Staying Active with the HTC Titan XV6800 Mogul Forums

I'm trying to stay current with the various forums that cover new ROMs and upgrades for the HTC Titan (AKA Verizon XV6800 and Sprint Mogul). I just used the built-in GPS extensively as I drove up to Boston. It was so handy to have the live traffic data streaming in and navigating me through some crazy traffic jams.

I'm loving the Rev A speeds!

I love the Rev A speeds I'm getting on my customized XV6800!

This is so much faster than my old Treo 700wx running Rev 0

So when is Verizon going to update all the smarphones, PDAs, and Blackberrys to Rev A?

new ROMs

There are some new ROMs floating around for the xv6800

The dcd 3.1.2 is one of the more popular ones. The radio ROM has been updated to 3.39.10

Planning on giving them a try when I get a chance. When will I find the time?

HTC Diamond - a very cool looking phone!

Now here's a phone to get excited about: the new HTC Diamond

Windows Mobile 6.1
4 GB of memory
2.8-inch, 640x480-pixel display
TouchFlo
Thin

But, no hardware keyboard. That may be a problem for people who do a lot of texting or e-mail. I think I'll wait for the next version that has a slide-out keyboard.

Changing the default keyboard on the XV6800 to a TOUCH keyboard!

I mainly use a FREE touch keyboard called PCM keyboard on my XV6800 (AKA Mogul, PPC 6800, HTC Titan). It mimics the iPhone keyboard by providing you with instant feedback of the key that you're pressing. It's great to use because you can slide your finger around the screen until you see the key that you want, and then when you let go of the screen, that letter gets selected.

Every time I reboot my XV6800, it defaults to the original keyboard. So, to ensure that it always defaults to PCM keyboard, I use a FREE utility called SIPchange. Works great!

Unresponsive GPS? Get GPS Viewer

My built-in GPS sometimes freezes up or becomes unresponsive. Sometimes it can be difficult to know whether it's really frozen or if it's just taking a while to get a signal lock from all the satellites.

So I'm always using GPS Viewer (http://www.hevis.com.hk/download/GpsViewer1.5.zip)
and when I see no satellites appearing, I simply reset my device, and then I'm back up and running in no time! The satellites appear right away after a quick reset.

GPS Viewer is a must! This FREE utility is really useful.

Here's another tip: sometimes when I open the GPS, it takes a while to lock a signal. But, if I close the GPS, then re-open the GPS, I get a solid blue signal much faster. Not entirely sure why, but it seems to help to toggle the GPS on and off sometimes.

Make sure you set the COM port to COM4. Want a modified version that always starts on COM4? Click here.

Screen brightness and button backlights

FYI: if you turn the screen brightness all the way down, the button backlights turn off. I'm not sure if this is only true with the Custom ROM that I have (DCD 3.0.4 running Windows Mobile 6.1) or if it occurs with the stock ROM running Windows Mobile 6.

Want an easy way to adjust the backlight from the Today Screen? Try Metrix 2.1.1
It's a FREE today screen plug-in.

ROM upgrades

I've now done several ROM upgrades using the USB cable and also using a microSD card on my XV6800 (also known as the Titan, the Mogul, the PPC 6800, and others).

I have to say, the microSD card method seems to be the best method. The USB method never gave me any problems, but some people have reported 'bricking' their phones because their phone got stuck during the process. The microSD method seems to be more reliable

One note - not every microSD card will work! I fortunately had 2 different cards. Neither card was a SDHC card. However, one was a 1 GB Kingston and that card didn't work! The other card was a 2 GB A-Data and that card worked fine.

EVDO Rev A on my XV6800

So now that I'm using the latest ROM (DCD 3.0.4) and also running the latest radio (3.37.20) on my XV6800, I'm getting Rev A speeds! It's great! Certainly much faster than my old Treo 700wx. I don't understand what Verizon is waiting for. Why don't they release the upgrades so that other customers can enjoy the benefits of Windows Mobile 6.1 and also have faster downloading and uploading speeds? It's also great having an active GPS chip on my device so that I can use it with Google Maps, Live, TomTom, etc.

Well, I'm certainly thankful for the xda-developers forum. Couldn't have done it without your help!

Newer ROM for the XV6800

Just realized that I loaded an old custom ROM on my XV6800. The latest one is DCD 3.0.4 and you can get it here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=385336

This one's a bit tricky because you want to load Radio 3.37.20 from a micro SD card, not via the USB cable.

You get: GPS working, improved battery life, and better performance.