phone which the XDA2i/ Alpine was about £20 so i just bought it as it had wireless meant that i could use it for the internet, texting, calling and email.