Hey guys, I was reading the Incredible custom boot screen and thought I mess around with Evo and I found this.
There are 2 files that compose of the animation.
1. bootanimation.zip (/system/customize/resource)
2. SPC_animation_final.mp3 (/system/customize/resource)
These are played with you boot up the phone with Sprint 4g animation and its sound.
Now I went and look at the bootanimation.zip and see what it is, and it turns out within the zip archive contains a desc.txt that tells the firmware what to read and at point to display what...etc. There's also a folder named "android" which contains all the pictures and each of them represent 1 frame of the animation (I think). I also looked at the property of the images and they are 480x800 dimension and depth of it is 8bit (update: it can be a 24bit too).
So to look at the end animation, simply go to the last picture in the android folder.
So if we can create some animations to same specs and slice it into frames like that then we are good to go.
I included sample files from Incredible.
UPDATE: CONFIRMED that it works...what I did
I went to /system/media and saw there was a default HTC animation will the 2 files and did a adb pull
1. bootanimation.zip
2. android_audio.mp3 - I renamed this to SPC_animation_final.mp3
I then reboot into recovery and do an adb shell, mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system, then exit out of the shell, now I'm back in windows command prompt. Typed "adb push c:\bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource/" and "adb push c:\SPC_final_animation.mp3 /system/customize/resource". Now do adb reboot and the HTC - quite brilliant showed up.
UPDATE 2: I found an Android Bios like boot from the net thought I post. Tested on my EVO and worked great. It's like a PC bios boot with Droid in matrix like style, pretty cool.
UPDATE 3: Added the Nexus One boot, it's a little stretched but looks cool nonetheless.
UPDATE 4: Instructions on how to mount and copy files.
1. Having phone fully powered up and plug it into the USB.
2. you should already have ADB installed and working. If so, then to verify your device is connected, do "adb devices" in a command prompt. You should see like "List of attached devices" and right underneath it, you'll se HTCxxxxx listed.
3. If step 2 is good, then do "adb reboot recovery". This will reboot your phone into recovery mode.
4. You will see a red triangle with an exclamation mark, this is when phone is now ready in recovery mode. To verify, go back to command prompt and type "adb devices" and you should see the same thing as in step 2 only difference is it'll say "recovery" next to the device name.
5. Once that is good, go into your evo-recovery folder and run the recovery-XYZ, where XYS is the os type. So for windows you would right-click on the "recovery-windows.bat" and select run as administrator (if you are running in Vista/7).
5. If step 5 runs will you'll see a series of line output, and final line should be "No hup" or something like that. Now look over to your phone, you should see a menu. Do NOT touch anything on the phone.
6. Open up a new command prompt, cd into the android sdk/tools folder, and issue "adb shell". You will drop into your phone shell now and all you will see is "#" sign.
7. Type "mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system", you should now see the '#" again.
8. Type "exit", and now you are back into your command prompt like "C:\...>".
9. Type "adb push my_new_animation.zip /system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip" {ENTER}. You'll see that your file will be uploaded.
10. To verify, type "adb shell" and you should be back into your phone shell with "#"
11. Type "ls /system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip" and you should see the "bootanimation.zip" listed.
12. Now just reboot the phone by typing "reboot" at the "#" prompt.
EDIT 5: Added Droid X animation
Preview here http://www.droid-life.com/2010/06/24/download-droid-x-boot-animation/
EDiT 6: To quickly test the boot animation on your phone do this:
1. adb push the file to /data/local/
2. at the command prompt on your computer with the phone connected, type:
adb shell bootanimation
Now watch your phone for the animation, and hit Ctrl+C on your PC to cancel out.
EDIT 7: Added boot from latest 83 build froyo. This is a rip from EvoX V9 so all credits are due to the builder of that ROM.
Write to /system = fail
You know if i could there would already be a dancing Droid on our screens...
wrx4memp said:
Write to /system = fail
You know if i could there would already be a dancing Droid on our screens...
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Umm... recovery mode?
wrx4memp said:
Write to /system = fail
You know if i could there would already be a dancing Droid on our screens...
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Please see my updated notes, you need to boot into recovery and mount /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system to gain rw access and make changes.
bump updated.
AssassinsLament said:
Umm... recovery mode?
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... yeah ... I guess ... I just push my files to where they need to go ... always been easier for me ... building update.zip never worked when I made them...
