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Hi there,
there was a situation, when someone needed to grab, fast and invisible, a ROM dump off of a device at some exhibition...
Well i wrote this bad and nasty tool to do the dirty work... )
all you need is a SD card and this tool.
Setup
- rename 'grab_it_xx.exe' to 'autorun.exe'
- create folder '2577' on your (empty) SD/MMC/Mini-SD card
- copy 'autorun.exe' to this folder
That's it for the "setup" )
Usage
Now every time, when you insert this card into PPC it will grab the ROM image and save it into root of the card as 'dump.bin'.
It will show you a tiny red progress bar at the very bottom of the screen.
Once done, it will beep the default sound.
Message boxes are only shown in case of error.
IMPORTANT NOTE (thanx MDAIIIuser)
YOU MUST NOT put it back into another device!!!
YOU MUST LOCK THE SD CARD FIRST!!!!!
or read the SD with card reader on your desktop PC.
Otherwise, you will rewrite the dump with your own ROM!!!!
This ROM dump file can be then further processed and converted to flashable formats.
it is a real spy tool ))) i mean 007 kind of... )))))
Now there are few new versions.
They are for grabing different amount of ROM.
Please note, that you will need a card which is bigger than the ROM size.
32MB dump -> fits onto 64MB card
64MB dump -> fits onto 128MB card
128MB dump -> fits onto 256MB card
THANX for pieces of mamaich's code...
Enjoy
buzz
WOOOWWWWWW very impressive buzz .. You REALLLY ARE AMAZING .. AND THE KING OF WM2005 ROM indeed
this is best tool EVER...
NEWEST TOOL for COOKING ROM ..
im totally impressed buzzz .. this TOOL IS GREAT
I LOVE THIS BRO so much >>.. especially the Progress bar .. no one will suspect this
you are GREAT .. TOTALLY the GREATEST
TINIEST TOOL FOR COOKING ROM ..
Absolute
yeah...a real mission impossible
8)
THANX toe MY BROTHER )
...same as you are the MR. REGISTRY MASTER
buzz
THANX jojo MY BROTHER )
...same as you are the MR. WM2k5 THEMES MASTER
buzz
Think ir about time you got a BA Buzz.
Cool
why not...i am now searching a cheapest 2nd hand BA in town (got no money enough to buy a brand new) :lol:
buzz, can we use 256 mb SD cards? and how we convert the dump.bin into flashable?
Riddler said:
buzz, can we use 256 mb SD cards? and how we convert the dump.bin into flashable?
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sure u can!
any size will do, but if u have 64MB SD only, it will go up to approx 58MB and will quit with error message "Card full"...
However, 58MB of ROM will be saved there anyway..
i can maybe build it to grab 32MB only, additionally...
for conversion, it's not that easy... send the dump to me or someone, who knows what is he doing... mamaich, itsme and such.. )))
buzz
OK, here is a newbie question, but here it goes:
A week ago I bought a originally packaged 512 MB SD card. When I inserted it in my phone, it showed there was TomTom Mobile already present on it. Now when I read this thread I remebered there was also a folder called 2577 on it and folder map contained a file called autorun.exe...
Does this mean that this was grabbed from a device somehow, or it this autorun.exe and 2577 folder thing just the way that self-installing cards operate? So basically: when one buys TomTom on a SD card, does the autorun file in the 2577 folder ensure that TomTom is automatically installed once inserted to the device? So that the ROM grabbing in this thread is done in the same way, but this autorun does not install software but grabs the ROM? Or was my SD card used in the same way for grabbing TTMobile?
Anyway, if the autorun 2577 trick is used for auto-installing software from SD card, then very nice work in making it a spy tool!
Koksie said:
OK, here is a newbie question, but here it goes:
A week ago I bought a originally packaged 512 MB SD card. When I inserted it in my phone, it showed there was TomTom Mobile already present on it. Now when I read this thread I remebered there was also a folder called 2577 on it and folder map contained a file called autorun.exe...
