yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
With all you've tried, I can only speculate. I can suggest a couple things if you haven't tried them yet:

1. Create a new user account with admin privelages. Log in as that user and try the package there. I typicall see this as a solution for windows installer issues and corrupted user profiles, but might work here.

2. Try the package on another machine - just for a sanity check that the package you downloaded is good and not corrupted.

Sorry you're having so much trouble getting this to work - but with the number of people that are using it - it's gotta be something with the download or a machine problem. Good luck!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] ebnez:
Thanks for your advice

but it still did not work!!!!!

so i suggest to share our machines software configurations to find what is the defiance between the machines that your ROM works on and the machines that did not working on it ok ?

I have

Win XP Pro + Sp2

.Net framework 1.1 & 2.0 and 3.0 in one of them

Office 2003 + SP1

All hot fixes from Microsoft

Windows installer 3

VS 2003 and 2005

My Account is an admin account, i am not facing any proplems with any other software...

i wish some one gave us his configuration for machine that The ROM worked on..

Thanks for you alllllll
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mdhensley5:
I have pretty much the same setup, but don't have all of the hot fixes. Removed Visual Studio since I wasn't really using it, and it made no difference. Still can't use Pandora kitchen. This is really frustrating me since I love Pandora and want to customized it.

Win XP Home + SP2

.Net framework 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0

Office 2007

Front Page 2003

Windows Installer 3.1

Zone Alarm Firewall

AVG Antivirus
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] dwny:
Blank / Empty Extended Rom:

http://rapidshare.com/users/DTSKRW
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
Sorry you're still having issues with getting it to run. If you want, let me know the "recipie" and I'll cook one up for you.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
Thanks dwny!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] ebnez:
Thanks Bro

Thanks Bro for your offer but you know that the most interesting part is when you make your staff with your own hands.

so thanks again , and i wish if i can sack you some Q on the MSN.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] neonkoala:
A2DP still doesn't work with your latest revisions (4+7) however I'm trying to fix it but the kitchen keeps biting me :P.

UPDATE 1: After some poking around I found that there is a BTAGExtModule.dll in the windows folder however setting BTAGExtModule=BTAGExtModule.dll has no effect.

[\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Bluetooth\AudioGateway]

BTAGExtModule=OEMAGW.dll

BTAGPBModule=\Windows\BthAGPhonebook.dll

Capability=37

NoRoleSwitch=1

SupportCLI=0
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] The_Wizard:
Well, back from a weekend away, and i tried flashing the empty extrom then reflashing and that didn't work either. I still have the issue where all Voice Command announcements work except for announcing the incoming caller. I was going to check the registry settings for VC in Core (it works just fine there) and compare them to the reg settings in PB Kitchen but forgot to check them before i flashed [smacks hand on forehead] so if anyone can tell me the reg settings for a working VC install (in any ROM) i would greatly appreciate it :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] wolverine9827:
Error during BuildOS

Hello all,

Great work here!!!! I am in awe of the ROM Gods!!!

I get an error on Build... 'Could not find file "E:\Pandera's Box\temp\dump\Transcriber_Lang_0409\imageinfo.bin" '

I just uncompressed the base kitchen (rev 4) and the Package set (rev 7) and then started BuildOS...

The following items are checked:

System: Enterprise, Entertainment, WindowsLive, Office, VoIP, MediaOS

Registry Tweaks: All

PDF Viewers: PocketXpdf

Utilities: All EXCEPT WM5torage and Zip

Disable Today Items: NONE

Multimedia: NONE

Move to Storage Card: ALL

Applications: ArcSoft MMS

Optional Today Items: NONE

Voice: MS VoiceCommand

I had ran the earlier builds without a problem... and I completely deleted "E:\Pandora's Box" before extracting the new base kitchen and OEM package sets.....

