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<< Create & Modify your own ROM's easy way - files included >>

This a simple and quick guide for everyone who wana make or just modify their own HTC DESIRE ROM's.(Rooted ones)
For example you downloaded a nice ROM from one of devs here, but they removed some application that you cant live without. Now you dont need to beg them to add those files back, simple add them your self and flash your rom.Missing APK's you can get simple by downloading any stock rom, than extract them and put them in your new ROM.
After you extracted files provided (c root recomended), you will see 2 maps
"Sign ROM" and "tools"
Signing ROM's:
After you modifed your ROM zip file, simple put it in "Sign ROM" map, and rename it to update.zip.Than run "Sign.bat" After the process is done you will get another zip called "update_signed.zip" which you can now put to your SD card and your ready for flashing. Note:JAVA SDK files are included, you only need to have normal java installed.
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/2921/signedrom.jpg
Pushing recovery files from windows:
Now to flash your ROM you dont need linux anymore, simple enter recovery (Power button+back, than select recovery...), and than in the map "tools" run recovery-windows.bat. Than you will get standard screen where you can flash your roms, partition SD, clear data and so on..
NOTE: You need to have HTC Sync driver installed or your phone wont be detected (you can get them from HTC)
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1894/pushfiles.jpg
If you have any questions, suggestions or if i wrote something wrong i will be happy to answer/corect them.
http://hotfile.com/dl/43311449/92d9ee6/Desire_Tools.exe.html
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JNI68MWZ
http://rapidshare.com/files/388849647/Desire_Tools.exe.html (Thanks pympster for link )
http://www.robertolsen.no/desire_tools.rar
(Thanks GeoTrail for link)

would this tool work for the HTC Legend aswell?

For signing roms yes, for pushing files not sure if Desire and legend use same files..

Ok this one is simple, but this is only how to add/delete several apps.
How about going little bit more deeper?

Well if you wana go deeper, you can download costom kernels with overclocks or low volatege and replace the ones in rom, or those circle battery mods or costom boot sounds and so on...Basicly your replacing/modifying original files. But this is just quick basic guide for basic stuff, let real ROM developing and costomizing to the developers who are good at it.

As far as hardware support goes is it the kernel that provides everything? Basically if I take an N1 rom (like cyanogen 5.0.6) and change to a desire kernel, is it likely to just work perfectly or are there other bits in the ROM that are likely to need changing?

Of course you can just use dsixda's Kitchen which is cross-platform and quite straightforward to use.
You just add the update.zip file you want to change, remove/add any apps you want and make any advanced changes you want too.
Select Build ROM and it'll create the new update.zip that you can flash to phone.
I've used it on my Desire without problem for adding/removing apps.

Well that kitchen is nice, but still..you need to downlaod virutal machine to make it run under windows or Cygwin tool than download JAVA SDK..setup lots of things.
My point of this thread was just vey basic and simple way to quickly add/remove/costomize files from ROM, without installling and downloading lots of tools, and quickly install it on Phone and test.

Sorry, I wasn't meaning to undermine your work. No doubt you've spent a lot of time creating this and trying to contribute to the community. It's far more than I can say for myself.
I was just pointing out there's something already out there, and more capable than this.
It's definitely good to see people helping out the members and this is definitely something useful

Everything is cool TheAshMan, and thanks for you link, im sure some enthusiastic people will try some advance things like that. But even my self im not big expert about Linux and phones, i do have great knowledge about windows and computers, but dont have much time for this area.

Screen shots on how to use this would help, I've come from cooking my own WinMo ROMs and wuld like to give this a try if possible
Also, as I use W7 x64 is it best to run the .bat files as an admin? Had issues using Windows methods in the past so have been using Linux to get rooted

I'm also using Windows 7 x64.
About running bat's as admin its not necessary unless you have some kind of UAC high settings, or running on some kind of limited user account. I never run this bats as admin and they work fine.
Basicly download some stock rom, or someones rom. And simple add or remove files inside rom.zip/system/app/
If you dont like facebook for example, just remove Facebook.apk and facebook.odex(if its present).
After your done with that, rename ROM to update.zip and put it in the folder
C:\Desire Tools\Sign ROM\ and excecute "Sign.bat" , and it will create signed rom with name update_signed.zip.
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/2921/signedrom.jpg
This is just some base, im not gona explain you about ROM deodexing, framework, boot images kernels and stuff, because im not expert at this.
Now you can put that file to root of your SD card.
Now you can test it on your phone.
Shut down your phone. Turn it ON while holding back button.You will see Bootloader selected, press power button again. Than Recovery will appear, you can navigate down with volumen UP AND DOWN and select Recovery and press POWER button again to select it.Phone with Red triangle will appear on your phone. Now go in map C:\Desire Tools\tools and excecute "recovery-windows.bat"
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1894/pushfiles.jpg
And on your phone you will get that screen with green letters where you can select to 'Flash zip from sdcard' ,where your signed rom will appear.(You need to wipe data before from the same menu)
I hope i made some thing clearer im writing this from work so dont have much time

Right, got a ROM and added 2 .apk files to the /system/app folder and now got a signed_update.zip...is that it? They'll be on the device from the start?
Seems to simple to me!!
How can you add a new radio? Or change the version number in About phone>Software?

