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i don’t see why we shouldn’t open a section for the 4100 here. A lot of the developments that goes on here also work on the 4100.
I have done some research on it and so far I found out that the ppc4100 use 2 file to flash the rom one is the boot and the other is the WM image just like the others do. Now both of those files are nb0 format and can be extracted with dumprom.exe which is available here. It can flashed back on the ppc4100 using a flash card to hold the image and triggering it by booting with the bootstrap.
Wish list
to edit the image file ( to change certain files)
to compile the extracted files from the rom ( to customize the rom with new programs or to custom update to a newer operating system )
what does anyone think?
u can change the press icon on the 4100 its located in a file called bobo.exe in the windows folder.
see? its almost the same there is very little change i think we need to sit down for a little while and think about how good this will do.
it will bring in more readers that would like to read about the 4100 thus u will generate more traffic that also will generate more donations
so pls i dont know how to get the athoraty's attentions here at least concider it
or comment
thanks
I am very intersted in the 4100 development as well.. I was hoping someone in here or maybe a few would be interested in sharing some knowledge and possible experience. I have done a lot of research and played around quite a bit with this over the last week using various XDA tools as well as hex editor, ect. If anyone would be interested in helping please post us here.
hey jr97ai. might as well start posting here maybe we will catch someone's attention and they will declare the ppc4100 a worthy of this site
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the original rom files for the 4100 are the currunt morst recent update from at& however, both files are *.bn0 extention. as follows.
SP_E0402_230A.nb0
SP_K1112_230A.nb0
i recieved those files from audiovox a little while ago. jr97ai and myself have been working on this and have extracted the files out of the romfiles with the use of dumprom.exe. (great app by the way). i think jr97ai knows alot more about this than i do and can explain a little better.
i will attach the bootstrap rom file along with a letter that came with the cd that was sent from audiovox. i can attach the rom file as soon as i free up my bandwith
I have been playing around with mkrom and have been experiencing some problems. as it says on mkrom its not the most user friendly program. no its not, not at all, not even close. but i still try anyways lost but still trying.
if anyone can somehow point us to a direction it coul dbe verry helpful.
there might be a possibility tto use the exsisting xda WMse existing rom to use on the 4100. they seem to be similar. they do use the same operating windows after all.
well i tryed to post the rom file many times it didnt work. its uploaded in the ftp if someone can post it.
every time i try to post it shows this err.
Upload Error: Could not upload Attachment to ./files/sp_k1112_230a.rar
question to anyone who can answer.
to change the operating system from win2003 to 2003se wouldi need to change the bootstrap as well?
i am thinking i could use a nb1 and rename it to nb0 it should be the same.
if you would like to see a new section appear for the audiovox 4100 please post saying so. maybe that will gets omeone's attention.
we got 60 views and only 2 ppl have posted.
ok .. so the rom for the 4100 is in the xda ftp sire. the file is called SP_K1112_230A.rar under ppc 4100
ftp info
ady: xda-developers.com
username: xdaupload
pass: xda
im working with audiovox ppc4100 , and if u wanna dump with rom for make permenent rill file and dont losse it when u make a hard reset ,,i think the best solution its when u replace rill u can make a completat backup in a sd card then when u have to make a hard reset u can restore your backup and all will work ok...by the way i have working well mms, photo contacts , npencil , ms money , etc.
not jsut the rilgsm
now that we are able to flash the rom to the ppc4100 i am thinking we could change the operationg system. i am running towards the wm2003 se . i am trying to look for a basic rom nb1 format so i can try to flash it.
i am thinkiing it will work but i am worried about the phone part of the ppc.
do u have any thoughts on this?
No ppc4100 folder, any help please!!!
faramisimo said:
ok .. so the rom for the 4100 is in the xda ftp sire. the file is called SP_K1112_230A.rar under ppc 4100
ftp info
ady: xda-developers.com
username: xdaupload
pass: xda
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I need to reflash my PPC4100. Looking for rom and can`t find it. May be somebody have a original ROM from AT&T, or custom ROM, or WM5 ROM?
Hi - I have both a Universal and a Wizard. For a while now, on my Wizard I've been using a ROM made up of 'best bits' of all the available releases, with all carrier customisations removed - this is released under the name 'Mr. Clean' rom. It's bugless and lightweight. Perfect!
Does anyone release a similar rom for the Universal? Or does anyone prepare one for their own use who might consider sharing? It really would be great to see.
This would be cool
We should do this.
