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vivi Kitchen for ASUS P525 : A simple Kitchen ever , modified from Scoter Kitchen.

vivi ROM Kitchen for ASUS P525
Mainly modified from Scoter Kitchen​
Introduction
I've made this ASUS P525 ROM Kitchen for ASUS P525 because I think someone can make it,but no one makes it till now. So I made it myself and share.
Though it is not the best and complex Kitchen with many features but I'm sure it is the good first step for us.
The main aim of this ROM Kitchen is easy using, so this ROM Kitchen is only one click and follow the screen.
You will have a new ROM for ASUS P525 at ease.
Aims
1.For easy modifying private ROM.
2.For helping new user to easy start cooking ROM.
3.For sharing OEM Packages.
4.For someone makes it better.
Let's see
Before using it just let us understand in the same way as follows.
1.This ROM Kitchen is made for using with ASUS P525 only,but it can be used with any other device if modified a little.
2.This ROM Kitchen is modified mainly from Scoter Kitchen.
3.The commands modified from DoubleOFour ROM Kitchen , edhaas ROM Packer Kitchen and some parts from Excel @AsusMobile.ru
Credits should give to them , not me.
Tools use
1.Tools in Scoter Kitchen included bepe package tools and mamaich tools.
2.P525ROMTool from Ingvarr.
Ingredients
There are 3 parts.
1.Program Part : The Kitchen itself.
vivi.exe
2.ROM Part.
3.OEM Part.
Download
You have to download all 2 of these and Base ROM supplied in Packages.
1. The Kitchen in executable file vivi.exe
http://www.zshare.net/download/398685039d2949/
2. OEM Packages
http://www.zshare.net/download/397176124ce74d/
You can find other OEM Packages or create your OEM Packages by looking at this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=303195
Base ROMs
1.OLD :
Alex UltraLite 2
SYS and OEM from Alex
{This is Alex ROM (added Powerpoint and WLM files) in packages not ROMGalaxy.NB0.}
http://www.zshare.net/download/3987487fd85cf9/
2.NEW : Add 10 Oct 2007 :
SYS and OEM from Alex,plus settings pages from official ROM. !!!NEW!!!
Add files and settings from official back into Packages.
This packages of Base ROM will create official like unofficial WM6 ROM for your ASUS P525,since I add back official 3 settings pages from official ROM,include official system tray icons.
http://www.zshare.net/download/41190946d9bc4b/
How to cook
1. Place vivi.exe from download 1 in Root of C: and execute it.
You will see a new folder named vivi , this is your Kitchen.
2. Enter Kitchen , replace OEM and SYS folders with OEM and SYS folders from Base ROM provided from download 2.
3. In ROM folder , replace ROMGalaxy.NB0 (0 KB) with any ROMGalaxy.NB0 you want its size.
eg. if you want to build a new ROM with a huge size, place official CHS or Russian ROMGalaxy.NB0 here.
Or if you want small size ROM , place Alex UltraLite ROMGalaxy.NB0 here.
I think you guys already have ROMGalaxy.NB0 so no need to support this file.
4. Place OEM Packages you choose from download 3 in OEM folder.
5. Click Start.cmd.
6. Follow on screen.
That's all.
Thanks
@ Xda-developer.com
Thanks bepe for BuildOS.exe and Packages Tools.
Thanks mamaich for ROM Tools.
Thanks Ingvarr for ASUSP525Tool.
Thanks JKR for Scoter Kitchen.
Thanks DoubleOFour , edhaas for Kitchen I use as command guide.
Thanks sp3dev or Alex for Ultralite WWE ROMs as Base ROMs.
Thanks Owners of OEM Packages I collected(forget where I downloaded them).
And thanks my friends : Vibranze , AndrewSH , Jackleaung , guitarz for sharing knowledges.
@AsusMobile.ru
Thanks Excel for some parts of command line.
Thanks RN21, LiquidStrom , Zoff for sharing knowledges.
Thanks Alex for Ultralite WWE ROMs as Base ROMs.
Tips
1.Before you Exit BuildOS,you can go to temp/dump and delete all rgu files and nearly all html files except these 9 files.
1.compose_mtgreq.htm
2.compose_note.htm
3.compose_sms.htm
4.compose_vcard_sms.htm
5.default_0409.htm
6.read_mtgreq.htm
7.read_note.htm
8.read_sms.htm
9.read_vcard_sms.htm
Or you can edit welcomehead.96.png or another files as you want.
Regards,
vivi
PS
1.I know there are many experts here.This is my attempt to help us, ASUS P525 users, to make our devices better as best as I can.
2.I don't want any credits for this Kitchen , only named it vivi Kitchen since it is my attempt and only want to give this community back the thing I can do.Credits should go to the names I stated in Thanks Part above.
3.I hope you will develop this Kitchen better and share.Or share your OEM Packages or knowledges.
4.All feedbacks are welcome.
Thanksss

