[ROM][GER][21-05-09] Dark Night beta[ONLINE] - Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development

Watch my new thread for Updates: http://www.htc-developers.de/viewtopic.php?f=87&t=1835
I go there too cause this Rom is in german only. Hope that was OK. Its too much work to stay up-to-date with two forums.
Rom Base:
XIP and SYS 21041
OEM 21042.1.6.1 from:
RUU_Topaz_HTC_WWE_1.39.405.2_Radio_Signed_Topaz_61.20t.25.10_3.43.25.19_Ship
Recommended Radio 1.14.25.24 from Radios for Touch HD
[APP] Auto A2DP ( Auto connects the a2dp on car radio )
Flash at your own risk.
Please hardreset once after flashing.
Received Donations:
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Have you translated it for your own? The problem I see here, is that it is too much work, for too less users .

johnpatcher said:
Have you translated it for your own? The problem I see here, is that it is too much work, for too less users .
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Yes. But I do it for me and if others would like it they can use it.

I use personally since 4 years devices from htc and my experience is that the german users are not so good supportet. Updates comes first for WWE devices and so on.
The german sector is always the last one. But in the last years I think the german sector is growing large but it was difficult to stay up-to-date.
This forum is always up-to-date and I think the best place to support german users too.

Hi Atze001, I fully agree with you - we have italian, greek and dutch roms here besides the majority of wwe roms. I am using htc hardware for 4 years as well and used a lot wwe roms on my wizard. on my Blackstone I am looking for stable GER roms only! please go ahead. i think we can expect a new German hd rom from htc soon as well. the diamond2 and pro2 are out for sale in germany as well. Currently i am using a PAQman rom from the german htc forum htc-developers.de which is very stable but old manila. I hope that the experiences from xda-developers and htc-developers.de are shared in a good way.
thanks for your good ideas! keep on cooking!

nice rom...but one question...is it possible to provide the original clock as cab. I guess each user has a diferent taste for those customizations.

nice work - how much ram is free after a some minutes?

Lazy79 said:
nice work - how much ram is free after a some minutes?
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On my device are 95-98MB free. Cause 12MB Pagepool.

20.04.09 V3 online

ANDYx1975 said:
nice rom...but one question...is it possible to provide the original clock as cab. I guess each user has a diferent taste for those customizations.
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Did you mean the white one?

Atze001 said:
I use personally since 4 years devices from htc and my experience is that the german users are not so good supportet. Updates comes first for WWE devices and so on.
The german sector is always the last one. But in the last years I think the german sector is growing large but it was difficult to stay up-to-date.
This forum is always up-to-date and I think the best place to support german users too.
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Probably depends where you look... there's plenty of german forums with great support and the latest stuff for your HTC...
Nothing against xda-devs, it is WWE focused and I love it never the less

To the 9 people how try my rom please a little feedback would be great
Tomorrow will come a new version much better than before. I use a new base and add some new features.

V4 is now online

Top-ROM!
Fast, stable, newest build... in GER (the worldclock bug is gone:-D)
Very good modifications and tweaks, esp. coloured topbar, bigger scrollbars, preinstalled resco explorer, HD Tweak etc. The Manila-Home (transparent clock bg) is a question of taste and is for me harder to read in direct sunlight - u might think about that one...
the email-tab in manila slider isnt visible after hardreset, needs unchecking, checking et voilá
other than that - it´s a keeper

Hi,
is it possible to flash with USPL ?. I don`t want hardspl on my device for ever. In the moment I have the latest german stock rom loaded, after testing duttys rom

fadercrusader said:
Top-ROM!
Fast, stable, newest build... in GER (the worldclock bug is gone:-D)
Very good modifications and tweaks, esp. coloured topbar, bigger scrollbars, preinstalled resco explorer, HD Tweak etc. The Manila-Home (transparent clock bg) is a question of taste and is for me harder to read in direct sunlight - u might think about that one...
the email-tab in manila slider isnt visible after hardreset, needs unchecking, checking et voilá
other than that - it´s a keeper
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If I am ready I will make little cabs for the clock and anything. Currently I am working on v5 with more translations. I changed the base to get this rom faster and have compressed Manila and cut off all unneeded files (over 800).
Thank for your feedback

Rod65 said:
Hi,
is it possible to flash with USPL ?. I don`t want hardspl on my device for ever. In the moment I have the latest german stock rom loaded, after testing duttys rom
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Yes. I think it was possible to flash via USPL. You can HSPL too and you can go back from HSPL.

