ROM Upgrades in Vista - 8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General

Will these ever be possible? Just the reason I ask is that I don't really have access to a PC with any other operating system at the moment and it's a right pain to try and attain one.

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hermes rom flashing for mac ?

there are many mac users out there(me) and we have to be using bootcamp and parallels to flash out roms when it would be much more efficiant if we could flash in mac OS X so i was wondering if there are any talented programers out there which could make a utility for us
jdac21 said:
there are many mac users out there(me) and we have to be using bootcamp and parallels to flash out roms when it would be much more efficiant if we could flash in mac OS X so i was wondering if there are any talented programers out there which could make a utility for us
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That would be cool. I use parallels without problems, but a native OSX utility would be great. Maybe we could just flash the iPhone OS onto the Hermes
(NB: For the humor impaired, that was a joke.)
i doubt we could get the iphone os onto the hermes but the utility would be a start plz programmers just a alpha or something that kinda works so we can be happy
If you can get a memcard in your hermes to be seen as a mass storage device on your apple, you can put the ROM on it and after a reboot the ROM should get flashed automagically
yh i got 4 gig but some ppl dont have mem stick when they buy hermes and they want to get a 4 gig but 4 gig dont work without wm6 and the mem stick thing (back me up here )
jdac21 said:
yh i got 4 gig but some ppl dont have mem stick when they buy hermes and they want to get a 4 gig but 4 gig dont work without wm6 and the mem stick thing (back me up here )
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It isn't that we NEED an OSX native flashing utility. It is just that we would LIKE an OSX native flashing utility. And it would be cool too, and that is what Mac users are all about, after all. Coolness.
HTC probably realizes two things:
1) The Mac market is very small and not likely to grow that much, if at all, anytime soon.
2) 99% of the time that an HTC device is flashed, it's not to an official ROM.
For these two reasons you can bet that you'll never see any official Mac flashing utility from HTC.
The likelihood of the hacking community programming a Mac flashing utility from scratch is also very small, if not completely out of the question.
Flashing from the memcard is arguably the safest way to flash one of these things anyway, just consider yourself blessed.
"If you can get a memcard in your hermes to be seen as a mass storage device on your apple"
I can easily see my TyTN II storage card through bluetooth. Can auto-flash happen on all WM devices or just the Hermes? So where on the do I have to put the files to pull this off? I want to upgrade the radio only.
try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=296436

[INFO]Windows 7 and kitchens/RUU's/HardSPL etc.

Hey all, this is just to let you know some stuff right quick pertaining to Windows 7.
I've upgraded from Vista to 7, and so far everything works pretty much the way it used to, with a few exceptions.
1-Ivan's kitchen HAS to be run as administrator NO MATTER WHAT in order for the ROM to be built. If you just run it as a user it will error out on you near the end of the building process. Im not sure what error it is, because on my system it simply closes and Windows comes up with a dialog about it encountered an illegal error. This was not present in Vista for me at least, I hope it helps.
2-RUU's work in much the same way they did on XP and Vista. Nothing needs to be done in order to run them and successfully flash a ROM that we haven't been doing already. Just connect your phone, double click and flash.
3-HardSPL now requires one more step. If you are using the new Microsoft Security Essentials anti-virus suite, it will detect the HardSPL files as a trojan for whatever reason. You need to simply disable this program before you download the package in order for HardSPL to work. Nothing else is required.
Basically what I am trying to say is that if anyone out there has been holding off from upgrading to Windows 7 in fear that you won't be able to flash or cook or whatever, that I believe all is well. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate X64, and i've had no more problems then what I have listed here.
I hope this helps someone, and if you guys have any 7 related questions, please feel free to ask!
ashasaur said:
Hey all, this is just to let you know some stuff right quick pertaining to Windows 7.
I've upgraded from Vista to 7, and so far everything works pretty much the way it used to, with a few exceptions.
1-Ivan's kitchen HAS to be run as administrator NO MATTER WHAT in order for the ROM to be built. If you just run it as a user it will error out on you near the end of the building process. Im not sure what error it is, because on my system it simply closes and Windows comes up with a dialog about it encountered an illegal error. This was not present in Vista for me at least, I hope it helps.
2-RUU's work in much the same way they did on XP and Vista. Nothing needs to be done in order to run them and successfully flash a ROM that we haven't been doing already. Just connect your phone, double click and flash.
3-HardSPL now requires one more step. If you are using the new Microsoft Security Essentials anti-virus suite, it will detect the HardSPL files as a trojan for whatever reason. You need to simply disable this program before you download the package in order for HardSPL to work. Nothing else is required.
Basically what I am trying to say is that if anyone out there has been holding off from upgrading to Windows 7 in fear that you won't be able to flash or cook or whatever, that I believe all is well. I am running Windows 7 Ultimate X64, and i've had no more problems then what I have listed here.
I hope this helps someone, and if you guys have any 7 related questions, please feel free to ask!
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Been using the beta for some time now and the kitchen has been running well for me.
Seems strange...it may just be me then...but I thought that I would share my experiences so that people wouldn't be afraid to upgrade. I was browsing the Wizard forums yesterday...and people are freaking out about it "breaking" crap, when all they need to do it read for a second and most of the time run as admin to make it work:/

