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How to create a boot animation?

Hi, guys, I've got a lil' question: how can i create a boot animation?
thank you very much!

have a look at some of the roms out here (mcr or stock), in /system/media/bootscreen are all the files that are involved with a bootscreen. it's not that hard, if you have specific questions come back.
tip: you need to create an animated gif.

haha i wanna do this now... do i have to have the unlocked spl?
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im so awsome lol i clicked twice by accident and waited a bit and decided that the first one must be done so i clicked stop.. no double post!

xsirhc6x said:
haha i wanna do this now... do i have to have the unlocked spl?
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the only benefit we have from the unlocked spl is the possibility to alter the splash screen (the first image to appear when you power on the hero), which appears before the bootscreen. the bootscreen itself is part of the rom, so you need either a rooted phone or a custom recovery image (or both, usually goes hand in hand).

Want custom roms for Tattoo?

Im currently a HTC Hero developer and my recent work is Hero 2.0 ROM
And I see that Tattoo hasnt much going on, so I thought why not help you guys out a little.
Things I need to do so:
- Testers with some kind of android experience and that are willing to test stuff.
MOD EDIT - To request money for a new device so you can make roms is a no no on XDA. Donations towards work already done is ok, but for work still yet to be done, this not permitted
OP EDIT: I understand that, came out the wrong way
What I've planned:
- Root
- Custom recovery
- Custom rom
Regards,
b

Yes please

behnaam that would be great!
unfortunately i'm very new to android and the htc tattoo is my first smartphone ever. but i'm willing to donate if your thread gets more feedback.

Need somebody to test the recovery.img, if we have that running its a good starting point.
PM me if interested to help!

I would love to see this work, and i'd gladly help you out it the phone were mine. However the Tattoo that i posses is actually my fathers and there is nothing i can do about it...
If it was the magic we're talking about id gladly put my hand into fire

Would be great.
Wating.
Thanks in Advance.
I'm also new to Android.

It's very good to seem some talented devs interested in the Tattoo.
It's a great little budget android phone that needs some attention
Behnaam, I'm very limited in time during the weekdays but if you need someone help testing some roms, feel free to PM me.
Good luck!
PS - How are you planning to bypass the bootloader security checks ? I'm under the impression that on Android 1.6 the boot images have to be signed, so that they will be accepted by the bootloader ?

mainfram3 said:
It's very good to seem some talented devs interested in the Tattoo.
It's a great little budget android phone that needs some attention
Behnaam, I'm very limited in time during the weekdays but if you need someone help testing some roms, feel free to PM me.
Good luck!
PS - How are you planning to bypass the bootloader security checks ? I'm under the impression that on Android 1.6 the boot images have to be signed, so that they will be accepted by the bootloader ?
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Dont tattoo bootloader allow booting into a boot.img? Since I remember we had the same issue with Hero, that the bootloader didnt allow flashing boot imgs, but it allowed booting them up, so the workaround was to boot into a custom recovery img with adb root permissions and from there flash the new recovery.

Give us the instructions, we will try it and let you know.

if you give the instructions i will test also..

I like to help too... the tattoo scene is so dead.

behnaam said:
Dont tattoo bootloader allow booting into a boot.img? Since I remember we had the same issue with Hero, that the bootloader didnt allow flashing boot imgs, but it allowed booting them up, so the workaround was to boot into a custom recovery img with adb root permissions and from there flash the new recovery.
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I took a very fast look at this, when I noticed the Superboot method for the N1.
What I found it that "fastboot oem boot" will boot the phone but I couldn't find a way to pass a custom boot image. IIRC, adb commands were not responsive, and you could only use fastboot by prefixing the commands with "oem". But then again, this was a very very fast look at all of this, since I'm a total Android newbie (but with a firm grasp of Linux ).
So, your idea is to create a custom recovery image that will enable full ADB commands ?
Why not go through the Superboot way ? Compile an image with a kernel for the Tattoo, that once booted copies a chmodded su to the Tattoo filesystem ? This is what I was thinking about, until I read that the Superboot only worked on "Holiday" N1's and that the other had to be unlocked, using "fastboot oem unlock". Once again, let me stress that I'm preety new to this, so I may be missing something. Don't let me put you down

awesome
I would be more than happy to test as well. I agree with the fact that the tattoo scene is pretty much dead. Not as many apps, no way to root, and no way to update to 2.1
Send me stuff and ill test it! thanks a bunch

