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The primary purpose of this thread is so that you can post your WM06 (and WM05) themes and splash screens; we will link this in the wiki. Over the next several days, I will be posting some simple instructions on replacing your splash screen and boot graphics, however that information can already be found in the wiki. Feel free to attach any today themes, splash screens, instructions etc.
When you post, please attach a picture so we know what we are downloading and zip file of the graphics so they are not resized by the server.
To get started I have attached a template for making a windows splash, as well as my template I personally use on my device. The "silence of the lambs" style picture hopefully scares the person into returning my device if lost or stolen. I included the templates in the zip file; you can edit your name and contact info; portrait version only. More to follow.
-mix
How do I change my windows splash screen?
Create or download the splash screen of your choice, it can be up to 320x320 and 96 dpi. Save the file as welcomehead.96.png and save it to the /windows directory of your device. You may need Resco Explorer or a similar tool to overwrite the current file.
The image should appear when you reboot.
I will attach some splash images below over the next several days.
How do I change the boot splash? From this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=1140696&postcount=6
A method for 1.01 MFG can be found on the wiki; if you do not want to SuperCID your device permanently though, you need to use SSPL-HERM.exe.
Requirements
nb_image_converter.exe, e.g. from Hermes SplashScreen_Pack.zip
nbhgen.exe, e.g. from this forum topic
any official ROM image
Full steps
Create a BMP file in paint, size must be 240x320.
Save it as BMP 24bit.
Load it on nb_image_converter.exe and save it as splash.nb
open a cmd.exe command prompt on the folder where you saved your splash
run this command
copy /b splash.nb+padding.nb finalsplash.nb
Check that filesize of "finalsplash.nb" is exactly 262144 bytes.
create a samples.txt with the following contents
HERM200
HTC__001
1.23.707.6
USA
600,finalsplash.nb
601,finalsplash.nb
You may need to adjust HERM200 to HERM100 or HERM300 based on your model).
And you can have a different subsplash if you repeat steps 1 to 5 with a different file.
run the following command on a shell in the same folder:
nbhgen.exe sample.txt
extract the ROM image, e.g. with WinRAR
rename the .nbh file inside that folder to .bak
move your newly generated RUU_signed.nbh into the same folder
put SSPL-HERM.exe onto your device
run SSPL-HERM.exe on the device
check that the Tricolor screen will appear and show SPL-1.09.ds
run ROMUpgradeUt.exe
List compiled from three different existing tutorials - credits go to those! - and tested successful yesterday From CCRDude
I have only included files that I have created in this first post. If you would like your files added, please let me know. Both the PNG and JPG are included in the zip.
-mix
How do I add today themes to my device?
You can simply drag and drop the .tsk files into the my documents folder on your device using activesync.
kyphur has a page loaded with great themes
Feel free to post your favorite today theme's.
-mix
This post left open for uploads.
Something from me
Hope some one likes it
Radical_MT said:
Hope some one likes it
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The skull picture is exactly the same as one made by a moderator on a well known pocket pc warez site for use as a theme!
I wonder why some people are so obsessed with skulls.
Here is a welcomehead.96.png file (to replace the windows 96 startup screen) for all you Mac users who have to use windows for your mobile environment, (for now, at least).
backfindpost
sorry, just an ordinary bvp
m-unit said:
sorry, just an ordinary bvp
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To quote Chris Farley: I'm sorry, I don't speak Japanese.
boz said:
The skull picture is exactly the same as one made by a moderator on a well known pocket pc warez site for use as a theme!
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I took this skull pic from somewhere msn themes. Sorry if i'm stealing someone else pics. Lol. What about this one?
Hi there!
Liked a lot this Skull!
Can you provide in a CAB format?
thanks
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Doubt...
Could someone help me?
I dind't understand what I have do to in this part:
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run the following command on a shell in the same folder:
nbhgen.exe sample.txt
extract the ROM image, e.g. with WinRAR
rename the .nbh file inside that folder to .bak
move your newly generated RUU_signed.nbh into the same folder
put SSPL-HERM.exe onto your device
run SSPL-HERM.exe on the device
check that the Tricolor screen will appear and show SPL-1.09.ds
run ROMUpgradeUt.exe9
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I'd like to create a new splash screen with HTC official logo:
I created a finalsplash.nb and the .txt, but now I don't know what I have to do... :\
Hi,
Look here http://www.molski.biz
Click on How to and search for the Molski development Kitchen ROM. You find answers to this and more doubts you may have!
Good luck!
hiroshi.rio said:
Could someone help me?
I dind't understand what I have do to in this part:
I'd like to create a new splash screen with HTC official logo:
I created a finalsplash.nb and the .txt, but now I don't know what I have to do... :\
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Thanx a lot, but...
epimazzo,
Thanx a lot, but it didn't work...
I already read this tutorial here on forum, but the problem is: I wanna change only the first splash screen, not the 1st n 2nd.
Can I use this program to create only the first splash screen with HTC's logo? Cos the 2nd splash screen I'm using this:
I just made this for my 8525 startup animation.
