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I'm just starting to get into the depths of my PDA2K and this site is GREAT!!!!!!! Since I'm just one step up from "The Village Idiot", I have a couple questions for all you pros.
After reading about using the extended ROM, and unlocking it and seeing what's in there, I think I've figured it out. Whatever CABs are listed in the config file will be installed upon a hard reset....correct? If true, and since I have only 3.5MB left in Ex ROM, can I put the other CABs I wanted installed in say /storage/CABs, list them in the config file and upon a hard reset they will be installed? Is there any reason to put them into Extended ROM rather than Storage? Is it alright to put CABs in from like games, Resco Explorer, WebIS Mail, etc.? Lastly is there a way to set the programs up where I don't have to go back and enter all the registration numbers again?
Thanks a ton for your help!!!
Tom
In extended rom they are not taking up your precious storage space on the device.
cruisin-thru said:
In extended rom they are not taking up your precious storage space on the device.
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is it possible then to keep the installation cabs on storage card,
and also, can that path be set in the config file in ext rom?
what happens if a particular cab is not found after hard reset?
is the installation stuck or it just gives a warning and keeps on going to the next cab listed in the list.
Have a read of this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=83119#83119
It might be a bit to deep but should help you along the way.
1) You can keep a cab anywere you want
2) make sure your cab is read only as it can delete itsself after install.
3) to run a auto install from a differnet storage place you need to hack the reg (see thread).
In all if you have a sd card you could leave your EXt rom empty.
Hack the reg to the new postion and run the Autorun from there.
Have fun
Thanks for all the infor everyone! From what I've read in other threads I need to make sure that TPdisabled is set to off so that when programs like WebIS Mail and SplashID get installed I can touch the screen to make sure they install into the right place and other things. Correct? If this is correct, should I just remove TPdisabled all together?
Thanks again,
Tom
TPdisabled can't be set off, its either run or not run. So dump it and you wont have a problem
MDAIIIUser - Thanks for the link! I looked at it and you're right, it's pretty indepth and I'll have to read it more closely at a later time....like at work.
Question1: leochan2005 had a follow-up saying "why not use backup"? While I agree this would be easier, I'm assuming that by using your method one would get a much "cleaner" install than backing up all the crap that was on the system prior to the hard reset...correct?
Question2: It took me a long time to get my TMo settings setup on my PDA2K and I don't want to go thru that again. Is there a way to backup those settings so that they can be auto-configured at a later time? I read about making a personalsettings.CAB but haven't done it yet.
Thanks,
Tom
MDAIIIUser said:
TPdisabled can't be set off, its either run or not run. So dump it and you wont have a problem
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Thanks! I take it it should be at the beginning of the config file so that I can access it. Correct?
q1)
Well the short of "why not use backup" is you can if you feel that:
1) Restoring Regedit values from a lower rom version
2) Restoring system applications form a lower rom version such as BT
are called for, wanted or even needed.
I fail to see that point as a upgrade is an upgrade and a backup is a backup. Now you could do a restore of your system data also (which you could also sync and that would be clean
Q2)
Most fo those settings are part of T-mobile.cabs found in Extrom, the rest would have been reg entries that you are going to have to hunt for and copy.
So sorry no way around reading the other thread (personalsettings.CAB)
MDAIIIUser - Maybe I should state what I'm trying to accomplish and you could give me a clue as to how to do it. A couple days ago I upgraded by BT on my PDA2K (generic from Expansys) to 1.0.0.3900 (or what ever the latest is) and I'm currently looking at upgrading my radio to 1.12, but that would require a hard reset. I'm not in the mood to go thru all the program installs and SMS/MMS tweaking again, so I'm trying to figure out the best way to get all my programs and configurations back after the hard reset. I thought by incorporating the personalsettings.cab (for my Tmo settings) and your method I would be up and running pretty quickly. Yes? I have Sprite Backup, but I'm not sure if that's going to overwrite anything after the radio upgrade????
Thoughts?
Thanks!
Well my logic (that could be wrong) would say that a restore of your backup would get you to were you are now.
That you would need a restore as you have to do a hard reset after the 1.12 radion install.
But I can't answer the question will the radio be restored as well,
I don't know, I don't know the settings in the backup application, so am sorry I will have to let somebody else answer this one.