I stand corrected.
We can, at least, upload and start the boot of a boot image.
I ran:
Code:
adb shell reboot oem-72
fastboot boot superboot.img
And I got
Code:
downloading 'boot.img'... OKAY!
booting...
Obviously, it hangs there (superboot has a kernel for N1), but I now believe that if we have a valid Tattoo boot image, maybe we can boot it and run a superuser-like rooting technique.
I have no time to investigate how to compile a kernel, prepare a ramdisk and convert them into a bootable image, but for someone more used to the Android OS, this should be a good path to try.

You have my support. I'm a newbie to the Tattoo hacking scene, but once I get mine, I'll be sure to help out.
As soon as we can root and make our own ROMs, well, we'll have some fun

Ok guys thnks for info, now I know that the oem method works.
Gonna make a superboot for Tattoo for testing, posting it here today, try it and tell me (when I posted it)

[apart] I'm agree with XDA, what is it that the way to request money for a device, promising development ? It's not in community spirit.[end apart]
In fact, i tried to boot a stock boot.img using fastboot boot, and it's don't work. Locked ?

drakaz said:
[apart] I'm agree with XDA, what is it that the way to request money for a device, promising development ? It's not in community spirit.[end apart]
In fact, i tried to boot a stock boot.img using fastboot boot, and it's don't work. Locked ?
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Came out the wrong way, meant more can be done if i actually had the device... anyways..
Did u try too boot into oem-72 mode? and then fastboot boot boot.img?

drakaz said:
[apart]In fact, i tried to boot a stock boot.img using fastboot boot, and it's don't work. Locked ?
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Hi.
Where did you get that boot image from ?

I tried to boot a boot.img using fastboot, from RUU update, in RUU mode.

[REQUEST] Custom SPL?

I want to know if it's possible to make a custom SPL that lets us flash splash screens (what comes before your rom's bootscreen) among other things.
Thanks,
HeroMeng

HeroMeng said:
I want to know if it's possible to make a custom SPL that lets us flash splash screens (what comes before your rom's bootscreen) among other things.
Thanks,
HeroMeng
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Well regarding the Splash screen, you can actually do that yourself right now without a new SPL.
Find instructions on that here

Decad3nce said:
Well regarding the Splash screen, you can actually do that yourself right now without a new SPL.
Find instructions on that here
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There are a few problems with that... I have no idea how to use git and I don't know how to make an rgb888 file.
/noob

Well, I followed the tutorial you posted and it didn't work. What I want is the SPLASH screen as in before Android starts.

Bump. I'm really interested to see if an SPL is possible. Darch, Decad, Jus1, you guys got anything?

HeroMeng said:
Well, I followed the tutorial you posted and it didn't work. What I want is the SPLASH screen as in before Android starts.
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You followed THIS?
You'll have to rip open the ramdisk, but the script esigned for extracting the ramdisk is different than ours, you'll have to use split boot.img and do the hex-editing yourself.
Anyways, I'll go mess with it a little bit since I'm finally done with classes for the summer. (THANK GOD)

Decad3nce said:
You followed THIS?
You'll have to rip open the ramdisk, but the script esigned for extracting the ramdisk is different than ours, you'll have to use split boot.img and do the hex-editing yourself.
Anyways, I'll go mess with it a little bit since I'm finally done with classes for the summer. (THANK GOD)
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Ahhh, lucky. I have finals week next week.

