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changing boot splash

not a total idiot . . . yet I can not figure out how to get rid of the ATT animated splash screen on the new AT&T branded rom.
I can change the main splash and welcomehead file, but not what I am supposing is the subsplash.
I have even cooked my own ruu nbh with just a subsplash which has worked on black roms, but seemingly has no effect on this rom
any ideas?

The only thing I can help you with, and I am sure you looked is try here.
Is the splash your talking about the annoying animated one, that has the load startup volume? I have tried a few roms myself and it has never shown up since using those.

the animated att gif and sound files are located in either the extended rom or the OEMOPERATORS folder. You just have to delete them before you cook your rom. Or post cooking, you just either overwrite or delete the two files in your windows folder... and another option too is to point your registry settings to your own files. should be in the HKLM/Software/HTC/AnimatedGif
Sorry if I'm not being clear on the exact locations of those files because I'm at work and I don't have my kitchen supplies here with me. But it should't be hard now that I've pointed you in the right direction.

thanks guys
I reflashed using the ATT branded ROM so that's why I got the animated startup (subsplash doesn't even show) so I'll reflash and reset it before it goes into the customizations.
Seems like it goes through two configurations - one from ? and the other from the extended rom - using "pimp my black v2" to unlock extended rom. However I can not delete any files located on the extended rom. Am I doing something wrong? I want to create my own autoconfig with just the things I need/want. I'd love to NOT install all the ppt stuff. Where is that autoconfig coming from?

apposite said:
I reflashed using the ATT branded ROM so that's why I got the animated startup (subsplash doesn't even show) so I'll reflash and reset it before it goes into the customizations.
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I believe it's not in the ext rom, but the ROM itself. Disable it here: HKLM/Software/HTC/Startupanimation.
apposite said:
Seems like it goes through two configurations - one from ? and the other from the extended rom - using "pimp my black v2" to unlock extended rom. However I can not delete any files located on the extended rom. Am I doing something wrong? I want to create my own autoconfig with just the things I need/want. I'd love to NOT install all the ppt stuff. Where is that autoconfig coming from?
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PTT is in the ROM not the ext rom. We're stuck with it for now.

going back to official ROM...

i've decided to go back to the official OEM ROM.
none of the ROMs i've installed from here (schaps, tnt, black) give me a notification if someone leaves me a voicemail message, and i keep missing important (business) messages because of this, and losing work & money as a result
i do like the speed and stability of the ROMs ive downloaded from here, but i cannot afford to lose another £1000+ job because i missed an important voicemail
(i have posted on the various ROM threads about this problem but nobody ever seems to notice or reply to them)
however my understanding is that because i've upgraded to hardSPL then the exe supplied by Orange will not work. this exe also includes a radio "upgrade" which will knock my radio back by several versions, which i don't want to do
so how can i get the official Orange ROM back onto my hermes without downgrading the radio as well ?

Look in the offical rom thread (sticky on the top of the page) or go to the orange site and look for the upgrade rom. As a note have you changed your notifications (settings) to notify you when you get a voicemail/email. I flashed schaps 3.60 and had to go in and reconfig my notifications because they had been changed (not notifying for missed calls/new emails).

Although I am not as familiar with "orange" I can tell you I have never had the issue that you mention in regard to vm. As far as reverting to the official shipped rom, I have done so a number of times with perfect success. If you have hard spl on it than why not give it a shot and if it fails go from there. If reverting to the official rom works simply reload the radio of your choice after and you should be happy.
I personally feel it has to be a settings issue on your phone rather than a the os. Maybe check, and double check your settings to ensure they are correct before giving up on the wonderful cooked roms we have all grown so fond of. Additionally i can appreciate using your phone as a part of your business as I do mine but if your experiencing problems why risk it and just stay stock.

I would agree that it must be a configuration or network problem. Never heard of a ROM causing this.
However, the answer to your question is:
1. Download the ROM as instructed above (from Orange, HTC or here)
2. Using WinRAR or similar, unpack the .exe file
(You should get a an .nbh file and a RUU.exe file)
3. Using "dutty's good nbh tool", unpack the .nbh file that you got in step 2
(You should get a small collection of .nb files - radio, os, mainsplash, secondarysplash)
4. Still with dutty's good nbh tool, build an nbh file from the os.nb.
5. Place the newly built os.nbh in a directory alone with Custom RUU (available in here somewhere - search should find it - any post from Olipro has it linked in his sig)
6. Run the RUU.
Done!