I'll play with different base versions and package vers and see what happens and let everyone know.... What's really weird is I don't even have Transcriber checked... hmmm... harrumph!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] DeaDruiD:
I'm experiencing the same problem... deleting those 3 transcriber directories in SYS directory solves the problem...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
There may be a problem with the way I put them into the SYS folder. If you look in each of the three, there may be additional folders underenath with the same name. If so, it needs to be cleaned up. I'll post the fixed kitchen. I thought I posted the post-fix version... Sorry about that guys!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] DeaDruiD:
Great, thanks. Might I also ask why the start menu items for Office2k7 aren't created?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] wolverine9827:
Thanks!!

I ran a good build with Base Rev 3 and Package rev 7.... smooth as silk and moving forward!!

Thanks!!! I'll take a peek at Base rev 4's directory structure and try a little cleanup....

You da MAN!!!!!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
Fixed the transcriber issue... rev 5 link posted... :o
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
If you've checked Office prior to running BuildOS, then it should create a start menu folder called Office Mobile.

Edit: Ensure that under settings - personal - menus that it's selected as well..

If it isn't there, you might verify that your CreateRom.bat file is correct, that you've done a clear memory or hard reset after flashing, or a problem may have occured during the build. You might re-download the kitchen and try agin.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] nottoosmart:
I need an RS download link. Cant get MU to get the file here at work. Thanks Matt_R
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
I'm behind a firewall here, can't get RU to connect... any other way?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] nottoosmart:
lol, no idea. I use a citrix box to do my downloading. It gets me past firewall. Dont know how you would do it where you are at.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] nottoosmart:
Finally got the new version 5 but guess what....... no options.xml in the Sys folder. LOL
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
that's strange, cause I just used the kitchen a bit ago (same I uploaded...) I'll be home in about an hour and I'll see what's up.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] WizardGuy:
Question for Cookers

I'm having a problem with the kitchen. When I run the bat file, I'm getting an error. Buildlmgfs is causing a windows problem, and stopping. I'm running XP SP2. Anyone else have this problem?

I too need to read closer. Fixed the problem. ROM was too full.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
I found my G4 had this issue with this OS version as well.

I started waiting until about 20 minutes, then with only a single up or down push on the direction pad, check to see if the today screen is locked up. Once it lockes, I know it's done.

Now that I unlocked it, I can go into bootloader and flash away. Much easier - and you get a clear indication that it finished.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] WizardGuy:
I'm also seeing a problem with Shell tool. It seems it doesn't want to "complete". So far even though I never get the message to do a hard boot, it seems to still work. I've been able to "load" two different ROMs I cooked onto my MDA. I just let it sit for about 20 minutes and then exit shell tool, and then do a hard reset like I'm suppose to. I'm doing one more right now.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] WizardGuy:
Shell Tool and Pandora

Well. I just flashed a Pandora ROM using shell tool. The program itself never did finish on it's own. I had to close the DOS box after 20 minutes, close the program, disconnect the phone, and then do a hard reset per the shell tool instructions. The ROM seems to be working ok.

Does anyone know if a ROM load is an all or none thing? Is it possible that part of it loads, and part doesn't. Or if the phone loads I got a good ROM???

Thanks.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
For me, it has either worked, or not passed the second splash screen. I've had it where WM5 chunks were still there because I didn't hard reset after flashing, but that was taken care of with after the hard reset or clear memory. I've probably flashed it 50 times now, and the results have followed this very consistantly. But that's just my experience... anyone else?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] WizardGuy:
Just for grins I went ahead and created a new ROM to flash. I'm trying to flash it with the flash utility after getting another ROM on my MDA via shell tools. Very strange behavior. It just loaded straight up, like I had not flashed the ROM at all. So I went ahead and did a hard reset. Still the old ROM. It was appear that on a locked G4, the only way to get a Pandora ROM is to use shell tool, and just wait about 20 min. Then close the DOS windows, do a hard reset, and hope for the best.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
I made the jump after it failed to format and got it unlocked. Makes life much easier...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] The_Wizard:
FIXED - VoiceCommand Announce Incoming Caller

Hi All,

As anyone following this thread can see I've been having issues with getting the VoiceCommand package in the kitchen to announce incoming callers. Here is a zip file with a newer version (1.6.15326) VoiceCommand. Replace the VoiceCommand folder in the OEM directory with the folder in the zip and build as usual.

