So you just blew a ton of cash money on the AT&T Tilt 2, huh. You're one of those guys who just has to have the newest gadget, ain't that right. I hate to break it to you holmes, but there are many things AT&T, Microsoft and HTC could have done to make this sucker worth the money but didn't -- but be cool baby, that's okay because you found your way to my awesome site and I am here to finish what they started and make you love this thing not just out of guilt from having unloaded all that dough (in a bad economy) you should overwise have used to buy a share of Google but because you'll soon be able to do some cooler shit with it. So put your trust in me and let's proceed to pimp your Tilt 2. The last time I updated this site was Jan 15th 2010 and it's currently January 28th 2011.
Update: Where the hell have I been since December? Developing batteryboss.org just for you baby! Also this.
Important: Read this please
1) Flash a rom.
2) Basic apps and tweaks.
3) Web browsers, RSS readers.
4) Today screen.
5) Configuration tools, registry tweaks.
6) Email situation.
7) GPS and other navigation shit.
8) Music, video, rings.
9) Chit chat apps and stupid/fun shit.
10) Wow.
11) Experts.
12) Radios, bitches!
13) What Doug's running. New but incomplete!
14) AT&T warranty compliance flashing.
15) Contact.
16) Fanmail.Another note: After each chapter I give a horizontal squished set of links to the other chapters, the last link of which is blownfuze and if you hit that it takes you to the equivilant section on blownfuze.org for more material on the given subject -- except in the rom flashing, radio flashing and warranty compliance sections for compatibility reasons.
You know how when you turn the phone on you see stuff on the screen that does stuff when you tap the phone? The stuff behind that, sort of, that's called the operating system (we'll be referring to it as the ROM or rom when I get too lazy to capitalize). The ROM you're currently probably using is bloated up with Microsoft and AT&T promotional software, it may criple the phone from tethering and it lacks performance tweaks to make it faster and have more ram available and make you have to soft reset it less. Better battery too, depending which you flash. When I opened the box I loved the phone immediately but once the stock rom loaded I knew the first thing I had to do was flash a custom rom. I want you to bare with me and resolve this rom situation as a rite of passage to use the rest of my site.
Now I've done this and it works. Did it a dozen times and counting since I got the phone. These are quick and dirty instructions for veterans or the otherwise technologically savvy. If that isn't you or you run into any trouble, read this much more thorough set of instructions. First up grab PPCPimBackup which is an exe you run on your phone that will let you back up your contacts, messages, phone logs, all that shit. And install ActiveSync if you haven't already. Then to disable AT&T's anti-sweetness function of your phone so that you can install a better rom, 1) install this cab, 2) soft reset, 3) sync up with USB, then you need to install Rhodium-HardSPL by Olipro (thread) who is the most trusted man on XDA and cmonex who's pretty damn badass herself. 4) You download HardSPL, 5) unzip it into an empty folder, 6) run the Rhodium-HardSPL exe file, 7) click Flash Hard-SPL, 8) hit OK, 9) check your screen to see if you need to hit a softkey to install anything, then you're done -- your screen goes black and then it flashes and reboots. This does not unlock your phone so that you can put other carriers' SIMs in it but if you want that it'll cost you $18 bucks and you gotta go here. It's legit and no I don't know of any free unlockers, hadn't since the Tilt/Kaiser. If you want to throw these guys a few bucks for HardSPL, hit Olipro here and cmonex there. They're the gateway to the coolness, show them some love.
Now it's ROM time baby! Sheeit. You could browse around the Rhodium ROM forum yourself or you could just take my recommendations here. I tried five and my favorites are NRG's Photon rom and Leo rom which incidentally are the most popular among the other rom threads in the Rhodium ROM forum on XDA (which, again, you may want to check yourself). Photon has Sense 2.1 (the new Manila) and Leo has 2.5 and 2.1 has a little less eye candy than 2.5 but 2.5 doesn't work on landscape. You got Twitter on 2.5 which is cool or gay depending on your persuasions. Your call for that trade-off, same is true of all roms with 2.5. I just flashed TPC's rom which is excellent too which makes sense given how great a job he did with his Fuze roms. Other honorable mentions include Monx's ROMeOS and b16b's AthineOS. If you just want a bare-ass bones rom, stock-like minus the crap plus some performance tweaks, try Da_G's clean rom. With exception to Da_G's, these roms were made by Touch Pro2 owners of other carriers with different keymaps than AT&T's so to get the keyboard working the first cab you should install after flashing is this cab then soft reset. For roms that require the keymap cab, those roms do not have the AT&T assisted GPS servers in the registry so if you want aGPS then install this cab by Captain Throwback and you're good. If you get cold feet and want to go back to AT&T at any point (any point after you flashed hardspl that is), visit the warranty chapter for simple instructions.
