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 Sep 10 2008, 11:32
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 The Main Man  Group: Admin Team Posts: 21,070 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage  |
Has anyone tried using the i780 kitchen to try and make a i900 ROM?
I'm itching to cook my own Omnia recipe  P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Sep 10 2008, 11:49
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Enthusiast  Group: Posters Posts: 211 Joined: 18th June 2007 Member No.: 268,112 Device(s): HTC Prophet |
Now that's an interesting topic
 I'd love to learn how to cook, too. Would you have a link to that kitchen Paul ? This post has been edited by lastnikita: Sep 10 2008, 11:49 |
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Sep 10 2008, 11:51
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 21,070 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
-------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Sep 10 2008, 11:57
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Newbie  Group: Posters Posts: 42 Joined: 21st August 2008 Member No.: 418,695 |
QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Sep 10 2008, 18:51)  I have tried it and for now the answer is no. The problem first off is the tool to convert the bin to nb0 does not work. Myself and gOOndu have tried but no luck. I know it can be done as Chaimd has done it but I have not figured out a way yet. EFN has said he would look in to it when he has time. Can't wait to get a cooked ROM
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Sep 10 2008, 12:31
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 21,070 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
I did PM chaimd, hopefully he can lend a hand
 P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Sep 10 2008, 17:45
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Regular  Group: Posters Posts: 74 Joined: 18th August 2008 Member No.: 417,795 Device(s): Samsung SGH-i900 - Nokia E65 |
without sounding dumb, WTF is it ??
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Sep 10 2008, 18:31
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Diehard  Group: Posters Posts: 385 Joined: 19th September 2003 From: Leeds Member No.: 16,506 Device(s): HTC Diamond, Samsung I900 |
QUOTE(Bad-Co @ Sep 10 2008, 18:45) without sounding dumb, WTF is it ?? Cooking your own rom im guessing?? |
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Sep 11 2008, 01:57
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Regular Group: Posters Posts: 141 Joined: 31st August 2008 From: China Member No.: 421,659 Device(s): Omnia |
this is the most important thing.
Many people buy HTC devices just because they get better cooked roms usually. unfortunately, i'm totally noob at this. 
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Oct 13 2008, 16:18
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Enthusiast Group: Posters Posts: 268 Joined: 21st September 2008 Member No.: 428,546 Device(s): Samsung Omnia SGH-i900 |
Any news on a usable kitchen? Fingers getting itchy...
-------------------- Like the work I've done for you?
Then I would really appreciate it if you could help me out. It will encourage me further and of course produce better work.  A dollar or any amount you could spare will be greatly appreciated. |
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Oct 13 2008, 16:42
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 25 Joined: 25th August 2007 Member No.: 292,819 Device(s): Samsung Omnia i900 8 GB |
QUOTE(PaSSoA @ Oct 13 2008, 18:18) Any news on a usable kitchen? Fingers getting itchy... Hi all! I'm new to this forum because I'm thinking of buying an omnia, it's so promising! I have a HTC Prophet now and use cooked roms for about 18 month now (tried so many, can't count them) which is a BIG advantage. So thumbs up for this effort! Unfortunately I can't help that much because I have very little idea of cooking...what you need would be an experienced "chef" or lots of motivation, time and coffee Go, Paul, go!
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Oct 13 2008, 17:29
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 Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 30 Joined: 22nd August 2005 From: Russia Member No.: 145,570 Device(s): SGH-I900 |
Kitchen from asus 535, work perfect with our firmware.
