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Modified ROM image with 27Mb r/w flash disk for Magician. Qu

Hi, all !
Here
you can download os rom image files from
ftp.xda-develoeprs.com ftp at /Magician/anansky folder
WWE OS ROM image in booloader sd-card backup format, patched to reach the following result:
1. ExtROM completely removed out from flash memory
2. Space of ExtROM joined to \Storage part of Magician memory, makes it extended as up, as 26,72Mb, fully readable and writable
How to use it:
Fully backup you Magician (will be hard reseted), copy all files from ExtROM and \Storage card to SD-card 'cause they will be formatted !
Use downloaded image as SD ROM Image, using well-described procedure from xda-developers.com ftp site at \magician\backup1
Description at file Procedure.doc, but i don't know whos author (great thx to him)
write attached image image to SD card, flash you Magician and enjoy !
This patch is really safe - don't worry.
Note: if you will up/downgrade you OS ROM to non-patched version, before flashing you MUST back-up all files from \Storage folder \cause it's size returns to original 7,6Mb.
For more ease use of this new feature i give results of my explorations to my brother, which now studing computer sciense in NZ
- he promise to write useful program to enable this feature much more easy way and flexibly divide space between ExtROM and\Storage parts.
But, before he write such program, i will patch new Magician OS ROMs as soon, as they will be appears at xda-developers.com.
Post your comments please.
Alex Anansky
Kamchatka, Russia

Hi, Anasky,
Great thanks for your great work. However, I am not using WWE ROM, instead, using CHS ROM. Can you please let me know how to crack the ROM for removing ExtRom from the image file? Thanks again.
[email protected]

BRAVO
in the other post you've explained that \ext_rom and \storage is similar memory type. but does this mean they are incompatible with "main memory"? what i mean to ask is, if you've gone so far, would it be possible to join \ext_rom, \storage and main memory into one? and use only a SD card for storage?
57.3 MB + 26.7 MB = 84 MB of Total Main Memory
not. anyway i'm happy to have gotten rid of the extended rom. thanks again.
edit: link does work, sorry. i'm downloading now.

Is it only me or is the link not working :?:
*downloading right now*

deoli said:
BRAVO
in the other post you've explained that \ext_rom and \storage is similar memory type. but does this mean they are incompatible with "main memory"? what i mean to ask is, if you've gone so far, would it be possible to join \ext_rom, \storage and main memory into one? and use only a SD card for storage?
57.3 MB + 26.7 MB = 84 MB of Total Main Memory
not. anyway i'm happy to have gotten rid of the extended rom. thanks again.
edit: link does work, sorry. i'm downloading now.
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deoli, ExtROM and \Storage is a similar type, it is flash memory.
it's cannot be joined with main (RAM) memory.
only one way - it's develop some kind of swap/paging memory driver, but it's significantly degrade device performance - so is not good idea

the link IS workin Rickstur!! downloading now.
thnx anansky

iQQ said:
Hi, Anasky,
Great thanks for your great work. However, I am not using WWE ROM, instead, using CHS ROM. Can you please let me know how to crack the ROM for removing ExtRom from the image file? Thanks again.
[email protected]
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give me link where you OS ROM can be downloaded and i will patch for you.

anansky said:
give me link where you OS ROM can be downloaded and i will patch for you.
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Why not sharing your knowlegde with the community?
Great work done. so it would help anyone, if we know how you did it.....
Regards
Stefan

LumpiStefan said:
anansky said:
give me link where you OS ROM can be downloaded and i will patch for you.
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Why not sharing your knowlegde with the community?
Great work done. so it would help anyone, if we know how you did it.....
Regards
Stefan
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its not so easy to give exactly algoritm how to find this bytes in unknown os rom, and playing with rom may be dangerous for unexpirienced user, so i still cant post info, may be later

I can't download the file right now

Could someone be so kind and make a mirror? Thx in advance.

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I can't download the file right now
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limit - only 50 simulateous connections. try again a bit later.

[email protected] said:
I can't download the file right now
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limit - only 50 simulateous connections. try again a bit later.

