Creating customization CABs. how? - Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General

I've seen customization CABs out there (from ExtROMs) which configure GPR and MMS settings (and a few others also change my spash screens).
I would like to create these customizations for Greek carriers since XDA-Devs doesn't have the greek qtek ExtROMs and ROMs
How do I do this ? :-/

http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=17918
read xda2jojo's post

here's the link that i used to teach myself how to create cab files.
very easy, very explanatory link.
http://www.codeproject.com/ce/pocketpc_deploy.asp

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Howto modified rom

Hello all of you,
Almost my first post.
I am reading many topic's on this website for a long time, yesterday the day comes that i needed to register me.
I have read things about flashing my rom to customised versions.
I like those things much but i would like to edit them on my own so i can customise them for my use, maybe post them on-line.
I have some questions about how to modified some roms...
I now have installed this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=428323
The programs i have installed are:
Polaris Kitchen
Hard spl on my device
Nb extract
imgfs tools
Whit this you can extract the rom i have downloaded and i got 2 maps oem and sys.
Maybe those are stupid questions i don't hope so.
How can i edit the rom now for example:
Add program's from an cab file.
For example only use the tuch flow your htc today how to edit it or use the one from the diamond version?
How to make registery tweaks?
Add maps to your program map.
How to make a rom for another language?
Where to edit settings in the files?
Is it possible to integrate an flash screen into the oem of sys map so you can flash it in one time?
Add a radio rom to the rom file? etc...
Save some settings etc...?
I hope you can help me whit those questions.
What i already have found:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=425612
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=427499
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=427772
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=379559&page=2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=311078&highlight=translation
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=381600&highlight=rom+loader
Erik

how do you cook in korean carrier id settings into your custom rom?

as a title says, how do you cook in your network/carrier id settings into your custom rom using available kitchen here? i have difficulties receiving sms and i have been informed that this process is necessary to make it work. anyone got an answer?
Some guy on the Xperia Naver Cafe recently uploaded an English language WM 6.5 ROM, including the kitchen. All of the files, settings you need to get SMS working would be in the kitchen.
As for your specific questions, you can cook in the network settings by using provxml files. I believe the carrier ID setting is located in a txt file in the OperatorPkg folder. The locale/regional settings should also be changed to Korea, and this can also be done through provxml files.

[ROM] [HP iPAQ 900c] [WWE] 28011 alternative 6.5.x

Kitchen see here
Hebrew support see here
Rom based on Montecristo v5.3, this rom is aimed for non-WWE users who need to install their own sip for input. However the user interface is still in English so anyone can still use.
since I don't own a 91x device, if the test is successful I welcome anyone to take over the kitchen and maintain themselves
notes: currently all vpn/domain enrolling function are not included in the rom, i may add them back if people wish to
all roms have 16mb pagepool
no gmap
-removed google map as requested by EREZYAD
download: mediafire
test 2:
-add back missing wmp skin
-convert more modules into file to increase the chance of switching to new installed sip
mediafire
brsbox
test 1:
changes that are common to both files are:
-replaced incorrectly used 192 dpi with 96 dpi for several packages
-removed the useless bth_watch package
-recmod some dlls to avoid sip switch issue
-remove ipsec,entrepise,Transcriber, packages
-added ADC, bubble breaker, msn weather & money widget ,IRDA
for 91x_WWE_28011_test.rar only:
-removed google map and search
-added gps18030 packages (including simsun.ac3 compressed font)
-replace WWE wince.nls with CHS
brsbox
for 91x_WWE_28011_test_no_simsun.rar only
-added RingsAndAlerts,SampleMusic
-replaced WWE wince.nls with CHT
mediafire
reserved for later 1
reserved for later 2
downloading test 2
tnx 4 everything
tnx keyx 4 your rom it looks great with your 96dpi settings
there are some menus that looks like 128 dpi like gprs popup menu (top bar)
email the "to" option is 2 big or when replying the "edit ..." is big but i think i can set it all by reg
when i do so i will issue a cab file 4 fixing it
now vertual keys on the lower bar looks ok
had some issues selecting fingur keyboard
but the only way it worked was by entering fingKB settings and appyling diffrent settings (i removed RUS support) after thet the fingur kb worked and now i can enable the rus support
will check the rom over the week (push mail ,igo8....)
must say one more time tnx a lot!!! waiting 4 your next rom
there is no "EXIT" option in the "wireless manager"
how can i fix that?
tnx
btw when using wm IE6 over heb internet pages only i get gray page
do u get that in other lang? (like chinese )
if so how do u fix it?
