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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 )

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