[SPLASH] myTouch 4G Splash Screens

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Before we get started, here's the usual.... I am not responsible for anything that happens to your phone. Period. Do this at your own risk.

TrueBlue_Drew has made this very easy! Just follow this link to view his thread for automated converting and flashing. There are a couple of other methods to flash these as well. Keep scrolling to find instructions on flashing through fastboot or through terminal.

Requirements to Flash Through Fastboot:
Rooted MT4G/G2
ADB and Fastboot
Engineering HBOOT!!!! (This is important! You need the ability to flash with fastboot in order to use this! If you don't know what fastboot is I would not recommend doing this! Fastboot can be risky!)


Since we got the ability to flash custom splash screens I went and flashed an N1 splash screen. I wanted a little myTouch flavor added in, so I took a little time and this is what I came up with.

I also got a request for a plain HTC splash screen, so those just got added in. I'm going to try to keep new ones coming. If you find an image that you really like and don't know how to convert it, just post it and I'll convert it when I get a chance (must be 480x800).


INSTRUCTIONS:
Just unzip the contents of the zip file to the tools folder of your AndroidSDK (or wherever you have fastboot installed).
Plug your phone into the computer (Debugging enabled of course)
Open a command window
Type adb devices to make sure your computer recognizes the device
cd to the folder where you have fastboot and the splash screen .img
Type adb reboot bootloader
Your screen should say fastboot, not Hboot. If it says Hboot, manually scroll down and switch to fastboot mode.
Once in the fastboot bootloader type fastboot devices to make sure your computer recognizes the device
Type fastboot flash splash1 nexuscustom.img
It will say okay twice
Then type fastboot reboot
Stare at your brand new splash screen!

Requirements to Flash Through Terminal Emulator (THANK YOU TrueBlue_Drew!):
Rooted with S=OFF
Terminal Emulator
Fingers

Originally Posted by TrueBlue_Drew

Here is how to flash a new splash screen image to your phone using Terminal emulator. Please keep in mind that as with any mod you can damage your phone beyond repair if done incorrectly.

1. Rename your 480x800 image file to custom.img and move it to your sdcard.

2.Open Terminal Emulator and type "su" to get a #

3.Then type this exactly as it appears and hit enter. Make sure not to make any mistakes!!!

 dd if=/mnt/sdcard/custom.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p19

It should show you that the file has transfered. You can now back out of terminal emulator and reboot your phone to see the new splash screen.

Thanks to QTeknology for his original post with his Nexus One splash screen I used. Also, a most important thank you to reukiodo for his guide to creating/installing the splash screens which you can find here if you'd like to make your own.

Almost forgot.... Nandroid cannot restore the stock splash screen! This is a permanent change! If you want to return to stock splash you will have to flash stock .img. The original splash screen .img is here as well if anyone needs to return their phone for a warranty.

The next post contains the downloads. All splash screens are split between the two zip files to save space.

With each of the HTC splash screens, there are smaller versions of each.

These splash screens were originally made by JSZESZE for the Evo 4G. I stumbled across them and thought that they would look awesome on our phones! Huge thanks to JSZESZE for allowing me to post these here! If you have any friends with an Evo, they can get their copies by following this link.

I have a lot of colors up in post# 349: Blue, Green, Orange, Pink, Purple, Red, White, and Yellow. If you want a different color just ask. I should be able to make any color for you. If you want an exact color, please provide the Hex value.

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Find the Apple Killers in post# 334:
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Post# 337:



Check out post 73 for a couple of personal requests.
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These are a Cyanogen colored version of the myTouch 4G splash screens that were requested by jdkoren. Just click the pictures to get to the post with the downloads.

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Then these two were made by other members and look fantastic!

jbrew78 made this one:


and this one by UntamedDeviance:


Untamed Deviance has a thread with a whole bunch of awesome splash screens. Check them out here. He even does requests! Huge thumbs up!

Downloads here!!!!

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Also the stock splash screen.

Had a request for a pink myTouch 4G screen for all the ladies here on XDA.

The last one I found while searching for HTC logos. It looks awesome as a splash screen!

TrueBlue_Drew also edited the HTC Special. He made it blue and added "rooted" to it. Really slick! Grab it from post 235.

This is fantastic! I intend to try it out. I did notice one thing though with my fastboot binary. I recently had the AndroidSDK self update, and the fastboot binary is no longer there. I restored from my backups, and have the original SDK back. When I run fastboot, I see the following output:

destiny:~ kambiz$ /opt/android-old/tools/fastboot devices
ERROR: could not get pipe properties
ERROR: could not get pipe properties
ERROR: could not get pipe properties
SH0AXRM00289 fastboot

Are the ERROR lines above normal?

Also, what are the various partitions fastboot can work with? boot, recovery, system, splash1 ... anything else? Is there a splash2 ?

EDIT: one more question, how do you generate the .img file for splash1 ? (BTW I went with the simple yet oh-so-much nicer than stock: mytouchsplash.img )

i definitely like the second one with the nexus X i will flash this when i go on lunch break and will report any bugs when i do. thanks for your work and dedication.

Any way you could post instructions on how to do this through terminal ? Thank you for the mod..

Originally Posted by kambiz.aghaiepour

This is fantastic! I intend to try it out. I did notice one thing though with my fastboot binary. I recently had the AndroidSDK self update, and the fastboot binary is no longer there. I restored from my backups, and have the original SDK back. When I run fastboot, I see the following output:

destiny:~ kambiz$ /opt/android-old/tools/fastboot devices
ERROR: could not get pipe properties
ERROR: could not get pipe properties
ERROR: could not get pipe properties
SH0AXRM00289 fastboot

Are the ERROR lines above normal?

Also, what are the various partitions fastboot can work with? boot, recovery, system, splash1 ... anything else? Is there a splash2 ?

EDIT: one more question, how do you generate the .img file for splash1 ? (BTW I went with the simple yet oh-so-much nicer than stock: mytouchsplash.img )

I haven't seen that error message before. I'm not very familiar with the finer points of Linux. I did this on my Windows 7 computer. I had a hell of a time getting the Android SDK working on my Linux partitioon. I used this thread to set up adb and fastboot on Ubuntu. I think I got it working more through luck than anything. Hope this thread can help you out.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=537508

Also I'm pretty sure there isn't a splash2 partition. I'm still pretty new at this myself. I did lots of work with Photoshop in high school, so I just decided to put those failing skills to work and put these out. Sorry that I can't help more!

The link to the guide on how to generate the image is located in the OP. The word "here" is linked to it. But here it is again.

Originally Posted by hardcore88

Any way you could post instructions on how to do this through terminal ? Thank you for the mod..

I'm pretty sure this mod cannot be done through the terminal. I've never seen any instructions anywhere on how to install a splash screen anywhere but in fastboot. If you do find that it is possible I will gladly post the instructions in the OP.


I'm really glad you guys like these!

Originally Posted by hardcore88

Any way you could post instructions on how to do this through terminal ? Thank you for the mod..

you have to do it with fastboot, theres no way to change splash screens through the terminal

Thank you... I really want to change to the cool rooted mytouch one. I can't get it to work through fastboot though. I'm getting one of two error messages. Either it says it can't open flash 1 or its saying it can't find the read the image properties. I don't usually have problems with adb or fastboot so that's why i was hoping there was a way to do it using terminal.

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Did you extract the .img file to your tools folder?

Yessir..

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