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Building and Editing Polaris ROM's

Hi All
I see now we are getting quite a few custom ROM's from the likes of bepe, panosha and other.
Great Work Guys.
But i would also like to be able to build or a least edit a ROM to exactly meet my requirement. Like adding or removing certain CAB files and making reg edits.
Have been reading a lot of other threads on the site put none seem to deal directly with the Polaris.
So i was hoping some of you great cooks (grovel grovel grovel) would wight a description on how to take a nbh file and extract and edit the different nb parts and then rebuild back to a nbh file ready for flashing.
Thanks

polaris kitchen
sorry......wrong answer

I'd love that too! I want to mod an existing ROM and make it specific to my needs.
Will anyone be so kind and post a short guide how to do this? And make the topic sticky!

First, you can start with Kaiser's Kitchen...and at last, use Dark Simpson tool (htc room tool) to make nbh file (config add Polaris device in tool config)
Cheers,
ouioui

Good place to start is here http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Kaiser ROM Kitchen Tutorial

Yep , good one, but everything is based on Kaiser.
I don't have a Polaris Radio, neither does the HTC Rom Tool allow to cook Polaris Rom's.
Any other ideas ? Or could someone help ?
Thanks a lot in advance

The Kaiser kitchen works fine and all you need to do with the Dark Simpson ROM tool is change the Model ID from KAIS***** to POLA*****
As always read the threads before you start cooking and make sure you have Hard SPL!!

Thanks
I've been reading all night ;-)
In the HTC Rom tool there is no Polar***** , strange, although I thought I downloaded the newest ini. I've read in another thread that I could use the Kaiser one as it was basically the same device, is that so ?
Other question though:
Talking about Hard-SPL- I've Hard-SPL'd mine , but do I need to include that one in the rom as well ? Like while using the HTC Rom Tool , in the SPL section ???
Second question, where can I find the radio.....nb ?
Thanks for your help, I appreciate that.

As I said set the ROM tool to Kaiser then change the Model ID to POLA***** and use as normal to create the nbh image.
As for Hard SPL... once you´ve flashed it that´s that, no need to flash it every time you change ROMs or radio...

id love to see the guide for polaris aswell.
and oem packages as well.
i did everything as it was sowen in kaiser guide, but i got an error on building system. have no idea why..
was saying that something is missing or path is icorrect smth like that

post here exact errr.U got.
here is htcrt.ini for polaris (only Polaris Option is active) simply rewrite htcrt.ini in folder with htcrt.EXE

It's not necessary to include Radio ROM when building? Right?

nope, its up 2 U what 2 include (SPL/Radio/OS/Splash)

phsnake said:
post here exact errr.U got.
here is htcrt.ini for polaris (only Polaris Option is active) simply rewrite htcrt.ini in folder with htcrt.EXE
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Thanks for the guidance. The tutorial is great but fails to mention specifics if you are not cooking a Kaiser Rom. For example, does the baserom have to come from a shipped Rom? I was using the 3.02 Kaiser Rom as my baserom. Can you do that when cooking a Polaris rom? How do I get the RUU_signed.nbh out of any other Rom. I thought about using the WM6.1 19716 Rom but couldn't extract anything. (Probably stupid questions but cant find answers in the wiki). BTW, I was getting same errors about half-way through compiling process. If I try again today, I will record the errors and post. Again, thx for help.

sgreenwood99M me i have 19716 WM6.1 for cooking. U can Use some part of any ROM but U have to be sure exactly what. In general U can Use OEMpackages freely, but be aware with drivers, baseapps....(i have perfect CZECH 19199 WM6.1 but w/o working SMS)

Hi,
i've read through the Kaiser kitchen guide and it all seems to make sense however i'm not sure how much is relavent to the Polaris, for example the ingredients section talks about expanding the radio file and the rom files to folders, from the Kaiser files on rapidshare etc.
Do us Polaris users do these points too? or are there specific Polaris Radio and ROM files we use?
I have my base ROM file called RUU_signed.nbh and i've also managed to use pdocread to get the RAW files too, but just not sure where to go now?
All i want to do is remove a few cabs and add a few cabs and EXEs to my rom.
can anyone post comments on exactly which parts of the Kaiser kitchen guide need to be changed to use on a Polaris?
thanks.

