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Hi!
Just a noob question - i am sure you can help me guys:
I am using a Wizard with the original (german) T-Mobile ROM on it (this one: http://www.t-mobile.de/downloads/t-mobile/vario_aku2.0_05-2006.zip).
Unfortunately i didnt note which ROM was on that device before i upgraded.
Nevertheless, the ROM is good (makes the device much faster, batteries lifetime improved) and so on... BUT:
o Camera is worse
o the quality of the built-in "speak free" functionality is worse too (unuseable)
So I wonder if it is recommendable to upgrade to one of the circulating ROMs of your board here (Mr. Cleans or whatever)?
Like many of you i just want that device fast, stable and with economic comsuming of batteries
If positive, which ROM would you recommend for me? Is there a comparing matrix with pros/cons anywhere?
hmm.... c'mon guys - that question isnt that complicated
Noone out there with experience with all those different ROMs?
I've just gotten an O2 Wizard and am in the same position - new to this and would like to know which ROM(s) people rate the most.
Any suggestions/advice would be much appreciated...
Honestly you're just going to have to try a few until you find the one that works best for you.
Personally, I go for stability and speed so I'm running a clean version of the AKU 2.3 Rom with the Cingular 2.25 Bootloader & Radio Rom.
I don't use the camera so I can't tell you how it compares to the Stock Cingular Rom.
I'm just curious with all the WM5 buzz and such. Besides seeing "windows mobile 5" are there really any significant differences from WM2003se? Other than lack of software for WM5.
I've done massive amounts of flashing from video cards to motherboards so that's no problem, I'm not here to be a lazy bum and mooch software.
I will say that my 4 of my buddies work with MS mobile department here in STL, MO. They all live by wm2003se, and state WM5 won't be worth touching until next year. (Even for WM5 based phones unlike these)
My other question is for all the flash gods on this site. Out of all the current WM5 roms available here, what would you choose if :
Rarely use bluetooth
Play games
Watch video playback
basic phone services
no camera
no radio
I've 3 of these and would like to compare a couple side by side to see the benchmarks with these user-created roms vs 2003se
atom069 said:
I'm just curious with all the WM5 buzz and such. Besides seeing "windows mobile 5" are there really any significant differences from WM2003se? Other than lack of software for WM5.
I've done massive amounts of flashing from video cards to motherboards so that's no problem, I'm not here to be a lazy bum and mooch software.
I will say that my 4 of my buddies work with MS mobile department here in STL, MO. They all live by wm2003se, and state WM5 won't be worth touching until next year. (Even for WM5 based phones unlike these)
My other question is for all the flash gods on this site. Out of all the current WM5 roms available here, what would you choose if :
Rarely use bluetooth
Play games
Watch video playback
basic phone services
no camera
no radio
I've 3 of these and only use them for that Unfortunately hah.. :roll:
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Of couse your buddirs live with 2003 because there are no wm5 for BA , we had here base on text rom by HTC which came from last year and a lot of people in here to made it work like Universal or Wizard,you can ask your buddies maybe they dont had wm5 rom for BA. :wink: :wink:
I dont think anyone in MS or HTC will make wm5 rom for BA , if you had buddies why you not ask them about AKU3.0 rom for Universal and Wizard ?
haha do what
We're very Close friends of 14yrs fortunately. We have no loyalty to your boy Billy Gates, Sorry dude hah. I'm sure they are not just trying to get me to buy WM5 products haha
I just like to see forums and the modifed MS WM5 stacks (tisk tisk ) and actually benchmark/test to see who knows what, or who's just throwing something out
As for the other modifed roms you're speaking of, Sell and upgrade to faster model
a QVGA to VGA is like going from radio wave cable to high-definition formatting.
Yo
I will say that MS would be lucky to have any of these developers working for them, cheers to you all!
@mwang, if they are working in the dev department i see no reason why they couldn't be making thier statement based on other wm5 devices, or even have these roms theirselves. Anyway, right now i would go with either ivan's or helmi's. If you try antyhing else you will see why.
I'd totally agree with the above...
