Quote:
Originally Posted by Coredump-EE
Greetings!
Thanks to our russian friends we now know how to change the ugly white boot logo to something more friendly.
- Get a copy of the latest original firmware update
- Extract the .7z, and then the .zip file
- Delete everything but the "META-INF" directory and the "fuse" file.
- Select a nice picture to be used as a boot logo. The picture must be precisely 800 pixels wide and 600 pixels high.
- Convert your picture via the ImageMagick software suit into the proper format:
Code:
$ convert YOUR_PICTURE -depth 8 -separate -swap 0,2 -combine rgba:logo.img
The resulting "logo.img" must be exactly 1920000 Bytes!
- Copy logo.img into the folder where you extracted the .zip file.
The directory structure must look like this:
Code:
$ ls -l userupdate091210_common_PB701SWUPDATE
total 2188
drwx------ 3 user group 4096 Aug 7 11:29 META-INF
-rwx------ 1 user group 76308 Aug 7 08:16 fuse
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 1920000 Jan 10 20:32 logo.img
- Compress the directory:
Code:
$ cd userupdate091210_common_PB701SWUPDATE/
$ zip -r ../userupdate091210_common_PB701SWUPDATE.zip .
$ unzip -l ../logo-update_PB701SWUPDATE.zip
Archive: logo-update_PB701SWUPDATE.zip
Length Date Time Name
--------- ---------- ----- ----
1920000 2011-01-10 20:32 logo.img
0 2010-08-07 11:29 META-INF/
0 2010-08-02 12:11 META-INF/CERT.RSA
0 2010-08-07 11:29 META-INF/com/
0 2010-08-07 11:29 META-INF/com/google/
0 2010-08-16 07:34 META-INF/com/google/android/
1939 2010-10-20 12:25 META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script
251784 2010-08-02 12:11 META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary
0 2010-08-02 12:11 META-INF/CERT.SF
0 2010-08-02 12:11 META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
76308 2010-08-07 08:16 fuse
--------- -------
2250031 11 files
- Rename the resulting .zip into something meaningful, like "my-logo_PB701SWUPDATE". Only the "PB701SWUPDATE" is important tho, everything before the "_" gets ignored from what I can tell.
- Place the .zip on the root of your SD card and flash it like a normal firmware update.
Click the images to download flashable images:
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I have some questions. First off: are you sure the image must be 800 pixels
wide and 600 pixels
high? Shouldn't it be the other way around, otherwise it would be wider than it's taller? Or if it does, if I make my own image, do I have to orient it in a specific way to avoid my text and/or logo or symbol or whatever I choose looking upside down or turned to the side?
Second, is there a way to edit the image on Windows? I downloaded the ImageMagick Windows version, but other than resizing it to your specification, I can't find an option to save it as an .img file. Or do I simply change the extension name? And how exactly do I get the image to be 1920000 bytes?
Is there another way to simply replace the logo with our own image, and if not, is it something we can request as a feature? To simply upload a pre-prepared image to a folder from which it would be read and used as a logo? I'd like to edit the attached image (currently 1024px wide and 600 px high), and keep it a good, clear quality. I'd also like to be able to easily replace it with another image in the future.