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[ock]

Hi Friends,

I've been planning to release some sort of a beginner's guide to rom cooking, ever since I started reading up on the topic (and cooking my own roms, of course).

Here's a guide on cooking with Visual Kitchen which I've put together, hope it will be of help to all aspiring chefs   .

There's tons of resources here in Modaco - the search feature and Google are your best buddies if you need help. If you're stuck, feel free to post some questions here. Perhaps this thread can evolve into a general Q&A thread on the topic of cooking, where everyone can contribute their advice regardless of which kitchen they use.

More Tutorials (Highly recommended!)

Shokka's rom building guide
Sector's WM6.5 cooking guide
Vistang Visual Kitchen thread Lots of tips and tricks  


Build Sources:

DFT
Da_G
xbeta

Credits:  

My heartfelt thanks to the following groups of people:

Paul - for modaco.com and fantastic support for chefs
Vistang – For his wonderful Visual Kitchen
Ryrzy – for introducing Visual Kitchen to Modaco
bepe - Platform Rebuilder, the engine behind VK
pako777 – No i900 EXEcutor, no roms!
Shokka – For his introductory guide, an i900 rom master
Sector – For his guide on WM6.5 cooking
PaSSoA – Another recipe provider!
Jason8/ Racer7 - CAB Converter tool
sztupy - SYAKR Tool

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Attached Files

•  Ock__s_Guide_to_Rom_Cooking_for_i900.pdf   529.22K   2369 downloads

Edited by ock, 09 April 2010 - 12:18 AM.

[ock]

EXT PACKAGES

M2Dv2
SoundTester
ShowcaseSuite
HTC Calculator
Nitrogen
ock black WM Dialer
Front Camera Photo taker
Opera Mini 5 beta
OmniaLite SmartConverter
OmniaLite Smart Memo
OmniaLitePhotoAlbum
Threaded email (added gmail and yahoo icons)

More coming soon  

FAQS:

"Failed to load cereg400.dll" error in Visual Kitchen
-copy msvcr71.dll into the tools folder

Internet Explorer "Cannot download blank" error
- missing Metadata folder in SYS

No "tap to view" in lockscreen notifications
- missing CHome

Sleep bug
- Try removing SRSWOW if you've cooked it as an EXT

MediaPlayer/ Video Camera Error
- Remember to Recmod your files
- 235xx builds have a "MLU" service that may interfere with video recording. Set the following to disable it.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\MLUService]
"Enabled"=dword:0

Edited by ock, 09 April 2010 - 12:24 AM.

[jmsmartins]

hi ock!
great job with this topic it should be pinned in my opinion, so it doesn't get lost among all the others..
maybe i finally try some cooking.. i don't know anything about programing but i still may give it a try, some day...
keep them up bro, you're the CHEF

[snowsakura]

Thanks Chef ock
really hope to cook my own functional rom one day

[FerMza87]

thanks ock, you are awesome

[magawa]

thanks it should be sticky

[Rebels]

Its about time master. Tnx wasn't expecting u to start this coz i knw u r bz enough with all the new builds and roms 4 us rom hungers   Nice to c u took some time out to help us who fantasize making own roms. By the way ur rltoday is gr8, some more modifications can make it even better. Take care chef.

[Pownitore]

Hi all!

Thank you Ock for this fantastic guide (sorry for my bad english, i'm italian!)!. I've a problem when i try convert a few modules whit your file . bat...




Hve you some idea?

[Pownitore]

I 'm back to start!

...but when i extract you package, OEM folder and 25007 folder, i haven't a folder naled 25007 in SYS and ROM, but 23637!

mmm... I believe that my mistake are in structure folders...

Firts, i create a convenient folder... E:\cucinabase... here i extract your package...OEM and 25007...



i try another mode...i create a convenient folder and here i download .zip file...after, i extract package OEM and 25007...




but NO WORK! Any idea? Tnk 1000!

[ock]

Pownitore, on Mar 8 2010, 20:08, said:

Hi all!
Thank you Ock for this fantastic guide (sorry for my bad english, i'm italian!)!. I've a problem when i try convert a few modules whit your file . bat...

Hve you some idea?

From Google: "Impossible to find the specified precursor"
Seems you have missing SYS files, try unzipping my 22004 SYS to the base of the kitchen

Pownitore, on Mar 9 2010, 02:23, said:

I 'm back to start!
...but when i extract you package, OEM folder and 25007 folder, i haven't a folder naled 25007 in SYS and ROM, but 23637!
mmm... I believe that my mistake are in structure folders...
Firts, i create a convenient folder... E:\cucinabase... here i extract your package...OEM and 25007...

i try another mode...i create a convenient folder and here i download .zip file...after, i extract package OEM and 25007...

but NO WORK! Any idea? Tnk 1000!

