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Upgrading to bigstorage for the first time

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

Need some help porting .17913

I am a noob when it comes to XDA's but not in a general techy sense, I can turn my hand to most things.
For the last 2 days I have been working on porting .17913 to Wizard(from universal), currently I have it booting fine (in 96dpi, with touchscreen precalibrated) but I have some rather large issues remaining.
1. Wifi = Dead
2. Bluetooth = Dead
3. Startmenu is blank (when populated by hand, it works :S )
4. Activesync wont sync (rumoured to be OneNote related)
5. Under device information, all info is either blank or has obscured ascii char. (I assume something RIL related)
6. Forgot to change the pagepool...WHOOPS, So program has 100% of the memory, 0.03mb allocated for storage ehehe.
7. "My network card connects to" is a blank drop down....Ive missed something important somewhere...
So yes its fairly useless currently, however the phone works fine, landscape works fine, speaker works fine, just working through each thing.
My main concern is WHY it doesnt write the start menu folder, others should just be a matter of messing around with drivers.

you need to replace all .MUI files with 96 dpi ones...but also you need to replace dlls that are currently maped to vga.... that should take care of the menus etc.... in short it is a mammouth task....​

Hi Faria,
Thanks for the speedy reply, I forgot to mention that I had already done this (replacing from mUn's Trinity rom).
Cheers,
EDIT:
Right, it looks like initflashfiles.dat isnt being 'executed', this would explain no shortcuts and no startup folder,etc.
EDIT2:
Looks like it was a dodgy package txt file saved in unicode, just going to check it out....

Whiterat said:
Hi Faria,
Thanks for the speedy reply, I forgot to mention that I had already done this (replacing from mUn's Trinity rom).
Cheers,
EDIT:
Right, it looks like initflashfiles.dat isnt being 'executed', this would explain no shortcuts and no startup folder,etc.
EDIT2:
Looks like it was a dodgy package txt file saved in unicode, just going to check it out....
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have you replaced the res.dlls files to?

Sorry to buzz in ...i also need a little help porting and i thought that this may be the right place.
I have an official 5.2.17740.200 and i am having some trouble passing the second boot screen. With other modifications it even stops flashing at 91% exactly(tried it many times) ..i mean that the RUU simply shuts down and the Wiza doesn't seem to notice, because the bar is still blue...
This may be more complicated than i thought. or than it should.
Any help from the big bosses is welcome. Be free to pm me if anybody wants to help.
I am just a noob at this, so don't laugh, ok ?

faria said:
have you replaced the res.dlls files to?
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Only those that contain 192 in the filename or are located in a folder with that filename.
Looking at others (e.g coreres, shellres,etc) there are no dialogs or images which exceed the size limitations of QVGA.
anichillus:
This is interesting news, is this for the wizard (or any other QVGA HTC device) ?
The only legitimate WM6 rom I can get is for the HTC S710 (Should get my hands on it early this week)
My only thoughts about your problem is the XIP section, maybe worth extracting the originals from this new build and comparing the modules / boot.hv with that from Core 2.0 ?
On a side note, I am really quite enjoying this stuff, I am taking a break from general reversing for the time being so this really is a welcome change.

