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Root [Boost Mobile] creating flashable splash.img?

Snake X

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Aug 20, 2011
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There arn't *too* many guides to doing this, so i'm asking here.. How can I create a flashable splash.img file to flash on my warp via boot logo changer? I know there are scripts to flashing it (such as splash flasher) but I feel more comfortable just creating the img myself and flashing it via this app instead of following procedures and having a big chance of screwing up

edit: does rom toolbox support the boot logo changing feature on this phone?

edit 2: does boot logo changer work on this phone? even though it only says it supports droid devices, I saw a video where a kid used it on the motorola triumph (vergin mobile). I figured if it worked on a device it didn't list as supported it might work on this.
 
I have actually regained interest in trying to customize my splash image before boot anim. However I don't see any partition where the splash.img is located. I could only find an upside down version of it called splash.bmp in one of the big 3 partitions.. Would I just have to replace that?
 
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I have actually regained interest in trying to customize my splash image before boot anim. However I don't see any partition where the splash.img is located. I could only find an upside down version of it called splash.bmp in one of the big 3 partitions.. Would I just have to replace that?

The actual files reside in the ramdisk of the kernel and they are initlogo.rle and logo.bmp since we dont know where the splash image is located then we would have to edit those files the .rle is a raw image file its uncompressed and can only be opened by android
 
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those are the actual files, as far as our phone goes. those two files get built during boot i believe and then moved to the location where the splash.img resides. If we can get the official update from the update tool there is a splash.img in it. and it should tell us in the script where it gets flashed too
 
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those are the actual files, as far as our phone goes. those two files get built during boot i believe and then moved to the location where the splash.img resides. If we can get the official update from the update tool there is a splash.img in it. and it should tell us in the script where it gets flashed too

I saved the update.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3xs82uv8qofwemw/N860V1.0.0B19.zip

Update tool
https://www.dropbox.com/s/s1rrchzfjm9gj0l/P020120108252572663411.exe
 
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I know... but it pissed me off... I worked on finding out how to do it for 3 hours last night and another 3 hours this morning and all I got out of it was a headache... I have a question though... before I extracted the ram disk the boot.img was like 16 or 15mbs... but after I repacked it it was 5mbs... is this normal? Or is that where the problem is?

Sent from my N860 using Tapatalk 2 Beta-5
 
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I know... but it pissed me off... I worked on finding out how to do it for 3 hours last night and another 3 hours this morning and all I got out of it was a headache... I have a question though... before I extracted the ram disk the boot.img was like 16 or 15mbs... but after I repacked it it was 5mbs... is this normal? Or is that where the problem is?

Sent from my N860 using Tapatalk 2 Beta-5

You were modifing the ram disk? It shouldnt drop in size that much unless you removed and edited a ton of stuff
 
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All I did was change out the logo.bmp... I think I see the problem... the ram disk wont extract fully... and all the folders are empty...

Sent from my N860 using Tapatalk 2 Beta-5

yeah ive had that happen before with a different thing and it wouldnt work so i check and only 2 folders were copied and there was nothing in them
 
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