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Extract Language pack from ROM

Hi , I am trying to extract the language files from my original installation so as to import them in the custom rom that Faria (thank you) has provided.
Does anyone know from where to start?
Thank you in advance

Well this is how the situation stands :
I have followed up the instructions given for cooking my own rom. What i have done is to extract the ROM given by the Greek QTEK for qtek 9100 (aku 2.0) .
I have also downloaded the Greek rom for HTC p3300 in order to find a aku 3.2 rom in greek. I havent; extracted it , yet.
Does anyone know what are the Language Files that I have to take and put back in the Customized Rom so as the ROM to support greek?

There is two ways to localize ROM
1) by localization from Extended ROM (CAB file)
2) by mui files in ROM
2) mui files are *.mui in windows folder; (in the end of file name isexample) 0405 = English, 0409 = Czech).
You must write them to the ROM and than change several registry tweaks and add certifikate to windows
Much experience in that are Asukal and Jimm98y

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Note: you need to get mui files of the same OS version (at least same AKU level), or some strange things may occur when some resources items could not be found in the mui files you provided.

[Newbie] Restoring Rom

I have the Swedish version of Touch HD and I installed a custom Rom.
So my question is can I restore my original ROM meaning making my phone the way I bought it? o yeah my ROM was "1.14.413.0 (24011)SVE"
Thanks in advance

Hi,
a little manual:
load the kitchen http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=438456
unzip in a empty folder (Pass: you'll find in the text file contained)
open your swedish stock rom and copy ruu_signed.nbh to BaseRom folder on kitchen
open BlackStoneKitchen.CMD and choose e (e = extract Rom)
wait a few minutes it takes something now
when it is finished, you will find the folder OEM ROM and SYS
make your changes and start again BlackStoneKitchen.CMD
choose c, f, or cf = cook, flash or cook and flash
wfg
starbase64

hmm sounds good exept that that I dont have a swedish ROM :/
Any idea where I can get1?
and btw can I use HardSPL to install an offical ROM?

If you could wait at least until tomorrow I might find time to dump my original swedish rom. I haven't had the time to "upgrade" to WWE yet

X3Cutor said:
If you could wait at least until tomorrow I might find time to dump my original swedish rom. I haven't had the time to "upgrade" to WWE yet
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would be great, I'll be waiting.

I've got limited time for playing around with this today and since I'm unable to find a RUU_Signed.nbh at the moment, all original rom mirrors seem down I'm unable to create a rom at the moment. Correct me if I'm wrong anywhere here, rom-cooking is completely new territory for me.
At least I've dumped the rom following this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=427507
I have Part00.raw and Part03.raw but as far as I've understood those are not needed and thus I'm not adding them to the upload. I could send these on request if anyone explains what they're for. I don't wanna upload Part03 if it's an image of my installation...
I realized I didn't specify so in the file name but obviously this is a dump of Blackstone Swedish shipping rom.
Was planning to host on rapidshare but it doesn't like me so here's an ftp-share: ftp://guest:[email protected]:21
Hosted there until 2009-01-01

i think you dont need to to through any steps. I restored my rom just simply open up the stock rom and start install it. i have installed HSPL.

Well, the problem is that he didn't have a stock rom. And so far nobody's posted any swedish rom's as far as I can tell.
Anyway, rapdishare finally managed to complete my upload, choose which one you prefer - if you're based in sweden you're likely to download faster from my ftp.
http://rapidshare.com/files/174886962/1.14.413.0.Swedish.Unbranded.RomDump.Part01_Part02.rar.html

Help me please I really have no idea what to do now.
I read this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=427507
and well didnt go very well. so plox help!!!!1

After a few hrs I finally managed to install it.
Thanks for your help guys, especially X3Cutor thanks a lot mate. <3

Rebaz1337 said:
After a few hrs I finally managed to install it.
Thanks for your help guys, especially X3Cutor thanks a lot mate. <3
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do you mind sharing hoe you did git an original Swedish ROM. i searched over all with no luck . i got also a Swedish ROM and i want to flash it with an english one (not used to Swedish on machines ) . And also i don't want to lose my guaranty. i did read the thread " http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=427507 " but it is not easy to follow . and specially when it says that you need an BaseROM , can we use the WWE to reconstruct a Swedish one .
thanx in advance

