yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] Frosty22:
Hi there, Been cooking for two days now, tying to get a rom working. After much trouble with errors all over the place similar to other peoples errors here on this forum, i have finaly got it producing working roms. I have however hit a dead end and simply cant understand why this keeps happening. No matter what OEMs i choose to include in the rom, they all get installed but little to none of them appear in the programs list. I have had a dig arround with file explorer and found the apps are there such as windows media player, office... but what good are they if they cant be run from the programs menu! The same applies to things like MMS which i presume has been included like office and the other OEMs as i ticked in the cooking process, but doesnt appear in the messaging section. Now i could just install the clean rom and install everything as cabs, but ive spent two days doing nothing but reading endless posts, cooking and flashing endless varieties of roms, i dont want all that time to be wasted! has anyone got any ideas what is happening?

Thanks :-)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] KemoSabee:
Frosty...read the quoted text below

Sounds like your initflashfiles are messed up...read below posted previously.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] _Dejan_:
Hi,

First In Alex's OEM Package Im find alot of applications which doesn't work any you must configure it(.rgu file or initflashfiles)

If you dont see application in programs check initflashfiles file if contain something that:

Directory("\windows\Start Menu\Programs"):-File("Camera Album.lnk","\windows\Camera Album.lnk")

if you don't see shortcut creating "procedure" you must add it...

So I think you have broken initflashfiles files...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] cushcalc:
My first cooked Kaiser ROM

I just cooked my first ROM last night, and it went well. I had a brief moment of confusion and panic when one of the screens mentioned for a subsequent step didn't pop up, so I read the tutorial again very carefully and discovered I had clicked OK but not closed the window on one of the processes.

All in all I am very pleased and excited - got most of the programs in that I want - a couple in the kitchen package are not most recent versions (dotFred Task Manager, Pocket Plus), and there are some programs not there that I still have to install via cab so I will be moving on to creating OEM's from cab's. It's probably just the placebo effect, but my setup seems blazingly fast - it boots really fast, menus snap open, file explorer folder changes go quickly - and I have yet to experience any of those intermittent seemingly random freeze-ups that occured with some of the ROM's I've tried!

Thank you for your most excellent cookbook. BRILLIANT! You've done a tremendous amount of work, obviously, and made it easy and fun for others to customize their Kaiser. And it was flashing your Alex's v4 UltraClean and MultiMedia ROMs for AT&T that really got me stoked about doing my own custom ROM!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] stainlesspc:
I may be doing something wrong, but not sure what.

I have the Kaiser Kitchen 12/21/07

I extract the ROM 1.60 from your thread.

I have the packages and radio also from you.

all goes well till I select build ROM with method "b"

'Ervius Package_Tools+?BuildOS is supposed to appear but I get the HTC Rom Tool insted, with no option of picking packages.

What did I screw up ????
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] zard:
Sorry but I had posted the below at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=1831357&posted=1#post1831357 but sadly, nobody has responded. So I decided to cross post it here:

Hi Alex,

I've finally got my hands dirty and cooked a rom for my own use. Everything went ok and I want to say this, you really did a very good job to make it some simple to use.

I've progressed on to making OEM Packages of some of my cabs. Strangely, after I open up a cab, click the 7th button, click on 'X' of the window, an error message appears:

Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click Continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. If you click Quit, the application will close immediately.

Source and destination path must have identical roots. Move will not work acroos volumes.

I'll proceed and click Continue and the window appeared again. This time round, if I click on Open Initflashfiles Tab, I'm prompted to "First of all select a package!!!". What I did was to close the Packages Creator by clicking X and starting the Packages Creator again. Click on open package, and carried on from there. I also did the part on creating links so as to create initflashes.txt. Click on Apply, then Done, then Complete package.

I then copy over to the packages folder in KaiserKitchen.

The rom I created, after flashing, will have no links showing up in \windows\start menu\programs. Next, I can also see many of the installed files from the OEM Packages I had created ends up in \windows\, and they are named 000-abc.exe.

What have I done wrong?

I'm doing all this in Vista. I suspected .NET Framework, so I went to Microsoft to download and install version 3.5. After reboot, still got the same error message as before.

