Cooking roms with another rom

[rstoyguy]

Originally Posted by hasseye

hope this isn't a stupid question but is there a link to the files mentioned in your tutorial?

Which links? All you need is a kitchen for your device...

Titan Kitchen: DogGuy Kitchen Beta4.rar
Vogue Kitchen: Vogue_Kitchen_tools.rar
Diamond Kitchen: DIAM_blank_kitchen.rar
Raphael Kitchen: RAPH_blank_kitchen.rar

and a donor rom from your device type...
*Leaked* Sprint Diamond ROM v2.00.651.1 CE OS 5.2.20764

And someone that knows how EASY is it to cook a custom rom and is willing to share those techniques...You can ask any questions in this thread, he has tons of patience (unless you ask that one question)...
How to Customize a Custom Rom: Adding/Removing Programs

On a side note, I'm liking caclu's kitchen and I'm thinking about doing a more updated tutorial, someday...

[hasseye]

hey i no im doing something wrong. Just cant figure it out. I have PPCkitchen.org installed (buildos) I then downloaded DIAM blank kitchen.rar. Extracted that. I then copyied the RUU of the leaked rom to that folder and click on prepit. Only problem is it doesnt do anything and a new folder stating an error occurs. it says "NBSplit 2.1rc2
Could not open input file OS.nb" Its obviously looking for a .nb file. The file i have is a exe. You click it and it opens up the rom utility screen. What am i supposed to do?

[rstoyguy]

Originally Posted by hasseye

hey i no im doing something wrong. Just cant figure it out. I have PPCkitchen.org installed (buildos) I then downloaded DIAM blank kitchen.rar. Extracted that. I then copyied the RUU of the leaked rom to that folder and click on prepit. Only problem is it doesnt do anything and a new folder stating an error occurs. it says "NBSplit 2.1rc2
Could not open input file OS.nb" Its obviously looking for a .nb file. The file i have is a exe. You click it and it opens up the rom utility screen. What am i supposed to do?

The kitchens from my tutorial should be in a seperate directory, ppckitchens buildos is an entirely different kitchen. Make sure you extract the kitchen from my tutorial to it's own directory, and place the ruu_signed.nbh in the root directory of the kitchen, then run prepit.bat (which is in the root directory of the kitchen also).

[hasseye]

im assuming the ruu_signed.nbh is any file such as the link mentioned above correct? If i download the link mentioned above it is an application file. I put it into the same folder as prepit run prepit and i still get that error message.

[rstoyguy]

Originally Posted by hasseye

im assuming the ruu_signed.nbh is any file such as the link mentioned above correct? If i download the link mentioned above it is an application file. I put it into the same folder as prepit run prepit and i still get that error message.

install WinRar. The rom is actually a self-extracting archive. Right click on the leaked rom (exe) and click on "Open with Winrar". From here, click on and drag the LARGER of the 2 NBH's (the big one is the rom as we know it) inside the exe and drop that into your kitchen. Then your good to go after you close winrar...

[hasseye]

ha thankk you...knew i was missing something. You should add that into ur tutorial.

[rstoyguy]

Originally Posted by hasseye

ha thankk you...knew i was missing something. You should add that into ur tutorial.

Added, I covered that somewhere... I just hope it wasn't in my Theme tutorial! I'm feeling like such a....!

[hasseye]

hey not trying to get sidetracked. Now that you mention it, everytime i try and use a .cab theme file nothing ever happens. Any ideas why? Should just be pretty straight foward huh? Also, i saw that you have a tutorial on how to add .tsk files to a cooked rom. Is that the same with a .cab? Would it be the pretty much the same instructions outlines in your tutorial??

[rstoyguy]

Adding a .cab file you must convert it to an OEM, follow the tutorial in yellow through the orange link:

My Rom Building Tutorials
Today Theme OEM's ** Customizing Rom Sounds
Adding Registry Entries ** Adding/Removing Programs
Adding Personal Files & Other Stuff
Creating OEM's for your ROM

.tsk files have a similiar structure to .cab files...but are different. Probably easier for winmo to install that way..

[threeFiftyLi]

Originally Posted by rstoyguy

Coffee... lol! Just break it down with the kitchen of your choice, and get to choppin!

rstoyguy, I got a question that I thought maybe you could answer. What makes the difference in speed when going from one rom to the other rom?

For example, lets say you throw in different SYS's in calc's kitchen. Would that yield a difference in speed? I am assuming that every chef uses their own "private" kitchen but, after flashing so many times, I can't understand what creates the speed difference.

I recently started using spb benchmark to get a "real" reading on whether I was upgrading or not. And for the most part I found that the rom's were not getting any faster. I have tried some rom's (not yours yet, I was waiting for a new clean version with original taskbar icons) and compared them with an old benchmark (juicy 4.4) and found that juicy's did about 80-100 points better. My question is:

Juicy uses the 20764 SYS in the rom he released before the sprint rom got leaked. Shouldn't the new build's on that SAME SYS yield similar results? What is causing newer roms to be slower than an old rom.

Sorry if I'm getting too complex. I can't quite get a grasp as to what causes some of the roms to slow down. The way I see it, if its the SYS that juicy optimized. Then I should be able to throw that SYS into a kitchen and cook it with newer OEM's to obtain similar speeds right?

THANKS!