New OEM Packages
ASUS P526 Phone Skin (Thanks Jackleung)

woowww...cooool

Vivi,
Congrats! Finally I can see ROM Kitchen for P525 and now everybody can cook their own ROM
Btw, what do you mean by putting base ROM into OEM and SYS folder? Did you mean Romgalaxy.nb0?
I've put romgalaxy.nb0 into ROM folders and BOS failed to execute.
Cheers,
vibranze

vibranze said:
Vivi,
Congrats! Finally I can see ROM Kitchen for P525 and now everybody can cook their own ROM
Btw, what do you mean by putting base ROM into OEM and SYS folder? Did you mean Romgalaxy.nb0?
I've put romgalaxy.nb0 into ROM folders and BOS failed to execute.
Cheers,
vibranze
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No, Vibranze.
You have to download Base ROM I provided here.
http://www.zshare.net/download/3987487fd85cf9/
It is not NB0 but splitted in 3 Package folders.
ROM , SYS and OEM.
Place them in the corresponding place in Kitchen.
Images attached.

And you have to place your old ROMGalaxy.NB0 in ROM folder.
This is to use as template for new ROM only.

Vibranze,
Check your PM.
vivi

Hi Vivi,
Thanks for all your work. Is it possible for you to make a similar ROM kitchen for the HP iPAQ HX4700?
bub

Thanks for your work ... once again

Vivi, congrate. Glad to see someone finally take this job over.

Great work vivi.
Now maybe it's possible to bulid TouchFlo in P525? If anyone could help me with the OEM version of this, please help me.
Thanks
EDIT:
I would like to make my own OEM packages, but I don't know how. Anyone can help me with this too? I saw that I need the files from the program, and I saw some files like .DSM, .RGU. That is it do? How can I make this files, to my programs?
Thanks fot helping me

jackleung said:
Vivi, congrate. Glad to see someone finally take this job over.
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Jack,
This is why I want your rgu.files.
The ROM with no rgu can't be dumped and Packed as Base ROM.
I try to use P526 Modules from your ROM,but I can't use it since no rgu files.
Could you please give me all files and tell me how to replace Phone Module as your ROM?

HyperMalac said:
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I would like to make my own OEM packages, but I don't know how. Anyone can help me with this too? I saw that I need the files from the program, and I saw some files like .DSM, .RGU. That is it do? How can I make this files, to my programs?
Thanks fot helping me
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From this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=303195

I add Tips in first post.
Tips
1.Before you Exit BuildOS,you can go to temp/dump and delete all rgu files and nearly all html files except these 9 files.
1.compose_mtgreq.htm
2.compose_note.htm
3.compose_sms.htm
4.compose_vcard_sms.htm
5.default_0409.htm
6.read_mtgreq.htm
7.read_note.htm
8.read_sms.htm
9.read_vcard_sms.htm
Or you can edit welcomehead.96.png or another files as you want.

bub181 said:
Hi Vivi,
Thanks for all your work. Is it possible for you to make a similar ROM kitchen for the HP iPAQ HX4700?
bub
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bub,
I will look at it when I have time, not too long since I am also using HX4700 and modifying kozhura ROM for my personal use.

vivi said:
bub,
I will look at it when I have time, not too long since I am also using HX4700 and modifying kozhura ROM for my personal use.
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Thank you so much vivi, I saw you posting in kozhura's topics a few times so I thought you must have a HX4700 too. I've been trying to modify kozhura's ROM for a long time, but all I have managed to do so far is add some themes and a few programs which don't need any registry entries. It will be great to be able to add full packages.

bub,
I have a look.
It's not hard.
Just modify some command line from vivi Kitchen for P525.
And create Base ROM.
I will make it for you.Not too long.
But I wonder how many users want it?

