Software dumps bring a taste of the Touch Diamond2 to the original
By Chris Ziegler 
posted March 9th 2009 10:42AM
posted March 9th 2009 10:42AM
No quantity of illicit CABs will grant your Touch Diamond a 5 megapixel camera or touch-sensitive zoom bar, but at least you can get some of the Touch Diamond2's software goodies ahead of time. everythingdiamond.info is hoting a plethora of binaries ripped from a Touch Diamond2 ROM, including several versions of the new on-screen keyboard, the photo album app, calculator, volume control, and more, all just waiting for a lovely Touch Diamond to call home -- especially cool considering the sequel's screen resolution has changed. Odds are we're just weeks (if not days) away from a full cooked 6.5 ROM with all of the Touch Diamond2's features for the Diamond, but if you're really into living on the bleeding edge, your playground awaits.[Via WMPoweruser.com]
i tried the new keyboard yesterday, and although I like it, it disabled the use of the Fn key on the hardware keyboard of my Touch Pro, and once I uninstalled it, it hosed the software keyboard as well. The new volume control was nice (unified volume instead of separate system/ringer). the only other cab I tried was QuickGPS. no change there.
The software keyboard was ripped from the Diamond 2 not the Touch Pro 2. They are hoping a dump from the Pro 2 will fix the issues you talked about. Also it's known that the keyboard requires a hard reset to uninstall.
I have it installed on my Diamond. It is so much better than the one that came with the diamond. Easier to type on and the XT9 is much better at predicting and even accounts for the fact that you might have hit the letter to the left or right of the one you were intending to hit.
I'd like to see if this gets rid of the bug in TF3D that prevents some albums from showing up with the correct track order.