Ok you got me going now... ill boot up my PhotoShop... see you in a bit... png's or try gif like we did on heros?
ill just make a gif... and try that... 2.1 hero is close enough to 2.1 evo... i hope...
vboyz103 can you hit me back on gtalk? wrx4me.mp i got some files to send to test out a custom boot... ?
I'm trying my Nexus one, and an MP3 file I got laying around.. I'll update when done.
BTW I notice both my nexus and the EVO have the files in /system/media/
The nexus does not have a /system/customize folder.
The OP is right that the /system/media file is where the stock stuff is. Sprint has it set to look in the /system/customize/resources folder.
It seems to me that the SPC_animation_final.mp3 needs to be specific in size or bitrate. the stock one is 64kbps.
****Update****
My nexus one boot animation worked. It is one pulled from a cyanogenmod unit. It is a 512 x 256 according to the desc.txt.
***Update****
I can not get the sound to play now. I had put in a mp3 and then cut it down to 5 sec and 64kbps just like the stock but it still would not play. Now I have pushed the original back in and it too doesn't work.
If you just delete the two files in /system/customize/resource will it fallback to the default ones in /system/media without having to copy them over? If I wasn't headed to work in a few minutes I'd check it out myself.
datajosh said:
If you just delete the two files in /system/customize/resource will it fallback to the default ones in /system/media without having to copy them over? If I wasn't headed to work in a few minutes I'd check it out myself.
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theory sounds good to me. either revert to the files in /system/media, where a bootanimation.zip does exist, or /data/local i think is the other default bootanimation.zip location?
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vboyz103 can you hit me back on gtalk? wrx4me.mp i got some files to send to test out a custom boot... ?
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Invite sent!
Or you can email the file to me at vboyz10[at]msn.com
joeykrim said:
theory sounds good to me. either revert to the files in /system/media, where a bootanimation.zip does exist, or /data/local i think is the other default bootanimation.zip location?
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Yeah I was thinking we had figured that out on the Moment and I assume it would work here too, might try on my lunch break if no one else does first.
Upped the android bios animation.
vboyz103 said:
UPDATE 2: I found an Android Bios like boot from the net thought I post. Tested on my EVO and worked great. It's like a PC bios boot with Droid in matrix like style, pretty cool.
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how did you test for the attached Android BIOS bootanimation.zip? adb push to /system/customize/resource/ or /system/media ?
doubble post
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Invite sent!
Or you can email the file to me at vboyz10[at]msn.com
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didnt get the invite for some reason... i sent you the files via email... can you do me a fav try that and if it works this way ill make something better than that... that was more of a sampler... i guess...
EDIT: postmaster returned as undeliverable... ? mailbox unavailable... ?
nvm figured it out.
datajosh said:
Yeah I was thinking we had figured that out on the Moment and I assume it would work here too, might try on my lunch break if no one else does first.
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Yes you are right! I renamed the bootanimation.zip and it defaulted to the one in /system/media. The same with the audio.
I noticed the same thing with HtcLockscreen.apk in the stuff to remove section. If you remove it it defaults to the standard android one. but it doesn't display right.
Related
So i was looking around at other boot aanimation forums and stumbled across one over at android forums about a super easy way to get boot animations loaded....I was shocked when i decided to be the test puppet myself and it worked.
1. Download PutYourBootHERE.zip from http://rghost.net/1680923
2. Unzip the folder to what ever directory you want "c:\PutYourBootHERE". It should contain an adb.exe, AdbWinApi.dll, and a RunME file.
3. Place what ever bootanimation.zip in the same folder that you just unzipped.
4. Click on RunMe.
5. It will give you some "press Y to continue at your own risk or N for No" prompt. press Y and hit enter.
6. You will see now that you have options to reboot, reboot in recovery, copy boot to phone, and exit. Choose option 3-copy boot to phone
7. Your going to go through checklist to make sure your phone is plugged in, in debug, you put bootanimation.zip in the folder, and you have a copy. Press any key to continue.
8. It will ask you if you want to reboot your phone after the process is complete. I do just to make sure everything copied properly.
CROSS YOUR FINGERS AND PREY SHE WORKED.
Good luck to everyone
munsterrr said:
So i was looking around at other boot aanimation forums and stumbled across one over at android forums about a super easy way to get boot animations loaded....I was shocked when i decided to be the test puppet myself and it worked.
