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Update went fine first time - no issues whatsoever. Main difference is screen change from portrait to landcape is now MUCH quicker. Threaded SMS is intersting. Battery life and signal quality will get figured out over the next week or so. A wothwhile exercise!

Don't understand the first comment. My experience has been TOTALLY negative, even though the update went fine.

1. I lost nearly 30MB of space. Most irritating is that instead of starting with 60MB of program space I'm now below 50MB. Find myself in the high 30MB range as the day goes on and only my Today screen apps are running.
2. Touch seems much less sensitive if finger is used (stylus still about the same).
3. I see no speed improvement with videos using Media Player.
4. I see no speed improvement when opening my keyboard to switch to landscape mode.
5. Internet Explorer is nowhere near Opera Mini. The narrow vertical view in the 'Zoom In' mode still leaves you with a half-hearted browser.

I'd go beck to WM 6.0 in a second if I could.

I have been very happy with my TyTN II since I bought it in October. Don't understand this garbage update.

-Bob-

The screen switching is actually slower although it does look better. Clearly HTC now do some sort of double buffering which is probably why the ROM uses more memory. This again can be clearly seen on the diamond.

Some sites have again advertised this as a performance update though my experience is this has even more lag. Certainly no graphics drivers.

The radio is better, and the battery life improved, though I already had this with unoffical ROM updates from xda-developers. Infact this is a step backwards from the ROM updates available there. HTC are a joke.

the update is now missing, can anyone confirm it's still avalible?

No, I just checked and it's still there.

I have tried everything and cannot find the upgrade. Can anyone help me here - can someone post the direct link to the update?
Thanks!

well. can any one tell me i am about to upgrade the HTC TYTN ROM to 6.1 how does it work and can u tell me the benifits from the previous or DEFAULT version that is 6.0 can u please let me i no thanks also i would be really greatfull if il get true responses

well. can you tell me i am about to upgrade the HTC TYTN 2 ROM to 6.1 .....how does it work and can u tell me the benifits from the previous or DEFAULT version that is 6.0 can u please let me no i would be really greatfull if il get true responses...

my HTC Tynt2 is branded by orange so HTC e-club will not let me regester it is there any 3rd party website i can download it from instead. It would be nice to clear any of the orange plugins and today by using a HTC rom

Can anyone help? I tried to download the ROM upgrade and it said my serial number was invalid. I tried a few variations on typing it in but no success.

My Tytn is an HTC registered one. Has anyone else experienced this at all?

I have a TyTN II and updated it with 6.1. that went well till I found the June version of skype did not work on it.. now there is a new version of skype and that works fine.

My prob is that mine is an Australian version and would like to load the UK rom version, but as some of the above notes show, there is a registration of the serial with the region. HTC have explained that this is a licensing issue linked to each region. I have the Asia version of the rom for those like me with an Asia serial number and could exchange the s/w for the UK version.

some of the benefits: not sure there are any of real substance:
sms are linked, better comms manager, , best go to the microsoft web for Windows mobile and look there.

If you need to save data tht i on the phone's rom and also settings, then go to the sprite website for mobile phone/pda version of their backup prog. Its very cheap and works a treat.. however, be careful on what you restore.. as 6.1 has some differences!!!

what is the difference between window mobile 6.1 and ROM version? Does it mean that we are using the latest ROM version when we have the window mobile 6.1?

DON'T INSTALL IT.

I install the update. No much improvement. Only threaded SMS is interesting. But:

1.Available ROM size reduce from 101M to 80M
2.SMS will stop response every 1,2 days.

I contact HTC, they told me to flash back to 6.0. I request for the reason, they told me:

Dear Chen, We are sorry for the incovenience caused by upgrade. Since the windows mobile 6.1 is the lastest version, it is not stable comparing to the old version. Moreover, the hardware of tytnII is designed before the launch of windows mobile 6.1. Therefore, tytnII with wm6.1 works not so smooth as with wm6.0. Regarding the downgrade, although you can perform it by yourself, we do not recommend you to do it. As you said, it is risky for customer to do downgrade. Anyway, if you want to do it by yourself, you can download the previous rom from our website, than do it as you do rom code update. Alternatively, you can bring your phone to our service center for the downgrade. Normally, our service center will not charge you for this service. Hereby we express our sorry again, We will try our best to improve our product and service quality in accordance with customers’expectations. If you still have any other problems, please feel free to contact us.

So sad.

Then I download the 6.0 ROM from official site, everything seems back to normal. But now my GPS never get fixed. I have been keep trying. Still the same.

DO NOT upgrade!!!

There is not difference in terms of speed or features BUT lost 10MB to 20MB space. I can't syn my contacts, notes, to-do list, contacts!!

DISASTER!!!