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Okay this is just a quick write up on creating a boot logo and overcoming the issue with the blue and red’s switching which can be frustrating when doing simple logo’s but it gets crazy when you have an image with gradients or lots of different shades of colors. To remedy this you will need an image editing program (I use Photoshop and this guide is using it), You will also need a hex editor ( I am using Frhed), to load the boot logo I am using P3Droids Droid 3 Toolbox.

Okay to start out you need an image that you want to use as your logo anything will work as long as you can open it in your image editing program.

Personally my first step is to re-size the image to 256 pixels by 256 pixels (this just what I do depending on the image you might want to so something a little different to make it fit right)

Adjust the canvas size to 540 pixels by 540 pixels

Now flip the image both vertically and horizontally

Then I save the image as a .bmp

Now open your freshly saved image in the hex editor

Now comes the really “fun” part I personally open a notepad or notepad++ so I have something easy to paste into but you can use whatever or if you have a photographic memory you could try and memorize what you will need. You are going to select the first 54 bytes and then cut them and paste them somewhere else for safe keeping. Then delete the last 2 bits if you used Photoshop. Once you have done this reverse the bytes (in Frhed it is under edit> Reverse Bytes).

Now that this is done paste those first 54 bytes back into the file and save it as .bmp once again.

Now open it back up with Photoshop it should be right side up now but with different colors (this is a good thing) save this under the .RAW type but change the file extension to .img

Final leg now just move the file into the Custom_Boot_Logos folder located inside the “TBHToolbox” folder that the P3Droid App added to your external SD.

Almost done now run the app go into Boot Logo and pick your custom boot logo and apply it.

Only a simple reboot stands between you and your new custom boot logo.

This seems a hell of a lot longer in writing than it did doing it, but I hope that this helps someone out. I will keep playing with it because I know there has to be an easier and more user friendly way to do all of this but I am feeling a bit lazy tonight.