Splash screens lol

Dazp · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 25, 2004 Posts: 100

Well its been a while, but I need to load a new splashscreen for a mate.. now a long time ago I sussed how to do this, but now I'm stuck.
The splashscreen that have been posted up are great and just what I need, however, they are all in JPEG format Confused

How do I change these and get them to work. I change them to 'splash.bmp' and rotate 90 deg' but they remain about 13KB, whereas my old one in my root is about 220KB.... what gives?

lbendlin · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:40 am Post subject:

you need to "save as" (BMP) in the program where you did the rotation rather than just renaming the extension.
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Dazp · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 25, 2004 Posts: 100

How do I do that Embarassed

PaulB2005 · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 9:36 am Post subject:

What program are you using to convert the files?

Usually the method is something like...

Open the picture, File..., Save As... change the Save As Type to BMP - Windows Bitmap, Save.....

Dazp · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 25, 2004 Posts: 100

I save it but it stays at 13kb, but in my root the splash is about 220kb and the new image dragged and dropped does not work.

It doesn't change to 220kb, so I'm not doing something right....

tanda · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 4:29 pm Post subject:

You don't say what TomTom you have, but when you rotate the picture you want to use, you have to re-size it to 320 x 240 pixels, that should get the size right. Re-name your old splash screen to splash1, or Delete it, call the new spash screen "splash", not splash.bmp the "bmp"bit will be added automaticlly by your computer, if you call it splash,bmp, you will end up with splash,bmp,bmp if you see what I mean. You can also change the shutdown screen in the same way, it is called suspend, on newer devices, the suspend is called antitheft.
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Dazp · Regular Visitor Joined: Nov 25, 2004 Posts: 100

Its a Tomtom Go

I just found THIS which has converted my image AND its now 240x320 and 225kb so should work

Andy_P · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:23 am Post subject:

I may be wrong, but I thought that if you are running recent software, you no longer have to rotate the image.
The way to check is to open the original splashscreen in whatever paint program you use (the MS Paint supplied on any Windows PC is basic but will do everything you need here). Just make your replacement image the same size and shape as the original.

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