Hi. I'm trying to make a dump of the HPImage.nbf file, contained in the update for the HP iPAQ 110: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...Id=3544496&swLang=13&taskId=135&swEnvOID=4014
I tried using the tools already available for other devices, but unfortunately they didn't work. I was wondering if anyone has had any success with this, and if not, if anyone with experience with .nbf could atleast take a look at that file and maybe give me any hints/pointers from previous experience, and hopefully i'd be able to make my own tool for extracting this.
Thanks
edit: my goal using this is to upgrade to WM6.1 or 6.5. From what I understand, if I can get a dump of the files in the .nbf, and replace the appropriate files from another wm6.1/6.5 ROM, and use the installer that came with the update, then i'd reach my goal (obviously, much easier said than done)
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we are trying to unlock and or dump the rom on the treo 750v. this is a newly released treo made by htc. the treo has an awesome feature called theeaded sms which does chat style sms.
we have tried the grab it program that was on this site with no luck.
does anyone no of a way to get this done? does any have any ideas of why the grab it program doesn't work. does anyone want to help?
thanks, cody
So far we've manage to get someone to try the grab_it tool from
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=238945
But they are getting a write error. I assumed since the Treo 750v uses a mini-sd card the appropriate version of grab_it would be grab_it_128_minisd_468.exe. I'm trying to get someone to try the grab_it_128_150.exe version to see if that works, since that is the version BeyondTheTech used to extract the Treo 700w rom. The 700w uses a regular sd card though.
I asked the guy that tried grab_it_128_minisd_468.exe what the storage card folder name was set to and they verified that the registry was set to "Storage Card". So it's unclear to me why they are getting a write error. Maybe the minisd version expects something else? The card used was a 2GB minisd so it should have plenty of room for the rom.
Anyone familiar with grab_it know what is different about the minisd version? I read through the thread but it wasn't clear to me what the difference is.
Ok, I'm the one who's run the grabit tool on a 750v
It runs Ok and creates a 128Mb dump.bin file but the file appears to be mostly empty. If I zip the file up it only takes 147Kb which seems to confirm this. Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug in the tool
i have hope 750v user and appreciate your efforts
750v_User said:
Ok, I'm the one who's run the grabit tool on a 750v
It runs Ok and creates a 128Mb dump.bin file but the file appears to be mostly empty. If I zip the file up it only takes 147Kb which seems to confirm this. Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug in the tool
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Can you upload the bin file please. I think someone here may be able to figure this out by looking at the contents of it.
If anyone has a source for a unlocked 750v let me know i really need one.
File and registry dump.
750v_User said:
Ok, I'm the one who's run the grabit tool on a 750v
It runs Ok and creates a 128Mb dump.bin file but the file appears to be mostly empty. If I zip the file up it only takes 147Kb which seems to confirm this. Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug in the tool
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Hi, please can you do me favor? I have idea which can help us get SMS threading application and other palm features as well. If isn't possible dump ROM in this moment can you download Total Commander (freeware) http://www.ghisler.com/pocketpc.htm and do following.
1, Create foder on memory card and go to the Total commander.
2, go to the root of your device and copy to SD everything what is possible specially from Windows folder and Program Files (rest will be fine as well)
- this will take some time and in case of problem with file just skip that file.
3, When this will be done please go into the "\\" in the root and then to "registry"
4, now select registry tree one by one and copy again to card.
This will give us most probably files which will be required for hack and registry keys which will be required as well i think.
Thank you very much for your help.
Here's a zipped up copy of the dump.bin file, hope it helps
I extracted that dump.bin and it looks like a 256 byte block of data that is repeated at each 16 meg boundary 8 times.
Does this ring any bells to the experts?
The only readable text is "CHEETAH IPL EVT".
wow! that's great!
I don't have a Cheetah, but there's some info on the hermes forum that might be of interest to you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1019171&postcount=22
750v_User please try this program to extract the rom image.
unzip and copy TestDump.exe to your device and run it. In the "Path to file" enter the path for the dump file (i.e. \Storage Card\dump.bin). In the "Mbytes to dump" enter 128. Then press the "Dump" button. It should make a dump of the ROM file.
Zip it up and upload here. Thanks!
pof said:
I don't have a Cheetah, but there's some info on the hermes forum that might be of interest to you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1019171&postcount=22
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Thanks. That post appears to be for updating the rom. I wonder if there is some key combo like this to extract the rom.
hannip said:
Thanks. That post appears to be for updating the rom. I wonder if there is some key combo like this to extract the rom.
