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how long till windows 6.1?

read this today http://gizmodo.com/351863/windows-mobile-61-homebrew-rom-for-sprint-mogul
so how long till our beloved herald gets 6.1? (rom cookers *wink wink*)

well technically, theres already a 6.1 rom for herald, the PDAVIET one. I think we might have actually beaten the mogul to the punch, if thats possible. And ttran's opentouch 3.0 is scheduled to come out on monday

ITje released a 6.1 version yesterdag.
See the Heraldmobile 6 forum!

Any Chance for Windows Mobile 6.5 on the Polaris?

Just as the title says. As Microsoft has just release Windows Mobile 6.5 is there any hope that we will get the improved UI to the Polaris?
May HTC even step up to the task themselves? They released 6.0 for a lot of 5.0 phones...
Or are there still cooks active on doing Polaris roms?

probably...yes...
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pcarvalho said:
probably...yes...
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Great!!!!
The extremely instable it`s going stable??
Nice , nice to ear it!!!!

JVRSilva said:
Great!!!!
The extremely instable it`s going stable??
Nice , nice to ear it!!!!
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getting there...waiting for a full wm6.5 rom to come out and play

How does it feel in day by day use of the win6.5 interface ? Do we say goodbye to M2D ? Your creation is looking great!

pcarvalho said:
getting there...waiting for a full wm6.5 rom to come out and play
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Great news then!!!!!
Thanx for replying

Wow, the wm 6.5 looks very great for the moment!
I'm intrested in your advance!

fantastic!! i hope it will come soon!!!

feels normal...bit faster in some areas (scrolling)...slower in others(startmenu-the honeycomb-due to drivers as far as i've tested)...but overall its good...if you consider its a leak from chinese beta and seems to be incomplete...
i'm waiting for a better leak wm6.5, for now just finding how new things work and making them better (its gonna be goodbye honeycomb menu for me, at least this one, way slow for me )...

pcarvalho said:
probably...yes...
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awesome, really really awesome bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mais um à espera
Another one waiting

Nils8 said:
Just as the title says. As Microsoft has just release Windows Mobile 6.5 is there any hope that we will get the improved UI to the Polaris?
May HTC even step up to the task themselves? They released 6.0 for a lot of 5.0 phones...
Or are there still cooks active on doing Polaris roms?
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Windows Mobile 6.5 RTM will be released in April (see my post here for the details), so NO WM6.5 is not yet released, only beta (leaked) are available.
Concerning Windows Mobile 7 (planned to be released in November to testers), here is the list of partners announced here:
Acer
Asus
Birdstep Technology
Dell
Ericsson
HP
Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Huawei Communications Technologies
Option
Qualcomm
Sierra Wireless
Smith Micro
T-Mobile International
ZTE

pcarvalho said:
probably...yes...
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Good news ;-)

Arni06 said:
Windows Mobile 6.5 RTM will be released in April (see my post here for the details), so NO WM6.5 is not yet released, only beta (leaked) are available.
Concerning Windows Mobile 7 (planned to be released in November to testers), here is the list of partners announced here:
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I really do not know what the strategy is with launching 2 WM versions in such a short span of time. May be MS was just paranoid of losing market share to iPhone and Google - so it launched a band-aid solution until WM7 is launched?

Any attempt at 6.5 now is mainly for some chef to try and be all cool and be the first one to come out with 6.5 rom. I've tried it, and see no point in releasing something like this as it's buggy (beta) and in all truthfulness, 6.1 w/tf2d is better than 6.5 homescreen. The whole honeycomb screen is quite a waste of screenspace as well. It's all quite the gimick to me, and people would probably end up going back to another rom after a week of using a 6.5 beta rom anyways. The only good thing about 6.5 is the revamped IE.