1. Download PutYourBootHERE.zip from http://rghost.net/1680923
2. Unzip the folder to what ever directory you want "c:\PutYourBootHERE". It should contain an adb.exe, AdbWinApi.dll, and a RunME file.
3. Place what ever bootanimation.zip in the same folder that you just unzipped.
4. Click on RunMe.
5. It will give you some "press Y to continue at your own risk or N for No" prompt. press Y and hit enter.
6. You will see now that you have options to reboot, reboot in recovery, copy boot to phone, and exit. Choose option 3-copy boot to phone
7. Your going to go through checklist to make sure your phone is plugged in, in debug, you put bootanimation.zip in the folder, and you have a copy. Press any key to continue.
8. It will ask you if you want to reboot your phone after the process is complete. I do just to make sure everything copied properly.
CROSS YOUR FINGERS AND PREY SHE WORKED.
Good luck to everyone
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Just try it and it worked. Although this will not upload your sound animation. It will do the boot alone . Perhaps a tiny tune for that part will make the batch perfect
munsterrr said:
So i was looking around at other boot aanimation forums and stumbled across one over at android forums about a super easy way to get boot animations loaded....I was shocked when i decided to be the test puppet myself and it worked.
1. Download PutYourBootHERE.zip from http://rghost.net/1680923
2. Unzip the folder to what ever directory you want "c:\PutYourBootHERE". It should contain an adb.exe, AdbWinApi.dll, and a RunME file.
3. Place what ever bootanimation.zip in the same folder that you just unzipped.
4. Click on RunMe.
5. It will give you some "press Y to continue at your own risk or N for No" prompt. press Y and hit enter.
6. You will see now that you have options to reboot, reboot in recovery, copy boot to phone, and exit. Choose option 3-copy boot to phone
7. Your going to go through checklist to make sure your phone is plugged in, in debug, you put bootanimation.zip in the folder, and you have a copy. Press any key to continue.
8. It will ask you if you want to reboot your phone after the process is complete. I do just to make sure everything copied properly.
CROSS YOUR FINGERS AND PREY SHE WORKED.
Good luck to everyone
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I like how I tried this method, and it did change my boot screen, but it also ****ed with my boot sound and it also pushes it to a different folder...
evanscnce said:
I like how I tried this method, and it did change my boot screen, but it also ****ed with my boot sound and it also pushes it to a different folder...
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It just got rid of my boot sound all together(which is fine with me).
Also what folder do you look in? I find it in the /system/media folder.
munsterrr said:
It just got rid of my boot sound all together(which is fine with me).
Also what folder do you look in? I find it in the /system/media folder.
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well the thing posted above pushes it to the data local folder or whatever
I had to delete the stuff out of there because I was using the evos stock location of /system/customize/resource
so does this method work with custom ROMS or it will place the zip in the wrong location ... can u just copy the ZIP to the correct folder in root explorer?
No offense to the OP because at that time it was the easiest way but now with NAND unlocked.
Launch root explorer..copy the bootanimation.zip and audio file if it has one and then go into the correct folder and delete the old and paste the new in.
Done..i dont see how it can get easier then that.
MrDSL said:
No offense to the OP because at that time it was the easiest way but now with NAND unlocked.
Launch root explorer..copy the bootanimation.zip and audio file if it has one and then go into the correct folder and delete the old and paste the new in.
Done..i dont see how it can get easier then that.
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this is true .. just need to know which folder to send it to ... for example in the fresh ROM
first you want to check /system/customize/resource/ because thats where the default one is at..fresh probably got rid of it already..
as long as its gone from there start using /system/media/ for the location.
thank you .. its in system/media !!
what if i dont have that folder?? Im running the newest edition of Fresh
Hey guys,
I haven't really given anything to XDA but have taken a lot. So I thought, I'd share this with ya. I think it's freaking awesome.
I flashed it via ADB on my Nexus One, and it works perfectly, and I'm using Rodriguez Froyo ROM, so it should work for most of ya.
Directions:
1. Put the zip file in your tools folder from the android-sdk-windows
2. Load up Command Prompt (cmd) and go to your tools directory inside the android-sdk-windows folder
3. Load up your phone into recovery and mount /system
4. Type in command prompt
adb remount
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media
adb reboot
All credit goes to Blue from droidforums.net.
