I know there's a bunch of threads out there on the different cooked ROMs that are available out there. Being a noobie to this, I was looking for any insight how to go about flashing my very first cooked ROM. I have a Tilt2 that I purchased a little over a month ago with a couple tweeks I mustered up enough confidence to do: crud scraper and some registry edits via rescoe editor. Flashing a ROM seems like there's a whole lot more involved and with my limited knowledge may wind up rendering my phone inoperable for life with one or three missed steps.
Any insights as to the necessary steps .... in a step by step manner preferably .... would be very much appreciated!
Might want to check out the ROM Development subforum. All you need to know is in there.
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i need help with rom cooking. i have flashed my phone more times than i can count and i have used kitchens and and i have downloaded many rom tools to my computer. i have attempted making a few rom and when i flash them the dont boot past the windows screen. really i am asking for someone to take me under their wing and help me in the ROM cooking process. i know i am not ready for the major league entirely custom stuff but basics. like fetting to know what the some of the stuff in sys. folders are and such. i am not a complete newb but i am not experienced in programming so any help would be very much apprecieated.i have lots of patience with this stuff i am just uneducated with it.i am a well known member senior member at ppcgeeks. i just though i would post here also because i know there are some cooking legends here such as DCD. anyone with some experience your time will be much apprecieted.
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There is an excellent rom already out there for this phone. Unlocks the GPS features and has some of the best freeware utilities already installed. Then just install the other apps you need afterwards. If you dont keep flashing your phone it wont be so much work to put all of your apps back on afterwards....
Not to say that flashing and cooking isnt fun.. I mean I flashed my HTC Wizard about 40 different times in one night even.... Til I found that perfect ROM for it. But the GPS Vogue rom that is out there pretty good. It has almost everything most people need in it already. With most of the newest versions of stuff. (albeit a FEW things were out dated).
Not to discourage or flame you from learning how to cook.
thedove said:
There is an excellent rom already out there for this phone. Unlocks the GPS features and has some of the best freeware utilities already installed. Then just install the other apps you need afterwards. If you dont keep flashing your phone it wont be so much work to put all of your apps back on afterwards....
Not to say that flashing and cooking isnt fun.. I mean I flashed my HTC Wizard about 40 different times in one night even.... Til I found that perfect ROM for it. But the GPS Vogue rom that is out there pretty good. It has almost everything most people need in it already. With most of the newest versions of stuff. (albeit a FEW things were out dated).
Not to discourage or flame you from learning how to cook.
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i use the official ppckitchen over at ppcgeeks to add my own stuff to this ROM i just want to learn how to start doing this stuff so that i can get a better understanding of things and maybe eventually be one of the gurus around here and other places. i normally dont take things as flaming just tryng to be helpful as you see my status here but at ppcgeeks.com it is a different story. i love my vogue and i want to better my understanding of it.i am also trying to learn how to write programs in C++ that is also very difficult being that i am almost 16 and have no official training in any of this. thanks for the heads up but i have had that technology on my phone for months.
Hello people.
I'm intrigued to start customizing roms, perhaps even cooking for the general public. I'm looking for information on rom cooking/editing. Problem is there is so much info everywhere but I can't seem to find a good starting point that explains it all good for the rookie. Can anyone point me in some good directions?
Perhaps you can answer this question aswell, is it simple enough to edit roms?
(i.e. download a rom of my liking then removing and/or adding cooked apps?)
That's where I want to start.
There is a kitchen thread in my sign, you might want to use that as your starting point. Best way to edit a ROM is to grab a kitchen (or learn how to dump) and add your own OEM packages.
All said, there is not straight forward manual for all this. It all comes by trial and error method, and also basic programing knowledge. Good luck!
Thank you.
I'm sure I'm going to get attacked for posting this since it's probably been answered in 3000 other posts, but that's actually part of the problem. There's too much information and too much of it is different and confusing, so a noob like me gets lost quickly. I would like to take the stock Verizon ROM and add just a couple of things to it. I don't want to use "Bob's super special ROM" that he's added a ton of crap to and I don't want to use "Bob's super special ROM lite" that has just about nothing in it. I'm OK with what's in the stock ROM for the most part, but I want to include a few other things.
So first off, can I take the Verizon MR1 upgrade for my XV6800 and extract, uncook, whatever the term is the ROM out of the setup - or - can I get the ROM off of my XV6800 that already has the MR1 upgrade applied to it?
Second, assuming I can do that, how do I cook the ROM. I understand I need a kitchen, which I've actually played with PPCKitchen a little, but what else do I need, or is there a better kitchen?
Third, where can I go to get simple, concise, and intelligible instructions for taking my stock ROM I extracted from the setup or the phone itself, and add a couple of applications and then flash it back to my phone.
One other thing, do I have to flash another radio or if I'm OK with how the phone works after the MR1 upgrade, can I just leave that alone?
For the people that are going to abuse me for asking question that have already been asked before, sorry, it's just too much and too scattered. For those who understand the confusions and frustrations of being a noob, thanks for the sympathy .
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Go to ppc geeks. their forums are divided up by phone. also you will find (usually at the top of list as a stick note) step by step instructions. Easy to follow.
Thanks. I forgot about that site.
Hello all-
First off, I wanted to express my thanks to all those that have developed these ROMs, add-ons, etc, and made them available to people like me who just don't have the ability to do so. Thanks!
Second, I've been studying these forums in order to do some surgery on my XV6900. I even acquired a second one so I can practice flashing ROMS, etc, and get it right so I don't lose use of my phone if/when I screw it up.
My question...
I have downloaded a ton of files (NFSFAN's 6.5 V15 ROM, NFSFAN's Custom Verizon 1.5 ROM, dialers, cabs, etc...) and am a bit confused about how many of them I need to do.
All I really want is to use the GPS on my XV6900 (thanks a lot, Verizon). So, I realize I need to flash a custom ROM. What I'm unclear about is this: if I flash NFSFAN's winmo 6.5 ROM, do I still need to do the Verizon custom ROM? Do I need a separate GPS radio file or are all the necessarry bits included in the ROMS? You guys are incredibly advanced when it comes to packaging these programs, and the phone companies should frankly be paying you all as consultants!
I've bookmarked NFSFAN's 6.5 FAQ, but for somebody who's never messed with this part of his phone, I'm just a little unclear about how many of these steps are necessary, versus how many are fun/cool to do...
I also bookmarked a tutorial by theoneownz on a complete Verizon gps fix.
My confusion lies in the fast that it seems like these tutorials have different steps. I'm just a little slow...
Any help appreciated, flame away for missed topics or incorrect observations.
Thanks!
Ryan
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=533639
I want to be clear, I used the search feature before posting here. I was able to find vaguely related threads, but there was a similar issue with each. They all were made on the assumption that the reader has a basic understanding of the terminology and the purpose of each of those things. While I've jailbroken iPhones in the past, I find that there is a world of difference between doing that and doing anything on the droid. While there is usually only one model of iPhone to worry about, there are several different versions of each model of phone released that runs the Android OS. This, coupled with all of the different things you can do discourages me from reading the mode advanced threads and blindly following the instructions. I want to understand the basics so that I can understand why I'm flashing a rom, why I'm rooting, what a flash counter is, etc.
If anybody remembers coming across a good thread or website that gives a good intro to Android (modification, upgrading, etc), then please let me know where I can find it! I would be grateful even if the information spans across 5 different sources, as long as it is a good introduction. I'm mainly interested in:
Stock Roms
Rooting
Recovery
Odex vs. deodex
Flash Counter
Flashing Rom
Thanks in advance guys!