Related

A Brief Comparison of 7 ... Almost ALL TouchHD ROMs - FYI

It's glad to see there are so many kind guys are making ROMs for Touch HD. But for an end use it is too time-consuming to flash all of these great ROMs to pick a proper one for him/her.
To assistant selecing a proper ROM for you, here is a simple/brief comparison of 7 Touch HD ROMs here (Google docs):
Now you can check almost all Touch HD ROMs' features in this new spreadsheet:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pw0YkbV43nsX7HipwXN8YWQ
Thanks to:
frogjaw2, Tito, Fallen Spartan
ROMs include WM 6.1 and 6.5, WWE and other languages, Cooked ROM, heavy ROMs etc.
ROMs:
Heavy ROMs
Laurentius26 Touching HD
Black Pearl
Dutty's HD XTREME
Pzucchel
Davideuck
EnergyROM
Davideuck_V-4_HP
Windows Mobile 6.5
taiseer999
Miri
Davideuck
MaryOne
Karmba_a HD
Chinese ROM
Cooked ROMs
Black Dragon's ROM
Black Dragon's ROM
CHO HTC released by taiseer999
Starbase64 UC
M-Amine Silver
DIB Touch HD
Stage6
Black Pearl
Mago
Live HD
Torliss HD
Pyrana
BlackCook
LPHD
i-Style Blackstone
EPS Black Rose II
Lite ROMs
a Touch of HD
Pzucchel
Black Pearl
Barebone
Lite ROM
Uzeb_Ultimate
Don't forget to select different tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet.
Again, you can send private message or email to frogjaw2 if you'd like to contribute.
Updates from old to new:
[UPDATE 1]
bobsbbq is kind enought to share his work:
HTC_HD_ROM_Benchmarks_3_2009.zip
this is a cool and tech-savvy sheet full of ... (come on, download it and have a look )
A good start and I had the same idea but the problem is Forum rules state post with subjective material is a violation. By you stating folders are ugly to you it may not be to another person, therefore it is subjective.
Another suggestion is on the soft key menus state whether it is in only manila or system wide large menus.
I wish you luck in the thread remaining open.
bobsbbq said:
A good start and I had the same idea but the problem is Forum rules state post with subjective material is a violation. By you stating folders are ugly to you it may not be to another person, therefore it is subjective.
Another suggestion is on the soft key menus state whether it is in only manila or system wide large menus.
I wish you luck in the thread remaining open.
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Thanks for reminding. Sorry for my words. I've updated the spreadsheet.
And, if it states HTC large menu, it's all system wide.
It would be a disaster if this thread were to be closed - this is vital information for people new around here.
The only downside to things like this is that it is of course subjective, but that really isn't enough, in this case, to warrant closing the thread. This is a topic that I think about *every* time I see another release of a ROM, and frankly, I'm bloody sick of hard resetting my device just so I can try out the latest and greatest from people (currently poking around with the two 6.5 roms from Miri and Davideuch)
I really hope this thread stays open, and that the spreadsheet improves over time
In my opinion, there is a lot of non subjective information here.
Figures about speed would be really interesting, if this is somehow measurable.
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It's glad to see there are so many kind guys are making ROMs for Touch HD. But for an end use it is too time-consuming to flash all of these great ROMs to pick a proper one for him/her.
To assistant selecing a proper ROM for you, I made a simple/brief comparison of 7 Touch HD ROMs here (Google docs):
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=puhL_ng3RDqQ4KoAKOZeBcA
ROMs compared are:
. Energy
. Davideuck_V-4_HP
. Dutty
. Davideuck_V-7
. panosha Black Pearl
. Kwbr
. Uzeb
Please be noted:
. Latest versions I found are used.
. Only WWE Windows Mobile 6.1 ROMs are compared. Really I don't like WM 6.5
. This comparison is by no means really completed. I compared only the features I'm interested in. For example, I don't think there is great difference amony different CE OS kernel version, so I didn't compare them.
Hope helpful.
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Funny I was actually talking to bobsbbq last week about doing a thread similar to this with comparisons between roms I have tested including performance outputs etc
You beat me to it. If I can help in anything let me know
Just a note Dutty's icons are not customized, those are new HTC icons in the Start Menu. Dutty's roms are always the closest roms to Classic/ Stock Roms i've found.
Also Opera is included in Dutty's v2.6, Manila is not classic its the newest HTC build v2 (unless i don't understand what you mean by classic)
