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So I lost my galaxy s symbol that shows up when booting your vibrant on,so now that part of the boot up is just blank.
Does anyone know how to replace it with something else? I heard you can replace it with roms or zips or something?
the boot sequence on the vibrant is two .qmg files. The are located on /system/media and they are called bootsamsung.qmg and bootsamsungloop.qmg. just replace those two files and you should get it back. you can grab them from one of the many threads regarding "replacing boot and shutdown sequence"
How about you look at the top of the page and read the sticky
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=732458
lqaddict said:
How about you look at the top of the page and read the sticky
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=732458
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I just flashed the Vibrant boot screen. Didn't work - the boot sound occurs but no image.
I'll try the other one and see what happens.
EDIT: Same thing. Got sound but no image.
strictlyrude27 said:
I just flashed the Vibrant boot screen. Didn't work - the boot sound occurs but no image.
I'll try the other one and see what happens.
EDIT: Same thing. Got sound but no image.
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your not op?
Ill give it a shot and keep you posted. It looks as though I am not the only one with this issue. If anyone gets it to work before I do,please post how you did it. Thank you.
im facing the same thing here.. cant get the boot animation and cant login to google account anymore.. what a day..
Same thing happened on mine. Those files must get deleted somehow on that operation which is odd.
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Well I tried it,but still no luck. Can anyone help?
Can somebody please tell me why my yesterday's post was deleted? I was asking for help like the others who faced the same problem and I wanted to bring the topic back to attention. Any comments from the admins??
marshallrockstarr said:
Can somebody please tell me why my yesterday's post was deleted? I was asking for help like the others who faced the same problem and I wanted to bring the topic back to attention. Any comments from the admins??
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you didn't look very hard
http://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=747
Sorry for not having looked thoroughly enough, I seem to have been too worried about my phone. Won't happen again.
has anyone found the file to replace with a splash screen or have any idea how we can change it?
mattdub1 said:
has anyone found the file to replace with a splash screen or have any idea how we can change it?
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I'm guessing you mean the boot animation (after the Samsung Galaxy Tab screen)?
system/media/bootanimation.zip
If you're rooted, and have write permissions set, replace the file with another of your choosing.
RGardner said:
I'm guessing you mean the boot animation (after the Samsung Galaxy Tab screen)?
system/media/bootanimation.zip
If you're rooted, and have write permissions set, replace the file with another of your choosing.
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Believe he's talking about the Samsung splash screen not the boot animation after..I would love to know how...I know on my HTC evo you have to flash .img file in fastboot
ya, not the boot animation, the samsung splash screen
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ya, not the boot animation, the samsung splash screen
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Samsung uses a proprietary .qmg file, but I haven't found where it resides on the Tab. It isn't in System/Media like it was on my old Captivate.
Actually I know how to do this. Samsung uses proprietary formats, but for splash its not qmg. That is for boot animations. I am working on this for everyone. I do not own a Galaxy Tab, but someone has donated a large sum of money and is loaning me a tab to work with so I can perfect a flash able zip for this. It should only take me a couple of weeks, consider it a WIP. I will post the zip or other instructions when I have it done
After I threw up in my mouth a little bit... I realized i don't have an iPhone
I wonder if we can use this and tweak it to work for the tab
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32581589
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I wonder if we can use this and tweak it to work for the tab
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=32581589
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Depends... Does the galaxy tab have a S4 processor? When I get the test tablet I will have to examine the kernel to see where the splash screen is stored. If it is in the same place all it will take to get that script to work is a few minor script modifications because that particular one uses a assert get prop to make sure its d2vzw or another compatible device. (ie d2spr, d2att, d2tmo). I will post my results when I have it all done. I know its possible, but I could also make a flashable zip with a script that points to another location for the splash screen so you could load it in system/media with the boot animation and change it at will very easily like you can a boot animation. More information to follow. Please be patient
After I threw up in my mouth a little bit... I realized i don't have an iPhone
Any updates on how you're going with this? Keen to give it a try...
hey guys i was wondering if there was a way to remove the samsung boot logo on our gs2? i have a custom boot logo after that comes up and i want my phone to go strait into the custom boot
thanks in advance and im sorry if this has been discussed
no one know how to do this? i deleted all the jpegs through root explorer i just dont know where to find the command that calls for it to run
smartguy044 said:
no one know how to do this? i deleted all the jpegs through root explorer i just dont know where to find the command that calls for it to run
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Trust me, if it could be easily done, it would be. Pretty sure that's part of the bootloader, don't advise messing with that.