A "Clean" ROM with a CAB set to choose from for each provider.
I would appreciate this greatly - since t-mobile remove some stuff from the blank setup.
Rich
A fast, lean and mean ROM would be awesome. I don't have the time or skills unfortunately.
There is one already. It was made by Jwright. Just don't install the Ext ROM if you really want it to be super clean. Here it is: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=55019&sid=7789d445c5b87ea11980c475ab58e2c9
I followed that thread - but the links dont exist.
Could someone upload the T-mobile version of Jwright's ROM to the XDA-Developers FTP site??
If not - email it to me, PM me for my address. I'll host it on my website if someone sends it.
I just tried the thread I posted above and the link works fine. It must be your computer settings.
I am not sure which version is this though. I think he released QTEK, IMATE, and TMOBILE versions. Just use the Ma_Upgrade_No_ID_Tool.
The links to the other topics work OK but the ROM links given in http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=55019&sid=7789d445c5b87ea11980c475ab58e2c9
don't?? There is no such directory on the ftp site????
Exactly - The posts link OK, but the FTP site doesnt contain the ROMS
The link I posted above is the link to the topic with the files you guys are looking for. It should be on the first post of that link, and it works fine on mine.
Yes it does but we're talking about the links to Jwrightmcps modified ROM's... These are missing from the FTP site????
I am now confused. This has been discussed before, someone took off those files from the fttp. Probably someone does not want to share or maybe it took a great chunk of memory storage. That is why "Xanadu" provided us with this alternate download site, but it is the same file, so it does not really matter if we can't find the original posted file by Jwright because someone was gracious enough to share.
I thought the topic was where is Jwright's Modified ROM? I provided a link on where to donload it. Question answered. What is still the confusion? Are you looking for a specific file for a specific device like Jwright promised? If so, he also left instructions on how to use the Ma_Upgrade_No ID file. So just extract the files necessary and rename them, then install.
The system folder and config.gz from the T-Mobile UK G2 Touch.
-/system folder:
http://rapidshare.com/files/261342855/system_folder_from_T-Mobile_1.76.110.6.rar.html
MD5: BA140B0EF3F4B8068A72F7CB3BFDB1B5
-config.gz (as attachment)
Once again has a 10 download limit, would appreciate it if somebody could re-upload.
Cheers,
Phil
uploading it now
EDIT: all done
http://rapidshare.com/files/261350092/system_folder_from_T-Mobile_1.76.110.6.rar
Even a newer firmware? Nice! Checking the diffs now!
Edit: Just 6 Days newer.. SHouldn't be much changed..
To be fair it's probably just the addition of T-Mobile bookmarks, etc but I thought I'd put it up just in case there's a hidden gem.
Hello Sir,
I tried PM but for some reason I could not send it.
I have HTC Hero with dev watermarked software
HBOOT-1.75.2000
Radio 6.35.04.04
I downloaded T-mobile ROM you posted and I am wondering if I can just try to push the system folder to my device directly or there is something else I need to do as well ? Can I get step-by-step instructions please ?
Also if I put this release is there a chance that my device will get locked to T-Mobile network ?
Many thanx in advance
Hi there,
I'm afraid I don't know the answer to your questions. I followed instructions I was given to pull the system folders from the phones. What I posted wasn't actually a ROM that you can flash but rather a dump of the folder that contains the HTC applications, etc. This can then be used by ROM cooks to add the Sense UI to their custom ROMS.
I can't imagine that you'd be able to push the system folder across as the system folder is read-only on non-rooted devices. If you did somehow manage to push it across I doubt it would solve your problem but it also wouldn't lock your phone to T-Mobile, that goes much deeper than the system folder (please correct me if I'm wrong).
Cheers,
Phil
g2
sorry for maybe silly Q but i got tmobile G2 with 2.73 ROM but would like to downgrade it so can later install Modaco ROM and root it but can't do it with this updated ROM, as far as my research goes last few hours... now i got your files, could you tell me how i can downgrade it again to 1.76?
many thanks, michael
mishocub said:
sorry for maybe silly Q but i got tmobile G2 with 2.73 ROM but would like to downgrade it so can later install Modaco ROM and root it but can't do it with this updated ROM, as far as my research goes last few hours... now i got your files, could you tell me how i can downgrade it again to 1.76?
many thanks, michael
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Checkout this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=572683
thanks, guys, just removed my tmobile and will try now update it to modaco rom...
With some help from me, manelscout4life dumped his LG Expo.
