Asus M530w - HTC Excalibur

I've been using HTC Devices for a while, latest and still semi current being the Touch 128/256
Anyway, always fancied a Keypad non touchscreen device and got a very good deal on an Asus M530w, which is 3g and a nice 400mhz processor.
I'm looking for any interesting software for it and to learn a little about WM6 Standard that comes with it and I was wondering .....
Is the Asus a re-badged HTC ? and if so which one (everything seems to be made by HTC these days) and if so which roms would be interesting to try, 6.1 is looking very interesting on these types of devices...
Secondly, am I right in thinking that most of the tricks, tips, hacks and interesting bits of software in the Excalibur forums should be fine on the Asus, as its basicaly the same op system.
Thanks in advance
Stephen

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NEVO 2.0 !?

Hi Guys !!! :lol:
Is it anybody using this soft? <Nevo>
I know that this soft coming allready installed on some versions of PPC (iPaq), but maybe some one have install of it ... or what ever ...
I'd love to see an installable version of NEVO, but this is only ever offered on iPAQs and it's built into ROM.
Also, we'd need a consumer strength IR port, but I don't think this is in our HTC devices.
Cheers
netremote from www.promixis.com is a pretty close equivalent, you can make you own screens aswell.

WWE Trinity ROM's Development STOPPED

Hello,
Sadly after reading last FinixOver post, I realized, that there are no more WWE Rom cookers for the Trinity.
-Akeo broke device and went to Diamond.
-Tnyynt also changed to Diamond.
-Finixover I think is aso on the way to Diamond.
-eliasweb long time no update
-karmba_a also bought diamond
Our only options right now are PDAViet, which personally I don't like.
Maybe there's someone out there willing to start cooking??
Or should we all move to diamond's aswell
best regards to all.
This is shocking news! but i can understand why, the dimond seems brilliant, i had my 1st look the other day and it has amazing features like the G sensor, wow and the graphics.
I wish all the old cookers the best of luck with the Dimond because they have all done an AMAZING job with the trinnity and I am very thankful for all their hard work and time.
Bring on the next generation cookers!
I'm trying to cook but it's a litle diferant of my Roms on Prophet hihi.
i'm studyng the manuals of cooking on a Trinity because i've changed recently from Prophet
maxniper said:
I'm trying to cook but it's a litle diferant of my Roms on Prophet hihi.
i'm studyng the manuals of cooking on a Trinity because i've changed recently from Prophet
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Good luck on Trintiy cooking. I'm sure that you will master it, I used a few of your Prophet roms and really liked them.
Welcome.
For those of you who think about purchasing a Touch Diamond I would like to tell you two things.
-Battery life sucks,if you thought the battery in your trinity doesn´t last.....get ready to charge your diamond almost everyday or day and a half.
-Poor/Low signal.
Been using the Trinity for the last year and half. Very happy with the features.
Now time to move on, will not choose Diamond. This time need one with QWERT keyboard as quite often need to write/reply email on the go.
Hey, what you guys thinks of Touch Pro??? Any good in terms of battery life, speed, GPS reception?
Matterhorn said:
Good luck on Trintiy cooking. I'm sure that you will master it, I used a few of your Prophet roms and really liked them.
Welcome.
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Thank you my friend
i'm reading reading reading reading, before start
HI,
I use Diamond from one month and I can say that:
1. Signal is very good (I use oryginal radio 1.25.05),
2. Battery is really weak. Max two days keeps without charging,
3. looks excellent, very small compare to trynity,
4. better lcd etc.
So bros may time to change your mobiles?
I used trynity almost one year and and I thing that is very good mobile.
Cheers
my opinion
maxniper said:
I'm trying to cook but it's a litle diferant of my Roms on Prophet hihi.
i'm studyng the manuals of cooking on a Trinity because i've changed recently from Prophet
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it would be nice to come up with a rom like this one you made here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=382434 for trinity
my opinion
I would cook if I had a device but I havn't been able to find a cheep second hand trinity yet.
I made a try that did boot but havn't gotten back to give it an other try.
All i can say is that i will miss all these developers and can't thank them enough for all the hard work they have done for us...all of you.
One other thing....MAXNIPER WHEN DO U START COOKING DUDE???
just saw your Prophet Rom and i am just waiting for your first release to flash my trinity...Nice work on the Prophet and hope you do the same here...
Before my companion with Trinity for one year, I used Palm Treo 650 for one year.
I like Treo 650's operating speed and qwerty keyboard to write sms and email. But WM OS has so many up-to-date software to use, so I changed to Trinity, considering its basic WM function and GPS.
Now, if no one continue to cook Trinity roms, I really don't know which mobile I should change to. I don't think Diamond has any significant innovative function, except its shell.
I appreciate all the great works of rom cookers, especially FInixNOver coz I am using it now. I am satisfied with Trinity till now.