And that's pretty much it.
Download Link - http://www.mediafire.com/?dyydhdtmnvo
Enjoy!
Embedded your youtube link
Dang it, I don't want the Transformers part..
Cant you just delete those pics???
True.. I will just do that..
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Thanks Mikey for the alterations!
Dude. This is awesome. Thanks! :-D
this is awesome i love it thanks for the share. but 1 question when it runs the matrix like part mine flashes white. any idea y?
kamikazimonky said:
this is awesome i love it thanks for the share. but 1 question when it runs the matrix like part mine flashes white. any idea y?
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I just pushed it right after installing the new Rodriguez ROM with the new paul r17 release and I got this issue, so Im not sure if you did the same, it actually went into a boot loop for me, so I re-wyped everything did another install, rebooted the phone and waited for it to boot into the main screen.
Then I rebooted, and then I pushed it. Then it worked fine.
For some reason it reminded me of the Super Street Fighter 2 sequence when Ryu charges up a fireball then throws it towards the screen. Any Street Fighter fans here know what I'm talking about? Anyway, I'm going ttotry this out. It looks awesome...wonder if anyone could make a Transforming Title, but use the words Nexus One.
Weird, I pushed it using Root Explorer and the bootanimation was the word Android with light shining across it. This happened to me before and once before that it was the word Android but with a Spot Light going back and forth, like the 20th Century Fox scene from the movies.
Rhoa23 said:
3. Load up your phone into recovery and mount /system
4. Type in command prompt
adb remount
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media
adb reboot
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How can I do this through Terminal Emulator? My device won't remount - ADB has been a pain in the ass for me since FROYO. Can you make this as a simple update.zip like I've seen others do?
UPDATE
Here's the fix for those who can't "adb remount" their device:
adb shell mount data
adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local/
adb reboot
Worked like a charm
SiNJiN76 said:
Weird, I pushed it using Root Explorer and the bootanimation was the word Android with light shining across it. This happened to me before and once before that it was the word Android but with a Spot Light going back and forth, like the 20th Century Fox scene from the movies.
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Heh, not sure what you did. If you look in the zip the PNG images do not have anything like that . Perhaps, you pushed a different file?
jagjr86 said:
How can I do this through Terminal Emulator? My device won't remount - ADB has been a pain in the ass for me since FROYO. Can you make this as a simple update.zip like I've seen others do?
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Good question~ I am not sure how to do it via terminal emulator.
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Good question~ I am not sure how to do it via terminal emulator.
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Here's the fix for those who can't "adb remount" their device:
adb shell mount data
adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local/
adb reboot
Although, I didn't figure out how to flash it via Terminal.
I figured out what went wrong. There are 35 frames and it loops at 30fps. I deleted the last few frames and it works fine (make it a total of 30 frames per loop).
SiNJiN76 said:
For some reason it reminded me of the Super Street Fighter 2 sequence when Ryu charges up a fireball then throws it towards the screen. Any Street Fighter fans here know what I'm talking about? Anyway, I'm going ttotry this out. It looks awesome...wonder if anyone could make a Transforming Title, but use the words Nexus One.
Weird, I pushed it using Root Explorer and the bootanimation was the word Android with light shining across it. This happened to me before and once before that it was the word Android but with a Spot Light going back and forth, like the 20th Century Fox scene from the movies.
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Dude, now I've got an itch to find screen caps of that and make a boot logo.....
jagjr86 said:
Here's the fix for those who can't "adb remount" their device:
adb shell mount data
adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local/
adb reboot
Although, I didn't figure out how to flash it via Terminal.
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Easier than terminal its root explorer. Copy, note permissions pre paste and correct permissions.... All set!
Anyone else notice the resolution in the text file is set to 480x854? Which is droid or milestone resolution.
The uploader might want too change it to the nexus resolution, 480 800, if not I will do it when I get off work and get home. Atleast on my phone I will change it.
