Dumping ROM

[EastExpert]

One of my sales guys has just brought a spanking new XDA Exec he received from O2 as an upgrade. It's ROM, albeit still WM5, is definitely newer than the one available from O2 UK web site. E.g. ExtROM ends with .23x, and ROM itself is I think .16x.

I know there's a way to easily dump this ROM. I'd like to upgrade myself, and I'd gladly share it with you. In fact, he's quite keen to share it.

Only I found that I know how to flash a ROM into XDA, but I don't know how to strip it from an XDA...

Any tips as to where do I go for the tools? Am willing to do the search, only where?

The tool(s) must allow a nonexperienced person to dump his XDA's ROM into a file for me.

[gliven]

some rom upgrade programs will ask you if you want to save the current version in case you decide to downgrade later, I don't know if this is one of them, but if it is, you just might be able to start the upgrade process and save the old rom then cancel. Don't do it until someone with more knowledge weighs in on the issue. and please do post the rom if and when you get it, Thanks!!!!

[vijay555]

Haven't done it in a long while. Have a look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=245901

and here:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Universal_Technical

Ideally use the mtty/d2s methods. Any rom dumper you run on the phone itself (as opposed to your pc) will not give an ideal virgin rom dump.

V

[EastExpert]

I wonder if it's worth a bother extracting this newer ROM.

On one side, everybody seem to be so much preoccupied with newer WM6 ROMs.

On the other side, many people decide to go back to WM5 after testing the Beta ROMs because one or more critical function(s) is missing in their world picture.

So I thought, may be for those who "repented" :) a newer official O2 XDA Exec ROM.

Am I the only one who has seen a production WM5 ROM newer than what's on O2 site?

[tomsimmons]

Am I the only one who has seen a production WM5 ROM newer than what's on O2 site?

Nope, I also have just got a new O2 Exec, with a ROM they don't have on their website (the obvious or the awkward to find place!)

I also would like to extract the ROM for exactly the same reason, ie decide to go back.

I assume you haven't hd any luck yet?


Tom