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I decided to write this guide because I found difficult to run USPL because the files in USPL folders not work...
The procedure works on Windows 7 and Vista... On XP does not guarantee since I do not use again because in my opinion is outdated...
After this small beginning premise driving:
0 - first if the phone is locked and cannot boot exceptin boot mode, download an official rom, for example
http://rapidshare.com/files/60087606/HTC_P3300_WWE_3.13.405.1_4.1.13.44_02.94.90_Ship_R.exe
and installing it. After that the phone should start... least to me it worked...
1 - Download the files for USPL.
The first folder http://rapidshare.com/files/284853186/arte_uspl.rar
and the second folder for the no size USPL http://rapidshare.com/files/284853603/arteUSPL-nosize-cmon.rar
2 – Unzip the .exe file of a ship original rom (A link can be found in section 0). Just click with the right to go on "Extract files" and save it on a place easily accessible... For example, the Desktop...
the following operation must be do with phone on wm home screen!!
3 - open the folder of the USPL first file and then go, "start_uspl.exe" after the operations in the DOS window, the phone turn on automatically with a monochrome screen that can be white (as in my case) or other colors ..
4 - Just close it appears ROMUpdateUtility...
5 - Go to the folder extracted from the official rom and replace the file "ruu_signed.nbh" with "RUU_USPL_signed.nbh" found in the first USPL folder...
6 - Join 'ROMUpdateUtility.exe "and do the requested operation...
7 - If the operation is successful at the end of the installation the phone will reboot itself...
8 - Open the second USPL folder that of no size USPL find the file "RUU_Signed.nbh" replaces in the original ROM folder instead of "RUU_USPL_signed.nbh" made in section 5... and let go, "ROMUpdateUtility.exe" and make the required operations as before...
9 - Now you can install the ROM that best suits you...
I hope to be helpful... And sorry for my bad english...
BYE
Thanks
Thank you very much, my Artemis have now WM 6.5.3
any way to unlock artemis under 64bits os?
jose-art said:
any way to unlock artemis under 64bits os?
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You can install a virtual machine on your pc
Bye,
Silvio
major update here, the dualizer has become a feature rich toolkit for dualbooting. this includes a modified version of amon ra's recovery image. you need it to use the dualizer toolkit, it is included and can be flashed with one command.
it is a beta version for now. i have tested each option, but i cannot foresee all conditions you might have on your phone... have a backup at all time! and don't forget to backup the stuff from your sdcard before installing dualboot, during the creation of this toolkit i accidently deleted everything on mine...
there is no logging at the moment, if you get any error messages please paste them here in full.
i haven't tried a nandroid backup at all yet, and wouldn't advice you to do it either. please use apps like titanium backup to backup your stuff. i will be looking into getting some kind of nandroid capability, but that is not a trivial topic. i can however imagine to have full pc-based backup capabilites, sometime in the future...
before you use any of the romX options make sure you have installed the dualboot environment, i have no idea what happens otherwise...
i have tried to include a full description, please let me know if something is unclear (i hope it is obvious that romX needs to be replaced with either rom1 or rom2):
Code:
kendon's dualboot toolkit for the HTC Hero
usage: ./dualizer <option>
place the two roms you want to use for dualbooting in the
rom1 and rom2 subdirectories. make sure directories do
contain other files. you can use the temp/ subdir of the
two rom folders to store your roms while you want to flash
another update.zip
you need a modified version of Amon_Ra's custom recovery image.
it can be installed with this tool, see the options.
options are:
help show this information
vmsetup prepare ubuntu vm for usage
check-dev check if your device is properly attached and connected via adb
boot-rec reboot hero to currently flashed recovery
check-rec check if RA-hero-v1.6.2-DBmod is currently flashed
boot-dbmod put hero in fastboot mode (back+power) first!
fastboot hero with RA-hero-v1.6.2-DBmod
no permanent changes are done, works with unlocked spl only
NOTE: the trackball doesn't select, use green key instead
unlocked-spl copies update.zip for unlocked spl to sdcard, so you can flash it.
if this goes wrong it can brick your phone, make sure you do it right!
flash-dbmod flash RA-hero-v1.6.2-DBmod to recovery partition (permanently)
NOTE: the trackball doesn't select, use green key instead
install-db ALL your data will be lost, so you better have a backup!
install dualboot environment on htc hero
this includes partitioning of the sdcard
place roms in folders rom1 and rom2 first!
romX wipedata wipe data/factory reset romX
romX wipedalvik wipe dalvik-cache for romX
for the following options place update.zip file in folder romX first!
romX flash flashes update.zip from folder romX
romX makeboot create boot.img-update.zip files for romX
romX makeboot push create boot.img-update.zip files for romX and push it to /sdcard
i don't see any potential to brick your phone, even if it fails, as the critical parts (spl, radio) are not touched at all. worst that could happen is that you have to do a full wipe and flash a rom... be careful while flashing recovery and/or bootloader though!
as always: use at own risk!
note: first (and maybe second) boot maybe painfully slow. after that it gets better, see for yourself if it is too slow for you. i have been using villainrom and slidevillain in a dualboot for a few days now, i haven't noticed too much slowdown. then again i don't care too much about this.
credits: huge thx to the ppl in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=594077 the information in there helped a lot.
changelog:
v0.2: major update, toolkit for flashing, wiping etc.
v0.1: initial release
installation & usage instructions
please read the first post before you install dualboot!
instructions for windows:
instructions for windows said:
the dualboot install can now set up all necessary stuff in a fresh installed ubuntu virtual machine in virtualbox. you must have adb access to your hero from the windows command line, if you need help check theunlockr.com for their awesome video tutorials.