[PROJECT] Cook an Localized rom based on a WWE Rom

Hi Folks!
I'm surfing a lot on this forum, and what i need is some help by cooking a rom... based on another rom in another language..
for example.. we take the BLACKSTONE WM6.1 V09 (PV) - Build 20769.1.4.5 - pdaviet.net
You can find him at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478195
And then, we try to cook a dutch version of it. (or another language ofcourse)
My Questions are:
1: Is it possible at all?
2: Is there a tutorial for doing this?
3: if there's not. Who has some experience with rom cooking, and would like to help me?

cobrawnl said:
Hi Folks!
I'm surfing a lot on this forum, and what i need is some help by cooking a rom... based on another rom in another language..
for example.. we take the BLACKSTONE WM6.1 V09 (PV) - Build 20769.1.4.5 - pdaviet.net
You can find him at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478195
And then, we try to cook a dutch version of it. (or another language ofcourse)
My Questions are:
1: Is it possible at all?
2: Is there a tutorial for doing this?
3: if there's not. Who has some experience with rom cooking, and would like to help me?
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It can be done by replacing all the language packs (_0409) and by editing or replacing config/provxml files. Best place to discuss this is the cooking class thread.

cobrawnl said:
Hi Folks!
I'm surfing a lot on this forum, and what i need is some help by cooking a rom... based on another rom in another language..
for example.. we take the BLACKSTONE WM6.1 V09 (PV) - Build 20769.1.4.5 - pdaviet.net
You can find him at: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=478195
And then, we try to cook a dutch version of it. (or another language ofcourse)
My Questions are:
1: Is it possible at all?
2: Is there a tutorial for doing this?
3: if there's not. Who has some experience with rom cooking, and would like to help me?
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1. Yes, you can do that.
2. If you can extract the rom (don't know if the rom is secrued,). But if it's not, you open OEM & SYS and change the (_0409) packages to (_040x) German
I suggest you have downloaded the orginal German rom for this!
3. . . . .
But good luck, (you could also just ask the single cook, to make a german rom for you? )

Try here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=470479
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=480714
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=438456

danny_and_2 said:
1. Yes, you can do that.
2. If you can extract the rom (don't know if the rom is secrued,). But if it's not, you open OEM & SYS and change the (_0409) packages to (_040x) German
I suggest you have downloaded the orginal German rom for this!
3. . . . .
But good luck, (you could also just ask the single cook, to make a german rom for you? )
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Great! thanks for your information!
i will try this, and let know if it works for me! Is it important to have take the OEM en SYS from the same rom version as the cook? or doesnt that any effect.

just remember to use a initflashfile that is either translated to your language or use one from official rom with your language (last is always prefered)
cheers

Is it possible to da that but with different rom versions?
Like, I have a portuguese official rom version 1.14 and I want to change a wwe 1.19 official rom to portuguese. Is that possible?

itje said:
just remember to use a initflashfile that is either translated to your language or use one from official rom with your language (last is always prefered)
cheers
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jpmassena said:
Is it possible to da that but with different rom versions?
Like, I have a portuguese official rom version 1.14 and I want to change a wwe 1.19 official rom to portuguese. Is that possible?
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Yeah, itje, i dont know realy what you mean.. but the question of jpmassena is also my question.... does it matter if i use different rom versions?

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Well, I managed to do *something*.
Here's what I did:
1- With the kitchen I extracted both WWE 1.19 and PTG 1.14 roms;
2- Then I replaced all the content of OEM/PACKAGE_BlackStone_YouTube_HKCSL_WWE_0409 with the content of OEM/PACKAGE_BlackStone_YouTube_0816.
3- I replaced 0816 with 0409 in the file's names.
4- Cooked the rom and flashed it to my HD.
When the process stoped I had everything in english except the Youtube App
Everything in the youtube App was portuguese (except the video categories, don't know why). Now I'm reverting to the portuguese rom to see how the videos categories shows up. Maybe They were in english because the system wqas recognized as english.
BTW, I did this that way just to see if it was possible.. I will read a bit more to do it the proper way, without trying to "fool" the os with filenames...