Yea thats it. About those other things..Google is your friend...

edit mate

when i flash it says:
E: Can't find update script

rom.zip/META-INF/COM/google/android/update-script
Did you touch that in ROM? If you didint, than you removed something that you shouldnt.

Can u also remove apps from rom that you don't like by this method.
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Yea, thats the all point of everything i wrote here. Very simple way of very quickly removing apps that you dont want from the rom before flashing it.
Also, you need to watch out, and to a bit experementing. Because sometimes if you remove some crucial app, you will start getting random crashes of applications or random bugs. Allways make a copy of original rom.
For example if you remove HTC-IME.apk, you wont have any kind of keyboard in the rom. Making it un-usable

Somebody already asked how to add radio update, is it maybe included in Modaco r3 rom(the one without apps2sd and modaco additional stuff)?
Tnx for help

[Q] beginner question . how do i start everything ?

hi guys, i just brought od3 today and planning to do a lots of thing . i read a lot from xda-developers but never try it out even once . how here i have few questions and requests .
1.i heard about making backup, installing better rom and i heard about Cyanogenmod and modaco rom . how do i really start to install rom from zero ? any complete link ?
2. if i install rom , and flash it.do all data including phone contact, message and application gone ?
3. i noticed few hacking threads which are link1 , link2 and link3
which one i start first ? does setting will be gone when i flash with new rom ?
4.can anybody give guide for me to create android environment in Ubuntu linux ?
5.what is the best GPS application ?
6.what is different applying rom and theme ? please give full guide link for me to change my theme .
thank you so much

crownclown said:
hi guys, i just brought od3 today and planning to do a lots of thing . i read a lot from xda-developers but never try it out even once . how here i have few questions and requests .
1.i heard about making backup, installing better rom and i heard about Cyanogenmod and modaco rom . how do i really start to install rom from zero ? any complete link ?
2. if i install rom , and flash it.do all data including phone contact, message and application gone ?
3. i noticed few hacking threads which are link1 , link2 and link3
which one i start first ? does setting will be gone when i flash with new rom ?
4.can anybody give guide for me to create android environment in Ubuntu linux ?
5.what is the best GPS application ?
6.what is different applying rom and theme ? please give full guide link for me to change my theme .
thank you so much
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The stuff you want to do requires you to be rooted first. So download SuperOneClick and use that to root your device first.
1. Making a backup is usually with a app called Rom Manager. After installing, you can press the option to download the recovery and afterwards you can make a backup of the rom. Its best to make a backup of the stock rom that came with the phone just for... backup purposes.
Cyanogenmod is in progress, but not released yet so you should wait for that.
No point in checking on Modaco because there's almost no one posting there for this device.
If you want to install a new rom, you basically only need 3 things. Your phone, the custom rom you want from the Optimus 3D Android Development Section, and the instructions that thread gives you. Its best to follow the instructions that they give. Very easy and simple process.
2. Flashing a rom = installing a rom. All your data and etc are gone. Doesn't exist anymore, it'll be as if you got a fresh phone from out of the box except the rom has been modified. So if you want to keep your data, go make backups of them. For contacts, just sync them with your gmail account. For messages, download an app to back those up. I don't have a texting plan so I can't recommend you a sms backup app. If you want to backup your apps, you can look at Titanium Backup.
3. Whenever you flash a new rom, anything you've done to your phone is gone. So you'll have to reapply any tweaks you've done. For those 3 links, Link 1 and 2 are both stock camera replacements. They replace the stock camera on your phone. So you could only pick one. They both aim to improve the stock camera quality. Personally, I haven't installed either. I use 3rd party camera apps for taking pictures. For the 3rd link, its only a way to get GameLoft games to your external sd card to save some bit of space on your internal sd card. If you need it, try it out. I didn't need it, so I haven't touched it.
4. Are you talking about creating an android app development envirenment or...?
5. GPS, are you talking about GPS navigation, GPS detection, or..?
6. Applying a theme is just changing the graphical appearance of the phone. Applying a rom is changing much more than that. Applying a rom lets you have a rom with tweaks that gives you more space, more speed, more etc etc. Most custom roms has their own themes. Basically, if you want to change how your phone's launcher looks, then that's applying a theme. If you want your phone to be different from stock and have lots of bloatware removed and faster and etc you would want to install a new rom.
To change a theme there's 2 ways. One is to change it on the rom which would affect the stock launcher. 2nd way is to download a new launcher and download any of the themes they have and use those instead. I prefer the 2nd way just because its much easier and most of the time 3rd party launchers are simply better than the stock launchers.

