how do i remove programs which i dont want on my device, but came with jeff's version?
You don't need to: they're not in RAM, so they do not affect the amount of free RAM. In fact, when you use the Special Edition ROM that comes with all this extra software, you end up using something like 3MB less RAM than when you use the O2 ROM, mainly because we left out the 'Action Engine' framework, and because EzWAP is in ROM. (They are both copied to RAM on the O2 ROMs, duh!)
It's slightly more technically challenging, but you could use the mkrom kit to make your own ROM, in which case you could use the space taken up by programs you do not need for programs you'd prefer to have instead.
so how do i replace ezwap 2 with ezwap 2.5? because i need mms as well.
Easy solution: just install EzWAP 2.5, should install in it's own directory and not be bothered by the installed 2.1. (Although we never tried).
Hard solution: get access to a unix, download 'mkrom', insert EzWAP 2.5 in the files2 directory, create the appropriate registry entries in default.reg in the cfg directory, run 'mkrom' and flash the resulting file into your device.
i guess i'll stay with the easy solution thanks
This is only OS + ExtROM, does not include radio nor splashes nor SPL.
This is basically the same OS+ExtROM as found on Sprint's latest official ROM 3.56, MINUS all that Sprint bloatware (OnDemand, AudibleAir, Sprint Music, etc.) occupying both OS and ExtROM space. I also removed Sprint Navigation and Sprint TV from the ROM and ExtROM (respectively) because I want more control on how Sprint programs are installed (into the device vs into SD card); I have the separate CAB installers for Sprint Navigation (TeleNav) and Sprint TV so I can install them the way I want. I also removed the ringtones from the ROM because I don't like Windows Mobile's approach to copying ringtones from ROM (\Windows) to internal memory (\Windows\Rings) which effectively results in unnecessary file duplication within device memory, but I have stored the removed ringtones into an SD card so I can later add them either to \Windows\Rings (with no wasted copies in ROM) or to \Storage Card\Windows\Rings.
The amount of memory I gained this way was used to (1) update the core fonts (Courier New, Tahoma) to the latest versions found on Windows Vista (the versions found on the original ROM date way back to 1999, even in WM6.1! plus WM only includes regular-face Courier New, I had to add bold/italic/bold-italic versions), (2) add smartphone fonts Nina and Segoe Condensed, (3) add the Windows Vista version of Japanese font TTC MS Gothic/MS PGothic/MS UI Gothic (the AC3 compressed version is still outdated, version goes back to 1999 ), (4) replace the USA wince.nls with the Japanese wince.nls (which includes all charsets found on USA wince.nls + adds Shift-JIS, JIS, and EUC-JP), (5) add the WM6 Japanese IME files, (6) update the SymbolPad's config file to allow inputting almost all the Pan-Euro characters found in Vista's Tahoma and all math symbols included in MS Gothic, (7) add PQzII with some customized bitmaps so you can map CTRL, ALT, and IME to any buttons you want, (8) add PHM RegEdit, Notepad and a few other PPC PowerToys (I also added MADE because it is more powerful than Notepad), (9) add KT_Capt (print screen!), and (10) add FontOnStorage (yes, a very old program that dates back to WinCE 3.0, but still works on WM6.1 as long as the fonts in your SD card don't conflict with those already in internal memory). I preserved Adobe Reader LE, the Camera app, and IA Zip.
I modified the registry entries to (1) enable ClearType and menu animations (but disabled HTC's EnlargeMenu because it doesn't play nice with menu animation), (2) set internet cache/cookies/history to load onto SD card, (3) display both date and time (and AM/PM) in title bar, (4) enable font linking so Tahoma can work together with MS UI Gothic to display full Latin/Greek/Cyrillic/Japanese, (5) enable and configure the Japanese IMEs, and (6) set the new black Vista-like HTC theme as the default rather than WM6.1's solid-green default theme or Sprint's annoyingly-bright orange theme (although both themes are still included if you want to use them).