Ivan's (or thingonasprings version with the RAMdisk) for speed and basic stability
helmi_c's as it has the new AKU2.3 base with Push Mail etc (but still in dev stage so not 'meant' to be as stable, although I've had no issues as yet!)
I've also found TuMa 1.4 very good, but mainly as I use the BT functionality quite a bit which hasn't ben sorted on the newer ROM's yet.
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@mwang, if they are working in the dev department i see no reason why they couldn't be making thier statement based on other wm5 devices, or even have these roms theirselves. Anyway, right now i would go with either ivan's or helmi's. If you try antyhing else you will see why.
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remember the BA already disconnetion from HTC that's why they dont want to make BA for WM5 , bepe and me working with AKU3 for BA , bepe already made text rom for Himayala he post today,I will try anything I can to make life easy
Hi folks. Sorry to start a new thread but there's something bugging me around here. If by any chance you mods think this post is useless please close it and accept my apologies.
It's known to the most of you that the first version of drivers didn't worked on all roms. That issue forced the developers to do a workaround and slow down the process to get it working on those roms and created a new set of drivers that is not so fast as the first one.
So... i was thinking on this and decided to start a poll in order to give a hand to the developers in wich way they should follow. What do you prefer?
A Gold XDA based ROM with fastest drivers and less compatibility with all roms? (forcing all XDA members to flash their phones - not a big deal i presume)
Or a set of drivers compatible with most of the roms but with slower performance?
I know this is a controversial issue and the urge of the drivers working on our kaisers is huge but i think we would have more if we had a custom GOLD XDA rom
Just My 2 cents
Cheers,
Draco
kinda seems like a no-brainer honestly (unless you're petrified to flash or just despise 6.1). They will develop said drivers and you have a million chefs making a million roms from them...
Fared said:
kinda seems like a no-brainer honestly (unless you're petrified to flash or just despise 6.1). They will develop said drivers and you have a million chefs making a million roms from them...
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I have no problems at all flashing my phone. I assume that there are some people who are not comfortable doing that but.... this is XDA. And if they are here that's because we all want to get the most out of our phones. And that is the tricky part of this poll. Developing the drivers based on one specific rom ( a ported one form Diamond or Raphael or an official kaiser one ) will be the more accurate and fastest way to get there.
Again... just my 2 cents
Draco
first:
flashing rom is a non-trivial task for a huge majority of users. leaving them out in the cold sounds like a very selfish position. If not for this reason, maybe avoiding a flood of "I bricked my tilt, help !!!!" threads may be a better one.
second:
Anyway, as i understood it what is slowing down FPS in the new version is the enabled VSync, which yields less tearing and improved smoothness (sounds like a shaver commercial, i'm afraid). I don't know what the refresh rate of a kaiser LCD is, but anything higher than 75fps (ie 15ms refresh rate) is a complete waste.
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second:
flashing rom is a non-trivial task for a huge majority of users. leaving them out in the cold sounds like a very selfish position.
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Not at all draxredd. Although i'm a junior member this is the second time i'm on XDA. I'm here for almost 7 years. Believe me, this is not a selfish position. As i was able to get some help to start flashing all of the members here on XDA will get that help too. The first time i flashed my first phone i was scared to death but... it's all the same. It only hurts the first time.
As i stated before this is just my opinion. The more roms the developers must include in the drivers development process, the more difficult it will be and much more time will be wasted.
Draco
haste... makes waste.
And if only one rom was to be designated as a target for the driver, it has to be the official HTC one, for two reasons:
- enabling driver support for a huge majority of users
- sticking it to HTC, deep.
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And if only one rom was to be designated as a target for the driver, it has to be the official HTC one, for two reasons:
- enabling driver support for a huge majority of users
- sticking it to HTC, deep.
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What about performance issues? Doesn't that count as well?
Anyway.... i've started the poll just to check your opinion against wide compatibility among all the roms versus one specific rom fully optimized. Let's not get far from the main question
By the way... my kaiser has the official 6.1 rom from HTC... for now
cheers,
Draco
I'm for Flashing myself, but the in the ideal world both sollutions would be best so no one comes off short. However the kind developers should be aiming at the most stable of the 2 first.
