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[Bootanimation] droid bootanimation for G1

i went ahead and resized the droid boot animation to fit the G1 and it look great and works well. may do droid x and incredible later on. for ppl with the x and incredible plz extract the boot animation.zip file and send it to me by using adb
Code:
adb pull /system/media/bootanimation.zip C:\users\[your name]\desktop
here is the link
Download
add it with adb by typing in:
Code:
adb push C:\[file location]\bootanimation.zip /data/local/bootanimation.zip
to remove it to go back to the original boot screen, use adb and type:
Code:
adb shell rm /data/local/bootanimation.zip
this does require root for the purpose of installing eclair/froyo to use it.
happy modding

im having a small problems, that i hope you can clear for me.
(not with the process of sending a new bootanim to the phone)
sooo.. steps im doing...
create frames of animation (24bit PNG files, 220x220)
put them in two different folders,
create conf file,
pack up into bootanimation.zip and adb push it to the phone...
yet all im getting is black screen...
are my png files not correct?
zip program? (im using winrar to zip it to bootanimation.zip)
http://muziol.us/misc/g1/bootanimation.zip

he3r0 said:
im having a small problems, that i hope you can clear for me.
(not with the process of sending a new bootanim to the phone)
sooo.. steps im doing...
create frames of animation (24bit PNG files, 220x220)
put them in two different folders,
create conf file,
pack up into bootanimation.zip and adb push it to the phone...
yet all im getting is black screen...
are my png files not correct?
zip program? (im using winrar to zip it to bootanimation.zip)
http://muziol.us/misc/g1/bootanimation.zip
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I PM'd you your working boot animation. Let me know how it goes.

he3r0 said:
im having a small problems, that i hope you can clear for me.
(not with the process of sending a new bootanim to the phone)
sooo.. steps im doing...
create frames of animation (24bit PNG files, 220x220)
put them in two different folders,
create conf file,
pack up into bootanimation.zip and adb push it to the phone...
yet all im getting is black screen...
are my png files not correct?
zip program? (im using winrar to zip it to bootanimation.zip)
http://muziol.us/misc/g1/bootanimation.zip
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sorry for not responding. didnt realize i had my old email in my profile so the email notifications werent working.

Thank you
Thank you, it looks pretty nice on my Mytouch 3G...
Best regards

This is awesome! Thank you for putting this together for everyone. I do wish that I could have the cool "droid" voice on bootup (while the animation is going) but I will have to do some more research on how to do it correctly. If anyone wants to take a stab at it, the soundfile is available via the zedge app. If I get it working I'll zip it myself and put it up here for the dev to add to the OP.
Thanks again!
Sent from my HTC Dream SparksMod using XDA App

darthlukan said:
If I get it working I'll zip it myself and put it up here for the dev to add to the OP.
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it actually needs to be in a separate folder (the sound bite) but afaik it doesnt work with the G1 or MT3G

can i install it via terminal emulator

No you would need root manager or ghost droid
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Trouble changing boot animation

I posted this in Q&A but got no responses. I'm hoping someone here may have some advice.
Im running CM 6.1.1-Stable with pershoots kernel (rooted via gfree method) and I am trying to use the Droid X boot animation on my phone. However, I keep getting the default android bootanimation with silver text with the word "android" and some intermittent shining of the text.
I downloaded the bootanimation from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=710204
I copied both the audio and the bootanimation.zip files to /system/media according to these instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9118652&postcount=12
It erases the cyanogenmod boot animation, but instead i get the default silver android text bootanimation. I tried deleting the system/media/bootanimation.zip file and placing the new bootanimation.zip and audio in /data/local but this resulted in the same default bootanimation.
Am I missing something here? Most people seem to be able to easily change their bootanimation by pushing the file to /data/local, but for me, the cyanogenmod bootanimation in /system/media seems to take priority. Either way, pushing the bootanimation to either /system/media or /data/local is not working. Any ideas?
Also, do I need to do anything special to get the droid sound to work besides pushing it along with the bootanimation.zip file?
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Download a boot animation from this section. I know someone ported the Droid image to the G2.
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Yes try one from this section the one you downloaded isn't sized for our screen so probably won't play, so the phone plays the old default. If you want this one pm me and let me know
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App

When you place your bootanimation.zip do you use adb or terminal emulation?
Is so much easier with a terminal emulator
Place your bootanimation.zip in the root of your sdcard
Open terminal emulator
-su
-cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /data/local/
This will not give you any feedback if it was done correctly but it will if you get an error
-reboot
Sent by inconveniencing a large number of electrons from my mobile command center

[Q] How to change Boot Animation Screen in CM roms

I have tried flashing damm near every Animated Boot Screen i have made flashable from XDA and none wanna work..
what am i suppose to do to get a diff boot animation screen on this device??