One more thing, I found that when I have cabs that has a Today Plug-in, after converting and cooked into rom, the Today Plug-in will not show.

Any assistance will be very much appreciated. Thanks.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] fruehling:
Help!

First let me say that I love this ROM. It has been great!

Right now I am having problems however.

I flashed Alex's super clean Multimedia Att Rom onto my Tilt (it works freekin great!). Then I bought the extUSB 3-in-1 Adaptor for HTC TyTN so I can use normal headphones. Now when it is plugged in, it wants to constantly phone the last number dialed when it is plugged into this adapter. It will just randomly decide to dial the last number.

Somebody else has told me that they are using one of Dutty's ROMs with this adapter and nothing is wrong at all. Any ideas what could be causing this?

Thanks!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] _Alex_:
I've been away for quite some time moving cross country and only having the time to read posts. As always, I am happy to see people are continuing to use my cooking kits! Hopefully, the people who asked questions earlier that didn't get a reply are still reading this thread :)

initflashfiles.dat in OEM\OEM_Lang_0409 contains most of the additional folder declarations you're looking for.

Seems this is an OEM package issue. Ervius Package Creator doesn't always create links properly, so some manual editing of initflashfiles.txt is required.

Most of the defaults for the OEM packages are included within the screenshots for the ROM Cooking Tutorial.

Can you turn on verbose mode and tell us what step this is occurring, so we can help troubleshoot better? Thanks!

I believe you may have got this mixed up with some other download. Try again?

Sounds like your packages directory is not setup correctly. Try going through the first part of the tutorial again for the proper folder setup.

CAB file and destination folder must be on the same drive for package creator 5.4 to work. I recommend all work to be done on C: to avoid further errors.

Some cabs use DLLs to do registry entries and other things. These cabs will require a registry dump before and after installation, using windiff to compare the difference, to capture the information required to create a working OEM package.

This isn't a behavior I'd expect with any of my ROMs. I can't say because I haven't used the 3-in-1 adaptor yet, as I have a bluetooth stereo headset myself...

Hope this helps!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] stainlesspc:
Thanks

"Sounds like your packages directory is not setup correctly. Try going through the first part of the tutorial again for the proper folder setup."

I will try it tomorrow and let you know :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] stainlesspc:
Well I tried it again

I unzipped

Alex.Kaiser.v4.OEM.Packages.rar

Alex.ATT.160.v4.ROM.Folders.rar

kaiserkitchen.12-21-07.rar

Radio.1.27.14.09.rar

plus extracted the RUU_signed.nbh to the base rom folder.

Here is a screen shot of my folders

I have when I get the HTC rom tool

Something is still wrong here

HELP :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] Alemaker:
kaiser kitchen link?

Hi Alex,

Tonight, when i go to the tutorial and try to grab kaiserkitchen, megaupload says file temporarily unavailable. Did you move it, or am I missing something?

Alemaker
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] _Alex_:
Try running c:\kaiserkitchen\buildos+package_tools-2.7.exe by itself. If this doesn't work, you may have a problem with your .NET installation.

Nothing moved. I'll update the wiki to have the megaupload and rapidshare mirrors, just like the rom kitchen posting.

Hope this helps!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] Alemaker:
Thx,

Actually grabbed them this morning-musta been a megaupload issue on their end.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] stainlesspc:
_Alex_

Thanks loads

Will try and let you know.

StainlessPC
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] stainlesspc:
oK I got serious problems

I did not have .net :(

I did download 3.5.net and installed it.

buildos+package_tools-2.7.exe still does not start by its self

and if I run through the KAISERKITCHEN.CMD and COOK and option B

I still get the HTC rom tool :(((((((
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] _Alex_:
Try the advice found here, http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=1756719&postcount=161, which has helped out Alemaker and Zugger. I'll update the wiki at some point to include this in the FAQ section, since it seems to be a common issue.

If you still have problems, try updating .NET 1.0 and 2.0 to SP1...

Hope this helps!

(Edit2: Added the info found in this tutorial as part of the first Q/A in FAQ - Does this work rightly in Vista?)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] Alemaker:
Hi,

I have Vista and finally figured it out, even though Alex spells it out, I musta had dyslexia-lol

Here's what to do.

