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initlogo.rle: display an image on boot

You can display a "splash" screen of sorts upon boot. You just have to have a file named initlogo.rle in your root directory. The trick is that the root directory is overwritten each time you boot with the contents of your boot image (mtd2). There are instructions elsewhere on the forums for updating this image.
You can prove to yourself that this works by just copying logo.rle to initlogo.rle in your updated boot image and you will see the "G1" screen twice.
The hurdle I'm running into is generating my own images. There is a program called to565 that takes in an image and spits out the resulting image in the appropriate format (give it the -r flag to generate an rle) [edit, correct flag is -rle]. However, everything I generate with this just looks like random colored bars when I boot up (and sometimes at the bottom of the screen I see part of whatever was left in the framebuffer when I shut down). Supposedly to565 takes in a raw rgb888 file, and perhaps I'm not generating those properly. I tried saving to "raw image" from gimp but so far everything is just different variations on colored bars.
I may give up at this point, but I thought others might be interesting in picking up where I left off.

Huh. Interesting. I'll see if I can give it a whirl. Thanks for posting the info you've found so far

I took a quick look at the source of that to565 program. It looks like you need to use -rle instead of just -r. Did you try that?

JesusFreke said:
I took a quick look at the source of that to565 program. It looks like you need to use -rle instead of just -r. Did you try that?
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You sir, are correct! I just did it with -rle and it works.

How to create a boot image:
1. put a properly encoded initlogo.rle in root directory
2. insert this line in init.rc in the boot: section (optional, this disables the stock android boot animation)
Code:
setprop debug.sf.nobootanimation 1
3. wrap it all up and flash it to mtd2
Attached:
1. A boot image with these changes made. To try it on your phone, first back up your mtd2 image (the boot image). Type the following in a root shell to back it up to your sdcard:
Code:
cat /dev/mtd/mtd2 > /sdcard/mtd2.img
Then, unzip boot-rc29-customlogo.img.zip it and stick it on your sdcard and type the following in a root shell:
Code:
cat /dev/zero >> /dev/mtd/mtd2
flash_image boot /sdcard/boot-rc29-customlogo.img
(when you do the cat, it will tell you "write: No space left on device," which is fine)
To restore your original boot image, do the cat and then flash_image your mtd2.img backup.
2. Samples of the raw image as well as the rle encoded version.
3. A nifty photo of this working on my phone.
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WOW awesome!! great job will test this out when i get back from the airport

i couldn't wait so i did it works perfectly. i just can't get rid of the first boot .img.(i see the instruction but i need further help) if this helps i have a vista 64 but, I'm also running VM to any operating system.

humble said:
i couldn't wait so i did it works perfectly. i just can't get rid of the first boot .img.(i see the instruction but i need further help) if this helps i have a vista 64 but, I'm also running VM to any operating system.
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Yeah, actually I haven't found a way to get rid of the G1 logo on boot. If you change logo.rle on the root filesystem, it still shows that image. I'll post a longer guide to generating your own boot.img later tonight (although I posted a bunch of it in another thread already). You could always create your own boot.img and replace logo.rle to prove to yourself that it doesn't change that initial logo... but I've tried it. It must be somewhere else (including, perhaps, some on-phone memory that we can't access).

hmmm so i've done this correctly since the boot image works...however i no longer have WIFI access. Does anyone knoe whats going on? under settings it keeps saying turning wifi ON... but it doesnt.
EDIT: So i reflashed the original backup img and now its fine. I wonder where i went wrong?

mack said:
hmmm so i've done this correctly since the boot image works...however i no longer have WIFI access. Does anyone knoe whats going on? under settings it keeps saying turning wifi ON... but it doesnt.
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Did you use the boot.img I posted or one of your own? I'm not having any trouble with wifi, and I'm booted with that one. Do you see anything in dmesg about wifi?
Edit: also, it looks like JesusFreke had some issues with wifi not working when he was doing custom boot images. Dunno the details but maybe it's related.