Ok that would make sence. I found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1292524 so I changed it to a custom logo and that'll work since I can't remove it
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Ok that would make sence. I found this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1292524 so I changed it to a custom logo and that'll work since I can't remove it
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I found that the SGS2 BootScreen Changer app in the play store works well.
thanks ill look it up once im done flashing more roms
Hi Guys i have a little problem I Have a galaxy note 2 n7102 (Clone).I have rooted it 2 days ago.i have the android stock boot animation
but when i added a custom boot animation,when i rebooted the screen goes black and then the phone starts up
I tried to put it in system/media and data/local and change bootanimation and samsungani in system/bin and reboot but nothing happens
Plz anyone tell me And i will thank him
AND Here is the bootanimation
AnY Solution?
Do you have a custom recovery available for your device?
brakke97 said:
Do you have a custom recovery available for your device?
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Look i rooted my phone but how to know that i have custom recovery or not
just flash with odin
Get rom toolbox pro from google play for 4.4$ or less
open it and swipe to the right to go to interface and then scroll down to boot animation and choose the one you want
AM NOT HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT MAY OCCUR TO YOUR DEVICE DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK
thats all and your free to go
Hit thanks if this helped
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Get rom toolbox pro from google play for 4.4$ or less
open it and swipe to the right to go to interface and then scroll down to boot animation and choose the one you want
AM NOT HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT MAY OCCUR TO YOUR DEVICE DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK
thats all and your free to go
Hit thanks if this helped
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i made it from rom toolbox lite and after i have the android stock bootanimation it became a blackscreen and then starts up
LuCaEgYpTMaN said:
i made it from rom toolbox lite and after i have the android stock bootanimation it became a blackscreen and then starts up
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AnY SoluTioN?
mahmoodinho said:
Get rom toolbox pro from google play for 4.4$ or less
open it and swipe to the right to go to interface and then scroll down to boot animation and choose the one you want
AM NOT HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT MAY OCCUR TO YOUR DEVICE DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK
thats all and your free to go
Hit thanks if this helped
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still black screen
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still black screen
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AnYone plz answer?
I think I have the answer!
The only thing I need to know is your device his name and manufacturer.
Plz reply so fast as possible!
brakke97 said:
I think I have the answer!
The only thing I need to know is your device his name and manufacturer.
Plz reply so fast as possible!
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Ok thanks first for your reply
it's a n7102 phone mt6589 device and it's made in korea (written made in korea by samsung)
kernel version 3.0.13
android 4.1.2
When you plug it in to the computer, does it connect or is it unrecognized?
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When you plug it in to the computer, does it connect or is it unrecognized?
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yes it connects and recognize the sd card and the internal storage
Ah that's awesome! Btw do you want a fresh clean install with everything like it was at stock or just the blackscreen fix?
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Ah that's awesome! Btw do you want a fresh clean install with everything like it was at stock or just the blackscreen fix?
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no only the blackscreen fix!!!!!!!!!
Ah ok, can you set up ADB, because it's needed to get access to your root folder.
Afterwards, you need to download this file, it's the firmware for your device https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4AdByfaH4T0WWJEQlNjeHg4bzg/edit
If you have setup your adb and it's running, extract the firmware on your desktop and go to the path "simcom77_twn_cu_ics2-ota-I968.I968.02.05.G.A-V1.0.1B04P85.zip\system\media" without quotes, and copy all the files (via adb) in your phone's /system/media/ and before doing that delete the previous files that are corrupted. After that your phone will be fixed!
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Ah ok, can you set up ADB, because it's needed to get access to your root folder.
Afterwards, you need to download this file, it's the firmware for your device https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4AdByfaH4T0WWJEQlNjeHg4bzg/edit
If you have setup your adb and it's running, extract the firmware on your desktop and go to the path "simcom77_twn_cu_ics2-ota-I968.I968.02.05.G.A-V1.0.1B04P85.zip\system\media" without quotes, and copy all the files (via adb) in your phone's /system/media/ and before doing that delete the previous files that are corrupted. After that your phone will be fixed!
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OMG this made the phone more bad ,i didnt make a backup and when i deleted the system/media and replaced it with the other:
1-no boot a crash page came and then the blackscreen and then starts up
2-NO Sound when i am touching anything :crying: plz help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LuCaEgYpTMaN said:
OMG this made the phone more bad ,i didnt make a backup and when i deleted the system/media and replaced it with the other:
1-no boot a crash page came and then the blackscreen and then starts up
2-NO Sound when i am touching anything :crying: plz help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Did you make a Nandroid Backup when you first Rooted the Device ? If so, Boot into Recovery. Then restore your Nandroid. If not then you can either Flash a Custom Rom, or the Stock Rom Rooted. Either should resolve your issues.
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Did you make a Nandroid Backup when you first Rooted the Device ? If so, Boot into Recovery. Then restore your Nandroid. If not then you can either Flash a Custom Rom, or the Stock Rom Rooted. Either should resolve your issues.
