Building my First ROM !!
 

Good day (Great Chef's)

I'm clearly a nooby, but have collected a lot of information and a good kitchen to start with in my quest to build ROMS.

I have a quick question in which I hope you kind & generous Chef's could help me with pertaining to personalizing.

How do you modify the CE OS Line in the rom? I've noticed how the great chefs in our community always personalize their work.
(see attachment screen shot)

Once i'm done with testing and all I will certainly share, looking forward to getting some opinions on my first ROM

Thanks in advance :headbang:

Re: Building my First ROM !!
 

Why would you change the CE OS Version?

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He wants to change it so it says (Build 2**** by yourname). I know how to do this, I'm kind of busy right now, but if some one hasn't explain you how to do it by then, I'll give you a quick tutorial.

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Not trying to change the version of the CE OS, just add to it
(e.g. most of the chefs add their handle to the following on the Settings -> About page)

Example: CE OS 5.2.21018 (Build 21018.1.6.0 'chef name')

As a way of personalizing their work. wanted to know how to do the same

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Exact-a-mondo, thats it Mystery. thats what i'm trying to do.
Thanks in advance for any information you may be able to provide.
Greatly appreciated.

Also, although I've searched our community & XDA (but haven't been able to locate), Would you kind Ladied & Gents be able to point me in the direction where I can find OEM's for Opera build 15954 (VGA) & PocketExpress & Background on all Pages..

Thanks again, can't wait to get your opinions on my first ROM.
and be straight-up, I have thick skin...LOLOLOL :drunken:

Re: Building my First ROM !!
 

Okay, it tool me a while to write.
I will just like to say that indagroove and Calcu showed me how to do this, I just made a more detailed tutorial.

1. Open up your kitchen.
2. Go to ROM folder, look for the file called "OS.nb.payload"
3. Copy that file to os.nb.payload folder located in my tools folder.
4. Now open up the CMd from kitchen Select Port over XIP then XIPPorterEX
5. Its going to open up a program, click on [Extract from .payload] Then close that program.
6. Go to my tools folder - xip.bin_old folder. In there copy the xip.bin to the kitchens main root.
7. open up the CMD from kitchen again. Click on port over XIP. Select XIPPort2.
8. Click on dump xip.bin, a new folder will appear on the main kitchen's root. it will be called "OUT"
9. Go into that folder select Files, Look for a file called "boot_ms.rgu"
10. Open it with notepad. All the way in the botton you will see "Aku"=" by ***** just edit it and put your name there then save it.
11. Close notepad and then realloc P then write maps, then build xip_out.bin
12.You will have a new file called "xip_out.bin" on the kitchen, copy it to My tools- XIP_new_ported folder
13. Now delete all the files that were made in the kitchen roots, which are "out folder, xip.bin, and xip_out.bin" Only erase the once that are on the main page from the kitchen!!
14. Now go to the kitchen's CMD and select insert XIp into ROM, then select which ever phone you have, in my case it will be Insert XIP into Diamond ROM
15. Make a ROM folder. It will open a program, when the program opens you will see "payload folder then ..., click on .... and locate where you put the os.nb.payload file from step 3
15. Do the same thing with NEW Xip Folder but locate xip_out.bin from step 12
16. Now click Port it.
17. Click on Find Start XIP offset, then Write it.
18. Still using that program, go to ROM tools, Click write then Done.
19. Close the program, the kitchen's CMD will do something, don't press anything. After that is done it will say
"ROM folder was created..........
Press any key to continue....
20. You can now close that, you will see in the main kitchen there will be a ROM and a ROM.old folder. Just delete the ROM.old folder and your done. :>

If you have any problems with this just tell me and I'll help you out.

Re: Building my First ROM !!
 

Hey Mystery, Thank you once again for your help. Much appreciated
I'm going to try these steps shortly and let you know if I have any problems

Hopefully you'll be one of the first to test/try my first ROM :)

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Good luck bro and if you need testers let us know.

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Hey Mystery. First Thanks again. I'm now using eRice's Kitchen and the afore mentioned files (CMD and/or XIPPorterEX option) do not exist. Is this a tool that I can get a link to?.

Also would you happen to know of a good OEM files repository for tools/applications I can add

Thanks again

Re: Building my First ROM !!
 

Well the tutorial I did was with Calcu's kitchen, since I don't have a Pro, I never used erice's kitchen. Maybe some one else can help you out, sorry.

As for the OEMs you can check this thread http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...hlight=oem+vga