HTC Touch - Get Hacked

This weekend was more productive than usual. I spent most of my time playing Mass Effect 2 and trying to hack my HTC Touch ( Elfin ).

First of all: Mass Effect 2. What a great game! I haven't played a game this good in years! The story is great, the characters are great and the gameplay is a typical 3rd person shooter with sci-fi powers ( which is also great ).

Anyway, to the stuff that matters. The hacking was not that hard. Although, you will require Windows at all cost, I tried it myself doing it on a VM but the Activesync connection was very weak.
The process involves:
- Finding your device info
- Backing up your current ROM and some ID's
- Hacking your CID
- Installing the cooked ROM

The tutorials from our friends at XDA-Developers will help you help you hacking the HTC Touch <--- ONLY!!!!!. For other models you'll have to search their forum, they have a huge variety of models and brands.

Since the WM 6.5 version is still in Beta I decided to install WM 6.1 which seems really stable.
The process worked at the 3rd time because I got stuck at the HaRET screen with the little, but familiar, penguin looking at me.
Onyx 4.9 as they call it is really good and it uses all the good features you would expect from an HTC product.
The only con I found until now is the battery drain. Even though it says that the 4.9 version is almost identical to the default ROM ( WM 6 ) the battery drains is a little bit faster, it can only take 2 days in use ( not really bad but still, bad ).

The next step would be trying to run some flavor of Linux in it. Maybe Android? With a bit of search you'll find that some people were able to run it with some bugs.