To paraphrase the character from “The Fast Show” – This week, I have been mainly flashing the TyTn!
Now that my MDA Vario II is well out of warranty, I can safely admit to having played with the many ROMs around. Many have “issues”, even the latest WM6 upgrade from HTC (the official T-Mobile upgrade) proved to be a liability. Dead battery within hours of a full charge, no bluetooth, very poor reception, I could go on. About the best of the bunch for me was Black Majik, so this week I have gone back to Black. Now the battery is only on 80% at the end of a hard day (including a little wifi). Bluetooth is still an annoying bug, but I can live with it as the TyTn has IR.
Having upgraded the ROM I had to reload all the gubbins via backup (SPB Backup, great for this job) and since I run most of my programs from the SD card I just had to add the shortcuts to the start menu from the backup file on the card that I made prior to re-flashing (a real time saver).
Programs that are best reloaded on to the phone itself include SPB Mobile Shell (I just upgraded from the first version to version 2.1) an excellent program that gives a real TouchFlo feel to the interface. Phatnotes and SplashID have to sync with their desktop equivalents so they shouldn’t go on the card either (I have older versions).
Even though the TyTn has persistent memory I can’t emphasis enough that you should still make backups. SPB Backup is very versatile. I also copy my SD card to my PC for extra peace of mind.
SPB Mobile Shell 2.1 in action.
