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Originally Posted by glenwill
I don't touch anything and XDA installs automatically to my device and then to the storage card. I'll find that post NRG made that explains the whole thing
Thanks. I'll admit I haven't tried it, since my Sashimi is perfectly setup, and I don't feel like learning a new system that won't gain me anything. However, others had previously posted that XDA_UC leaves you at the install screen for each CAB you want on the SD card, and you have to click SD and OK/Install or whatever the button is called. That's also what the official XDA_UC documentation says it does. Sounds like that was either changed, or inaccurate?
Does XDA_UC also give you control over the order things are installed? I.E. with Sashimi you can create subfolders under Auto/CABS, and they are installed in alphabetical/numeric order.
I also didn't see a way to tell XDA_UC what folder to put each program's shortcuts into when CABS are installed. I don't want all my programs directly in the Start menu, but under various folders. E.G. Install Slingplayer under Multimedia, nueBattery2 under Tools, etc.
XDA_UC seems to have come a long way from UC, but unless I can't find them in the documentation, lacks some key features Sashimi has. Hopefully it will continue to evolve, since I suspect Sashimi is eventually a dead-end.
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create ths .mscr file. Just open notepad, paste this in it and save as InstallXDABeta.mscr. Save it directly into your XDA_UC folder on the Storage Card Root (if you don't have that folder, create it)
Code:
Run ("Storage Card\XDA_UC\Install_UC\XDA_UC.mscr")
Download the attached .zip file. Double click the file to open WinRAR or 7zip. You will see a folder called "XDA_UC_1_1_1Beta3 Legacy, Visual And User Packages". Double click that and you'll see three more folders. Double click the folder that says : "User_Storage Card". Double click the "XDA_UC" folder and extract everything in it. Move all that you just extracted to your existing XDA_UC folder in your Storage Card Root.
Your XDA_UC folder should look something like this:
The Copy2Root folder will do what it says. It will copy files directly to you device root. (Although NRG's XDA version does that already)
The Install_UC runs when the .mscr file you created earlier gets run by the cooked in XDA_UC
The Manual folder is for cabs that you want to interact with. So if you have a cab that you sometime want on you storage card and sometime on your device, put it here. XDA_UC will show the coose location screen and wait for user input
The Storage folder is for cabs you want to auto install to your storage card. XDA_UC will show the choose location screen but it will automatically select Storage card and INSTALL and then move to the next cab in that folder. It takes some time so be patient.
All cabs, whether you use this beta version or the cooked in version are installed in numeric then alphbetic order. So, if you look at Riptide9's cab list, he has them all numbered. This is so they will install in that specific order.
There is probably a newer release of the beta (maybe it is actually no longer a beta?) at Noonski's thread here :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=503060
Please donate to XDA and thank him because he's done so much to change the way we flash and cook ROMs.
I've had ZERO problems with this method, so I'm not going to change until NRG cooks in a newer version that silently installs cabs to storage with no input.
As far as where the shortcut goes in the start menu, I am going to test some things on this 5/13 release. I'll let you know. I'm just going to follow the instructions NRG provided. I'll probably install all my apps to my storage card, copy the .lnk files that get created in the device start menu folder to the
\XDA_UC\Start Menu\ folder which I will create, then re-flash. all of the apps that I had installed to my storage card will no longer be in the device start menu and XDA_UC will then move the .lnk files to the folder that I want them to. When I click on the shortcut in the start menu, it should open the app just fine. we'll see...