Hey All, can someone find and send these files to me? stsmtp.dll, pvbform2.dll, MSSLCore20.dll, MSSLQuery20.dll, msdaer.dll, adoceoledb30.dll, adoce30.dll, msmsgs.dll. Don't know how exactly, but the files are not on my MDA, and it's giving me problems. So far I have managed to identify 3 issues. 1 My contacts don't sync. 2 Only one of my calendar entries syncs. 3 Can't copy files from the MDA to the PC while the MDA is connected to the pc, be that by bluetooth or usb.
I figure the problem was when I tried to SIM unlock the device, I didn't know that AKU2 roms couldn't be unlocked, so the other option I was considering is if someone can give me a copy of their lock_backup.bin to see if this helps me.
P.S. Sorry for double posting about this to those that might have noticed.
Can someone search for these registry entries?
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D086D8A1-24CD-11d3-94A4-0000F87A4978}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{1CB8526F-3436-4651-842F-87F2EFD60222}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{587CCDD3-F251-48fe-B762-4FAD6CCF6877}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{DF79ABFB-E51F-44e1-8C33-F19CC0A67A6B}
There are a few more, but I just want to know if everyone has these entries. After up/downgrading roms I still haven't been able to restore the files I'm missing, strange thing is I extracted the original US Tmo rom to my pc, and everything else is there except for the dll's I am missing, so at the moment I have no clue how to continue. If the files are not in the OS rom to begin with how can registry keys be created that point to them?
Me too...
Get the same missing files on an O2 Atom - WM5. To me it appears these refer to old legacy functionality from old PocketPC days, i.e. Microsoft Pocket Access (which was crap anyway and no great loss)
masr1979 said:
Can someone search for these registry entries?
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D086D8A1-24CD-11d3-94A4-0000F87A4978}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{1CB8526F-3436-4651-842F-87F2EFD60222}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{587CCDD3-F251-48fe-B762-4FAD6CCF6877}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{DF79ABFB-E51F-44e1-8C33-F19CC0A67A6B}
There are a few more, but I just want to know if everyone has these entries. After up/downgrading roms I still haven't been able to restore the files I'm missing, strange thing is I extracted the original US Tmo rom to my pc, and everything else is there except for the dll's I am missing, so at the moment I have no clue how to continue. If the files are not in the OS rom to begin with how can registry keys be created that point to them?
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Guys,
I have a requirement to provide a level of security on some corporate 8100/8125 devices.
I've proved that by implementing a couple of registry changes I can disable the SD and Camera devices which is exactly what I want to do.
The problem is that if a user Hard Resets the device and applies the customizations those registry changes are lost.
I've been told that I could put the registry changes into CAB files and install them in the Extended ROM, this way each time the user performs a hard reset the reg changes will be re-applied.
If someone has detailed instructions on how I could do that I'd be grateful.
Thanks
acowx said:
Guys,
I have a requirement to provide a level of security on some corporate 8100/8125 devices.
I've proved that by implementing a couple of registry changes I can disable the SD and Camera devices which is exactly what I want to do.
The problem is that if a user Hard Resets the device and applies the customizations those registry changes are lost.
I've been told that I could put the registry changes into CAB files and install them in the Extended ROM, this way each time the user performs a hard reset the reg changes will be re-applied.
If someone has detailed instructions on how I could do that I'd be grateful.
Thanks
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How "secure" do you want this to be? A determined user could install a registry editor and re-enable the reg options you disable. If your users are sales and marketing folks, then they probably don't have the technical aptitude required to do such things (jk!), but if there's a desire, there's a way.
A slightly more secure way would be to not only disable the reg keys, but also remove the camera app and drivers and SD drivers from the OS. This requires building a custom ROM, which I could probably throw together for you relatively quickly.