Does this mean that this was grabbed from a device somehow, or it this autorun.exe and 2577 folder thing just the way that self-installing cards operate? So basically: when one buys TomTom on a SD card, does the autorun file in the 2577 folder ensure that TomTom is automatically installed once inserted to the device? So that the ROM grabbing in this thread is done in the same way, but this autorun does not install software but grabs the ROM? Or was my SD card used in the same way for grabbing TTMobile?
Anyway, if the autorun 2577 trick is used for auto-installing software from SD card, then very nice work in making it a spy tool!
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no way man!
This '\Storage Card\2577\autorun.exe' is an official M$ way of autolaunching programs from SD card, well described in MSDN...
If you put calc.exe into this folder and will rename it to autorun.exe, it will be automatically launched upon inserting this SD card in. So your calculator will pop up...
i just used this feature for dumping ROM automatically. Of course my autorun actually is a dump program, unlike the one from TOMTOM, which is to launch the setup of TOMTOM... )
hope it's clear
buzz
Hicks. Upload 64 mb
1. will kill my internet bill.
2. my country isp connection speed very low. I d/l rom magician (around 30-60 mb) from xda ftp takes 2 -4 days with many times resume.
Buzz,
The way I see it is that after mr happy puts the renamed file on the sd card and the the sd card into the device, it dumps the rom. (auto*.exe)
Now if he puts the SD card back into his own device... will it dump that rom over the same 5.0 dump ?
So does it dump on same file name or increment the dump name by 1.
Does the guy know about the danger?
Sorry to ask but I would hate to see dumpped 5.0 rom dumped..
May be its not a problem.
MDAIIIUser said:
Buzz,
The way I see it is that after mr happy puts the renamed file on the sd card and the the sd card into the device, it dumps the rom. (auto*.exe)
Now if he puts the SD card back into his own device... will it dump that rom over the same 5.0 dump ?
So does it dump on same file name or increment the dump name by 1.
Does the guy know about the danger?
Sorry to ask but I would hate to see dumpped 5.0 rom dumped..
May be its not a problem.
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oh ****... good point!!!!!
so YOU MUST NOT put it back into another device!!!
YOU MUST LOCK THE SD CARD FIRST!!!!!
or put it into card reader on the desktop PC...
buzz
Great Buzz !!! Thanks for your good job
is it possible to extract files from the dump.bin file ?
TofClock said:
Great Buzz !!! Thanks for your good job
is it possible to extract files from the dump.bin file ?
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...it depends, which ROM you just dumped...
it's kind of hard with wm2k5 for HIMALAYA, coz it is compressed the way, that standard dumprom.exe doesn't understand... however... )
buzz
Woooooooooow ..... :evil:
At this time , ther's any issue to extract files from wm2005 rom ?? ( except the first xip section with mamaich's soluce )
Damn....this is great!..
Now the Search of a WM5 Magician starts......
Buzz,
Another great tool from you
o)))))))
You never stop amazing me
buzz is buzz lol
can you put a fake picture like a benchmark tool or settings or something
and make the dump in background?
thats a spy ....i lighter is a tape recorder ....a sd card is a dump machine
well i will soon have
buzzdumpmachine 1.0 in my wallet lol
the cooker cooke a tasted one once aggain
Before swapping my XDAIIi with my new EXEC I made a back-up on my SD CARD. BUT THE EXEC CANOT RESTORE FROM THIS LOCATION!!!..... Is there anyway of recovering my data????? thank you anyone out there with more knowledge and expertise who could help.........
Find another device running the same ROM version as your old device and restore your data to that device. The extraxt what you need and active sync. The transfer all data to the new device.
Thanks.....It was exactly what I thought. But I have tried this on 4 different machines.....and they all crashed or froze and it just didnt happen........
Is there any other possible way!? :?
