Transferring pics from USB to change the Welcome screen on GXL 2014

[ice.t Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close ice.t]

Yea I've only found out how to set the "night mode" couples weeks ago...after suffering months of flashlight bright screen during night driving... never thought the little round switch located on the dashboard would also control the centre screen at all!

[Symo Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Symo]

Yea I've only found out how to set the "night mode" couples weeks ago...after suffering months of flashlight bright screen during night driving... never thought the little round switch located on the dashboard would also control the centre screen at all!

Ah I can't remember if it does, now that I think of it it does because the instrument cluster and multi screen are always on day and night. Still trying to come up with a good photo to put on there

[Piney Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Piney]

I am unable to change any image. I have two different images in two different folders named StartupImage and DisplayOffImage and no success! The images are JPEG from iPhoto. Any ideas please.

[Fred63 Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Fred63]

I am unable to change any image. I have two different images in two different folders named StartupImage and DisplayOffImage and no success! The images are JPEG from iPhoto. Any ideas please.

From memory there is a size limit of the files, check that in the manual.
Also with the file names i think no special characters are allowed it must contain only numbers or letters.

[DDK Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close DDK]

just to be clear: did you name the picture 'startupimage' and 'displayoffimage', or did you name the two folders that way. it needs to be the folders that are named that way, i think the pictures can be named what you want.

[Piney Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Piney]

Named the folders correctly and exactly as stated in the manual. Was thinking that it's an Apple Mac not compatible with other OS's type issue.

[BlakMoth Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close BlakMoth]

What is the usb formatted as? Maybe it only reads a certain type?
FAT, FAT32, NTFS or HTFS


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[Piney Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Piney]

This would make sense as the multimedia unit doesn't acknowledge the USB at all. What format USB should I have?

[Fred63 Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Fred63]

FAT32.
Is what is used.

[wanted Member Find all posts View Profile Close wanted]

FAT32.
Is what is used.

Yep, if you ever have issue with a USB drive, usually FAT32 format will solve it. Not just for Prado but generally for other multimedia issues. There are awful lot of devices that are still using this format.

[V1SHRNZ Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close V1SHRNZ]

Does anyone know the correct aspect ratio we need to resize the images to make them full screen?

Using Picasa crop function i tried 16:9 (HD) and seems to snip a bit off the bottom not the top and sides are perfect. Using (16:10) setting top and bottom are fine but a small bit on either sides are cut off.

Im stumped...

[beatit99 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close beatit99]

Had a quick play today on the '16 model I think it's WGA - 800x480, or the equivalent ratio (15:9).

I used Paint.net to resize images to 800 wide, then cropped canvas to 480 high.

I'm left a little underwhelmed however, the Toyota splash screen still stays up for a good 3-5 seconds, then your image is up for 1 second before cutting to the home screen.

And others said don't bother with the "DisplayOffImage" you'll probably never see it.

[Snouto Member Find all posts View Profile Close Snouto]

I'm left a little underwhelmed however, the Toyota splash screen still stays up for a good 3-5 seconds, then your image is up for 1 second before cutting to the home screen.

I'm glad someone else said this, because I've just changed the startup image myself and was pretty disappointed to only see my image for about 0.5s. Seems like a pretty pointless "feature" tbh.

[rubberprado Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close rubberprado]

I can confirm this works (mostly) on a 2017 Prado 150.

Key points:
1. The USB stick has to be formatted as FAT32. Any other format is not recognized.
2. The factory USB port is the one aft of the gear stick, just in front of the center storage.
3. The Prado will only transfer one jpeg file from the folders on my USB stick, even though I have multiple photos in the proper folders, and despite the fact that there appear to be 4 slots available for transferred images in the Prado head unit.