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Hello,
I've read that this file stores contacts, notes, calendar, and the like. In earlier OS versions, it used to be rather small. in the WM6 Tilt, its 16MB. The properties show it as READ ONLY and in ROM. How can it store and info if it is READ only? It would be great to get this thing reduced in a new cooked ROM. Any comments or suggestions on making the file size smaller? Thanks, MWP.
mwpeters said:
Hello,
I've read that this file stores contacts, notes, calendar, and the like. In earlier OS versions, it used to be rather small. in the WM6 Tilt, its 16MB. The properties show it as READ ONLY and in ROM. How can it store and info if it is READ only? It would be great to get this thing reduced in a new cooked ROM. Any comments or suggestions on making the file size smaller? Thanks, MWP.
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I also got this file under my Kaiser \Windows directory !
>.< yes help with it.. or tell me how to make a rom with this file smaller
mxip_initdb.vol questions
I've been doing some reading about this file. This file is really large and I want to do something to make sure I have no problems with this file. I removed this file from my OEM_Lang_0409 folder and I'm not sure if I'm having any problems. I seem to be able to connect to activesync okay. Although, it seems like it takes me couple unplug and plug with the USB to connect. Can I be okay with erasing this file?
Return of 16Mb space!
Well,i think now you can forget about this file!
First i cheked it with sktool,it sad than this db is unused
Then i copied it to my card and created an emty txt file with name "mxip_initdb.vol" and readonly attribs and put it in root directory. Reboot- everything works fine And my 16mb returns to me!
P.S.: my device is diamond with 1.93 rom
P.P.S.:My english is not great, but i hope it helps anybody
Interesting.. I suspect there's some very good reason for this file, as many cooks remove everything possible from their ROMs, and my ROMeOS 4.6 has this file.
j-a-c-k said:
Well,i think now you can forget about this file!
First i cheked it with sktool,it sad than this db is unused
Then i copied it to my card and created an emty txt file with name "mxip_initdb.vol" and readonly attribs and put it in root directory. Reboot- everything works fine And my 16mb returns to me!
P.S.: my device is diamond with 1.93 rom
P.P.S.:My english is not great, but i hope it helps anybody
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i've the same problem with ROM coocked (Dib Diamond 1.9 - based on 1.93)
I've tried with your trick, but after each soft reset "mxip_initdb.vol" returns to 16Mb!
I've tried also to delete it, but again, after each soft reset "mxip_initdb.vol" reappears...
I hate this file.
Is there a way to easily bypass the "Locked in ROM" problem?
As an example; when you copy a file named "welcomehead.96.png" into thewindows folder, you get a message saying you can't do it. When you look at properties, you find that the "Locked in ROM" option is checked and grayed out. Can I fix this?
Thanks
I would really appreciate it if anyone who have replaced the welcomehead.96.png file, wuld tell me how you did it, and what ROM you are using
I was able to do it with Resco File Explorer. I just copied the file to My Documents, and then opened Resco and was able to copy the file to the Windows folder. It would then prompt me to overwrite the ROM file and I confirmed, and it worked fine.
Hope this helps.
Welcomehead
Works just as SacTilt described. I have done it many times on mine.
I have used Total Commander and had no problems at all.
Thank you for the replies. But what kind of ROMs where you guys using?
I'm using Dutty's, so I guess it might have something to do with what Dutty may have done. I dunno
Tec1106 said:
Thank you for the replies. But what kind of ROMs where you guys using?
I'm using Dutty's, so I guess it might have something to do with what Dutty may have done. I dunno
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The ROM that you are using, shouldn't matter. What application are you using to copy the file? What is the process that you are going through to complete this?
Right, rom doesn't matter, it's the fact that the stock file explorer can't over-write read-only files like welcomehead but 3rd party file managers like Resco can.
using Dutty v3, and Total Commander to copy welcomehead.96.png file
no problem at all
Straaange. I was able to do it before, but after a softreset at some time, I couldn't. I've tried, Resco, Total Commander, stock explorer and the one with Device manager. All gives me a "no access" error. :\
I tried with Dutty v2 and the included Total Commander, it won't work
i have duttys v3 on mt tilt what i had to do was use total comander first to delete the original... then i used the file explorer to drop in the new one... but tbh i think i had to do it like that cuz i couldnt figure out how to do it all with total comanader
Today I just tried this, I compressed my softwares which I have cooked in my ROM using UPX4PPC and cooked them in the ROM. As I have a small 32MB ROM, if this is possible to do with the default OS dll & exe files, it would be very useful. As I noticed, there is no big difference in the loading time of compressed files & the original. I searched the forum, but found nothing on compression of system OS files. Is there anyone who have done this before? Is this ok to do with .net CF dll & other large dll & exe files in ROM...?
making a smaller rom dont give more storage you know?
so compressing it will just give you more empty rom space nobody an use
Yeah..and most of the time the ROM won evenstart..blv me i tried to UPX the whole DUMP folder but the rom didnt even start
Rudegar said:
making a smaller rom dont give more storage you know?
so compressing it will just give you more empty rom space nobody an use
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Actually I meant, If you can compress the originam OS files in ROM, there would be more free space in rom. We can use that free space to add more OEM packages.... Sorry if my english is not clear.
ather90 said:
Yeah..and most of the time the ROM won evenstart..blv me i tried to UPX the whole DUMP folder but the rom didnt even start
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Try to use UPX only in exe files. More safe to be use in EXEs that are loaded after the booting & intended only in doing the settings (backlight.exe, MicAGC, Device info, CSD line type, CommManager, faxView.......) and on OEM exe files. Try not to use on dll files on first shot. But because already these files are very small, you will gain only a very small space. It works. If we can do the same on large dll files, it would be cool.....
shiranmotha said:
Actually I meant, If you can compress the originam OS files in ROM, there would be more free space in rom. We can use that free space to add more OEM packages.... Sorry if my english is not clear.
