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sanketsu · 11-30-2011, 04:35 AM

I've looked around the forums here, and dug through the archives of the old Edge Forum and found a wealth of information as to how to customize my EE in so many great ways.

I got my EE at the beginning of the semester for several reasons, the main being so I can carry around one device that's about the size of a good length novel, that has all of my college books on it. I've had an interest in Android since before I got my Samsung Epic 4g last X-mas season. Shortly after that, my buddy got his hands on the PE and I was hooked and determined to get one.

I've found the exact pixel measurements for the both the e-ink and tablet screens, and I can crop images in The GIMP on my desktop to the sizes for things to be centered well. I even found an app in the market that (thanks to you all for the workaround to get the market on the EE by the way, lucky I had my Epic for that) gets around the funky compression that makes any picture you set as the tablet wallpaper rather pixelated (Wallpaper Wizardrii). Found that after much digging about where the OS stores the wallpaper and trying to find an app that would allow me to do cropping like I can do in the GIMP.

Anyway, enough of my story, on to my question...

I know where the tablet wallpaper is saved and what size the tablet and e-ink images need to be for it to look good and be centered nicely. My only issue now is I can't seem to find where the file is that the Edge puts on the e-ink screen when you power it down. I /could/ just pop the battery out every time I shunt the thing down, but I'm not quite sure how healthy that is for the device. I've noticed some people had been directed to a thread on the old forum to a file named mct_active.ppm, which is cool to know, but it happens to be the image shown when you turn the device on, when the e-ink shows "initializing" with a pile of books, but is /not/ the file I'm looking for. What I'm looking for is the "This is the power button, this is where your stylus is located" image.

tl;dr
Where is the file located that is used for the e-ink image when the Edge is powered off?

11-30-2011, 04:35 AM	#1
sanketsu Edge User Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Kingman, AZ Device: Entourage Edge - Ice Blue	Location of e-ink image shown when power is off I've looked around the forums here, and dug through the archives of the old Edge Forum and found a wealth of information as to how to customize my EE in so many great ways. I got my EE at the beginning of the semester for several reasons, the main being so I can carry around one device that's about the size of a good length novel, that has all of my college books on it. I've had an interest in Android since before I got my Samsung Epic 4g last X-mas season. Shortly after that, my buddy got his hands on the PE and I was hooked and determined to get one. I've found the exact pixel measurements for the both the e-ink and tablet screens, and I can crop images in The GIMP on my desktop to the sizes for things to be centered well. I even found an app in the market that (thanks to you all for the workaround to get the market on the EE by the way, lucky I had my Epic for that) gets around the funky compression that makes any picture you set as the tablet wallpaper rather pixelated (Wallpaper Wizardrii). Found that after much digging about where the OS stores the wallpaper and trying to find an app that would allow me to do cropping like I can do in the GIMP. Anyway, enough of my story, on to my question... I know where the tablet wallpaper is saved and what size the tablet and e-ink images need to be for it to look good and be centered nicely. My only issue now is I can't seem to find where the file is that the Edge puts on the e-ink screen when you power it down. I /could/ just pop the battery out every time I shunt the thing down, but I'm not quite sure how healthy that is for the device. I've noticed some people had been directed to a thread on the old forum to a file named mct_active.ppm, which is cool to know, but it happens to be the image shown when you turn the device on, when the e-ink shows "initializing" with a pile of books, but is /not/ the file I'm looking for. What I'm looking for is the "This is the power button, this is where your stylus is located" image. tl;dr Where is the file located that is used for the e-ink image when the Edge is powered off?