good comparison! well done.
there is one more feature i personaly find useful, is the facebook link. If "My Contact card" and contacts are linked with facebook. I am not sure if this feature is completely independent or if it is always in, when push internet is integrated.
I am sure that facebook link works in Dutty ROM, but is no integrated in Energy ROM.
qpasatio said:
In my opinion, there is a lot of non subjective information here.
Figures about speed would be really interesting, if this is somehow measurable.
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I agree... measurable specs would be more interesting... I know that Dutty for example publishes a lot of measurements of his ROMs on his site...
nice work
I like the spread sheet I was thinking about doing that, great job man
3g compatable
Thanks for the comparisions - great job. Another important inclusion in your charts could be whether the rom supports 3g.
I have installed several cooked roms from different people and have noticed that some do not support the 850 band I require for 3g coverage.
The latest roms I installed were Davidueks V4 and Duttys 2.6. Both very good roms and each has it advantages / disadvantages but I have stayed with Dutty as V4 does not enable the 3g which I require.
thanks for the spreadsheet.. might also be good to add in whether it is a GSM or 3G ROM as the Energy rom is gsm. cheers man!
go ahead
nice to have this kind of comparison. spare some extra flashing. would be nice to extend with more technical details like size of rom after flashing or figures of benchmarks etc. thanks for your great starting idea. i'm back to see your spreadsheet. i hope it will be migrated to stickyes soon when more people think it valuable.
Here is a spreadsheet I started on
resettarget said:
It's glad to see there are so many kind guys are making ROMs for Touch HD. But for an end use it is too time-consuming to flash all of these great ROMs to pick a proper one for him/her.
To assistant selecing a proper ROM for you, I made a simple/brief comparison of 7 Touch HD ROMs here (Google docs):
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=puhL_ng3RDqQ4KoAKOZeBcA
ROMs compared are:
. Energy
. Davideuck_V-4_HP
. Dutty
. Davideuck_V-7
. panosha Black Pearl
. Kwbr
. Uzeb
Please be noted:
. Latest versions I found are used.
. Only WWE Windows Mobile 6.1 ROMs are compared. Really I don't like WM 6.5
. This comparison is by no means really completed. I compared only the features I'm interested in. For example, I don't think there is great difference amony different CE OS kernel version, so I didn't compare them.
Hope helpful.
[UPDATED:]
I'm not a native-english speaker so by no means I'd like to be subjective. The word in western culture/english is a little difficult for me to fully understand.
I don't mean to attack or depreciate any ROM author who is thankful and deserve respect. Well the title had better to be something like 'cheat sheet' or 'feature briefing' which looks more friendly. I'm not sure whether 'comparison' is, sort of, aggresive. (looks like thread author can't change the thread's title ?)
How about sharing the doc with volunteers who'd like to update it?
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Here you go. A spreadsheet I started on. Graphs look good to the eye. I hope it helps you. I like to share
bobsbbq said:
Here you go. A spreadsheet I started on. Graphs look good to the eye. I hope it helps you. I like to share
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Excellent spreadsheet bobsbbq. Glad you shared!
Excellent......
Nice work people....hope we can keep it alive....
bobsbbq said:
Here you go. A spreadsheet I started on. Graphs look good to the eye. I hope it helps you. I like to share
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That's exactly what I had in mind... Awesome!
nice work
nice work, there should be more information included though.
naqvi514 said:
nice work, there should be more information included though.
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Can't just say that, otherwise pointless post. What other information would you like?...... and maybe we can add this to spreadsheets
Fallen Spartan said:
Can't just say that, otherwise pointless post. What other information would you like?...... and maybe we can add this to spreadsheets
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well something like
memory/storage consumtions etc.
and whether the rom is based on new or old manila, as it makes lot of difference when it comes to compare the features.

the how to?

