Colibri iMX6 Flashing Custom Splashscreen

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I am trying to flash a custom splash screen when installing a custom compressed WinCE8 image from EasyInstaller using the USB programming template (see thread here for more notes about my installation process - iMX6 Production Programming USB Only - Technical Support - Toradex Community)

I have tried baking the custom splashscreen into the compressed nk.nbx image using the compression tool and adding the splashscreen image to the USB programming template as ‘custom.tss’ for install when loading Easy Installer, but each time the system boots up with a black splashscreen with no text. If I let the system boot into WinCE, then use the Update Tool to load the splashcreen image and reboot, the correct splashcreen appears (indicating that the issue is tied directly to the flashing of the image and not the config block).

How can I get Easy Installer to correctly install the custom.tss splash screen image when flashing an image using the USB programming template?

Thanks!

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In the splash screen tool there is a check to generate the splash screen file in a format that is compatible with the easy installer, can you ensure that you checked it when generating your tss file? Do you see any message on UARTA when the device boots with the “wrong” splash screen?

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valter.tx’s solution above fixed the issue. Adding it as an answer here so it is formally documented:

“In the splash screen tool there is a check to generate the splash screen file in a format that is compatible with the easy installer, can you ensure that you checked it when generating your tss file? Do you see any message on UARTA when the device boots with the “wrong” splash screen?”

The issue was that I did not check the box to output the correct file. I did not check the output over UARTA when the “wrong” splash screen appeared, so I don’t know if any messages appeared.

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