Please be carefull when you give these kinds of advices!!!!
With dutty's tool he will extract nb files and not nbh.Afterwards he will have to recompile the ROM choosing the parts that he wants (OS.nb,....) and make a new RUU_signed.nbh which will flash with the RUUWrapper.
It's very pity to brick your device because someone did NOT know what ADVICE to give.Please be careful next time.This time I saw it on time.

Static,
Just before you go bac to the OEM rom consider this: I was on Virgin, then o2, both using Schaps 3.54c, not exprienced the problem you have indicated. Has got to be a network setting.
With my setup I get o2 to notify me of voicemail messages via a text rather than ringing and voice. Why don't you try that option before you jump ship?
Get another phone and call your number to make sure it works.
Good luck.
WB

I have used schaps and black and the only voicemail bug I had was the funny text message with the @ symbol bug, which is easily cured by running rabdo's orange cab.
I have run Black Satin for ages now and always get the voicemail symbol come up.
Make sure you clear all old voicemails and start from scratch for it to work...

that's the voicemail bug - i get the @ symbol thing
where's this orange cab you speak of. i've searched the hell out of these forums, and indeed, this is the 4th time i've posted about it (and the first i've received a response)
i've installed one orange cab i found somewhere, and also before i erased the shipped ROM i opened up the extended_rom and saved all those cabs to my storage card. i've tried installing all of those too and seemingly to no effect.

ok i think i found it - searching for rabdo found it. could have done with this one being in the wiki somewhere, seems everyone on orange had this problem, seems i'm not the only one who got annoyed enough to go back to the shipped rom too !

I wish I'd seen this earlier could have saved you a bit of hassle..
if you have any problems let me know as i've had it working fine on all the wm6 Roms i've tried using the non cab manual method (the cab sometimes fails for some reason)
Just for info: Its not a setting that you have to change its a change to the sms_providers.dll file to handle the weird way orange send the alerts in a text message, theres nothing you can configure as such to solve it without running the cab or installing the file and the devcerts manually.
You can also cook the fix in with a bit of tweaking if that would work better..

I have never had this problem of missing voice messages, both with the official WM6 ROM as well as all the other ROMs from Black and Dutty. I doubt if that has anything to do with the cooked ROMs. I am on Telstra network though.

build a rom from a phone that has been setup?

Hello,
I was wondering if i can somehow make a rom off of a running phone....
Basically here is my thinking...
I have a tilt (kaiser), and i want to setup something like sprite terminator (possibly something else) on it as well as some other apps, once it is all customized the way i like it, i want to backup the device into a rom, then use it to flash my phone..... that way should anyone ever steal my phone even if they did a hard reset it would only flash back to my rom and therefore my terminator already be setup again....

asjeep said:
Hello,
I was wondering if i can somehow make a rom off of a running phone....
Basically here is my thinking...
I have a tilt (kaiser), and i want to setup something like sprite terminator (possibly something else) on it as well as some other apps, once it is all customized the way i like it, i want to backup the device into a rom, then use it to flash my phone..... that way should anyone ever steal my phone even if they did a hard reset it would only flash back to my rom and therefore my terminator already be setup again....
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Your cooked rom will be always there even with hard reset

asjeep said:
Hello,
once it is all customized the way i like it, i want to backup the device into a rom, then use it to flash my phone.....
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Sort of - you can extract a ROM from an HTC device but, as said above, it won't include any changes made by you after hardreset. All it will do is to take the ROM that sets up Windows, etc. for you. It will only do the same job if you then take that ROM and install it on the same device or elsewhere.
What you probably want to do get a kitchen and cook in these apps. In most cases you can also cook in all your personal settings for those programs and for windows itself.
If you go far enough into cooking kitchens, you'll eventually be able to make a ROM which is, after a hard reset, already set up precisely the way it would be if you hard reset and install all your apps and change all of the setting both in Control Panel items and in your apps. All that could be there smiling at you after a hard reset as you want it to be, but you'll have to cook a ROM to make it so.
Another option is to use an auto-installer for cabs, although that would only make setup easier and can be circumvented pre soft resetting before the installs kick off so it wouldn't have the security of having your name and theft-prevention software already set up.
In my case, my Hermes does come completely setup with all my preferred windows and apps settings, as if I'd spent hours setting up after a hard reset. Mostly this is done by a big cab in Preconfig and most settings in the ROM's registry from cooking with a rgu file. A big one.

