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First here is the changelog:

- new sys: 28014(Branche: WMD)(Timebomb fixed):
- HF Clear removed from clean rom(wasn't ment to be in the clean anyway)
- Smartlock updated to 1.8E
- Xperiatweak 1.9 added(this one is working!)
- Mss converter updated to 1.09
- Modified audiopara for better and a bit lower sound(not normal x1 level but a bit lower then the old file)
- X2 drivers removed and neos2007 driver pack 3 added again(I think this is the reason why some people got problems with installing the rom)
- Cleaned up the rom:
- Myphone package cleaned up(all additional languages except WWE and NL removed) - 1,43 mb
- Panelmanger package cleaned up(All additional languages except WWE and NL removed) - 78,1 kb
- Tilewave panel package cleaned up(All additional languages except WWE and NL removed) - 18,0 kb
- Cnn panel removed - 2,83 mb
- Experiment13 removed(stupid game) - 5,28 mb
---------------------------------Total: 9,64 mb

One of the most important things in this rom release is the announched cleaning up of the rom. For the full rom it's about 10 mb that has been cleanup up.

I removed the additional language files form the myphone, panelmanager and tilewave panel since they were not used in the rom. I also removed two things. The cnn panel have been removed since I've never used it myself and most people did not. And the x3 game experiment 13 has been removed since it was just a stupid game. Both apps can be installed by cab by the end user. So don't worry if you really liked those apps just install them yourself.

Some apps are updated. Like mss converter and I tried the new smartlock. This has been removed since it had a big bug that suspended the phone again after unlock. So wasn't really usable.

I also looked into the audiopara. This file manages the sound and make it more loud or silent. It was really loud and bad till this rom and one morning when I woke up because of the x1's alarm I heard that cracking sound again(not really cracking but the quality was really bad because of the hacks). So I decide to modify the audiopara again and made the values a bit less so the sound is a bit more silent but much and much better. Now it isn't cracking anymore when I wake up. My day starts much better now;)

Some people had problems with rom 3.6 and 3.7. I didn't really understand why this problems appeared so I compaired the changelogs. It seemed like 3.5 was working fine for everyone. So the biggest change was the x2 drivers that had been added in 3.6. Since I didn't encountered the problem myself I couldn't check this out. But I removed the x2 drivers and put in the neos 2007 driver pack 3 again since this was really working fine for everyone. For the people who had problems with installing the rom or the customization process. Please give me feedback if this has been fixed or not.

Now a good thing for all users that really missed the Xperiatweaks tool. The version 2 wasn't working anymore but the 1.9 did so I included this one! Hope you like this since it's the best we can have at the moment(from the other side it's almost the same as version 2).

This was it for now. Enjoy and don't forgot to give feedback!

The full rom is getting bigger and bigger. For me it's a bit to big at the moment. I installed some apps and only got 30 mb internal memory left now.

So for the next rom I was thinking about removing some apps that I don't use personally (anymore). I also will look into the packages and try to clean them up a bit since some contains all available languages and like you understand that isn't really necessairy for a dutch or english rom.

So I don't know what apps to remove yet. But in the first place I was thinking about some panels since there are just to much at the moment. Like the cnn panel. I haven't use it for the last few months. So I think I will remove it from next rom. From the other side users who liked it could simply install it theirself.

Maybe it's a full rom and need to contains everything. But there must be a limit. The rom is about 217 mb now.

So my question is what do you people think about this subject. I'm not going to remove much since almost all apps I like personally but I also would like to get some more free space(maybe 10/20 mb or something)

I would like to see you share your opinion below so I can see if anyone like this idea.

Many people were already asking for a new rom with the newest sys and everything.