Whiterat said:
Only those that contain 192 in the filename or are located in a folder with that filename.
Looking at others (e.g coreres, shellres,etc) there are no dialogs or images which exceed the size limitations of QVGA.
anichillus:
This is interesting news, is this for the wizard (or any other QVGA HTC device) ?
The only legitimate WM6 rom I can get is for the HTC S710 (Should get my hands on it early this week)
My only thoughts about your problem is the XIP section, maybe worth extracting the originals from this new build and comparing the modules / boot.hv with that from Core 2.0 ?
On a side note, I am really quite enjoying this stuff, I am taking a break from general reversing for the time being so this really is a welcome change.
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It's not for the wizard, i cannot tell you where i got it either ...
I received an .nba ...well actually 2 nba ...one is about 57MB and the other about 62MB .. anyone of them can be dumped using the PKGTool and no errors. Both appear to be complete. What i have notice is that the start for imgfs is 00 62 00 00 and i noticed that for my Core 2.0 it was 00 61 00 00
I get the feeling that second is too big to fit only the OS ..so that's why when i try and flash it it hangs at 91%
And as i were saying ...i am total noob at this, but all things have to start somewhere, right ? So ..i was suspecting that it has to do with the XIP only i don't know how to get it. I have the XIP for my Core 2.0 ..and i could build it for this new rom too using dumprom.exe, but i cannot get it to show me the correct the boot.rgu I only have boot.hv and the rgucomp gives me a 10 KB boot.rgu and i know that's just not right. Either i didn't obtained the correct XIP or i should not use rgucomp to create the boot.rgu , which is needed to compile the rom back into .nb. Yes, i know...it's confusing...i'm almoust out of ideas.
Thanks for answering

hehe I know better than to ask, thus I didnt
The boot hive isnt usually a great size unless it has some certs embedded in it.
However I am quite suprised that you tried to flash the larger rom when the IMGFS offset was so much higher.
If the build version is the same then maybe worth using the smaller one (AFAIK anything under 60mb for the OS is all good), or failing that using tadzio's updated IMGFS Tools on the larger rom.
Its monday again though and I imagine like most here, its hard to dedicate the time towards projects during the week, we all need our phones to be working!

But I can tell:
It is the official German WM6 Rom from XDA terra (aka HTC Herlad).
And because both systems are nearly similar - I wanted to share to the wizard Forum.
So here you are.
I took pdocread to dump the rom. WIth pdocread -t i got:
real nr of sectors 126976 - 62.00MB (0x3e00000)
and got this:
http://rapidshare.com/files/29690810/terra2.nb.html
The other taken by awizard. Pruduced this.
http://rapidshare.com/files/29318018/terra.rar
But i got errors when trying to get the spash and the radiorom.
So good luck.
Btw: herald is using signed. nbh - perhaps we can try NBHextract to get all out of the 62MB one.
@anichillus: thanks for not releasing info.

This is - what i get from NBHextract when i use an official herlad.nbh.
SO we have to find out the REAL adress to get pdocread the whole ROM. NOt only OS.
Lets work together.

At least i treid to set teh dump from 0 to the store of teh official ROM.
But no succes. I got an 63MB big nbh - but i cannot open with NBHextract.
We have to find the right disksize from herald to dump teh herald rom.

Papamopps, can you attach a reg dump? I'm having a hell of a time with rapidshare, and there's really nothing else I want right now. Can you use RegistryDump(PPC) program and just attach it in a .txt file?
Thanks

jwzg said:
Papamopps, can you attach a reg dump? I'm having a hell of a time with rapidshare, and there's really nothing else I want right now. Can you use RegistryDump(PPC) program and just attach it in a .txt file?
Thanks
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Here you are. ANd if someone can tell me the right adresses for dumping the hole rom - i would share.

Thank you very much.

Papamopps, what is the build number on this ROM? I notice the AKU is 2.1.

jwzg said:
Papamopps, what is the build number on this ROM? I notice the AKU is 2.1.
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This is what you get with PKG Tools
Code:
[Core OS]
Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs
[Versions]
SYS: 5.2.17740.200
SYS: 5.2.17741.201
OEM: 4.11.0.0
NET: 2.0.7045.0
OEM: 12.6.411.207
OEM: 12.2.411.207
OEM: 12.3.411.207
OEM: 0.0.1.0
[Language]
0407 - German (Germany)
[DPI]
96
[Certificates]
CN=Microsoft Windows Mobile PCA, O=Microsoft Corporation, L=Redmond, S=Washington, C=US
CN=OEM_UpdateCert
CN=O2___102
[Missing Manifests]
d92a4f0a-378a-4482-8fd3-bd127a05e4de.dsm
723fb954-d931-4348-b672-82a188e587b5.dsm
1b79a4ad-1c4b-c6d9-92fd-a668dcd6450e.dsm
I finally made some progress, now it passes the second splash screen but it frezes at the 3rd splash screen when you should "click the screen to continue". It doesn't show that but the top bar with start, connections and gsm is shown...of course they're all off.

