@yodude, good for you? hope you dont think im blowing my own trumpet here, im not, i just cant accept anyone saying 'its not possible to change it' regardless of how deep in the system the splash is, the doubters all said it before but eventually someone wrote a program that allowed it to be possible the n95 info: http://www.ipmart-forum.com/showthre...t=splashscreen basically 'wadowice' released a test program that allowed rompatcher to load patches as the 3rd bootup process (before the splash was loaded) so i wrote a patch that told the device to look elsewhere for the splash ------------------------------------------- the n97 info: http://www.symbian-freak.com/forum/v...hp?f=6&t=38613 wadowices original program progressed into c2z4bin version6, this time i edited the splashscreen.exe file directly as c2z4bin now allowed any executable file to be loaded from driveC as long as the original was on driveZ, checksums are irrelevant as the file always stays the same size, although i did get round checksums later when i started adding more text to the R01 language files, that info here: http://www.ipmart-forum.com/showthre...ight=add+inbox the n97 splashscreen.exe was a bit harder as the nokia programmers seem to have tried to hide the location string, the n95 location string was never hidden like this, it just clearly said 'z/resource/apps' compated to the n97 file that said 'Z.:ùP.3L.AùHùC.R.E.E.N.3..M.I.F' but it was still just a case of changing Z to C ------------------------------------------------------------------- @f2thank to remove the n900 shutdown splash screen i edited splashscreen-util from usr/bin changed this: to this: i never fully tested this so it may be buggy, but it stopped any shutdown image from showing i thought the string above this, /system/systemui/splash/bootup_image controls the startup screen, but was worried about trying to change it incase phone didnt boot up, in the end i still tried it and nothing happened, when trying to change the n95 splash i came across lots of files like this that seem to be pretending to point to it but dont, so theres a file somewhere else telling the device to look for /system/systemui/splash/bootup_image and i think its in /system/systemui/ but nokia has that location locked away from us this is why we need a hack to gain access i seem to remember reading that the n900 is only 80% open source, and i think we have a right to access to the other 20%!