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I found the image ms_screen320.png that I thought was the start up screen, looks the same, the green BG with D.P.T. and windows logo on it. I wanted to change it so I replaced it with my own image I made, same name, same png file. But it still shows the old one when I start up. in the same folder (windows) there is one titled ms_splash.png that is the other screen orientation (not lanscape). Does anyone know if changing that one will do it? Or am I barking up the wrong tree?
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didn't change it, same start upscreen
hi, if u replace HTC_LogoImg_320x240 it will change the shout down screen and start up screen but the start up screen will be changed only after the orginal splash anyway.
in ur case the start up and shut down screen my be different you can check them by looking in registry here
HKEY_local_machine/system/shoutdown or startup - it give you the name of the files.
let me know if u managed to change it !
cudo
That points towards oemstartup.dll on start and shutdown. I don't see anything about an image at all. I don't have HTC_LogoImg_320x240 so it must not be on the dash. i wonder if its just one of those things that can't be changed..
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That points towards oemstartup.dll on start and shutdown. I don't see anything about an image at all. I don't have HTC_LogoImg_320x240 so it must not be on the dash. i wonder if its just one of those things that can't be changed..
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i am running htc s620 rom so it might be the case ! in ur case you need to extract the files from dll and put new and dont ask how to do it cos i got no clue !
cudo
lol, I'll look around and see what i can find. If I find anything I'll post.
well ,did you find anything.You didnt post back.Ive been looking also as I to have extracted the splash screen but mine is called ms_splash.Im having the same problem and would like to figure this out.Thanks and sorry if this has been covered else where
Hi i am new here, just got my kaiser and i wanted to customize my splash screen because i flashed a ROM. It took me like 2 days to search through this forum and did everything. I have to say that the information is quite scattered. i am sure a lot of the new guys will have the same problems.
So I decide to contribute my first post to the newbies like me.
BTW i use vista ultimate 64bit, windows mobile center. which seem like there are a lot of compatibility issues.
Okay, so first Boot Screen, Splash Animation and Splash Screen are 3 different things. the order come to the screen is : boot screen (default as "smart mobility" for HTC), then splash animation (default is animation for HTC or operator), then splash screen (default is windows mobile x.x)
Lets work backwards,
Splash Screen
Fairly easy, the image is in \windows\welcomehead.96.png, this folder is not visible on the phone browser on my computer but i can see it with my file explorer on the phone. I made a png and cut then paste it. then i found out the file cannot be replaced somehow (depends on ROM?).
so i looked around, it seems like there are 2 solutions: resco explorer or edit the registry, I have a registry editor so i picked that solution. first i changed my image name to welcome2008.png and uploaded to \windows\ . Then Edit \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\SPLASH SCREEN there are 2 image urls, not sure the difference, but i changed both to \windows\welcome2008.png,
soft reset! wala!!
Splash Animation
Took me a while. the animation is in \windows\animated.gif so I made a gif with flash. but the frame rate seems not right. then i realized the IE is bad in displaying gifs, it looks fine in firefox.
I uploaded to the the phone, cut and paste to \windows\, cannot be replaced the original file again. so i change the file name to animated2.gif, Edit \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HTC\STARTUPANIAMATION change the giffile to "\windows\animated2.gif"
soft reset! bingo!!
later on i also changed another field there called WavFile, so my startup has sound too... SO COOL!
more animation here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=336174
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=414418&highlight=splash
Boot Screen
Took me the longest, first look through:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=334907&highlight=kaiser+splash
Download SplashTool, nb_image_converter, customRUU, and htc rom tool.
follow the instruction, i made a bmp and converted it into a nice splash.nb. ran the HTC rom tool, ERROR
error: File "htcrt.info" is CORRPTED. This is the license policy violation! Halting
checked the forum, seems like a lot of people have problem with HTC Rom Tool. so i flipped through google and somehow found this NBHUtil on this forum that also make rom. i attached it in this post.
run NBHUtil, choose Kaiser as device, pick splash.nb in Splash file, LEAVE EVERYTHING ELSE DEFAULT... Build NBH. yay, finally got a splash.nbh,
now what??
Change the nbh name to "ruu_signed.nbh", run CustomRUU, similar steps as you are flashing the ROM
some nervous selections, a bit scared to turn my phone into a brick. but...
IT WORKED !!!
anyhow, hope this post can help some of the newbies.