Got deep into this myself, created custom .rle files dropped them in the init.rc, I still get the stock 2.1 RUU green letters on white initial splash screen.
I got brave and tried a guide I saw for the G1 to flash the splash screen from fastboot, i get this
# fastboot flash splash1 /android/tools/mysplash.rgb565
sending 'splash1' (300 KB)... FAILED (remote: not allow)
I would love to be able to get it to work by playing around with the ramdisk, that way I could be made flashable, however I would settle for being able to change it from fastboot if we could get it to work.
to create the .rle is renamed mysplash.rgb565 to initlogo.rle and logo.rle. Not sure if this will work.
Links:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=2877635#post2877635
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=Creating_Splashboot_Images

Red Trackball "of death" - need some instructions

I followed this thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=726258 and run into serious problems that i can't seem to fix.
To be exact I am refearing to a user in that thread that mentioned he has a black screen, since version 0.33 of bootloader doesn't work for "lcd" (?)
However, since I had the same problem i followed his suggestion to use PASSIMG_Passion_KT_KR_2.15.1010.2_FRF91_release_si gned.zip from shipped-roms to get stuff working again. And it did - except the side effect that since then i have a red trackball as soon as the phone finished booting up.
I've tried all, followed the exact instruction for back to stock, formated sdcard, didn't succeed either, so now I'm stucked with this battery draining red light and researches on google gave a lot of hints in terms of moisture or overheat, no solution though.
Any help is highly appreciated.

I think the issue is in the misc partition, something might not be right there...
You currently have the misc img of a desire on your N1...
Maybe you could try to flash a default N1 misc image and PASSIMG of a non korean N1 that matches your current hboot?

Amon_RA said:
I think the issue is in the misc partition, something might not be right there...
You currently have the misc img of a desire on your N1...
Maybe you could try to flash a default N1 misc image and PASSIMG of a non korean N1 that matches your current hboot?
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I did use the original stock image provided by modaco, unzipped it and fastbooted all the images like system, recover and so on.
Now my current boot is:
NEXUSONE PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-0.35.0017
MICROP-0b15
RADIO-4.06.00.12_7
jUN 14 2010, 12:02:27
So could it be that there's a conflict in a "protected area" that can't be solved, except by the approach you suggested?

You did follow the thread in your first post and flashed the Desire misc image (mtd0.img), right? I would try to :
1. unlock your bootloader so S=OFF (fastboot oem unlock)
2. get hold of an N1 mtd0.img dump with S=OFF and flash it

Amon_RA said:
You did follow the thread in your first post and flashed the Desire misc image (mtd0.img), right? I would try to :
1. unlock your bootloader so S=OFF (fastboot oem unlock)
2. get hold of an N1 mtd0.img dump with S=OFF and flash it
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You are the man! thank you so much!!! Time to read about mtd0.img and fire up the hex editor
Unless I find a website that generates or a file that is good enough.
But really great, I was about to wave goodbye to my Nexus

RunTimeWorld said:
You are the man! thank you so much!!! Time to read about mtd0.img and fire up the hex editor
Unless I find a website that generates or a file that is good enough.
But really great, I was about to wave goodbye to my Nexus
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Maybe you can just ask someone to dump his N1 mtd0 partition for you...

Amon_RA said:
Maybe you can just ask someone to dump his N1 mtd0 partition for you...
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That would be awesome, mind giving it a shot?
Don't wanna stretch your patience though..
Btw.. why don't you make a GUI to RA and sell it on the market? ;-)

RunTimeWorld said:
That would be awesome, mind giving it a shot?
Don't wanna stretch your patience though..
Btw.. why don't you make a GUI to RA and sell it on the market? ;-)
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Try this : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4481275/misc.img
Maybe there will be a GUI one day...

Thanks you Amon!!!
off-topic I know... But rarely do u see "popular dev's" responding to people questions/needs and for that I just wanted to pop in and say AMON_RA you are awesome!!! Thanks for everything u do that makes this community GREAT!!
/nohomo guys, just appreciation!!!

I absolutely agree and appreciate to get such a response from a pro!However, I am new to Android and trying to figure out a few things.
[Edit]I figured out about the misc partition and guess what? IT WORKS!!!![/Edit]
Amon, you helped me a big deal, thank you so much, you've triggered a dude to contribute. Big time!