Look buddy, yes when you turn on the phone for the first time you'll be impressed with its improvements over the Fuze or whatever you used to use but if you could just make it through those three paragraphs and run a custom rom you'll be much happier. Three paragraphs. C'mon. I even put the numbers in boldface for you. If you have no idea what the fuck I was talking about but you're curious and fired up anyway, read this.
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Fire up AppToDate which will check for things you installed to see if there are any newer versions of the program in which case it will download and install it for you. Like Windows Update, but actually helpful and not annoying. Put PPCPimBackup on your storage card (copy it there, don't run it on your computer) so that you can back up the essential personal data and then restore it when you flash a new rom. Use Sprite Backup (pc install) to back up the whole damn phone in case you want to restore after a hard reset or a flash. Install CABviaActiveSync on your PC so that when you install a bunch of cabs from here all you have to do is activesync your phone, right click the cab and click Install via CABViaActivesync. Oh and here's ActiveSync if you don't already have it. MyMobile (pc install) lets you view your phone's screen and do stuff on it from your PC which is very fucking handy. Nothing too exciting in this section but here's Adobe Reader, here's Adobe Flash 7, MyFlash, here's HTC ZIP, an unrar app, a nice and simple notepad and a more thorough and comprehensive file explorer called TotalCommander. Here's Microsoft Voice Commander v1.6.21040, here's Cyberon Voice Commander v2.5.1 b806192. Those are two voice recognition things, the first of which doesn't need to be trained though the second may be more accurate after you train it.
Get your clock as precise as a motherfucker with DaveShaw's TimeSyncTZ v.06 (thread). Get your precious hard buttons to do whatever you want with the awesome buttonmapper AEButton Plus, monitor your battery in detail with Battery (ppc exe) and use WKTaskL to make your start bar more effective for multitasking. I don't know if you'll need them but just in case here's MSCF and SQLite. Here's Microsoft Voice Commander v1.6.21040, here's Cyberon Voice Commander v2.5.1 b806192. Those are two voice recognition things, the first of which doesn't need to be trained though the second may be more accurate after you train it. I strongly encourage you to use Lumos v10rc2 by nik3r which adjusts your backlight in response to the readings of your phone's light meter.
Update 10/31: Once upon a time there was this badass app for measuring and plotting out power drain on your phone. Then came the Fuze and due to some kind of funky hardware incompatibility it didn't work. Along came the Tilt 2 and hoo ray it fucking works again. It's called abcPowerMeter by abcPocketSoft (website), makers of the highly-regarded abcTaskMan (crippleware) which is a combination of abcPowerMeter and a really badass task manager. abcPowerMeter's good to use if you want to compare power consumption of different radios and roms, to see how much extra juice having an open push activesync connection open versus a five minute sync interval or in my case right now to see if this 2000mAh battery I ordered from a Chinaman does in fact last longer than the 1500mAh OEM battery which I bought for $12 (including shipping) when the OEM batteries from AT&T, when they have them in stock, are like fifty bucks almost. The way I'm trying to do that accurately, just started, is doing a full drain/full charge of the battery, launching abcPowerMeter and seeing how many milliamp hours were used by the time the thing is about to die. Then I'll do the same for the OEM and if it's either equal or better than the OEM I will post the link here but not until then because let's face it, ordering from the Chinese on eBay? Sketchy.