Anansky: you rule!!!
All:
I have uploaded to ftp://forum.xda-developers.com/Magi...age_anansky/magician_os1.11wwe_bigstorage.zip
Enjoy
will try to upgrade in a few minutes let's see how it works

dear anansky
the link to my rom(greek) is this:
ftp://forum.xda-developers.com/Magician/qtek s100 - 1.11.00 - GREEK -1.1.4
could you plz patch it ?
excellent work thank you very much for your time and kknowledge
with bests regards
George

dear anansky
the link to my rom(greek) is this
in the ftp site forum.xda-developers.com/Magician/qtek s100 - 1.11.00 - GREEK -1.1.4
could you plz patch it ?
excellent work thank you very much for your time and knowledge
with bests regards
George

anybody succeeded with that rom?
download are very slow, and limited for users number.
2 anansky: can you put file to another place? For example - HERE as attach on forum.
(If you want PM me - I can help to put on mine www.ladoshki.com) but anyway - we can increase speed / downloadind users number... ?

Uploading it right now to forum.xda-developers.com under \Magician\magician_os1.11wwe_bigstorage.zip. Feel free to move it if not right placed

anansky said:
iQQ said:
Hi, Anasky,
Great thanks for your great work. However, I am not using WWE ROM, instead, using CHS ROM. Can you please let me know how to crack the ROM for removing ExtRom from the image file? Thanks again.
[email protected]
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give me link where you OS ROM can be downloaded and i will patch for you.
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Give you a SD card backup ROM? or Shiped upgrade ROM? I can only make a SD card backup, and do not have the shiped upgrade ROM.
Thanks.

alelas said:
Anansky: you rule!!!
All:
I have uploaded to ftp://forum.xda-developers.com/Magi...age_anansky/magician_os1.11wwe_bigstorage.zip
Enjoy
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I've got it... Many thanks

[Universal] Extended ROM unlocker !!!!!!!

YES YES YES
!!i just made extended ROM unlocker for Universal!!
THIS TOOL IS DEDICATED TO MWANG
get it here
Please test it and let me know...
It is very early release, so it does only unlock.
Later, i'll add also locking.
For unhiding Extended ROM i just need to create cab file.
Otherwise it's ready as well... Meanwhile you can display your extended ROM using TotalCommander for CE.
How to unlock:
Just copy it to your device and run it..
)))))))))))
buzz

Buzz! you da man!
Errrm, what does this actually mean in my ignorance? Unlocking the Rom?
Regards, Simon

gooroo said:
Buzz! you da man!
Errrm, what does this actually mean in my ignorance? Unlocking the Rom?
Regards, Simon
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on hardreset, all customisations are run from Extended_ROM.
By default it is locked for writing with a password.
That means, you cannot add or remove programs, which are autoinstalled on coldinit.
Now you can.
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buzz

Thank you very much....
Buzz,
Thanks for working on this. I realize that a lot of people are looking forward to "freeing" up memory by deleting the extended ROM (i.e. Big Storage). I'm one of them. Here's my question: Does this allow you to delete the files in EXT ROM? If so, are they PERMANENTLY deleted? Or can I "restore" them by reflashing my ROM from the ROM Image provided from imate's website? Sorry for the newbie questions.

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Buzz,
Thanks for working on this. I realize that a lot of people are looking forward to "freeing" up memory by deleting the extended ROM (i.e. Big Storage). I'm one of them. Here's my question: Does this allow you to delete the files in EXT ROM? If so, are they PERMANENTLY deleted? Or can I "restore" them by reflashing my ROM from the ROM Image provided from imate's website? Sorry for the newbie questions.
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Unlocking Extended ROM allows you to delete or add files into Extended ROM.
Files are permanently deleted or added.
Once you flash the device with new ROM, which contains ms.nbf (Extended ROM image), it's content is then flashed to the Extended ROM. That means there will be new content in there...
This is my first contrib to Universal, Exec, JJ community...
Next step can be the same as i did on Himalaya.
To get more storage space, e.g. remove the Extended ROM partition and make the Storage partition 10MB bigger.
well, if anyone wants that... ))
buzz

would it be safe to assume it works on the Wizard?

Excellent work Buzz! Thanks for answering my questions.

vbguru613 said:
would it be safe to assume it works on the Wizard?
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NO.
This will work only on Universal, O2 Exec, Dopod 900, Jasjar Qtek9000 etc...
If you want i can try to make one for Wizard...
buzz

I can see buzz being bought a wizard now too
Is 10Mb what we can expect as an increase in storage?
Too infinity and well beyond!
Hehehehehe

Hi Buzz
Please go for please make one for Wizard as well
Regards
Gugi

deff for wizard

gugi_sat said:
Hi Buzz
Please go for please make one for Wizard as well
Regards
Gugi
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Hi Gugi,
please give me an export of:
[HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn]
THANX
buzz

Nice
Congratulation with new tool. Now we can delete or copy files of extended ROM, we need to see and use ER as storage therefore unhide application also must be needed
Thanks
:wink:

Unlock JJ.. works like charm..
Thanks for the good work.. really really useful and save lot's of efforts to customize the machine after a complete installtion.
Keep up the good work.

where do i send it to?

