Comments on: The Latest From HTC On Video Drivers/ROM’s

By: motionmind

motionmind — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:35:54 +0000

I’ve been running cooked ROMs for a long time now and, while some do have problems, the vast majority are based on stock roms and work just fine. As for the drivers getting cooked into a ROM once released, I’d be surprised if they didn’t hit xda-dev before they were ever officially released.

If they get released.

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By: All About Phones

All About Phones — Fri, 09 May 2008 22:15:24 +0000

In Holland we had a pressconfrence two days ago. There HTC confirmed the update to us so it is offcial as it gets!

Read more about it in ducht: http://www.allaboutphones.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=2594#hfd4

Q&A number 8 is about the drivers.

By: Doug Smith

Doug Smith — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:21:39 +0000

@j: If I had a nickel for everytime I had to reinstall because I flashed a ROM. It’s no big deal, after a few times you get used to it and get a routine down. I have all my cabs re-labeled so I can install them quickly.

@James: You must be releated to my wife, she never forgets anything either!!!! LOL YOU’RE KILLIN ME!!!! :)

@proto732: Try Dutty’s ROMS, I have never had a bad experieince with any of them. They are really quick. I missed the cube in is last ROM, but I have been using Shell lately so it is no big deal. I am with James though, I will believe it when I see it. However, msmobiles is supposed to be really reliable so I am keeping a glimmer of hope.

Gotta go draw a winner to the Ilium Contest!!! CYA!

By: Proto732

Proto732 — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:17:30 +0000

If drivers could be extracted from the ROM and applied to the different TytnII flavors rather than cooked into a new ROM, that would be best.

I experimented with the ROMs in the past on my Apache they are a double edged sword. You might get better performance, more storage, … but there is always that hint of danger. For example one of the ROMs I used on the Apache had an issue with a piece of software the official ROM worked fine with. This conflict would randomly cause the device to lockup on boot. The only fix was a hard reset. Until I figured out the conflict it was a complete gamble if I did a soft reset.

And reading thru some of the TILT ROM threads I see the same thing with many of the cooked versions… “10 times more storage, but MMS, Voice Command and Direct Push don’t work”

I’d rather stick with a stock ROM for now. I know everything on it works, I’ve got 6gigs of storage on a MicroSD, and I’ve applied all the normal reg speed tweaks. I doubt I would have much to gain at this point from a cooked version.

So some sort of externally installable drivers would be awesome … but more than likely it NEEDS to be in ROM for some reason or another.

Fingers crossed.

By: James Schneider

James Schneider — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:29:44 +0000

And Doug this isn’t another one of your April Fool’s jokes is it? A little late now isn’t it?? :-)

By: James Schneider

James Schneider — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:28:03 +0000

Cooked ROMs are definitely a matter of opinion, and mine is that they blow the doors off of any “Official” ROM that is out there. I’m also in the mind set of I’ll believe it when I see it for this supposed new ROM with drivers. I’m an optimistic pessimist.

By: Tireux de Roche

Tireux de Roche — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:45:32 +0000

No cooked ROM for me.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:31:15 +0000

No “official” Tilt ROM. Vacuums.

I wish they would do the drivers and the WM6.1 upgrade would be released to us at the same time…ya know…like now!

By: j

Thu, 08 May 2008 21:22:40 +0000

Ugh, a new ROM? So I’d have to reinstall everything again?