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Ok, I have upgraded my Hermes to WM6 using the ROM on the wiki site.
I have installed all my apps and everything was looking great. I then noticed the Extended ROM and half a dozen cab files. So I have installed all of these as assumed they were some sort of patches.
I carried on installing my apps but now after a reboot the SIM PIN Lock entry screen looks a really basic (non 3d) button version and the keypad that should be shown when pressing the green call button isn't displayed I just get a white screen.
I have installed the following apps:-
eWallet 5
Tomtom 6
PocketBreeze 5.2
Phone Alarm + VistaMedia skin
Any ideas on what has happened?
Do I need to re-flash my phone?
Help..
Thanks
Mark
mdavenport said:
Ok, I have upgraded my Hermes to WM6 using the ROM on the wiki site.
I have installed all my apps and everything was looking great. I then noticed the Extended ROM and half a dozen cab files. So I have installed all of these as assumed they were some sort of patches.
I carried on installing my apps but now after a reboot the SIM PIN Lock entry screen looks a really basic (non 3d) button version and the keypad that should be shown when pressing the green call button isn't displayed I just get a white screen.
I have installed the following apps:-
eWallet 5
Tomtom 6
PocketBreeze 5.2
Phone Alarm + VistaMedia skin
Any ideas on what has happened?
Do I need to re-flash my phone?
Help..
Thanks
Mark
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Which version have you upgraded to?? If it is v0.20.x (thats 0.20.0 or 0.20.1) this is a known issue, seriously recommend reading the thread concerned with the ROM you are flashing before going ahead (the link for the thread is in the table aswell).
mrvanx said:
Which version have you upgraded to?? If it is v0.20.x (thats 0.20.0 or 0.20.1) this is a known issue, seriously recommend reading the thread concerned with the ROM you are flashing before going ahead (the link for the thread is in the table aswell).
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Hi,
My ROM Version is 3.22.110.1
I installed it from the 1st option in this list:-
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Cooked_ROMs
I installed from Mirror 5
I am little confused, is there a way to overcome this issue. Im bit of a newbie so do appreciate your help..
Mark
mdavenport said:
Hi,
My ROM Version is 3.22.110.1
I installed it from the 1st option in this list:-
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Cooked_ROMs
I installed from Mirror 5
I am little confused, is there a way to overcome this issue. Im bit of a newbie so do appreciate your help..
Mark
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So you installed the 'Vanilla' version?? (look at the names on the left side)
mrvanx said:
So you installed the 'Vanilla' version?? (look at the names on the left side)
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Yes it was the Vanilla version. I have done the wrong one?
Can you point me in the direction of the fix if there is one?
Thanks again
Mark
mdavenport said:
Yes it was the Vanilla version. I have done the wrong one?
Can you point me in the direction of the fix if there is one?
Thanks again
Mark
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The best thing to do is to is to perform a 'Hard Reset' which will reset your device back to the same point as when the rom was flashed, so you will need to reinstall everything. Suggest you install the same things again but dont install the skin....this might be incompatible with WM6 (since nearly all skins are designed for use in WM5).
BTW, i would take some time to read through the wiki and familiarise yourself with the various reset types and other literature on ROM upgrades, the knowledge in these pages will hold you in good stead for the future sir
mrvanx said:
The best thing to do is to is to perform a 'Hard Reset' which will reset your device back to the same point as when the rom was flashed, so you will need to reinstall everything. Suggest you install the same things again but dont install the skin....this might be incompatible with WM6 (since nearly all skins are designed for use in WM5).
BTW, i would take some time to read through the wiki and familiarise yourself with the various reset types and other literature on ROM upgrades, the knowledge in these pages will hold you in good stead for the future sir
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Ok, thanks for your help.
Just one other question. Should I have ran all the CAB's from the Extended ROM?
mdavenport said:
Ok, thanks for your help.
Just one other question. Should I have ran all the CAB's from the Extended ROM?
