I was looking everywhere and didn't find it ..Does anybody could be so kind and give me an original htc magic splash screen or boot screen whatever you call it? Because I've a branded version and this drives me crazy. I wanna make my device just like it come straight from HTC distribution not from an operator. Big thanks in advance!
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
Hello
I've thought of the possibility to change the Splash screen of my nexus S,
but i have no idea how, on my Hero it was really easy.
does someone know how could that work?
would be nice to change that.
floomat said:
Hello
I've thought of the possibility to change the Splash screen of my nexus S,
but i have no idea how, on my Hero it was really easy.
does someone know how could that work?
would be nice to change that.
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By splash screen do you mean the Nexus S animation, or the "Google" word when the phone first turns on.
The boot animation is changed the same way as the Nexus One's and many other phones are, just make a properly formatted bootanimation.zip and put it in the proper directory. There's plenty of guides on doing this across the xda forums.
The "Google" word we talked about in another thread a while back. No one reported being able to locate it. I suspect it's in the bootloader itself, but way beyond my skills to validate that.
i meant the "google" screen, but like you said its not easy to locate where it is.
but maybe some dev could find out where it is and how to change it
so, i tried a bit and searched and..found really nothing about it yet.
only a video but it seems to be a fake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clKd8M_fhEI
because the opened lock is gone when his "splash" screen apears.
i need to look into the bootloader/SPL or need to know how the partition in there is named and what the splash-file format is.
does someone know how i'm able to do this?
Hi,
I'm hoping this is the right place to post this question, but if it is not, I apologize.
First of all, I'm not talking about the bootanimation.
I'm talking about the screen that shows up "before" the boot animation.
It's a white bright screen with just HTC in the middle.
The reason I want to modify it is because it's just way too bright. It literally hurts my eyes, not to mention it's wasting battery there every time it boots. I'd appreciate any help on this.
GT
You're talking about the splash screen and you flash it almost the same way as you would a radio.
Is that same as bootscreen? I googled for flash screen or flashscreen, but not much result for android. I also searched in some forum's theme threads, and I see a bunch of bootscreens but don't see any flash.
And, when you say almost the same way as the radio, does that mean I need to wipe data and cache? That'd suck...
there is actually a custom one a few threads down. No you don't have to data wipe but the image has to have a certain name plus .img and you just push it with adb.
I'm failing to find the thread you are talking about. Are you talking about that BIOS bootanimation thing? If not, can you please provide the link?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=987288
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Thank you. I've followed links to links from there, and now I'm making my own flash screen
Speaking of the BIOS boot animation...lol Any luck?
Yeah, the thing is I created that forgeting that I generally have the fastboot on anyway and never see it. lol. But custom splashes are nice for when you restart your phone.
I just finished making my flash screen. Here's the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=12198485#post12198485
OK so I did something stupid...I bought an HTC Evo 3d from someone on Craigslist. The phone was rooted and worked fine. (please understand that I had absolutely no idea what I was doing and still really don't). I tried to get it flashed to Page Plus and the upshot is that now the phone is stuck with a red light, an occasional HTC white screen and if I'm really lucky I get the screen with the ClockMod stuff. Can you wise ones walk my dumb ass through recovering this phone and if not, advise me on how to get it fixed? I think I deleted whatever ROM was on it and now it has no operating system. Thanks in advance for your help and let the chastisement begin!
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OK so I did something stupid...I bought an HTC Evo 3d from someone on Craigslist. The phone was rooted and worked fine. (please understand that I had absolutely no idea what I was doing and still really don't). I tried to get it flashed to Page Plus and the upshot is that now the phone is stuck with a red light, an occasional HTC white screen and if I'm really lucky I get the screen with the ClockMod stuff. Can you wise ones walk my dumb ass through recovering this phone and if not, advise me on how to get it fixed? I think I deleted whatever ROM was on it and now it has no operating system. Thanks in advance for your help and let the chastisement begin!
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Fortunately we have a specific forum for your device on xda: HTC EVO 3D.
So best place to ask for help is here: HTC EVO 3D > EVO 3D Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting.
There you should get quick and proper help.