Update 11/4: On the subject of battery consumption, if you want to stretch your battery life as long as possible, the great Chainfire made WMLongLife just for you. Basically what this does is smartly shift up and down from edge to 3G based on whether you run a program that you specify on WMLongLife as being 3G-worthy (like Opera and a streaming app) but when you're otherwise idling or only using email or anything you don't specify as 3G-worthy it ramps down to edge. In case you don't know being on 3G, even if you're on edge but you have 3G turned on but just aren't close enough to a tower to get 3G, means the phone has to pump out a lot more stuff that is related to radiation and power drain and possibly damaged gonad function. That's a gross oversimplification of the program so please read the thread because goddamn it's impressive, just the programming, even if you don't care about battery saving. Oh yeah and he's the author of the world famous and awe-inspiring WMWifiRouter and a bunch of other sweet shit. I have a feeling none of you will click it due to pervasive cheapness but just in case here's his donation link. For some reason HTC made this phone pause certain applications when you put it on standby including music applications like Nitrogen (but not HTC's own media player in Sense). Until I can find a registry tweak that changes this behavior, if this thing is causing you problems you can just kill the screen backlight without activating whatever gets activated when it pauses your stuff by using TurnOffTheLights by Ut0p1a. It puts a shortcut in your Start Menu and you can map a button to it with AEButton.
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Update 12/2: The Opera people just dropped beta two of Opera Mobile 10 and Opera Mini 5 b2. Will report once I test it out but you can read a review on fuzemobility.com. Update 11/16: Guess what people Opera 10 just hit. I'm about to install it (had to put it up first) so I can't quite comment yet but you can watch this video if you'd like.
Man I am so pissed right now, my machine rebooted out of nowhere after having typed the next three sections without having saved. They were good too; funny, helpful shit. Okay where was I. You have this Opera thing on your phone that is a browser, a better one by anyone's account than Internet Explorer. Well I have this thing called Opera 9.7b1 build 35461 so what's up now motherfucker? This one is maybe the fastest across-the-board browser you'll find and also the most elegant and intuitive. Hell my mother uses it. Update: Well fuck me, here's another, 9.7b1 build 35523. Update 11/4: Got another update, Opera build 35541, don't know what improvements it has but there you go. The difference between this and the one already on your phone is that it might be a little faster, and it definitely will if you enable Turbo mode in Settings > Advanced. Test that shit out or watch this. Downside with this beta, as of now, is no Flash support but who the fuck cares. In case you're that guy, install the more stock-like Opera 9.5 build 17518 (thanks Capt Throwback) which does have flash enabled and here's Skyfire which does all that gay shit too. Here's the current official beta of 9.7, number 35116.
If you like to read on the toilet, you should have a good RSS client and for that I recommend pRSSReader 1.4.3 but more people like DaveShaw's RSS Hub v2.1.1.1065 (thread) and to get you started you can import my OPML file which will give you these feeds: CrunchBoard Jobs, Slashdot, TechCrunch, Fuze Mobility, MobileCrunch, Engadget Mobile, Lifehacker, Google Trends, NYTimes, Washington Post, XDA Dev/hacking, XDA Rhodium Software, XDA Raphael Software, grouphug.us and The Onion Radio News. Another RSS client I'm told is worth trying is Viigo. And if you have a Google RSS feed aggregating account and want to link up to it with your phone, then emunee's Speeed Reader v0.83 is for you (thread, website, donate).
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4) today/Manila/Sense, Titanium.
I know a lot of you want themes and shit like that but I've got to spare my bandwidth for more important stuff so let me aim you at a good XDA thread for WVGA wallpaper/theme cabs and jpgs, so go here and look around, some good shit there. I've still got some work to do on this section...
Update 11/13: Okay well this isn't for the today screen but it's the same idea. If you want your dialer skin, the thing where you press the numbers to call somebody, if you want that shit to be a chic black, blaze up Dark Rhodium Dialer by Invade (thread) and soft reset that son'bitch.
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5) Configuration, registry tweaks.
This chapter is for those of you who want to get under the hood of your phone. Here's HD Tweak 0.5.4 (website), an easy registry manipulation front-end like AdvancedConfig 3.3 (wiki) but each of the two has a few things the other doesn't so I recommend having both. Want to screw around with the registry yourself? Then use PHM RegEdit (carefully) or if you want to do it from the comfort of your PC use Mobile Registry Editor with lets you do it while activesynced.