EREZYAD said:
tnx keyx 4 your rom it looks great with your 96dpi settings
there are some menus that looks like 128 dpi like gprs popup menu (top bar)
email the "to" option is 2 big or when replying the "edit ..." is big but i think i can set it all by reg
when i do so i will issue a cab file 4 fixing it
now vertual keys on the lower bar looks ok
had some issues selecting fingur keyboard
but the only way it worked was by entering fingKB settings and appyling diffrent settings (i removed RUS support) after thet the fingur kb worked and now i can enable the rus support
will check the rom over the week (push mail ,igo8....)
must say one more time tnx a lot!!! waiting 4 your next rom
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you need to post screenshot since i don't have 91x..
but then text size is probably personal preference/
there is no 128dpi in the rom, so if it looks big it is microsoft design for the new build (compare to 218xx) to make it more finger friendly
EREZYAD said:
there is no "EXIT" option in the "wireless manager"
how can i fix that?
tnx
btw when using wm IE6 over heb internet pages only i get gray page
do u get that in other lang? (like chinese )
if so how do u fix it?
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the X should either close it or hide in background depend on whether showcase is working. (Montecristo's rom does not have wktask i believe so you won't able to notice whether an app is closed or hided unless you open task manager)
for gray page, you need to show me screenshot or give me a link let me try on 61x. I have no problem with chinese for my 61x after adding font and registry but then the setup is a bit difference since the 91x rom is based on Montecristo's.
excellent alternative rom
thanks keyx for re-build the montecristo rom... very excited for sip keyboard fixed.
no problems so far with test2 rom, great job
could you add software from your rom into this rom? maybe we will have much choice of programs from you or from monte..
THX keyx......i can use chinese sip now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hi keyx
im still trying 2 work out some things
i have add fix in my heb thread
as 4 the IE when i add only fonts it works but when using RTL support i have issues (the id of heb is 1037 and 4 eng it is 1033 when switching settings i have some issues ) working on it
as 4 font size the popup menus are big but good 4 the use of a finger so it will stay as is
on my device
it can be fixed from reg ,but i will try 2 get into it also ...4 other users
4 now tnx a lot your rom is very good and fast
it is possible that you may need _CS(ComplesScript support package) as listed here
i.e
Webview_CS - IE 6on6 RenderCore component for OS use, arabic - replaces Webview
Riched20_CS - Rich HTML Editor support - Arabic builds - replaces Riched20
may be i will try build one with those packages later if you still can't manage to fix it yourelf
Testing 28011 alternative 6.5.x for 910c/912c/914c
I installed and tested the re-build rom and I must say it works very well, with the other montecrito rom could not have the garmin software and Windows Live Messenger running simultaneously because the garmin was abruptly aborted, with this rom it does not, both work perfectly so silmuntanes. Although there are some menus that appear at 128 dpi but I guess that finally was resolved by Microsoft in the upcoming version, everything else works perfect.
Thanks for this rom alternative. Good job keyx !!!!
keyx said:
it is possible that you may need _CS(ComplesScript support package) as listed here
i.e
Webview_CS - IE 6on6 RenderCore component for OS use, arabic - replaces Webview
Riched20_CS - Rich HTML Editor support - Arabic builds - replaces Riched20
may be i will try build one with those packages later if you still can't manage to fix it yourelf
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how do i get this packages nd do u know how 2 install them?
tnx
you can probably find them in the rollup package by da-g
however i believe you need to cook them into rom so basically you need to use the kitchen replace appropraite folders with those and cook again
keyx said:
you can probably find them in the rollup package by da-g
however i believe you need to cook them into rom so basically you need to use the kitchen replace appropraite folders with those and cook again
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found this post but didnt see any heb...
im downloading the all pack 2 check if there will be something
anyway we do have heb support that u can buy so there must be also a solution without cooking the rom
but it will be great 2 have one rom with heb support (RTL) in it
will keep u updated
no heb resources files (i.e heb user interface) but in the rollup there are those complex script support packages.
i don't know if you can make it work without cooking, you can always try recmod the module into dll and use quickcab to make a cab to put them in windows directory
MDM
Hi Keyx,
In this thread you mentioned that VPN/Domain Enroll are disabled.
Could you explain me the steps to take te reenable this functionality?
Thanx
Sjefke
sjefke007 said:
Hi Keyx,
In this thread you mentioned that VPN/Domain Enroll are disabled.
Could you explain me the steps to take te reenable this functionality?
Thanx
Sjefke
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I believe you need to cook in the following 2 packages:
Enterprise - IPSec, l2TP and Winscard support?
IPSECVPN - IPSec VPN Support
keyx said:
I believe you need to cook in the following 2 packages:
Enterprise - IPSec, l2TP and Winscard support?