thanks alansj (sorry i miss read). and my wifi still works

alansj said:
Did you use the boot.img I posted or one of your own? I'm not having any trouble with wifi, and I'm booted with that one. Do you see anything in dmesg about wifi?
Edit: also, it looks like JesusFreke had some issues with wifi not working when he was doing custom boot images. Dunno the details but maybe it's related.
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I used your img that you posted with the hackdroid...LOVED it by the way =)
Could it be i'm on RC19 firmware? I'm reading jesusfreke's post but i'm fairly new to the linux thing so i'm having trouble understanding.
anyway i guess i'll just stick to stock until something new comes a long...
Thanks Alansj

mack said:
Could it be i'm on RC19 firmware?
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Good guess. You could first apply the RC29 via sdcard and then flash the boot image.
To apply RC29, download this file, put it on your sdcard, name it update.zip, then reboot your phone while holding down power+home and when you get the recovery screen press alt+L then alt+s.

will this work with 30

jriley60 said:
will this work with 30
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The general process will work, but the boot image I posted is based on rc29. The two things in the boot img are a kernel and a ramdisk (which includes a few of the basic system files). I don't think there was a kernel update in rc30, but I think there were updates to init.rc and possibly adbd (haven't checked). So, flashing with that boot.img I posted would undo the changes in those files done by rc30.
The better approach would be to take the boot.img from the full rc30 release, add your own initlogo.rle, and reflash from that.
I will now go and write a more detailed tutorial on how to edit boot.img

that would be awesome. Thank you!

Kinda off-topic, but where did you get the font that you used in the logo? I'd like to make my own, and I was wondering if I could use it...

amgupt01 said:
Kinda off-topic, but where did you get the font that you used in the logo? I'd like to make my own, and I was wondering if I could use it...
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I just pixel-edited the logo from the android site (had to invent a couple of characters)... no font.

jriley60 said:
that would be awesome. Thank you!
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I just posted it here

alansj said:
I just pixel-edited the logo from the android site (had to invent a couple of characters)... no font.
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Good work, man! Someone is actually working on the android logo font here: http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f37/new-android-ttf-logo-font-ver-1-0-a-6537/#post68847
Just FYI.

[BootAnimation] - Android Peeing on Apple

Here's the boot animation I created (attached). It's not a CWM flashable .zip, so you'll need to change the name to bootanimation.zip and either need to push it to /data/local through ADB, or use a File Explorer with root access to put in in /data/local (or if you're running a stock rooted ROM you'll need to rename it to ATT_Bootanimation.zip and put it in /system/customize/resource. It was just a .gif I found with a quick google search, and with the help of Wolf_2 finally got working properly. I take no credit for anything but putting it together as a boot animation
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Original thread request:
OK, I'm trying to create my first boot animation, and so far have made some good progress, but now I'm stuck. I found an animated .gif of the Android Robot peeing on an Apple, and ripped the photos out of it, and made them .png files. I kept the file structure, created my new .zip following the guide here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=942976), replaced bootanimation.zip in data/local, and changed permissions. Now when I boot up I see the HTC screen for about 15 seconds, then it goes to my animation just like it should, however here's my problem...
My animation consists of 17 images, and it flies through these images in about 5 seconds, then just sits on the last image. How can I either slow this animation down, or get it to keep looping? Here's what's in my desc.txt:
480 800 15p 1 1 android
I tried changing the second 1 to a 0 (as I saw somewhere else this would cause it to loop infinitely), but it didn't. Any ideas??
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The 15 in your text stands for 15 fps, so with only 17 images to display it is going to fly through it. You should create more frames. You could also make the second folder for the loop, having a part0 and part1 folder in your zipped folder. The part0 folder would be the play through and the part1 folder would contain the loop. I have included my text document so that you can see the way I did it. I have also provided a link to a thread that helped me understand what needed to be done.
http://android.modaco.com/content/z...om/334096/guide-changing-your-boot-animation/

