Determine what CAB's do what!?

[richbayliss]

Hi all,

I did a "Clear Storage" today on my MDA, and then reset it before it ran the T-Mobile rubbish.

I was left with an extremely clean device, but the T-Mobile settings were absent.

It would be nice to have this clean interface, but have the best dialer (Qtek version?), best voice command, and all the T-Mobile operator settings after a clean install.

Would it be possible to create 1 CAB file for t-mobile's settings (GPRS,MMS,SMS etc) to run after a hard reset?? Ultimatley leaving the MDA in a minimal state, with a smaller EXTENDED ROM??? :idea:

[cr0wn3r]

I dont know if this helps - but Ive kind of just done this using the new tmob rom in the xda ftp. Though I havent actually created a CAB.

The one in the xda ftp has a good set of stuff / different dialer etc, and the crappy tmobile branding isnt there either.

Though it does have a couple of things in it, eg the i-mate email program, that arent much use to me.

I updated to the latest tmob rom using the files in the XDA ftp space
Used Buzz's extended Rom unlocker to remove the unused customisation files (and that stupid backgammmon game:)
Hard reset again. And let it do the full thing, incl tmob customisations. I think all it adds is the network info.

Then went here : http://www.mphone.co.uk/mms_wap_settings_t_mobile.html
to get the GPRS settings, which were missing. Though other network / mms settings were fine.

Theres a bit of i-mate branding and that email prog in the progs list to ignore forever, but apart from that its sweet.

[cr0wn3r]

One other point though - this doesnt actually make the space used up by the extended ROM any smaller. Dont have a clue if its possible to change the partition size. Search the forum for that because if its possible its bount to be around here somewhere.

Though if you use the extended Rom unlocker again once youre all set up you can write to the free space in the extended rom if you want. SOme progs even give you the option to install there.

[davemee]

Extended rom you can 'crack' and use as disk storage, but you can't resize (yet - as far as I know, although please tell me otherwise if you can!)

For cab info, i'd suggest here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=32839

Very useful. I use exclusively t-mobile stuff, as it actually seems pretty good. for me, even running voice command, xcpuscalar and magic button in my startup, i kick off with 20-25mb free at startup, which is pretty good.

hth

[blair]

I have a brand new Exec (7 days old)

Having done a corporate install and then set up connections manually (I will try Dingo's connections CAB next time), I don't have a working camera - the spinning wheel goes round and round for a minute then reports missing components. Also, I have no MMS account in Messaging.

Can I install these components from a CAB without doing a hard reset and starting again? If so which CABs?