14 DAY TRIAL // Even though Samsung doesn't seem to care too much about Omnia HD owners and will not release an update to fix or improve the smartphone's firmware, the scene is very active and is continuously working to bring enhancements to the device. The guys over Team-HX just announced their unofficial HX-V7 (also called Black Pearl) firmware update for Samsung i8910 Omnia HD owners.
As the developers are stating, the new firmware “wants no world-record in tweaks or tuning, but it will be the best for customize your phone easily.” Here are some of the improvements that the final version of the firmware should bring to the smartphone:
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; Music player only searches on e:\music f:\music (it was buggy before); New battery-managment: Battery-life will increase for about 20% once you flash this firmware, it will remain forever, even if you flash to a different firmware. (this mod will work on about 90% of Omnia HD phones); Kinetic-scroll presets, (slow-medium-fast-default) you can change every preset if you want, or change only “default” (don´t forget that it will be applied after restarting an running app); Force 600 Mhz will be now on autostart if needed (OFF is default); When enable 3d-nav no restart is needed (bug fixed) (but it´s still recommended to restart phone after changing left and right swipe); Call logs will be now saved without patch after restart/shut-off phone; Main localization with English, German, Italian, French and Spanish.
Check out the video below to find out how you can flash your Omnia HD and update with the new Black Pearl firmware.