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Hi i am new here, just got my kaiser and i wanted to customize my splash screen because i flashed a ROM. It took me like 2 days to search through this forum and did everything. I have to say that the information is quite scattered. i am sure a lot of the new guys will have the same problems.
You maybe are not using the search tools correctly there is a little thing called XDA-WiKi go there and there is all the information you will need. I could give you the link but then you won't learn how to find anything and tomorrow you'll be back asking someone how to change your boot sound. You know you can search GOOGLE and they will bring right back to XDA for what your looking for. You say you been looking for 2 days then your not digging in the right place or using the right tool. It took me 10 key strokes to get what your asking for. So I hope you take my advice you have set yourself up for a flame here by asking this kind of question. I have tried to help you but don't be surprised if you get flamed!
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You maybe are not using the search tools correctly there is a little thing called XDA-WiKi go there and there is all the information you will need. I could give you the link but then you won't learn how to find anything and tomorrow you'll be back asking someone how to change your boot sound. You know you can search GOOGLE and they will bring right back to XDA for what your looking for. You say you been looking for 2 days then your not digging in the right place or using the right tool. It took me 10 key strokes to get what your asking for. So I hope you take my advice you have set yourself up for a flame here by asking this kind of question. I have tried to help you but don't be surprised if you get flamed!
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you mean like this:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?auto_redirect=1&pagename=TitleSearch&s=splash
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?auto_redirect=1&pagename=TitleSearch&s=boot+screen
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?auto_redirect=1&pagename=TitleSearch&s=kaiser+splash
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=FullTextSearch&s=customize+splash
Thanks for your summary of this scattered information!
no problem
thanks junkmantis, i changed my animation. but when i tried to add the sound, i just got a really sharp noise instead of my sound effect. what did i do wrong?
Cheers dude, new here too and it's a;ways nice to read a 'summary' post.
still cannot get my splash sound to work, anyone knows the problem??
thanks in advance!!
Great post. Quick correction: the registry entry for the splash screen should be corrected
From:
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MICROSOFT\SPLASH SCREEN
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\SPLASH SCREEN
thanks peterfnet for the correction,
kaiserbb001, i am not sure, maybe something to do with the wav format?? anyone else knows?
Use schap's new Advanced Config 3.0 and check to see if animation is enabled. Also, the .wav file must be in \Windows. You can also use Schap's Advanced Config 3.0 to browse and choose the .wav file that you want to use.
Did all of this great the only problem I have is that my initial boot screen shows and then it stays on there until windows loads so its not showing welcomehead at all anymore, same goes for if I turn the animated splash on it will just show where the animation stopped until windows loads and totally bypasses the welcomehead.
Hope this will get you in the right direction!!
http://tinyurl.com/bzz44r
lol I have been searching this site using the search function as well as the wikis nothing so far has worked thanks for the help tho
Hello,
so I want to change my SplashAnimation. You say that I must change the RegistryEntry because the animated.gif is Read-Only.
But I cant find \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\SPLASH SCREEN
Do you have an other idea how I will be find the entry? Or do you have an idea how i can delete the Tick to ReadOnly?
Thx 4 Help
PS: Sorry, my english is very bad, im twelve and from germany
kaiserbb001 said:
thanks junkmantis, i changed my animation. but when i tried to add the sound, i just got a really sharp noise instead of my sound effect. what did i do wrong?
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I've had my start wav sound do the same as yours ... and a "chipmunk" type fast sound play. I'm assuming the bitrate of my files isn't correct and I don't seem to be able to find the precise settings to create a wav to have it play properly. Can anyone supply this info please?
Hello,
Does anyone know how to change or customize the boot screen (the screen that comes up just after you turn on the device)?
Thanks!
Kosta
funnily enough, if you use the search button up on the right and search for splash screen you will find it.
One hint though, if you don't find it here, try looking in the diamond forum in the same way.....
Umm yeah, right.
On this forum, can't find anything, searched it pretty much with different keywords, and on Diamond, there are only splashes for Diamond. I would like to have the official "TouchPro" splash.
Schaps Advanced Configuration Tool lets you do it, there's an option for Splash Screen and you can browse the device and find an image to use.
That is right, it allows to change the splash screen for the windows, but it doesn't change the boot logo, which appears BEFORE the splash screen. That one I ment. I think that can only be changed through cooking...or am I wrong? I don't want to destroy my device doing something wrong...
