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Personalizing Startup Images / BlueSun Hack

April 21, 2006 on 1:51 pm | In maemo, nokia770 | 3 Comments

After the first couple thousand times you reboot your 770 and look at the bland blue Nokia logo and the pair of pedophilic hands, you are thinking it is time for now startup images. It is a simple enough hack, and here are the rules.

1. The images must be PNG format, no larger than 800×480, and up to 24bit color depth.

There are three images displayed at startup. These are:

1. The first Nokia Image – Have not been able to change that. I have not dug far enough to find out where it is. I suspect it is being called as part of the kernel splash routine.
2. The second Nokia Image – /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/qgn_indi_startup_nokia_logo.png. This image has the dimensions of 415×68.
3. The hands image – /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/hildon/qgn_indi_nokia_hands.png. This image is 800×480.

I grabbed a couple of thematic images from the web

and the second one

I backup the current images, and copied / renamed the new images to the appropriate directory (to replace the two original image files). The bluesun logo replaced the Nokia logo and the Serenity logo replaced the hands.
After a restart, i now have a more unique set of 770 startup images.

NOTE – I tried padding the bluesun logo out to 800×480 in order to cover the green debug text, but got a completely blank screen with that. So 780×480 works and 800×480 does not (For the Nokia Logo image only). Not sure why. One pixel smaller than max may be sufficient to function, but i am out of time for this today.

ubergEEk

PS – Like everything else on this blog, use at your own risk. Just because it worked for me, does not mean I assume responsibility for anything you do.