Asus 535 Kitchen If you rename firmware exe to bin, tools can extract NB0 image from. Password on kitchen - "mrtoto" without quotes. -------------------- SGH-i900, WM6.1 20270.1.3.1 Firmware: i900PUHJ2/PUHJ2 RUS, Radio i900DXHK2
HTC P3300, WM6.1 20931.1.5.0 Firmware: YuE v14 Lite M2D RUS , Radio 03.34.90 |
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Oct 13 2008, 23:23
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Regular Group: Posters Posts: 80 Joined: 8th September 2008 From: Kent, UK Member No.: 424,264 Device(s): Samsung Omnia 16GB, iPhone 3G |
QUOTE(catmat @ Oct 13 2008, 18:29) Kitchen from asus 535, work perfect with our firmware. Asus 535 Kitchen If you rename firmware exe to bin, tools can extract NB0 image from. Password on kitchen - "mrtoto" without quotes. Well as i've run out of things to do with my omnia, i thought i would turn my attention to the idea of 'cooking' our own rom. I've just downloaded the Asus 535 Kitchen mentioned in the previous post, and started to experiment. First, I renamed the DXHI1.exe from Secany to DXHI1.bin (143,842kb) and loaded it up into the kitchen. The program automatically turns the .bin file into a .nb0 file (122,850kb), and also gives me an out.bin file (3,944kb) and a imgfs.bin file (118,314kb) There are 4 parts to the GUI of the Asus535 Kitchen; Bootloader, UL, XIP OS and Imgfs. Not entirely sure what all of these are (other than bootloader). The only option available is to extract the Imgfs (all other extract options are greyed out), so i hit extract (getting more curious by the minute!). This leaves me with, eventually, after the log says dumping 498 modules, a dump folder with lots of goodies inside!!! And even more if you tick 'show hidden files' in explorer!!!!! I can see wma files for alarms, exe files for various applications that are on the Omnia, and stacks of folders with S001, S002 files in. Some folders also have .bin files inside. Now the big problem, I'M STUCK - i've not got any experience in cooking roms, but from what i can gather, we may be able to change files, change sounds etc, even take programs out and add programs into the rom. But i need someone's help who has a better understanding of what to do next. BTW, i also tried the Italian XIHI1 (not the exe but the individual bin files) and i get 511 dumped modules (with the pda.bin) I think we could be onto something but as i said, HELP (Paul (MVP), awarner (MVP)??) Laterz DF
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Oct 14 2008, 05:27
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Newbie Group: Posters Posts: 30 Joined: 22nd August 2005 From: Russia Member No.: 145,570 Device(s): SGH-I900 |
lets try to describe some process, how it possible with my english, dont forget - i'm from Russia
Bin part - this is part of firmware, you can extract this from fimware by any hex editor, for exapmle - Winhex. Opening frmware by Winhex, and trying to find in ASCII "b000f". We find some result, but we needed last result. From last "b000f" till end of file - this is our BIN part. Kitchen find this part automaticly. This is encrypted part, and can uploaded in to phone as PDA part by Grandprix. But we need to decrypt this for extract, we needed for decrypted NB0 image. Kitchen do it automaticly. If you start kitchen by BAT file (some comments in Russian, sorry), you can extract files, XIP, OS files and change everething, and after that, split into new NB0 file, and automaticly crypt into BIN file, for upload in to phone. I do it for my custom Russian firmware, based on HJ1 offisial, but sadly, i havn't some free time for it.... This post has been edited by catmat: Oct 14 2008, 06:28 -------------------- SGH-i900, WM6.1 20270.1.3.1 Firmware: i900PUHJ2/PUHJ2 RUS, Radio i900DXHK2
HTC P3300, WM6.1 20931.1.5.0 Firmware: YuE v14 Lite M2D RUS , Radio 03.34.90 |
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Oct 14 2008, 07:44
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 21,070 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
OK, so I am ready to make a custom ROM for everyone to use, if we can work out a safe way to rebuild the PDA part. I can extract the PDA to dump files, convert to packages, add my packages and do all that cool stuff no problem, I can also obviously build that back to a imgfs - the problem I have is getting it into the format to put back on the phone using GrandPrix.
catmat (anyone?), can you assist with this step? I will try that P535 kitchen and see if that works? Thanks! P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Oct 14 2008, 08:00
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Regular Group: Posters Posts: 80 Joined: 8th September 2008 From: Kent, UK Member No.: 424,264 Device(s): Samsung Omnia 16GB, iPhone 3G |
QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Oct 14 2008, 08:44) OK, so I am ready to make a custom ROM for everyone to use, if we can work out a safe way to rebuild the PDA part. I can extract the PDA to dump files, convert to packages, add my packages and do all that cool stuff no problem, I can also obviously build that back to a imgfs - the problem I have is getting it into the format to put back on the phone using GrandPrix. catmat (anyone?), can you assist with this step? I will try that P535 kitchen and see if that works? Thanks! P As far as i can tell, when you hit the rebuild nb0 button, the file ends up as a .bin file, ready for using directly in GrandPrix (i tried this after dumping all modules and rebuilding without changing anything, and i was eventually left with a file called Rom.bin). When you hit rebuild the Imgfs file gets rewritten, and then converted. Let the cooking begin!! Laterz DF ;) This post has been edited by datafanatic: Oct 14 2008, 08:01 |
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Oct 14 2008, 08:01
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 21,070 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
OK, so I know what i'm doing today...
