Ok... So has the windows update feature on some roms even work? I was just curious if anyone has ever found an update using that program.
In 3+ years of WinMo devices I only ever found one and it broke my device. It was 3 years ago and it was a Today screen update for my old Orange SPV c500, never seen one since, myself or on here.
Dave
It does connect but never found any available update in 1 year. Compared to the MS PC update, it seems completely useless!
Hyden121 said:
Ok... So has the windows update feature on some roms even work? I was just curious if anyone has ever found an update using that program.
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I work in IT and attended a microsoft mobile convention thingy in Dublin a few months back and they went in to a lot of detail on windows mobile 6.1 etc. I asked about the windows update and was told that it is just there in case someone ever finds an exploit or somthing really bad like that. The guy said it was better to have the update option built in if the should ever have to patch something. Makes sense I guess.
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Windows Mobile 6.1 will be formally released next week Looks official!!
Tuesday Pocket Lint reported ( http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/13612/14636/windows-mobile-61-coming-april.phtml) that Microsoft is ready publish the latest version of Windows Mobile, time will be next week Tuesday. The Microsoft Windows Mobile team member in charge "Robbie Bach" had earlier mentioned this at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas during a keynote speech. Windows Mobile 6.1 will be the last version 6.0 release of the first major update. Earlier this year the title leaked out (http://www.boygeniusreport.com/gallery/handsets/windows-mobile-61/) showing that 6.1 might use a smoother interface than the 6.0 interface, but it is unclear if that is a smart phone only or will be related to EM Pro devices also.
Windows Mobile 6.1 is supposed to increase on the basics of improvements much like the WM5 to WM6 transition.
Next year, Microsoft is expected to follow the script Mac OS X, introduced a with a new touch-screen user interface for the Windows Mobile 7. ( http://209.85.135.104/translate_c?h...a.cn/+&hl=en&safe=off&rls=com.microsoft:en-us )
Finally I need to point out that next Tuesday is April Fool's Day, but this is only a coincidence I hope.
See the above links for the Details from MS blogs.
LOOKS official... that is a UK website. is there any news of 6.1 being released in the US? what meger searching i did proved fruitless and i was just wondering if anyone has seen nething about it
should say "released to oems" not you and me
as per the way microsoft rolls out "updates" to windows mobile, device manufacturers are responsible for porting and making updates available per device. availability is usually sorted
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i know this is a stupid question....im am new to this, and this is my first windows mobile phone. I have the tilt and I know its running WM6.0, is it going to be available to download for us? for free? sorry for the noob question
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i know this is a stupid question....im am new to this, and this is my first windows mobile phone. I have the tilt and I know its running WM6.0, is it going to be available to download for us? for free? sorry for the noob question
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go to the kaiser rom development and read the wiki and yes is the answer in simple terms
yea 6.1 will be free because its a minor update only... WM7 will not be free but it doesnt release until later next year... Also, 6.1 is available in parts in some of the roms on this site... Its not worth it unless ur a fan of threaded SMS... it has nothing so important to upgrade...
I am just waiting for pointUI to come out with version 2.0
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yea 6.1 will be free because its a minor update only... WM7 will not be free but it doesnt release until later next year... Also, 6.1 is available in parts in some of the roms on this site... Its not worth it unless ur a fan of threaded SMS... it has nothing so important to upgrade...
I am just waiting for pointUI to come out with version 2.0
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What can we expect in pointUI 2.0?
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yea 6.1 will be free because its a minor update only... WM7 will not be free but it doesnt release until later next year... Also, 6.1 is available in parts in some of the roms on this site... Its not worth it unless ur a fan of threaded SMS... it has nothing so important to upgrade...
I am just waiting for pointUI to come out with version 2.0
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pointUI will definitly be great but as long as you end up in the "classic" applications behind I find the finger-controls more or less worthless. Therefore I really look forward to WM7. This could be a really revolutionary WM release.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx9H9UuUuq8
Where to download the thing
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please somebody??