jpmassena said:
Well, I managed to do *something*.
Here's what I did:
1- With the kitchen I extracted both WWE 1.19 and PTG 1.14 roms;
2- Then I replaced all the content of OEM/PACKAGE_BlackStone_YouTube_HKCSL_WWE_0409 with the content of OEM/PACKAGE_BlackStone_YouTube_0816.
3- I replaced 0816 with 0409 in the file's names.
4- Cooked the rom and flashed it to my HD.
When the process stoped I had everything in english except the Youtube App
Everything in the youtube App was portuguese (except the video categories, don't know why). Now I'm reverting to the portuguese rom to see how the videos categories shows up. Maybe They were in english because the system wqas recognized as english.
BTW, I did this that way just to see if it was possible.. I will read a bit more to do it the proper way, without trying to "fool" the os with filenames...
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Hmm i'm not quite sure,, but what is you rename your current directory:
OEM/PACKAGE_BlackStone_YouTube_HKCSL_WWE_0816
to
OEM/PACKAGE_BlackStone_YouTube_0816
i'm not quite sure... but you can give it a try.. and else,, replace the whole youtube app...by an english version

Hmmm F****
i take the rom "L26_THDV7.4_WWE"
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=481388
and try to extract him.. kitchen is telling me. Now start cooking your rom..
But the OEM folder is emty?
What to do? now i cant translate it to an localized rom!?

wince.nls
Anyone knows how to edit wince.nls for additional regional settings support?

kwbr said:
Anyone knows how to edit wince.nls for additional regional settings support?
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Hmm, nobody knows i think.. try a search
CLICK HERE FOR SEARCH URL

Cooking on stock ROM?

I'm interested in starting to cook, but as far as I know I need to have a stock ROM. Is this true, and if it is, why cant I cook on already cooked ROMs?
Where do I find stock ROMs? I want a swedish one, any 6.5-version and an english one, 6.5.5.
I have downloaded a swedish stock ROM from htc.com but that one is a .exe and I assume I need .nbh. Can I convert it?

djr83 said:
I'm interested in starting to cook, but as far as I know I need to have a stock ROM. Is this true, and if it is, why cant I cook on already cooked ROMs?
Where do I find stock ROMs? I want a swedish one, any 6.5-version and an english one, 6.5.5.
I have downloaded a swedish stock ROM from htc.com but that one is a .exe and I assume I need .nbh. Can I convert it?
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You don't have to have a stock ROM but in some cases, it does help make it easier if you have one for your device.
You can open the .exe file with winrar and extract the files. The .nbh file should be in there.
Also, one of the new Kitchens I think will open up the .exe file and extract what it needs. Look through this Kitchen thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=628948

rgb-rgb said:
You don't have to have a stock ROM but in some cases, it does help make it easier if you have one for your device.
You can open the .exe file with winrar and extract the files. The .nbh file should be in there.
Also, one of the new Kitchens I think will open up the .exe file and extract what it needs. Look through this Kitchen thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=628948
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I'm using that kitchen and when I try to open the few cooked ROMs I already have I get this message: "Can't extract files or build packages from IMGFS structure. Please make sure the ROM is not corrupted and that it's an original ROM update released by the manufacturer."
WinRAR worked. Thanks. Now I need to find an english 6.5.5 whick can be opened in osKitchen.

You will not be able to dump most cooked ROM because of the way that the Kitchen put them together originally.
You should be able to download a source from the first post of that thread, and they have some updated system packages as well like 23541. You can also find the EXT packages there as well.

Found it now, thanks

Ok, I dont know if this cooking stuff really is for me. I dont understand what I'm doing. I managed to strip all HTC stuff from the stock ROM (a bit too much, a few things doesnt work) but that's pretty much it.
Maybe I'm trying to do stuff that cant be done.
My main goal is to get a clean WM 6.5.3/6.5.5 swedish ROM.
Should I get an english 6.5.3/6.5.5 ROM and change the language to swedish or get a swedish 6.5 ROM and upgrade it to 6.5.3/6.5.5 or do I have to find a swedish ROM which already is 6.5.3/6.5.5?