Wolf_2 said:
The 15 in your text stands for 15 fps, so with only 17 images to display it is going to fly through it. You could make the second folder for the loop, having a part0 and part1 folder in your zipped folder. I have included my text document so that you can see the way I did it. I have also provided a link to a thread that helped me understand what needed to be done.
http://android.modaco.com/content/z...om/334096/guide-changing-your-boot-animation/
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OK, I'll play around with the part0 and part1 folders. I left it the way it was when I pulled it and it only had an android folder, so I didn't know if this would be necessary or not. Thanks for the references!
Edit: You are awesome. I left part0 folder empty and put all my .png pics in part1, used your desc.txt exactly as it was, and it's doing exactly what I want it to! That was kind of fun, and now I can watch the MAC Apple getting peed on by the Android Robot when I start my phone. I've attached it if anyone's interested. I am not the artist, I found the animated .gif online, so no credit to me for that
Now - next question. If I put a different series of pictures in part 0, will this replace the HTC screen I see, or just create an additional boot image?

It will just create the boot animation. I am still trying to figure out where that HTC screen is located so that I can get rid of it or change it. As a note, just remember that the numbering sequence in the second folder has to continue from where the first folder left off. As an example, if the frames in the first folder finish with 00030, then the second folder would start with 00031 and continue. Glad that helped you.

Wolf_2 said:
It will just create the boot animation. I am still trying to figure out where that HTC screen is located so that I can get rid of it or change it. As a note, just remember that the numbering sequence in the second folder has to continue from where the first folder left off. As an example, if the frames in the first folder finish with 00030, then the second folder would start with 00031 and continue. Glad that helped you.
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Excellent information, Wolf. Thanks again

You are very welcome. Glad it worked out.

Wolf_2 said:
It will just create the boot animation. I am still trying to figure out where that HTC screen is located so that I can get rid of it or change it. As a note, just remember that the numbering sequence in the second folder has to continue from where the first folder left off. As an example, if the frames in the first folder finish with 00030, then the second folder would start with 00031 and continue. Glad that helped you.
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If it's anything like the Captivate the HTC screen is in the kernel You'll have to decompile it.

Irs421: "If it's anything like the Captivate the HTC screen is in the kernel You'll have to decompile it."
I know it's hiding somewhere. TPC and I started working on themes, so since everything has been taken apart he or I will probably come across it eventually.

If you find out I would like to know to, so I can make a matching black htc splash screen. I know some one flashed it as an img through adb. Is there a way to see where exactly it is pushing it to?

I am not sure since I did not know about that adb push. I want to get rid of that screen also. When I find it I will let you know. There is just so much to go through and test. It's going to take a while.

You can use Android Flasher to replace the boot image, it's a really simple one click method.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=794638&highlight=flash+android

homeslice976 said:
Here's the boot animation I created (attached). It's not a CWM flashable .zip, so you'll need to change the name to bootanimation.zip and either need to push it to /data/local through ADB, or use a File Explorer with root access to put in in /data/local (or if you're running a stock rooted ROM you'll need to rename it to ATT_Bootanimation.zip and put it in /system/customize/resource. It was just a .gif I found with a quick google search, and with the help of Wolf_2 finally got working properly. I take no credit for anything but putting it together as a boot animation
Original thread request:
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Nice work, I turned your bootanimation into a downanimation. I optimized the graphics for a 480 x 800 screen and set it up to run through the complete shutdown. Do you mind if I post it? I will be sure to give you credit for creating the original.
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DesertWolf1971 said:
Nice work, I turned your bootanimation into a downanimation. I optimized the graphics for a 480 x 800 screen and set it up to run through the complete shutdown. Do you mind if I post it? I will be sure to give you credit for creating the original.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA Premium App
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Share away!

