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Noobs beware!
As a number have been flashing their devices with various roms not from their own carrier or country or cooked roms and bricking their device - I put up this sticky. Your device must be cid unlocked first before you do this. This applies to the coming wm6 roms to - if the rom is not specific to your device - i.e. if you try to flash the upcoming htc 3300 wm6 rom on O2 orbit - you must cid unlock first - with imei check or you will end up with a BRICK!
This does not apply if you are only updating the os http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299154 or radio.
cid = country id i.e. locked to that country/language/vendor
cid unlock for the artemis is here with USPL http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=311403 (thanks pof)
or here http://www.imei-check.com/c3unlock.php (costs though)
Bricked devices
If you have flashed your device and not cid unlocked it, your device maybe salvagable if you can get it into bootloader mode.
Hold down the voice speed dial button and soft reset - you should then enter bootloader mode 'multicolored' screen'
If you do, attach device to pc via usb cable (a small usb will appear bottom left of screen) and flash factory rom. (run rom executable or RUU updater from pc) You do not need to be activesynced to do this.
HTC P3300 WWE factory rom downloadable here http://rapidshare.com/files/19322112/HTC_1.12.405.01_026790_WWE_SHIP.rar
Dopod P800 WWE factory rom downloadable here http://rapidshare.com/files/21058219/ARTE_DOPODAU_1.25.707.02_026990_WWE_SHIP.rar
O2 Orbit WM5 WWE factory rom downloadable here http://rapidshare.com/files/41574866/Arteimg.nbh
O2 Orbit WM6 WWE factory rom downloadable here http://rs314.rapidshare.com/files/102261908/RUU_Artemis_O2_UK_3.4.206.2_4.1.13.50_03.06.90_Ship.exe
Before you flash again with a non-factory rom, your device MUST be cid unlocked.
If you cannot enter bootloader mode your bootloader has been damaged and your device will need to be sent away for repair.
Hi Folks,
Firstly many thanks for everyone's freely given time! Great Forum!
There seems to be a lot of confusion about who and what can be flashed with the German official ROM and then with Bepe's creation.
Can we try to clear some of the ambiguity for us simple folk? Might stop some of the repeated questions littering threads in both related artemis sections.
So, many thanks to anyone who can clarify the situation by providing definitive answers to the following questions!
(1) Can an 02 Orbit from, say, the UK or Holland be flashed with either the German and/or Bepe's ROM, even if it is CID Locked (i.e. same devcie and carrier, different country).
(2) Can a non-Orbit O2 device be flashed with either the German or bepe's ROM, even if it is CID Locked (i.e. different devcie but same carrier).
(3) Is there a fall back Rom available for non-German O2 Orbits should the upgrade fail?
Again, many thanks for your time.
Cheers - Adam.
Hi people, when I tried to upgrade to wm6, I recived a msg telling me "wrong vendor", but when I bought my HTC, it was free, no carrier sold me this device...
Pocha said:
Hi people, when I tried to upgrade to wm6, I recived a msg telling me "wrong vendor", but when I bought my HTC, it was free, no carrier sold me this device...
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Same here...
any help anyone ?
By what i read "wrong vendor" means CID locked right ? but what EXACTLY is CID locked definition ?? i CAN put any sim card inside my HTC P-3300, whether from SFR operator (france) or Proximus (belgium) one... so why do i have this wrong vendor when trying to upgrade to WM6 german rom ?
Take a look to this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299154 I tried it, and now I have wm6 on my HTC P3300, it's true that you can't have upgrades to radio or extrom, but meanwhile I can use wm6
kaemon said:
Same here...
any help anyone ?
By what i read "wrong vendor" means CID locked right ? but what EXACTLY is CID locked definition ?? i CAN put any sim card inside my HTC P-3300, whether from SFR operator (france) or Proximus (belgium) one... so why do i have this wrong vendor when trying to upgrade to WM6 german rom ?
