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Dummy Question - Selfmaking ROM

Hello,
i'm new here. I come from the Sony Community. I getting in the next 2 Days my new TyTN II. So, now i've got some questions about making a own ROM. I have read so many Pages, but i can't find a easy step by step Howto. I would like to write a German dummy Step by Step HowTo. But i understand how it works... I would like to take some existing ROM's (expl. the ROM from Sleuth), but i would like to run a german version with my own Tools.
First of all, i would like to integrate a Tool like 'Where is my Phone' in actual German ROM File from HTC. See wimp-software.co.uk. So if somebody steal my Phone, i getting the new Phonenumber and the GPS Position Data with this Tool. I think, this Tool is very nice.
The problem with this tool is, when someone make a Hardreset, the Tool will be removed from the PDA. Now, i would like to integrate this Tool to a selfmade ROM.
Ok, i'm understand, that someone can build his own ROM and if he upload his ROM to the Smartphone, my Tool will be destroy. But this is a other problem.
Now, let me beginning. Which are the best steps to create this ROM based on a German ROM Release? I think there are 3 Ways.
1. Way: I install the newest original ROM from HTC to my Mobilephone. Then i install my Application like 'Where is my Phone' and i make my Reg. Tweaks (expl. GPS Camerafunction). After i have install all the good things, i make a Dump from my Mobile and i create a ROM from this Dump.?!
2. I install the newest German ROM Release to my PDA. I make a Dump. And i extract this Dump in my PC, so i can manually add the OEM Packages and Reg. Tweaks.
3. I search in the internet for a German actually ROM (System and Radio ROM). And i manually add the OEM Packages. and Reg. Tweaks.
Can you help me, and tell me, which version is the best for me? My Target is, when a new version from HTC will release, i can easy add my Tools to this ROM. But for this, i have to know, how it works.
With Sony Erricsson, there was some ROM Updates, which have some security issue. So with a ROM Version expl. higher than 1.90 you can't downgrade or make a selfmaking ROM. Is this possible with a HTC device? So i have every time to check, when a new Release goes Public, if i can make downgrades, changes and a selfmaking ROM? Or is this with the HTC device no problem?
So, which Version does exist?
I found the fellowing ROM Function:
SPL -> ???
SPLASH -> this looks like the Bootup Screenfile
RADIO -> this is the GSM Version
SYSTEM -> This looks like the OS
I hope some nice guys can help me, to make my own ROM Release. If it works, i would like a very easy Step by Step Manual in German, with pictures. So that every one can create his own ROM with his own language.

Wiki/fully covered guide needed for magic

I think that this forum is a total mess with different recoveryfiles and troubles. We need someone with the knowledge to create a guide/wiki/information page which covers the different recovery files, what's needed for what etc.
Myself I am on a Vodafone with the latest updated original software. Can I backup EVERYTHING (including my recovery) before I start playing with the phone? A lot of ppl seems to be having troubles and I don't want to move into something potentially non working without being able to revert back to original. Or perhaps the recovery image that I have already is available? And then I can just flash with X (what recovery is recommended now) and install for example ION.
I'm not without computer knowledge but this forum is in such a mess that I'm not even sure what's happening

after flashing almost all ROMs from this forum i decided to stick with smartphone france firmware (http://wiki.smartphonefrance.info/firmware-htcmagic.ashx, recovery included). it loads fast, include all recent ota updates, and maintained. You can back up your current phone firmware + data by booting custom recovery image and using nandroid backup and later go back to that backed up state if you wish.

w3rw01f said:
after flashing almost all ROMs from this forum i decided to stick with smartphone france firmware (http://wiki.smartphonefrance.info/firmware-htcmagic.ashx, recovery included). it loads fast, include all recent ota updates, and maintained. You can back up your current phone firmware + data by booting custom recovery image and using nandroid backup and later go back to that backed up state if you wish.
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This my firmware thanks a lot for your support

@spfrance
didn't get any of a word from this wiki, but i'm using your roms and i'm totally satisfied. Thanks for that!
Dirk

Does this ROM come with English UK language and UK APN's?
Is the wiki available in English?
Cheers

LadFromWales85 said:
Does this ROM come with English UK language and UK APN's?
Is the wiki available in English?
Cheers
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This firmware come with English Langage
I don't include UK APN because i don't know them.
And the Wiki is only available in french ... the only one langage i can read and write easyly

come on. use translate.google.com

In that case, in a nutshell, how does it differ from the standard Google/Vodafone ROM? App variations/addions etc?
Is it possible to restore my texts/mms?
Cheers for any info!