Touchflo on P525
HyperMalac said:
Great work vivi.
Now maybe it's possible to bulid TouchFlo in P525? If anyone could help me with the OEM version of this, please help me.
Thanks
EDIT:
I would like to make my own OEM packages, but I don't know how. Anyone can help me with this too? I saw that I need the files from the program, and I saw some files like .DSM, .RGU. That is it do? How can I make this files, to my programs?
Thanks fot helping me
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great work guys. yeah, i would love to see TouchFlo working on the P525 as well.
Anybody? Vivi?

vivi said:
bub,
I have a look.
It's not hard.
Just modify some command line from vivi Kitchen for P525.
And create Base ROM.
I will make it for you.Not too long.
But I wonder how many users want it?
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Thanks vivi, I think there are at least 3-4 people that have posted in the HX4700 thread asking for a ROM kitchen, and I think many more people will start using it once it is made available. The HX4700 seems to have a set amount of reserved space for the base ROM and the user space always has 82.59 MB free regardless of how much you put in the base ROM, so it's a good idea to fill the space in the base ROM, which leaves more space available to install applications in the user space.
Will the ROM kitchen you make work with kozhura's latest WM5 build? I'm still using his WM5 build because it's more stable than his WM6 build and it's almost as fast as WM6.
Thanks for all you work, I really appreciate it.
bub.

bub181 said:
Will the ROM kitchen you make work with kozhura's latest WM5 build? I'm still using his WM5 build because it's more stable than his WM6 build and it's almost as fast as WM6.
Thanks for all you work, I really appreciate it.
bub.
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Yes , I think so.

[UPDATE 10 Nov 2007] vivi Kitchen for Hx4700 : kozhura WM6 OS 5.2.1933 as Base ROM

