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Still no one can change the splash screen?

Hi, still no one can do it? I want to creat my own splash screen, but the BootSplash_Changer.cab is not working on universal!

sim1 said:
Hi, still no one can do it? I want to creat my own splash screen, but the BootSplash_Changer.cab is not working on universal!
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WM5 splash screen bulding in the CE ROM , need a code to make change,Bootsplash_Changer.cab for WM2003 not for WM5

Splash Screen Change
means that there is now way to change it ?
Cheers
hrb

There should be a way. The Jasjar ROM does it from within a file in the Extended rom called Default_Imate_PPC_SA_V5.5.03.cab I believe.

i haven't run that cab on my Jasjar, and i still have the imate initial loading screen, i have found the windows loading image tho
Code:
\windows\welcomehead.192.png
its in rom and cant be replaced, nor does it appear in the registry so atm its not changeable

Carnivor said:
i haven't run that cab on my Jasjar, and i still have the imate initial loading screen, i have found the windows loading image tho
Code:
\windows\welcomehead.192.png
its in rom and cant be replaced, nor does it appear in the registry so atm its not changeable
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That's not the one I'm looking for (this one CAN be replaced btw).
I am looking to replace the splash with the clubimate Website adress that comes up when booting. Must be somewhere a *.nb1/2 File.
Cheers
hrb

how can you replace it? its in rom. cant overwrite, and i couldn't see where it pulls the file from
please if you know share it

Carnivor said:
how can you replace it? its in rom. cant overwrite, and i couldn't see where it pulls the file from
please if you know share it
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Agree Carnivor,I want to share it,too.

You have to give the replacement the same name, that's all.
But again: it is NOT the Start Splash screen !
Cheers
hrb

hrb said:
You have to give the replacement the same name, that's all.
But again: it is NOT the Start Splash screen !
Cheers
hrb
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How, i can't overwrite a rom file, using any application

Actually, it CAN be done.. While we were trying to get Chinese/Japanese to display properly on WM5 earlier, as we all know the NLS file as with the splashscreen file are build into the ROM, we all thought earlier that it can't be replaced.
Then a company recently released a Chinese coding enabler program for WM5 and solved the NLS issue, and one of the memeber here Asukal based on that finding released his own version as well. The cab file that Asukal made has a setup file which mentioned something like "usemynls.exe" and instead of replacing the NLS file under window directory, a new self made NLS files is placed under \Temp\wince.nls and I guess WM5 will bypass the build in NLS file when it's running "usemynls.exe"
The "usemynls.exe" seems to be a file included with WM5 as well since in Asukal's cab, it was not included. My guess is it's just matter of finding out how to bypass the splashscreen file to use your own.. Hope I'm making sense here and maybe we can ask Asukal for more info?

CL55 said:
Actually, it CAN be done.. While we were trying to get Chinese/Japanese to display properly on WM5 earlier, as we all know the NLS file as with the splashscreen file are build into the ROM, we all thought earlier that it can't be replaced.
Then a company recently released a Chinese coding enabler program for WM5 and solved the NLS issue, and one of the memeber here Asukal based on that finding released his own version as well. The cab file that Asukal made has a setup file which mentioned something like "usemynls.exe" and instead of replacing the NLS file under window directory, a new self made NLS files is placed under \Temp\wince.nls and I guess WM5 will bypass the build in NLS file when it's running "usemynls.exe"
The "usemynls.exe" seems to be a file included with WM5 as well since in Asukal's cab, it was not included. My guess is it's just matter of finding out how to bypass the splashscreen file to use your own.. Hope I'm making sense here and maybe we can ask Asukal for more info?
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Nice guess CL55 , I agreed with you , hope someone good for NLS can work for all of us , I think maybe near future we can change splashscreen same as we did in BA,XDAII,mini .