Links here:
Part00 and Part01: http://rapidshare.com/files/330408837/part0.zip.html
Part02: http://rapidshare.com/files/330404062/Part02.zip.html
Enjoy!
(don't forget to vote against XDA's stance of only doing HTC! )
MIRRORS:
Part00 and Part01: http://rapidshare.com/files/334116367/part00and01.zip
Part02: http://rapidshare.com/files/334116370/part02.zip
awesome work guys! if i hadnt been at a funeral id have been on there helpin out. nonethe less... fantastic work!
i just hope to see some custom roms soon!
we'll i think we might need to focus on getting the phone's SSPL or Hard SPL so continuous flashing is possible eh?
Chainfire said:
(don't forget to vote against XDA's stance of only doing HTC! )
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Where is the vote? Not to hijack the thread, but it's known that we're going to go 6 months without anything better than the HD2 from HTC meanwhile LG, Samsung and Acer are pumping out WM phones yet there's no XDA support so they will inevitably lack the same base support as we continue to salivate over HTC and it continues to pump out Android phones...We'd all be better off if XDA moved with the industry.
bugsykoosh said:
Where is the vote? Not to hijack the thread, but it's known that we're going to go 6 months without anything better than the HD2 from HTC meanwhile LG, Samsung and Acer are pumping out WM phones yet there's no XDA support so they will inevitably lack the same base support as we continue to salivate over HTC and it continues to pump out Android phones...We'd all be better off if XDA moved with the industry.
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wouldn't we all be better off if we just got along?
Awesome that you were able to dump the eXpo rom, but we can't do anything with just a dump. We had this problem with the Incite. We had to wait for an official rom because the way LG makes their roms. The format is a .dz file and there are parts of this file that is needed to cook a rom which is not found with a dump.
We would need the actual dz file in order to deconstruct it, dump the contents, cook, and then reconstruct the dz file. Without the dz file we can't flash.
Dark9781 said:
Awesome that you were able to dump the eXpo rom, but we can't do anything with just a dump. We had this problem with the Incite. We had to wait for an official rom because the way LG makes their roms. The format is a .dz file and there are parts of this file that is needed to cook a rom which is not found with a dump.
We would need the actual dz file in order to deconstruct it, dump the contents, cook, and then reconstruct the dz file. Without the dz file we can't flash.
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Right the dz file will be helpful but this is nice for just hacking up the phone we have now or porting the apps as well. With the dump there can be driver hacks made and all kinds of other fun goodies its a start...
killerskincanoe said:
we'll i think we might need to focus on getting the phone's SSPL or Hard SPL so continuous flashing is possible eh?
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But we dont even know yet if we will need one we need an spl dump so we can check to see if it needs a signed image or not
This is def. very exciting and I very much look forward to seeing things getting ported from this phone to all of our other WM phones!! So we can have pieces of this phones apps/programs running in our phones to play with!!
GREAT JOB NOW LET THE FUN BEGIN
meh
that was faster than I expected. Great work!
Dark9781 said:
Awesome that you were able to dump the eXpo rom, but we can't do anything with just a dump. We had this problem with the Incite. We had to wait for an official rom because the way LG makes their roms. The format is a .dz file and there are parts of this file that is needed to cook a rom which is not found with a dump.
We would need the actual dz file in order to deconstruct it, dump the contents, cook, and then reconstruct the dz file. Without the dz file we can't flash.
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Just because you can't do anything with a dump because it doesn't give you all the stuff you need, doesn't mean it isn't useful for other purposes.
Apps porting, driver research, etc. I am personally not interested in flashing the LG Expo (mainly because I don't have one) but I was in need of the dumps.
So... shortsighted much?
Wonderful News
This is great!!!
I tried to dump my LG IQ which is the Canadian version of this phone, but didnt work too long at it, and I fail because the phone said device not ready in the dumping process.
If you want to PM me with how you did it, and give me a bit of advice, I would be willing to try again.
The Telus and AT&T versions are slightly different, one difference being that the Telus phone has a slightly newer version of windows ce on it.
Telus 5.2.21868.5.0.69
AT&T 5.2.21749..don't know the rest
Awesome job......
Installing this CAB on your phone and rebooting should get rid of that pesky error:
http://www.jongma.org/tmp/MultASync_Security_Policies.cab
(Taken from MultASync project)
Aside from that, it's just pdocread / raw dump as usual ...
For an example of the commands, see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=501871
As a fellow user of the LG Expo, would be more than happy to help out as I can.
