Razr v3 Custom Startup Shutdown Sounds and Animations

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by ColsTiger

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Everyday, someone posts about not being able to change the custom startup or shutdown screens or sounds. This guide is meant to take all the guesswork out of adding those really cool features. The skin is not complete until you have the startup and shutdown screens and animations working correctly. Just to clear up any misunderstandings, the custom startup and shutdown animations must be named specifically as custwakeup.gif and custgoodbye.gif. The custom startup and shutdown sounds must be named Cust_Start~up.mp3 and Power~down.mp3. If they're not named exactly like this, your phone will not recognize them and they will NEVER work. So make sure you've got your .gifs and .mp3s named correctly.

You're going to need three software programs downloaded, uncompressed and installed on your computer to complete this exercise:

• XV132 Hex Editor
  
• P2K Manager
  
• P2K Commander v.3.3
  
  

Let's get busy!

1. Plug in your phone with your USB data cable and start up P2K Manager.

2. P2K Manager should show your phone as "connected" and as "phone model: V3."

3. Let P2K Manager read the files on your phone by clicking the "Update list" button.

4. Download SEEM 0032_0001 by typing 0032 in both the "From" and "to" boxes and clicking the "Download seem" button.

5. P2K Manager will want to save your SEEM to a directory. Create a new folder and name it something easily recognizable like "back up razr seems." Make sure you don't change the name of the SEEM from xxxx_yyyy or it will not function correctly.

6. Now let's do the same exercise with the 004a_0001 SEEM. Remember to type 004a in both the "From" and "to" boxes and then click the "Download seem" button.

7. P2K Manager will automatically want to save SEEM 004a_0001 to the "back up razr seems" directory you just created. It will already show SEEM 0032_0001 in the folder as well.

8. Click "Save" and remember not to change the name of the SEEM from xxxx_yyyy. That could cause big problems later.

9. Minimize P2K Manager and let's navigate to XV132 Hex Editor and edit a few SEEMS.

10. Open XV132 Hex Editor.

11. Click "Run" at the Security Warning.

12. XV132 Hex Editor will open and look like this:

13. Click "File" on the menu bar and select "Open" to open the "back up razr seems" directory. You should see both SEEMs you just uploaded from your phone with P2K Manager.

14. We need to check to see if we need to deactivate the Motorola startup and shutdown animations first. They'll probably already be deactivated if you have a branded flex like Cingular or T-Mobile, but check just to remove all doubt. Select SEEM 0032_0001 and then click the "Open" button.

15. Now we're in the SEEM. Don't be worried if this is your first time. It's not as bad as it seems (no pun intended).

16. We're going to do this the easy way, so just press hold "ctrl" and then "g" on your keyboard to get the "Go to address" window open.

17. Select the "hexidecimal" radio button and highlight whatever number is in the box next to the drop down arrow. Type in 1D in that box and click "OK."

18. Click on "Tools" on the menu bar.

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