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Good Evening everyone,
I have recently got my hands on a HTC HD with WinMo 6.1
I was wondering if someone would be able to recommend me the following:
WinMo 6.5.1 Rom with HTC Manila (Or Sense??)
What people think the best Radio is for Battery life vs signal strength? (If it helps I am on UK T-Mobile)
Thanks in advance, greatly appreciated...
Honestly, over a year I've had this phone, and I've tried hundreds of ROMs and for the last month, I'm back to stock rom. They're all great, but you must try them first, you might like them, you might not. There are too many I like for me to mention. Try http://pocketpc-live.com/touch-hd/best-rom-for-htc-touch-hd.html
As stated above, far to many roms to choose from, and everyone has different opinions so couldn't select one for you as my opinion changes daily. As for radio, this can be dependant on your location so again you would need to try a few, though there is only a small amount of radio's to choose from
In 10 days as I have Blackstone, ROM in my signature is 4th.
I guess I'll stick with it for some time since I don't see much advantage in 6.5.x ROMs...
It's my opinion.
Thanks for the replies, Just wanted to know what peoples favs are at present. I am downloading about 4 different roms to try. Currently trying Duttys as I have used his before on my TD but don't think this one is right for me so will see what the other four are like, but its going to be leaving them over night taking a long time to download ......
I've used the stock ROM 6.1 for about a year and was satisfied with it but there was nothing finger friendly there, I had to tweak font size of popup menus and such to have some kind of finger friendly device.
A month ago, I switched to the ROM on my signature and also updated the Radio to the latest release.
From a OS point of view, this ROM (6.5) just flies, this is quite incredible. I've tried several other ROMs (Xnor, PDAViet) all being 6.5.x ROMs but I reverted back. WM 6.1 and 6.5 are fine and quite speedy but 6.5.x (bottom startmenu and close button) are way too experimental yet and thus very slow and heavy to deal with everyday (at least for me). Do not misunderstand me, the above mentioned ROM are well done by their authors, I blame WM 6.5.x for all the slowlyness I faced during tests, I'm sure there was no special fault from the cooks.
I intend to cook this ROM a bit to change some aspects but nothing fundamental. I recommend it, it's very fast and stable.
From a Radio point of view, I must admit that 1.17.x (with latest RILPhone cab too) makes dialing a bit faster (less laggy) and gets signal in very adverse conditions but in the other hand, drains a bit more battery. I was previously using 1.13.x radio from the stock WWE ROM so one of these days, I'll downgrade to 1.14.x radio to see if I still get the increased battery usage.
Hope this helps a bit.
Hello fellow flashers,
What a journey it has been.......
About 1,5 years ago I started flashing cooked roms. Miri and Dutty produced some great roms which showed what our precious Blackstone can do. Those and other roms had lots of bugs, but it was fun to play around with them.
Lately, the most popular roms have been developed into great pieces of work and major bugs are in the past. It's mostly minor stuff that's hardly annoying.
I flashed almost all available roms on this forum from chef's such as Energy, Xannytech, Grzegorz, Cloudy, Miniteror's, Mikenifficent, BlackSTONEhenge, Kenia's Blacknew, Millski, Maryone, PhamQuang and Lotus, but I always went back to one of the KWBR's Topix roms. Especially the WM6.1 sense 2.1 rom, which was my longtime favorite.
So why back 2 basics?
I flashed back to the "latest" Dutch stock rom and almost fully tweaked it to optimal settings using HD-tweak, HD settings, SKtools and driverpack signed 2010. The rom is flying like a maniac and I can't believe how fast my blackstone is (even compared with the fastest coocked roms floating around). I also made some cosmetic colour changes to the slider and taskbar (see avatar) and it still uses only 33% of memory....amazing!
The only downfall in my opinion is the WM6.1 part. Some programs can't be instaled through marketplace, but I can live with that. Also because of the age of the roms a lot of programs are old, but everything works like a charm. Also, TomTom and Google maps work extremely fast and the responsiveness and quickness of the rom is extremely good.
By using all the latest roms the last couple of months (which usually use between 45-55% of memory and even more after applying tweaks) I forgot how fast this device can be.
I think i'll stick with this rom-version 4 a while and see how the development on this forum goes. On the other hand, I might flash tomorrow again as one of these great chef's comes up with with Dutty called: "the holy grail". We'll see....
