Okay, I feel so absolutely, ridiculously stupid!
Would you guys mind a few n00b questions? (And I apologize if I'm posting in the wrong location...)
I've been reading this thread over and over, trying to follow what you guys are saying - and that's after studying ppcgeeks for the last 2 weeks, searching and reading tutorials, etc, trying to answer any Qs on my own before bothering you with it. Maybe it's just brain overload, but I'm getting a bit confused about what goes where with this Manila2D OEM!
As background, I have flashed successfully over 15 times, just playing around with the kitchen and loading different options - I'm using 20755 - so I'm real comfortable with that. (honestly, it's hard to mess
that up, you guys have made it so 'plug -n- play'
Thanks for that BTW!)
I even tried loading the manila 2D that comes with 20755. Got that looping touchFlo loading thang, too. So I gave up on that, reflashed to something more basic and concentrated on reading up on stuff and learning how things work.
---aside: I have 2 good Apaches, so I can play with one of them and still keep the other as my working phone until I get it right.... and I'm not afraid to get in there and mess around (though I hope I do so responsibly
After all, I bought 3 "broken" apaches from ebay - tore into them and made 2 decent working phones. And Jabu, you made me LOL about the whole volume slider thing and that "rubber block 61"! Yep, happened to me too...twice... ---
I'd
really like to advance to the next level. I'd love to load Maxx's Manila OEM, but when I read over this thread, it sounds as if some of you are extracting the files from various OEMs and dumping them into the kitchen_OEM. Sometimes it sounds as if you're replacing the entire kitchen_OEM with another .rar file.
If you dump the files into the PPCkitchen_OEM, do you create a folder structure for them, or just dump the whole wad inside? If you're replacing the OEM, are you RARing the zipped folder you download, then putting them in the Kitchens folder? (I'se confused....)
Also...various downloads from various sites (ppckitchen, here and xda-dev) have different types of files inside their main folder.
For example:
1. I d/l version 19a from xda-dev, and all the files inside the version 19a folder are cabs...
2. I d/l Maxx's "zzzzzSuperMegaManilapackVers19b" and unzipped it, and all the files inside are *really* unpacked. There are all the dlls, pngs, xmls, muis, etc just sitting there in the main folder. (So should I open Maxx's folder in WinRAR and rar it...?)
3. I opened up the PPCkitchen_OEM.rar using WinRAR and the files inside there are all tucked nicely into various folders.
I know there's a method to all this and if I just had my Ovaltine Decoder Ring, I'd understand the file structure and what should go where, but I'm pretty lost right now, and don't know how to proceed - or even where to go to read up on it so I can
learn what to do!
Jabu mentioned on page 3 of this thread that they released instructions/cabs, but I searched for them and they keep eluding me.
Then I downloaded version 19a from the xda-developers site because someone had mentioned there were instructions included in the zip file ... but I didn't see them....
Then I saw on page 3 of this thread that DennyG had used the existing PPCKitchen_OEM, extracted the cabs from xda dev and replaced all the files in the PPCkitchen_OEM with these.
I can do that. I have the kitchen open in WinRAR, have the cabs from XDA. Do I unpack them and stick them into the kitchen_OEM?
(the head is officially spinning right now and I have a distinct urge to pull my hair out, which is pretty drastic since there's 4 feet of it...)
help...