Ive seen a few threads about boot animations, but none of them with a simple yet detailed guide on how to install/get a new boon animation to work on my Xperia x10 2.1.
I'm no computer genius, but I'm no new to computer either, if someone could point me in the right directions I would love it, Thread I didn't find, a PM or a reply, thanks.
i just use root explorer to copy/paste the file and then set its permissions before rebooting. Just did it and it worked fine on my rooted 2.1 x10a
Tralerprktrash said:
i just use root explorer to copy/paste the file and then set its permissions before rebooting. Just did it and it worked fine on my rooted 2.1 x10a
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I got root explorer, I took the bootanimation.zip, ive made my own images, ive re ziped it, put it on my SD card and im trying to copy/replace the current bootanimation.zip in System/Media but its just not working :/
I post a working custom boot logo here maybe if you look at it you know wat you did wrong
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=832315&page=2
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Hello! I have been reading from this forum, and installing various android roms to the Nand - and so far, no problems. Right now I am using myn's latest warm donut build for my htc kaiser and it works awesome.
Problems started when I made up my mind that I wanted a custom boot screen.
I found one and downloaded it. It was called bootanimation.zip.
I tried searching everywhere on google on how I can copy(or push) this file to
/system/media or/data/media (depends on rom) and you should have your own working custom boot animation.
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Is there a way to do this? I have tried copying the file to my sd card, then tried pasting it to system/media with astro file manager, but "paste" is disabled.
I am really new to this, and after hours of searching I found out it has something to do with rooting the phone, but none of the instructions I found worked
Could somone with more experience than myself tell me how I could do this? Sorry if this has been asked before - I did not find it. And as I said I am quite new so if I said something stupid, take it easy, ok?
Thank you for your help!
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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After more searching, I found these instructions, on the forum itself (oops!) but they dont work.
It keeps saying "sdcard/bootanimation.zip": Permission Denied.
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I am SURE I typed it right.
I tried this 10 times over, same result :S
Can anyone help?
Bootanimation.zip is an Eclair+ implementation. Warm Donut is a donut build and does not support this unfortunately.
Thank you for your reply! It was very much appreciated.
I want this..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010748&highlight=Bios+animation
Where is my boot animation located on my SD card?
Help appreciated!
It is under /system/media/bootanimation.zip
You won't find it on your SDcard. You'll need an app like Root Explorer to access the file system.
You could also use ADB to push the files there if you're familiar with ADB.
dont have that.. i replace the ones in Bamf_Extras.. but it didnt work
Are you familiar with ADB?
honestly, no. I one click rooted. what can I do?
can i push using clockwork recovery?
Runn3rLogic said:
honestly, no. I one click rooted. what can I do?
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I believe there is a free alternative to Root Explorer in Super Manager. It contains File Explorer (Root). It may allow you to copy the bootanimation.zip and mp3 file into the directory. I also am unsure if it will let you set the correct permissions on the files once they are copied. It may be something you can try.
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I went ahead and installed Super Manager. It will allow you to do what you need. You'll find the permissions button on the bottom menu bar if you scroll to the right.
You dont need any apps to do it for you, the bootanimation is in system/customize/resource folder you name it the name as the one in the folder and copy over it. Most if not all the developers name it bootanimation.zip the default Verizon is named VZW_bootanimation.zip I have helped people add sound to their boot animations as well this can be edited in the system/customize/CID folder in the file default. Must be edited with notepad++ or wordpad++ its one of those look near the bottom of the file for boot animation. I have become quite good at doing this by breaking it and fixing it. Things like this need to be learned the hard way.
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You dont need any apps to do it for you, the bootanimation is in system/customize/resource folder you name it the name as the one in the folder and copy over it. Most if not all the developers name it bootanimation.zip the default Verizon is named VZW_bootanimation.zip I have helped people add sound to their boot animations as well this can be edited in the system/customize/CID folder in the file default. Must be edited with notepad++ or wordpad++ its one of those look near the bottom of the file for boot animation. I have become quite good at doing this by breaking it and fixing it. Things like this need to be learned the hard way.
