Elite ROM for Touch Diamond promises dramatic speed boost; new official ROM, too?
Sluggish Touch Diamond performance got you down? We can think of at least a few Americans that wish they had to worry about it, but HTC's infinite wisdom in leaving out GSM 850 and HSDPA 850 / 1900 leaves that crowd with bigger problems on its hands. The rest of you, though, might want to have a look at one of the latest fruits to fall out of the xda-developer tree -- the "Elite 1.0" ROM image for the Touch Diamond, featuring a handful of tweaks to streamline things (Welcome Center gets the boot, for instance), enabled HSUPA, and a newer version of the .NET Compact Framework that allegedly all but solves the crappy performance some owners and reviewers have been complaining about. This is about as unofficial as it gets, of course, so proceed with your own risk.Separately, it seems that Touch Diamonds now hitting shops should be loaded with a slightly newer official ROM than the build passed around on the first batch of review units, and Coolsmartphone reports that it's faster. Not quite as streamlined as the Elite ROM seems to be, but hey, if you prefer to roll on the straight and narrow, it sounds like HTC has you covered.
[Thanks, Aaron K.]
Read - Elite ROM thread on xda-developers
Read - Newer official ROM?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
retro77 @ Jun 19th 2008 3:18PM
Now just get it in my American hands and we won't have any more problems!!!
CoolBradG @ Jun 19th 2008 3:23PM
This is OT but Alltel released 2 new phones today: LG AX300 & Samsung MyShot.
Also how come the Verizon/Alltel FCC buyout doc's were never posted:
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/ApplicationSearch/applAdminAttachments.jsp?applID=4490357
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/ApplicationSearch/applMain.jsp?applID=4490357
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/ApplicationSearch/applMain.jsp?applID=4491570
retro77 @ Jun 19th 2008 3:56PM
nice catch. So its official, Verizon owns Alltel now. I wonder if they will continue the name?
pdusk88 @ Jun 19th 2008 6:05PM
I bet when sprint picks this up it will be pretty zippy.
slamEVIL @ Jun 19th 2008 9:45PM
sony ericssons used to be the same way. the second batch was usually better and bug-free.
Achilles @ Jun 20th 2008 11:23AM
Waiting for it to hit the American shores. HTC, what's the hold up, you've got MANY anxious Americans trying to give you $$$ for this phone!!!!
jrin @ Jun 25th 2008 8:20PM
I've had the phone for a few days now and upgraded to the 1.37.707.1 asian WWE rom and things are working great -- still a little big sluggish, but not bad -- is the elite rom newer/better than this?
(for some actual usage videos, check out http://www.jrin.net/2008_06_25/htc-touch-diamond-actual-usage-review )