HOWTO flash your HTC Diamond or HTC Touch Pro with a custom rom

We all love our Diamond or Touch Pro, but as you may have noticed, they might be slow, even after the tweaks & registry fixes, might contain too much or too little programs, or little, or y ou may like or dislike the interface. For every HTC device ever made, there must be over 10 custom roms, which may just be the ideal ROM for you.

I had the grey screen of death already twice this week on my Touch Pro (just a white screen with black dots). As HTC hasn’t come up with a fix (yet), I’m flashing my device. I’ve collected some info on how to do it (as it differs from my HTC P3300. I hope this information can be usefull for you too.

Note that If you do not wish to flash your device, you can speed up alot with the tweaks found here or by using HTC Advanced Config here

For the Diamond

1. Before you begin

• backup all your data (see my post about pimbackup)
• make sure activsync / windows mobile device center is working
• turn off all power management options
• find a rom you like
• A lot of roms can be found here at XDA

2. HardSPL

Every Diamond or Touch Pro must have it’s SPL flashed with a version that allows any ROM. Default only allows the official HTC roms. This wasn’t the case with my P3300. This is actually quite easy, and you can flash back (if you would ever need to send your HTC back to HTC)

• for a detailed guide with screenshots check here

3. Upgrade Radio

• for a detailed guide with screenshots check here

4. and finally flash the rom

• again for a guide here

For the touch pro

interesting available roms

• RomeOS : homepage here
  
• Raphael Elite project (work in progress), homepage here
• DCS touchpro rom : homepage here
• I’m going to use the RomeOS.

1. Before you begin

• backup all your data (see my post about pimbackup)
• make sure activsync / windows mobile device center is working
• turn off all power management options
• find a rom you like
• A lot of roms can be found here at XDA

2. HardSPL

• for the Touch Pro you have to use this version found here, and not the one in the guide with screenshots!!!!
• for a detailed guide with screenshots check the screenshots from the diamond here
• hower make sure you’re using the correct hardspl version, not the one from the diamond!!!
• also make sure you have .net framework 2.0 installed on your workstation.
• note : the device will ask you if you trust publisher X. If you do not press yes fast enough, the update program on your pc may give an error. If you press yes at that moment, your screen will remain black. Just run the update utility again, and it will connect to your device and upgrade your SPL.
• how to check that the Hard-SPL has completed successfully?
  boot into Bootmode by hoding volume down + pushing reset, see version number on tricolour screen, should now just say 1.90.0linex 🙂

4. and finally flash the rom

I’m not updating the radio at this time, so i’m going to point 4, flash the rom.

• you can follow the screenshots from the diamond here
• however specific instructions from the rom you will be using apply. In my case from romeos, found here

Just updated my Touch Pro with this rom, will update another post on how it works.

If you still feel uncomfortable in doing this, check out the guides posted above and the fora at XDA. Do not attemt to flash or update your device before you fully understand the procedure. Good luck! Also if you like to learn more about custom roms, cooking them, XDA is the site for you !
http://forum.xda-developers.com/