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[TUTORIAL]C Drive Extension with Nokia Cooker v3.2 ( Beta 2)
« on: November 15, 2012, 08:11:54 pm »
Hi a Small Quick tutorial to increase C dirve of your belle device.

Tested on : Nokia N8 (v111 fw) , Nokia 701 ( v113 fw)

Today il.socio updated the Nokia Cooker to version 3.2 (BETA 2 ) with integration of firmware partion manager.

The tool is still in beta stage here is the quote from il.socio :



Currently it supports the devices that have the MuxOneNAND and FAT32 FileSystem...
In the future the support will be extended to include others NAND types and the FAT16 FileSystem.

N8 is one of the supported devices and it has been successfully repartitioned ;)
You'll have to try to know if your device is supported...
If it is not supported, you can report here the message error you got and the navifirm links for the fw files.



Latest beta available here : http://forum.dailymobile.net/index.php?topic=56261.msg1048577#msg1048577


However i got pms asking how exactly is partion is done and saw people aking procedure !  ( Although i think il.socio made the app pretty easy and self explaplairitory ! )


Follow these and you should have no problems :


1. Firstly copy all your original firmware files to a separate folder .

2. Open Nokia Cooker v3.2 go to and click on tab "partition manager".

3. A window will popup. open the .vpl file from your firmware files ( from the folder you earlier created and stored firmware files separately )

4. After this the partition manager will display the unused memory presnt in each firmware files i.e core , rofs2 , rofs3 , uda !

5. Now to extend the uda size ( increasing the uda size is nothing but increasing size of C drive ) by reducing memories from core , rofs2 , rofs3 and adding that memory to UDA !
 
   Let me explain with an example here ,

   if you have 20 MB of unused memory in Core , 15 Mb in rofs2 , 10 Mb in rofs3 ! the toal sum of unused part is 20+15+10 = 45 Mb
 
   Now this total of 45 Mb of unused memory must be shifted to UDA in order to increase the c drive ! so in theory the c drive size increase by 45 MB !

   The memory adjusting part is now veryy easy with nokia cooker v3.2 , you just have to adjust corresponding memories of the firmware files with the help of button beside each of firmware files !

   NOTE : Dont reduce the memory of the firmware files below the minimum memory allocated and make sure whatever the memory adjustments you make , you do not leave any "exeed space" it has to be balanced !

6. Hit the save button in partion manager tab. The contents from Extended UDA will be fully erased , so copy back all the contents from original FW's uda to moded UDA !

7. Flash using the all files from the moded firmware folder (you can make further adding of content to these moded files ) , dont forget to caliberate the core !!

8. DO NOT INTERCHANGE THE FIRMWARE FILES WITH CFWs' FILES !


This procedure is tested on N8 and 701 ! I personally managed to obtain 720 Mb of usable memory on C Drive. However i absolute take no responsibility if you mess up your phone !

NO MORE SUCKY LESS C DRIVE MEMORY COMPLAINTS !!

Thanks to il.Socio for the great Contribution to symbian underground scene.

Source page of Nokia cooker : http://www.symbian-toys.com/nokiacooker.aspx



PS. Ill add screenshots only if necessary..
« Last Edit: November 15, 2012, 08:14:33 pm by iChris701 »

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Re: [TUTORIAL]C Drive Extension with Nokia Cooker v3.2 ( Beta 2)
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2012, 08:50:29 pm »
thanks bro! rep added again!

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Re: [TUTORIAL]C Drive Extension with Nokia Cooker v3.2 ( Beta 2)
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2012, 10:39:25 pm »
nice info will try on nokia 500 ;D

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Re: [TUTORIAL]C Drive Extension with Nokia Cooker v3.2 ( Beta 2)
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2012, 06:31:44 pm »
Thx 4 info mate  ;) +1 added