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Moto "M" logo?

Is there a way I can change it to the HTC logo or to something else? Or is it not possible?
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Yes. Credit goes to daikonv for this. It isn't simple though. You need to have an image, convert it to hex, and hex edit part of the rds file. You'll need to re-root your phone too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAsryc6mnRk
This is to change the motorola logo that you see when you boot your phone to a custom image. This is separate from the boot animation seen afterwards.
Tools/files you will need:
1) RSD Lite
2) droid sbf
3) SBFCodec
4) Photoshop (or paint, or whatever drawing program)
5) Hex editor (frhed is free and very easy to use)
NOTE: I do not use sbf-recalc because it complains about needing version 1.3, so I use SBFCodec instead.
Steps:
1) Run SBFCodec and open up the sbf file. This will extract all the smg files and header files.
2) Using photoshop, create an image that is 480 pixels wide and 182 pixels tall. Each color should be assigned 8 bits (1 byte), or in paint, just make a 24 bit bmp file. Mirror the image, making the left become the right, and the right becoming the left. Save as a bmp file (photoshop method).
3) Using a hex editor, open up your image and erase the first 54 bytes of data. (and possibly the last 2 bytes of data if you used photoshop. the number of bytes remaining should be exactly 262,080) With the remaining data, reverse the bytes. (using frhed, the option is in the edit menu->Reverse bytes)
4) Using a hex editor, open up the CG42.smg file created in step 1 and erase all data except the last 64 bytes of data (these 64 bytes of data should be FF's in the file). Then paste in the remaining data from step 3 to the beginning of the file and save. Your final file should be exactly 262,144 bytes large.
5) Go back to the SBFCodec window and save (this creates the sbf) the sbf file and name it whatever you want. i.e. boot.sbf
6) Using RSD Lite, flash this sbf to your phone. It may take 5-10 minutes for the flashing to complete. (after the 10 minutes, it might say "failed", just click on the show device button once that happens and you'll have succeeded)
You now have a stock phone with a custom boot image. Go ahead and root your phone and stuff. Sorry for the difficult instructions, this was the only approach I could think of to edit the boot logo.
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I was hoping there might be something simpler... but thanks anyways!
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I can create boot logo sbf files for the Droid 1. Post up an image and I'll make it for ya.

esocid said:
Yes. Credit goes to daikonv for this. It isn't simple though. You need to have an image, convert it to hex, and hex edit part of the rds file. You'll need to re-root your phone too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAsryc6mnRk
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That's intense. Can't you guys just flash rgbs through fastboot?

barnacles10 said:
That's intense. Can't you guys just flash rgbs through fastboot?
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The Droid 1, 2 and X do not have fastboot access. I can however create an sbf that contains only the bootloader image to replace the Moto M logo. It will not require you to reroot. The attached was created for the D1. DO NOT attempt to flash this to your D2 or DX
Contact me if you want your own custom boot logo for your D1 or DX

So when I write the sbf I will have to reflash cw also or can I just do a restore
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dakoopsta said:
So when I write the sbf I will have to reflash cw also or can I just do a restore
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if you use the sbf in the zip i posted above, you will not have to reflash or restore anything. It only changes the bootloader logo.

jlutz555 said:
The Droid 1, 2 and X do not have fastboot access. I can however create an sbf that contains only the bootloader image to replace the Moto M logo. It will not require you to reroot. The attached was created for the D1. DO NOT attempt to flash this to your D2 or DX
Contact me if you want your own custom boot logo for your D1 or DX
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Thank you so much for this, I've rerooted my phone a dozen times because I didn't have this!

Vaizard420 said:
Thank you so much for this, I've rerooted my phone a dozen times because I didn't have this!
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Hey, sorry, I tried to edit the cg42 file in your sbf with one of my custom 24 bit bpm's, I did everything that works in other sbf's, but it won't flash right, yet it works if I don't touch the original file. Any thoughts on what I could do?