chavonbravo said:
Any attempt at 6.5 now is mainly for some chef to try and be all cool and be the first one to come out with 6.5 rom. I've tried it, and see no point in releasing something like this as it's buggy (beta) and in all truthfulness, 6.1 w/tf2d is better than 6.5 homescreen. The whole honeycomb screen is quite a waste of screenspace as well. It's all quite the gimick to me, and people would probably end up going back to another rom after a week of using a 6.5 beta rom anyways. The only good thing about 6.5 is the revamped IE.
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being the first isn't all that bad i think...would you have some of the things you have now if someone didn't take the 1st step? think not!
yes, you are right, releasing such a rom is still very early, some have, and thanks to them people Now can taste a bit of the Future (some forget its very beta, so lots of bugs)...
i have to desagree, sorry , when you say...only good thing about 6.5 is IE...i would say more...who needs IE? haven't used it since i've had my device...opera or any other good browser (opera mini) is the way to go...
pc experience tells us so
now here are some of my findings...
the new homescreen has lots of potencial...its light and fast...got all the info one needs and only 45% of 101MB of RAM is used...plus it will be customizable (till its limit)...
there is more speed in the wm6.5 rom...or lets say less lagging in some areas...scrolls faster, i see that when i scroll my 4gb memory card using standard explorer...had to disable touchflo cause it was slowing the device down...
skinning of controls will bring a very nice add to customization...i personaly like that...plus they are more thumb friendly...
honeycomb wastes space "as is" but i have already rearranged it in multiple ways (X:Y; 4:Y; 1:Y just to name a few), i dont like it much but its okay...
only major problem here is its current speed that i hope will be better in final release...
its seems a good step ahead...one good thing...i haven't had that "oh, this is so slow" phrase yet as the (programs folder) is not there anymore...so no more laggy icon update...that is always nice...i have a nice fix for that (youtube) but now i will not put it out since 6.5 is comming so its delayed till further notice
there is also a very nice lockscreen too...
lets just see where this goes...
keep up the good work...

Arni06 said:
Windows Mobile 6.5 RTM will be released in April (see my post here for the details), so NO WM6.5 is not yet released, only beta (leaked) are available.
Concerning Windows Mobile 7 (planned to be released in November to testers), here is the list of partners announced here:
Acer
Asus
Birdstep Technology
Dell
Ericsson
HP
Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Huawei Communications Technologies
Option
Qualcomm
Sierra Wireless
Smith Micro
T-Mobile International
ZTE
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Hmmmm - no HTC I see.......
Punishment for bringing out an Android phone?

Sorry, didn't see your posts above that you were releasing a 6.5 rom. Hopefully with tweaks by someone knowledgable, the beta will be closer to decent. And you make good points that maybe more than just IE is good, but I'd still rather wait to base a rom on official 6.5

chavonbravo said:
Sorry, didn't see your posts above that you were releasing a 6.5 rom. Hopefully with tweaks by someone knowledgable, the beta will be closer to decent. And you make good points that maybe more than just IE is good, but I'd still rather wait to base a rom on official 6.5
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me to await an oficial rom to pop out, or at least a newer one, meanwhile i'll be playing with what i got and making it better
cheers

humble begger....
will you be letting the hd rom go in the days to come pcarvalho ?

Original HTC WM 6.5

does anyone know if htc will make an update for 6.5?

It will be great, i like a 6.5 ROM but no with so many changes such V24, i like a ROM that likes such Microsoft Original's OS.

It's very unlikely that they would.
If you were the head of HTC, would you rather support older phones or give people a motivation to go and buy newer models??

MusikMonk said:
It's very unlikely that they would.
If you were the head of HTC, would you rather support older phones or give people a motivation to go and buy newer models??
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but wouldn't be nice to support the newer models and the not so old models like the opal?

lets just wait and see...
Updating your phone to Windows Mobile 6.5:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/meet/wm65-upgrade.mspx#phoneList

that is right opal is not so old... one year i think... remember what happened from WM6 to WM6.1 they made an update for the htc touch...
lets hope they also make an update from 6.1 to 6.5 for touch viva

If Htc doesn't update, is is not possible for the crackers or ROM cookers to cook a new ROM based on the official release????

