i have a touch pro and i am trying to use a 6.5 rom that is barebones and he also posts a kitchen. the chef said it would be better to install everything you want via cab rather than the kitchen because you can upgrade your apps without the hassle of having to flash again. most of the htc programs such as the taskmanager, manila, mp3 trimmer, etc etc, i can find as an oem package, but very little cabs of the updated app exist. that said, since i am only able to find them via oem, my question is, HOW CAN I MAKE A CAB FROM AN OEM USING WINCE CAB MANAGER? i have that program but dont know where the oem files go, what registries to put, etc etc....for example, if im trying to use a dialer to make a cab, i know the png files go in the windows folder, but what about the other files? there are obviously reg entries too, where can i see where these reg entries go?
so then nobody knows?
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I'm currently using Equinoexe's Touchflo rom (VERY slick BTW, kudos to him!), and the only thing I'm having a problem with is the camera that's packaged with it... Does anyone have 3.0 or 3.3 wrapped up in a cab file? I've searched and searched, and nothing comes up.
THANKS!
I believe copying files does the trick. For me it didn't. I am also looking to make it work but I gave up.
yes, any1 have cab file?
I'd be interested in the Camera files as a cab too.
Here's Faria's 3.3 camera files, but they're not in a cab. It includes a readme.txt file instructing where to dump the files.
reg key
does anyone know where abouts in the registry the reg key goes or wot prog ram i could use to import the key
i'd like to add that in the rar file posted for faria's 3.3 camera, there are files to place in windows, and instructions to also import a reg key for the camera. that reg key, however, isn't included with the package.. does anyone know what is needed?
The registration included to the package but it is hidden because the extension is reg which connected to the files system. If you want to see, you must set your windows to appear the files system.
For example Resco explorer has the option to show hidden files, then to apply the reg file, just double click it.
Hey is anyone ever going to find a work around for the TouchFlo weather on T-Mobile network ? I heard something about proxy. Couldn't we just create a new connection or modify the registry. I REALLY MISS MY WEATHER INFO........
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=319982&highlight=weather+proxy
Thank you. I had search several times using touchflo and came up empty.
Anyone get this to work other than install the cab? I've tried several times to cook it into a ROM, but all didn't work. Not sure what the problem is, the plugin installs, but doesn't show anything at all.
just watch the weather report.. mam..
I have a T-Mo MDA... To get Mine 2 Work I had to reinstall the HTC Home Plug-in and not use the one cooked in the rom
The HTCHome.dll file from the link above expects the images to be in \HTCHome not in \Windows so for now (until I learn how to cook a rom with stuff in places other than \Windows) I install the cab, then copy \HTCHome directory to \HTCHome2 then copy the HTCHome.dll to HTCHome2.dll then uninstall the cab rename \HTCHome2 to \HTCHome and HTCHome2.dll to HTCHome.dll and it works. Kinda of a pain, but at least the weater app works.
I have tried cooking a ROM using Alex's HTC 3.03 ROM folders, but I have had the soft-reset freezing issue which is acknowledged here, so I'm trying to create my own set of ROM folders.
I've extracted a stock HTC ROM using Alex's Kaiser kitchen so I now have OEM, SYS, etc folders.
I'm looking for pointers on how to determine what can safely be removed from the various OEM subfolders.
Can anyone help out with a few tips?
I know that HTC Home and Java can be removed. Also CABs can be taken out as long as you go into the config.txt files (sometimes it will be config_AP or config_PT) and take out the command to run that CAB.
Fair enough, but I'm having trouble determining which files are part of these. Looking at the OEMAPPS folder for instance, there are more than 800 files, and they belong to various apps, e.g. HTC Home, Java, MMS composer, Comm manager, etc.
Obviously some of these can be stripped out, but I don't see any obvious way to determine which files are related to specific apps.
Is it just trial and error, or is there something obvious I'm missing?
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Fair enough, but I'm having trouble determining which files are part of these. Looking at the OEMAPPS folder for instance, there are more than 800 files, and they belong to various apps, e.g. HTC Home, Java, MMS composer, Comm manager, etc.
Obviously some of these can be stripped out, but I don't see any obvious way to determine which files are related to specific apps.
Is it just trial and error, or is there something obvious I'm missing?
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I was looking at OEMAPPS last night in my kitchen and wondering if everything needed to be there. I compared it with anryl's kitchen (sorry I can't provide DL) and he had a lot less stuff, so most of it can be removed I reckon - especially if you are cooking in a newer version with an OEM / EXT package.
