my xda2s used to hang from time to time and sometimes softreset won't even do anything! so i decided to get rid of some programs w/c was the SPC pocket plus version 2. something... and... IT WORKED!!! so far since the day i removed it for almost 2 months now, my xda2s doesnt hang... so far...
sorry that was supposed to be SPBPocket Plus!
it's a usefull program but apparently makes your O2 hang...
You are quite correct. SPB Pocket Plus hangs my PDA2k too.
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i-Mate PDA2k (PH20B)
ROM Version 1.40.00 WWE
ROM Date 03/10/05
Radio Version 1.12.00
Protocol Version 1337.42
ExtROM Version 1.40.110 WWE (cooked)
Bluetooth 1.0.0.3900
ditto, on my SX-66 I found the power bar at the top was the big one that caused issues...
Yeah, the power bar and the task manager did it for me. Locked up randomly, even with their latest version. I did away with task managers altogether, and I'm surprised how stable my PDA2k is without one. I just go into the Memory applet and kill any applications I don't want running anymore, but most of the programs I use are either smart enough to close on their own, or have an Exit menu option.
I had this problem with spb, until I upgraded to rom 1.40
I must say its only 24 hours but have noticed no problems no crashes
etc....
God dont you love these machines.....no 2 alike..
stay happy
Any of you 8125 owners who installed the imate 2.16.9.101 release have any new feedback on how it's going? Are there still issues with the connection icons or wifi connectivity?
I'm eager to get push mail working and have not been able to get a straight answer from a dozen different folks at Cingular on when their release will come out...so I might give the imate release a shot.
What about going back to the shipping Cingular version after installing the imate update - is it easy/possible? Any problems with extended ROM?
thx
I never even used the phone with the original cingular firmware, I went directly to the Q-tek Test rom. From that rom to this rom, the radios seem a little better (getting better signal, edge seems slightly faster, wifi picks up network much faster) and for some reason the whole feel is "snappier" seems like the menus and such load faster. I haven't had any stability issues, and push is working perfect.
I dont' know about the much faster part, but mine is very stable since i removed battery pack pro. I have SPB's power plus as well as their weather software.
if there are any software you want tested just let me know. Well if I can atleast run it without having to buy it, (i.e. Demos, etc.)
Bluetooth, Wifi, Edge, and signal are all real good. (signal on par with 1.12 radio as well as faster to get a signal than it was)
Battery icon is NOT on the bottom and does NOT show more than 2 bars ( so you have full, somewhere in between, and low).
Battery life seems pretty good, but I can't compare it to any other version as I had the phone 36 hours before I upgraded it to this version.
Great thanks for the feedback yall. So once I do the upgrade, how hard will it be to go back to the shipped version if I ever need to? I have everything backed up using awizard, but I understand there could be problems trying to go to a previous version. I think downgrading via the bootloader mode requires executable rom images, but there isn't one available for the shipping version.
You can still downgrade to an old imate ROM and then use aWizard to restore your cingular ROM.
I have installed it on my Qtek 9100.
I hanged 5 times in 2 days.
What is more annoying is when it hangs and
someone tries to call me at the same time, the
other party hears my phone ringing, but my
Qtek is dead silent.
ethorn said:
I dont' know about the much faster part, but mine is very stable since i removed battery pack pro. I have SPB's power plus as well as their weather software.
if there are any software you want tested just let me know. Well if I can atleast run it without having to buy it, (i.e. Demos, etc.)
Bluetooth, Wifi, Edge, and signal are all real good. (signal on par with 1.12 radio as well as faster to get a signal than it was)
Battery icon is NOT on the bottom and does NOT show more than 2 bars ( so you have full, somewhere in between, and low).
Battery life seems pretty good, but I can't compare it to any other version as I had the phone 36 hours before I upgraded it to this version.
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Is your wifi working OK? If so, did you install any of the cingular exrom customizations?
Just curious, because I installed the released imate rom and everything is working like a champ except wifi. I installed some of the original customizations from the cingular exrom and I wonder if one of those cabs did something to the wifi config...
What kind of porblems are you having with the wifi?
nickcerda said:
What kind of porblems are you having with the wifi?
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It won't turn on.. =)
I thought perhaps it was one of the cingular customization cabs I installed from the original exrom, but now I'm not so sure. I looked at all the cabs and the only one that relates to wifi is the cab that sets the key to enable talking to 802.11g APs.
In comm manager, if I click the wifi icon, it appears to attempt to start wifi, but then goes back to an "x" over the wifi button. The wifi radio doesn't start and the left LED that blinks when wifi is on does not come on.
