Disable VW welcome screen.

It’s a boot screen, you can edit it on some units (not with obdeleven) I edited mine

Not sure there’s any timings for it, like I said it’s a boot up screen, like when you boot your home computer,
To change it depends on your MIB, but you need to access the file system, then pull off the file that contains the pictures, then extract the pictures, then modify the pictures, then repack the file with the new pictures, then overwrite the old file on the unit
It’s done via toolbox, but there are 2 different toolbox’s one for high and one for std

High is made by harmen, it’s the discover pro, and when you look at the firmware it says MHI2 (which I think stands for MODULAR HIGH 2)(and the software has HIGH written in it)
Low is the 3-4 lower models, like the composition media etc… made by others, and the firmware will be STD (and also the software)

Toolbox comes in 2 variants mib2high and mib STD2
The STD version only supports Technisat/Preh units (NOT Delphi)

Good luck with losing the boot up tho 🤞🏻

Thank you so much for this info.
By the way, I found out that I live near the Italy's HarmAn factory.
I also found the software online.
Using it appears to be somewhat dangerous, though... I guess i'll leave the things like they are.
Yet, I am almost certain that I saw a "welcome screen on/off" option somewhere, but I can't remember its location. That's why I thought it was an OBD item and not a bootstrap one...
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Yes, maybe an animated GIF...?

I did a how to for skins and startups

So I’ve installed toolbox, what to do now? Looked at the instructions and seemed like gobbledegook and/or very scarce
Ok so need phyton 2.7 (never used python but it looks like dos, shouldn’t be a problem)
Downloaded python and installed it (make sure you click include in path)

python path
python path added

Then I copied the files from the sd card tools directory to the python27 directory
(underlined in yellow)
Then I created a directory called SkinFiles
then i created a directory called Images
then i created a directory called Startgx (for later)
(underlined in red)
then i copied the pip files from the script directory in to the python27 directory
(underlined in green)
MyDir

There in the dump directory on the sd card and i found the file images.mcf after folloing the directory path to skinfiles directory
i copied images.mcf to a directory in the C;/python27/images/ i created earlier
so now onto using python
Went to python directory in the command prompt (run - Cmd, then type> cd/ then> cd python27)
Then typed
python extract_mcf.py ./images/images.mcf ./SkinFiles/

This is divided up to be run python script .py (python extract _mcf.py) to extract files from the image file in c:/python27/images/image.mcf to c:/SkinFiles/
Up popped a error saying you need to have pip installed
so i closed the command prompt, opened windows explorer, went into the python27 directory and double clicked Easy_install-2.7.exe
then went back to the command prompt and the python27 directory
and typed
pip help

and this tells me its installed correctly

piphelp

Then i typed
python extract_mcf.py ./images/images.mcf ./SkinFiles/

and got this error

pip error1

i just typed in the red undelined text

pip install image

Then i typed
python extract_mcf.py ./images/images.mcf ./SkinFiles/

and got this error

piperror2

i just typed in the red undelined text

pip install progressbar

then after that had installed i then typed
python extract_mcf.py ./images/images.mcf ./SkinFiles/

SUCCESS

extsuccess

Now I went back to windows explorer and looked into c:/python/SkinFiles/ and there was a lot of picture files, I found the picture file I wanted (img904.png) after a bit of trial and error loading it into the car,
Then I loaded into gimp (as it’s free) and added a English registration plate and exported it (as saving it changes it to a different file type)

Now to compress it back up

Back to command prompt
So then I typed
python compress-mcf.py ./images/image.mcf ./images/image2.mcf ./SkinFiles/

(This is divided up to be run python script .py (python-compress-mcf.py) the original file (images) to the new file name (images2) with the files in the SkinFiles directory

Then back to windows explorer I copied the new file (c:/python27/SkinFiles/image2.mcf) to the sd card (in the custom/SkinFiles/skin0 directory)
then renamed the file i just copied from image2.mcf to image.mcf

Then I popped out to the car got into the green menu,
then the mqbcoding,
then down to custom then down to skins,
then down to load skin from skin0, it then tells you to reboot
Then I came out of the green menu by pressing the menu button and reset by pressing and holing the on off button until it came up with “welcome to Volkswagen”
And this is what I got

finished

ok had a bit of time today so i thought id play with the splash screen
so first i copied the splash screen folder from the SDCard (located in dump\\splashscreens) to the images folder i made earlier in the python27 directory, i used VWMIBHigh_SUA_Standard.camin (as i have a golf GT)

then i opend the command prompt and navigated to the python directory ( cd\ then cd python27)

then i typed

python extract-camin_vw.py .\images\VWMIBHigh_SUA_Standard.camin .\startgx\

then after extracting i closed the command promp and opened windows explorer and checked the six files were in my images directory
after that i opened gimp and edited img_2.png to how i wanted then exported it back (as saving changes the file type)

now time to compress it back up, so back to the command prompt, and back to the python directory and then typed

python compress-camin_vw.py .\images\VWMIBHigh_SUA_Standard.camin .\images\splash.camin .\startgx\

now i closed the command prompt
then i copied splash.camin from the image directory to the custom\splashscreen\ directory on the SDCard

then out to the car
popped the SDCard in and went to the green screen
down to mqbcoding
then customization
then startup
and as i didnt take out my obd11 tool i went to the bottom option and selected that
waited for the unit to say done and to restart the unit
then restarted the unit by pressing and holdin the on\off button and this is what welcomed me

IMG_6091

Correct.