Cook your own Custom Touch ROM

[rstoyguy]

Originally Posted by yamus08

Now that I have read every page of this post, which is obviously what I should have done first, I think I know where I went wrong. I started off just playing around and seeing if I could decompile a ROM without adding OEMS.
I tried JD's Clean ROM, which is what I was currently using on my touch and got an error while decompiling. Don't remember exactly what the error was.
So.....I deleted the kitchen and started fresh. This time trying OMJ's clean ROM and had another Error while decompiling.
This is when a light bulb came on in my head and said "STOCK ROM". I opened the stock Sprint .exe with winrar and extracted BOTH .nbh files. My uneducated %$#, instead of reading on, decided to put both .nbh files into the root of the kitchen and try decompiling. This time I also got an error message. Of course hind sight is twenty twenty and I was only supposed to put the largest .NBH in the root.
Instead of reading on in this thread, I went on to try with the only other ROM that was hanging out on my desktop which was Dharvey's uber clean ROM. This time, it seemed as everything went on without a hitch except, when the phone tried to boot up, it got stuck in one of the boot screens. I have done all of these thing several time without any luck: taken out the battery for 30 seconds, hard reset, soft reset.
When I have had this issue in the past, I could do a hard reset and then flash a different ROM from that point. Problem is, laptop is giving error, not recognizing USB. I plugged my Mogul in with the same chord and it worked fine. Could be that one of the pins in the touch were bent during the process but I was not plugging in and unplugging the phone during the whole ordeal.

EDIT: I did plug in my car charger last night and get the LCD light to light up. After trying it today for S.A.G, it did no light up. I am going to search about how to get around the modified boot screen and getting Sprint to replace it. If I find nothing, I will start a new thread.

You need to be sure that you are unlocked with the 2.31 unlocker.

Also dharveys, jd's, any rom built with the ppckitchen will decompile, but when you recompile it, flash it, it won't boot past the splash screens.

You can decompile and flash anyones based on the official rom. OMJ's, mine, a few others are based off the official release. You can take 2.nbh out of the official release as well and it will work fine. Follow my kitchen/rom link and I provide a nice OEM package and the same kitchen with more direction! (or another point of view)

And only have one nbh in the root directory when running prepit.bat!

[yamus08]

Originally Posted by boggsie

In my opinion, whenever you get to a place where your phone isn't working and you don't know what to do, flash the latest stock RUU/WWE for your carrier.

Get the phone to the bootloader / SPL with power+camera+button (stylus in the hole on the bottom)

Run the stock RUU/WWE and follow the prompts!

RUU_Vogue_SPRINT_WWE_3.03.651.4_2_Radio_3.42.30_AM _NV_2.04_Ship.exe

Best regards,
-boggsie

Originally Posted by DHarvey

Wow that's really not cool. I would suggest trying the bootloader thing again.

Put the vogue in bootloader, flash a custom that you know works. My suggestion though, use another computer. One with Windows XP where you haven't been messing around like this.

Originally Posted by rstoyguy

You need to be sure that you are unlocked with the 2.31 unlocker.

Also dharveys, jd's, any rom built with the ppckitchen will decompile, but when you recompile it, flash it, it won't boot past the splash screens.

You can decompile and flash anyones based on the official rom. OMJ's, mine, a few others are based off the official release. You can take 2.nbh out of the official release as well and it will work fine. Follow my kitchen/rom link and I provide a nice OEM package and the same kitchen with more direction! (or another point of view)

And only have one nbh in the root directory when running prepit.bat!

Even though I my phone is not charging and is not Activesyncing, I was able to get into bootloader and am flashing a stock ROM. I hope it is a legit one. I will let everyone know in about 5 minutes. Thanks to all of your for your quick replies.
Yamus

[CyberMonkey]

Originally Posted by yamus08

Even though I my phone is not charging and is not Activesyncing, I was able to get into bootloader and am flashing a stock ROM. I hope it is a legit one. I will let everyone know in about 5 minutes. Thanks to all of your for your quick replies.
Yamus

When I finally decide to sit-down and take a whack at my own ROM, it will basically be a stock ROM minus the stuff I will NEVER use, but add the things I do use so it's fairly easy for if/when I have to reflash for whatever reason.