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cid = country id i.e. locked to that country/language/vendor thats why cid needs unlocking before flashing diff any of aboves roms.
imei checker
is it just me or is any one on this forum a bit sceptical of a merchant who so brazenly operates their business under the assumption that all potential customers are all fraudsters/criminal scum? is there no - more customer friendly- merchant who can perform this much valued service?
my first serious post!
xan
My HTC has no vendor since I can use all SIMs from different vendors, now I upgraded from HTC Spanish version to HTC WWE version, so Vendor and Language (plus location?) locks are disabled?
meschle said:
Noobs beware!
As a number have been flashing their devices with various roms not from their own carrier or country or cooked roms and bricking their device - I put up this sticky. Your device must be cid unlocked first before you do this. This applies to the coming wm6 roms to - if the rom is not specific to your device - i.e. if you try to flash the upcoming htc 3300 wm6 rom on O2 orbit - you must cid unlock first - with imei check or you will end up with a BRICK!
This does not apply if you are only updating the os http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299154 or radio.
cid = country id i.e. locked to that country/language/vendor
cid unlock for the artemis is here http://www.imei-check.com/c3unlock.php
Bricked devices
If you have flashed your device and not cid unlocked it, your device maybe salvagable if you can get it into bootloader mode.
Hold down the voice speed dial button and soft reset - you should then enter bootloader mode 'multicolored' screen'
If you do, attach device to pc via usb cable (a small usb will appear bottom left of screen) and flash factory rom. (run rom executable or RUU updater from pc) You do not need to be activesynced to do this.
HTC P3300 WWE factory rom downloadable here http://rapidshare.com/files/19322112/HTC_1.12.405.01_026790_WWE_SHIP.rar
Dopod P800 WWE factory rom downloadable here http://rapidshare.com/files/21058219/ARTE_DOPODAU_1.25.707.02_026990_WWE_SHIP.rar
Before you flash again with a non-factory rom, your device MUST be cid unlocked.
If you cannot enter bootloader mode your bootloader has been damaged and your device will need to be sent away for repair.[/Q
HI I TRY TO FLASH MY HTC P3300 (BRICKED) WITH FACTORY ROMS AND NEGATIVE RESULT THE PROCESS STOP AT 2%.
CAN ANYBODY HELP ?
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Hello,
I would like to Upgrade my O2 XDA Mini S with Windows Mobile 6 (localized / German version). I hardly searched for such a WM6 Upgrade but there seems to be no final version for my device and german language.
I figured out that there is an WM6 OS Upgrade for the XDA Orbit and XDA Trion (coming soon). Might it be possible to flash only an OS-ROM for WM6 extracted from one of these O2 ROM updates? I was able to extract the OS-Image and I already backed up my current ROM using aWizard. aWizard also supports flashing a single OS-ROM only.
Some people in this forum already said I might brick my device. Is it possible or not to flash the OS ROM? Is it risky to give it a try?
Do you know a final working German Upgrade for the XDA Mini S (Qtek 9100)?
Best Regards
Gabriel
Hello
I am in Bootloader mode right now and I started the updater but it says it can't connect. I see the device in Windows and my Artemis says it sees a USB connection (it says "USB" on the bottom of the screen in the white stripe).
What do I have to do for it to start working for a change?
I think I found the problem: First, it would be wise to close mtty . Then it is important to reboot and after entering Bootloader mode to connect USB not while booting. After trying it a dozen times it suddenly worked.
Please, could someone explain how I can unlock the CID with USPL? It starts the batch, when it's done I have a black screen with the Linux penguin and it says loaded. When the RUU tries to connect, though, the device doesn't respond. So I take it the process doesn't actually get finished...
I think this sticky has become useless, there is a reasonably fool-proof way to flash CID locked devices these days
Hi I Try To Flash My Htc P3300 (bricked) With Factory Roms And Negative Result The Process Stop At 2%.
Can Anybody Help ?
Just to inform you guys that i tried the USPL Method 3 times and always got an error message UPDATE ERROR (i think it was error number 270 ??).
