[Q]ROM Cooking Problems Please Help!!!

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Before i get flammed like crazy. I have searched for guides to cooking roms and used all different kinds of kitchens but none seem to work at all. Unless there is something written between the lines that i can't see i just don't think i'm doing anything wrong.

Anyway. When I try an build a rom and create the os-new.nb file imgfsfromdump just crashes and i can't create the file. Sometimes it works but once it fails it doesn't start working for a long time. I'm not sure what i'm doing. I try and dumb a stock rom and rebuild exactly the same but the same thing happens.

If anyone with some xip|sys porting could give me a hand to get past this step i'd appreciate it.

Thanks..

I'm starting to believe it might be a conflict with SP3. Can anyone confirm that they have these kitchens working with SP3?

replace your ImgfsFromDump with the attached version

Originally Posted by itje

replace your ImgfsFromDump with the attached version

Thanks itje. I tried this but it still crashes everytime i try and compile the files. I'm not sure why. Is there something i could be doing wrong? Have you seen this before?

Did ImgfsFromDump ever work for you? (That is, did you try just extract and create the image without modify any content)

For me, I am not following the script in the kitchen completely to create the image. Here is what I execute on the temp directory (w/ dump as sub-directory) and work fine so far. (just make sure you did not remove the imgfs.bin and the payload in extracting the image)

..\TOOLS\ImgfsFromDump imgfs.bin imgfs-new.bin
..\TOOLS\ImgfsToNb imgfs-new.bin os.nb.payload os-new.nb.payload
..\TOOLS\NBMerge -kaiser os-new.nb

Strangly enough it did work a couple of times then i just started getting that error that says "imgfsfromdump needs to close" that basic windows error. I thought it might have been DEP but i made a exception for that program. I'm going to try this and see if i have the same problems.

I'M SUCH AND IDIOT!!! The reason it was crashing is cause i kept building the dump into packages. So i assume it was looking for files in the wrong place which just causes the process to fail. Thanks guys!!!

Can someone help me find this 21109 build to where i can actuallyt port it? I've tried to extract it from various roms and all it does is fail everytime and my phone is stuck at the sony screen.


*******EDIT******
I finally figured out how to get XIP ported but now i'm having a problem with the SYS folder. No matter what SYS folder i use and no matter how many different tutorials i go through i still get the same point. I flash and it sits at the sony ericisson symbol and does nothing. Is there some folders i shouldn't change in the SYS?

run g'reloc on the stock sys folder from x1, note all the values..

then run g'reloc on your new UNTOUCHED sys, where you change NOTHING...no swapping of files (unless you port from vga or qvga, or change locale, but thats another story) then change the values on the new sys with the values from the stock x1 sys, apply changes, and you have ported the sys.

cheers

Originally Posted by itje

run g'reloc on the stock sys folder from x1, note all the values..

then run g'reloc on your new UNTOUCHED sys, where you change NOTHING...no swapping of files (unless you port from vga or qvga, or change locale, but thats another story) then change the values on the new sys with the values from the stock x1 sys, apply changes, and you have ported the sys.

cheers

When i run g reloc i get the same values as i did with the original build. Let me see if i understand the file hierarchy correctly.

1. I run G'reloc where i have my stock ROM's SYS folde. (note those values)
2. then i run G'reloc where my Donor SYS folder with the rest of the crap from the Donor ROM.
3.Then i copy the Donor SYS folder into the location i have my stock ROM SYS folder and overwrite. I run G'reloc again if the information is different from the first time i ran g'reloc i change it and hit do it.


Is this what i should be doing? I do this and i get the same result no matter which ROM i try and port from. I am porting from a touch pro ROM so is there anything i would need to change due to the vga to wvga switch?