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Flashing Custom Splash Screens on Kaiser

Instructions for flashing custom splash screens on HTC Kaiser:
1. Install HardSPL.
2. Create a BMP file in paint, size must be 240x320, save it as BMP 24bit.
3. Download SplashTool
4. Load your BMP on nb_image_converter (included in SplashTool's zip) and save it as splash.nb
5. Open SplashTool.exe and convert splash.nb to new format.
6. Pack the resulting splash.nb into a NBH file using htc rom tool.
7. Flash your cusotm NBH using CustomRUU.
Enjoy your new splash screen!

pof said:
Instructions for flashing custom splash screens on HTC Kaiser:
6. Pack the resulting splash.nb into a NBH file using htc rom tool.
7. Flash your cusotm NBH using CustomRUU.
Enjoy your new splash screen!
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Hi pof.
This is a great idea and I thank you for the instructions but I got to #6 and am so new to ROM building(virgin, in fact ) that I must ask....
In the htc rom tool do I leave all fields blank except for the splash screen entry? And where do I enter that? I assume that I type splash.nb into the splash1 field.
Else, do I fill in all of the fields such as country ID, version, IPL?
many thanks.
karlo

one more question. does this flash delete my current tytn's settings (do i need to flash splash screens after hard reset or anytime)?

re
Is there a way to make a .cab file to change the bootsplash image? Also i see some custom roms have a 3d intro (maybe flash?) how would i go about doing this?
Thanks

thanks a lot man

To change Splash Boot screen, made a picture 320x320 pixel 96dpi save it in .png and rename in welcomehead.96.png
Use Resco Explorer, copy, paste and replace the welcomehead.96.png in folder Windows, make a soft reset.

So, this will be the correct tool to use to format images for the Titan?

Splash Screen Collection....
panosha said:
To change Splash Boot screen, made a picture 320x320 pixel 96dpi save it in .png and rename in welcomehead.96.png
Use Resco Explorer, copy, paste and replace the welcomehead.96.png in folder Windows, make a soft reset.
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May be WE can all put some more Splash Screen, so we will have a collection eventually...
Just a thought
Nadavi..

great idea
Nadavi said:
May be WE can all put some more Splash Screen, so we will have a collection eventually...
Just a thought
Nadavi..
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Great Idea mate we should start a thread based on all custom splash screens who knows the cooks might even used some of them soon.

????????
How do you run bmp converter? Not work for me!

I get 240 file eroor when trying to flash it to my tytn2.

Optical Illusion Splash Screens
Some optical illusions:

Animated?
Since the image is in .png format is it safe to assume that we can NOT load an animated splash screen??.. Also does flashing via the steps in the first post accomplishes the same as replacing the welcomhead.96.png manually??
Thank you..

jadehawk: you are correct that the welcomehead.96.png is non-animated, if you create an animated .gif and rename it to .png it may work in some programs that read inside the file for the relevant code to know how to display it but most programs including the wm6 bootup hook will not display it how it should so don't bother
Just to clarify that the original post by pof is "THE ONLY WAY" at present to replace the splash screen on initial boot of the phone, the welcomehead.96.png usage is on windows boot (some people have a 3rd animated .gif in between the 2, but this doesn't work on all models even with the registry entries in place, i have tried on my T-Mobile).
hope that helps.
Russ

Thank you
Great thank you for clearing that out.. for now I am just happy replacing the animated.gif file in the windows folder with something other than the HTC animated one.. I have tried to make my own ROM using the kaiser kitchen but so far It has never worked at least not like the really simple tutorials I have found here.. still waiting for a better tutorial with screenshots and all.. so far i will stick with the ones I get from here and use the sprite backup to restore the applications I want loaded in the ROM.. thank you

Hey
when i try to instal
the 3 files u said
a window pops up & says
not a wm appliction
can u help
pof said:
Instructions for flashing custom splash screens on HTC Kaiser:
1. Install HardSPL.
2. Create a BMP file in paint, size must be 240x320, save it as BMP 24bit.
3. Download SplashTool
4. Load your BMP on nb_image_converter (included in SplashTool's zip) and save it as splash.nb
5. Open SplashTool.exe and convert splash.nb to new format.
6. Pack the resulting splash.nb into a NBH file using htc rom tool.
7. Flash your cusotm NBH using CustomRUU.
Enjoy your new splash screen!
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freeborock said:
How do you run bmp converter? Not work for me!
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find the missing ocx file (windows search) and put it in the same folder