As far as i can see, PDF Viewer, ANetShare is included.
I'm using MyBackup for backup and restore all my links Sms, MMS ... quit good.
I like it a lot and it seems to me that is running smooth and fast enought, just give it a try.
Cheers,
Dirk

May do just that, cheers for the info, diRm!

Web page in french : http://wiki.smartphonefrance.info/firmware-htcmagic.ashx
Ameliorations :
- Use JF Kernel for network functionalities
- Add Bluetooth PAN for use as Bluetooth MODEM
- Based on CRB43 Firmware
- Add somes utilities (aNetShare, PDFView, SuperUser Permission, ...)
- Rooted Boot
- Increase Volume
- MultiTouch Browser
- ...

Isn't it better to base the software on I.O.N instead? Since it obviously is faster than CRB43.

@spfrance,
which locale has your ROM integrated? I need german

Puky70 said:
@spfrance,
which locale has your ROM integrated? I need german
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german and all other languages from original vodafone rom are included there

This firmware support there folowing langages :
- German
- English
- Spanish
- French
- Italian
- Dutch
I have only test french an English Langage ... the only langages i can understand

cruzzade said:
Isn't it better to base the software on I.O.N instead? Since it obviously is faster than CRB43.
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yes same question?????

So far my phone only likes the default Vodafone ROM and the Ion ROM.
Tried Haykuro's 6.0 and no this Smartphone France firmware, both leave my phone stuck at splash1 indefinately.
My magic is rooted and I can access the restore utility by holding home and power. Any idea why this could be?

Have you tried WIPE before update???

Yes, I wiped before updating. I have also tried wiping after updating..
I have now wiped again and restored to the Ion ROM, phone boots fine.

ION work good on mine to,just the in-call audio problem!!!
is this Magic_13 faster or slover then ION?can anyone say?
I did extract the PDF VIEWER apk from the app folder in the magic_13 zip file,installed to my running ION and the app dont work,damed

Help! how to rollback 8107 to 7740 Focus S?

Hi,
i used the CAB sender and updated my focus S to 8107 forgetting to back up.
I did not update the language files too and now my Phone tile doesn't work.
I need help to rollback to 7740. Anyone can help me? as i have no idea where can i get a rom for focus S to roll back

DarthRhyder said:
Hi,
i used the CAB sender and updated my focus S to 8107 forgetting to back up.
I did not update the language files too and now my Phone tile doesn't work.
I need help to rollback to 7740. Anyone can help me? as i have no idea where can i get a rom for focus S to roll back
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Just use CAB sender to send your language packs to your phone, same thing happened to me on my Trophy and after I loaded the lanugage packs the phone tile started to work. If you want to roll back to 7740 with out a back up you'll have to find a stock ROM for your phone and start from scatch (speaking from experience). Just load your language packs one at a time and you'll be good to go.

sinister1 said:
Just use CAB sender to send your language packs to your phone, same thing happened to me on my Trophy and after I loaded the lanugage packs the phone tile started to work. If you want to roll back to 7740 with out a back up you'll have to find a stock ROM for your phone and start from scatch (speaking from experience). Just load your language packs one at a time and you'll be good to go.
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Thanks for the reply
I tried installing the language packs again but were unsuccessful. Not a single language

DarthRhyder said:
Thanks for the reply
I tried installing the language packs again but were unsuccessful. Not a single language
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What kind of phone do you have?

You need to use upgrade packages from 7740.. I'm guessing you have tried using full language packs that will "technically" upgrade you from original NoDo.
Check the thread "[CAB] Official WP7 Updates List: 7.10.8107 + ALL LANGUAGES complete + OEM updates."
Find "WP7 MANGO LANGUAGE PACKS (7.0.7403.0 - 7.10.8107.79) - All 22 supported languages", and use packages that say "...diff-7.10.7740.16-7.10.8107.79..." to upgrade whatever languages you have installed on the phone (assuming they worked correctly in 7740).
If you are installing the language from scratch, all of the packages must be installed from start to finish (so NoDo, then Mango+ updates).

u can download all the cabs for you phone and then start the sender, it will only do the updates it can. i did the same thing.

Can I use Cab Sender to install previous version?