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Using Root Explorer…
1. You have to be rooted in order to do this. Rooting info here and here.
2. Download Root Explorer from the market.
3. Download the Droid Life boot anim: bootanimation.zip (alt link)
4. If you downloaded via PC, mount your Droid and drop the .zip file onto your SD card.
5. Unmount your Droid.
6. Open Root Explorer, tap on “sdcard” and locate bootanimation.zip.
7. Long press on bootanimation.zip and choose “Move”.
8. Hit the back button once and locate the “data” folder.
9. Tap and open “data” and then “local”.
10. Hit “Paste” which should be an option at the bottom of your screen.
11. If there is already a bootanimation.zip file, let Root Explorer overwrite it.
12. Back out of Root Explorer, reboot your phone, and BAM!
13. Enjoy your new Droid Life boot animation.
Found this
Hope this isn't against protocol. I posted this in the "HOWTO" thread, but in the event there are people that don't venture into that area...I think it looks pretty nice and it's customized for the Evo.
Here's what I'm using...
I had to cut it down significantly from my original plan because of the boot speed...but this lines up pretty perfect on my Evo. Here are the links if anyone wants to download themselves:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/jadhnz2m3my/bootanimation.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wmnz2ntnxry/SPC_animation_final.mp3
Pretty sure you have to be ROOTED for this to work (I am).
adb remount
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource
adb push SPC_animation.mp3 /system/customize/resource
adb shell reboot
ocelot4ark said:
Pretty sure you have to be ROOTED for this to work (I am).
adb remount
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource
adb push SPC_animation.mp3 /system/customize/resource
adb shell reboot
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Good Morning, This was pretty cool so I thought i would do it. Just one thing to add about your adb instructions. Pushing the mp3 is missing "_final".
It should read
adb push SPC_animation_final.mp3 /system/customize/resource
Again thanks
Can this be installed without adb? And if so how please?
I love it so cool. Can the sound be taken out as well tho?
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rjmjr69 said:
Can this be installed without adb? And if so how please?
I love it so cool. Can the sound be taken out as well tho?
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I don't believe it can be done without adb. Unless you found a way to navigate to /system folder.
and by not pushing the sound file(.mp3) the sound will be taken out.
I love this nice job!
you can use root explorer if you like..
Besides the fact that it says Droid I like it..it may be my ROM but I had to change the sound file to android_audio.mp3 to get it to play.
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papaskispartan said:
Good Morning, This was pretty cool so I thought i would do it. Just one thing to add about your adb instructions. Pushing the mp3 is missing "_final".
It should read
adb push SPC_animation_final.mp3 /system/customize/resource
Again thanks
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Ooops! Nice catch and thanks for pointing that out!
MrDSL said:
you can use root explorer if you like..
Besides the fact that it says Droid I like it..it may be my ROM but I had to change the sound file to android_audio.mp3 to get it to play.
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Hmmm that is weird...The actual mp3 was just edited from an incredible boot up when the file WAS named android_audio.mp3. Glad that you got it figured out, though.
please help
i dont know what im doing wrong but every time i try to push the bootanimation.zip i get
cannot stat 'bootanimation.zip' :no such file or directory
and i have both the bootanimation.zip and the mp3 file in my tools folder and help would be greatly appreciated thanks in advanced
rjmjr69 said:
Can this be installed without adb? And if so how please?
I love it so cool. Can the sound be taken out as well tho?
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Terminal Emulator app in the market will do this.
su
cat /sdcard/download/bootanimation.zip > /system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip
Tried that using beterterminal and I get an access denied error read only???
From adb I get cannot stat no such such file or directory "bootanimation.zip"
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Tried that using beterterminal and I get an access denied error read only???
From adb I get cannot stat no such such file or directory "bootanimation.zip"
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I have never used beter terminal. Try the terminal emulator from jack palevich. It is in the market place for free.
Denied access, read only in the emulator sounds like you didnt put in 'su' first. Once you enter type su in the prompt should change to #
your adb error sounds like you need to either mount the sdcard or change it to charge only.
I put the files in there but the damn SPRINT animation which I hate with a passion keeps playing. I can adb shell into my phone and see the files in /system/customize/resource but it doesn't pick it up automatically. Is there anything else I need to do to get rid of the SPRINT one?
I am rooted using the 2 root safe versions of the OTA updates, but otherwise stock build. I have also tried using the boot animation replace utility someone else on here developed ... it says it worked as well ... but then the stupid sprint one plays. Any ideas? I have a bunch of stuff in my resource folder I also have these files in my customize folder:
AAInfo.txt
COMMON.xml
cid_map.xml
resource
1_00_sample.xml
CID
mccmnc.xml
MNS
default.xml
mns_map.xml
I didn't know if maybe one of these tells it to point at the sprint boot instead of the custom one I put in... ?
what would be cool is if at the end when it says droid the word evo falls from the top and crushes the droid word. lol just a suggestion.