Well, that was because after the DOS mode went until 100, and the dialog box for the ROM Update Utility appeared, this dialog box ask to wait for the PDA to be activesynced before presing the "UPDATE", so i was waiting for the PDA to reconnect to activesync (while in a black screen mode) before pressing update . THAT was the mistake. Don't wait for it to RE connect to activesync (strange right ?) and just press the NEXT and UPDATE without waiting anything.
THEN it worked i just upgrade to WM6 without VENDOR ID error anymore thanks to the USPL method
just got a dopod m700 for my wife i know it is a g4 ppc hence will this zip file work on it to get the cid unlocked or do i have to follow a similiar procedure as i had to for my wizard
sorry i got my answer
please ignore my earlier question
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I think this sticky has become useless, there is a reasonably fool-proof way to flash CID locked devices these days
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Hi there,
any pointer to this fool-proof way?
A foolish GioVAX
****ed up my artemis with this rom by upgrading stucks in loading mode WM6 screen. Can access bootloader but it always tell me upgrading again that i have the wrong rru....
CAN ANYBODY PLEASE UPLODE THE ORIGINAL WM5 ROM in GERMAN by htc for Artemis
(NOT Orbit oder MDAIII)
OR where can i get the original rom to downgrade????
Please help
thanks
Last night I flash my Dopod M700 to WM6 but after reboot it only enter to the boot flash screen showing IPL SPL 1.11 OS 3.7 etc......
I did unlock the CID but the flashing of WM6 seems not ok.
Then I enter to the bootloader mood and flash the WWE WM5.0 of HTC M700 rom. It did turn the M700 back to WM5.0 and then I flash it with WM 6.0 again.
However, I forgot to unlock CID again before flashing. Then now the device stuck in the boot screen with SPL 1.28 OS 3.7 etc......
I still can enter to bootloader mood, but I have tried to heal the device by flashing it with the WWE WM 5.0 rom of HTC M700 again. But it cannot be flashed again!!!! Error message came out that the rom is not for my device!!
Help!!!!!!!!!
Is the wm5 wwe rom the factory rom for your device or are you from another country?
Guys,
I had lot of problems upgrading my orbit, first of all i used Pof USPL for making my CID lock phone temporaly unlocked first i got some errors such as PDA and error [270] on the "PDA phone ROM Update Utility" this was easy couse i just disabled the windows firewall an i got it to work. but when i started the black&blue wwe upgrade i got some errors there my phone was low on storage space and when i cleared the storage my phone is stuck on the bootloader meny, i tryed to update with USPL again directly with ROMupdateUtillity not with the USPL_start.exe couse my phone is not loaded to winCE and not active sync, i did this by going to bootloader meny RGB meny and stgarted the o2 german update but i get i message telling me that the phone is wrong model ID error 244
With these problems i concluded that
You have to make sure that you have installed properly USPL
You have to make sure that you have free storage space
You have to make sure that you had disabled windows firewall
Any advice is very usefull to me and the xda-developers community
Kind regards
I also managed to get pof's USPL correctly installed. I then successfully flashed a WM5 HTC ROM just to test it was working. Success. I then flashed a WM6 ROM. Unfortunately I forgot to re-flash with USPL first. Hence I "BRICKED" my phone. A quick trip to my local O2 store, my brick was sent for repair. I have just received it back. Repaired under warranty. "Software Fault". Now I paid imei-check, got it unlocked and have now flashed BEPE's WM6 ROM successfully. So much faster that WM5. Great.
Hey,
Sturggling with this now, so here asking for help.
Got a new P3600i here. For whatever reason, i CAN NOT run SSPL or any RUU updater. everytime it runs, it goes to reboot to the tri colour screen, but hangs on a black screen. I can't use any tools to unlock the phone, update, apply hard SPL etc.
Anyone have any other suggestions?
thanks
mxlaser said:
Hey,
Sturggling with this now, so here asking for help.
