mkrom questions

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Just two questions.

1)I runned the Mkrom.sh and when building it it comes with the
error ' operator rom not found' but continues.
Then there's only a .nb1 file build which has a size of 32,243,712.
I don't know if this is correct !????
Is it a problem the operator roms are not found for a working rom???

2) Is it possible to delete, maybe even extract files from an image to
clean it so you get more space for your own programs?

hopefully any can answer these......

[Peter Poelman]

1)I ran the Mkrom.sh and when building it it comes with the error ' operator rom not found' but continues.
Then there's only a .nb1 file build which has a size of 32,243,712.
I don't know if this is correct !????
There should be both an nbf file of 32505888 bytes and an nb1 file of 32243712 bytes. So the size for the .nb1 seems correct.

Is it a problem the operator roms are not found for a working rom???
I'm not sure I understand the problem enough to be sure. Itsme, who made the tool, has left for a well-deserved two-week holiday, so I guess this will have to wait if you can't figure it out for yourself.

2) Is it possible to delete, maybe even extract files from an image to clean it so you get more space for your own programs?
Yes, extraction is possible using the dumprom tool described in another thread. Deletion of files to save space would take some hacking and slashing of your own. We do plan to make some more intricate ROM manipulations more easy once we clean up and publish more tools.

[Anonymous]

@XDA developer Peter Poelman

I'm glad the size is correct. :D
Just tried it again and only the .nb1 file is created, not the .nbf !!!

Is it possible to convert a .nb1 to a .nbf file??

Is the XDA ROM Tool able to write to USB SD-card reader/writers?
(could be an option to generate a valid .nbf)

thx

[Peter Poelman]

[ I split this topic away from the main Special Edition v1.1 thread, as it's not primarily about that. I will probably start doing this more as topics grow larger. ]

Yes, you can use XDArit to write an nb1 to SD, and then read SD to nbf. Easier tools for this exist, and we've even built the beginnings of one (which we haven't yet released).

If you have the SD, you could also just use the bootloader to burn the contents to flash.