Hello I was wondering if it was possible to install xda2s roms via cab files like you used to as all my computers use Linux at home so an exe installer is about as much use as a horse with no legs.
If anyone could help me by showing me how to extarct cab files from the installer or showing me a different way to upgrade I would be greatful
Thanks
no it's the rom which unpack and install the cab files data to the xda
much like a brain surgen cant perform surgery on himself then
the rom cant upgrade itself
i sugest you use wine or borrow or use a computer at your job school or the likes
wine isn't going to be much use as linux uses synce not activesync for pda connections so I guess me and my cradle are going on a trip down the road
what i mean is if you could use wine to get activesync working as well
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Hi guys first post here. I just went through the headache of removing vista and installing xp so that i could flash to the latest crossbow, then put vista back on without realizing i forgot to put on the tmobile uk radio. Is there any way to install this with a cab file? The vista RUU trick doesnt work for me at all. Any help would be great. Thanks.
socalledsin said:
Hi guys first post here. I just went through the headache of removing vista and installing xp so that i could flash to the latest crossbow, then put vista back on without realizing i forgot to put on the tmobile uk radio. Is there any way to install this with a cab file? The vista RUU trick doesnt work for me at all. Any help would be great. Thanks.
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I think you're stuck. You have to be able to access the bootloader via USB - which forces your hand with and you're stuck with XP.
You might investigate running a dual-boot machine. I run 2 x 400 gig SATA drives in Raid 0 (for speed), then partition them into 200, 200 and 400 gig partitions. The first is for Vista, the second is for XP, and the third is high-speed storage. I keep another 400 gig SATA for backup storage. This config works very well, and lets me bounce back and forth between OS flavors very easily.
It's even handly to keep a copy of Koppix Linux around - just in case you need to run a CD only OS for emergencies...
thanks man. i ended up doing just that. The dual boot setup is working great.
Rather than dual boot (which requires rebooting to switch) you can also do a Virtual Machine. VMware Player is free, and you can use http://www.easyvmx.com/ to create the files it needs. Then you just startup your virtual machine (its just a window running on your current WIndows setup) and install XP, or whatever OS on it. Now you can run XP under Vista (no reboot required) and do whatever you need.
Ah but you then cant flash your phone under a VM machine so kinda defeats the object of it! But I use a Virtual PC for testing my website templates under old IEs on XP.
neonkoala said:
Ah but you then cant flash your phone under a VM machine so kinda defeats the object of it! But I use a Virtual PC for testing my website templates under old IEs on XP.
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Hmmm. I've seen a couple of posts here where people have flashed from a virtual machine (or claimed to have done this). I haven't tried this myself though.
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Ah but you then cant flash your phone under a VM machine so kinda defeats the object of it! But I use a Virtual PC for testing my website templates under old IEs on XP.
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actually it can be done as that is how ive been doing it for weeks now. Using VMWare workstation and activesync 4.5
Hello there,
This is probably a stupid question but.. here it goes! Is there anyway to do a ROM Upgrade using mac osx?
All the best,
Joao Oliveira.
sure! Just install Windows in either parallels or bootcamp!
Heh, only joking! It's possible to upgrade the ROM using the SD card, see the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=336158
I've done this before on my TyTn 1 and it worked a treat, easier than using windows in some ways!
hi jcwacky, is it riskier flashing ROM using SD Card then through windows?
i know that i won't take risk using MAC though
just a question, how to instal file .exe using MAC? someone said i need to take the cab files out of the .exe but how? care to show? thanks mate.....
I use vmware to flash new roms. It has worked great for me and I've never had a problem. I'm not sure if this reason alone is good enough to justify installing parallels or vmware, but it does work.
As for installing .exe files, I use this program to extract the cabs:
http://echoone.com/filejuicer/
There is a free demo. It works forever, but watermarks images found in the .exe files. So you can get the cabs out just fine without registering.
thank you sooo much gthing!
gthing said:
I use vmware to flash new roms. It has worked great for me and I've never had a problem. I'm not sure if this reason alone is good enough to justify installing parallels or vmware, but it does work.
As for installing .exe files, I use this program to extract the cabs:
http://echoone.com/filejuicer/
There is a free demo. It works forever, but watermarks images found in the .exe files. So you can get the cabs out just fine without registering.
