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Changing the bootanimation!

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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ToWi1989 said:
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?

Having some permissions issues with my ADB and Terminal

Hello everyone. I have been working with android for a 6 months now and still cannot figure out what im doing wrong to get my permissions to work correctly. I have installed ADB and successfully rooted my MT3G Slide. I have been trying lately to figure out why i cannot manually configure A2SD. I have gone through both ADB Shell and Terminal under Su to try to mkdir /system/apps but it will give me a problem like my system is not allowing me to rewrite or its copy protected. I have tried to remount and it claims its successful. Another symptom i experience is not being able functionally use the rom manager or restart in clockwork recovery after i have flashed a rom. I always have to wipe the devices before i can loop hack back into clockwork mode. I have tried to fix permissions and restart in recovery through rom manager and it just brings up a question mark ontop of an image of a phone. I have been trying most recently to move a file through terminal to another name and replace the old with a new of the same name. It says the directory is not empty when i try to modify this file. So Anyone think they might know a solutions to these issues or hopefully all of them in one simple problem i cant seem to figure out.

download & install 'root explorer' for your phone from the android market (or your Pc, and put it on your phone) , grant it superuser permissions from superuser on your phone, open it up, and there's an option to make the phones memory R/W. (Its R/O as default which may be why your having permission issues)
Saying that Im yet to figure out adb's permissions fully..
Be careful with root explorer though, its a very intrusive programme which can screw up everything

Root explorer cost money... is there another program that allows me the same option. I have been using astro file manager, any way to do it on that one?

[Q] how do you make a clockwork recovery zip

i was running root explorer trying to andromeda3 percent battery and deleted the framework-res.apk, as i was about to paste the downloaded version my wife called me for something and i set my phone down so my son picked it up and before i could paste, exited out of root explorer. long story short i had to boot into recovery and adb push the downloaded framework-res.apk into the /system/framework folder to make my phone usable again. luckily i was able to have access to a computer to do this, it made me wonder how i could make a zip that could be installed through clockwork recovery. i figured it was more then just using 7zip or something to zip it. thanks in advance, would be some nice information to know.
*Edit* after taking a second look, i found this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=796474) that i'm going to study

[Q] Clockwork Mod only works once

I just installed jelly bean on my Samsun GS3 SCH-R530U, and now whenever I Odin CWM, it will boot only one time when I boot to it, after that I get a fallen over robot icon from samsung, and their old boot menu. This means I have to flash it every time I want to backup or restore a nandroid backup. Is there some way I can get past this? Do I need a newer CWM? Has Samsung found a way to disable CWM?

try this
as a nexus s owner got this issue in past, seems to be caused cause from GB on in /system/etc there is a install-recovery.sh wich overwrite all the recovery you have installed every time your phone boot up, just solved checking for this file and deleted or renamed (as you want) so in booting the CWM won't be deleted and overwrited by the original one (wich is called install-recovery.sh)
To be clear using root explorer os similar point to this file in /system/etc, then delete or rename, if it tells you can't do cause is read only file system switch from R/W to R/O

Not entirely sure but I think flashing recovery.IMG file on Mobile Odin solved the issue for me.
International S III 16GB / Dualboot 4.1.2 Stock & Cyanogenmod 10.1 / Gokhan's SK

Worthy path to pursue
stremax said:
as a nexus s owner got this issue in past, seems to be caused cause from GB on in /system/etc there is a install-recovery.sh wich overwrite all the recovery you have installed every time your phone boot up, just solved checking for this file and deleted or renamed (as you want) so in booting the CWM won't be deleted and overwrited by the original one (wich is called install-recovery.sh)
To be clear using root explorer os similar point to this file in /system/etc, then delete or rename, if it tells you can't do cause is read only file system switch from R/W to R/O
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This sounds like a good path to pursue, but I can't find any "install-recovery.sh" anywhere in the system. Could it be named something else, but have the same function?

Accidentally found a workaround -PROBLEM SOLVED 4 me
I found that after using clockworkmod recover, if I remove battery, re-insert battery and then boot phone in normal way, instead of using CWM menu to reboot, it doesn't get over-written. I put in my Title that my problem was solved. Some forums have some other way to indicate this, but I couldn't figure out how on this forum.

[Q] Boot looped Kyocera Torque. Push build.prop in fastboot

I've got myself into quite a predicament. I was trying to install a dictionary for a 4.4 keyboard on my 4.1.2 torque, and in doing so I found that I may want to change the build.prop. Before I even reboot the device I see that that would only work if I were installing through the market, and so I replace the build.prop with an exact copy of the original file. I reboot and then the device will not boot. I guess something must have gone wrong with es explorer. I do not know how to fix the build.prop file because 1. I can't find the file available online yet and 2. this phone has no recovery, so I cannot access it through adb. I can however access it through fastboot when I put it in fastboot mode. This phone also has a download mode I magically got into, but it cancelled itself out after 10 seconds and I don't know how to get back into it or what purpose it would serve.
Does anybody know a way I may be able to push a new build.prop file to my phone? Perhaps I could use the fastboot flash command if I could find the build.prop info? This is my primary phone so any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks,
Allan

I got the build.prop backup off my sd card, but I still don't know how to push it. Would it be possible to get a copy of the system partition through fastboot, inject the build.prop into it, then reflash? Wouldn't that just be doing the same thing that got me into this mess though?