Chainfire said:
Installing this CAB on your phone and rebooting should get rid of that pesky error:
http://www.jongma.org/tmp/MultASync_Security_Policies.cab
(Taken from MultASync project)
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Sorry to say, it didn't work for me
tried installing the cab, and tried editing the reg manually to the values in the cab....
any other ideas?
Not really... all we did is hook up the device correctly, install that cab, excute the commands and we had a dump ...
Thank you Chainfire! Telus IQ ROM dump
OK I am now feeling like an idiot.
Yes, the disk on the IQ is called DSK1: not FLASHDR
Yes, this cost me being at least two weeks later than I needed to be.
Yes, I goter dun tonight....
rofl
Easy mistake to make: but rest assured, everyone only makes this mistake but once, and probably every dumper once made it
Sorry, I should of been a bit clearer, but when I said we can't do anything with just a dump I was referring to cooking. Someone had mentioned seeing custom roms soon so I was just pointing out that that wouldn't be possible until we get a base rom to work with. If I confused anyone it was not my intention.
LG Expo Original/ Official ROM - v10d
I was seriously unhappy with LG for not providing us an update for so long and lack of base ROM was not allowing us to start cooking ourselves.
Pissed off wondering why I bought my LG Expo at full price and not buy one of those HTC alternatives, today I got down to see if I can scoop some info from their website/ update utility/ etc etc. I fired up WireShark, Fiddler2 and some of tools I wrote myself.
Going thru various network packets, I found a perticular XML snippet that looked interesting. It had a URL that was pointing to an exe called: LG_SmartPhone_SW_Upgrade_GW820_V10d_Ship.exe .
Though we are already on V10d and it is not a update for us, it meant that if that path was accessible and I was able to download the file, we will have the original ROM that our phone was shipped with
So here are the URL's:
URL1: http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/swdat.../LG_SmartPhone_SW_Upgrade_GW820_V10d_Ship.exe
URL2: http://csmgaic.lgmobile.com/swdata/.../LG_SmartPhone_SW_Upgrade_GW820_V10d_Ship.exe
Once you download the exe and launch it, it starts extracting the phone image. Do not click 'Start Update' button.
It extracts to
%ProgramData%\LGMOBILEAX\Phone\GW820-V10d-OCT-27-2009+0.dz
On Windows 7 it translates to something like:
C:\ProgramData\LGMOBILEAX\Phone\GW820-V10d-OCT-27-2009+0.dz
With this I think I can say:
Let the cooking begin!!
omfg is this a dream? u just made my ****ing day! kudos to u good sir! kudos to u! someone get this man a cookie asa - ****ing - p! does Dark know yet? if only i had his number id call and wake him... im sure he'd want to know
So I just learned about the LGFlashMuncher and parser, but neither of those utilities are working on this FLASH.bin... Both utilities give me this output:
Found Magic Header
Found image [email protected], length 0xf08fa00
MainBlock 0x0
MainBlock 0x202000
MainBlock 0x404000
MainBlock 0x606000
MainBlock 0xaeae00
MainBlock 0xef6e800
Checking MBR @sector 0x320
Sector NOT FOUND
Jayant, Wtg dude.
WR
omgwtfbbq?
Jayant said:
LG Expo Original/ Official ROM - v10d
I was seriously unhappy with LG for not providing us an update for so long and lack of base ROM was not allowing us to start cooking ourselves.
Pissed off wondering why I bought my LG Expo at full price and not buy one of those HTC alternatives, today I got down to see if I can scoop some info from their website/ update utility/ etc etc. I fired up WireShark, Fiddler2 and some of tools I wrote myself.
Going thru various network packets, I found a perticular XML snippet that looked interesting. It had a URL that was pointing to an exe called: LG_SmartPhone_SW_Upgrade_GW820_V10d_Ship.exe .
Though we are already on V10d and it is not a update for us, it meant that if that path was accessible and I was able to download the file, we will have the original ROM that our phone was shipped with
So here are the URL's:
URL1: http://csmg.lgmobile.com:9002/swdat.../LG_SmartPhone_SW_Upgrade_GW820_V10d_Ship.exe
URL2: http://csmgaic.lgmobile.com/swdata/.../LG_SmartPhone_SW_Upgrade_GW820_V10d_Ship.exe
Once you download the exe and launch it, it starts extracting the phone image. Do not click 'Start Update' button.