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You are right. Thats how I had been able to pack so much extra stuff (many dont like that) in the ROM since a long time. But you have to be very carefully choosy about the files you have to UPX.
And, of course this method is for cooks only...
c_shekhar said:
But you have to be very carefully choosy about the files you have to UPX
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What files can we compress. What I found ws, when I compress certain dll files, some items in menus related to them are blank. But when clicked they still work. Compressing Today dll files work, but if they have option configuration, they show some nunsence text. DLLs related to the .NET CF are the largest files i find in the ROM, can we compress them?
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What files can we compress. What I found ws, when I compress certain dll files, some items in menus related to them are blank. But when clicked they still work. Compressing Today dll files work, but if they have option configuration, they show some nunsence text. DLLs related to the .NET CF are the largest files i find in the ROM, can we compress them?
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use the option for not compresing the resources
Hello!
My question is: how can I extract for eg. programs .cab files from .image or .nbh ROM?
I want to get original Mobile Opera 9.5 from R2AA UK Generic ROM, because some other version of opera overwritten it and I don't want it - just need original one back.
Check this thread in Development and Hacking, a tool to view files inside nbh ROM files: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=377514
Thanks! It helped. Is it also a way of cooking a new custom rom?
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I exported the file... but its "hidden" without option to make it visible. How to make it normally visible?
I'd really kick back, make yourself a couple of weeks worth of coffee and read, read read and then read some more.
There's quite a lot in the wiki on how to cook roms, which serves as a good start but to do it properly it will help to know some of the background to what you're doing.
Hence the reading.
FWIW I've just started playing with ervius visual multilang kitchen, it's quite nice, much better than some of the others. Do a search on it if you want to find it and try visualkitchen_v2_1
Of course it's a bit worrying that you want to cook your own roms, without knowing what's inside the one you're using.
IF you want the opera from r2aa and you're using a stock unmodified R2aa then look in windows (using a proper file explorer such total commander)
or use the search on here, as the one I posted has been linked a huge amount of times already, including 3 times in the past 2 days. .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=469420&highlight=kitchen
This is the link to ervius' kitchen
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=377514
this is a good prog for viewing .nbh files
vinokirk said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=469420&highlight=kitchen
This is the link to ervius' kitchen
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=377514
this is a good prog for viewing .nbh files
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nah you need to let people learn to use the search engine
he he he...just doing a good dead...maybe st peter will let me thru the pearly gates for this
Also im getting sick of seeing things in a thread and then never being able to find them again!!!
Same thing with prog and apps, ill download them then i can never remember what they are for, where i put them or where i unzipped them to...ARRRGGGGHHHHHH
vinokirk said:
he he he...just doing a good dead...maybe st peter will let me thru the pearly gates for this
Also im getting sick of seeing things in a thread and then never being able to find them again!!!
Same thing with prog and apps, ill download them then i can never remember what they are for, where i put them or where i unzipped them to...ARRRGGGGHHHHHH
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Big folder (or series of folders) on the SD card with a text doc listing what does what. that's what I do..
Hello
I wonder if anyone has figured out how to display foreign language font on ATT Fuze? I've understand that it has something to do with unicode. I was able to do that with the ATT Tilt by installing the tahoma fonts but no luck with the ATT Fuze.
Thx
i got chinese to show and write using sunglobe(view only)... forgot the name of the one that lets you write.
Thx
I just need to read Viet and Chinese for now.
Any other suggestion
attached is unicode-tahoma. you need to copy the files to both \windows directory and \windows\fonts directory. hope this will work. good luck
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iosky said:
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Thx will give it a try.
iosky: I unzipped it and put in the fonts folder but still doesn't help.
Any other advice.
Thx
i am using the files on my att-fuze. i can read/write my phone book, compose text in ms-office (word, ppt and excel) and typing sms. all in vn with no problem. you need to copy the files to both windows\ and windows\fonts directories. btw, i am using rom from master NRGZ28 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=536751). this is the best rom out there.
iosky said:
i am using the files on my att-fuze. i can read/write my phone book, compose text in ms-office (word, ppt and excel) and typing sms. all in vn with no problem. you need to copy the files to both windows\ and windows\fonts directories. btw, i am using rom from master NRGZ28 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=536751). this is the best rom out there.
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Hello: I just copy those 2 files to the fonts folder and the windows folders but still nothing change. I am using the ATT stock rom. Could it be the reason the Tahoma fonts can't display properly?
thx
you may try to use Total Commander instead of win-explorer to perform copy and paste. win-explorer is useless.
iosky said:
you may try to use Total Commander instead of win-explorer to perform copy and paste. win-explorer is useless.
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Thx will give that a try
Iosky: Thx I just figured it out
nice to hear that. how was your setup? here is a kb to type in vn.
Copied and pasted, did not work
Hi I am looking to solve the same issue. I have the FUZE but I am in China right now and my phone cannot read chinese characters. I dled the tahoma fonts and pasted them into the windows directory and the fonts directory but it did not work. I used Total commander. I also am not clear on whether to the folder vn_tahoma or the files themselves into the directory? I did both but it did not work. Thanks.