Here Buzz

Excuse my lack of expertise, in PC terms is this similar to having a copy of the uninstalled o/s on your harddrive and is only required when you wanted to reinstall your o/s?
If so, would it be possible to empty the rom and only place one cab file which loaded all the required cab from SD? i.e. copy the rom to an SD and then be able to hard reset using the SD to reload the o/s?
How much space does the rom take up?
Regards
Simon

Cool Buzz! he is the man!! But....do i understand if u ru
Yoo Buzzie Buzz
Listen i have an question and a problem..the tool is cool no doubt about that. Now we can exclude some unecessary programs etc.
But my main question is does this remove the Simlock aswell? ?!? ?
Because there are a lot of people who cant use their MDA PRO properly because it has an simlock of T-Mobile......if this does not remove the simlock could you make an program that does...? I think it is now quitte easy cause the ext. rom is an open way.....
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BUZZ and all others.....Help and make an Sim Unlock tool just like you all dit before for the Himalaya etc. etc.

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well said:
yes yes i want to remove the skype antivirus and themes from imate is this possible ?
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Buzz once again you're a legend! Keep up the great work!

Update Util?

Hi!
I wana flash WM6 on my unbranded Artemis.
Already installed USPL and downloaded a ROM, wich is a rar file "ARTE_WWE_WM6.rar" containing "OS.nb"
So what to do with that OS.nb?
I think I will need a Utility to flash that ROM to my device right?
Where to get it?
Thanks!

I propably need a ROM which includes a Utility?
I do not even know which WM6 ROMs there are.
Which one would you recommend?

alphanimal said:
I propably need a ROM which includes a Utility?
I do not even know which WM6 ROMs there are.
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I suggest you switch from the upgrading section to the Mobile 6 section of this site. There is a lot more info about WM6.
Basically (I don't intend to be complete) there are three flavours: Bepe's ROM, the PDAVIET Black and Blue ROM and, since a few days, a ROM that comes close (or is?) the HTC ROM. They are all different so you have to decide which one you like the most. They all have popular threads with lots of enthousiast users, more or less. Happy reading!

Okay I now got the PV Black&Blue v3 - which is great for me!! (though I dont know the others)
but the HTC Home Today Plugin takes so much space
If there were just the clock ...

WM6.1 + Manila

This message is for any cook that has the time to create a lite rom. I tried to cook my own via udK's kitchen but found it very difficult. I would be more then happy to try again if anyone has some detailed instructions they could share. I just want the latest WM6.1 with the latest manila apps. No extra added programs, custom splash screens, dialers, etc. I am willing to donate.

And why do you need a cooked ROM? Just install WM6.1 official and manilla2d; I did it and it works perfectly well.

what about performance ?
is the official 6.1 really slow ?

kosmepe said:
And why do you need a cooked ROM? Just install WM6.1 official and manilla2d; I did it and it works perfectly well.
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I tried that and found that I ran out of program memory very quickly. I tried to install the cabs to my 8gb storage card as well as the device. Both had the same result.

turcomora said:
I tried that and found that I ran out of program memory very quickly. I tried to install the cabs to my 8gb storage card as well as the device. Both had the same result.
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In my case everything is OK.
I installed WM6.1 official, I disabled the cube as explained here (this is important) and finally I installed m2d (update 19) from the link in my signature. Program memory is about 50% and storage memory 75%.

OK I just cooked my first rom so I am happy. Thanks for the help though.

WM6.1 Manila2d Blueangel ROM

Requesting all those great Rom cookers out here to create a Rom with Manila2d in it. No, not on ExtROM but inside the ROM itself. That would be faster better and faster I think.

ebautista said:
Requesting all those great Rom cookers out here to create a Rom with Manila2d in it. No, not on ExtROM but inside the ROM itself. That would be faster better and faster I think.
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Integrated Manila 2D into cooked ROM is surely a better solution, however most people prefer a clean ROM. Beside due to limitation of the flash size (32MB i think), it would requires to remove lots of even basic application come with the ROM.

not possible due to limited 32 mb storage. even the mms is not included in any ba wm6 rom so can u think for Manila.
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Requesting all those great Rom cookers out here to create a Rom with Manila2d in it. No, not on ExtROM but inside the ROM itself. That would be faster better and faster I think.
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krishan2207 said:
not possible due to limited 32 mb storage. even the mms is not included in any ba wm6 rom so can u think for Manila.
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exactly...