If removing the reg entris is enough to satisfy you, you can create a cab file using wince cab manager or the cabwiz from Visual Studio. This could be placed into an extended ROM image which you can flash to the devices. I can do that for you as well, or you can look through the posts here regarding custom ext roms.
to do this you need to build a custom extended rom there is a whole post for this it is called home cooked roms how to http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=52564&highlight= you will need the tools on there as well as wince cab manager which costs a little bit to buy or you can use the trial version but it expires quick so make sure you have the time to figure out what you are doing before you go through starting to do it and here are the tools http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=54563&highlight=extended+rom
this should pretty much get you started all you need to do is take the files already in the extended rom and add your cab file to it and update the auto execute file the lists all the items to be automatically executed and then repack it and flash the extended rom to the phone and then hard reset then they should be applied
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acowx said:
Guys,
I have a requirement to provide a level of security on some corporate 8100/8125 devices.
I've proved that by implementing a couple of registry changes I can disable the SD and Camera devices which is exactly what I want to do.
The problem is that if a user Hard Resets the device and applies the customizations those registry changes are lost.
I've been told that I could put the registry changes into CAB files and install them in the Extended ROM, this way each time the user performs a hard reset the reg changes will be re-applied.
If someone has detailed instructions on how I could do that I'd be grateful.
Thanks
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How "secure" do you want this to be? A determined user could install a registry editor and re-enable the reg options you disable. If your users are sales and marketing folks, then they probably don't have the technical aptitude required to do such things (jk!), but if there's a desire, there's a way.
A slightly more secure way would be to not only disable the reg keys, but also remove the camera app and drivers and SD drivers from the OS. This requires building a custom ROM, which I could probably throw together for you relatively quickly.
If removing the reg entris is enough to satisfy you, you can create a cab file using wince cab manager or the cabwiz from Visual Studio. This could be placed into an extended ROM image which you can flash to the devices. I can do that for you as well, or you can look through the posts here regarding custom ext roms.
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Hey, thanks for the speedy response.. from the top man in the forum too !
Given your comment about users being able to re-enable the reg settings I think you're right and I'd be grateful if you could produce a custom ROM based on the 2.25 ROM that Cingular provided for the 8100/8125 with all Camera and SD functions removed (and no other customizations)
In the meantime I'll trawl the documentation on here to work out how I can do this myself given.
Thanks man !
acowx said:
summiter said:
acowx said:
Guys,
I have a requirement to provide a level of security on some corporate 8100/8125 devices.
I've proved that by implementing a couple of registry changes I can disable the SD and Camera devices which is exactly what I want to do.
The problem is that if a user Hard Resets the device and applies the customizations those registry changes are lost.
I've been told that I could put the registry changes into CAB files and install them in the Extended ROM, this way each time the user performs a hard reset the reg changes will be re-applied.
If someone has detailed instructions on how I could do that I'd be grateful.
Thanks
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How "secure" do you want this to be? A determined user could install a registry editor and re-enable the reg options you disable. If your users are sales and marketing folks, then they probably don't have the technical aptitude required to do such things (jk!), but if there's a desire, there's a way.
A slightly more secure way would be to not only disable the reg keys, but also remove the camera app and drivers and SD drivers from the OS. This requires building a custom ROM, which I could probably throw together for you relatively quickly.
If removing the reg entris is enough to satisfy you, you can create a cab file using wince cab manager or the cabwiz from Visual Studio. This could be placed into an extended ROM image which you can flash to the devices. I can do that for you as well, or you can look through the posts here regarding custom ext roms.
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Hey, thanks for the speedy response.. from the top man in the forum too !
Given your comment about users being able to re-enable the reg settings I think you're right and I'd be grateful if you could produce a custom ROM based on the 2.25 ROM that Cingular provided for the 8100/8125 with all Camera and SD functions removed (and no other customizations)
In the meantime I'll trawl the documentation on here to work out how I can do this myself given.
Thanks man !
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No worries - can you PM me a little reminder? I'll look into this tomorrow.
Hello, I just uploaded the ROM of my diamond, but i have a problem.
The upgrade was OK and all the configuration too, but the browser won't connect.
It's a known problem from the Bouygues' ROMs.
There's a .cab called ''Bouygues-costumize.CAB'' that has wap and settings to connect to internet with their network, a startup image, but it blocks all browser connections. Why? Don't ask me.
With my old ROM, while the phone was installing Opera and other things, during the first installation, when the phone started to install the ''Bouygues-costumize.CAB'', you just had to press the reset button on the stylus slot, and wait for it to restart, with the browser working, because it was the last thing to be installed.