mudknot2005 said:
If you find out I would like to know to, so I can make a matching black htc splash screen. I know some one flashed it as an img through adb. Is there a way to see where exactly it is pushing it to?
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Code:
fastboot flash splash1 splash1.img

Stock Xoom bootanimation.zip

Hey,
since I didn't really like the ASUS boot screen, I extracted the stock android 3.0 bootanimation from the xoom dump and applied it to my transformer. It works just beautifully and imho it's awesome
To use it, just backup your current bootanimation.zip and copy the new one in the /system/media/ folder using ADB.
Here you can find the ASUS stock file (just rename it to bootanimation.zip and copy it back into the media folder if something should go wrong)
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"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
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Enjoy

stupid question that I feel compelled to ask anyway: does my Transformer have to be rooted first?

Shaolin Style said:
stupid question that I feel compelled to ask anyway: does my Transformer have to be rooted first?
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Yup, you need root to be able to write to the /system/ partition

Need to change permissions to read/write.
Much bette rlooking than default... Thanks button clicked!

Ya I changed mine to this also +1

Actually, I was SO glad to get rid of that trippy stock XOOM bootanimation.... I replaced it with the retro animation. I might take a look at it and change it to ASUS... Maybe the original author will help me!

that retro one is neat. pretty easy to see how it is done by examining the contents of the zip file. Looks like it could be cleaned up quite a bit.

Much nicer boot, thanks for this.
In the spirit of sharing I made a little windows GUI to sit on top of a cmd.exe window to automate some adb bits. Most people who have rooted will be quite familiar with adb, but I am lazy and like to press a button rather than type 4 commands
Used it for all of my android devices and have tweaked it for the ASUS bits I am playing with at the moment.
Just unzip and copy the folder to somewhere. When you first open it up it will need you to tell it where adb is located, restart and you should be good to go.
You can pull and backup fonts, bootanimation and UI buttons (SystemUI.apk)
the SystemUI.apk will allow you to have ASUS buttons back on your MoDaCo rom.
You need to have .NET framework 2 installed for it to run.
I am not a developer and it is not perfect but seems to work ok, I use it on XP and Vista - not tried Win7
Dropbox location here
I have not included any fonts, bootanimations or the ASUS SystemUI.apk, but they can all be found on here.
Would be interested to hear if it works on Win7.
Oh, and if you break anything please don't blame me

bisto321 said:
Much nicer boot, thanks for this.
In the spirit of sharing I made a little windows GUI to sit on top of a cmd.exe window to automate some adb bits. Most people who have rooted will be quite familiar with adb, but I am lazy and like to press a button rather than type 4 commands
Used it for all of my android devices and have tweaked it for the ASUS bits I am playing with at the moment.
Just unzip and copy the folder to somewhere. When you first open it up it will need you to tell it where adb is located, restart and you should be good to go.
You can pull and backup fonts, bootanimation and UI buttons (SystemUI.apk)
the SystemUI.apk will allow you to have ASUS buttons back on your MoDaCo rom.
You need to have .NET framework 2 installed for it to run.
I am not a developer and it is not perfect but seems to work ok, I use it on XP and Vista - not tried Win7
Dropbox location here
I have not included any fonts, bootanimations or the ASUS SystemUI.apk, but they can all be found on here.
Would be interested to hear if it works on Win7.
Oh, and if you break anything please don't blame me
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noooooo now the noobs will never learn!!!!
Hahaha, jk (kinda), but thanks for the contribution, sure does make it a little easier for people that dont like typing up the commands.

Yeah, sorry. Just rying to help, but I suppose a bit of command line action is the best way to learn.
Bored at work and have added a few more functions to it - just used it to upload the video editing app from the xoom. Paul @ MoDaCo has 'fixed' it for us and it is quite nice.
Sorry for the thread crashing, will stop now.
Thanks again to Drakknar for the original post and guide.

