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[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dahui9:
thanks thats all I needed to know sorry about the kinda stupid question this is my first time cooking and didn't want to brick my device as much as possible.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mattk_r:
Do you notice your 3G is always on?

I've noticed my battery draining pretty quick today, but then I realized 3G was linked the whole time. Maybe that's the issue?

I have no preference to this rom over the AT&T - other than the AT&T worked with startup animation. I don't care for the T-Mo dialer, that's why I added in the AT&T dialer :).

Has anyone else seen this? (heat / poor battery performance)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gr8hifi:
i dont have 3G in my area.... yet. Everything else was pretty much same as typical day with the other 50 ROMS I've burned... I tell you what, if you can flash a phone to death, mine has to be near it's end...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gr8hifi:
MAtt, can i copy the ROM from the 5.3 kitchen into this 6.1 kitchen?

ps,

just checked with my buddy with the same phone. He had battery and heat trouble today as well.. he runs a few more apps than me, but, he DOES run teh sms threader also. perhaps they are related to the batt issue
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dahui9:
when to flash the radio

In the instructions it never specifies a point to install the radio?

1. would I add that to my folder that has my kitchen contents and it flashes it when i run createrom?

2. Or do I create my rom flash it and then flash the radio after my new rom has been flashed?

3. or is there a radio already being flashed with the createrom?

other than that I'm ready to flash my new rom for my specific needs
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gr8hifi:
dont flash the radio. If you want to do the radio, grab one of the ones off the wiki and do it seperatly. also, before you do this, make sure you have the hardspl installed... you dont want to break your phone.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dahui9:
thanks for the help I do have hard spl installed so I'll flash separately after I'm done updating my rom
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gr8hifi:
that's waht I would do... the os install is a lot faster without the radio. I'd flash the os, mess around with it to see if you're happy. If alls well, then flash the radio.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mattk_r:
yeah, either way - radio or no - you should be fine. I upgraded to 1.5 in one shot cause I heard it takes longer - and it definetly does.

I can pretty easily update the 3.57 base with all the latest additions if this turns out to be a bad egg. Shouldn't take more than an hour or so to revert everything - including splitting out Java - since I kept it intact.

I haven't seen the heat issue, but tomorrow I'll keep 3G off and keep an eye on battery life. 3.57 did seem to be easy on the battery though. I'm really curious if the base T-Mo dump acts this way - hence it was for test only? Hmmmm....
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] dahui9:
aka beta, which means theres gonna be some bugs but it works. keep us up to date matt_r and thanks for the new kitchen. I didn't know it would be this easy to setup a rom.;)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gr8hifi:
matt, i dropped the old rom into 6 and it worked great. AND, i made a blue keyboard, well, i took a blue keyboard from a wm2003 (Credit to Chefz) mui and resource hacked it to work with wm6... it's nice and blue! attached is the mui:

*edit*

To those grabbing the mui. I believe this is a non-signed dll. You have to bake it into the ROM in order for it to work. Just copying and pasting will only casue you to have the standard white keyboard. I swapped it with the mui in the "black keyboard" directory under "OEM". I then edited the xml to say "Blue Keyboard" and that worked perfectly.

just a little fyi
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DvTonder:
I have managed to solve several of the items above. As I went through things I also noticed some minor bugs in the option.xml files for a few other options in the OEM folder.

Attached are my updates/additions to the OEM folder. Please consider them for inclusion in the base package.

I am also including the Blue Keyboard (thanks goes to gr8hifi) as an seperate option rather than replacing the black keyboard option.

I am still trying to figure out:

1) how to add my own .TSK file and select it as the default theme

2) Add my own files/links to the windows and start menu folders

Could someone point me at where I would find these registry settings or guidance on how to do the above?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mattk_r:
Very nice! It would go great with the AT&T blue theme!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Shamanix:
I was trying to do this myself but with no luck :(

1.) How do you initiate the PreConfig on first boot and HR ?

I have edited AT&T custom settings to add my theme and select it, then start Glossy Black Bars, then start ATIFix and then A2DPFix. I`ve got 2 issues with it : 1) It wouldn`t initiate at first boot and after I initiated it myself after a soft reset nothing changed ( the theme was still the def. one )

2.) How can I change the icon of the folders ?

I would like to add Schaps Accessories and System Tools icon on Accessoris and System Tools folder. I`ve tryed to change initflashfiles.dat but it doesn`t work. Any other way ?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] starbase64:
Hi,

@mattk_r

Schaps provides all Rome with a program, so that the user with few knowledge can flashen this. can you equip your Rom also with such more flasher? that would simplify much.

MfG

S64
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mattk_r:
Here is the syntax for setting the tsk:

EXEC:\Windows\cusTSK.exe \Windows\Wm_black2.tsk
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mattk_r:
I updated the 3.57 build with all the latest, including all the MMS flavors and such. I'll go ahead and add download links as v5.4 in post 2 for anyone who doesn't like / want / has issues with 3.60 (v6.0 / v6.1).
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DvTonder:
Thank you.