+10000000000000000

More official updates?

Do you think there will be any more updates from HTC for TD2, or do you think the upgrade to 6.5 was the last one?

Oskala said:
Do you think there will be any more updates from HTC for TD2, or do you think the upgrade to 6.5 was the last one?
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..in my opinion wm 6.5 was the last update provided by htc; but our chiefs @xda will provide more updates..I think!

Last major OS upgrade, but hopefully not the last update, they have got a lot of bugs to sort out after their WM6.5 release!!

Oskala said:
Do you think there will be any more updates from HTC for TD2, or do you think the upgrade to 6.5 was the last one?
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It has been mentioned that MS will release a 6.5.1 update to make 6.5 even more finger friendly (in February, I believe). Whether or not HTC or the carriers will provide this per handset is anyone's guess.

next official rom update for the HD2 Europe version?

Any news about that?

the next one should be with windows mobile 6.5.x
for more support of the capacitive screen

anxifer said:
the next one should be with windows mobile 6.5.x
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Because can it be that HTC have given up on updating the HD2 already?

Euroman28 said:
Because can it be that HTC have given up on updating the HD2 already?
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I don't think, that HTC has given up on the HD2, yet.
This tweet might be of interest.
to everyone asking about HD2 & Windows Phone 7 Series; nothing announced yet but there may be info coming next month
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http://twitter.com/windowsphone/status/9181323569
...either there will be a statement about HD2 being "transformed" into a WP7S-device with an update, or HTC might tell us that they have prepared WM 6.5.x for the HD2
Nobody knows yet....but I don't think HTC has "left us"

The last update has been 2-3 weeks ago... what do you expect seriously? I also don't think that the next update will contain WM6.5.x-crap. If the HD2 is meant to get an WM7-update then I'm almost sure that HD2 won't get this version. But all we can do is speculating...

de Wolfe said:
The last update has been 2-3 weeks ago... what do you expect seriously? I also don't think that the next update will contain WM6.5.x-crap. If the HD2 is meant to get an WM7-update then I'm almost sure that HD2 won't get this version. But all we can do is speculating...
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What I seriously think is that there is a chance, that we will get a WM 6.5.3 update.
Yes, it's been 3 weeks since the last ROM, and so? The ROM before that was released in the beginning of December, so about 7 weeks.
...and when is MIX'10? In about a month....so why does this sound so wrong? Especially if the US models get the 6.5.3 ROM, then it wouldn't be so hard to make a version for the unbranded HD2
But yes, we don't know what might og might not happen

if they want to update hd2 to 6.5.3 they would have updated it in the 1.66 roms i think the next update will not be 6.5.3

they really should make an update because there are still so many unsolved issues that really annoy us users (sms lag, ...). Maybe they are already working on it and it will be released when there is a stable version of the newest windows build.

What about win6.5.3 combine with the new version of sense ?

Arent we due WM6.6 soon?

Starfury said:
Arent we due WM6.6 soon?
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We will properly get a 2.00 Rom with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 and some updates included. Maybe a new Youtube Client? Which would allow you to access your youtube account like you can Iphone?
But in my opinion getting an official WM7 HD2 upgrade is a likely as me being invited home by some random woman on this or any friday(Which is very unlikely!)
/Fred

Euroman28 said:
We will properly get a 2.00 Rom with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 and some updates included. Maybe a new Youtube Client? Which would allow you to access your youtube account like you can Iphone?
But in my opinion getting an official WM7 HD2 upgrade is a likely as me being invited home by some random woman on this or any friday(Which is very unlikely!)
/Fred
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If we believe HTC on twitter:
'for Diamond 2 firmware is not planned. Of the existing communicators on the market, only the HD2 firmware to get WM7'
think you better keep your friday nights free towards the end of the year when the OS is eventually released!!!

i think that 6.5.3 update can be a concrete possibility....i don't want to believe that Htc could leave us without this update....