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Based on the Hermes experience, there's no knonw way yet to extract it in a form that after is flashable on another device, but you can follow these instructions to dump some parts:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_HowtoDumpRom
You can also use pmemdump to copy some of the ROM contents to a file. Once you've dumped SPL you can search for strings on it and you'll see the bootloader commands.
HTC has removed all the "d2s, s2d, r2sd..." and like commands in the hermes bootloader, probably you are lucky and you have some command to dump the rom to sd in your bootloader.
Hope that helps
The ROM dump // extract discussion is over my head...one question though has anyone sorted out how to unlock this device?
codyppc said:
we are trying to unlock and or dump the rom on the treo 750v. this is a newly released treo made by htc. the treo has an awesome feature called theeaded sms which does chat style sms.
we have tried the grab it program that was on this site with no luck.
does anyone no of a way to get this done? does any have any ideas of why the grab it program doesn't work. does anyone want to help?
thanks, cody
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im just a noob but cant we use the combination of StyleTap and AdvBackup to create a complete rom backup of the treo 750v and then grab what we want from that?
will that work????
just tryin to help........
what if someone get the .nbh file..can that be extracted??
750v ROM dump uploaded
I put a rom dump from the TestDump.exe tool on ftp.xda-developers.com. userid: xdaupload pw: xda
file: treo750v_dump_rom.zip
I used the dumprom tool to extract files, but it looks like it's only extracting the first rom section it finds and stops. Can one of the experts take a look at the dump and see if you can extract the other sections please.
Thanks.
What are you getting from the first rom section?
Sounds weird... was the dump complete?
It looked like a bunch of system files. The kernel, img.dll, filesystem drivers and the like.
There is 59MB of data in the dump so there has to be more stuff in there.
hello, iv just recieved my exec and i am dying to upgrade it to jwrights rom, could someone please point me in the direction of a guide on how to do it? iv had an xda11i b4 but i cant remember how i upgraded that rom, and really dont wanna mess up my new phone!!
also if anyone can give me any tips for various other programs/upgrades that i might want/need please let me know
thankyou
and yes i have been reading the wiki, but it doesnt seem to mention jwrights rom anywhere, and im getting really confused cos in the file i downloaded there isnt any .nbf files??
Well done for reading the wiki. Nobody is likely to give you an upgrade guide because there is too much to know. I'm afraid you are just going to have to read the various threads on Universal Upgrading etc and WM6. In doing so, you will learn how to upgrade and also learn what do avoid and what to do if it all goes wrong.
The wiki isn't specific to a particular ROM - there are threads on his ROMs on Universal Mobile 6.
As for the nbf files, they are there but you're looking in the wrong place. Jwright kindly provided an installer for his ROMs. You have downloaded an exectuable. When you run that it will unpack to provide a large file in a subdirectory of whichever directory is set to be your Temp directory. Whilst the installer is running it tells you that it is unpacking - what it is doing is unpacking the installation files (including the nbf files) to another directory of your Temp directory.
Couldn't have put id better myself )
Mav
apd said:
Well done for reading the wiki. Nobody is likely to give you an upgrade guide because there is too much to know. I'm afraid you are just going to have to read the various threads on Universal Upgrading etc and WM6. In doing so, you will learn how to upgrade and also learn what do avoid and what to do if it all goes wrong.
The wiki isn't specific to a particular ROM - there are threads on his ROMs on Universal Mobile 6.
As for the nbf files, they are there but you're looking in the wrong place. Jwright kindly provided an installer for his ROMs. You have downloaded an exectuable. When you run that it will unpack to provide a large file in a subdirectory of whichever directory is set to be your Temp directory. Whilst the installer is running it tells you that it is unpacking - what it is doing is unpacking the installation files (including the nbf files) to another directory of your Temp directory.
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Pugme said:
hello, iv just recieved my exec and i am dying to upgrade it to jwrights rom, could someone please point me in the direction of a guide on how to do it? iv had an xda11i b4 but i cant remember how i upgraded that rom, and really dont wanna mess up my new phone!!
also if anyone can give me any tips for various other programs/upgrades that i might want/need please let me know
thankyou
and yes i have been reading the wiki, but it doesnt seem to mention jwrights rom anywhere, and im getting really confused cos in the file i downloaded there isnt any .nbf files??
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I have written this upgrade instructions the first month I joined. I made it so that computer and PDA newbies like myself would understand and follow it easily. Here it is: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=269118
Hi,
I have tried a few ROMs and I need a combination of them when it comes to built in application!
I tried to serach and research this but still could not understand how you can extract CAB files from an existing Kaiser ROM if I have the ROM in .nbh format.
