A newly found hidden menu

[shlomki]

I had my universal put in my car holder, and apparently it was too snug and it held the backlight button clicked, when i had just soft reset.

The normal boot image came on, but this time a new menu appeared, instead of loading the OS!

It gave me 3 Options:

Enable KILT: NO
Clean Registry Hive: NO
Format Storage: NO


Controlling the menu is really strange:
the UP key scrolls the menu,
the DOWN key enables/disables the selected option,
and the ACTION key appears to start the selected options.


Not knowing how to control the menu, i accedently turned on the KILT option and clicked the action key, which gave me a new submenu, letting me choose the KILT transport method (USB, etc..), and KILT mode (Active or Passive)

i searched for "KILT" on the other forums, and its already a known option apparently, on the hermes forums especially.
They appear to use it to flash corrupted radio versions ("NO GSM" messages), and for other purposes also, mainly rescuing a bricked phone!

I can see how the "Clean registry hive" can be a useful option though, like when you screw up registry entries, making your os unable to load - you can clean the registry before doing a hard reset, so maybe you'd have a chance to save and backup your data.

Can anyone tell us more about this menu, or the KILT mode? :cool:

[Viper®]

This menu was already known

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=865099&postcount=26

That post is from 10-01-2006

I think it's even mentioned in the Wiki page:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Universal_Technical

Although it says camera+reset, think it should be backlight+reset

[shlomki]

hmm, i see.
i don't know why i haven't found it earlier when i searched the forum.

but is there anything useful that can be done with the KILT options, as they do with hermes?

[Midget_1990]

KITL is usefull if the OS wont boot, that about it.

it allows you to see the wince kernel log while it boots so if you have a phone that wont boot this can help you find out why ;D

[farehmani]

this seems to be a good news for me....

i'm having this problem of NO GSM on my UNIVERSAL on startup. so it is bricked now. Can this KITL help in getting my Radio ROM to life again???

I had my universal put in my car holder, and apparently it was too snug and it held the backlight button clicked, when i had just soft reset.

The normal boot image came on, but this time a new menu appeared, instead of loading the OS!

It gave me 3 Options:

Enable KILT: NO
Clean Registry Hive: NO
Format Storage: NO


Controlling the menu is really strange:
the UP key scrolls the menu,
the DOWN key enables/disables the selected option,
and the ACTION key appears to start the selected options.


Not knowing how to control the menu, i accedently turned on the KILT option and clicked the action key, which gave me a new submenu, letting me choose the KILT transport method (USB, etc..), and KILT mode (Active or Passive)

i searched for "KILT" on the other forums, and its already a known option apparently, on the hermes forums especially.
They appear to use it to flash corrupted radio versions ("NO GSM" messages), and for other purposes also, mainly rescuing a bricked phone!

I can see how the "Clean registry hive" can be a useful option though, like when you screw up registry entries, making your os unable to load - you can clean the registry before doing a hard reset, so maybe you'd have a chance to save and backup your data.

Can anyone tell us more about this menu, or the KILT mode? :cool:

[Midget_1990]

i dont see how as its just a kernel output and sortof safemode for wince.

[shlomki]

this seems to be a good news for me....

i'm having this problem of NO GSM on my UNIVERSAL on startup. so it is bricked now. Can this KITL help in getting my Radio ROM to life again???


well there's this thread i found, but its for hermes:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=300096&highlight=kitl+pb

be careful, hermes and universal are very different.
read this to get information only, i really dont recommend trying this on your universal without someone who know what he's doing helping you.

good luck

[Jiunnwei]

anyone can tell me how to disable this menu in the booting?

[Midget_1990]

just dont press the buttons