[Q] Adding languages to unbranded HTC radar

Hi there,
This my first post, so I'll try to be short and to the point.
I just bought an sim-free HTC Radar (7720) from Expansys Japan, hoping to make a present to my Spanish mother. To my surprise, although my Japanese IS12T WP7 had several languages including Spanish, the HongKong market Radar Expansys sold me only has English and Chinese.
Since then I've been desperately trying to get a way to add Spanish display language. Found this thread on xda and thought I was saved.
Being a noob I did read every single post in the 85 pages before trying anything, unfortunately I still can't get Spanish display menu...
Here is what I did:
1) Checked I had latest Zune software (I'm running W8 CP 64bit)
2) Updated the radar up to 8107 through Zune (first 7740, then 8107).
3) Downloaded and installed WP7_update_tool
4) Downloaded and extracted WP7_Update_Cab_Sender
5) Downloaded all the Spanish language update cab files (1 for Nodo, 2 for Mango), and added them to the WP7_Update_Cab_Sender folder
6) Run the bat file, then choose "B" for backup+update
7) After a while, and a few restarts both the Update utility and the phone showed the message "Update successful".
I then went to change my display settings and found out that I still only had English and Chinese available...
Is there something I missed? Do you have any suggestions?
Right now the only thing I can think about is that maybe I shouldn't have used Zune to update. Should I try to roll back to 7740 with Zune, then update to 8107 using the Cab_Sender instead?
Thanks in advance.

Well, I got impatient so just tried to restore to the previous version using Zune...
Tried already 3 times, no particular error messages and everything seems to go fine. Yet at the end I always end up where I was, at 8107...
Am I stucked in here or is there something else I can try?
Any way of getting my phone back to 7720, or any idea of whether that would help me solve my problem ?
Having Spanish support is much more important than getting future updates... so that's not an issue...

CAB-sender takes a backup (technically "restore point") using the same mechanism that Zune does. If you didn't back up your older restore points, they were overwritten.
I'd suggest just flashing a European stock ROM. Here's a nice list of the ROMs for Radar phones: http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/HTC_Radar/Shipped_Roms. Make sure the device version matches (i.e. the TMoUS one probably won't work, though I don't know what hardware a Radar purchased by way of Japan will use).

GoodDayToDie said:
CAB-sender takes a backup (technically "restore point") using the same mechanism that Zune does. If you didn't back up your older restore points, they were overwritten.
I'd suggest just flashing a European stock ROM. Here's a nice list of the ROMs for Radar phones: http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/HTC_Radar/Shipped_Roms. Make sure the device version matches (i.e. the TMoUS one probably won't work, though I don't know what hardware a Radar purchased by way of Japan will use).
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Thank you so much for your reply; now:
- I understood what I did wrong (over-write my previous backups when I run CAB-sender...
- Have some hope to get it done.
My hardware is: HTC Radar C110e, but unfortunately I found no file matching my current Firmware/Bootloader:
- Firmware: 1600.2200.20301.708
- RadioSofware: 16.23.03.17_16.27.00.23
- Bootloader: 2.3.160015.3(134621)
So additional questions:
- If I get one of these European ROM's, will I get also the language packs delivered by default in the European region (which include the one I want, Spanish)?
- Will my phone be updatable through the regular Zune channel afterwards?
- Should I rather get the newest, oldest, or it doesn't matter? (assuming I'll get the updates normally)

Your questions, in order:
1. Yes. These are the ROMs which are distributed on retail phones, and should include the standard language set for Windows Phones (which I'm pretty certain includes Spanish for the European phones, although I've never checked).
2. Yes. Flashing a stock ROM will make the phone behave exactly as though you'd bought it with that ROM, and it should work with Zune like any other Windows phone (including being updatable).
3. I suggest going with the newest ROM on that list, because it has the same major version number for its bootloader (2) and same revision version number for its radio (03). This reduces the risk of it not flashing correctly for some reason. That ROM is also 7740, so it will need fewer updates after flashing.
Do keep your restore point handy, in case the flash fails for whatever reason, but it shouldn't be needed. You can try recovering older restore points using the "Previous Versions" feature of Windows (requires Volume Shadow Copy service to not be disabled, and System Restore to be enabled for you user-profile disk and set to backup user files as well as system files).
Flashing a European ROM really seems like the best bet, though. You'll need to start the phone into SPL (bootloader) mode, which I believe requires turning off the phone, pressing and holding the Volume Down button, and turning it on again. You should see a screen with bands of color and info about your SPL in yellow text. At the bottom will be black text saying "Serial". Plug the phone into the computer. It will install some drivers (automatically, on Vista or later; on XP you may need to do this manually) and then the text at the bottom of the phone's screen should change to "USB". At that point, you can run the ROM Update Utility (RUU) that should have come packaged with the ROM image.

Thanks again for your precious help. It seems that's exactly what I need.
Now, sorry for asking again, but after a few hours I still couldn't find a suitable RUU... The links you gave me previously pointed to the ROM images only, any idea of where can I find "the RUU packed with those images"? Or "how to pack them myself"?
I did find a few threads in xda with a link to a RUU (here) , but it's only for the oldest version. Then they provide additional ROM images (.nbh), but it's not clear to me how can I pack those into a RUU.
Finally, I did find this other thread where someone was kind of explaining how to do it, but it seems the OP didn't even get it to work to begin with, so it doesn't feel reassuring...
Any further guidance would be appreciated.