@mattk_r and nottoosmart - I hope you guys don't think I was stepping on your toes, I just figured that it would be easier to fix the issue and give you a solution than to tell you how to fix it :D

I also saw the thread about the packages started by NTS and debated on putting this post there, but that was a request thread... hope this is in the right place.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
No problem and glad you stepped up and offered this fix!

I'll add it to the OEM post, and get it into the next package release.

Thanks!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] wolverine9827:
Strangeness

ok... here's a strange one.... ROM created w/o error, and flashed w/o error. Phone is snappy, looks wonderful, and works great EXCEPT one major problem.... that being Caller ID! When an incoming call comes in, the phone displays "Incoming Call" but never shows a name or number.... if I choose to ignore and then go to the Call List, the name and number show up fine in the missed call list! I have a feeling that since Caller ID isn't working properly at the time of the incoming call, this prevents Voice Command from being able to announce the incoming number/name. For me Caller ID is absolutely critical... so I flashed to nbd v5.7 in the interim.... Caller ID is back in the saddle.... I'll download the latest in a few days and try again.... I LOVE the performance and can't wait to get back into Pandora's Box.... (that sly little minx!)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
Strange, because while I always use voice dialer, I've never had this problem. I wonder if it's related to the installation of VC, and what would happen if neither were installed?

If you have time, can you try your build without VC or VSD, and see if your exerience still holds true? If it works fine, maybe try running the VC cab, and testing again. If this works, we know it's in the OEM package.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] The_Wizard:
I'm currently running a build with VC and it works fine for me... have you tried it before installing any of your apps? could be a 3rd party app causing it as well.

hope this helps :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] WizardGuy:
Problems with Battery Drain

I don't know if it was my build or what, but I noticed some really bad battery drain with my cocked ROM. I think I'll go back to NTS Vanilla ROM. I went ahead and give this a try because about after 2 weeks of use with NTS, I noticed that my program memory would decrease throughout the day. Then all of a sudden, my SD card would show up as Storage Card2 no matter what I tried. Hard reset fixed the problems, but I figured since I did a hard reset I might as well try the new build of WM6.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] The_Wizard:
Have you tried flashing to an official ROM first? You could also try flashing the "Blank" Extended ROM from earlier in this thread then flshing your cooked ROM. A lot of people have mentioned that a corrupt ExtROM will cause battery drain issues. I think I also remember seeing somewhere that a bad ExtROM will also cause SD card issues as well. If you haven't already reconfigured your phone it may be worth a shot.

HTH.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
Thanks for answering that - I was too busy building a new rom with Ed's compression tool - this is what i got crammed into my current mix:

Battery Status

Call2Contact 1.0

Frequency Tuner 1.5

X-Button 1.0

Notepad

PHM Reg Editor

PIM Backup 1.9

Pocket RAR

ShutXP

Redial

SmartKey

SMS Backup

Task Manager

TodayAgenda

Total Commander 2

WM5torage 1.7

XCPU Scaler 2.96

Zoom SMS

Voice Speed Dial

Voice Command

Transcriber

Enterprise

Entertainment

Office 2007

Autoupdate

Voip

Catalog

Windows Live

BtCrawler

BT_FTP

MMS

Windows Media Player

Camera

Adobe Reader LE

Custom Keyboard

Disconnect Button GPRS fix

Error Reporting disabled

Cleartype in landscape

Enable file cache

increase file system filter cache

increase font cache

increase ring volume

enable clock on all screens

show slideout keyboard capsdot

going through and testing each one out...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
Also, someone mentioned that smartkey and sddaemon in the startup folder will impact battery use as well.

