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
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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?
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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
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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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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?
My ATT Fuze does not have the animation when switching from tabs to tabs.
If you see here:
http://www.htc.com/www/product/touchpro/touchflo-3d.html
when it moves from one tab to the next, the screen falls back as if changing pages. Mine doesnt do that. Also, on the email page, mine doesnt hide the emails down or up, they just appear, no animation.
I swear, sometimes (most of the times) att just takes the phone out of everything.
HTC have taken this out in later builds to increase the speed when switching tabs in later roms.
I would be interested in enabling this to - should be possible if someone has the origional manila files.
Kris
I think the email bit works.. the down up works if you have more than one email accounts.. when you switch between two accounts the envelope rotates..
I am not sure if thats what you were referring to..
I think the animation is a bit different.. it was never the implementation.. I haven't seen any HTC touch Pro behaving like that..
Even when you see the demo video inside your TP, you'll notice they didn't have the animation the way it appears on the website.. I guess Sales People always show it off more than they can deliver IMHO..
lollonais said:
My ATT Fuze does not have the animation when switching from tabs to tabs.
If you see here:
http://www.htc.com/www/product/touchpro/touchflo-3d.html
when it moves from one tab to the next, the screen falls back as if changing pages. Mine doesnt do that. Also, on the email page, mine doesnt hide the emails down or up, they just appear, no animation.
I swear, sometimes (most of the times) att just takes the phone out of everything.
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your absolutely right, ATT definitely messed up the interface with their lameness, as usual...
There are skins on this forum, if you search around, that will provide you with those animations. Like others have said, they arent always 100%, they do make the phone feel laggier and sluggish. Also i havent found a skin that
has a working media library for the music tab.... But im sure someone will eventually make something that works good on the Fuze
Thanks for the replies. And when I said "phone", I was actually being a smart ass to say "fun", you know phonetics.
I will check with my friends Sprint version and see if it has it.
fawaad said:
I think the animation is a bit different.. it was never the implementation.. I haven't seen any HTC touch Pro behaving like that..
Even when you see the demo video inside your TP, you'll notice they didn't have the animation the way it appears on the website.. I guess Sales People always show it off more than they can deliver IMHO..
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Where can I find this demo video? It played once when I was configuring my TP, but I was away and didn't notice it until the very end. Thanks!
you can find if in the \Content\Video folder
it's called Touch_Pro_GettingStarted
Regards,
Kris
Ya that definitely is better than how it is currently. I wouldnt mind if it was a setting in TF3D that we could turn on on and off.
Fade effect = tight lol
i00 said:
you can find if in the \Content\Video folder
it's called Touch_Pro_GettingStarted
Regards,
Kris
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can you upload the video? i dont have it
Perhaps this could be incorporated into the new roms or even have the option in TF3D config
Ok so I think I finally have this working correctly, I really liked frysee's bios boot animation but I wanted one for the Evo, so I ripped off his work.
I edited most of the info to make it match the Evo specs, but some stuff I couldn't easily find on the web so if anything is inaccurate I would be more than happy to update the animation if you give me the correct info. Also I think the speed is pretty good, maybe pause a little longer at the end of the first screen but I wanted to hear some feedback on it before I did anything. (renaming 50 images just to try something out isnt much fun).
Ive attached the file below, If someone could sign it for me great, otherwise I just use pushboot to easily add it in. Also there is no sound, I thought about adding in a system beep noise but thats not really worth it.
Pushboot:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=701295
-Nova's Themes and MODs for Galaxy TAB : 28DEC
Closed For business for right now. Until we get CWM.
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I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU OR THIS MESSES UP YOUR TAB. : )
Good to see the theming has started.
Sent from my HTC Desire
Can this be flash to Tmobile.? I know it a dum question but I want to know.
Im pretty sure this wont work for vzw tab...poked around in the files,most of the changed images are in framework/res/hdpi-v4. The path on vzw tab is framework/res/hdpi. Anyway,it was enough to scare me off. Could you tell me where those 1% increments are? Im thinking maybe battery-status.xml?I wanna pull the control file and the png's and push em into framework. Tia.
Screenshots? Also, the -v4 just means it's been decompiled.
Guys guys guys... -v4 is ok... Will work fine! lol
I am sure the framework is the same across the board. Nothing is really any different than any other 2.2 devices. No special renaming. The battery mod is a change in the battery and battery charging xml file. Instead of a img matched to a value every 20% (stock) this will display an img for every value. 205 or 125 images. In the Glass theme I have an img for every value for charging as well so it has 205 images. If you are at 22%, it will say 22% in the battery Icon. AND... This will not drain your battery any faster. This is a active Battery % Display for the Stock Icon.
Soon I will have a full Battery Mod thread with a ton of different Icons and the xmls for those who wanna use it. : )
I'm using Glass with the Magic Smoke Live Wallpaper, Looks so awesome. You must check it out. I have pics already but I'll post more and a video.
Try it!!!
:0)
Ahhh....gotcha. yeah,I noticed I got a -v4 on the end after I've used the s.c. online kitchen. Any way,recovery still exits with an error when I try to flash on vzw tab. Could it be that string in the assert command in the updater sscript? Thanks for the heads up on the XML...it got me there.
