Prepare a shutdown screen for Ricoh GR
Shutdown screens are switched in the camera’s GRLife Pro menu. Install the custom firmware first, then turn photos into shutdown screens on the SD card and pick one in the camera. Your photos are processed in your browser and never uploaded.
Before you start
| What you need | Details |
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| Camera and firmware | A GR III (2.10 / 2.20 / 2.21) or GR IIIx (1.60 / 1.70 / 1.71) with custom firmware including GRLife Pro v1.30 or later.Firmware made earlier has no Shutdown screen menu; make it again and flash it. GR IV is not supported yet. |
| Photos | Up to 9, in common formats such as JPEG or PNG.The site crops them to 720×480 and encodes JPEGs the camera can read. |
| SD card | A card that fits the camera and that your computer can read and write.It shares the card’s GRLIFE folder with the film library. |
Make and switch
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01 Choose your shutdown screens
Open the shutdown screen page and add up to 9 photos; they are saved in order as BYE1.JPG to BYE9.JPG. Drag a picture to frame it, use the slider to zoom, or choose Fit to keep the whole photo. The built-in The last frame comes first; remove it if you do not want it.
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02 Download
After reading and accepting the disclaimer, download the ZIP of shutdown screens. The ZIP holds a README.txt and an SD folder laid out exactly like your SD card.
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03 Copy to the SD card
- No GRLIFE folder on the card yet: copy the whole GRLIFE folder from the SD folder to the root of the card, next to DCIM where your photos are.
- GRLIFE folder already on the card: copy only the BYE folder into it and replace files with the same name. Do not replace the whole GRLIFE folder: it also holds your film library and other files.
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04 Choose in the camera
Put the card back in the camera, press MENU, go to the GRLife Pro menu under Still Image Settings and choose Shutdown screen. Pick a picture and press OK: it takes effect at once and you return to the menu above; the picture shows when you switch off.
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05 Change it or go back to the factory screen
To change it, insert the card, go back to the Shutdown screen page and pick another. To go back to the factory screen, choose Factory screen on the same page. In camera switches back to the picture stored in the camera.
What the Shutdown screen page shows
The first row is the factory screen. When the camera holds a custom picture, the second row is In camera, followed by the BYE file it came from. Below that are the BYE1.JPG to BYE9.JPG files found on the card. The row starting with “>” is the screen in use.
Works without the card
The chosen picture is copied into the camera, so removing, swapping or formatting the SD card does not affect it; you only need the card to change it.
Common situations
No Shutdown screen in the menu
Your firmware is too old. Make firmware with GRLife Pro v1.30 or later in Custom firmware and flash it.
A row shows “x J” or “x Z”
“x J” means the file is not a 720×480 baseline JPEG; “x Z” means it is larger than 128 KB. Make it again on the shutdown screen page; the camera keeps the screen it had.
Replaced the shutdown image with the old web tool before
The old method (debug scripts) changed the camera’s own image, so Factory screen shows that replaced image. New shutdown screens are not affected; flashing back the Ricoh factory firmware restores Ricoh’s own image.
Are photos uploaded?
No. Cropping, encoding and packing all happen in your browser; the site does not connect to the camera or write to the SD card.
Want to know how the shutdown screen gets swapped?
The how-it-works article explains which picture GRLife Pro reads at power off, why the factory resources stay untouched, and how the site encodes photos into JPEGs the camera reads.
Read how shutdown screens work →