I'm afraid you've reached the limits of my knowledge of such things. The only time I've manually flashed anything, the download came as a packaged RUU "installer" (basically just a self-unpacking archive, so far as I can tell) and included simple instructions for using it. If you tell me what file(s) your download contained, I could try to tell you how to lay them out like my phone has it, but I'm hesitant because I really don't know the intricacies of RUU.
I'm guessing you already checked the Radar forums? Alternatively, if you look at the threads for the other ROM downloads, at least some of them start with RUU and end with .EXE (which is how my download came) instead of starting with IMG and ending with .NBH (my download included some NBH files, though). Maybe grab one of the RUU bundles, run it, watch what files it extracts, and then replace the NBH file with the one you already downloaded? I can't promise this will work, but it's worth a shot.

GoodDayToDie said:
I'm afraid you've reached the limits of my knowledge of such things. The only time I've manually flashed anything, the download came as a packaged RUU "installer" (basically just a self-unpacking archive, so far as I can tell) and included simple instructions for using it. If you tell me what file(s) your download contained, I could try to tell you how to lay them out like my phone has it, but I'm hesitant because I really don't know the intricacies of RUU.
I'm guessing you already checked the Radar forums? Alternatively, if you look at the threads for the other ROM downloads, at least some of them start with RUU and end with .EXE (which is how my download came) instead of starting with IMG and ending with .NBH (my download included some NBH files, though). Maybe grab one of the RUU bundles, run it, watch what files it extracts, and then replace the NBH file with the one you already downloaded? I can't promise this will work, but it's worth a shot.
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Well, thank you in any case for your kindness and having taken me here.
I think I'm ready to try … Just made up my mind to go in the following order:
1) Give a shot to the original RUU file (even though it has an old build of my phone); then hope that Zune updates come as you said they would (my phone unbranded phone came out of the box with Mango 7720 and it took only a few minutes to get the latest version).
2) If updates don't come, try to modify the RUU file with the newer ROM to see if I have better chance...
I'll be back to report what happened.

Well, I tried both the old and the newer ROMs, and:
- on the good side: my phone didn't get killed in the process
- on the bad side: I get an error message saying "ERROR [294] : INVALID VENDER ID" no matter what...
The ReadMe file says:
One of these error messages will appear when you use the wrong RUU to do the upgrade. RUU will check if the Model ID and Language ID are compatible with the device. Make sure you use the appropriate RUU tool to upgrade.​
So I guess I'm slowly reaching a dead end... Someone has any further suggestions???

any updates here ?

HTC HD7 MANUAL TANGO problem

Hello guys i have a problem with my HTC HD7...i install the 8112 update then 8773 with languages ( from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27960331&postcount=929 ) but without a backup ... "C:/ no space" and all goes right.. but when the phone was on the start screen and go to settings: "wifi, emails+accounts, messaging, about phone" - doesn't work
I tried to install O2-DE ROM's ( from here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000467 ) and i get the [226] error - flash write , i tried to install a DFT ROM but SPL-5x.. and doesn't support it... please guys i am new in ROM's and stuff's and i am really desperate and don't know what to do to fix my phone.. if you can send me a good custom ROM or someone who fixed the [266] error please help.. and just in case if someone has a mango BACKUP and it can be send... via link that would be awesome
Thanx
Sorry for bad english.

Why did you start a new thread for this? This should be part of the CAB Update thread.
Your problem is very obvious if you just read the instructions for CAB updating. You needed to send the language packs along with your OS update. Language packs are in their own CAB files, but can be sent at the same time as the update CAB. There are instructions for figuring out which ones you need to send.
You're messing with things here that can really screw up your phone, much worse than it is now. *ALWAYS* read the instructions first. Read what problems others have had, and how they fixed them. Follow the steps, don't cut corners.
That said, if you really want to install a custom ROM, this is possible. You'll need a GoldCard, which is to say a USB Mass Storage device like a SD card or a flashdrive with a special file on it, plus some way to connect it directly to your phone and power the device at the same time (typically a USB Y-cable). There are full instructions, with links to parts and pictures of how to set it up, available on this forum. That will let you downgrade your bootloader version so you can install HSPL.

Phone status: Updated
Problem solved, finally i upgraded my HTC HD7 to 8773 by reinstall the 8112, 8773 again +languages and it worked
-So for those who think that their phones are lost (Walshed) repeat this step 1-2 times