I used NBHExtract on the original stock ROM to extract the NB files, then NBSplit/ImgfsFromNB/ImgfsToDump to dump the OS, then PKGTool to convert dump to packages, then the usual ROM-kitchen procedures (remove unwanted files, add wanted files/packages with some help from CAB Extractor and InitFlashFiles Generator, modify RGU entries, regenerate DSM files with BuildDSM, modify packages.sof with XVI32, and dump XIP with RomMaster), then BuildOS to "bring packages to a boil" into new dump, then ImgfsFromDump/ImgfsToNB/NBMerge to "simmer" new OS.nb, then HTC Extended ROM Editor to remove the Sprint bloatware from ExtROM.nb, then finally NBHGen to "bake" both OS.nb and ExtROM.nb into the new ROM.
As I said above, the radio and splash image NBs are not included in this 82.2-MB ROM; adding the radio and splashes, the ROM grows to 94.1 MB, which is still 2.5 MB smaller than the stock ROM (even after adding that big, uncompressed Japanese font MS Gothic which is about 8 MB, but that's because the font itself is smaller than the whole combination of OnDemand/AudibleAir/SprintMusic/TeleNav/ringtones).
I thank pof/TheBlasphemer, mamaich/Tadzio, bepe, AnDim, and bot for all the executables they made that made my ROM cooking possible.
For those Sprint Mogul owners who don't want outdated fonts, annoying bloatware, or duplicated-in-device ringtones, my ROM can be downloaded via RapidShare:
http://rapidshare.com/files/144942116/Sprint_Mogul_3.56_OS_ExtROM_only_by_Unicode787Plus.exe.html
congrats! I just cooked my first couple roms a few nights ago, and one for my girlfriends titan too. its fun and addictive!
Sprint Navigation (TeleNav) and Sprint TV installer CABs
For those who download and flash my Sprint Mogul ROM and still want TeleNav and Sprint TV in their Moguls, they're attached to this message. Just copy them to an SD card and install them, easy! (You can install them either into internal memory or into SD, makes no difference!)
Will later post the ringtones I removed from my ROM.
Sprint Mogul ringtones
Ringtones removed from my ROM are attached to this message. For some reason I had to split them into two different ZIP files because xda-developers constantly refused my single 2.18-MB ZIP (even after using Legacy ZIP 2.0 compression method)
MMS
There is no way to add MMS (PIC/VIDEO)? I'm not using the 8525, i have a new MOGUL (SPRINT)
Sorry, I don't use MMS at all (and VERY VERY RARELY use SMS), so I don't know how to add MMS support to Mogul. For that you'll have to ask either mamaich or bepe in either this forum or ppcgeeks.
If I flash your cooked rom.. and I dont like it ... can I flash back the original rom.
mrfordwrench
What is up with the battery icon on the upper right. It looks like it is broken. Is it supposed to be that way. Otherwise everything works great.
What exactly is the PQzII for?
Mrfordwrench
mrfordwrench said:
If I flash your cooked rom.. and I dont like it ... can I flash back the original rom.
mrfordwrench
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Yes you can flash back the original ROM - by redownloading it from the HTC website. Same procedure if you try any other custom ROM - like mamaich's or NoChem's kitchens...
Battery icon
mrfordwrench said:
What is up with the battery icon on the upper right. It looks like it is broken. Is it supposed to be that way. Otherwise everything works great.
What exactly is the PQzII for?
Mrfordwrench
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Read my private message - that explains the purpose of PQzII.
As for the battery icon, I don't know. If you disable date/clock display on the title bar (either by doing so from Settings or by messing up with the Registry), then you'll see a useless battery icon instead of the clock. HTC's own custom battery indicator (shows only on Today screen) is a bit more accurate, but not as accurate as Palm Treo's own custom title-bar battery icon. If I could somehow copy Palm's battery-icon code (cannot do so directly from the phone - it seems to be copy-protected, and I don't have access to a Treo WinMo kitchen) and transplant it into my next Mogul ROM, then I would be happy.