I still need to verify if the smartkey in the kitchen even works correctly.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] The_Wizard:
LOL... so you like the stripped-down vanilla ROMs too, huh? :D
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mfrazzz:
If you are seeing Storage Card2, that usually happens when you run the Unlock Extended Rom cab or you are screwing around with the Extended Rom with some other program (like Total Commander). Unless you have a reason (and know what you are doing) you should not mess with the Extended ROM as this will cause lots of grief and only a hard reset (and sometimes that doesn't work) or flashing an official rom will fix this once it happens (it may go away after a hard reset but then may come back, so a flash to an official rom is then required).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] WizardGuy:
I'm going to try to flash the ext ROM as well as remove the two lnk files from the startup group. I'm also going to build a ROM with no reg tweaks. Can someone give me a pointer on flashing ext ROM? My MDA isn't unlocked so I have to use shell tool. My steps are usually to build my ROM, then flash with shell tool, then hard reset per shell tool instructions. After all this do I then flash the empty ext ROM?

Thanks.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
yup! I had to fix a couple, and couldn't get everything I wanted, but here's the mix as it stands:

Battery Status

Call2Contact 1.0

Frequency Tuner 1.5

X-Button 1.0

Notepad

PHM Reg Editor

PIM Backup 1.9

Pocket RAR

ShutXP

SMS Backup

Start Clean

WM5torage 1.7

Voice Speed Dial

Voice Command

Transcriber

Enterprise

Entertainment

Autoupdate

Office 2007

Voip

Windows Live

BtCrawler

MMS

Windows Media Player

Camera

PocketXPDF

Custom Keyboard

Disconnect Button GPRS fix

Error Reporting disabled

Disable security warning

Cleartype in landscape

Enable file cache

Emab;e 802.11g

increase file system filter cache

increase font cache

increase ring volume

enable clock on all screens

show slideout keyboard capsdot
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] DeaDruiD:
Nope, tried with both rev. 4 and 5... the exes and needed files are all there, but the folder containing those 4 shortcuts in start menu is just not there...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] WizardGuy:
Do you have to be CID unlocked before you can write a "blank" extended ROM?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
I'd suggest being in bootloader screen and trying it. Worst case is it will prompt you that you have an invalid version.

If that won't fly, try shelltool, but i don't know the "habits" of just flashing the extended rom.

If you're running XP and the whole thing screws up, just go into bootloader and run your OE rom. It'll reflash your main, extended, and radio back to original.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] WizardGuy:
No joy. I can still see files in the extended ROM after trying that method. Shelltool won't work because that just flashes OS.

I'm gonna through the factory image on there....reflash with my ROM, and then watch the battery. It could have just been reg hacks causing the problem. This new ROM has no reg hacks.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] The_Wizard:
That's a pretty heavy ROM you got there... how is the speed and how much free space do you have? I assume that you aren't running all those at once, but how many have you had open at any given time?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] WizardGuy:
I'm installing all my programs we I write this. About 1/2 way through them all, I did a cold boot. WOW it took forever to boot. At first I thought it had locked up. So I warm booted it, and waited, and waited until it finally booted.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
Considering after all these, I also added a dialpad theme, pool game, monopoly, Natiional Geographics TOPO!, Pocket Streets, Flash Player, PocketShot, Cingular Xpress Mail, WeatherPanel with mfrazzz's themes, and the WAP settings? It makes me think I don't need all the crap.

Even though I compressed the crap out of nearly every dll and exe in the ROM, it doesn't make up for the excessive slowness of having a bunch of stuff in the startup folder - startclean, smartkey, sddaemon, and voicedialer. After I removed these, I reclaimed nearly 10 meg, up from the mid-teens it was running at - and not that stable.

I'm gonna give it a few hours like this, then I'll weed out the apps I don't need and build a new rom more to my liking. It was more to test how the kitchen applications work being compressed. I wanted to get a working OEM of WeatherPanel first, since it's a pretty big program.

The two that didn't work were Windows Live and the Camera app (compressed anyway). Everything else in the OEM folder, as well as some of the SYS apps worked fine. I don't care for VoiceCommand, so i'll go. I was hoping both together would compliment the best of both, but VC is a pain no matter how I try and use it.

If someone wants the compressed packages, I'll post the "compressed" OEM Pack. I added Start Clean, as well as a couple other new packages.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] The_Wizard:
It's good to know that most of the kitchen apps work well compressed. I was wondering why you had both voice apps in the build... I really love VC and think VSD is a pain LOL...