Update 12/8: In addition to the speed tweaks for which I've seen evidence of efficacy below, Vendetta from the AT&T forums figured out a YouTube fix that he claims (I'm still testing it) will boost the client to finish buffering within ten seconds, tweaks which may affect all other data-using software. It may not however play nice with Opera and it might even disable HSDPA (which you can reenable yourself in Settings > Connections > Advanced Network) so only install this for now if you love youtube. You can examine the modifications it will make and you may download this cab containing the changes put together by my main man xredjokerx. Update 12/1: Got two witch doctor speed booster registry tweaking cabs for you. The first one is Data Network Speed Fix for AT&T Tilt 2 by jh20001 (thread), the other is Raphael Net Speed Boost discovered by dearmasfamily and cabbed up by SH4YD33 (thread). Those threads are full of posts claiming these things helped, pasting their speedtest results. To try a bit to make sure they weren't blinded by the placebo affect, I conducted my own tests of the two which I encourage you to read about here. Seriously, read that, I worked hard on it and it's good shit. I'll hyperlink it again. Basically I concluded that there was enough conclusiveness regarding these tweaks working to put them on my site (hence this entry). Are you too big a pussy to flash from AT&T's stock rom but want to tether and are having problems? Not to worry, you big pussy, jh20001 whipped up some kind of work-around cab for you. Pussy. Hey if you're serious about tethering, man up and get WMWifiRouter.
XDA contributor hoosbude figured out how to get some extra camera modes for you including 30 picture burst, 5 picture sports, Video Share to send what you record to POutlook and GPS Photo to tag your shots and cabbed it up (thread). Update 10/31: Happy Halloween. My man joshkosh and my homeboy dotcompt whipped up this here cab (thread) that will let you use that otherwise somewhat useless zoom bar thing below the screen to a scroll bar for the start menu, Manila's email preview, music albums, favorite contacts and photos while leaving its other existing zoom functions intact. Nice work fellas.
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If you have a Gmail account you're in luck as you can now sync your email push-style, your calendar and your contacts with ActiveSync over SSL as you would any other Exchange server. It's tricky to do this so I advise you to read this thing I wrote on FuzeMobility. And whether you're using Gmail or your company's Exchange server with ActiveSync and you get pissed when your connection drops and the pushing quits on you, fire up ConnectionStateChecker v1.2.1 by danielherrero (thread) which pings Google and if it doesn't get a reply it will reinitiate a data connection. Note that keeping a data connection open, which is necessary for push mail, drains your juice. But it's so sweet being synced up to Gmail including their calendar and contacts. If only they'd do tasks. Eventually. Update 10/30: If you use Outlook on your computer you can get your Outlook calendar and your Gmail calendar (and your phone's calendar if you did the above) to sync up to each other using Google Calendar Sync v0.9.3.5.
If you gotta have fast mail but don't have access to an Exchange server but your email server supports IMAP-Idle, no problem, Outlook Email Scheduler by Guby (thread) not only lets you get push-like email without needing another service like mail2web or another email client like FlexMail, you can also set synchronization frequency over defined periods (like every five minutes from 9am to 5pm on weekdays, every hour otherwise). If you have a bunch of email accounts and would like something to trigger a send/receive for all the accounts then try SendReceiveAll v.1 by krazy_about_technology (thread) which is an exe you want to drop in \windows\start menu\programs.
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Update 12/2: Guess what baby, new Google Maps, v3.3.0 #53. The new deal with this is that you can synchronize your location starring with your desktop on regular Google Maps but you do need a google account. Here you go, Google Maps 3.2.1, with layers, better traffic, Latitude and street veiw. They're getting pretty good at this, Google. For your free turn-by-turn needs, you can avoid spending money or pirating TomTom by installing Waze v1.2.4 (website). It ain't pretty and is very alpha, but it sort of works and what's cool about this one is that everyone using it uploads their coordinates constantly to the Waze servers so Waze can figure out how much traffic there is for you, if someone spotted a speed trap on your road, accidents and so on. But it's not too popular yet so odds are no one within a 100 mile radius of you is also using it but hey it's cool so try it. And again, turn by turn. Doesn't always make the right decisions. Partly why it's free I suppose.