**EDIT** Problem resolved.
By the way I got mine to work, I had to boot into recovery and adb mount /system in order to get it working...
My favorite is the decepticon one but it is too small and I couldnt get it to work after resizing the png's and modifying the text...
timkdodson said:
I put the files in there but the damn SPRINT animation which I hate with a passion keeps playing. I can adb shell into my phone and see the files in /system/customize/resource but it doesn't pick it up automatically. Is there anything else I need to do to get rid of the SPRINT one?
I am rooted using the 2 root safe versions of the OTA updates, but otherwise stock build. I have also tried using the boot animation replace utility someone else on here developed ... it says it worked as well ... but then the stupid sprint one plays. Any ideas? I have a bunch of stuff in my resource folder I also have these files in my customize folder:
AAInfo.txt
COMMON.xml
cid_map.xml
resource
1_00_sample.xml
CID
mccmnc.xml
MNS
default.xml
mns_map.xml
I didn't know if maybe one of these tells it to point at the sprint boot instead of the custom one I put in... ?
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Does this work with Froyo? Sound also?
ocelot4ark said:
Hope this isn't against protocol. I posted this in the "HOWTO" thread, but in the event there are people that don't venture into that area...I think it looks pretty nice and it's customized for the Evo.
Here's what I'm using...
I had to cut it down significantly from my original plan because of the boot speed...but this lines up pretty perfect on my Evo. Here are the links if anyone wants to download themselves:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/jadhnz2m3my/bootanimation.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/wmnz2ntnxry/SPC_animation_final.mp3
Pretty sure you have to be ROOTED for this to work (I am).
adb remount
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource
adb push SPC_animation.mp3 /system/customize/resource
adb shell reboot
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It would be better without the Droid part! Can you do one?
**EDIT**
Never mind, i just deleted the EYE folder and edited the .txt, but now i have one question,where is the original botanimation.zip located? i push yours to /system/customize/resource using root explorer (since i hate adb shell) and it didn't ask for overwrite so...it wasn't there.
This has potential to ber the best boot animation around but I don't like how it says droid. That's the only thing keeping me from switching right now.
Dredge said:
This has potential to ber the best boot animation around but I don't like how it says droid. That's the only thing keeping me from switching right now.
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I pushed it without the mp3
ummm when using adb do i transfer the zip file to the root in sdcard? im new at this, i know how to open shell but i just dont know exactly where to put the file after i download it.
mikevillarroel said:
I pushed it without the mp3
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I dont mean literally "says" I mean the text...
I been trying to change my boot animation and I cant seem to get it right
I have downloaded "Boot Animation Changer LITE" and tried to change it. Now i have a different Droid boot animation that I do not want.
How can I change my boot animation with out these apps??
Also how to i revert to my old boot animation, I have a backup
ps. Im rooted on the Droid X 2.2
Bump. I would like to know this as well. I wonder if it is the same as the first Droid. Just replacing the bootanimation.zip file. Can anyone second?
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I think the easiest way to do so is to flash an update.zip...
Point me in the direction of your original boot anim and I might be able to fashion up an update.zip for you.
Unless I'm missing something, the Droid X doesn't have read/write access to /system while the phone is on in Android...Is that still the case?
Here is the really cool DroidX/Incredible bootanimation. I could not install it, though.
I got permission denied.
Please do fashion an update.zip!!
And try this, maybe it works for you. It's supposed to work, but it didn't for me.
Instructions
1. Download bootanimation.zip
2. Put it on the root directory of your SD card
3. Open the terminal app and enter:
su
cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /data/local/
reboot
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Maltadev, here are the two boot animations you requested. They are in the same order as you posted.
Tell me if it works for ya.
Just to be safe, do a Nandroid backup before you flash these. You could probably use ROM Manager too, but IDK.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/gq8w5whz17gnkk0/bootanimation1-signed.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/file/9unu01nddwm5eoc/bootanimation2-signed.zip
Thanks, I managed to get it running, on eclair 2.2, and it looks HELL cool
I did this:
1. Paste bootanimation.zip to sd card.
2. Open a terminal and put in these commands
su
mount -o remount ,rw /system/
rm /system/media/bootanimation.zip -f
cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /system/media
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and reboot. Worked for me
I will flush those updates for you though, just to see if they work =)
I tried renaming it to androidupdate.zip, but when I select "Install Update" in the menu it keeps looking for an "androidupdate.tar", and says "File not found".
