I nbhextracted a cooked ROM and when i open the extended rom using winimage i cannot see any contents in it. WinImage does recognize the extended rom and shows that its 10MB large and opens it. But the contents are hidden. How can I view the contents of the extended rom in winimage?
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does anyone now where the config.txt file is on an imate.
I have dumped the rom from an imate to sd card and cut out the extended rom section. wneh mounted in total commander as a vertual disc i can see all the cabs but cannot find the config file to add the files i have added to the rom.
think im going nutts
It seems that more program memory can be freed up by using Total Commander's Copy function to copy renamed files (smaller size) to Windows folder to replace stuff you don't need. After reset, the smaller size files stay. I hardly use ppt 1.2Mb, so I replaced it with a 5k exe file. The Clearview pdf app 65kb is useless... and I did the same for a few other tsk/gif...etc files.
With the latest jarsar rom 1.30.68WWE & Radio 1.09, got rid of most junks from extend rom, cleaned up the Windows folder, now got about 31.12Mb program memory. The speed seems pretty good.
If I install the new ROM, will I have to do a hard reset and install all the applications again.
I have previousl used the ROM unlock tool.
Will the new ROM install OK.
Thanks
Steve
Yeah... will need to repeat the process after a hard reset.
Can just save all those faked renamed files in a folder and then copy all to Windows folder one go.
Not too troublesome...
You will not recover any memory since those files are in ROM.
However, you do have a point in "replacing" large files with smaller versions - the device takes less time to search for the program icon.
Result of the clean-up of unneeded files in Windows folder by copying faked reduced size files into folder:
Both are after a soft-reset measurement -
Before: Program memory 30.41Mb Storage memory 36.64Mb
After : Program memory 31.07Mb Storage memory 38.20Mb
I've been reading up on post regarding flashing from the SD card (which unfortuneately I'm going to be forced to do.
I have tried this but can't download the plain IMAGE files (just the .EXE files) for the different ROMS.
XDATools doesn't allow you to use EXE files when flashing from the SD card??
Where am I going wrong in this process??
try changing the extention from exe to zip and see if it works
many install programs are just selfextracting zip's
Ok no problem.... I'll give this a try.
What file extension am I looking for (what extension will the ROMImage be??)
nbf
Hi all,
I want to know how to access the Extended Rom on my Magician. I tried installing Total Commander and going to "Extended_Rom" but it didn't work. I accessed it once when I hard reseted my phone and it was plugged in the USB cradle. I need to access the Extended Tom so I can make a copy of all pre-installed application setups.
Please Help.
The trick is after a hard reset, imediately do a soft reset immediately after the last screen alignment step. In this way the ext rom files are not installed and are viewable and can be copied to another partition of your device or to your pc via active sync. this procedure doesnt totally unlock the ext rom, thus you cannot delete and/or copy files from/to the ext rom partition.
In your windows directory find the exe - loadvdisk
run it
this will 'show' your extrom
Does it really not work
Some people had written, it should work to edit the extended_rom.
But all I found don't work on the magician. There are many unlocking tools for the extended rom.
The only way seems to be the big rom, where the memory of the extended rom is added to the storage folder. But with that method you will lose the contents of the extended rom.
OK, it is possible to save it on a sd card, but i am searching for a edit-solution, so not to delete the contents but ossible to use the free 5 mb in this folder.
I hope that sometimes anyone will find a simple solution not to hard reset the magician.
Hi @ all,
since a few days most of my memory card directories disapperaed. There are only the My Documents folder (which is empty, too) and a TEMP folder I created left on the card.
Although I searched for some threads like this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294324 all attempts failed.
The space on the card is still occupied and when re-installing programms a new Program directory is created with the same name as the dissapeared one. I have one program when the installer claimed to remove the previous version first before re-installation. So it seems to find something (but I assume in Windows directory or registry).
How will I get the dissappeared folders back? Is there any other chance than formating the SD card and re-installing all programs?
I'm using bepe's cooked German WM6 V0.96 (the last one) and a 2 GB miniSD-Card. It worked quite well since a year now...
Thanks for help,
TC
TC25FFM said:
Hi @ all,
since a few days most of my memory card directories disapperaed... when re-installing programms a new Program directory is created
TC
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... y lo cagaste, me temo.
trinity, for some reason, spoils the FAT and reestablishes it with new data. the FAT is like a directory of "where to find what on disk".
as yout fat doesn't work properly, especially it doesn't show off the used sectors or clusters, all new storage will overwrite and destroy this way part of your old data.
so if this happens, remove inmediately the sd-card, put it into your PC card reader and pass it trough file appropiate rescue programs and you'll mostly find almoust all files.
so take a breath, download file rescue pgm's to your PC (some work better, others have many options, others ...) and have a try.
after the rescue, format the SD in your PC.
mine is just passing the rescue :-( and it's rescueing about 1600 files yet
regards