I am new to Kaiser and never used the ROM Kitchen before. I used to have HTC Prophet before so I am still used to the old ways of changging "Extended Memory" contents and the config file for it.
Thanks for your help.
Be not afraid of the new ways...
Steel77 said:
Hi,
I have tried a few ROMs and I need a combination of them when it comes to built in application!
I tried to serach and research this but still could not understand how you can extract CAB files from an existing Kaiser ROM if I have the ROM in .nbh format.
I am new to Kaiser and never used the ROM Kitchen before. I used to have HTC Prophet before so I am still used to the old ways of changging "Extended Memory" contents and the config file for it.
Thanks for your help.
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A couple of suggestions....
1) Read slowly, deliberately, an multiple times to ensure you are not missing details.
2) If you don't understand something specific, ask the specific question on this forum and we are better armed to assist.
3) Don't be afraid to just try and run the SW after reading carefully. It's not painful or anything just to jump in and run the software (just don't load it on your phone until you are confident in the results). The worse that happens is you run it over. Since you are extracting for the 1st time, I suggest you follow the instructions EXACTLY. I don't care if it tells you to lift your leg and bark like a dog, just do it! Also, to get a feel for the quality of your results, extract a cab that you already have and compare after you're done.
Cheers and good luck!
Does anyone know what type of a file a .nbh is and how to make it veiwable/modifiable. If there was a way that we can mod the NBH file that I believe would be the successful way of rooting the MyTouch 3G. I will be getting one of the production devices in a week or so anyone want to have anything dumped let me know.
the nbh is a ROM and you can't flash it without a modified SPL. i'm not even sure the SPL used for android even supports the file type but any kitchen from winmo can decompile it
Not really so much an android thing but is a hardware thing of HTC. The Dream and Sappihre support these files. There is a NBH file which will take you all the way back to RC29 and also flashes back the original SPL as well. So it is my belief that if we can make a compatible NBH for the sapphire it will accomplish the end result.
Of course it will... That's what NBH files are made for. I don't think you can make one since it's signed (or something) with a key we don't have.
Ehh, i have an idea:
Some has to decompile .nbh and modify it to work on mytouch 3g.
Than you have to create a goldcard.. not sure about if viperbjk is putting sapphire into qmat..
Yeh I have tried to decode with hex editor and have not had any real luck with it at all. Looks coded. Just wondering if anyone knows how to decode would be greatly appreciated. I have tried to use some of the old Windows mobile kitchen tools.
There are lots of tools to extract NBH files, they should work if HTC hasn't changed anything...look for other devices kitchens and you'll find the tools.
Also there's a project which tries to achieve the same result under linux http://code.google.com/p/htc-flasher/.
where did you guys get an android nbh? this is odd because android is updated by placing and update.zip on the root of the sd card (among other ways) which is handled by the SPL. why wouldn't HTC just stick with nbh then?
sammypwns said:
where did you guys get an android nbh? this is odd because android is updated by placing and update.zip on the root of the sd card (among other ways) which is handled by the SPL. why wouldn't HTC just stick with nbh then?
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android is updated by .zip but NBH is an all in one image type file that flashes htc phones to factory defaults. its usually used by the support techs to restore phones.
android/google=zip
htc =nbh
tripledes said:
There are lots of tools to extract NBH files, they should work if HTC hasn't changed anything...look for other devices kitchens and you'll find the tools.
Also there's a project which tries to achieve the same result under linux http://code.google.com/p/htc-flasher/.
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this looks promising...i wonder if we can figure out how to resign it....
Hi,
I have just tested the HTC-Flasher and unfortunately it does not work with the DREAIMG.nbh
So i someone know how to extract and re-flash the dream NBH please help.
Bye
Herc. 8)
Hi,
I'm trying to recreate my original ROM and have a problem with creating the nbh file with buildOS. Whole process seems doing fine, but at the end there is no RUU_Signed.NBH file in the main directory. Last thing which buildOS do is "creating registry" and then simply show "done". Pagepool Changer doesn't start and i don't get any error message. Any idea where can be problem?
I'm noob in cooking ROMs, so if someone can create nbh file for me, it would be great. Here are my raw files:
rapidshare.com/files/409577803/Part01.raw
rapidshare.com/files/409599604/Part02.raw
Is still here anyone who can help? Thank you very much, have to reclaim my Raph.
Can't you just download the stock rom? There are a lot of them available, if you search around or check the wiki. It's a lot easier than re-building.
Thank you for your response. There was some special Czech ROM by O2 and I can't find it anywhere. Maybe they will not care about type of ROM because It's hardware malfunction but I want to be sure.