I wish there were some logs to look at on this thing to see why it's failing to start wifi..
Solved the wifi problem. It appears to be related to something in one of the original 8125 exrom cabs. I reinstalled the new imate rom, skipped the imate exrom install, and only installed a couple cabs from the 8125 exrom. The cabs I installed that did not affect wifi were the mms config, the gprs account config, and the edge icon.
All is now well. If I had the time and patience I'd tear apart the original 8125 cabs to see which one might cause wifi probs, but at this point it's not necessary.
I'll stick with it as-is now until cingular releases their own update...assuming that happens before the hermes is out.. =)
I have a Dopod 838 (identical to 8125, I suppose). The new ROM has worked awesome for me. Better in every way. Even the infamous Activesyn problem went away
I am getting ready to take the plunge...just in case...
does anyone have the original 8125 ROM?
I use SPB backup can restore a backup after I upgrade?
I installed this rom on my 9100, and it is much better than it was with any of the other roms including the original shipped rom!
The radio is much clearer and the wifi hooks up faster and runs better, and I have had absolutely NO lock ups at all.
Later
I am thinking of installing it on an 8125...
Without a backup 'known good' ROM to revert back to I am cautious
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Solved the wifi problem. It appears to be related to something in one of the original 8125 exrom cabs. I reinstalled the new imate rom, skipped the imate exrom install, and only installed a couple cabs from the 8125 exrom. The cabs I installed that did not affect wifi were the mms config, the gprs account config, and the edge icon.
All is now well. If I had the time and patience I'd tear apart the original 8125 cabs to see which one might cause wifi probs, but at this point it's not necessary.
I'll stick with it as-is now until cingular releases their own update...assuming that happens before the hermes is out.. =)
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I added the extROM files one by one to see which one caused the wifi issue and it was Signed-gprsstall_128.sa.cab...so far. It was only the third one in a series of 17. I'll see what happens when I add the rest. This cab file moves a radio.dll file around.
I've installed this ROM on 2 8125's. Much better and faster than Cingular's ROM. The only thing I did was to install the Cingulcustomize_No_Emails.cab, Microsoft Voice and TRE Pocket PC registry editor and remove all traces of the Voice Command. WiFi connects to my secured access point flawlessly (though I never use WiFi) and the AKU2 push email typically has my emails coming in in about 8-10 seconds from my Exchange 2003 server. Very infrequent lockups, much less than any other ROM I've installed.
Just my two cents worth ...
Steven
ROM version: 2.16.9.1 WWE
ROM date: 2/6/06
Radio version: 02.07.10
Protocol version: 413.1.03
ExtROM version: 2.16.9.101
Cingulcustomize_No_Emails.cab
What does that cab do?
nickcerda said:
Cingulcustomize_No_Emails.cab
What does that cab do?
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the one thing I see is it sets up the GPRS settings for data connection ... you do not need it to make phone calls or use Wifi
Step by step to 2.16
I have a cingular 8125. I'm no stranger to flashing roms, I had a SX66 that was running WM5 and I reloladed it all the time. I'd like to see a step by step guide for unlocking the ext rom, flashing the radio and system roms for the 8125. Anyone know a post with that info in it?
Thanks!
Re: Step by step to 2.16
dmelton75 said:
I have a cingular 8125. I'm no stranger to flashing roms, I had a SX66 that was running WM5 and I reloladed it all the time. I'd like to see a step by step guide for unlocking the ext rom, flashing the radio and system roms for the 8125. Anyone know a post with that info in it?
Thanks!
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Interesting you say you're no stranger to flashing ROMs but then ask for a step by step.
It's laid out quite well in several topics, but basically:
-Use awizard and enable rapi
-Use awizard and CID unlock
-Use awizard to back up Extrom, radio, splash, os
-Run the executable RUU installer for the imate
-On first boot, as soon as you get prompted to choose a carrier, do a soft reset to prevent the imate ext rom stuff from loading
-Install desired customization items from your backed up cingular ext rom. Any of them can be installed EXCPET the gprsstall cab - it will kill your wifi.
There is currently no way to unlock the ext rom in the lates imate upgrade, so you're stuck with what's in there, but you don't have to let it install.
I recently had a chance to put all the windows mobiles to the test compared to the current version of windows mobile 2005 that i was using on my Blue Angel Variant ( Siemens SX66 ).
HP for Cingular Wireless currently has Windows Mobile 2003.
Cingular 8125 currently has Windows Mobile 2005.
