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Win Mo 6.5!

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Wow, I installed a custom rom that built around the Windows Mobile 6.5 platform on my HTC Touch Pro and I was amazed how fast it is, how much battery life it doesnt use up and the overall useablility that I have found in the few hrs I have use it. It used to be that w/e I open something I get a 5-10 sec wait now in less then a sec it opens up. It makes better use of the HTC acelerometer too. If this is beta then I can't wait to see the Retail version.

Changes:
Faster
UI very simple
Everything Easy to find
Battery life improved at least 30%. (I can use wifi for 3hrs and still have 80%, used to go down to 50%.)

Cons:
Still cant customize the today screen?
 
This is JUST for the touch pro, not the touch, nor the Diamond. The diamond, however, has a few 6.5 roms built.

I flashed to the first Mighty5, and there were a few bugs that held it back, the latest 4/25 build was excellent though. I WOULD advise disabling the HTC dialer skin in lieu of the stock version, saves about 10mb of ram.

As for customizing the home screen, I already used Chome editor to build out a "favorite apps" tab that cycles between what I use most, as well as adding the Opera panel, "favorite people" panel, and the weather panel.
 
I'll probably have to check this out when my Xperia comes in, provided there is a ROM available for it (I hope so, I googled a few a while back).
 
I'm hoping this is better than the first 6.5 ROM I tried. That was buggy and crashed apps a lot (standard stuff like Opera and Palringo).

I switched back to EnergyROM2 (6.1) and have been enjoying it, but I agree that 6.5 ran faster (when it worked) than any of the 6.1 ROMs currently out.
 
i just put the Mighty5 rom on my touch pro and i love it. It's almost perfect. All I need now is an IM client since I lost the one that sprint gave me.
 
DNA, you can download the stock Sprint one from PPCgeeks.com, or get Beejive's IM client, which is an unsupported beta and free. It works very well, and their blackberry software is the best out there (and paid).
 
I've got a real nice wm6.5 rom on my hermes (8525) too. I really like the UI changes they made and it seems to be a bit faster than 6.1 was
 
entropism, I found the Sprint one on PPCgeeks last night. I was lost without an IM client. I don't use it a lot, but for some reason I needed it yesterday after I flashed and i was looking all over.

So far with 6.5 I have noticed it fixed the bluetooth issue I have had. about half the time I would turn on Bluetooth and it wouldn't come on. I would do a soft reset and when the phone would boot, bluetooth would finally be on. I hated it, and so far it's all good.
 
Hm.

I've used several WM 6.5 ROMs on my Touch Diamond, and none of them have improved app load speeds or battery life. They're essentially WM 6.1 with a different Start menu and some larger fonts. There isn't much different, and no reason that a WM 6.5 ROM would give you those additional benefits over a good WM 6.1 ROM.

I'm currently using a WM 6.1 ROM with SPB Mobile Shell v3.
 
Agreed. 6.1 to 6.5 doesn't matter. Just use SPB Mobile Shell 3 and the .NET Framework 3.5 tweak if the rom you have installed doesn't already have it. I also love the SPB keyboard.
 
6.5 does have a smaller footprint overall though. I've flashd back and forth and I have more RAM available on 6.5 just starting out it seems.
 
OldPueblo said:
6.5 does have a smaller footprint overall though. I've flashd back and forth and I have more RAM available on 6.5 just starting out it seems.
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Does it?

Could it be the 6.5 builds don't include TF3D?
 
kumquat said:
Does it?

Could it be the 6.5 builds don't include TF3D?
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MightyROM 5 does, you just have to enable it. However I guess a better way to put it is you can still get a nice touch interface without TF3D therefore yeah using less space initially I suppose.
 
6.5 definitely runs a bit quicker and uses less ram, but it's still quite buggy. MightyROM5 worked well for me, but some custom tweaks I did started bugging out on me, had to hard reset and restore from backup. I'll wait for Mighty's new one, possibly Silence's 6.5 stable, possibly Merdin's. If the bugs don't clear up relatively soon, I'm going back to MightyRom 4.16 and waiting for microsoft to release 6.5 officially.
 
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