Hi folks,
I wasn't going to release these until I'd finish the help file, but as they've already filtered out - I thought I may as well; and this thread will contain the latest release(s).
Firstly, as always when playing with ROMs be careful as you may end up killing your device - use these tools at your own risk!
These tools are Windows GUI based and allow you to:
• View and modify ROM file header information
• Decode Extended ROM files (e.g. ms_.nbf)
• Extract FAT16 image from ROM files
• Extract embedded splash screens
• Remove extraneous data surrounding FAT16 images
• Encode FAT16 images to ROM files
• Insert splash screens into new ROM files
But you'll find not all functionality is available for all devices.
I'll post the help file (with a user guide) when it's ready, but in the meantime feel free to have a play and help me test the apps :wink:
Bal
We at here very proud of you bal666!
great job.....keep it up!
I'm not doing a Windows GUI again ... had to learn MFC ... and yuck!
But thanks for the vote of confidence!!
By the way, if anyone knows what the ROM header fields called Unknown really are, I would very much like to know.
And yes, I've recently realised that the field I call "Device ID" is actually the memory location the ROM should be dumped to (well that's my current thinking anyway)...
Cheers
Bal
Your a star Bal66
Thanks
great app!
thank you bal!!
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Hello bal666,
Thanks so much for this great program .. I tried it with my imate PDA2K and it encodes the files and decode it correctly .. The thing is , how I can modify the .fat file or edit it ?! ,, I found a program to unpack .fat files but not to pack it back again .. I hope you can tell us how we can manage the *.fat file m8
Thanks again m8 for this nice program and best wishes & regards :wink:
Great Tools
Great....great tools bal666!!!
hawk_mate
You can add or delete cab file and modified Ext ROM by your own using *.fat files, you can mount it using extra drive pro, and use lika other disk....
Is this a tool for exposing the Extended ROM on my magician? Sorry for the n00b question, but i dont get the start post.
Hawk_mate,
cornelius is right - use Extra Drive Creator Pro (you can download a demo version), or if you use linux then you can mount the file as a fat type.
If you use extra drive creator then turn off the recycle bin for the mounted drive - otherwise you'll have fun deleting files from it!!
I will finish the help file, and it contains all of this info...
Yzord,
nope, it won't expose the extended rom - it will allow you to modify the image file (ms_.nbf) that's used when flashing new roms to your device.
I think there may be a program around that will allow you edit the extended rom on your device (do a search, cause I don't really know!).
Have fun
Bal
Before Help file from Bal
Maybe before bal release the help file i'l post my experience while using his tool, ( I'm using for Magician and alpine ). I hope it will help newbie like me to learn more.Once again it newbie guide sorry if look basic but it's from newbie to newbie.
First, my own opinion say "THIS IS THE EASIEST WAY TO EDIT YOUR EXT ROM" thanks to bal!!! (even for newbie like me)
Maybe the tools you need is:
1. Bal's ROM editor (Ofcourse)
Tool to encode you EXT ROM ( Contains programs that installed
auto when we do hard reset.
2. Extra Drive pro
To mount ms_.fat file after we decode our EXT rom...
3. MaUpgradeUt_NoID
To update your ROM
For extra:
1. nb_image_converter_859_418
To create your own splash screen ( Only need 320x240, jpeg/bmp file)
2. comdlg32_901
Don't know what..but if you didn't run it,nb_image_converter_859_418
will fail to run
Now take a journey:
1. Just extract bal's ROM tool and you can run it....chose decode...
2. Browse your ext rom (ms_.nbf),press next
3. just leave option.... but if you want you can extrak the splash screen
(so you can keep the original, who knows you'll miss it)
4. Then run your Extra DrivePro...
5. Chose file to drive, browse your ms_.fat file, mount...
6. Turn of recycle bin on that drive!!!
7. Edit your Ext ROM...( add or delete app ) Don't for get edit txt file...
8. Cole it and dismount but dont delete container...
9. If you want to edit your splash screen go to step 14 first
10. Run bal's ROM tool again, chose encode
11. Browse your *.fat file, (and *.nb file if you want change splashscreen)
12. Run Encode, move your ms_.nbf to update file of ROM...
13. Ready to update using "MaUpgradeUt_NoID", first you'll get
"Country ID Error", DON'T WORRY JUST RUN IT ONCE again...
