TyTN upgrade...

Been watching an interesting post over at the xda-developers forum. A new ROM has been released by HTC for the TyTN. Several people are reporting speed increases but I am more interested to see if it fixes my SMS voicemail notification problem (basically none being delivered).

There are however a couple of problems:
1 - the update is not a Vodafone update (but an HTC one)
2 - the update contains a basic extended ROM (missing the Vodafone plugins)

Item 1 appears fairly easy to get round with this machine. In the past I have had to hack ROMs in order to tell them they are actually different than they are. Once hacked the phone accepts them. With the TyTN you start the install and when it gets to point of telling you the phone has the wrong vendor code you simply leave it plugged in in BOOT mode and re-run the setup. The vendor check code can no longer run and as such you can flash the ROM - nice!

Item 2 is also fairly straightforward as long as you have a copy of the extended ROM you with to use. Simple complete the upgrade, unlock the extended ROM, copy in your preferred files and hard reset - the device does the rest.

We will see how successful this all it - I am currently only 10% though the 25min upgrade process detailed as step 1 above...fingers crossed!