I created a preconfig package for Rogers Canada and included the above text to install my theme. (see attached)

This package installs a .cab file that creates the rogers settings as well as the theme. Additionally, I am applying the A2DP and ATI fixes that were part of the ATT preconfig as well.

After the preconfig and auto restart, the device took over 5 minutes to get to the today screen. Then it was sluggish as hell thereafter. On first manual SR, the same thing happened and after several minutes I did a 2nd SR - this time the device started up quickly and everything seems to be OK

The theme is applied, the rogers settings are configured on the device and the two fixes show up in the remove programs applet.

I have a few questions that I hope someone could help me out with:

1) is the attached preconfic package set up correctly?

2) do I really need to apply the ATI and A2DP fixes?

3) have others tried the ATT or Tmo preconfigs with 6.1 - if yes, how was startup?

4) I am searching for the reg entry that enables the auto detect of the operator timezone settings - schaps has the feature on his latest ROMS and it is very handy, especially if you are flashing 10+ times a day testing a kitchen :-)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DvTonder:
I found a bug in one of the package items I uploaded earlier today. Attached is the fixed package.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] TaurusBullba R.I.P.:
Just a quick note for our in-house box maker. (that's you Matt) ;)

1. Installing "HTC Touch Dialpad" in version 6.1 and 5.4 just installs the default dialpad instead.

2. Installing "HTC Touch 10 Button with 3G" installs a 9 button with 3G dialer. (I think someone mentioned this earlier in the thread too)

I haven't been able to narrow down the causes yet. Any ideas?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mattk_r:
I'll check the touch dialpad again - I had flashed it with 6.0 and it was okay, but strange that 6.1 would have issues.

As for the 10 button with 3G, I'm using it now - prior with 6.1 and now being back on 5.4... Do you have / are you using the Advanced Config utility? I've heard that causes the issue.

I'll re-verify the packages tomorrow (when I'm on my laptop) and see if I can see what's going on.

Also - has there been any resolution to the power issue with 6? I'm still wondering what the root issue was.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] TaurusBullba R.I.P.:
Curse-ed advanced config utility!

It appears it defaults the comm manager to a 9 button after running it (you have to manually choose the 10th button or it blanks it out).

Also, it appears to be to blame for the dialer issue. If you cook in the touch dialer it works fine until you run the advanced config util. If you uncheck "Show video dialer" in the phone tab and reboot, it reverts the dialer back to stock.

Strange
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Phantisy:
Here is PocketCM (Pocket Contact Manager) You can read about this at http://pocketcm.com/index.php. I wanted this cooked into my ROM so I figured I would share this with anyone else who wanted it.

Current Version: 0.8b

You can download it at: http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=9fb72f4
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DvTonder:
Matt,

For consideration for a 6.1 Final or 6.2: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=1442285&postcount=1

EDIT: Just installed it on a HTCHome-less P6.1 and it does not work properly. Extremely slow startup for some reason.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DvTonder:
Problem fixed: I extracted the rogers preconfig xml and included it directly in the preconfig.txt as XML:

The attached works OK. Please consider for inclusion in the base package
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] gr8hifi:
I was one of the people with nasty heat/power issues with the kitchen version 6. I've gone back to your other kicthen based on the other ROM. Now the phone runs cool and for longer periods (under same conditions). no clue what caused the issue on 6.x for me.

keep up the hard work!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] slimshadee:
Well, after much testing with the beta version of 6.1, I have the following to report:

1. First off, I must preface this review with HOW I have configured my specific ROM, as this may influence the results I realized. It is rather vanilla in flavor. I load the following options from the kitchen:

- transcriber

- auto update

- oe games

- office 2007

- internet sharing

- WM player

- HTC Today music plug-in

- HTC x-button 1.0

- disable PTT

- superbright screen

- all today items ENABLED except Internet calling

- windows live

- voice command 1.6

- syncing animation

- wm6 sound scheme

- clearvue pdf

- oe calculator

- grey/green keyboard

- move all files to storage card EXCEPT ringtones

- ATT stock dialer

- 10 button black comm mgr

Registry Tweaks:

- tomorrow's appointments

- show keyboard capsdot

- prompt before overwriting

- make wm6 ask where to install

- limited clock enable

- increase ring volume

- menu animations

- enable cleartype (thx DVTonder)

- cleartype in landscape

- enable 802.11g

- disable security warning

- date single line

- time sync tab

- disconnect button GPRS

- remove wireless mgr icon (thx DVTonder)

- remove battery icon from tray (thx DVTonder)

I also load the following post-build:

- mount/show extended rom tweak

- total commander (to extended rom)

- TCPMP with all codecs (to extended rom)

- adobe flash (to extended rom)

- iGuidance v3.01 (to storage card)

1. For some reason, 6.1 takes in inordinate amount of time to boot. Somewhere around 3-4 minutes, with many inconsistencies. It appears there is also a slowdown after it finally boots, especially when it refreshes the Today screen.

