[DroidSmurf]

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How to change the Boot-up Splash Screen

DroidSmurf, on 27 July 2011 - 06:52 PM, said:

OMG thank you betolley, totally worked. @Derekgarn, you just need a 800x600 bmp image in 16 bit form, have fastboot installed on your computer along with adb. Turn off your tablet and press the power button with the menu button, hold until it says fastboot. Next open up a command terminal, go to the directory where your image is at.

> cd c:/sdk/images
> fastboot flash logo logo.bmp

On your tablet, look to see it got transferred over. Reboot your tablet

> fastboot reboot

That is all there is to it, the only thing I was doing wrong was flashing to Splash, instead of logo. All the tutorials for the android phone said splash, but I guess our tablet's partition is named logo.

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Hello fellow SlateDroiders, I'm currently trying to customize my MID816R2 with a new splash screen. I've googled all over the place and this is what I've learned:

Easiest and simplest way to change splash screen on phone is to use fastboot to flash the image (16 bit r5g6b5) to splash. Unfortunately our firmware/rom does not have a partition named splash. If anybody wants to know the process I went to get the image to a 16 bit r5g6r5 .img file let me know, I'll gladly send over the script to do so. So, what I'm trying to get information on is, where should I flash the image, or is there a better way of changing the splash screen.

Thanks,
DroidSmurf

P.S. Sweet got my topic stickied If anybody else have problem with my instruction, feel free to pm me.

This post has been edited by DroidSmurf: 30 July 2011 - 11:10 PM

[betolley]

Look in the latest merimobiles firmware. It has a logo and a bat file that you can see how to do it.

[derekgarn]

But how would you then get it on the tablet

[DroidSmurf]

OMG thank you betolley, totally worked. @Derekgarn, you just need a 800x600 bmp image in 16 bit form, have fastboot installed on your computer along with adb. Turn off your tablet and press the power button with the menu button, hold until it says fastboot. Next open up a command terminal, go to the directory where your image is at.

> cd c:/sdk/images
> fastboot flash logo logo.bmp

On your tablet, look to see it got transferred over. Reboot your tablet

> fastboot reboot

That is all there is to it, the only thing I was doing wrong was flashing to Splash, instead of logo. All the tutorials for the android phone said splash, but I guess our tablet's partition is named logo.

This post has been edited by DroidSmurf: 27 July 2011 - 06:52 PM

[derekgarn]

Thanks have now got myself a nice new bootup screen

[Anderson Padilha]

DroidSmurf, on 27 July 2011 - 06:52 PM, said:

OMG thank you betolley, totally worked. @Derekgarn, you just need a 800x600 bmp image in 16 bit form, have fastboot installed on your computer along with adb. Turn off your tablet and press the power button with the menu button, hold until it says fastboot. Next open up a command terminal, go to the directory where your image is at.

> cd c:/sdk/images
> fastboot flash logo logo.bmp

On your tablet, look to see it got transferred over. Reboot your tablet

> fastboot reboot

That is all there is to it, the only thing I was doing wrong was flashing to Splash, instead of logo. All the tutorials for the android phone said splash, but I guess our tablet's partition is named logo.

Im new on this, so let me tell you if I got right....

1 -I must have the Android SDK Tools installed, right???

2 - Then I go to the directory where the file Flashboot.exe is located (cos windows is not regnizing the PATH).

3 - Create an image called "logo.bmp" in 800x600 16bit.

4 - To get things easyer, I put the imagem in the same directory that Flashboot.exe is located.

5 - Turn on MID816 with Menu and Home buton pressed until "Flashboot" screen appears.

6 - With a DOS terminal opened in my computer, I just got to the Folder where flashboot.exe is, and type "flashboot flash logo logo.bmp"

7 - Then I just check if my tablet has the logo transfered, and then on the same DOS Prompt, I type : "flasboot reboot"


Is that all correct?? "Flashboot flash logo" will tell the tablet that we are flashing the "logo" image with a "logo.bmp" image? I am being very precise, cos Im a little scared to mess up things here. New tablet, you know...

[derekgarn]

I install everything ina folder called sdk on c: made it easier
In terminal window had to write flashboot frist
Then the rest of the comrades, had lots of trouble with
The image done it in photoshop in the end

[Anderson Padilha]

derekgarn, on 05 August 2011 - 05:43 PM, said:

I install everything ina folder called sdk on c: made it easier
In terminal window had to write flashboot frist
Then the rest of the comrades, had lots of trouble with
The image done it in photoshop in the end

you installed all in a folder called SDK... well...

did we installed the same thing? Could you tell me the link of the SDK you installed, please?

[derekgarn]

Sorry I made a folder called sdk and copied the fastboot files and
The logo I made to this folder.
cd c:
cd sdk
cd fastboot you then get a list of commands
fastboot flash logo logo.bmp
You see it install
fastboot reboot
If all went well you should have a new splash screen if not a black screen
Hope this helps

[Bradley]

OK, I'm stuck on getting a 16 bit bmp image. I'm trying to use Photoshop. Under Image>Mode I tick off 16 Bits/Channel. But in that mode you can't save as bmp, it has to be 8 Bits/Channel. Or am I on the wrong track? Should I be going for 16 colour in Indexed Colour. Is that what the 'r5g6b5' thing is about (5+6+5=16)? This bit concept is confusing me. Help please...

[derekgarn]

I saved it to 24bit in photoshop and that worked for me

[Bradley]

derekgarn, on 15 August 2011 - 03:22 AM, said:

I saved it to 24bit in photoshop and that worked for me

That I can do. Thanks for the information

[Bradley]

I've now tried to change the boot-up screen but I'm getting this error:

sending 'logo' (1406 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.234s]
writing 'logo'...
FAILED (remote: partition does not exist)
finished. total time: 0.250s

I should mention that my tablet is the MID816, not the R2 model. Maybe that's the problem?

Any thoughts?

Edit: Just an added thing - on the latest firmware, for the first time, there isn't any image for the boot-up splash screen, just a blank, black screen for several seconds. I don't know if this means anything.

This post has been edited by Bradley: 15 August 2011 - 08:15 PM

[derekgarn]

Might be that it is in a different location
On the MID816

[derekgarn]

Have a look here
http://www.slatedroi...731#entry153731

[Bradley]

Hey, thanks for the link. I don't know how the heck I missed the app mentioned in that thread (Absolute System Root Tools). It doesn't let you change the splash screen but you can change the boot animation which is just as good.

[derekgarn]

Bradley, on 16 August 2011 - 03:09 PM, said:

Hey, thanks for the link. I don't know how the heck I missed the app mentioned in that thread (Absolute System Root Tools). It doesn't let you change the splash screen but you can change the boot animation which is just as good.

try this open the logo you made with paint and then save a copy as 16bit bmp

[DroidSmurf]

Bradley can you post the link to the firmware you upgraded to? Depending on the rom image, the partition name is different.

[Bradley]

Here's the link for the 0725 firmware I have on my tablet right now (the Mechanics one):

http://www.slatedroi...ena000-tablets/

@derekgarn - I can't save in 16 bit with Paint. Only 16 & 256 colour and 24 bit.

[derekgarn]

Have a look on the net for free image converter to convert from 24 to 16 bmp