(I'm working - albeit slowly - on some simple tools that can help in creating one's own single, personal OEM to add into a kitchen and has all of your settings and apps in it. I just need to work out how to automate some cabwiz functions that currently I'm using some expensive-ish software for which I can't expect others to buy. Can't give out my own 'big cab' even to help as an example I'm afraid as it's got all kinds of paid-for or private stuff in and it'll take ages to unpick. Should I not get this simple tool going as I want, I'll probably just write a page on wiki or something as it's still easier than going through the whole process of cooking in many apps and your windows folder wil be much, much cleaner and your phone a lot faster if you do it this way.)

Great thanks so much for all the help.... BTW tried sprite and it only caused my tilt to not download emails from exchange so it came off and time for another hard reset

Looking for a Touch Pro 2 ROM

Hello, I was looking for a new ROM for my T-Mobile Branded Touch Pro 2, which is unlocked and running on the Simple Mobile network instead of T-Mobile, and currently running the T-Mobile Windows Mobile 6.5 Official ROM.
The main concerns I am having while looking for a ROM is:
T-Mobile has the MMS Settings locked, so I am unable to send MMS while using my Simple Mobile SIM Card in it. I am a social networking junkee, and constantly send pictures to Facebook right after taking them, and don't like wasting time opening the Facebook App to upload them. So picture messaging is a must for both sending and receiving.
Another thing, I love the HTC Sense with TouchFlo 3D, it makes everything a lot easier for me to navigate to, and I don't like the feel of the original Windows Mobile today screen.
Is there a ROM out there that covers both of these? Can someone point me in the right direction?
I'm kinda new to the site, not really sure how to navigate to ROMs, and not really sure where to look for ROMs that cover the things I am looking for.

MMS: Most, if not all, custom ROMs here (make sure to flash the GSM HardSPL and GSM ROMs!) unlock the MMS settings screen (it can also be done via a registry edit). Here is a thread with MMS fixes to apply (I'm guessing this should be done after flash a ROM or unlocking the settings screen with a reg-edit).
Registry edit:
1. Download a Registry Editor like this.
2. Open the editor and navigate to
Code:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ArcSoft MMS UA\Config\UI.
3. Change the value of the key EnableServerEdit from 0 to 1.
4. Soft reset (turn off then turn on the phone OR just press the red reset hole on the right side of the device).
5. Go to Messages Tab > All Messages > Menu > MMS Options... > Servers Tab > T-Mobile MMS.
6. Change the settings to make it compatible with your provider.
Most ROMs also have Sense UI cooked in. Now, if you still want fluidity, get a ROM with Sense 2.1 (I think the EnergyROMs have a Sense2.1 variant). If you want quicklinks in your homescreen (like the HD2) but are willing to sacrifice some speed, get a ROM with Sense 2.5 cooked in.

Thank you very much, MMS is now functioning correctly.
I have one question about flashing new ROMs, I might have missed it, or just can't find it on the Hard-SPL post. If I were to flash Hard-SPL, then flash a ROM, but I decide I want to stick with the original T-Mobile 6.5 ROM (I have the ROM install file on my PC still) would I be able to flash back to the T-Mobile ROM?

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Thank you very much, MMS is now functioning correctly.
I have one question about flashing new ROMs, I might have missed it, or just can't find it on the Hard-SPL post. If I were to flash Hard-SPL, then flash a ROM, but I decide I want to stick with the original T-Mobile 6.5 ROM (I have the ROM install file on my PC still) would I be able to flash back to the T-Mobile ROM?
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You're welcome.
Yes, you can flash back to the stock T-Mobile ROM, just as long as you have access to it. With HardSPL on your phone, you can actually flash any GSM Rhodium ROM, stock or custom. In the event you need to return your phone, you will also need to restore the StockSPL after flashing back the stock ROM.