here is a great howto install virtual box in windows: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox
and this is the second part, howto install ubuntu in a virtual machine: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installing
once you are done installing ubuntu download the archive from the first post and follow these steps (the default download directory is "Downloads", so i'm gonna use that in this example):
- go to "Downloads", you find it in "Places" in the upper menu bar
- rightclick the zipfile you just downloaded and select "Extract Here"
- open a terminal window: goto Applications, Accessoires, Terminal
- execute these commands:
Code:
cd ~/Downloads/dualizer/
chmod +x dualizer
./dualizer setup
it will ask for your password once, then do some stuff and finally reboot the virtual machine.
once rebooted, connect your hero to your pc, rightclick on the usb sign in the lower right corner of the virtual machine window and select the "HTC Android Phone". some hardware installations from windows might pop up (happened to me), just click on next and let them do their stuff. if it doesn't work at first shut down ubuntu, then restart your pc and continue. "reboot tut gut", as the german likes to say
back to ubuntu, with your hero connected to pc and virtualbox, open a terminal and check if your hero is detected by adb with the following commands:
Code:
cd ~/Downloads/dualizer/
./dualizer check-dev
this will tell you if your device is properly connected. you can now continue with the options you can get from
Code:
./dualizer help
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instructions for linux:
instructions for linux said:
you need java, perl and zip setup, make sure that these are available. then follow these steps:
- extract the attached zipfile from the first post on your pc (for this example i'll assume you extracted it on your desktop).
- get the two roms you want to dualboot, do not extract them.
- put one rom in the rom1 folder, the other rom in the rom2 folder inside the dualizer folder on your desktop.
- open a terminal, cd to the folder and make the main file executable by typing:
Code:
cd ~/Desktop/dualizer
chmod +x dualizer
- turn on your hero (recovery or normal, doesn't matter)
- connect your hero to your pc and check if your hero is detected by adb with the following commands:
Code:
./dualizer check-dev
this will tell you if your device is properly connected. you can now continue with the options you can get from
Code:
./dualizer help
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Holy... this is incredible. Great job on getting this out.
I use a virtual box and ubuntu 10.04 lts.The method seems to work but in step 3 on partition card my hero restarts and boots in recovery and i don't have time to mount the usb/htc device into virtual box so i get in step 5 an no device found error.The time is very short.I have to press USB-MS toggle on my hero and after that i have to mount it in virtual box.I've tried it over 20 times but i don't have time and in terminal get me the error.Is there a way to pause the process or a solution to my problem?
Sorry for my bad english
EDIT:SOLVED.Set the sleep from dualizer in step3 from 15 to 30.Wainting for setup to finish.Cross my fingers
EDIT2: Ok now this is getting awkward.Waiting on step 4 (push to sd) for 25 minutes now.I have checked the log.Last line says mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on /sdcard failed: No such file or directory.Should I wait for it any longer?Or what should I do now?
As I have said on the VillainROM forum; this is really outstanding work.
Well done, Kendon.
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EDIT2: Ok now this is getting awkward.Waiting on step 4 (push to sd) for 25 minutes now.I have checked the log.Last line says mounting /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 on /sdcard failed: No such file or directory.Should I wait for it any longer?Or what should I do now?
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that shouldn't happen, and the pushing shouldn't take longer than a few minutes. you should cancel it by pressing ctrl-c, if you fancy debugging then check why it wouldn't mount. otherwise you can partition your sdcard, do a full wipe and should be able to flash a regular rom.
i guess i underestimated the complexity of the virtual machine solution, gotta look deeper into this... *sigh*
Hi, regarding the Apps2SD issue... Would it ever be possible for the two ROMs that are dual booting to have the same apps sourced from one place... if that makes any sense...
Like in windows... you can "install for all users" so if you log off and someone else logs in with there account the very same apps are there...
Ok bad analogy since we are talking about dual booting different versions like (Vista & Windows 7) ... but the same data on hdd is accessible...
is this possible with the dual booting scenario?
If I had Slide Villain and Villain 5.5 .. both being 2.1 ROMs which would make app compatibility a non-issue...
If I booted up Villain 5.5 and made changes to an app / save data .. could this not be accessible with the slide rom.. I would hate having to install the very same apps on another partition..worst of all if you have save data (such as a game) and wanted to play it on one of the ROMs your game progress would be different?
you could just use Titanium to transfer over the data but agaqin it is a long procedure.
It would be fantastic if we could mirror image exactly what we have on our main Roms to our "secondary roms" ...
Amazing !
Ciao
Fred
Yeah this is really amazing. I have read this on villainRom forum, and i was stupified .
But, if i want to flash another Rom as primary and need to wipe cache, i need to do this process again! Am i right?
for the shared apps:
a shared apps2sd directoy/partition is possible, although you'd have the problem that apps are installed to one market only, and idk what would happen when you update an app in one rom, would the update get market-linked in the other? you can solve this with titanium backup, but it isn't really comfortable at all. i'll think about this.
for shared data: in theory possible as well, but i don't think it would work out well. you cannot distinguish between system data and apps data that easily, and i don't think it would work to share system data (sense settings etc) between two different roms...
@masterxiter: easiest way to do this is to use the installer script again. you can wipe the cache manually, installing another rom would be really complicated (about as complicated as the installer script )...
Sweet. But is there any way i can run this in cygwin? every version of linux ive tried so far doesnt support my crap compaq wifi card or most things, or even wired for that matter, and running ubuntu in a virtual machine gives a reboot every time after step 1 (maybe cos i suck at terminal)
i'll try some time, but i have never used cygwin... so don't expect anything too soon.
joshman99 said:
Sweet. But is there any way i can run this in cygwin? every version of linux ive tried so far doesnt support my crap compaq wifi card or most things, or even wired for that matter, and running ubuntu in a virtual machine gives a reboot every time after step 1 (maybe cos i suck at terminal)
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if you install ubuntu in an virtual machine like VMware(paid) or virtualbox(free) you can just use linux, it will automatically grab all your internet settings and stuff from the windows installation(main computer) so your windows will be like some kind of router for your virtual machine with everyhing working.
