Is anyone experienced with making custom boot animations? I tried making one, following a guide, but can't seem to get it working. The problem is probably with the archive compression, though I've tried multiple methods / programs, as everything else is in order. If anyone is willing to take a look, it'd be greatly appreciated - I've uploaded it to Mediafire here: mediafire.com/?x8v3b7b0mdb7a5u
Thanks,
marie :]
Take a look at my thread although its for a particular device you just need to change the resolution for other devices
And I'll try solving your problem one I get back home
PM if you want to know anything more
im takign a look at it and will test on my device, give me a minute or two and i will pm you when i have it figured out.
edit: i sent you a PM here is the fixed .zip works fine now just put it in your devices /data/local folder
might also suggest enlarging the image some as its REALLY small on my device
NSCoyote said:
might also suggest enlarging the image some as its REALLY small on my device
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its because the resolution is set to 480x480 in desc.txt
change it to that of your device and it'll work fine
Thank you all. NSCoyote found that the problem was a thumbs.db file within the archive. Yikes.
Thanks again.
no problem glad i could help
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Could somebody please give me some pointers on how to start and compile your own version of the recovery and adbd executables inside the recovery image?
I would like to add some things to the recovery menu but I'm not sure how to update the recovery executable.
After spending like 2 hours searching for the answer to this, im pretty sure this havent been replied so *BUMP*
Is there anyone out there that could point me in the right direction to opening, modifying and repacking the recovery.img?, Id like to add a password protection to the CM 1.4 Recovery image. I was browsing its contents on github and seems not a hard task to add this, but i dont know how to add the files that I modify inside the recovery.img pack
Help please?
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After spending like 2 hours searching for the answer to this, im pretty sure this havent been replied so *BUMP*
Is there anyone out there that could point me in the right direction to opening, modifying and repacking the recovery.img?, Id like to add a password protection to the CM 1.4 Recovery image. I was browsing its contents on github and seems not a hard task to add this, but i dont know how to add the files that I modify inside the recovery.img pack
Help please?
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You might want to PM Amon_RA
You know he made his own Recovery images for the G1 and Magic now haha
Its funny, he was here asking for help just a few months ago, and now he has two custom recoveries that everyone uses xD
I dont get why this was moved to question an answeres, this regards more likely development.
Dhex- said:
Wierd that this post was moved, this regards more about development that simple a question and answer.
I tried to contat Amon_RA now, I hope he replyes soon. I dont get why the mistery, this is supposed to be a forum for developers. Why no one can post how to do this instead of secretly beg for the info thru pms?
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because there is already a comprehensive guide thats found in the sticky.......
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=443994
Does anyone know how to unlock all the planes apart from playing all the game?
A hack to accomplish what in Mini Squadron?
Think he might be asking for what was posted for angry birds to get all 3 stars.
Might be asking for a hack to get all planes unlocked etc
Thread Cleaned due to confusion, more on topic now .
just edit save.sav file on your sd card
blueeyeblue said:
just edit save.sav file on your sd card
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Care to explain a little more? I know how to access save.sav file. Where and What do I edit ?
That's my problem, too. I only see some strange symbols. I opened the save file with a text editor and a hex editor but with the same result.
So what do I have to edit in the save file
tealk17 said:
That's my problem, too. I only see some strange symbols. I opened the save file with a text editor and a hex editor but with the same result.
So what do I have to edit in the save file
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I guess no one knows how to do it?
If not, please let us know, what needs to be edited.
I'm still trying to figure out how to unlock all the planes in the save.sav. Please someone post their mostly unlocked .sav if nothing else.
One more player looking for the correct changes in the 'save.sav' file.
i have unlocked all planes so far and deleted.luckily i have titanium backup.leme see if it works ...
Edit- yes 56/56 planes unlocked.getting saved file
Where do I put this file?
Edit: This doesn't seem to work. I overwrite the save with this and nothing happens.
Second edit: I was putting the file in the wrong place. It works just fine now! Awesome
this funny
I had unlock all planes on Ms the sad part is about three weeks ago my phone fell off my car and got trashed lost everything I guess I will have to start playing again then upload the save.sav file see y'all in like two months lol..
I downloaded this save file and I'm trying to figure put where to put the file, or if I need to extract it..