IPSECVPN - IPSec VPN Support
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It seems that I also need FWUPDATE, but I can't find it in you kitchen. Do you you where to find this for 28011?
**edit
This package contains some more dll's: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=FWUPDATE
**/edit
BR
Sjefke
I kinda doubt you need FWUPDATE because I think it is for image update system...anyhow you can find them here or extract them from the origina 28011 flash.dio posted by people in the da-g thread

Polaris chef's corner (POLA100)

As reg66 said the other day we are a few people cooking ROMs for the Polaris but there is not such a chef corner in the polaris forum. So I propose this thread to exchange techniques, tools, etc.
Anyway I will use this thread as my own cooking repository and share as I learn myself. Feel free to contribute but please keep the posts ontopic. Most of it will be about cooking with 6.1 kernel for QVGA devices.
this 1st post is updated with the relevant information up to post 39 (take me there)
the 2nd post is about non solved specific questions in case one cooker can help another 5 (take me there)
Radios:
Please feel free to report radios tested to run on the Polaris (or links to compendiums)
Which radio to use? depends on the drivers you use...
Kitchens:
Please feel free to report kitchens and sys tested to run on the Polaris (or links to compendiums). Kitchens available are basically three: Ervius Visual Kitchen, Ondraster kitchen (two versions: old and new UI) and traditional kitchens (simply cmd scripts and exe tools, maybe someone wants to share a polaris non visual kitchen). Most of the kitchens come with mega packages, some others come naked or with leo packages. Choose the one that best suits you.
Gullum EVK's Kitchen wm6.5 23016. My first kitchen, I love it. Mega based
Amenatis EVK's Kitchen wm6.5 21891/28008 040C and almost 0409 Very refined kitchen, not only cabs and packages but a very well implemented OEM and Registry. Leo Based
osKitchen NEW UI v1.25 - Easy Visual Kitchen I tested and has easy startup tweaks and splash integration and very good description of packates.
TranMinhMan EVK's Kitchen WM6.5 with MANILA 2.0 at PDAVIET Requires registration. File password: TranMinhMan. See post 7 for direct links to the 3 parts of the file
TomAngel Ondraster's Kitchen wm6.5 builds 23088, 23518, 28008 and 28205 Includes both 6.1 and 6.5 kernel and is Multilanguage (check the thread also to learn how to use the wm6.5 kernel and seems to be working. It works nicely in my ROMs that seem to work better (as if it had a higher PP). There is not consensus on the performance improvement however. The main advantage is to avoid recmoding, since performance it is not so much affected and depends more on drivers. I personally believe recmodded apps open slower but there is no big science behind this thought. Check TomAngel's post for details).
niax kitchen wm6.5.X (by Nikkito) Spanish kitchen at htcmania.com forum - the forum is in spanish, look for a mediafire link in the first post - does not require registration to access the kitchen.
vistang's kitchen (did not manage myself)
Cooking takes lots of time. Be sure you backup your kitchen whenever you have consolidated a bunch of improvements. Sometimes files may get corrupted or if you change many things at a time, it may be difficult to go back to previous situation and also to fix the errors. Therefore, even if it is a pain, I recommned to zip the whole kitchen from time to time.
Another good practice is to keep a second folder with your kitchen tools, in case you have to restore the whole kitchen from scratch.
Kitchen Tools and Scripts:
I have the pleasure to introduce my collection of tools, ready to use with Ervius Visual Kitchen (and I guess, easy to adapt for other kitchens). Please check this post
Batch Recmoding (please donate to xtep): With this tool you can recmod automatically only the modules you want to, since recmodding everything will deliver a slower/bigger ROM (working on windows vista, includes instructions on how to use)
Tools for importing SYS into VK and auto recmod (please donate to xtep)
Dump sorter for the rollup´s of eg Da_G new releases thread
Create a custom splashscreen (steps 1 to 4) and add it manually (rest of steps)...or...automatically when generating the ROM
Pagepool changer (external, do not know if it is the one used in EVK)
Edit hv files
NBHextract (by pof): Extract contents from NBH files
Itsme amazing tools There is a wiki explaining it. Here in this post you will find some hints on how to use
Kitchen tools collection at mobileunderground (requires registration) Apps that can be downloaded (I will delete the reference of those taken from xda as I replace by links):
Sqeezer (Compress .exe files to save space and speed up programs) / rgu-2-xml (Converts .rgu to .xml to create provxml files) / reshack (open .dll and .exe files to replace icons) / OEM version checker (check the version of your oems in kitchen on in device) / SYS version (find the sys version of your sys packages) / ThemeGenCE (use to create 6.1 themes, may work for 6.5 too -- not sure) / Manila Editor (Edit Manila Files) / CFC - (Chainfire's Manila tool to compress, decompress, and edit manila files) / MakeCAB (Window's free tool to make cab files) / NBH Tool - Dutty's tool for convertint to,from .nb,.nbh /
Dump Sorter - tehpenguin's tool for sorting and cleaning packages / Msigner - For signing your modified .dlls / ROM Editor - For dumping ROMs
SuperRecMod - JooJooBee666's tool for converting modules to files / Bepe's xidump attached -- info here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=572673 / Alexx~'s tools to extract dio file attached / WinDiff - Compare 2 files or directories to find the differences (great for comparing reg files) / WinMerge - Compare 2 files or directories to find the differences (great for comparing reg files) / cab converter / createloc - It create the local language tree when you using the VisualKitchen.
