Hi,
I use a Cingular 8125 and I do not see the splash screen with the Windows Mobile logo whenever I soft reset or swtich my phone on. I only see the splash screen with the Cingular logo and the ROM version numbers, after which the phone directly boots into the OS.
Any idea?
Don't fret. You probably have corrupted the image file, but it's not really important to operation. Technically there are three splash screens. Two of them are part of the IPL or SPL (I can't remember which is what), and the last one, the one you're talking about, is actually sitting in the Windows directory (welcomehead.96.png). You can fix this pretty easily, and I think you have at least three options:
Ignore the problem, and just let it boot without the last splash screen.
Do a hard reset. This should repair the file, but at the price of having to configure the phone to your preferences again.
You can replace all of the splash screens with something from this thread, which I think is pretty damn cool. (If you go with this option, don't forget to run HardSPL first. You can always remove the HardSPL after flashing the new splash screens.)
Myrddin Wyllt said:
Don't fret. You probably have corrupted the image file, but it's not really important to operation. Technically there are three splash screens. Two of them are part of the IPL or SPL (I can't remember which is what), and the last one, the one you're talking about, is actually sitting in the Windows directory (welcomehead.96.png). You can fix this pretty easily, and I think you have at least three options:
Ignore the problem, and just let it boot without the last splash screen.
Do a hard reset. This should repair the file, but at the price of having to configure the phone to your preferences again.
You can replace all of the splash screens with something from this thread, which I think is pretty damn cool. (If you go with this option, don't forget to run HardSPL first. You can always remove the HardSPL after flashing the new splash screens.)
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Yes, I know about the three splash screens that you are talking about. However, I can see only one splash screen, with the cingular logo with the IPL/SPL version numbers.
Not that it's a big deal and anyway I can live without the other two.. but I was just curious as to why it's gone missing from mine.
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I've just upped my IPL/SPL to 3.08, GSM to 2.69.11, and I'm about to try out Faria's WM6 ROM, but I'd like to backup my initial boot screen before I do- I'm not sure if I still have the image located anywhere else and would rather not re-author it!
I've already backed up the welcomehead.96.png file for the second splash screen, but I'm up against a wall trying to pin down how I can back up the inital splash screen! Any and all help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks!
-Bertokamus-
If you have your original ROM backed up, just use wizard service tools and run the nbf to nb tool. When you run that it will seperate it all out in to its constituent parts. 9d000000-HTC is the first splash screen, 92000000-Splash is the second splash screen and the welcomehead.96.png is actually the third splash screen. I just can't figure out why you would need to back those up.
I wanted to back them up so I'd have them to employ in my new Faria ROM instead of the splash screens included. As I mentioned, I'm not sure that I have the initial splash screen saved anywhere, so instead of reauthoring it, it would have been convenient to have a backup.
However, since I didn't get a reply before flashing (impatience!) the splash screen is gone, anyways. I do have a "myrom" .bin backup from WizBackup, though- any chance I could pull my splash screen out of there to your knowledge?
All you have to do is download the ROM you had on there from your service provider and then use wizard service tools just like I told you how to do in my first post here and you'll be able to extract the first 2 splash screens out of it. Getting the 3rd splash screen out of it is doable, but a lot more complicated and since you said that you already have it backed up I won't go into that anyway.
Here's some AT&T splash screens that I found. I have no idea if they are the ones you had before or even what they look like but you're welcome to try them out and see if you like them or not. Just run the RUU and it will install them for you.
I'm sorry, perhaps the miscommunication here is that I totally customized/modified/created/crafted/digitally graphically enhanced 2 of the 3<?> splash screens the Wizard shows on booting... I'm not looking for the stock Cingular and WM screens. I was looking to back up my CUSTOMIZED splash screens- sorry, thought I had mentioned that... I'll try and pull apart my WizBackup .bin and see if I can dig the initial splash screen I'm looking for out of that, I guess...
-Bertokamus-
oh, I understand. I didn't realize you had done them yourself. Hopefully they're in your wizbackup.bin then. Good luck.
I switched off my working G1 and when I switched it back on the bootloader screen comes up. it seems somehow the ROM has gotten wiped.
I have done a factory reset, nothing changed.
I have a non-contract G1 where can I get a UK ROM image from? will the ROMs available on this site do, they seem to have prerequisites of previous versions that I don't have any more.
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=OTA_Updates
When you say the bootloader do you mean the SPL? (htc tricolor screen or androids on skateboards) If you are stuck at the SPL then these update files won't be much help to you. In any case just try putting the update.zip in the root of your sdcard and power on while holding down Home key. Hopefully it will boot into the recovery.
jashsu said:
http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?title=OTA_Updates
When you say the bootloader do you mean the SPL? (htc tricolor screen or androids on skateboards) If you are stuck at the SPL then these update files won't be much help to you. In any case just try putting the update.zip in the root of your sdcard and power on while holding down Home key. Hopefully it will boot into the recovery.