Could you recompress it to .tar?
In rom manager or clockwork recovery?
Ahh sorry I misunderstood you - I didn't install any 3rd party programs, I just put the file in /andboot folder and when I rebooted I held the centerdpad and hit "Install Update"...
Do you know how to boot into recovery? That is what I'm talking about.
These bootanimations should be flashable via recovery. You need to manually select and update.zip like bootanimation1-signed.zip and confirm. It shouldn't throw any errors. If it works, reboot and watch your new animation.
Ok here's one to all the ppl that didnt manage to get it to work like me (HTC desire). My phone is only rooted with revoked, no custom roms etc.
Ive read a lot of forums and i've seen a lot of people that didnt manage to get it to work. After spending nights trying to get it to work is was getting frustrated. All i read was about pushing the file to /system/media or /system/data, but after spending some time looking through all the folders with root explorer i found the actual default bootanimation.zip file.
IT WAS LISTED UNDER /system/customize/resource
so i rebooted my phone in recovery mode:
- mounts and storage
- mount /system
- in cmd: adb shell rm /system/customize/recource/bootanimation.zip
- in cmd: adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip
note: for this exact command to work u need to have the bootanimation.zip in your androidsdk/tools folder. If not u need to change the push command to adb push <the location here(i.e. d:\downloads\bootanimations\bootanimation.zip)> /system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip
(this didnt work if i had the file on the c drive of my pc and i would get an error, unless it was in the c:\androidsdk\tools folder, it would work on a 2nd partition, ext storage or whatever)
Only 1 thing... in that same file there prolly still is an audio file, cous when i boot i get my customized bootanimation, but still the standard boot sound. I will be looking in to this now.
If ppl could confirm this works for them aswell i would be happy
EDIT: the bootmusic is listed in the same folder as the bootanimation. It's named android_audio, so you probably wanna remove this aswell (using the command adb shell rm /system/customize/resource/android_music.mp3). Im not sure if you can change this, and since i didnt backup the default bootanimation.zip im dont know if there was someting diffirent about is that would make the music play. I would appreciate if someone could adb pull the original files for me and post em
another note, if you'r making your own bootanimation.zip's make sure compression is set to 0 (store or save)
on my dutch version of winrar its listed under 'ìnpakmethode' -> 'opslaan'
I'd really like to help you out and pull the plain bootanimation (there's no sound actually) from the (custom) rom I'm using but I just can't (see screenshot). If you give me some guidance I can do that, but I do wanna wipe my current one! Please note I recently got S-Off and I'm in Recovery with /system mounted (it says "click to unmount" so it should be good, shouldn't it? Anyway I tried the other way and it's the same... )
well yours might be in the /system/media or /data/local folder. You can always use a file explorer on the phone to find out where yours is located or use adb shell ls /system and check folders if it actually is there.
i r still a noob with all this so i got no clue what s-off is
Ok I got to find and replace the bootanimation.zip file (the only one I could fine on the phone, anyyway) with different ones I got in the forums (Desire bios-like and Star Wars Droid) but I get no animation at all... I mean, I reboot and get the initial still image and the old nexus animation after that is gone, black screen instead, and then Android loads. Any thought maybe? And I'd really like to know how to completely wipe Google Maps/Brut from my phone (don't know the actual files, I got Gmail.apk and I succeeded but the jar's I found for maps weren't enough, I suppose, as I can't install the updated version from the Market, just like I had with Gmail before removing the apk and I solved doing that).
So your still getting the standard animation? Did you use the adb command with the phone in recovery mode to delete and push the new one in?
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So your still getting the standard animation? Did you use the adb command with the phone in recovery mode to delete and push the new one in?
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Actually I'm getting black screen, no animation... only the first still image (green HTC on white background, you know). And yes, I pulled the original, rm the old one and pushed the new one, in Recovery, with /system mounted.
did u try to make ur own and failed at compressing the .zip ? Or did u just download a standard one off the internet?
Also did u make sure the file u pushed actually is there, in the right folder?