how to edit nav600/900 theme files and start up animation.

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............ START UP ANIMATION NAV600 .... astra j / insignia .... PART 2 ............


AS WITH ALL ELECTRICAL HOW TO,S
You do This at Your own Risk if you Follow the How to Correctly
There Should be no Problems Thank You.


This part will help us here in the uk or who have the griffin start up logo  
and who want to use the downloaded startup links in the above post
as they are all set up for the opel badge start up theme files
so these files will need to be edited so they work in the correct file location for the nav units with the griffin logos.

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Download your chosen startup animation and follow the above post and copy and paste the file image.uli.14. into its correct location
now after that go back to the nav600/900 file and again click the dnl until you open the list of image files
click on images.uli.14. and then open the temp file with the gm_res_umpacker.exe.









Next click the temp file at the top of the image file and click it until you come to the start up image files
and you will see all the standard start up image files for opel, vauxhall, vxr, etc.





You will also see the new image files that you have chosen but there is a problem
they have been replaced in the location of the ople files
so we need to swap the images we want to the griffin file location.







To swap the image we simply need to click the first griffin image and open it with paint
at the top left of the screen you will see a paste button click it and select paste from
then go to your documents and open the nav600/900 files and again click the dnl till you see the image file list
select the temp file and click it till you open the start up image files
and then select the first image from the start up theme you want and press save and then close paint.

















You have now changed the first image location of the start up theme that you want
repeat the process until all 16 images have been changed
then repack the image.14.uli. with the gm-res-packer
and delte the image.14.uli. from the nav600/900 imagefile list and copy and paste the images.14.uli
back into location and delte the temp file and then upload to your car
and you will now have the new startup animation you wanted.



....................................................................... SHUTDOWN IMAGE LOGO CHANGE NAV600 ..... astra j / insignia ....................................................................



AS WITH ALL ELECTRICAL HOW TO,S
You do This at Your own Risk if you Follow the How to Correctly
There Should be no Problems Thank You.



The same process can be used to change the standby logo on the shutdown screen
image file is in image.22.uli. on the main file list in the nav600/900 files
you need to edit the image shutdown.004_vauxhall.png for nav units with griffin logo.
and shutdown_003.png for cars with the ople logo.







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You should now have all the now how on how to download a theme
download a start up animation theme and make a shutdown logo
and edit any image file icons etc that you like
this information has all been put together as there is a real lack of how to do this out there on the internet
so i really hope this helps you all out
if you have done a theme and would like to share it etc or just show what you have done
or if you have any other info you would like to add then please do so thank you.


.....warnings Please read this.....


Remove any poi,s before doing an updated or new theme.

If you are doing a theme update and have upgraded the nav SD card to a newer version
than you used for the original nav 600/900 update
then you must remove the newer SD card
and then reinstall the SD card you first used before doing any new theme update etc
after the theme update has been done and the system has rebooted
then you can put your newer SD card back in and it will update the card again
then put any POI,S back on.

Anyone who has a nav 900 SD card will need a theme that runs with v200 or v208
the card will bring up all the files for voice recognition on the nav, usb, etc
and the nav will speak to you but you still can not talk to it.

Pressing the phone button on the nav unit first before pressing the steering wheel button
is a normal function of a nav900 the same would apply if you wanted to talk to the nav usb etc on a nav900.

The original nav600/900 update is a v181 file
most themes are v200 when you update a theme in full it will become a v200 file
you can swap or copy and paste a image file say uli.14. uli.22. and uli.11. from another v200 theme
but do not try and copy and paste any other resbin.file or system file or font.uli etc from a v208 or v181 file into a v200
as mixing system files will brick the nav unit.
best thing to do is just alter the uli.image files only and do not attempt to alter any system files at all
the gm-respacker will not repack any system batch files ,resbin etc it will only pack the image.uli.files.

some v200 theme files have had there poi icons set up with speed icons 30, 40, 50, etc
these have been edited and will show on the nav map and pop up speed camera icon
and the poi list in the nav settings as 40mph symbol etc
this type of theme files are best avoided as they look crap
you can not edit the resbin. to remove these symbols from the nav map so there best avoided.

what you want is the v200 files that have the poi icons for the speedcams image
they look much better and have the starry night sky in the night theme sat nav
to check you have the correct ones before you upload it to the car
look in image.20.uli with the gm-res unpacker and check the images for the speedcam image
if it has the 30, 40, 50, 60, etc look for a different theme.

Do not try and add two night themes or two day themes to a v181 v200 v208 file
same with fonts you need to have night and day or the text color will vanish.

there are v208 files out there there the latest files but they're no different to the v200 files
the problem will come when say if you made a mistake on the update of a theme with v208
and you have already used v208 before and the nav unit goes into bootloader mode
then you need a v208 res disc to recover the nav unit like you did when you first installed the original v181 3d map update
if you were to add the v181 disc if your v208 usb did crash then it could brick the nav
so if you are using v208 then stick with the v208 files and only update the images.uli.1 to 24 and you should have no problems.

if you have v208 and uploaded a v200 or v181 theme in full to the nav unit you risk going into bootloader mode and risk brick without the v208 res disk.

If you are unsure about doing any editing or updating don't be afraid to ask on here
beware also there are bad links out there as well as good ones on the interweb so we only recommend
you use links to themes that have been proven to work again we hold no responsibility
for anything that goes wrong doing this type of update is purely at your own risk.




AS WITH ALL ELECTRICAL HOW TO,S
You do This at Your own Risk if you Follow the How to Correctly
There Should be no Problems Thank You.