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Which WM5.0 Device Should I Get

Ok, my PDA2K is running WM5.0 but as you all may know it still has flaws and well I have had it for over a year and think it's time to get a new phone, the only problem is that I have no way of seeing or using any of these WM5.0 devices until I buy it. so I wanted to ask all the users of these devices what they suggest.
Your information would be greatly appreciated.

so you're not able to go down to a store and try before you buy??...is that what you mean??

"other device"
I suggest the Advance TC M.A.G.I.C.
http://www.advancetc.com

bukwit said:
so you're not able to go down to a store and try before you buy??...is that what you mean??
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Ya the only phone they have available here is the HTC Wizard branded as the T-Mobile MDA, but even whith that all the T-Mobile stores say they will more than likely not have it in stock

Re: "other device"
raymondu999 said:
I suggest the Advance TC M.A.G.I.C.
http://www.advancetc.com
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man that is sweet built in gps too, but I wouldn't be suprised if it turned out to be like the Motorola MPx

Actually, I've been in contact with this company, and they confirm a launch. A more exact date can be pinpointed by mid-April. They already have a sole distributor to handle things as well

well then I am going to look to you to let me know when who and if you can how much
I am sure like all new Windows phones it will hit the market at some outrageous amount right....
Do you have any additional info you could pm me??
Thanks

Check your PM box. I PMed you some details on the device. If you have any further questions, just PM me and I can forward to my contact in Advance TC

I've recently got myself the Mio A701 (used to have a JAM).
A nice PPC. Its got GPS builtin which is very useful and is only marginally larger than the JAM was.
Comes with lots of good extras - car screen mount, car charger etc.
And it's no more expensive than things like the JAMin.
I feel I've made a good buy
One downside is that being very new the Mio support website aint got a lot on it yet. But apparantly they are working on some ROM updates.
See it here.

o2 Orbit

Hello,
I am new to the site and I have just purchased myself an o2 orbit. I am really happy with it but also very keen to understand how I can enhance its performance or tweak it.
Will their be a section for this phone?
Sorry if I am being impatient but I am raring to go.
Has anyone else got this phone yet? if so what have you done with it? Also where can I buy accessories for it?
I look forward to your responses.
Steve

hi all, this is also my first post and i have also purchased this phone today and what a beauty it is....sorry, hope you dont mind me juping on the thread with you btw.
can anyone tell me what are the best games that i can find for wince at the moment and also a good texas hold 'em game for it as i am not really interested in the preloaded games.
thanks in advance to all who reply
Danny =)

Orbit and TomTom
Hi
i am very new to this thread, so hello and i thank you in advance for any help people are willing to offer.
I am going to be picking my Orbit up tomorrow from my local O2 store. I was wondering if anyone can confirm that TomTom is definately included with the UK models. I have seen on a couple of forums that some people are saying it isn't.

I think your phone is in the Artemis forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=316

Obit
Hi all,
I have never owned an XDA but thought I would put a post about the Orbit that I purchased 2 days ago.
It is an excellent piece of kit .. By default it does not come with TomTom (I was offered CoPilot with a £40 contract but I already had TomTom so I declined. I have put TomTom on the device and it works brilliant .. it seems much more accurate than my palm version (probably more accurate GPS device inside).
I used TomTom for an hour today and my battery went down 2%! Brilliant.
Everything is good about the device .. the only gripe I have is that the microphone socket is mini usb (but I am sure there is a convertor out there for that).
The radio is good too (this also seems to have a minimal drain on the battery).

Buy Htc Touch Cruise In Israel (shop or internet website) ?

Shalom everybody !
Since i have my HTC P3600, i read this magic forum which is very good !
I leave in Israel and i am looking for an HTC Cruise
Do you know where I can find it in Israel or do you know where i can order it in a website who deliver in Israel ?
Thanks for your help
Have a beautiful day !

try to search in the forum :
http://www.pocketpcfreak.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=PE

mserm said:
try to search in the forum :
http://www.pocketpcfreak.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=PE
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Thanks mserm but i can t read hebrew
Is there some website from all around the world which can deliver in Israel ?
Thanks for your help

Jbs_Israel said:
Thanks mserm but i can t read hebrew
Is there some website from all around the world which can deliver in Israel ?
Thanks for your help
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there is no israely web site (for now) that sell the cruise.
you will find (from the next month) dealers that will sell it, but you can count on it that it will cost no less then 1100$ at lest for a 2-3 month.
i orderd the cruise from Europe (i'm from Beer-Sheva) and i'n waitng a friend to came back...
i payed arount 600€ (3400nis) and hope to get it soon.
by the way, www.pocketpcfreak.com is THE place for all the israely ppl's ... if you stay in israel, how you can't read hebrew ?
Shalom and good eavning

ariebk said:
there is no israely web site (for now) that sell the cruise.
you will find (from the next month) dealers that will sell it, but you can count on it that it will cost no less then 1100$ at lest for a 2-3 month.
i orderd the cruise from Europe (i'm from Beer-Sheva) and i'n waitng a friend to came back...
i payed arount 600€ (3400nis) and hope to get it soon.
by the way, www.pocketpcfreak.com is THE place for all the israely ppl's ... if you stay in israel, how you can't read hebrew ?
Shalom and good eavning
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I don t read hebrew cause Ani Olé hadach !!

