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A New ROM

I've been given a new replacement Wizard, so im back to my old crappy T-mobile ROM (cringes). I have not been on for ages, so i just thought id ask you to recommend me a good new ROM.
Im looking for a largeish pagepool so it will run nice and quick. I have an SD for programs etc . I wouldnt mind some decent software as well, not really bothered about the stupid cube or any of that ****, but HTC Home etc working correctly would be nice. See what you guys think

There are currently many great new roms here, so long as your phone is unlocked and ready to receive the new roms. There are sticky posts at the top that tell you how to tell if, and how to unlock the phones accordingly.
G3 or G4 ??
The latest roms here are working well for the majority of the users - and each offers a little something for everyone, depending on your needs - one may be better than the other.
Slim 6.1 / TNT lastest / KhanX / Octavio 6.3 / Vanilla roms
All great roms, read the posts, see what users are having issues with - and pick the best one for your needs. No easy answer - try them, and use the one that best fits your needs.
Good luck

Looks like they've given me another G3 which is good. I like the the G3 method, allows me to revert back if it ever needs fixing again. Ive been looking at that Slim one, which looks very interesting. TNT is what i had on before, but it sometimes was slow, but that was possibly my fault. If only i could utilize the internal memory and make a bigger pagepool

What would you guys recommend then, based on what im looking for?

Doesnt matter,look at bill_in_mtl his post,just get oneand try,G3 is oke,if you have a G3 device

true it doesnt, but i havnt been here for a while

skezza said:
true it doesnt, but i havnt been here for a while
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I think one of the differences between say the TNT and the Slim ROM's is the amount of programs built into them. I have used the Slim ROM and liked it as it has very little included. The TNT has more built in even the offical version has more than I like but that is just me.They all seem to work well. Myself I cooked a very plain 6.0 ROM with theloons kitchen and so far I keep going back to it. Give me a kitchen for the 6.1 ROM and I'm all over it. its right as said that he may release a kitchen for his ROM. That would be great.
Kirby

Im trying the TNT rom. lets see where i get .
Im going to change the pagepool, whats the maximum recommended? is there any sort of size where the performance wont improve?
Cheers

OK, whacked on TNT. running great, but the Home audio manager (which im very used to using lol) comes up with some error "AudioManager.exe" cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate....... etc etc. Is there anyway of signing it, because i know its installed properly!

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OK, whacked on TNT. running great, but the Home audio manager (which im very used to using lol) comes up with some error "AudioManager.exe" cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate....... etc etc. Is there anyway of signing it, because i know its installed properly!
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I think the max page pool is 12Mb but could be wrong. Somep;ace in the system is a place to tell it not to worry about trusted certs. Can't rememebr where it is at but a search will turn up the info.
Kirby

working on finding that place. Now ive upped the pp to 12mb, it runs like a charm. and i installed this SRS WOW driver and its a beast. just going to install home then im sorted

Someone said it might not be, and thats its files missing. but that actual software itself works. it just happens to not execute from the front of home!

Okay, i think i want to change already. When you press the power button, the audio goes off as well that was one of the best features of the old TNT rom. Looks like its time for a change

skezza said:
Okay, i think i want to change already. When you press the power button, the audio goes off as well that was one of the best features of the old TNT rom. Looks like its time for a change
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Just go back to TNT's latest 6.0 ROM it is real nice.

Slim 6.1
By Merlin Reloaded
Super fast and super stable and not loaded up with ANY bull****. That means you can add all the bull**** your self.
I tried TNT 6.1 Rom and even with a huge pagepool it ran slower. I noticed that 6.1 roms run better with a smaller PagePool.
I tried OCtavio's rom but I think it had some annoyances I couldn't live with.
TNT is best in Batery,
Octavio's rom was very good..
But so far my favorite is Merlins 6.1 It has a medium drain on the battery so I bring My charger if I plan to surf the web at starbucks. other than that it will last over a day with normal use. (like 1hr conversation and about 50 text; google downloading mail; and so on. also WiFi G enabled.

ahh, i migth put the slim one on just to try it. but id rather not have it drain battery. for some reason the sound has gone dead on my phone. ive read somewhere its a glitch (ive got that one i posted in below). how do you get the sound back ?

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Just go back to TNT's latest 6.0 ROM it is real nice.
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TNTs latest, is that 1620?

skezza said:
TNTs latest, is that 1620?
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That's the one.