2. I can improve performance temporarily by removing the storage card (2gb) and restarting the device. It appears to boot in a "normal" amount of time. If I insert the storage card after boot, it seems to operate decently. On a subsequent boot, the slow startup and operation returns.

3. There are some unfamiliar files in the rom. In windows\startup is a link for "elatepush" pointing to an exe in the windows folder. I tried removing the link from startup but it did not improve boot time or performance.

I have tweaked around with this to the point where I feel the ATT base ROM is a better solution for my purposes. I think the T-Mobile UK ROM, being a newer build, has potential, but it probably needs to get cleaned up a bit more to work the bugs out.

Bear in mind this is just one dudes experience on MY device and setup options. You may get great performance. Just thought I would report in with my findings for the group...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mattk_r:
I guess I'll hold off on any big change until I get a better feeling for 6.1 and if the 3.60 rom is worth keeping.

Please keep the feedback coming so we know what works / doesn't work.

Edit: Sorry, I missed your post before writing this.

Elatepush is part of Java Midlet Manager.

The only thing I could suggest is anything that depends on either the storage card, or the extended rom, can slow it down on boot. I don't do either (except for history and cookies for IE, which is only called when IE is opened or used), so I don't see this issue. Might test without?

the only files that I'm aware of being extra are some of the .bmp files for the video dialer - which I'll pull from the next build. Other than that, please post anything that is in the wrong location / isn't needed.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Khristopher:
I'm trying to get BB Connect 4 to work with this ROM.

I've hex-edited it (the same way I did for Schap's newest ROM), however it doesn't seem to be working.

Anyone get BB Connect 4 up and running?

Edit: Nevermind.....I'm a gimp!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DvTonder:
Matt,

Are the OEM directory compatible between 6.x and 5.4? I am reverting back to 5.4 and want to use the packages/updates I created for myself. When I copy them over though, BuildOS wont start.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mattk_r:
you would need to keep the folders named OEMxxx within the main OEM directory with the specific base. In addition, I also keep the LangDB and OEM.cer with them as well.

The easiest way may be to pull down 5.4 from post 2 and just copy your specific packages over.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DvTonder:
That is what I did but for some reason I could not start buildos after the copy.

I suspect it may be caused by one of the changed option.xml files not matching a GUID in 5.4 (I set several items to true so I don't have to constantly select them)

Not to worry, I have 5.4 built and running on my device now.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DvTonder:
Matt,

Running 5.4 - I just noticed that my qwerty keyboard mapping is all wrong. I have a TyTN but it seems that I may have the 8525 mappings.

Is there a cab that can fix this (I hade seen ones that do the opposite)?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mattk_r:
change:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\OEM\Qwerty]

"Layout"=dword:00040409

to

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\OEM\Qwerty]

"Layout"=dword:00020409

I'll add this as an option... :)

Edit: Here are the OEM packages
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DvTonder:
Matt, Thank you
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Phantisy:
I created an OEM package for this issue. You can download it from http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=61207c7
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Phantisy:
Well I released PocketCM 0.8b last night and today they have released version 0.9 so here is the OEM package of this program: http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=ac541f9
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Phantisy:
While testing some building earlier I noticed that you can only select one battery indicator option and it was not noted in the section header. I updated the XML files so now you will see that you can only select one. I RAR'ed all 6 folders into one RAR file and you can download that below:

http://d01.megashares.com/?d01=855ef4e
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mattk_r:
can you upload to a different mirror, like rapidshare? My company firewall blocks that site. Thanks!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mikeo97:
OEM_Packages PIEPlus2.2 and Resco Explorer 6.1

Thought I would post these packages if anybody wants them. Tested with Pandora 6.1

(You still need to register these programs for full use)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] over2land:
Try this Matt.

http://rapidshare.com/files/49445556/Battery_Indicator_Fixed.rar.html
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] Phantisy:
All my files can be downloaded here: http://www.phantisy.com/Mobile/
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] slimshadee:
A stupid question...

I am using the 5.4 ROM because, as I posted earlier, the 6.1 (T-Mobile) ROM created significant slow down in my device. The only outstanding issue I have with 5.4 is the built-in black wallpaper substituted for the "Windows Default" theme.

My question is:

Outside of using a pre-config setting to pre-load another theme as the default, is there a file or files in the kitchen that I can change to restore the out-of-the-box Windows default theme. I know how to add or subtract other themes in the kitchen and cook them into my ROM, but I want to restore the true Windows default. (BTW, I do get the true default top and bottom bar color with 5.4...there NOT black, just the wallpaper is)

Thanks!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] allan1:
everytime I try to build a rom I get the same error. -

officeres.dll alreadt exists.

