I cannot produce fastboot for Windows because compiling the Android source on Windows is an undocumented procedure and I ran into a great deal of problems trying to compile it using cygwin. Google never intended on supporting building the Android source code from Windows anyways. So, if you don't have Linux or Mac, you are going to have a very tough time doing this.

Also, btw, I posted what I settled on for my boot image, it's on the first page, check it out!

I found this one on google, I think it suits me

its ugly

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i want a boot logo of a penguin eating an apple or a penguin flying not a penguin
jailed inside an ugly and poisoned apple, if anyone find something post it please!

Ok, before i go dual booting my system , as i have Vista x64 now. I want to know if i can use ubuntu x64 for this process or would it be best to use the 32 bit version.

Here is the boot image I put together that i want to use. Still futzing with it but this is the general idea.

How to please?? :)

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okay here we go,

i'll take hits for being a newb again but i gotta ask. i am completely lost on how to apply this custom boot image. i tried to follow the direction but am completely lost by the jargon and get stuck at the download the imagemagick.zip file. i downloaded it then from there i have no idea how to build source stuff or anything. i am using the picture above my post (thank you for the beautiful pic) so the image is already resized to the requirements.

can anyone help me? (i'm gonna also show usmc2k, the bro who beatifully wrote the how to get modified rc30)

thanks again,
hbguy

Stock Boot Logos

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For anyone that wants a copy of the stock images, for instances of RMA/repair.......Here they are.

The file contains both UK and US logos





Thanks to JesusFreke and Tobes, for the rip coding and the UK logo

Terrific!

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Stericson thank you so much for your instruction!


I think it makes sense to add some contact info in the boot image in case your device gets lost

Originally Posted by wyseman76

Ok, before i go dual booting my system , as i have Vista x64 now. I want to know if i can use ubuntu x64 for this process or would it be best to use the 32 bit version.

Here is the boot image I put together that i want to use. Still futzing with it but this is the general idea.

Holy crap, that's a tight boot screen! Very nice.....

Stericson

I'm not sure if "rooted" is the correct term though. I have access to root... but that doesn't mean it is "rooted".

Oh well it will stay like that for the moment.

Originally Posted by hbguy

okay here we go,

i'll take hits for being a newb again but i gotta ask. i am completely lost on how to apply this custom boot image. i tried to follow the direction but am completely lost by the jargon and get stuck at the download the imagemagick.zip file. i downloaded it then from there i have no idea how to build source stuff or anything. i am using the picture above my post (thank you for the beautiful pic) so the image is already resized to the requirements.

can anyone help me? (i'm gonna also show usmc2k, the bro who beatifully wrote the how to get modified rc30)

thanks again,
hbguy

No sweat we were all noobs at one time.

This should all be done on a linux box, if your not on a linux box then I can't help since I know nothing about macs.

1. find an image you like
2. edit it with your favourite editing suite and scale it to 320x480
3. after scaling it, convert the colorspace to 256 colors (8-bit)
4. Save it as a PNG without alpha channel/transparency.
5. Use the convert tool from the ImageMagick toolkit (use cygwin, or a linux box): convert -depth 8 splash.png rgb:splash.raw

type, in a terminal, sudo apt-get install imagemagick
then, type, in a terminal, convert -depth 8 splash.png rgb:splash.raw

where spash.png is your potential boot image.

6. Check that the splash.raw file is exactly 460800 bytes!

Make sure it is exactly 460800 bytes!

7. Compile the android tool called rgb2565 (gcc -O2 -Wall -Wno-unused-parameter -o rgb2565 to565.c)

Download the static versions of these posted ealier by Infernix and put them into /bin on your linux box.

8. Run the conversion command: rgb2565 < splash.raw > splash.raw565

9. Check that splash.raw565 is 307200 bytes. if it isn't, DO NOT FLASH IT ON YOUR PHONE. double-check your steps, something went wrong.

DOUBLE check!

10. Boot your phone in SPL mode (hold camera +power).
11. After SPL shows, plug in USB connector/cord/whateva and push trackball or hit back. SPL restarts and now shows FASTBOOT.

12. use fastboot devices to check whether if your phone is showing up. if it isn't, try it as root (user might not have permission to access the usb device).

You have to be root to see your device!

Download the static versions of these posted ealier by Infernix and put them into /bin on your linux box.

15. Double check that splash.raw565 is 307200 bytes. if it isn't, DO NOT FLASH IT ON YOUR PHONE.


16. Flash the splash image: fastboot flash splash1 splash.raw565
17. Reboot your phone to check: fastboot reboot

and that's all there is to it!

Stericson