| Hi all, I FINALLY got a hold of a Treo . While it still hasn't been released for T-Mobile (my carrier) it has been released for Cingular and the Cingular version is unlocked which means it will work with any GSM Service. I have been playing around with it for a couple of days and it is pretty impressive, but I will save that for later. Unfortunately there was one flaw in this plan. While there are no Cingular logo's on the phone there is one logo in the software. Each time you connect or disconnect you see the big Cingular Splash. No big deal but, still I figured I could get rid of it. Sure enough, I figured out how.
Here is what I did to hack my phone originally.
- Filez - This allows you to see the files in the ROM and copy them down to your hard drive.
- SD Card - This is so you can easily transfer the file from your palm to your computer.
- PRCEdit Version 1.0 Beta - Allows editing PRC Files.
Here is what I did (this is for information purposes, you can skip to the next section if you just want to update your logo).
- Using Filez, copy the file Phone_CNGW from the ROM (little memory icon) to your SD Card. To show ROM files check the checkbox at the bottom right of the screen. For other carriers the file name is probably different.
- Put the SD Card in your PC and open the file Phone_CNGW using PRCEdit. You should see a pictures that looks like the picture at the right.
- Next Delete the TWO bitmap files in this PRC. The correct bitmaps to delete are shown in the pictures. Unfortunately, you can't seem to edit these bitmaps to change the logo. I am sure someone with more expertise can figure out how to edit instead of just deleting them.
- Uncheck ReadOnly and Save the file using PRCEdit.
- Hotsync the file to your Palm (if you didn't uncheck read only earlier this will fail).
That's it. When you connect and disconnect you will see a nice simple Handspring Logo. I am still working on replacing the actual logo instead of just reverting to Handspring. I will let you know if I figure it out.
The easy way to replace the logo. After a bit of trial and error this is the simplest way to replace the logo.
- Open my modified PRC file using PRCEdit. Here is a link to the file. This file is for originally for Cingular but will work on any phone. If you use the file in the firmware (as I did originally) it will crash PRCEdit. Here is a link to PRCEdit.
- Create your "connecting" graphic and "disconnecting" graphics using any graphic editor you wish. It should be sized to 160x160 pixels.
- Select your connecting graphic and copy it to the clipboard.
- Double Click on the bitmap labeled 6851 and select the edit button below the 16 bit bitmap. You will see the current bitmap.
- Paste your graphic into the box opened in the last step.
- Close the graphic editor and close the bitmap resource editor.
- Select your disconnecting graphic and copy it to the clipboard.
- Double Click on the bitmap labeled 6861 and select the edit button below the 16 bit bitmap. You will see the current bitmap.
- Paste your graphic into the box opened in the last step.
- Close the graphic editor and close the bitmap resource editor.
- Save the PRC and close.
- Hotsync the file as you did in the above instructions and you are good to go.
If you don't want to hack your own file and just want to use mine, you can simply do the following. This will replace your carrier logo with the standard Unlocked logo.
- Hotsync the Phone_Logo file (Here is a link) to your phone.
- That's it.
There are a number of people starting to post logo's on teh web. Here are a couple.
- BCaslis has a number of logos already prepared here
- Treo600Essentials has also started a group just for logos.
This worked for me and should be safe (as long as you don't try to burn the file back to the ROM but I take no responsibility for any problems you have with your phone. |