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I'm on the tricolour screen, can't get the Android skateboard screen, I tried. So I think I need a full image not an update, any one know where can I get a full UK image? can a full US image be updated to a UK one?
I'll give it a day then try the UK update and see what happens.
Wish i knew why it wiped the ROM, It wasn't messing about with it, it's still locked on t-mobile, it just got a PAYG Sim.
That Weirdo In The Corner said:
I'm on the tricolour screen, can't get the Android skateboard screen, I tried. So I think I need a full image not an update, any one know where can I get a full UK image? can a full US image be updated to a UK one?
I'll give it a day then try the UK update and see what happens.
Wish i knew why it wiped the ROM, It wasn't messing about with it, it's still locked on t-mobile, it just got a PAYG Sim.
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OTA updates (~45MB ones) are full images. The problem is they can only be applied by the recovery partition. If you can not even boot into the recovery partition then there is no hope for you with update zips. The only way to recover a system from the tricolor screen (at the time of this writing) is to send it to htc (or TMo as it were) for repair. They will use a proprietary htc image which is applied from the bootloader, rather than the recovery.
I hope you are still in your remorse period. If you are, return it and get another one.
We have been getting in alot of G1 from HTC.
We have gotten about 10 pcs. that appear stuck in bootloader mode too - and probably why they have been returned to HTC.
Well, we fixed every one of them in about 5 mins - the camera button has a bad design and is sticking - thereby every time you try to start the phone it thinks you want to start in bootloader mode.
Remove the rear cover - reinstall with camera button in normal position and you are all fixed.
BTW - if anyone needs, we have a large inventory of black G1 pre-RC30 in stock. They are in brand new condition with less than a few days usage.
talwell said:
Well, we fixed every one of them in about 5 mins - the camera button has a bad design and is sticking - thereby every time you try to start the phone it thinks you want to start in bootloader mode.
Remove the rear cover - reinstall with camera button in normal position and you are all fixed.
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Good catch! I've never seen or heard of a G1 with a stuck camera button before but that would certainly cause the symptoms the OP described. Hope he can use your fix and get it operational again.
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right, I have tried the camera button fix and intalled an update. it reboots and has a picture of a chip with an arrow, then shows what looks like the factory reset picture and reboots to the tricolor screen and has serial 0 on the screen.
Any ideas? I bought a t-mobile upgrade phone of ebay so returning it to T-mobile isn't an option. it's been fine for three weeks
It probably started as a stuck camera button - fairly common - and now you have corrupted the rom somehow trying to correct it.
Hi all,
i have a problem with one device here - Orbit II.
It is stuck on booting WM with volume controls on the screen. Usually it's not a big deal and can be solver with HR or by flashing a new rom, but the problem is that i cannot get it to do a HR: white screen with warning appears but when i press send buttong(the green one) - nothing happens, it doesn't react at all.
Ok, i was thinking to flash it, but another problem appeared: i can't enter bootloader(2 softbuttons+reset), same procedure works fine on my own device but this one just reboots and no bootloader...
I'm kinda out of options now.
Any help is appreciated.
Magnus23 said:
Ok, i was thinking to flash it, but another problem appeared: i can't enter bootloader(2 softbuttons+reset), same procedure works fine on my own device but this one just reboots and no bootloader...
I'm kinda out of options now.
Any help is appreciated.
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press & hold camera button and make soft reset...
Thank you for the answer but i as said in first post, i have tried this, the white screen with the warning appears but pressing Send button does nothing, device does not react to this, so hard reset doesn't happen.
If someone could point to me any other way to enter bootloader - i can work my way from there.
I have also tried MTTY but USB connection doesn't appear in the list(yes, i have killed the activesync processes).
which screen
1st,
2nd, radio protocol version
3rd gif splash
4th wimo load screen
And also what rom have you got on atm.
It is stuck on 4th wimo load screen.
I have no idea about the actual WN version as it's not my device, but i assume it's the original O2 rom since there is still O2 splash screen.
Magnus23 said:
It is stuck on 4th wimo load screen.
I have no idea about the actual WN version as it's not my device, but i assume it's the original O2 rom since there is still O2 splash screen.
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o well then i take its not hard-spl'd in which case i really do not get it, i have got into bootloader at the radio version screen so i dont get this one?? Is it still covered by o2 warrenty, it is 2 yrs long so best bet go to them and see what they say...
Thats if it has no hard-spl... If not take the battery out for a day and see if that brings it back to life, stranger things have happened seen that solve quite a few problems.
Well, device is not mine, a friend asked to look at it. I don't think he got a warranty left.
Well, the thing is, its not a big deal realy, it's not bricked or anything, i just need to get into bootloader, from there i can flash hardspl and the rest from SD... i just haven't seen this thing before... unable to enter the bootloader.
Is there any way to force the device to enter bootloader? I mean other than the standart procedures of Camera+reset?
I think i've seen somewhere a CustomRUU that could do that, even with incomplete WM boot. Like send some commands to the device to enter bootloader.
Does anyone know anything like this?
