Messing Around in Gimp

[DocHoppy]

Just messing around in Gimp

[Damo]

Messing as usual



I love to mess around

[Guest]

Looking good guys!!! Thank you for all the Finless Boot Screens as well Damo!!

[Damo]

Thanks will

If any of you guys need any boot screens doing for the roms you are working on than let me know and I will be happy to help!

[ZonaMojo]

Damo:
I am trying to learn to take apart the boot.img on ROMs. I have VM setup running Linux, so I don't forsee any problems considering all the info I've aquired. My question is, what is the proper format for boot/flash screens on the Nextbook 7? I am told the format is initlogo.rle. Is this correct? I already have programs that can convert image files. Also, is the size 800x480 instead of 480x800? I figure in breaking down the boot.img, the easiest thing to learn 1st is messing with screens.
Thanks, Zona

[Damo]

The format is 800x480 for that tablet in PNG format. As for the specifics of unpacking you will have to ask Bob about that as he is the expert on that one

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[ZonaMojo]

Awww, .png & not .rle (I was converting my .png images to. rle) A lot of phones use .rle, so I was confused. Thanks! Yes, I'm following Bob' thread on unpacking/packing the boot.img.

[Finless]

It's not a PNG in the boot.img. Damo makes me PNG files and I convert them to RLE (Run Length Encoding). There are all kinds of tools out there to do that but be careful as some of them are fixed format like 480x200 etc.

FYI, none of the current bootscreen tools out there in the market will work on this. They expect a boot.img that is the older style "Android" pack. Most the RK29 tablets now use a totally different format for boot.img and thus these tools like Rom Tool Box will not work on them for boot screen replacement.

Bob

[ZonaMojo]

It's not a PNG in the boot.img. Damo makes me PNG files and I convert them to RLE (Run Length Encoding). There are all kinds of tools out there to do that but be careful as some of them are fixed format like 480x200 etc.

FYI, none of the current bootscreen tools out there in the market will work on this. They expect a boot.img that is the older style "Android" pack. Most the RK29 tablets now use a totally different format for boot.img and thus these tools like Rom Tool Box will not work on them for boot screen replacement.

Bob

I have a program that lets me convert .png to .rle of any size, so no problem there. I haven't tried any tools to replace the bootscreen in the boot.img. That's not my goal. My goal is to use & learn linux to unpack boot.img. Since I have a Nextbook running your 1.4, that's the ROM I'll be experimenting with. I was just asking about the format for the image, as I figured that would be the easiest file for me to change out. Then I'd go from there. I just noticed you posted in the other thread how to unpack with linux. Will work on it later & tell you how it went. Should probably just start using the other thread now. Thanks for the help.

[HaroldG]

It's not a PNG in the boot.img. Damo makes me PNG files and I convert them to RLE (Run Length Encoding). There are all kinds of tools out there to do that but be careful as some of them are fixed format like 480x200 etc.

FYI, none of the current bootscreen tools out there in the market will work on this. They expect a boot.img that is the older style "Android" pack. Most the RK29 tablets now use a totally different format for boot.img and thus these tools like Rom Tool Box will not work on them for boot screen replacement.

Bob

Just curious, is it possible to do either of the following: (1) flash on the boot image to the 10 G2 in adb? or (2) use the rk29update.exe to flash ONLY the boot.img file?

Will that do anything harmful to the rest of the system? (On my Rezound, we have to flash the kernel via a boot.img in fastboot or the bootloader via a pb98img.zip file.)