I know I just wrote a post about how Mighty’s ROM was so much better than Juicy’s, but the ROM war continues and Juicy just released a new ROM (4.5.5) for the Sprint Diamond. It has all sorts of new, super-cool features that put it a few notches above Mighty’s latest ROM.
If you want this ROM (Juicy 4.5.5), but aren’t sure how to flash your phone, you may want to check out my How To Unlock, Flash the Sprint Touch PRO guide. Note: If you want to know how to flash the Diamond, do not follow the explicit instructions that I wrote on that post. It’s the same process, but if you download and flash to the ROM that I point to in that post, it will jack your phone up – and that’s not a good thing.
What I love about Juicy’s new ROM:
- Facebook app
I never thought I would see the day. This app has pretty much all the bells and whistles you could ever want out of a Windows Mobile Facebook app. Now someone needs to whip up a cool Twitter app for Windows Mobile.
- New keyboard and tap-sensitive vibration
This was on the previous ROM, but it’s still worth mentioning. The new keyboard makes typing on the Diamond a lot more fun easy. The typing still sucks, but this keyboard + the touch vibration is a complete step up from the standard keyboard.
- TouchFLO upgrade
Now you can customize the options you want to see instead of having to scroll through all the crap you don’t want to see (i.e. the music player).
- Improved iconography
All of the icons seem to have had an overhaul. I’m not sure who made them or whatever, but they look good. It’s nice to see something new.
- In-call recorder app
Apparently you can now record calls while you’re talking. I haven’t used this app yet, but I look forward to posting some prank phone calls. 
- Flip It App
I haven’t really used this either, but this will come in handy for screen rotation tweaking.
If you’re still using the Mighty ROM, you may want to Flash to this ROM. It’s definitely a step up from Mighty’s latest ROM.
For the record (and thanks to The Hat for letting me know): Apparently Juicy couldn’t keep up with the development of two ROM’s, so he got a new guy (JMZ Taylor) to pick up where he left off. Each new ROM gets Juicy’s stamp of approval though – which is good.
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I put might rom on by your instructions and love it. It is so much better than the stock rom but now you got me wanting the new juicy rom lol so if there was any way that you could set me up with some instructions for that, that would be awesome. Thanks
Glad my instructions could help you out.
I’m trying to find the page where you can download Juicy’s ROM for the Touch PRO, but I’m not having much luck.
I know that Juicy stopped making ROMs and gave his work to JMZ Taylor for the Touch Diamond, but I’m not sure if JMZ is actively working on the Touch PRO ROM.
I’ll let you know if I find out and I’ll write a guide for it.
Thanks you have been a big help for a noob like me that knows nothing about phones. I have tried alot of “googleing” and searching everywhere to find something new but your site is by far the best. You describe everything in easy to read and understand terms and put great directions with links. Can’t be beat. Keep up the great work and i will be checking back waiting for the update. Thanks again for everything.
Hey, glad I could help!
I’m going to do some more looking to see if Juicy is working on a Touch PRO ROM.
Turns out that JMZ Taylor (the guy working on Juicy’s Sprint Diamond ROM) got a Touch PRO, so he’s basically stopped working on that ROM (sucks for me) and is probably going to start cranking out Touch PRO ROMs – good for you.
We’ll see what happens.
Hey, I believe this is the Juicy ROM for the Touch PRO: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=58002
Check that out and if it is the right one for sure, just download, unzip it, then flash like you did the first time. You can refer back to the instructions if need be.
Good luck.
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