When you say you made a backup on your SD card, I'm guessing you mean a backup of the entire XDAIIi system (including all your files, all program files and all ROM files).
If so, you can't restore a backup from an XDAIIi onto an XDA Exec. They're two completely different machines and the backup will be incompatible.
Like badgerboybadger says, you need to extract from your backup only those files that contain your personal data: your documents, templates, ringtones and so on. Leave behind anything connected with the device or installed programs. Then you can copy your personal data onto your Exec and it will work. If you want to transfer installed programs from the IIi to the Exec then you'll need to reinstall them on the Exec...
....silicon,
Yes Indeed, I did make a full system backup!
and you are talking about something i was not aware it is possible to do???
lets see......
you say......"you need to extract from your backup only those files that contain your personal data: your documents, templates, ringtones and so on. Leave behind anything connected with the device or installed programs. Then you can copy your personal data onto your Exec and it will work"......
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How can I even access the inside of the CompactFlashBackUpNew backup file ......???
Is that what you are suggesting ...if I understand you right???
Thanks.... :idea:
Wangu77 said:
How can I even access the inside of the CompactFlashBackUpNew backup file ......???
Is that what you are suggesting ...if I understand you right???
Thanks.... :idea:
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Yeah - I guess that was what I was suggesting, but I've got no idea how to do this! Sorry.
I wasn't sure which way you'd have done your back up or whether it's possible to extract particular files. I suppose it must be, but I've never done it.
If you still have your XDAIIi then can you copy specific files off it?
Alternatively, do you still have a synchronised documents folder on the PC to which you used to connect it? That should have most of the documents that you'll want to keep.
If not I don't know what to suggest.
Providing your old PDA is still available, you really need a backup program that you can run on both PDAs. For example, something like Sunnysoft's Backup Manager - even a time-limited trial edition may be sufficient. Select and back up the required files/data to SD-card on the old PDA, then move the card to the new PDA. Install the backup program there and recover the files/data with that.
Just be careful of the different program versions, try not to copy system files across, and be prepared to do it a couple of times (or more) until you get it right.
Hello all,
I've written a watchdog that allows to catch a moment when the storage card is corrupted and softreset before the driver flushes FAT and root folder.
More details are here:
http://www.nixie.narod.ru/sdsentry/index-en.htm
I hope this will help you.
Any feedback is welcome.
I'm online with MSN [email protected] (also it is my email)
BTW, it doesn't matter what brand and size of the storage card is.
I have Kingston 1GB, and _it happens.
Thankyou for your work, Nikolay. It is apreciated.
I have had the software installed for a couple of days, and all is well.
Same here Nickolay, I have already posted a reply to your post at Spb Club forum.
I have your piece of code installed for few days and haven't seen the red icon, yet. Hope never will. Tnx .... as your code can save some nerves
I have tried your program but it keeps throwing up a corruption warning saying that there is an empty directory - Program Files on the storage card (which there is - I guess it is empty because I have no apps installed on the card)
Any suggestions?
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Any suggestions?
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Create a file in that folder...
Does anyone know the workaround with the WM5torage program?.....everytime i launch this app the SD-Sentry red icon appears saying that there is a corruption but when i check the storage card its fine.......thanks in advance
WM5torage disables the storage card for the orbit as long as it is active. During that time it is only accessible by the PC. Other programs like Tomtom do not work, because they can't find their data on the card. So does SDsentry.
Dear programmer,
your program seems to be a fine PlugIn for the XDA-Error with destroyed directorys oon the SD-Card.
Unfortunately your program is working in english devices only as it seems.
In german devices where the storage card is named "Speicherkarte" from the german WM5 your program will creating a new folder named "storage card" where it puts its check-files SdSentry.txt into each existing directory. No SdSentry.txt-file in any Dirs on the storage card.
In the dialogwindow of SdSentry the storage card is names "Speicherkarte".