1) Create a new folder on the root drive- (C on my machine), and call it whatever ya want. I named it kaiserkitchen just like the tutorial.

2) Extract all of the packages to the kaiserkitchen folder.

3) go into the folder and right click on sleep.exe>properties>Compatability and check the "Run this program as an administrator" box, (near the bottom under "Privilege Level")

4) do the same with the buildos+package_tool.

5) Now here's the part that confused me-you can't just right click on kaiserkitchen.cmd from that window and run as admin-IT WILL ERROR OUT with what you get.

You have to do it this way,

Start>Run>cmd.exe

When the command prompt window comes up, Change Directory to kaiserkitchen, like this:

In the command prompt type cd /kaiserkitchen

Enter

Then type kaiserkitchen.cmd

Enter

Bingo!!! Follow the UAC prompts to allow sleep.exe to run and away you go!!!:D

Cooking away now, in fact Alex gives soooo many choices/combinations, have flashed like 20 times and still am tweaking my ROM.:D

Alemaker
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] cushcalc:
Making My Own Perfect ROM . . . kudos and thanks!

Just wanted to give a public thanks for your great kitchen and tutorial. I've managed to make my own custom ROM that I am quite happy with, thanks to your instructions.

Would

like to see an OEM package for Arcsoft MMS 4.2.8.1 included in the kitchen, as you mention it yourself as one thing you will cook into your next ROM.

PayPal donation just sent. Keep up the good work!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] _Alex_:
Glad to see you're enjoying it and even happier with the donation!Just to keep everyone up to date, I'm working on prepping AT&T 1.61 and HTC 1.81 as base ROMs right now, but I'm reluctant on stating any release dates, since I'm having some software troubles and will be wiping my primary machine after I finish backing up my data (and kitchen folders).As for OEM packages, ArcSoft MMS 4.2.8.1, Nadavi's 5.0.4 Camera (as well as the old 4.08 camera) and HTC Album 1.0.1030.720 will be included. Once again, thanks for the donation!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] Alemaker:
SpbBlack47 Dialer package

Alex,

After I finally figured out your tutorial, I went on to create some packages myself!! :) Lots of em didn't work out for me, but this one did.

Here's the Dialpad SpbBlack47 package. Worked great!! Feel free to add it to your packages.

Alemaker
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] _Dejan_:
Alex if you need any help with OEM Packages just tell and I will help you...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] Megavvolt:
ROM Folders: ultraclean or multimedia?

I've read the discussions here (all 25 pages) as well as in "[12-27-07]Alex's v4 UltraClean and MultiMedia ROMs for AT&T and HTC" thread and I still can't figure something out.

Here's what I downloaded:

- ROM Folders [updated 12-20-07]

- 1.27.12.32 Radio.nb [added 12-16-07]

- kaiserkitchen_01-20-08.rar

I want to take Alex's UltraClean ROM and add some programs I use to it, hence the question: suppose I follow Kaiser ROM Kitchen Tutorial, will I end up with Alex's UltraClean ROM or Alex's Multimedia ROM? I tried it a couple of times, got no error messages throughout the whole process, but I'd really love to know what I'm getting when I follow the tutorial, or, better, what I should do to be able to take Alex's UltraClean ROM and add some programs (like "Eye on Thief") to it for my personal use.

Also, when I follow the Kaiser ROM Kitchen Tutorial my c:\kaiserkitchen\BaseROM stays empty: is that ok?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] _Alex_:
Glad you've been reading alot! It's always good to read before asking questions. So if you've begun reading the Kaiser ROM kitchen tutorial, you know that it "will produce something identical to my

UltraClean

ROM."

The OEM Package tutorial will help you add programs to the ROM and contribute back to the community.

Definitely OK. BaseROM folder is only needed for extracting a ROM.

Hope this helps!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] _Alex_:
Glad to hear everything is working out and OEM packages are definitely finicky. Thanks for your contribution, I'll make sure to add it to the next release.

