Flashing WM6.5 (cooked ROM)
Here are simple rules to prepare yourself:

1. You are ready to Hard Reset your device which means all current data
will be lost and you need to reinstall your Contacts, SMS, Appointments,
etc, u can use software "PIMBackUp" to back-up all those (its a free
software so google it) .. and also need to reinstall all applications,
registry tweaks etc.. (this must done be manually)

2. You must follow instructions below, i dont make that instructions, its a
guideline taken from xda-developers, u can always refer there if you feel
doubtful.

The installation (or we call it "flashing") is very easy.. U just have to
Back-Up data, HardSPL your Touch Pro, and finally flash the WM6.5 ROM and
you're done..

Here are the instructions, please follow these simple steps below:

1. Download these two files HardSPL and Shep's ROM WM6.5 with Rhodium
2. Back-up your data using PIMBackUp as stated above
3. Flash HardSPL into your TP. This will hard reset ur
device (make sure u connect activesync, TP battery life above 50% and PC has been disabled auto-
standby, hibernate etc)
4. Check whether your TP has successfully HardSPL'ed by press and hold the volume
down button, then press reset button with stylus. It will show tricolour
screen and show "1.90.OliNex" .. If everything ok, proceed with next steps
5. Then flash Shep's ROM WM6.5 with Rhodium.. also install the cab file included (for keyboard fix)
6. Restore your back-up data
7. Done

It's simple right?

*Warning: if u don't HardSPL your TP, u will brick (kaput) your device permanently.. don't ask me what and why HardSPL coz i don't know, i oso follow instructions from the expert last but not least, flashing HardSPL and WM6.5 are on your own risk

Search xda developers and there are a lot of discussion on this. At first people think that it is due to the GPS receiver, but then it was narrowed down to the slow graphics redraw, purportedly due to the lack of graphics device drivers that utilises the hardware acceleration available on the built-in ATI Imageon GPU. To rule out GPS receiver issue, select a route and run it using route simulator.


See video below to compared how smoothly the Mobile XT is suppose to be in a proper device
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJWAu6IRe4

See also this website
http://www.htcclassaction.org/

We need to continue to hunt for a solution

btw, this thread touch pro picture..can change? not nice le...haha...

Some time back , I believe someone posted a way to get the Touch HD style on screen keyboard and keypad on the touch pro .... But I can't seem to find it..

Anyone with a link ?

Darn... my TP just died... I can't even get it to turn on and charging doesn't even trigger the charging LED. Hopefully warranty can still be claimed as I have used HardSPL

What did you do to it, can you share so that we don't make the same mistake? Did the HardSPL fail ?

wow... luckily i stick to the official rom...

you must be jam during the hard spl...but i duno wether the warranty still on or not... haha...not sure..

maybe ur charger got problem? try use another charger.. or plug it to PC.. my previous Dopod 838pro did have that kinda problem

sending back to SIS with non stock SPL will definitely void the warranty.....

i'll suggest you to try these;

1. remove out the battery for few minutes [ 5 min ]....and reinsert it back. if it still doesn't work, try to hard reset it

2. try use another charger as bro pcboy mentioned earlier

3. if all above still couldn't work, try to use another new battery [ go to any htc accessories shop, pretend to buy a new battery and test it on the spot.. ]

try to use FingerKeyboard2.1....the best so far....http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=501434

as for others, it's still not perfected yet for TP as it some hardware keyboard mapping.....

But FingerKeyboard doesn't have the Phone Keypad , am I right?

to all sifu... i haf HardSPL my TP ... so if i wanna flash it back to official rom how can i do it ???

Sorry to hijack this thread but need to know what options do i have if my 838Pro usb 1of the pin came off.Can it be repair or need to change the whole motherboard???
Just discover it yesterday after keeping it in the drawer since i had my TP.
What a waste....

nope.. fingerkeyboard only got qwerty keyboard...

u need to hard SPL back to the official SPL...then use official rom to flash back ...

UPDATE: HOW TO RETURN TO STOCK SPL - FOR WARRANTY REASONS ONLY!

1. Be sure to first restore stock OS, and stock radio. stock SPL is always to be done last!!
2. Download the stock spl package here.
3. Also download the original Hard-SPL.
4. Run the hardspl.exe but do not click anything in RUU yet. just let the hardspl EXE extract the files for flashing.
5. The SPL you want to revert to is a .NBH file, put the NBH in the extracted hardspl package, overwriting the original NBH file in it!
6. Continue with the RUU (or if needed, run SSPL-Manual.exe manually, then run RUU when it goes to black screen), it goes to 100%, reboots, done.
7. To verify, volume down + reset, see version number on tricolour screen, should now just say 1.90.0000. that's it.

ok guys a question. before this i flashed my radio to 1.12.25.19. after a week or so, i found out that i keep getting stuttered calls. so i changed back to radio 1.11.25.01 since i thought it could be an incompatibility prob.

so i'm wondering, any of u guys who changed radio encountered my kinda prob??

thanks

Hi bro OldNewspaper, here is how my TP symptom looks like... : I tried to turn on the device but the screen do not display anything including the backlight as well but the device will vibrate once ( as what TP will vibrate when device is reset or turned on )

I've tooked out the battery as what you mentioned for more than 5 hrs but still the same result. I've used various chargers also including my ol' rw6828 charger but no avail. Now only left to test is with a new battery. I might need to try to use your technique hehehe

Btw I've used HardSPL the second day I bought my TP, so I don't suspect any software issues here... but I could be wrong... I've used official TP ROM with hardSPL for no prob. i just noticed my TP became like this after when I wanted to call someone which the TP was in my pda pouch...

Hi antipoison, the HardSPL process went well and its quite safe. I've flashed various ROMS but still found that official ROM is still faster with OldNewspaper's & other contributors in LYN's tweaks. Its just that the device just suddenly failed on me when I needed it . I've looked through other forums on the net and found most of TP users faced the same problem more like pre-mature failure of some batches of TP.

This post has been edited by W@ng: Apr 24 2009, 05:53 PM

as last resort, try reset ur device into bootloader mode by pressing n hold volume down button and cucuk your soft reset button with stylus.. hopefully it shows the tricolour screen.. if it shows, then soft reset again ur device.. if it doesnt show, i pull myself on this matter.. sending ur device to SIS is the real solution.. i pray ur TP will recover again in a miracle way

still got vibrate when turn on but the the screen is black out......is there even any start up sound? i haven't experience this before...but anyway here's some checklist for you...

posibility 1 : hardware issue
firstly, take out the battery and check the 3 pin connector on your TP [ the gold color pin which physically touch the battery ] - check is any of the pin dented / broken especially the middle pin. if dented, try straighten it back, reinsert battery and turn it on again....if all the 3 pin are in good conditions, proceed to the next step:

possibility 2 : bad radio rom / bad flash
follow bro pcboy instruction, enter into bootloader mode....if you can manage to into bootloader means you had a bad flash [ very highly the radio culprit ] previously...don't take any chances anymore,immediately flash back to stock spl and rom.

if still cannot turn on, the only possibility is : dead screen / fried board...send back to SIS and pretend that you're still noob using pda and if they voice out about warranty void because of custom spl/rom.....simply tell them it's not your fault, tell them it's your phone dealer whom 'install' the cooked rom for you without even noticing it...

cheers up bro!


This post has been edited by old newspaper: Apr 25 2009, 01:06 AM