Here is the changelog for the new rom with version number 3.708:

- new sys: 28011(Branche: WMD)(Timebomb fixed):
- Tilewave panel fixed
- Opera Mobile 10 update to beta 2 and changed from cab to package
- Google maps updated to 3.3
- just minor but there is a spelling fault on the panel manager:
"Auto schakeln tussen panelen" --> "Auto Schakelen tussen panelen
Fixed
- Experiment13 WWE version start menu fix(should be in the games folder now, confirm please)
- Twitter panel added
- Hugo_Faria_HF_Clear_Theme added(thanks for this Hugo!, sorry it took this long before I included it)
(The name in theme selector is: HF Clear)
- New myphone added
- New Windows live(and messenger) added

So this new rom got the newest sys. 28011 from the WMD branche. There was a timebomb in it but it has been fixed.

The tilewave panel has been fixed. I just made some typos, so the files where not placed correctly in the directory that's why the panel didn't work in the previous rom.

Opera mobile 10 has been updated to beta 2. Since some people had problems with the customization and couldn't use the previous rom I made a package of opera 10 now. So the customization crash problem is gone now.

Google maps has been updated to the newest 3.3 on request(thanks for the hint that a new version was released)

Just because someone mentioned it in my xda-developers thread I also fixed the spelling fault made by sony ericsson by hex editting the 0413 file from the panelmanager.

I also found a new panel that looked very nice. It's a twitter panel. So I included it. If you want it in the 9 panel list you simply have to make it favorite.

Then a new theme has been added. It was specially made for this rom by Hugo Faria. He mailed me when my phone was broken and gave me the theme that he made for me. I didn't had a change to check it out since I didn't had a phone with wvga resolution. So I had to wait till today to test it and believe me. It's very nice. You can simply check it out yourself by going to the theme selector and select HF Clear.

Then today I was chatting with agent 47 about the opera mobile 10 that didn't work for me so he gave me another app to convert cab's to oem packages. It was very nice and also gave me the oppertunity to convert the new myphone and windows live and messenger cab's to packages so I could include them.

So now you never have to update them yourself anymore since they are included!

This was it for now. Rom will be up soon and hope you will enjoy it.

So now you're asking. What's new in this rom? There are some huge changes. First here is the changelog:

- new sys: 28002(Branche: WMD)(Timebomb fix not needed): IE Mobile updates
- Dutch/WWE 1.86/1.88 Rhodium(Touch Pro 2) Rom dumped and updated all rhodium packages and the language files
- AudioBooster_2_2_19174121_0
- BootLauncher_1_0_19152530_1
- DRMMiddleware_1_5_19142824_00
- DShow_2_0_19191728_01
- HTCScroll_2_0_19153028_1
- LongPressEndKey_1_2_19143124_00
- mHubVO_1_77_090609_X0
- ResourceProxy_1_0_19151630_00
- SharedModules_1_01_19143331_00
- USBtoPC_1_24_0_2
- USBToPCPopUp_2_2_19143124_1
- YouTube_2_6_19174121_00
- X2 Stuff added
- Panel manager
- Pixel City Night Panel
- Pixel City Day Panel updated version
- TilewavePanel(thanks for the patch)
- DeviceInformation
- Battery/Brigthness menu
- Opera Mobile 10 beta 1 added instead of 9.7 beta
- MarketPlaceRegionSwitch-1.1 added
- Buienradar panel removed(didn't work anymore)

Like you can see it's a really big list this time.

First thing is the new sys. It's from a new branche called WMD. Haven't seen much differences but it's a bit snappier so it's working nice.

Then a long list is in the  changelog about the rhodium(touch pro 2) files. Like you all know some of the apps in this rom are from other htc devices. Since the rhodium wm 6.5 rom was released not long ago. I dumped both the Dutch and the English one and took out all packages I'm using in my rom. So now everything is up to date and the best thing is all language packs for the dutch rom are finally completely compatible. In older roms I was always using some hybrid packages since I didn't had the dutch files etc from the newest packages. But now it's there.

