Droid 2

Oct 10
18

How To – Droid X & Droid 2 – Change Your Bootup Logo

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Well here’s a pretty nifty tutorial I just discovered over at DroidXForums.com. Basically you know when you Boot Up/Power On your Droid X or Droid 2 device you see the “M” (Motorola Logo). This tutorial will explain on how to change the “M” logo to whatever image you create. Please note this is NOT your bootup animation! Also this will only work on the Droid-X or the Droid-2 do not try on any other device you may brick your phone. I’m not sure if you screw this How To up what will happen to your device but just make sure you do a Nandroid hopefully you can recover from that if something goes wrong.

What You Will Need:
LogoReplacer.zip – Download via DroidPirate.com
LogoReplacer.zip – This is the actual file you will need to place onto the root of your SD-Card.

WinRar or 7Zip – You only need one of the programs I prefer WinRar it will handle both .RAR and .ZIP files.

FRHED HexEditor - Download via SourceForge.net



1) Create your image:
Using Adobe Photoshop, create an image that is 480 pixels wide and 182 pixels tall.
(i’m not sure if this is the only file size you can use but if it isn’t please let me know)
Whatever color the very bottom left pixel is will be the color of the screen surrounding your image
Mirror the image, image > image rotation -> flip canvas horizontal
Save it as a “.BMP” file click OK
Choose 24bit and hit Enter/OK
You now have your image

2) Editing the image:
Once you have the saved the image as listed above, using the hex editor, open up your image and erase the first 54 bytes and last 2 bytes of data.
It will show in the bottom left hand corner of the screen how many bytes you have selected
Press the Del key not the back space key to delete then hit enter
Do the same for the last 2
Reverse the data, using frhed go to: edit -> reverse bytes
To reverse the data you must select all of the bytes (or bits im really not sure) Just press ctrl+A, edit -> reverse, bytes enter.
Now save the newly edited file as logo.bin
Open the LogoReplacer.zip file (download in other post) And DO NOT extract it. Just double click to open it and drag the logo.bin file into it (replacing the old logo.bin file)

3) Flashing your new Boot Image
Place your LogoReplacer.zip file on your SDCARD
Restart your phone into recovery
Install zip from SD , choose zip from SD
Navigate to your file
Select it with the camera button
Restart your phone an Boom! Your New boot image!

Also if you do not wish to create a file via PhotoShop the LogoReplacer.zip that is on my server is already customized to the DroidPirate logo. So all you have to do is place the LogoReplacer.zip onto the Root of your SD-Card. Reboot your phone into Recovery via Koush’s Bootstrap Recovery. Choose Install Zip from SD-Card -> Choose LogoReplacer.zip -> Apply -> Reboot. And your new Bootup image should look like the one below:

**** ALL CREDIT GOES TO P3DROID for this find!****

 


Aug 10
23

How To – Change Your Unlock/Lock Sound

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There is a new feature in Froyo, which when you lock and unlock the screen, a little “click” is made. If you don’t know how to access the Unlock/Lock sound settings you can find it by going to.

Settings -> Sound Settings -> Screen Lock Sounds

Instructions
(This can be done with any sound in the UI sectin)
1. Open Root Explorer go into “/system/media/audio/notifications/“
2. Pick your desired notification sound and copy it
3. Press back once, and then press “/ui“
4. Press the “mount r/w” button in the top right corner
4. Rename either “Unlock.ogg” or “Lock.ogg” (whichever one you are replacing) to .ogg.bak, so you can switch it back if you don’t like it
5. Paste your notification into “/ui“, and rename it to whichever you just renamed to “.bak“
6. Close Root Explorer and reboot
7. Unlock/Lock your phone and enjoy!

 


Aug 10
19

How to use your Droid for USB Mass Storage

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When I first purchased my Motorola Droid it took forever to figure out how to use my device as a flash drive. Had to do some Google searches then figured it out, wasn’t use to a smartphone like this from being a BlackBerry user. Anyways here is how to use your Android device as a flash drive or if you are trying to modify your device.

1. First make sure your device is connected to your PC via USB. (You might have to install some drivers for your device but most of the time it comes preloaded)
2. Next step up at the top where your Time, Battery Icon and Coverage icons that is called the “Notification bar“. Simply place your finger on the notification bar and begin to slide it down. Below is a screen shot showing where to place your finger and slide down.

3. Now you should see “USB Connected“, “Select to copy files to/from your computer” Click it.

4. By now must devices are running the 2.2 FroYo firmware but your next screen may look a little different than my screen shot but anyways you should get the gist. You should see a Android or a picture of USB asking you to “Turn on USB Storage” – Click on it like shown below.

5. Now you should a message that says the following: “Turn on USB Storage” – “If you turn on USB storage, some applications you are using will stop and may be unavailable until you turn off USB storage“. Basically what this is saying is some applications are required to store their cache or external data to your SD-Card, however with it being connected to your computer it is basically placed in a “Read-Only” state. Just select “Ok” and your device is now connected to your computer. You should be able to go to My Computer and use it as a normal flash or storage device.