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I've tried using parallels desktop but it did not work,if you are using paralles desktop too,what version you use
cheers
rock4mayo said:
I've tried using parallels desktop but it did not work,if you are using paralles desktop too,what version you use
cheers
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I don't use parallels anymore, I use vmware fusion. But the key to either solution is to make sure you map the usb port into the virtual machine. I believe OS X sees it as "generic RNIDS" or something like that. Just make sure that port gets routed to the virtual machine and you're fine.
hi gthing,
do u use microSD to flash your ROM? is it save? or through XP is more preferrable?
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hi gthing,
do u use microSD to flash your ROM? is it save? or through XP is more preferrable?
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I've never tried it through the MicroSD card. I prefer to use Windows XP for flashing.
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Just make sure whatever you do that you have HardSPL and you should be fine - windows or MicroSD.
I do ROM flashes using my gaming box. But FileJuicer is just what I need for doing day-to-day app installs. Thanks for the link!
Okay so im new here and i dont know exactly where this post should go but im putting it here anyways. i just got my at&t tilt and i love it, but im having trouble putting applications on it. I download the apps to my computer and unzip them but then i dont know what to do. the only app i was able to put on my phone was kaisertweaks and im not even sure how i manged to do that. just please give me like a step by step because i am soo confused. thanks a bunch
Heya,
the first thing i would recommend is the Kaiser Wiki - there are a lot of useful informations for you and all important links for that device.
There are two versions of installers - desktop installers which you start on your computer (xp, vista or what ever...) they will be installed via active sync on your device. The other ones are cabs (i prefer them because i don't want useless files on my desktop computer), these files are meant to run on your PDA,
just copy the cab to your device, locate it with file explorer and click - the setup will start. In the Hermes wiki is a little description about CAB-files, maybe also useful for you (btw: Hermes isn't your PDA, you're device is Kaiser...! )
HTH
Has anyone ever tried to flash a rom or develop a rom that can be flashed by a Mac? I have Missing sync to sync my Tilt and to download .cabs and .exe's.
Works great by the way. I have flashed several roms from Windows XP on the " other side " of my Intel chip, so no problem there. Just wondering can it be done from the Mac side? And has anyone done it?
I have been using Macs and Apples for over 25 years ( started with Apple IIc) and never once had the urge to switch so comments from the "Apple Bashers" will mean nothing to me
Just curious.
no i'm not going bash apple but i haven't come across anything for mac and i believe the kaisercustomruu.exe can only be run only on windows
I have successfully flashed my Tilt using a Parallels install of XP Pro. Of course that requires an Intel Mac to accomplish...
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I have successfully flashed my Tilt using a Parallels install of XP Pro. Of course that requires an Intel Mac to accomplish...
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I have flashed several roms using both Parallels and Bootcamp on the other side of my Intel/Mac chip and .exe file will not run on OS X but is it possible to create a rom using say a .dmg package instead of an .exe package?
The problem is far beyond the fact that the package is in exe the tools to actually flash the rom are windows only
I'd just flash from the MicroSD card.
Read here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=336158
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The problem is far beyond the fact that the package is in exe the tools to actually flash the rom are windows only
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Obviously you can't just re-package under a different file extension. What " tools " are you refering to? Kitchen tools? Again just re-packaging. Leopard can run on an intel chip. Word, Excel, etc, can run natively on a Mac. Can you put together a rom or write one from scratch that can be downloaded natively to a Mac and then flashed to a Kaiser? Even theoretically?
You can use whatever OS you want... Just do what Peterfnet suggested... Use the SD card method... It's safer and easier.
Just follow the link provided by Peterfnet!
Rayan said:
You can use whatever OS you want... Just do what Peterfnet suggested... Use the SD card method... It's safer and easier.
Just follow the link provided by Peterfnet!
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It wasn't a "how do I flash a rom question " , I press a button and my screen twirls from OS X Leopard to Windows XP , I flash a new rom, press another button and my screen twirls back to Leopard and all my Mac apps. ( new Intel Chip for Mac)
The question was " what do the knowledgeable people here think? " Are there limitations of computer science that would prevent this or just limitations of available ground work that I could create?
Edit: I re-read this post and it sound kind of terse, I didn't meanit that way.
Thanks for your input Rayan
I see no reason why it would not be possible to flash a ROM natively inside Mac OS. But in order to do so, the flashing application written by HTC would need to be recoded to run on Mac.
