Yo people. I just got myself a diamond.
Wanna ask all the sifus here, can I use my old Dopod 838 Pro (or any other PDA) headset to listen to FM radio? I found that the old headset doesn't give any reception for the radio except for some bzzz noise. MP3 works fine.



This post has been edited by Baronic: Nov 10 2008, 08:09 PM

Even when I walk outside my house, it's still bzz with very very very faint voice sometimes.

Is your headset this?

Yup, a like new 2 months old second hand unit.

Lol. Now I'm looking for a diamond compatible headset that allows me to listen to radio clearly.

Hehe.. Will try lurk around in Lowyat tomorrow.

Waaaa... Don't do that ok? I'm already broke for spending so much on PDA. I need a good headset at reasonable price.

Otherwise, get HTC original Y cable. Supports charging, USB and 3.5mm audio jack at the same time. Not sure if FM radio can run.

To flash, it should take less than 30 minutes, even with radio ROM flashed. About 10 minutes for OS only.

I went to Lowyat Plaza to get a HTC earphone. FM with RDS works like charm with good sound quality. I thought my 838 pro headset does not have antenna lead connection. I came back home happily. CRAP! No reception in Puchong! TD FM radio reception sucks man! Wasted my money buying original HTC earphone.

SPL is a mechanism that loads your operating system, just like how we have BIOS in our computer. With the original SPL, your phone cannot be programmed with another OS ROM in the recovery mode (in case of flashing failure). With HardSPL, the phone can be flashed in tricolour boot mode. Hence, making flashing slightly fail proof.

Radio ROM is the firmware for GSM/WCDMA chipset. It controls every parameter of your PDA's radio including power and frequency. If you experience poor signal quality with the PDA, a new radio ROM may help, but it's not necessary the newest radio ROM that helps. Sometimes downgrade is necessary. Please flash radio ROM cautiously because in case of any failure, even the most godlike HardSPL won't help. It will make your Diamond a phoneless PDA. No one reported JTAG connection for diamond yet, so it may be very very difficult to recover.

Do you have Jblend? Install your Java application through that supplied software.

Yes, cooked ROM/third party ROM requires HardSPL. I have tried flashing a HTC Trinity without HardSPL, it will fail about 80% and fall back to the previous ROM. Reason is stated by Baronic.

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Added on November 11, 2008, 5:27 pmhttp://www.expansys.com/htc/p_htc_item.aspx?i=171922
This is the so called Y cable for diamond. Many versions are available from HTC. They all support 3 function at once; charging, listening to 3.5mm earphones and USB transfer.

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Nov 11 2008, 05:27 PM

I guess it should work appropriately on your work table. Who would charge the PDA and listen to music simultaneously while walking right? Haha..

Anyone have the CAB file to support east asian language? The QVGA CAB file didn't work on diamond.

My diamond can't read chinese characters, just like my Dopod 838 Pro. For QVGA device, I have the CAB file to enable east asian languages such as chinese, korean and japanese. Now I need one that supports VGA.

Oh, I didn't use CE star last time.

Edit: Is the ROM posted by you on the front page SEA version? Has chinese fonts?

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Added on November 11, 2008, 9:17 pmFound the cab file. uhei00m-gray.cab is the file in SEA version of diamond.

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Nov 11 2008, 09:17 PM

My itchy hands can't stop flashing device. Haha.. I flashed my TD on 3rd day of owning it.

Well, I'm very used to flash all kinds of devices including laptop BIOS which is much more deadly. Haha..

I realise that no one complained about the poor FM reception except me. No one listens to FM anymore?

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Nov 12 2008, 03:58 PM

Ahaha.. Yeah, time to setup synchronization between windows media player and windows mobile device again.

My diamond is noticeably warm when used while charging. My old big Dopod 838 Pro doesn't heat up so much.

I don't want my HTC Touch Diamond to be HTC Fat Turtle.

I'm very used to T9 typing. Hence not a problem although I migrated from QWERTY PDA. New diamond keyboard is even faster when typing legitimate english entries.

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Nov 13 2008, 12:33 AM

Texting while driving isn't possible even with my old PDA with physical QWERTY keyboard. At least with the compact QWERTY virtual keyboard in diamond, texting can be done slowly.

Almost every HTC PDA that I've seen suffer from memory leak. Although old models have no touchflo, memory is greatly lost after surfing the internet. With 50MB free RAM that diamond gives me after a boot, I feel free to open any programs without worrying about memory leak.
Battery life; haha, really kinda short. Shorter than my old PDA.

Anyone interested to get AP diamond batteries? About sub 100 only.