tomFlow B&B custom animated startup screen

For those of you that have been missing the animated start-up screen here is a custom version inspired by tom's b&b touch ROM.
If you want to change the first screen (the one with O2 on it) use the tool found in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=317726
If you're not keen on the second image just find welcomehead.96.png in the windows folder and swap it with a picture of your choosing (240x320 png)
Cheers
Matt
SOME PEOPLE HAVE REPORTED THAT THEIR DEVICE HANGS DURING BOOTUP AFTER INSTALLING THIS CAB.
PLEASE DO A BACKUP BEFORE INSTALLING

macguffin said:
For those of you that have been missing the animated start-up screen here is a custom version inspired by tom's b&b touch ROM.
If you want to change the first screen use the tool found in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=317726
If you're not keen on the second image just find welcomehead.96.png in the windows folder and swap it with a picture of your choosing (240x320 png)
Cheers
Matt
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Good Job Matt!!
Thanks for your great work ;-)

Thanks my friends..!
Very nice ..
I love it...!

macguffin said:
For those of you that have been missing the animated start-up screen here is a custom version inspired by tom's b&b touch ROM.
If you want to change the first screen use the tool found in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=317726
If you're not keen on the second image just find welcomehead.96.png in the windows folder and swap it with a picture of your choosing (240x320 png)
Cheers
Matt
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Sorry for the noob question, but what am I have to do with this .cab file? If I run it, it will change the 2nd and the 3rd boot pics?

zsitvayb said:
Sorry for the noob question, but what am I have to do with this .cab file? If I run it, it will change the 2nd and the 3rd boot pics?
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just copy it onto your device, run it, reset and you'll have O2 followed by animated B&B logo followed by custom 'windows touch screen'
Simple as that

Very nice pic... I like it very much!
Thx a lot
Greets

Nice .. just to let you know it works fine for me
Owen

owencutajar said:
Nice .. just to let you know it works fine for me
Owen
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Try it my friend.U will know it work for u or not..

It works great , Thank you

Thanks a lot !
macguffin said:
If you're not keen on the second image just find welcomehead.96.png in the windows folder and swap it with a picture of your choosing (240x320 png)
Cheers
Matt
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Thanks a lot for the tip with welcomehead.96.png, now i can play with images (of course i need a Guinness-pint at start)
Cheers, Peter

if someone doesnt like to have the o2 splash at all (like me) you can use the tool posted here to change the first of the 3 boot screens. so you can have the HTC splash and the 2 (very nice ones) posted in this thread.

No luck for me
Used the installer; boot looks fine but hangs at the fingerprint screen
Any suggestions how to solve this?
Edit: A hard reset did the trick...

...And on the phone skin
The thumbprint image is very cool and as no one else appears to have mentioned it, i thought I should add that it also replaces the B&B image in the phone skin. This suits me fine as I wasn't a huge fan - the thumbprint is very classy.
Good work fella!

Being frank, this combo is much better one than that in "official" B&B 4.0

I have just had a play about and put these together, feel free to use them. Original artwork sourced from deviantart.
Replaced O2 splash:
Replaced Toms Splash

kevcarter said:
I have just had a play about and put these together, feel free to use them. Original artwork sourced from deviantart.
Replaced O2 splash:
Replaced Toms Splash
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Wohhhh...!
Nice..Very awesome..

tom_codon said:
Wohhhh...!
Nice..Very awesome..
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Like the second screen, next rainy sunday afternoon I'll animate it for you

macguffin said:
Like the second screen, next rainy sunday afternoon I'll animate it for you
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Thanks all friend..!
I can make nice Rom because i have nice friends...All always help me.My Rom--->Our Rom..!

macguffin said:
For those of you that have been missing the animated start-up screen here is a custom version inspired by tom's b&b touch ROM.
If you want to change the first screen (the one with O2 on it) use the tool found in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=317726
If you're not keen on the second image just find welcomehead.96.png in the windows folder and swap it with a picture of your choosing (240x320 png)
Cheers
Matt
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Thx Matt!
Very good job...

very nice dice with WM hehe

any idea how to activate the startup animation in the rom??