Fact is: it's addicting as hell to play around with our device, but you all know what i am talking about, right?
Tnx 2 all you chef's 4 the great roms and keep up the good work!
Had an iphone for 2 years. Got my HD quite recently, came with some win6.5 manilla2.5 rom. Tried a lot of roms, and all the time had the feeling of lagginess and slowness.
Then i tried kwbr topaz and rhodium roms and the stock rom. Well this device is meant to be fast afterall. I don't really get why you people use those i_wanna_look_like_leo roms =)
And i don't really see any sense in upgrading windows as well, unless you don't like your manilla, coz titanium is quite ok for a daily use.
So now there's only three roms that i really enjoy: the stock rom (it's meant to be like that), the rhodium/topaz rom (fit just like the stock one, but with some added features)(thank's a lot kwbr), and a clean 6.5 - 6.5.3 rom (haven't really found the perfect one)
i can speak for italian stock rom but every topix beats the sh33t out of the stock rom. cfc compression of tf3d/sense and all the tweaks cant be beaten by the stock rom
My question is can someone direct me to the LINK from where i can Download the Latest WWE Stock ROM, i need only the nbh File because i will use the Stock one with diferent Radio version
I saw alot of Official ROM in the Wiki but they are Uploaded in few Pars and they are on Rapidshare so i will need to download one ROM few days because when i download 1 or 2 times from Rapidshare i cannot download more for today. Also im not sure do this post is Up to Date for this reason im asking you here...
I need a WWE ROM its good enought if its WWE Europe.
I already have on my Desktop PC ROM: RUU_BlackStone_HTC_WWE_1.56.405.1_Radio_52.62.25.34_1.13.25.24_Ship
But i don`t know do this is the Latest Avalible? also is writen that is 1.56 so this mean someday in the future when i need to get back to the Stock one and im not with 1.56 Olinex i don`t need to be back to 1.14 Olinex right? because this ROM is 1.56
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Hello fellow flashers,
What a journey it has been.......
About 1,5 years ago I started flashing cooked roms. Miri and Dutty produced some great roms which showed what our precious Blackstone can do. Those and other roms had lots of bugs, but it was fun to play around with them.
Lately, the most popular roms have been developed into great pieces of work and major bugs are in the past. It's mostly minor stuff that's hardly annoying.
I flashed almost all available roms on this forum from chef's such as Energy, Xannytech, Grzegorz, Cloudy, Miniteror's, Mikenifficent, BlackSTONEhenge, Kenia's Blacknew, Millski, Maryone, PhamQuang and Lotus, but I always went back to one of the KWBR's Topix roms. Especially the WM6.1 sense 2.1 rom, which was my longtime favorite.
So why back 2 basics?
I flashed back to the "latest" Dutch stock rom and almost fully tweaked it to optimal settings using HD-tweak, HD settings, SKtools and driverpack signed 2010. The rom is flying like a maniac and I can't believe how fast my blackstone is (even compared with the fastest coocked roms floating around). I also made some cosmetic colour changes to the slider and taskbar (see avatar) and it still uses only 33% of memory....amazing!
The only downfall in my opinion is the WM6.1 part. Some programs can't be instaled through marketplace, but I can live with that. Also because of the age of teh roms a lot of programs are old, but everything works like a charm. Also, TomTom and Google maps work extremely fast and the responsiveness and quickness of the rom is extremely good.
By using all the latest roms teh last couple of months (which usually use between 45-55% of memory and even more after applying tweaks) I forgot how fast this device can be.
I think i'll stick with this rom-version 4 a while and see how the development on this forum goes. On the other hand, I might flash tomorrow again as one of these great chef's comes up with with Dutty called: "the holy grail". We'll see....
Fact is: it's addicting as hell to play around with our device, but you all know what i am talking about, right?
Tnx 2 all you chef's 4 the great roms and keep up the good work!
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Same issue here! Been trying almost every ROM you mentioned, and I planned to go back to the Dutch Stock tomorrow. Just out of curiosity, what tweaks did you do? Do you have the tools you installed available as an installer or something. Please let know.
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Same issue here! Been trying almost every ROM you mentioned, and I planned to go back to the Dutch Stock tomorrow. Just out of curiosity, what tweaks did you do? Do you have the tools you installed available as an installer or something. Please let know.
