The Samsung i8910 HD gets HX7 'Black Pearl' and complete customisation

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For those following the HX firmware saga on the otherwise neglected Samsung i8910 HD (aka 'Omnia HD'), note that the much-anticipated HX7 firmware, codenamed 'Black Pearl', just went live (video demo below). Among many other little fixes and tying up loose ends, HX7 offers a custom utility to le t you adjust a mountain of interface settings on the fly, right down to microphone sensitivity and kinetic scrolling mechanics, without having to mess around with patch files and extra SISx installs. There's also a new 'tsunami' homescreen...

I'm flashing the editorial i8910 HD and will report back in due course. Note that, as always with i8910 HD firmware updates, there's no user data preservation, the mass memory ALSO gets wiped and you can't even restore the whole of your old backup (though user data should be OK). So definitely one for the geeks (like me!).....

 

From the original notes (in original English!):

  • This time Camera saves really images and videos in DATE and yyy.mm.dd
  • wlan power back to normal (you can change it if you want in settings)
  • Threaded sms still there, sorry mates, but the icon can´t be removed by “hand” so i removed the original icon
  • pocket data back to normal, (to much delay)
  • kastor effects, the same, but removed “OPTIONS” effect, it had to much delay and the symbian icon was buggy
  • Added wow effect to 3D-taskswitcher NEW
  • After pnht(.org) autoinstallation finished you have the tsunami homescreen with some shortcuts added
  • widget-homescreen gadget.swf NOW on e:\ ! You can change/mod yourself and can add live wallpaper without enable c2z ! thanks goes to liliantungary for his widget-mod !
  • new jpeg-encoder from i8510 figured out by Lukas_ita, Colmar85 and all the staff of forum.hdblog.it
  • musicplayer only search on e:\music f:\music (it was buggy before)
  • New battery-managment: Battery-life will increase for about 20 % ones you flashed this firmware, it will remain forever, even if you flash to a different firmware. (this mod will work on about 90 % of all phones