The real storage card is not recogniced and protected in this way, as I assume.
Or did I something wrong?
Will you program a german version of SdSentry too?
I would be very glad about.
because of the described problem, I wrote a mail to the programer of SdSentry.
A solution was coming back immediately, how to install SdSentry im devices with other WM5-languages than english.
The program has a little bug to find the real storage card and creates instead a directory named "storage card" in the root of the device, that contains two directorys named "My Documents" and "Programme". In each of this three folders SdSentry creates a txt-file "SdSentry.txt" for verifiing the directury-structure for accessibility later.
For getting SdSentry working on german devices (analog other languages), copy following files:
\\storage card\SdSentry.txt to \\Speicherkarte(or however the name of your real storage card is)\SdSentry.txt
\\storage card\My Documents\SdSentry.txt to \\Speicherkarte\My Documents\SdSentry.txt
\\storage card\Programme\SdSentry.txt to \\Speicherkarte\Programme\SdSentry.txt
After copying the three files, you can delete the folder \\storage card with its subdirs "My Documents" and "Programme"
Since I've did this modifications, SdSentry seems to work well on my german-XDA Orbit.
Hoping it avoids more crashs of my SD-Card.
What a fun sitting in the car and loosing Navi, adresses and all tasks for today out of the HTC. May driving back to office and reinstalling the device.
I won't count how much time cause of this this worthless phone I had loosen last weeks.
Hi all
From some research i've been doing i think i need to create a ROM image but i'll tell you my problem and let you recomend me a solution.
Basically i need to setup 30 PDA's (XDA Argon's running WM5.0) These PDA's will be running a program called service director and also have TOMTOM installed. What i need to be able to do is be able to create an "image" that i can just copy to each PDA to speed up deployment. It would also be useful should there be any problems in the field with the PDA's that they could just be hard reset back to their modified state after deployment. E.g with Service Director and TomTom installed. I have found out that if i create a folder on a memory card with a directory name of 2577 and put my .cabs in there that they will automatically be installed on insertion of the card. This could also be beneficial to me, but i don't think that it would be robust enough, especially if they drop the device and put their memory card back in after its popped out.
So what do you think my best options would be?
Thanks for any help in advance and if you need any info, just let me know.
Thanks
Andy
kingpin83 said:
Hi all
From some research i've been doing i think i need to create a ROM image but i'll tell you my problem and let you recomend me a solution.
Basically i need to setup 30 PDA's (XDA Argon's running WM5.0) These PDA's will be running a program called service director and also have TOMTOM installed. What i need to be able to do is be able to create an "image" that i can just copy to each PDA to speed up deployment. It would also be useful should there be any problems in the field with the PDA's that they could just be hard reset back to their modified state after deployment. E.g with Service Director and TomTom installed. I have found out that if i create a folder on a memory card with a directory name of 2577 and put my .cabs in there that they will automatically be installed on insertion of the card. This could also be beneficial to me, but i don't think that it would be robust enough, especially if they drop the device and put their memory card back in after its popped out.
So what do you think my best options would be?
Thanks for any help in advance and if you need any info, just let me know.
Thanks
Andy
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do the 2577 option but create an autorun program that installs the cab files and then deletes the 2577 folder, thus it wont re-install when the cab is re-inserted
That's ok, but then the engineer would then have to send the card back to us so that we could set it up again. E.g the card would only allow them to set the software back up once and then they would have to send the PDA back to us for us to reconfigure it should it go wrong again. We can't really afford to do this as they need the PDA to find their next job/update jobs etc and can't really afford to have it sent back to us everytime it goes wrong.
well there is currently no way flashing custom ROM's to the xda argon (HTC Panda?) and wont be until one or more devs get thier hands on one so burining it into the rom isnt an option. the only thing I can think of is to have it ask if you want to install the software when it is inserted rather than doing it automatically.