 P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Oct 14 2008, 08:03
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Regular Group: Posters Posts: 80 Joined: 8th September 2008 From: Kent, UK Member No.: 424,264 Device(s): Samsung Omnia 16GB, iPhone 3G |
QUOTE(Paul (MVP) @ Oct 14 2008, 09:01) OK, so I know what i'm doing today... P Me too, once i get back from the hospital (12 week scan for 2nd little one!). Better get this cracked in the next 6 months as i'm going to be a busy boy after that, what with 2 nippers to deal with. Paul - following your every move, any help i can offer, let me know (do you know of an emulator for us to test these newly cooked roms on?) Laterz DF ;) This post has been edited by datafanatic: Oct 14 2008, 08:28 |
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Oct 14 2008, 08:06
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 21,070 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
QUOTE(datafanatic @ Oct 14 2008, 00:23) Well as i've run out of things to do with my omnia, i thought i would turn my attention to the idea of 'cooking' our own rom. I've just downloaded the Asus 535 Kitchen mentioned in the previous post, and started to experiment. First, I renamed the DXHI1.exe from Secany to DXHI1.bin (143,842kb) and loaded it up into the kitchen. The program automatically turns the .bin file into a .nb0 file (122,850kb), and also gives me an out.bin file (3,944kb) and a imgfs.bin file (118,314kb) There are 4 parts to the GUI of the Asus535 Kitchen; Bootloader, UL, XIP OS and Imgfs. Not entirely sure what all of these are (other than bootloader). The only option available is to extract the Imgfs (all other extract options are greyed out), so i hit extract (getting more curious by the minute!). This leaves me with, eventually, after the log says dumping 498 modules, a dump folder with lots of goodies inside!!! And even more if you tick 'show hidden files' in explorer!!!!! I can see wma files for alarms, exe files for various applications that are on the Omnia, and stacks of folders with S001, S002 files in. Some folders also have .bin files inside. Now the big problem, I'M STUCK - i've not got any experience in cooking roms, but from what i can gather, we may be able to change files, change sounds etc, even take programs out and add programs into the rom. But i need someone's help who has a better understanding of what to do next. BTW, i also tried the Italian XIHI1 (not the exe but the individual bin files) and i get 511 dumped modules (with the pda.bin) I think we could be onto something but as i said, HELP (Paul (MVP), awarner (MVP)??) Laterz DF Got the kitchen, which file do I run to actually load in the BIN file?!? P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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Oct 14 2008, 08:16
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Enthusiast Group: Posters Posts: 268 Joined: 21st September 2008 Member No.: 428,546 Device(s): Samsung Omnia SGH-i900 |
This is what I've done so far.....
First rename the updater*HI.exe to bin, then run NB0_kitchen.exe then load the *.bin file. It should get converted to *.nb0, ready for extracting and all the files should be there. Close NB0_kitchen. I used pkgtool from Hypercore to create the packages, added a few OEM files to the OEM folder and ran BuildROM. Before exiting after building is done, you should see a *.tpl file with the converted *.nb0, put that in the ROM folder, that would automatically be copied and renamed to ROMgalaxy.nb0 in the Tools folder. Exit BuildOS and the NB0_kitchen should run again. Select ROMgalaxy.nb0 and I'm stuck here... it does not seem to read the XIP, so I can't extract and pack the XIP image... Any ideas? This post has been edited by PaSSoA: Oct 14 2008, 08:19 -------------------- Like the work I've done for you?
Then I would really appreciate it if you could help me out. It will encourage me further and of course produce better work. A dollar or any amount you could spare will be greatly appreciated. |
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Oct 14 2008, 08:19
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The Main Man Group: Admin Team Posts: 21,070 Joined: 6th November 2002 From: Norwich, UK Member No.: 1 Device(s): HTC Advantage |
Kitchen password = 'mrtoto'...
P -------------------- Paul O'Brien - Microsoft MVP, Mobile Devices, MoDaCo.network Founder. Check out my Blog! £10 off a £20 spend at eXpansys - click for details |
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