hi, i just got my x1 a few weeks back and im looking to upgrade the rom and what i realized is it involves many more steps than what was required for my universal before?
i upgraded the official rom via the SD card method and that worked like a charm. But what i dont know is which rom can i upgrade to on my x1... as it seems that they are all based on R2... R3... etc?
so what im lookin for is a fast and simple answer on which roms i can upgrade on my x1. The method is not a problem. The rom selection is. And plus, which is the best rom you would recommend?
thankx
The best way is, imho:
Check the threads here. In each, you can find a description of the ROM,
a discussion about possible bugs and solutions, and recommendations from
the xda community.
Basically, you can flash any ROM you will find here. Some like the newest,
more "unofficial" builds of WinMo 6.5 with the Windows start menu at the
bottom, others prefer the "official" build with the menu at the top.
Again others prefer either a Windows only ROM, some Manila 2.1, some the
"latest" version 2.5, these are from the "Leo".
Almost the same applies to the radio/rilphone version.
If you have some spare time, make your own trials - start maybe with the
ROMs from agent_47, NRGZ28, spikegotti, itje, MrRusch... and soon, you
will have your very own, personal preferred solution.
thanks. another question? what is "manila"? unfimiliar with this term.
mazlano27 said:
thanks. another question? what is "manila"? unfimiliar with this term.
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Manila is the user interface by HTC, which seems to be a favorite of many
X1 users here at xda - there are many ROMs which are cooked with it.
Version 2.5 is taken from the upcoming Leo model, while 2.1 is from other
models, such as Rhodium and Topaz - those are the closest to the X1 from
hardware specifications. One kind of a "disadvantage" in the perception of
some users in the 2.5 version is missing landscape support for virtually all
functions, while 2.1 is fully landscape.
Manila brings eye candy, but also finger friendliness to WinMo devices. You
can easily recognize it with the big digital clock at the home screen.
tictac0566 said:
(...) One kind of a "disadvantage" in the perception of some users in the 2.5 version is missing landscape support for virtually all
functions, while 2.1 is fully landscape.
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I'd like to point out that the 2.5 version seems to be a little heavy for the X1.
The manila 2.1 from Rhodium\Topaz have a nice look & feel to them. Also battery life is VERY good with these versions (3 to 6 days on a single charge, depending on how you use your X1). Manila 2.1 does not have the Facebook and Twitter tabs, and has different Favorite and Home screen layouts.
My advise would be to go with a manila 2.1 ROM. My personal favorit is the FireStorm Rhodium\TOPAZ by Agent_47. It's loaded with lots of extra programs, and runs very stabile.
Excelent everyday use!
FireStorm Rhodium\TOPAZ by Agent_47? will give that a try? the htc leo is the HD 2 yes? and thanks for the clarification on the manila. been a great help. Is there much difference in the manila and the touch flo 3d cab? the cab seems to be stable too... and im not a big fan of wm6.5. ive never tried it before... how much free ram is there after the update?
mazlano27 said:
FireStorm Rhodium\TOPAZ by Agent_47? will give that a try? the htc leo is the HD 2 yes? and thanks for the clarification on the manila. been a great help. Is there much difference in the manila and the touch flo 3d cab? the cab seems to be stable too... and im not a big fan of wm6.5. ive never tried it before... how much free ram is there after the update?
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Manila is actually a nickname of what was called TouchFlo3D earlier, and to
complete the confusion, you will maybe read "Sense" sometimes, too. In fact,
that is again the same. Most people here use "Manila" and versions 2.1/2.5.
To install Manila with a cab is definitely quite a fast procedure, but the real
performance of your device will not be as fast as possible - even if stable.
The free RAM is different from ROM to ROM, lower WinMo "pure" ones are
somewhat around 30% memory usage, the lowest Manila ROMs are at
around 35-40% with 2.1, 45-55% with Manila 2.5 - but then again, this is
different from ROM to ROM.
In the sum, maybe a Touch X 10.8.2 or agent´s "Photon" ROM (standard)
could be a good point to start.
Once your are happy, the chef most probably will not be unhappy if you
take care of his/her donation fund...
Happy flashing!
thanks buddy uve been a great help. one last question, i have just upgraded my rom using the micro sd method. if i wanted to go back to my wm 6.1 official R3A rom which was released a lil over a week back, could i use that .nbh file to downgrade as if upgrading?
what im trying to ask is i just put the R3a rom file in my formatted sd card and load the phone in boot loader more and let the magic happen or a more complex process is required like backin up and restoring stock rom?
mazlano27 said:
thanks buddy uve been a great help. one last question, i have just upgraded my rom using the micro sd method. if i wanted to go back to my wm 6.1 official R3A rom which was released a lil over a week back, could i use that .nbh file to downgrade as if upgrading?
what im trying to ask is i just put the R3a rom file in my formatted sd card and load the phone in boot loader more and let the magic happen or a more complex process is required like backin up and restoring stock rom?
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I´ve seen your 2nd thread asking about speedy ROMs, and it seems you´re
already happily flashing...
Here´s the link for what to do in warranty/service needs...
yes happily flashing indeed. thanks buddy. just played around and got the hang of it. i understand it now.

