Hello world.
Just flashed the WWE_T-Mobile_1.13.zip BS ROM to my brand new VPA compact, which I bought for € 180 at eBay (btw: was that cheap or not?).
Now I would like to add MMS and Camera applications.
So my first question is, do I need to install a complete Extended ROM or can I pick only some of the CAB files of it?
If so, what are all those CAB files for and which are really necessary? Which do you recommend? I would prefer not to have any network operator's branding.
Thank you.
regards,
inquisitor
Download any of the Ext ROM from the ftp, extract it, then install the ones you like or need. Most filenames are self-explanatory. I personally installed only smartdial, mms, phone pad, camera.
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Hi all,
since I am new to this PDA stuff (got my first HTC Magician last week), I have a question: what are those different ROM version and editions on your FTP site for?
I noticed, there are several different directories, for example:
* BigStorage
* Extended ROM
* Shipped ROM
* Modified ROM
* ...
Could someone explain this do me please? For example, what does this "BigStorage" mean, what are "Modified ROM"s?
Greetings and thanks for your help in advance, Matthias
Hi haimat,
- The shipped roms are the roms are unmodified like they can be downloaded from the various providers.
- The extended roms are a part of the shipped roms. Normally you don't see them on your device, but they are out there somewhere hiding and sneaking upon you when you perform hard-reset (powerbutton & soft-reset at the same time). Sorry got a bit carried away here. You can make them visible with the loadvdisk.exe, a hidden rom file in the windows folder, either create a shortcut to it with your PC explorer via the Act.Sync. or get something like total commandef or resco file explorer. Last option is to do a hard-reset and after you finished the init.proc with time-zone etc. perform a soft-reset. This will prevent the autoexec. from the extrom & the loadvdisk.lnk in startup won't be deleted then.
- BIG Storage roms are patched romdumps from other people's magician's (made one myself for 1.13WWe). These roms don't have an extrom anymore. The extrom is about 20Mb & can be combined with the Storage folder you have at this moment (approx. 7Mb). Get the picture? A lot of space to install programs & store data that doesn't disappear after hard-reset or powerloss.
Course you need a copy of an extrom when you apply BS to get all your default MMS & gprs settings etc from your provider.
-Modified roms, well the name says it all. Haven't tried those yet, you'll need out what is changed before applying those.
Just a little warning about the BS patch, before you think I WANT THAT read everything in the thread's for ways to solve any probs. encoutered with them. It's not without risc & you can end up with a not working device. So take your time to get used to the terms etc. Gather all the tooling & read everything again.
There's a lot of info at the fora here, reg.hacks useful apps. how to's. I'm sure you can find everything you need.
BTW welcome to this sharing and very useful community.
Regards, M
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Hi, thanks for your good explaination of the different types of ROMs!
I will look into them...
Greetings and thx again, Matthias
When uograding to bigstorage for the first time the process can look daunting but fear not, even if, as mine did, it doesnt go as per the screen shots / directions it may still work. Mine did and with the following installed here is what i have ended up with.
SPV M500 / Magician with bigstorage
running are
intellidialier, voice id (extra from extended rom)
Installed are : --
Tomtom 5, Calligrapher, pocket breeze, pocket contact, avantgo, pocket music, and several other small aps not worth mentioning.
I the process went ok using my 1gb card until: ---
As the how-to says the rom size created relfects the size of your card so the rom i was working with was 1gb, I could not use the recommended hex editor with that file due to system resources, let me tell you when you are that far into the process and you cant open the rom it is very annoying. Thankfully there are several other hex editors out there that let you load files up to 4gb allowing for resources but unfortuntely neither my old xp laptop nor my media centre could still open it. I ended up using my powerbook G4 with HexEdit 1.1 which loaded the rom just fine for editing. All the rest went OK until the end of the flsh back to the phone where i got a failed message, after a soft reset it booted into the new rom with no problem.
I have to stress to you guys thinking about trying this, it IS worth it. I am so pleased with the results. After updating and setting up BT Activesync, mms, pop3 etc and with all aps running I have the following: -
Allocated 17.7MB Allocated: 29.70 MB
to use: 11.16MB to use : 14.75MB
Free: 6.55MB Free: 24.95MB
And that is in a running state with no restrictions.