Hi Dear,
I was looking for the same thing you done. I just wanted to remove some of the programs (like office mobile, pdf, audible air, sprint navigation etc) and not to added anything else to that original rom. The process you described over here is quite short and not elaborative. I tried and reached upto the step of generating "imgfs.bin" but thereafter i was hanged and i could not do any more i.e. dumping, packaging and the reverse process. Can you do me a favour and give some detailed steps or if possible can you give me the link providing details on this as well as all the required softwares (I done all these steps on command propmpt, is there any better way like grapical interfece)
Very eagrly waiting for your reply.
Regards
Tarun Kabra
Cooking ROM
tarun_kabra said:
Hi Dear,
I was looking for the same thing you done. I just wanted to remove some of the programs (like office mobile, pdf, audible air, sprint navigation etc) and not to added anything else to that original rom. The process you described over here is quite short and not elaborative. I tried and reached upto the step of generating "imgfs.bin" but thereafter i was hanged and i could not do any more i.e. dumping, packaging and the reverse process. Can you do me a favour and give some detailed steps or if possible can you give me the link providing details on this as well as all the required softwares (I done all these steps on command propmpt, is there any better way like grapical interfece)
Very eagrly waiting for your reply.
Regards
Tarun Kabra
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Once you have generated imgfs.bin, you must dump it with a tool named ImgfsToDump.exe. It will create a folder containing the whole dumped image. Then you must use another tool, PKGTool.exe, to unpackage the dump folder into its constituent package subfolders (called packages). Now it's just a matter of removing unneeded files (be careful here, you don't want to remove files that are needed by WinMo itself) and updating outdated fonts (Courier New and Tahoma) with newer versions (you will first need to find on which pacakges they are located, then copy the new versions onto those same package folders) and, optionally, adding new fonts, input methods, or other programs onto the Custom subfolder. You will also need to edit some RGU registry entries (each package may have one) in order to activate some features or input methods. Then you will need to run another tool, BuildDSM.exe, to reprocess the edited packages. Then it's time to build a new dump from the new and edited packages: you will need to download BuildOS for this. BuildOS has a tool called BuildOS.exe, but running such a tool is tricky since you can't just double-click on it (it will crash), you must run it from some batch file located just outside the folder containing the tool; BuildOS.exe will convert the packages back into a new dump. Then it's just the matter of reconverting the dump into a new Imgfs.bin (with ImgfsFromDump.exe), inserting Imgfs.bin into a new NB file (the ROM itself) with ImgfsToNb.exe, then repackaging the NB file into the final NBH ROM with NBMerge.exe.
This is roughly all I can remember. You can optionally seek help from other fellow users, since I learned my technique from one or several of them: mamaich, no2chem, maybe Asukal...
I finally found a way to overcome space issue that cause BuildIMGFS throw error when you put too many files in the ROM using captaintrip's kitchen
The repack used imgfsfromdump instead of buildimgfs which avoid the size issue and in additon can reduce the final size of flash.dio
The usage are the same with captaintrip's kitchen, I only rename the bat to "iPAQ61x_91x flex kitchen" since this works for both 61x and 91x
You will need to rename flash.dio to TEMPLATE.ROM and put it under ROM folder, when you run iPAQ61x_91x flex kitchen.bat it will also prompt you,follow instruction
keep in mind if you use flex kitchen to build your rom won't be able to extract it properly, anyone want to edit your room will need your kitchen instead. If you don't have buildimgfs issue you may want to stick with the old way of building rom
use iPAQ614c Rom Kitchen.bat if you want to build your rom in old way
Updated July 7th: attached new cecompr_nt.dll that fixed memory leak, necessary for LZX compression, replace the one under TOOLS folder
Download (v0.3):
mediafire
Updated: Dec 9th ,09
v4 Beta:
-improve ability to decompose ROM, however the packages in SYS and OEM portion is usually mix up so you have to manually move them to correct folder after extraction
Download:
21501 kitchen
21215 kitchen
Rom folder for w version for 21215 (Rename it to ROM if you want to build w version)
21232 kitchen
21234 kitchen
21725 kitchen - removed due to too many issue, use 21728 kitchen instead
21728 WWE Kitchen
21728 ITA Kitchen
21728 GER Kitchen
21728 FRA Kitchen
21812 WWE Kitchen
21815 WWE Kitchen
23001 WWE Kitchen
23001 CHT Kitchen
23004 WWE Kitchen
21921 WWE Kitchen
23009 Hybrid WWE Kitchen
23016 18.1 WWE Kitchen
21854 WWE Kitchen
23047 WWE Kitchen
23052 WWE Kitchen
21867 WWE Manila 24M2 Kitchen
21869 WWE Kitchen
21869 WWE Manila 25M Kitchen
23088 WWE Kitchen
28002 WWE Kitchen
28011 WWE Kitchen Beta 29
28011 WWE Beta 29_2 Kitchen - kitchen of Beta 29.2
note: you can replace WinCENLS_Lang_0404 with WinNLS_WWE (from other rom kitchen) to save ROM space
-arcsoft streaming player & codec can be removed if you don't need them
23515 xip (use with 23518 SYS)
23518 CHT Kitchen (LZX)
23518 WWE kitchen
21888 WWE Kitchen
23529 WWE Kitchen
28230 WWE Kitchen
23544 WWE Kitchen
23563 WWE Kitchen
91x 28011 WWE Kitchen -not tested since i don't own 91x device so use as your own risk, use dnw in the worst case
91x 23518(23515)/21888 untested xip
Official WM 6.5 Tookit/SDK/Emulator: here
FCC Information for 610c
FCC information for 910c
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Structure Overview
XIP is the kernel, this is also what you see those 2xxxx build mean, the whole term is called "Execute in Place", i.e execute files in rom directly without copying to ram, this is for boot process, anything wrong mean you will stuck in clean boot
OEM is for device/manufacturer specific program/drivers
SYS is for Windows Mobile system files
A package is a folder with at least a dsm file,all other files are extra
-rgu file is just reg file which you can use notepad to edit
-default all files goto Windows directory (obviously exclude rgu file)
-initflashfiles.dat/txt is a text file with instruction to move files to different directory
Files vs Modules
Modules are folder with ".dll" in their names. Inside the folder there is imageinfo.bin, S00X where x is a digit. When they are cooked into ROM they will become dll with proper relocation (done by WMReloc/G'Reloc). Supposedly being modules would make them load faster(because no need to relocate at runtime?) and some dlls must be in modules or else some program will not work properly. However there are also cases that modules must be converted to files.
Technically you can put everything in SYS since at the end buildOS will merge everything together but it is easier to manage if you follow the OEM/SYS structure
Common Issues TroubleShooting
hang on 1st boot screen (HP Logo)
-XIP porting issue, .rom , .vm file not correct .etc
hang on 2nd boot screen (WM splash screen)
-module did not relocate properly (did you run WMReloc or GReloc?)
-XIP (lower possibility, i don't think it affect..just in case you should keep in mind)
hang/crash on today screen
-software conflict/missing .etc , check your SYS/OEM files
Endless HP update/customization engine
-happens because of different model uses different customization engine, using one from other model/region will cause it to rerun every boot time, the only solution seem to prevent it to run from start by removing it from initflashfiles.dat. Convert all the fix into packages and integrate to the rom instead
installed SIP(virtual keyboard) cannot be switched
-use recmod (under tools folder) to convert all modules into files in browsingie folder
cannot compose new sms/email .etc
-replace redist_lang_[lang_code] folder with one that worked before
wifi cannot turn off after boot
-set HKLM/Comm/SDIO86861/Wireless to 1
XIP
To insert ported xip, run this command: osnbtool -c TEMPLATE.ROM 1 xip_out.bin
where xip_out.bin is your new XIP file
xip porting tutorial can be found all over the place in xda/ppcgeek .etc
Also make sure in ROM folder, the boot.rgu is from your device xip (the kitchen I provided only contains 61x xip so to cook for 91x you need to put 91x boot.rgu instead)
Phone Radio
rilgsm.dll is needed but usually it is in OEM folder
PagePool
Overview: xda wiki
edit using pagepool_by_wlodixon under flash folder, copy your flash.dio and run the appropriate cmd
The only exception is if the rom set pagepool to 0 (Dynamic PagePool), it won't able to recognize and you have to hex edit
hex edit the xip.bin at 0x000A75E4, change all 4 bytes to your desired value (all 0 for dynamic pagepool)
Convert cab to OEM
get package creator here
