[How To] Setup Static Bootlogo (Before Animated Boot Animation)

[xaueious]

To setup the static bootlogo, you need to create a specially formatted image to be named initlogo.rle to be placed in the root directory of the ramdisk.

You need the 'convert' binary to convert the image to a raw rgb888 file, and the to565 will convert it to initlogo.rle.

The resolution of the boot logo should be the size of the screen, in pixels. For example, 800x480.

I use a script under Ubuntu to convert my png image to my static splash logo:

#! /bin/sh
convert -depth 8 splash.png rgb:splash.raw
./to565 -rle < splash.raw > initlogo.rle

you need need the to565 compiled (gcc -o to565 to565.c):

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>

#define to565(r,g,b)                                            \
    ((((r) >> 3) << 11) | (((g) >> 2) << 5) | ((b) >> 3))

#define from565_r(x) ((((x) >> 11) & 0x1f) * 255 / 31)
#define from565_g(x) ((((x) >> 5) & 0x3f) * 255 / 63)
#define from565_b(x) (((x) & 0x1f) * 255 / 31)

void to_565_raw(void)
{
    unsigned char in[3];
    unsigned short out;

    while(read(0, in, 3) == 3) {
        out = to565(in[0],in[1],in[2]);
        write(1, &out, 2);
    }
    return;
}

void to_565_raw_dither(int width)
{
    unsigned char in[3];
    unsigned short out;
    int i = 0;
    int e;

    int* error = malloc((width+2) * 3 * sizeof(int));
    int* next_error = malloc((width+2) * 3 * sizeof(int));
    memset(error, 0, (width+2) * 3 * sizeof(int));
    memset(next_error, 0, (width+2) * 3 * sizeof(int));
    error += 3;        // array goes from [-3..((width+1)*3+2)]
    next_error += 3;

    while(read(0, in, 3) == 3) {
        int r = in[0] + error[i*3+0];
        int rb = (r < 0) ? 0 : ((r > 255) ? 255 : r);

        int g = in[1] + error[i*3+1];
        int gb = (g < 0) ? 0 : ((g > 255) ? 255 : g);

        int b = in[2] + error[i*3+2];
        int bb = (b < 0) ? 0 : ((b > 255) ? 255 : b);

        out = to565(rb, gb, bb);
        write(1, &out, 2);

#define apply_error(ch) {                                               \
            next_error[(i-1)*3+ch] += e * 3 / 16;                       \
            next_error[(i)*3+ch] += e * 5 / 16;                         \
            next_error[(i+1)*3+ch] += e * 1 / 16;                       \
            error[(i+1)*3+ch] += e - ((e*1/16) + (e*3/16) + (e*5/16));  \
        }

        e = r - from565_r(out);
        apply_error(0);

        e = g - from565_g(out);
        apply_error(1);

        e = b - from565_b(out);
        apply_error(2);

#undef apply_error

        ++i;
        if (i == width) {
            // error <- next_error; next_error <- 0
            int* temp = error; error = next_error; next_error = temp;
            memset(next_error, 0, (width+1) * 3 * sizeof(int));
            i = 0;
        }
    }

    free(error-3);
    free(next_error-3);

    return;
}

void to_565_rle(void)
{
    unsigned char in[3];
    unsigned short last, color, count;
    unsigned total = 0;
    count = 0;

    while(read(0, in, 3) == 3) {
        color = to565(in[0],in[1],in[2]);
        if (count) {
            if ((color == last) && (count != 65535)) {
                count++;
                continue;
            } else {
                write(1, &count, 2);
                write(1, &last, 2);
                total += count;
            }
        }
        last = color;
        count = 1;
    }
    if (count) {
        write(1, &count, 2);
        write(1, &last, 2);
        total += count;
    }
    fprintf(stderr,"%d pixels\n",total);
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    if ((argc == 2) && (!strcmp(argv[1],"-rle"))) {
        to_565_rle();
    } else {
        if (argc > 2 && (!strcmp(argv[1], "-w"))) {
            to_565_raw_dither(atoi(argv[2]));
        } else {
            to_565_raw();
        }
    }
    return 0;
}

XDA reading:
initlogo.rle: display an image on boot - xda-developers

Android wiki reading:
HOWTO: Unpack, Edit, and Re-Pack Boot Images - Android Wiki

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[ZilverZurfarn]

I might add that the binaries for to565 (both Windows and Linux) can be found here if you're not up to compiling it yourself.

[ZilverZurfarn]

OK, so now that I got me a nice new boot splash, and would like to tweak update.img, where in update.img should it be placed? Can't find initlogo.rle anywhere.
Edit N.M. Found it in boot.img /Edit

[RomanticEvil]

Thanks Xaueious this is what I'm looking for atm!

[cmylxgo]

Thanks Xaueious for the info. I am having a hard time finding the convert binary. Could you post a link to the biniaries that you used?

Thanks again
-CMYLXGO

[l_n]

convert is part of the ImageMagick software suite (lots of libraries and utilities in there.. wonderful bit of work from the open source community.)

[venkatraman7]

Hi all,

I am trying to change splash screen for android with my own splash screen
I followed the steps as follows:
1. Created a new image and save it as raw file
2. I tried to change raw file to rle file using to565 C program but failed the coding is not showing any dependency nor any error so I download a sample initlogo.rle from net
3. I pasted the initlogo.rle to /out directory
4.I compiled the source code

but no change is happened

I tried in init.rc to stop the boot animation and I got succeed in it but not on changing the splash screen

Please correct me If i made any mistakes