How To's For Developing Q & A

[dereknjenny04]

OMJ,
I found a thread over on XDA where Bepe describes how the version is determined.

It is the {guid}.DSM file in the \SYS\OS directory. You can use his pkgtool to view the OS Version.

[OMJ]

Originally Posted by colonel

rmactivate.exe

This is assuming that your SYS is virgin and intact.


always helps to ask others.

thanks colonel!

Originally Posted by jakdillard

My take on all this ...... I have really never like to port xip or sys . Whenever I do a rom I like to use an "official" or "original" build ..... the only reason I've done any porting here lately was for wm6.1 ... in the past when I was making titan roms I tried getting into all of this and what happened was that when I brought over a xip or sys I also brought over the problems .......

The tutorials I wrote were just the quick way that I found to do this.......... the old way is very .... well sometimes it can be time consuming

Yeah, I figured that would be the only reason.....for an upgraded OS. It sounds like when we do get a new official ROM, that it will still be 6.0. One thing that stuck in my head, is a question you asked in your challenge to chefs...... "If a new official rom was released tonight would you guys be able to clean it out yourself or would you have to wait until someone doe's it for you". Well, your tut on porting should serve much value when the new official is released....Thank you!!

Originally Posted by dereknjenny04

OMJ,
I found a thread over on XDA where Bepe describes how the version is determined.

It is the {guid}.DSM file in the \SYS\OS directory. You can use his pkgtool to view the OS Version.

cool...thanks, I'll try to find it.

[plckc]

First, Thank You all (you who post tutorials, make kitchens, strip ROMs, and the like).
Secondly I was wondering if it's possible to get WM6.1 and put it into a WM6 phone. What I want to do is keep most of my Alltel stuff and just put 6.1 on it. I am a total n00b to all this but so far I have been able to follow all the tutorials and make my own stuff. My biggest things are I want to keep my mms capabilities and keep the mp3 trimmer that comes with Alltel's touch. I was thinking the porting was going to be the answer but now you guys are talking about the XIP and now I'm totally confused. I work for an Alltel Agent and they frown upon the Sprint stuff that comes with most of the ROMs and I have to be able to show customers the basics of the Alltel version of the phone.
I have less than an hour a day to play with this and it really sucks cause I would really love to spend a couple days just figuring this stuff out. I appreciate any guidance as to how to accomplish anything.
Thanks
PC

[jakdillard]

Originally Posted by plckc

First, Thank You all (you who post tutorials, make kitchens, strip ROMs, and the like).
Secondly I was wondering if it's possible to get WM6.1 and put it into a WM6 phone. What I want to do is keep most of my Alltel stuff and just put 6.1 on it. I am a total n00b to all this but so far I have been able to follow all the tutorials and make my own stuff. My biggest things are I want to keep my mms capabilities and keep the mp3 trimmer that comes with Alltel's touch. I was thinking the porting was going to be the answer but now you guys are talking about the XIP and now I'm totally confused. I work for an Alltel Agent and they frown upon the Sprint stuff that comes with most of the ROMs and I have to be able to show customers the basics of the Alltel version of the phone.
I have less than an hour a day to play with this and it really sucks cause I would really love to spend a couple days just figuring this stuff out. I appreciate any guidance as to how to accomplish anything.
Thanks
PC

follow the porting sys tutorial then once you get your hands dirty worry about xip

[plckc]

Originally Posted by jakdillard

follow the porting sys tutorial then once you get your hands dirty worry about xip

I have been playing around with the porting. I actually have done all the tutorials. I am in the process now of playing and seeing what happens. I really just want to know am I wasting my time trying to mix ROMs. Or more specifically can I extract just the OS (WM6.1) and just replace the existing OS while leaving the core functionality of the phone. Thanks for your timely response.
PC

Edit: I did it! Thanks everyone, (I feel like I just won an oscar) there are so many people to thank but I definitely want to thank OMJ, No2Chem and CoKeman for they are the ones that I took/used their work. I Ported the sys and than copied over the ROM folder and now I have what looks like a stock Alltel Touch but with WM6.1. I plan on doing some more modifications but I will post what I have tomorrow after work. Thanks Again to all the true Chefs (I hope to be one soon.)

[640k]

Is it possible to use BuildOS without a login? I can't login @ work because of the proxy.

[vboyz103]

@OJM - I have mixed result by not replacing the ROM Size on the second run and here are my findings. Tried it for on of the kaiser rom 19701 and didn't boot. Downloaded OJM's 19716 ROM in the forum here and just extract the SYS folder in OJM's ROM and replace it. Boot up just fine. So my theory is that maybe the Kaiser ROM is a custom ROM and not good for porting????? What ROM did you port your 19716 SYS from OJM?

@Arlen - Please elaborate. Do you mean that I have to copy the .ROM, .VM and Metadata folders from my old SYS folder into the new SYS folder?

[dereknjenny04]

I used 19209 from AT&T leaked Kaiser ROM.

Decompile the Sprint ROM into SYS, OEM, etc.. Folders.

Rename the sys folder to sys-orig.

Decompile the Kaiser ROM into SYS, OEM, etc... in a different directory.

Copy the sys folder from Kaiser into the SYS folder from Sprint

delete the .ROM and .VM folders

copy the .ROM, .VM, WinCENLS folders from SYS-orig into SYS
( I also had to copy some of the Bluetooth Folders from sys-orig for BT to work )

Run G'Reloc and hit "do it" don't change anything.

It will pick up the correct values from the .ROM/.VM folders from SYS.

BTW, if you are getting shady results with this method, make sure you decompile the sprint ROM each time or at least make a copy of the OEM after a decompile. I have seen many times where G'Reloc can screw up the OEM folder if something goes wrong ( i.e. wrong numbers ) and will leave you with a non-bootable ROM.

Hope this helps.

[vboyz103]

Derek,

Thanks for the tips, I will definitely have to try your method.

[boggsie]

Alrightey then ...

I completed (after a few tries) a straight port of:

SYS from Diamond 5.2.19588

to

Sprint OEM leaked GPS + Rev.A

Flashed back to my device and icons are messed up and the desktop appears to be setup for 640 x 480 (VGA) of the diamond.

So, I completed the port, but the finished product isn't particularly polished ... to say the least.

Is this atypical because of the resolution / video differences between the diamond vs that of the vogue (touch) ?

Best regards,
-boggsie