I recently upgrade my Omnia II to Windows Mobile 6.5 from the Samsung Website.

The upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5 for Omnia 2 is now available on the official website of Samsung in some countries. You can only upgrade your phone through the website of Samsung in the country that is your OMNIA II came from (obviously, by official ways... you can find many other ways and roms here in Modaco comunity to upgrade to WM 6.5 no matter what country your phone came from). I will explain how I did it from the Singapure website...

How do you discover what country is your Omnia II? Go in "Settings", "Advanced Settings", "System", "Version", "Device". You will see three codes: PDA, CSC and PHONE. Everyone starts with I8000 (which is the code of Omnia 2). In CSC, see if the following 3 characteres (after the code I8000) are XSO, and in PHONE see if the two characteres following are DX. If so, your Omnia II came from Singapore (as well as mine).

You can find codes for the other countries here in the Modaco comunity, but I will post some codes that I find here for help you:

Codes for CSC (the 3 characteres after I8000):
ATO AUSTRIA
AUT SWITZERLAND
CNX ROMANIA
COA ROMANIA
CYO GREECE
DBT GERMANY
EUR GREECE
FOP SPAIN
HAT ROMANIA
IRD SLOVAKIA
ITV ITALY
MOB AUSTRIA
MOT SLOVENIA
MTL BULGARIA
OMX BULGARIA
ORO ROMANIA
PAN HUNGARY
PLS POLAND
PRO NETHERLANDS
PRT POLAND
SEB AUSTRIA
SEK UKRAINE
SER RUSSIA
SIM SLOVENIA
SMO SERBIA
SUN SWITZERLAND
SWC SWITZERLAND
TPH PORTUGAL
TRA CROATIA
VGR GREECE
VIP CROATIA
WIN ITALY
XEB BELGIUM
XEE SWEDEN
XEF FRANCE
XEH HUNGRARY
XEN NETHERLAND
XEO POLAND
XEP PORTUGAL
XEU UK
XEZ HUNGARY
XSO SINGAPORE

Codes for PHONE (the 2 characteres after I8000):
BD Greece
CP Finland
DB Vietnam
DC Thailand
DD India
DT Australia
DX Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam
DZ Malaysia, Singapore
JA South Africa
JC Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia
JP Arabic
JR Arabic
JV Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia,South Africa, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey
MT Switzerland
XA Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom
XB Denmark, Norway, Sweden
XC Portugal, Spain
XD Croatia, Czech, Hungary, Slovakia
XE Bulgaria, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine
XF Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania
XX Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom
ZC China, Hong Kong
ZH Hong Kong
ZT Taiwan

The 3 last characteres in PDA, CSC and PHONE:
* Release years:
D = 2004
E = 2005
F = 2006
G = 2007
H = 2008
I = 2009
* Release months:
A = January
B = February
C = March
D = April
E = May
F = June
G = July
H = August
I = September
J = October
K = November
L = December

I'm using the following 3 fonts to replace those defaults,
Kristen ITC for english characters or system fonts
Eunjin for korean characters
Hua Kang for chinese characters (you will need one that support both simplified and traditional chinese or you will need another font for the other variant)


1. Copy the system font to Windows\fonts folder, while the korean and chinese fonts will go to the Windows folder.


2. Using any Registry Editor, navigate to the following keys, replaces the contents with the appropriate information from your fonts. Grab the font name from the font viewer. Changes to be made are highlighted in bold. Create a new value with the name of the new system font and value of those chinese and korean fonts.

[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\FontLink\SystemLink]
Courier New = \windows\huakang.ttf,Hua Kang;\windows\eunjin.ttf,Eunjin
Tahoma = \windows\huakang.ttf,Hua Kang;\windows\eunjin.ttf,Eunjin
Kristen ITC = \windows\huakang.ttf,Hua Kang;\windows\eunjin.ttf,Eunjin


3. This value registers the system font, so change the value to the one you want to replace with.

[HKLM\System\GDI\SYSFNT]
Nm = Kristen ITC


4. Now create a new key under GDI with the name FontAlias, and create a new value with the old value from Nm (previous step) and the name of the new system font.

[HKLM\System\GDI\FontAlias]
Tahoma = Kristen ITC


5. save all settings and restart the device =)




finally get rid of the monotonous fonts!

(P.S. some areas like the Today screen still remains in the original font, one solution is to place the desired system font in windows directory. But the side effect is having the sms view mode messing up)

Here's the link to the huakang.ttf, tis version is rather large as it supports both simplified and traditional chinese, and japanese
http://www.4shared.com/file/215544287/1b97cc4e/FrLtDFGirl__simplified__tradit.html

finally fixed the rss image problem after such a long time..lol

more fixes following after =P

Digital Frame
This software has been there since i900. It is kinda making i8000 to behaving like a digital photo frame. The software will cycle through the selected photos in the background, with some of the phone's notifications overlaid.




Photo album
This nifty software allows you to browse through your photos. In landscape mode, it has this cool 3D card effect with the photos of each folder being spread across the screen. While viewing the photos, you could use the one finger zoom to enlarge the photo or tilting the phone sideway would scroll to the next photo =D

5 MP Camera
As the old saying goes, if it's aint broke, don't fix it. The camera interface remains largely the same as what is on i900. The video recording mode does receive a slight upgrade, with the added resolution of 720 x 480.




Midomi Mobile
If you are on the move and overhear something you like, could not recognise what music is that? No worries, just whip out your i8000. Another neat application included in i8000 is this piece of software that allows you to search for music by singing, or humming to the phone.

Recording and recognising the song.


No problem recognising non-english song! Cool!


They even provide links to the mv and lyrics ;D



FM Radio
Same old radio application here, you could record the channels, and set up to 12 favourite frequencies.





Touch Player
Lastly, the multimedia player. 2 possible audio enhancement for you to choose from, namely DNSe and SRS. The largest video resolution the player could playback is 720 x 480. That means no HD videos, but the wealth of codec supported should be more than enough to justify the lower resolution.