Kitchen vs CAB

[spetrillo]

Evening all,

I was wondering how people go about developing their own ROMs. Do you use a kitchen and bake all your options into the kitchen? Or do you bake a minimal ROM and then add via CAB after the ROM flash?

I have been going back and forth with this, even from the early days of my 6700. Now that I have a larger amount of memory does it matter to be sensitive to your ROM size? Should I just bake everything in?

Steve

[rstoyguy]

Originally Posted by spetrillo

Evening all,

I was wondering how people go about developing their own ROMs. Do you use a kitchen and bake all your options into the kitchen? Or do you bake a minimal ROM and then add via CAB after the ROM flash?

I have been going back and forth with this, even from the early days of my 6700. Now that I have a larger amount of memory does it matter to be sensitive to your ROM size? Should I just bake everything in?

Steve

When I first started, I took a basic rom (the stock rom) and added usercustomization and did most of my customizations with .cabs. Then I figured out how to OEM things, and things took off from there. Then I learned this, then that, and now I can do almost anything with a rom.


There are tutorials out there now where you can after reading them, dive in feet first. And quite a few people are willing to help out, like myself for one! All ya gotta do is ask.


Edit: oh, and I use dogguy's kitchen to bake everything in. From settings to reg codes...Saves a ton of time!

[spetrillo]

Originally Posted by rstoyguy

When I first started, I took a basic rom (the stock rom) and added usercustomization and did most of my customizations with .cabs. Then I figured out how to OEM things, and things took off from there. Then I learned this, then that, and now I can do almost anything with a rom.


There are tutorials out there now where you can after reading them, dive in feet first. And quite a few people are willing to help out, like myself for one! All ya gotta do is ask.


Edit: oh, and I use dogguy's kitchen to bake everything in. From settings to reg codes...Saves a ton of time!

I know what you are saying in baking everything in. I learned how to build OEMs early on, so with my 6700 I used to put it all in the ROM. But then I saw several pieces of software, like S2U2 and dialers, change so frequently that I started down the CAB route for flexibility in wanting to try out a new version of something without having to build a new ROM.

I am very comfortable both in OEMs and in CABs. Its just more a question of one's taste I think.

Steve

[conflipper]

I think it is more or less how someone feels. True there are always updates out there with cabs. so it is easier that way.

But also a lot of the small updates 1.22 to 1.25 (random numbers), there is nothing to major in those updates. mainly bug fix most of the time. so i mean it is faster to just use cabs. but idk.

I prefer the kitchen way, I dont have the most up to date apps, but If i find a new verison i will OEM it.

I also use dogguy kitchen,

[spetrillo]

Originally Posted by conflipper

I think it is more or less how someone feels. True there are always updates out there with cabs. so it is easier that way.

But also a lot of the small updates 1.22 to 1.25 (random numbers), there is nothing to major in those updates. mainly bug fix most of the time. so i mean it is faster to just use cabs. but idk.

I prefer the kitchen way, I dont have the most up to date apps, but If i find a new verison i will OEM it.

I also use dogguy kitchen,

That makes sense...

So what is so special about Dogguy's kitchen in relation to say the PPCGEEKS kitchen?

[conflipper]

PPCGeeks is you just go through and check a box, and then go from there. It is much easier to make a rom that way.

Dogguy kitchen you have to go through and add the oem seperate, then change the registry seperate. It takes more time, but it give you a much better idea about everything.

I prefer it because it is a lot more hands on, and so you get a better idea about everything that makes a rom work.

[spetrillo]

Originally Posted by conflipper

PPCGeeks is you just go through and check a box, and then go from there. It is much easier to make a rom that way.

Dogguy kitchen you have to go through and add the oem seperate, then change the registry seperate. It takes more time, but it give you a much better idea about everything.

I prefer it because it is a lot more hands on, and so you get a better idea about everything that makes a rom work.

So Dogguy's kitchen is similar to the original kitchens that came out say 2 years ago...interesting. Where is his latest kitchen so I could take a peek at it.

Steve