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The correct file path is for BAMF Forever 1.0.6 is system/media/bootanimation.zip
There is also an audio file that you can replace in the same location.
I edited my CID file so it where I want it to be. I am used to default setting. Also you can copy over audio but you still need to change desc file and CID so it starts with correct animation. Should I roll my eyes back? Plus I never even said anything about BAMF forever....
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I edited my CID file so it where I want it to be. I am used to default setting. Also you can copy over audio but you still need to change desc file and CID so it starts with correct animation. Should I roll my eyes back? Plus I never even said anything about BAMF forever....
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I assumed you were attempting to address the original posters questions about changing his boot animation on BAMF Forever 1.0.6. I didn't understand that you were merely randomly posting about how you like to edit this and that. You can roll your eyes back now!
not having much luck when searching.
I downloaded and followed the instructions exactly as shown here for nexus prime boot animation:
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/10/08/download-nexus-prime-boot-animation/
but still no change. still has the stock gummy one from GBE 2.0. not sure if i have to removed the old boot animation physically? I dont want to screw things up.
i also tried to do it this way but i cannot paste into system/media. apparently it is a read-only file system. i just went through astro, es file manager, SU, root explorer, i just purchased and tried all of them and returned them. none worked.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1231290
There is a button on top of root explorer. Mount r/w to paste in system folder
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thanks, i will try that. funny because i didnt read that i needed to enable that anywhere. you would think they would have mentioned that part
success! thanks again mate.
Im trying to install a custom boot animation on the recently-developed Cyanogenmod 9 ICS beta ROM (4.0.3) by Lupohirp (for my Optimus T) and I used ES file explorer to navigate to the either the /system/media directory or the /data/local directory and are having problems getting it to work.
Is it a ROM dependant issue why it won't show the custom boot animation?
Because when I put the bootanimation.zip file in the /system/media folder, it still defaults to the vanilla Android flashy logo.
If I try to paste it to the /data/local folder, it will come up with an error saying "bootanimation.zip paste failed!"
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Im trying to install a custom boot animation on the recently-developed Cyanogenmod 9 ICS beta ROM (4.0.3) by Lupohirp (for my Optimus T) and I used ES file explorer to navigate to the either the /system/media directory or the /data/local directory and are having problems getting it to work.
Is it a ROM dependant issue why it won't show the custom boot animation?
Because when I put the bootanimation.zip file in the /system/media folder, it still defaults to the vanilla Android flashy logo.
If I try to paste it to the /data/local folder, it will come up with an error saying "bootanimation.zip paste failed!"
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you need to make sure it's going in the right folder, some ROMs point to different places.
you also need to make sure you've given ES root and r/w mount privilege so it can paste stuff where you want.
orangekid said:
you need to make sure it's going in the right folder, some ROMs point to different places.
you also need to make sure you've given ES root and r/w mount privilege so it can paste stuff where you want.
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It'll take me a bit to ask the creator of the rom since i need 10 posts, but I thought it could be a reason for where the ROM looks for the boot animation.
As for the root and read/write privlieges, i have set ES to request root from SuperUser and know which privileges i need to set (rw-r--r--) as informed by the creator of the boot animation.
Have you tried a boot anim utility?
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Have you tried a boot anim utility?
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No, but as soon as you posted that, i googled it and its an actually app. thats pretty cool ill try that.
Note: i tried again yesterday to get a boot animation to work and finally got it to paste into /data/local with rw-r--r-- permissions and even tried pasting it into /system/bin, but it wont work. Just boots up with the white LG logo on a black background, then to the lockscreen.
EDIT: Apparently there is no support for boot animation in this ROM for now, and its clear why it doesn't show one anymore at start up. i guess it did before, but now it doesn't.