ROMS

Hi guys i was wondering what would the most best stable fastest rom for the CDMA Diamond be. I have tried multiple. The two best i think were MightyRom and EnergyRom(currenty using). I just need ur opinion if you know some other nice ones. I rate roms by aesthetics and looks but obviously also speed and stability. Thanks
MightyRom - http://www.mightyrom.com make sure you goto diamond section
EnergyRom - http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=74084
I like the Pegasus . . .
rom Touchflo 2.1 basic. I tried a few roms including Mightyrom 6 and Energy Rom, but seem to be sticking with Pegasus. It is has more recent versions of WM and Touchflo than Mighty Rom and and at least a more recent WM then Energy. It is stable and everything works. There is also a Pegasus titanium rom with an enhanced version of titanium that is also worth checking out. I checked it out, but Titanium, even nicely tweaked, is not as good as Touchflo, in my opinion at least.
IMHO, I like manila Rom. It is much more easy to use. So the Energy rom is my pref.
tssi said:
IMHO, I like manila Rom. It is much more easy to use. So the Energy rom is my pref.
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OMJ's ROM is also very good too http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=94369
Thanks guys. LOL, this thread is a month old. Before I started cooking. I am almost done a really nice Manila Sense 2.5 2012 Rom!
I like the fearless rom
HTC CDMA Diamond with MikROM -WM6.5&6.5.x Sence2.5-build 2012 Light&Standard version
IMHO, I like Sense 2.5 Roms for my HTC CDMA Diamond. I will Highly recommend MikROMs, it has the latest sys and the perfect rom it is always his next ROM (he never stop to cook new ROMs with every fix that appear in the WM6.5 and WM6.5.x sys. Also you can choose between Light or Standard Version. His ROMs are always as stable as what is best in that week, next week you can surprise with a hole new ROM with new fixes that doesn't exit before. So go and get a look at AmiKAM MikROMs LINK HERE.
sabrosolatino said:
IMHO, I like Sense 2.5 Roms for my HTC CDMA Diamond. I will Highly recommend MikROMs, it has the latest sys and the perfect rom it is always his next ROM (he never stop to cook new ROMs with every fix that appear in the WM6.5 and WM6.5.x sys. Also you can choose between Light or Standard Version. His ROMs are always as stable as what is best in that week, next week you can surprise with a hole new ROM with new fixes that doesn't exit before. So go and get a look at AmiKAM MikROMs LINK HERE.
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Very good ROM, good battery life, aesthetically pleasing and fully functional AND more than enough free storage. Could use a little performance improvement, but hey this is the diamond its running on so no complaints
Thanks for the ref.

is there an official rom with wm6.5?

