Hi all,
I've had a search but can't seem to find the answer to this query:
I've seen a few posts now that say you need to do an update via a .pkg to put a new baseband on, rather than just pushing the amss via fastboot.
What I'd like to find out is what's missing if you just flash the baseband?
I went from O2 2.1 to various Streakdroids (1.4 to 1.5.3 to 1.7, 1.8.1 and now 1.9.1). I flashed baseband 318 at some point and recently flashed 354 to the 1.8.1 build before upgrading on Monday to 1.9.1
Im not happy with battery life currently and also feel the performance should be better, compared to other people's posted figures.
Also a lot of folk are claiming over double the battery life I'm seeing.
What do I gain, if anything, by installing say the official 2.2.2 or 2.2.3 update.pkg and then re-installing Streakdroid 1.9.1? Can anyone give me a few pointers?
cheers.....
Read the last few posts in gingerstreak thread where they have very good explanation on this debate.
Sent from the Dell Streak
thanks!
Ideally I'd like to discover a bit more about what there is and what does what but that certainly tells me i need to go do the .pkg update and re-install!
much appreciated
Yes I had a issue with just flashing the baseband. Market and any other app would not update or install on my phone. Once I did a update pkg then install 1.9.1 all is good now.
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quick answer would be, is that an official update.pkg will flash all the images built specifically to be compatible with eachother, including some core code.
afaik, flashing baseband on its own shouldn't really make a huge impact on stability..
I use 318 BB just cause its the last official 00 regional update in australia.. I could use 351 BB, which is the last 00 BB, which I've tried, but 318 works best.
cheers!
Stability is very very good, in fact it doesn't hang or reboot at all (as long as the CPU is kept at 1152 or under)
I was really thinking about battery life (there are rumours of the batterystats from 2.2.2 showing longer life and mine is currently awful), signal strength, wifi, graphics performance (my quadrant score seems low at 1571) etc.
i'll probably give it a bash anyway - all good for experience!
I am having the same issue with my streak. Battery performance does not seem as good as others report on 1.9.1, and I am unable to overclock past 1152 without freeze/eventual reboot.
Phone originally had ATT 1.6 on it, then upgraded to OS2 2.1, then to various versions of StreakDroid and currently 1.9.1.
Today I tried using the 351 recovery.img and flashed the 351 update.pkg for the stock ROM. After successfully booting and using the stock rom for a bit, I did a factory reset then I flashed back to streakmod recovery and then re-loaded streakdroid 1.9.1. Then I did another factory reset.
This made no difference on the overclocking issue for me. Any ideas what I could/should i try next?
I think thats purely a hardware factor. The CPUs have varations in clock speed limit and it looks like yours is the same as mine
Gonna play with .pkg updates over the weekend and see what if anything happens to battery life. Maybe I just use it too much
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Hi,
I'd like to start off saying I'm a newbie...
I originally thought it was a requirement to root you HTC Hero phone to get andriod 2.1, and I did root it I got Villain 12.
I later discovered you can update without rooting, to the offical firmware, now I have two heros (one is my bro's).
I was doing a comparison his has offical 2.1, mine has Villain 12, I can't really see much difference between the Official & Villain 12, other than Villain 12 takes about 55 seconds longer to boot up. So as far as that goes, that's a serious downgrade to the official version. Many people say it's faster and better, but my tests show that its much slower to boot and the same while using apps etc.
I was wondering if there was actually any benefits to the custom rom...
Also I was wondering how to unroot the phone, just incase I need to return under warranty etc...
Well with a rooted phone you can overclock your phone via Overclock Widget(Market) or SetCPU (search XDA to get it for free and put it on your sd card and download Astro Filemanage to install it) I use Cronos Droid 2.1.2 so I cannot speak for VillainROM 12. The phone does take a bit longer to boot up but I find it worth it because I can flash themes, change my bootanimation and do other crap such as try new kernels or try out experimental ROMS (basically any 2.2 Froyo ROM), so it is a matter of opinion if root is worth it. Also a simple search and there are threads stating the pros and cons of rooting
::EDIT::
Forgot rooted phones get app2sd (saves space on your phone so you can have more apps)
I would love to know the official 2.1 boot time. For a comparison to other boot times. FYI if VillainROM is taking 55 seconds longer to boot that would mean that the official boots in about 15 seconds (based upon my results). So my thinking is that something went wrong with your VillainROM install (for whatever reason). I would recommend wiping everything and reinstalling VillainROM or another ROM and seeing if you get the performance improvements that I am seeing in almost all rom's.