Bisto,
works swimmingly on Win7. You should really start a thread in the dev section for your app. It is quite useful.

custom bootanimation w/o root
Shaolin Style said:
stupid question that I feel compelled to ask anyway: does my Transformer have to be rooted first?
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It is possible to install and use a custom boot animation without rooting your Transformer. You don't need to be rooted, but you do need to use adb.
The tablet will first look to /data/local and then /system/media for the boot animation. The Asus boot animation is found in /system/media and you need to have root permissions to write to this directory. However, root permissions are not required to write to /data/local.
Code:
adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local
Testing the custom boot animation can be done via adb as well (use Ctrl-C to quit).
Code:
adb shell bootanimation
Reverting back to the stock boot animation is as simple as removing the custom animation from the /data/local directory.
Code:
adb shell rm /data/local/bootanimation.zip
Perhaps its just me, but the Xoom animation does not look appealing due to the 512 x 256 images being stretched to 1408 x 880.

Worked great on an unrooted transformer. Thanks! This guide also helped http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-hacks/12841-big-lous-boot-animation-tutorial-noobs.html

jschmier said:
Perhaps its just me, but the Xoom animation does not look appealing due to the 512 x 256 images being stretched to 1408 x 880.
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I just couldn't get over the look of the Xoom animation on my Transformer, so I made a couple of minor adjustments to the stock Xoom animation. There isn't a significant difference, but I'm happy with the changes.
Decreased resolution from 1408 x 880 to 1280 x 800 to reduce image stretching
Increased frame rate from 26 fps to 30 fps
Optimized PNG images with rOptiPng (roptipng -o7 **/*.png) resulting in minor ~2% size decrease
I also looked for other Android tablet boot animations. I found danmcq's 3D Blue Bumblebee and with a few minor modifications, it displayed rather nicely on my Transformer. Stuntdouble has started a thread that contains some nice boot animations as well.
I'm hoping for more custom boot animations that are rendered either specifically for or at least with Android tablets in mind.

Im going to install this boot screen into my transformer and was wondering if there was any way to port he boot up soungd from the zoom into the transformer?
I have the sound file ready to go but not 100% sure as to were i goes within honeycomb.

Thanks, it looks awesome.

How about adding a drop down list of "advanced" commands?

funnycreature said:
Actually, I was SO glad to get rid of that trippy stock XOOM bootanimation.... I replaced it with the retro animation. I might take a look at it and change it to ASUS... Maybe the original author will help me!
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The boot animation from prime 1.4 is really similar, instead of having the android its a the honeycomb bee.
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Replaced, Very Nice, 3X!

nice. def going to check this out when i get home from work.

[BOOT ANIMATION]Android BIOS boot animation for Revolution HD Sensation Edition

Forgive me if something similar was already posted, but I did not see a Sensation specific posting of this animation.
I went through and modified the frames to allow for more accuracy in terms of specs for our devices.
Based on gimj01's http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=947688, which in turn is based on frysee's http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=648555.
Just thought I might share my edits with everyone. If gimj01 and frysee do not want me to have this posted let me know and I will remove it.
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"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
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}

Thanks mate!
Works great at the right speed
[EDIT] Created and uploaded installer for Clockwork.

Very nice! Missed already
Thanks!
/edit
BTW: if somebody gets standard bootanimation after replacing try following:
- flash via adb
- power down the sensation
- remove battery and place it in again
- start your phone!

hehe looking good bro

excellent, i was searchin for this yesterday and didnt find..so was thinking of making..you saved me a lot of time and effort..thanks !!!

how to install this?
when i go to Cwm it says:
installing update..
installation aborted.

jjoeshua said:
how to install this?
when i go to Cwm it says:
installing update..
installation aborted.
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Don't use CWM
Here are instructions I copied from another boot animation thread (saved me from typing them!!! Lol!)....
Instructions to install:
[NOTE YOU MUST HAVE YOUR DEVICE S-OFF BEFORE ATTEMPTING THIS]
1.Back-up stock boot animation (if you want to) which is found in /system/customize/resource using root explorer or ES file explorer
2.Delete the stock boot animation after backing up and replace it with the bootanimation.zip included in this post in the same directory as before
Then reboot!
Simples!
@AndroTMO
Nice animation by the way, any chance of a Splash screen to match? Perhaps just the Energy Star logo + sensation details (ie the 1st frame of the animantion) with the "HTC quietly brilliant" logo beneath?