Thanks for offering! I'll shoot you a PM when I get a chance.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] cybersphere01:
When I cook a rom with the AT&T kitchen I end up with an extra icon in the Office mobile folder called record. I click on it and it does nothing. I would like to remove this icon when creating a rom since it doesnt do anything. Anyone know where the file that contains the link for this file so I can remove it?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] Megavvolt:
Sometimes I amaze myself. I read that tutorial several times and somehow missed this sentence. Thank you for your patience!

Please help me understand a bit more, I'm really confused with all the versions and packs.

Making a ROM out of the files contained in _Alex_'s UltraClean HTC 1.5.405.5 ROM Folders.rar would basically be the same as making ROM by following your Kaiser ROM kitchen tutorial, right?

In Alex.HTC.156.v4.ROM.Folders.rar used in the Kaiser ROM kitchen tutorial, there's a group of packages named "HTC OEM 1.56.405.5.Alex1": what are these?

How do I get rid of (or how do I change) the black background in "Today" screen I get in a ROM cooked according to the Kaiser ROM kitchen tutorial?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] Alemaker:
Onward/upward?

Alex,

Now that I've come to grips with the basic basics, I have created a few packages (well, just one that worked-the SpbBlack47 dialer for the ATT ROM) from cabs. But now I see that in another thread, someone just posted a new ROM (os.nb)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=362937&page=2

for cooking and zipped it. Is it as simple as replacing your os.nb in kaiserkitchen with this one to build on the newer ROM, or is it over my head technically still?

Also, in the same vein, any new ROM versions coming down the pike from you?

LOVING your tutorial,

Alemaker
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ecltech:
Internet Sharing vs. Wireless Modem - Comm Manager

Hi all,

I have a little issue I ran into using Alex's AT&T ROM (both cooked and the Multimedia ROM). The issue is that the "Internet Sharing" link set in Comm Manager always points to the "Wireless Modem" even though I changed the mapping using Advance Config. I've also verify the registry points to the correct entry but it still brings up Wireless Modem.

I thought this was related to the cooked ROM so I also tried using one of Alex's pre-made ROM - AT&T MM4. The issue exist in both ROMs so I'm assuming there's some setting not correct as it's present in both the cooked ROM and the ROM provided by Alex.

The "Internet Sharing" link that's available in Programs works fine, it's just the Comm Manager link. It doesn't matter if I have 6 button or 10 button comm manager.

Does anyone else have this issue? I prefer to have the "Internet Sharing" on the comm manager and while it's not a show stopper it would be nice to get it fix.

I then tried the HTC ROM and the problem does not exist so it seems specific to the AT&T ROM.

Please let me know if anyone else notice this issue and if we can find a solution.

Thank you.

-Mike
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] _Alex_:
Yup.

These are OEM packages extracted from the HTC 1.56 ROM.

Replace SYS\base_dpi_96_resh_240_resv_320\Default_stwater_240_320.gif and SYS\base_dpi_96_resh_240_resv_320\Default_stwater_320_240.gif with the desired backgrounds.

Hope this helps!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] thomassster:
Alex...I thank you so much for your kitchen. I was a constant flasher, but I've been stuck with this cooked rom for 1 month and a half, since it's everything I needed. I'm hoping you can work on a 6.1 kitchen when it comes out.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] _Alex_:
The steps to turn .nb to .nbh is rather straight forward, but I'm still not sure this will work on our phones. I just noticed that the post above says to use the latest HTC ROM tool v1.1, which I haven't used in my kitchen before. However, you could use 1.0 by selecting (m) for more options and then selecting step 10. Alternatively, you can download the latest version and replace the old one. I'll probably be doing both tomorrow, as it's more than a bit late on the east coast (and I'm an insomniac) :D

I have blazing fast internet speeds at my new locale, so I may be releasing quite a few variants for my next v5 ROM release. These will be based upon AT&T 1.61 and HTC 1.81 (Dopod AUS) ROMs. The cooking kits will follow afterwards. No date yet, since I'm still installing apps for my laptop rebuild.

Hope this helps...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] _Alex_:
I've seen you post about this before, so I'll try a couple of things out over the course of the week and try to get back to you.