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Not really....the best thing you can do is to leave the ext_rom alone and just manually configure your MMS and WAP settings by hand. The ext_rom (again) contains cab installers that are designed for WM5.....while most should work in WM6 there are some that dont. ext_rom is something i havent used for ages in XDA-Live (v0.1 and now 0.2) and I dont miss it.
Just install the apps you were running (phonealarm and others). The ext_rom doesnt do much except run carrier based stuff (like themes and automatic settings).
I'm trying to figure out if all of my hard-resets are solely because of BigStorage. So far, every 6.1 BigStorage ROM I've tried has resulted in Hard Resets within 24 hours. The only 6.1 Non-BigStorage I've found has been running for 4 days with no Hard Resets.
Unfortunately that doesn't provide solid information since they have all been different cooks.
Does anyone know of a current 6.1 ROM that has both Big/Super Storage AND no Big/Super Storage versions? Or if none exists, would one of the cooks with a current 6.1 ROM like to produce one? That way it would be almost proof positive that the trouble lies in the BigStorage. My thoughts are that the new WM6.1 is trying to use the Extended Rom in some unknown way with either the SMS threading, or OTA syncing. This is causing the hard hang and forced Hard Reset.
If I can get an exact same ROM, one with BigStorage and one without BigStorage and it hard resets on one, and works perfectly on the other, we will know precisely where the trouble lies.
Any Cook willing to lend a hand? I'll do all the testing (it's what I do for a living.)
Thanks!
Greg
Well, no interest in that idea.
Ok, then I can sure try this myself. Can anyone though point me to where I might find information on taking an existing 6.1 kitchen and *removing* bigstorage?
gregma said:
Well, no interest in that idea.
Ok, then I can sure try this myself. Can anyone though point me to where I might find information on taking an existing 6.1 kitchen and *removing* bigstorage?
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Which rom did you find without big storage?
I got my phone march 18th, and I put Faria and Dr Putt.'s clean rom on it.
I do believe it's BIGstorage. I've got around 71MB total.
So far not a single problem.
stuff said:
I got my phone march 18th, and I put Faria and Dr Putt.'s clean rom on it.
I do believe it's BIGstorage. I've got around 71MB total.
So far not a single problem.
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But a problem with me, and others. Faria's won't last 24 hours before hard resetting for me. As I said, *EVERY* BigStorage 6.1 has hard reset for me. The only non-Bigstorage 6.1 so far is working on 8 days without a hard reset.
pablo11 said:
Which rom did you find without big storage?
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CRCs PHK v12 Release 9. Get your WM6.1 NON BETA!!
I read in some forum that hard reset with WM 6.1 is related with SD power management and that it can be disabled from the Advanced Configuration Tool.
Try it and tell us results.
vandread said:
I read in some forum that hard reset with WM 6.1 is related with SD power management and that it can be disabled from the Advanced Configuration Tool.
Try it and tell us results.
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SD Power Management is enabled for both the non-bigstorage 6.1 ROM that I have yet to have a hard-reset on, and also enabled on the 5 bigstorage 6.1 ROM's that I have a hard-reset within 24 hours.
So far, the only thing that has been different is no hard-resets on the non-bigstorage 6.1 and hard-resets on all the bigstorage 6.1.
Are you sure? same kernel build? same programs? same SD drivers?
I recomend you to try it.
Seems to me I'm not alone on this problem. I never thought BigStorage has something to do with freezes and hard resets...
Sorry to inform you though, that I have tried a none BigStorage 6.1ROM but it still freezes and hard resets... So, it must be something else...
vandread said:
I read in some forum that hard reset with WM 6.1 is related with SD power management and that it can be disabled from the Advanced Configuration Tool.
Try it and tell us results.
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I have also tried this solution, but still the same result...
I also have to hard reset a enormous amount of times/day with Faria R32 (which is said because I like it).
I found out that most of the times it freezes when it has to write something to the internal ROM (registry, OS config, alarms, etc) so I also suspect of bigstorage. I hope someone finds out...
vandread said:
Are you sure? same kernel build? same programs? same SD drivers?