Ill just wait to see how its updated in the future, but for now, thread resolved.
SGT 2 7.0 , rooted it last night with the tutorial here, cm10
Root checker says its good and I can install root apps
I'm dieing to install a custom boot animation and the moving the zip file into system/media folder just isn't working. I believe the other suggestion was to move the zip file, it Root Explorer, into the data/local folder thats not working either
Someone help a poor noob? Hey, I'm not that bad, I got this far on my own
As far as I know, the kernel maker has to support this feature, and it's not in the stock ROM. You have to go CM or similar for this feature.
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hmm
MultipleMonomials said:
As far as I know, the kernel maker has to support this feature, and it's not in the stock ROM. You have to go CM or similar for this feature.
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I'm pretty sre I'm on Cm10
Sorry, didn't see that. Use ES file explorer for the copying, it has good error messages. Make sure to enable mounting system in ES settings. You may need to download "mount system rw" from Play Store. You could also download Rom Toolbox Pro, which will do it for you, but it costs something like $5.
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meh
no luck there either and they make it look so easy haha. ah well, thanks anyways
donniegalaxy2 said:
no luck there either and they make it look so easy haha. ah well, thanks anyways
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Okay this could be a couple of things...
First if your new animation is already named bootanimation.zip it won't let you overwrite the existing one. Delete the existing CM10 bootanimation.zip file in the system/media directory. Now you should be able to move the new animation file to the target directory.
If that doesn't work make sure ES File Explorer has the rights to make these changes.
Go to ES File explorer settings.
3rd from the bottom it says root settings.
Click on that and check all 4 things in the next menu.
Super User should prompt you allow access for ES File Explorer. Grant it.
Reboot.
Now you should be able to move the file you want to the media folder in the system partition.
After you put in the new file you may have to update the file permissions as well. I forget what they are supposed to be but I usually just check everything as read/write for all permissions options on bootanimations.
If none of that works...I dunno...come back with more specific errors you are encountering. Specific error messages, etc.
sheesh
I've done every instruction, followed them to the letter and the default boot ani won't even go away although i can find no hint of any boot ani files anywhere. it appears to function as it should, deletes the files, moves the new ones, file permissions are ok... there's just no change whatsoever, it's kind of baffling. my tablet may be possessed by he devil.
Waitwaitwait. You're saying there is NO bootanimation.zip in /system/media and it still has the stock bootanimation? Try doing a system-wide search for bootanimation.zip using CM file manager. If it does come up, note its location. If there is no bootanimation.zip in the correct folder, Android will play one hardcoded into the kernel, an image of flashing "android" text. So if there is no animation in the right place and you still see the stock CM one, you are putting it in the wrong place.
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wowzers!
OK, so I realized that I didn't have cm file browser and did a search and finally did the nightly update. What a trip that was. It got stuck on the boot ani and wouldn't shut off or anything so I had to wait for the damn thing to run its battery dead. It starts and definatly has a different ani now. The whole new layout is messing me up bad, took me several hours just to get back online.
I have even more questions now.
BTW I'm on android version 4.1.4 now I believe.
For instance, apparently I still have all my apps installed because if I go to the store it says so and won't let me download them but I can't find them anywhere.
And some how I disabled that bar on the bottom that allows me to go back or switch windows and if I go into a program I can't get out of it because I can't switch windows.
HELP! AAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!
ok
I got the window switcher bar back, it was extended desktop option. Still can't see these apps I supposedly have instslled.
Oops. Sorry about that.
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If you have a titanium or cwm backup, wipe data and restore it.
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Try using ROM Toolbox Lite, it's a free app. It worked for me.
In Lineage OS 13 it's possible...
Like mentioned above - in LOS 13 from AndroidAndi it's possible to change/overwrite the existing bootanimation.zip contained in system/media. Done here with a nice Aurora Borealis bootanimation