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Does it happen after executing a given application, or *any* application?

Please read the related forum over at XDA-Dev - hope you'll find the answer there. If you don't, let me know and I scrutinize the problem too.

OK guys and gals, the waiting is over: here's the new, official, i-mate ROM with all the goodies: ftp://ftp.clubimate.com/K-JAM_WWE_216901_2169101_020710_ship.zip

Not yet. I think, however, that Cingular will also release the new, AKU2 for for the 8125 in this month.

You can't - legally - install the Qtek ROM on your O2 Mini S.

Unfortunately, O2 still has the original, V1.5.4.102 version of ROM online (which is still better than the one that K-jams/Qtek's were shipped with) at http://www.my-xda.com/xdaminis_soft.html.

However, I don't think any rebrander will miss the chance to release the new ROM update - I don't think they would want to make their customers turn away from them. That is, I'm pretty sure O2 will also release a ROM upgrade in the near future - as with i-mate. (I'm pretty sure about the latter - see its CEO's interviews.)

The K-Jam and the Qtek 9100 are essentially the same- just different rebrands of the same device, with really negligable, software-only differences. As I don't really know their UK price/warranty issues, you may consider the following:

- price
- possible rebates
- warranty duration and location of service centers (for example, are they locally fixed if it goes wrong) - AFAIK Qtek has a service center in all EU countries, unlike i-mate, which sends the devices to a regional service centre, taking a lotmore time. I may be wrong though.

As far as ROM upgrades are concerned, nothing can be said for sure about the future. Qtek's upgrade history, so far, has been better (they have released ROM version 1.6.7.1 a long ago, while i-mate hasn't released anything so far, but this doesn't necessarily mean the situation will remain the same in the future.)

Finally, another subject to consider: much as just being a rebrand (not a genuine European product), the Qtek is European. Therefore, if you want to support European economy, you may want to go for the Qtek.

I've just read here that i-mate will start providing the new ROM in about a week. (BTW, some other points of the article is pretty questionable. For example, it states that Qtek has worse support than i-mate. Well, seeing the ROM update histories, this is doubtful.)

Incidentally, for German T-Mobile MDA Vario users, the 1.6.2.1 German ROM update can be found at https://after-sales-service.t-mobile.de/eg_online/t-mobile/t_mda_vario.htm.

Unfortunately, i-mate's official FTP site, ftp://ftp.clubimate.com/ , only has the old, 1.1.9.3 ROM. Only some national versions are a bit newer.

I'm not sure there aren't other ways to get the new ROM. As i-mate is not a local brand here in Europe (as opposed to the Swedish Qtek), I can't really look up i-mate specific information from here. Therefore, it may be possible i-mate does have the new ROM version, it's just that it hasn't been put on their FTP site.

I can't log in to i-mate's central site, http://www.clubimate.com/ , because my Wizard is not an i-mate one (but a European rebrand) and, therefore, my IMEI# doesn't work there. You could, however, register yourself in there to check out their official support (I can't - it's only available for i-mate device owners). Hope they have some info on the newer ROM's.

It is official. You can grab it from any Qtek support site (I'll publish a list of them, along with other re-branders, soon); for example, here.

Please note that this is a Qtek (mostly sold in Europe) ROM. You can install it on any Wizard (independent of their rebranders) without problems (after some manual tweaking explained here) but you should still prefer a genuine ROM upgrade from your particular rebrander.

If you have a Wizard from other rebrander (for example, i-mate), let me know and I explain how/where you can get its ROM upgrade from. (Unfortunately, not i-mate help/download pages work as should.)

Smartphone &amp; Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "HTC Wizard users: (why) is it worth upgrading to new ROM versions?; overclock the CPU to achieve considerably better file transf"

Smartphone & Pocket PC magazine - Comments for "HTC Wizard users: (why) is it worth upgrading to new ROM versions?; overclock the CPU to achieve considerably better file transf"