I recomend you to try it.
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Well, I have nothing to lose I'll start with Faria's and turn off the SD Power Management.
I have tried almost all WM6.1 roms out there. And I too were not spared with the random freezes/hard reset problem. Except for CRC's r9 which is non Big Storage, used it formore than a week without a problem. And i was convinced that the problem lies with the rom being BigStorage or not. Until I tried Shadow CE 2.1, which is BigStorage. I've been using it for more than a week without any problem, no experience of random freezing/hard resets.
I was even surprised that Shadow CE 2.1 is very stable for my device since i experienced freezing/HR problems with Shadow TE 2.1, which is, if I'm not mistaken, came from the same built.
BTW, power management is enabled on all roms that I've tried.
My system is as follows:
Cingular 8525
Radio 1.47.00.10
I would like to help out in testing, just for us to be able to discover what causes random freezes/hard resets. So i guess we just have to make a poll on what particular rom works for a particular Hermes version, and which Radio rom version people are using. I've read in some threads that Radio rom 1.54/1.57 works well with BigStorage roms such as Farias.
gregma said:
Well, I have nothing to lose I'll start with Faria's and turn off the SD Power Management.
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Well, 2 days with Faria's Clean ROM with SD Power Management turned off and no Hard Reset. I did have two Soft Resets, but both times it actually just soft reset, before it would have hard reset. I'm going to give it 4 days, then try my preferred Naked 9b1 ROM.
greatbal said:
Until I tried Shadow CE 2.1, which is BigStorage. I've been using it for more than a week without any problem, no experience of random freezing/hard resets.
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I could find no mention of BigStorage or SuperStorage on the Shadow CE 2.1 or 2.0 threads. Are you sure it is?
Thanks!
Greg
3 days and counting! Still not a single hard reset. Also, no further soft resets other than those initial 2. This is looking promising!
gregma said:
3 days and counting! Still not a single hard reset. Also, no further soft resets other than those initial 2. This is looking promising!
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try to make office apps on your hermes. then try running oxios free mem.
tjlabais said:
try to make office apps on your hermes. then try running oxios free mem.
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I'm not quire sure I understand what you mean by "make office apps".? If you can give me steps as to what you'd like me to do, I'd be happy to perform them and report back!
Thanks!
Greg
gregma said:
I'm not quire sure I understand what you mean by "make office apps".? If you can give me steps as to what you'd like me to do, I'd be happy to perform them and report back!
Thanks!
Greg
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Oh, I'm sorry. Try to create pocket word files, type some text into it. OR create some pocket excel files then save it. Then close the apps. Since, it's your third day, your memory might be depleted already. Try to run oxios free mem or similar app to free some memory. This was the last things I did prior to a freezing syndrome last night.
I couldn't find any info about it here so I think it's worth to mention that no2chem created new battery driver for "Titan" (I think he mean Tytn) it's prepared for kitchen and since I'm not a cook could someone else test it? I think most of us are interested in precise battery measurement
http://www.weienterprises.com/nue/battery.html
Edit: So now this is possible! Thanx to Cmonex and CRCinAU we finally have what we should have out of the box!!! Thank you!!!
HTC TITAN
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=382
My mistake than pity... It would be nice to have it for Tytn.
AHhhh dam
shamus said:
My mistake than pity... It would be nice to have it for Tytn.
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Ahhh Dam, I was soooo hoping this was true!!
Will it work?
Are we confident that it won't work on Hermes? Is anyone willing to test it out?
Should be ok, needsto be cooked into a ROM though, using the updated ROM tools these dlls should work on ANY device afaik.
FWIW, I installed this on my 8525 (running Faria's R32 6.1) using a CAB installer found on another forum and it did not work - battery meter showed 0% no matter what. Fortunately, I was able to revert simply by uninstalling.