vivi ROM Kitchen for iPAQ Hx4700
Mainly modified from Scoter Kitchen​
Introduction
I've made this iPAQ Hx4700 ROM Kitchen because I think someone can make it,but no one 've made it till now. So I made it myself and share.
And someone asks me for this after I publish my vivi ROM Kitchen for ASUS P525.
Though it is not the best and complex Kitchen with many features and I think not many users want this Kitchen,but it's good to share.
The main aim of this ROM Kitchen is easy using, so this ROM Kitchen is only one click and follow the screen.
You will have a new ROM for iPAQ Hx4700 at ease.
Aims
1.For easy modifying private ROM.
2.For helping new user to easy start cooking ROM.
3.For sharing OEM Packages.
4.For someone makes it better.
Let's see
Before using it just let us understand in the same way as follows.
1.This ROM Kitchen is made for using with iPAQ Hx4700 only,but it can be use with any other device if modified a little.
2.This ROM Kitchen is modified mainly from Scoter Kitchen.
3.The commands are modified from DoubleOFour ROM Kitchen , edhaas ROM Packer Kitchen and vivi ROM Kitchen for ASUS P525
Credits should give to them , not me.
Tools use
1.Tools in Scoter Kitchen included bepe package tools and mamaich tools.
2.xda3nbf tool(Don't know who made this tool).
Ingredients
There are 3 parts.
1.Program Part : The Kitchen itself
vivi.exe
2.ROM Part
3.OEM Part
Download
For WM6
NEW : vivi Kichen for Hx4700 New version
http://www.zshare.net/download/4800955976eec2/
Use kozhura WM6 OS 5.2.1933 Build 18533.0.7.0 as Base ROM
THANKSSS kozhura !!!!!
OLD : The Kitchen and Base ROM in executable file vivi.exe
for WM6 ROM
http://www.zshare.net/download/410370393f182d/
For WM5
for WM5 AKU3.5.2 ROM
http://www.zshare.net/download/416811401f517e/
2. OEM Packages
You can find OEM Packages or create your OEM Packages by looking at this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=303195
If you don't add any OEM Packages , the new ROM created will be the same as kozhura ROM I use as Base ROM , since I didn't modify anything in kozhura ROM.Both WM5 and WM6 kozhura ROMs are great!!!
THANKSSS kozhura !!!!!
Base ROMs
Base ROMs are latest kozhura WM6 WWE ROM and kozhura WM5 AKU3.5.2 but repacked as Packages and modules.
Already included in each Kitchen for easy using.
Choose the right Kitchen!!!
How to cook
1. Place vivi.exe from download 1 in Root of C: and execute it.
You will see a new folder named vivi , this is your Kitchen.
2. Enter Kitchen
3. Place OEM Packages you choose in OEM folder.
4. Click Start.cmd.
5. Follow on screen.
That's all.
Note : Be sure to not add many OEM Packages because there is not much space left.
Thanks
@ Xda-developer.com
Thanks bepe for BuildOS.exe and Packages Tools.
Thanks mamaich for ROM Tools.
Thanks JKR for Scoter Kitchen.
Thanks DoubleOFour , edhaas for Kitchen I use as command guide.
Thanks kozhura for WM6 and WM5 AKU3.5.2 WWE ROMs as Base ROMs.
And thanks all my friends.
Tips
1.Before you Exit BuildOS,you can go to temp/dump and delete all rgu files and nearly all html files except these 9 files.
1.compose_mtgreq.htm
2.compose_note.htm
3.compose_sms.htm
4.compose_vcard_sms.htm
5.default.html
6.read_mtgreq.htm
7.read_note.htm
8.read_sms.htm
9.read_vcard_sms.htm
Or you can edit welcomehead.192.png or another files as you want.
Regards,
vivi
PS
1.I know there are many experts here.This is my attempt to help us, Hx4700 users, to make our devices better as best as I can.
2.I don't want any credits for this Kitchen , only named it vivi Kitchen since it is my attempt and only want to give this community back the thing I can do.Credits should go to the names I stated in Thanks Part above.
3.I hope you will develop this Kitchen better and share.Or share your OEM Packages or knowledges.
4.All feedbacks are welcome.
Thanksss

Vivi,
THANK YOUUUUU!!! I'd been trying to modify your ASUS kitchen with no success. The 4700 community will truly appreciate this. I agree, kozhura's rom is great.
Regards.

Thanks so much vivi! I'm so happy!
Is it possible for me to use kozhura's latest WM5 ROM as the base rom? What should I do to make that into packages and modules? Also, is there any way to calculate how much free space is left in the ROM for adding OEM packages?
Thanks again!

Thanks. This is giong to be my first "cooking" experience. A nice new way of playing around and improving the hx4700 at the same time!!

Been doing some late night cooking... tastes great. Thanks vivi for bringing this out.

Thanks for the WM5 kitchen!

bub181 said:
Thanks so much vivi! I'm so happy!
Is it possible for me to use kozhura's latest WM5 ROM as the base rom? What should I do to make that into packages and modules? Also, is there any way to calculate how much free space is left in the ROM for adding OEM packages?
Thanks again!
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Vivi already stated in his post that the base rom is the latest kozhura WM6.
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Base ROMs
Already included in Kitchen for easy using.
Base ROM is latest kozhura WM6 WWE ROM fixed 2 but repacked as Packages and modules.

What should I modify to get a 8MB or 32 MB PagePool?
Thanks.

Vivi
Don't downplay your part here!
I'd had a tinker with decompiling the ROM but never quite got it to work right so I too am very grateful of your assistance here.
I had a quick play last night and the largest file I saw was Powerpoint, my old favourite for the largest waste of space on previous ROMs so first to go to make space for the useful stuff!

And just how can you remove Powerpoint?

pepeluu said:
And just how can you remove Powerpoint?
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Well simply deleting the 2.59MB ppt.exe executable from the SYS\Office folder will get rid of it, but how do you get rid of all the traces (registry settings, links, extensions) that are tied to it in a clean and efficient manner. I know I can manually remove associated files and such, but what happens to settings in the .dsm file? I can manually edit the .rgu files, but how do you edit existing settings in the .dsm files without breaking something?