This rom also contains much Xperia X2 stuff. A big shout out to Gtrab for sharing his X2 dumps. I took out all files I liked and changed and fixed it so it would work on the X1. The patch for the tilewavepanel was from someone else but I can't remember his name but thanks for that.

So now we got the x2 panel manager. It's really really great. It's fast, stable and nice. I did much and much testing with it the last few days and never had a crash or something. So I hope finally we got a good working panelmanager. I also took out some panels. We now got a night version of the city day panel and got a newer version of the city panel. One of the nice panels that was in the X2 was the Tilewavepanel. Very nice panel and it's also in the new rom. Some shortcuts don't work but that's not a really big problem. Think you guys will like it anyway.

I also updated the Deviceinformation and battery and brigthness apps from the settings. The ones from the X2 are much better. For example you can see your battery rate in percents in the battery menu and in the deviceinformation app you got much more information. Just check it out yourself.

Then we get to the latest part of the changelog. I updated the opera 9.7 beta to the new released opera mobile 10 beta. It got a new layout and some new options. Really nice and super fast.

I also added MarketplaceSwitch. It's a app to change your marketplace region. A few days ago office 2010 was released on marketplace but since i'm from the netherlands I couldn't download it. So I changed my region to USA and everything was fine. It's a really nice workaround.

Then some sad news for this rom. The "Buienradar" panel have been removed since it didn't work anymore. It didn't even open in the new x2 panel manager. As an alternative you can download the buienradar app from the marketplace. I'm not sure if everyone can see it but atleast the dutchies here can(And if you read carefully you see that you can use the marketplaceregion switcher to get it anyway).

This was it for now. Enjoy and don't forgot to give feedback.

I'm not sure if it works since I can't test myself because my phone is still away(it will be back in a few days from now).

It's ment for the people who would like those 2 panels on the clean rom and don't want to use the full rom.

Here is the download link: Rapidshare

Please give feedback if it's working(especially for the sms icon, does that go to the sms inbox since it should if fixes are applied properly)

It's like the clean rom but much cleaner. You may have seen some people didn't like the fingerkeyboard etc. But since this is almost a necessairy app I'm not going to delete it from the regular Clean version. Instead I created a special edition without everything just the Stock apps, R3AA beta updates and some tweaks so it's much faster.

I'm not going to update this special edition with every new Full/Clean update since this version was never planned and it will be too much work to create a third type of roms for me. So maybe I will update in the far feature, but don't expect it and atleast not soon.

For the package list of this type you can look here. Hope you like this and hope to get some feedback on this version but don't expect me to update it.

Enjoy!

It's 23085(COM3) and 23504(COM5). From what I read they are almost indentical. So what do you guys want? The new COM5 or COM3 sys?

Just give a shout in the xda forum thread and the sys that gets the most votes will be in the next rom. If anyone got any additional information about those new leaks please also post so everyone can form his own opinion.

Hope to hear from you all soon!

Link to xda developers thread

Expect the rom today, it isn't tested since my xperia is away to the SE repair center.

I hope I can get as much feedback as possible from you guys!

A clean rom is coming when the Full is confirmed to be fine

Stay tuned!

Got some bad news. Seems like there is a bug in the 3.101 release. To be more specific it's in the new sys.

It's that you can't see a sender email by receiving emails on your phone. I don't have a solution for this at the moment but will investigate it and try to fix it.

I also don't have the problem myself so this could be really hard to fix for me.

In case you like to help me give me as much information as you can in the xda support thread.

This was it for now. Will update this news article as soon as I got more information

Update #2: I got some great news about this bug. A forum post from "Benjaminries": apparently inserting syncmgr.dll from build 23071 will fix the exchange issues... Christian, is your phone okay to try cooking this?.
Hope I can release a patch/bug fix in a cab soon. Just need some beta testers since my own phone is broken.

Update #3: I created a cab that should fix the problem. Don't know if it works but I need beta testers so please test. Here is the link. Seems like the fix doesn't work, will give it another try soon. Stay tuned!

