How do you do this? I just put the engineering bootloader on my MyTouch 4g, so how would I change the splash screen? I've changed it multiple times before, but it required to make a boot.img and terminal on the phone. A link or something would be helpful thanks!
There ya go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11395401#post11395401
You dont need to get fancy with bootloader flashing. Splash screens can be replaced using a 1 line script from the in phone terminal.
You can even automate the process by saving the script in gscript so it becomes a 1 click process. Check out the themes forum. Look at the 2nd post in the EZ Splash thread. The script is in there with instructions
Edit: I think Chaos in the previous post even linked the thread. Derp....
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Haha thanks guys now I can do it with ease! Also, what is so good about the engineering bootloader?
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That it allows you to flash anything you want directly from it, and you're not dependent on the OS or the recovery to be functional. If they're both corrupted, you can still reflash them, and don't have to resort to PD15IMG.
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Is there anyway to get rid of the MyTouch splash screen on boot? I'm flashed with CM7, but the splash still pops up for a few seconds.
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Is there anyway to get rid of the MyTouch splash screen on boot? I'm flashed with CM7, but the splash still pops up for a few seconds.
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Flash a different boot image. There are variations of these in the Apps section.
changing the bootanimation.zip will not change the splqsh screen , how do you change it ?
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I have a script I wrote that will convert and flash a image for you. I will post it in a bit in the themes and apps section. Give me a hour or so to get home.
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Is there anyway to get rid of the MyTouch splash screen on boot? I'm flashed with CM7, but the splash still pops up for a few seconds.
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Script is cool. I like it.
cmboud said:
changing the bootanimation.zip will not change the splqsh screen , how do you change it ?
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I stand corrected. There are threads in the Apps section that will flash new splash images to the phone. You can either use TrueBlue's Script or look in the "how to customise" thread and there is a link to it there
fastboot flash splash1 <yoursplash>.img
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=866474
There are plenty of custom options in the themes forum. I use the awesome ASCII Android by Iriscience.
Hi everyone,
I have a friend who owns a mytouch 4g and he did root the device using instructions on the forum, visionary and then terminal emulator...
Everything was working great.
Then he did something stupid which is follow a youtube video on how to overclock but he ignored the fact that this procedure required running a custom rom on your phone.
This is the youtube link he followed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amEwtRSH5ZQ
Now when attempting to turn his phone on it shows Mytouch 4G splash screen then reboots and it keeps doing the same thing over and over
I have a Samsung Vibrant and if something goes wrong I can always use Odin and place the phone in Download mode to bring it back to stock...
Is there such a procedure for the mytouch 4g and can someone provide step by step or point me in the right direction please or is there any other way to get this phone to boot up normally, or revert back to stock?!
I tried searching the forum but it seems to me that everything required the phone being able to boot up normally...
Thank you.
Have you tried taking the battery out for 30 seconds, i have a htc hd2 and how i get back to factory settings on my phone i turn the phone off and it comes back to wnd 2.6. I hope this helps
Isn't hd2 windows mobile?!
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Load the PD15IMG on the sdacard and boot into HBoot for a 100% stock restore. Links can be found in the development section. Or flash a new ROM that will replace the kernel. Did he do a nandroid backup?
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neidlinger said:
Load the PD15IMG on the sdacard and boot into HBoot for a 100% stock restore. Links can be found in the development section. Or flash a new ROM that will replace the kernel. Did he do a nandroid backup?
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Thank you! I am doing it as I type this. Watching the progress bar now, at about 1/2 blue....
Hopefully it will work.
Thanks again!
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After it was done it asked if I want to run the update, didn't know what to select so I hit yes, and it seemed to do the same thing all over again but this time after the initial progress bar it actually said updating unzipping and whatever not in like 7 or 8 different steps and then it said press power to reboot.
Did this step revert to stock recovery or is the cwm recovery still intact somewhere?! How would I verify?!
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After it was done it asked if I want to run the update, didn't know what to select so I hit yes, and it seemed to do the same thing all over again but this time after the initial progress bar it actually said updating unzipping and whatever not in like 7 or 8 different steps and then it said press power to reboot.
Did this step revert to stock recovery or is the cwm recovery still intact somewhere?! How would I verify?!
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Yup it certainly will. The pd15img file is auto extracting once u load ur bootloader...loading everything by default...so cwm will be gone on ur phone..
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Thank you guys, everything is up and running again . It feels good to have a working device again .
I followed multiple steps for installing perm root on a friends Mytouch and for some reason we could not get the s-off feature to work. I noticed too we do have SU access via adb or terminal but I still never could get s-off. After we got root we used rom manager to install clockwork and after the fact it installed 3.0.2 i believe it completely borked the recovery. I stepped it down to 3.0.0 and still had the same issue. The main reason i wanted to get s-off was to adb flash the recovery but I got a signature fail. Any ideas or suggestions to get this working correctly? Rom Manager will not let me install 2x cwm basically stating it can not install it period. I also tried the batch file root method same issue. Thanks for your help in advance.