dont need raw's. simply put *.NBH(polaris) to BaseRom folder. Run begin.cmd(or bat?) Choose option 1.
click......... then start cook.cmd(or bat)

Do we replace the KaiserCustomRUU and the BuildOS files with ones specific to Polaris? Thanks.

yes, take udK CustomRUU & replace kaiser one, u dont need to replace anything else(except htcrt.ini ||KAIS**** replace with POLA***). And of course Polaris' *nbh

Whenever I put a Polaris nbh in the BaseRom folder, the process gives me an error that it cannot find RUU_signed.nbh.

Help cooking my first ROM...

I Read all documentation about cooking a rom.. but i have some question:
all pages refers to kaiser cooking, but i need to work with polaris without brick it.
what baserom can i use?
may i work with HTC italian original rom and remove something in it? if so, how? (i am able to expand all rom files but i don't know how to import it into cooking utility)
coud someune explain me?

as You said, in kaiser wiki U can find smth like cooking "ROM for total n00bs" (+-citation) only one diff is that in HTCRT after choosing KAISER u need 2 replace strin KAISE**** to POLA**** (apropriate no. of "*"). thats only diff. and of course U need 2 use Polaris ROM as base

Thank you for reply....
i think you mean this:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Kaiser ROM Kitchen Tutorial
but this tutorial refers to Alex's Cooking Kits, but seems to be for kaiser.
can i use the same kits for polaris?
there is a lot of kits for various platform.. what is the correct kits for me?
thanks!

OEM's are the same for all devices(more less, depending on LNG-u need to check rgu's & initflashes if paths are correct-"Start Menu"...) U need to use one of the polaris ROMs as a base (some parts U can use from other devices but i dont recomend it if UR really not sure. use kitchen in 1st post

Finally!!
i just cooked and flashed my first rom succesfully without brick it!
now starting to read all packages documentation..
thank you!

What ROM u want to use as a BASE?

HTC official for polaris italian, from xda ftp, WM6.
it's correct?

phsnake said:
as You said, in kaiser wiki U can find smth like cooking "ROM for total n00bs" (+-citation) only one diff is that in HTCRT after choosing KAISER u need 2 replace strin KAISE**** to POLA**** (apropriate no. of "*"). thats only diff. and of course U need 2 use Polaris ROM as base
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Ok, ok.. let's start me again...
i found the total n00bs guide, but i'm not so n00b...
i just need the name for a correct base rom and correct packages for my polaris because all guide refers to baserom for kaiser...
in simple words, my goal is to cook a simple rom with WM6 (or 6.1) with touchFlo, tomtom, total commander, office mobile, adavanced calc, TCPMP or divx player, italian language, connection wizard, and wthout streaming media and some other unuseful stuff....

Make my own WM6.1

I recently owned a Polaris, and already started modifying it a litte bit.
I flashed the old WM6 with this one.
I'm happy with it, but I added some programs and tweaks (register modify), and I would like to make my own rom with those included, so if I need to do a hard reset I won't have to re-install all the stuff.
I downloaded the Polaris Kitchen, and HyperCore, but I can't make it work, or I don't understand ... I've searched all the day, is there anywhere a tutorial for use of those applications.
And by the way, in the HyperCore readme they speak about a nk.nbf file, that should be my "base" rom, but I can't get this anywhere, I searched a way to extract it from the nbh french rom, but it seems to be impossible.
Can somebody help me please ?