Can I remove the "HP Protect Tools" OEM folder (15836286-5263-4a11-8b33-5087ced93124) safely, or is it required by other applications in the ROM?

Casual User said:
Well simply deleting the 2.59MB ppt.exe executable from the SYS\Office folder will get rid of it, but how do you get rid of all the traces (registry settings, links, extensions) that are tied to it in a clean and efficient manner. I know I can manually remove associated files and such, but what happens to settings in the .dsm file? I can manually edit the .rgu files, but how do you edit existing settings in the .dsm files without breaking something?
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And then, deleting ppt.exe will cause no harm, even if you leave there all the debris? 2.6MB gives quite a lot of room for small apps!

vivi Kitchen for Hx4700 WM5 AKU3.5.2 as requested.
http://www.zshare.net/download/416811401f517e/
details : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1570670&postcount=1

pepeluu said:
And just how can you remove Powerpoint?
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I delete the ppt.exe as suggested, but I go through every file also to be honest and remove anything that refers to powerpoint, the link file, registry values for 'pps' or 'ppt'.
Whilst doing this I remove other things I don't use (though to be fair this is from when I used the Universal which had a lot of extra crap in it) and tweak the registry value to those I want (though again I can't see that I need to change a lot here).
Easier and quicker is to do a search of all files for the contents of ppt and pps and delete from there.

Vivi many thanks to you,great work for users!

kozhura,
Appreciated your works so much.
You are genius and so kind.
Thanksssssssssss,
vivi

Hi,
I have looked a litlle in your kitchen and this is a very useful tooll, thanks !!
Here are my first questions :
1.
I have seen this folder in the OEM :
vivi\Enter Kitchen\OEM\b693f6e6-e6cd-4091-b8f3-40f2b988b169
It seems to regroup every phone manager. As I never used it and I don't inted to use it, can I delet this 2.38 Mo folder without any risk ?
2.
Does someone have information about changing keyboard or adding a new one ?
(I need an azerty one)
3. (harder)
Does someone have information about changing language of the rom ???
4.
How much space do we realy have left to add OEM packages ? (I have searched but I didn't find an information about it)

albertorrent, I can't help you specifically but when I play with ROMs I tend to keep the last working version and then tweak.
If it works fine, that is the new last saved version, otherwise I go back to the previous and tweak differently.

thanks, I think I 'm gonna do a lot of try.
I have an other question, (may be the last for today ;-))
How to add a font in the font folder in windows ?

BETA: Extended Artemis Kitchen for WM6.1

New extended Kitchen for Artemis
ARTEMIS_DEV_v2.1_Build_19199.rar
Related:
Extended Kitchen for Trinity
Extended Kitchen for Hermes
Extended Kitchen for Herald
Thanks to misar, FreePK for helping with this new set of tools!
About the Kitchen
Artemis base: HTC P3300 WWE 3.13.405.1
OS base: VF Kaiser UK 3.08.161.0 (Build 19199)
OEM Apps removed, but you need to clean up the OEMDrivers package
I did not do any changes to the OS, because it should be a clean base Kitchen for all of you
Full XIP editing supported by the Kitchen
New tool to merge all dsm files to one big file and delete all rgu's
I think the OEM package to SYS problem should be solved... but did not try it yet
How to use it
Requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package
OEM and SYS can be used as known
The content of ROM\XIP will be used to create a new XIP section for the OS
You don’t have to worry about relocating modules... add/remove whatever you like and the new tools will take care of relocating modules or freeing RAM
.VM and .ROM is updated automatically
Actually this Kitchen runs in auto mode, which means you only need to run BuildNB.bat to create the ROM. You can change that by editing the bat files; made it this way, because I don’t use the options in BuildOS.exe
I consider this a perfect port of the new build to this device
Replaced all XIP SYS packages (I did not just changed coredll.dll to get the new build number)
There were also boot.rgu changes my MS, those have been added too
SYS is completely untouched
Read this for download:
All donations are very welcome!
I need to buy a new device, because this time my Trinity is gone forever and I cannot use my girlfriends Artemis without being killed (by mistake I deleted all contacts last time I used it for testing... she was not very happy about that )
When you are getting money for the ROMs you cook using my kitchen, I would really appreciate a donation.
I'm not talking about 50% of you incomes, but one small donation would be fair I think.
To download the Kitchen click at "All donations are very welcome"
!!! This was only meant for ppl never donated for these tools and expecting donations for ROM's created using my Kitchen !!!
Thanks to all those who have donated already!​
Happy cooking!