use it to open cab, then wince cab analyzer opened, choose extract folder icon, after close wince cab analyzer, you will be present with shortcut screen, do you things and hit done, finally hit complete package unless you want to change some option
Create simple cab for file/reg changes
get QuickCab
Xt9
corresponding lang files in OEMApp/OEMLang_#### where #### is the 4 digits lang ID
-[2letter langs code]hpd.ldb
-[2letter langs code]lbUN_xt9s/lsUn/.etc].kdb
-et9.SQR.[Language].bmp [Optional, some language like Polish/Portuguese just point to english bmp in registry]
-[a bunch of number/digit known as GUID].rgu (if you open it up you will find there is registry on xt9)
also under OEM\OEM_Lang_[Lang number]
-initflashfiles.dat (actually you can use notepad to open it and seacrh for ldb/kbd/bmp to see which lang files )
cooking different language
-you will need your language OEM folders from original HP rom
-your language wince.nls
-replace all language mui (e.g 0409=English) with your language mui
-some languages may added extra folders, be sure to copy them into SYS too
-sometime the hp customization/update will end up endless run in every start, in this case you will need to prevent it from running and integrate all updates into the ROM
OptionXML Addon
I have written this small .Net 3.5 App to generate option.xml for SYS packages which will allow you to select the common package and different language more easily without moving folders all the time, just unzip the zip to kitchen which will overwrite the existing batch file and put the exe under TOOLS folder.
To select/UnSelect a category in BuildOS, you can click on the Category group (e.g click on 0409 will select all 0409 packages in SYS), then click on one of the packages will select/unselect the whole group
Reserved for extra space in case
-------------Step by Step guide for xip porting-----------------------
Make sure you read this tutorial first
1. copy(either get it from kitchen or dump it using osnbtool) the existing xip_out.bin and rename it to xip.bin, open xipport, click dump xip.bin and you will get a OUT folder
2. choose write map then make packages , now rename this out folder to some other name
3. dump the new xip(from other device) using osnbtool, rename it to xip.bin & do the same as step 2 with xipport
4. now copy MSXIPKernel & MSXIPKernelLTK under Modules and Files folders from OUT folder(from step3) and overwrite to corresponding 61x OUT folder(from step1)
4.5 as said in the xda tutorial, remove hd.dll, osaxst0.dll folders and their corresponding text files under modules to avoid physical address overlap
5. use xipport to undo and then realloc and write maps. Then you check map files to make sure there is no !!!(memory address overlap) I recommend using XIP address tools to check for overlap, sometime you will get error when you realloc (key already exist .etc), use xip address tool and set work folder to OUT then you will see error on first dll addr which you have to fix all highlighted red cell(overlapped address). Note that to fix first dll addr address you have to highlight the cell, enter the new start address on the V address cell in bottom, click modify, then use mouse to highlight the 1A cell above, and change the D address cell to the same as V then click modify button(on the right of V cell). You should see the change in table then. For virtual base overlap you only need to modify V cell only
Note: first dll addr overlap will result error when you click realloc in xipport.
The goal is have no overlap as shown in MAP.txt. When there is no more overlap, use xipport to build xip_out.bin and then insert the xip into the dio file using osnbtool
Commands:
extract xip: osnbtool -d flash.dio 1 xip.bin
insert xip: osnbtool -c flash.dio 1 xip.bin
also make sure your ROM\boot.rgu is from your device xip
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IPAQ 91x boot keys:
Clean bOOt - Voice Commander + OK + Reset
Download Image - Volume Down + OK + Reset
Calc Checksum - Volume Up + OK + Reset - disconnected, SD card out
RUU - Volume Up + OK + Reset - UsbConnected, SDcard out
SDloader - Volume Up + OK + Reset - USB disconnected,SDcard in SDloader
Modem_CAL - Voice COmmander + Volume Up + Reset
Diagnostics - Voice Commander + Volume Down + Reset
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LZX Compression:
The default compression algorithm for ROM is XPR, if you must include lots of files that causes your resulting rom >80mb under XPR(81920kb - ROM Size limit for 61x, bigger than this the device won't boot), you need to use LZX compression. It reduces rom size by ~13% but with ~1-3% performance hit(from other post I read, I never verify the performance hit).