GPU Benchmarks
CPU/Boot time Benchmarks
If i remember correctly the official 2.1 took about 1:50-2:00 to boot up. Villainrom12 took 1:20, and Kimera2.1 takes 1:00 (very impressive)
Not as impressive as Chocolate Eclair 1.0 which takes about 50 seconds to load IIRC.
Hey Guys,
I hate to ask these stupid questions, but the more I research this, the more I am getting confused. I'm hoping someone can put this in laymans terms for me. I have flashed many windows phones with custom roms, and I've even successfully flashed my Streak multiple times. But I want to make sure I am doing everything correctly and get the most bang out of my phone.
Here is what i know:
I know I got Android 2.2; Dj Steve's Streakdroid 1.8.1; clockworkmod v2.5.0.1 and baseband GAUSB1A130500-US.
What I dont know:
How the phone got rooted, i bought the phone rooted (not sure if that matters)
What does a new version of clockworkmod do for me?
What does a new baseband do for me? Which is best?
Is there anything else that I should install/flash to have better experience?
Issues I encounter...
I have to hard reset my phone atleast once a day... My phone locks up, becomes very unresponsive, input lags, or the touchscreen acts funny and wont let me unlock the lock screen (it reads input, but won't allow me to drag the slider up far enough to unlock). Another issue I experience quite often, when I am in a phone call, and another person calls in while I am hanging up, 9 times out of 10, my phone screen will go black except for the notification bar, the phone will be completely unresponsive, the screen will dim, and then it turns off. I have to hold down the on button and reboot it for it to come back to life. one more issue that I encounter, my music library shows folders, but says there is no music.. but if i look in the directories, they are filled with MP3 files...
side note:
I see people bragging about scores in the lower 2000's in quadrant.... I get AT MAX 1400... most of the time its between 900-1200... wtf
Any help would be greatly appreciated
There are a few basebands lying around
305, 309, 318, 319, 322
I haven't had any issues with speed or reseting on 318 or 341
Ok am I correct in assuming that GAUSB1A130500-US = bb 305?
higherbeing said:
Ok am I correct in assuming that GAUSB1A130500-US = bb 305?
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Aye.
Cheers.
higherbeing said:
Ok am I correct in assuming that GAUSB1A130500-US = bb 305?
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That version was buggy and was replaced with a later official update. You might want to visit:
http://mobileupdate.dell.com/PackageProductionLocations/Streak_318_12821_00.pkg
on your phone and getting the 318 update. See this thread at dell support.
I've attached a QR code you can scan with barcode scanner to get the update to your phone.
Since you have clockwork mod installed you will have to flash the stock recovery to the phone before you update.
Another option would be to install one of the Streakdroid Roms. I recommend 1.8.1
You may want to do more reading and get an understanding of what you are doing before you do anything.
marvin02 said:
That version was buggy and was replaced with a later official update. You might want to visit:
http://mobileupdate.dell.com/PackageProductionLocations/Streak_318_12821_00.pkg
on your phone and getting the 318 update. See this thread at dell support.
I've attached a QR code you can scan with barcode scanner to get the update to your phone.
Since you have clockwork mod installed you will have to flash the stock recovery to the phone before you update.
Another option would be to install one of the Streakdroid Roms. I recommend 1.8.1
You may want to do more reading and get an understanding of what you are doing before you do anything.
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I already have streakdroid 1.8.1 installed, so I will that link/qr code still work?
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I already have streakdroid 1.8.1 installed, so I will that link/qr code still work?
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You shouldn't need to install the stock rom unless you are having issues with 1.8.1.
Installing latest update package
It took me forever and a day, and 4 different computers to install StreakMod on my Streak so that I could do a nandroid backup.
Is there no way to use StreakMod to use the update I downloaded from the Dell site? If not, how do I get back to stock recovery?
Sorry for the noob questions but I am just getting started....
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I've attached a QR code you can scan with barcode scanner to get the update to your phone.
I'm new to all this. What and how do you use the "barcode scanners" I see here and there?
You may want to do more reading and get an understanding of what you are doing before you do anything.
I've spent the past week since getting this Streak reading all kinds of stuff before attempting to update the 1.6 to 2.2
So far I've seen several ways to do it and am getting more confused.
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Hi all,
I have been on xda-dev for years and my new Streak arrives tomorrow. I have read a ton of posts all over this section including the wiki and faq's but if someone could help me with a few basic questions that would be great.
I'm assuming my streak will arrive with 2.2 (froyo) or do they still come with 1.6 on ?
