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Need to get back to WWE!

I made quite the mistake yesterday. I have an MDA compact that came from T-Mobile Germany and originally had german as the default language. It was easy to change to english by going to regional settings & selecting english.
So I didn't think twice about using a German T-Mobile ROM upgrade - and now I'm stuck with GERMAN!!! Regional settings doesn't change the language any more! what the heck?
Sooooo, I need a WWE .exe ROM that will load - I tried a UK WWE and I was told by the installer that I had the wrong language and install could not continue. Is there a way to go back to WWE? I don't care at this point what version.....
Also, I have downloaded from the FTP server other ROM versions but they are all .nb1 files and, despite my best efforts, I can't understand the proper way to install these. I've looked thru lots of posts and found one set of instructions but they were very hard to understand. HELP!!

funkynugget,
I have been in your shoes, in the exact situation as a matter of fact. I am very familiar with PPC but had never flashed anything in my life( well there was this one time a few years back but uuhhhh.. thats for another story) Anyways just down load the preferred WWE, I am using the latest Jam rom which works great with my German Tmobile. You will also need to download the MaUpgradeUt.exe file as well. Do a google search to find that one by just typing in MaUpgradeUt.exe Now unzip or unrar (whatever) the rom that you choose to use so it breaks down the files seperately. In it you will see the MaUpgradeUt.exe file. Remove that one a replace it with the newly downloaded one. Click on the and enjoy. You may come up with langauge or country error. dont worry if that happens just restart, it will work the second time.
Todd

thank you sooo much for the advice. i will for sure give it a try. i've downloaded another version of the ROM from orange and i'll probably end up just using that BUT i would prefer to use the i-mate ROM, from what i hear it fixes all kinds of little bugs. only problem is it isn't available on the FTP server and i have no other access. do you have it? can you post it to the FTP server here on xda?
once again, thanks for the help!

i've done some research to find a downloadable 'maUpgradeUt.exe' file and i'm starting to wonder if it matters where i get it & what type. you suggest downloading one to replace the one that comes with the WWE ROM but how do i know i found the correct 'maUpdateUt.exe' language/file?

funkynugget,
I tried but it said I do not have permission to upload file. Do you have an FTP I could upload to, it would be my pleasure as I also have received help from this site and would be lost without it.
Todd

'maUpgradeUt.exe'
funkynugget,
I am trying to attach the 'maUpgradeUt.exe' file, Im not sure it will work and I hope its OK to do this, we will see.

Now unzip or unrar (whatever) the rom that you choose to use so it breaks down the files seperately. In it you will see the MaUpgradeUt.exe file. Remove that one a replace it with the newly downloaded one. Click on the and enjoy.....
todd (or anyone else who can help!) when i unzip the files they either come out as an .exe or an nb1 file, not a series of files. how do i get the files separated? and when you say 'click on the and enjoy' click on what?

A suggestion for the benefit of the ROM chefs / users

Hi all!
Downloading custom ROMs is VERY cool, but a bit of a pain sometimes because the downloads are huge. I have a suggestion about how this could be resolved.
To explain my idea, let's look at how you would flash a ROM using the new method being suggested. You'd need the following things...
- USPL (as usual)
- Custom RUU (as usual)
- 'Control' ROM NBH
Here's the first difference. The control ROM in my proposal is the widely circulated HTC ROM NBH, which can be found here. You'd keep the NBH from this ROM (RUU_Signed.nbh) named as HTC.nbh, and it would be used by all subsequent updates.
So let's imagine that I have a device (USPL'd of course) that I want to flash to the T-Mobile ROM. I'd make sure I had a directory with the Custom RUU and Control ROM NBH in, then i'd download the file from the ROM creator. In this file would be a batch file, a ROM patch and the patcher. The batch file would patch HTC.nbh to T-Mobile spec, then run Custom RUU. The beauty of it? The download would be very small!
Would it work? YES! And to prove a point, please check out this post - where you'll find Orange, T-Mobile and Tilt ROMs in tiny downloads based off the control NBH. ROM chefs - let's start using this system, which i'm calling 'Kaiser TLR ROMs' for obvious reasons.
ROM chefs, to create the patches you just need to use bsdiff, which can be found here. Use the syntax 'bsdiff HTC.nbh YourROM.nbh YourRom.patch'. You can see a sample batch file in my link above.
So... what do u think?
TLR

I don't get it once your HTC is HardSPL'ed then there is no CID lock and you can flash any rom to your device. Most rar files containing the RUU_signed.nbh are only 40-50MB thats pretty small and can be deleted when your finished flashing. To me this seems like a lot of extra work for the cook(sometimes me) and more support issues I find it easy just to upload the ROM i made to rapidshare or some other file hosting site and people can download as they like.