Please look at the "True permaroot and S-OFF" thread in Development section, and execute step-by-step.
If your friend's MT4G is running Gingerbread (Android 2.3.3), you'll need to use Gingerbreak instead of Visionary+ to get root access.
Its on froyo and i followed that guide i have perm root but we can not get s off. I can use root access for any programs
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dynamicj said:
Its on froyo and i followed that guide i have perm root but we can not get s off. I can use root access for any programs
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If you are following the ./gfree method step by step it will root your phone.
If you are using the root.sh script and it's not working chances are you may have a bad eMMC chipset and it will not root properly.
I know HTC said they would be pushing a update to close the exploit hole that is used to root our phones but i don't think it's been pushed yet.
Im not sure but it said something about not being able to back up partition or something but either way nice HTC is becoming a motorola nice
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Im not sure but it said something about not being able to back up partition or something but either way nice HTC is becoming a motorola nice
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HTC isn't "becoming a Motorola". HTC, is completely different. We do have a locked bootloader. But it's easily unlock-able whereas Moto's aren't.
Its still not accepting the soff root which i am baffled at and with a broken recovery i need to know what to do now. Recovery just shows pc-cell logo
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Its still not accepting the soff root which i am baffled at and with a broken recovery i need to know what to do now. Recovery just shows pc-cell logo
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I don't know what to tell you. There are several threads out there regarding how to root your phone. Both in a .gfree form and a root.sh form. One of those 2 work for 99.9% of EVERYONE.
You might try finding someone who put together a .zip that can be flashed through the android recovery(white screen with boot options, etc.). Otherwise you can get the RUU and return to stock. After that follow the directions step by step and DO NOT mix methods. This should result in an S-OFF root, if you did your homework correctly.
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I did several methods via adb .sh file and .g i have root in the os Rom manager even installed cwm but i can't get into cwm i get that image.... So still lost as nothing is working on this phone for s off
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I did several methods via adb .sh file and .g i have root in the os Rom manager even installed cwm but i can't get into cwm i get that image.... So still lost as nothing is working on this phone for s off
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Until you have "s-off" no recovery image will stick.
Obviously why i posted here to get insight anyways ill just redo it for the 5th time maybe it will work....
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dynamicj said:
Obviously why i posted here to get insight anyways ill just redo it for the 5th time maybe it will work....
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What method are you using?
I have tried them all
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I have tried them all
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What errors are you getting?
Just can not get it to go soff i have root in the device otherwise. Recovery also just shows a computer and cell phone icon after Rom manager install clockwork mod 3x. I am just trying to adb install a older cwm.
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As someone already explained before, when the security is on, no matter the amount of flashing you're going to try - it won't get you anywhere, since it won't be written to the actual ROM, and will be gone on restart.
Unless you pick a guide, follow it exactly, and post here everything that doesn't look proper - I don't think the forum can help you much.
Here's one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=858996
Follow it and post anything that doesn't look good. Including your bootloader version.
The root is sticking on reboots but still no soff that's what i have been saying and i followed the guides to a t its not my first picnic rooting or roming a phone this one just has me stumped
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What does your bootloader show when you boot into it?
For the root to stick after boot, you had to have S-OFF, otherwise the eMMC wouldn't have been written to.
Having no info from you, as I said, it's impossible to help. If all this thread is just a complaint - by all means, but in that case there's no point in helping you. If you want help - you need to provide enough details for people to help you. Obviously, nobody can figure out anything from "I can't get s-off".
I do a adb reboot bootloader and i get us fast boot up top it says s-on but if i reboot to the os i still have root access for instance in titanium backup or Rom manager of that helps any
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I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, because its a request not a question... sorry if its not.
I need the stock splash screen for mytouch 4g. I changed it to the nexus s Google splash screen when I switched to cm7. I need to unroot it to use the insurance for a replacement. My power button stopped working and the micro-usb port only charges occasionally now. Any help with this would be awesome. I tried searching but I have to from my phone at the moment and that makes it pretty difficult to sift through countless xda pages. Lol.
#AngelFace#
Look in the theme section, there's multiple threads on splash screens. I'm pretty sure, one of them had the stock one.
From my fist to your face, enjoy.
Go to the theme thread in the 4g section. If not, unroot. U should have the stock splash screen.
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Go to the theme thread in the 4g section. If not, unroot. U should have the stock splash screen.
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Even if he unroots, it'll still be what ever he changed it to. You can flash roms left an right, but that'll still always be the same. The location of the splash screen file is different then where we have our roms located.
From my fist to your face, enjoy.
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I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, because its a request not a question... sorry if its not.