Sounds good. Ill bang it on tonight. Im using one thats real nice, but its just a bit too clustered, if you get what i mean. Theres applications everywhere and its totally unsorted. seems very badly done, but actually it runs great. I wouldnt mind SRS WOW as well and I know TNT has it, so i shall experiment. Does the audio manager boot from HTC Home etc? And does it allow me to turn the screen of when listening to music ?

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Sounds good. Ill bang it on tonight. Im using one thats real nice, but its just a bit too clustered, if you get what i mean. Theres applications everywhere and its totally unsorted. seems very badly done, but actually it runs great. I wouldnt mind SRS WOW as well and I know TNT has it, so i shall experiment. Does the audio manager boot from HTC Home etc? And does it allow me to turn the screen of when listening to music ?
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I don't have a clue about the audio manager I don't use it.
Good Luck,
Kirby

quickest most stable/easy rom?

i am selling my Wing to a business lady tonight. right now i have touch it's 9.2 rom which i love but it wont suit her. the buttons are off even with duprades key fix and the spacebar lags and the rom freezes sometimes. i just need a fast stable small rom for her. all i need is HTC home and Opera and iContact which i can install all seperately. so does anyone know the most stable/user friendly rom? QUICK! =p thanks! oh and it must be a Wing rom not a herald...i dont like the keyboard fix it makes my keys lag.

I would say Open Touch 5.2 Org. Just like the standard T-Mobile ROM but with 6.1, It was pretty fast and really stable for me.

try papa new rom... it works great, just dissable UL and Batterystatus on the today screen... everything else works perfect out the box and it is very fast....

I wouldnt do papas rom its more of an advance rom. I would go with open touch 5 org rom. I think that is the closest to the original you can get. Or go with one of the open touch lite roms if you want more room.

play2lose said:
i am selling my Wing to a business lady tonight. right now i have touch it's 9.2 rom which i love but it wont suit her. the buttons are off even with duprades key fix and the spacebar lags and the rom freezes sometimes. i just need a fast stable small rom for her. all i need is HTC home and Opera and iContact which i can install all seperately. so does anyone know the most stable/user friendly rom? QUICK! =p thanks! oh and it must be a Wing rom not a herald...i dont like the keyboard fix it makes my keys lag.
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If you want it clean just use Just2Clean (60+ Mb free)by Ivan and add .net cf3.5 and a calculator. It's fast, stable, and that way she won't get anything she doesn't want on it.
If she is a little techie point her to XDA and Freeware PocketPC Everything she could want and more.

papa for sure. I have mine setup like you want on papa's rom but it takes sometime and reg edits.

i think this guy looking for a ROM he can sell on ebay ><><><>< looks fishy to me he's posting everywhere
LOOK OUT!!!!!!!!!

If you are selling the phone, sell it with OEM soft and OS.
Otherwise, you are crossing the line of making a profit of the cook's work in this forum.
And their cost is very high....
Take your wing and revert it back to OEM spec. (My Opinion)

im not making money off selling the rom in any way guys lol. i put an ad on my local craigslist for my wing...i said its overclocked and has a custom rom running much more stable and faster than the normal wing thats all. i think it'd be messed up to revert back to stock rom before i sold it...and they would probably end up taking it back to me =p

play2lose said:
im not making money off selling the rom in any way guys lol. i put an ad on my local craigslist for my wing...i said its overclocked and has a custom rom running much more stable and faster than the normal wing thats all. i think it'd be messed up to revert back to stock rom before i sold it...and they would probably end up taking it back to me =p
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There is nothing wrong with the original rom. It works fine if the pagepool size is fixed. In fact if you update the new TMO rom, then that's basically taken care of.

patspdaphone said:
There is nothing wrong with the original rom. It works fine if the pagepool size is fixed. In fact if you update the new TMO rom, then that's basically taken care of.
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i just tried the original rom out today for the first time in like a year lol...compared to open touch...it is SO wrong. even overclocked at 286 it was soooo slow compared to 249 on open touch.

but the if the person buying the phone has a issue with the phone and cant get in contact with you and takes it to TMO what happens ??? lol.

Take her back to the official and original tmob rom... if something goes wrong she can always knock on their door. Besides that, she can't blame you having it wrecked with a cooked rom when she ruins her device herselves.

User opinion for the best rom for Verizon's HTC TP2

I receive my replacement TP2 tomorrow for Verizon's network. Just wondering what the Verizon TP2 users feel is the best/stable rom. I know everyone's opinion is different, but I'll go with the majority for my TP2. Thanks in advance for your comments.

just be sure not to use one from the GSM forum (this one)
Use the Rhodium CDMA section

I'm also interested in this.
I want to try a rom, but only one that is stable as if it came officially and fast smooth UI too of course. But I've no idea which one would fit the bill. Same I think as the OP is looking for.
It'd be nice to have a stock 6.5 os rom to try and then it'd be neat to have another with added UI manilla or whatever that is or whatever HTC has done to their UI. Also a rom with the Sense UI on it would rock. I'd even like to try that.

