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Looking for a good, recent bootanimation.zip tutorial

Been trying to make my own and I keep getting a black screen only. I'm not sure if it's the png files I'm winding up with, or my desc.txt but it's not really working for me. I know that my kernel supports bootanimation.zip, I've tested this with the angry android one, so it's not that there's no support.
HELP! Thanks in advance.

Can u tell me which kernel are u using mine doesnt work with boot animation
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I'm using Bali 2.1 UV. It's had bootanimation support since its first release for the SGS though. I doubt you'd get that working with any stock kernel

Search this very forum for a thread started by bl4ckphenix about boot animations.
It's one of the older threads, back in the kb5 days, when all we had was krylon's kernel for it.
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FBis251 said:
Been trying to make my own and I keep getting a black screen only. I'm not sure if it's the png files I'm winding up with, or my desc.txt but it's not really working for me. I know that my kernel supports bootanimation.zip, I've tested this with the angry android one, so it's not that there's no support.
HELP! Thanks in advance.
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Be sure ur filenames in the .zip are numbered correctly. no zeros infrobt of numbers.
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I attached my current bootanimation.zip if anyone wants to take a look at it and tell me what I've done wrong. Thanks.

Motorola Type Thingy?

My friend got his Droid Bionic the other day and I saw something interesting when he powers off his phone. The way it shuts off is fairly interesting and I was wondering if there was a way to get the G2x to shut off in the same way. It looks like how some TV's use to shut off.

That's the crt animation. A lot of roms have it. I know that cm7 and eaglesblood have it for sure. It would be safe to say that most cm based roms have it. There's an animation for turning on too.
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So then there's no thing I can just put on my current rom so I can have it?

I don't have any idea about that. What ROM are you using?
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OTA 2.3.3, Not really wanting to flash it to anything else ATM. :/

Psyrecx said:
OTA 2.3.3, Not really wanting to flash it to anything else ATM. :/
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That's the stock Android animation. I guess LG removed it from their version of the ROM.

And now I want to fix LG's mistake.

Psyrecx said:
And now I want to fix LG's mistake.
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Flash Weapon G2x. It's based on the 2.3 OTA, plus other tweaks thrown in there. Yes, it has the CRT animation.
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But but, I just got all the things setup on here how I want them. /insert sadface

Psyrecx said:
But but, I just got all the things setup on here how I want them. /insert sadface
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If all goes well, you should be able to flash Weapon on top if the 2.3 OTA. But I would use Titanium Backup to be safe.
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Flash CM7. Simple as that.

Ok, I hope that will work, I can give it a shot.

Okies, well WG2x Seems to have done it without screwing up the rest of my setup, thanks ^^

[Q] Boot Animation

Okay, so I have been able to get a bootanimation.zip that i want. I placed it in /data/local... I reboot and it still shows the old swirling Samsung logo...But it does play my custom boot sound (awesome)... I haven't really seen any SGS4G specific threads...and the ones to other phones kind of run me in circles. Not looking for a hand out, just a heading...any idea? Something im PROBABLY missing...
Oh and i gave the bootanimation.zip god privileges...not sure if it matters
Running on 2.3.5 KI3 from Octiane V2.0 (awesome ROM BTW)