Deathace said:
jadehawk: you are correct that the welcomehead.96.png is non-animated, if you create an animated .gif and rename it to .png it may work in some programs that read inside the file for the relevant code to know how to display it but most programs including the wm6 bootup hook will not display it how it should so don't bother
Just to clarify that the original post by pof is "THE ONLY WAY" at present to replace the splash screen on initial boot of the phone, the welcomehead.96.png usage is on windows boot (some people have a 3rd animated .gif in between the 2, but this doesn't work on all models even with the registry entries in place, i have tried on my T-Mobile).
hope that helps.
Russ
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thank you for your help

Thank you very much. i put my business card on the splash screen. phone is well protected now
thank you again

anyone care to share their customize splash screen?

S200 customizations

Hey guys, i wanted to add some customizations for boot screen and icons also. Hope you like it. For boot screen, just replace this files with the ones inside the windows folder. Thanks to emse_186 for his nice work

If you want animation, use the file in below link instead of the one in the first post
http://www.4shared.com/dir/p3EzMQpP/sharing.html

i put the file from the second post in windows folder,and after restart nothing happens

Ombre1 said:
i put the file from the second post in windows folder,and after restart nothing happens
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don't just save the picture, download the file from the link above the picture and use it.

victor79 said:
don't just save the picture, download the file from the link above the picture and use it.
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yes,this is exactly what i make , but it doesnt work . "animated.gif" is in Windows folder but after restart-nothing appears

Ombre1 said:
yes,this is exactly what i make , but it doesnt work . "animated.gif" is in Windows folder but after restart-nothing appears
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Then, i think animation is disabled from registry. If you use any software for tweaking (bsb tweak, sktools etc.), you may check it if there is any option to enable boot animation.

I try with SKtools but nothing ,there is no option to on/off boot animation.maybe i need to rename the fail?!?or to install something?

I copied the animated.gif file to \Windows, and enabled animations in BSB Tweaks (I had disabled it before) but it is the standard animation that runs, not this one.
Which ROM did this animated.gif work on? Because perhaps there is a difference in how the different ROMs look for this file (I think, if it was already using animated.gif, then there should have been a prompt about overwriting the file)
/Sifaan

sifaan said:
I copied the animated.gif file to \Windows, and enabled animations in BSB Tweaks (I had disabled it before) but it is the standard animation that runs, not this one.
Which ROM did this animated.gif work on? Because perhaps there is a difference in how the different ROMs look for this file (I think, if it was already using animated.gif, then there should have been a prompt about overwriting the file)
/Sifaan
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Maybe animated.gif dont work with official roms?!?

Ombre1 said:
Maybe animated.gif dont work with official roms?!?
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I am using Arto's 2.8 21903; the default windows animation is working; but probably the file is embedded somewhere rather than being visible as animated.gif...
which ROM are you using?

3.003b.00.EN maybe this is the reason i cant use animations

I can use the animation but need to rename first. {startup480-800}. But for the first post image cannot be use because the size is wrong, should be 480x800 not 384x680

Hey guys !!!
use JWMD icon changer !
in program
menu>bonus features>change animated bootscreen

Animated bootscreen with sound
I m using this thing. It changes bootscreen to the animated WITH SOUND! (sound like Windows 7 PC logon). All thanks to the Xakep from acer - club . ru [i still can't post links, it's moderator's fail , so i used spaces here], it is his job.
Forum doesn't able to show .gif files, so u can find it here (dont forget to delete all spaces):
h t t p : / / s48 . radikal . ru / i122 / 1006 / 6a / 0cfa0d4e290e . gif

[TG01 STARTUP UPDATED 06.01.2011] Windows Phone customized for TG01 (colours!)

