Soul Of The Prestige

I haven’t made any inroads during the 5+ months that I’ve been working on a port of Windows Mobile 6.5 for my Vogue. As of today, I will use PPCKitchen.org’s BuildOS for building my ROMs which should make testing OEMs very simple and effortless. It will however be quite hard to get anyone to use it due to the fact that one can easily build their own ROM using the same program. I’ll try porting from scratch again in a few weeks. Time to start enjoying this phone again.

…While trying to cook a good ROM for my Vogue. Since the last post, I’ve moved onto Build 21500 and have begun experimenting with the OEM packages from the Jade’s ROMs as they are much more well laid out. The latest build I put together (26) unfortunately does not get past the second splash screen and without my card reader (which I lost at school), I am stuck with a paperweight. As this my only device running Windows Mobile, I am forced to do without it for some time. While I work on getting a replacement MicroSD card reader to replace the one I misplaced, I’ll be working on a UI for WM6.5.

I will be taking a small hiatus for a few days while I relax my mind and refrain from trying any extreme porting and cooking techniques. I was able to manually port the 21109 XIP today thanks to garfieldau’s XIPAddrTools 2.0 which can be found on this thread. Having gained the knowledge need to port the XIP, I’ll try and work on removing the ULDR as seen in this thread as well as increasing the RAM as seen in these two posts AFTER I come back from hiatus. I will most likely be implementing some changes to the site to increase ranking on Google as well as put up some ads.

The porting of the 21109 SYS went horribly 16 times in a row. After seeing what other ROM chefs like NFSFAN are capable of as well as having to deal with school and my own personal frustrations, I’m having a bit of trouble staying motivated. I usually jump around a lot as well when dealing with any type of project which is fine. Starting from scratch, despite being very much undesirable maybe warranted later on as I want to provide something technically advanced in all its aspects. I’ll just do what I can and Keep Moving Forward.