djr83 said:
Ok, I dont know if this cooking stuff really is for me. I dont understand what I'm doing. I managed to strip all HTC stuff from the stock ROM (a bit too much, a few things doesnt work) but that's pretty much it.
Maybe I'm trying to do stuff that cant be done.
My main goal is to get a clean WM 6.5.3/6.5.5 swedish ROM.
Should I get an english 6.5.3/6.5.5 ROM and change the language to swedish or get a swedish 6.5 ROM and upgrade it to 6.5.3/6.5.5 or do I have to find a swedish ROM which already is 6.5.3/6.5.5?
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After you have dumped the Stock, you have the drivers, then go to the link and download a build, copy this into the folder sources, so OEM into OEM, sys into sys ETC... then launch the kitchen, select build and language. DO NOT DISABLE ANYTHING IN OEM AND BE CAREFUL WITH SYS!!! disable everything in EXT and you have a clean ROM

It worked! Not a very good ROM yet, but it starts at least

I've tried to change the welcome screen in the tweak settings but I cant see any difference. Where is that supposed to show?
And what is the difference between splash screen and welcome screen?

osKitchen v1.30Alpha3 for HD Mini

Update: you can find a newer 1.31 final on the osKitchen Zero thread (linked above). I strongly suggest to use that version because it has tons of fixes and improvements that also affect HD mini ROMs.
Remember to run it as administrator (if you don't import may fail), to import the latest stock ROM for your language and read the instructions from the osKitchen Zero thread if you have never used it.
Happy cooking!

So, 26 downloads after, can somebody please confirm if it rebuilds a booting ROM like expected?

Hi, i have tested my first rom cookie, i have change de original rom pt, i removed de copilot from de rom and de google maps.
All work fine

works perfectly
hi all,
works perfectly, turning now to the mini build 23569 without problems
greatz,
rudie

I've tried to import the rom into the kitchen and i get this error: "Error while importing the ROM file: Can't extract files or build packages from IMGFS structure. Please make sure the ROM is not corrupted, that it's an original ROM update released by the manufacturer and not an user-generated ROM." I've downloaded the rom from this link http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Photon/ and the rom is this http://shipped-roms.com/shipped/Pho...adio_Signed_32.2802.05.06_0.63.05.35_Ship.exe Why do i get this error? I'm working under Windows 7 and run the kitchen as an administrator. Any help please?

hengelo said:
hi all,
works perfectly, turning now to the mini build 23569 without problems
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Hi, where u find the build 23569 for hd mini (photon) ?

SoftWord said:
Hi, where u find the build 23569 for hd mini (photon) ?
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The windows mobile builds are not phone-specific. You need to get the rollup file and import it with the Windows Mobile dump importing tool inside the kitchen.
Here is the link to the 23569 build http://www.mobileunderground.info/asusmobile/23569_MSXIPKernel_SYS_QVGA_WQVGA_VGA_WVGA_0409.7z , remember that this dump is english only, if you want other languages you should get 23563 from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544445 (don't copy&paste languages between the twos!).
The first dump is in the ervius kitchen format, the second is in the Da_G all-in-one format.

Ur my hero !!!!!!!!
airxtreme said:
The windows mobile builds are not phone-specific.
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I know , but the drivers ??? And strange HVGA resolution ?
airxtreme said:
You need to get the rollup file and import it with the Windows Mobile dump importing tool inside the kitchen.
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The first dump is in the ervius kitchen format, the second is in the Da_G all-in-one format.
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Can u make a guide-specific for Photon / Mini ? I'm not noob in modding of devices, but in WM devices yes.......

SoftWord said:
I know , but the drivers ???
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The drivers are stored in a different section in the kitchen (OEM) so you can freely change the windows mobile build.
SoftWord said:
And strange HVGA resolution ?
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I think that 23563 has the resolution files for that resolution, 23569 probably doesn't but you could try copying the resolution folders from 23563 (which I don't reccommend).
SoftWord said:
Can u make a guide-specific for Photon / Mini ? I'm not noob in modding of devices, but in WM devices yes.......
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You just have to import the ROM file, select all the available entries in the Project Settings screen then import the other windows mobile build (Import Windows Mobile Build button), chose it from the combobox in the windows mobile build, hit Start building and hopefully you'll have a NBH ready to flash. If you only want to change the windows mobile build as long as the device doesn't have any program causing trouble it's really simple.