Jbs_Israel said:
I don t read hebrew cause Ani Olé hadach !!
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Then, you can write in english, and ask for english answer.
trust me, this way you'll know hebrwe faster

I live in Israel and got the cruise 3 weeks ago. My father is a pilot so no prob for me.... I would recommend you to order it over the internet, as our resellers will sell it twice the price and cruise is not cheap at all...
If you have any urgent questions about the toy, feel free:
054-7654037 hebrew/russian
or I would at least insure you that all the stuff works with orange, mms/hsdpa/video call....
photo camera is really cocky.
BTW do you know of some way to make it see Hebrew normally ? I tried the "paragon lite LEng" or something, it's damn bad.... slows the system a lot...

whooray... according to the amount of calls I am getting last days, this phone will be damn popular in Israel . Keep it coming.

re
I ordered mine from Windowsonthego.com
They offer local pickup in canada but ship worldwide.
Hope this helps
Thanks

Buying at amazon in germany

Hello people,
Has anyone already bought a Touch Cruise at amazon.de, in Germany?
I am willing to buy one at amazon.de but the site doesnt inform whether the language is german or english. I already talked to amazon 3 times and they keep telling me they dont have this answer!
I wanted to get an english unit, but amazon can help me about that.
Any help would be very welcome!
Regards,
Guilherme

I'm 99% sure that buying from Amazon.de will get you a German ROM Polaris. That was the main reason I hesitated to buy from them.

Jimbo9 said:
I'm 99% sure that buying from Amazon.de will get you a German ROM Polaris. That was the main reason I hesitated to buy from them.
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I imagined so. I got very impressed of how badly informed their support team is.
Thanks man. By the way, where did you buy yours (in germany), if you already did so?

I ordered mine from clove.co.uk today. Should be here in few days by DHL.

Jimbo9 said:
I ordered mine from clove.co.uk today. Should be here in few days by DHL.
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Thanks for the great advice man!
Just ordered from clove too. Hope to get it by few days by DHL too.

grgomes said:
Hello people,
Has anyone already bought a Touch Cruise at amazon.de, in Germany?
I am willing to buy one at amazon.de but the site doesnt inform whether the language is german or english. I already talked to amazon 3 times and they keep telling me they dont have this answer!
I wanted to get an english unit, but amazon can help me about that.
Any help would be very welcome!
Regards,
Guilherme
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using olipro's hard spl and the following link you can flash the WM6 WWE rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=368123
if you can still cancel the order (if there's a big price difference) you might want buy the xda orbit ii from amazon.de

Thanks Jackster, but I got it for a nice price from Clove. Actually I got very pissed off with amazon because they took close to a week (after 3 or 4 emails to the support team) to discover if the language was german or english.
Hey, whats the language of this WWE ROM about? is it like an international english?
I imagine mine will come with an UK english flavour. Is it different from the WWE one?

i got mine from ebuyer.com for £379.99, with free delivery (came next day) they have 3 in stock at the moment.

bashi007 said:
i got mine from ebuyer.com for £379.99, with free delivery (came next day) they have 3 in stock at the moment.
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Mine was 390, but because it should be delivered in germany, I payed extra 20.
Hey bashi, do you know if the ones from UK come with a special english flavour (ROM)?

grgomes said:
Mine was 390, but because it should be delivered in germany, I payed extra 20.
Hey bashi, do you know if the ones from UK come with a special english flavour (ROM)?
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Hi, i don't know yet as the phone is charging, i will have alook later on

grgomes said:
Thanks Jackster, but I got it for a nice price from Clove. Actually I got very pissed off with amazon because they took close to a week (after 3 or 4 emails to the support team) to discover if the language was german or english.
Hey, whats the language of this WWE ROM about? is it like an international english?
I imagine mine will come with an UK english flavour. Is it different from the WWE one?
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grgomes
good to hear u got it for a good price. WWE is international english. ones from the uk probably have the same one.