I have the same problem and I tried to do the same method as Amon_Ra posted. But I get the following error message when flashing misc.img:
Code:
remote: signature verify fail
so I was wondering if I am suposed to rename the file as mtd0 and flash it trough adb shell as:
Code:
adb push mtd0.img /data/mtd0.img
adb shell
misc /data/mtd0.img
thanks!

I know that this post is too old, but i have the same problem and the link doesn't works

Amon_RA said:
Maybe you can just ask someone to dump his N1 mtd0 partition for you...
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your link is doesnt work anymore,can you frop it again!

Seriously anyone have that image?

towfurious said:
Seriously anyone have that image?
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What do i need do get you? I havev nexus one unlocked with br and cm7. It is slcd version. Just tell me the command

I think that it's poosible to dump the misc partition with
Code:
dump_image misc /sdcard/misc.img
(as root)
I'm not sure i dumped it correct, file is an attachment.
It's a vodafone nexus one with AMOLED.

Header2k thank you but i need dump from nexus slcd

Race55 can you dump it for me?

towfurious said:
Race55 can you dump it for me?
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Just to confirm, there is no personal info in the misc partition right?

I looked into my dump with an hex editor. The only readable part is something like "Google" and the stock firmware version number. Don't think that there's anything personal
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In order to flash this try the "flash_image" command.

Fix For Dinc BootLoop with no recovery from NVRam Update

I finally successfully recovered my BootLooped Incredible after i incorrectly updated the NV item of my phone. My situation was a little different than most bootloop error because no matter which stock rom or recovery image I flash nothing would stop it from rebooting because the NV items weren't overwritten during the flash. Then I came across a solution for the EVO by cutthroatamft on how he recovered his EVO from the same Mistake but unfortunately all his files were geared toward the EVO. After much searching I accidentally came across a single comment that posted a link for the ENG-HBOOT for the incredible. Now i manage to replace all the EVO specific files with the Dinc equivalent. Below is the link to the files and instructions compile by cutthroatamft but I updated it for the Dinc. Hopefully this helps someone else that has this problem. can't post a live link but I think you can figure it out
update:
Since megaupload is down and Had some people asking for a re-up here's a mediafire link to the file
http://www.mediafire.com/?cu7hu6pu75zvskh
Also as mentioned below by eljean this should work on the SLCD as well it's just your screen will be blank during the process. For those who has this Dinc I found that if the screen is blank wait a few minutes for it to fully boot then test to see if you can execute any ADB command. If you can the just type "adb reboot oem-78" this will reboot it and put it in fastboot mode which will allow you to execute the commands in the document.
update 2:
Nevermind what I said about the ADB... this worked for me on another phone but I realize you'll probably won't get to a point where you can execute the command because your phone in a loop LOL. So I guess getting to fastboot blind folded is your only option

dknlght said:
I finally successfully recovered my BootLooped Incredible after i incorrectly updated the NV item of my phone. My situation was a little different than most bootloop error because no matter which stock rom or recovery image I flash nothing would stop it from rebooting because the NV items weren't overwritten during the flash. Then I came across a solution for the EVO by cutthroatamft on how he recovered his EVO from the same Mistake but unfortunately all his files were geared toward the EVO. After much searching I accidentally came across a single comment that posted a link for the ENG-HBOOT for the incredible. Now i manage to replace all the EVO specific files with the Dinc equivalent. Below is the link to the files and instructions compile by cutthroatamft but I updated it for the Dinc. Hopefully this helps someone else that has this problem. can't post a live link but I think you can figure it out
www megaupload . com /?d=RCZBCDDA
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That's a great find and good little zip/guide to get it set up.
The engineering HBOOT can be quite useful for many things besides flashing/erasing certain partitions. The inc community just hasn't used it that much.