If anyone can advise on what I need to do so I have all planes unlocked..
sj
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Try sdcard/Android/files/greyfinstudios.android.minisquadron/
sharp1114 said:
Try sdcard/Android/files/greyfinstudios.android.minisquadron/
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Thanks sharp, that helped me,! My folder was in a slightly different location, I found my folder here: sdcard/Android/data/greyfinstudios.android.minisquadron/files
Thanks again!
sj
Sent from my PimpedOut© E4GT on CM10 - 12/09 Nightly using [email protected] Pro 2.4.5
sharp1114 said:
Try sdcard/Android/files/greyfinstudios.android.minisquadron/
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No folder !!
Hey, guys. First time poster here, and I have a question/problem. For my GTablet, I wanted to make a simple and clean boot animation, but it constantly just displays a black screen on bootup. I thought it might be the desc.txt file was formatted incorrectly (by Windows) and tried a few seperate methods of making it, but I have so far failed to get it to work.
I saw this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=749576 and thought it was relevant, but no solution was actually posted. If anyone can fix this file and tell me what was wrong with it, I would appreciate it!
stact13 said:
Hey, guys. First time poster here, and I have a question/problem. For my GTablet, I wanted to make a simple and clean boot animation, but it constantly just displays a black screen on bootup. I thought it might be the desc.txt file was formatted incorrectly (by Windows) and tried a few seperate methods of making it, but I have so far failed to get it to work.
I saw this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=749576 and thought it was relevant, but no solution was actually posted. If anyone can fix this file and tell me what was wrong with it, I would appreciate it!
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This one helped me to get Animations to work and i hope it will work 4 u too
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13515045&postcount=145
In your desc.txt, hit enter after the second line, leaving a third blank line at the end.
Also, I've never tried a bootanimation using .jpg, if what I said above does not fix it try converting the files to .png.
Hey XDA, been away for a while and just finished my first semester of college. Checked up on my old thread to find alot of positive things. A while back I wanted to do more with this and never got around to it, but figured it was about time I did...
The new animation starts somewhat similarly to the old one with added transition between the HTC logo and the vortex. Also after the vortex, instead of a static image at the end I've thrown together a completely new piece that will loop until the phone finally decides to start.
This version also uses JPGs rather than PNGs. I just found out JPGs could be used the other day... After optimizing the PNGs, (something that wasn't considered for the old one) this new one comes out to a total of 234MB... (one of those things that happen when you only use AfterFX for the project...) If anyone would like this anyway... Let me know and I'll put it up somewhere.
I also made a basic splash screen, something that was misadvertised with the old version. It is the first image in the attachments and can be installed thru bootloader. (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?37e8as4f4m68cwu)
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?w1ci9p2ugk7271d
If you would like the stock sound to use with this download it from the attachments below, extract the mp3 and add it to /system/media.
GIFs were 4-5MB each so heres a video instead...
Old version has been moved to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20568970 if anyone wants to check it out.
Thanks for the link, and if you get a chance to try it out let me know how you like it
This is [email protected]$$! Way better then the stock bootanimation
Great work!
>--The Game--<
How to I install this? HBoot or Recovery? I know sometimes you need to rename it to the PG0059 thing (I know it's not right) and I'm just curious before I go screwing anything up
Bigwidge said:
How to I install this? HBoot or Recovery? I know sometimes you need to rename it to the PG0059 thing (I know it's not right) and I'm just curious before I go screwing anything up
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I personally used clockwork recovery and did install sdcard/update.zip
Place the update.zip from the download onto the root of the sd card, then in ROM manager, reboot into recovery and install the update.
There are alternatives to this such as just putting the bootanimation.zip into the right folder using root explorer, but I ran into permission problems so I did it this way.
If you have any other questions feel free to ask.
bobz1993 said:
I personally used clockwork recovery and did install sdcard/update.zip
Place the update.zip from the download onto the root of the sd card, then in ROM manager, reboot into recovery and install the update.
There are alternatives to this such as just putting the bootanimation.zip into the right folder using root explorer, but I ran into permission problems so I did it this way.
If you have any other questions feel free to ask.
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Thanks alot bud! Thats what I thaught but I figured I would ask before doing anything. Looks sick- thanks for posting!
EDIT: Just flashed it and it looks amazing! Definitley a keeper! I like how fast it spells "quietly brilliant" (I hate slow screens) and the animations on the boot animation is just plain awesome. ++++1
DUDE this is sweeet! Thanks!
