WM 6.5 Kitchen QVGA and VGA Developer Edition

[blazingwolf]

I am still having issues with building a 6.5 ROM for my Omnia. I'm hoping someone might have a clue for me for the following error:

BuildBootHive: (RGUComp) !ERROR unable to mount hive file ".\boot.hv"
wmain: (RGUComp) !ERROR failed building BOOT hive

I'm going to guess and say that this means there is something wrong with my xip. The question is what? Does anyone have an idea?

I used the xip kitchen to get my xip. I have not changed or removed any files (I tried removing the files that appeared in xipkitchen also and I got the same error).

[joojoobee666]

Originally Posted by aaronpoweruser

u wouldnt happen to know a link to a tutorial to do this

It's not very hard. Download reversmode.exe aand dump it in your BuildOS tools folder. Then just drap and drop the dll's, exe and mui your want to convert on to that file and it will replace the file in the source folder with a folder. Afterwords, you must make sure that you update the dsm (if it's not 0 bytes that is) by using a tool called DSMinfo.exe (DSM Analyzer by MichyPrima). Run it, choose to analyze the dsm. Then click the manage files included button, remove all files and add all files again from the Add all file from a folder button. Click save selection, then save the dsm.

[aaronpoweruser]

Originally Posted by joojoobee666

It's not very hard. Download reversmode.exe aand dump it in your BuildOS tools folder. Then just drap and drop the dll's, exe and mui your want to convert on to that file and it will replace the file in the source folder with a folder. Afterwords, you must make sure that you update the dsm (if it's not 0 bytes that is) by using a tool called DSMinfo.exe (DSM Analyzer by MichyPrima). Run it, choose to analyze the dsm. Then click the manage files included button, remove all files and add all files again from the Add all file from a folder button. Click save selection, then save the dsm.

ok u said doing this with tmail improved performance any other apps that preformed faster

[aaronpoweruser]

Originally Posted by blazingwolf

I am still having issues with building a 6.5 ROM for my Omnia. I'm hoping someone might have a clue for me for the following error:

BuildBootHive: (RGUComp) !ERROR unable to mount hive file ".\boot.hv"
wmain: (RGUComp) !ERROR failed building BOOT hive

I'm going to guess and say that this means there is something wrong with my xip. The question is what? Does anyone have an idea?

I used the xip kitchen to get my xip. I have not changed or removed any files (I tried removing the files that appeared in xipkitchen also and I got the same error).

try cooking with out a user oem

[gguruusa]

Originally Posted by joojoobee666

Just for the sake of curiosity I converted my igo8.exe into a module and cooked it in. When I run it from the windows folder, igo8.exe opens up in half the time 10 secs as opposed to 20 secs), and leaves almost 4.5MB of free RAM STILL! When I run it from the storage card, it takes 20secs to open up and I have .5MB free. Holy sh*t!! eXecute In Place can really make a difference

Thanks again, for clearing all of that up for me Dan and Conflipper!

90% of that is the difference between onboard flash and SD load times. .exe's don't really play into the whole xip thing so much.

[joojoobee666]

Originally Posted by aaronpoweruser

ok u said doing this with tmail improved performance any other apps that preformed faster

Other than iGO8, I did the etphone.dll from my dialer, HTC Task Manager and ArcSoft (MMS app for verizon). I don't really have anything else I feels I could gain any benefits from doing that to. Those are my promary apps, other than whats already cooked in (but runs fine) and Skyfire (which I don't see a need for XIPing).

[gguruusa]

Originally Posted by blazingwolf

I am still having issues with building a 6.5 ROM for my Omnia. I'm hoping someone might have a clue for me for the following error:

BuildBootHive: (RGUComp) !ERROR unable to mount hive file ".\boot.hv"
wmain: (RGUComp) !ERROR failed building BOOT hive

I'm going to guess and say that this means there is something wrong with my xip. The question is what? Does anyone have an idea?

I used the xip kitchen to get my xip. I have not changed or removed any files (I tried removing the files that appeared in xipkitchen also and I got the same error).

it means that your kitchen is broken (missing components). Nothing to do with your xip.

[gguruusa]

Originally Posted by aaronpoweruser

ok u said doing this with tmail improved performance any other apps that preformed faster

All apps that it can be done to benefit from it. The problem is that they do so at the expense of resorces other apps might need to even function.

[joojoobee666]

Originally Posted by gguruusa

90% of that is the difference between onboard flash and SD load times. .exe's don't really play into the whole xip thing so much.

Hmmm....didnt consider that, but the free RAM is obviously a difference. iGO8 is a RAM hungry bastard. So hopefully, this will help and will also not kill my VM to much to make my phone unusable and apps crash. I usually only run one or two apps at a time so I guess I don't anticipate that happening, but that's just a guess based off of my limited understanding of memory management in windows mobile.

[gguruusa]

Originally Posted by joojoobee666

...Afterwords, you must make sure that you update the dsm (if it's not 0 bytes that is) by using a tool called DSMinfo.exe (DSM Analyzer by MichyPrima). Run it, choose to analyze the dsm. Then click the manage files included button, remove all files and add all files again from the Add all file from a folder button. Click save selection, then save the dsm.

Unnecessary if all you do is convert files/modules, add files/modules, delete files/modules. All kitchens in use at this time will update the dsm during build time to compensate for these actions.