Siemens SX66 currently has Windows Mobile 2005 Ivan Version listed on my signature.
The HP Windows 2003 is a great unit with old looking menus and display. With the bare unit meaning that nothing is installed on it was nice and clear on the clear on the screen. It was bright and it ran just fine without too much of a glitch. This particulr test unit was done at a Cingular Wireless location in Fullerton, CA. This unit was used by various customer who do not know how to use Windows. Although there was no additional software loaded on the device, there remained a couple second lag when clicking on the Start button as well as running various basic application such as the control panel or memory on the unit.
The Cingular 8125 with Windows 2005 was fast. It responded way faster then than the HP Windows 2003 unit. There were some customized features added in the unit but even so, the unit performed faster than the Windows 2003 model. It was quick to open operation as well as other items I clicked on such as again the control panel and the memory and running application portion of the unit.
Although there has been various version of Windows 2005 for the Blue Angel devices, I found that the version of Windows 2005 that I was using with all the software on my device ran if not the same or faster then the Cingular 8125 that had the Windows 2005 retail on the unit. The menus and the speed of the device that I was using was running almost identical and with minimal programs on my device loaded the start menu in the same amount of time. Receiving calls on my Blue Angel compared to the Windows Pre-Installed Device, it was about the same lag time. There were times when my Blue Angel responded faster and other times with a slight delay. I believe that some of the delay can be related to the changes Cingular might be doing on their network due to some renovations to their systems.
To give everyone on this forum an idea of the difference, I have listed the software I have installed on my device compared to a clean install on the Cingular 8125.
Voice Connect (Device Installed)
TCPMP (SD Card)
David Andr Batti (Device)
PSShutdownXP (Device)
Agile Messenger (SD)
Running Programs (Device)
Gamebox Classics (SD)
Diamond Mine (SD)
Gamebox Gems (SD)
GB-SOFT Tweak (Device)
Customization Tools (SD)
PHM Registry Editor (SD)
Ivan's Extended rom hidden (Device)
Rschell Keyboard Fix Tuma v1.3 Keyboard (Device)
Ivan Personal Settings (SD)
Album with Midi Application (Device)
WESTTEK PDF VIEWER (Device)
MSN preinstalled on device works without any problems.
As you can see, I had various items installed on the device and by watching the two units side by side, there definately was almost no difference between preinstalled Windows 2005 compared to the MDA that I had on my unit.
Given there might be slight differences that I had previously posted as well.
Ivan 3.3_r4 (Downloaded Version Name when I downloaded files)
Windows Build 5.1.1700 (Buile 14343.0.0.0)
ROM: 5.03.02 WWE
ROM Date: 03/02/05
Radio: 1.12.00
Protocol: 1337.42
I honestly saw a major improvement of pulling up the phone portion of the unit when I downgraded my Radio from 1.15 to Radio 1.12. I know some users on this forum have been using 1.15 and had negative effects and have downgraded to 1.13 but my recent attempt to upgrade to 1.13 has failed. I am not able to test the 1.13 radio version type II. I gave up after a month of trying regardless of following all the different method of trying to install the 1.13 radio version.
I have had no issues syncing my phone with my Outlook via Active Sync however I did find some weird differences between the Ivan version and the Tuma version.
-Bluetooth sync I have not been able to get to work.
-Bluetooth between two devices are trickier. I have to turn bluetooth on and then when sending files, there is a different menu item to send files instead of using the BEAM feature that is what I used during Tuma versions tested on Blue Angel.
-Bluetooth with headset does not function corrently and as stated by other users, the connection is one way where the user can hear everything but the calling party does not hear my voice.
-Batti when I first installed it seemed to work and not work. I found that the software requires it to be left on the Device and tends to disappear if put onto the SD card.
-Voice Command does not respond to the first button press. I figure it was due to being on the SD card on my first attemp. Definately install these types of programs to the Device.
Some device specific mods that I made included limitting the amount of WAV formatted ring tones to under 15. At any given time where I assign ring tones, I try to keep less then 15 ring tones on the device. I found that assigning more, it's harder for the device to respond when there is an incoming call.
Overall, I have had the best experience with this version of Ivan and have had very little (almost no) issues once I installed the software in the appropriate memory listed above.
I also wanted to point out that I am using an extended life battery listed as version 3. With a day of using the phone for under 2.5 hours and perhaps a 30 minutes of internet per day with about 1 hour of Wi-Fi usage and 30 to 60 minutes of watching videos on the unit, I am still left with more then half of the battery life. Compared to a regular battery, I would still get through the whole day with this kind of usage without much of an issue. I also set the GPRS to disconnect after 5 minutes using the GB-Soft software listed above to keep that type of battery draining out of the test. The keyboard hasn't been much of an issue for me either such as lights flickering or staying on after using it.