I also tried the original instruction set, using Total Commander, which resulted in the same. Reverting to the original bat dll didn't work for me either so I had to hard reset.
Hope that helps!
iron_hide said:
FWIW, I installed this on my 8525 (running Faria's R32 6.1) using a CAB installer found on another forum and it did not work - battery meter showed 0% no matter what. Fortunately, I was able to revert simply by uninstalling.
I also tried the original instruction set, using Total Commander, which resulted in the same. Reverting to the original bat dll didn't work for me either so I had to hard reset.
Hope that helps!
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The dll needs to be cooked in probably.
So, is any of the chiefs willing to try cooking it it any rom to test if it is working on our hermes?
mrvanx said:
The dll needs to be cooked in probably.
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mrvanx, pardon my ignorance but I can't resist to ask if he successfully replaced the dll (and did a soft reset I presume) and the result is negative, what difference would it make to cook the dll into the rom?
KaiserVideoDriver said:
mrvanx, pardon my ignorance but I can't resist to ask if he successfully replaced the dll (and did a soft reset I presume) and the result is negative, what difference would it make to cook the dll into the rom?
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It most likely has to reside in the rom as a physical entity rather than overwriting the file on the flashdisk, since alot of the dlls are linked to parts of the XIP on the device. Many dll replacements have this sort of behaviour (Updated ATi drivers are a good example).
mrvanx said:
Should be ok, needsto be cooked into a ROM though, using the updated ROM tools these dlls should work on ANY device afaik.
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So there is hope I thought all drivers are hardware specific.
so who's willing to cook this in then?! mrvanx?! pretty please?!lol
if you cook it, i will be more than willing to test it out
cheers
Building a ROM now to test it with... I'm testing it with my Stable build - as it should minimise issues... Will post a URL when it's up...
CRCinAU said:
Building a ROM now to test it with... I'm testing it with my Stable build - as it should minimise issues... Will post a URL when it's up...
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Thanks! Will keep my fingers crossed
Ok - try this test ROM.
Let me know what you see
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Ok - try this test ROM[/url].
Let me know what you see
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Just flashed it and nothing. The battery indicator is present in the tray with "!" sign and the charge indicator in the Main Battery app. is missing.
When connecting phone to charger, the led doesn't turn amber and no sings or messages of charging.
Too bad... I liked the idea.
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for those who just flashed this OS, put the phone into boot mode if flashing something else, otherwise you will be getting low batt. warning even though you had it fully charged.
Doh. I was excited about that too - it'd be nice to see
Damn, thats too bad it didnt work for hermes!
Maybe someone should contact no2chem and see if it is possible to do the same for hermes? I'm guessing it's a hexedit? something else? It may well be portable between devices with a bit of effort.
NRG Rose Rom v1.6a - Remade by Ricky and Stylez
New ROM for the Excalibur cooked on the new 20279
This ROM has new Radio (4.1.13.51_03.07.90)
And Now Has The patched USPL That jockyw2001 Made
You May Ask What Is A Patched USPL Well
Flash (cooked ROM or ROM module, e.g. radio or OS) or signed ROM with any model/vendor ID. The USPL substitutes your SPL until you
perform a full ROM update. Consider it as an extra insurance in case
something goes wrong with flashing cooked ROMs or any other ROM
update ! click here for more details
WHY DID I MAKE A ROM WITH JOCKYW2001 PATCHED USPL:-
Will i made this rom for my Brothers and Sisters who have these Excaliburs
O2 XDA Cosmo Orange SPV E600
Because they do not have a official roms to go back to if something goes wrong
but anyone with a Excalibur can use this rom to
Disclaimer Plz read:-
(1) I or any creators of the USPL or the Rom are NOT responsible for any phone being bricked
(2) THERE WILL BE RED WRITING ON YOUR BOOT SCREEN THIS IS NORMAL SEE Boot Screen.jpg!!!!!