I didnt think it wouldve been available yet. Oh well, looks like i'll have to make it do it via the memory card for the moment. Like all brilliant companies mine just told me, here's what we want, now go and make it happen! Haha!
I take it the card will need to have some kind of .inf file on it to ask you whether you want to install it or not. I would try it, but my company havent even given me the PDA to play with yet.
All i have is an SPV M500(My own old phone) and knowing my luck, they won't work the same with the software we're using.
In that case, why dont you have the autorun RENAME the folder instead of delete it. Your users should then be able to rename it back in case of need (they should be able to do that!), and do the insert sd card thing.
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That's ok, but then the engineer would then have to send the card back to us so that we could set it up again. E.g the card would only allow them to set the software back up once and then they would have to send the PDA back to us for us to reconfigure it should it go wrong again. We can't really afford to do this as they need the PDA to find their next job/update jobs etc and can't really afford to have it sent back to us everytime it goes wrong.
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Why not on original installation have it delete the file from the folder and also have in the same folder a IE web shortcut to the original file on a Company server that would allow them to download the file again into the same folder, assuming they would have an internet connection and the file is not too large to download and you can direct the download to that particular folder?
They could then take out the card and re-insert it to automatically install the program again.
Maybe a poopoo idea, but I guess worth a thought?
Good luck
C
the autorun folder is the same for all devices with wm5/6 so thats fine and you would haev to write a progra to do it, not an inf.
if you cant do it yourself im sure someone else on the forum wouldnt mind for a modest donation (myself included)
kingpin83 said:
Basically i need to setup 30 PDA's.
What i need to be able to do is be able to create an "image" that i can just copy to each PDA to speed up deployment.
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A software called SPB Clone was specifically designed to meet this need:
http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/clone/?en
Regards
Hey I want to add in a extrom for the first time on my siemens sx66. I read all the instructions and everything on the wiki. But they tell me I need a unlocker tool for it. I tried to find every link possible for it, but they all give me an error so Iam guessing there dead. Can anyone post up a new one please.
here you are, the unlocker and the repart doc
Thank you so much, appreciate it.
Okay, I downgraded back to wm2003, made it so total storage is 60mb. Now I upgraded back to wm6.5 explode. So now I just unhide, unlock and then just copy the extrom zip file to the extended_rom file???
Actually, I was reading another post of yours, and I remember you saying to put the /extrom folder in a sd card?? I dont remember reading that in the wiki. But anyways you think you could provide me with instructions on how to do that. I have the sd card.
by resizing the old extrom folder to (probably) 128kb, as suggested in the wiki, you don't have the old space to park the extrom, still the sd card has an autorun, as you might have experienced before, if for example there is a folder 2577 on the card, whatever is in there runs, when the card is inserted, but don't mind about that, just an example.
you have a file extrom.zip or something comparable, just unpack it and put it on the sd card, so that it shows EXTROM\ with a bunch of cabs in there and a cfg.txt, an autorun.exe and a picture custom.bmp.
- the autorun.exe is what executes the entire thing when inserted
- the cfg.txt holds the config, meaning it describes what happens there, there is a list of cabs in there, and how to process them,
- the cabs are the installation files of the programs to be installed, if you are uncertain, whether you need each one of them, maybe googling the name helps you determine that.
- the custom.bmp is the picture showing while installing the extrom and so rather uninteresting for you.
remember to make sure, the list of cab files in the folder is the same as listed in the cfg.txt, having it downloaded and extracted that is the case by default, but if you want to customize it, remember that simply copying the files into the folder is not enough, they need to be listed in the cfg.
i personally for example remove the adobe reader and arcsoft mms from extrom and put own apps in there.
every program in there is installed to the system storage, so make sure you don't stuff your device with to many apps that maybe you don't need.
Yay it worked!! Hey thanks alot for the help, didnt think it be so simple. Anyways, thanks again.
Heh I wrote this on my BA, more reasons to love this thing.