Looking at the driver progress it looks like theyre slowly getting there and getting the driver to work on the latest 6.1 roms
I voted for compatibility with the official ROM, simply because it's an identifiable standard that everyone recognises, and which everyone has on their phone by default. Cooked ROMs are great, but they're all individual, designed by individuals and used by individuals with the same tastes/needs - not one of them will suit everyone else, with or without drivers, whereas drivers released for the official ROM should work with pretty much everything else.
It's too early to say whether drivers developed for the standard ROM will always be slower than those for a cooked version, and I'm sure the very brilliant developer of those drivers will do their best to minimise any performance loss, assuming their is any in the longterm.
Vastly improved performance for the majority (and what that means for sales of the Touch Pro etc) has to take priority over a marginally improved performance in a niche ROM, aimed at an elite few, surely? At the end of the day it's entirely down to the developer what they do, irrespective of any poll here, but that's my take on it anyway.
Maybe i didn't expose correctly my idea.
There isn't any XDA Gold rom nor any kind of perfect ROM. The XDA Gold rom is just a concept and the first name that crossed my mind.
This is a big community and has some big brains around here. The exchange of knowledge bettween everyone is a plus and that opens a big wide world to explore.
So.... let's just imagine this scenario, ok?
The developers will pick a base rom. It really doesn't matter if it is a ported rom or a Official one. Preferably one that is fast and stable enough. The driver will be written over that rom. Users (those who want obviously) will test the rom for bugs and then chefs will try to cook out a 100% clean (note that by clean i mean a rom just as close as an official rom regarding to apps) fast and stable rom.
Of course this is just a crazy ideia but that i was thinking of. Create the first genuine XDA rom based on one device.
Note that there are many roms out there based on diferent releases. Make the drivers compatible with all of them will make the development process slow down and eventualy fail. That's the main reason i started this thread.
Now that the concept of the "XDA Gold rom" was properly explained (i hope) let's get on with the poll.
Draco
DracoLX said:
Now that the concept of the "XDA Gold rom" was properly explained (i hope) let's get on with the poll.
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As long as "XDA Gold" = HTC Latest Official version I cant see a problem. It's when drivers are developed for anything other than the official ROM that we'll encounter problems. All the chefs can base their designs starting with official ROMs and work out from there. In the end it will depend on whether those developing the drivers want to satisfy the larger number using official ROMs or those using Custom ROMs where the chef has not saught to maintain driver compatibility. I've therefore not voted because it depends whether "XDA Gold" does in fact = HTC Latest Official version - we weren't told.
Are you even sure that theifference is that huge?
They might be able to provide two sets to cover all ends without much additional work.
DracoLX said:
Note that there are many roms out there based on diferent releases. Make the drivers compatible with all of them will make the development process slow down and eventualy fail. That's the main reason i started this thread.
Now that the concept of the "XDA Gold rom" was properly explained (i hope) let's get on with the poll.
Draco
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IMO, The drivers only need to be compatible with an official based rom. It's up to the chefs to make the drivers work with their rom. Now, if the root of the compatibility issue can be resolved, I think things can progress forward at a faster rate.
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It's known to the most of you that the first version of drivers didn't worked on all roms. That issue forced the developers to do a workaround and slow down the process to get it working on those roms and created a new set of drivers that is not so fast as the first one.
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FALSE. Two separate issues.
First, is dlls load differently between stock or hacked/cooked roms due to memory mangling by G'realoc going into cooked roms. An attempt to fix that was in the updated release.
Two, the screen update style in the first release was really just a hack that hijacked DDI's screen refresh routines. The 2nd release finally got the 'official' way to work so the hack was removed.
I voted faster...there isn't any other reason I came to XDA other than customizing.
Anyone who doesn't want a faster cellphone won't appreciate the new D3D drivers anyway.
There are may reasons the XDA Gold Rom (HTC Original 6.1) may be slower. Cooks reduce the software on the rom and use newer software versions, these may be faster than the previous ones.
