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Android Boot Logo and Bootanimation
One of the favorite vanity customizations for an Android device, is to personalize the boot logo and the boot animation.
Here you find some notes about the Gretel A7, a phone based on the MediaTek MT6580 chip, running Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Operation should be rather similar on other devices sharing a similar MTK chip and similar O.S. version.
We used a GNU/Linux PC as the host to perform all the actions: download and upload of partition content, manipulation of image files, running of some scripts, etc.
log.bin
The boot logo is contained into a dedicated partition called logo, you can find the binary image called logo.bin packed into the stock ROM archive or you can download it from the phone using the SP Flash Tool program.
The partition image contains several different pictures (39 in our case!), some are at full screen size (720×1280 pixels), others are snippets used to represent e.g. the charging battery, the percentage, etc. The logo.bin has a rather simple structure:
Content | Size (bytes) | Notes |
---|---|---|
MTK Header | 512 | At offset 0x08 there should be the string LOGO or logo. |
Pictures Count | 4 | A little-endian 32bit integer. This is the number of pictures packed into the data block. |
Total Block Size | 4 | A little-endian 32bit integer. This is the total size of the data, excluding only the 512 bytes of the MTK header. |
Offsets Map | 4 x Count | For each picture there is a little-endian 32bit integer, indicating the offset of the picture into the data, after the 512 bytes header. The first offset is 4 + 4 + (4 * pictures count). |
Pictures Data Block | Variable | Each picture is in raw RGB format, it is appended as a z-compressed file. |
How to extract pictures, how to convert to PNG.
Here there are two full screen examples:
Here it is a 163×29 pixels snippet used for the “battery charging” animation: