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[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
I'M BEING VERY CLEAR HERE-THIS IS FOR CDMA DESIRE ONLY, NOT GSM!!!

You have to be S-OFF to do this.

Because the CDMA desire does not have extended fastboot yet, this is the only way to change the ( white with green HTC ) screen to a custom splash1 ( anything you want ) screen.

Giving credit where its due, I'd like to thank:

Team unrevoked for S_OFF

MRE-net

for his guide with the .img converter tool and half of his how to that I was able to use, I will put his link in here.

ipfreelytech

for his encouragement and unknowingly pointing me in a direction that made sense.

The only part I played in this is bringing these together and finding the right way to create the .txt file.

If I missed anyone, feel free to point it out.

I'm going to make this quick and simple but explain in detail so no one should have a problem but not to where you have zero legwork yourself; it took me 3 weeks to figure this out.

Requirements: my

android-info.txt

file

MRE-net's nbimg coverter tool

And whatever flavor archiver tool to make the .zip

Download this-[URL=http://www.4shared.com/document/ymcXsiz-/android-info.html]android-info.txt[/URL]

Go to this link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=795132,

download

NBIMG command-line splash<-->image converter tool

for your platform, read how to use the nbimg tool in command prompt ( extremely easy ). Read his how to thoroughly but PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE FASTBOOT PORTION!!!!!!!!!! Basically don't bother past #8.

Now, after you have converted it with nbimg tool, you want to zip up the

android-info.txt

and the

splash1.img

you created together and name it

PB99IMG.zip

( exactly how I have it underlined ) and place it on the root of your sdcard. Reboot into booloader ( which on my phone the screen goes straight to fastboot ) the fastboot screen has the word FASTBOOT highlighted in RED, and below it a little, BOOTLOADER is highlighted in BLUE. If thats what you see then hit the power button once and you should see HBOOT highlighted in BLUE under the phone info. Give it a few seconds ( 10-15 ) and you should see this:

Parsing...(SD ZIP)

(1) SPLASH1

Do you want to start update?

<VOL UP> Yes

<VOL DOWN> No

You want to hit vol up obviously and when you do it happens very quick, almost instant and then hit vol up again to reboot and BAM, you should see your new SPLASH!!!!!!

Now for those who this didn't work for, its

NOT

the .txt file. More than likely its a bad archive or you didn't do the image right, so I don't want a lot of negative feedback because people can't figure it out. I have changed mine a couple times before I wrote this up,

WORKS GREAT!!!!!!!!!

Note: If your baseband differs from the mainver: in the .txt file then edit it to what yours is before you make the .zip or it wont work.

ENJOY GUYS!!!!!!!!!!! :D
[Desire Themes and Apps] Rastaman-FB:
why this long and complicated way?

can you not just convert it to img and then do

fastboot flash splash imagename.img ?

also there is a one click tool that will convert 24bit bmp to image and auto flash your device here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=794638

i thought this worked on both gsm and cdma desires with s-off

EDIT: can you use extended fastboot commands with cdma unrevoked s-off?
[Desire Themes and Apps] leadfoot9281:
So far nothing else worked on cdma. The tool or manual commands. I'm going to try this out after work. Thanks for finding this!
[Desire Themes and Apps] Grumpy Bastid:
Definatly going to give this a shot after work as well. Thanks for figuring this out.
[Desire Themes and Apps] heavymetalmage:
Currently the CDMA Desire does not have extended fastboot commands, despite having s-off. The Alpharev team is working on getting it working so this is our only method available for now :)
[Desire Themes and Apps] heavymetalmage:
It totally works! Thanks lohp75 for doubting me when I said it couldn't be done lol :D
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
Like I said bud, doubt creates possibilities :-).
[Desire Themes and Apps] Rastaman-FB:
my bad mate, as you had s-off i assumed they would have included extended fastboot commands
[Desire Themes and Apps] leadfoot9281:
AWESOME!!!! very easy to do just sounds difficult. thanks for getting it working and posting for us all!
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
You guys are very welcome :+). Its good that I am able to contribute back to the community instead of being a full time mooch . And like I said in the post, I detailed it so everyone should understand how to do it, but it will be so much easier when extended fastboot comes available to us!
[Desire Themes and Apps] Cythrawl:
Ok I have followed this guide exactly.. I have done and re done the picture in Photoshop, tried converting it with several file converters, and they all get the same result...

That is the file I made.. I changed the baseband to coinside with my device (US Cellular HTC Desire)..

And it completely refuses to flash the zip. There are some error messages that pop up VERY quick, what I can see, says no image in zip.. but its there... converted with the tool...

Any ideas???
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
Well bud, the only problem I saw with it is you must not be s-off. If that's the case then go to unrevoked.com and get what you need for your phone. I looked in your zip and for ****s and giggles flashed it to my phone and it worked as smoothly as mine does. Of course I had to flash back to mine. So your zip is good.
[Desire Themes and Apps] ipfreelytech:
good job! I knew this would work, glad you figured it out. Rocking a custom splash on my phone now :D
[Desire Themes and Apps] Cythrawl:
Yes its S-Off.... I have Cyanogen Mod on it... I can do everything else except change the boot splash...... I am at a loss why it's not working for me.... Followed the guide exactly... :(

EDIT::: Just tried the Unrevoked FOrever patch too.. still the same issue....

This is what the Bootloader says:

BRAVOC DVT2 SHIP S-OFF

HBOOT-0.98.0000

MICROP-051e

TOUCH PANEL-SYNW0101

RADIO-2.05.10.06.29

Jul 5 2010, 19:14:11

Everything seems right and correct... Oh well... I give up...
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
Does it give you the option to update, or does it flash a bunch of crap real quick then back to hboot? Maybe try and redownload my original. txt file and don't modify it at all, zip it up and try again. I was able to flash yours without changing the mainver: surprisingly.

And the unrevoked that you did was through recovery right?
[Desire Themes and Apps] Cythrawl:
yes it does exactly that.. flashes up a bunch of crap real quick then back to HBoot.. And yes I applied the Unrevoked forever with recovery too (which told me I already had S-OFF). I have also tried it with your original text file (which is why I edited the baseband as I thought that was the issue)..

Its pretty odd that it doesnt work at all.... its got me totally scratching my head atm.... Im gonna try a couple of other things, but I think I wont be able to do it until the next release of Unrevoked that allows the Fastboot stuff like the GSM Desire... :(

EDIT:: Just tried removing all zips from the root of the SDCard and only have the PM99IMG.zip there.. Still the same result...
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
Ok, when I first started to play with this I got the same thing. I uploaded the zip to ipfreely who then told me it was corrupt, if he couldn't open it then phone can't right. So the next night I stopped using my windows environment and went back to using the mac osx archiver and tried it again. This time it showed flash errors, that told me the zip was good but info bad. So now I strictly use my mac and that's also where my cs5 is at.

Point being don't give up. Two more suggestions, try a different archiver, and as stupid as it sounds download your zip attachment from your post straight to your phone, again sounds stupid but exhaust all possibilities!
[Desire Themes and Apps] Cythrawl:
Tried 2 different archivers now.... WinRAR and 7zip... both same result.. I will get round to putting a Virtual Linux box with Virtualbox and try it with that... I all also try winzip just to be sure...... Not giving up just yet...
[Desire Themes and Apps] Cythrawl:
To be honest, thinking about it, if it was the archiver I was using then it should not have worked (my archive) on your phone either. The fact that it did, says its nothing to do with the Archiver otherwise you would have had the same result as me....:confused:
[Desire Themes and Apps] heavymetalmage:
I know I had an issue the first time around because I named the file PB99IMG.zip which really made it PB99IMG.zip.zip and it didn't show up. Probably not your issue but just a thought. Maybe you'd like to post the image, your baseband version, and we can make a file, test flash it and repost it for you to verify it works. Then, if it still doesn't work, we know it is your phone and possibly an issue with s-off that you may have to alert the unrevoked folks to. Try mounting /system to rw while booted and see if that works. That would be an indicator whether s-off is truly working.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Cythrawl:
S-OFF has to be working, I have custom MTD partitions, MIUI, everything else that requires root works. The only thing I cant get running is a custom splash screen. I'll post the files later on tonight.. if someone can post a working zip I can try that just to be sure...

Baseband is : 2.05.10.06.29
[Desire Themes and Apps] heavymetalmage:
We have the same baseband. Try this file: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11098768/PB99IMG.zip

This is the exact file I flashed. If you can flash this one, then we're on to something if you can't, we'll dig deeper.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Cythrawl:
Nope that didnt work either...

the messages it flashes up real quick I can see the following:

PB99IMG.zip

No Image!

there are a few others but they arent pertaining to the zip file...

Also I re-ran Unrevoked. Still no joy..

EDIT:: Also tried this.. a 2gb memory card. Formatted with phone, put just that file on the card. Booted into Bootloader, same result.. No image in Zip file error.
[Desire Themes and Apps] heavymetalmage:
You are stumping me :mad: haha, let me ask you this, how are you placing the file on your sdcard?
[Desire Themes and Apps] Cythrawl:
Tried using windows to copy the file by mounting the SD Card in the Android OS.. I have also tried copying it with mounting the SD Card in recovery and a Memory card adapter... and its right on the root of the SDCard as well..

The only thing I can think of is that unRevoked did something screwy first time I rooted the phone.. Thing is because there is no USCC RUU I cant put it back to stock and re unRevoke it.. I may be tempted to up the Alltell one on there, but if it writes to the code on the Qualcomm Phone part of the device (Seperate to the OS) it may screw up with it working on USCC's network again properly.. Froyo is out in three weeks (ish) so the RUU for that will be available to us. I'll just pop it on a USB stick and take it home and reflash to stock, and re-root I guess as long as unrevoked works with the Froyo Rom that is....

As for now, I think its a no go with my particular device for some reason. To be honest it WOULD be nice to change the Splash screen, but in the end its not that important, as everything else works fine... Oh well... :D
[Desire Themes and Apps] heavymetalmage:
Yeah, I can't think of a thing. When Alpharev comes out with a patched hboot for us, it should work then but otherwise...how strange.
[Desire Themes and Apps] Cythrawl:
Yeah its very strange...So I can forget about it I am playing with the latest MIUI ROM instead of worrying why it doesn't work.. lol
[Desire Themes and Apps] con247:
Can this brick the phone?
[Desire Themes and Apps] leadfoot9281:
As with anything you take a risk but I seriously doubt you would have any troubles if you follow the directions. And its alot simpler than it sounds jut reading it.
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
Bump, back to the front for those that haven't seen or tried it yet. :D
[Desire Themes and Apps] Cythrawl:
And there was me all excited that there was an update on how to do it... :(

I wish Alpha-Rev would get the CDMA Desire method done...
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
Hey bud, sorry to get your hopes up like that. And yes I so want alpha or unrevoked to give us fadtboot commands!
[Desire Themes and Apps] android_convert:
>Note: If your baseband differs from the mainver: in the .txt file then edit it to what yours is before you make the .zip

I opened android-info.txt to take a peek at what's inside. How does one confirm the following below on the Desire? My device is from Telus Canada.

Modelid:

board:

microp:

mainver:

cidnum:

Hardware/Software Information:

Model Number: HTC Desire A8181

Android Version: 2.2

Baseband Version: 32.44.00.32U_5.09.05.30_2

Kernel Version: 2.6.32.15-g6a358a9 / htc-kernel@and18-2 #1

Build Number: 2.10.405.2 CL226611 release-keys

Software Number: 2.10.405.2

Browser Version: WebKit 3.1
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
Looking at your baseband makes me wonder if you have a GSM phone. If your phone has a sim card its a GSM and this guide will not work for you.
[Desire Themes and Apps] android_convert:
Thanks lohp75. I do have a SIM.
[Desire Themes and Apps] lafonjef:
Ok, so I just tried this, the file flashed, and everything seemed good, but when I went to reboot, I got the screen with 3 androids on skateboards. I know that I have seen this problem in another thread, but I can't find that one now... Any help would be appreciated.
[Desire Themes and Apps] heavymetalmage:
What is your baseband version and does your HBOOT read S-OFF?
[Desire Themes and Apps] lafonjef:
Baseband is 2.05.10.08.11 and yes it is S-Off. I tried this before being S-Off and it didn't do anything. Now I have the androids skateboarding. I am going to try it again with yet another file and see if that works, but I figured I would see if anyone else was having or had the same issue before.
[Desire Themes and Apps] lafonjef:
Got it working. I must have been doing something dumb the other times I tried it. Now if I could only get my boot animation to work.
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
What rom are you using? Bootanimations can either be in system/media or data/local. Use root explorer and you can delete what u got and paste what u want.
[Desire Themes and Apps] lafonjef:
I'm running cyanogen 6.1 rc2. I tried both places but neither worked.
[Desire Themes and Apps] lafonjef:
Well, it seems that everytime I have an issue, post it here, and try one more tome just for fun things start working. Boot animation now works.... hmmm very funny.
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
Glad to here that bro! Right on :-)
[Desire Themes and Apps] Cythrawl:
Just an update, myold Desire **** the bed (would no longer connect on 3G only 1x.. 3G would give data errors. So I flashed stock back on, removed Super User and got it replaced.

The new Desire I have is the same baseband as the one in the original post and it flashed a custom splash just fine. So it was deffo something wrong with the phone (I even used the same files I made that didnt work on my old phone).. Glad I got it working and thanks for the guide...
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
Right on Cythrawl!!!!!! You are very welcome :-)
[Desire Themes and Apps] kyleco:
I am having this same problem, can anyone explain how you fix it?

EDIT: I think I'm just not converting it correctly, can someone tell me how to get it converted correctly? I think it's the RGB part? But the file that someone posted on here worked for me. So I must be doing something wrong
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
Explain your process in detail so I can help. I need to know every step you do so please lay it out. Ill be happy to get you straightened out and on track.

Sent from my HTC Desire CDMA
[Desire Themes and Apps] skuddy:
i cant thank you enough for your work on this guide. your my hero. seriously
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
You are very welcome! Very glad it worked for you as some phones even being s-off had troubles.

Sent from my HTC Desire CDMA
[Desire Themes and Apps] rampop:
I just wanted to post that it is working great on the FroYo 2.2 US Cellular ROM on an Alltel device.

Thanks for the great work!
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
Your very welcome. :)

Sent from my HTC Desire CDMA
[Desire Themes and Apps] CainAxis:
I heard that this method will not work with cMTD. Is this true?
[Desire Themes and Apps] heavymetalmage:
cMTD should not affect it.
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
This has nothing to do with repartioning with cmtd.
[Desire Themes and Apps] con247:
Thanks so much. I got around to doing this this afternoon and it looks great. I combined a few that I saw into one that i like that includes my contact info. I had to change my radio version, but that's it.
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
To moderator, can this please be pinned so it stays up front. It would be nice for all the CDMA users. Thank You.
[Desire Themes and Apps] freak69ize:
I really hate asking this but if any one that has successfully done this.. would you mind if i gave you the splash screen i want could you make the zip for me? Ive been trying to do this all freaking day now with no success.. i just can not get anything working that requires a command prompt.. ive tried using nbimg but it keeps failing.. im at a loss.. i give up for awhile.. heres the splash i want if anyones willing.. and thanks

Its in jpg formant.. uploader wouldnt let me upload bmp
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
Ill do it when I get time.
[Desire Themes and Apps] con247:
I made the splash1.img file. Click Me Just put that into the zip file.
[Desire Themes and Apps] con247:
If you are having trouble with nbimg, make a file in notepad with this text:

nbimg.exe -F splash1.bmp
RENAME splash1.bmp.nb splash1.img

and save it as convert.bat. Put your splash1.bmp and nbimg.exe in the same folder with it and click the bat file. It will place your converted splash1.img in the same folder.
[Desire Themes and Apps] lohp75:
Thanks for helping him out guys. Im on week 6 of a six week hitch and the img he gave when i put it through photo shop came out looking all stretched out and fuzzy cuz the one he gave was like a 60x100 and trying to make a 480x800 out of it aint right. I just haven't had time to look for a better sized img.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jon C:
Has anyone figured out how to get USB tethering working under OSX's Network Settings?

The driver included on the phone, for USB tethering, is a Windows Executable.

I thought I had an idea of how to setup the USB modem (looks right to me), but the connection simply times out and returns a generic error.