Here's a program you may like, Trapster (slashdot), which if you like to speed and run red lights without getting jammed up by the fuzz, is your friend. I think it's free but you do have to register. Once you do you'll be plugged into the driving community (over one million have this thing the claim) and it tips you off about speed traps and traffic light cameras based on user feedback. Even if you don't speed it's worth trying out just to see how good the concept is in reality. And if you do get pulled over, you may want to shut your phone off because to po-leece don't like this software. While we're on the subject if you do get pulled over shut your car off, put the keys on the roof, window down unless your car smells like drugs, hands on the wheel at 10 and 2 o'clock. Unless you want to get fucked do not use GPS software if you don't have a thing to mount your phone on. If a cop sees you holding the phone by the wheel you are screwed. By the way be careful people installing TomTom, heard that might lead to a hard reset, will advise later. Update: Okay if you want to fire up TomTom, use this version, the latest I think, TTNav 7.916.9189.1 for WVGA. Note that the cab is free but the maps, which don't come with it, ain't so you either gotta buy a map here or use Waze. Don't bother asking me for piracy and map cracking clues, that's one thing I can't help you with. And shame on you. :)
My main man highway cooked up GPS Location v1.1a (thread, donate). What this bitch does is let you send someone your location via SMS and email in raw coordinates or a Google Maps link.
The AT&T crowd is very new to this phone so I can't tell you things like whether flashing a higher-build HTC radio will affect your GPS or offer any tweaks yet, but I think you'll see that your new phone's GPS is already a a big step up from your Fuze out of the box. If you flash a rom that's not AT&T-specific (IE one that needs the keymap cab), you may want to install this cab by Captain Throwback which puts the AT&T assisted GPS servers into your registry to give you a faster lock (that is if you have aGPS enabled). How do you know if your aGPS is probably working? Close all programs, turn off data, start an offline gps program like GPSTest or BeeLineGPS (not Google Maps) and see if your phone initiates a data connection. If it doesn't, aGPS ain't working. Make sure it's turned on in Settings > System, make sure you installed that cab I just mentioned.
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8) Music, video, rings and themes.
Update 12/1: Got some sweet shit for you today starting off with adolfotregosa's FM radio cab (wiki). You need headphones for those to work, the wire serves as an antenna. Might already be in your custom rom. Haven't tried it because I listen to which I can now do once again because of tcbusch of geekstoolbox.com who cranked out SiriusWM6 (thread), successor to SiriusWM5 which became defunct after the merger with XM. Thank you tcbusch, thank you geekstoolbox.com. Thank you. I also got an old classic voice recorder which dumps sound into MP3s for you and that is NoteM. Good for espionage, would be better if it had auto-start on voice detection but hey, nice to be able to record with strong compression.
At0mAng hooked us up with the rings, alerts and alarms of the HTC Leo and dropped them in a cab for you. Did the same for the Rhodium in case you need them after flashing a barebones rom. Here are the Blackberry tones (the midis may not work, just the wavs). Not to be outdone, I scooped out the HTC Hero (Android) notifications, alarms and rings and zipped it up. Note that some of those Android files are OGGs so if you like one of those you'll have to convert it to wav or mp3 or just stick to the wavs and mp3s already on it
Some guy asked me, "Yo dawg how can I watch Hulu?" I looked up an answer and that is FryWalker's MyPlayer (thread, donate) which is initially sweet until you realize you can't get foreign streams unless you pay to use their proxy server and you may also have to use CorePlayer which isn't free. You can use TCPMP and in options tell it to start the tcpmp.exe in \programs\tcpmp\ but it's a little choppy however it does work. Same deal with iPlayer (thread) which is just a BBC TV client but a good one.
Gotta hand it to LordFuzzy024 for whipping up KeepMyTones (thread). What this thing does is save a map of your notification settings -- which wav to play for a ring and such, what to play for incoming calls from specific numbers if you specify, then drops that list onto your storage card. Then when you flash a new rom or get a new phone, you just install the cab again and then restore the xml file and you got your rings back without having to go through and set each one again. It does not however store the actual wavs itself so if you added your own to the phone you gotta add them again. Still badass.ctually I would move if I had to. My fiancee who works for Nickelodeon, a good gig as a media marketing coordinator, said she's willing to quit and pack her bags to fly with me to Mountain View or San Francisco were I offered a job with the likes of Google. Apparently she knows I love Google more than she loves MTV Networks. No idea how that would work out financially or logistically but we'd do it were that an option.