What is the best course of action for me rom wise ? I run a very lightweight rooted 2.3.4 rom on my Nexus S and would like something similarly light on my Streak. Can I just root the standard 2.2 (and strip out the bloat) or am I best off installing a custom rom (maybe Streakdroid 1.9) right off the bat ?
Really excited about my new purchase and looking forward to contributing.
Thanks in advance.
maltloaf
The closest thing to 2.3.4 is djsteves gingerstreak 2.0
It still needs a little work but is looking pretty good.
Sent from my Dell Streak using Tapatalk
I don't particularly need gingerbread just lightweight, fast and rooted
Streakdroid 1.9 with baseband 354 is super light. You can root through rom installation or through flashing superuser.zip.
You'll need clockwork recovery or streakrecovery (or whatever) to do most of this.
When I got my phone in feb/march it had 1.6. When I got my replacement it had 2.2. You'll want a launcher (i'm sure you know) because the dell launcher is meh.
it arrived this morning with 2.2 on it. I updated with the official update to 2.2.2 and rooted by fastboot flashing streakmod recovery and then superuser.zip.
Feels a bit sluggish at the mo so have installed SPB Shell 3D (as I had already bought it) and that's a bit more spritely than stageUI but will have a look at streakdroid 1.9 before I play too much I think. I quite like the dell widgets but I can see how the novelty would wear off quickly.
ok noob question. My baseband reads as GAUSB1A135100-EU
am i ok using that with streakdroid 1.9 or do I need to flash the one in the streakdroid thread (or some other) ?
many thanks again.
maltloaf said:
ok noob question. My baseband reads as GAUSB1A135100-EU
am i ok using that with streakdroid 1.9 or do I need to flash the one in the streakdroid thread (or some other) ?
many thanks again.
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That's ok
Sent from the Almighty Streak!
my suggestion is to upgrade to stock 354.
remove the bloat
remove dell stage ui and widgets and go with adw launcher or launcherpro
don't load more then 20-30 apps..
you will be screaming...
you can use a flashable zip to root, or use gingerbreak to root.
Thanks for the replies...
Which one is 354 and where do I get it ?
I've installed streakdroid 1.9.0 and it's really nice but i'm getting random reboots, even through factory resets. I think stock/rooted/lightened is the way forward for me personally.
This page is full of great info and links to all the roms http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Dell_Streak#Official
OK, now I'm on 354 rooted, installed ADW launcher and much happier with it.
What method do people use to remove unwanted apps ?
cheers,
malty
maltloaf said:
OK, now I'm on 354 rooted, installed ADW launcher and much happier with it.
What method do people use to remove unwanted apps ?
cheers,
malty
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root uninstaller.
( from my personal experience , i have not seen any benefit from removing system apps
I'm inclined to agree after some investigating. On other handsets certain system apps are sometimes loaded into memory even if not being used.
I installed system panel lite from the market to see what was running and only saw items I had started.
Tomorrow I will be battling with locking the default orientation to portrait!
Cheers,
malty
i use titanium backup to uninstall apps.
Getting occasional internet drop outs. Data just stops even tho signal is good. (Doesn't happen on the same sim in my nexus). Would this be common and might a different baseband help?
Thanks again
I'm liking the 351 baseband more than I did the 354. My internet connection is more stable and I am able to switch between HSPA and WiFi in one click, whereas I wasn't able to with 318.
For unwanted apps, I use Root Explorer and go to the system apps and just delete it, it's worked better for me than Titanium.
But then I flashed StreakDroid 1.9 with the noapps in my install.txt and there really isn't anything left to get rid of if you flash that route, that's about as bare as it gets.
Although I do go and eliminate the stock browser and the stock gingerbread launcher and replace them with my preferences
Ok how do I go to a different modem firmware? Do i have to flash a whole Rom?
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Ok how do I go to a different modem firmware? Do i have to flash a whole Rom?
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Nope, you just flash a different baseband through fastboot, like I mentioned before, I decided to go stick with the 351 and have been happy since.
Had a look round but couldn't find the amss file (or any others for that matter) for 351. Are they all stored somewhere I haven't come across?
I had a go at downgrading to the full 351 Rom too but ran into problems. It seemed not to want to restore a Rom with an older date than I was running. I think the amss file will do fine for now though. My net connection really is hit and miss! Almost like the cellular radio is going to sleep.
Thanks,
malty
maltloaf said:
Had a look round but couldn't find the amss file (or any others for that matter) for 351. Are they all stored somewhere I haven't come across?
I had a go at downgrading to the full 351 Rom too but ran into problems. It seemed not to want to restore a Rom with an older date than I was running. I think the amss file will do fine for now though. My net connection really is hit and miss! Almost like the cellular radio is going to sleep.