Reviews of several kitchen tools (hilarieg's sticky at chef central) For each app you'll find download link, explanation and reference links. Apps reviewed so far (4 april 2010):
Device Side Manifest (.DSM) Editors (BuildDSM / DSM Analyzer / DSM Builder / DSM Dependency Dumper / DSM Editor)
Some Da_G reading about dependencies, certificates and shadow packages
Editors (EditPad / XML Notepad)
Graphics (.BMP, .JPG, .PNG, etc.) (IcoFX)
Process, Registry (FDC Task Manager / Registry Workshop)
Resource (.DLL, .EXE, etc.) ( Dependency Walker / Resource Hacker)
Search/Comparison/File Managers (Beyond Compare / Compare It / Directory Opus)
WM6.5 ROMs:
1. Flash SPL: This great tool basically makes safe to flash Custom Roms. Additionally, procedures are well known and available to restore original SPL and ROM in case you need to send your device to a technical service without loosing guaranty.
2. Flash Original ROM (recommended by most chefs, mandatory if you observe inestability issues when flashing a custom ROM
3. Install your favourite custom ROM (most chefs recommend hard reset after flashing)- Some people recommend to removed sd card. I have long been doing the opposite flashing from the SD Card.
Please feel free to report ROM's links or compendium of ROM Links. The only requirement is to add a description of the basic attributes (preferably by the author of the ROM). ROMs do not include radio unless specified, follow the link to see the author's original thread.
[WWE] pcarvalho eXtreme ROM 3.19 WM6.5 OS 5.2.21882/23547/28014/24001 and many others R0 Standard driver and 3d drivers versions
[WWE] Kostas244-Rom-23016 A1-B4/23414 C2/23541 D1
[WWE] Alex-V 23529+LITE Rom Manila2d with or without flipp clock
[WWE] cruiserrr 23016 Lite, XDA and Full releases (based on gullum's kitchen)
[WWE] cruiserrr 23569/28008 Lite (based on amenatis kitchen)
[WWE] eXXon ROM's - Naked|Clean|Lite - 23016
[ITA][WWE] Megan & MeganLite SERIES WM6.5
[ITA] ilSalgo_V0_WM6.5 Build 23504
[SPA] NiAx Pola 6.5 MultiROM - 21854/28008/23544
[GER] Alex-V 23529/23016 Rom + LITE->with Manila2d
[GER] TomSte V1 WM6.5 Build 23016 GERMAN MEMORY FIX
[FRE] Polaris AmenatiS-6.5 M2D 21232 Blue 3G V2 Great ROMs with amazing customizations optimized for the different french operators.
Please, post your reference wm6.5 ROM in other languages
You are an end user? Which rom is the best? This depends on your needs. There is some posts about user experiences in this thread and of course on the ROM threads themselves. My advice is to try a few ones, several days each. Then you will have no doubt and that won't kill your device (I did not dare at the beginning but I have flashed my device ... quite a few times...)
You are a cooker and want to be? Do not invent the wheel. Liason with the cooker that is working in the line you like and ask him what you want to do and what is the best starting point. You will be surprised how helpful people can be.
Dammit ! I bricked my cruise... Stay calmed and take some lecture
SYS Sources (thanks alexander for both links)
Recmodded sys files + tips and tricks (only english) (by Duron23)
Htcpedia WM6.5.x Build Release for Chefs Complete releases (all dpi/all languages). Requires registration
Da_G WM6.5.x latest releases: Complete releases (all dpi/all languages) and tips&tricks (check initial posts to find all sys packages description)
XBeta...
DarkForcesteam...
PPCKitchen sources can not be used directly. A script is needed to change fileattributes automatically, since ppckitchen handles files in a different way.
Do not overload your kitchen with lots of releases since the cooking time grows a lot.