Adb:
adb remount
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media
adb reboot
Root explorer:
enable r/w mode
move the bootanimation.zip file to the /system/media folder

I just got mine to work, only took a minute to do. If you go to root explorer do he following.
1. find the file in system/customize/resources named bootanimation.zip (it may have something else in front of it. Mine was spc_bootanimation.zip)
2. click at the top where is says r/w
3. find the boot animation you want to find and long press and choose mve
4. put it in the file system/customize/resources and paste it there
5. longress and change the permissions to match the origial one
6. change the name of the old one (i put a one at the end of bootanimation)
7. change the nam of the new anmation to what the original was
8. change back to r/o same way you changed to r/w
9. reboot nd enjoy.

Dboy352 said:
I just got mine to work, only took a minute to do. If you go to root explorer do he following.
1. find the file in system/customize/resources named bootanimation.zip (it may have something else in front of it. Mine was spc_bootanimation.zip)
2. click at the top where is says r/w
3. find the boot animation you want to find and long press and choose mve
4. put it in the file system/customize/resources and paste it there
5. longress and change the permissions to match the origial one
6. change the name of the old one (i put a one at the end of bootanimation)
7. change the nam of the new anmation to what the original was
8. change back to r/o same way you changed to r/w
9. reboot nd enjoy.
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By the way, /system/customize/resource is for sense, aosp is /system/media.

Sorry I didn't specify, I thought that cm roms were all sense. Thanks for the info roxxorz, good to know if I ever go back to an aosp.

Dboy352 said:
Sorry I didn't specify, I thought that cm roms were all sense. Thanks for the info roxxorz, good to know if I ever go back to an aosp.
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Just for future reference, if you ever say 'I thought CM was sense' someone of ignorance spots it, they'll flame you horribly.
But yea, CM = AOSP = No sense. So you have to push the bootanimation.zip to the correct folder,

Crap, I was confused I forgot I flashed from evo deck which was cm kernel and aosp, I'm now on misfits rc1 which is like a sense/gengersense mix, really nice, but not cm. I forgot I changed to misfit therefore te cm being sense lol. My own ignorence. Thanks for the info man. I'm still learning very slowly lol.
Hey JSmurfy, if you want a custom splash page and cant get it in adb I have the file you would need to flash it as well. I finally got mine changed using it since i can't us adb to push it to the phone. Just let me know.

Dboy352 said:
Crap, I was confused I forgot I flashed from evo deck which was cm kernel and aosp, I'm now on misfits rc1 which is like a sense/gengersense mix, really nice, but not cm. I forgot I changed to misfit therefore te cm being sense lol. My own ignorence. Thanks for the info man. I'm still learning very slowly lol.
Hey JSmurfy, if you want a custom splash page and cant get it in adb I have the file you would need to flash it as well. I finally got mine changed using it since i can't us adb to push it to the phone. Just let me know.
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Well easy to get it confused because there are 'senseless' roms, which is htc sense removed, so it LOOKS like AOSP, with the vanilla [CM style lock screen]. You just have to make sure what the rom says in the features, ect.
If you can't/not good with adb, you can use root explorer [purchase or search through google] to move it to the correct folder.

Thats what I did, using root explorer and it works great. With adb I get it to find my phone but when I try to push something to it, it starts to go and then fails says no remote access or something like that. With some research everything I found saysit's because myhboot is 2.10 and with that hboot you can't flash but since my buil is the 40000 block build I cant downgrade my hboot so had to find a work around.

Dboy352 said:
Thats what I did, using root explorer and it works great. With adb I get it to find my phone but when I try to push something to it, it starts to go and then fails says no remote access or something like that. With some research everything I found saysit's because myhboot is 2.10 and with that hboot you can't flash but since my buil is the 40000 block build I cant downgrade my hboot so had to find a work around.
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You can use adb with hboot 2.10, I do so all the time. Just when using adb, be sure to always enter in adb remount before doing anything. It would look like this:
adb remount
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media
adb reboot
And you'd be done.