Very nice tutorial, i'm not going to try it.. because my phone has to be resend to HTC for fixing some dead pixels, there just messers with screens
BTW. you can also try another linux version sounds crazy, maybe try backtrack?? the only thing you need is linux, backtrack is..
I have backtrack 4 (I could never get wifi on that either, but tbh i couldnt work out how to try (that distro is soo confusing imo). I got backtrack 3 to work a while back, so if i can find the disk im gnna try that.
Also virtualbox didnt put my internet settings at all (maybe co im on win7 ultimate?)
Thanks for the suggestions, cos i know cygwin aint the most elegant solution
changing rom 1 and rom 2
i test lotz of roms.... everyday they are being updated...
say if i dualize with ahero0.8 and Kimera 1.7....
wud i be able to update aHero to 0.9 and leave kimera as it is???
simply can i update JUST ONE rom???
manual setup??
i tried it got error in step 3 and then 'Device not found errors...'
can u make a tutorial for doing it manually.....
kendong2 said:
please read the first post before you install dualboot!
instructions for linux:
you need java, perl and zip setup, make sure that these are available. then
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hihi.. i am trying to do a dual boot, so im wondering what u mean by.. need java , perl and zip setup... can advice me?
He means that you need to have Java, perl and zip installed and configured on your Linux system. If you dont have that installed and configured correctly than the install script wont be able to run.
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He means that you need to have Java, perl and zip installed and configured on your Linux system. If you dont have that installed and configured correctly than the install script wont be able to run.
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oh noes.. .i do not have those in my ubuntu, does that mean i cant do a dual boot? btw, i saw post 2 and post 3 ... are they the same instruction ? or different? (one for windows user and one for linux?)
I. Before You Begin
1. We are assuming you have already setup the Android kitchen. If not, use our How To Setup The Kitchen procedure and then come back to this one when done.(first see the post creating an custom rom for android a)
2. We are also assuming you have already done our How To Root and How To Load a Custom ROM for your phone and have a custom recovery image.
2. This ONLY works for HTC Android devices at the moment, later versions might support others (check here for an update when it does).
3. Open the Kitchen in your Ubuntu Virtual Machine we created in the Kitchen Setup procedure by typing ./menu in the Terminal window in Ubuntu. Leave it open.
4. All of this is done INSIDE THE UBUNTU VIRTUAL MACHINE (that includes when I say “save to your computer” anywhere in here, means save to you Ubuntu Virtual Machine)!
II. Find a ROM to Dissect
There are two kinds of ROMs you can dissect to create your own custom ROM; Stock ROMs and Custom/Cooked ROMs. DsiXDA, creator of the ROM kitchen we are using, has put together a list of places to get stock ROMs for different devices and a quick how to load them into the kitchen:
From a Cooked ROM (Easiest Method):
1. Copy the update.zip (or equivalent ZIP file) to the original_update folder in the kitchen
2. Type the number for the option “Setup Working Folder from ROM” and hit enter in the Kitchen to create your working folder. (So if its number is 1, type 1 then hit enter).
From a Shipped ROM:
1. Find the shipped ROM for your device, usually from htc.com or from searching xda-developers (check the Wiki or sticky posts under your device’s sub-forum).
The links below may help:
HTC Hero
Google Nexus One (android.modaco.com/topic/300414-21oct-stock-roms-erd79- frg83-images-zip-online-kitchen-optional-root-insecure/)
" copy paste on browser than download it "
HTC Magic
HTC Tattoo
2a. If the shipped ROM is in a .ZIP format, then simply extract the system.img and boot.img.
2b. If the shipped ROM is in .EXE format, then do the following:
A. In Windows, run the shipped ROM’s .EXE file till it gets to the first dialog. Stop there but don’t close the window yet.
B. Go to Start->Run and type: %TEMP%
C. When the folder opens, search for Rom.zip. Then, open it with an unzip tool. If you get errors trying to open the ZIP file with WinZip or the default Windows unzip program, then use 7Zip (download from "w_w_w_.7-zip.org/ "_" from link) to extract it.
D. Extract only two files from Rom.zip: system.img and boot.img
3. Copy the two .IMG files to your kitchen’s img_files folder in your Ubuntu Virtual Machine.
4. In the Terminal window that you opened in Section I, type 1 and hit enter to create a working folder from the two .img files.
Now, that you have either the update.zip in the original_update folder of the kitchen OR the system.img and boot.img of a shipped ROM in the img_files folder of the kitchen, you are ready to play with the ROM to make it your own.
III. Tweaking the Imported ROM Using the Automated Options in the Kitchen
So this is a basic kitchen, but you can do things like, add Root support, add/remove apps from the ROM, enable saving apps to the sd card, enabling Wifi tethering, do some automatic optimizations, and a few other things automatically just by selecting the option and hitting enter. It even allows you to put in your own scripts for the ROM to run (but that’s for more advanced users who know how to create scripts of course).
1. After importing a ROM using section II, select the options you want to do to the ROM (by typing the number of the option you want into the terminal/kitchen window and hitting enter. They are all pretty self explanatory.)
2. Continue this until you have all the automated options you want in the new ROM.
IV. Adding/Removing Applications from the ROM
1. In your Ubuntu Virtual Machine, goto Places at the top. Then click on Home Folder, then the WORKING folder that was created in section II when you dissected the original ROM or img files. Then goto system > app. (Also check Data > App as .apks can be put in there as well).