To use LZX compression, you need to replace the cecompr.dll folder in XIP Modules with the one attached in this post. Re-port the xip (realloc + write map + build xip_out.bin) and then use osnbtool to inject the xip inot TEMPLATE.ROM.
Then hex edit the imgfs_raw_data.bin in the rom kitchen, replace the first string "XPR" without quote you found with "LZX" without quote.
Make sure you have replace the cecompr_nt.dll under tools folder of the kitchen with the one I attached in 1st post to avoid memory leak
Now just build normally, you will notice the time to inject file will take much longer because of the compression
Is there any ROM kitchen tools for hp iPAQ h6365 WM2003?
Wow great kitchen. Thanks for sharing.
here, here! keyx you da man
One thing though - when you say this:
Phone Radio
if you are using SYS from other device, make sure you replace ril.dll and phone.dll from a working rom in phoneRedist or you will get a phone radio not installed which disable phone function
rilgsm.dll is also needed but usually it is in OEM folder
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I'm not sure that is actually correct. I've been using ril.dll and phone.dll from all kinds of donor SYS; these are OS files that should be generic. It is only rilgsm.dll that is manufacturer-specific.
you are right, I corrected the post
I think I do anything wrong...
If I extract your ROM(WM 6.5 Beta 3.81) and put it together to a ROM again, it is 10MB smaller.....After extracting this, its 1MB smaller...
Question is, why?
Greets
chucknican
actually for unknown reason if you use my kitchen to build rom, you won't able to extract it properly...i am not sure why. But currently it is the only solution for me to overcome buildimgfs error
so the solution is that I use captaintrip's kitchen to extract and yours to build it together again?
I can't get this kitchen to build my ROM. The after WMReloc does the modules rebase, I get the following feedback...
Code:
Injecting files ...
Input file imgfs_raw_data.bin cannot be opened. Exiting.
In fact, when I watch the temp folder during this process, I see no imgfs_raw_data.bin at all. In your new script, I can't see where this file would come from anyway.
Help?
chucknican said:
so the solution is that I use captaintrip's kitchen to extract and yours to build it together again?
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no in fact i will need to upload a kitchen as the result rom using my flex kitchen will not be extracted properly
benjaminries said:
I can't get this kitchen to build my ROM. The after WMReloc does the modules rebase, I get the following feedback...
Code:
Injecting files ...
Input file imgfs_raw_data.bin cannot be opened. Exiting.
In fact, when I watch the temp folder during this process, I see no imgfs_raw_data.bin at all. In your new script, I can't see where this file would come from anyway.
Help?
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you have to run "prepare_imgfs flash.dio -nosplit" to get the imgfs_raw_data.bin first, this process is done when you extract a rom before but if you just directly use it to build a rom you need to manually run the command on a flash.dio first
Also keep in mind if you use flex kitchen your rom won't be able to extract properly, anyone want to edit your room will need your kitchen instead. If you don't have buildimgfs issue you may want to stick with the old way of building rom
keyx said:
no in fact i will need to upload a kitchen as the result rom using my flex kitchen will not be extracted properly
you have to run "prepare_imgfs flash.dio -nosplit" to get the imgfs_raw_data.bin first, this process is done when you extract a rom before but if you just directly use it to build a rom you need to manually run the command on a flash.dio first
Also keep in mind if you use flex kitchen your rom won't be able to extract properly, anyone want to edit your room will need your kitchen instead. If you don't have buildimgfs issue you may want to stick with the old way of building rom
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So... these files go in the root folder? That's what works for me anyway. Hmm... I think this could be easily added to the script, if you ever have to release an update to the kitchen. Anyway, thanks.