bepe said:
Could someone please try this Kitchen, cos I dont have any device right now...
http://rapidshare.com/files/88860516/ARTEMIS_DEV_v2.1_Build_19199.rar
Related links:
Trinity: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=364634
Hermes: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=363721
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Thanks bepe will give it a try and let you know

I'm on it too.
TNX!

bepe said:
Could someone please try this Kitchen, cos I dont have any device right now...
http://rapidshare.com/files/88860516/ARTEMIS_DEV_v2.1_Build_19199.rar
Related links:
Trinity: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=364634
Hermes: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=363721
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Thanks bro

What does this Ext. ROM contains? Will it be suitable with BB5.0?

meschle said:
Thanks bepe will give it a try and let you know
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I CONFIRM IT WORKS - MANY THANKS BEPE - I MADE THREAD A STICKY

it works here too!

EazyVG said:
What does this Ext. ROM contains? Will it be suitable with BB5.0?
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Sorry about that... did not see that the name might be confusing...
It means that this is a ROM Kitchen with an extension to edit/build XIP sections
To edit the XIP section was no easy task until now, so this means a little revolution for porting new build to our devices.
meschle said:
I CONFIRM IT WORKS - MANY THANKS BEPE - I MADE THREAD A STICKY
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NikMel said:
it works here too!
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Thanks to both of you, great that it is working, happy cooking

Thanks bepe
Nice and great tools for Artemis.
thanks you so much.

dheewatara said:
Nice and great tools for Artemis.
thanks you so much.
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P' Dhee ,Could you please make a tutorial ?.

Many thanks to Bepe for making the new toy
I tried several times building a rom using the kitchen but failed. What I did was simply put in OEM packages and build the OS, got a nb file, then used htcrt.exe to convert it to a nbh for flashing. Everything seems fine during the flash. But when it restarts it dies in the first splash screen.
Any hint for this?

mypleasure said:
I tried several times building a rom using the kitchen but failed. What I did was simply put in OEM packages and build the OS, got a nb file, then used htcrt.exe to convert it to a nbh for flashing. Everything seems fine during the flash. But when it restarts it dies in the first splash screen.
Any hint for this?
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First try if a ROM without OEM packages is working, next you need to add one OEM package after another... I'm sure there is something wrong with one of the packages.

You are using the wrong drivers.
Do you any drivers installed??
Did you fill XIP up?
mypleasure said:
I tried several times building a rom using the kitchen but failed. What I did was simply put in OEM packages and build the OS, got a nb file, then used htcrt.exe to convert it to a nbh for flashing. Everything seems fine during the flash. But when it restarts it dies in the first splash screen.
Any hint for this?
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Great. Will come up with some cooked stuff soon
Regards,
Carty..

Built a ROM without addidng anything but a music file to reach 50MB limit but the ROM never passes the splash screen on device. The same happens with extracting and re-building of cooked ROMs even without editing. What am I doing wrong?
But when I extract and rebuild an OEM rom, everything works fine!
Regards,
Carty..

NikMel said:
You are using the wrong drivers.
Do you any drivers installed??
Did you fill XIP up?
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Thank Bepe and NikMel a lot for your kindly help.
Should I keep the drivers in the kitchen, or replace them with the drivers from wm6.0? And how to fill the XIP? Sorry I am a newbie to the kitchen.