Now all I need is a scary laugh to replace the standard wav..
hiroshi.rio said:
Could someone help me?
I dind't understand what I have do to in this part:
I'd like to create a new splash screen with HTC official logo:
I created a finalsplash.nb and the .txt, but now I don't know what I have to do... :\
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This is what you have to do...
* YOU NEED BOOTLOADER 1.01MFG ON YOUR DEVICE FOR THIS TO WORK *
For full instructions see:
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_BootloaderMFG
Hermes Splash Screen Howto
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Create a BMP file in paint, size must be 240x320.
Save it as BMP 24bit.
Load it on nb_image_converter.exe and save it as splash.nb
open a cmd.exe command prompt, go to folder where you saved your splash
run this command:
copy /b splash.nb+padding.nb finalsplash.nb
Filesize of "finalsplash.nb" should be exactly 262144 bytes.
Now put your phone in bootloader mode (side ok + power button + softreset)
Connect to bootloader using mtty.exe and load splash screen using these commands:
For first splash screen (MainSplash):
USB> task 32
USB> lnb finalsplash.nb 500e0000
USB> task 8
For Second splash screen (SubSplash):
USB> task 32
USB> lnb finalsplash.nb 50140000
USB> task 8
You dont need BOOTLOADER 1.01MFG,
Read MrVanx's guide http://www.mrvanx.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=27
and follow it word for word.
If you dont want to replace the second splash then either dont include the SubSplash or use the existing one you have.
I followed his guide yesterday and it worked perfectly for me and ive got SPL:2.10.oli
I downloaded a screen splash on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=292014
I changed the second splash screen to WM crossbow only with a simple .cab. Can I create a .cab to install on device? It seems more easy... :?
Hey,
does anybody known how to replace the splash screen on the HTC Athena the one that says T Mobile I would like to put one of my own.
Please advice me how to do it.
Thank You
Gigino
You can search in XDA in the section Ultimate.... But I believe it's like this: Via Resco Explorer you can find the file "welcomehead.192.png", it's in the "windows" section. This is the splash screen.
You have to replace it with an other picture that is even big 640 x 480.
Good luck!
welcomehead.192.png readonly
Replacing will be a bit difficult, because it is placed at the ROM.
Well, try to replace it with your next ROM-Update.
...
Have fun.
If you browse or explore unsing activesync/wmdc you can easily replace the welcomehead file even though it is in rom
First Splash screen
The file you said to replace is the green windows mobile splash screen (the 2nd splash screen to display) I'd like to replace the very first picture which on my ameo is the T-mobile one any ideas? I used picture manager to view all the pictures in the windows folder as I can't seem to locate the Windows folder when connected to the PC.
The first splash screen is normaly part of the rom that doesnt show up in the filesystem.
Splash image uploaders have been made for other devices/os's but require technical knowledge of the system.
Its not a file delete/replace or anything.
You will have to wait untill one of the forum gods create a bootsplash uploader for the Athena.
So is there a easy way to replace the "welcomehead.192.png" file then?
/Magnus
Hi everybody,
I just bought me a TyTN and did the Rom reconstruction procedure, this all worked very well (thx for the great guides), but with this procedure only the Part02 file is transformed into a .nbh file.
Is it possible to fully reconstruct the rom including, splash screen and most import the extrom. I still have all the four Part00 - Part03.raw files but don't know how to convert them to usable .nbh files, I also don't know what the other three PartXX.raw files are.
Cause at the moment when I load the reconstructed rom, I have the extrom from the last rom I had installed which of course is not the extrom of the reconstructed rom.
Any help on this would be great. Thanks.
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Please read exactly what I'm asking for
@peezy: before shouting wiki, you should read my post exactly. I already succeeded in building an OS.nbh from my dumped ROM.
What I'm asking for is a FULL rom reconstruction, especially the extended rom is a problem if missing and I'm quite sure the extended rom and maybe also the boot images are in the other PartXX.raw files but I don't know how to create the missing .nbh files for flash and extended rom. What's not such a big problem is the radio rom. But in case I have to repair the phone I'd like to go back to the OS I had before flashing the WM6 LVSW including boot images and extended rom.
I already found a thread on how to create the boot images, but the problem is I have to pull out the boot images from the dumped ROM and the even bigger problem is the extended rom which I also have to reconstruct from the dump files.
unhide extrom, copy the files and use AnDim ExtROM editor to create your new extrom.nb. See stickies in this forum for more info.
For splash screens see here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=306896
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299049
stuck with splash dumps
@pof: Thanks for your help, I was able to create the ExtRom with AnDim ExtRom editor and I tried to extract to splash screens with mtty and usbmonitor.
But I got stuck there because USB Monitor is kind of strange to handle if you don't know what you're doing, so I tried to extract the dumps on my gentoo box. At first with your supplied 'cu' command but that fails for what reason exactly I don't know. So I used ser2net to made my ttyUSB1 accessible with telnet. And then I did a dump of my telnet session with the rbmc command one for each splash screen.