awesome bootscreen! got anything for us on the downscreen along similar lines?

jjoeshua said:
how to install this?
when i go to Cwm it says:
installing update..
installation aborted.
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Check second post

greves1 said:
awesome bootscreen! got anything for us on the downscreen along similar lines?
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I as of yet have not learned where the downscreen is in relation to the rest of the OS.
If I figure out how to make it do a custom, I might work one up.

Great work OP, love it
colthekid said:
Don't use CWM
Here are instructions I copied from another boot animation thread (saved me from typing them!!! Lol!)....
Instructions to install:
[NOTE YOU MUST HAVE YOUR DEVICE S-OFF BEFORE ATTEMPTING THIS]
1.Back-up stock boot animation (if you want to) which is found in /system/customize/resource using root explorer or ES file explorer
2.Delete the stock boot animation after backing up and replace it with the bootanimation.zip included in this post in the same directory as before
Then reboot!
Simples!
@AndroTMO
Nice animation by the way, any chance of a Splash screen to match? Perhaps just the Energy Star logo + sensation details (ie the 1st frame of the animantion) with the "HTC quietly brilliant" logo beneath?
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This method works perfectly except for one difference for T-mobile users- TMOUS people running the stock ROM need to replace the TMOUS_bootanimation.zip instead of the bootanimation.zip.
AndroTMO said:
I as of yet have not learned where the downscreen is in relation to the rest of the OS.
If I figure out how to make it do a custom, I might work one up.
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FYI- I found the down animations in the same folder as the boot animations.

Thanks for the #11 post.
Now that my device has S-OFF I would like this boot loader.
I see the path you mentioned using root explorer, but not sure how to get the downloaded files from my computer to the directory on the HTC Sensation.
Any advice please?
T.I.A.

All you have to do is connect your phone via USB & drag the file to your SD card. Then, use Root Explorer(market app) to copy them to the proper directory & rename them. Make sure you copy the original animations to somewhere safe on your SD card just in case you need to restore them for any reason.

kabuk1 you rock!
Your instructions are crystal clear and very easy to understand.
Thank you for taking the time to help

You're very welcome
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA Premium App

kabuk1 said:
FYI- I found the down animations in the same folder as the boot animations.
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Happen to remember the name of the .zip that is needed? I no longer have a down anim due to my ROM.

Is it called downanimation.zip

I like it. Unfortunately, it's the wrong resolution for sensation. 480x800 instead of 540x960 so it looks interpolated and blurry ;/
Edit: here's a modded 540x960 version I just whipped up.

Kupfel said:
I like it. Unfortunately, it's the wrong resolution for sensation. 480x800 instead of 540x960 so it looks interpolated and blurry ;/
Edit: here's a modded 540x960 version I just whipped up.
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I used this one and it looks great, thanks! Just for fun I also took the first image from the boot sequence and flashed that as my splash screen to replace the white screen with HTC on it prior to the boot animation.
Now when I turn on my phone, the splash screen comes up as the Energy Star image with some text, then once it goes to the boot animation it just looks like its still booting up. Kinda cool I think.
Thanks again!
~T.J.

can i apply this for my phone with pyramid 3d rom?

New CM10 Bootanimation

CM10 Bootanimation [540 x 960]
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This is not a flashable zip.

