I grabbed a .png from here and need to create a kaisimg.nbh for it.
Anyone know how? I tried loading it into NBH tool but it looks for an .nb file.
Attached is the modded .png image for the Kaiser, I can do others if needed.
Thanx in advance for any help....
here is where I found how to make .nbh from an image
Flashing Custom Splash Screens on Kaiser
good luck ^^
Post it when you're done!
Also, black would be nice
I was thinking black as well but if I invert the colors the text and android robot goes purple, all except "quietly brilliant", which turns white.
I might mess with it in paint tonight... Thanks for the link!
On black as requested.
Also in BMP format.
https://sites.google.com/site/speedysurferuk/SplashScreen.bmp?attredirects=0
Ok, after much deliberation and fidgiting with .ocx/.dll files, I finally decied that Win 7 sux for using the nb splash tools... I reverted to "old faithful" toshiba WinXP lappy.
It was a PITA to get the pic to invert AND keep the aspect correct, and I will admit the lower phrase is skewed left, but only slightly.
Anyway,...
Here's my very first contribution for a splash screen!
240 x 320 24bpp, for Kaiser only.
Unzip, put on an SD card, enter bootloader, install and enjoy!
PS:
I'll post one of the black one supplied by SpeedySurfer sometime tomorrow.
oooo man its great now fist boot is more androided thanks
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Please Post here, so questions can be answered by more than me... NO PMs please!
My method is from this Thread
After alot of taking from this site, I am prepared to give something back!! I can make boot-screens and splash screens for you, if you like.
I will also upload my own customs, ready to flash!!
Here is the first set, I found a Picture of a little boy wearing a wizard costume.
It contains just Bootscreens, will not change anything else, you will not lose data.
They are only for Wizards!!
As requested I will share my "Method of Manipulation"... Hope you can follow along... As a side-note I will try to explain what makes an Image complex. If the image has clouds or gradients or highly detailed or a lot of black with white dots. It will be hard to compress. If it is a solid color it will compress easily. Sometimes I "pen" out the subject and put it on a soild color background to save the image quality..
First I open the file in photoshop. And crop it to 480x640x96dpi. If the file has a "complex-background" I go to "Part One;Step one. If it has a solid color background go to "Part One;Step 4"
Part one:
1.Using the pen tool (or your selection tool of choice) I create a work path of the subject (foreground).
2.Then I create a new 480x640x96dpi image And drag the subject (foreground) into the new document.
3.If the background is important to the image I then clear the selection.
4.Then I choose "save image for web". When the image opens up into the save for web sub-program, I choose "GIF" format, resize the image to 240x320 using "bi-cubic smoother".
5.Then I manipulate the "Lossy", "Colors",and "Dither" values until I come up with an image I find pleasing. Try to keep the "optimized" file size down below 15k to 20k if it is just the background. And less than 27k if it is the whole picture.
6.I then save the file as HTC.GIF in My "equinoxe boot/splash kitchen".
If the HTC.GIF is just a background go to "Part TWO".
If it is the whole Image, continue to part 7
7.Then I open the kitchen and right click on the HTC.GIF file and choose "edit". this opens the file in MS PAINT. Choose "save as" and save it as a "24-bit Bitmap".
8.Then I say a prayer, and click on "htc-compres.bat" and hope for a 65536 byte file. I always end up with a 67235 or something the first try.
If it is not, go back to photoshop and start over at "step 4" until you get a perfect 65536 bytes.
Part two:
"If the HTC.GIF file you saved was just the background"
1.Open the HTC.GIF file in Photoshop.
2.Resize it to 480x640x96 dpi
3.Change the mode to RGB
4."Drag and drop" The layer from "Part One; Step 2" onto The HTC.GIF file while holding "SHIFT" Move it around if it doesn't land right until it looks right.
5.Go to "Part One; Step 4"
Good Luck
Just an FYI, the 3rd splash screen should really be 320x320 so that it shows up correctly in landscape mode. The design still mainly needs to be kept in the 240x320 area (ie: the left side of the 320x320) as it doesn't get stretched.
To be honest, I don't know how many people start their phones in landscape mode, so its probably not a big issue, but if you see the original welcomehead.96.png files, you'll see they are 320x320 for this reason.
Thanx mfrazz, changing now!
Found the coolest little 3-D devil!! Added a welcome screen.
Made a new Black Windows Logo (Inspired by inneyeseakay). Moved the original here.
Found another Wizard!
Pardon my ignorance but do these replace the first sceen you see on soft reset or the second?
rmg said:
Pardon my ignorance but do these replace the first sceen you see on soft reset or the second?
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There are actually three screens:
The first is the "HTC-Logo" screen it has no IPL/SPL.
The second is the "Splash" screen it has the IPL/SPL.
The third is the "Welcome" screen (usually windows mobile)
The "zip" files replace the LOGO and SPLASH screens.