OMG where have you been. I have been searching for 3 freaking days and everyone says you cant with 2.10. You my just became my new bestfriend lmao.

Dboy352 said:
OMG where have you been. I have been searching for 3 freaking days and everyone says you cant with 2.10. You my just became my new bestfriend lmao.
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I've been chillin' And whomever told you that needs to be slapped with a Swedish fish
And glad I could help.

Dboy352 said:
Crap, I was confused I forgot I flashed from evo deck which was cm kernel and aosp, I'm now on misfits rc1 which is like a sense/gengersense mix, really nice, but not cm. I forgot I changed to misfit therefore te cm being sense lol. My own ignorence. Thanks for the info man. I'm still learning very slowly lol.
Hey JSmurfy, if you want a custom splash page and cant get it in adb I have the file you would need to flash it as well. I finally got mine changed using it since i can't us adb to push it to the phone. Just let me know.
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i have so many boot anims that i made flashable.. i tried everything i forgot i had asked this .. thanks to both of you for this,... im gonna try the root explorer now.. cause i hate the android logo.. its purdy and all but it aint my style..

teh roxxorz said:
You can use adb with hboot 2.10, I do so all the time. Just when using adb, be sure to always enter in adb remount before doing anything. It would look like this:
adb remount
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media
adb reboot
And you'd be done.
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adb on my linux pc aint workin.. but i still wanna thank you for the info

teh roxxorz said:
By the way, /system/customize/resource is for sense, aosp is /system/media.
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ok.. final question.. do i have to move can i not just long press, copy, then paste.. i dont wanna move my file out of there.. for safe keeping.. cause i have all my folders in order and stuff

wooo hoo im convinced i have to be either the dumbest person on this site orrrrr im being over cautious.. when i went intothe system/media folder it said audio only.. no other file was in there just that folder which was a sub folder for alarms, notofications, ringtones, ui
am i missing somthing

One day, I made a uot theme for cm7 and instead of choosing cm7 for bootanimation, I chose sense. It worked. BUT when I flashed new themes with different bootanimations that I correctly chose cm7 for, it didn't work. It stayed on the sense one. Trying reflashing cm7 and then move files.with root explorer
A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on Android OS. We now have CyanogenMod.

ok if i wasnt confused before.. now i definitely am.. HUHHHH

Go to system/customize/resource and delete bootanimation.zip and whatever the audio file is.. if there is one. Then try to flash your bootanimation
A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on Android OS. We now have CyanogenMod.

Christ...
OK, look, for CyanogenMod-based ROMs, just put the bootanimation.zip in /data/local
No screwing around with /system, or anything. Plus, this way, you'll keep your boot animation even if you upgrade the ROM, like from 7.0.3.1 to 7.1.0.
So when it's all said and done, the ZIP file should be
Code:
/data/local/bootanimation.zip
Enjoy.

Boot Sound

I have been banging my head against the wall for days now regarding this problem and can't quite figure it out. I created my own boot animation and was able to get that running just fine. I wanted to add a boot sound as well, so I did my homework and followed the instructions to a T. I resolved an error that I was getting while running the command sh bootsnd.sh, but even after it ran successfully I still was left with no boot sound. In the /system/media folder I have an mp3 named android_audio.mp3. I also verified that the build.prop file in the system folder had the line ro.config.play.bootsound=1 in it as well. I am currently running CM9 RC2 on my T-Mobile G2. Is there something I am missing? Can the G2 even play boot sounds? Has anyone gotten boot sounds to run on their G2? If so, how? Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated and thank you all in advance for any help you may be able to provide.

Did you set permissions for the file to rwxrxxrxx?
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Atomix86 said:
Did you set permissions for the file to rwxrxxrxx?
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I double checked to make sure, but yeah the permissions were set correctly.
I can run the command 'stagefright -a -o /system/media/android_audio.mp3' from the terminal and it plays the sound without a problem.
Any other suggestions?