2. In the app folder you will see all the .apk files for all the applications you have currently in the ROM. Simply delete the ones you do not want to remove them from the ROM.
3. To add applications, simply copy any .apk file for the applications you want to add into the app folder.
V. Repackage the ROM so it can be Flashed onto a Phone
1. Once you have done whatever changes you want, you just need to type 99 and hit enter in the kitchen/terminal for the kitchen to take the working folder you have been messing with and compile it into a flashable update.zip ROM.
2. Once it is done compiling the ROM, we can transfer it to our phone.
VIa. Setup Ubuntu to See Your Phone via USB
1. In the Virtual Box windows with Ubuntu in it, click on Devices at the top then click Install Guest Additions. (It should autostart, if it doesn’t, click on the CD that appeared on the desktop in Ubuntu and then click on Autostart.sh. It will ask you for your password you created when setting up Ubuntu, put that in and let it install).
2. Once the Guest Additions are installed, close the Virtual Box Ubuntu Window (choose to Power Down the Machine).
3. Now, open Virtual Box itself (not Ubuntu) and highlight the Ubuntu machine, then click on Settings at the top.
4. Click on USB and make sure Enable USB Controller and Enable USB 2.0 are both enabled.
5. Now plug in your Android phone (do NOT mount the SD card, just plug it in).
6. Now in the USB menu of Virtual Box, click the + symbol on the right and then select your Android Device (name may be different).
7. Once that is installed, unplug your phone.
8. Now, Start your Ubuntu Virtual Box.
9. Once Ubuntu boots up, plug in your Android phone (do not mount the memory card yet) and look for the USB symbol at the bottom (fourth icon from the left) and hover over it and wait for it to say USB Device detected and display your phone. Once that happens, mount the sd card by pulling down the notification bar on your phone and clicking mount.
10. Ubuntu should pop up your SD card on the desktop (if any prompts come up just select do nothing and click ok). We can now transfer files to the memory card of our phone.
VIb. Use RapidShare to Transfer the File from Ubuntu to Windows (if Section VIa was giving you trouble)
1. If you can’t get the USB to work in Ubuntu, then simply open a Firefox browser window, goto Rapidshare.com and upload the ROM to there.
2.Once it is done uploading, ON YOUR WINDOWS COMPUTER NOT UBUNTU, put in the link it gave you when you finished uploading it, to download it to your Windows computer so we can transfer it to your phone.
VII. Flash the ROM
5. Copy the .zip file to the root of your SD card (NOT in any folders, just on the SD card itself).
6. Unplug the phone and turn it off.
7. Turn it back on by holding down home and power (do not let go until the recovery screen comes up) to get to recovery mode (you must have a custom recovery screen to do this, if you don’t find out How To Root and Load a ROM procedure for your phone and do those first).
8. Now select Nandroid Backup to create a backup before we flash the new ROM.
9. Once the backup is done, select Wipe Data / Factory Reset in recovery mode.
10. Select flash zip from sd card and select the ROM you just put on the sd card.
11. Once it is done flashing, click reboot. Enjoy!
Enjoy! Will update this as we add more things for you to tweak FeWant to Flash a New Splash Screen on Your 320×480 Resolution Android Device? Here’s how.
el free to suggest some in the meantime.
Thanks to DsiXDA for his awesome kitchen!
ohh... thanks
Very nice information.................
zero+ said:
I. Before You Begin
1. We are assuming you have already setup the Android kitchen. If not, use our How To Setup The Kitchen procedure and then come back to this one when done.(first see the post creating an custom rom for android a)
2. We are also assuming you have already done our How To Root and How To Load a Custom ROM for your phone and have a custom recovery image.
2. This ONLY works for HTC Android devices at the moment, later versions might support others (check here for an update when it does).
3. Open the Kitchen in your Ubuntu Virtual Machine we created in the Kitchen Setup procedure by typing ./menu in the Terminal window in Ubuntu. Leave it open.
4. All of this is done INSIDE THE UBUNTU VIRTUAL MACHINE (that includes when I say “save to your computer” anywhere in here, means save to you Ubuntu Virtual Machine)!
II. Find a ROM to Dissect
There are two kinds of ROMs you can dissect to create your own custom ROM; Stock ROMs and Custom/Cooked ROMs. DsiXDA, creator of the ROM kitchen we are using, has put together a list of places to get stock ROMs for different devices and a quick how to load them into the kitchen:
From a Cooked ROM (Easiest Method):
1. Copy the update.zip (or equivalent ZIP file) to the original_update folder in the kitchen
2. Type the number for the option “Setup Working Folder from ROM” and hit enter in the Kitchen to create your working folder. (So if its number is 1, type 1 then hit enter).
From a Shipped ROM:
1. Find the shipped ROM for your device, usually from htc.com or from searching xda-developers (check the Wiki or sticky posts under your device’s sub-forum).
The links below may help:
HTC Hero
Google Nexus One (android.modaco.com/topic/300414-21oct-stock-roms-erd79- frg83-images-zip-online-kitchen-optional-root-insecure/)
" copy paste on browser than download it "
HTC Magic
HTC Tattoo
2a. If the shipped ROM is in a .ZIP format, then simply extract the system.img and boot.img.
2b. If the shipped ROM is in .EXE format, then do the following:
A. In Windows, run the shipped ROM’s .EXE file till it gets to the first dialog. Stop there but don’t close the window yet.
B. Go to Start->Run and type: %TEMP%
C. When the folder opens, search for Rom.zip. Then, open it with an unzip tool. If you get errors trying to open the ZIP file with WinZip or the default Windows unzip program, then use 7Zip (download from "w_w_w_.7-zip.org/ "_" from link) to extract it.