Vaizard420 said:
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Hey, sorry, I tried to edit the cg42 file in your sbf with one of my custom 24 bit bpm's, I did everything that works in other sbf's, but it won't flash right, yet it works if I don't touch the original file. Any thoughts on what I could do?
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Modifying my sbf will not work without editing the checksum after you add your own logo. I'll give you the link when I get home to my computer this weekend... There is also a windows program out there that will take a bmp and convert straight to sbf. Search droidforums.net...
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jlutz555 said:
I can create boot logo sbf files for the Droid 1. Post up an image and I'll make it for ya.
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I have been trying to follow these instructions and have failed every time. The error I usually receive is:
Failed flashing process. Failed flashing process. Interface AP-OS: Error verifying Code Group 42 checksums. File: 0xDDF9, Phone: 0x6BEA (0x4007031); phone connected
Could you please convert this bmp file into a flashable sbf ?

jlutz555 said:
Modifying my sbf will not work without editing the checksum after you add your own logo. I'll give you the link when I get home to my computer this weekend... There is also a windows program out there that will take a bmp and convert straight to sbf. Search droidforums.net...
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After much searching, I was able to find such a program referenced:
Boot Logo Generator v1.10.10.22.exe
For convenience of everyone else, I have attached it here so other don't need to go through that ridiculous download process.

[xt862] .906 1-click-sbf.exe + tools updated [3/31/2013]

YOU MUST BE ON .906 OTA TO USE THIS
**If you are on .890 ota please download and use this file>>D3.SBF.890.ZIP (flash via rsdlite)**
UPDATED THE 1 CLICK SBF EXE TO THE OFFICIAL .906 SBF
now you can restore you D3 to factory .906
I created a 1-click-sbf.exe to make flashing as simple as possible.
The exe when ran will extract files to a temp dir (if needed)
to make it easy for you to delete manually or most window cleaners will clean the temp folder.
thus you don't have to have that much room taken up on your hard drive all the time..
when you start the exe it will check the temp folder to see if the files still remain..
if they do it will not need to extract the files thus starting much quicker!
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BRICK YOUR DEVICE
DOWNLOAD: http://d-h.st/Z7b
PLEASE DONT FORGET TO CLICK THE LITTLE THANKS BUTTON...
1. Download the above file to computer
2. Get a beer
3. If you have a spare battery, or the current battery, make sure it's charged above 50%
(quick unbrick wont run if it's below 50%)
4. When the phone is off, press m+power and scroll down to AP Fastboot.
5. Plug the phone into the computer, make sure you get the USB connected message on the phone.
6. Run the "1_CLICK_SBF.exe" (win 7 users right click on .exe and run as administrator)
7. Let your phone restore and boot.
8. Finish that beer your done..wasn't that easy..
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MOTOFAIL ROOT TOOL ( this is also a 1_click .exe... )
Download: HERE
NEW! SAFESTRAP v3 for DROID 3
Download v3.05 [ 2012-10-17 ]
md5sum: 39b1cd260e00d5d73faa7f27b7e31d25
SAFESTRAP (TWEAKED) v1.08e RECOVERY (NON-KEXEC)
Download:HERE
NEW! ADOBE FLASH .APK DOWNLOAD
Download:HERE
====================
Credits:
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Hashcode
Redsox985
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droidian1441
PLEASE DONT FORGET TO CLICK THE LITTLE THANKS BUTTON...
YOU MAY NOT COPY OR RE-POST OUR WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION

thank you
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jellman said:
thank you
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No problem..

bricked me any ideas?
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nvm got it. jeesh what a scare rsd never works for me. moto-fastboot<3

jellman said:
bricked me any ideas?
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nvm got it. jeesh what a scare rsd never works for me. moto-fastboot<3
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Lol glad you got it......

Ye I'd like to use this with moto fastboot.. can I just copy the files over/

DoubleYouPee said:
Ye I'd like to use this with moto fastboot.. can I just copy the files over/
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Give her a whirl and see lol I always use rsd

Thanks for the files!

I'm still waiting for someone to get this to work with RSD. I threw this patch files together and zipped them, but never tried them because I really didn't want to risk anything with a working phone. I'm glad someone has tried it at least with moto-fastboot.
Never tried my own product! :O

Woo! User "jth08527" confirmed the .zip above works as is in RSD Lite 5.6. He sent me a PM confirming it because he doesn't yet have enough posts to post here.

redsox985 said:
Woo! User "jth08527" confirmed the .zip above works as is in RSD Lite 5.6. He sent me a PM confirming it because he doesn't yet have enough posts to post here.
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Im sorry I thought I said that in the op..
I used it myself and confirmed it..
but glad it is saving people..this is a huge asset to people on. 906

I'm confused...I downloaded "906 SBF.7z"...there is no zip file? how shall I flash it with RSD?
and now the link is the thread i dead

1of16 said:
I'm confused...I downloaded "906 SBF.7z"...there is no zip file? how shall I flash it with RSD?
and now the link is the thread i dead
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They are in a 7zip file instead of a .zip or winrar
all you have to do is use 7zip (which is freethe softwear) to extract the files then load the. Xml file into rsdlite and flash
And minus has been having problems the last few days but it is one of the better free hosting sites so just be patient and it will come back..also I would suggest using your computer to download the file as alot of mobile browsers have problems with this site

ovelayer said:
They are in a 7zip file instead of a .zip or winrar
all you have to do is use 7zip (which is freethe softwear) to extract the files then load the. Xml file into rsdlite and flash
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ha, that's too simple didn't know that RSD can use the xml-files. thanks...I'll keep you posted.
edit: I think it worked, got the same baseband and buildnumber as in 890, but the 906 kernel. i guess thats ok?!?