What ROM development can we expect from HTC?

My Diamond is my first HTC phone so I don't have any experience of how long they actively develop ROMs for their phones.
We're now on 1.93.x.x which is the basis for all the great cooked ROMs on this forum, but are HTC likely to release a major ROM upgrade for the Diamond which the chefs can work with - or does everyone think that 1.93.x.x will be the last official release?
its anyone's guess...
I remembered the o2 atom was way past its used by date... then out of the blue someone hacked WM6.1 to run on it unofficially...
same might be done when the HTC HD comes out...
i saw the clips on it... TF3D was running smooth as butter... with no choppyness / frame rate drop...
hopefully we'll get an 'official' firmware update... (since the hardware is the same more or less?)
if not there's the TF2D section in the xda hacking area... and rom cookers are always improving on rom speed
I had an iphone prior to changing to the touch diamond... there's more potential in this phone than apples...
double post... del

After Artemis, what next?

Hi friends,
I have been a very happy user of the Artemis for a long time and a big fan of this forum. I have happily tested a lot of ROMs from this forum and am currently running the Dheewatara-s M2D Mega beta2.
My question is, now that the Artemis is getting on in years, what would be the next HTC model to look forward to? Something to replace the Artemis which I consider the best for the Price/Performance/Feature set?
Regards
Rajeev
I think it is HTC Touch Cruise 2 (Iolite), because this model is from same model series aimed for autonavigation.
I will be waiting for an HTC just like Artemis in hardwares and shape, but new in everything. Hope HTC company would do it.