SYS Fixes (sticky in chef central)
We use wm6.1 kernel which means it has a limit on the number of modules it can cope with. If you do not get a bootable Rom then recmod some more modules. No consensus on which ones, how many or in which slot. As pcarvalho says, it does not matter if it does the job.
How to update your kitchen to the latest builds?
Does your kitchen suffer S.O.D.? My experience is that is not a kitchen or sys problem, it has to do with oem/ext htc packages (specially htc notifications and volume control) or start menu cooking. However, other people are reporting other reasons such as the tools used to cook or corrupted modules.
Sys description
Best explanation I can give is:
COM1- Builds 217**:
COM2 - Builds 218**: GUI is 1st stage of finger friendly features implemented. This is the only official WM6.5 released to public. All other COM* Builds are leaked test builds (not even classified as alpha or beta). In this range, the GUI introduces softer corners to various dialogs, the new start menu (Very early builds had a honeycomb theme but although the hexagons have been removed, the icon alignments remain), and the taskbar and menubar have been slightly modified to allow for further skinning.
COM3 - Builds 230**: GUI from 23001 to 23021 looks the same as COM2. 23022+ introduced the new shorter/expanding taskbar and finger friendly text-based buttons on taller bottom menubar and ever since its been called wm6.5.1 rather than 6.5..
23047+ introduced icon-based buttons.. New checkboxes and scroll bars and recently (from 23069 i think) a magnifier in the taskbar are amongst the newer gui elements introduced in the latest builds..
At some point (im not sure when, kinetic scrolling was introduced..
It appears that COM4 elements are being introduced into this branch such as the new contact application, a slightly modified sms application, and possibly a slightly modified calender application..
COM4 - Builds 234**: Seems to have stopped at 23420. The newer contact application and possibly the modified sms and calender applications were first introduced in this branch but have since been incoorperated into latest builds of COM3
COM5 - Builds 235**: At the moment little is known of this branch. 23502 is the first build leaked that Im aware of. It seems to have been compiled at about the same time as 23060 but with superior stability, speed, memory management, Newer COM3 builds 23071 and above have been reported to be superior in terms of stability and speed. However the latest COM5 23506 compared to COM3 23088 (build date is identical) seem equally fast and stable. COM5 builds have the new Contact app and Magnifier, as in latest COM3 Builds, but lack kinetic scrolling.
Apparently, the new internet explorer has been modified as well (but Bikertibi Builds have the old internet explorer from wm6.1 because new one does not handle well on our device)
Other branches you might or might not come to see:
AKU1 - Builds 212**
SAM1 - Builds 215**
MD1 - Builds 219**
WMD - Builds 28***: The First Build leaked is 28002 (build date 17th November 2009). As of this branch Windows Mobile is at WM6.5.3. This branch is to continue from COM3 23090 and is believed to carry improvements to the New Internet Explorer Mobile as well as overall speed
Builds 216**: leaked builds that have been played with by the team over at HTC but not officially used on any handset as yet
Builds 236**: Recently came across these builds but have no further info on them
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EXT QVGA packages repository:
Profile Selector (by cruiserrr).
Quick GPS WM7-ish (white letters, dark background, thanks pcarvalho)
BTBPP, BTSAP and BTFTP modules
OEM QVGA packages repository:
Cab QVGA packages repository:
Tweaked cab QVGA packages repository:
Here I reserve a space to post apps that are optimized for SD install.
There are three ways of doing it:
1. Use mortscript to install on the SD Card. Sashimi great tool does so. In the mortscript source compendium you can also find a script that does it more manually (may fail on some devices/cabs). I never have time to "steal" the code from sashimi's. It is as simple as leaving the cab file in a certain folder. the drawback is sashimi's is kinda slow to launch because it does a LOT of things. btw, great tool to backup emails, wifi and so on.
2. Use sktools: it lets you move files (including dll) to the sd card and is able to create a cab version that saves the installation configuration (sd installation, registry changes, dll moved, etc). Very easy but cabs created can not be opened by all other cab editing apps.
3. Use Wince cab manager. It is more tedious.
At the end I will post here some of these files/links for everybody to enjoy
Esmertec Jbed Install on SD (by K0mmaT1A)
Office 2007 Install on SD
Command line tools
Howdykeith's list in his great mortscript compendium thread Quite a few toos that accept command line options so can be launched by a link, a script (mort or not) or whatever...
Tools to Sync Time (requiere internet connection):
SKTSync has command line options
TimeSyncTZ: has command line options
Splash Screens:
ROM enhancements:
Please feel free to report those scripts, tweaks or whatever making your ROM or User customization better and different from other proposals.