I've been using SSK 3.0 for the past 3 or 4 days, and it's fast, reliable, has sense ui, and hasn't had a single problem so far.
I'd reccommend it on the Verizon tp2.
Just make sure you get the Verizon keyboard fix cab, also.

Does the SSK have the MMS issue like the Juicy rom??

Well, I'm using mine on Sprint, and I've no issues in or out with mms.
I actually just got one right after I read that lol

defiantone said:
I receive my replacement TP2 tomorrow for Verizon's network. Just wondering what the Verizon TP2 users feel is the best/stable rom. I know everyone's opinion is different, but I'll go with the majority for my TP2. Thanks in advance for your comments.
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Im using SSK 3.0. He is making an update to his rom for this weekend. It has been working great. He has added some new apps and utilities to the WinMo 6.5 Rom. I like it and will probably stick with his roms. Ive used them through the TP and TP2.

I use both Mighty Roms and Energy Roms and they both work great.

deviantirish said:
Im using SSK 3.0. He is making an update to his rom for this weekend. It has been working great. He has added some new apps and utilities to the WinMo 6.5 Rom. I like it and will probably stick with his roms. Ive used them through the TP and TP2.
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I agree... the SSK roms are great and he supports them very well through his website...
www.sskusers.net
I've had his ROMs way back on my verizon xv6800... my current TP... and I'll use his ROMs on my new TP2 that FexEx says should arrive in the mail tomorrow

what about roms that just work? no need to install anything extra to make it work?

Might ROM for me!

Energy Leo... the best

Calk's Kitchen works without anything additional installed and gives you the option to pick from 5 builds, and it's a KITCHEN!

I seem to hear a lot of good of SSK ROM's. Does SSK ROM fix anything on the TP2? What are the known issues with it so far? SSK website doesn't list issues, just what is included. I would be interested in knowing if any of the usb modem or internet sharing problems have been fixed. I know, I have been through this in another thread, I'm just a little strapped for cash when it comes to having to buy wifi hardware. I'd rather have the usb method working if possible.
I'm no newb to WM. but I am a newb to flashing. I didn't even flash my Q9M ... afraid of bricking the dumb thing with all the horror stories I heard.
One last here, I read about flashing via memory card. Is that possible with this? Thanks

Just wanted to say...

Thanks! To everyone here that contributes and to everyone who has wrote ANYTHING that I have read that has helped me. I have been "hacking" phones for years. It all started with the Razr, one of the first phones I back in the day ... I have done so much reading and surprisingly I was able to install many cooked roms without the need to post any questions. There are MANY detailed tutorials around here. I read what I needed to and looked around.
I didn't really get into installed cooked roms until about 3 days ago. In those short 3 days I have went through 3 or 4 different roms/themes/setups just to get it EXACTLY how I wanted it. Right now I am using:
NFSFAN's WM 6.5.5 23541 SYS/XIP GENERIC CARRIER ROM with SENSE UI 2.5 on a Verizon Touch Pro.
This is the 4th one I have used and I will tell you why. I am on Verizon( ugghhhh I live in Montana I really have no other choice). And with the phone being so crippled(Took out memory and other stuff compared to Sprint, from what I read) I was unable to use a couple different Roms. I WANTED to use them, I LOVED the look, but with everything installed the phone was SO lagged it was nearly impossible to use. On a sprint phone it would of been AWESOME I think. It might not of even been the rom, something might have been wrong when I installed it. I tried MightRom6 and I did like it, the only reason I switched is because I wanted the "Sense" instead of TouchFlo, I don't know why, I just wanted something new, but I LOVE it.
Right now with this cooked rom, and tacchan23's Sense Theme and Top bar I LOVE it. Run's fast as hell. Faster then the Stock rom. Looks AMAZING. Smooth. I LOVE Sense. Right now my phone is set up exactly how I want it. Sense is way better then TouchFlo IMO.
To anyone who is new to installed cooked roms and is on Verizon I highly suggest NFSFAN's Rom if you want Sense, or Mighty if you want TouchFlo(Might is still a little faster from what I can tell, But just doesn't have the look and feel that I want). I wish I had sprint because from what I hear their phones have more memory, and from what I encountered will be able to run certain roms that a Verizon HTC touch Pro won't(I could be wrong).
Anyway, Thanks to everyone who is wrote a tutorial or anything. Thanks to everyone who has worked on ANY cooked rom. Big props to all cooks, they have amazing skills!
Awesome site and awesome job on everything!