Got a new P3600i here. For whatever reason, i CAN NOT run SSPL or any RUU updater. everytime it runs, it goes to reboot to the tri colour screen, but hangs on a black screen. I can't use any tools to unlock the phone, update, apply hard SPL etc.
Anyone have any other suggestions?
thanks
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for now, not, but you can describe the version of rom, and if it will be upgraded, it can possible to try to extract it and post!!
bye!
Well, thats the funny thing, its the exact same:
ROM: 3.00.707.18
Date: 07/24/07
Radio: 1.46.30.11
Protocol: 32.79.7020.19H
IPL: 1.00
SPL: 3.03.0000
Its exactly the same as latest WM6 official ANZ rom.
Any ideas??
That's why I wanted an extracted version of the P3600i ROM.
It can't be the same as the Dopod WM6 version for the P3600 (ordianary Trinity) because it's about 25MB bigger than the Dopod ANZ version. There must be something added to the P3600i ROM.
Can you try flashing to the Official Dopod ANZ WM6 version (ROM: 3.00.707.18) from the HTC website to see what happens?
Better still, if you know how extract the P3600i ROM so one of the many tech wiz's aroud here can have a look for you.
Anyone who knows how to extract the ROM plz can you post a step by step for those of use who don't know how.
capeli said:
That's why I wanted an extracted version of the P3600i ROM.
It can't be the same as the Dopod WM6 version for the P3600 (ordianary Trinity) because it's about 25MB bigger than the Dopod ANZ version. There must be something added to the P3600i ROM.
Can you try flashing to the Official Dopod ANZ WM6 version (ROM: 3.00.707.18) from the HTC website to see what happens?
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Thats thew thing. I downloaded the offical ANZ WM6 update for the D810/P3600 and updated using that. Worked perfect, updated and no problems, exactly the same as was on there.
However, i then tried to "downgrade" to an official WM5 rom, but its stops at 1% then reboots phone??
So
WM6 Dopod ANZ ROM which takes up about 73MB on the P3600, will take up 96MB on the P3600i? WTF?
Perhaps it has something to do with extended ROM. I know that with the
P3600, you could not use the extended ROM after updating to the Dopod ANZ ROM...not sure if that's indicative of anything.
Are you flashing with an SD card still in the device? If so try flashing with SD card removed.
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Thats thew thing. I downloaded the offical ANZ WM6 update for the D810/P3600 and updated using that. Worked perfect, updated and no problems, exactly the same as was on there.
However, i then tried to "downgrade" to an official WM5 rom, but its stops at 1% then reboots phone??
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What was your free storage after flashing?
capeli said:
What was your free storage after flashing?
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Free storage was 174mb. So i've gained 14 mb from somewhere.
Trying to update now using an official HTC branded rom, as opposed to the Dopod braded WM5 roms, and that still doesnt do it either
mxlaser said:
Free storage was 174mb. So i've gained 14 mb from somewhere.
Trying to update now using an official HTC branded rom, as opposed to the Dopod braded WM5 roms, and that still doesnt do it either
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So there is a difference between the ROM that came with the P3600i (Giving 160MB free storage) & Official WM6 Dopod ANZ ROM (Giving 174MB Free Storage).
If it's any help, when I buy my P3600i, I'll be sure to extract the Original ROM BEFORE I flash it. It might help someone figure out your flashing issue.
Thing is I don't know how to extract ROMs. Can anyone help?
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So there is a difference between the ROM that came with the P3600i (Giving 160MB free storage) & Official WM6 Dopod ANZ ROM (Giving 174MB Free Storage).
If it's any help, when I buy my P3600i, I'll be sure to extract the Original ROM BEFORE I flash it. It might help someone figure out your flashing issue.
Thing is I don't know how to extract ROMs. Can anyone help?
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MMM, theres seomthing (buggered if i know what) in the EXT rom that adds that 14mb. I didnt run the extended rom, and i saved 14mb. If i let it run fully, it ends up with 160mb free.
Also, no WM5 HTC or dopod rom works. They all state that the update file is corrupted and reboots at 1%.