Glad you guys like it. Are you using the stock sound with it. Seems like it would work good with this, but I lost it when I flashed to the ROM I'm on >.>
yes stock sound and it is perfect!
bobz1993 said:
Glad you guys like it. Are you using the stock sound with it. Seems like it would work good with this, but I lost it when I flashed to the ROM I'm on >.>
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bobz1993 said:
Glad you guys like it. Are you using the stock sound with it. Seems like it would work good with this, but I lost it when I flashed to the ROM I'm on >.>
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Yeah same here, the stock sound works great with it
Is this new boot animation really 24MB? Like, I yanked it out of the update .zip because I normally move them with Root Explorer. I find easier, and I have a system to doing this where I save the old ones in the folder and just rename them. Allowing me to swap them out at will by simply altering the name of the bootanimation . zip back to that.
-Edit- NVM. I see why it's 24MB now.
Holy effing sh!t cakes! That's a lot of graphical content to run through there in the beginning. Looks awesome though!
Again, just to anyone reading this that hasn't tried this boot animation yet.
THIS BOOT ANIMATION IS AWESOME!
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Is this new boot animation really 24MB? Like, I yanked it out of the update .zip because I normally move them with Root Explorer. I find easier, and I have a system to doing this where I save the old ones in the folder and just rename them. Allowing me to swap them out at will by simply altering the name of the bootanimation . zip back to that.
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Glad you like it. I would have done the same using root explorer, but I ran into read only and permission problems for anything i tried to use it with. And I really tryed to lower the size the best I could... It was originally 165mb, then found out it was rendering w/o compression (lossless), changed render settings managed to get to 95mb... to get it to 24mb I lowered the quality a little more and it skips every other frame. After uploading it I attempted to make it smaller but all i can do is lower the quality even more, and at 17mb it looked pretty bad.
PS- could someone link me to the stock FinalThunder.mp3 I haven't had it since I flashed my ROM
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Glad you like it. I would have done the same using root explorer, but I ran into read only and permission problems for anything i tried to use it with. And I really tryed to lower the size the best I could... It was originally 165mb, then found out it was rendering w/o compression (lossless), changed render settings managed to get to 95mb... to get it to 24mb I lowered the quality a little more and it skips every other frame. After uploading it I attempted to make it smaller but all i can do is lower the quality even more, and at 17mb it looked pretty bad.
PS- could someone link me to the stock FinalThunder.mp3 I haven't had it since I flashed my ROM
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No I wasn't *****ing about the size. I was checking to make sure I didn't bork something up extracting it. I was just verifying as most of them are 2-6MB.
Here's the Final Thunder .mp3
I ripped it right from the system folder with RE so it should be good. Make sure you check the permissions though. As they may need to be altered to get it to jive with the way it gets read. It should be;
X-X-[0]
X-[0]-[0]
X-[0]-[0]
I think.
X meaning checked.
I had to rar it to post it.
Edit: Yes, that's the way the permissions need to be above, but when it gets extracted it changes them to;
[0]-[0]-[0]
X-X-X
X-[0]-X
So if you just drop it in there it probably WON'T WORK. Make sure you change the permissions!
Again, thanks for the awesome boot animation!
Thanks, I just now noticed the mount r/w button at the top of root explorer >.>
I also did all of this before I saw the post edit, so I did just throw it in there, but it still worked =o
Now I can see the bootscreen everyones been thanking me for lol... Thanks again for the sound clip =)
bobz1993 said:
Thanks, I just now noticed the mount r/w button at the top of root explorer >.>
I also did all of this before I saw the post edit, so I did just throw it in there, but it still worked =o
Now I can see the bootscreen everyones been thanking me for lol... Thanks again for the sound clip =)
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Hardly a fair trade for the kick ass boot animation. But no problem.
Yeah, many moons ago RE owned me until I found that little mount r/w button. After finding it however it's been an extremely useful tool.
I'm surprised the MP3 worked for you actually w/o changing permissions. :shrugs: I'm leaving the warning there in case someone else downloads it for the same purpose and it doesn't.
Which file or folder do i drop this into to make sound work. I am on gingeritis and had to delete the VZW_bootanimation and there is no sound once i swapped that boot animation out with this one?
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No I wasn't *****ing about the size. I was checking to make sure I didn't bork something up extracting it. I was just verifying as most of them are 2-6MB.
