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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.
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.
junkmantis said:
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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edbutler said:
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...
Kosta88 said:
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.
m.carroll said:
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...
Hello guys.
I searched a lot on forum, but I cannot find a way to delete the orange screen with windows logo after the htc splash screen (or whatever image if you installed something else instead of htc one)... I mean: is it built in rom? I tried to change it with totalcommander using a different image and renaming it, but the original one is always present...
someone knows what to do?!?
thx
have you seen this?
of course.
and I am not talking about the first splash screen, but the second one. Try to cancel or edit the windows logo image... not possible for me
JWMD icon changer
its very easy without flashing your rom.....................
download (JWMD icon changer) someone had posted it here or you can google it. in options there is bonus feature options where you can change your animated screen even you can change windows default screen its.. easy and you dont have to flash your rom.
i hopt it will work, i have tried on my own device.
I thank you so much for the reply, mate.
It is exactly what I was looking for. Now I am searching the app and I am going to try. I hope it works...
PERFECT!
THX A LOT!
A taste- still working on some banding in the images after the resize, once it is fully optimized I'm going to let you guys have it (and it will be finding a home in a custom ROM near you..).
http://youtu.be/Wpa4mVk29fk
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"Sorry, the page that you requested cannot be found. Try searching for something else."
Anyways how did you figure out the crashing issue? And what was the solution?
mrevankyle said:
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Anyways how did you figure out the crashing issue? And what was the solution?
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Ah, my bad..and I still haven't figured out that particular animation..working on it still, think I will run the images through a resizer..
The link should work now- OP edited..
Ohhh......nice job.
Sent from my HTC_Amaze_4G using xda premium
???
I can't understand what it is.
i like looks pretty cool. i want to figure out how to add boot sounds. is it as simple as adding a "oog" or similar , that would be really awesome with an electrical type sound
DroidRevenge said:
I can't understand what it is.
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It's like transformer-ish metal plates sliding together with a jet-engine 'eye' spinning up in the middle..
The hard part was getting the bootloader screen no screen cap for that
Me and Sharpe are working on a nice theme for his upcoming ROM release (not spilling the beans I hope Sharpe?? ) so this is a teaser..the theme should work for all versions..this is just the boot animation for it..
Going to release this as a raw bootanimation.zip file here in the OP once I get it just right
Hey luna_c666 , any chance of sharing the bootloader screen ? . I wanna incorporate that into my next boot animation
I have the three bootsplash images but getting them in just the right position on a black background will do my head in lol.
Happydondavid said:
Hey luna_c666 , any chance of sharing the bootloader screen ? . I wanna incorporate that into my next boot animation
I have the three bootsplash images but getting them in just the right position on a black background will do my head in lol.
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Sure just credit me because you are right it was a bit of a pain to reconstruct with accuracy..
Good job. In the future, you might find it easier to simply create a .gif from all the .png files and put that in your initial post as opposed to a youtube video.
fone_fanatic said:
Good job. In the future, you might find it easier to simply create a .gif from all the .png files and put that in your initial post as opposed to a youtube video.
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Yeah, this was just a test of one of many versions I made, and I made the vid for someone I am working with in development of a custom ROM, and, I also was asked to show a friend over facebook. The youtube video of my test bootanimtation booting on my own TF solved all three of these demands
Also, since it isn't the final version I didn't want to create a gif for it just yet.
Wanted to bump this, let you guys know that it's coming along, I am trying to optimize the images so they won't band so badly before I release it, but in the meantime I have a teaser of a new theme (and more to come of this theme's variants) for the TF101..I've put a good deal of time into it, so I figured I would share a glimpse or two So far I've skinned the notifications bar, buttons, quick panel and some of the random status bar icons (like micro SD, SD, and HDD icons etc.). More to come!
So in my quest to make the phone more unique after rooting, I was EXTREMELY tired (after 4 days of ownership) tired of the stupid sprint sound and logo both before and after shutdown...
I found a thread where someone has the normal Samsung boot animation and right before I was about to install the 3 files into system\media. I took note of something.
We have multiple boot screens by default (or at least my Sprint phone does)
Ours are indicated by the SPR_bootfilename.
You can see the stock Samsung boot images.
Then I had BST, crypt, VMU, XAS...etc
So I first labeled all the SPR_bootsamsung images .bak hoping they would not then run, and in fact they did not. The stupid yellow spring flag logo went away and it just showed the fading sprint.