I called HTC, and said i "had to have WM5" due to software and in the infinate helpfulness told me to buy a Dopod D810 then. Theres no WM5 available for the HTC p3600i.
I think theres something in the SPL/IPL thats stopping any SSPL bootloaders being pushed onto the device, which then stops flashing anything else...
Hopefully someone will figure it out.
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MMM, theres seomthing (buggered if i know what) in the EXT rom that adds that 14mb. I didnt run the extended rom, and i saved 14mb. If i let it run fully, it ends up with 160mb free.
Also, no WM5 HTC or dopod rom works. They all state that the update file is corrupted and reboots at 1%.
I called HTC, and said i "had to have WM5" due to software and in the infinate helpfulness told me to buy a Dopod D810 then. Theres no WM5 available for the HTC p3600i.
I think theres something in the SPL/IPL thats stopping any SSPL bootloaders being pushed onto the device, which then stops flashing anything else...
Hopefully someone will figure it out.
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Why don't you use the registry tweak to show the extended ROM to see what's in there?
Doesn't the extended ROM automatically run itself? How did you stop it?
capeli said:
Why don't you use the registry tweak to show the extended ROM to see what's in there?
Doesn't the extended ROM automatically run itself? How did you stop it?
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If you reset before the ext rom runs, it doesnt run on reboot. I don't care for all the customised crap half the time and choose to install what i need.
Well, i'll settle for the fact i'll have to manually install each app/tweak etc until a time i can update the phone.
I will say though, that having used the D810 for the last 5 months, everyday, this one seems a LOT faster (even using the official rom as well). the extra 100mhz seems to of made a big difference. now to see how it effects battery life.
OK, honestly would love some help from anyone that can :s
Tried all the following things now:
Using MTTY
Using SPL Exploit (finds overflow, says is done, SPL remains the same.)
Using DES SPPL
Running SSPL on device seperatly
And flashing various official WM5 roms in the hope it downgrades IPL/SPL.
All have resulted int he same outcome.... NOTHING!
I'm guessing this is HTC's new method of preventing flashing roms, and is likely to obviously be on other roms in the future. Was hopiung someone (Oli, pof, Des etc) may have a solution or would like more info form me to find one??
No progress?
Nope
None.
Beyond my technical skills now, so its up to the gods of modding (Oli, Des, POF etc) or its never getting flashed.
Mind you, seems to be stable as at the moment using the official rom, so not too worried.
i wonder if this has something to do with the new ipl? maybe ipl 1.00 plus whatever is hidden in the 3600i rom or extrom or whatever makes it not able to flash unofficial roms.. Cause there's nothing else really different than p3600's that we know about.. and some people (inlcuding me) have ipl 1.0 from the official ROM upgrade.. so maybe there's something else in there that works with it to block the upgrade process..
Well, its not in the EXT rom, and it probably can't be in the normal rom as its the exact same (meaning i downloaded and flashed) the ANZ WM6 official rom. Only thing possible i can think of is possibility its a hardware revision stopping it, but it won't let you even run SSPL software either.
Everything i do, SPL Exploit, DES SSPL, RUU Updater, Hard SPL et all ALL result in it "almost" going to the modified boot screen but ending up with a black screen. You then need to soft reset which leaves you at the previous bootloader...
Sucks. And is annoying as all hell. One saving grace is the extra CPU speed makes a big difference, and the extra storage means having to install all the apps that get cooked into the roms is that big a deal as theres plenty of room left over.
That said, i can't even update to that latest radio rom, which is what sucks the most.
mxlaser said:
Hey,
Sturggling with this now, so here asking for help.
Got a new P3600i here. For whatever reason, i CAN NOT run SSPL or any RUU updater. everytime it runs, it goes to reboot to the tri colour screen, but hangs on a black screen. I can't use any tools to unlock the phone, update, apply hard SPL etc.
Anyone have any other suggestions?
thanks
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Did you try to disassemble a ROM from nbh to nb, and reassemble it with the new offsets we can see in Dopod WM6 ROMs ?