What links all the packages together, I have no idea, trail and error I suppose, or try and figure it out from other packages (by that I mean to remove comm manager, get a comm manager package and look whats in it and remove that from OEMAPPS)
Just remeber all the reg settings in the .rgu file also.
Thanks
Dave
Thanks for the info. Comparing to other OEM packages is a good idea, it might help. I was kinda hoping there was something really obvious I was missing, but I guess it's just a whole lot of hard work and testing.
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Thanks for the info. Comparing to other OEM packages is a good idea, it might help. I was kinda hoping there was something really obvious I was missing, but I guess it's just a whole lot of hard work and testing.
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From what I've found out about cooking so far, it's all like that
You just gotta know who to ask
Dave
I haven't found any quick way, it just takes patience and time. When I first did this I compared OEM packages and the contents of .cabs to what was in the OEMApps & OEMDrivers folders and painstakingly removed (or relocated) the individual components into their own folders. The .rgu files also need to have the relevant bits removed/relocated too, plus there might also be some provxml files.
I am still using the original 5.2.19212 base as I dread going through this whole process again as I can't recount the number of mistakes I made
Andy
IIRC, I started by using akadonny's DK kitchen as my initial base. He made the "Supa-Clean" ROMs for the kaiser. He removed most of everything and adjusted the .rgu's. I would suggest looking for his kitchen here in the kaiser forum and working from there.
ok well here is what I did for HTC Home. Since I have a package for It I went in and compared that package the OEM apps folder and removed everything that had the same stuff as in that package. Nothing decided to puke when I did that
In my personal experience, you can delete anything from OEM, except for MMS or Camera or Dialer stuff! But ofcourse they all depend on the kitchen or the OEM package you have. Best thing to do, is delete one by one, and then test building it to see if you have any errors. It sure is painful and takes a lot of time to cook. Thats why I respect people who cook and release ROM's! It sure is not an easy thing to cook!
Thanks all, I guess I'll do it the hard way then.
actually, I'm working on deleting everything unnecessary from the OEMApps/Drivers folder, including updating the initflashfiles.dat, rgu, and .dsm files.
I'll release it when I can. My suggestion is compare a .cab or OEM package and delete the stuff in the OEMApps folder and Lang_0409 folder.
@ai6908, you can delete MMS, camera, and dialer
camera
if the only thing you need is the camera,delete the OEMApps folder and the uneeded files in OEM_lang then place this THIS in youre ROM,this is the camera cab!
Im going to upgrade to Win 6.5 when its released so i was collecting the CAB's for the applications I have installed.
However I have some applications installed that I cannot find the CAB's for or they are now charging for applications that used to be free.
Is there a way to dump the applications off the phone back into CAB's ready to re-install after the new OS??
Cheers
If you could identify every file and registry value that goes with the application, it would be easy to build a .cab file from that. There are a few .cab file "packaging" programs around. I use Cab Manager.
SK tools (or the newer SK CABIntegr) does exactly what you want. You can re-pack any programs that appear in the installed programs list into cabs, and you can add custom files and reg values as well. It's easy to do (but you have to pay for either program). If you don't already have sk tools, it's pretty much a must-have program. If you do have sk tools, you may need to upgrade to the latest version to get the improved cab manager.
Thank you very much I will take a look at this now
Hi All,
I need a little help in understanding something, either by explaination, or by directing me toa webpage, but everything I found really doesnt explain it.
I used 3 tools to extract a HTC ROM Leo, I used: NBHExtract, IMGFS utility (NBSpilt etc.) then used Package-tool to create the folders OEM and SYS, and now I'm stuck.
What I want to know is how do i go about making a cab file of something so I can install it? for example like the Messaging App. In the OEM folder it has two folders, one says for ex: HTCMessaging, the other says the same thing with .0409 on the end.
How would I go about being able to cab the messaging system files, registry etc, and cab it?
Thanks a million for any help.
Anyone? Or did I post in the wrong forum?
<Bump> sorry but I am still searching, I have been reading and reading for the last 12 hours and nothing is pointing me to a solution, let me clarify one thing. I am not wanting to know how to make a cab file, I know how to do that.
What I am trying to find out is how does one go about sorting in the example the HTC Messaging App and all the files needed to be installed into a cab, obviously 2 folders doesnt complete it, I know that possibly contacts, and appointments apps have to be put into the cab, but How would I go about finding out all the files needed to the appointment app, all the files needed for the contact app, and all the files needed for the Messaging App, so I could cab them individually and install them to test on a spare TP2 phone, I am not trying to flash it. I want to cab it so if it doesnt work or is unstable, I can uninstall it from the remove programs.
Anyone? I even tried New Visual Kitchen, but it crashes during the building of packages after the extraction process of the ROM.