Update #4: I pmed agent 47, seems like he got a fix. More information soon!

A new rom has been released by me again. It's version 3.101. It's based on a new build that was leaked today, 23075.

23075 got a very nice new option. It's a magnifier in the magnified taskbar. Don't know if it's really usefull but it looks nice.

Here is the changelog:

- new sys: 23075(COM3)(Timebomb fixed)(Some missing modules added from 23071): Magnifier option
- Pagepool really at 16 mb now!
- Initflash updated(icon file)
- Audiobooster updated to AudioBooster_2_2_19174121_0
- Youtube updated to YouTube_2_6_19174121_00
- Mhubvo updated to mHubVO_1_77_090609_X0
- ResourceProxy updated to ResourceProxy_1_0_19151630_00
- SharedModules updated to SharedModules_1_01_19143331_00
- Bootlauncher updated to BootLauncher_1_0_19152530_1
- Themes completely compatible with 23071(should be fine for 23075)
- magnifier unabled from default again(new features in this part)
- Htc Task manager removed
- Showcase Task manager added instead(you can close with x again if you want)

So like you can see I finally succeeded in changing the pangepool myself to 16 mb before cooking. This way you haven't to do this yourself after downloading.

I also updated the iniflash. There's a nice icon to go directly to the sms messages box now.

Many htc packages have been updated. Not much special, wondering if you will even see some changes.

But the best thing is the new taskmanager. I removed the old not working htc task manager and replaced it with the Showcase one. And believe me it's really nice.

This will give you the opertunity to close apps completely instead of minimizing them. I really like it hope you will too.

This was it for now. Don't wait and start downloading.

Enjoy!

- new sys: 23071(back to COM3 but newer)(Timebomb fixed): Contact image fixed, window change bar is black now, faster, buttons are fine now with 23071 gwes
- Input button in personal back
- Pocket Putty added: make ssh connections and tunnel your internet connection!
- New PixelCityDay panel From X2!
- Pagepool changed to 16 mb
- Xperia black theme really removed from WWE version(was supposed to be removed a few versions ago)
- Icalparse updated to 0.8.6
- Midomi 1.6.57 added instead of Shazam music id
- MSS Converter updated to 1.08

Hope you will like it. The new sys seems to be quite nice, really smooth.

The input button is back in this version since I was smart enough to delete the redirect this time...

I also found a nice app called pocket putty. It's like putty from the pc but for pocket pc. Very nice, give it a try!

Another new thing in the rom is the pixelcityday panel. It's the first X2 panel that we got our hands on. Hope you like it.

From now Midomi is the default app in the rom to recognise your music, this after I got a hint in the forum. Really nice app seems to be much better then music id.

Also 2 apps have been updated: Icalparse and MSS Converter. Not much special. Same for the theme that has been removed and the pagepool change(not sure if it's working now)

For now, enjoy the rom and don't forgot to give feedback in the forum!

Have a good night.

Update: New rom is installing on my phone now so I hope it will be fine and I can release soon

I'm talking about the input button in the personal menu that isn't there. Maybe you already found this out and maybe you don't atleast to fix this follow the stept below:

Here's the solution(you need something to edit your registry, you can do this from your pc with "CeRegEditor" or use tools like "sktools" "resco explorer" etc on your phone):
1) Go to:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\Input]

2) You will see those reg entries. Ignore the first one("Group")
"Group"=dword:0
"Redirect"=""

3) The second one("Redirect") must be completely removed. So just remove that entry and the icon will be back(maybe you need to restart your phone).
After you did this the registry key will look like this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ControlPanel\Input]
"Group"=dword:0

If anyone don't get it or can't get it too work, feel free to contact me and I will help you out. Or just post in the xda forum thread and get your answer from other users or me.

Have a nice day!

