Cooking Help

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I was thinking of teaching myself how to cook WP7 for Leo. Ive looked through the HD2 section and the WP7 section. I got myself the kitchen and some basic instuructions, but i have a few questions.

1) where are the langugage files and how can i add/delete language abilities?

2) I can make the default.hvm file and user.hvm file, but how do i open them to edit things?

3) If i screw up cooking my ROM and test it on my HD2, will it brick the phone?

I really dont want to release something, that doesnt work, so if anyone could help me, that would be great!

Originally Posted by nips_uk

I was thinking of teaching myself how to cook WP7 for Leo. Ive looked through the HD2 section and the WP7 section. I got myself the kitchen and some basic instuructions, but i have a few questions.

1) where are the langugage files and how can i add/delete language abilities?

2) I can make the default.hvm file and user.hvm file, but how do i open them to edit things?

3) If i screw up cooking my ROM and test it on my HD2, will it brick the phone?

I really dont want to release something, that doesnt work, so if anyone could help me, that would be great!

Just for starters, have a look at Yuki's Great tut on cooking WP7, which i believe you already have.

now the questions,

1) i dont know much about this, but usually on x86 platform microsoft has ttf fonts for languages which are linked to system language preference using registry database.

2) they are registry hives, use any registry hive editor from google (works for me)

3) Nope, HSPL protects user from bad flashes in bootloader, MAGLDR protects HSPL by doing flash work in userspace. so if you flash a bad image, power goes off during flash using MAGLDR and DWI, only the data on NAND will be corrupt, you can still boot into HSPL bootloader and MAGLDR and next time you flash a good image, that will boot as well. (you will have to format/clean the partitions ofc if using Android)

Although this is a dev section its not for asking questions, do that in the Q&A forum.

The only posts here should be dev releases/projects/reference etc.

What do you think this section would look like if everybody was allowed to just post questions?? Thats the whole reason the Q&A forums were created in first place.

sorry TheATHEiST, my bad. ill remember that from now on.

@Rick_1995. Thanks for that! should get me started!

Originally Posted by nips_uk

sorry TheATHEiST, my bad. ill remember that from now on.

@Rick_1995. Thanks for that! should get me started!

The .hvm files are actually editable in any text editor, as I found out. Just don't forget to convert them back to .hv files like I did. :P