If you like music and draining your battery but you don't want to pay for a SiriusXM subscription, you want GrooveFish (thread, website). It works like this - you type in a name of a song, album, artist or whatever and it searches some kind of database, maybe it's a p2p thing, and then it lists results, you tap one and it starts playing in good quality.
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9) Chit chat apps and stupid shit.
You can use the official Facebook client but a great alternative or supplement is Fim by blutz (thread, website, donate), a facebook chat client with status feed, notifications, new message indicators and picture/video uploading which is definitely worth trying. You can take it a step further and install his WM6.5 CHome Plug-in for extra badassness. But real pimps converse on IRC and you can too with PocketIRC 1.2.5 (shareware, website). Get your twit on in style with PockeTwit by Dromio (thread, donate) which for some reason even has GPS support.
This program is by no means stupid but smoking is, debatably, so I guess this is the appropriate chapter: Smoke Tracker by the great c0rnholio (thread, donate), with the help of your finger every time you smoke, non-judgmentally audits your smoking and advises you if you are smoking too frequently with an included caugh.wav to hit your daily target or maximum and produces detailed statistics including how much this is costing you. I mapped my volume up button to it using AEButton Plus. Nice work, c0rnholio.
Want to play games? Check out this old classic, DopeWars, but sooped up to take advantage of the Tilt 2's 3D graphics engine. That's all for now; if you want more chit chat apps and stupid shit check my other site. If you want to do some crazy 3D racing, satisfy your yellow fever and impress yourself with your phone's graphics, try Xtrakt by Sony made for the Xperia but it works pretty well on the Tilt 2. Hint: Steer with the stylus, tap things you want to shoot with your Japanese laser plasma thing.
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This section's reserved for really amazing shit... as soon as I find some I'll let you know.
Update 12/1: Hey! I'm back, sorry about that. Okay so you want to record phone calls right? You can use Auto Call Recorder by Slothie or InCall_Recording by someone else but when you try it you might discover that it's only recording one half of the conversation. Thanks to mskip (thread) here's a registry tweaking cab to make it work just right along with a cab of both the tweak and InCall_Recording. Difference between ACR and ICR is that ACR can be set to record automatically whereas with IRC you have to activate it each time from the bottom right menu on the phone during the call. Have either program dump into a folder on your sd chip.
Update: Okay here's something for those of you who have their old Tilt lying around. Want to try Google Android without changing carriers? Fucking badass sounding, right? I would not recommend waiting around for AT&T to grow the stones to release an Android phone anytime soon so to do that, well it's a little ghetto but it works, download this, unzip it, copy everything straight to your SD chip in the root folder, pop it in the Tilt (Kaiser) along with your SIM if you want data and phone, start it up (it will load WinMo), drive File Explorer to your SD chip and tap haret.exe (the Android/Linux bootloader) then Run. This will boot up Linux/Android. It's a long-ass boot but interesting and worth it. No it won't fuck up your WinMo, it's not permanent and you're not installing Android you're just running it; so just soft reset and you're back in WinMo, SD data intact. Get your push gmail easily, log in to their market thing and browse around, check out the widgits, see what life is like on the other side. Still note that it works better on a phone actually intended for the operating system and not some port some bored hackers whipped up for you to run on your SD chip. And no, it's not Android 2.0 so you can't run this I'm sorry to say. Not yet. Even money which will come first, a WinMo port of Google Maps Navigation or a WinMo /phone/ port of Android 2.0. But try this anyway, nothing to lose -- but NOT on anything other than your old Tilt.
Update 11/13: Hey! Intrigued by that shit but bummed because you only have a Fuze lying around? Not to worry mothafucka because you can run Android pretty well on your Fuze. If you know the procedure already, just grab this, though you may want to fire up my article about what the hell this is and how to run it on fuzemobility. It's badass. Read the article.