Someone should make it so it works like this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1336980
Looking at the files it looks like it should work if you just copy&replace the files into the "files" folder?

1of16 said:
ha, that's too simple didn't know that RSD can use the xml-files. thanks...I'll keep you posted.
edit: I think it worked, got the same baseband and buildnumber as in 890, but the 906 kernel. i guess thats ok?!?
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Correct now you can reapply the. 906 update if you want and yet all good

DoubleYouPee said:
Someone should make it so it works like this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1336980
Looking at the files it looks like it should work if you just copy&replace the files into the "files" folder?
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As long as the. Exe used calls the. Xml I don't see why you couldn't ..
drop the files from our. Zip into that one ..hmm
I have to take the wife and kids to the lake but I can play with it over the next few days..
Afterall with our sbf we have a way back so can't really hurt lol

ovelayer said:
As long as the. Exe used calls the. Xml I don't see why you couldn't ..
drop the files from our. Zip into that one ..hmm
I have to take the wife and kids to the lake but I can play with it over the next few days..
Afterall with our sbf we have a way back so can't really hurt lol
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Well yes in fact the .bat file calls the files via the .exe
Code:
moto-fastboot.exe -w
moto-fastboot.exe flash recovery files\recovery.img
moto-fastboot.exe flash boot files\boot.img
moto-fastboot.exe flash devtree files\device_tree.bin
moto-fastboot.exe flash logo.bin files\logo.bin
moto-fastboot.exe flash preinstall files\preinstall.img
moto-fastboot.exe flash cdrom files\cdrom
moto-fastboot.exe flash radio files\radio.img
moto-fastboot.exe flash system files\system.img
moto-fastboot.exe reboot

DoubleYouPee said:
Well yes in fact the .bat file calls the files via the .exe
Code:
moto-fastboot.exe -w
moto-fastboot.exe flash recovery files\recovery.img
moto-fastboot.exe flash boot files\boot.img
moto-fastboot.exe flash devtree files\device_tree.bin
moto-fastboot.exe flash logo.bin files\logo.bin
moto-fastboot.exe flash preinstall files\preinstall.img
moto-fastboot.exe flash cdrom files\cdrom
moto-fastboot.exe flash radio files\radio.img
moto-fastboot.exe flash system files\system.img
moto-fastboot.exe reboot
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Wish I was at home because in theory that should work perfect and now we would have a 1click .906 sbf which could also be made into a single .exe sbf

ovelayer said:
Wish I was at home because in theory that should work perfect and now we would have a 1click .906 sbf which could also be made into a single .exe sbf
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I just copied the files over, but all of them except the .xml are exactly the same.
So.. is this a .890 SBF that works on .906? Or did I miss something

VRZ_XT875_5.9.902.XT875.Verizon.en.US_CFC_01.xml.z ip through RSDlite fixed!

I was having problems like everyone else with the RSDlite flashing verizon's stock 902 because, like a flash-a-holic sometimes does, got stuck in fastboot mode....
Tried flashing the 902 through RSDlite but kept coming up with system.img flash failure.
Well, seeing as how when you install drivers, devices, etc., it's good to reboot. Well, I figured why not rezip? So I took the unzipped files from VRZ_XT875_5.9.902.XT875.Verizon.en.US_CFC_01.xml.zip
and zipped them again (excluding the folder that led to them, the files themselves) and BOOM! no system.img flash failure, everything went smooth as....well smooth
Thought I'd share this tidbit of info for anyone running into the problems I was having and couldn't find anything of a fix.
Thanks

now that good to know i just bookmarked this just in case now where did u get the 902 fxz so i can get it lol cause i need it bad lol
Ray

Hmmmm.....
I thought, specifically when using RSD 5.7, you were supposed to leave the files zipped. That's what the 'Decompress and Flash' is for...to unzip then flash.
If I read this right, you unzipped yourself then tried to flash instead of letting RSD do it all.
Good post though
D