Also this software is not from the Kaiser sometimes these may be causing the incompatiblity problems with the drivers.
The HTC original rom is slower to start than most cooked roms anyway, so way wouldn't the 3d drivers also run slower.
I decided not to vote, I think speed is a non issue as long as the drivers work on the HTC original rom, and are stable. You will always get rom's that perform faster, that's what cooks do round here.
I also don't think you would get a big jump in performance writing for just one rom, the hardware is the same in all the HTC Kaiser's handsets. Software can only make small difference to the performance of hardware if the drivers are written correctly.
personally i would love the drivers in a rom like dutty's diamond v1, but i think building them into a standard(ish) htc rom is best for the comunity; it sticks it to htc best as it shows u guys can do what they couldn't(or wouldn't), and makes flashing a rom feel safer to noobs.
and anyway we all know within hours of a rom with the drivers being released there will be dozens of cooked versions for all tastes with the drivers included too.
I have been looking to upgrade my Tytn II to the latest ROM however I have not been able to get the upgrade it from HTC.
but its seems to not be there....
My system is
R 1..27.15.32
G 22.51.8.13H
D 1.82.00.00
Now I"m not sure what all those numbers ar efor but I know the R is for radio!!
I got lost after reading that bit... I was going to try to upgrade it myself but got confused so I stopped... trying and thought I'd wait till an update was available from HTC...
Well it seems its not to me anyways...
SO if there is anyone out there that can help me sort out an upgrade..
I live in Brisbane, and use optus as my carrier... my phone is unlocked as far as I know... I purchased it on the net from a Melbourne online store.
So help an Aussie if ya can.....
if you want to upgrade, then please start reading here.....
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Kaiser
6.1 very bad gps.
6.0 good gps
Why go to WM 6.1?
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6.1 very bad gps.
6.0 good gps
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Exactly! Having been there, done that and decided to go back to WM 6.0, in my effort to help a fellow person from 'down under', I can tell targ that if he uses (or expects to use) Tomtom or GPS at all on the device, he'd better be very patient at waiting for satellite locks under WM 6.1.
Although HTC have improved some of their WM 6.1 upgrades by using a newer Radio, I've tried the latest WWE version and it's still far short of what my original WM 6.0 implementation achieved as far as GPS performance is concerned. Once you upgrade to 6.1 it's quite a task to go back to WM 6.0 (the spl needs reverting too) so I had HTC do that on my device under warranty.
Yup tried reading that...
got lost as to what I need to match to what!!!
Like I said I'm looking for a some help to do this .
I"ll have another crack at it though see if I can make sense of any of it...
Peto01 man what you mean the gps goes crap... in 6.1
Is this only in a few units or every unit.
More reading material
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what you mean the gps goes crap... in 6.1
Is this only in a few units or every unit.
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Have a look at this thread about *hopeless* GPS after 6.1 update
The problem seems fairly widespread with TyTN II WM 6.1 updates. Since the ROM and Radio on your device seem to be from the Rogers network (as listed in the xda-dev wiki), that may explain why the generic HTC upgrade doesn't work for your device (only genuine HTC TyTN IIs will run the HTC upgrade as-is).
If you're just wanting to upgrade to WM 6.1 because it's the latest, you may be disappointed!
Useful!
I was browsing forum trying to see should I upgrade my stock 6.0 ROM to 6.1. Now I am sure that I will wait for couple more months (weeks?) !
I'm inclined to wait until the next ROM and Radio release has been tested/reviewed
I'm inclined to let someone else be the guinea pig regarding fixing the broken GPS. When a new ROM/Radio Combination is released on HTC eClub/Support, I'll check here to see how reports about GPS performance look and then when I'm sufficiently sure it's not still broken, will again jump over to WM 6.1.
Once bitten, twice shy and I don't want to have to get HTC to revert it to WM 6.0 again!
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Exactly! Having been there, done that and decided to go back to WM 6.0, in my effort to help a fellow person from 'down under', I can tell targ that if he uses (or expects to use) Tomtom or GPS at all on the device, he'd better be very patient at waiting for satellite locks under WM 6.1.
