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Android Forums, get it working on your HTC

Hi!
Ive just set up a simple forum after finally getting Android to run on my Touch Dual. I thought i would just spread the word, because on the forum you can find posts with specific files and instructions to get Android to boot on various HTC Devices.
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I know this would have saved me a lot of frustration when I was trying to get Android to work, as I struggled to find the right files for my device. Hopefully it will be just as helpfull for others!
CHeers!

any chance at that Android will work on my Eten M600?

Never seen that phone before..
Judging from specifications, Im guessing it is rather old? Il try to dig a bit and see what I can find

Untouchab1e said:
Never seen that phone before..
Judging from specifications, Im guessing it is rather old? Il try to dig a bit and see what I can find
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Yea, its kinda old, im waiting for the SE X1 to upgrade. And I appreciate you taking a look for me, I'll also doing some digging of my own

Your best bet would be to try to get hold of the zImage known to work on a similar phone. Il let you know if I find something that should work.
In the meantime, why dont you give the Android Emulator a go?

Thanks for the heads up. BTW, I tried the Touch version from your forum and it loaded into a black screen with some really small text, the text was something like:
shutting down device
loading linux
.......
.......

Sadly, I would guess you need a different zImage then

It does something but after the Linux boot thingy, I just get a white screen and nothing more. HTC Touch with Shadow 2.1 rom.

Checked out this post?
If it still doesnt work, I guess its the rom thats making it difficult!

I've tried it on the Universal with the zImage for openmoko but after haret finished loading, the screen wipes out and I get a great big vibration going forever till I soft-reset.

At&t World 1st boot screen

im new this modding but not new to design, i had a boot screen that I couldn't seem to get rid of so i had to make my own and it turned out so nice i decide to share it with all of y'all lol
I do plan on making more and even try to do some live wallpaper..... (once i figure that out lol)
thanks

something wrong with archive file it doesnot extract

GTX Boot Splash Screen + Requests being taken.

I created a GTX boot splash and decided to share it in the ✰✰✰✰ Everything GTX ✰✰✰✰ thread. Since it was made for the HD2 I thought I would reference it here. The direct post is HERE
I will take any requests for boot splash screens GTX style or not if you upload a 480 x 800 image for me I will create the NBH.

take it theres nobody interested in a custom boot splash screen?

I'm fine thanks, but on a completely unrelated question... What was ****e about the k750i? I kinda loved Sony Ericssons back then, and I used that phone a lot. On days when my HD2 annoys me, I sometimes think back to it

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I'm fine thanks, but on a completely unrelated question... What was ****e about the k750i? I kinda loved Sony Ericssons back then, and I used that phone a lot. On days when my HD2 annoys me, I sometimes think back to it
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It was ok at first like most SEs but then the problems. The d-pad stick became really un responsive, I had to really mash it to get it to select a word while texting. One day the keypad seemed to completely 're-wire' itself as in my phone crashed one day and when I went to type in my PIN code random things like 1 went to the right and 6 deleted backwords in other words it ended up blocking my SIM card. Then after I got my PUK code started working again. Then few weeks later it died completely. Im not having SEs ever again. My wife had a w810i that randomly died. When I learnt about flashing etc I managed t fix her c902 when it randomly lost its entire file structure. Have had t do the same to a friends c902 and again for someones c905. I find they just seem to destroy themselves in general SEs.
By far the best phone (or at least my fondest memories) are of the Nokia 7610. Amazing phone and it had multi tasking which i really missed with the SE. Rant over

Haha thanks for the reply, wow that sounds like a bad build of phone. I found mine (I went through about four of that generation) got battered after about a year but generally held up, and I lovd their music players and cameras, although not much else However they were still my favourite type of phones until the HD/HD2 came out - I'm still not a giant fan of typing on touchscreens, although I think that's down to the HD2's particularly awful out-of-the-box texting client. (I can't stand iPhones, but if I touch one I always open the keyboard and find I can rattle along with no problems)

I'm interested in an alternative boot screen... however haven't a clue what I want as yet lol

nutmegy said:
I'm interested in an alternative boot screen... however haven't a clue what I want as yet lol
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Well let me know when you decide. U sound like my wife not knowing what ya want LOL

Im looking for a new slash screen...so intrested in this.
Keep it plain and simple!
Maybe remove the GTX (but keep the styling?)

fracmo2000 said:
Im looking for a new slash screen...so intrested in this.
Keep it plain and simple!
Maybe remove the GTX (but keep the styling?)
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I'm not the worlds best with a graphics editor but i will try. i was mainly just going to convert existing images into nbh's. However what are you after? the same as the one i have done without the GTX logo? what colours do you want background and text. if you have an image already post it here and i can convert it.

