DogGuy's Educational Command-Line Kitchen - Page 3

mrgeoff · #21 (**permalink**) 11-10-2007, 02:12 PM

I am trying to learn/understand building a custom ROM, but I had a question.

What can be done with all the folders that are already in the OEM folder? I see stuff that I want to remove, but at the same time there is some apps that I want to keep (i.e. epst in oemapps). A lot of the other custom roms seem to still have those folders, and from everything I have been reading I thought OEM would be a little more clearcut as to what to add/delete.

Thanks DogGuy for this early kitchen. I'm really excited to see what the final kitchen will look like!

sfaure03 · #22 (**permalink**) 11-10-2007, 02:21 PM

this "process" simply makes the first step to doing what you want.

The vendor packaged a lot of things "together" in the OEMapps folder. The process you are execing give you a setup like then vendor made.

It is a laborious process to perform the type of extractions you are refering to, and should be undertaken with "care" and understanding. you are "possibly" undoing a number of interdependencies if you start swiping stuff out of an oem directory. Thats not to say it cannot be done {indeed a lot of people are working on just that and it is a big reason there is no "release" kitchen yet} but that it is not a simple cut and paste operation.

mrgeoff · #23 (**permalink**) 11-10-2007, 02:32 PM

I was figuring it wouldn't be an easy task since they crammed a whole bunch of apps in a few folders.

I guess my best option is to ignore those folders for now and start adding my own apps and regedits.

Thanks!

cbr900rr · #24 (**permalink**) 11-16-2007, 11:29 PM

Please help.. my phone is stuck in the loading screen, any ideas how to kick this thing and get it going again.. start over or something?????

cbr900rr · #25 (**permalink**) 11-16-2007, 11:35 PM

anybody have any idea as to how to un-Bork my phone its stuck at the loading...
screen and hard reboot doesn't seem to work either.

knytphal · #26 (**permalink**) 11-16-2007, 11:45 PM

Did you try to go back to the bootloader screen and try again? (hold down camera+power while resetting)

superevilllama · #27 (**permalink**) 11-16-2007, 11:48 PM

For those of you thinking you "borked" your phone, and are stuck at the boot screen, boot your phone in bootloader mode, and try no2chem's rom as a base. Nothing against DCD, but his roms do not work as a base in the kitchen maker utility. The boot screen was as far as I got with it as well. Flash DCD's roms as is, and it works great!

cbr900rr · #28 (**permalink**) 11-17-2007, 01:56 AM

thanks for the advise, but DCD has removed his ROM's so now what? can we use this kitchen with a different base and have things OK? Not sure how you guys figure all this out,, but damn. thanks alot again.

DogGuy · #29 (**permalink**) 11-17-2007, 03:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cbr900rr

thanks for the advise, but DCD has removed his ROM's so now what? can we use this kitchen with a different base and have things OK? Not sure how you guys figure all this out,, but damn. thanks alot again.

You can use any rom as a base where the builder isn't removing the .rgu's, .dsm's or anything else that makes rebuilding difficult. No2Chem has a great base that seems to work wonders. When in doubt, use one of the original carrier roms. I have a preference for Alltel personally.

I'm in the chat quite a bit, so if anyone finds themselves stuck, or feeling like they may have borked their phone, feel free to come find me.

- DogGuy

DogGuy · #30 (**permalink**) 11-19-2007, 05:36 AM

Two updates. First, the kitchen maker has been altered ever so slightly to optimize memory usage for those on a ramdisk.... again, slight. Kitchen06 is the newest version.

Second, http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=12060 is the link to a version of this kitchen with a phenomenal base already prepared, as well as a handful of OEMs.

Better ReadMe.doc is still in the works. OEM add-on pack is in the works as well.

Happy cooking,
- DogGuy