I really feel besides the bluetooth issue, this is the best base ROM that I have used on my device. Having done a side by side test with other phones, I really find that this is the same if not faster then pre-installed Windows 2005 units.
Baeshin81 - Long Live The Programmers On This Forum! Thanks to all who made it possible.
I repeteadly experience this problem:
sometimes in my XDAIIi, no matter if receiving or making calls, my voice/sound cannot be heard, by the other party. Nor I can hear his/her voice/sound. Phone call ringing is Ok.
This problem appears 20% 30% of times.
When the battery is below 25% this problem appears 90% of times!
I made hard reset...no improvement.
I disabled smart diallings option : no improvement
I am running:
ROM 1.11.00 WWE
Radio 1.04.00
ExtROM 1.11.162
Please help
Saulo866
one more hint: it seems that the problem (phone muted) is solved if, after a hard reset, when the message appears "in 3 secs device will restart" I do a soft reset, with the stylus
In this way I prevent the extRom to be loaded.
In fact now my XDA IIi shows as:
ROM 1.11.00 WWE
Radio 1.04.00
ExtROM < blank>
What shall I think? That the ExtROM 1.11.162 is the culprit?
If so, can someone provide me the CAB for MMS (now Multimedia SMS disappear) so I can install them separately?
What other CRITICAL cabs are now missing?
3. Since extROM is not installed, is there a way to use this storage? How?
Thanks and waiting
Saulo866
I have gotten the same problem since this afternoon, but what you tried didn't work for me
Hope to find the solution for this problem (maybe update the rom), do you have any news?
I think that those cab's you're looking for are in the hidden rom...
Xanh
the problem was solved, I did my headset in and changed the volume while pulling it out and heard sound again...
Hey...so this is my story. i tried to figuere out if somebody got the same probs but couldnt find it anywhere so i am just asking all of you thanks...
SO here we go...
My Provider is E-plus and i live in Stuttgart (germany)
I got my HTC kaiser about 6 month ago and it always worked well and i didnt have any problems. I had reception everywhere (also in my room). The regular Windows mobil was installed i didnt change anything.neither the rom version nor the radio rom. so everything was how i got it in the beginning.
Then i have flashed the new version of Windows mobile 6.1 (downloaded from the HTC homepage,sorry i dont now the specific name and which radio version it was) but from that moment on my mobile phone didnt reciept in my room anymore. There was always the "!".
Then i have tried:
- to look for reciept manually (it found different providers but couldnt connect with those
- i ve tested my sim card with other phones and it worked
- i have tested different Roms and radio roms such as:
original rom
L26_KaiserDiamond_V9 (englisch)
Dutty's WM6.1 Hybrid v2 5.2.19716/5.2.19700 (englisch)
German clean WM6.5◄ by ChrBeck (CHome)
- different radios such as:
KAISER Radios These Radios were ripped from Kaiser WM6.1 ROMs.
1.65.14.06
1.65.20.29
1.65.16.25
1.65.17.56
1.70.19.09 -
1.71.09.01 -
lots of 1.58.XXXXX and 1.64.XXXX
and even more
--> they all work while i am not in my room. but non of them worked in my room...and it did before.
then i decided to use the original version again which i did
i ve installed Rom:
CE OS 5.2.1620(Build18125.0.4.2)
1.56.407.3
Radiorom: 1.27.12.32
What happened now is that it shows that it got full reception but the phone still doesnt work in my room. but i can use the UMTS date transmission --> i can use the Internet
as soon as i am outside and soft reset the mobile phone it works perfectly.
i am not shure if i have listed everything that is important but if somebody could help me with that i would be pretty cool because a mobile which is just working half of the time isnt very usefull...
any ideas? thanks
Seems like your phone sees the signal seded by the Mobile Operator to you but it isn't able to send a signal back to tell the operator that it is there. Seems like something causes your internal Antenna of the phone to be not as powerfull as at the beginning. Maybe you installed a Radio that has lowered the power and no Radio will rise it again cause the radio things you are in a power restricted area.
In my Charmer I was able to get the power of the radio unit 10% up but the trick doesn't seem to work for the Kaiser. Maybe an user with more Kaiser knowlege can help you better.
Anything new in your room (or nearby) that might be causing interference?
thats what i thought first too...because i ve installed wireless power point...but i have deinstalled them in my room again and it didnt work neither