*Rom Developement* KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid [Experimental]

[Imunalia]

I am somewhat of a demanding user when it comes to my phone and I want it to do a few things well, with out fancy graphics or pretty pictures.

1. Make Phone Calls
2. Recieve Emails
3. Play Music
4. Brows the Web

This ROM is going to be the Barest Bones Edition of WM 6.5 I can create that must be stable, fast, clean.

I plan to build a rom that will specifically exclude the following.

Manilla in all its renditions
Extra entries on the Titanium Screen
-Album
-Music
-Fave People
Extra programs that are rarely used


I have never cooked a rom before but I am bound and determined to get the rom that I want. I have greatly enjoyed everyone elses roms but they just don't quite fit what I am looking for. Anyone who is interested in such a build let me know, especially if you know anything about cooking.

I may be over my head, but I am gonna swim.


Second Post:

Updates

Known Bugs

To Do



Third Post:

Screen Grabs

Inventory

Download Link

[Imunalia]

Updates

Nov. 26, 2009 -- Experiment Starts

Known Bugs


To Do

Nov. 26, 2009 -- Learn how to cook

[Imunalia]

Third Post:

Screen Grabs

Inventory

Download Link

[mulhiny]

Give it a go man..I'll try it out. Unless it's a 6.5.1, then it's a no go for me.

[t0mmyr]

please take a look at dcd's roms if you need some direction what you want good luck

[Imunalia]

Originally Posted by t0mmyr

please take a look at dcd's roms if you need some direction what you want good luck

Thankyou for the tip, definately looks like a good place to start.


If anyone knows of a kitchen guide that just has some basics so I have an idea where to start It would be greatly appreciated.

[raidzero]

hey, I can help you do this. the simpler it is, the easier it is! I would of course recommend my kitchen, it is pretty basic, but with extras that can be easily removed.

dcd's is like mine but not as versatile.. but it is based on the same stuff.

download mine (get the build from last night in my nightly kitchen link in my sig) and basically just delete everything in EXT\baseline except 1_system. you will get an error when the rom boots at this point because all the stuff I run at autorun is referenced in a file in 6_end\rz_basleine\baseline.txt. you could get around by this by removing all autorun functionality, which for you purposes might be a good idea. just remove 1_system\runCC.

Leave everything in SYS and OEM, and ROM. this is needed. (the sys elements I talk about below can be deleted if you want)
my kitchen will remove most of the fluff that comes with windows itself. the following things are skipped:


ADC (not sure what it even is)
Adobe Flash (we all know what this is)
Windows Update - useless
All east-asian content - useless just takes up space
entertainment - all games
IRDA - infrared, out devices do not even have IR ports
mstag reader - useful but useless to most, reads barcodes using the camera
live search - we know what this is too
oneNote - part of office, see no reason for it, the notes app is much faster
sample music
skybox - this is MS my phone. I keep this in my EXT's in 4_rz_apps\juggalo_x MS MyPhone (great version by juggalo_x)
skymarket - ms marketplace.. useless for me, it went by the wayside
welcome center - If we are flashing roms we know how to use our phones lol
windows Live - I dont use it, it takes up space.
MS Widgets - ms money, weather. useless

if there are any of these things you want to keep simply delete the line in start kitchen.cmd: (0409 are the enlgish localization files for the package - if you want to keep it remove its line too)

echo > SYS\%buildver%\ADC\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\ADC_lang_0409\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\AdobeFlash\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\AdobeFlash_Lang_0409\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\AdobeFlashCodecs\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\AUTOUPDATE\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Autoupdate_lang_0409\_skip 
echo > SYS\%buildver%\BronzeEA\_skip 
echo > SYS\%buildver%\CommonEA\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Entertainment\_skip   
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Entertainment_DPI_192\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Entertainment_Lang_0409\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Entertainment_lang_0409_DPI_192\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\IRDA\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\IRDA_Lang_0409\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\MSTag\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\MSTag_Lang_0409\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Livesearch\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\LockScreenEA\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\OneNote\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\OneNote_Lang_0409\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\SampleMusic\_skip
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Skybox\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Skybox_Lang_0409\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Skymarket\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\Skymarket_Lang_0409\_skip 
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WelcomeCenter\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WelcomeCenter_Lang_0409\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WindowsLive\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WindowsLive_Lang_0409\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WindowsLive_DPI_192\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WindowsLiveIM\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WMWidgets_Lang_0409\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WMMoneyWidget\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WMWeatherWidget\_skip  
echo > SYS\%buildver%\WMWidgets\_skip

hope it helps

oh yeah, you might want to keep EXT\baseline\9_registry as a tweaked registry is a happy registry

another thing you need to know, to run my kitchen on vista or windows 7 you must have User Account control disabled. Also you must be an administrator on whatever version of Windows you're using since the kitchen changes the system bits on files in the kitchen and then rewrites them when the rom is cooked

[raidzero]

I am going to go ahead and do this, using WM 6.5 23017. I will post it and the kitchen here for you to look at.

[raidzero]

I put together a very simple, very basic kitchen from my regular one for you to look at. It contains builds 23017 (old 6.5) and 23511 (new 6.5.1). I call it naked and here it is:

http://raidzero.alexauv.com/kitchens...ed_Kitchen.rar

ROMs can be uploaded if desired.

[philliyxx]

straight hijacked this topic nice.