hi all
if anyone can safe the time for me to tell me how to activate the startup animation (reg and files required)
pandora kitchen has a package but its written there "can't run"
thanks in advanced

When I've used HTC animation in Pandora, it works for me

klabton said:
When I've used HTC animation in Pandora, it works for me
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could i have the package which worked with you, the kitchen is very big

I'm running now Dopod Lite, but when i have made my rom with Pandora, when it was working, I have marked twice option to enable HTC Animation. When i will be at home, I will chceck this an make some screenshoots
Ok. So I've checked this twice: one in utilities, second in Starup Animation menu.

klabton said:
I'm running now Dopod Lite, but when i have made my rom with Pandora, when it was working, I have marked twice option to enable HTC Animation. When i will be at home, I will chceck this an make some screenshoots
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thanks so much bro, i'm downloading the kitchen to check out

Here You go

klabton said:
Here You go
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i meant the startup animation which animate a gif file with the booting
anyway, thanks for trying to help

It's a registry setting, if you check out Vp3G's 3.0 made with the AT&T WM6 he actually has the Animated HTC in a CAB file that you can download, it's located in the ADD-ONS file... all you have to do is run that cab and voila!

VP3G addons can be found HERE at the end of the post

Madcap180 said:
VP3G addons can be found HERE at the end of the post
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i tried running the cab and it doesnt work.

Same here. This cab is not making this logo to work. All regs are ok. But it's not working. I even tried make this HTC.gif as a splash and i've put is via RUU, but still no results...

You can't just install my cabs on any old ROM and expect it to work. There are some ROM-specific animation components needed.
My cabs should work on any AT&T-branded WM6 or derivatives thereof, however I make no guarantees. They'll definitely work on vp3G v3.0 or v3.60.

This one has been bugging me too. There's some specific differences between the AT&T 3.57 and the T-Mo 3.60 that the cab's (and my packages) don't resolve.
I'm hoping to find the specific dependency, and I'll post once it's found. I'm sure it's something simple - just elusive What better way to spend a rainy Thursday?
Edit: I got it working, but only by copying the entire OEMDrivers folder from 5.5 (3.57). I'm narrowing down which files specifically now...
Got it down to 40 files from the decompiled dll list... ugh...

Are you trying to enable it on the dpod ROM? The Dopod and T-Mo/At&T has a different structure. Unil today I can only put it to run on T-Mo and AT&T only.

cyphol said:
Are you trying to enable it on the dpod ROM? The Dopod and T-Mo/At&T has a different structure. Unil today I can only put it to run on T-Mo and AT&T only.
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Just a T-Mo 3.60. It works now, but I had to use a bunch of the dll's from the OEM drivers (the decompiled ones).

mattk_r said:
Just a T-Mo 3.60. It works now, but I had to use a bunch of the dll's from the OEM drivers (the decompiled ones).
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Yes it's better for you to take all the .dlls in OEMDrivers and replace them in your own as necessary. It's for integrity also.

mattk_r said:
Just a T-Mo 3.60. It works now, but I had to use a bunch of the dll's from the OEM drivers (the decompiled ones).
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Is it possible to get install it using a cab or does the changes have to be baked in?

chymmylt said:
Is it possible to get install it using a cab or does the changes have to be baked in?
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My opinion is, " When there're many .dlls files affected then it's better to be cooked in."
Since Mattk_r is going to enable it on Pandora, then you can have it very soon or you can just take Schaps or my ROM. It's already been enabled since my first ROM.

cyphol said:
My opinion is, " When there're many .dlls files affected then it's better to be cooked in."
Since Mattr_k is going to enable it on Pandora, then you can have it very soon or you can just take Schaps or my ROM. It's already been enabled since my first ROM.
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Hahaha - But I can't wait for 6.2 to get posted

chymmylt said:
Hahaha - But I can't wait for 6.2 to get posted
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Then, try my ROM or Schaps or ..... I know that my cooked ROM is not as famous or as great as others but .......... Hmmmmm....