trying to look for an official rom for T8282 with wm6.5 on it, is there such rom available?
kenl said:
trying to look for an official rom for T8282 with wm6.5 on it, is there such rom available?
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NO....but personally in my opinion why do you need an official when there is soooo much newer ROM in this forum?? most roms here are much newer than official ROM anyway.
true, just thought to try the official if there was before the cooked rom due to option/settings set by the chef that i may not want on a cooked rom
kuailan said:
NO....but personally in my opinion why do you need an official when there is soooo much newer ROM in this forum?? most roms here are much newer than official ROM anyway.
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No official 6.5 ROM on T8282.
Mean no disrespect, newer doesn't always mean better. Especially when the hand-held device used on daily, real time based events.
It really sucks when you are checking up your schedule, the mobile phone went froze, with someone waiting your answers.
IMHO, stability, quick response are much more important than newer version. MS please give us one...8(
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No official 6.5 ROM on T8282.
Mean no disrespect, newer doesn't always mean better. Especially when the hand-held device used on daily, real time based events.
It really sucks when you are checking up your schedule, the mobile phone went froze, with someone waiting your answers.
IMHO, stability, quick response are much more important than newer version. MS please give us one...8(
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Well that's definitely TRUE! But you know that is why normally you should wait for other people to comment before installing them. You will find out whether they are seriously bug or rock stable. I dont know which ones you are using? but I have been using the latest Energy 23554 with GTX theme, and never had a single problem (crash or restart). In fact the GTX version look awesome! You need to remember most of the ROMs here are built from Non-official ROM or betas...so dont expect to be perfect!
kenl said:
true, just thought to try the official if there was before the cooked rom due to option/settings set by the chef that i may not want on a cooked rom
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Actually most of the Blackstone owners have been hoping for a free upgrade, including myself. Unfortunately I think HTC dont like that idea, maybe because it will affect the sales of their newer HTC Leo. But anyway...i dont really care now...since we have this great forum anyway...
okay i'll give energy 23557 a try and see how it goes
Really no point on upgrading. HTC is bussy creating other phones (mainly Android since WM is dead).
Can someone provide a single thing that we gain with WM 6.5?
I mean the OS itself, not a ROM based on WM 6.5 that comes with updated manilla, Opera, Office etc,. You can install any app on AM 6.1 too.
WM 6.1 uses less RAM, leaving more for the apps (on 6.5 I start with 50% used and after a while even after closing all apps, 65% used). And the start menu has a MRU app list that makes very fast to switch from one app (open or not) to another. I still have to see how WM 6.5 is better in any aspect.

