[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] peetx:
Okay,

in this example we are going to use genious Bepe's PlatformRebuilder Kitchen and Mondilv's Nataly ROM. You get this in one package from Nataly Projektpage, just download the latest stable Nataly Kitchen. While no one else seems to have problems, on my Diamond 2.7 makes weird device behaviour, so i recommend 2.6 :D

Bepe's new kitchen is not limited to Diamond devices, the more it is able to port foreign OS into your kitchen very easy and very well, more the more it is able to manage different language versions in one and only kitchen and most the more it can simultaniously manage different ROM Versions, as Lite, Premium, etc. Take a look at the kitchen tutorial, alternativly found here as file - you'll be surprised :) !!! With some luck he is gonna publish a grafical GUI for his kitchen in a while - so stay tuned.

Preparation: Make shure you got unsigned HardSPL installed!!!

First step: Unpack Nataly kitchen directly to your C-Drive e.g.: "C:\nataly\..."!

Second step: Remove all packages/folders from underneath EN_KITCHEN you think you won't need.

Third step: If you want to add packages/apps from folder "_ADDS/EXT/Diamond" you just have to drag and drop them back to "EN_KITCHEN/EXT/Diamond". If you want to add packages/apps from folder "_ADDS/SYS" you may drag and drop them to "EN_KITCHEN/SYS" or you may convert them to the new package format Bebe is using and afterwards drag and drop them to "EN_KITCHEN/EXT/Diamond". Ervius did write us a tool EXT_PAckages_rebuilder.exe to do this by simply letting the folder drop onto it and all other is done automatically. After this you can cut/copy and paste the directory to path EXT/Diamond/...! It will get included by platformrebuilder automatically too. *

Fourth step: If you want to include other apps you like, you need to use Ervius (yes again) genious Ervius_Package_Creator found in the kitchen under path UTILS/.... Open the cab file and MSCEInfen will get opened automatically. Click "Extract CAB files with original names in folder" - Button (CAB and this folder MUST have the same path!) and close MSCEInfen, you get returned to package creator and may further correct things or not, at this stage of knowhow, maybe better leave all to Package Creator, it will do the rest the right way. So just click DONE and COMPLETE PACKAGE. Now you need Ervius EXT_PAckages_rebuilder again to get package converted into new format and thereafter you may add it to EXT/Diamond/...! *

Last Step: Click "build_rom.bat" under path EN_KITCHEN and wait - when finished there will be the file "OS-new.nb" which you have to select in automatically opened HTCRT.exe under item OS and further select the platform from dropdown, etc., fill in Version number etc. and thereafter you will get a file "OS-new.nbh" or whatever you named it in HTCRT. [see screenshot below]

* If your application now does not work correctly (quite a few will not do by now :D) you should dump your registry with e.g. dotfreds FDCSoft Taskmanagers builtin RegistryEditor. "Export All" found in context menu, do this before and after manual installation of the app, copy both dumped reg files to PC and compare them with e.g. Advanced Registry Tracer (Elcomsoft), export the differences and clean hives (keys) that you don't need (e.g. application foreign keys) add the rest to your corresponding app.reg file!

You are ready to flash your own ROM with DiamondCustomRUU.exe now. Got it?

DONT FORGET: ALL YOU DO IS AT YOUR TOTALLY OWN RISK!

Your own SOURCE for ROM?

This has been simple, didn't it? So if you'd like to use other source ROM (maybe that of your provider or country) you should download Bepe's Basic Kitchen and the Toolset from darkforcesteam-forum and watch his video tutorial, as this shows everything you need to know step by step. After another 5 minutes you got your own source kitchened what else do you need?

Upgrading your OS?

That's far as simple. Watch this video and you'll laugh because of simplicity.

Hope i did not forget something, lol!

Have fun...;)

P.S.: If you find this useful, you may vote the thread and the more you could post a reply, as this may keep the thread up in list and therefore findable to others, as it is not sticky!

Read on further customization of your ROM in posts beneath (2/3)!

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