How is the performance of compressed apps versus expanded? do they run any slower or not much difference? I run a pretty lean ROM anyway but if i could squeeze a few more meg out of it then even better :)

---EDIT:

[slaps hand on forehead] Sorry guys, broke a cardinal rule.... should have searched first... Found my answer...
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] JoelC:
Page Pool?

Hi Mattk_r (and others!),

If I read correctly, the ROM has a 4MB Page Pool, right? What would I need to change to flash say an 8MB or 10MB Page Pool?

I know there's a guide by Faria about changing Wizard ROM pagepool values... but would these values be correct for WM6 ROMs? I know you guys have worked on this.

TIA
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] mattk_r:
I'm still trying to research that. Apparently 5.2.1413 doesn't follow the same hex reference as the others (80, A0, C0, etc...) so I need to determine the correct values. I am not even 100% sure yet this is a 4 meb page pool, at least until I see some suporting data. I'll post the goods once I get it all collected.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario ROM Development] JoelC:
Thanks as always for yr efforts... so far a cracking ROM. I'm still using an older vn of the kitchen, but heavily tweaked - incl Transcriber and wi-fi fix... have also customised my ExtRom with registry settings,

Today theme etc. Have yet to put the black comm manager on there, but methinks it'll go nicely with my theme ;)

I am currently fiddling with anti-theft software (get thief's SIM details, hard reset and maybe wipe SD card thru SMS) and trying to sort out XML to restore my wi-fi settings after hard reset. That's proving to be a real PITA. If I come up with anything interesting, I'll post it for the benefit of the kitchen.

Great work!

Joel
[Android Themes] danarama:
This theme is for use with ROMs that expose the RRO (layers) code. If you don't know what that means, this theme probably isn't for you.

Themed: SystemUI, Settings, Frameworks

Tested: Nexus 6, 1440p, 400dpi, Android 5.1

Recommended: no less than 720p resolution

Hi All,

Introducing PurpleHaze.

Please note, I have also included my White Notification Text layers for Gmail and Inbox. No theming to the app, but just ensures white notification text on dark backgrounds.

Download: http://bit.ly/rootSU-PurpleHaze

Oh and before someone asks, Google "Atlantis Nebula" if you're after my wallpaper
[Android Themes] Hammerbak:
Looks really gorgeous.

Just a minor question.. Do you just flash the zip in recovery?
[Android Themes] danarama:
Hi,

No. Its for ROMs that have RRO / layers. This means the ROM must have the RRO commits added at source-code level, then use the "layers" application to apply.
[Android Themes] Hammerbak:
I see. So I guess this won't be available when using CM12 nightlies and it's theming engine?

Sorry, but I haven't no idea what PRO / layers are. I will look it up in the morning ;)
[Android Themes] danarama:
Ah, no. Layers is kind of the alternative to cm theme engine. Some of RRO was already in AOSP but not being utilised much. Work has been done to expose and improve that and it gives us layers. Unfortunately though, it cannot work in co junction with CMTE.
[Android Themes] Ambor:
very good colors :)
[Android Themes] bromus:
Do you plan make with another colors, like green?
[Android Themes] danarama:
I put 4 colours to the vote. Cyan and purple both got around 80 votes. Green got 6.
[Android Themes] rasel007.rp:
Ki re
[Android Themes] aga2:
This is very cool, thank you:good:

Is it possible to add a launcher theme so that the all apps window is purple also?:)
[Android Themes] danarama:
I'll be updating the themes at some point but I'm very busy at the moment due to a promotion at work. I hadn't really considered a launcher theme because really the only launcher I could do would be Google and that wouldn't be useful for most people. What launcher did you mean?
[Android Themes] aga2:
Take your time, not a priority task:good:

I use cataclysm rom & google launcher should be enough for me (if you ever support it, if not its ok)
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Phrostbite:
I don't have a samsung pay app and in the app store there is Google wallet. Are they the same thing just named different or am I missing something?
[Galaxy S6 Edge Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] osmosizzz:
Samsung pay will be released in the summer anytime between June and september