Thanks,
malty
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Ok bro, did the legwork for ya.... (hit that Thanks button) and here's Manii's page where you can find the basebands and most anything else
http://mirror2.streakdroid.com/manii/
Hey quick question, Running my streak with Streakdroid 1.9, only background apps are widgetlocker, twitter/facebook sync updates (even though they only seem to update properly when i tell them to.
Average use, few texts throughout the day, screen brightness on about 30%, no phone calls and minimal wifi or 3G data use as i'm around computers all day. I never use it for music/movies either.
Took off charge at 9.12AM, 86% at 12.28, after no use other use than sending 2 texts and receiving one. I got this phone in November last year, is the battery literally just this shocking or should i email DELL about getting a replacement?
TLR = Original battery dies faster than the person that says they'll brb in horror films, what do? (Also what's the correct email address to ask for?)
-Sean
Maybe you should try a new baseband?
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valest said:
Maybe you should try a new baseband?
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See i've asked this many times, what is a baseband and what does it do? I've never upgraded it due to the fact no one has answered this question
Also how would a baseband affect battery life? My phone says: GAUSB1A131921-EU
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See i've asked this many times, what is a baseband and what does it do? I've never upgraded it due to the fact no one has answered this question
Also how would a baseband affect battery life? My phone says: GAUSB1A131921-EU
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IIRC, baseband is a separate ARM CPU running a real time operating system that handles the actual business of communicating with the mobile phone network. When flashing the phone, 'baseband' = operating system image for this CPU. You need a baseband version compatible with the version of Android you're running (what exactly is compatible in this context depends on the phone + version of Android)
Different baseband could affect battery due to different mobile radio use pattern or maybe by keeping Android awake for longer or by different power saving behavior on baseband CPU etc.
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IIRC, baseband is a separate ARM CPU running a real time operating system that handles the actual business of communicating with the mobile phone network. When flashing the phone, 'baseband' = operating system image for this CPU. You need a baseband version compatible with the version of Android you're running (what exactly is compatible in this context depends on the phone + version of Android)
Different baseband could affect battery due to different mobile radio use pattern or maybe by keeping Android awake for longer or by different power saving behavior on baseband CPU etc.
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I see, thank you Anyone know if it's worth looking for the best one for 1.9 Streakdroid or if i should try out DJ Steve's Streakdroid 2.0? I understand that's WIP and the baseband is completely different or something?
-Sean
Seanyftw said:
I see, thank you Anyone know if it's worth looking for the best one for 1.9 Streakdroid or if i should try out DJ Steve's Streakdroid 2.0? I understand that's WIP and the baseband is completely different or something?
-Sean
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351 AMSS.mbn
Retail 00
353 AMSS.mbn
USA AT&T Region 31
354 AMSS.mbn
Hong Kong Region 11
Code:
fastboot -i 0x413c flash amss amss.mbn
fastboot -i 0x413c reboot
Seanyftw said:
I see, thank you Anyone know if it's worth looking for the best one for 1.9 Streakdroid or if i should try out DJ Steve's Streakdroid 2.0? I understand that's WIP and the baseband is completely different or something?
-Sean
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Be advised,SD2.0 is still a working progress,not stable release!
Seanyftw said:
I see, thank you Anyone know if it's worth looking for the best one for 1.9 Streakdroid or if i should try out DJ Steve's Streakdroid 2.0? I understand that's WIP and the baseband is completely different or something?
-Sean
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I'm afraid I don't know. I'm on the same baseband as you and I want to know if it's safe to install retail 351 on it. I know that the wrong baseband could stop your phone booting, might make Android unstable, prevent you making phone calls or accessing internet over 3G so I'm not keen on risking it...
nickshertzer said:
351 AMSS.mbn
Retail 00
353 AMSS.mbn
USA AT&T Region 31
354 AMSS.mbn
Hong Kong Region 11
Code:
fastboot -i 0x413c flash amss amss.mbn
fastboot -i 0x413c reboot
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Thanks for this but which one should i use? I'm using Streakdroid 1.9
-Sean
Seanyftw said:
Hey quick question, Running my streak with Streakdroid 1.9, only background apps are widgetlocker, twitter/facebook sync updates (even though they only seem to update properly when i tell them to.
Average use, few texts throughout the day, screen brightness on about 30%, no phone calls and minimal wifi or 3G data use as i'm around computers all day. I never use it for music/movies either.
Took off charge at 9.12AM, 86% at 12.28, after no use other use than sending 2 texts and receiving one. I got this phone in November last year, is the battery literally just this shocking or should i email DELL about getting a replacement?
