WM6.5: Successfully ported to (CDMA) HTC Devices

By Michael Herald, posted Saturday, Jan. 24th, 2009
Reader Comments: 5

Conflipper over at ppcgeeks has released a kitchen that opens the door for a ton of CDMA devices (Touch, Diamond, Touch Pro, Mogul). I will definitely be trying this on my Sprint Touch tonight! Below is a summary of what to expect from the WM6.5 kitchen.

Based on alltel xip, and alltel driver base
6.5 at this time, is very fast, there is no new GUI, we are having a hard time porting that over, others have got it to work, I will include files in the kitchkens so others can try to make it work as well.
The new Pocket Internet Explorer, only works on 6.5, it is greatly improved over PIE6. Flash rendering is very fast, page rendering is very fast. There is a new double tap fature to zoom in, Also the menus are different as well. Different order of the menus.
We are still working on everything at this time. We have the following issues fixed. Media Player, PIE, Office, Volume control.
There is still very limited startup animation, we are tracking that down, trying to figure out what has changed there, if we use an older Startup Animation Engine driver from HTC, that came stock on the Vogue, it will play, there is however no sound, Since then HTC has moved to a newer animation driver called. HTCAnimation.dll. and that driver is not being picked up by 6.5, we are still working on this at the time.
There is a new locking feature in 6.5. but It is highly recommended not to use it, it is not working properly at this time. And more then likely will lock up your phone, requiring a hard reset. Some people have got it to work, others have not.
On the QVGA side of things, everything seems to be going better, since the leaked 6.5 source we got was a qvga device, that helps. On VGA it is a different story, the camera will not work at all, it says it can not initialize GAPI, we are not sure why it is doing this, and it looks like might not be fixed until we have a better source, but I could be wrong.

Sources: WMExperts, PPCGeeks

Discuss: Windows Mobile News

bluewater, this was just to inform CDMA users that the leaked WM 6.5 ROM has been ported to work with the CDMA devices. The previously leaked ROM ONLY worked on the GSM devices. It required some tweaking to get it to work on other devices. New features that are in this leaked ROM are listed above.

Posted by Michael Herald, Thursday, Jan. 29th, 2009

I'm not sure why this is news: WiMo runs on the digital baseband ARM baseband chipset and really doesn't care about the radio and multiplexer chips (CDMA or GSM).

What might be interesting and eligible for an article title is what new features 6.5 might have in store. (Anecdotal observations about performance aren't useful since we won't really know about that until we have the finalized OS.)

Posted by bluewater, Tuesday, Jan. 27th, 2009

Wow, just looked at the video and IE works much better than I expected it to! Any idea how they are building these images? Did they get their hands on the Windows Mobile 6.5 Adaptation Kit (for those that are unfamiliar the Adaptation Kit is the software Microsoft gives to OEMs to build their Windows Mobile images).

Posted by j2inet, Monday, Jan. 26th, 2009

I made some changes, and the ROM is now pretty stable. I need to get a camera...lol...here's a short video from my Diamond. http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=D0WUasH_Cg0

Posted by Michael Herald, Sunday, Jan. 25th, 2009

Okay, I tried it on my Sprint Touch. It's not too bad, when it works. This is a leaked beta, so I wasn't expecting it to be really stable. I was however able to run the new Pocket Internet Explorer, and like mentioned above it runs a lot better than the previously leaked version of PIE6. The pages render much faster, has a nice double tap feature for zooming, and FLASH! I will keep posting updates.

Posted by Michael Herald, Sunday, Jan. 25th, 2009

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