The "cab" files replace the third screen.
One for the Ladies in your life (or just want a lady wizard on your screen)
Purple Wizard Paradox!
Anyone a fan of Michelle-Lee Phelan? This is her Fairy God-Mother.
badbert said:
Made a new Black Windows Logo (Inspired by inneyeseakay).
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I'm flattered... lol. Anyway, really like the Wizard logos!
inneyeseakay said:
I'm flattered... lol. Anyway, really like the Wizard logos!
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Thank You! I Like your work as well!!
Another Phelan, "The Little Red Number".
And Matrix Code?? Please!!!
Thank you
LeoArg said:
And Matrix Code?? Please!!!
Thank you
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hmm any images?? tomorrow for sure.
Creative Juices flowing.... Maybe something special....
Matrix Code Images
Do you like?
LeoArg said:
Do you like?
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Yes, please share it
badbert, do you like?
Do it, please. I don´t know the method
Thank
to bad
to bad its not for G4 lock wizard
weeks ago someone post a splash screen that was a at&t logo looking like star wars death star. I search but found nothing if somebody can help me will be appreciated
I couldn't find one either, so I just slapped this one together...
thanks great splash screen
That would be a cool startup screen - if you make it I sure would like to have it.
Right on, thanks. Glad you guys like it.
Yeah, I'd like to make that my startup screen too... =P
I made it and then realized I didn't know how to change the splash screen. Ahh well. I'm sure the instructions are on the board somewhere!
In the mean time, I decided to make a background based on this graphic...
It actually works out pretty well with the black theme and HTC Home.
Nice Graphic, Here's it converted into a usable splash screen. It needs to be 320x320 24bit PNG file. Unzip it and copy it into your phone's windows folder.
You may need to use something like resco file explorer to change the original splash graphic (welcomehead96.png) to remove the read-only attribute so you can copy the new one in.
Have fun.
P.S. This is the "2nd" splash screen and comes up after the ROM splash.
Here's an updated version with the starfield background...
RemE said:
...It needs to be 320x320 24bit PNG file...
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Oops... Just saw your post.
Hmmm.. Not sure I can do that with paint.NET, which is all I have installed on this box at the moment. It looks like it can save PNG files, but I have no idea if that's 24bit or what.
Here you go..
could you be talking about this one???
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Here you go..
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Okay, that looks freaking great! Thank you for your file!
AT&T Boot Splash Screen
If you want this image as the very first start screen as you power your kaiser up (boot splash screen) then I have created the relevant file for you to flash on your phone.
Click Here and follow instructions The deathstar splash file is a little way down.
Russ
Hello, is it possible to implement "HTC quietly brilliant" to the standard HTC bootscreen ?
Are the standard bootscreen connected together? (I mean HERO + HTC animations ) or two GIF's side by side?
Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=587867
I'll try to do it alone
etecdailey said:
Hello, is it possible to implement "HTC quietly brilliant" to the standard HTC bootscreen ?
Are the standard bootscreen connected together? (I mean HERO + HTC animations ) or two GIF's side by side?
Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=587867
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they are two single gifs. look in /system/media/bootscreen.
Would be really good if we can apply this, its a really nice bootscreen im bored of the Hero one
i don't think you can use it as a splashscreen. the splashscreen is the very first screen to appear, usually your operator's logo (or the operator who sold the phone, i.e. t-mobile for me). this is a static picture, and can be updated since paul released the hacked spl.
the bootscreen is by default the two androids popping up behind the "hero", and then the sparkling htc logo. this can be replaced. give me two minutes, i'll make you an update.zip...
edit: no luck, the gif somehow doesn't work as a bootscreen. if you could find it in / change it to 320x480 it might work though.
Thanks for having ago, i really dunno where to start with all of this, have you tried changin the size? i dont have a carrier animation as i have MoDaCos rom.
jayw08 said:
Thanks for having ago, i really dunno where to start with all of this, have you tried changin the size? i dont have a carrier animation as i have MoDaCos rom.
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hm, you don't get it. the carrier logo is not animated. it is shown for 40-45 seconds as the first picture when the phone is started. maybe it is the htc's stock picture, the hero writing. it just sits there, then quickly fades out and back in, and then the little androids come out. the moment where it fades is when the splashscreen is changed to the bootscreen. in this case they are just the same picture, except the bootscreen being animated.
the splashscreen can only be a static image.
the bootscreen can be up (or more?) three animated gifs, fullscreen or cropped with another (probably static, didn't test animated) gif for the background. you can loop the last image or just let it sit at the last frame. look into /system/media/bootscreen, and check the contents of the boot_animation.xml, it is pretty self-explainatory.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=582336&highlight=bootscreen
have a look into the stock_bootscreen_nosound.zip, it is the original stock htc bootscreen (not splashscreen!). the bootscreen can be applied via update.zip or adb push, the splashscreen must be written in fastboot mode as it is kind of a "low-level" image presentation. this is also the reason why the image must be rgb565-coded before flashing. on modaco there is a howto for the splashscreen, which needs the modified hboot (also called spl) for the hero just released by paul.
this should do it, hope this helps
edit: i tried changing the size, but somehow the gif looks wired when i open it with gimp, it seems to destroy all the animation timing... should be possible though.