tdiman said:
That's a great find and good little zip/guide to get it set up.
The engineering HBOOT can be quite useful for many things besides flashing/erasing certain partitions. The inc community just hasn't used it that much.
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.77 Will not work on a Slcd Inc, if on Slcd we have no eng

HELP, I am having this problem with my incredible with an SLCD i put the .77 hboot on and then put the other zip in. I couldnt see the screen so i put it in fastboot by memory. I got remote failed errors the entire time.
Should I try putting the evo Hboot on this. I have no idea what else to do.

mattjt21 said:
HELP, I am having this problem with my incredible with an SLCD i put the .77 hboot on and then put the other zip in. I couldnt see the screen so i put it in fastboot by memory. I got remote failed errors the entire time.
Should I try putting the evo Hboot on this. I have no idea what else to do.
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DO NOT USE EVO HBOOT
I don't know how to help you but I'm almost 100 percent sure that will brick it
Sent from my DROIDX using XDA App

mattjt21 said:
HELP, I am having this problem with my incredible with an SLCD i put the .77 hboot on and then put the other zip in. I couldnt see the screen so i put it in fastboot by memory. I got remote failed errors the entire time.
Should I try putting the evo Hboot on this. I have no idea what else to do.
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The guy above you kinda said .77 won't work with SLCD... I honestly don't know how to fix that, but do NOT flash an Evo HBOOT.
I don't wanna come back and see you saying you flashed it anyways lol.
Sent from my Droid Incredible running CM7.0.3.

im sorry to revive an old thread but I cant seem to do this everytime I try to execute a command it responds with
FAILED (Remote: Not allowed)
any help?

Boot poop?
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masully1984 said:
Boot poop?
Sent from my Synergy Rom
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ummm what?

OMFG MAN I LOVE U SO MUCH !!! I FIXED IT !!
The error I was making is that the Hboot you provided is within a .zip file but I didnt know and then I saw. It turned the screen all black because I have a SLCD Incredible but then I just did everything basically blind folded. You just saved me $200 !!! I EFFIN LOVE U MAN, WHENEVER U COME TO NYC WE PARTYIN BRO !!!!

GRATZ
+1
I forwarded this to Eljean but apparently they found this thread first.
Way to go. I never even imagined my write-up helping the Incredible people.

New Method
I got bored and created a more streamlined version of this fix.
I hope it works, I don't have an Incredible to test with.
http://www.multiupload.com/XS5SQL8Q9K
it includes everything needed (even ruu) and it does it for you
Also if anyone has this issue for an HTC Evo I posted this same method at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16133086&postcount=54

cutthroatamft said:
I got bored and created a more streamlined version of this fix.
I hope it works, I don't have an Incredible to test with.
it includes everything needed (even ruu) and it does it for you
Also if anyone has this issue for an HTC Evo I posted this same method at
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Hey there, I think this is a solution to my problem... I have an Incredible S. Would it work with it, if not what would I have to change? Can you re-upload the file somewhere, all of the links are down.
Thanks, Ned

cutthroatamft said:
I got bored and created a more streamlined version of this fix.
I hope it works, I don't have an Incredible to test with.
http://www.multiupload.com/XS5SQL8Q9K
it includes everything needed (even ruu) and it does it for you
Also if anyone has this issue for an HTC Evo I posted this same method at
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16133086&postcount=54
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Same here. This might fix a problemed dinc I have but the links are broken.
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same here it might fix my problem plz someone update the links

link
Can anyone provide a new link to this? my incredible just keeps booting up to the white screen and then rebooting. its an slcd.

I do have this file! It didn't work for me because I'm s-on bit I held on to it. Don't know how or where I could upload...mayb I can email it??..

Can you please attach it to a post in this thread? I have the same thing going on with my amoled incredible.
Thanks.
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smtom said:
Can you please attach it to a post in this thread? I have the same thing going on with my amoled incredible.
Thanks.
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it wont upload? i think the file may b too big....

strive53 said:
it wont upload? i think the file may b too big....
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How big is it? I have an Inc that could REALLY use it. Do ya need a place to upload it to other than here?