M2D cooked in
I'v tryed to fit "M2D" in a cooked ROM you can get the main files in there' But not enough of the image files, I also did some test builds "without" the calc, media player,dialer,and commManager skins, And Flashed them from "ExtROM" as Themes It Seamed to Work fine But you would still Be adding A large number of files Via ExtROM so not much to be gained (can't say It was any different speed wise)
My origonal Idear was Adding skins to your device like this may, make rom's more fun and the user could change Skins From *.cab files (Themes)
So If you fancy a try and some people are intrested in making some Skins then I'll cook My New V3 and working version of M2D into a "ROM" With all Skins Removed and Post it with One Full Set of Skins in CAB files and folders of files for you to edit and i'll even pack some of your Themes into CABs and we'll see what Comes of it
I would like at least 5 people to be intrested in assisting with skins as I don't Have enough time to do it all
So If you would like to have a GO then you need to say SO or i'll not bother that's my offer regards
swampy395

I think it is a great idea, manila2 in a cab with no skin, and the default skin in a separate .cab so we can replace and tinker with it at leisure
I am in to give a hand!

Ok people think about it just for a minute, Manila 2D has a size of 12 mb, with a rom of 32 mb even if it is compressed we have to cut a lot of things from main rom to make this possible, and the the stupid questions will come, why this or that not work. Thats why i am working on a proper kitchen so the people can choose whatever packages they want in rom and make it themself. So if the rom does not boot or has audio video formats problems or software compatiblity problems this will be the builder configuration fault not mine or any other rom cooker.
Also you can use my last kitchen but you need to add options.xml in OEM and SYS folder to choose the packages
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My original Idea was Adding skins to your device like this may, make rom's more fun and the user could change Skins From *.cab files (Themes)
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Well this is good as idea(i mean the complete customization from cabs and saving space from the skins in the rom area) but you have to make manila not to load on startup because without skin it will just crash and you will have to reset, and there will be infinite loop ...

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Also you can use my last kitchen but you need to add options.xml in OEM and SYS folder to choose the packages
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I would love to give this a try, but I don't know enough about the interdependencies of the root packages to build a reliable options.XML file. Could you post a list of the diff packages that are part of the ROM with a notation of which are required, which are nice to have and which can be left out? If you do, then I will try to build an Options.xml file and post it for testing with your kitchen.

I have modded manila2d so the default skin is no more and instead one more of my liking. The resulting cab is 100KB smaller...
It boots fine
Will be posting today

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I have modded manila2d so the default skin is no more and instead one more of my liking. The resulting cab is 100KB smaller...
It boots fine
Will be posting today
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you cooked it in rom or what ?

No, I haven´t gone yet for cooking, I just tinkered with the .cab files in the ExtROM folder.
See my separate thread for details

Themes
Hi guys
NO fighting
As my previous post I did some tests and I could get enought of the M2D files in the ROM for IT to boot! and from "rom boot" to "ExtROM Finnish" it doe's not try to load M2D, first load of M2D is after the reset that Terminates ExtROM loading BUT I had to remove 'Calculator,Dialer,WM_Player skins,ring tones and some shortcut, The rom I tested for about 4 days and was as stable as any rom!, And here's a BIG "BUT" Keeping track of all the bits that are needed is a some TASK! in short it will work but it's hard work

swampy395 said:
Hi guys
NO fighting
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Fighting???? We are all friends in here.
swampy395 said:
As my previous post I did some tests and I could get enought of the M2D files in the ROM for IT to boot! and from "rom boot" to "ExtROM Finnish" it doe's not try to load M2D, first load of M2D is after the reset that Terminates ExtROM loading BUT I had to remove 'Calculator,Dialer,WM_Player skins,ring tones and some shortcut, The rom I tested for about 4 days and was as stable as any rom!, And here's a BIG "BUT" Keeping track of all the bits that are needed is a some TASK! in short it will work but it's hard work
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I can live without all of the things that you removed as I use alternates for all of them which are loaded into storage anyway and just waste the ROM space.
BUT, as you say, I don't have enough knowledge to know which parts can and can't be dumped from the core ROM. That's why I asked Xplode to make a list. If you can make some kind of list, I'm willing to try and build a suitable options file to be used with his kitchen.
Another thing. I may be slow, but I can't figure out what parts of M2D are in the ROM and what parts are being installed via CAB. I opened the M2D cab and I see that the executables are still in there. If they are in the CAB, what are you loading in the ROM?