21501 kitchen added on 1st post
EDITED: kitchen updated to detect missing of imgfs_raw_data.bin and extract it automatically, I also updated some tools versions
ADC and Ipaq Data Connect
Are both of these necessary? When both are installed the ADC seems to run first and configures a "Proxy Internet" Profile in the Connection Manager which lists all 3 possible connections for my data carrier, even though I can only use the internet2.voicestream.com with T-Mobile. Maybe I am not using this correctly, but once I removed the ADC, the ipaq data connection worked fine and I was able to connect to the internet without a problem. Is this all this app does, or is there another usage that I should leave it installed for?
Thank-you
you can remove ADC if you don't want it, i think it just help to setup data connections
Customization
Keyz
I have removed some of the OEMs from the kitchen, but am not sure that I modified the initflashfile.dat correctly,will you look at it for me and see (I highlighted what I have removed)? If I remove the entire last 3 lines that contain the Utility file the device does not reboot from sdlauncher when installing. When I leave the last line in it is very speedy to install and reboot, but I have the empty utility Folder in my programs folder! I also had tried to add the BSPropCab.cab to the OEM folder but cannot get it to install correctly. I saw that you had it installed in one of your previous roms along with the other 2 arc cabs. The arc cabs I can get to work, but I really dont want to put them in, just the bsprop. Is this possible?
In OEM I added Coreplayer, PdaNet, SKTools5, Live Search, Google Search and WM5torage1.9. I had to add Google Search in here because I could not get it to work by adding the original files back into the OEM App folder: In Systems I removed ADC, VOIP and One Note, replaced NETCF with NETCF3.5, and added Transcriber back in. I thought about removing WMWidgets, I use all SPB Software, but I dont understand all of its functions, I have Googled it and there really isnt alot out there about it. What I did find though makes me think Microsoft will add more function to it once the official 6.5 is officially released-So I will keep that. For me this is a very good ROM, you have done an excellent job with modifying the kitchen.
Thank-you
Sunday
Where do you test the new roms? In the device or in somekind of emulator?
gkleding said:
Keyz
I have removed some of the OEMs from the kitchen, but am not sure that I modified the initflashfile.dat correctly,will you look at it for me and see (I highlighted what I have removed)? If I remove the entire last 3 lines that contain the Utility file the device does not reboot from sdlauncher when installing. When I leave the last line in it is very speedy to install and reboot, but I have the empty utility Folder in my programs folder! I also had tried to add the BSPropCab.cab to the OEM folder but cannot get it to install correctly. I saw that you had it installed in one of your previous roms along with the other 2 arc cabs. The arc cabs I can get to work, but I really dont want to put them in, just the bsprop. Is this possible?
In OEM I added Coreplayer, PdaNet, SKTools5, Live Search, Google Search and WM5torage1.9. I had to add Google Search in here because I could not get it to work by adding the original files back into the OEM App folder: In Systems I removed ADC, VOIP and One Note, replaced NETCF with NETCF3.5, and added Transcriber back in. I thought about removing WMWidgets, I use all SPB Software, but I dont understand all of its functions, I have Googled it and there really isnt alot out there about it. What I did find though makes me think Microsoft will add more function to it once the official 6.5 is officially released-So I will keep that. For me this is a very good ROM, you have done an excellent job with modifying the kitchen.
Thank-you
Sunday
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what do you mean by bsprop not installed correctly? if you convert it to OEM folder correctly it should work but if you leave the customization engine run on startup there is no point to preinstall bsprop since it will reinstall again from ipaq file store(unless you did not install the update before).
Also if you modify initflashfiles.dat i believe you should use hex editor to remove the FF FE header added by notepad.
Sometime when you flash a lot the device will act weird & does not reboot from flashing, you can try to clean boot it or reflash. I think you can remove all highlighted entries without issue. You may need to leave a blank line at the end of file though.
wmwidget is a widget engine that can run apps that use pie as a container/interface, for me it looks kinda like a shortcut to a webpage, msn weather/money .etc are the sample widget come with 6.5 for now. You can remove it if you don't use it.
SwimmerBoy said:
Where do you test the new roms? In the device or in somekind of emulator?
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device only until i figure out the emulator issue