40-50MB is a lot bigger than 6-7MB.
It's not a lot of extra work at all really, it's running one command line, and distributing a couple of files.
I think patching definitely has potential, not least that they are a lot easier (and a lot less illegal?) to host.
TLR

theloanranger said:
40-50MB is a lot bigger than 6-7MB.
It's not a lot of extra work at all really, it's running one command line, and distributing a couple of files.
I think patching definitely has potential, not least that they are a lot easier (and a lot less illegal?) to host.
TLR
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Sounds interesting about the legal hosting capability for diff ROM files instead entire ROM. The ROM archive goes down in the past for the M$ pressing . If we can archive only diif ROMs, this can be one solution to take back the ROM archive into the FTP at XDA.
One offtopic question, where did you get the Orange Shipped ROM for Kaiser?
Cheers.

I didn't, it's a dump and repack, as is the T-Mo one.
TLR

How to extract files from ROM

OK so that's the question...
I have an Omnia and it's branded by operator... I was told by a portuguese user (like me) that flashed his device and said that the XCHG5 is unbranded
The ROM is linked is in .nbo and .img format and is linked at Modaco.
All I really want to do is extract the launcher.exe, launcher.exe.0816.mui, launcher.exe.t1.skin (which my network provider so generouly altered and crippled) and the poweron/poweroff images and sounds... Though I'm not sure if some changes were made at registry (I have this one icon in the Launcher user defined shortcuts for MeoMobile that I realy want to remove but can't the way I add/remove other apps to it...)
Can anyone tell me which tool to use and how to use it?
And before anyone suggests it I do not want to flash my device.
Feedback appreciated

Bump...
It's been a week... Doesn't anyone know of an answer to this?
Sorry if this seems shameless but if I get it right my thread has only one week left and then will be deleted... And this thread was burryed under more recent ones.

I need to extract some files from different ROMs too, please help

[DUMP] NexusOne system dump on AndroidSPIN

Hey all, don't know if yall noticed but they have a NexusOne dump over on AndroidSPIN forums. I have been playing with the files and it has some interesting looking files in it. My first thought was to grab the bootscreen but it looks like they changed how the bootscreen works as it is now a zip file, not a directory
Anyway, for all those who want to play with it:
http://www.androidspin.com/forum/index.php?f=209&t=87&rb_v=viewtopic
And they also got some of the apps working too:
http://www.androidspin.com/forum/index.php?f=209&t=89&p=185&rb_v=viewtopic#p185
Anyone feel like deodexing some files or at least give us a little guide on how to do it? Official instructions dont work for me.
I am going to try to get this working with out current 2.1 kernel but obviously, I doubt that would work.

How to recover my clockwork backups

First, let me say that I am new at this (which will become very apparent). I renamed my clockwork backups so they could be easier to decipher (I kept the date but deleted the numbers at the end which I assume is the time) and when I tried to recover I received an error message saying MD5sum do not match. Is there a way to go in to that particular back-up file to find the original name so I can match it back and do a proper restore? Thanks in advance.

I'm afraid recovering the original name from the file itself won't be an option. You however can check if there is any logging from your backup software that contains the original name of the backupimage. Also you can rehash md5 and paste the checksum (hex) over the existing hash, is there some sort of recover file that calls the checksum ? If so, you need to overwrite the checksum there.

After reading the post above it looks like your f-ed.
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

There is a way around it that "sometimes" works. Its a long shot but better then no shot!
* Create a new backup (doesn't matter what off just do it)
* One you have created a new backup open to view the files in windows
* copy & replace the old backup files with the new ones
* Boot back into clockwork & try restoring with the new backup you just created.
Basicly what your doing is after making a new backup is replacing the files in the backup folder with the old files. This has worked a few times for me when I first started making back-ups & never realised that renaming it would be a bad idea.
Hope this helps you get your back-up back!