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That is right, it allows to change the splash screen for the windows, but it doesn't change the boot logo, which appears BEFORE the splash screen. That one I ment. I think that can only be changed through cooking...or am I wrong? I don't want to destroy my device doing something wrong...
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Oh, my bad... I haven't actually used it so I wasn't sure what it was/wasn't able to change.
I don't actually have a Touch Pro, but on my old wizard you had to use the RUU to flash a nk.nbf that only had the splash screen in it. Apparently its actually stored in the ROM. I'll hunt around a bit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=431161
Please remember to use Google. Literally: i searched "touch pro splash screen" and the first link that came up had all the info you needed, including the default splash screen.
We are here to help you, but not to do your research for you. Use the Search Tool and Google, chances are your question has already been answered.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=431161
Please remember to use Google. Literally: i searched "touch pro splash screen" and the first link that came up had all the info you needed, including the default splash screen.
We are here to help you, but not to do your research for you. Use the Search Tool and Google, chances are your question has already been answered.
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Forget everything carroll just said, for $9 an hour I will do all of your research for you. Paypal is an accepted method of payment.
Black93300ZX said:
Forget everything carroll just said, for $9 an hour I will do all of your research for you. Paypal is an accepted method of payment.
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Haha! that is true, if the price is right, i'm sure some of us would troll around for you!
the first screen is built into the rom and is quite difficult to change
the spalsh screen is welcomehead96.png (or something)
Brendo said:
the first screen is built into the rom and is quite difficult to change
the spalsh screen is welcomehead96.png (or something)
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not that hard, the above link details the process and has tools to automate some of it.
Sorry to resurrect an old thread... and I am somewhat of a noob. Here goes- I have a Fuze and I want to get rid of the annoying 3g-Swoosh splash screen. I found the reg tweek to get rid of it and the sound, but I kinda wanted to try to make it something else. After reading this thread, I am not sure if this is right place to ask, as it seems there might have been an easier way... but at least I got here by using the search button.
Not too many options currently, a few splash screens, but other than the HTC Logo and 3G swoosh I do not know of many other replacements for the animated logo.
You can try searching in the HTC Universal forum and see if there are any other replacement animated.gif files.
Because of this lack of splashes and boot screens, I made myself fake BIOS / Boot Screen files to replace the images.
Which you can find here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467977
I found a few screens that replace the ATT 'World Phone' 1st screen. I am cool with keeping that. I am more interested in changing the animated /swoosh part and the immediatly following green screen. I remember it being pretty easy on my old 8525, but somehow this seems like a different ballgame altogether...
Before anyone tells me to use the wonderful search function...I have!
Now how can I change the start screen wallpaper and "Sense Starting" wallpapers. CHT does a killer job changing everything else! I have searched all day. Please help me change this annoying aspect of my wallpapers...Thanks in advance!
I have CHTE 1.8.5.1 and MIRI and DINIKs 17.4 ROM.
Philysubsailor said:
Before anyone tells me to use the wonderful search function...I have!
Now how can I change the start screen wallpaper and "Sense Starting" wallpapers. CHT does a killer job changing everything else! I have searched all day. Please help me change this annoying aspect of my wallpapers...Thanks in advance!
I have CHTE 1.8.5.1 and MIRI and DINIKs 17.4 ROM.
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by start screen do you mean the start menu? if so, at least on my rom, that is the same as the windows lock screen. change the lock screen and change the start menu.
for background pics i use hdwall...
or am i missing something?
Well first , in settings home set your wallpaper, this is the default wallpaper that shows under everything that is not sense, just to make sure ...
check the box to "Use this picture" and browse to the wallpaper you want ...
That is actually wallpaper, the other ones you are talking about are actually startup screens.
Which may be why you did not find what you were looking for ....
The very first(this is actually 2 but don't worry about it) startup screen is in the ROM and can only be changed with flashing ...
The next two the static and the animated can be changed various ways but the easiest is JWMD Icon changer has a extra that lets you change them....
hi i saw a threafd with different start up animations , i think you have to edit the windows folder
try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=625911
http://www.xda-developers.com/windows-mobile/jaguaralanis-boot-animations-now-for-the-hd2/
watcher64 said:
Well first , in settings home set your wallpaper, this is the default wallpaper that shows under everything that is not sense, just to make sure ...
check the box to "Use this picture" and browse to the wallpaper you want ...
That is actually wallpaper, the other ones you are talking about are actually startup screens.
Which may be why you did not find what you were looking for ....