motisu said:
Fighting???? We are all friends in here.
I can live without all of the things that you removed as I use alternates for all of them which are loaded into storage anyway and just waste the ROM space.
BUT, as you say, I don't have enough knowledge to know which parts can and can't be dumped from the core ROM. That's why I asked Xplode to make a list. If you can make some kind of list, I'm willing to try and build a suitable options file to be used with his kitchen.
Another thing. I may be slow, but I can't figure out what parts of M2D are in the ROM and what parts are being installed via CAB. I opened the M2D cab and I see that the executables are still in there. If they are in the CAB, what are you loading in the ROM?
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Hello again
I didn't publish that ROM, It was a test 'only' My M2D roms have most of the today plugins removed from rom as you don't need them, you can only have M2D plugin running!! If you remove WMP you loose so many formats 3gp etc. There are many things you can install from cab But cannot leave out thay have to go back in, The end finnished rom plus cabs is just the same size so y bother
P.S. If your useing a swampy rom then you can flash new skins from a cab

Swampy, if you cook my modded M2D you will have some 100Kb more to play with in the first place...
Now, if you zip up your ´Removed´ folder after cooking a barebones rom with M2D in rom we can help you build .cabs that would go in ExtROM an hence we would have a much more modular design
Taskmanager is a good candidate to go on a .cab, some people like one some like another. It pains me to see two installed

Swampy, but there is an alternative to Windows media player,
Mplayer, a 4megs cab. Supports many formats, it is lean and a standard in Linux (available for Windows Mobile)
Download MPlayer for Windows Mobile
You could remove everything to do with windows media player and put them on a .cab, then give users a choice; windows media.cab or mplayer.cab

swampy395 said:
Hello again
I didn't publish that ROM, It was a test 'only' My M2D roms have most of the today plugins removed from rom as you don't need them, you can only have M2D plugin running!! If you remove WMP you loose so many formats 3gp etc. There are many things you can install from cab But cannot leave out thay have to go back in, The end finnished rom plus cabs is just the same size so y bother
P.S. If your useing a swampy rom then you can flash new skins from a cab
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Sorry, but I'm still not following you. In the first post of your 20275 thread and in your sig, you have a M2D version. If this isn't the M2d in ROM version, then what is it? If all that you did was leave out the today plugins, what did you use the extra ROM space for? Also, I never use WMP as almost any other player is far better IMHO (Coreplayer, S2P, Tcpmp,Mortplayer, Etc.) If I don't use it, will I still need its support for diff file types?

Swampy´s M2D roms don´t contain M2D in the rom itself but will install it in rom from the storage card whenever you do a hard reset.
So it is basically loading the extra stuff from a custom ExtROM folder in the storage card
Of course I agree it would be better to have M2D in rom proper and say windows media player in a .cab in the ExtROM folder so it can be easily removed if you don´t want it (I certainly don´t want it)

gloomyboy said:
Now, if you zip up your ´Removed´ folder after cooking a barebones rom with M2D in rom we can help you build .cabs that would go in ExtROM an hence we would have a much more modular design
Taskmanager is a good candidate to go on a .cab, some people like one some like another. It pains me to see two installed
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I agree with gloomyboy. Since there are SO MANY differnt app/utilities that more or less do the same thing, it stands to reason that everybody will have their own preferences. If someone could build a kitchen that really allows you to pick and choose what goes into the ROM, everybody could custom tailor their ROM for what they really use. Unfortunately, AFAIK, all of the kitchens available today only allow periferal change and not major systems changes. I don't know why, maybe it is just my lack of understanding of the core requirements of a ROM and it can't be done any other way. But I can allways wish....

gloomyboy said:
Swampy´s M2D roms don´t contain M2D in the rom itself but will install it in rom from the storage card whenever you do a hard reset.
So it is basically loading the extra stuff from a custom ExtROM folder in the storage card
Of course I agree it would be better to have M2D in rom proper and say windows media player in a .cab in the ExtROM folder so it can be easily removed if you don´t want it (I certainly don´t want it)
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OK, now I get it. I do that myself with my own home grown EXTROM based more or less on Xplode's new release of M2D with all sorts of shortcuts and config files being copied from my SD card into memory. I am constantly changing my cfg.txt file to include newer versions and getting rid of apps and utilities that I find that I don't use. I think that the ROM should contain all the permanent stuff that will fit and I can't function without.