Customize security policies,... and for a complete reference this great itsme post
Customize Splash Screen Yet another method
Customize welcome screen
Remove Beta Expiry Date from Today Screen
Change ROM Info in settings/Device info (provxml) and Change the name in the bootscreen and build date of the rom (EVK)
Change calendar working hours
Change calendar working days
Wiki BT profiles
Mr Makk post (60 guides): Brief and clear guides for most common things.
Provxml, Reg files and Parameters backup:
Please feel free to report how you backup email, wifi, bt, owner, etc. as provxml / xml / reg files ready to load while flashing or customizing.
How to delete reg keys with a provxml/xml file
How to delete reg keys with a reg file
Rapiconfig: use this small app to download settings you want to backup as provxml
Backup Owner, Wifi, mail as provxml using rapiconfig
Love .PROVXML's? Hate Not Knowing If It Worked? [URL="http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=1505670"](by hilaireg)[/URL]
Keep media player running when the screen goes off
Fix Igo keyboard problem with ezinput Has nothing to do with the topic but I wanted it to be handy...
Ervius rgu/reg to xml/provxml conversion
Customization:
Notepad++
Gimp (GNU Image manipulation software, "like" photoshop but freeware)
Creating Shortcuts
Icon dll creation: tutorial with links to iconfx and reshacker
XmlGui 0.0.5.1 - Tool for editing HTC Xml layout file: useful for customizing HTC XML skinned apps.
Using mortscript to cook provxml files with shortcuts and icons
There are several ways to customize the ROM:
1- RunCC: nice looking, can not be interrupted (if so is like a hard reset). Sometimes is tricky while cooking.
2- XDA_UC: mortscript based, has full support for tradicional UC config files (no need to install SDconfig). Can run in combination with RunCC or standalone. Has lots of functionalities for the cooker to create shortcuts, load regkeys, etc. but also for the ROM user (install cabs, xml or reg files, etc while you are using the ppc).
3- SDConfig: You can change bmp displayed as the customization takes place. Can be aborted.
I use 1+2 combined. I basically use XDA_UC to do the customization and control the Radio after first boot and I use RunCC to ensure the customization is not aborted.
Android:
Pending
As always thanks to pcarvalho for showing all our polaris can work with the latest builds and to gullum, the first one to share a stable and easy wm6.5 kitchen (and of course to all the people who developed and shared hardspl, customruu, cooking tools etc, releases, etc. but that would be endless)
Polaris chef's corner (POLA100) - Non solved questions
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Polaris chef's corner (POLA100) - Non solved questions
In this second post I will try to gather direct questions on how to do something specific. It can not be something like how do I install wm6.5 on my wm6,1 device or how can I cook a ROM. Answers should not be I have read that or that but rather I do it this way and it works. Let me put some examples:
- How can I make top bar / softkeybar transparent with wm6.5 (I am not talking about a top bar simulating the wallpaper, but a transparent one)
- How can I sync time automatically first time radio is connected without wifi or activesync? There are many apps out there that sync time through a data connection but can it be done automatically with cell tower information or gps?
- I have to blips (short sounds) when the welcome screen pops up. How can I avoid the second blip?
- How you cook the connectionsetup ? can the files be in sd card and tell connectionsetup with the corresponding reg key?
- Where and how are bt profiles stored?
- Can I use roms from other devices? and other devices can use polaris roms?
- How can I associate apps with file explorer and resco explorer (eg. txt file with notepad, mscr with notepad, etc).
- How can I bachup and restore my bt pairings (with xml or reg)
- Which splash tool to use so I do not get a black band in the bottom, where the red letters appear?
wow...very good idea....thanks
and the first link...rollup 23549 with all lang files
[email protected] said:
wow...very good idea....thanks
and the first link...rollup 23549 with all lang files
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Glad you like the idea. Can you elaborate a little more? what's the difference with the other Duron23 thread you mentioned another day? How do you handle the sources taken from one or the other page? If we document a little we may see more pleople daring to try...
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Glad you like the idea. Can you elaborate a little more? what's the difference with the other Duron23 thread you mentioned another day? How do you handle the sources taken from one or the other page? If we document a little we may see more pleople daring to try...
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Duron´s thread is very good because recmoded files and tips but only english
->also good is Da_G`s latest release thread...very big thread...in this thread Da_G post releases (complete rollups) and other people too and special tips
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544445
->and new...Htc Pedia (also complete rollups)->but you need to be a member for download..free
http://htcpedia.com/soft/build-release.html
for sort..use dump sorter you posted...