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Reserved for stuff most of you won't know how to use. Okay just dumping files now -- WiFiFoFum v2.2.12 (donate) WiFiMonster v1.0.52.149 by m0n5ter (thread, website) Handy Sniffer v2.04 (website) WifiLocations (donate) PocketPutty (ppc exe) vnc client OpenVPN client SMSpam v.02 by thschorn (thread) BT spammer by smartmadsoft (website) vxUtil Cain amsniffer
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You're not going to find someone who knows whether this radio is better than the one already on your phone but hey it's got a higher build number, 4.49.25.17, which is an HTC Rhodium radio requiring a regular HardSPL unlock. But here's 4.47.25.24, the one that came with the first batch of Tilt 2s, in case you flash to another, don't like it and want to flash back. Until I experiment more and collect better and more definitive feedback from the radio enthusiasts, this section isn't going to be of much help unless you're bored. But I'll just leave these here for now, all the radios that will work on your phone with HardSPL installed: 3.44.25.27, 3.46.25.18, 3.46.25.30, 4.46.25.24, 4.47.25.24, 4.49.25.05, 4.49.25.17. Will explain later!
And as for rilphone.dlls, nobody knows what the fuck is going on so don't fret over them. I'll let you know if that changes.
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Now that I just flashed another rom, figured I'd walk you through what I'm currently walking myself through to give you an idea of how badass you can make your phone if you want to be like me. The rom I chose was EnergyROM Leo build 23158, Jan 14th with Sense 2.5, full landscape support with MaxManila. Brand new build branch, probably unstable and definitely funky, but what attracted me was the word of threaded emailing and I want to see what that's all about because that could bring me another step toward not relying on texting. Keep in mind I am typing each sentence immediately after I do each step so I won't have much to say about the final product, specifically in terms of what's doing with this new build, but I think reporting to you this way elevates the level of intimacy and sweetness.
First up if you didn't do this already you gotta flash hardspl. Get CABviaActiveSync too. Okay so after I flashed I fired up ActiveSync and installed the AT&T Tilt 2 keyboard map as this is a Euro rom and my favorite taskbar, WkTask. Now I got MyMobile on my computer going so I can use the phone on my computer which makes some steps simpler. Went into Settings > Clock to fix the time, then Settings > Personal > Owner Information to tell whoever steals my phone that I'm a real person and to consider returning my phone for a hundred bucks, no questions asked. Then into Settings > Personal > Input to turn off the stupid autocomplete shit (I hate that). then Settings > Personal > Buttons to map ..
Ahh fuck it I don't like this branch yet, I'm rolling back to EnergyROM Leo 21885 from Dec 17th. I'll try again and then make this section good but not until the next release. Damn thing can't handle my sixteen gigger. Sorry, give me a little while longer.
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13) AT&T warranty compliance restoration.
If shit goes crazy with your software but you think your hardware is fine, try hard resetting which will wipe out your data and restore the phone to when it was first flashed which is either since your last custom rom or the original stock rom. To do that, with the phone off, hold down the talk, end and power buttons until you get the gray screen warning you about deleting everything. Then you release the keys and press volume up. Done.
If you flashed another rom and/or radio and scuff up your phone and want to try your luck with the warranty department, to be safe you may want to restore the software to the way it was out of the box (including the stock rom, stock radio, stock boot splash and stock SPL/bootloader). Depending on their mood these people will could look hard for a way to screw you out of warranty coverage -- and even make you pay up for their time. To decustomize your flashed phone, download this and flash it (unless you don't have HardSPL for some reason). This is a reconstructed stock rom brought to you by Da_G and herg (thread). It includes the original stock radio, the stock boot splash screen and the stock SPL. Everything you need. You can hit Da_G with a few bucks here and herg here if you use this thing because they will have saved your ass.
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One last note: Notice that I have no ads or a paypal button for myself. Though I do give donation links to the developers. If while using my Cadillac of Tilt 2 resource websites you get the urge to give me money, I'd be just as grateful were you to give it to those whose work deserves it, which is all of the developers on my site otherwise I wouldn't have included their work. Seinfeld: "Cheapness is not a virtue."
Again I'm only getting started here. I want to test most things out before I put them up so I need time. Quality assurance, you dig?
Doug Simmons