The very first(this is actually 2 but don't worry about it) startup screen is in the ROM and can only be changed with flashing ...
The next two the static and the animated can be changed various ways but the easiest is JWMD Icon changer has a extra that lets you change them....
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THANK YOU BOTH SO VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!!! I finally got the "Start Menu" to change...
But then next thing I need to get done is after boot up the scrren at the top says "Starting Sense" and now this is what I need changed. I know how to alter the boot up screens, so is the "Starting Sense" screen another one that has to be flashed to be changed??
Once again thanks so much...Im 50% there!!
Philysubsailor said:
THANK YOU BOTH SO VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!!! I finally got the "Start Menu" to change...
But then next thing I need to get done is after boot up the scrren at the top says "Starting Sense" and now this is what I need changed. I know how to alter the boot up screens, so is the "Starting Sense" screen another one that has to be flashed to be changed??
Once again thanks so much...Im 50% there!!
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hmmm, for me these are all the same. the starting sense is the start menu is the lock screen. these are different for you? interesting...
ok so my launching sense screen is the same as my wallpaper matey
all i have changed are these
home tab portrait
all tabs
skin taskbar and soft bar
DONE!!!
Thanks for the help...
When I changed the Start>Home>"Use this Background" and did a soft reset it finally changed! Its working now and I thank everyone for their help.
Without XDA my HD2 would be very boring!
Hmmmm
I'm having the same issue actually. However, when I X the box to use wallpaper and tap "Browse" mine freezes and I have to soft reset.
Any ideas fellas?
hello all...i have a question...is there anyway to remove that orange windows screen when you start/tirn on your phone...i have an xda start up scrren bit only shows for like 2-3 seconds...so i want to get rid of the orangr one...any way...?...thanks in advance...
phordych05 said:
hello all...i have a question...is there anyway to remove that orange windows screen when you start/tirn on your phone...i have an xda start up scrren bit only shows for like 2-3 seconds...so i want to get rid of the orangr one...any way...?...thanks in advance...
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Yes that is Possible! Make a screen you want call ist welcomhead.png and copy it in the Windowsfolder on your device. Restart and ready.
Hope this helps!
would you mind posting that orange welcomehead? ive been trying to track it down.
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Yes that is Possible! Make a screen you want call ist welcomhead.png and copy it in the Windowsfolder on your device. Restart and ready.
Hope this helps!
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it does help...im goong to yry it out...my only problem is...that i was on some thread...i forgot to save ot...but it had xda start/splash screens...and like i said i used it...but it is a cab file...is there anyway if i gave you thos file...you could somehow get that file into the type of file i need to copy it into windows file to work...like take the placr of that orange screen...?...okease help...lol...tbanks i. advance...
p.s.theres the link...and im using the " WHITE ONE "...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884109
ericv99 said:
would you mind posting that orange welcomehead? ive been trying to track it down.
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when i changr it...i will copy and paste the file here...o.k....stay tuned...lol...
there are 3 screens at start up
1 splash screen whichyou change by flashing with a custom ruu
2 boot screen which is your welcomehead(this one is animated gif)
3 second boot welcomehead png
which one you trying to change?
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there are 3 screens at start up
1 splash screen whichyou change by flashing with a custom ruu
2 boot screen which is your welcomehead(this one is animated gif)
3 second boot welcomehead png
which one you trying to change?
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i am trying to change the very last screen...the orange windows screen...to the "animated white screen" shown in the link above
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i am trying to change the very last screen...the orange windows screen...to the "animated white screen" shown in the link above
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3rd screen isn't animated. only the 2nd.
look into the windows folder on device and search for the"welcomehead" .gif or"welcomehead192" .gif those should be the file yourtrying to change.
or well.png (on energy roms).
May I suggest the use of JWMD Icon Changer to change the animated.gif and welcomehead.png bootscreens?
With this app, you can even restore your original bootscreens, and it is very user-friendly.
michoob said:
May I suggest the use of JWMD Icon Changer to change the animated.gif and welcomehead.png bootscreens?
With this app, you can even restore your original bootscreens, and it is very user-friendly.
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i have that but don't really know how to use it...o use csmi...
With CSMI, you cannot change the bootscreen, but with JWMD Icon Changer, if you go to Menu -> Bonus Features -> Change Microsoft Bootscreen, you can then choose a .png picture to use instead of the orange windows splash screen .
But make sure to use welcomehead .png pictures that are designed for this. You will find many of them in this forum.