Can you please explain what I have to do in order to get the .bmp's out of the dump files? I assume at first I have to clear out the telnet command lines at top and bottom, but I don't know exactly up to where I have to cut the files and how to convert the resulting file into bmp. Cause I'd like to dump the images from a colleagues phone (which has special boot images and no downloadable rom upgrade).
or maybe you can give me a correct 'cu' command for dumping the stuff directly without having to capture the telnet session.
Thanks for you help
@marcelser: just remove everything before HTCS, and everything after HTCE. Then you have HTCS +262144 byte splash screen + 4byte checksum + HTCE.
So remove HTCS, 4byte checksum and HTCE and you have your splash screen in NB format
It worked
@pof: Thanks for you help. Made a little perl app which grabs only the portion between HTCS and HTCE minus 4 bytes at the end with a little regex and writes that to a new file.
Then used rombaker to make a new splash.nbh file and re-extracted the files in the new RUU_signed.nbh with nbhextract which also converts the extracted .nb splash images to .bmp and the .bmp's looked just fine.
Then I loaded a different wm6 rom which has other splash screens and flashed the RUU_signed.nbh with the created splash screens to the device and had the extracted splash screens back on the device.
I attached the perl file which converts any dump which has the HTCS and HTCE strings in it to splash .nb it should run on any perl version (win32 + linux) although its only tested on linux.
Hello everyone, I am just asking if it is possible to flash different splash screen on Titan? First screen you see like VZW xv6800 say VERIZON on white background before animated gif startup begin (VZW_Startup.gif) so.. can I change the VERIZON? Thanks!
Hiromitsu
Look on in your \windows dir on your PPC for any .png & gif files that look like the ones that initiate when your phone starts. For the Sprint Mogul & Alltel PC6800, one of the spash screens is called welcomehead.96.png on both.
Once you find the stock .png & gif files on \windows, rename any custom animated pic after the .gif file and do the same for a .png pic. Then copy into \windows using Total Commander, etc and overwrite. Also make sure that they are the same 320x240 size.
So lets say on your VX6800 that you have a splash screen called VZW_6800.96.png in your \windows dir thats starts up with your phone now... You would:
1. Load, edit and rename YOUR 320x240 custom pic VZW_6800.96.png using Paint on your PC.
2. Paste pic into a folder somewhere on your device that you can access.
3. Using Total Commander, Copy this pic into \windows and a screen asking you to overwrite will popup. Click yes.
4. Done.
Do the same for a .gif.
1. Load, edit and then name YOUR 320x240 custom .gif, VZW_Startup.gif on your PC.
2. Paste .gif into a folder somewhere on your device that you can access.
3. Using Total Commander, Copy this pic into \windows and a screen asking you to overwrite will popup. Click yes.
4. Done.
welcomehead.96.png does exist on the XV6800. It is not the verizon splash though. That is the WM splash screen.
Yes, VZW splash is load from ROM so need cook in kitchen for this one. I just want know how to change this only. I already change animate GIF and WM screen.
Hiromitsu
blazingwolf said:
welcomehead.96.png does exist on the XV6800. It is not the verizon splash though. That is the WM splash screen.
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I didnt know if it existed or not; I was using it as a reference for what to look for and how to go about accomplishing it. I hear Verizon & Sprint have animated startups whereas the Alltel 6800 does not. But we do have the welcomehead.96.png. I do not believe that you must cook a new rom to make these changes...
I have explain this plainly already,,
for VZW Titan XV6800....
There 3 startup splash,,
In ROM:
1.) Solid white screen not moving VZW logo. (15 sec)
In device:
2.) Animate VZW logo -> VZW_Startup.gif (10 sec)
3.) WM Startup wallpaper -> welcomehead.96.png (Varies)
If I install other carrier ROM,, first still image (VZW) is VZW... even though change carrier ROM... so its burn in boot code.....
these images will be available when verizon releases a rom update. the current verizon rom available was dumped from a running xv6800 and does not include the images you want, which are mainsplash.nb and subsplash.nb. these are separate from os.nb, all are contained in the nbh you flash. the dumped verizon rom available only included os.nb
dcd,,
Can I replace mainsplash.nb and subsplash.nb now?
If I make my own splash nb file I can already flash it?
Thanks
Hiromitsu
argh
use nb_image_converter_859_418_826.exe found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=253308
use nbhgen found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294046
use this config:
TITA1000
HTC__001
2.17.651.0
USA
600,01_MainSplash.nb
601,02_SubSplash.nb
all of this info found easily using search feature at xda forums
Hi everyone,
I was able, by following vyap's instructions, to create an XDA Developers custom splash screen for the Raphael.
Follow this link to vyap's thread if you want the instructions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=431161
The files included below are a preview of the image, a 24bit bmp file if you would like to edit it to your liking, and also a .zip of the custom RUU and the signed .nbh file for instant upload to your own Raphael.
If you have any ideas, requests, or comments please let me know and I will be glad to help or try and create more images for our Raphaels.
-THANX, Travis Evans