End of Tomal's Uni era

Guy's,
I'm sadly informing you that my Uni is dead!
Actually it is not dead; it's switched on but a white screen and I can't see anything on the screen. I seems the display is damaged. I've unmounted the whole unit, did a cleanup and re-assembled but my bad luck ...
There is no spare available in my country (Bangladesh) for Uni so I can't even repair it.
Thanx to MyMobiler, it has given me the access to my device and this thread has been created using the benefit of this nice tool.
I have completed a new build couple of days back. It is a bug-fix build of v8.0 but based on 19960 core. I'll upload it sometime next week (without beta testing).
I suppose it will be the last present from "TOMAL" for our beloved Universal.
All the best.

Thanks for your hard work, for keeping our uni's alive for a long time, I hope you 'll find a solution to fix your device, and give us more great rom's.

"All things shall come to pass"
Thank you very much Tomal, your great work helped many Uni's around the world.
V8 is so stable, i am positive many people will keep on using it for a long time (I included).
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (and other goods from your kitchen).

Alslamo Alykom My brother Tomal
It is the most bad news today. I think it is not the end of Tomal's era but may be the end of Uni era at all for a lot of us.
I think that we should start to find a way to repair ur device not only thanking u for ur past effort. Why not to donate u to buy another one or any one from europe could send u the accessory part u need.
Anothyer solution that will take longer time is sending ur device with one of ur country citizenzs who travel frequently to Arab nations where there is a lot of workshops that can repair it. May i arrange for something like that, if u interested please PM me.
It is a call for all uni lovers to donate to Tomal to support him to ride over his current problem.

tomal said:
Guy's,
I'm sadly informing you that my Uni is dead!
Actually it is not dead; it's switched on but a white screen and I can't see anything on the screen. I seems the display is damaged. I've unmounted the whole unit, did a cleanup and re-assembled but my bad luck ...
There is no spare available in my country (Bangladesh) for Uni so I can't even repair it.
Thanx to MyMobiler, it has given me the access to my device and this thread has been created using the benefit of this nice tool.
I have completed a new build couple of days back. It is a bug-fix build of v8.0 but based on 19960 core. I'll upload it sometime next week (without beta testing).
I suppose it will be the last present from "TOMAL" for our beloved Universal.
All the best.
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Hi Tomal,
sorry to hear your leaving the forum. However don't give up on you universal just yet. The same thing happened my device just two days ago. After two days working on it I took all of the RF cage lids off and used a spray on Electrolube FLUXCLENE. on everything including internal connectors. (Also used a hot air gun on the internal components. Build my uni back up again and it has been working ever since. Even has better than usual battery life.
Look forward to your last build, my only issue with the last one was that the front facing camera did not work.
- T

Nooooo!
I'm not saying any good byes to the great TOMAL here... after a long long time i got my self satisfied with some ROM. every thing was so at ease. even though the bugs and short comings are there but i must confess the V8 is the best, FAST & STABLE ROM ever.
pls. find a way to fix your UNI. or try some thing from Pakistan. eveything is easily availabe here....
farehmani

I agree to the post written by another member.I believe that his huge efforts making the uni so long lasting deserve a small donation from us all (say 3$) which would help him get a new screen and proceed with his fine work.
I'll now intantly check if i have a sum left to my paypal account to donate him for his work and hope for his return...

V8.0
Hello Tomal ! ! ! ! I am sad to hear that you are having problems with your Universal. I am very impressed now with your v8.0 very fast & stable since you have helped us with information on fixing the current bugs in your v8.0 rom. I must say it is truthfully the best cooked rom I have ever used on my "Qtek 9000". At this time I have everything running perfectly on your v8.0 which I have read through your entire forum for v8.0 and have fixed all the problems that I was encountering in your v8.0. The only thing I ask you to do if you can do this on your next fixed release on v8.0 to have the extended rom (storage) accept software downloads. I use a lot of third party software on my device for my company needs and have put that software on the flash disk. The other software I was forced to put on a storage card which I could not put directly in the extended rom (storage) because if I put additional 3rd party software on my device it would take up to much space. Even though I had my ram upgraded from 64mb to 128mb this year in January of 2008 year by PocketPCTechs out of California which did an excellent job and a reasonable price. Once your v8.0 is released next week I will test this. If I am 100% completely satisfied I will make a large donation directly to "Tomals Paypal" to help you in the repair of your Univerisal or toward a purchase for a used or new Univerisal on ebay. I strictly use my "Qtek 9000" for my companies which your great roms keep my Univerisal running and going. The only other thing I ask of you Tomal that the only thing I could not get to work is the "Network Wizard". I can install the software on the device but when I tap on the icon nothing happens. The only way I can get this to work is go to File Explorer then to go to windows and tap on the "Network Wizard" icon which then works. So at this time I have removed this from my device until it works properly hopefully on your next v8.0 fix. So if everybody else that uses "Tomals Cooked Roms" would make any type of donation where we have enough people contributing then Tomal would have enough donations to purchase a new Universal. That would be greatly appreciated. As you can see Tomal has put many, many hours and hard work & effort to making these cooked super great Roms possible and for the Universal to live on. So we should also help him to make his cooked roms keep going on. So let's make the difference by making a donation today.