[yamus08]

OK. I flashed the ROM beautifully but it is 6.1 and I don't think that will fly with Sprint as of yet. I read IMCOKEMANS stock links for CDMA touch but they are all using unlocker .40. Can someone give me a link for the last official Sprint stock ROM?
Thanks again,
Yamus

Edit: Looks like my phone is charging and syncing again so I am back in business. You guys rock!

[rstoyguy]

Originally Posted by yamus08

OK. I flashed the ROM beautifully but it is 6.1 and I don't think that will fly with Sprint as of yet. I read IMCOKEMANS stock links for CDMA touch but they are all using unlocker .40. Can someone give me a link for the last official Sprint stock ROM?
Thanks again,
Yamus

Edit: Looks like my phone is charging and syncing again so I am back in business. You guys rock!

You MUST be:
- Unlocked with the 2.31 unlocker,
- Upgraded your RADIO by flashing RUU_PPST_Vogue_SPRINT_WWE_3.03.651.2_Radio_3.42.30 _AM_NV_2.04_Ship.exe

[esoteric]

AWESOME! A Vogue Kitchen. This is what I've been looking for!

But... small problem. I tried to use OMJ's new ROM /w UC that was recently released and pkgtool (as part of prepit.bat) crashes. No sure what might be causing that. No other error messages that I could see. Standard WinXP sp2.

When I try to run the next step, "buildos", I get the error "external componant has thrown an exception", and buildos states: "Error, last status: 'Creating initflashfiles.dat...'".

Then, I run prepit.bat again and it works. The crashing seems to be random.

I haven't tried it on any other roms yet, because I just got the new OMJ and the kitchen tonight.

Great stuff though! I'm so psyched about customizing my own ROM!

[boggsie]

Originally Posted by esoteric

AWESOME! A Vogue Kitchen. This is what I've been looking for!

But... small problem. I tried to use OMJ's new ROM /w UC that was recently released and pkgtool (as part of prepit.bat) crashes. No sure what might be causing that. No other error messages that I could see. Standard WinXP sp2.

When I try to run the next step, "buildos", I get the error "external componant has thrown an exception", and buildos states: "Error, last status: 'Creating initflashfiles.dat...'".

Then, I run prepit.bat again and it works. The crashing seems to be random.

I haven't tried it on any other roms yet, because I just got the new OMJ and the kitchen tonight.

Great stuff though! I'm so psyched about customizing my own ROM!

Send OMJ a Private Message and ask if the rom you are trying to use can be decomposed / decompiled with Vogue_Kitchen_Tools.rar. Make sure that you specifically link to the rom that you are trying to use. He may have switched to a different set (version / method) of tools.

Best regards,
-boggsie

[rstoyguy]

Originally Posted by esoteric

AWESOME! A Vogue Kitchen. This is what I've been looking for!

But... small problem. I tried to use OMJ's new ROM /w UC that was recently released and pkgtool (as part of prepit.bat) crashes. No sure what might be causing that. No other error messages that I could see. Standard WinXP sp2.

When I try to run the next step, "buildos", I get the error "external componant has thrown an exception", and buildos states: "Error, last status: 'Creating initflashfiles.dat...'".

Then, I run prepit.bat again and it works. The crashing seems to be random.

I haven't tried it on any other roms yet, because I just got the new OMJ and the kitchen tonight.

Great stuff though! I'm so psyched about customizing my own ROM!

did you ever get this working/find a solution?

[denasqu]

Okay, I'm cooking with gas... (had Taco Bell late last night)... and I'm curious about the "SD customizations" that run after the OMJ ROM flash. What's that about? Is it for things that can't be cooked in to the ROM? If so, I want some! Can I install the EXE apps that I have? Like Pocket Informant and Calligrapher? What else can I do with it?

[rstoyguy]

Originally Posted by denasqu

Okay, I'm cooking with gas... (had Taco Bell late last night)... and I'm curious about the "SD customizations" that run after the OMJ ROM flash. What's that about? Is it for things that can't be cooked in to the ROM? If so, I want some! Can I install the EXE apps that I have? Like Pocket Informant and Calligrapher? What else can I do with it?

Pocket Informant and Calligrapher are .exe from your desktop? They can be included, but you need to intercept the .cab file on your desktop or on your device...When you install them, wait until your device prompts you to install to memory or storage card. Then search your device w/total commander and copy the .cab file to say \my documents...

"SD Customizations" are for those folks that use a custom rom. This lets you install programs via .cab that you use.