at the moment our gingerbread kernels do not support custom boot animations. I'm sure once we have a source to work with, will have full support.
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Well, that makes senses...thanks!
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OK first try with this app. I rooted my girls stock gingerbread droidx (if u need help rooting it stock gb droid x u can email me.)then u can download root toolbox and they have a section for boot animation, select one u like and install it. with this app u can even change splash screen and battery icon but for icon u will need pro version. u can just go to ipmart and download it for gree. anyways..... if this does not work u will have to do it manually which may seem scary but its quite simple. first get the bootanimation.zip u want and rename it(if u r with verizon) VZW_bootanimation.zip then download super explorer and then go to ur phones internal system /custom/reasourses and first want to go to that location and copy past the original bootanimation of phone and save to soundcard incase u want to change back to it in system/customize/reasourses and delete ,it will be names VZW_bootanimation.zip. now the custom animation can be added. go copy the custom animation go back to system/customize/reasourses and paste new animation a boom it will work I promise. note if for some reason when u restart phone and no animation is there dont worry nothing is broken the animation isn't allay compatible so just find another on and follow all the steps again minus saving the boot u had added u can just delete it.. now what I desperetly need help with is adding custom sound. I have tried many different thing with no results but negative. ive tried deleting the old sound file and renamwd new sound as old one and placed in system/customize/reasourses no sound , I even went into system/customize/cd/default.xml and changes the writing that tells the system when to play music to autostart="part0" /> no go ,="part1" /> no go. neither worked. I even unzipped the bootanimation.zip and renamed the folder VZW and changed back autostart="VZW" ect which was the original setting and no go. ive tried renaming file and placing it in system/media and pasteing no go, ive tried copying file and pasteing it in system/meadia/notification like some direction have said and no go. im at a lose of what to do. I have a thunderbolt running stock gb and want to customize the sound for bootanimation so if anyone can help please email me [email protected]. thanku and I await ur response
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Think you're in the wrong forum.
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no im not. first post was having trouble with custom bootanimation. I gave the stePS to get it to work
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masterblaster451 said:
no im not. first post was having trouble with custom bootanimation. I gave the stePS to get it to work
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Considering this is for the Samsung galaxy s 4g, you technically are in the wrong forum. Our phones use a qmg file for animations as far.as I know, so bootanimations.zip will not work, I've already tried the method you posted, without success.
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there's a few custom ones in the theme section. You just have to push all the files manually.
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then its quite simple just rename ur new bootanimation exactally as ur old one a boom there u go. its not that difficult and if that doesnt work try something simple and download romtoolbox and install if from therr. if it works on the droid x it should that one
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also u probably not only have to name it correctly u may have to try androidzip and change it to that kind of file type if not that do so on ur computer. were Theres a will Theres a way. also make sure ur permissions r correct
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Somairotevoli said:
there's a few custom ones in the theme section. You just have to push all the files manually.
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I will try that. If the qmg file is truly a zip file with its own custom file extension, then it should work, if its not, then it will display nothing. I'll back up just in case, but I was told by a developer on this phone (I believe raver), that it wasn't supported by the kernel.
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Let me know if that works, i'm out for a few days...I'll try when I get home. However, the second response to my post was that it's unsupported... But if there is a work around, that would be sweet.
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This is the one i'm using: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=16904862
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rabid panda said:
.but it does play my custom boot sound (awesome)...
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hey rabid panda how did u get your custom boot sound to work thats what i am trying to do with mine but it doesnt play.

it's pretty easy, just take the wave file that you want to use and move it to /etc. rename it poweron.wav and reboot...all Done
you might want to make sure the permissions are set...I just checked all of mine.
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HolyGhostBoy1 said:
hey rabid panda how did u get your custom boot sound to work thats what i am trying to do with mine but it doesnt play.
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Rename your wavfile to PowerOn.wav and push to system/etc
Make sure you name it exactly PowerOn.wav, matching the upper case P and O is necessary to make it work.
Edit:Got beat to the punch by a Rabid Panda lol

thats the problem im having i did that but no sound when i turn it off the shutoff sound works did i do something wrong

Sniper
try a smaller lower quality sound file... mine are no more than 16hz
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[BOOT] DROID RAZR Boot Animation