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is there any stock rom or custom rom for note 2 gt-n7102
and i nedd screen shots plz!!!!!!
Yeah sure the file in my post was the firmware, if you want to check it, just look at this site: http://goo.gl/808du
Hello XDA!
Alright, I know that this subject has come up a couple of times on these forums and that there is no solution yet. But the last couple of days this has become a sort of personal vendetta kind of thing for me, and I want to see if we can maybe get a little further on this subject.
Bear with me a little bit because I am still quite noobish so things I say might not be true or make any sense.
So, what I am talking about is the removal of the BOOTLOGO, not to be mistaken with the BOOTANIM. I already know how to change the BOOTANIM and changed it to some delicious visuals, so this is not needed.
Furthermore I know that you can change the BOOTLOGO on the american versions of the Galaxy S3 with a simple .zip. This is of course is really awesome and stuff, but sadly I only have an international I9300, so it won't work for me.
So my first idea was to dig into the boot.img and see what I could do to make sure the BOOTLOGO just won't show. So I looked at the init.rc and found the following line:
export ANDROID_BOOTLOGO 1
I thought I had hit jackpot! not to rub any dirt on anyone's face, but I thought, "How could nobody on XDA have found this out????!!?!" So I changed it to:
export ANDROID_BOOTLOGO 0
Installed my ROM with this boot.img in it and waited, and .... still saw a BOOTLOGO, also a BOOTANIM... so.. it didn't work... Also when I pulled the init.rc using Android Commander is still showed the line "export ANDROID_BOOTLOGO 0" but apparently to no avail.
So I had kind of given up... I had read on different threads that the BOOTLOGO image is buried far into the depths of the filesystem that it isn't even changed when you install a rom! So I thought I would give up...
Until..:
A friend of mine had done something horribly wrong with his glass over his proximity sensor, so instead of just changing the glass we decided to do this software wise. I had found this thread where you could re-calibrate the sensor rewriting something in the efs file system. And this worked! quite easily actually.
And suddenly it hit me, it is probably the efs folder where the BOOTLOGO image is stored! So I made a backup of my efs folder and opened that.. (this took more tries, and I'm not sure with which steps I took to do this, but I'm willing to look it up .)
I found a couple of files but only 3 files bigger than 1kb (this is the only thing my windows 8 wants to show) and I think that the file with the image in it will probably be bigger than 1 kb.
So searching google and XDA I learned that if you want to do crazy things with IMEI and unlocking your phone and such you target the file .nv_data.bak, which is one of the bigger files. So I tried opening it with Notepad++ and HxD but I cannot make any sense of it...
The truth is I was hoping to find a .rle in this folder, which I could magically replace with my own BOOTLOGO and that would be it.
Bottom line:
I was hoping that someone could tell me if I am looking in the right direction (the efs folder and the .nv_data.bak file) and maybe even give directions on how to go further on from here to change the BOOTLOGO...
any ideas?
I would really really really like to get this thing done.
Frank
Info:
Phone: Samsung Galaxy S3 International (I9300)
Rom: SuperNexus 3.0 (would like to use SuperNexus 4.0 but I somehow get problems with Android Commander...)
Kernel: no clue (the one that came with SuperNexus)
Install Xposed Installer and search the module called "Xblast Tools" ! It has an option to disable Bootanimation
Andr3y29
Thanks for your reply!
The thing you are talking about seems to be about the boot animation what I referred to as BOOTANIM. This is the animation that shows stuff like Cyanogenmod or something related to android or your carrier.
I'm talking about the BOOTLOGO, which comes before the BOOTANIM. The BOOTLOGO only shows a black screen with white letters saying "SAMSUNG GALAXY SII (I9300)" and this is what I want to remove.
Frank
Bootlogo is contained within the bootloader, this has never been modified for the i9300 as there is no need -the American S3 is very different in many ways.
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As above and see many identical posts .
boomboomer, thanks!
So, i guess looking in the efs folder is definitely the wrong place.
googling for the bootloader I found the following thread. Here someone is trying to change the bootlogo, and the conclusion seems to be that I need to change the sboot.bin.
So, i guess I'm going to research that!
thanks!
Frank
Ok, I made some progress
I downloaded the I9300 firmware from Sammobile.com and unpacked it and opened up the Sboot.bin. I couldn't open it with any archiving software but I could with HxD (Hexidecimal editor). There was a lot of gibberish but also some normal sentences and filenames, so I thought it looked a lot like a normal folder (or archive) that I just cannot open normally. But I thought that I might find the BOOTLOGO here in hex code.
