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Extended ROM Question

I have unlocked the extended rom, and there are alot of cab files there.
Can I delete these with out issues.?
What is the main purpouse of the extended rom?
I also have these files
cusTSK.exe
Config.txt
AutoRun.exe
WMDRM(Folder)
alot of numbers and letters .hds file
Can these be deleted? what are these files?

almulder said:
I have unlocked the extended rom, and there are alot of cab files there.
Can I delete these with out issues.?
What is the main purpouse of the extended rom?
I also have these files
cusTSK.exe
Config.txt
AutoRun.exe
WMDRM(Folder)
alot of numbers and letters .hds file
Can these be deleted? what are these files?
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Extended ROM purpose is explained in wikis
Visbile ext rom isn't same as unlocked ext rom
Bootloaders above 1.05 do not allow to touch the extended rom in normal phone operation as it corrupts the FAT (file allocation table of that partition).
The best one can do is to flash an ext rom already built (10MB file) to it via RUU or RAPI utils (WST)

mestrini said:
Extended ROM purpose is explained in wikis
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Where?
flash an ext rom already built (10MB file) to it
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Where can I find some? I did a search and could not find the roms

Just grab any extended rom from any wizard rom then open it with WinImage. Delete what you hate add what you love then edit config.txt. Use nb2nbf.exe to add your extended rom so that it can be flashed.

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Does every Rom Have an extended rom? If I have a nk.nbf rom file is that the file I open or is the extended rom a seperat rom that is not included in any rom.
I have files in my extended rom that were all related to T-mobile but it is a Cingular phone. I Figure these must have been put by another rom. I did a forms search for "Extended ROM" and got 20 pages of hits. Could you help point me in the right direction.

Deleting ROM files

Hi, I would like to delete some Files integrated in the ROM. I'm using total commander and Resco Explorer but it does not work at all, how should I proceed with it to get those files away...?
The Files belong to FlashPlayer 2.1
Thx in advance

You'd be better opening up the nbh (if you can) and deleting the files before you install the rom, otherwise the files may be in use on your device and you won't be able to delete them

Addicteddddd said:
You'd be better opening up the nbh (if you can) and deleting the files before you install the rom, otherwise the files may be in use on your device and you won't be able to delete them
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I've thought about this but it means that i should flash and configure the phone again, and i would like to stop flashing my phone. The files to delete are not even in use, but in someway I'm not able to delete them..!!
Thx for the tip..!!

How to get the original camera.apk back?

I'm modifiying my own rom, and tring to find a way to recover the HTC camera to the stock one.
I did the following step but failed:
1. delete the /system/app/camera.apk and HTCAlbum.apk
2. paste the original camera.apk to /system/app
3. repack the rom and flash
But nothing happened, even there is no camera icon in the menu.
How should I get the stock one back? There is some bug with the HTC camera...

You can just push it. If you change it within the ROM and flash you must resign it.

alritewhadeva said:
You can just push it. If you change it within the ROM and flash you must resign it.
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Is there any way to resign it? I want to cook my own rom instead of pushing it every time.

zhouzian said:
Is there any way to resign it? I want to cook my own rom instead of pushing it every time.
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What OS are you using? Windows or Linux

alritewhadeva said:
What OS are you using? Windows or Linux
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I'm on Windows...
Now I have find the way to resign the package. But I find there is a odex file following the same name apk file. Should I copy the odex file along with the apk file into the app directory?
My rom does not contain any odex file while another rom have many of them. Could any one tell me why?

zhouzian said:
I'm on Windows...
Now I have find the way to resign the package. But I find there is a odex file following the same name apk file. Should I copy the odex file along with the apk file into the app directory?
My rom does not contain any odex file while another rom have many of them. Could any one tell me why?
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Odex optimization is just optimization. Copy the .odex file along with the .apk if its available.

The HTC camera has a bug that if you half-push the camera button, it will not only focus but also take a photo, not like the original one does.
I have done the following and both of them failed,
1. copy the camera.apk from JF 1.5, resigned the rom, and flash... There is no icon appearing in the menu
2. copy the camera.apk and odex file from ION build, resign and flash... The phone can not start up at all. It freeze at ANDROID logo.
I'm wondering if I have done in the wrong way... Could you offer some help?
Thanks in advance.

try to get the camera from the crc1 build

The problem is where to get...
All the other builds from CRC1 contain the odex file, which will broke the startup process.

could anyone send me the camera.apk and libcamera.so from CRC1?
just mail me: [email protected]

get it here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=538456 donwload one of those ROMS

NO...it doesn't work. There is an odex file coming alone with the apk file. If I copy the apk and odex files into the CM rom, it will fail to startup. Seems CM rom can only accept standalone apk file.

[Q] Integrating a language with a ROM .zip?

Hi,
I have a ROM, for example Enomther's. and I also have the arabic language libs. how can I integrate the arabic libs into the ROM's zip file so I don't have to flash another zip for arabic libs? I have attached the arabic libs.

Bump! anyone?

Come on, what kind of answer do you expect?
Here's the answer: you need to substitute the files in the original ROM zip and resign it - that's it.
Now you're going to ask, how to do it, because you have no clue - and the explanation is a lot of work to try and put in one post, and setting up signing applications involves installing Java SDK and some knowledge. If you're asking the question you're asking - it seems like you're far from being skilled enough in Android depths to do what you're asking to do, and that's why you see no answer. After all, if you'd want to do it - you'd have to search anyway, Google "sign apk zip" and here you go, a lot of tutorials show up. And if you didn't search and posted instead - it speaks for itself.
By the way, there's no good reason to integrate the libs into a standard ROM, moreover - it's a bad idea. ROMs tend to be updated, and the work that needs to be done setting up the environment for signing APKs and ZIPs is way more than flashing one update right after updating the ROM to a newer version. And ROMs are updated quite often.

Yeah i'm not skilled. I'm trying to learn... I am trying to make my own customized ROM for my country's users. And I didn't mean editing ROM files, I was saying how to push the lib into the ROM zip so people don't have to flash the arabic zip lib when they flash my customized ROM. So I hope you haven't missunderstood my question...

Ah, I see, you want to customize and share the ROM. In that case, you have to have the setup I'm talking about. The update.zip contains folders and files, which directly replace the files in the same folders in ROM, so if you have a ROM zip - you need to replace those files. The easiest way would be just extracting your update.zip, opening a ROM zip in 7zip / WinZip / WinRar / etc, putting those extracted files from update.zip in the right place into ROM zip by drag-and-drop, and then resigning the ROM file.
Please do some googling as to how to sign ZIP and APK files. There are some pretty good tutorials.

I have done that before, and I replaced the lib file with the ROM default lib. it's libskia.so, but I think because I didn't know I have to sign it it gave me an error while flashing through recovery. so after I replace the lib I have to re-compress the file and then sign the zip right?

You don't have to re-compress if you replace the file without decompressing the original ROM archive, by dragging-and-dropping the file into the archive.
And yes, you have to re-sign the ZIP after any changes you make to anything inside it.

Rom CWM Flashing & Sizes

Hello, With titanium backup, I have deleted files that I dont use, like maps etc, but....can I unzip a ROM (wipe/no wipe versions) remove a few apps from system/apps and re-zip the rom, and flash via CWM? thus not having to delete files via TBackup?
Or do i need another program to do that???
Do I need to edit any text files/scripts?