Any ideas?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azzeh3:
Put the phone on charge only then use hotspot that way it will charge while tethering lol
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jon C:
:/

Anyone else?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] approx459below:
hi,

i don't know whether or not this can be seen as a efficient way. but in my opinion it is a clean way to make those two work together. i am not sure of the other main ways of accomplishing this, but as i recall the wifi-hotspot will heat up your device and i'd think that'll damage your battery at some point. and i'm not really comfortable with installing a 3rd party app on the phone and osx to accomplish this. to get to the point:

i use virtualbox to let a VM (which is running a system which can make use of the ndis-device of course..) build a bridge so that osx can make use of the gateway which is provided by the standard-android tethering implementation. so both VM and osx have a full-blown internet connection.

i use this method for quite some time. i know it is a bloody simple concept, but it is a alternative to the wifi-hotspot..
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
I don't know what would be the reason to bump 1/2 year old thread, but I'll chime in with new data for future searches:

1) WiFi tethering doesn't heat up the phone to a point that wouldn't be reached by just playing a game, for example.

2) Pure Sense 2.1 and Sense 3.0 ROMs have a switch for USB tethering, allowing to choose Windows tether (RNDIS) or Mac OS X tether (something that I didn't test).
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] approx459below:
i was wondering if there's a more efficient way in the meantime, because unfortunately virtualbox seems to be plagued by a great deal of regression regarding the USB2.0 and network interface support in between their releases.

so you are saying that there actually is a OSX compatible implementation in the new releases? i have pounded google a great deal on this matter but did not discover anything satisfying.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. All Sense 2.1 / 3.0 ROMs seem to have that option.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcodesterox:
I can't seem to change me sms ringtone.. I used to use zedge but accidently defaulted android.. How can I revert?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteorite-The-Second:
I have a HD2 phone with these software specs out of the box:

Manila Version ( 2.5.192xxx ),

ROM Verion (1.43.405 xxx) WWE (70124)

Radio Ver ( 2.04 xxx)

I have been searching for a suitable ROM in htc official site to Upgrade my ROM, but no matter how much I tried, I only get this:

"This software is not suitable for your phone"

I checked my IMEI in https://www.numberingplans.com/?page=analysis&sub=imeinr and my phone turned out to be originated from Europe. But I get the same sentence when I tried Europe countries in htc official website. :confused:

Can someone kindly shed a light on this?

Thanks fellas

P.S

TBH, I don't see any similarity between my phone OS interface and that of people who have hd 2 Manila version ( from youtube ). Isn't it strange?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurt-willems:
probably a branded device sir
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteorite-The-Second:
Considering your HUGE experience in XDA developers, I'd be appreeciated if you could tell me what the solution can be mate? :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kurt-willems:
You can use the GoldCard technique. (I know it works, but don't have experience with it)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webpatrick:
Wow very original (initial ROM)....

Looks like you have an UK ROM http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=9105826&postcount=1. So you could try the UK HTC Site.

Have you checked if you have an Operator logo at startup? If so, go to the Operators website, maybe the posted the ROM over there.

You must also check your SPL at bootup and report it over here.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ultramag69:
HSPL your HD2 then it doesn't matter WHERE your phone is from. As long as its not a t-mobile phone which has more RAM/ROM than normal you can flash any HD2 rom you want...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteorite-The-Second:
hey mate! I live in OZ too.

What do you mean by HPSL? It won't it void my warranty, will it?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meteorite-The-Second:
There are 3 numbers at boot up.

1- Protocol Version : ( 15.26.5xxx )

2- Radio Version (2.04.5.xxx)

3- ROM ver : (1.43xxx) WWE
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] webpatrick:
Do you still have warranty?? Try the shop where you bought it.

Sorry for SPL you have to enter BootLoader (press and hold volume-down when booting the device), but don't bother, cause if I read one of your prev posts, you don't have HSLP installed.

You could also contact HTC Support, maybe they can help you finding your upgrade. Cause you have an ancient ROM on your HD2. I believe for all HD2 devices (even branded) there has to be at least an 1.66... or 1.72... ROM available.

Btw. You don't have an Operator logo somewhere at startup, it's all HTC logo's???