Splash Screens (Post yours here!)

Here are some of mine:


AndroidGirl


Froggy


GlassLeaf


JustSplash


Stairs


FrozenJuice



AndroidGirl_NoText

i use this image find in deviantart i like it

All this hooking up the phone to a computer to flash a new splash screen is WAY more complicated than this needs to be.

You can keep various splash screens on the phone ready to be switched as the mood strikes you when you're out and about since almost 1 click access.

Here's what you do.

Create a directory on the SD Card called "splashscreens" (Or whatever you'd like to call it)

Put all of your *.IMG splash screen files there. Just be sure to name them descriptively since you won't be able to view them. So if you have a splash screen of the Joker, call the file Joker.img and the splash screen of Batman as batman.img so you know which files are which. You get the idea.

Got that part? Great. You're halfway home. And you're all set up already for the next time too!

Now download an app call GScript from the market. It's free. All it is is basically a terminal emulator that saves scripts so you can run them off a menu instead of typing them out each time. (Brilliant, huh?!)

Save the following line as a script. Make sure it's EXACT.

dd if=/mnt/sdcard/splashscreens/custom.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p14

Be sure to check that this script needs SU access.

Now run it, and it'll find that Joker.img that you renamed to custom.img in your splashscreen directory and flash it to the right place in the phone.

Want to use another image tomorrow? Just rename custom.img back to joker.img so you'll know what it is next time, rename the new image file to custom.img. Go back to GScript and click your saved splash screen flashing script and boom! New splash screen. Go you, you're more awesome than your friends!

Coming from the MyTouch 4G, this is the only way anyone flashes splash screens. If you type the script in right the first time, it's 100% idiot proof the next 1000 times.

(Full disclosure. Someone else in these forums knew what what mmc block to flash for the Sensation, which is different for the MyTouch 4G. I can't find that post to give the guy credit, nor could I have piled through the code to figure it out myself.)

Warnings...

Do NOT use this script on other devices. Another device will keep the splash screen in a different spot and you might flash your splash screen overtop of something far more important. The method should work on at least most HTC devices, but the exact location will be different for most. For example it's blk16 on the MyTouch 4G.

The images for flashing still have to be properly formated as 960x540 IMG files. You can use the other tools for that. This won't magically make any old 200x200 JPEG into an awesome splash screen.

If you botch it, it's not my fault. I literally just did this seconds ago and it works like a charm if you do it right.

Black HTC splash instead of the bright white one. Pulled the images off the HTC Black boot animation http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1193798. So now there is a matching black splash screen to match the black boot animation.

Well, since we have achieved the ability to change our splash screens via fastboot and nbimg (see here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1193747), I figured i'd start a "Post your splash screen" thread like many other devices have in their respective subforum.

TIP: Please don't post images smaller than 960x540, as that is the resolution of our device.
TIP2: Stop requesting custom splashs from people if the image you have is lesser than 960x540.


CREDIT: Shaquiel Harris (for linking to the image) & show-p1984 (for creating the image)