Who would want Carrier Specific Kitchens?

[rstoyguy]

I'm thinking about releasing a kitchen for each carrier with the popular customizations and want to see if there is interest. Here is my idea:

Originally Posted by ME!

...How about a set of 4 fully functional kitchens... Each one based from the stock rom... For the following carriers: Bell, Alltell, Verizon, and Sprint Roms with all the popular components? With full support from me! All you have to do is read a tutorial or two, add what you want from all the popular applications and FLASH!!!

I'm thinking of the following components:
1. Kitchen...done.
2. Carrier Rom as base...done.
3. Carrier specific OEM's to fix/override issues in the stock rom and support add-ins.
4. Other OEM files to add in...done.

That way all I have to worry about is a couple carrier OEM's...Time for a new poll to see if there is interest...

[rstoyguy]

Also taking program requests so you guys have what you want...

[Spiderman313]

How about metropcs?

[rstoyguy]

Do you have a link to an original rom so I can look into it? Of course, everything I need is at home on the hard drive, I was just thinking outloud and checking to see what interest there was before I invested the time in this venture...

[Spencer_Moore]

i dont really understadn the point but i may be wrong the ppckitchen does this alreadyy maybe there is oemthing i am missingg but im not sure

[evilvoice]

Well I understand the need for other kitchens besides ppckitchen. Ive had the ppckitchen on my pc for probably 1-2 months, and only in the past 3 weeks have started building my ROM, and only because of rstoyguy and his tutorials. PPCKitchen, IMO, is too convoluted for me and if you read some of my posts about OEMs I am a stickler for correct settings, and I also like a hands on approach.

Now, I personally think that the kitchen in rstoyguy's tutorial is great and dont really know what would change with specific carrier kitchens, but I trust that there is a need or rstoyguy would not put the time into it. If he thinks there is a need, then obviously there is and I wait to see what this new kitchen brings to the table. I say go for it as there is always a need for more options

[Gazoo22]

If you are talking about having a kitchen for each carrier and then having the different versions of roms/oems separated, that sounds great.

I am running the stock bell release of August, I think it is 3.08, 3.42.50 or something like that. It would be nice to build a rom with known working changes made, like ati drivers, Registry changes, Battery management and programs that might need a tweak to get to run right for different roms. I think the best part of something like this would be the non listing of programs or versions of programs that do not work with your rom/radio/carrier combination.

[gguruusa]

RStoyGuys goal only applies to people who want to use the old style kitchen. There is ZERO value in making seperate kitchens otherwise. There is extremely limited value in doing it even with the old style kitchen (like almost none).

If you find PPCKitchen convoluted, you're not going to find any other kitchen any better (the available interfaces are almost identical). I suggest you pare down the number of oems you have to pick between. You don't have to include PPCGeeks_OEM.

It would be great to have something that doens't list invalid rom/radio/carrier oems, but sadly that is not available and not being offered by RSToyGuy. I don't believe he is even planning on offereing much in the way of oems, so you'll be mostly on your own there.

The only value I see being offerred is really "the popular customizations". That can be done in a .cab or OEM without the need for an entire kitchen.

If you seriously want to do it though, have fun. It's a heck of a learning experience.

[no2chem]

sorry, i don't usually comment on these things, but are you SERIOUS?

everything can be done as an OEM... heck, in GSM-land, ROMS work on hundreds of carriers without any extra work because they have this thing called advanced configuration.

nevertheless, I guess one cannot see how overcomplicated they are making things until they understand what they are getting themselves into.

therefore, i side with gguru, and agree with him that it will be a fun learning experience for you.

[hibby50]

no2chem and gguru packing the HEAT lol just kidding and IMO who cares just use a kitchen or better yet install the little cab that makes it work.