D. Extract only two files from Rom.zip: system.img and boot.img
3. Copy the two .IMG files to your kitchen’s img_files folder in your Ubuntu Virtual Machine.
4. In the Terminal window that you opened in Section I, type 1 and hit enter to create a working folder from the two .img files.
Now, that you have either the update.zip in the original_update folder of the kitchen OR the system.img and boot.img of a shipped ROM in the img_files folder of the kitchen, you are ready to play with the ROM to make it your own.
III. Tweaking the Imported ROM Using the Automated Options in the Kitchen
So this is a basic kitchen, but you can do things like, add Root support, add/remove apps from the ROM, enable saving apps to the sd card, enabling Wifi tethering, do some automatic optimizations, and a few other things automatically just by selecting the option and hitting enter. It even allows you to put in your own scripts for the ROM to run (but that’s for more advanced users who know how to create scripts of course).
1. After importing a ROM using section II, select the options you want to do to the ROM (by typing the number of the option you want into the terminal/kitchen window and hitting enter. They are all pretty self explanatory.)
2. Continue this until you have all the automated options you want in the new ROM.
IV. Adding/Removing Applications from the ROM
1. In your Ubuntu Virtual Machine, goto Places at the top. Then click on Home Folder, then the WORKING folder that was created in section II when you dissected the original ROM or img files. Then goto system > app. (Also check Data > App as .apks can be put in there as well).
2. In the app folder you will see all the .apk files for all the applications you have currently in the ROM. Simply delete the ones you do not want to remove them from the ROM.
3. To add applications, simply copy any .apk file for the applications you want to add into the app folder.
V. Repackage the ROM so it can be Flashed onto a Phone
1. Once you have done whatever changes you want, you just need to type 99 and hit enter in the kitchen/terminal for the kitchen to take the working folder you have been messing with and compile it into a flashable update.zip ROM.
2. Once it is done compiling the ROM, we can transfer it to our phone.
VIa. Setup Ubuntu to See Your Phone via USB
1. In the Virtual Box windows with Ubuntu in it, click on Devices at the top then click Install Guest Additions. (It should autostart, if it doesn’t, click on the CD that appeared on the desktop in Ubuntu and then click on Autostart.sh. It will ask you for your password you created when setting up Ubuntu, put that in and let it install).
2. Once the Guest Additions are installed, close the Virtual Box Ubuntu Window (choose to Power Down the Machine).
3. Now, open Virtual Box itself (not Ubuntu) and highlight the Ubuntu machine, then click on Settings at the top.
4. Click on USB and make sure Enable USB Controller and Enable USB 2.0 are both enabled.
5. Now plug in your Android phone (do NOT mount the SD card, just plug it in).
6. Now in the USB menu of Virtual Box, click the + symbol on the right and then select your Android Device (name may be different).
7. Once that is installed, unplug your phone.
8. Now, Start your Ubuntu Virtual Box.
9. Once Ubuntu boots up, plug in your Android phone (do not mount the memory card yet) and look for the USB symbol at the bottom (fourth icon from the left) and hover over it and wait for it to say USB Device detected and display your phone. Once that happens, mount the sd card by pulling down the notification bar on your phone and clicking mount.
10. Ubuntu should pop up your SD card on the desktop (if any prompts come up just select do nothing and click ok). We can now transfer files to the memory card of our phone.
VIb. Use RapidShare to Transfer the File from Ubuntu to Windows (if Section VIa was giving you trouble)
1. If you can’t get the USB to work in Ubuntu, then simply open a Firefox browser window, goto Rapidshare.com and upload the ROM to there.
2.Once it is done uploading, ON YOUR WINDOWS COMPUTER NOT UBUNTU, put in the link it gave you when you finished uploading it, to download it to your Windows computer so we can transfer it to your phone.
VII. Flash the ROM
5. Copy the .zip file to the root of your SD card (NOT in any folders, just on the SD card itself).
6. Unplug the phone and turn it off.
7. Turn it back on by holding down home and power (do not let go until the recovery screen comes up) to get to recovery mode (you must have a custom recovery screen to do this, if you don’t find out How To Root and Load a ROM procedure for your phone and do those first).
8. Now select Nandroid Backup to create a backup before we flash the new ROM.
9. Once the backup is done, select Wipe Data / Factory Reset in recovery mode.
10. Select flash zip from sd card and select the ROM you just put on the sd card.
11. Once it is done flashing, click reboot. Enjoy!
Enjoy! Will update this as we add more things for you to tweak FeWant to Flash a New Splash Screen on Your 320×480 Resolution Android Device? Here’s how.
el free to suggest some in the meantime.
Thanks to DsiXDA for his awesome kitchen!
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thanks for the info..hope for othr mobs also it will com soon
Tell me when it works for SGY
Inform me when it starts working for SGY... PLz I want to make one..
Looking good if work on sgy hehe looking forward for info
Heey everyone here the quide for how to set up kitchen in linux virtualbox
Not made by me but made by the amazing guys from the unlockr Thanks!!!
Part 1
[I Before you begin]
1. This ONLY works for HTC Android devices at the moment, Also other devices!
[II. Download a Virtual Machine and Set It Up.]
1. Download VirtualBox for free from here (the one for Windows Hosts at the top). Then click next on the setup process until it installs.
2. Open VirtualBox and click on New.
3. Name the New Virtual Machine whatever you want (we named it Linux for simplicity’s sake).
4. For Operating System choose Linux, then choose Ubuntu for Version and click next.
5. Click Next again leaving the Memory Setting at what it is preselected at (should be 384mbs).
6. Click Next on the Boot Disk screen as well leaving boot hard disk and create new hard disk both selected.
7. Keep clicking Next until you get to the slider that asks how much space to set for the Linux. Move the slider to 8Gbs and click next.
8. Click next until it is done and shows you the original screen you started on but now with the Linux Machine Powered Off on the left.