THis at best seems to me a WAD theme. Or am I wrong, may be I would be more interested to see me wrong this time.
Looks like yet another shell program, but apparently a good one
pretty fancy when he posts a link can you put it up here?
here is the post from the guy who put up the video
http://www.htctilt.com/showthread.php?t=661
yaa it seems something like those shell programs. I don't know if it will be anything more than just few windows program. @ryan don't worry you will surely get one when it will be out. Cheers.
i will contact the coder i think that windows vista for kaiser will be released very very very soon
If it wasn't simply a Shell User Interface then why would it run within Windows Mobile?
I suppose you're going to install Desktop applications on your Kaiser? Like everyone can afford 300+MB for Office?
It's bad enough on full sized PCs
Without bringing it to PPC platforms as well. Aside from the 'resource' issues already referred to, there's also the fact that even WM 6.1 doesn't offer full driver support for much of the hardware it's commonly (and officially) installed on. A good example is that unlike the desktop WHQL driver certification scheme where many of these drivers are included in native OS desktop builds, there's no such luck with Windows Mobile and it's a free-for-all with Microsoft allowing devices to be sold with their OS and no proper driver support. Maybe WM 7.0 may correct this (for example by offering full Qualcomm MSM72xx chipset support) but thats no help for Kaiser owners wanting to play video using just native apps.
What's really needed is to get the current Windows Mobile OS sorted and working reliably with full performance (and that additionally includes sorting the poor performing shambles that is currently known as Activesync/WMDC) before trying to add additional 'cosmetic' features.
Look for it
January 09
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Look for it
January 09
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It is January 09 isn't it? JK
this looks sweet! can't wait for it to be available!
It is January.
That looks awesome! I spent days trying to find the stupid "Vista Portable Edition" Wisbar theme and never succeeded. Grab it quick, cause I'm pretty sure the reason the previously mentioned Wisbar theme was so hard to find is because Microsoft forced people to remove it. This is great though.
Dave
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It is January 09 isn't it? JK
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yes, l0l i wanted to say with this, that the vista shell app will be released very soon ...
cheers
awsome will wait patientlly then jump on it lol
its getting late in the month is this still coming out you think? (i hope)
I think the developer is still not able to solve some issues. Its going to be end of jan in week time to come. Hope we will be having it in our devices by that time.
Hey guys,
is it possible to get the bb firmware on a x1? i like it so much, but didn't find anything in the web about this.
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Hey guys,
is it possible to get the bb firmware on a x1? i like it so much, but didn't find anything in the web about this.
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you can only use bb connect software not the entire os
br
i think he is talking about the full BB suite not just BBC. my understanding that this is not released yet. it was demonstrated on the raphael a couple of months ago
Really? Is there a link available?
So far the only thing we have managed to get 'working' is BBConnect (i've had it running stable for a few weeks now).
here http://mobilecallerid.blogspot.com/2008/12/blackberry-suite-for-windows-mobile.html
ohh and its not a full firmware its just big software
no news or updates for almost 4 months. i wouldnt be surprised if they cancel it or released it in a crippled form. hope im wrong though. having access to all BB MDS services and software should be cool
Hi everyone,
this is my first post in this board but I'm reading here since two years. I have a HTC Viva which gave me a lot of satisfaction, but recently I bought an Iphone 4 so I left Viva behind.
Now I decided to update it and I flashed a new cooked rom bringed on this board....but I'm interested to verify if some rumors read on the web that there will be an update for all win6.1/6.5 smartphone to win7 on July it's true, and in case....have our device enough power to run win7 without problems?
Thanks to all in advance. Rgds.
Where did you get that information? It would be excellent if it is true....
But there have also been rumors that win7 requires at least 1GHZ to run... So Opal is certainly not capable.
But if somehow Microsoft manages to upgrade that, i'll be yelling Hallelujah!