14. Get your image file, must 320x240 sized
15. Run "comdlg32_901" just one time only
16. Run "nb_image_converter_859_418" browse your pict
17. Save as nb....
18. Back to step 10
Hope those step by step will help newbie like me...
Yup even you newbie don't be affraid to try .if affraid, you'll never find something new....
My suggest just: Have a original ROM back up...so if you have a trouble just go to bootloader, and install the original ROM
Ok... have nice try...
Anyone tried this on the main rom yet, the nk_.nbf? I don't w
nt to sound dis-respectful, the tool is marvelous, but I'd like to hack the camera for instance with the updated one. I'm havin BS, so why cook my ext_rom as i'm not even using it. Just want to create a rom that can doesn't need any patches anymore. Know what I mean
Cheers, M
Excellent app :lol: thanks
Cornelius,
nice instructions! Always worth having a quick guide - thanks.
oltp,
you can use the tool to decode the nk_.nbf file - but the result isn't a fat image. I'm sure I've seen tools on this forum somewhere which allow you to extract and insert files into this file ... have a look around - please do post your results as we'd all be interested to know how it goes.
Bal
Bal I will, only not sure when. It can take some time & takes some serious amount of courage to flash my own magician with a cooked os-rom.
Cheers, M
Absolutely - I'm a coward at heart!!
Many thanks for this collection of excellent tools. Already use a few of them for my own cooking
hawk_mate said:
The thing is , how I can modify the .fat file or edit it ?!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Use WinImage from here:
http://www.winimage.com/download.htm
Regards, NiTeSHiFT
Not working for me....Help....
I tried to open the .nba file with WinImage...
But it said "You are trying to open a hard disk image without a FAT or FAT32 partition"
Then wrror came up...
What shall I do then?
How can I add this Universal_CHT dump to the OS ROM..
And where to find this Universal_CHT dump?
Thanks
Re: Not working for me....Help....
parkertseng said:
I tried to open the .nba file with WinImage...
But it said "You are trying to open a hard disk image without a FAT or FAT32 partition"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I tried it only with the extension ROM and that one worked. The OS-ROM doesn't work it seems. I tried that too and got the same error.
Sorry.
Hi everybody,
I would like to cook Artermis rom for my own Dopod P800W. How can I do this and what about the tools for rom modification? Please suggest me and put the link for download.
Thank you very much.
Everything you need is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=310076
The steps that I am using
1. Select the ROM that you want that has nbh extenstion
2. use nbhtool to extract the .nbh rom to nb files. Remane the os.nb to RUU_signed.nb
3. use the above link to get the tool to extract the RUU_signed.nb. This tool will extract all files in the rom and put them in folders--->There is a word doc in there that tells you what to do. It is a bit cumbersome but just follow it you will be fine.
4. in Sys folder, remove or add the folder you want--becareful here because there are folder interdpendent to each other so make sure you know what to add or delete.
5. use the Core tool again to build the new os.nb file. Make sure you follow the procedure in the work doc...
6. To build the nbh rom to load back to your device you will need htcrt tools. Copy the new os.nb and other nb files to the htcrt folder--this is what I do. Then run the htcrt program to build the new nbh romfile.
I hope the above will help you. I am building my own rom currently by using some component from B&Bv3.7 and the official wm6 v3.7 as the touchflow ROM. I have been playing with the above tools for sometimes now but still do not know what exactly what is required in each folder yet. Hard but fun...hihi.
attached...nbhtools and htcrt...just to save you sometimes. The core kitchen is in the above link. All programs run in DOS mode, BTW.
Thank you very much, I will try to use it for my rom cooking.
... is there a PC software that I could use to open a RUU_signed.nbh file and then browse the cabs in it (and extract a single program/cab too) ???
Not so easy, here you go:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=320504
Bye
Thanx for answering Atropo.
To me it could be the same to unlock the extended rom on my Trinity and then copy to the SD the single cabs, would it be too easy this way?
hello to all cookers please tell me how to make a dump of my rom whit i have modify on my phone and i want to share whit u is there a program that allows me to make a dump an then repack it to a nbh file
you may wanna check following link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=412447