TLR = Original battery dies faster than the person that says they'll brb in horror films, what do? (Also what's the correct email address to ask for?)
-Sean
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I run 1.9.1 and finally, my battery will last me over 24 hours. And thats with moderate use, trip to three hours of phone use on a bluetooth headset, and even some video from youtube or crackle. What I did this time was to install the stock 354, then 1.9.1 over that. I had bounced around between different roms so much that I'm sure my firmware files were all mismatched. Installing a stock rom from an update.pkg, not update.zip, installs several firmwares. The bandana off only one of these, albeit the most popular.
After the install I started using apps such as spare parts and cpu spy to help me figure put what was using up my battery the most. I turned my notifications to every two hours for Tweetcaster Pro and turned off notifications for Facebook. The facebook app seemed to be one of the biggest culprits.
It takes a little bit of work and patience to figure it out, but it makes a huge difference in the end. I no longer worry about my battery not making it through my day anymore.
Sent from my Dell Streak using Tapatalk
The hong kong and retail one you can try! for your question,I think the kernel is,more affect the efficiency of you phone related to battrry life.
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What I did this time was to install the stock 354, then 1.9.1 over that. I had bounced around between different roms so much that I'm sure my firmware files were all mismatched. Installing a stock rom from an update.pkg, not update.zip, installs several firmwares. The bandana off only one of these, albeit the most popular.
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So what method did you use to accomplish that. I am interested in trying flashing stock (probably either 351, or 353) and then putting SimpleStreak 1.2 back over top. When I got some free time today and tried to do it I realized that Clockworkmod recovery replaces the option that would let me flash an *.pkg file. Did you flash the stock recovery, flash the stock rom, then reflash clockworkmod?
Thanks for the help.
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Did you flash the stock recovery, flash the stock rom, then reflash clockworkmod?
Thanks for the help.
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Correct. Except use StreakMod and not Clockwork.
That's what I did this time. Though in the past I was using Clockwork because the previous versions of Streakmod I had tried didn't agree with my phone. I used Multirecovery flasher and it worked great. The only snag I went into is none of my nandroid backups would restore.* It made the whole thing more of a headache than it needed to be. From now on I guess I'll have to try restoring right after I back up to make sure everything is working.
*I tried to restore them through the same version of Clockworkmod that I had before and they all failed with the checksum error.
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*I tried to restore them through the same version of Clockworkmod that I had before and they all failed with the checksum error.
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Did you rename the folder the backup was in? Spaces and some otjher characters can cause issues, search and you will find posts relating to this (see the clockwork and streakmod threads).
You can also manually check the md5 sums of the backup to see if the values in the file agree. There is a file named nandroid.md5 that is just a text file with the checksums, compare these values with the checksums for the files in the backup. I use hashcheck in WinXP to add the checksums to the properties dialog in the file explorer.
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Did you rename the folder the backup was in? Spaces and some otjher characters can cause issues, search and you will find posts relating to this (see the clockwork and streakmod threads).
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Nope, I didn't change a thing. At first I flashed the wrong recovery(Streakmod) and it said it couldn't find them. But I dug through my computer and flashed what I believe is the same version of Clockworkmod (should be the same, It's the only non-stock recovery I had saved) that gave me the md5 errors. No biggy though, after some hours of work and playing most of Cut the Rope again I'm pretty much back where I was.
I've got a Telecom NZ P500h phone here which Superboot would refuse to root as surprisingly it came with a late October release of 2.3.3 OOTB.
I had to use LGMDP to flash the old (December) 2.2.1 release of the same P500h firmware (from the thread in the dev forum), and I was then able to root it with Superboot.
I then had to use LGMDP again to flash the v20g baseband - this is the slightly dodgy bit as there doesn't seem to be a v20g baseband anywhere that is specifically for the P500h. I bit the bullet and flashed it anyway, and the phone now identifies as a standard P500. (Uh oh I thought).
Once I'd done that, I used the manual method to flash the current v3.06 ThunderG recovery, then rebooted into recovery and flashed the GingerLOL ROM.
Rebooted, and everything seems to work fine. WiFi works, 3G data works, calls work.
So, I'm not sure what difference the "h" designation implies, but unless I've yet to find something nasty, crossflashing it to a standard P500 seems to work just fine.
Now I'm about to flash it to the current AGA ROM instead as GingerLOL hasn't been updated in a long time. Not keen on CM7 as it seems to have too many issues.
So, if anyone else has a 500h phone, then you might be lucky and this process will work for you. If someone has gone through the same process and knows of issues I'm likely to come across as a result, please let me know!