Like you can see in the changelog we finally got a good working COM4 build. The best new thing in this new build is the contact manager. It's totally new! Below you can see a screenshot of how it will look like now.

Hope you will like it since this is the way it will be in all future builds.

Maybe some of you are thinking does the rom have the "missing buttons on message boxes" problem since this is a new bug in the 23420 and 23060 builds. The answer is: NO. It's fixed in the rom by using an older(build 23049) "gwes.exe" file. This also gave skinned radio buttons on volume control back etc.
Very nice isn't it?

A small update in this rom is the Icalparse update. It's just a new version with some more options. Not much special. Als the removed registry tweaks aren't really imported since they've never worked in the rom

This was all for now. The roms are online in the Xperia Rom section. I hope you will enjoy the rom and give me feedback in the xda forum thread.

Have fun!

UPDATE 16:15: Test of 23060 went well. Build is very good but haven't seen any difference with the older 23053 build. So new rom will have the new 23420 COM4 build! Hope you guys like this decision
Give me feedback through the xda forum thread!

UPDATE 16:41: Working on the 23420 build now. Seems like I don't have to do much about it. I already fixed the buttons by replacing the gwes.exe with the one from 23049

UPDATE 16:59: Seems that 2.903 with 23420 sys is ready. Will test the upcoming houres and will release this evening if i'm home otherwise tonight or tomorrow morning/afternoon!

This is a ETA not a final release date since this can only be archieved when no errors of bugs are found in the new rom! Stay tuned everyone!

- Updated Webpanels to WebPanels_1_0_20090302_MR2_R27
- Updated GenericPanel to GenericPanel_1_0_20090206_English_MR2_R20
- spb backup is english in WWE rom now
- Icalparse updated to version 0.8.0
- NeoS2007_Driverpack_3 added
- Touchscroll removed(Scrolling is much better now)

Like you can see I updated 2 panel packages. They aren't really new since they are out for some time now but I didn't included them since I didn't know I had them.

But here they are, they make the panel manager a bit faster and more stable.

About the more stable and faster. I also added NeoS2007 new driver pack. It's working very nice. Everything seems to be a bit smoother and responsible.

Touchscroll have been removed from this version. This after I got a hint from one of the users that It will make the scrolling much better since this package isn't needed in the newer 6.5 builds anymore. And guess what It worked! Atleast it looks like it works for me. Hope I can get some feedback on this and the other speed/responsibility tweaks.

the latest two things are the update of Icalparse. Not much special just some added features. And one bug has been sorted out. In the previous builds the spb backup app was in dutch in both WWE and NL rom. So that doesn't fit right? Now it is fine.

I hope this is enought information for you, have fun with the new rom and don't forget to give me some feedback on the new rom since this is really importent for future developement.

The feed isn't finished yet since some work on it still must be done. I hope to finish it soon. It's not compatible with everything at the moment but i'm working on that.

For now enjoy the new feature and hope you will give me feedback on this feature by mail or via the xda forum thread.

- new sys: 23049(Timebomb fixed)
- New Native wm 6.5 Xip from Official SE Xperia wm 6.5 Rom(Thanks To Itje)
- icalparse updated to 0.7.7
- smartlock 1.7E added instead of csdevctrl(setup with xml file)
- removed SE screen from internet explorer

The biggest change is the sys(Not much special since it's almost the same as 23047) and the csdevctrl change with smartlock. Since many people had problems with csdevctrl I removed it and the lockscreen is managed by smartlock now. Smartlock is setuped in the customization by a .xml file since putting the config directly in the .reg file gave problems with customization(The screen locked up when everything was installing and you couldn't unlock it at that time etc.)

Another big change is the way I release this rom. From now on all new roms will be in the Xperia Rom section on this website. But the support is still in the xda forum topic(See here). Hope you like this change since it will give you much more information about the roms.

Download links are online in Xperia Rom section now. Have fun with the new rom. Hope you like it.

You can find the download links in the Xperia Rom section