[Q] custom rom for t-mobile htc touch pro2?

hi everybody!
first of all, i'd like to ask for your leniency since i'm a total noob here at xdadev.
I just got a T-Mobile HTC Touch Pro 2, and I have no complaints in terms of reception and connectivity. However, from the very beginning I have noticed that memory usage is high even with no apps running. I have stripped touchflo from all nonessential components, like weather, stocks, etc, but it makes little difference.
Also, the rom is loaded with apps that I don't need and apparently can't be uninstalled. As an experiment, I tried to install Gmail (tho you don't really need to) and I got the following error message:
installation failed, errno=910 Application authorization failure
what's up with that??
My previous device was a generic windows phone running windows mobile 6.5.2.23090 Pro, and I really liked the finger-friendly menus. i also had flexibility to configure the device that I seem to have lost completely with the touch pro 2.
I have considered installing a custom rom, but I really like touchflo, with the black/Grey/White interface, the smart looking flipping retro clock on the front, the dialer, the menus, the multimedia handlers, etc,.
Would I be able to install touchflo on top of a custom rom? your eyes must be rolling by now, but... i have looked and i've only found versions that are different from the one I have and love.
What do you guys think? do you have a specific rom or touchflo version to suggest? lemme know!

TouchFLO is old (Manila 2.0) and replaced with Sense (Manila 2.5). Basically the same thing, but better looking, and more functionality. TouchFLO/Sense cannot be installed onto a phone after the fact. It needs to be cooked in as part of the original ROM. If you like the HTC Manila UI, look for custom ROMs which have Sense. Most of the things you mention are the same/similar in Sense as TouchFLO (although I'm not familiar with what carrier customizations to TouchFLO the T-Mob version has).
Custom ROMs will solve your issue with the carrier bloatware, and many of them manage memory better than stock. Although, you will see there is huge variety in terms of looks and what apps are cooked-in. If you want a clean, lightweight ROM try simplicity or Jackos (Jackos is really good for memory management). Many people also like Valkyrie. Energy is very popular, with great looks and lots of cooked-in apps, but not the most lightweight.

Esmertec Jbed 20090506.2.1 by Aqrab works very well with Gmail.

thanks you guys! im soooooo on it!!

Custom ROM
Hi,
I just recently (like a week and a half ago) got a T-Mobile Touch Pro 2. I had been using an older HTC Touch Viva. It just like the TP2 I bought came with Windows Mobile 6.1. I used my Viva for quite a while with WM 6.1 before I found my way here to XDA.
I went very slowly at first flashing my first custom ROM onto my Viva but after a while got to a point that I was trying out a different ROM almost weekly. The problem is that a lot of these custom ROMs have bugs in them to some degree. So I went back and forth to find the ROM that I liked that seemed to run the smoothest.
As someone previously stated, the TouchFlo 2 interface is an older interface. But as I understand it it wasn't that it was replaced by Sense 2.5 but was created for phones that weren't as powerful. It didn't need quite as much graphical power to operate it and gave phones like the Touch Viva a nicer interface that looked a lot like the nicer Sense interface.
I spend quite a lot of time trying out different custom ROMs on my Viva so when I decided to upgrade my phone to the TP2 I had already scouted out the ROMs to some degree and had download a few to try out.
I too liked the finger friendly menus of Windows Mobile 6.5.x of the ROMs that I had been using on my Viva and knew that I wouldn't keep the OEM WM 6.1 on my TP2 any longer than I had to.
I went through a couple of custom ROMs for the TP2 before trying out the Simplicity ROM. It seems to still have the look and feel of an OEM style ROM without all of the bloat that comes with them, but this is only my opinion. You'll need to try out a few of them to see which one you like.
Good luck.

