In a previous news, we discovered that the startup background of the TI-Nspire CX and CM was not stored within the Boot1 or Boot2 but directly in the first 128KB of the Flash NAND memory!

This enabled us to get a graphic startup in the TI-Nspire emulator, using the undocumented /PM parameter:


And remember the NAND memory can be fully reprogrammed using nsNandMgr!



The new nsNandMgr version released this evening includes additional dumping/flashing options for the first 128KB called the 'manuf' area.

For exemple, we could delete all boot graphics to get the default B&W startup screen:

After ThemeEditor from Levak, customize your TI-Nspire CX even further!
Imagine you could choose your TI-Nspire CX and CM startup background!
In our current understanding of the format, for now we can only change sizes, locations, and rotate colors for the different elements:

For the first time in the world this evening, here are the first custom boot graphics on a TI-Nspire CX:




Imagine booting your TI-Nspire CX with the background of your choice: your TI-Nspire CX would become unique!
Or imagine a background on which you would write your own name: you TI-Nspire CX would then be signed electronically against theft, and almost permanently since only OS 3.1 with Ndless and nsNandMgr could erase your signature!






Source & download:
http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11120&lang=en

Great critor! You did it once again.

NIES!

I think it would be cool to have a custom ndless-themed background

That's pretty cool, I would put there a derpy hooves background

Hm, I'm wondering if this can eventually turn into a grub/burg sort of thing for linux dual-boot stuffs. Tho that would prolly have more to do with the loading itself than the theme..? Come to think of it this is more like plymouth than a selector anyways...

Anyways,

Hmm not sure what I should put gangnam style, or windows XP bootup

Nah, I'd go with the ubuntu bootscreen, nice, clean, and it's ubuntu, what else do you want

Quote from: Nick on January 17, 2013, 12:13:51 am

Quote from: annoyingcalc on January 16, 2013, 08:25:16 pm

Hmm not sure what I should put gangnam style, or windows XP bootup

Nah, I'd go with the ubuntu bootscreen, nice, clean, and it's ubuntu, what else do you want

Or even better, a Crysis loading screen

How about just something like

Would it be possible to set the data real-time? If so, maybe some Ndless hack could make the boot messages (serial) print to the screen, that would be awesome but I'm afraid that won't be really possible xs

That's awesome Critor!
I'm wondering if it's only pictures you can set as backgrounds, or could you also put something else.

What do you mean with something else? An animation?