[III. Install Linux Ubuntu on the Virtual Machine]
1. Download Ubuntu from here.
2. Once it is downloaded, in the VirtualBox program, click the Start button at the top.
3. Close out all the warnings that come up.
4. Then click on Devices > CD/DVD Devices > More CD/DVD Images… then select the .iso image for Ubuntu you downloaded.
6. Follow the prompts on the screen to install Ubuntu on your Virtual Machine.
7. Once it is installed and reboots, goto Applications > Accessories > Terminal and type this line with hitting enter at the end:
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre
It will ask you for a password, type in the password you created when you went through the Ubuntu installation process (it asked you for it before finishing the install).
Then it will ask you y/n. Hit y then enter. Then when it shows you the terms and conditions, hit right arrow on your keyboard and click enter to select ok. Then hit left arrow on your keyboard and enter to select Yes.
*NOTE – Your keyboard and mouse will not function on your regular computer once you use them in the Ubuntu virtual machine. To re-enable them, click the Ctrl button on the right side of your keyboard.
**IF YOU GET AN ERROR INSTALLING THE JAVA FILES,
Download the java files manually FROM INSIDE THE EMULATOR/LINUX using Firefox here:
Java6 Bin
Java6 Jre
Then open the Terminal App in Ubuntu and type this with hitting enter at the end of the line:
sudo dpkg -i sun-java6-jre_6.18-4_all.deb sun-java6-bin_6.18-4_i386.deb
And that should fix it.
[IV. Download and Setup The Android ROM Kitchen]
!THIS NEXT SECTION NEEDS TO BE DONE WITHIN THE UBUNTU VIRTUAL MACHINE!
1. Click on the Firefox logo at the top of your Ubuntu installation (in the Virtual Machine).
2. Type this into the url box:
theunlockr.com/2010/03/26/how-to-create-your-own-custom-rom-for-android-part-1-setting-up-the-kitchen (to navigate to this page from within the virtual machine).
3. Now download the latest version of the kitchen file  in the first post from the link below(again from inside the Ubuntu installation on the virtual machine. We are doing this because we want to save this file in our Ubuntu Virtual machine, NOT our regular computer).
Kitchen
4. Again on the Ubuntu machine, Find the .zip file you just downloaded, right click it and click open with Archive Manager and then click Extract at the top.
5. Once you click Extract, it will ask you where. Double click the folder that has the name you created when you installed Ubuntu (my username was theunlockr so my folder is called theunlockr. It is the first folder under recently used in the list on the left). Then click Extract at the bottom right.
[V. Run the Android ROM Kitchen]
1. To run the Android ROM kitchen, click on Applications at the top of Ubuntu > Accessories > Terminal then type the following and hit enter:
./menu
2. You will now be greeted by the simple text menu of the application. Enjoy!
VI. Create Your First Custom ROM
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Part 2
Before You Begin
1. We are assuming you have already setup the Android kitchen. If not, use our How To Setup The Kitchen procedure and then come back to this one when done.
2. We are also assuming you have already done our How To Root and How To Load a Custom ROM for your phone and have a custom recovery image.
2. This ONLY works for HTC Android devices at the moment, Also other devices
3. Open the Kitchen in your Ubuntu Virtual Machine we created in the Kitchen Setup procedure by typing ./menu in the Terminal window in Ubuntu. Leave it open.
4. All of this is done INSIDE THE UBUNTU VIRTUAL MACHINE (that includes when I say “save to your computer” anywhere in here, means save to you Ubuntu Virtual Machine)!
II. Find a ROM to Dissect
There are two kinds of ROMs you can dissect to create your own custom ROM; Stock ROMs and Custom/Cooked ROMs. DsiXDA, creator of the ROM kitchen we are using, has put together a list of places to get stock ROMs for different devices and a quick how to load them into the kitchen:
From a Cooked ROM (Easiest Method):
1. Copy the update.zip (or equivalent ZIP file) to the original_update folder in the kitchen
2. Type the number for the option “Setup Working Folder from ROM” and hit enter in the Kitchen to create your working folder. (So if its number is 1, type 1 then hit enter).
From a Shipped ROM:
1. Find the shipped ROM for your device, usually from htc.com or from searching xda-developers (check the Wiki or sticky posts under your device’s sub-forum).
The links below may help:
2a. If the shipped ROM is in a .ZIP format, then simply extract the system.img and boot.img.
2b. If the shipped ROM is in .EXE format, then do the following:
A. In Windows, run the shipped ROM’s .EXE file till it gets to the first dialog. Stop there but don’t close the window yet.
B. Go to Start->Run and type: %TEMP%
C. When the folder opens, search for Rom.zip. Then, open it with an unzip tool. If you get errors trying to open the ZIP file with WinZip or the default Windows unzip program, then use 7Zip (download from here) to extract it.
D. Extract only two files from Rom.zip: system.img and boot.img
3. Copy the two .IMG files to your kitchen’s img_files folder in your Ubuntu Virtual Machine.
4. In the Terminal window that you opened in Section I, type 1 and hit enter to create a working folder from the two .img files.
Now, that you have either the update.zip in the original_update folder of the kitchen OR the system.img and boot.img of a shipped ROM in the img_files folder of the kitchen, you are ready to play with the ROM to make it your own.
III. Tweaking the Imported ROM Using the Automated Options in the Kitchen
So this is a basic kitchen, but you can do things like, add Root support, add/remove apps from the ROM, enable saving apps to the sd card, enabling Wifi tethering, do some automatic optimizations, and a few other things automatically just by selecting the option and hitting enter. It even allows you to put in your own scripts for the ROM to run (but that’s for more advanced users who know how to create scripts of course).