Help me with Splash screens!

Hello!
I am trying to create *.nbh file that will flash only splash screens and animation without touching my rom and anything else. Just splash screens.
I would like to hear from someone a brief instruction on how to go from bmp/png/gif files to short nbh file that will simply flash my splash screens and boot animation.
The reason I am asking is because some custom ROMS contain splashscreens that I don't like.
I am on Verizon and having XV6900. Current ROM is NFSFAN's V6 WM6.5
Thank you in advance.

spodg said:
Hello!
I am trying to create *.nbh file that will flash only splash screens and animation without touching my rom and anything else. Just splash screens.
I would like to hear from someone a brief instruction on how to go from bmp/png/gif files to short nbh file that will simply flash my splash screens and boot animation.
The reason I am asking is because some custom ROMS contain splashscreens that I don't like.
I am on Verizon and having XV6900. Current ROM is NFSFAN's V6 WM6.5
Thank you in advance.
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Copy/paste from my answer to you at PPCGeeks LOL
Your not going to just flash boot splash screens - a flash is a flash and it will overwrite your ROM on your phone
two ways to do what your trying to do
1) cook your own ROM - integrating the splash you want to use (its built into most kitchens)
2) search for an app that will let you replace the splash screen on your phone - its there, I dont remember the name though but its there
Detroit Doug

Would you be so kind to remember what the name of the application that allowing to change splashscreens? I've seen nbimg.exe, but it only converts bmp to nb. That's not quite nbh.
If that's too difficult maybe you will help me out on how to cook my own ROM using nfsfan's rom as a base?
I downloaded PPC Kitchen and its kinda tedious program to figure out in intuitive manner. However I noticed there's possibility to add splashscreens. Which is good.

spodg said:
Would you be so kind to remember what the name of the application that allowing to change splashscreens? I've seen nbimg.exe, but it only converts bmp to nb. That's not quite nbh.
If that's too difficult maybe you will help me out on how to cook my own ROM using nfsfan's rom as a base?
I downloaded PPC Kitchen and its kinda tedious program to figure out in intuitive manner. However I noticed there's possibility to add splashscreens. Which is good.
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Theres lots of threads on Kitchen how-tos - I dont cook that often so I am not a reliable source for Kitchen info
As for NFSFANs ROM as a base, you better ask him first, last I know he like many others lock their ROMs
And I just dont remember it, if I get some time tonight I will do a search and see what I can find ...
Detroit Doug

Found two items that may help - of course its based on what and if a splash screen was cooked into the ROM to start with - seems it isnt needed to be
patchsplash.zip - not sure where it is just read up on it in a Diamond thread
and
In a registry editor, go to:
Changing the boot picture/sound:
HKLM/Software/HTC/HTCAnimation (startup animation and sound)
and
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Splash Screen (after the splash screen used)
Hope that helps
Detroit Doug

Yeah I changed mine in Advanced Config. Just take the .gif that you want to use and copy it to the /Windows folder. In System Tools> Advanced Config, go to HTC Animation
Change the "Startup GIF File" to point to your file. Hit done and let it soft reset. Upon reset, you'll see your new animation.

Okie doke! Thanks guys for your responses. Its clear with animation now. I'll dig a little bit more about actual splash screens.

spodg said:
Hello!
I am trying to create *.nbh file that will flash only splash screens and animation without touching my rom and anything else. Just splash screens.
I would like to hear from someone a brief instruction on how to go from bmp/png/gif files to short nbh file that will simply flash my splash screens and boot animation.
The reason I am asking is because some custom ROMS contain splashscreens that I don't like.
I am on Verizon and having XV6900. Current ROM is NFSFAN's V6 WM6.5
Thank you in advance.
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Hey check out post number 5 in this thread, might be what you are looking for. I used it to flash just the the boot (first two) screens w/o flashing an entire new ROM.
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?p=238065
I had some trouble with the image sizing, so let me know if it works for you.

Incorporating my own splash into a custom kitchen build.