[Q] BEST ROM for Touch Diamond2

Hello,
I got my first windows mobile device Diamond2 as a gift today and looking for a good OS here.
Can you please suggest one for me?
I will also download some from ROM page and try.
Do not forget to look into the WiKi before asking a question
Taken from the WiKi
Shipped ROMs for Topaz
Cooked ROMs for Topaz
Radio ROMs for Topaz
Success,
Senax
Thanks friend for reply.
I was just reading the WiKi page and seen all those.... but I am confused what ROM I should select SO looking for a generic feedback on what is good what is bad.
Actually I dont want ROM to be loaded with so many app. Looking for similar to what I have in mobile now but updated version...
I hope your device has latest Official ROM installed.
You will get all custom ROMs here which are mainly modify version of the Official ROM and has latest SYS/Builds and new Packages (new applications like adobe reader).
These ROMs are good, but NOT all ROM will satisfy every one. i.e ROM1 may good for person1 and person 4, but person 2 and 3 may like ROM2.
So it is good to test all available food and decide which dish tests you a lot .
Hope this will help.
Thanks.
With all the respect to your very correct and right answer (prabhat), this is in my opinion, very first and tha main problem, why the more and more people will switch to devileshed i-phone. The main difference betwen i-phone and wm 6.5 dev. is the "user-friendly" parameter. In no discuss, the wm 6.5 is more professional with more the features then the i-phone. But the people would like tu use the phone with satisfaction and enjoyness. Maybe the right answer for TD2IN will be something from you honest opinion, what do YOU think, that will be best solution for him/her. The ROM, which is stable, fast, simple, user friendly. The people need some help ... Have a nice day.
Here is my answer
TD2IN said:
Thanks friend for reply.
I was just reading the WiKi page and seen all those.... Looking for similar to what I have in mobile now but updated version...
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Here is my answer, i has been using Stock, Energy Standard and now i switch to "eclipse Version 7 (Updated)"
The eclipse looks to me very close to the Stock and fastest with few useful Apps.
I amalso looking for a ROM here and new here.
mur_bbsr said:
I amalso looking for a ROM here and new here.
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Hey I am also new here but managed to get my ROM here
I tried several available here http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Cooked_ROMs_for_Topaz but atlast I am using Photon ROM and I am happy.
You may not like the same, but you need to atleast try 3-4 and select one that suite your usage/style etc.
I liked Dutty's ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=579076
And Photon ROM: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=943396
As Dutty is not updating and Photon ha much stable and good so I am using that.
PIng me if you need more help.
Thanks for the reply friend.
I will start my process tonight and let you all know how it goes...
thank you
mur_bbsr said:
Thanks for the reply friend.
I will start my process tonight and let you all know how it goes...
thank you
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Did you get your ROM ?
I am still in the process to find my cup of tea...
I started with Dutty's ROM... but this has old version... so started picking others.
Now I have tested below softwares but yet to finilise one:
1) Energy ROM - The Energy Standard one
2) CR192 Mozart OS
3) Photon ROM OS - Stock edition one
I like the stock rom apprach of photon and energy, but energy has lots of application pre installed which I dont want. If I see CR192 that is also very good pick. So I am looking at battery life now and should be finilise in 2 -3 days.
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energy roms and photon roms are great...
Energy ROM FTW
I tried a few ROMs with my Topaz and settled at Energy ROM (with start menu at top).
I used to install a load of stuff with each ROM and this was the most complete ROM with the most flexible Sense UI. The only 2 apps I needed to install on top of Energy is Skype and TomTom Navigator.
I like that it has the manual rotate programmed on holding the Answer button (I used to install a keyboard extender to do it before using Energy ROMs) so it can manually rotate apps not built for auto rotate like Tomtom. More importantly, I can turn off auto rotate on apps coz often I don't want auto rotate like when Im lying on couch/bed reading or using it for music. Fark I hate the UI rotating when I dont want it to! I find auto rotate an annoying gimmick made popular by Apple. Just gimme manual rotate, thx.
I prefer Resco Explorer to Total Commander but I havent bothered to install Resco and live fine with Total Commander that comes with the Energy ROM. I understand that Resco is not freeware so they can't include it.
I like that all the JAVA and DOTNET stuff is all done, has a good wireless hotspot app already, Opera with max tabs set for more than 2 already, TCPMP media player working well, RSS feed app, Twitter, Stocks tab .... I could go on and on. It pretty much has all the good freeware and tweaks and all the hard work already done for you.
I don't use my Topaz daily now, but I still use the same version of Energy ROM on my Blackstone (Touch HD) as my personal mobile phone. I used to also carry the Topaz with a data only SIM in it for internet access, but now I use a Dell Streak (android) to do that. Yeh Im crazy I carry TWO phones everywhere!
IF you wanna get up and going right out of the box, Energy ROM is the most complete and ready for the Topaz.
Instead I Liked Photon ROM and CR192 Mozart and currently running with Photon UX Edition.
I liked Energy, but that is toooooo bulky with so many applications which I dont require and to me looks ugly on my device and I can not remove those. In case of Photon ROM I dont have any extra stuffs so I can Install what I need not what some one gives me to use, whihc I dont require. I understand that there are many who may like what is given on the ROM that they use... but I like to have my stuff in my device.
Photon UX - plus Chinese support + handwriting ftw!
I've tried many ROMs in search of a better replacement for my TD2's sluggish official ROM (SEA version), and I've fallen in love with Photon UX edition and its professional looking background art.
Even better, I have managed to install Xyam's East Asian fonts support, Guobi for pinyin and character inputs, and Samsung's simple + traditional Chinese handwriting input V3.0 (my version comes from sanxingshouxieshurufa_8313 and fits the screen perfectly). Don't bother trying out the menu icon for the Samsung input though, the options don't work, only full screen handwriting is enabled. Otherwise, everything works perfectly as far as I can tell!
Thank you all for this thread which gave me a basic idea of what rom software I should download. I will download Photon ROM now... need to findout which edition I need there
Thank you all.
I have couple of questions in Photon ROM while downloading different edition of it... but this forum prevent me to post in the photon thread. Do I need to contact the owner of photon rom for this?
Thank you all.
the1980ar said:
I have couple of questions in Photon ROM while downloading different edition of it... but this forum prevent me to post in the photon thread. Do I need to contact the owner of photon rom for this?
Thank you all.
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By default new users in forum are not allowed to post in development related threads (but I have sen exception and users with 1-2 posts do post/reply there as well). You will be automatically allowd to post there after 1 day or so.
If you need any help in between you can ask here or PM me and I can help you.
Thank you.. but my id started working now and I can post questions there as well.
Have updated my Photon UX ROM version to 2.2 and everything still works well for me

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