Extracting Stock Rom For Kitchen

[quantum_kaos]

Allow me to please state that I have looked at several threads regarding this matter but I haven't had much luck looking for a Touch Pro 2 reference on the matter.

But I am slowly learning how to cook a ROM but I do have one question:

My ultimate goal is to take a Stock Rom and extract it into a kitchen. Now, I'd prefer to have an "empty" kitchen if that's even possible? I'd like to be able to extract the stock rom and take out what I do not want, then begin focusing on what I want to place back into it.

I apologize in advance if this has been brought up before, but as I said earlier, I could not really find it in regards to a Touch Pro 2 specific issue.

**Please Note: I am not asking how to use a kitchen, but more along the lines of how to take a stock rom and use it as a base template *for* the kitchen. **

Please help if you can.

Thank you

[quantum_kaos]

**UPDATE** I have found a few articles/guides (figures haha) after I posted.

I found a tool called Dogguy's Kitchen Maker.

Is there any other kitchen maker tools that you recommend?

[raidzero]

use ervius visual kitchen, just open up the exe and click ok at all the warning about missing files. once it loads click dump nbh in the bottom left corner, browse to the nbh you extracted from a stock ruu package using winrar, that is all. a kitchen will be created in the same directory of the nbh file.

edit: after I post a question I just keep looking for the answer and then find it.. never fails. lol

[quantum_kaos]

You've been thanked!

Is there by chance a link to download the kitchen only? I have found many kitchens that include EVirus' kitchen but it is attached with an already dumped rom. I know it's probably staring right at me but I figured I'd ask.

I will find it after I post this haha but I gotta keep up with the trend.

[quantum_kaos]

YEP! haha I found a stock sprint kitchen that I am going to fiddle around with. In the mean time if you have any other suggestions please post em!

[raidzero]

Originally Posted by quantum_kaos

YEP! haha I found a stock sprint kitchen that I am going to fiddle around with. In the mean time if you have any other suggestions please post em!

<shameless plug>
hah, other suggestion is download my kitchen and replace the sys, oem, ext, rom with yours.. it uses platformrebuilder, same thing as the VK behind the scenes


http://raidzero.alexauv.com/kitchens/TP2/

get last nights, actually it doesn't matter if you are going to replace all the ingredients anyway, theres only two I only just officially switched from nightly TP to TP2...
</shameless plug>

[quantum_kaos]

Thank you again, Raid. I am downloading your kitchen as we speak. I tried downloading a couple of other but my antivirus keeps detecting osnbtools.exe as a virus *sigh* Sometimes antivirus hurts more than helps I've noticed. I kept forgetting to mark the file as "safe".

One again, thank you for your help. I certainly hope this post is found by others looking for the solution to a similar question.

Stay tuned! I am sure I will find myself asking another question.

[fishingmedic]

Are there any tutorials out there regarding ROM building, i.e. ROM building for dummies? Just curious, as I'm pretty happy with the custom ROM's being put out here and I'm sure they're far more stable than anything I could come up with.

[quantum_kaos]

Fishingmedic,

I stumbled across this as I was searching for kitchens, it has some useful information. I have it bookmarked. ^_^

[GUIDE] 49 Universal Tutorials for Customizing any Device and Cooking
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?p=1425287

[gwater]

can you post the links for how to extract a stock rom im trying to do the same thing with my verizon TP2