mayday

guys...i'm in a dilemma and thought you could help me...
maybe this isn't the right section to do so but...didn't have the idea where else to post this
should i swap my hero for a touch pro 2
i love senseUI and android as it is beautiful,simple and so on,but lacks some software (which is not too important but...still counts)
i checked prices and tp2 is still more expensive (maybe because of the OS)
i have experience with abut 15 htc wm devices but never got hands on tp2...
so based on hardware vs hardware and your experience...what do you suggest
Hi farkub,
If I´m not mistaken you had an Universal right?
Go for Rhodium with no doubt!
Is the best hardware keyboard device to this date and 2010 models won´t be better.
Hero is ok but Android is too young and immature for now, perhaps in the future...
Just my opinion
Cheers and hope to see you on this section soon
nah i had artemis,himalaya,magician,hd,hero,diamond,hermes,herald,kaiser, and several more..but you probably ran into me in general and hermes section
i saw your poll...and thank you for it...
as for the immaturity i thought so too
but half of it went away when i got hands on hero...and the other half still stays (birth dates tell for themselves)...maybe 2.1 firmware is better but too bad i'll not have it when the htc's 2.1 upgrade comes out hehe
thanks for the opinion orb,much appreciated
as i thought i will go for tp2...at least for fun because it's a thrill to change and trade phones and to discover every of them
as we all know...there will never be a perfect one (the technology goes on and it's not quite good for the market to give the perfect one to the crowds)
hardware to hardware...
TP2 wins .. no brainer!!!!!
In all specs, TP2 is better than Hero!
Software???
I had the HTC Diamond
Windows Mobile sucks!!! It just does not have that many good software out there.. and when you find them.. Prices are higher.
I was waiting for the Diamond 2 to come out.. but got tired of waiting so I tried the Hero...
Wow... I dont see me going back to WM!
Hope that helped!
farukb said:
nah i had artemis,himalaya,magician,hd,hero,diamond,hermes,herald,kaiser, and several more..but you probably ran into me in general and hermes section
i saw your poll...and thank you for it...
as for the immaturity i thought so too
but half of it went away when i got hands on hero...and the other half still stays (birth dates tell for themselves)...maybe 2.1 firmware is better but too bad i'll not have it when the htc's 2.1 upgrade comes out hehe
thanks for the opinion orb,much appreciated
as i thought i will go for tp2...at least for fun because it's a thrill to change and trade phones and to discover every of them
as we all know...there will never be a perfect one (the technology goes on and it's not quite good for the market to give the perfect one to the crowds)
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Wow!
You had a lot of devices, nice!
It´s great to know we will be seeing here!, it´s always nice to see familiar members
More than agree with the last part of your post!
Cheers,
so i swapped them today...let's see how long will this relationship last hehe
as for never coming back to WM....i wish i didn't but my current needs are a bit more pointed towards wm because of some specific software which can help me in my studies...i'm studying mechanical engineering and all that great software really helps out sometimes
i really liked android...and i still do,but this was a clean swap 1 for 1,and this still is a phone with better value...and i'm thinking about selling the tp2 already...it's brand new,no scratch on it....with all goodies...so if anyone wants we can talk...but till then i'm gonna enjoy it while i can
and believe it or not...i'm a windoze hater
but software forces me to use it...both in pc and ppc worlds
(but still i use ubuntu most of the time on my pc hehehe)
thank you dan and orb
TP2 owns every other phone I've had, including the sucky iPh*** 3gs..
Hardware vs hardware, it's the smoothest WM phone I've had, using Valkyrie's rom of course.
Update radio, and mess with the settings a little, and you go yourself a bestfriend.
Imo, I think android's are crappp.
oh yeah which rom do you people suggest
valkyrie seems to be a decent one....probably energy roms are good to but that tone of bluer really irritates me
and for the radio...i put blackstone radio rom to a diamond and the battery life doubled...so is the 1.17.**.** blackstone radio also good for this one or you suggest other maybe
and for messing with stuff...that's what keeps me with WM
i'm a tweak freak
Hi
If you are thinking on sell your TP2 let me know (PM)
As for ROM try Energy phoenix (Sense 2.1) this version:
EnergyROM_28008_RHODIUM_04.Dec.2009_Standard
If you can´t find it let me know and I´ll send it to you
Cheers,
is everything blue? ...hope not...i will pm you...but i have to find a way to get the payment...since accepting payments via paypal doesn't work here in bosnia (or that's at least what one guy told me)....any ideas?
farukb said:
is everything blue? ...hope not...i will pm you...but i have to find a way to get the payment...since accepting payments via paypal doesn't work here in bosnia (or that's at least what one guy told me)....any ideas?
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Do you have a paypal account already?
If so PM me and send me your email account and I can try making a "test deposit" if 1USD to see what happens
I think it should work
orb3000 said:
...Android is too young and immature for now, perhaps in the future...
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i definitely agree with this. I love android but still to young for me. and the TP2 is an awesome phone, best htc i've ever owned and i always wow people when i pull it out. wouldn't have it any other way!
People know the hero, most peeps haven't seen the TP2 and the keyboard and screen blow them away. i've converted 2 crackphone users over to TP2!! {applause}
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rvt1000 said:
i've converted 2 crackphone users over to TP2!! {applause}
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Great for that!!!

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