Thanks for explaining all that, GIFs are tricky but very effective, i dont really have time to look into all that u described, but thanks for having a go. I just hope someone that may have more experience with the hero may do it. I dont know where to find a file explorer for the hero on windows.
Thanks
Here ya go. But for some odd reason, it doesn't show up correctly. Dunno why. I just made it into an animated gif with the right size.
tristan it works what you made?
Not exactly. It works fine on the pc, but when put on the phone it flickers. I don't have the knowhow to get it to work, but I thought that if I uploaded the gif, soeone with the wits could fix it.
I am having the same issue, tristan202. I edited and moved the tattoo boot animation ( HERE ) but when flashed to the phone, it gets garbled and looks weird.
I made the animation in Flash CS4.
Anybody know the solution to this?
i wanna usee it hoepfully somebody can make it work
can't delete bootlogo :[
when making the nexus bootscreen i found out that the gif needs to be 255 color indexed mode. 128 colors won't work, for example. what seems to work is to use rgb files, throw them together in gimp, and let it do the indexing automatically when exporting. source material needs to be rgb (at least the first image), otherwise the result will be using the palette of the first image, which will make the rest of the frames look like crap.
I have made gifs for a custom boot screen and have been playing around with getting it them to work.
I flash over the previous bootscreen it reboots, my images show but then when they are meant to be animated the image gets scrambled and makes no sense, i did rather cheekily just replace the .gifs from someone elses custom boot screen and signed the zip file.
does anyone know whats going wrong or can anyone point me in the direction of creating the files to go with the gifs so i can get this working.
Cheers
John
They need to be in indexed 255 colors. And they mustn't have any transparent layers. Then they should work just fine.
ahh tristan...you've learnt well... ;D
cheers for the help gents, will try it in the morning.
hmm this is annoying, i have my gif files all built nicely but not using indexed 255 .... does anyone know of a tutorial for converting it without loosing all animations? im searching the net at the moment but no luck
gimp -> image -> mode -> indexed
Will it change a current gif or do i have to make the frames again in gimp?
It works through all the frames.
just used gimp under ubuntu, opened the animations selected image >> mode >> indexed flashed my boot files and they are still not displaying right, beter as you can see part of the animation playing but its far from perfect.
shal i just try creating the images again? or has anyone got any other suggestions?
thanks for everyones help so far though
John
Hello, first post here. I am having the same problems as jonny in creating a custom bootscreen. The first frame of my animation will show before it scrambles. Iam using photoshop. I created my animation in imageready, imported to photoshop, made an indexed 255 color palate and went back to imageready and loaded the palate. I feel like I'm missing something obvious.
BTW, I love this forum. You are all great. I am learning so much. Recently created my own lockscreen, and after I can get the bootscreen down I want to try my hand at the taskbar icons
I swapped to GIMP image editor (which is 100% free) to actualy animate my gifs in indexed 255, i did it in photoshop but it didnt work for some reason even when using indexed 255 colour.
Okay, after much fooling around, I finally got it to work properly . In case anyone cares, here's what I did:
Created the animation in PS (didn't realize you could do animation in PS and didn't need IR) to how I want it to run. Once it looks exactly how you want it, click "Flatten frames into layers". Now delete your original layers so all you have left is the animation frames. Save PSD and open it in GIMP. Go to file, save as, and save as a gif. Click the "save as animation" and "convert to indexed" (that is the key right there) bubbles, and click "export" then save.
Viola! now more problems. I can't figure out how to post it as a gif, but it is the boot process from windows xp.
Not sure what prompted me to spend a day making this and, if it's not painfully obvious, I relied on PowerPoint and Paint for most of this. Since it's finished, though, I decided to share. Hope someone enjoys rocking it on their TB as much as I do.
Also, added a .gif of the sequence down below. Timing is off and quality is poor in the .gif, but the bootanimation.zip contains all .png's. The .gif is of the White version. My OCD noticed a little ring of light color around the Droid in the Black version, so I went back in with Gimp and made a White version and am uploading both.
Note: I didn't add a sound for it. I prefer to not have a boot sound, but if someone finds/mixes one appropriate, I'm game to try it.
Files attached below, but also MultiUploaded
Black Boot Animation - bootanimation.zip
Black Splash Screen - PG05IMG.zip
White Boot Animation - bootanimation.zip
White Splash Screen - PG05IMG.zip
How to change your Boot Animation
How to change your Splash screen
In the Downloads below, the Black version's files come first.
*scratching head....
Where is the gif? Only see a jpeg.