Extended ROM Woes - Vairo

[coxmail]

I have a unlocked T-Mobile Vairo with an Orange SIM. Phone calls work fine but no GRPS as the setting are incorrect of course.

So I did the following:
1.Unlocked the Extended ROM (using "Unlock Ext Rom Wizard.cab") and can now see it with the File Explorer
2.Attempted to install the IMate cab file ("Orange_UK_Contract.CAB") for Orange Contract to the extened rom.

I had the following issues:
1. I can now see the extened rom in the filer explorer but it wont let me copy anything there saying it is write protected.
2. The Orange PAYG cab installed all looked ok and gave me the option to install to the Ext ROM, but when I look there, the cab is not there.

Am I missing a trick here, I have read through the posts and it looks like im doing the right things.

[Kenji776]

depends on your ROM. only OLD roms allow writing to extended_rom. The newer ones don't.

[Rico83]

iv got 25 XDA Minis to "setup"
i would love to get 2.x ROM installed (for push) but i see there maybe problems when trying to modify the EXT_ROM...

is there any solutions to it yet? how could i create a Custom Ext_ROM (we have quite a bit of stuff that needs installed such as .netcf 2.0, SDF2.0, SQLCE etc) when using a 2.x rom...?

am i better just leaving the standard rom (1.5.4.2) for the moment untill an Official O2 2.x rom comes out?


tia.
rico.