Hello,
I'm feeling confident enough to build my own rom now.
I can make Diamond splash screens 'till the cows come home;
Where in the kitchen tools do you add your Final splash screen file to incorporate into a custom kitchen build?

Tools are not in the kitchen. They are on the forum, BUT you need to bother and search.
You can't incorporate the 1st splash screen into the kitchen. You can 2nd one. 1st one is a separate .nbh file. very easy to do - search. It's all on the forum.

mjaxa said:
Tools are not in the kitchen. They are on the forum, BUT you need to bother and search.
You can't incorporate the 1st splash screen into the kitchen. You can 2nd one. 1st one is a separate .nbh file. very easy to do - search. It's all on the forum.
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First I must say that it look not to be true that you cannot add 1-st splash screen to the cooked rom as I have flashed several cooked roms and they had sifferent splash screens incorporated so there is a way to add own splash creen while cooking.
I'm spending 4-th hour now trying to find the answere but maybe some one knows how to do it.

search for duttys nbh tool you can use that 2 combine ur rom nbh and ur flash nbh into the one nbh file

Its possible within the HTC ROm Tool, isnt it?
There's an option for that in there, when you select OS, Radio..

abadon1977 said:
First I must say that it look not to be true that you cannot add 1-st splash screen to the cooked rom as I have flashed several cooked roms and they had sifferent splash screens incorporated so there is a way to add own splash creen while cooking.
I'm spending 4-th hour now trying to find the answere but maybe some one knows how to do it.
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Incorporating things into the rom and into the kitchen are 2 different things. So, you can't incorporate it into kitchen, but if you make an .os file with splash, it will be in the final ROM.
After all, my custom ROM does have one..
As to search:
http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&...G=Search&cx=000825531964825142534:cqr2sjirilw
and then...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=405118
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=398359
And that took me 2 minutes..

mancsoulja said:
search for duttys nbh tool you can use that 2 combine ur rom nbh and ur flash nbh into the one nbh file
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thanks a lot I'll try it as soon as I'll get home. (if my wife haven't kicked me out form home yet it was another night I've been up till 3-4 a.m.)
mjaxa said:
Incorporating things into the rom and into the kitchen are 2 different things. So, you can't incorporate it into kitchen, but if you make an .os file with splash, it will be in the final ROM.
After all, my custom ROM does have one..
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probably that is why I'm junor here ... thanks for info and clarifying this.

sumarising my research
I've tied NBHUtil to create rom including custom splash screen. It is a llitle inconvenient having to move one step back after kitchen finish creating ruu_signed.nbh but at least I now flash wit own splash screen.
For those who would like to try this way ....
I step creating splash.nb file using tools from the below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=436105
(for the moement skipping the nb -> nbh conversion)
II step After cooking ruu_signed.nbh in eg Ervius Kitchen it is good to copy splash.nb from step I to temp file in the kitchen and run NBHUtil. Select the device OS -> os-new.nb, splash -> the splash .nb and click "Built NBH!" select target folder, name file ruu_signed and done we have new ROM including custom splash screen.
There is for sure easier way .... but this one works and is good enough for me
once again thanks to mancsoulja for showing me the way

If I undestand well, it needs to be incorporated to the nbh generated by ervius kitchen each time you generate the rom with the kitchen (eg to add a program)? There is not bat file that can automate the process?
Edit: Solved, simply I have to modify the bat file and add the sentences in bold style, assuming I leave the nb files in the tools directory (osidvalue is for polaris, please check yours in the nbhutil.xml file):
set OSIDVALUE=0x400
set OSIDVALUE2=0x600
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rem ---------------------------------------------------
..\tools\nbhutil -model %deviceid% -ver %versionid% -lang %langid% -chunk %chunksize% -nogui -e -i %osidvalue2% ..\tools\00_MainSplash.nb -i %osidvalue% ..\temp\os-new.nb -b ruu_signed.nbh
rem ---------------------------------------------------
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