If anybody is interested in grabbing the ringtones/wallpaper/strange sample icons from WM7, it's possible to reverse engineer the BIN file to get at the raw files that make up WM7.

Happy to post steps if anybody wants to get at this stuff, if not please see wallpapers and ringtones attached to this post. Hopefully helpful to somebody out there.

thanks... please post how to extract the bin for noobs!

Of course... you need:

- The BIN file. In this case I used WM7Full.bin available from several sites
- viewbin.exe from Microsoft Platform SDK
- cvrtbin.exe from Microsoft Platform SDK
- dumprom.exe from Microsoft Platform SDK

You may also be able to find these utilities using Google.

Use viewbin.exe to analyse the file:

viewbin.exe -t wm7full.bin

You'll see an image start and length. Start was 0x81000000 with length 0x0496A294 for the specific file I used. Plug these values into cvrtbin.exe:

cvrtbin.exe -r -a 0x81000000 -l 0x0496A294 -w 32 wm7full.bin

(obviously substituting the -a and -l value for those obtained from viewbin. Leave -w as 32)

This will produce wm7full.nb0. Plug this file into dumprom.exe:

dumprom.exe -d c:\output wm7full.nb0.

And there you have it, the files will be chucked into c:\output in their entirety.

Thanks for this one, some good sounds inside

I can't find viewbin.exe, cvrtbin.exe, and dumprom.exe anywhere, can someone post a link?

EDIT: Or, better yet, could someone just upload the dump?

EDIT 2: Okay, I found the tools, but the dump didn't work. Any suggestions?

Could you provide details of the error that you're seeing please?

To answer your other questions, I'm not planning to upload the whole dump as it's copyright and against the forum rules. Same goes for the tools, they're part of the Platform Builder SDK.

Originally Posted by akersj  

Happy to post steps if anybody wants to get at this stuff, if not please see wallpapers and ringtones attached to this post. Hopefully helpful to somebody out there.

Thank you very much

Not to be a buzzkill, but these are the same ringtones and sounds from 6.1/6.5

Though I missed flamenco fire, thanks for bringing it back

Originally Posted by mazzarin  

Not to be a buzzkill, but these are the same ringtones and sounds from 6.1/6.5

Though I missed flamenco fire, thanks for bringing it back

LOL.. I didn't try 6.1/6.5, just saw the BIN file screaming to be taken apart! Flamenco Fire ... hmm interesting

Originally Posted by akersj  

Could you provide details of the error that you're seeing please?

To answer your other questions, I'm not planning to upload the whole dump as it's copyright and against the forum rules. Same goes for the tools, they're part of the Platform Builder SDK.

There is no error message; I run the tools exactly as described, which works, but when I look for "C:\output", I can't find it. Otherwise everything is fine.