PS: yes..i like this new thread from you
edit: more sites: XBeta...DarkForcesteam
and more kitchens
PDAViet´s EVK
http://www.pdaviet.net/showthread.php?73864-KITCHEN-ROM-WM6-5-CHO-POLARIS-VỚI-MANILA-2-0
->Part1 : http://www.4shared.com/file/149890447/ce0ee71d/Polaris_Kitchenpart1.html
->Part2 : http://www.4shared.com/file/149897769/84112e78/Polaris_Kitchenpart2.html
->Part3 : http://www.4shared.com/file/149902303/c40589da/Polaris_Kitchenpart3.html
Pass: TranMinhMan
And: TomAngel´s (OSKitchen->nk wm6.5)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=643535
Alex, try the link with the batch recmoder in post 1. It worked at first try for me. You simply define the absolute path,name and ext of the files to recmod in the txt file and drop the file over the batchrecmoder.exe and it does the job (windows vista here)
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- How you cook the connectionsetup ? can the files be in sd card and tell connectionsetup with the corresponding reg key?
- anybody has an oem/ext/cab quickgps that does not give the empty page error and has white letters and dark wallpaper?
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About conection setup - i look in registery and find only this reg keys
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\ConnectionSetup]
"provision"="\\windows\\"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\HTC\ConnectionSetup]
"provision"="\\windows\\"
cant test it now,
and about quickgps i think its use system defaut color for text (exemple sms input box) can edited on theme file.
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Alex, try the link with the batch recmoder in post 1. It worked at first try for me. You simply define the absolute path,name and ext of the files to recmod in the txt file and drop the file over the batchrecmoder.exe and it does the job (windows vista here)
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thanks..i will try... in the past i try another one...but it was not working...
edit: have anyone working bluetooth sap profile files for eg. VW (Volkswagen) Premium Bluetooth...a user from my german rom ask for that...??
My bluetooh works great with bt headset (handsfree) but this is a special option for eg. phonebook displays in the car
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thanks..i will try... in the past i try another one...but it was not working...
edit: have anyone working bluetooth sap profile files for eg. VW (Volkswagen) Premium Bluetooth...a user from my german rom ask for that...??
My bluetooh works great with bt headset (handsfree) but this is a special option for eg. phonebook displays in the car
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Where are those files suposed to be so I can check? I am not familiar since I have been using for a long time Jetware BT extension and it works great with my Parrot. It is great if you have thousands of records and many categories since you can tell which categories to sync so it does not take a long time. I always include it in my roms and its open code.
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Where are those files suposed to be so I can check? I am not familiar since I have been using for a long time Jetware BT extension and it works great with my Parrot. It is great if you have thousands of records and many categories since you can tell which categories to sync so it does not take a long time. I always include it in my roms and its open code.
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Thanks for the answer...I have also wrote to Olioaglio....he will send me a cab of original bt sap files...so i wait and will see
but thanks for the tip with jetware
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Thanks for the answer...I have also wrote to Olioaglio....he will send me a cab of original bt sap files...so i wait and will see
but thanks for the tip with jetware
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I checked your german's rom posts. In case it helps, I have BTBPP, BTSAP and BTFTP as EXT modules and they seem to work. However I have them disabled since my BT connects to the carkit without any popus (only 1st time when building the association). In bt profiles (settings) I jave a2dp, hsp, hpf 1.5 (hands free profile), pan, hid, opp, bpp, avrcp, pbab (phonebool access profile), spp, sdap profiles.
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I checked your german's rom posts. In case it helps, I have BTBPP, BTSAP and BTFTP as EXT modules and they seem to work. However I have them disabled since my BT connects to the carkit without any popus (only 1st time when building the association). In bt profiles (settings) I jave a2dp, hsp, hpf 1.5 (hands free profile), pan, hid, opp, bpp, avrcp, pbab (phonebool access profile), spp, sdap profiles.
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Can you share it....pleeeeaase....!!?! (if you want you can send it also in a mail [email protected]) Thanks
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Can you share it....pleeeeaase....!!?! (if you want you can send it also in a mail [email protected]) Thanks
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Alexander, here are the ext bt modules. As I said I currently have them disable. Regarding the profiles, I would be happy to share them but do not know how they are stored (files, reg file, xml file?). If you know how to locate and share let me now.
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Alexander, here are the ext bt modules. As I said I currently have them disable. Regarding the profiles, I would be happy to share them but do not know how they are stored (files, reg file, xml file?). If you know how to locate and share let me now.
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first...thanks...i let you know if i find it....also interesting is this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=382263
I was browsing the internet but did not find how the profiles are stored. I found a nice webpage describing all the btprofiles, will add to 1st post.
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In this second post I will try to gather direct questions on how to do something specific. It can not be something like how do I install wm6.5 on my wm6,1 device or how can I cook a ROM. Answers should not be I have read that or that but rather I do it this way and it works. Let me put some examples:
- How can I make top bar / softkeybar transparent with wm6.5
- How can I sync time automatically first time radio is connected without wifi or activesync?
