[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] bong4316:
Hi ive read up and downloaded what needs to be done for cooking but im afraid its way

over my head.

But i need help in cooking into an official Stock HTC rom just a few changes then flash

that to my touch diamond.

Or maybe if the Rom Chefs can post one up using the official HTC roms that would be much

better, since im not sure what im supposed to do really.

Goals:

1) Make the taskbar and start menu bar transparent.

2) Modify the official rom just enough so it can work with modified aygshell and shell32

files without hanging on reset.

(im not sure but Ham3r mentioned in the post below that the nk.exe has to be patched)

Why it needs to be cooked in..

According to these posts manual hex editing

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=647579

Or using the bgtweak by voldeus here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=660557

The awful fact is that even after following all the extraction from rom hexedits then recmodding etc that as long as the rom isnt patched to work with edited aygshell and shell32 files the phone will hang on startup.

Also the bgtweak seems to work mostly with sense 2.5 and wm6.5.

My touch Diamond keeps on hanging on reset since manual drop and replace doesnt work right..

The manual hexediting part works nicely only with the modified cooked wm6.1 roms.

The Chefs are doing something to the rom that makes it work with modified aygshell and shell32 files.

(ham3r mentioned patching the nk.exe and in another post autocert patching the rom to make it work with modified aygshell and shell32 files)

What is it and how do i do it to a rom?

Why not use the roms posted on this forum?

I don't want to mess around with wm6.5 as it requires more memory that the touch diamond

has, has some bugs even with the best cooked roms etc.

Even the wm6.1 roms posted here that have sense 2.5 use a lot of memory just for the new

sense manila. Videocalling is mostly unsupported or needs workaround.

Even this old m6.1 rom sometimes when using opera or playing a few games will use up the

memory like crazy and i have to use HTC addicts cleanram or do a softreset.

Ill stick with wm6.1 and an official rom from HTC to avoid bugs and workarounds.

However there is just one modification that i need done and that is the transparent

tweak for the start menu and sofkey bar.

I need 100 percent Transparency so the touch diamond's small screen would look bigger

and cooler.

The official rom is WWE_2.03.831.2 which was from the HTC Hongkong site.

full file name:

_HTC Touch

Diamond_MR_RUU_Diamond_HKCSL_WWE_2.03.831.2_Radio_Signed_Diamond_52.44.25.24_1.08.25.20M

1_Ship

It can be downloaded here thanks to to the uploader Beegee_tokyo

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I77RLSCV

Hope you guys can help me out by teaching what to do by using visual kitchen

or maybe the Chefs can post the same official rom but modified to work with that just

one tweak the 100 percent transparent Start menu and softkey bars.

The rom has to be patched im not sure if its just the nk.exe that has to be patched to

make the rom work successfully with the modfied shell32 and aygshell files.

(ha3r mentioned in another post that the rom has to be autocert patched)

Hope you Chefs can help.

got this pic from this post so you can see how cool transparent bars are.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=686885