Here's the Final Thunder .mp3
I ripped it right from the system folder with RE so it should be good. Make sure you check the permissions though. As they may need to be altered to get it to jive with the way it gets read. It should be;
X-X-[0]
X-[0]-[0]
X-[0]-[0]
I think.
X meaning checked.
I had to rar it to post it.
Edit: Yes, that's the way the permissions need to be above, but when it gets extracted it changes them to;
[0]-[0]-[0]
X-X-X
X-[0]-X
So if you just drop it in there it probably WON'T WORK. Make sure you change the permissions!
Again, thanks for the awesome boot animation!
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It's either system/media
or
system/customize/resource
But I think it's system/media
Find the bootanimation .zip and that's where the sound file should go.
I tried putting it system/customize/resource and that didnt do anything so i will try system media I guess just put in the main file or any one of the sbu files I have
audio
GPU
weather
folders in there will try a few i guess?
Asmodeus6 said:
It's either system/media
or
system/customize/resource
But I think it's system/media
Find the bootanimation .zip and that's where the sound file should go.
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If anyone wants to try this, it is a zip of the vortex boot animation hopefully with the sound. It is for anyone running a rom that has a boot animation in the system/customize/resource folder and the boot animation is labeled VZW_bootanimation.
Let me know how it goes please
My apologies if the OP does not want this and will take down if asked
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9663029/VortexBootAnimation.zip
I got the animation to work, but no thunder. Tried everything! I think it may be my current set up (gingeritits and imosyons 2.5.4.test.4 kernel) since day one, there's been no sound. It came with the old school PC looking bootanimation and I read somewhere that, that boot ani is supposed to sound like a disc drive spooling up with clicks n what not, but it never did. I remember on the virus Rom I had, it DID have sound and the .mp3 was called VRsound.mp3. I made my own, fixed permissions, renamed it to VRsound.mp3 and replaced it. That worked. I could be wrong, but because this ROM didn't come with sound in the first place, I just can't get it.... Oh well. Still a tight boot! sound or not!
4Geezy ON DopeDiculous's ROOTED TBeezy!
I am trying to find the stock 7310 boot animation files: bootsamsung.qmg and bootsamsungloop qmg files from the 7310. Please.
Thanks,
you need to have root... then go to system->media and there they are... enjoy
JU57FL1P said:
you need to have root... then go to system->media and there they are... enjoy
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Thanks for replying. I knew I should have given more information, darn it! I have a rooted i957 LTE that has a really ugly Telus boot screen, Since I don't plan on using this tab for data with AT&T or Telus, I'd like to just get a Samsung (or a generic android) boot animation. I've found some other boot animations in different forums, but I thought that the 7310 would be my best bet because the resolution should be correct without any tweaking. I've seen people posting links to boot files in the past and was hoping someone could do the same with the 7310. Thanks again for your reply.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1648314
but you have to download the rom file, put it in there and then flash the rom with the modified .zip inside it (DON'T EXTRACT THE ROM ZIP FILE)
JU57FL1P said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1648314
but you have to download the rom file, put it in there and then flash the rom with the modified .zip inside it (DON'T EXTRACT THE ROM ZIP FILE)
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Here's the situation. I am using the DannoRom_2xx. His Rom has the two qmg files in question located in system>media. I have tried replacing those files with other qmg animation files and they don't seem to want to be replaced. Do I need to replace the files in the ROM and then re-flash the ROM? Actually, I did accomplish part of what I wanted to do (although I'm not sure how I did it.) I did get rid of the Telus screen so now I just have a black screen while my tab is booting. Obviously this is not an urgent problem, I'm just determined to figure out how to do this. It was much easier using zip files on the Nook Color last year. Thanks for trying to help.
heliosue said:
Here's the situation. I am using the DannoRom_2xx. His Rom has the two qmg files in question located in system>media. I have tried replacing those files with other qmg animation files and they don't seem to want to be replaced.
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How did you try to replace them?
The /system file-system is mounted read-only. It needs to be re-mounted read-write before you can modify it. And then re-mounted read-only in the interest of safety.
boscorama said:
How did you try to replace them?
The /system file-system is mounted read-only. It needs to be re-mounted read-write before you can modify it. And then re-mounted read-only in the interest of safety.
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Even after setting system permissions to R/W, this is the message I get when I try to move or replace those QMG files that are located in system.