Aha, yup you just need to move and rename some folders.
Firstly cut and paste the OEM folder inside DXID OEM into the base of your kitchen. There should be a empty OEM folder there, overwrite it.
Next, from the 25007 folder, move both ROM and SYS folders to the base of your kitchen, overwriting the existing ones.

[Pownitore]

ock, on Mar 9 2010, 02:05, said:

From Google: "Impossible to find the specified precursor"

Yes, I understood only this, but not because:D when i back from my job i try your additional advice!

Tnk, Pwnrdz

[Pownitore]

ok ok... i encrase my skill from newbie to newbie ++ i create my first cocked ROM! ok... now stop the joke! I want create my theme... erase usless theme... my personal skin... and...set as like me Titanium, and some program... i must use register key for this last point? tnk 1000000!

[Sb.]

Well done! Now I just have to build up courage to do it!

[magawa]

after trying this kitchen I still have the welcome head issue ( stuck at orange picture )

I cooked a new rom with

1- clean OEM
2- sys 23542 and 21893
3- recmod OK
4- EXT packages are clean
5- no FTUOCHSL driver

I have on my computer
.net framework  3.5 , 1.1 , 2.0 sp2 , 3.0 sp2 , 3.5 sp1
and java


any thing missing

[ock]

Pownitore, on Mar 10 2010, 06:00, said:

ok ok... i encrase my skill from newbie to newbie ++ i create my first cocked ROM! ok... now stop the joke! I want create my theme... erase usless theme... my personal skin... and...set as like me Titanium, and some program... i must use register key for this last point? tnk 1000000!

Try this guide by magi1984

Sb., on Mar 10 2010, 16:02, said:

Well done! Now I just have to build up courage to do it!

Just read up a bit more, takes a bit of guts to flash your first rom though!

magawa, on Mar 10 2010, 20:38, said:

after trying this kitchen I still have the welcome head issue ( stuck at orange picture )

I cooked a new rom with

1- clean OEM
2- sys 23542 and 21893
3- recmod OK
4- EXT packages are clean
5- no FTUOCHSL driver

I have on my computer
.net framework  3.5 , 1.1 , 2.0 sp2 , 3.0 sp2 , 3.5 sp1
and java
any thing missing

Do you get your SYS from the Visual Kitchen thread? If not, try one of the builds from there.
And try building without the EXT to see if it works. All the best!

[jemaho]

Great guide for us newbies but I unfortunately encounter problems.

No matter what I do, I always get when building, this log:

Welcome to vis.tang produced Visual kitchen ,MSN:[email protected] Mail: [email protected]
Donate paypal: [email protected]
PLATFORMREBUILDER	Copyright (c) 2008-2009 bepe	Feb 15 2009 22:53:49

Building for old kernel!
Build:  Premium
Locale: 0409

Preparing release structure...
... done!

Collecting standard packages and initializing hives...
 XIP:   5 packages
 IMG:  10 packages

Error: 0x8000000a
 'initflashfiles.dat' does not exist in the specified paths!


ERROR! platformrebuilder (errorlevel: 1)

[magawa]

ock, on Mar 10 2010, 12:53, said:

Do you get your SYS from the Visual Kitchen thread? If not, try one of the builds from there.
And try building without the EXT to see if it works. All the best!

yes of course ( about the sys)
no It didnt work ( about the EXT )
my OEM is clean ( original oem )
and I have another OEM edited by sykar

still stuck at welcome head

Edited by magawa, 10 March 2010 - 01:29 PM.

[magawa]

jemaho, on Mar 10 2010, 12:56, said:

Great guide for us newbies but I unfortunately encounter problems.

No matter what I do, I always get when building, this log:

Welcome to vis.tang produced Visual kitchen ,MSN:[email protected] Mail: [email protected]
Donate paypal: Tx[email protected]
PLATFORMREBUILDER	Copyright (c) 2008-2009 bepe	Feb 15 2009 22:53:49

Building for old kernel!
Build:  Premium
Locale: 0409

Preparing release structure...
... done!

Collecting standard packages and initializing hives...
 XIP:   5 packages
 IMG:  10 packages

Error: 0x8000000a
 'initflashfiles.dat' does not exist in the specified paths!
ERROR! platformrebuilder (errorlevel: 1)

check intiflashfiles.dat in the oem in the oem_lang_0409 folder



edit : the roms are working now ( removed manila theme )

Edited by magawa, 11 March 2010 - 08:40 PM.

[fense]

OCK, is that possible for u to share us ur ingredient for ur ROM?because I just wan to modify some outlook or theme base on ur great ROM.lol lol

[Argyelus]

Hi ock,

first of all thanks for your efforts for publishing the essence of rom cooking!

I have though a question - maybe I did not recognize something. But, how to test cooked roms before falshing & bricking THE OMNIA....?

Thanks,
Árgyélus