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Hi there,
Almost all the speed improvement tweaks while using HD-tweak, HD settings, SKtools and I installed SD-tuneup, Colored slider + taskbar, Wifisharing and driverpack signed 2010. That's about it.
You can find all those programs as cabs on this forum.
Good luck!
_7_ said:
Hi there,
Almost all the speed improvement tweaks while using HD-tweak, HD settings, SKtools and I installed SD-tuneup, Colored slider + taskbar, Wifisharing and driverpack signed 2010. That's about it.
You can find all those programs as cabs on this forum.
Good luck!
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Hi _7_
I returned today to the Oficial Portuguese ROM too.
Can you tell me where can I find the Colored slider+taskbar that you use, or the name?
Thanks
_7_ said:
Hi there,
Almost all the speed improvement tweaks while using HD-tweak, HD settings, SKtools and I installed SD-tuneup, Colored slider + taskbar, Wifisharing and driverpack signed 2010. That's about it.
You can find all those programs as cabs on this forum.
Good luck!
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I flashed back to the original Dutch stock, did the tweaks you mentioned, added a nice theme+taskbar and installed Facebook, Marketplace, G-Alarm, TomTom and Opera 10. The ROM flies, has every tool a use and just uses 33% at startup. Never went over 48% till now!
Thanks for your tip!
As much as I appreciate this thread, it hasn't got anything to do with development so I am moving it to the general forum
what eyecandy/tools are you using to make an old stock rom look good?
the main reason to move from stock 6.1 to wm6.5 and sense2.5 is the look, isn't it? I like on home tab the weather animation, links to programs (CHT), the funktionally people and the email tab ...
so my question is:
what eyecandy/tools are you using to make an old stock rom look good?
any pics & links, please.
A while back, I flashed back to the latest WWE stock ROM and thought I'd stick it out for a bit, but the lack of kinetic scrolling really caught me out to the point I could hardly use the phone (I never realised I'd gotten so used to WM6.5!)
Then I tried kwbr's WM6.5 and Manila 2.1 (no sense) and found that while it does use more memory than a WM6.1 ROM does (37% after a softboot), I've not seen it over 50% unless I've a few apps running at the same time. And I've got my kinetic scrolling back
Out of curiosity, how much difference does Neo's driverpack actually make to the stock ROM as I was led to believe it only made a noticeable difference to those using Sense 2.5 which used the graphics-side a lot more?
Well.......after using the modified stock rom for a couple of weeks I could not resist trying some newly coocked roms.
I found a rom that really meets my expectations and needs:
[ROM][WWE][10-Jul-10] Cloudy 0.4 (WM6.1)
Try and see 4 yourself!
Greetz!
Barebone
Have you tried [ROM][WWE][WM 6.1][Jun 24]Barebone 2.6 ?
Very fast ROM with all the useless stuff removed. Much faster than stock ROM in my experience.
Well i decided to make this thread has there seems to be numerous ROMs out there and they're suitable for different needs. I just wanted to know what you guys like about certain ROMs and what you think makes them the way you like it.
First ROM i used was ENERGY Mar 18th I think 23XXX for my Xperia X1
I found it to be a great Rom as my first. Except that it was too packed. Full of useless stuff that I didn't need. The ROM was fast but wasn't the most stable. Soft reseted probably once a day. Touch Flo wasn't really my favorite thing, it wasn't smooth and waste a fair amount of battery. Everything else seems to be alright.
Tried a few ROMs: x826, unOFF and Valkyrie
I didn't use this ROMs much, they seemed a bit choppy and wasn't really my taste. Valkyrie I used for a bit, no standby of death or anything and i thought it was better then ENERGY ROM.
Currently using Jack's Rom 5.4
This ROM would be my favourite overall by far. Its stable 21XXX and using Titaniums. It came with everything i needed especially the nice mapping of the XPANEL button to the menu (Of course you can do this to any ROM), but it was the first time i saw it so it was pretty cool haha. The ROM is stable as and i probably just soft reset the phone once a week just for a little new feel but its not really necessary. The phone battery can last me 3 days of usage using an hour a day for music, some web browsing and a lot messaging and a decent number of phone calls a day. The ROM is also very smooth.
Great post xxvelocityxx, but i have to say that 826X w/o sense is my personal fave. I get 2-4 days with constant texting. Also hero.