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Ahhh....gotcha. yeah,I noticed I got a -v4 on the end after I've used the s.c. online kitchen. Any way,recovery still exits with an error when I try to flash on vzw tab. Could it be that string in the assert command in the updater sscript? Thanks for the heads up on the XML...it got me there.
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Could be, ill just clear it and make it just copy. What's the s.c. Kitchen?
Sent from my SPH-P100 using Tapatalk
"Ultimate online theme kitchen"...the one with the super circle battery. Looking forward to the battery mods...thanks!
mosone23 said:
"Ultimate online theme kitchen"...the one with the super circle battery. Looking forward to the battery mods...thanks!
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oh, lol. That's where I go to get a lot of what I do, so much easier than sitting there and editing all the xmls and hope that it recompiles right. I love using Ultra Compare and seeing what they do with that. Awesome site.
You got this to work through cw? From what I've read the assert line is no longer supported,moved on to"Edify".
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You got this to work through cw? From what I've read the assert line is no longer supported,moved on to"Edify".
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I Have fix it, this will flash in Clockwork! : )
I have also now added 10 Batt Mods for everyone. More to come soon!
Enjoy!!
The battery mods, particularly Mod #2, are nice. If I apply the images via MM into the drawable-hdpi folder, predictably it only picks up the twenty percent level ones. If I add the two XML files to the MM in the drawable folder (I used the 125 version) none of the images show up. I'm familiar with basic image replacement, but not with replacing the XML files. Is this something that would require an update.zip rather than MM?
tried the glass theme on att tab
now im stuck on samsung logo
trying to boot back up no go
thanks for trying though
BuglessFan said:
The battery mods, particularly Mod #2, are nice. If I apply the images via MM into the drawable-hdpi folder, predictably it only picks up the twenty percent level ones. If I add the two XML files to the MM in the drawable folder (I used the 125 version) none of the images show up. I'm familiar with basic image replacement, but not with replacing the XML files. Is this something that would require an update.zip rather than MM?
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Did you use Clockwork? If your adding the images, you have to have the xmls too. xmls go in drawable.
maxtcee said:
tried the glass theme on att tab
now im stuck on samsung logo
trying to boot back up no go
thanks for trying though
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Sorry man, I only have a sprint tab. I'll look into it more, Maybe I'll build it from each framework to make it work for all.
Nah, I was using Metamorph, which works fine for the PNGs, but somehow when it replaces the XML files in the drawables directory the battery status stops showing up altogether. I didn't have a lot of time to experiment though, so I wound up just restoring from nandroid backup. I know it must be replacing the right files, because if I run Metamorph without the XML files it perfectly places the new images, and the notification bar picks it up for the existing battery increments. If I add the XML files it winds up with a blank area where the battery status go. I'm assuming it's one of three things: MM having trouble replacing the XML files and busting something; or there's something specific to the VZW version that doesn't like one or more elments in the XML; somewhere along the lines of pulling the two XML files out of your .zip and putting them in the new .zip changed some kind of formatting (DOS v Unix linebreaks, dunno). At any rate, I can use the images easily for the 0,10,15,20,40... increments, but can't easily update the XML files with MM at the moment. I might look into doing an update.zip.
The reason I'd prefer MM for just picking up changes like battery status images, is that I don't have to worry about the framework matching, it'll just replace the files in my existing framework, so it's usually quick and dirty.
Can you see if we can get a Sprint Only Galaxy Tab Forum
Since you are a developer, Can you PLEASE look into getting the Sprint Galaxy Tab its own spot? All this Euro AT&T TMobile Galaxy Tab stuff is getting on my nerves. They need a GSM Only and a CDMA Only Tab Forum. It's too damn confusing. Appreciate it! Thx
Hi
I watched the video of the theme and at the begining you touch the upper left corner of the screen to wake up the tab. I am new to android phones and it is maybe stupid question but how to do it without pressing power-on button?
regards
Pawel
The power button is in the upper left in the video. As his thumb is at the top of the screen one of his fingers is pressing the power button. No magic swipe, sorry.
I remember when I was a little nublet and had a ZTE Racer (when I was thirteen that was the dogs balls) I looked up how to change the carrier name in the notification bar. Everything seemed too complicated, especially in a phone with no visible bootloader, so I just gave up.
Now that I actually know what I'm doing with Android phones, I want to do that now. Whenever I look at my phone and see "EE", I just feel like I am throwing money down the drain. So, is there any way I could change this? Will it involve pulling mmcblk0p partitions from /system and hex-editing them or will it be more complicated?
Oh yeah, I got irritated with CyanogenMod and I'm content with Sense 4+ at the moment, so I am not flashing a ROM that has that ability built in. (For now at least)
EDIT: Figured it out myself. Pretty damn simple actually. Just required downloading an apk, typing in the carrier name and a reboot.
EDIT of the EDIT: That method didn't actually work, after a loss of service and a reconnection it went back to normal. So yeah, I would like help again xD
May you can change it in the build.prop simply search for carrier or download a rom like viper one s or trick droid which are both the best sense based roms