Help with my NEW Omnia II

[Guest jebise]

i need to get a new phone, after much debate over the bold 9700 and the iphone. I took a ball curve and decide to go with the samsung omnia 2 i8000. I can see there is a lot of contrubution form the comunity we are getting custom roms etc.

But is it worth the investment, i have read that it's laggy and slow. But the hardware is just amazing. So if we got custom roms i would think it should solve most of the problems. I have read that it uses 50% ram out of the box which is why it gets slow, i have seen the omnia 1 in action and did not like it one bit.

I will be getting a bell omnia 2 tomorrow, so i need to know what are the best software/rom for it and how i can tweak it so it dose not freeze and allow me to surf the net and listen to music and a few text here and there. Not new to pc a techy guy that has tweaked every inch of windows 7 to achieve best performance and visual.

I have read many post saying the samsung touchwiz 2.0 suchs, why dose it suck? I really love the HTC layout so i will probably remove touchwiz and install touchflo. So i need a good tutorial on how to so it. Whats the difference between touchflo 1.3 and rig something 2.5?

The main question is; Should i buy it? i don't care if i have to tweak it, install custom version of winmo 6.5 or whatever, aslong as it works the way it should (email, 3g, bluetooth, divx,mp4 etc) i do not care, is the end result worth the effort. or should i just jump the bridge like everyone else and get a iphone/blackberry.

Edited January 17, 2010 by jebise

[Guest msra6la2]

i need to get a new phone, after much debate over the bold 9700 and the iphone. I took a ball curve and decide to go with the samsung omnia 2 i8000. I can see there is a lot of contrubution form the comunity we are getting custom roms etc.

But is it worth the investment, i have read that it's laggy and slow. But the hardware is just amazing. So if we got custom roms i would think it should solve most of the problems. I have read that it uses 50% ram out of the box which is why it gets slow, i have seen the omnia 1 in action and did not like it one bit.

I will be getting a bell omnia 2 tomorrow, so i need to know what are the best software/rom for it and how i can tweak it so it dose not freeze and allow me to surf the net and listen to music and a few text here and there. Not new to pc a techy guy that has tweaked every inch of windows 7 to achieve best performance and visual.

I have read many post saying the samsung touchwiz 2.0 suchs, why dose it suck? I really love the HTC layout so i will probably remove touchwiz and install touchflo. So i need a good tutorial on how to so it. Whats the difference between touchflo 1.3 and rig something 2.5?

The main question is; Should i buy it? i don't care if i have to tweak it, install custom version of winmo 6.5 or whatever, aslong as it works the way it should (email, 3g, bluetooth, divx,mp4 etc) i do not care, is the end result worth the effort. or should i just jump the bridge like everyone else and get a iphone/blackberry.

My Omnia II only gets laggy and slow when it runs out of ram, but it's a common problem with Windows Mobile phones. Everytime my phone gets laggy I just turn on the 3D car racing game then turn it back off, somehow that magically frees up about 20mb of ram

[Guest jebise]

so is it bearable?

That is one MAIN thing for me, if there is some way to fix the memory issue i would never look back. i wouldn't mind reset it every couple of days. But if it freezes while i'm watching a movie or listening to music that i cannot handle.

What do you mean? i seen the HTC and they run fine with windows mobile.

Also read they got android on the first omnia, hopefully someone will port it to omnia 2 also eventhough it in like alpha stages

Edited January 16, 2010 by jebise

[Guest jebise]

just go it today and it seems to be alright so far i have disables the widgetplus and the touchwiz UI and wanting to install the touch flo.

What are some good apps and tweaks that i should run first. The fisrt thing i wanna do is to a full backup so i can restore it at a later time, so what and how do i go about doing that?

It a bell phone locked to bell, so i will not lose any phone functionality will i by install a custom ROM? I'm assuming flash the ROM has nothing to do with it being locked

[Guest Dino_Donis]

just go it today and it seems to be alright so far i have disables the widgetplus and the touchwiz UI and wanting to install the touch flo.

What are some good apps and tweaks that i should run first. The fisrt thing i wanna do is to a full backup so i can restore it at a later time, so what and how do i go about doing that?

It a bell phone locked to bell, so i will not lose any phone functionality will i by install a custom ROM? I'm assuming flash the ROM has nothing to do with it being locked

I have installed the latest SPB backup program on my UK I8000, I have scheduled it to backup every day which also has the benefit of doing a soft reset afterwards. I have successfully restored after needing to one time. I also have SPB mobile shell running on it which works well....