BUT, with the new ROM, the ''Bouygues-costumize.CAB'' is installed just before the PT_Manilla.CAB (I think it's called like this), so if I do the reset like I did before, I have no TochFLO 3D.
Can anyone help me????????
My ROM version is 1.93.483.4 FRE
My old ROM was 1.37.483.3 FRE
If someone knows how I can solve this problem, please tell me.
THANKS
Happened to me...try a different radio and/or rerun connection wizard
which ROM did you install after????
Thx
No one can tell me, a ROM that I can put on my Diamond????
Thx
No one??????????
c'mon.......
plz. some one tell me a ROM I can put on my diamond.....
a. stop bumping the thread, you will just get banned by a moderator lol
b. try checking settings of how the data is recieved, when i reset or change ROM i have to change how the data is recieved from Internet to T-Mobile Internet, otherwise it moans it cannot get a signal (because im not near my wifi network) and it will actually use the 3g like it's meant to.
a. I'm just looking for a solution to use Opera on my Diamond through my Wi-fi network.
b. My diamond is just 5 metres from my Wi-Fi antenna. If you had read my post and taken the time to understand it, you would of known that the problem is from a .cab file which is from my operator's ROM which BLOCKS Wi-Fi connections through browsers, and BROWSERS only. I can use Google Maps, and ANY other program with no problem through my Wi-Fi network. BUT NOT BROWSERS.
THX
angelgolp said:
a. I'm just looking for a solution to use Opera on my Diamond through my Wi-fi network.
b. My diamond is just 5 metres from my Wi-Fi antenna. If you had read my post and taken the time to understand it, you would of known that the problem is from a .cab file which is from my operator's ROM which BLOCKS Wi-Fi connections through browsers, and BROWSERS only. I can use Google Maps, and ANY other program with no problem through my Wi-Fi network. BUT NOT BROWSERS.
THX
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Extract the contents of the ROM using a Diamond-compatible Kitchen, delete the CAB file and all references to it, recook the ROM, flash it, enjoy.
Or just extract the ROM, open the CAB file using WinCE CAB Manager, check and see what modifications it is making to the device/registry, and delete those files/settings.
NotATreoFan said:
Extract the contents of the ROM using a Diamond-compatible Kitchen, delete the CAB file and all references to it, recook the ROM, flash it, enjoy.
Or just extract the ROM, open the CAB file using WinCE CAB Manager, check and see what modifications it is making to the device/registry, and delete those files/settings.
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I don't knowhow to cook ROMs, or extract a CAB from a ROM.
Does some one know an official ROM (with no operator customization) which works??
thx
Hi,
I would like to customize a ROM for myself but i would need your advice...
Is it possible to use a ROM (Lets say NRG ROM 2.5), and to customize it (reg tweaks, MMS config, Exchange Server config with password set by default, install some cab and put the registration keys by default....) ?
If this is possible, is it hard to update it ? for exemple if NRG updates his ROM, i also want to be up to date with mine, is it easy to "synchronize", or reapply all previous actions without too much hassle ?
Do you have any links i should read to start a Kitchen ?
Thanks in advance
It might be worth having a search around for SASHIMI. It'll let you collect .cabs and .reg files etc and automate running then after youve flashed a new ROM.
if you figure out how your reg details are kept for each piece of software (in the registry or a file etc.), you can get it to reinstate them after flashing too.
You could DL the latest verion of a ROM, pull it apart and change whatever you like and then flash it to your phone but it'd be a pain for pain version.
Using sashimi, its also easy to update your setup when indiviudual apps and settings change, without needing to reflash your phone and then re-sync etc.
The way I see it, sashimi only really needs setting up the once and then given a tweak when something changes rather than needing to be re-done as with a ROM...the only down-side I can really find is it needs running after a hard-reset, whereas if you cook the changes in they wouldnt (so its no good for 'find or nuke my stolen phone' type apps).
I believe a lot of cooked ROMs include 'User Customization' (UC) which does a similar thing, but i havent used it myself.
Also, I may be wrong, but i think you could need certain details from the original chef before you can pull apart a cooked ROM too (i remember reading about file somewhere in your kitchen, memory fails me though)-and, of course, the chefs permission
Let us know what you try out.
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