Although HTC have improved some of their WM 6.1 upgrades by using a newer Radio, I've tried the latest WWE version and it's still far short of what my original WM 6.0 implementation achieved as far as GPS performance is concerned. Once you upgrade to 6.1 it's quite a task to go back to WM 6.0 (the spl needs reverting too) so I had HTC do that on my device under warranty.
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I had the same experience and reverted back to 6.0 roms. BUT I've recently been using Garmins WM6.1 DK3 with radio 1.65.17.56 and the GPS fix is always quick and strong - Works all over UK. This setup may be worth considering.
ach2 said:
I had the same experience and reverted back to 6.0 roms. BUT I've recently been using Garmins WM6.1 DK3 with radio 1.65.17.56 and the GPS fix is always quick and strong - Works all over UK. This setup may be worth considering.
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I want to keep it all official HTC and not have to use hardspl at this stage, besides I prefer the look of the original HTC setup (themes, icons etc) over the customised Garmin DK3. The latest official HTC ROM for the device uses the same radio as you're using and I was far from satisfied with its reception instability compared to the old WM 6.0 setup. I've sent a letter to the big cheese at HTC so will wait and see what happens!
Flying Kiwi,
What do you mean "Rogers network" (WTF) I bought a HTC Tytn II from a Retailer. surely this is not a fake HTC??
Should I be looking at taking it back?
Does this mean I don't have any Warrenty?
This would be why HTC said that the Upgrade is not a suitable for my unit... going by the S/N!!
What am I to DO now.
As for the GPS issue some seem to be having no real issue with cooked roms.
AS I live in Australia would I need to get a diff radio then say you in the UK?
I"m rather intrested in the L26 TL ROM of Leo's
And if I understand it correctly I need to
1. run jump SPL
2. then flash the SPL that suits the rom I go for.
3. flash the Radio
4. Flash the ROM I have choisen.
Then hard reset.
IS that right?
or have I got the order wrong or missed a step.
Just trying to make a simple as I can..
Would my location and carrier make a difference as to which SPL, ROM, RADIO I use.
OH yeah !
What Does the R, D, and G mean...
Well, I finally did my first ROM change (to 6.1) and have to say I don't have any problems at all.
I have a T-mobile Vario 3, that although everything worked, I always found slow and buggy.
I went for Sleuths 6.1 V3 ROM, simply because I was a hermes user before and his stuff was always flawless.......and I was proved right again.
It's really simple to do, contains the correct radio (much better than the shipped one), and is really fast and stable. Had it a week and used it intensively - no problems with Tomtom or GPS - the same, if not better than it was before.
I would suggest, if you're not sure which one to go for then try this and see if it suits you.
Ok I tried to use the link in the WIki to the Jump SPL the latest one that only needs you to follow the on screen info..
And well according to the on screen prompts it must be done but as for the unit its self I don't hink so as nothing really happened on it... I"m thinking that the wizard does not like Vista or it does not like Sync Centre.
anyone able to help me out ....
No WTFs reqd after-all
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Flying Kiwi,
What do you mean "Rogers network"
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Your Radio (R) is the same as that used by Rogers on their WM 6.0 ROMs. But you're right, I missed the bit about your 1.82 series ROM though so it looks more like you have the 3rd one down the wiki list of HTC WM 6.0 ROMs here and not the first: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Kaiser_ROMs
Should I be looking at taking it back?
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Not if it currently works as you need it to but you could see what their explanation for why there is no WM 6.1 upgrade for your device yet is. HTC in Australia should also be able to advise you http://www.htc.com/au/about_htc.aspx?id=21840
As for the GPS issue some seem to be having no real issue with cooked roms.
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And some are so are you willing to take that risk as a newbie and get stuck with a non-original non-warrantable installation thats not straight forward to revert back to original WM 6.0 if it plays up for you? Is it not worth liasing with HTC first to see what they have to say about a possible WM 6.1 update if you're really that keen?
AS I live in Australia would I need to get a diff radio then say you in the UK?