After seeing quite a few I <3 Windows Phone themes, I thought we should have something for TG01
So, created some!
EDIT 1:NEW COLOURS ADDED NOW
EDIT 2:LET ME KNOW IF YOU WANT YOUR NAME ADDED TO THE START UP SCREEN - WILL DO INDIVIDUAL CUSTOMIZATION!
EDIT 3:Animated Splash Screen NOW cooked and available with miROM10 (Thanks to mirolg) - Download new super fast, stable ROM with animated start up here
EDIT 4:NEW!!!SLOW ANIMATED VERSION OF YOUR SPLASH SCREEN (animated.gif in attached zip)
EDIT 5:NEW IN 2011 !!NOW PACK COMES WITH 8 START UP SCREENS AND 3 ANIMATED SPLASH SCREENS
EDIT 6:NOW SPECIAL CUSTOMISED SPLASH SCREEN FOR ALL YOU miROM LOVERS
Coming soon! - 2 More animated splash screens in fresh new colours!!
The list of files in upload:
3 animated splash screens
8 still start up screens
I have tested ALL screens and they look cool on WinMo
Requests, Comments, Suggestions are welcome!
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How to change the Start Up screen
Choose the file you fancy, rename it to welcomehead.192 and copy it to /windows folder on your device. Restart, Enjoy!
All files are in .png format and if you copy them as it is and just rename them to welcomehead.192, it should work. Please let me know if it doesn't
How to change Splash screen
a) I have also made an animated .gif file if your ROM has a splash screen, you could replace it.
Splash Screen will ONLY work if your ROM already has a splash screen cooked into it. If you are using a custom ROM where splash screen has been removed, then you can't use the animated screen. If you try to install, you won't see any change! Don't worry, it won't brick your phone!
in HKLM\Software\Toshiba\StartupAnimation:
Enabled (DWord) : 1
GIFFile (String) : \windows\animated.gif
Change the one in BLUE to the WM_animated.gif, so that new animation file will be used instead of default 'animated.gif'

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jeeeah, well done, maestro. looks very gooood!
..ps. i have more as 5x tnx buttons is a xda bug

mirolg said:
jeeeah, well done, maestro. looks very gooood!
..ps. i have more as 5x tnx buttons is a xda bug
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HAHA!
That's no problem at all, we will write feedback to XDA on the thread and ask them to provide more thanks per day
Miro, if possible, can you please test the animated splash screen on tg01? I can't. I think in your ROM you have removed the splash screen. If I get feedback and suggestions, I am ready to bang out some more of these babies

ha, tnx, again (i find 5x tnx per day is not enough)
yes, no prob. i will test it and i will make a cab with enabling htc animation!

mirolg said:
ha, tnx, again (i find 5x tnx per day is not enough)
yes, no prob. i will test it and i will make a cab with enabling htc animation!
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thanks a lot miro for helping with feedback n cab

love Miro's ROMs with drupad2drupad's start up screen!
currently miROM 8 with your new startup screen. thanks a lot!

drupad2drupad said:
thanks a lot miro for helping with feedback n cab
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the standard name is animated.gif pls. rename bevor
the speed of the animated Icons is to high- i think a good value is half from actual speed.
to test: stonROM has enabeld the animated function
(my cab not works . when i cooked in works fine)

drupad2drupad said:
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How to change the Start Up screen
Choose the file you fancy, rename it to welcomehead.192 and copy it to /windows folder on your device. Restart, Enjoy!
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It not work om my TG01? I'm with original Orange ROM.
Where I made a mistake?
I choose ".jpg file with 480x800x24 BPP with changed name to welcomehead.192 . I put the file to windows folder on my TG01. After restart, nothing changed.

kapitango said:
It not work om my TG01? I'm with original Orange ROM.
Where I made a mistake?
I choose ".jpg file with 480x800x24 BPP with changed name to welcomehead.192 . I put the file to windows folder on my TG01. After restart, nothing changed.
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in my case I renamed the file to welcomehead.192.png and then it should work.
good luck!

mirolg said:
the standard name is animated.gif pls. rename bevor
the speed of the animated Icons is to high- i think a good value is half from actual speed.
to test: stonROM has enabeld the animated function
(my cab not works . when i cooked in works fine)
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Thanks Miro!
I will rename it as well as put it in first post so before install it can be changed.
I will try to flash stonROM tomorrow and see if it works.
Also will put in first post so everyone knows that it will only work on ROMs where splash screen is cooked in!
Thanks a lot for the help my friend

kapitango said:
It not work om my TG01? I'm with original Orange ROM.
Where I made a mistake?
I choose ".jpg file with 480x800x24 BPP with changed name to welcomehead.192 . I put the file to windows folder on my TG01. After restart, nothing changed.
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gghiq said:
in my case I renamed the file to welcomehead.192.png and then it should work.
good luck!
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Try changing the name to welcomehead.192.png and it should work. All the files I have updated should be in .png format
WinMo will only use the file if it's in .png format.