Hi,
i have searched all the forum... but found nothing helpful.
i want to change the the bootup screen, when i push the softreset button.
on the normal P3450 there is a black screen, showing smart mobility. in my case there is a branding screen.
how can i remove this screen or change it?
nbimg: HTC splash screen tool
This may be of some use, I have a zip (Splash Screen Changer) that I found around here somewhere, I don't know where, and I haven't tested it. I will search around to see if I can get it again, I think it was by dsixda maybe, but I am not too sure.
thank you, but i cant change it with this sort of tool. i think its a part of the rom, maybe embedded....
It is the screen you will see, before you get into the bootloader, not the windows booting screen.
technorocka said:
thank you, but i cant change it with this sort of tool. i think its a part of the rom, maybe embedded....
It is the screen you will see, before you get into the bootloader, not the windows booting screen.
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Then you need to re read the thread. It creates a rom update utility to flash only the splash screen. I did this to get rid of the t-mobile splash screen.
Confessed-Is "Stick Together" the "splash" or "startup" screen?
I'm a little confused. I want to change the Stick Together screen on my T-Mobile HD2, but I can't figure out if its the splash screen, startup animation screen, welcome192.png, or what.
I installed a cab I thought would change it, but it changed the animated screen that comes just after the Stick Together screen. I think I need to flash it to make the change.
I remember doing something similar on my Tilt, but that was a long time ago. Could someone point me to some info on the process?
Thanks!
Just search the HD2 forums for boot screens ....
Also sometimes called bios screens ...
Yes to change the first screen you have to flash ...
the second and third you can change from inside the phone ...
There are apps that let you do it ...
JMWD Icon Changer has a utility to change the animated and static screens, the ones after the boot ...
watcher64 said:
Just search the HD2 forums for boot screens ....
Also sometimes called bios screens ...
Yes to change the first screen you have to flash ...
the second and third you can change from inside the phone ...
There are apps that let you do it ...
JMWD Icon Changer has a utility to change the animated and static screens, the ones after the boot ...
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Thanks for clearing that up for me!
there can actually be two before the animated windows one. The first one for 5 seconds, then the second when teh RGD screen comes up, then the anuimation, then the welcomehead.192
You can make your own, too, and they flash just like radios or roms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6528263#post6528263
samsamuel said:
there can actually be two before the animated windows one. The first one for 5 seconds, then the second when teh RGD screen comes up, then the anuimation, then the welcomehead.192
You can make your own, too, and they flash just like radios or roms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6528263#post6528263
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Well Yeah, true, but was trying to keep it simple ....
But it can be fun to us slightly different ones for those first two ....
watcher64 said:
But it can be fun to us slightly different ones for those first two ....
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heh, yea. I have a 'reward if found' and email/phone number message on my 2nd screen.
samsamuel said:
there can actually be two before the animated windows one. The first one for 5 seconds, then the second when teh RGD screen comes up, then the anuimation, then the welcomehead.192
You can make your own, too, and they flash just like radios or roms.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6528263#post6528263
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Can you change the stupid "Stick Together" screen w/o a custom ROM?
mfrey0118 said:
Can you change the stupid "Stick Together" screen w/o a custom ROM?
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did you read the linked thread? the splashscreen is completely independant of the rom.
Its like the radio, you flash it seperately.
samsamuel said:
did you read the linked thread? the splashscreen is completely independant of the rom.
Its like the radio, you flash it seperately.
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Here is what i have learned.
A ROM flash is a process that can be used to change three things on your phone.
1. The boot screen ( stick together )
2. The operating system and default software (this is what most people consider a rom flash)
3. the software that controls the radio (wireless) functions.
A rom flash can change one, two, or all three of these things.
By following the instructions found in the links above, you create a rom flash that only changes 1. the boot screen and leaves 2. & 3. alone.
HTH
What is the file name for the orange "windows" screen?
Thanks for all the help everyone. No more "Stick Together"! Here's my new boot screen... my company logo.
Jimmmycrackcorn said:
What is the file name for the orange "windows" screen?
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It's either welcomehead.png or welcomehead.192.png I think. I don't have a standard rom so I'm not sure which it is. If there's animation in it, it's going to be a gif file.
watcher64 said:
Just search the HD2 forums for boot screens ....
Also sometimes called bios screens ...
Yes to change the first screen you have to flash ...
the second and third you can change from inside the phone ...
There are apps that let you do it ...
JMWD Icon Changer has a utility to change the animated and static screens, the ones after the boot ...
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i have the energy rom with advanced config. is it possible to just find the boot screen, put it in my sd card, and change to it in the advanced config???? or do i HAVE to flash it to my device??
shinmasterx said:
i have the energy rom with advanced config. is it possible to just find the boot screen, put it in my sd card, and change to it in the advanced config???? or do i HAVE to flash it to my device??
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Yes. The boot screen can only be changed by flashing it. The instruction and links in this thread walk you through it step by step. As someone who has just learned the process himself, I can say that it is not nearly as daunting as it first appears.
Give it a try.