Are you calling it in desc.txt inside the bootanimation? I'm sure that's a part of it.
-Nipqer

I don't know if this makes a difference at all, but in the rom I use (EliteMod ICS, modified CM9 kernel, AOKP rom), seems you need to only place an boot_audio.mp3 file into /system/media/ , much like how you place boot animation.zip in /system/media, and chmod 644

Nipqer said:
Are you calling it in desc.txt inside the bootanimation? I'm sure that's a part of it.
-Nipqer
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I did some additional research and did find a few references to adding the audio to the desc.txt file by adding a line like this 's android_audio.mp3' to it. I tried doing this and it borked the entire thing. On the reboot I saw the HTC logo, then was met by a black screen with no sound for a few moments before my home screen appeared.
kbeezie said:
I don't know if this makes a difference at all, but in the rom I use (EliteMod ICS, modified CM9 kernel, AOKP rom), seems you need to only place an boot_audio.mp3 file into /system/media/ , much like how you place boot animation.zip in /system/media, and chmod 644
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I tried renaming it and changing the permissions again only to be met again by silence.
Thank you both for the suggestions. Do you guys have anything else I could try?

http://www.mydroidworld.com/topic/7677-how-to-add-a-bootsound-to-cyanogenmod/
i managed to add boot sound thx to that method... you will need bootsound.zip... here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1298144 and follow instructions of first link... hope it will help...

Remove AT&T logo?

Basically I want to get rid of the AT&T logo from the boot screen because I'm unlocked and on another carrier.
I've been trying to work out how to do this but to no avail. Apparently I need to hard root by doing this:
(from androidcommander.com)
Edit your boot image.
Pull out your boot.img.
Unpack.
Edit default.prop file, set value „ro.debuggable” to „1″.
Re-Pack.
Flash.
Can anyone tell me how to actually do this or if it's even possible on the Captivate Glide?

The AT&T logo at boot isn't part of the boot.img, that's the boot animation. Samsung uses their own format for the bootanim, so you can't just replace it with one of the thousands out there, but you should be able to replace it with the bootanim from another samsung phone. I'll see if I can dig up the link where someone replaced it with the anim from an SGIII.

bakageta said:
The AT&T logo at boot isn't part of the boot.img, that's the boot animation. Samsung uses their own format for the bootanim, so you can't just replace it with one of the thousands out there, but you should be able to replace it with the bootanim from another samsung phone. I'll see if I can dig up the link where someone replaced it with the anim from an SGIII.
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I know the boot.img doesn't contain the animation. But according to a guide that I read I have to edit the boot.img file in order to hard root the phone so that I can then delete the bootsamsung.qmg file which contains the AT&T animation so I can just have a blank screen at the startup.

I've never heard that called "hard root" before but it's baked into the keyboard light fix which you probably have installed anyway.
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Well, according to someone else, none of that is necessary, you can just replace the .qmg files and be set.
brunobbarcelos said:
I changed the bootanimation, now using the ICS stock from Galaxy SII. Just had to copy two .qmg files over the old ones, set the permissions, wiped cache and dalvik. Did this because while we don´t have custom kernel will not be possible to use .zip bootanimation and i couldn´t find a way to edit .qmg file.
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brunobbarcelos said:
The Zip with ICS Galaxy SII boot files, i used only bootsamsung.qmg and bootsamsungloop.qmg.
Rename old ones
Copy new,
Change permissions,
Reboot cwm,
Wipe cache and dalvik,
Boot twice
(that´s how worked for me).
Permissions:
x x 0
x 0 0
x 0 0
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0 0 0
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Android Commander won't let me rename the bootsamsung.qmg file though so I don't see how I could replace it.

Did you make sure you mounted /system as rw? I was able to rename the files and copy over the new ones just fine through a terminal window.
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To clarify, I put the two .qmg files in /sdcard, and then did the following from a terminal (or adb shell):
Code:
su
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-num/p2 /system
mv /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg.bak
mv /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg.bak
cp /sdcard/bootsamsung.qmg /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg
cp /sdcard/bootsamsungloop.qmg /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg
chmod 644 /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg
chmod 644 /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg
I didn't need to wipe cache or dalvik, and it worked perfectly on first reboot - I now have the Galaxy SII boot logo. I'm now off to poke around and see if I can find anything I like better.

Let me know if you find anything you like better. I'm thinking if I'm going to replace the AT&T logo I just want something generic, not the name of another phone model.

Yeah, I'm not big on having it say Galaxy SII at the bottom. Ideally I'd like the plain ICS animation, but I doubt any samsung phone came with that. Next up is anything that's just generic Samsung, and if that fails, I'm looking for something that just says Galaxy S, since the phone was sold as the Galaxy S Glide in Canada.