(3) ANYONE WITH A EXCALIBUR CAN USE THIS ROM
(4) REMEMBER THAT ONCE YOU HAVE THIS ROM THEN THERES NO NEED TO RUN
AUTO.BAT ANYMORE
Were is mine and stylez Original Rom:-
Well click here to get it
Finally Hope You like The Rom CLICK HERE TO GET IT
Thanks to NRGZ28 for making the original ROM for his thread
Click Here
Thanks to Jockyw2001 for his patched USPL for his original thread
click here
So just wondering Ricky, does this Rom have the new radio which is not included in your previous Rose rom?
jdoggraz said:
So just wondering Ricky, does this Rom have the new radio which is not included in your previous Rose rom?
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this rom has the same radio as kavans hope this helps
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this rom has the same radio as kavans hope this helps
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Oh ok thank you. So since I have an excalibur and I am running your 1.6 Rose Rom Remake, I won't need to upgrade to this? correct?
jdoggraz said:
Oh ok thank you. So since I have an excalibur and I am running your 1.6 Rose Rom Remake, I won't need to upgrade to this? correct?
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no only if you what the patched uspl witch mean it cid unlock until you
perform a full ROM update
rickwyatt said:
no only if you what the patched uspl witch mean it cid unlock until you
perform a full ROM update
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Oh ok well this is not for me, but it could be useful for many other people...
Once again thanks for putting this together.
perhaps i should find out why i am geting a corrupt rom file error
Still sticking with you and Stylez's 1.5 but, as stated, thanks for keeping on keeping on for those who need it. Kudos (not the granola bar)
Hey RickWyatt thank you for the rom. Quick question: What happened to the menu animations? You know, like when you're in file explorer, you press the 2nd softkey, and the menu slides up? Where did it go? How do I get it back?
Also, Ive noticed that the Office mobile panel has the office logo. So, my other question is, how do I change the icon of a panel? For example, I want to change the colorless Windows Media player icon to something else. please see below:
Anyone home?
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Hey RickWyatt thank you for the rom. Quick question: What happened to the menu animations? You know, like when you're in file explorer, you press the 2nd softkey, and the menu slides up? Where did it go? How do I get it back?
Also, Ive noticed that the Office mobile panel has the office logo. So, my other question is, how do I change the icon of a panel? For example, I want to change the colorless Windows Media player icon to something else. please see below:
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to trun animation on open resco registry editor and go here
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\GWE]
Animate from 0 to 6
to chang the icon use chome config hope this helps
Just an opinion, but maybe you guys should offer two version of the ROM, one with the patched SPL in it and one without. Not everybody wants a non-stock SPL on their phone, especially for warranty issues
So... what software is in this ROM? What Java version?
jrronimo said:
So... what software is in this ROM? What Java version?
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The same as NRG Rose Rom v1.6 - Remade by Ricky and Stylez in sig only difference is patched USPL
I was wondering everytime I download and have started using the 1.6 or 6.1 versions by ricky my screen goes white is there something that I am doing wrong. Because I like the extras he has but I just hat seeing my screen white.
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I was wondering everytime I download and have started using the 1.6 or 6.1 versions by ricky my screen goes white is there something that I am doing wrong. Because I like the extras he has but I just hat seeing my screen white.
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Do you mean your screen goes white when it times out naturally? If so, I had the same problem when I installed Windows Live. Uninstalling it fixed the white screen issue. But I only had this problem with the Rose ROM...never had it with 6.1.
Edit: I'm referring to the menu animations that are unique to the Rose Rom. The animations you pointed me to are already available in a regular 6.1 Rom via settings>Acessibility... I'm talking about the way the menu slides up when you're in for example, file explorer or Wmp. I miss that. I think it's still in the older Roms..
I enabled animations in my original 1.3 ROM because I think they're neat.I dont know why these guys disabled them... I forget what the registry entry is right now, but it's somewhere in HKLM/System/GDI or something.... Under GDI anyway.
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I enabled animations in my original 1.3 ROM because I think they're neat.I dont know why these guys disabled them... I forget what the registry entry is right now, but it's somewhere in HKLM/System/GDI or something.... Under GDI anyway.