Hi everyone,
I just traded my android phone for an htc hd7 and enjoy it so far. I have read that the official mango update is going to be released soon, possibly Sep. 15th. At this point, should I wait to see if official mango is going to be released soon or should I go ahead and install a mango build from the development section? If I install a build, will the official mango update be able to be done to my phone or would i have to return it to stock?
Sorry about some of the noobish questions, have had many android phones and can figure stuff out pretty easy with them, but wp7 is a completely different beast it seems and it's taking some relearning and a lot of reading.
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I installed it this morning. Even though the rumored date is tomorrow i think it will be a while before local carriers release it. Not as bad as NoDo though. Also, with the RTM release you wont get all the extra fraff the carriers add.
I'd go for it. Its ace!
I would suggest searching around about how to make a backup of your device before doing anything. Its quite a simple and quick process and very important to do.
Mango is awesome btw! But I would contact your network provider if its a locked device to find out when the update might hit.
I would also recommend installing it. The final build is out and ready. That is what I installed, and since its the official version, I will still be able to update through Zune on updates down the road. Its quite easy, even on mine which was carrier branded. It took less than 30 minutes, not including file download time.
Mango is great by they way. My Sensation with its over clocked processor, custom rom, and extras has already been out away. Now I want some new WP7 hardware to back up the software.
Like the previous poster says, its the release build so why not? You also have to remember that its unlocked which means you can side load, etc. I'd go for it just make sure you have all of your music, pictures, etc sync'd. Even if itdid release tomorrow, does not mean you will get it and BTW, its a simple, no hasle process. Just follow the directions! Good luck.
I held off a long time with updating to 7720 from beta2 for the same reason. Was just gonna wait it out. But I ended up upgrading. Thing is that when I updated to 7720 from 7712(??) I was able to receive the HTC update which has been out a while but was unable to receive since I was on the beta2 and didn't feel like downgrading to nodo but for minimal changes. So using even the Zune beta client which I have I'm led to believe that when the official mango is released by carriers I'm gonna be able to upgrade right from RTM 7720. Just a thought. Did it on both my hd7's soon as updated to 7720 I was able to receive the radio update.
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Thanks for all the feedback! I will continue to read up on the process to update it in the meantime and maybe tackle it this weekend if the update doesn't come out by then.
tried flashing to mango..but games seem not to be working. So flash back to the original firmware.maybe i just wait for the official update...
Am a Happy bunny with Mango RTM installed. I feel its not really a point waiting for your carrier updates as such cause WP7 is as closed as apple.
and all HTC will ever do is update its HTC HUB which you can update anyway via market.
so go ahead and do it.
Whatever you choose I hope you enjoy it. I'm tired of waiting for official Mango, going back to Android. I had high hopes but it doesn't feel worthwhile anymore.
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Whatever you choose I hope you enjoy it. I'm tired of waiting for official Mango, going back to Android. I had high hopes but it doesn't feel worthwhile anymore.
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You know, I've haunted these forums for a long time with different phones and I've used WM6+, Android 1+, IOS 3+ and a few others and comments like this really piss me off.
WP7 has come a long way in a short amount of time. Is it perfect, of course not but Mango is a major step forward and puts WP7 on par with any other mobile OS. Granted we dont have as many useless apps or the same apps repackaged and there are a few that are just plain missing but its getting there.
BTW, did I mention what a helpful post it was? Not...
I've just flashed my HD7 up to Mango because I know O2 will load it with Yahoo Crap, and it'll likely arrive some time in November if their track record is anything to go by.
Was using a Blackberry Torch until recently, but swapped it out for the HD7. My second phone is a Galaxy-S, and it was my main phone until I got the HD7. Previously I've had various XDAs Mini-S, a TyTn, and a HD2, as well as work phones at various places. The only handset I had issues with was the HD2, though that was more to do with crap O2 messed with firmware than anything else.
Before Mango I would have rated this handset 6/10 for missing features. Now 9/10 as I still can't have OTA Podcasting, and the Battery could be better.