So I opened up the logo.jpg from the param.bin in HxD and found ".Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows.2012:04:23 14:30:18" in the header. In sboot.bin I looked for "Adobe Photoshop" and it came up just once. Looking at how the logo.jpg from param.bin looked and how big it was I copied the same from sboot.bin and saved it as a jpg. And it worked! So this is probably the logo that we see when we turn on our phone. (in the attachments)
I thought this would be it, just replace the hex code of the jpg with other jpg code and then flash this sboot.bin... but sadly this didn't work, Odin failed when it came to the sboot.bin. I started thinking that maybe the .bin knows where a file starts, so when I put a bigger or smaller .jpg in the sboot.bin it will mess up.. So I decided to change a few bits, which would make the image slightly more blue, but wouldn't make the file bigger, and it failed to flash... I though that it might be that the jpg is now broken and windows might be doing its best to interpret it but for the sgs3 it needs to be perfect, so I changed the header, turning Photoshop into Photopoop ( ), it failed to flash... Then I started thinking that the .bin file checks itself by making a sum of all its bytes, and if it is different it fails. So instead of making up my own bytes, I exchanged two bytes in the Photoshop string, making it Photohsop. But this still made the flashing fail.
I started thinking it might be HxD that messes up the sboot.bin file, so I tried to first change one byte, saved it, changed that byte back and saved it again. This time it flashed without a problem...
Now I'm kind of at an end, I have no clue how to solve this or how to go further... Does anyone maybe know how to edit sboot.bin, or how it is secured? Maybe the sboot.bin is checked against something else? Or I am doing something really stupid and there might be an easy fix (please please please)?
Kind Regards!
Frank
I think I need to bump this a little,
But does anyone know how the sboot.bin is checked by the sgs3 or odin?
Cheers!
Frank
mad-freaky said:
I think I need to bump this a little,
But does anyone know how the sboot.bin is checked by the sgs3 or odin?
Cheers!
Frank
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Yes. Samsung do.
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The China unicom i9300 is not the same.
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The China unicom i9300 is not the same.
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Its funny how this post is not even related to this thread.
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Ai, I was afraid of that....
Does anyone else maybe have an idea?
Frank
You are attempting to flog a dead horse, no-one has bothered to decompile the bootloader for the i9300 as there is no point, it isn't locked. Only one American model had a lock, which was modded to enable flashing, nothing else.
Just to change the boot logo is a lot of work, for something that lasts just a few seconds.
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boomboomer said:
You are attempting to flog a dead horse, no-one has bothered to decompile the bootloader for the i9300 as there is no point, it isn't locked. Only one American model had a lock, which was modded to enable flashing, nothing else.
Just to change the boot logo is a lot of work, for something that lasts just a few seconds.
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Dear BoomBoomer! Thanks for your reply!
Sorry, I haven't replied in a while, but I looked a bit further into the sboot.bin and downloaded a couple more to see how they are different and are still able to flash. What I found is that the only difference is their build date and series nr. and 4 blocks of 256-byte signature (not sure if signature or checksum or something but I have to call it something..)
So I guess I need to figure out how to decompile these 256-byte signatures and make my own... to become awesome!
Dear BoomBoomer, I tried searching google and xda to find anything about the american model with sboot.bin but I found nothing. Do you maybe know the thread or person that modded the sboot.bin of the american version?
Thanks!
Frank
Nope, sorry.
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Adding Incentive
Hey guys,
I'm out on a limb here, but do you think I can maybe pay someone to help me with this?
Cheers,
Frank
Please can someone get me the quaraqumus QS-i9300-KK-v2.6 resumable link
Hello guys,
It has been a while since i started this threat but i'm still searching for a way to remove the bootlogo.
Do you guys have any ideas left i can try?
I'm willing to try everything even if there is a risk of bricking the phone.
I have 5 galaxy s3's here and i am willing to risk them to find a way to remove it.
If anyone has a method i can try please let me know.
Thanks!
any updates
mad-freaky said:
Hello guys,
It has been a while since i started this threat but i'm still searching for a way to remove the bootlogo.
Do you guys have any ideas left i can try?
I'm willing to try everything even if there is a risk of bricking the phone.
I have 5 galaxy s3's here and i am willing to risk them to find a way to remove it.
If anyone has a method i can try please let me know.
Thanks!
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Frank
Did you make any progress on this. i have been looking also
Donal
Wanna do the same!!! But like instatt the Samsung s3 logo this AoKp Unikorn like the Pic attached, and boot animation from Rom Toolbox Bootanim. The bionic animation. But on my phone s3 international rooted i dont get this animation started. Downloaded more animations and installed it turned on Animations in App but dont work !!! What do i have to do ??? Have made animated Files too for bootanimation but dunno how i can turn them on or where i must place them to get them started !!! Please help me !!! Thanks !!!!
Ps:droid-pro.zip should be the bootanimation and aokplogo the vs. Samsung bootlogo, would look very cool thx !!!