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So have you found out how to get them back? I don't want to flash my phone again...
Edit: I ended up flashing my Dash back to NRGZ28's original rom.
Edit2: The registry values are exactly tthe same..
Edit3: I flashed back to this rom.. It's better than the NRGZ28's original in terms of usability.. But I still want the eye candy. If anyone finds out how to get back the animations, please tell me!
I have flashed a few different roms in the past day onto my Diamond.
Iv been getting not so frequent but annoying little quirks and problems.
At some point the phone slows down like hell with all apps closed and cleanRAM already used. Other times my touch screen will go completely untouchable and wont respond but the buttons still work fine. Its also completely freezed up once or twice.
I'm thinking of doing the MTTY method, But I wanted to ask if it could possibly just be the ROM with a few glitches and bugs? It's nothing serious I can live with it, Just a bit annoying.
Nothing to do with the flashing!
If you read the Energy ROM thread you will notice that it uses tremendous amount of RAM at boot (~85%) - std version. This doesn't give you lots of room for many other applications.
This ROM was intended for the Touch HD version witch has more RAM than Diamond if I'm not mistaking...
Try the Titanium version or the OldManilla version for a better RAM consumption! You can also try some tweaks that will lower your Memory usage down to approximately 65% witch is good!
Another good practice is to hard-reset your device after flashing a new ROM this will resolve some mystery problems
Tweaks by neo6776
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Why hard-reset after flashing
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Hope this will help,
Good luck!
my first rom was also the energyrom. its a pretty one, but speed and memory usage is very bad.
now i flashed the deepshining rom, and i love it. memory usage is well, speed is well... and with some nice add ons by xkaiser it also looks good, too. i think i'm gonna use this rom by now. i suggest you give deepshining a try.
Hi,
Energy roms usually use more ram than other 6.5 ROMs, but freeze isn't rom fault specially if you used cooked roms multiple times. if you check other WM6.5 Threads (BsB, Deepshining or ...) you'll see at some point there are always people experiencing freeze , hard-resets and ... It's specially with WM6.5 New Builds.
For Solving that you have two ways : MTTY or Flashing a Stock ROM first.
Good Luck!
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For Solving that you have two ways : MTTY or Flashing a Stock ROM first.
Good Luck!
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So it really does matter, if you first flash a stock ROM or not? I don't see why this should make any difference!? Perhaps you can tell me why.
BTW: I am not new to xda-developers, but this is kind of my first post... yeah!
AND: I am not new to the topic of flashing, i've done it (more or less successfully) a few times before and I am currently trying to cook my very first own ROM on base of 6.5.1 (perhaps 23047? ;-) ) with nice tools (but not too much), nice graphics, some tweaks and an eye on the memory and battery consumption. Just an ordinary kitchen user. ;-) So this topic is quite interesting for me.
Thanks for an reply.
relexx
ReLeXX said:
So it really does matter, if you first flash a stock ROM or not? I don't see why this should make any difference!? Perhaps you can tell me why.
BTW: I am not new to xda-developers, but this is kind of my first post... yeah!
AND: I am not new to the topic of flashing, i've done it (more or less successfully) a few times before and I am currently trying to cook my very first own ROM on base of 6.5.1 (perhaps 23047? ;-) ) with nice tools (but not too much), nice graphics, some tweaks and an eye on the memory and battery consumption. Just an ordinary kitchen user. ;-) So this topic is quite interesting for me.
Thanks for an reply.
relexx
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Hi,
It does matter, but i can't say anything moe! simply i don't why, but i experience this myself with BsB and Deepshining ROMs. if we assume that it works like MTTY, seems that it format or recover something to their original State. (MTTY is a complete format, i think.)
Thanks guys downloading deepshining now. Hope its good
Yea the thing I don't like about energy ROM is its kinda slow and a resource hog. But it looks so nice lol
Thanks for the help guys appreciate it a lot