How to Customize a Custom Rom: Adding/Removing Programs

[gguruusa]

Originally Posted by rjmjr69

I've figured out how to take a cooked rom uncook it and put it into a basic kitchen now what I would like to do is upgrade the os with the latest updates. How would I do this while preserving everything else? Oh I also would lile to update system apps like HTC Comm manager etc. I understand how to cook the rom how to add oems etc just can't figure out how to UPGRADE an excisting rom "I have permission from the chef"

As you've noticed from RStoyguy's description, upgrading is a complete pain in the *** with bepe kitchens. It's trivial w/ ppckitchen though, so work on rstoyguy (and eveyrone else) to upgrade

[rjmjr69]

Originally Posted by gguruusa

As you've noticed from RStoyguy's description, upgrading is a complete pain in the *** with bepe kitchens. It's trivial w/ ppckitchen though, so work on rstoyguy (and eveyrone else) to upgrade

Is this a hint that using ppc kitchen would be easier?

[gguruusa]

Originally Posted by rjmjr69

Is this a hint that using ppc kitchen would be easier?

As a general statement, making a base is easier in PPCk. Swapping parts between ppck bases is trivial. This is because PPCk strongly encourages chefs to package their customizations seperately from the bases. Bepe style kitchens (old and new) require chefs to make most changes directly to the bases, so you have to essentially ferret out whatever the kitchen base maker's changed, merge the bases, and then reapply the changes. In PPCk, because the customizations are encapsulated like one or more OEM packs (chefs choice), it's as simple as picking a device, WM build, and picking oem packages (of which chef so-and-so's tweaks are just another example of).

Of course, the first step to making everyone's life easier is getting chef's to quit making their changes directly to whatever base they are working on - and that means getting them to quit using old bepe tools at a minimum.

[nico4k]

this is a great tutorial...i was looking for this!!! Thanks!!

[vin255764]

Im probably havent searched hard,but the question is how to decoplete/edit NB file?

[rstoyguy]

Originally Posted by vin255764

Im probably havent searched hard,but the question is how to decoplete/edit NB file?

That's an advanced topic, and in here I wanted to stick to K.I.S.S. theory and put folks on the basic path. You may want to search for that topic on xda-developers.

K.I.S.S. = Keep It Simple Stupid...for those raised in a bubble.

[m_reyna_16]

i am trying to do this with one of of dcd's roms, but cant get it to work (it is v4.1.2). when i use buildos, it says that boot.hv is missing. so what i do is get it off of his 4.0.0 kitchen (build 2008121 and put it in the XIP folder. the rom builds fine and everything but when i try to program it in my phone, it does not want to boot up, it just stays in the second splash screen. (dont think boot.hv is just a coincidence on why the phone doesnt boot)

[skeegcpp]

Originally Posted by rstoyguy

K.I.S.S. = Keep It Simple Stupid...for those raised in a bubble.

lol...

[hasseye]

heyy guyss gotta question. Still trying to build my own roms. I'm so close to finishing to. Everytime i build it in buildos it works great, compiles it great, then i click on buildit...seems like it works okay...i go to ruu to flash it and i look at the ruu_signed.nbh and its only 1kb. Its like nothing is in there. I even try clicking on the update utility and it errors out, probably because there is nothing in the file. Anybody know why it's doing this. I get no errors in buildos, it creates the temp file as well. i assume that the problem lies around the buildit part.

[rstoyguy]

Originally Posted by hasseye

heyy guyss gotta question. Still trying to build my own roms. I'm so close to finishing to. Everytime i build it in buildos it works great, compiles it great, then i click on buildit...seems like it works okay...i go to ruu to flash it and i look at the ruu_signed.nbh and its only 1kb. Its like nothing is in there. I even try clicking on the update utility and it errors out, probably because there is nothing in the file. Anybody know why it's doing this. I get no errors in buildos, it creates the temp file as well. i assume that the problem lies around the buildit part.

This kitchen unfortunately has a size limitation. (it was built back in the apache days...) Can't build anything over ca. 125 meg's

I have migrated over and use calcu's kitchen now, a brief 15 line tutorial/how to can be found here. I'll create a new tutorial soon. Or convert this kitchen.