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I haven’t been on here a while and I apologize for that. This summer has been a busy one for me – first in summer school for AP Macroeconomics for 6 weeks and then I went back to India for 4 weeks. I’m back now and of course, school starts in 2 days. But I have been doing some WinMo stuff over the past 2 months. However, I haven’t been working on my OnDemand customization. Instead, something bigger has caught my attention.

Ever since Da_G over at XDA-Developers created a thread about the Image Update system, I’ve been following and developing some of my own software. For those who don’t know, the Image Update system allows for you to update the IMGFS and XIP partition of your phone via cab files instead of flashing the device and losing all personal data/installed applications. To make this mechanism work, which has been present in Windows Mobile since WM5, all of the DSMs (Device Side Manifests) need to be in the proper MS format. Unfortunately, all of the current kitchen tools that we use for ROMs malform these DSMs or completely remove them from the ROMs. Because of that, I’ve been working on applications that will make Image Update work properly. In June, I was able to create two applications – one that regenerated DSMS from scratch in the exact same way MS’s tools are supposed to work. The other would create the Image Update packages and sign them - they produce the same results as the ones generated my MS’s tools as well. I’ve been working to consolidate them into one app that will also act as a ROM kitchen that adheres to MS’s documentation (for the most part ).

For those who are interested, you can check out Da_G’s thread in the Dev & Hacking section of XDA (I’m too lazy to link to it right now )

The Scoter Kitchen team is proud to release the first release of the kitchen.

This kitchen incorporates all the tools used by Oki and the rest of the team to decode, modify, and rebuild ROMs. It includes a help system that is meant to be clear to new users, and useful to old pros. Of course, this is only the first release, and thus will have bugs, and areas in need of improvement.

This Kitchen is based on Bepe’s WM5 Kitchen, and many of his tools.

Special thanks to Mamaich, itsme, machinagod, gmap, buzzlightyear, and many others.
Oki started the initiative, and we in the team are grateful for allowing us the privilege of contributing.

There are also many additional tools not directly used for general ROM analyzing that can be found throughout. The kitchen is designed to be sleek and clear for the new user, while still containing all relevant tools for every part of the build process. This post is one of many across multiple forums. We are opening up development to all, and ask for volunteer translators. We will coordinate through forums primarily, but later plan on PM’s, e-mail, etc. to effectively coordinate further development of the Scoter Kitchen.

In addition, the kitchen is designed to extract most HTC ROMs, but it has it’s limitations in the tools included, and the outlined process which are in the help files. Again, this will become better implemented through the help of the community. Now though this Kitchen is designed primarily for the Scoter, we intend to make this kitchen the primary hub for all PDA customization across all WM5 platforms. This post will be posted on many forums, and since the team members communicate primarily w/ English, we ask that those respond to this thread in English, or at least include an English translation.

More info here