1. After importing a ROM using section II, select the options you want to do to the ROM (by typing the number of the option you want into the terminal/kitchen window and hitting enter. They are all pretty self explanatory.)
2. Continue this until you have all the automated options you want in the new ROM.
IV. Adding/Removing Applications from the ROM
1. In your Ubuntu Virtual Machine, goto Places at the top. Then click on Home Folder, then the WORKING folder that was created in section II when you dissected the original ROM or img files. Then goto system > app. (Also check Data > App as .apks can be put in there as well).
2. In the app folder you will see all the .apk files for all the applications you have currently in the ROM. Simply delete the ones you do not want to remove them from the ROM.
3. To add applications, simply copy any .apk file for the applications you want to add into the app folder.
V. Repackage the ROM so it can be Flashed onto a Phone
1. Once you have done whatever changes you want, you just need to type 99 and hit enter in the kitchen/terminal for the kitchen to take the working folder you have been messing with and compile it into a flashable update.zip ROM.
2. Once it is done compiling the ROM, we can transfer it to our phone.
VIa. Setup Ubuntu to See Your Phone via USB
1. In the Virtual Box windows with Ubuntu in it, click on Devices at the top then click Install Guest Additions. (It should autostart, if it doesn’t, click on the CD that appeared on the desktop in Ubuntu and then click on Autostart.sh. It will ask you for your password you created when setting up Ubuntu, put that in and let it install).
2. Once the Guest Additions are installed, close the Virtual Box Ubuntu Window (choose to Power Down the Machine).
3. Now, open Virtual Box itself (not Ubuntu) and highlight the Ubuntu machine, then click on Settings at the top.
4. Click on USB and make sure Enable USB Controller and Enable USB 2.0 are both enabled.
5. Now plug in your Android phone (do NOT mount the SD card, just plug it in).
6. Now in the USB menu of Virtual Box, click the + symbol on the right and then select your Android Device (name may be different).
7. Once that is installed, unplug your phone.
8. Now, Start your Ubuntu Virtual Box.
9. Once Ubuntu boots up, plug in your Android phone (do not mount the memory card yet) and look for the USB symbol at the bottom (fourth icon from the left) and hover over it and wait for it to say USB Device detected and display your phone. Once that happens, mount the sd card by pulling down the notification bar on your phone and clicking mount.
10. Ubuntu should pop up your SD card on the desktop (if any prompts come up just select do nothing and click ok). We can now transfer files to the memory card of our phone.
VIb. Use RapidShare to Transfer the File from Ubuntu to Windows (if Section VIa was giving you trouble)
1. If you can’t get the USB to work in Ubuntu, then simply open a Firefox browser window, goto Rapidshare.com and upload the ROM to there.
2.Once it is done uploading, ON YOUR WINDOWS COMPUTER NOT UBUNTU, put in the link it gave you when you finished uploading it, to download it to your Windows computer so we can transfer it to your phone.
VII. Flash the ROM
5. Copy the .zip file to the root of your SD card (NOT in any folders, just on the SD card itself).
6. Unplug the phone and turn it off.
7. Turn it back on by holding down home and power (do not let go until the recovery screen comes up) to get to recovery mode (you must have a custom recovery screen to do this, if you don’t find out How To Root and Load a ROM procedure for your phone and do those first).
8. Now select Nandroid Backup to create a backup before we flash the new ROM.
9. Once the backup is done, select Wipe Data / Factory Reset in recovery mode.
10. Select flash zip from sd card and select the ROM you just put on the sd card.
11. Once it is done flashing, click reboot. Enjoy!
Enjoy! Will update this as we add more things for you to tweak Feel free to suggest some in the meantime.
Thanks to DsiXDA for his awesome kitchen!
Thanks to Theunlockr For the amazing Guide !!!
greetings safariking
Video tutorials:
Part 2:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q-1ErGSW0ik
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=94Az1kcQvc4
Thanks safariking!
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very good tutorial thanks
Hi there
Does Android Kitchen Only work in virtual Machine for Ubunty? I have a full installtion of Ubunty and when I type ./menu at the terminal "no such file or directory" followed the installation video but I ain't getting nowhere
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atomicsoul said:
Hi there
Does Android Kitchen Only work in virtual Machine for Ubunty? I have a full installtion of Ubunty and when I type ./menu at the terminal "no such file or directory" followed the installation video but I ain't getting nowhere
Cheers
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no.
kitchen can be used on all Linux/Unix OS.
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(translation:Chinese people are trying to improve themselves！)
Very nice job. We thank you for your time and effort for writing all of that
Thanks
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Just a note: linux isnt required
You can use windows, but does require to install cygwin (linux like terminal)
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I was searching on this site for a way to dualboot and found nothing. I know many of you are looking for a way to dualboot these two awesome OS(es?). Well look no further. I found a way to successfully dualboot on a website but it's directions are partially inaccurate and incomplete so I decided to write my own method based off of that website. (I will also provide a link to that site at the bottom of this post)
If ^that^ was too much for you too read, here's the condensed version:
I found the method online
I'm simplifying it
So here it is:
Step 1: Download Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant
Click Here: http://web.esd.microsoft.com/W8DL/W...C5B1D8956B5B1D8/Windows8-UpgradeAssistant.exe
Step 2: Open the downloaded file (if you think I'm going to slow, skip down to Step )
Step 3: Click Run, and if you're not an administrator, type in the admin password, then Click "Yes" when you get a popup saying the Microsoft want access to your hard drive
Step 4: It'll check your "apps"(programs) and devices for compatibility(It might take up to 15 mins. depending on how many "apps" you have. This step doesn't really matter(or apply) to us.
Step 5: Do something/anything
Step 6: Click Next. Select "Nothing"
Step 7: Click Order and fill out your information. Click Checkout.
