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msmobiles.com_robot
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 Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject: Microsoft forces popular community site to remove all ROM images |
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It is difficult to say whether it was upon request from HTC (after all most if not all these ROM images were for HTC devices), or whether some overzealous Microsoft employee caused this debacle, but the fact is that...
Read more at http://www.msmobiles.com/news.php/6073.html |
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netboy
Joined: 19 Oct 2005
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Location: Bayarea, CA USA
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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"After all if dodgy upgrade to Windows Mobile 6 would be available freely on the Internet what would be incentive for users to buy new devices and for manufacturers to purchase new licenses? "
the incentive is if u brick your tytn, u will need to get a new one! i bricked my tytn with a corrupted rom (file), making my tytn unuseable, so i have to get a new 1! no, i'm not blaming xda-developers, i know i'm taking a chance when i do firmware upgrades. now that rom is removed from that site, i guess my new tytn wont brick so easily, so i wont have to buy a new device anytime soon.. |
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EJR
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| netboy, interesting what you say! However it was your personal choice to use some ROM, you can't blame xda-developers that your USB cable had loose connectors and upgrade corrupted your phone etc. ... |
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veletron
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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XDA dev will continue to be useful, its just that now there wont be a way of getting an early fix - we'll have to wait for the operator.
If it were not for xda-dev, my t-mobile vario II would have gone back in the cooling off period. True, xda-dev was mainly for geeky users, but windows mobile is largely an enthusiasts OS. I reckon there are a higher percentage (as a factor of sales volume) of tech-savvy windows mobile users than there are symbian users (symbian users will likely disagree).
The simple fact is that many of these devices simply dont work until there has been a few rom updates.
I suspect that the library of roms held at xda-dev will just migrate somewhere else where MS is less likely to discover them.
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Surur_
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rdkay
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I think those Rom Images will still be available in places like rapidshare.de, megaupload. etc....  |
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