I cannot for the life of me get custom boot animations to work. I'm rooted. using root explorer i've used every tutorial on the internet! i'm on an Motorola Milestone running GOT 2.2 rom.
I put the "bootanimation.zip" on my SD card, i then move it to system/BIN and replace my original boot animation. Reboot the phone and nothing. just about 10 seconds or so of the Motorola "M" logo. I've tried everything. putting the files in there unzipped. The only thing that looks a bit odd to me is that the original "bootanimation" file's icon is just a plain white icon. but when ever i move the new bootanimation file over it shows up as a zip file. this has to have something to do with it? i also screwed around with the permissions so that the new bootanimations permissions matched the old one. anyone have any idea what i'm doing wrong here?
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Hello all, this is my first post so please don't hit me to hard. I'll get right to it
I'm using a samsung vibrant and I'm currently using the obsidian 4.2 rom with the stock kernal.
Also using OCLF. Anyways I'm trying to change the boot animation that this rom uses and I can't seem to figure out how. the only files I can find in the /system/media file is a bunch of battery charge. Qmg files. No boot animation.zip files or anything. I do see the shut down png files but nothing else as far as the boot files. Is the file path for the startup boot different in this rom? I've tried moving files with managers, I've tried cmd commands but it all boils down to me not knowing where these boot animations should be pushed to. As of now its just the word android shining left to right a few times. No sound.
I have been trying a couple of different rom's to see the flavors that are available. I am settled on the rom I want to use and I wanted to put my custom boot screen back on. It is in a signed flashable zip. I started in recover and wiped cache and dalvik. I flashed the zip and rebooted. No luck the old animation is still there. I used the pushboot app that was put together here on xda and it said it copied the file but on reboot, same old animation. I booted the phone up and went to /system/customize/resource/ folder and deleted the bootanimation.zip file and then pushed mine over. Rebooted, wiped, and it still is the same old animtaion. Any ideas how to fix this? I am rooted with s off and have not had problems in the past. I have also noticed that it takes longer than it used to when going from the splash screen to the boot animation.
Krikey! One I might know the answer to!
Some ROMs use /system/customize/resource/
and some use /data/animation/
Look there and you might find a bootanimation.zip to replace. There will also be a .mp3, but in this location it will be named bootsound.mp3
Hope that helps.
Hey everyone, I just put the Nexus S/Nexus One boot animation on my G2X and I must say it looks really nice, and it also goes well with the phone because of the 'X' in G2X. To apply it you need to be rooted. Simply put the zip file on your SDcard, rename the file to 'bootanimation.zip' (without quotes), and copy it to /system/media/ using root explorer or ADB. I'll attach the boot animation below.
NOTE: You will have to delete the old boot animation in /system/media/. I backed mine up by renaming it to bootanimation.zip.bak.
Just tried it and works, except this is the old school "Android." Logo. I thought this would be the nice Nexus X logo.
redfarsi said:
Just tried it and works, except this is the old school "Android." Logo. I thought this would be the nice Nexus X logo.
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make sure you set the permissions correctly.
What permissions??
I used this, and it works perfectly.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=949281
Only thing thats a bit annoying is that I still have the Tmobile shutdown animation which sucks!
For starters I've been trying to change my boot animation, something I put together myself. Tool used to swap the repacked bootanimation.zip was Root Explorer and I do have Superuser/ root permissions and it all appeared to swap over without fuss but somehow doesn't show booting the phone. While I successfully killed off the old animation. mine is not appearing. The bootanimation file being used is .pngs with the original file structure, all I did was overwrite existing ones on my pc with my preferred images so no need to overwrite the existing desc.txt file. Any suggestions on where I boofed things?
The shutdown animation I can't find, browsed the system/media and data folders without joy. Could any of the learned members here be able to direct me to where the shutdown animation is hiding as I so hate telco provider logos left on phones not tied to contracts?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.
This little tool did the trick for the boot animation and should work for the shutdown animation when I find the little sod.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1234611
Shut down animation is in the power off apk I believe I made it black and white in my theme back in the day
Thanks for the tip there Samno, looks I'm off googling now to see how to recompile Apks.
You can just drag and drop in winrar just don't change the compression settings should work as long as there named the same and in the right format, won't hurt for you to learn though
Learning by my errors by the looks of things, unpacked and repacked with Winrar and a rename to apk utility found here after doing my file swap and now getting reboots instead of shutdowns.
I should have kept an eye on this thread before charging off like a nutter.
Thanks again Samnos.
Sorted the reboot issues as I hadn't dumped off the original APK and just edited the archive to replace my ingloriously modified version..
Hello there XDA, I have gotten myself into a pretty deep hole here. I was dicking around with some boot animations, all is fine and dandy until I screwed this one up. Somehow I managed to make it show a 100% black screen after boot. Yep. Here is what I did: I am runnng paranoid android, so I went nto system/media and changed the original bootanimation.zip to bootanimationbak.zip, and put a new one in and gave it RW- R-- RW- permissions. Now when I boot up, I get the GS3 splash with white text, but everything else is black from then on. The buttons flash on then off, and I even get the CRT animation if I cycle the power, but the screen is all black. I can even feel the login stuff vibrating, but I cannot get past my lockscreen (Its a pin, crap). I do not have a backup (that'll teach me!) is there any way to fix this without reinstalling my rom? Would a flashable bootanimation.zip do the trick?
SOLVED! And here's how: I downloaded Aroma File Manager 1.80 to my sd card, loaded it into CWM revocery, mounted my storage, ran the zip, deleted the messed up animaion and restored the good one and it works now.
Good for future reference rename the bootanimation to bootanimation. Zip. Bak
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