Most of the ROM do not include the rgu files.
You need rgu files to make your own rom.
Carty said:
Built a ROM without addidng anything but a music file to reach 50MB limit but the ROM never passes the splash screen on device. The same happens with extracting and re-building of cooked ROMs even without editing. What am I doing wrong?
But when I extract and rebuild an OEM rom, everything works fine!
Regards,
Carty..
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the easyst way is to copy "OEMDrivers" map from wm6.
You should copy XIP files one by one from other rom and put it in a map with the same name.
mypleasure said:
Thank Bepe and NikMel a lot for your kindly help.
Should I keep the drivers in the kitchen, or replace them with the drivers from wm6.0? And how to fill the XIP? Sorry I am a newbie to the kitchen.
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NikMel said:
the easyst way is to copy "OEMDrivers" map from wm6.
You should copy XIP files one by one from other rom and put it in a map with the same name.
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Thx again NikMel, these hints should be able to get me going...

What is the map you guys talking about? Where do i find it?
Regards,
Carty..

Question on cooking with an official rom (Language Related)

Hi gurus,
I have tried several official rom and I would like to know on how to I release the ULDR as Bepe had mentioned in his rom thread on the official roms.
i have just learn cooking and have managed to alter offical roms to my likings. but the storage space is just not enough on the official roms, even after cooking.
thus, can any kind chefs share with me on how to release more storage while cooking. I believe this would be relatively useful for all newbie cookers.
Thanks a million!

ruffruff said:
Hi gurus,
I have tried several official rom and I would like to know on how to I release the ULDR as Bepe had mentioned in his rom thread on the official roms.
i have just learn cooking and have managed to alter offical roms to my likings. but the storage space is just not enough on the official roms, even after cooking.
thus, can any kind chefs share with me on how to release more storage while cooking. I believe this would be relatively useful for all newbie cookers.
Thanks a million!
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clear out ALL the crap, ringtones, wav files, welcome center, autoupdate, and apps you dont want / use.

walshieau said:
clear out ALL the crap, ringtones, wav files, welcome center, autoupdate, and apps you dont want / use.
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even if i do that, my total storage is just 80mb.
how do i gain more?
can you teach me?

ruffruff said:
even if i do that, my total storage is just 80mb.
how do i gain more?
can you teach me?
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what tools are you using to extract the nb files?

walshieau said:
what tools are you using to extract the nb files?
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i am using the diamond kitchen posted in this forum.
kind of straight forward, like pressing 1 or 2 to cook or rebuild roms

You have to break it into steps, and stop after XIP merge with OS (just before buildOS)
This is where you can add, remove anything. Packages, etc.

i have managed to cook up a good storage space rom with the advice from the seniors here as well as the wikis.
but now i have another problem.
i have managed to turn one of the latest official WWE rom into Sim. Chinese. although, i have replaced all the wince.nls in the WWE rom to the asian WWE, but after cooking and flashing, it does not shows the chinese regions.
i have tried several ways but still couldnt find a way to solve this.
for replacing wince.nls in roms, is there areas which i need to look at, or files i need to replace?
btw, the cook WWE rom is entirely in chinese now on my device, the only left unsolve is the wince.nls.
one side track question, how do i disable error reporting? every now and then i received a pop up screen saying that certain task has caused an error ...

can anyone kindly help?

Ruff, if ever there's anything you don't know how to do with tools, just do it on your handset, dump and rebuild the rom. As simple as that.
So just disable the error rep and happy dumping.
^.^

i almost give up here.
i have replace the default.hv and user.hv with the one found in the CHT officlal rom but still, my Cooked WWE rom is still unable to initialise the asian wince.nls ...
what am i missing here?
can any kind soul shed some light?
2nd issue> connectionsetup keep returning an error in the first boot. how do i stop this?

hi all,
thanks for everything.
i just found out why the wince.nls is not used correctly.
after replacing the os.nb in the ROM\ folder with the os.nb from the offical chs rom, it works.
although, i dun understand why but it works now. chinese region is selectable.
i also found that the temp\dump_XIP is practically useless, as the kitchen build os without using it at all ...
guess i still need to figure out more stuff manually and stop using the CMD script. it may be the CMD scripts that is set to extract xip from os.nb when cooking rom. thus, rendering the dump_xip not being used.
thanks. if there is any advice for me, please kindly let me know.
i love XDA and thank you JugglerLKR so much for the kitchen.