anichillus said:
I finally made some progress, now it passes the second splash screen but it frezes at the 3rd splash screen when you should "click the screen to continue". It doesn't show that but the top bar with start, connections and gsm is shown...of course they're all off.
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Thanks for the data Anichillus.
If you can set the welcome value in the registry to zero, you may be able to get to the screen alignment. I think it's currently set at 128. I'm not sure if that will help, but give it a shot.
Should be:
(HKLM/Soft ware/Microsoft/Welcome)
Disable=0

BTW:
IPL 4.11.0002
SPL 4.11.0000
Radio 2.85.90
ROM: 4.11.207.1 Ger
ROM Date: 3/19/07
Protokol: 4.1.13.39
And when someone finds the exact adresses - I will dump all.

Well this is all getting rather interesting
papamopps:
If you can find any legit update (wm5 or 6) for the terra, then you can find the address and size from that.
anichillus:
Yeh same with mine, Screen calibration data is stored in the registry so I just placed that into my regfixes rgu so I could atleast navigate through.
Anyone have ANY idea about why initflashfiles.dat isnt being executed on my rom?
(Its nothing about the 2 byte header or blank lines,etc it just isnt touched. Even a known working default one still wont)
That appears to be the MAIN problem I am facing, others are just driver related.....
I would love to post my rom so far here but I would imagine a noob would see it, flash it and probably brick their device at the same time, but if anyone would like to see/discuss it then just drop me a PM.

maybe it doesnt see the extended rom or its corrupted or its not even there
or most likely the pointers to this diskarea are missing .. filerights not set correct
my 2 cents..

Page Pool Changer

After reading the discussions on changing the page pool on Dutty's DualTouch V2. A friend mentioned that the Artemis has a page pool changer that doesnt require a reflash.
Any ideas if this is availbale for the Kaiser?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=323885&highlight=pool+size

DaveShaw said:
After reading the discussions on changing the page pool on Dutty's DualTouch V2. A friend mentioned that the Artemis has a page pool changer that doesnt require a reflash.
Any ideas if this is availbale for the Kaiser?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=323885&highlight=pool+size
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DR400 said:
+11111111111111
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Well that was a pretty wank reply to a reasonable question - I take it that they only taught you to speak binary in France ?????

I am pretty sure that I saw one in somebody's signature. I think it was in the Schaps 4.30 thread in this forum on the last couple pages.
You can also use the Kaiser Tweak app stickied in the Kaiser forum to change the glyph and font cache size.

ach2 said:
Well that was a pretty wank reply to a reasonable question - I take it that they only taught you to speak binary in France ?????
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Sorry, my apologize ... the meaning was to let you know and others that I would be more than happy to see such a tweak available on kaiser.
No intention to be wank or whatsoever.
And by the way, at least, I speak another language than my native language ... do you ?

Here is a Page Pool Changer
So I went back to that Schap's thread and found the Page Pool changer from Moe5508's profile. I have attached the file from his profile to this post.
I have not tested it myself and take no credit for the file. Hope that helps.

So far ny Kaiser pagepool change you WILL have to flash a rom. The pagepool tool just enables you to change it without having to use a hex editor. Tool = Easier (Especially if you aren't familiar with finding the pagepool string (Easy to learn) & then editing it with a hex editor)

What page pool is working well for you?