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Pass on the Radios but if history is anything to go by, there are a few different ROMs on that wiki page released for Australia. If you do a bit of searching around here I think you'll find cases of peoples non-Australian purchased TyTN IIs having problems when used there as well. I can't recall what the issues were but there definitely were issues (months ago before WM 6.1 came out on the Kaiser). Perhaps a search for Australia just in the Kaiser General or Kaiser ROM Dev forums may yeild results.
Thanks heaps I'll follow your leads Cheers
Hi everyone,
I have a T-Mobile TP2 and have been torn on whether or not to upgrade to 6.5 for some time now. Well I finally decided to go for it, but then came across the official unbranded HTC rom.
My question is (dealing only with official release updates from tmobile and htc):
Who has upgraded to both branded and unbranded and can relay pros and cons of both compared to 6.1 and each other? Or has anyone heard enough about both, or can give me any relevant information?
Also, do I need to HardSPL in order to flash the HTC rom?
I'd really like to lose all the bloatware and sh!tty splash screen and everything else t-mo, but I don't know if there is any clear-cut advantage to doing so.
Also, if I am completely daft and missed a similar pre-existing thread, please inform me of my mistake. Same goes if I posted in the wrong section, this is my first post in evar.
THANKS!!!
Put Hardspl on your phone and you can test yourself You can always go back to the 6.1 rom.
is there a stock manila 2.5 ROM offered by t-mo?
if not, 2.5 + CHT is definately worth using the HTC ROM.
I would not mess with Sense 2.5 unless it is cooked. You need a lot of tweaks to make it run smoothly on the TP2, especially in HTC messaging. I am using a cooked version of the T-Mobile stock rom with Sense 2.1, has been the best and most stable rom for me yet. Sense 2.5 is good if you don't mind giving up some performance for new features. Sense 2.1 is what our devices run best with. Hope this helps you decide.
EDIT: In comparison to WinMo 6.1 with TF3D, upgrading to 6.5 with Sense2.1 will in my opinion make the device run smoother. 6.1 is a very solid OS and works well with TouchFlo to make scrolling much easier. However, I say if you can upgrade the device to 6.5 without losing performance go for it because it is much better integrated than TouchFlo, making the touch experience much better. Through my testing, the TP2 functions best with WinMo 6.5 with Sense2.1. The newer WinMo builds are probably better off using on the HD2 and other high performance devices. Same thing with Sense2.5, it can run smoothly but you will be giving up some speed as well as memory and battery life. I have come to terms with my phone, lol... Nothing beyond Sense2.1 and WM6.5 from now on. But you have to test on your own to see which you like better. Good luck!
I've been cooking own ROM for a few weeks now, and it's a T-Mobile no frills ROM.
It's not quite finished, but it's very stable and the battery life is excellent. I could always use another tester if you're interested.
krodby said:
Hi everyone,
I have a T-Mobile TP2 and have been torn on whether or not to upgrade to 6.5 for some time now. Well I finally decided to go for it, but then came across the official unbranded HTC rom.
My question is (dealing only with official release updates from tmobile and htc):
Who has upgraded to both branded and unbranded and can relay pros and cons of both compared to 6.1 and each other? Or has anyone heard enough about both, or can give me any relevant information?
Also, do I need to HardSPL in order to flash the HTC rom?
EDIT: I used the official T-Mobile for several weeks, it is OK. I'm on NRG now.
I'd really like to lose all the bloatware and sh!tty splash screen and everything else t-mo, but I don't know if there is any clear-cut advantage to doing so.
Also, if I am completely daft and missed a similar pre-existing thread, please inform me of my mistake. Same goes if I posted in the wrong section, this is my first post in evar.
THANKS!!!
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You would have to hard SPL to use the HTC ROM.
The Official WM 6.5 is a sense 2.1 version, but you would not need to hard SPL.
Thanks for all of your help!
I'm still not sure what i'll do for now, but i'll probably end up just biting the bullet and becoming an addict. I'll start with the official sh!t and gateway into flashing every stable rom that exists lol.