Hi ruffruff,
Could you please give me any advice on how to change the OS language ? I had some translation experience on the htc wizard but it was a nightmare. I see it seem easier on diamond roms. It would be great If I could change some of the "plates" cooked on here in Italian. I really hate having the phone in wwe.

smogdragon said:
Hi ruffruff,
Could you please give me any advice on how to change the OS language ? I had some translation experience on the htc wizard but it was a nightmare. I see it seem easier on diamond roms. It would be great If I could change some of the "plates" cooked on here in Italian. I really hate having the phone in wwe.
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hi smogdragon,
i believe you already have a kitchen at hand.
if so, you will need to find a italian rom first and dump the rom. after which, save the dump. then find the WWE rom which you like and wish to change it to italian. dump the WWE rom and replace all the 0409 packages and files to your italian packages and files which you have dump earlier.
cook the rom and flash.

finally, i have everything working out nicely.
ram available after first boot is still not as much as the senior cookers here.
i have 2 requests and hope that some kind soul or seniors can help me with:
1) Can anyone release to me the correct backward compatible netcf3.5 for rom cooking?
2) Can anyone release to me the 20270 XIP and teach me how to port it to my cook rom?
thanks and hope that some kind soul can assist me.

I see Nothing is changed. DO you replace all the files by hand ? Or have some kind of automated procedure ? The problem for me is I've not seen any .93 build in italian yet so I don't know where to find the files without messing the build.

smogdragon said:
I see Nothing is changed. DO you replace all the files by hand ? Or have some kind of automated procedure ? The problem for me is I've not seen any .93 build in italian yet so I don't know where to find the files without messing the build.
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u dun really need the exact build for the italians mui files.
just find an available italian rom and extract all the mui files out.
in english rom, replace those 0409 folders and files with your MUI files by HAND. hehe, no pain no gain ...
do more reading on the forum. i am no expert. like you, i am also a newbie/noob in rom cooking. just trial and error. i too need guidance from the expert but in the meantime, when they are not responding, you have to DIY...
cheers

ruffruff said:
u dun really need the exact build for the italians mui files.
just find an available italian rom and extract all the mui files out.
in english rom, replace those 0409 folders and files with your MUI files by HAND. hehe, no pain no gain ...
do more reading on the forum. i am no expert. like you, i am also a newbie/noob in rom cooking. just trial and error. i too need guidance from the expert but in the meantime, when they are not responding, you have to DIY...
cheers
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Hi,
I'm trying to cook my own rom to convert the official Russian rom into english.
I've a quick question about the replacing the 0409 folder.
I'm going to be going from 0419 folders (russian) to 0409 (english), do I delete the 0419 directories and just add in the 0409 ones, or do I have to delete the 0419 folders and then rename the 0409 to 0419.
I'm guessing just delete the 0419 ones and stick in the 0409 instead, but want to make sure.
Is there anything else I need to do. I guess I'm looking for all the 0419 folders in the \OEM and \SYS directories?
Does anyone know if this will get around the region lock on a Russian Diamond?
Plus is there anything else I will need to do?
Do I have to do anything with XIP, that's something I'm really not sure about?
Cheer
Andrew

[Q] What is inside the "ROM" folder?

Can anyone tell me what is the "OS.NB" file in the ROM folder? That is created when cooking a rom?
Its the one that follows the OEM SYS folder. Is that ROM folder OS.NB a complation of SYS folder file's? or the windows mobile OS?

OS.nb is a compilation of OEM, SYS and XIP too!
Regards,
Carty..

hi
Hello, ty for replying.
XIP is that the WM OS? Reason im asking is that i see some other roms on here has a lower size XIP os file, and they usually are faster.

XIP has the core modules which are mostly loaded on memory. XIP means Xecute In Place. Exspecially the files like coredll and other important ones require quick performance and so they are from XIP.
Regards,
Carty..

kool
Oh cool tysm. your the first helpful person ive met on here so far.

This means i can change the os.nb to a different from other roms?

sorta
umm the file in the ROM folder yea, but somethings might not work, they will apply but wont close properly, im still new so mix and match, but so far it worked for me.

Maybe we have to edit the boot.rgu or something!?