I believe the default page pool for shipped roms is 6MB??? I turned it up to 50MB with page pool changer on my WM6.1 3.02 rom. Seems very speedy. What size are you guys using? Just getting an overall feel, maybe another size is worth trying out.
Yes, I did a search, but the other page pool searches didn't give something opinionated as in what size people are using.

50MB is now standard for me...

Good question -
I know Sleuth has settled on 15MB and Alex & Dutty were using 32 MB for some of thier cooked roms, others are using 64MB.
How have you determined speed difference w/ 50MB - benchmarks or "feel"?
Any comments on battery life?
Is there a way to confirm your pagepool after flashing? GSLEON3 and others are reporting that it's much more complicated than previously thought - check this: Page Pool Change & Verification????
Thanks

gasman858 said:
How have you determined speed difference w/ 50MB - benchmarks or "feel"?
Any comments on battery life?
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It's a combination of all these: Speed (or as I like to call it "Perceived Speed"; Feel; Battery Life; Stability (no lock-ups; Benchmarking (I use SKTools + SPB Benchmark); File cache settings; lastly but not least your individual device ie other apps you run...
It takes time and really you just have to find some good compromise that works for you...
24 and 32MB are common on most cooked ROMs today but I'm aware of some individuals who are VERY VERY satisfied/impressed with the 50MB setting...I'm one of them...

Cross platform pagepool changer, even WM6!

I don't do Windows!
...or .net
There, that sums up why I wrote my own page pool changer
I do all my development on Linux, but this app will run on:
XP, Vista, Linux, OSX, Solaris, WM5 & WM6!
Thats right, edit the page pool right on your MicroSD flash chip while its still in your phone!
Heres version 1.0, I'd like someone who has a different page pool changer program to verify that mine modifies the file the same way on all platforms.
The program requires the eTcl runtime, which you can install to your Storage Card to save space. Theres a runtime for Window, WM5/6, Linux and OSX at:
http://www.evolane.com/software/etcl/index.html .
On my phone I run the Standard version, but I believe any of the 3 would work fine. After thats installed, it will create file associations for .tcl files.
Just click on pagepool.tcl and it should run.
Its the same pagepool.tcl application file for all platforms, so when I make an update, everyone grabs the same app file, regardless of your operating system.
Edit Jun 8 2008: Fix a bug that would make Duttys new V1 not boot after changing the pagepool.
Fixed bug caused by first fix, now version 1.1a.
Edit Jun 10 2008: Version 1.1b Added pagepool sizes 1,2,4 & 64meg.
And we need some screenshots and the application:

My impression is...
Wowwwww!!!!
Very fast at analyzing and modifying rom. Multi OS platform too. Tried it on L26 Diamond v5...Success.
Good job. Hmmm....I like this tcl lang. Going to try it.

cyphol said:
My impression is...
Wowwwww!!!!
Very fast at analyzing and modifying rom. Multi OS platform too. Tried it on L26 Diamond v5...Success.
Good job. Hmmm....I like this tcl lang. Going to try it.
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What platform are you running? I'll be glad to point you to the best Tcl resources on the net. Start with the wiki at http://wiki.tcl.tk as everything about the language revolves around the wiki. I'm a professional programmer and have been using Tcl for over 10 years and it just keeps getting better.

rotohammer said:
What platform are you running? I'll be glad to point you to the best Tcl resources on the net. Start with the wiki at http://wiki.tcl.tk as everything about the language revolves around the wiki. I'm a professional programmer and have been using Tcl for over 10 years and it just keeps getting better.
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Wow. Fast reply too. I'm using, Windows, Linux and OSX but mainly I do my programming on Windows XP. Care to point me to the right way. I really like to learn this tcl lang.

cyphol said:
Wow. Fast reply too.
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That's because I'm just sitting here ready to flash a ROM I've modified direct to MicroSD on the phone.

rotohammer said:
That's because I'm just sitting here ready to flash a ROM I've modified direct to MicroSD on the phone.
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Ha...ha...ha... I think you gonna be one of the SIFU (Master) here in XDA-Developer Community.