DevJackey said:
4. Are you talking about creating an android app development envirenment or...?
5. GPS, are you talking about GPS navigation, GPS detection, or..?
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nope, what i mean is most of the guides such as superoneclick , rooting and etc given for windows users..i have hard time to adept and use it in ubuntu linux . i google around and found few howto in linux . i tried, it is not working atlease for me.
yes, GPS navigation . if possible similar GUI with HTC navigation .

Android rescue.zip project..

So i am here with a new idea. A rescue.zip which can be used to rescue any android device which have a recovery like the famous cwm.
So here is it..
Some times we people screw up our android os like hell, and to reboot the device we usualy do a recovery flash of a new os, flash back our nandroid backup ( both on worst conditions) or even do permission fix, clean cache or dalvic cache( those in 'not that worse' conditions) . So thats are all the options we got. Rit?
Although flashing recovery backups, new roms can fix all, it will also eatup our apps, current setups, contacts, msgs, etc( in case we dont have backups) and will probably screw us. All we can do is say " WTF..WTF..WTF.."
SO here is my idea,
Find out the causes of what causes a reboot, non-boot, hang,fc etc.
And keep a zip that can be flashed through recovery, that has a solution for our problem. They may be including..
1) fix permission of system, data, and user data.
2) zipalign the apps
3) fix the default clock speed of processor
4) defragment memory
5) flash a new copy of su and busy box
6)wipe data or system or ext or cache or dalvic cache
7) flash a new copy of framework.res, system-ui.apk, settings.apk with default permissions( those files are kept in separate "custom" folder on the zip, so that end user can put their own files to that "custom" folder for flashing., the reason behind it is known to all, yap. Not all devices have them in common, every device have its own files)
These are all i got for now, pls post ur ideas and knowledge for any possible cure about any problem u faced/ cured. So that we can make it an ultimate rescue.zip that have a cure for 99% problems android os have. The rest 1% will go with a clean flash.( well we cant avoid that if we did something that bad).
So my plan is to use aroma installer( now on hard learning to find how it works). Throw in some scripts, files etc. Into the zip.
And since its not a device specific .zip file, i want to know how and why any problems are caused in any device( there are many common problems, but that is not what i ask for. I ask for device/os specific problems, and not for a problem that we can cure after booting, but for a problem that can make the device un-bootable) . So u people may help me to find those problems and cures for it. For my knowledge i have experience with wildfire and hd2.
Well i will keep this thread for a week or two, so that u can post ur knowledge, and info. after that i will release the file for u.
To the admin. Of the forum, pls keep this thread as announcement so that all can take a look.
HYPERDROID EXTREEM EDITION-THE NEW BENCHMARK ROM FOR HD2.

I like Aroma, thanks for pointing that out! And yes... good idea... and a lot of work

Sorry but this is not development but merely an idea.
As soon as you have something that can be downloaded or something that shows active development (Git, sources, progress reports, individual scripts) then you can pm me to reopen the thread.
PS: You can also open such a thread in the general subforum.

[Q] Removed settings.apk and did a Factory Reset.

Hello guys,
First things first, I am new to Android. So I don't know much about the technical stuff. I own a Micromax A45 Superfone Punk(Gingerbread)
So, one of my friends linked me to install a new settings.apk and it didn't work. So I installed my original settings.apk
It was visible in apps2sdk like it was just another app. After a few days, I made a factory reset and boom! My settings.apk is not there.
I cannot install root explorer or ROM manager because apps outside of the Play Store are not allowed, and I cannot change the settings oc because I don't have it. -_-
Wifi or data connection is not working so Im unable to install them from the Playstore too.
Please help, I was gifting this phone to my brother, but now this happened
(XDA Dev is not allowing me to post the link :/) (Leave me a message at [email protected], I will be able to provide you the link)<--This is the hacked server where the drivers, rom etc are.
Username
mxlive
Password
[email protected]
What do I do? If I have to install the custom ROM on the server, how do I install? Im so sorry, but I'm a complete n00b. But I'm willing to learn. Thanks a lot.

Looking for custom ROM for a funny tablet

Hi, All, I am new here, currently, my friend gave me this tablet, n808, unbranded.
It is Baidu kind of system running, however, every time I use play store, it will stop it. so I can't install any non-Chinese ( in location ) Apps.
what I wish to do are:
1 ) clear the recovery partition and has a new one.
2) remove the os and have any other one
need a recommendation for using what tool and ROM
anythings else, please contribute
please Help
thanks in advance
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Without a device tree, there is no way to build a custom ROM. Unless of course you know how to extract them from the Tablet