It extracts to
%ProgramData%\LGMOBILEAX\Phone\GW820-V10d-OCT-27-2009+0.dz
On Windows 7 it translates to something like:
C:\ProgramData\LGMOBILEAX\Phone\GW820-V10d-OCT-27-2009+0.dz
With this I think I can say:
Let the cooking begin!!
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your my new best bud.
edit. i get runtime error "this app has requested the runtime to terminate in an unusual way. ....."
josefcrist said:
your my new best bud.
edit. i get runtime error "this app has requested the runtime to terminate in an unusual way. ....."
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Interesting it doesnt unpack nicely with the incite/KS20 tools
Conflipper managed to decrypt the rom
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=646712
what about a kitchen? can we use an existing one or does one have to be created? never cooked before but wouldn't mind taking a stab at it...
: depack rom
osnbtool -sp flash.bin
osnbtool -sp flash.bin.BIN.NB0
osnbtool -d flash.bin.BIN.NB0.OS.NB 1 xip.bin
osnbtool -d flash.bin.BIN.NB0.OS.NB 2 imgfs.bin
: ... (imgfstodump.exe imgfs.bin)
:get imgfs.new；xip_out.bin
Use this to decompile the files.
Jayant said:
Going thru various network packets, I found a perticular XML snippet that looked interesting. It had a URL that was pointing to an exe called: LG_SmartPhone_SW_Upgrade_GW820_V10d_Ship.exe .
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Do you remember where abouts in the updater app you were doing stuff when it generated that response? I was inspired by your success and hooked my IQ up with a network tap running yesterday, but I was only able to find a reference to a kdz file, which Dark tried unsuccessfully to extract.
I got that url by trying 'recovery phone' from the menu, so I'm hoping there's somewhere else you went to get reference to the .exe and I can do some more digging.
I got off my duff and figured out what a kdz was and extracted it ... still seems strange to me there's no *Ship.exe but I'm a neophyte.
extracted OK, putting it back together now...
So I got things extracted with imgfstodump, and it looks like everything is in the dump. I had some weird problems with imgfsfromdump, though, but after a few more attempts (this time with ervius visual kitchen imgfs tools) and a re-dump, it created the imgfs.bin. I started with ImgfsToNb, but it gave me an error without writing anything.
I tracked it down to a code problem in ImgfsToNb.cpp, in the sectorSize function. It's looking for the signature "MSFLSH50", but the signature inside the imgfs is "MSFLSH500". The code requires slight modification (to make it ignore the trailing null in the signature):
Code:
// find MSFLSH50 header
for(i = 0; i < Size - sizeof(signature); i+=0x100) // assumption: MSFLSH always starts at a sector border, and sectors size is always a multiple of 0x100
{
if(memcmp(Base+i, signature, [COLOR="Red"]([/COLOR]sizeof(signature)[COLOR="Red"]-1)[/COLOR] ) == 0)
break;
}
So, now I have a modified FLASH2.nb, which is as far as I got. I should only need to turn it into a FLASH.bin, through whatever transformations are required...
..............
Has anyone posted the OEM & SYS for this ROM yet? I wouldn't mind taking a look before I pick one of these up.
Thanks,
TG
Update: I was able to dump the LG IQ ROM. Here is the OEM & SYS if anyone is interested.....
http://rapidshare.com/files/376651473/LG_IQ_OEM_SYS.zip
or
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8KC2HF13
i think we can def now say LET THE COOKING BEGIN
So is anyone going to start cooking for this phone, I was looking for an alternative to the htc hd2 that was cheaper with a slide out keyboard and this looks good hardware wise but im not big on the lg shell. Thats alright cuz im used to sbp mobile shell anyway and planned on putting that on but before i put up the cash to upgrade from my htc diamond id like to make sure i can update the lg expo and such. But this board looks very dead.
Unfortunately, most of the action has been on http://www.lg-expo.com/. I've been trying to restrict my posts to this forum, but that also means that less people will see them.
I've been working on my own ROM. It is very easy to cook for this phone. I'm sure in the next few weeks we will see a few more ROMs pop up.
sonic101mk2 said:
So is anyone going to start cooking for this phone, I was looking for an alternative to the htc hd2 that was cheaper with a slide out keyboard and this looks good hardware wise but im not big on the lg shell. Thats alright cuz im used to sbp mobile shell anyway and planned on putting that on but before i put up the cash to upgrade from my htc diamond id like to make sure i can update the lg expo and such. But this board looks very dead.
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I've cooked a few roms for this phone already that have been out for a few weeks now. Here is the link if you are interested.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=666982