Dear All,
After I started this thread, a couple of noobs actually pm’d me to ask about my progress. They said they were too embarrassed to post their noob questions directly on my thread. Since I know the feeling, I will post a quick recap of what I did and where they can find the relevant information on xdadev.
First of all, before I began, I made sure I:
1) had my rhodium connected to my PC via Windows Mobile Device Manager (for XP users it would be Microsoft ActiveSync);
2) knew how to enter bootloader mode on my rhodium;
3) knew how to hard reset my rhodium;
4) had a backup copy of the latest official rom release from T-Mobile, just in case.
At this point I chose a custom rom from one of the many talented chefs on xdadev. My choice is the simple and gorgeous “Reference”, that NRGZ28 has created for htc rhodium. The full file name is:
Energy.RHODIUM.28244.Sense2.5.Reference.Nov.13.7z
And it can be found on the chef’s original thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=562773
STEP 1:
I downloaded and installed the ‘Hard-SPL’ package from the following thread (after I read the instructions):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=550131
This tweak allowed my rhodium to 'accept' custom roms.
STEP 2 (NOT NECESSARY, BUT I DID IT BECAUSE MY ROM HAD BEEN FLASHED A FEW TIMES BEFORE):
I downloaded and ran Task 29 from the following thread (after I read the instructions):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=649191
This tool formatted the internal memory of my rhodium to remove any trace of previous roms.
At the end of the process, I was quick to put my rhodium in bootloader mode and proceed with STEP 3 below. However, if you allow the device to reboot, it will be stuck on the splash screen because task 29 has wiped the rom partition clean. It’s totally normal, so don’t freak out. All you have to do is yank the battery, restart the device in bootloader mode, and proceed with STEP 3.
STEP 3:
I ran the installer from my custom rom of choice. At the end of the process, I yanked the battery and hard reset the device. Then I repeated the operation one more time. It’s recommended to hard reset a couple of times after flashing a new rom. So what’s the point of waiting through the first run and customization screens twice just to hard reset?
If your chef doesn't provide specific installation instructions, you can read mskip's flashing guide for noobs:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=550540
The whole process ran smoothly and I’ve been enjoying my new rom for a few days now.
Next mission: get rid of that awful T-mobile splash screen at startup…
Peace-out

Thanks for posting your experience here for others.
But a couple comments:
Task29 is supposed to stop on the splash screen. Once it does, you hold the volume down button, while pressing and releasing the soft reset button with the stylus (under the battery cover). It says this in the Task29 instructions.
I usually do a hard reset after flashing the new ROM. Personally I only hard reset once. I think (not sure) its just to make sure that any previous data has been cleared. Pressing the soft reset button with the stylus does the same as pulling the battery, but to me a bit easier. And I've seen it cautioned here that the soft reset button is safer than pulling the battery.

Soft reset is less volatile on the flash memory. Always soft reset when possible. There is no need to hard reset if you perform a task29. Hard reset pretty much does the same thing. You only need to do EITHER a task29 OR a hard reset for best performance. Also, you only need to do a single hard reset if that's the route you choose. Doing two of them is a bit extreme.

Everybody thanks for your feedback!
I will correct the procedure accordingly should I need to flash the rom again in the future.
My experience is that the process itself is very simple; what makes it confusing is that the info is scattered all over the place, and sometimes there's too much unnecessary detail to sort through.
One way experienced xdadev contributors could make life easier for us mere mortals would be to state in more simple terms which devices their tool/rom is compatible with and how to check that you have the latest version. It took me a while to figure out, for example, which HSPL package was compatible with my rhodium and whether I had the latest release.
Anyway, thanks as usual for your gr8 work

There is only one Hard SPL tool. It's the only one in the Rhodium sub-forum. It's also the second thread in the ROM development area. Even if you were still confused in getting to that thread, the instructions in the first post are laid out clearly, and step-by-step. I don't get what was so confusing. It took me all of 3 hours to get my device set up the first time I began flashing ROMs.

bettasbetta said:
Next mission: get rid of that awful T-mobile splash screen at startup
Peace-out
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use this task29. it changes the boot screen to say Touch Pro 2. I use it on my sprint tp2 and my gf's tmobile tp2. it gets rid of the white htc screen on mine and the tmobile screen on hers.
mission complete
Peace

puff601 said:
use this task29. it changes the boot screen to say Touch Pro 2. I use it on my sprint tp2 and my gf's tmobile tp2. it gets rid of the white htc screen on mine and the tmobile screen on hers.
mission complete
Peace
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Do you even know what task29 does? It formats your internal memory, meaning it erases the ROM image. Don't use that RUU file. Just drop the NBH file into a folder with any other RUU and it will work exactly the same without destroying all of your data.

cajunflavoredbob said:
There is only one Hard SPL tool. It's the only one in the Rhodium sub-forum. It's also the second thread in the ROM development area. Even if you were still confused in getting to that thread, the instructions in the first post are laid out clearly, and step-by-step. I don't get what was so confusing. It took me all of 3 hours to get my device set up the first time I began flashing ROMs.
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The confusion arose from the fact that i wasnt sure whether the posts were up-to-date. When you're dealing with a phone that's been around for over two years, you gotta at least acknowledge the issue. I was concerned that an earlier version of hspl would not accept more recent custom roms.
Again, I only started the process once I was positive I had the latest compatible tools/rom, and I was done in less than one hour.
Thank you for all your input.