Thanks for understanding...

edit2: 1.61 w/10 button Comm shows Inet sharing icon and launches inet sharing. As stated earlier, no defined dates just yet. Hope this helps!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ecltech:
Alex,

Thanks for the response. Not a major thing but just would like it to work. Since you'll be working on a 1.61 release I'll wait for it plus I'm trying out the HTC version as of today so I want to see how better it is compared to the AT&T version.

Thanks again.

-Mike
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] Alemaker:
Stuck on boot screen???????

Alex,

Something weird has started happening on my cooked ROMs. Now when it goes to bootup, I get the ATT start 3g image ( I installed ATT pkgs from the deleted pkgs folder) and the green windows boot screen and then it just freezes!:eek: Can't do a soft reset or even a hard reset, had to get to the bootloader screen and reflash, it then worked good for a couple of resets then BANG froze on the bootloader screen. Nothing works other than re-flashing. Any ideas? Did install .netCF v2 cuz Viigo's newest edition requires it, but other than the ATT Start/Windows green bootscreen, everything else is from your pakages for the ATT 1.60.

Extremely confused,

Alemaker
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] _Alex_:
I've experienced some interesting issues with re-cooking because of the pagepool changer & the copying of the latest OS.NB to \ROM after step 8.

Try cooking with beta mode off and copy a fresh version of OS.NB into the ROM folder to see if this helps.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] Alemaker:
I'm just gonna delete the whole kaiserkitchen folder and re-install it.

Any possibility of turning that BatteryStaus package you have into a cab? I've been over to that site and every version is different, can't find the one you use.

Alemaker
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] ecltech:
Package: Change fon to Segoeui

Hi all,

Here's a package I put together to change the fonts on WM6 to Segoeui. Been using it a while and never uploaded it. Hopefully it comes in handy for some. You can use it in Alex ROM kitchen. You can check the changes made to the registry and update with font of your choice.

Alex, maybe you can include in your next release if it's useful.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] _Alex_:
Still recommend turning off beta mode, as changing pagepool + replacing ROM\OS.NB with each pass tends to do some very WEIRD things, which caused me *ALOT* of pain during the v5 early stages.

You can turn it off temporarily by pressing b when you start kaiserkitchen.cmd.

You can permanently turn it off by editing kaiserkitchen.cmd and changing the third line to

SET BETA=FALSE

As for batterystatus, no idea where I got it. Have you checked the website? http://www.chi-tai.info/cs_BatteryStatus_XDA_Neo_WM5_iM_cs.htm
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] Alemaker:
Thanks,

I'll try that, when I get to the command prompt, entering b to turn it off and then continue, the pagepool window(where you can set the size) no

longer pops up when I cook. Is that set to off? Also, I imported the new htcrt.exe into the kitchen then cooked, still having this issue, but now if I hard reset, it does re-initialize.

But the weirdest thing, it doesn't revert back to default like doing clear storage, it still had my custom wallpaper (not the ATT one that installed with the WM6 Wallpaper pkg.) It's like it's just overwriting on the old ROM.

Alemaker
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] Alemaker:
Alex,

No dice, still locking up on the bootscreen, did like ya said and turned beta off, even did just a basic ROM. bummer,

Anyhow,

Any idea of when/if you'll have your v5 ROM packages and stuff for the kitchen? ** edit**

(my bad, see the link for them, waiting patiently, I haven't given up on cooking yet!!)

Alemaker

bumpin ya a small token for all your help:)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] theisdept:
I used the link in the Cooking tutorial to download newest Kitchen v4 - I get this error from WinRAR "! kaiserkitchen_01-20-08.rar: The archive is either in unknown format or damaged"

I've done it from two different computers with same results.

Everything else I've downloaded is fine!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] _Alex_:
Megaupload and RapidShare links are working fine, as I've just downloaded from both and tested the archives with WinRAR.

FWIW, I also realized that the MegaUpload link in the wiki is old. I've since updated it to be the same links from this post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=1833718&postcount=209.

Hope this helps!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Windows Mobile ROM De] _Alex_:
Thanks for your donation! I'm still not sure why things aren't working. Have you tried reflashing your radio?

Hope this helps...