Mobility Site - View Single Post - no, you cant "hack" the wm6 image to work with the x5XX!! stop startign threads about

Mokubai · 05-13-07, 05:48 PM

I happen to agree with ABF here. I'm not a programmer, I'm good with electronics, computers and various low level programmable hardware. I work with the kind of guys who do firmware programming and have the kind of knowledge you need to begin properly working on these devices in a meaningful way and it is by no means a simple feat. We even have a PXA270 dev kit knocking around the place that one of them got asteroids running on, but even he would be stumped with all the proprietary hardware in the Axim. As ABF said, you need $$$$ and access to all the hardware info of the device to do it yourself.

Asking the question "Can sum1 hak teh WM6 ROM?!?!" Immediately marks you down as not having any comprehension of what is involved, and it is insulting to the people who work on these things that you think that it is as simple as one person sitting down and deciding to just "make it work" in their copious free time...

Sure you can cludge a load of files together in the right way using someone elses work as a base to create a ROM image that works. But what happens when one of the new files is not the same version or doesn't support something explicitly needed by by another system file, or you put a wrong file in? You get a crock of sh*t, that's what.

Yes, Football did incredibly well getting AKU3.5 to work, but CF doesn't work and from what I can tell there are other issues. Nice work, but even with his skill he is lacking either some of the necessary files or the ability to make working replacements.

I'm all for people pushing the boundaries and *making* it work, but the following has to be taken into account.

1) It's harder than you think it is.

2) There are very few people on this forum capable of it. xda-developers is different, it's based on hardware minded people coming together to support a device themselves. Aximsite is based on end users with little or no working knowledge of the internals of the device.

3) It is ILLEGAL. WM6 is commercial software and if you haven't paid for it then you have no right to use it. The fact that Dell isn't giving you a choice about paying for it is not an excuse for piracy.

4) Seriously, it is a LOT harder than you think it is to "just hakit plaese!"

So please, show some intelligence and respect for the people behind the scenes. It's childish and immoral to whine and plead for someone to do something that is not only difficult but also illegal just so you can play with the latest and greatest software.

05-13-07, 05:48 PM	#18 (permalink)
Mokubai Aximsite All Star Elite Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: UK Posts: 833 Device: HTC Touch Dual Carrier: T-Mobile UK Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I happen to agree with ABF here. I'm not a programmer, I'm good with electronics, computers and various low level programmable hardware. I work with the kind of guys who do firmware programming and have the kind of knowledge you need to begin properly working on these devices in a meaningful way and it is by no means a simple feat. We even have a PXA270 dev kit knocking around the place that one of them got asteroids running on, but even he would be stumped with all the proprietary hardware in the Axim. As ABF said, you need $$$$ and access to all the hardware info of the device to do it yourself. Asking the question "Can sum1 hak teh WM6 ROM?!?!" Immediately marks you down as not having any comprehension of what is involved, and it is insulting to the people who work on these things that you think that it is as simple as one person sitting down and deciding to just "make it work" in their copious free time... Sure you can cludge a load of files together in the right way using someone elses work as a base to create a ROM image that works. But what happens when one of the new files is not the same version or doesn't support something explicitly needed by by another system file, or you put a wrong file in? You get a crock of sht, that's what. Yes, Football did incredibly well getting AKU3.5 to work, but CF doesn't work and from what I can tell there are other issues. Nice work, but even with his skill he is lacking either some of the necessary files or the ability to make working replacements. I'm all for people pushing the boundaries and making* it work, but the following has to be taken into account. 1) It's harder than you think it is. 2) There are very few people on this forum capable of it. xda-developers is different, it's based on hardware minded people coming together to support a device themselves. Aximsite is based on end users with little or no working knowledge of the internals of the device. 3) It is ILLEGAL. WM6 is commercial software and if you haven't paid for it then you have no right to use it. The fact that Dell isn't giving you a choice about paying for it is not an excuse for piracy. 4) Seriously, it is a LOT harder than you think it is to "just hakit plaese!" So please, show some intelligence and respect for the people behind the scenes. It's childish and immoral to whine and plead for someone to do something that is not only difficult but also illegal just so you can play with the latest and greatest software. __________________ pencil and paper: n.An archaic information storage and transmission device that works by depositing smears of graphite on bleached wood pulp. More recent developments in paper-based technology include improved ‘write-once’ update devices which use tiny rolling heads similar to mouse balls to deposit colored pigment.