Thanks,
heliosue said:
Even after setting system permissions to R/W, this is the message I get when I try to move or replace those QMG files that are located in system.
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Hmmm. There is another explanation (other than not being rooted, which you already seem to be).
Is the /system/media a distinct file-system? Or a symlink?
(I don't believe the i957 is that different, though)
What does the mount or df command say?
And 'ls -ld /system/media' ?
Also, have you tried doing the mv/cp using adb?
boscorama said:
Hmmm. There is another explanation (other than not being rooted, which you already seem to be).
Is the /system/media a distinct file-system? Or a symlink?
(I don't believe the i957 is that different, though)
What does the mount or df command say?
And 'ls -ld /system/media' ?
Also, have you tried doing the mv/cp using adb?
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Okay, I surrender! I am not afraid to admit that I am apparently in over my head. I just wanted to replace the current QMG files with some others,and it looks like I have ventured into, what is for me, unchartered territory. I have used ADB in the past, but I don't think I know enough to be really comfortable with it. Samsung's proprietary animation files are way beyond my ability to deal with. I'll be following this thread to see if someone out there who is much more knowledgeable than I, comes up with a procedure that I can understand and actually implement.
Thanks to any and all who have tried to help me solve this problem.
heliosue said:
I'll be following this thread to see if someone out there who is much more knowledgeable than I, comes up with a procedure that I can understand and actually implement.
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Really? Wow. OK.
I will note that this is your thread and this is xda-developers, not Samsung user support.
Sitting back and waiting to have the solution spoon-fed to you while someone is trying to help you is not exactly the way to endear yourself to the community.
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Really? Wow. OK.
I will note that this is your thread and this is xda-developers, not Samsung user support.
Sitting back and waiting to have the solution spoon-fed to you while someone is trying to help you is not exactly the way to endear yourself to the community.
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Easy for you to say. Sorry if this offends. Please tell me what I should do in this circumstance. Your most recent response is way over my head. I gave as much information that I could come up with. Other than that, what would you have me do. Should I pretend that I know what you are talking about, or should I acknowledge that this thread has moved beyond my ability to understand. I was hoping to find someone with some recognition of the problems I was dealing with. Obviously not something you have experienced for yourself. I tried everything that was suggested until I got to this last post which made absolutely no sense to me. Of course I can google until the cows come home, and I probably will, trying to figure out what all of the references you made actually mean. I really am sorry if I led anyone to believe that I knew and understood more than I do. I come from the earlier XDA threads for the Nook Color which was a very special place for all of us newcomers who were so excited about learning what we could do. It has been all too obvious that those Nook Color forums were the not the norm. I have managed to work my through a few other android products: the touchpad, the nexus s, and the galaxy 7.7. All rooted with help fro XDA. The 8.9 doesn't seem to have the same interest and dedication that some of the other forums have. Sorry to have been a distraction.
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Please tell me what I should do in this circumstance. Your most recent response is way over my head.
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If you'd simply said ^^^^ this ^^^^ before, I'd have said:
"Download a terminal app from the store and run the commands I mentioned before."
and then I wouldn't have thrown away the update.zip I had prepared for you.
I need help and i'm not giving up... lol
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Really? Wow. OK.
I will note that this is your thread and this is xda-developers, not Samsung user support.
Sitting back and waiting to have the solution spoon-fed to you while someone is trying to help you is not exactly the way to endear yourself to the community.
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ok so i'm having the same problem as this guy.... except i want my stock bootanimation changed. the animation is labeled bootsamsung.qmg, i have rooted my samsung galaxy s3 and my samsung galaxy tab 2 but both have same file type.... have done lots of research and still have not found out why when i root does not change bootanimation to a zip.... i have root explorer and it shows the same in both devices. Any help would be great. I really appreciate all the help with the rooting i have had just from reading xda threads.
BillyBigRoot said:
ok so i'm having the same problem as this guy.... except i want my stock bootanimation changed. the animation is labeled bootsamsung.qmg, i have rooted my samsung galaxy s3 and my samsung galaxy tab 2 but both have same file type.... have done lots of research and still have not found out why when i root does not change bootanimation to a zip.... i have root explorer and it shows the same in both devices. Any help would be great. I really appreciate all the help with the rooting i have had just from reading xda threads.
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Hello there!
It seems that you can get new QMG files by following this tutorial:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2189934
It says shutdown but it's actually for both