Thanks drupad2drupad, welcomehead.192.png is the right name.
But I can't replace the existing file, how I can change the permitions?

kapitango said:
Thanks drupad2drupad, welcomehead.192.png is the right name.
But I can't replace the existing file, how I can change the permitions?
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u can use an external file explorer like Resco file explorer. In properties of file, untick system and hidden. Once u have replaced the file simply put the ticks back for new file. Hope this helps

Thank You again drupad2drupad.

kapitango said:
Thank You again drupad2drupad.
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No problem at all Hope you enjoy the start up screen and can show you love for WinMo on your TG01
PS: Please let me know if you were able to successfully use animated start up screen as well

I failure to use animated start up screen.
I'm still amateur in WM customizing.
Now i study the possibility of SKTools.
PS. Now in the start of my TG1 at first display Orange screen and after that show my screen. Is it posible to exchange this Orange screen wih onother my screen?

kapitango said:
I failure to use animated start up screen.
I'm still amateur in WM customizing.
Now i study the possibility of SKTools.
PS. Now in the start of my TG1 at first display Orange screen and after that show my screen. Is it posible to exchange this Orange screen wih onother my screen?
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You should be able to replace Orange splash screen with animated.gif - animated WM screen in the first post. You need a registry editor like Resco registry editor or total commander in order to make the registry changes I mentioned in first post.

Aha, now I understand. I'll try again wit WM_animated.gif from your first post.

Splash screens.

I tried to use splash flasher to flash some screens but on boot the image is scrambled?

{LCD}Stelios said:
I tried to use splash flasher to flash some screens but on boot the image is scrambled?
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Are you use a right 24 bit bmp format?

Tried ones that I had on my DHD.

Had the same problem; Here's a quick how to:
Make sure your image is sized as 540x960 (so you'll lose a bit off of the sides, since the aspect ratio is different vs. the usual 480x800 that many HTC devices have been).
Use the 2nd option of SplashFlasher 1.0 to convert the PNG you have to custom.img. Ignore the warning that says the file should be a certain resolution.
Take the custom.img file and copy it into your fastboot directory. Rename it to new_splash.img
do this:
adb reboot bootloader
fastboot flash splash1 new_splash.img
fastboot reboot
(credit to jbrew78 at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1171290)
You should be all set! For some reason, the splashing from splashflasher doesn't work with our devices, but it's converting tool is the easiest for me.
This is my first attempt at a how to, so please let me know if there's anything I could help clarify, or if it doesn't work/what step you get stuck on.
Hope it helps!

Cheers for that bud, yeah the tool is handy it is a shame that it doesn't work with the Sensation. Just need to find out what I have messed up with the bootanimation now.
I put a new one in and now I can't work out how to do it again lol?
And that was really easy to follow and helpful thanks.

i use this way and it works
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1194690

Custom Boot / splash screen creator for HTC Mega

Boot / splash screen is the image that appears when you turning on your device.
1. Select 240 x 320 bmp image
2. Run nbimg.exe with parameter -F yourfile.bmp
3. The program creates new file named yourfile.nb
4. Copy yourfile.nb in NBHUtil directory
5. Run NBHUtil.exe, Select target device - Touch2, For Splash - select yourfile.nb, Build NBH!
6. Copy the created file yourfile.nbh to Radio RomUpdateUtility directory
7. Run ROMUpdateUtility.exe and flash your device
PLEASE NOTE! BACKUP YOUR DATA FIRST, BECAUSE IT IS POSSIBLE TO CAUSE HARD RESET!
Using NBHUtil.exe you can also add your custom splash screen to your fav. ROM.

Could you post pictures of your splash screen on your phone or screnshot of the software please?

psgarsenal said:
Could you post pictures of your splash screen on your phone or screnshot of the software please?
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Here you are a screen shot, but really can´t understand why you need it. There are a lot of threads about the splash screen also i´m using well know tools.

I just wanted to saw which screen you were talking about.
Send from my Xperia play

Run nbimg.exe with parameter -F yourfile.bmp
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How? On computer or telephone?

codesign9 said:
How? On computer or telephone?
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you have to cook the splash .nbh on your pc

works fine
it works fine thank you

I was talking of the phone 's screen
Send from my Xperia play