I need the stock splash screen for mytouch 4g. I changed it to the nexus s Google splash screen when I switched to cm7. I need to unroot it to use the insurance for a replacement. My power button stopped working and the micro-usb port only charges occasionally now. Any help with this would be awesome. I tried searching but I have to from my phone at the moment and that makes it pretty difficult to sift through countless xda pages. Lol.
#AngelFace#
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I backed up everything from when I first flashed a new rom, including the splash.
Here's a link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YE603C62
Here's how to change it though you should already know:
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.
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Thank you. I downloaded and unrared the file. But I can't seem to get it with terminal emulator. I typed the commands exactly, and even tried modifying them as my phone shows /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.2/mmcblk0op19
Any ideas?
#AngelFace#
Before there's a need to ask. I unrared it and put the custom.img in the root folder of my sdcard.
#AngelFace#
splash screen flasher
Try this, it worked for me
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/splash-screen-flasher-and-image-converter-tool/
So I've rooted my phone twice following the instructions on theunlockr.com without any problems. Tonight I tried rooting my dads phone and I got temp root using visionary and then was able to get S OFF but now once I rebooted and tried temp rooting it again I can't get it to work. Most of the apps just force close as well. The only thing I can think of is to factory restore by flashing the PD15IMG and then starting completely over. Anyone know why this is happening and what to do?
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Try ./gfree. Never fails. This is happening because your dad probably has the bad emmc chip
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Restore to stock... Warranty exchange... Then down grade to 2.2.1 then gfree method... Use the youtube video....
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Try ./gfree. Never fails. This is happening because your dad probably has the bad emmc chip
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So gfree will work even if he has the bad emmc?
And also, if it has the bad emmc will I be able to flash the PD15IMG without any problems?
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People tend to assume stuff without even thinking.
What happened to you, happened because of data corruption. Doesn't say anything about "good" or "bad" eMMC, definitely doesn't suggest that your phone is dead and needs replacement. But this thread suggests that reading, searching and thinking will get you better results than listening to people.
You already got S-OFF.
Most probably the only thing you need to do now is to get into bootloader, factory reset the phone, boot into the OS fresh (which will almost surely eliminate all the FCs you're seeing), install Visionary again, temp-root, and install custom recovery.
If you rooted with root.sh method (means, you have engineering bootloader installed) - you don't need even that. Get your fastboot operational, boot into bootloader, go to "fastboot" menu, connect the phone, download any CWM recovery image from the net, and "fastboot flash recovery your_downloaded_recovery_image.img".
And you might get it even simpler than both of the methods above:
Look in the Development forum for instructions on gaining root when already S-OFF. It's as simple as flashing PD15IMG with only a custom recovery image inside it. Since you're S-OFF, the image will be flashed by the bootloader without questions, and you'll get a custom recovery. The PD15IMG will be found in the right thread.
From there just boot into recovery and install a custom ROM of your choice.
Good luck.
Search before asking next time.
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People tend to assume stuff without even thinking.
What happened to you, happened because of data corruption. Doesn't say anything about "good" or "bad" eMMC, definitely doesn't suggest that your phone is dead and needs replacement. But this thread suggests that reading, searching and thinking will get you better results than listening to people.
You already got S-OFF.
Most probably the only thing you need to do now is to get into bootloader, factory reset the phone, boot into the OS fresh (which will almost surely eliminate all the FCs you're seeing), install Visionary again, temp-root, and install custom recovery.
If you rooted with root.sh method (means, you have engineering bootloader installed) - you don't need even that. Get your fastboot operational, boot into bootloader, go to "fastboot" menu, connect the phone, download any CWM recovery image from the net, and "fastboot flash recovery your_downloaded_recovery_image.img".
And you might get it even simpler than both of the methods above:
Look in the Development forum for instructions on gaining root when already S-OFF. It's as simple as flashing PD15IMG with only a custom recovery image inside it. Since you're S-OFF, the image will be flashed by the bootloader without questions, and you'll get a custom recovery. The PD15IMG will be found in the right thread.
From there just boot into recovery and install a custom ROM of your choice.
Good luck.
Search before asking next time.
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Thanks man that was really helpful. And I know I should've searched, but I feel like the whole point of the Q&A section is to get help from people like you. But I appreciate the help, and hope you had a great Christmas!
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Thanks man that was really helpful. And I know I should've searched, but I feel like the whole point of the Q&A section is to get help from people like you. But I appreciate the help, and hope you had a great Christmas!
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The purpose of the Q&A section is to get answers to questions that haven't been answered.
Glad Jack helped you out. Did flashing the PD15IMG.ZIP fix you up?
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The purpose of the Q&A section is to get answers to questions that haven't been answered.
Glad Jack helped you out. Did flashing the PD15IMG.ZIP fix you up?
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Yeah, worked perfect. Just had to download the zip with the recovery image and eng. bootloader, delete the eng bootloader, flash it, and then i was set!