Well done to the community for such good documentation and their desire to share information and allow us newbies to get the most out of these wonderful units.
Hello,
I hope I dont sound like an idiot, but what is a big storage rom?
I have heard it mentioned quite a few times in the forum. I have a Krome Spy ( analog of M500) from australia.
Thanks.
rohseq
Nice to know that you were successful in upgrading to BigStorage. I've done it since the very beginning. My next step would be "nonentity's" File System Tweak.
@rohsek: please search this forum and you will find the answers you need.
rohseq said:
Hello,
I hope I dont sound like an idiot, but what is a big storage rom?
I have heard it mentioned quite a few times in the forum. I have a Krome Spy ( analog of M500) from australia.
Thanks.
rohseq
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With BIG Storage you convert your EXT-rom with operator brandings into extra internal Storage. You actually append about 20MB to the default 7MB Storage folder. Very nice hack.
Regards, M
COuld somebody tell me where I can find the HOW-TO described above??
Aren't there any standard ROMs?? It seems to me that when someone creates a specific ROM for a specific model, this ROM can be used in multiple devices or am I making you :lol: ROFLYAO :lol: by asking this question??
I've also got an Orange SPV M500 (with a huge memory shortage )...
Could someone please help me out??
Thanks in advance!!
Kind regards,
Maarten
Hi Maarten,
Still in English: visit this link for a complete description http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=MagicianRomUpgrade. For an already patched nk.nbf you can download this one ftp://xda:[email protected]_NK.nbf/BIG_Storage_nk_for_rom_1.13WWE.zip
Success, M
what's the difference between these two files. I haven't understood which file is the latest one and suits better for my O2 XDA MINI ? What means the second digit (550 or 131) in the file name?
Thanks
As already discussed many times the ROM image consists of 3 parts, the OS ROM itself, the Extended ROM, and the Radio ROM. the OS ROM and Radio ROM is standard for all variants of the Magician. The Extended ROM is where providers or re-branders (if there's such a word) put their enhancements. Some examples of the enhancements would be GPRS, SMS, MMS configurations so the user does not have to manually setup the unit.
In this case the 2 ROMS are as follows;
WWE_11300 = Generic World Wide English ver 1.13
550 = Extended ROM
11200 = Radio ROM ver 1.12
NL_11300 = Also an English version 1.13. The NL is just to indicate that the ROM image is coming from a Dutch provider, therefor the Extended ROM contains enhancements coming from said provider.
I'm using the NL ROM since it was one of the first versions of 1.13 that came out. My Radio ROM is ver 1.13. Since I configured my unit with BS, I installed the latest English versions of MMS, Intellidialer, etc.
Thank you for explanation, but I would like to know also, what exactly differs one file from another (extra programs, themes, etc.)
Thanks
I can't answer that 100% since I've not and will not try to install each and every Ext ROM available. The main difference between them would be brand/provider customization programs like auto configuration of phone for SMS, MMS, GPRS. I have totally no idea about themes since I don't bother about it because I'm using WA+WAD.
The only I could suggest to you is to download each and every Ext ROM in the ftp, extract them and compare the files.
Ok, I've tried NL_*.exe - its a T-mobile (english) with poor interface (red) and without Acrobat. I didn't like it at all, so today I'll try WWE*.exe
I suppose you are not using BS. If you're just after how the theme looks like then you can make your own theme with ThemMaker and or download themes (there are threads for this). There are also skins for the Phone interface, in fact some have ported the Eten skin into a Magician. Secondly, you can simply download Acrobat for PocketPC from Adobe's website.
Hello all,
Just looking around the upgrade section of the Magician (or O2 as ive got) had led me thinking about upgrading my O2 with custom software.
However, one thing sticks in my head. Which one ?
I've been doing some reading on the 2.03 which is commonly mentioned, however reading from peoples experience, there are things which have been left out - one user mentioned he no longer had things like O2, excell etc.
So i guess the point of this thread is to ask you out there and provide me with your opinion on what is the best upgrade. Of course its going to be a personal preference, however the more opinions i get the better informed ill be.