Im procastinating. Please leave me alone.
I also love
Conjy said:
826X w/o sense
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ALL of you are WRONG!
jus kiddin!
i use V-LITE Cobalt Hardcore.
I did some reading and figured it best suited my needs.
However, i'm a newbie and just got my xperia x1 a couple weeks ago.
I would like to know the pro's n cons of my rom.
Also, if there's anything else i should know, please do say.
Thankz!
I use the ROM in my sig (click it to visit the thread), and I've found it to be more stable than the stock ROM Battery lasts 2, maybe 3 days of constant SMS usage, but then again it's also a year and a half old. The only problem I have with it is the increase of storage memory and decrease of program memory. Though I'm sure Adv Config could edit those to desired values I'm just lazy
Thumb's Up for Wildchild's untamed 1.3 ROM,it proven itself to be absolute rock solid for me!
Let's put it this way, I need a phone that is reliable to me, it should wake me up in the morning!So i really can't use those overnight freezes.
I need to be able to charge the phone whenever its needed without risking any unexpected SOD's.
I need it to have a fingerfriendly OS, so i really needed a WM6.5 rom.
with Htc SenseUI! All Sense2.5 Roms and most sense2.1 Rom's caused my phone to freeze while charging overnight, or leaving WIFI connected.
Flashing Wildchilds rom whas such a relieve(Winmo6.5+Sense2.1+SE Panels+plenty of storage to add whatever you like!)
I have the T-Mobile HD, and still have the original ROM, radio, etc. Not the newer stock ROM, but the earlier one, from several months ago.
I recall reading here, and getting a TMO text message as well, when a new stock ROM came out several weeks ago. Of course there were threads then, about how people liked it.
I was very busy at the time, and have been since, so I have not yet flashed to the new ROM. It is very time-consuming to do so--not so much the actual ROM-flashing, but reinstallling and reconfiguring apps, the phone, etc.
I am thinking of perhaps doing so soon though--flashing to the newest T-Mo USA stock ROM for the HD2. (I'm sure there are many good cooked ROMs for the phone too, with many threads about them. But I am not interested in going that route at this time, and so I would not like this thread to get into discussion of them.)
I would like to ask those who were using the prior T-Mo HD2 stock ROM, and updated to the newest one, now, a month or two after the new one came out, how has it been working for you over time?
What improvements have you noticed, compared to the prior one?
Are there any disadvantages to the new one?
Thank you for your input.
I installed elegancia rom at first, and after roughly 1 week. I hated it more than anything. I downloaded the latest stock rom from xda and it's light years better than elegancia and the rom that originally came on my phone. It's so smooth, quick, and efficient! I hate htc sense! it's a resource hog and is completely inefficient. I have it as the regular desktop like setup and my hd2 lasts all day long now! even watching 16 hours video! at 40% screen brightness. Before it would only last 4 hours roughly. The only thing that i don't like right now is windows media player and htc video player are much more efficient at decoding high quality .mp4s than coreplayer. I wish they had some kind of settings so i could adjust the colors, brightness, contrast at the least! Hope this helps.
thanks
I've ran the pre-release leaked official ROM when it first came out and was impressed with it from the get go. When I switched to the official release from T-Mo, I noticed not that much difference between the two in terms of performance. In my experience, it's well worth the time to flash to the new stock ROM. The biggest and most profound change is the HTC messaging client. Hell of a lot more smoother and efficient. You no longer have the lag when trying to reply to a message in the threaded view. Although, once you hit the 300 to 400 message length with one contact there will be a lag while the messages load on screen for the first time, but that's to be expected in my view.
The other big change has been the stability. I can't recall the last time I had to restart my phone due to lockup, freezes or just poor performance issues. I would have to say that the stability is better with the Official Stock ROM.
Since the release of the Official Stock, I've flashed an Energy ROM to compare. It's based in part on the 3.14 release and it's very smooth and efficient. It's like butter and cinamon sugar on a hot tortilla. But. I just am so damned used to the HTC message client that I can't stick with the Energy ROM. So I've since switched back to the official release.
The official release seems to be running even better since the last flash.
To sum up. Flash to the official release. You won't be dissappointed and it's well worth the trouble.
Good luck and I hope this helps you out.
Hello.