Welcome to forums
Nice words for 1st post

Thanks . I've been browsing for over a year, I signed up pretty much a year ago, mainly used this place for simple questions. But I got into the cooked rom scene pretty fast. I was tired of installing all these programs to "customize" my layout, just to slow down my phone even MORE. I love these roms because, not only do I get more functions and a better look than my stock rom, but It is WAY faster, which is really nice. I HATE stock verizon rom. It's ugly, slow, and everything about it is lame. I have tried Wisbar/WBA Desktop/ MObile Shell 3.5, I like them ,but they all slow my phone down WAY to much. Now after I install a cooked rom, I install PhoneX, S2U2 and SMS-Chat, and that is all I need. My phone looks perfect and I am not suffering a loss of resources!
Big props to all the work that is done around here.

[Q] Is This Best Forum For A Memory Question?

I just got a Sprint HTC Touch Pro 2. I know, I'm late to the party.
Have a memory question: Using Task Manager - Viewing Processes I see Device.exe is/was using over 12 MB of memory. I did a soft reset and then Device.exe shows 8.85. What kind of foolishness is going on and can anything be done to prevent squandering of precious memory?
Also when I added up all the memory in processes there is a difference of about 45 MB between what the memory adds up to in processes and what Task Manager shows in Program Memory. Who stole the 45 MB?
Using Windows 6.5 with HTC Sense 2.5 and CHT(Cookies Home Tab) 1.85 which is the best theme I've ever used. Also Duttys Task Manager is a cab I couldn't do without.
I chose CHT over SPB Mobile Shell although I do miss a couple of the SPB widgets.

I had thought of an answer for you but my memory isn't what it used to be.
But seriously, try a rom without 2.5 and CHT and you'll be surprised how much memory you have. I suggest using a rom with Sense 2.1 or Rhodium Manila.

Mr. horndoctor: Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I don't/can't flash. Tried..failed..gave up.
By the way, did you belong to the HTC Touch forum? I think there was a horndoctor that was there.

jimt007 said:
Mr. horndoctor: Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I don't/can't flash. Tried..failed..gave up.
By the way, did you belong to the HTC Touch forum? I think there was a horndoctor that was there.
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Yep, that's me!
I suggest flashing back to the Sprint 6.1 shipped rom. I personally use it. Even though it doesn't have all the eye candy that other roms have it is stable and works great. You don't have to be unlocked to flash it just download it to your pc, sync with your device and click on the exe to flash it. In my opinion, there are a lot of problems with the Sprint shipped 6.5 rom.

Thanks for the insight.
Could you elaborate about what you think are some of the issues?
I've had a few Touch Pro 2's and the first 2 locked up a lot but the one I have now hasn't locked up yet (about a week).
Other then that no real problems.
I wanted the 6.1 memory manager and I got that. I went back and forth between SPB Mobile Shell and HTC Sense but with the Cookie Home Tab theme I really am very pleased with it now. I would like to have the birthday/anniversary widget that is build into MS because it is so fast but I have settled for ManilaBirthday.cab.
If you know of a similar program to ManilaBirthday but is fast I'd like to try it.
If you haven't checked out CHT you really should. Nicest most powerful theme I've ever seen and so far very stable.
By the way I read a lot of your posts from the Touch Forum and got a lot of help from you. Thanks for that too.

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Thanks for the insight.
Could you elaborate about what you think are some of the issues?
I've had a few Touch Pro 2's and the first 2 locked up a lot but the one I have now hasn't locked up yet (about a week).
Other then that no real problems.
I wanted the 6.1 memory manager and I got that. I went back and forth between SPB Mobile Shell and HTC Sense but with the Cookie Home Tab theme I really am very pleased with it now. I would like to have the birthday/anniversary widget that is build into MS because it is so fast but I have settled for ManilaBirthday.cab.
If you know of a similar program to ManilaBirthday but is fast I'd like to try it.
If you haven't checked out CHT you really should. Nicest most powerful theme I've ever seen and so far very stable.
By the way I read a lot of your posts from the Touch Forum and got a lot of help from you. Thanks for that too.
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You're very welcome! It makes me feel good that my efforts might have helped you in any way.
The Sprint 6.5 shipped TP2 rom is based on an early build of 6.5 with Sense 2.5 that has proved to be buggy and very ram hungry. I just don't recommend it but if you are running fine on it then just go with it. You can always flash later to a different rom.
Good Luck!