If you extract the .exe file that is inside the rar file posted by the chefs here, you will see 5-10 files, one of which is the OS.nbh file. If you can write a program for Mac OS that can communicate with the Kaiser and call that file, then it would be possible. (DISCLAIMER: I am NOT a programmer, so it is a definite possibility that I could be talking out of my ass.)
Since flashing is not yet available to Linux users, then Mac is probably still a bit off.
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I'd just flash from the MicroSD card.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=336158
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best option all around
Well, ever since I discovered the SD Card method I don't flash it through the PC anymore... No more fears of freezing up, power failures and such!
In fact, I carry several "test" ROMS in my card just to install them on the go whenever I'm bored! LOL...
Here's an answer from someone who is paid to write software....
You're correct there is no technical reason that you can't flash your phone from a Mac OS.
Basically the whole process is a few commands & responses sent across the USB port and then the nbh image streamed via the port to the waiting device.
Here's the bind: Microsoft is well known for not working well with others. Why would they be motivated to provide non-MS OS the ability to flash "Windows Mobile"? It's kind of like iTunes being able to integrate with non-iPod MP3 players as well as it works with iPods (or so I've heard).
Thanks all , it looks like I have my next project. Thanks for all your input. peterfnet and Rayan thanks when HTC comes out with their new rom update and new driver package at the end of the month I'm going the card method for a change.
is there a way to install the sdk phone tools on xp? I have the 6.1v and visual studios 2010. But when i try to install it says i have to have win7 or vista, and i cant put win7 on machine cause it only has 128m ram. I have a patch file that is suppose to let ya install but haven figured out how to yet.
There are ways to get it installed but the emulator requires Directx 10 so that's not going to work. Without the emulator all you can do is write and compile code but not test to see if it works or not. Not very useful.
XP barely runs on 128mb of RAM so I imagine Visual Studio would be absolutely miserable to use if usable at all.
If you wanna develop for WP7 I guess its safe to say it time for an upgrade.
i would say so as well. even a netbook has more capabilities than that
Im not much of a developer in some ways so as for now all im wanting to do is use the toms installer or the reg sdk deployment tool witch i have but when i try to launch program i get this error:
Could not load file 'Microsoft Smart Device.Connectivity,10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its
dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
Then when i try to install the Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 windows phone from the WPDT_RTM_en_iso
i get this error: Microsoft xna game studio4.0 phone ex require visual 2010 or WPDT. install the required app and then relaunch setup. " witch i have the visual studio 2010 installed"
and i have a win7 netbook but have managed to have a kid that spilled tea on it so am trying to figure out the way to do this untill
i can afford to get another netbook.
Thanks for the help and replies guys, very appriciated!!
Ok so I got the xna game studio 4 to install but still getting the phone device connectivity error, is there something I can download to get by this and use the deployment
guess no solution huh
i don't believe so. the way i did it was to use a virtual machine so i could get the phone emulator working on an xp machine (virtual machine has windows 7 on it). but you don't have enough ram for that. you need at least 1.5gb dedicated to the virtual machine alone.
You can try this solution here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9618980&postcount=81. I just couldn't get it to install still as I kept getting an error saying could not install the following component .NET Framework 4 Multi-Targeting Pack.
i finally found a iso file and downloaded it then opened up the baseline.dat file and edited it according to the patch settings and everything works just like it does on win7 netbook, just wanted to see if it was possible and it is!
Thanks for the replies.
Could you share that info? Ive been dying to get SDK tools on my XP... Thanks
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i finally found a iso file and downloaded it then opened up the baseline.dat file and edited it according to the patch settings and everything works just like it does on win7 netbook, just wanted to see if it was possible and it is!
Thanks for the replies.
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Can you please share that? I have 4 XP computers at home and neither of them can run it. It would be great as I need the SDK to run Chevron unlocker! Thanks!
Link pleaseee
I so desperately need this also
for those that want the tools on windows xp, here you go: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2010/05/02/10005980.aspx
I finally got it to install on XP!
Here's what I did,
Download the .iso file (it's at the bottom of the page) :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=04704acf-a63a-4f97-952c-8b51b34b00ce
After, make a new folder on your desktop and extract the ".iso" file into the folder.
Next, I grabbed the ".zip" file from here, : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9618980&postcount=81
Take the baseline.dat from the .zip file and replace it in the one with the extracted .iso files. Then just run setup.exe from the file. It should work! But make sure you have about 3 gb free from your hard drive. And emulator doesn't work, but I'm sure its fine if your not a developer.
Remember to hit the thanks button if it worked for you!