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ReMix3D said:
I recently owned a Polaris, and already started modifying it a litte bit.
I flashed the old WM6 with this one.
I'm happy with it, but I added some programs and tweaks (register modify), and I would like to make my own rom with those included, so if I need to do a hard reset I won't have to re-install all the stuff.
I downloaded the Polaris Kitchen, and HyperCore, but I can't make it work, or I don't understand ... I've searched all the day, is there anywhere a tutorial for use of those applications.
And by the way, in the HyperCore readme they speak about a nk.nbf file, that should be my "base" rom, but I can't get this anywhere, I searched a way to extract it from the nbh french rom, but it seems to be impossible.
Can somebody help me please ?
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Hi guys,
I have the same problem. To me it is a wonderfull dream to my Windows Mobile in my native language. WOW, it will be a great thing if some one can help to reach my dream.
Regards,
the Konge

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

dump a rom and reconstruct it

hy all. i have a problem (wish): i want to install a clean rom ( i have it allready) and i want to customize it with the programs that i want to, and then, to save this rom (i supose that i have to dump it and reconstruct it) exactly with my settings/applications/etc. can i do that? if I can, how? thx alll.

When you customize your polaris on the device itself, it doesn't change the ROM on it. So dumping it will not give you a new ROM. You'll have to change the ROM on the desktop, and upload it afterwards. There are a lot of topics about ROM building.

ok. thx. i will go then to that topics. thx.

Yes but the problem is that all those posts are about porting a 6.1 rom from another device to polaris.
Now that we have a 6.1 rom how exactly do we cook it and flash it back?
Here's my problem: I have the PTG 6.1 rom, but I want to replace the CF2 with CF3.5 and replace TTN6 with TTN7, and flash it back.
I already have Kitchen 1.3, extracted the 'RUU_signed.nbh' and a dump of 03_OS.nb.payload.
Now, where do I go from here?. I want a rom that's exactly the same as the official one but with the changes I mentioned above.
I'm a complete noob at this cooking rom issue. I've read lots of threads but I've only gotten more confused about all the XIPs, SYSs, OEMs and stuff, and I think the same happens with other users.
I know that some of the actual cookers were once in the same place I'm now, so can someone point me out the rigth way and if possible post a detailed tutorial on how to extract, cook and flash back a rom on POLARIS, me and lots of users would apreciate it a LOT.

Second That Thought.
What would be nice to see (if possible) the following,
as an example:
1. Download Polaris ROM Kitchen v1.3
2. Extract to c:\Kitchen
3. Copy your ROM image (*.nbh) to X:\
4. Run command
...20. Install Package (M2D.cab) by doing the following ...
21. Recombine the ROM by doing the follow commands ...
22. Flash your ROM to your Polaris
23. Hard Reset and verify that the package you installed is in your ROM
Congrats
A step by step like that, which walks a user though the process of a demo ROM and a demo *.cab for learning would be FANTASTIC!!!
Thanks in advance to whoever can help us out!
Juxtyce

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Any help from the professionals out there?

Look here:
1. .Net2.0 => .net3.5
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2685138&postcount=22
2. replace the ttn.cab file in the folder "\kitchen.work\Build\OEM\OEMAPPS" with the TomTom7 cab. If it don't have the same name, rename the new cab or edit the file 'config_AP.txt' in the same folder
hope it will help you I managed it this way.
P.S. I didn't change the XIP as mentioned in the given thread. See following posts

I will dump the wm6.1 rom for you guys, and provide you with a kitchen with some packages you can use.
I will do so for all available languages that is available with official wm6.1
But,that is gonna be quite time consuming, and I hope that you understand that I ask this in return:
Any small donation for the time I use on that will be of help.
I dont say that its required, not at all. I am not doing this for money.
But the number of hours I spend on this is getting pretty high.
I will do this project either you donate or not.
cheers

thank you a lot itje. can you make in romanian also?

dunno if it's the good topic to post but let's try.
I see many fantastic people cooking excellent roms (i wish i could do the same...), and, in those roms, a lot of softwares.
Isn't it possible to just have a rom with the bare minimum?
and seperate cabs to install what you want?
for example, manilla 2d is cool, but many people like spb mobile shell better, so it's wasted memory.
May be i'm just wrong, don't understanding how it all works, so plz explain to me !

ady_uaic said:
thank you a lot itje. can you make in romanian also?
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if the language is available; yes

taniwha913 said:
Isn't it possible to just have a rom with the bare minimum?
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There is a large choice of ROM's, some loaded with extra's, some very minimally equiped. There are so many that your favorite must be out there already. Just search for it.