I then looked at the following and you can see where I was testing the file names and changed somethings.
VMU, is the Virgin Mobile boot screen.
BST has some super bright orange screen that says LTE.
Crypt has a really simple but cool green lock that has a circle spinning around it.
XAS didn't have anything and just defaulted to the Samsung boot.
I deleted the VMU and BST. Thinking I might run the crypt because it's super simple and clean looking.
My one question is that by default if I label anything SPR_ it will run that first, where should I look to change the script so that it would just run look at the normal Samsung file name instead of the SPR_.
Apologies if this is super old news but I thought it was interesting to say the least.
Video showing Crypt boot screen:
https://youtu.be/MnrywcfraaY
-Nigel
theyre packaged in the ROM itself and i havent been on a stock ROM in so long, i wouldnt have the foggiest whats included in one. Id have to unpack a zip and look. but if there are several in there, its probably sprint being too lazy to remove the others but virgin and boost are both MVNOs for sprint, so it kinda makes sense as the S5s available from all 3 carriers are all G900Ps, which is what you have
NewShockerGuy said:
So in my quest to make the phone more unique after rooting, I was EXTREMELY tired (after 4 days of ownership) tired of the stupid sprint sound and logo both before and after shutdown...
I found a thread where someone has the normal Samsung boot animation and right before I was about to install the 3 files into system\media. I took note of something.
We have multiple boot screens by default (or at least my Sprint phone does)
Ours are indicated by the SPR_bootfilename.
You can see the stock Samsung boot images.
Then I had BST, crypt, VMU, XAS...etc
So I first labeled all the SPR_bootsamsung images .bak hoping they would not then run, and in fact they did not. The stupid yellow spring flag logo went away and it just showed the fading sprint.
I then looked at the following and you can see where I was testing the file names and changed somethings.
VMU, is the Virgin Mobile boot screen.
BST has some super bright orange screen that says LTE.
Crypt has a really simple but cool green lock that has a circle spinning around it.
XAS didn't have anything and just defaulted to the Samsung boot.
I deleted the VMU and BST. Thinking I might run the crypt because it's super simple and clean looking.
My one question is that by default if I label anything SPR_ it will run that first, where should I look to change the script so that it would just run look at the normal Samsung file name instead of the SPR_.
Apologies if this is super old news but I thought it was interesting to say the least.
-Nigel
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I have to thank you for the post! I renamed the SPR files with ".bak" and the boot is faster, dimmer, and quieter. Thank you!
How did you view the other animations?
tofudisan said:
I have to thank you for the post! I renamed the SPR files with ".bak" and the boot is faster, dimmer, and quieter. Thank you!
How did you view the other animations?
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if you want some flavor choices, youre in luck! Many people make their own boot animations and some of them are pretty dang sweet!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/themes-apps/bootanimations-samsung-galaxy-s5-bios-t2800820
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/themes-apps/galaxy-s7-boot-animation-t3324518
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/themes-apps/boot-animations-watchdogs-android-n-t3410400
heres a few links with some animations for ya. Ive seen tons more in the past. Sports teams themed, cars, bikes, babes, bands, android vs apple. The list goes on and on. Just takes some googleing and many of them are flashable in recovery
tofudisan said:
I have to thank you for the post! I renamed the SPR files with ".bak" and the boot is faster, dimmer, and quieter. Thank you!
How did you view the other animations?
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No problem. I couldn't stand the stupid sprint logo because the phone would be dark, then a BRIGHT WHITE sprint yellow flag would show, which was blinding at night. I just did the above to disable them.
However to view the other ones simply add SPR_ to the front of them.
So for instance the crypt_bootsamsungloop.qmg should be renamed to SPR_bootsamsungloop.qmg.
Then just restart the phone and you will see the animation. If you like it, keep it, if not, just rename it back to the crypt*or whatever it was and you're done.
I deleted the factory SPR_ boot animations since I will never use those. I also deleted the Virgin mobile, XAS. They took up space so figured why need them.. Both the Virgin and the Sprint were something like 4mb each which is ridic.
I like the crypt though the more I look at it. Super simple, and doesn't tell you what the rom, or phone is which is cool. Very simple. I had someone with the same phone (who's had theirs for a couple years now) ask wait what is that? my phone doesn't do that..lol
-Nigel
Here is the video I made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnrywcfraaY
-Nigel