Another WM 6.5 ROM

I used the WM 6.5 by tomal for only one day because there is annoying bug. It is when I turned my device off after a while I can't wake my device up. After asking in the forum, there were another person having the same problem with me and it might be because my Universal is only 64 MB and I don't have any intentions to upgrade it to 128 MB by myself. So I do search the forum again in and found another 'cooked' ROM by xplode.

I have use this ROM for 3 days and it is much much much more stable and nice.


Notice that the top title bar / buttons has a different layout and I like this one better. This WM6.5 will spare us around 12 MB RAM and it could make you stressed out if you want to run a heavy application because of the slow response.

There aren't many applications included in this ROM, but it has esmertec JBED along with Opera Mini and Gmail in it. The TCPMP subtitle edition - which is not working on tomal's - is working fine in xplodes.

Haven't found any bugs yet so I'll just recommend this one if your UNI is also 64 MB type. What is this 64 MB / 128 MB type? Well I believe that HTC Universal and its brothers are shipped only with 64 MB RAM but you could mod it to 128 MB. You could read in the wiki for the fun part.

WM 6.5 In HTC Universal

After a long thorough reading and praying I finally pull out all my guts and upgrade to a beta version of Windows Mobile 6.5. Why would I do that? Simply because I'm bored with the WM standard appearance and yes WM6.5 is different and it's soooo cool by default. Well, can't be compared with iPhone/Android/Pre of course but it's not like the same old WM you've ever seen. Trust me. I'm using WM 6.5 build 23003 - this is 3rd Beta Version by tomal. You could download and read other user's reviews in here.

WM 6.5 appearance :



The boot splash and Windows logo is changed to vista-like colour and style. The start menu is now not a drop down anymore but a hexagonal arranged icons (see upper right, below left and below center images above) and the Today Screen format also changed. By default it will list a few links to the applications (upper left and center pic).

In Internet Explorer, the User Agent now is
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Windows Phone 6.5)"
which if you compared to the previous one
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; WinXP) (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; IEMobile 7.11) Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; WinXP)"
is.. shorter.. haha..

Anyway, yes I still encounter a few bugs, but as tomal said in his post, the Beta 3 is much more stable then previous and decent for daily usage. Upgrading to WM6.5 in Universal is simpler than Treo 750 (WM6 to WM6.1) as in my previous post.

Here are the steps :

1. Download the cooked ROM which normally is an .exe file.
   
2. Connect your device using USB.
3. Launch the application while praying at the same time. The installer said that the upgrade will took 20 minutes using USB cable connection but mine finished in 5 minutes.
   
4. After that you will be asked to hard reset your Universal. Press the two soft keys in the same time and press the reset button using your stylus, then press 0 (' zero') in the keypad.
5. This is the most thrilling part. My O2 XDA Exec was 'frozen' for a 3 minutes. Then the Windows logo appear and 'tap here to configure your device' shown.
6. After do screen aligning, you could use your Universal right away.

All credits to tomal of course. ;)