As I understand it, you can either give it a zip file which it will unzip an flash, or you can unzip it yourself and click on the xml file in the directory.
Being a linux user, I just unzip them, skim through the xml file and then perform the same set of commands manually via fastboot; there's a pretty obvious onene mapping of the xml "steps" and actual fastboot commands. Doing the fastboot commands manually also means I can skip pointless things like wiping data/cache, although chances are you could do the same in rsd if you edited the xml file.

nononono, I was trying to flash the zipped files through RSDlite, but kept coming up on 15/22 failed system flash, and I had downloaded the file from three different sources and every one gave me that fail. I just had the unzipped files for goin through, a little habit of mine. I work on computers and phones and most files you download (well, me anyways) are zipped (mainly rar) and I automatically just unzip about whatever I download. And after searching a bit, everywhere was just saying "oh, well there's just something wrong with the FXZ", and while that may be the case, it wasn't a solution to the problem, just an excuse. And while I also use fastboot (I've probably flashed 30 phones, with 20 different roms, a hundred times), I like to know what I'm doin' and with what programs avaiable, and mainly, to follow the directions that the author of the rom sets out.
But like I've said, I rezipped (using 7-zip) the files and probably flashed 4 times now and not a problem one.

hey rdistiso, there's a good one on 4shared as far I'm aware

Quick FXZ file mod?

Im thinking this might go in the question section but its more of a general help idea.
I was thinking of modding an FXZ file and delete the webtop.img because it takes too long to FXZ back to stock.
Is it possible or would it not pass an inspection of security.
thoughts are welcome.
plz if nothing to say then i thank you for being silent...

If I were in your position I'd feel better about the flash process if I went and created a modified .XML file to skip over webtop flashing.
Basically, you just gotta open a text editor and remove the following line:
<step operation="flash" partition="webtop" filename="grfs.img" MD5="c9502cd8fd6fa7206c64e4dae3ed9b50" />
Then when RSD Lite reads the .XML file to flash, it will completely skip over that step. If you delete grfs.img without removing the reference in the XML file, RSD Lite might crash out on you and give you a bad flash.

projektorboy said:
If I were in your position I'd feel better about the flash process if I went and created a modified .XML file to skip over webtop flashing.
Basically, you just gotta open a text editor and remove the following line:
<step operation="flash" partition="webtop" filename="grfs.img" MD5="c9502cd8fd6fa7206c64e4dae3ed9b50" />
Then when RSD Lite reads the .XML file to flash, it will completely skip over that step. If you delete grfs.img without removing the reference in the XML file, RSD Lite might crash out on you and give you a bad flash.
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Thanks. Ill try that out.
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How to convert boot.bin into boot.img??

I'm unable to figure out how to convert the boot.bin file I extracted from the firmware.kdz file. Magic iso won't convert the bin file to img file. So do I just change the extension from .bin to .img? Something tells me it's not that simple.
Btw I'm asking because I'm trying to build a rom. So I'm gonna need this boot.img to be able to boot in my rom. Any help is appreciated.
Or if someone could point me in the right direction for pulling the boot.img from my phone with adb, that would work too. All the guides I found are for different devices with different partition names. And a lot of the commands aren't working for me.
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Mikekelso421 said:
I'm unable to figure out how to convert the boot.bin file I extracted from the firmware.kdz file. Magic iso won't convert the bin file to img file. So do I just change the extension from .bin to .img? Something tells me it's not that simple.
Btw I'm asking because I'm trying to build a rom. So I'm gonna need this boot.img to be able to boot in my rom. Any help is appreciated.
Or if someone could point me in the right direction for pulling the boot.img from my phone with adb, that would work too. All the guides I found are for different devices with different partition names. And a lot of the commands aren't working for me.
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You answered the question urself... Just change the file extension from bin to img.. Ive done that before and it works... U can do a adb pull dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/boot.img

Google~Android said:
You answered the question urself... Just change the file extension from bin to img.. Ive done that before and it works... U can do a adb pull dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/boot.img
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I'll try it and let you know if I have success. Thanks for your response.
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Did it work, or not? I have the same question.

If you have root you can use app 'Partitions Backup & Restore' by Wanam from app store to pull any partition from your phone.

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Did it work, or not? I have the same question.
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it work for me i just fix my Tecno WX3P that stuck at boot

Tech_Savvy said:
You answered the question urself... Just change the file extension from bin to img.. Ive done that before and it works... U can do a adb pull dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/boot.img
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That's what I needed to know !