I know that there have been lots of topics like this one but all of them are old and ROMs have been updated since. I wanted to hear some opinions from users. I have 3 ROMs which I thought about: HD2O, DFT, XBmod-Yuki.
Actually I'm using HD2O. It works fine, it is smooth and fast but I just ordered 16gb microSD and I will be going to flash WP7 again anyway so i wanted to ask about your opinions about the best one. I picked those 3 because they are the most popular as I can see and I am only interested in Mango builds. I could of course try them all at my own but I've read that one of them takes 2 hours to install and then I'll have to use it a couple of days to find out if it's good enough.
I will be more than grateful if you could write here some pros and cons in using those builds. I've read that some have heating issues, some have WiFi issues and I want to know how are things going today. Are the problems there still? As far I haven't had problems with HD2O but as I said I will have to reflash on new microSD so I could flash other ROM if I found out that it will be better than the one I'm using.
okeyus.
okeyus said:
Hello.
I know that there have been lots of topics like this one but all of them are old and ROMs have been updated since. I wanted to hear some opinions from users. I have 3 ROMs which I thought about: HD2O, DFT, XBmod-Yuki.
Actually I'm using HD2O. It works fine, it is smooth and fast but I just ordered 16gb microSD and I will be going to flash WP7 again anyway so i wanted to ask about your opinions about the best one. I picked those 3 because they are the most popular as I can see and I am only interested in Mango builds. I could of course try them all at my own but I've read that one of them takes 2 hours to install and then I'll have to use it a couple of days to find out if it's good enough.
I will be more than grateful if you could write here some pros and cons in using those builds. I've read that some have heating issues, some have WiFi issues and I want to know how are things going today. Are the problems there still? As far I haven't had problems with HD2O but as I said I will have to reflash on new microSD so I could flash other ROM if I found out that it will be better than the one I'm using.
okeyus.
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XBmod-Yuki
XBmod-Yuki has worked fine for me, got me up to 7740 and Marketplace. The only non-functioning component is the compass.
Yeah, 1 vote for HD2O. For me, HD2O's ROM is not as smooth as Yuki's one but the battery last much longer
hey where can i get these roms the 2 listed here thanks
i'm using yuki's rom v2 and everything is running smooth on my TMOUS HD2 except for 2 things:
1: Battery life is very low. lucky to get 24 hours on regular use. however, using the camera trick seems to have helped this a lot.
2: speaker phone does not work properly on calls. It is the same volume as without speaker phone, so I still have to keep the phone next to my ear. anyone know a fix for this one?
I'll try HD2O, because it seems more easily.
What is the XBmod-Yuki better than HD2O at? Can you tell me some usefull things XBmod-Yuki can and HD2O can't?
i'm using the DFT W7. My phone can last all day on idle without charge. If i used it like play some games, surf the internet on wifi for like 5 minutes and listen to music for about an hour, my phone would last around 15 hours or so in total with idle. everything is running smooth for me. a few crashes every now and then, but only when my wifi is on.
I think I'll stay at HD2O so. I thought that the other builds maybe have some extra features but battery drainage seems to be the only difference. I'm listening to the music few hours a day and my Wi-Fi is almost always on and battery stays from 6 AM to 10 PM without problems. And no crashes or freezes at all.
I'd recommend the Yuki-Xmod ROM. I've been using it since september (7720 Mango) without any real trouble, battery life usually gets me through the days without issues. Actually, I almost forgot that I wasn't using a genuine WP7 handset! Indeed only the compass isn't working... had everything else (Marketplace, Zune, HTC apps) working like a charm!
Only yesterday something gave up on me: the storage card (8g Sandisk) suddenly is no longer recognized, resulting in continuous rebooting of the phone. I'm still waiting for reply on how I can try to recover the data on my card, before formatting and hard-resetting....
Albeit somewhat off-topic, any help would be highly appreciated!!
cheers, Jentse
Thank you for your respond.
Like I said I will stick to HD2O as there are no visible advantages in changing to XBmod.. The only thing I am hearing is "XBmod is the best" but no one can tell what XBmod is better then HD2O at. I would like to hear an opinion from someone who tried both ROMs.
The other reason I'll stay at HD2O is that i heard that battery last longer than in XBmod.
ANSWER is here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1356833
This is the best ROM and the latest one ! having eveything in it ..stable fast smooth .... no worries .. go ahead and have a look ! every one is going on to this thread !! cheers mate