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Originally Posted by YaTwice
I have to agree with electronicrice....
If you'd never flashed a PPC before, could you do it with the current kitchen?
I think the issue everyone is overlooking with the PPCKitchen team can be summed up in this quote from the website:
"PPCKitchen.org is dedicated to putting out free easy-to-use solutions for end users who wish to update or customize the software on their Windows Mobile phones."
As I have witnessed the evolution of the PPCKitchen project, I've noticed that the only significant leap in the direction of the stated purpose of the team was the development of first kitchen. Since then, they have fallen into the same quagmire that we all ***** about M$ being in and each "update" to buildOS just continues along that path. For me, the current BuildOS is completely unusable. The entire application is counter-intuitive, and the "automatic" update is anything but automatic. Since the new buildOS came out(after Helmi's original kitchen for the Apache), I've went back to the old-style of ROM cooking with the individual tools, I pull what I want out of the different ROMs and the kitchen RARs and cook it myself.
Too much time is being spent on bells and whistles and not enough time on core functionality.
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I started out a bit later in the game but agree with the above. I have tried several times to "build a rom" from the new Kitchen/Build OS and have found it incredibly confusing and when I finally was able to put something together, it just didn't function right on my phone while before all of these changes, I had quite a few excellent "Rom Builds" from the BuildOS.
I love to experiment and try new things on my phone - but with all of these options and attempting to wade through it all, it has become more work and effort than it's worth. I am currently utilizing DCD's latest effort with a few of my favorite OEM's thrown in with fantastic results. The software is stable, fast and allows for more free RAM than I have seen so far. The kitchen offered by DCD is simple, intuitive and takes much less time to deal with than the latest version of Build OS.
That being said, I really appreciate the work that goes into Build OS, but it's way beyond my understanding, and quite honestly, I do not have the time to "learn" over and over again how to use it properly.