Do like. Do like alot!
WAY better than the creepy CID logo where just the very bottom was animated. Dark backgrounds just work better as boot animations. It looks cleaner and more professional somehow.
The only thing I might add is a big "X" (For 10) thats 'slashed' into the background. By slashes I mean something like this Wolverine image...
...only 2 slashes forming an X.
so the circle logo does it's thing, then slash 1, slash 2, and a white glow from behind the background.

tested on cm9...works well
looks more beautiful now:good:

Is this a flashable zip? What is the resolution?
I would like to use it on my Milestone 2 but I read on some threads that after boot phone screen just goes black...

Megalith27 said:
Is this a flashable zip? What is the resolution?
I would like to use it on my Milestone 2 but I read on some threads that after boot phone screen just goes black...
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Assuming you have the Sensation, this may not work.. you are 540 x 960px and this is only 800px vertical(portrait)
Not flash'able. Ive done a whole lot of research on this bootani and soo many different people think they can flash it or don't know their screen res or don't see its a file that you choose whether to have it portrait or landscape...(Hence, 15MB+ file..durr) So, what you do is find out your vertical screen res, open the 'vertical' folder, choose your resolution# and there will be a 'bootanimation.zip' there. Move that file to your sdcard, from your sdcard to /system/media, you should have your original bootani there so make sure to save it somewhere handy, then change your permissions to rw-r-r-- once you've moved your new bootanimation there. However, this worked on my Epic 4G, so Idk how this works with other phones but I thought I'd give ya a little guidance!
welcome

Jackbenimble said:
Assuming you have the Sensation, this may not work.. you are 540 x 960px and this is only 800px vertical(portrait)
Not flash'able. Ive done a whole lot of research on this bootani and soo many different people think they can flash it or don't know their screen res or don't see its a file that you choose whether to have it portrait or landscape...(Hence, 15MB+ file..durr) So, what you do is find out your vertical screen res, open the 'vertical' folder, choose your resolution# and there will be a 'bootanimation.zip' there. Move that file to your sdcard, from your sdcard to /system/media, you should have your original bootani there so make sure to save it somewhere handy, then change your permissions to rw-r-r-- once you've moved your new bootanimation there. However, this worked on my Epic 4G, so Idk how this works with other phones but I thought I'd give ya a little guidance!
welcome
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Originally, this was the vertical 540x540 bootanimation from the original CM download. I edited it to be 540x960, so that it will fit Sensation/Amaze 4g and any other phone with that resolution. If you want to apply to it on a different phone, TRY and edit the desc.txt file to your phones resolution then rezip the file with "store" compression. No promises that it will fit perfect though.

Good lord, people. Its a boot animation, not a space shuttle launch.
Just try it and see if it works on your phone's screen size. If it doesnt it will either look wacky or you will get the stock ANDROID boot animation. But tbe phone will still boot, at which point you can change the non working animation to something else
You cant screw up your phone by trying it.
If you have a sensation, this .zip animation works. Period.
It doesnt matter what rom you are running or what version of the rom you are running.
If you want to use it on ARHD, AOKP,CM, or even stockroms, it will work. Bootanimations are not rom specific. (Though sense roms store the animation files in a different spot than aosp roms)
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda appr-developeers app

eioous said:
CM10 Bootanimation [540 x 960]
This is not a flashable zip.
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Anyway you can add the 2nd patch that has CyanogenMod instead of Cyanogen(mod)? Thanks

Jiggs82 said:
Anyway you can add the 2nd patch that has CyanogenMod instead of Cyanogen(mod)? Thanks
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Here.
They have this on the Galaxy SIII forum as a flashable zip. I pulled the bootanimation.zip file out of the flashable zip and just posted it here as a regular bootanimation file that can be copied using ES File Explorer or the like.
It's a 540x540 file but I assure you it works. I've already installed it and looked at it. Android will center the animation on the screen. it doesn't need to be 540x960 natively.
Put it in /system/media and change the permissions to give it read write and execute permissions. Enjoy.
If you really want the flashable zip the Galaxy SIII forum is here. But it's like 10 times faster to just move the file using File Explorer.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30579919#post30579919
That's where I got this from. So credit to JackMu95.