The P3600i has 256MB NAND in oposite of the 128 Mb NAND of the regular P3600.
To flash this device you need bootloader 3.x or higher, and OS rom must be tagged 0x401 in the NBH (not 0x400, which is used for 128Mb NAND), also you should use a new RUU (the on the official WM6 rom should be ok).
Hope it's clear, if not PM me as I'm not following this thread.
Hi!
I've an Artemis (o2 germany-software) and i already updated it to WM5 a year ago. Now my friend bought the new artemis with WM6 on it and with that cube and everything (with the o2 branding). So i wanted to get WM6 and saw it on the o2 homepage as a free update just like WM5 update the year before. So i tried to update and a comunication error 302 appeared at 51%. After the restart only the bootloader worked. then i found out that it's possible to load the update on a fat32 formated sd-card and it worked but the hardware reset wasn't possible out of the bootloader in which it switched back every time. So i took any cooked rom for my device, tried to update and it interrupted after 3%. When i now restarted my Artemis it worked perfekt with the o2 branded WM6 soft. But that soft looked so different to my friends one. So i used the USPL update to unlock my CID and choose any rom for my device. it failed. so i had to use the original rom and another rom to get it working again. then i choose the next new rom for Artemis....
I've tried it at least 30 times now with a different Rom every time and i'm close to a complete nervous breakdown. Does anyone have an idea what i could do to get WM6 with cube?
Its simple heres the link for wm 6.1 with cube - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=371182
make sure you run the tool to cid unlock firtst though.
I already tried that one. it failed at 85% with update error 302
oh man!!!!! it worked!!!!! I don't know how but the full version with cube worked!
I'm so happy! Who made that Rom?
I have Orange branded spv m700 and have unlocked and supercid'd the device using pof's tool. I then added HardSpl (Olipro 1.20). All appear to have loaded fine - phone is unlocked and Olipro shows up when put into bootloader.
So, the problem - every time I flash a cooked ROM (Ausdim, NiAx, FiNixNover...?) it won't boot past the first screen. I can rescue the situation by putting device into bootloader and flashing the official WM6 ROM (no radio, no ipl....) and it boots up just fine.
Can anybody help or at least point me in the direction of some good advice?
hmm... odd... can you list step by step what your procedure is for flashing the ROMs
I've done lots of devices - old XDA2i, SPVM600, wifes SPV M700 (unlocked, hard spl etc and flashed away!
This particular device shows IPL 0.50 & SPL 1.20 Olipro. It is unlocked (have o2 sim working in it), and should be SuperCid (I checked the box and radio shows as 1.16.00.00 - pof's patch I believe?). I also re-run HardSpl and Pof's unlock/supercid patch just in case it hadn't flashed properly.
I generally just download ROM and flash via RUU. Occasionally I get the device not responding error so I just re-run RUU from the bootloader screen.
Have tried WM 6.1 and 6.0 cooked roms but all show initial boot screen (numbers along bottom) next screen and then frozen, have waited and waited and nothing. Also, it would not flash back to Mozzers WM5 Orange UK ROM - same symptoms. I thought it was bricked, but the Dopod WM6 flashed perfectly.
Hope that helps - thanks for looking into my problem.
anybody please? por favor........
hmm.. i remember someone having a similar problem but it was some time ago..
two things to try just in case...
1) i'd manually go to bootloader (hard-spl) before flashing
2) Have you tried to flash from SD card? this method seems to provide less problems..
let me know how it goes..
A degree of success - managed to flash WM6 AX3L. All seems to be working. As I recall this is very similar to the official ROM and I used to use it last year because it is very stable. Think I moved on because of the missing email accounts problem. Will happily keep it if I can sort the email problem out. Never really had much fun with the hard reset after loading method - is there another/better way? Just wondering.
Also, now I have a "cooked" rom loaded perhaps it will stop being so sensitive.....!!
How strange! Have just flashed Akeo's new Diamond port ROM and no problems. Not only that, the ROM is FAB!!!