[Q] Location of Nexus S Boot Splash Image?

What is the location of the Nexus S Boot image? i.e. On startup the picture with all black that says "Google" on it.
Looking for the location of this image.
Also if anyone knows the method of going about changing it.
All help is appreciated thank you.

I don't believe it's on the /system partition; I looked for it extensively a couple of weeks ago. I'm pretty sure it's in the kernel boot image.
I don't have the skills yet to extract stuff from the bootloader. If you do, that's where you should be looking.

Thank's for the reply. I feared it might be that way. hmmm. Looks like I need to learn a thing or two If I want a custom image

there was another topic about this
and in the SNS it is not a series of PNG images as in the other
AOS phones, instead it's a video clip

AllGamer said:
there was another topic about this
and in the SNS it is not a series of PNG images as in the other
AOS phones, instead it's a video clip
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He's not talking about the startup animation that you see on a normal boot.
He's talking about the very first bootup screen you see when you turn the phone on; the one that is just the word Google on a black background. This one shows no matter what you're booting into. It's not part of the animation you're referring to. I've opened that and checked, and I posted it in the other thread where a guy was asking for the boot animation, but was actually looking for the Google word one.

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He's not talking about the startup animation that you see on a normal boot.
He's talking about the very first bootup screen you see when you turn the phone on; the one that is just the word Google on a black background. This one shows no matter what you're booting into. It's not part of the animation you're referring to. I've opened that and checked, and I posted it in the other thread where a guy was asking for the boot animation, but was actually looking for the Google word one.
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Correct. I have a personal picture I made on my G1 a while back that I wanted to make for my Nexus S, but at the moment, the Team Whiskey splash screen is on it, and I don't much care for it. So I'm looking for a way to change that. The splash image came with the 1.4GHz kernal.

uhhhhhhhh... i'll be interested in the location of that too
to upload my own pic
so distortedloop , mind sharing the location?
i'd like to play around with that too

Had I more knowledge on the subject of building kernels, i'd be more then willing to tackle it, but alas, I have no knowledge on the subject.
Wonder how difficult it is to grasp...I'd like to try building my own kernel.

AllGamer said:
uhhhhhhhh... i'll be interested in the location of that too
to upload my own pic
so distortedloop , mind sharing the location?
i'd like to play around with that too
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I don't know where in the boot image it is, but I'm 99% certain it's not in the regular ROM space we can get with a file explorer. I asked the famous supercurio what he thought, and he said he's never looked for it but agrees it's probably in the bootloader. He said he'll try to remember to check it out if he remembers.
@SpartusTana - if Team Whiskey's replaced it, they must know the location! Maybe ask them for the location, and/or a rip of it for the guy who's looking for it to port to another phone (in another thread here).

That's a healthy idea. I'll try hoping over to their IRC to see if anyone has the knowledge of it.
Any idea on the guy's name who is working on the port? I'd much like to get in touch with him.

Also, it looks like they're doing this on HTC devices via fastboot.
Personally, I wouldn't muck with it on my phone, but the really intrepid might be willing to read the tutorial here and try it out on our Nexus S...
edit: actually probably won't work, they're mentioning using an "engineering bootloader"...

that's for the info
well, in the worse case scenario, we just need to re-flash the ROM in CW

AllGamer said:
that's for the info
well, in the worse case scenario, we just need to re-flash the ROM in CW
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If you mess up your bootloader, you might not be able to get into CW, right? That's my fear.

Yah it doesn't appear as though it will work but thank you for looking into it.
@distortedloop You're correct on that. There's no real seperate button combination to bypass the bootloader to get into the recovery. So if the bootloader got screwed up...you'd screw yourself right back. I am wholy against messing with the bootloader haha.

sorry for requesting in this old thread. but is there any progress on this? really want to change that splash...

It is possible I have done it with the second stage Bootloader... The first stage is still google with the unlock.
If you speak Japanese This may be of some help to you.
http://creamsnexus.blogspot.com/2011/02/change-nexus-ss-boot-splash-image.html

Custom Boot for Netgear 815s Impossible?!?!?

Hey! As you might assume, I'm trying to install a custom boot for the Netgear 815S. Why? Well, I'm currently using them in my company and would like to have them with a custom boot because we're on the verge of renting them to other people. I'd be a great thing to change the boot to our logo. Maybe even the UI itself. Obviously that's tampering with the device, but we don't really care since they're ours, not ATTs. Anyone have an idea? I'd start with the update file but it seems that the device downloads it directly. So, having little experience editing device files, I'm coming blank on how to do this. Little help? I'd appreciate it. Maybe a good donation if I see it possible.
Thank you!