@airxtreme
when i selected my device (HD mini) the program suggested that 3 apps should be recmodded. Can you explain what this exactly is? Is it necessary? The only thing i want to do with your kitchen is remove some apps from the original rom. These apps are: Copilot, jblend ect. All i have to do is just remove these from the ext packages list? Thank's
Edit: I forgot to ask you something else, is the original rom compressed? In my case (just want to remove some apps from the original rom and nothing else) should i choose a compression? What do you suggest?

ty for ur help, I have found this build too:
"28233_MSXIPKernel_SYS_QVGA_WQVGA_VGA_WVGA_0409"
U think that is ok for Photon ?

zalaros said:
@airxtreme
when i selected my device (HD mini) the program suggested that 3 apps should be recmodded. Can you explain what this exactly is? Is it necessary? The only thing i want to do with your kitchen is remove some apps from the original rom. These apps are: Copilot, jblend ect. All i have to do is just remove these from the ext packages list? Thank's
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Yes it is necessary that you click on Yes or the rom won't boot.
zalaros said:
Edit: I forgot to ask you something else, is the original rom compressed? In my case (just want to remove some apps from the original rom and nothing else) should i choose a compression? What do you suggest?
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The HD mini original rom is compressed with XPR so you'd better put that if you don't want a slower ROM with LZX. If you want to remove apps and those applications are stored in Cabs you will have to edit the config*.txt files in other packages to remove the reference to the cab you removed or the rom will hang during boot at the progress bar saying the cab cannot be found.

SoftWord said:
ty for ur help, I have found this build too:
"28233_MSXIPKernel_SYS_QVGA_WQVGA_VGA_WVGA_0409"
U think that is ok for Photon ?
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That build is very old (the newest is the 235xx branch) and since the name doesn't have HVGA in it then it probably doesn't have the resolution files for your device.

Location initflashfiles.dat file
Hoi all,
hi all,
anyone know the location of the initflashfiles.dat file, or use this kitchen that file.
Would like extra folders, etc to give an icon ...
gr,
Rudie

hengelo said:
Hoi all,
hi all,
anyone know the location of the initflashfiles.dat file, or use this kitchen that file.
Would like extra folders, etc to give an icon ...
gr,
Rudie
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The initflashfiles is in the OEM_Lang_XXXX OEM package.

airxtreme said:
You just have to import the ROM file.........
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I don't have understand only this step, which rom I have to load ? My original ITA from NBH of my first original shipped rom ?

airxtreme said:
If you want to remove apps and those applications are stored in Cabs you will have to edit the config*.txt files in other packages to remove the reference to the cab you removed or the rom will hang during boot at the progress bar saying the cab cannot be found.
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All the apps i want to remove are in EXT packages. The rom i wish to customize (by removing a couple of apps only) is original. So are there any apps stored in Cabs? And is there a config*.txt file? Because i can't find them.

SoftWord said:
I don't have understand only this step, which rom I have to load ? My original ITA from NBH of my first original shipped rom ?
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You should import the latest italian ROM update and you can directly import the updater (EXE) file.

zalaros said:
All the apps i want to remove are in EXT packages. The rom i wish to customize (by removing a couple of apps only) is original. So are there any apps stored in Cabs? And is there a config*.txt file? Because i can't find them.
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I just looked and strangely this phone like the HD2 doesn't seem to use cab files (so no need to mess with config*.txt files) but that still doesn't make stuff easier: for example if you want to remove copilot you have to edit the INITFLASHFILES.DAT file (you can find it in the OEM\OEM_Lang_something folder) and remove all the "CoPilot V8.0" section from it.

airxtreme said:
I just looked and strangely this phone like the HD2 doesn't seem to use cab files (so no need to mess with config*.txt files) but that still doesn't make stuff easier: for example if you want to remove copilot you have to edit the INITFLASHFILES.DAT file (you can find it in the OEM\OEM_Lang_something folder) and remove all the "CoPilot V8.0" section from it.
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Well to be honest all i wish to remove is Copilot and Jblend (anything tricky for this one?). The weird thing is that there is no INITFLASHFILES.DAT in the OEM\OEM_Lang_0409 folder. I think i'll just remove these two from the Ext packages and try to flash the rom. Then i'll tell you what went wrong or not I don't want to bother you anymore