Step 7.5: Write down your product key on physical paper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Very Important)
Step 8: It'll now say: "We're getting a few things ready"
Step 9: Fill out the details it asks for, then click Next
Step 10: On the next screen choose your payment method
Step 11: Fill out that information, then click Next
Step 12: You'll arrive at the "Confirm your Order" screen. At the bottom click "Buy"
Step 13: Now it will say "Processing your order". Then it will download Windows 8 for you(This might take a while, it depends on your internet connection speed), then make the files it downloaded ready to upgrade your computer.
Step 14: There will now be three options under the title "Install Windows"
Step 15: Select "Install by Creating Media"
Step 16: Now you can either select Usb Flash Drive or ISO file
This is where it branches off
If you select ISO Image, it will ask you where you would like for this to be saved. Then it will prepare the image and be done in maybe 3 mins or so
If you selected USB Flash Drive then I'm sorry I have no idea what to do. If someone could help, I'll include them in the credits
Step 17: (for ISO)
Click the ISO you downloaded and insert a DVD(one of those 4.7 gb ones) into your drive
Step 18: Click Verify Disc to be careful or, if you prefer speed, directly Click "Burn"
Step 19: If you are doing this on a laptop it might sound like your laptop is going to explode, but it's not. I'll take around 15 mins. It'll eject your DVD after it's done
Step 20: Press "Start" button and type "diskmgmt.msc" and click the first option that comes up
Step 21: It might take a while to fully load up. Right click your main(and/or biggest) hard drive and select the fourth option, "Shrink Volume".(It'll take while to load).
If you are on a 32 bit computer enter at least 16384.
If you are using a 64 bit computer type at least 20480. Press "Shrink"
Step 22: Right click the created hard disk and click "New Simple Volume"
Step 23: Click Next, Next, then assign a drive letter then Next, Select "Format this volume with the following settings" then assign a name. For file system select "NTFS", then check "Perform a quick format". Then click next, then Finsh
Step 24: Shutdown your computer (Advanced users can sip down to Step 27)
Step 25: Go into BIOS. I cannot help you with this as every computer is different
Step 26: Once in BIOS, change the boot order. Save and Exit.
Step 27: Shutdown your computer
Step 28: Insert the DVD.
Step 29: You will get a message: "Press any key to boot from CD or DVD" Press any key..
Step 30: It will install then you will get to the Personalization Screen (colors, Accounts, etc.)
Step 31: You are done Enjoy!
Credits:
dansou901 http://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=4588971
The website I kept blabbing about: http://mashable.com/2012/11/08/dual-boot-windows-8/
I found a video covering Steps 16-19 but after that it's something else: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=MQCgVuSHMP0&NR=1
If your Shrink volume Option is very low check out this article and follow it's directions:http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/resize-a-partition-for-free-in-windows-vista/
If you want to give me pointer or tips on how to improve this guide, go ahead, please, don't hesitate
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You left out the part where you have to partition your disk. Otherwise it will simply overwrite your existing Windows installation.
You wrote you were going to dualboot, right?
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Wait, it was that hard to find the steps of
1. Download or pick up a copy of Win8 and put your license key somewhere you can get at it.
2. Reboot your computer from install media.
3. Re-partition your disk.
4. Install to the new partition.
???
Dual-booting Win8 with another OS is no different than it has been with previous OSes. In fact, so long as you stick to NT 6.x versions of Windows, it's pretty trivial. As for re-partitioning, you can do that before rebooting, as you listed, or you can do it from the OS install environment. That option is actually faster, and might allow a greater amount of shrink, because there's no concern over whether file handles are in use. You'll need to select the Advanced options, though.
As for creating a bootable flashdrive, there's a tool somewhere to do it for you but the steps are actually quite simple.
1. Make sure it's formatted FAT32. Reformat it if needed.
2. You'll need to mark the Flashdrive's partition as bootable.
2.1. Open CMD as admin.
2.2 Run diskpart.
2.3 List Disk to find he disk number of your flashdrive.
2.4 Select Disk # (where # is the number you found in 2.3).
2.4 List Part to find the partitions on the flashdrive (there's usually only one).
2.5 Select Part # (where again, # is the partition number from 2.4).
2.6 Active (this command marks the selected partition as "active" meaning bootable).
2.7 Exit.
3. Copy the install files onto the flashdrive.
3.1. If you downloaded the install media as an ISO, you'kl need to get the files off of it. You can do this by mounting the ISO, by opening ISO in a program like 7-Zip (my preferred option), or by burning it to a DVD.
3.2 Once you have the files, just copy them from the root of the install "disk" (whether a physical DVD, mounted ISO image, or image you are exploring in 7-Zip) to the root of the flashdrive.
4. You now have a bootable flashdrive ready to install Windows from. You can use it on any computer that can boot from USB.
A few more tips:
* If you have Bitlocker enabled on your current OS, suspend or disable it before running the second install! Otherwise, you'll have to enter that horribly long Recovery Key value. The best way is to suspend BL, which is nearly instant to do or undo, and very easy:
** CMD (or Powershell) as Admin -> manage-bde.exe -protectors -disable C:
* If you have a Linux dual-boot already, and have configured GRUB to chain-load the Windows loader (which is the usual approach), you will need to re-install GRUB after installing Win8 because Win8 will overwrite the GRUB stage one loader in the MBR. If you instead have the Windows loader set up to chain-load GRUB, you're fine; installing win8 will add a new entry to your BCD (bootloader menu) but won't interfere with the existing one for loading GRUB.
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As for creating a bootable flashdrive, there's a tool somewhere to do it for you but the steps are actually quite simple.
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Would this be the tool?
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool
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Probably, yes. It could just as easily be done with a script that invokes Diskpart and 7-Zip, though.
Thanks though this way seems easier
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