HTC MOBILE SMARTPHONES

The XIP (kernel) and SYS (main system files) are directly ported from HTC newest handset, the Snap. The drivers are ported from the HTC's latest official released ROM (the "brightpoint rom").

This ROM includes only the stock applications for now (with the exception of a few things, like omapclockset and celetask) as it's meant to be a community based ROM where we can ALL work together, chip in and make suggestions to make the fastest and best ROM for the Excalibur.

With that said, you should be aware that a coupe of applications in this ROM don't work. The HTC Album and the new HTC YouTube application. I left them in the ROM in case somebody smarter than me can figure out why they won't launch. Everything else should work okay. To activate the weather panel, use the Activate Weather.cab in the "\My documents" folder on the phone and reboot.

The pagepool is set at 10 megs (up from the stock 4) for better speed and general "snappiness". You can lower it yourself by using the pagepool_changer application on the ROM's nbh file. I like mine at 10 and could care less about available RAM as long as the phone is fast and responsive

I will add more as more feedback is provided, but for now let's test this first release and see how it performs I hope you like it.

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Release 42709

disabled tmail from starting up at boot
disabled sqmupload service (not necessary)
disabled connection setup download service
updated to JBed java
added basehue, the SMS tools pack, and celecommand
added clockontop am\pm version

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Release 42609

- Initial Release.

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INSTRUCTIONS for flashing:

1. Run Auto.bat included in the archive. It should resent a black command prompt window.

2. Make sure you remove your storage card from the phone before the next steps.

3 .Follow the instructions in the black window. Do NOT reboot when the SDA unlocker tells you to reboot the phone. It's not necessary.

4. You might get a prompt asking you if you want to run the spl program. Just say yes. At that point you should get a white screen.

5. If for any reason you're not seeing a white screen, you did something wrong and you need to try again.

6. Flash the ROM following the instructions in the flashing utility.

You can expect the phone to be "stuck" on the green windows mobile screen for about 2 1/2 minutes the first time. After that, it should only take about 40-45 seconds for the phone to reboot.

INSTRUCTIONS for recovery in case something goes wrong:

Turn your phone completely off. While pushing the camera button, plug in your usb cable. The tricolor, bootloader screen will come up and you can flash your regular OEM ROM which can be downloaded from one of the stickies.

HTC Snap based ROM ** || Build 42609 by NRGZ28