- I have to blipgs when the welcome screen pops up. How can I avoid the second blip?
- How you cook the connectionsetup ? can the files be in sd card and tell connectionsetup with the corresponding reg key?
- anybody has an oem/ext/cab quickgps that does not give the empty page error and has white letters and dark wallpaper?
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hummm...is this section for me?
gonna have to get some time to answer some of those...
ill start with the last one for now...answer: hack the exe (or just "steal" it from my rom - easier this way )...mine has white letters and dark wall...
meanwhile here is another (on mine it's okay btw): why do most cooked roms fail/stop to play music when device screen is turned off? its not wm6.5 related that much i know, but i dont know what you lot did to break this feature...
cheers
ps: what are blipgs/blip's? lost me there

[Q]HOWTO cook multiple languages?

You may or may not know, for every ROM I release, I release my Kitchen along with it, more and more I'm being asked to support other languages... However problem I have I'm not sure how to...
Currently I'm utilising the vistang visual kitchen.
I have made several test ROMs for the Russian language, but I'm getting problems where not everything is in Russian, and a lot of blank spaces.
http://www.vbnfiles.com/xda/birkoffsjunk/Chucky/Test ROMs/
The process I've done so far is :
Downloaded and sorted Da_G's 21563 rollup
Replaced 'initflashfiles.dat' with the Russian version
Unchecked all non Russian langs in the sys (_skip)
Changed WWE to RUS in the kitchen options of vistang (ROM Complex tab)
Changed locale to 0419
Included reg file setting Russian regional settings
Am I doing something wrong? Missing a step or two?
Anyway, ideally I'd love to have this support European Langs, Russian, & Chinese within the one ROM/Kitchen.
TIA for any help!
Did you also port 0419 EXT side of things?
The system being set up for 0419, it won't read the 0409's in there, resulting in blank fields etc
Hi,
Also app.dat files in your EXT packages you need to direct to the language specific location. (example 'program files' WWE, 'programma bestanden' NLD etc..)
What I do is placing a app.dat for every language in the specific folder 0409, 0419 etc..
Some packages also have shortcut that direct to 'program files' (wwe example), you need to edit those shortcuts too so they direct to Windows. You can open the shortcuts with a texteditor.
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Did you also port 0419 EXT side of things?
The system being set up for 0419, it won't read the 0409's in there, resulting in blank fields etc
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Laurentius26 said:
Hi,
Also app.dat files in your EXT packages you need to direct to the language specific location. (example 'program files' WWE, 'programma bestanden' NLD etc..)
What I do is placing a app.dat for every language in the specific folder 0409, 0419 etc..
Some packages also have shortcut that direct to 'program files' (wwe example), you need to edit those shortcuts too so they direct to Windows. You can open the shortcuts with a texteditor.
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Thanks for the replies, looks increasingly like a hell of a lot of work
Plan was to release a kitchen that makes it easier for people to builld ROMs for their own language... but the amount of work vs time available to me, pretty much rules out me doing this
birkoffsjunk said:
Thanks for the replies, looks increasingly like a hell of a lot of work
Plan was to release a kitchen that makes it easier for people to builld ROMs for their own language... but the amount of work vs time available to me, pretty much rules out me doing this
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I know what you mean
I started out like you, just the SYS etc and try to keep all apps in EN
I gave it up for now, as it's way too much work for 1 extra language and i'd want to do multiple ones
Easy Kitchen with multiple easy to choose languages?
I would suggest OsKitchen.
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Easy Kitchen with multiple easy to choose languages?
I would suggest OsKitchen.
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However the kitchen may be (i use OsK), it's still a lot of work to:
- Extract all xxxx language packs from sys and ext, for every language
- Edit every initflashfiles.dat to fit your rom, for every language
But hey once it's done it's done
Edit: in the end it was easier than i expected
i ported NL (0413) to my kitchen entirely (almost)
Path is like this: "\Windows\Startmenu\Programma's\..." but my own ext's i left to 0409 format and it'll still shows in the start menu didn't think it would
Well yea, but OsKitchen is easier for non chefs to use
I really like how users can say..... can you translate your new rom .... OMG Damn... so i tried to translate every MUI in the apps that i cant find another lang sme works some others... dont.
already done with almost all... but you know... new ext pkgs new translate app.dat, app.reg with paths, lnk's, muis, pics.... themes... and so much more....
so if you want to cook in multilangs i suggest you one thing... every EXT or OEM PKG you got translate it imediately cause then... you will have so much work to do

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