A salute to you sir, you enabled me to get vastly more enjoyment out of my very exspensive mobile phone. You are the man!
heh!

I´m sure toghrther we can help you in some way!
Hi Tomal
I ask you to don´t give up on your Uni
We are a lot the people who are using your ROM´s very happy
So I porpose, as someone said it before, that we donate a small amount to help you buy another Uni, the piece you have broken, or any other way you want us to help you.
It´s the minimal effort we can do toghther to support the guy has been supporting and keeping alive our Uni´s around the world.
SO PLEASE ALL!!!
It´s time to really unite and help
Tomal, let us know how much you need to fix your problem, so we can see how much money we have to raise (Ok guys it´s not going to be a high amount)
Waiting your reply and hoping the Tomal´s ROM users can joint to HELP
My best wishes to all
PD: I found this site on the forum with good comments about delivery service, from China to Bangladesh I think it´s not too far?...
http://cnn.cn/shop/dopodo2-d900-universal-platform-c-138_385.html
Hope this helps, not sure if this is the part you need. But in case it is Guys look at the price, how much you think we have to cooperate for each person?3 dollars, 4 dollars!!
Let´s help!, of course if Tomal agrees

Thank you so much
Thank you so much for your feeling. I'm simply impressed!!
I'm actually not sure about which part is damaged whether it's the main board or just the display assembly. Interestingly I can still access my Uni using the MyMobiler.
Just for you guy's information, it's not easy to get any spare over mail/courier due to govt. regulations in my country. Only alternative I can see is to send the device (for repair) to Europe or other places when someone traveling there.

Hi Tomal it seems the cable which transmits signals to display got broken, my offer to you is if you can post your uni to me here in UK then i ll get it fixed for you and will send it back, you have done so much for us now its time for us to do something for you

olympia786 said:
Hi Tomal it seems the cable which transmits signals to display got broken, my offer to you is if you can post your uni to me here in UK then i ll get it fixed for you and will send it back, you have done so much for us now its time for us to do something for you
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Good idea olympia786
If Tomal agrees, you can let all us know the expenses and toghether can raise the amount.
Looking forward to help Tomal in any way possible
Cheers
PD: Perhaps this guy can help also: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=405566
he´s so greatfull to this site that maybe he can do something, just an idea..

Tomal: Can you buy a new or second hand Uni in your country from anywhere?
If so, then I suggest we have a collection and send Tomal the money directly so he can buy it himself, this way there is no problem with shipping and the mail
If not, then we could buy a new screen from eBay and try to send it in the mail to him - this would be cheaper but more risky. A small flat screen should fit quite easily into a letter and be very hard to detect, shouldn't it?
I love Tomal's ROM, I was starting to hate my MDA PRO with WM5 but I love it now that his ROM is installed
Uni's are quite cheap nowadays, I just looked on eBay and the average price is between £100 and £150. I am willing to donate a large percentage of the total cost, I think I can afford about £40. Come on guys dig deep, Tomal has done so much for the Uni and there are very few active chefs left!

A moving note from Tomal. Well surely I will wait and try ur final 8. The last is always the most meaningful one!
Best Wishes! Million Thanks to you for the 7.7 as it's the rom I used for quite a few months unable finding a replacement in previous months. Now I use Darkforcesteam's
It's time to try a more powerful PPC, so many for you to choose out there these days!

Saludos
It will be a pleasure for me to help Tomal, pls let me know what will be the way.
Saludos

Qtek 9000 For Sale
Listed in the Univerisal section is a "Qtek 9000" for sale at a cheap price and in good conditon which I have listed below by one of the members and have bookmarked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=419742

Park said:
Listed in the Univerisal section is a "Qtek 9000" for sale at a cheap price and in good conditon which I have listed below by one of the members and have bookmarked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=419742
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It looks good.

tomal said:
It looks good.
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I took the liberty to contact him to know the price including shipping to Bangladesh.
Hope you can confirm us if that Uni is ok for you and if you don´t have any problems to recieve an Uni from other country.
And most important if you are ok with this posibility
Cheers

Count me in to help Tomal. Please let us all know what has been decided and how we proceed.