If there's a way to convert a normal bootanimation.zip into a bootsamsung.qmg that'd be ideal, but I don't think it can be done. Or if we could make the Glide accept a bootanimation.zip that'd be perfect.

There's no tool for converting that I know of, unfortunately. As for bootanimation.zip, once the ICS kernel sources get released that'll be possible. The current kernel doesn't have support for bootanimation.zip, but a few of the custom ones from GB added it, and it shouldn't be difficult to add to an ICS kernel.
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Unfortunately, it appears the Galaxy S III animations won't work. I assume the higher resolution is the problem, as I get just a black screen on boot. That's pretty disappointing, as this would've looked just fine. Anyone know another Samsung device that doesn't list it's model in the boot animation?

I haven't tried it yet on the SGH-I927, but a trick that we used on the Gio to change the boot animation was to overwrite/rename the /system/bin/samsungani file with /system/bin/bootanimation binary (which is also present on the stock ROM) which will either show the "stock" green Android text, or an appropriately formatted bootanimation.zip if present.
I'll get back to you guys later once I've had time to try it out.
There might also be a (non-animated) logo in boot.img, I haven't unpacked one yet to check it out.
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Quick update:
There is a logo in the boot.img (or somewhere else in the bootloader.)
The samsungani/bootanimation switcheroo has a bug: it doesn't stop. I opened the slider, and I can see the animation running in a loop on the left half of the screen. Had to issue a kill command via ADB to stop it.
If you want to stick to a stock kernel and unbrand the boot animations: copy /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg in place of bootsamsung.qmg, and then rename /system/media/video/shutdown/shutdown.qmg to something else.

Aha, I've located some decent model-free .qmg's, from the Samsung Galaxy Ace 2. You can see the animation here on a Galaxy Ace Plus. File's were pulled from Cosmo123's post here.
I've pulled the files from his dump, and attached them here. I've also included a mediafire mirror.

Wow, that animation looks great. So I just follow the terminal instructions with those files from the Ace? Do I need to worry about getting rid of/replacing the PowerOn.wav?

I followed your instructions up to "cp /sdcard/bootsamsung.qmg /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg" in Terminal Emulator, but when I clicked enter on that line it came up saying "sh: cp: not found". So I don't know why it's saying that if that means the qmg file isn't found because I put both the new qmg files onto the internal SD card. Any thoughts?

Well I managed to rename the qmg files and the PowerOn files on the phone so now I just have the static Samsung logo on startup. So actually I've fairly happy with just that. So if you don't know how to fix the terminal problem I was having it's OK. It'd just be handy to know what the problem was in case I need to copy anything onto the root in future.

bakageta said:
Aha, I've located some decent model-free .qmg's, from the Samsung Galaxy Ace 2. You can see the animation here on a Galaxy Ace Plus. File's were pulled from Cosmo123's post here.
I've pulled the files from his dump, and attached them here. I've also included a mediafire mirror.
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This is exactly what I was looking for, and with the boot logo that came with the ICS Leak, I'm set :
PD: Anyone noticed that the Galaxy R just got an Update to ICS ?

liquidmetalrob said:
I followed your instructions up to "cp /sdcard/bootsamsung.qmg /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg" in Terminal Emulator, but when I clicked enter on that line it came up saying "sh: cp: not found". So I don't know why it's saying that if that means the qmg file isn't found because I put both the new qmg files onto the internal SD card. Any thoughts?
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Ah, you don't have busybox installed. By default, our rom doesn't have several typical commands set up, it's the only device I've owned that didn't have cp out of the box. Go snag busybox and you'll be able to copy those files over.

bakageta said:
Did you make sure you mounted /system as rw? I was able to rename the files and copy over the new ones just fine through a terminal window.
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To clarify, I put the two .qmg files in /sdcard, and then did the following from a terminal (or adb shell):
Code:
su
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-num/p2 /system
mv /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg.bak
mv /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg.bak
cp /sdcard/bootsamsung.qmg /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg
cp /sdcard/bootsamsungloop.qmg /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg
chmod 644 /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg
chmod 644 /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg
I didn't need to wipe cache or dalvik, and it worked perfectly on first reboot - I now have the Galaxy SII boot logo. I'm now off to poke around and see if I can find anything I like better.
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Worked like a charm, on first reboot, like you, I didn't need to wipe anything. Just remember people, install Busybox before following this steps.