Sprint HTC Hero boot/splash screen (Sprint logo)

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I'm terribly sorry for posting this, as I'm sure this has already been brought up - I remember finding it previously either on this page or elsewhere while looking for hacks for this phone.

However, after some searching just now, I can't seem to find that information again, so I'm hoping for some help finding information how to change that splash screen and any other information about it.

I know how annoying it is for regular forum members to see multiple posts on a subject, so please forgive me, I did search ahead of time.

Many thanks ahead of time for any assistance.

Cheers

Ahh, I found it.

Note, I have a US Sprint HTC Hero

For everyone who looks, all the bootscreen/splashscreen files are in the /system/media/bootscreen folder on your phone.

editing the boot_animation.xml file and replacing the sprint.gif (in my case since I have a sprint phone) changes the bootscreen - You can replace it with a standard gif or animated.

I've made changes to both files mentioned, but once I do the boot animation just seems to break and I have to restore them. Is there anything specific you are editing in the xml? I've updated the file name I replaced and have even just renamed my gif to one of the previous and it still doesn't work.

This is something I've been trying to get going for 3+ weeks now, any help is appreciated

Originally Posted by N0J

I've made changes to both files mentioned, but once I do the boot animation just seems to break and I have to restore them. Is there anything specific you are editing in the xml? I've updated the file name I replaced and have even just renamed my gif to one of the previous and it still doesn't work.

This is something I've been trying to get going for 3+ weeks now, any help is appreciated

It doesn't support transparency. If you put a gif that has transparency in it as your boot gif then it will start to boot loop.

i need help with this. i cannot edit these files,i do have root access too, and a custom ROM.
please PM me short minimal detailed instructions, thanks

Originally Posted by N0J

I've made changes to both files mentioned, but once I do the boot animation just seems to break and I have to restore them. Is there anything specific you are editing in the xml? I've updated the file name I replaced and have even just renamed my gif to one of the previous and it still doesn't work.

This is something I've been trying to get going for 3+ weeks now, any help is appreciated

This is what I did:

I copied the sprint.gif file from my phone to my local machine so I could edit in Photoshop.

I opened sprint.gif in PS and copied the layer dimensions so I would have the same size animated gif with anything I decided to edit.

I then found an animated gif that I liked and pasted it in PS with the same sized layers as the previous sprint.gif and saved it.

I saved my new animated gif as boot0.gif (i'm sure the name doesn't matter)

I then edited my boot_animation.xml. I commented out the orignal lines I didn't want (<-- --> are xml comments) and added a line for my boot0.gif. My boot0.gif line is the same as the orignal line for the sprint.gif because I just wanted to replace the stupid Sprint with my own.

After I had my two files (boot0.gif and my newly edited boot_animation.xml), I copied both files back into the /system/media/bootscreen/ folder and rebooted my phone.

It worked fine. The only thing off a little is the boot.mp3 and that's because my new boot0.gif doesn't have as many frames as the original sprint.gif. I'll probably just remove that .mp3 anyway.

I'm not sure why yours wouldn't work. My only thought would be if you did what I did - is that maybe the size of your .gif is too big, either in dimensions or file size. I tried to get my as close to sprint.gif as possible to avoid issues.

Originally Posted by codelockdown

i need help with this. i cannot edit these files,i do have root access too, and a custom ROM.

please PM me short minimal detailed instructions, thanks

I have no experience with custom roms. I just rooted my phone yesterday and did the recovery image portion. I have yet to experiment with custom roms, but maybe that could be hindering you? I'm not sure.

Aside from that, the instructions I posted should work if you have root access. Did you try copying them out of the /system/media/bootscreen folder before editing? I'm not sure of the capabilities of the linux OS on this phone, so I didn't even bother trying editing directly from the terminal.

Good luck dude. Hope this helps

Originally Posted by mrbrice

This is what I did:

I copied the sprint.gif file from my phone to my local machine so I could edit in Photoshop.

I opened sprint.gif in PS and copied the layer dimensions so I would have the same size animated gif with anything I decided to edit.

I then found an animated gif that I liked and pasted it in PS with the same sized layers as the previous sprint.gif and saved it.

I saved my new animated gif as boot0.gif (i'm sure the name doesn't matter)

I then edited my boot_animation.xml. I commented out the orignal lines I didn't want (<-- --> are xml comments) and added a line for my boot0.gif. My boot0.gif line is the same as the orignal line for the sprint.gif because I just wanted to replace the stupid Sprint with my own.

After I had my two files (boot0.gif and my newly edited boot_animation.xml), I copied both files back into the /system/media/bootscreen/ folder and rebooted my phone.

It worked fine. The only thing off a little is the boot.mp3 and that's because my new boot0.gif doesn't have as many frames as the original sprint.gif. I'll probably just remove that .mp3 anyway.

I'm not sure why yours wouldn't work. My only thought would be if you did what I did - is that maybe the size of your .gif is too big, either in dimensions or file size. I tried to get my as close to sprint.gif as possible to avoid issues.



I have no experience with custom roms. I just rooted my phone yesterday and did the recovery image portion. I have yet to experiment with custom roms, but maybe that could be hindering you? I'm not sure.

Aside from that, the instructions I posted should work if you have root access. Did you try copying them out of the /system/media/bootscreen folder before editing? I'm not sure of the capabilities of the linux OS on this phone, so I didn't even bother trying editing directly from the terminal.

Good luck dude. Hope this helps

i just made the howto thread, so just find it real quick, thank you anyway

custom bootscreen htc tattoo

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i checked and also the htc tattoo does got /system/media/bootscreen whit the xml and files

i pulled /system/media/bootscreen/boot_animation.xml from my tattoo and removed it from my android?

what if i reboot whitout this xml or gif files?

what i want to try is just a console booting instead of splash screens.

rebooted

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mmzz id just get the same old boot splash back on the device :|

I have gone into F:\system\media\bootscreen and i see the nexus 1 boot screen and the xml and the mp3 however I do not have these as boot screen. Is there a way to make them work. here is my xml info.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <!--

* Copyright (C) 2008 HTC Inc.
*


-->
- <!--
For new bootup animation
<BootConfiguration>
<BootAnimation
image="/system/media/bootscreen/boot.gif"
audio="/system/media/bootscreen/boot.mp3"
image2="/system/media/bootscreen/boot2.gif" (optional)
image3="/system/media/bootscreen/boot3.gif" (optional)
screenX="100" (optional)
screenY="130" (optional)
image_bg = "/system/media/bootscreen/boot_bg.gif" (optional)
useAudio="0" // 1: true ; 0:false (optional)
/>
</BootConfiguration>


-->
- <!-- For cropped version
-->
- <BootConfiguration>
<BootAnimation image="/system/media/bootscreen/boot1.gif" image2="/system/media/bootscreen/boot2.gif" loopimage="/system/media/bootscreen/boot2.gif" image_bg="/system/media/bootscreen/boot_bg.gif" audio="/system/media/bootscreen/boot.mp3" screenX="40" screenY="0" useAudio="0" />
</BootConfiguration>
- <!-- For full screen version
-->
- <!--
BootConfiguration>
<BootAnimation
image="/system/media/bootscreen/boot1.gif"
image2="/system/media/bootscreen/boot2.gif"
loopimage="/system/media/bootscreen/boot2.gif"
audio="/system/media/bootscreen/boot.mp3"
useAudio="0"
/>
</BootConfiguration

-->