Things i need to consider:
1. Overall improvement of the O2
2. Speed - I need the O2 to run better for when im being a 'power' user
3. Improvement to existing applications such as camera, sound, bluetooth etc.
4. Minimal loss of current 'standard' applications. Im not totally experienced with my O2 and i dont really want to go start looking for applications that i already had on my O2 when i first got it.
5. New programs/applications - There must be things that O2 didnt plan on putting on the device that others have thought of.
Any help would be most appreciated.
doesnt anyone have any opinions ?
I tried 2.03 and didn't like it. The lack of transcriber annoyed me the most as well as the fact it is Russian and doesn't quite have 100% English compatibility. It did feel a bit quicker than the standard rom though. I think excel works now though, which is a plus
I flashed back to my original rom (1.11 i think it was), but did the soft reset before the extended_ROM installed, and installed just a select few options, which drastically improved the speed.
Not really aware of any other custom upgrades... are there others?
I installed 2.03 since 1-2 week and I like it very much: I have installed all the programs I need and I never saw any russian text (except Keyboard+ options menù, but I do not use it, and CabInst , easily replaceble by english version).
It is fast and free of useless standard programs like the ridiculous FileExplorer well replaced by the beautiful TotalCommander. It does not have Excel? Wonderful!!!! Pocket Excel (and Pocket Word too) is just something more than a viewer. without basically Office functions: use SoftMaker Office 2006 and you can finally really work with Word and Excel documents!
I am quite sure that if you want standard programs like transcriber you can find easily a valid substitute on the net or directly the CABs extracted from original ROM by someone.
Intalling into the "RAM" only the programs that really need speed (today plugins, input tools, profile manager, ecc), and the other ones between BigStorage and SD, I have a more stable Magician with very good performance and more than 30Mb of free RAM for loading programs!
Hello Rom Developers. I am wondering has anyone of you intelligent ROM cookers thought of removing the 10 ACC music files in the windows Dir.
on the Tilt (HTC Kaiser 8925) that most users will never use? These files take up between 6Mb - 7Mb. with that much memory free the unit would run even smoother. If any ROM cooker takes up this challange please share. Also if there is a way for me (A Newbie) to remove them myself it would be greatly appreciated.
These files, and a whole lot of others, are removed from my series of AT&T ROMs.
well, first off, congratulations on your first post and welcome to this community!
if you did not want to flash a cooked ROM but still wanted these gone, I would try looking at this simple tool:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=377514
Remove AAC files with HTC ROM Image Editor
Mistertip said:
Hello Rom Developers. I am wondering has anyone of you intelligent ROM cookers thought of removing the 10 ACC music files in the windows Dir.
on the Tilt (HTC Kaiser 8925) that most users will never use? These files take up between 6Mb - 7Mb. with that much memory free the unit would run even smoother. If any ROM cooker takes up this challange please share. Also if there is a way for me (A Newbie) to remove them myself it would be greatly appreciated.
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You can use HTC ROM Image Editor to easily remove AAC music files and any other unwanted music files from any ROM including the stock ROM.
Edit: mbarvian's post above just beat me to this - same info here
I think almost all cook would make those files gone first
Thanks
I really appreciate the fast response from such busy chefs. i will try the advice of each one given to see which best suits my likes. i really like the stock rom other than the junk files like such.
ooops
As I expressed earlier. I am a newbie. and I apologize for not knowing my way around the kitchen.. but how do i get this ROM editor to work with the Stock HTC ATT Tilt ROM? it is a .exe file on my pc confused:
Mistertip said:
As I expressed earlier. I am a newbie. and I apologize for not knowing my way around the kitchen.. but how do i get this ROM editor to work with the Stock HTC ATT Tilt ROM? it is a .exe file on my pc confused:
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Use any compression software (anything just a notch smarter than WinZip, that is) and unpack it, you'll find everything inside. WinRAR should do and it has free 30-day trial AFAIR.
FYI this "exe' is not really normall executable packed file.
Its just like a self-extracting zip containing 'real' executables and data inside.
Thanks 888
I will give it a shot.
You cooks are great. i will donate as well as soon as funds are avail to all those cooks i use.