I'm flashing L26_V5 again but with 16meg pagepool and todays date ...%50
Update: Cool, 81.55 megs free, just as Tayton got with a 16meg page pool.
So for L26_V5 it works fine after being edited on the phone itself.
Thanks Tayton for the howto and thanks Kyphur for giving me a screen shot to base my program on.
Sometimes I spend hours contemplating the layout of a gui.
Update2: Changed pagepool to 32meg, flashed, and phone shows 65.50 megs free, 16megs less than the previous 81.55 megs. Good, now I can go back to 16megs an use my phone again.

Incredible work
Thanks, mate....
Cheers

Dear Moderators,
This one thread should be STICKY!
Why.... Read from post #1.
..............................It's fast and cross platform too. A whole new approach in programming tools just like some other wonderful tools by some of our programmers in here.
Regards,
Cyphol

cyphol said:
This one thread should be STICKY!
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How about we wait to make sure I don't brick someones phone first?
Lets give it a little workout before we stamp it gold. But I do appreciate your enthusiasm!

rotohammer said:
How about we wait to make sure I don't brick someones phone first?
Lets give it a little workout before we stamp it gold. But I do appreciate your enthusiasm!
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Don't worry. It won't brick other phone if they follow the rules. The first one is to know and learn about HardSPL. If it still happen then it's all mistake done by themself who never learn to read the WIKI or at least go through the posts on specific threads regarding the issue of interest.
So my suggestion for noobs is..... LEARN FIRST..READ THE WIKI AND THEN, FULFILL YOUR NEEDS.

cyphol said:
It won't brick other phone if they follow the rules
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True, it will just waste their afternoon
Time for a break, then I'll boot into OSX for a test and screenshot unless someone beats me to it. My new development laptop triple boots Linux, XP and OSX.

rotohammer said:
True, it will just waste their afternoon
Time for a break, then I'll boot into OSX for a test and screenshot unless someone beats me to it. My new development laptop triple boots Linux, XP and OSX.
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Go ahead man because I'm preparing a PowerPoint presentation for Kelantan State Health Department to Thailand government concerning Malaria among 'Illegal Immigrants In Malaysia' which gonna be held on the coming Monday.
See ya.

Fixed a critical bug
I just fixed a bug that would make Dutty's new V1 not boot after changing the pagepool.
Reason: I hard coded byte 2 of the pagepool, that doesn't work
Please fetch a new copy. Its now version 1.1
Hopefully I was the only one who spent 4 hours trying to boot a corrupted ROM.
Booting up to Duttys Diamond V1 w/16meg pagepool now, looking good.

Hi,
Will this work for WM6.1 ROMS?
Thanks
Msuk

rotohammer said:
I just fixed a bug that would make Dutty's new V1 not boot after changing the pagepool.
Reason: I hard coded byte 2 of the pagepool, that doesn't work
Please fetch a new copy. Its now version 1.1
Hopefully I was the only one who spent 4 hours trying to boot a corrupted ROM.
Booting up to Duttys Diamond V1 w/16meg pagepool now, looking good.
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Wow. Thanks for a fixed version. I'm still saying, "make this STICKY!"

msuk said:
Hi,
Will this work for WM6.1 ROMS?
Thanks
Msuk
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The answer is "yes".

msuk said:
Hi,
Will this work for WM6.1 ROMS?
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Yes! Actually, I've only tested it with WM6.1 ROMs.
I'm running Duttys Diamond V1 with 16meg pagepool right now.

Confirmed! The Dutty's Diamond v1 modified by this tool works nicely as expected.

I've noticed that all ROMs have 2 dates and 2 pagepool points to edit, except for HyperDragon III WM6.1 WWE ROM CE OS 5.2.19588 Build 19588.1.1.4, which only has one set each.
Does anyone know why? Does this correlate with other page pool changer apps?