I have tried ticking and unticking the office app but to no avail. any ideas?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] kinky-chinky:
@ Matt,

I have changed the setting to 20409 without the 000's and the keyboard re-mapped but can no longer get the Sym/Tab button to bring up the symbols pop up list. Any suggestions?

My Hermes is a Hermes 200 with a Pandora V6.0 cooked rom using the new T-Mobile rom. Don't recall this problem with previous roms.

regards,

k-c
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] crazyC:
Anyone had any luck packaging Phone Alarm Full version (obviously unregistered) - I still am having trouble. I would like a complete fall back ROM setup exactly as I like it and Phone Alarm is one of my must have packages.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DvTonder:
Could someone please point me in the direction of the best source to learn about taking .cab files and converting them into packages - I am ready to move on to the next step in my learning :-)

I have grown quite fond of Pandora but am wondering if the Core Pro Kitchen the logical next step?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] chunkymonkey:
@DvTonder:

These should do the trick. The word doc is what I've been using to learn. You'll need some of the tools in CorePro (probably).

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=1374154&postcount=138

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=44308&d=1184780703

Unless you're trying to dismantle and rebuild a ROM I'd stick with Pandora for the most part. If you Do want to pick apart a current ROM and add/remove itmes, then Core's very good.

Anichillus and sambartle are your fellas to point any thanks to for these tutorials.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mattk_r:
You can remove the color registry settings from the dialpad package rgu. As for the wallpaper, I'll have to search for that one. I can't remember where it was.

Edit: I believe it's the entire rgu under Stock Dialpad. Try removing the entire thing.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mattk_r:
In OEM/OEMDrivers are two files - officeres.dll and officeres.dll.0409.mui.

They are required by Notes if Office isn't installed. I put them there so they are installed regardless if Office gets checked.

Did you replace the /SYS/Office folders with a different set?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mattk_r:
00020409 is the default qwerty mapping from the base dump, and the only other I know is the 00040409 for my hardware setup. There may be others, such as 00010409, but I really don't know.

Has anyone else seen this / know what might cause it?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] chunkymonkey:
I'm afraid I can't remember where but I've seen a table of key-mappings somewhere.

All I can say at this point, sorry.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mattk_r:
I suppose I'll throw this out again:

Is 6.0/6.1 a good platform? I've gotten mixed results, so I am trying to get a consensus if this is better / worse than the 5.4.

I need to post some updates, but short of maintaining both, I need to figure out a direction... :)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DvTonder:
Matt,

I liked 6.1 but did notice that there was a startup slowdown issue with the images I flashed from time to time. Not sure what the cause was or whether it was related to the 3.6 base or not. It was intermittent. Both the other 3.6 based ROMS seem to be working OK as well.

ISSUE: I did notice the problem with my phone switching to vibrate by itself with the 5 button Kaiser Home Plugin which caused me to miss a few calls (this happened with both 5.4 and 6.1). Any chance of integrating the new v2.0 version posted by schen yesterday - with option for the plain or colour version? (I would do it myself but am still learning how core kitchen works)
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] chunkymonkey:
I've gone over to 5.4 mate. 6.0 had slowdown issues for me and I couldn't find a combo that didn't do that and so couldn't isolate the issue to report it back. (Didn't think it was worth reporting 'it's slow' without knowing what the app or sys item/combo was that caused it).

5.4 is just fine for me though. SPV M3100, not that that should make too much diff. I have a fairly 'clean' install myself. Had been cooking Resco in already but have added the PIEPlus from mikeo97 as i use that too.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] DvTonder:
Matt,

Does this go for the Touch Dialpad as well? I see several colour settings in the RGU there but dont want to just blindly remove them.

Would it make sense to split these settings out into its own, selectable option, defaulted to off?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] slimshadee:
Matt:

You probably know this already, but my vote is to stay with the ATT ROM base. Right now, 5.4 is hella-fast on my 8525.
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] mattk_r:
Kaiser Home Plugin 2.0

Here is the extracted package for v2.0. If someone would like to test it out, I'll add it in.

What I don't know is if it's a 5 or 6 button...
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] bennec83:
if this is the version 2.0 by schen, it is customisable.

you can have 1 to 6 tabs depending on how you customise it
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam ROM Development] over2land:
Matt-

I'm still on 6, still with the 4.2 MMS, and I've not been happier.

My phone is fast like its never been. Scrolling through files in file explorer or total commander, transferring over bluetooth, and navigating in Tom Tom all seem faster to me. Also, I've been able to send MMS in places I've never been able to send from before, like I mentioned in my PMs

Mine does change to vibrate though when I sync it. Not a deal breaker for me by any means. I vote keep the 6.0 build.