REQUEST PLEASE: HSPL.cab

I am really looking for a HSPL.cab if one exists anywhere, if not i would be grateful if someone (more clever-a than me) could make one.
Apart from the options of installing away from PCs I dont actually use windows / activesync on any of my machines (they are all linux), and as such I am pretty limited without .cab installs.
Thanks for the help, heres hoping!
You can install VirtualBox @ your distro and map USB port do Virtual Machine running Windows XP and ActiveSync.
Regards,
True, but its a fair amount of effort to go through just to get 1 app on my fone for this one time. I also was hoping a .cab might be useful for a few other people.
If there isnt the interest i guess i will have to go down he virtual box route and dig out my old windows xp cds.
geekyhawkes said:
True, but its a fair amount of efft ort to go through just to get 1 app on my fone for this one time. I also was hoping a .cab might be useful for a few other people.
If there isnt the interest i guess i will have to go down he virtual box route and dig out my old windows xp cds.
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hspl is not a "program", for what i know
you don't install this on running OS
it overwrite boot sector
then no chance i think
geekyhawkes said:
True, but its a fair amount of effort to go through just to get 1 app on my fone for this one time. I also was hoping a .cab might be useful for a few other people.
If there isnt the interest i guess i will have to go down he virtual box route and dig out my old windows xp cds.
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Its not an 'app' and you certainly cant install it via a cab. It can only be done via the methods explained in my flashing thread and can only be done via activesync (windows xp or windows7 32bit preferred).
If you cant manage to do it that way then im afraid you cant install HardSPL.
The effort is well worth it if you want to be able to protect your phone and want to flash custom roms
mskip said:
Its not an 'app' and you certainly cant install it via a cab. It can only be done via the methods explained in my flashing thread and can only be done via activesync (windows xp or windows7 32bit preferred).
If you cant manage to do it that way then im afraid you cant install HardSPL.
The effort is well worth it if you want to be able to protect your phone and want to flash custom roms
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And what an awesome guide/tutorial is it... so much info and so much I learned... thanks...
VirtualBox @ your distro and map USB port do Virtual Machine running Windows XP and ActiveSync.
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Nice idea, sadly it hangs/stops working just after the phone restarts to the bootloader screen. I guess it could have been worse, it could have hung about 1min in to the instal and bricked my phone.
I think im going to have to resort to using windows this once.

To experienced developers, is multiboot of ALL OSs possible?

I was just wondering how likely it'd be to get all OSs available onto one phone. By that I mean what would it take to be able to have a menu right at the beginning that asks you what OS youd like and to be able to choose between Windows Mobile 6.5, Android, Ubuntu and Windows Phone 7? I know the SD method works for Android, but technically can't all OSs do this and if they can then cant it be done so you have a choice between all of them?

Pipo W3F - Stuck on Android, No Windows 8.1

I've recently acquired the Pipo W3F tablet and after switching from Windows 8.1 to Android I wanted to go back to Windows.
I'm able to bring up the OS switcher but there is no Windows icon. Anyone know what is causing this and how to fix? Thanks.
Just a wild guess really, but this could relate too the file-system of the harddrive, unless im mistaken Android uses 'vfat' and 'yaffs2', and you prolly cant install windows on either of those.
That said, im not sure how you would overcome this (or how you even got it to dual boot, since looking at the PIPO site it doesnt do that out of the box) but you will prolly have to flash a firmware image thats windows only again.
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Just a wild guess really, but this could relate too the file-system of the harddrive, unless im mistaken Android uses 'vfat' and 'yaffs2', and you prolly cant install windows on either of those.
That said, im not sure how you would overcome this (or how you even got it to dual boot, since looking at the PIPO site it doesnt do that out of the box) but you will prolly have to flash a firmware image thats windows only again.
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I also got the tablet recently and ran into the same problem. There was no way for me to get back into Windows. I had to re-flash both Android and Windows. It wouldn't let me re-flash just Windows, I was getting an error saying it cannot create a "scratch" directory. I think when re-flashing Android it reset all the partitions. Once the Android OS was installed, the Windows flashed without any problem.
Good luck.

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