How to Customize a Custom Rom: Adding/Removing Programs

[kbl]

I ran PrepIt.bat on NFSFAN's latest rom as I would like to customize further. After that finished, as a test I ran BuildOS.exe and then BuildIt.bat. Everything completed properly as far as I can tell.

When I flash this ROM, looks like everything is fine... but for some reason I can't get some applications to work (and yes, they work in the donor ROM). In this case, when I try to run the camera application it says:

"The file 'Camera' cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. If the problem persists, try reinstalling or restoring this file."

So, all I did was dump and recook... no changes. So I have no clue why the camera app is no longer working... Any ideas?

[rstoyguy]

Originally Posted by kbl

I ran PrepIt.bat on NFSFAN's latest rom as I would like to customize further. After that finished, as a test I ran BuildOS.exe and then BuildIt.bat. Everything completed properly as far as I can tell.

When I flash this ROM, looks like everything is fine... but for some reason I can't get some applications to work (and yes, they work in the donor ROM). In this case, when I try to run the camera application it says:

"The file 'Camera' cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. If the problem persists, try reinstalling or restoring this file."

So, all I did was dump and recook... no changes. So I have no clue why the camera app is no longer working... Any ideas?

I assume you grabbed the camera OEM out of a disassembled rom? Sometimes OEM's you take from another rom's \SYS folder are missing a couple of things.
1. If they were cooked with the ppckitchen, this strips out the needed RGU files.
2. All methods take the initflashfiles.txt and append it to the initflashfiles.dat file located in ..\OEM\OEM_Lang_0409 folder.
Somewhere there are some registry edits that also relax the security. But my bet is your missing the initflashfiles.txt file and files aren't getting copied to where they need to be.

According to above, you didn't add anything? Just broke it down and reflashed?

[kbl]

Originally Posted by rstoyguy

I assume you grabbed the camera OEM out of a disassembled rom? Sometimes OEM's you take from another rom's \SYS folder are missing a couple of things.
1. If they were cooked with the ppckitchen, this strips out the needed RGU files.
2. All methods take the initflashfiles.txt and append it to the initflashfiles.dat file located in ..\OEM\OEM_Lang_0409 folder.
Somewhere there are some registry edits that also relax the security. But my bet is your missing the initflashfiles.txt file and files aren't getting copied to where they need to be.

According to above, you didn't add anything? Just broke it down and reflashed?

Correct, I didn't touch anything... so just took the donor .nbh put it with the Kitchen Tools... ran PrepIt.bat to break it down... and then recompiled... no changes to the dump.

The camera works on the donor .nbh but not on the recompiled version.

[rstoyguy]

Originally Posted by kbl

Correct, I didn't touch anything... so just took the donor .nbh put it with the Kitchen Tools... ran PrepIt.bat to break it down... and then recompiled... no changes to the dump.

The camera works on the donor .nbh but not on the recompiled version.

Happen to know what kitchen he used? It's a bell rom, I can download it and look at the components, but I won't be able to flash and test it.

Edit: which specific rom did you use? There are several on the ftp...

[kbl]

Originally Posted by rstoyguy

Happen to know what kitchen he used? It's a bell rom, I can download it and look at the components, but I won't be able to flash and test it.

Edit: which specific rom did you use? There are several on the ftp...

Not sure what kitchen he's using. The ROM I'm using is the Bell No Theme v1.05.

[rstoyguy]

Originally Posted by kbl

Not sure what kitchen he's using. The ROM I'm using is the Bell No Theme v1.05.

Well....here is what I see...
It's an old_man_jenkins base that has several OEM's from the new DIAMOND rom installed, and several ppcgeeks_oem.rar OEM's also installed. If you are having trouble with just the camera, delete "..\SYS\HTC Vogue Camera_5_07_30568_00" and search for a replacement camera OEM.

I ran into the same today, tried to slide in the Diamonds camera into my rom. In the process I deleted all the files out of ..\OEM\OEMAPPS that make the camera go. For me, I clean out the recycle bin when doing something like that so if it doesn't work, i can get the original files back...

Look for a replacement camera or ask in the ppckitchen thread why that version won't work, or look for tweaks to make it work.

[kbl]

Originally Posted by rstoyguy

Well....here is what I see...
It's an old_man_jenkins base that has several OEM's from the new DIAMOND rom installed, and several ppcgeeks_oem.rar OEM's also installed. If you are having trouble with just the camera, delete "..\SYS\HTC Vogue Camera_5_07_30568_00" and search for a replacement camera OEM.

I ran into the same today, tried to slide in the Diamonds camera into my rom. In the process I deleted all the files out of ..\OEM\OEMAPPS that make the camera go. For me, I clean out the recycle bin when doing something like that so if it doesn't work, i can get the original files back...

Look for a replacement camera or ask in the ppckitchen thread why that version won't work, or look for tweaks to make it work.

I did try that already (delete out of SYS and add to OEM - I used the OEM from the PPCKitchen)... same thing. I'm going to try again now just in case I goofed on something.

What I don't understand is if (assuming) the ROM is deconstructed properly and had no changes, then rebuilt... why wouldn't it work? Confusing to me.