DROID RAZR Boot Animation
Just like it sounds...this is the RAZR boot animation resized and optimized for the Incredible. Gotta show some love, the INC was good to me...
Sadly, this file is huge compared to most of the boot animations out there (19.18 MB), but I tested it on my old INC and it looks phenomenal.
Thanks to droidth3ory for the RAZR media dump
AS ALWAYS...
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS TO YOUR PHONE AS A RESULT OF USING THIS CONTENT, JUST AS IT IS NO ONE ELSES FAULT FOR ANY DAMAGE I MIGHT DO TO MINE. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THE RISKS INVOLVED, YA MIGHT JUST BE BETTER OFF STICKING WITH STOCK. It's not that complicated, just do a little research. Plenty of knowledge floating around XDA...
Simple enough:
1:: download the .zip
2:: rename it (using ES File Explorer or Astro or any ROOT EXPLORER that will allow you to MOUNT SYSTEM AS WRITABLE) by simply cutting out the "RAZR_INC_" so that it is just bootanimation.zip. On some ROMs you may need to rename the animation to "VZW_bootanimation.zip" and the audio file to "VZW_Droid.mp3"
3:: copy or cut the bootanimation.zip and paste it in the system/customize/resource folder, or wherever the boot animation file is stored on your particular ROM. For CM7 and AOSP ROMs I think they may be in a different location. RESEARCH IT
4:: if you are warned that the merge will overwrite the existing file and that the world will end... it won't...accept the merge.
REBOOT
DOWNLOAD LINK:
DOWNLOAD
**Audio is attached as well (audio.zip). The timing is not perfect, but it's about as close as I could get it. I have compared it to how it runs on my BIONIC and it's pretty damn close lol.**
UNZIP THE FILE (android_audio.mp3) AND PLACE IT IN THE SAME DIRECTORY AS THE bootanimation.zip
sytem/customize/resource SHOULD WORK
...don't be afraid to use the "THANKS" button...

So is the audio in there?
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not yet...I am actually working on it right now...I have it working, just trying to get the timing right...not easy lol

dubsx said:
not yet...I am actually working on it right now...I have it working, just trying to get the timing right...not easy lol
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Ok can't wait becuz this boot animation is beautiful can't wait for sound
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audio is now attached...it's not perfect, but it works. dump it in the same folder as the bootanimation.zip (system/customize/resource)

I never got the sound to work on none of the boot animations
Ive tried. I put it in the system/customize/resources / but still does not work
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what ROM are you running?
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Alton (Halo 2) said:
I never got the sound to work on none of the boot animations
Ive tried. I put it in the system/customize/resources / but still does not work
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Need to extract the audio zip to get the mp3 and rename it VZW_Droid.mp3 and put it in the system/customize/resources directory and it should work, it works for me!!

Ok I'm gonna try that
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Thanks for this dubsx! I had to rename to VZW_bootanimation.zip on Jermaine's stock+.
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thanks for the feedback, I've updated the directions in the OP to reflect the need to rename both files in some ROMs
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Where is the whole ROM where this was taken from?
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just do a search for the RAZR system dump, you'll find it
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FYI - I just pushed this to my Dinc running the PrimeXL-HD Rom by Joelz, the animation is in /data/local and named htc_bootanimation.zip. In case that helps someone else with that Rom or possibly another one running a Sense Rom.
I haven't done anything with the audio file, I don't really care for boot audio so I'm not sure if it will need to be htc_audio.zip or something like that, or if the default name will work.

is that sense 2.3.5? wonder if they changed it when they came out with that...thanks for bringing that up, I will update the OP
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For those of you on CM6/7, instructions for enabling sound can be found here:
http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/cyanogenmod/32058-how-add-bootsound-cyanogenmod.html
Not the link I used when I did it, but it is essentially the same thing.
Then just drop the file in /data/local/android_audio.mp3

hopefully somebody can compress and reduce it. I'm sure the images would look identical since most animations are much smaller. this one is nearly 4x bigger than most I use. I don't even use an app that large lol

dyetheskin said:
hopefully somebody can compress and reduce it. I'm sure the images would look identical since most animations are much smaller. this one is nearly 4x bigger than most I use. I don't even use an app that large lol
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Gotcha covered.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1343045

I rarely ask anything or respond since newbie pretty much. Sorry if posting question in wrong area for this here too. I notice says for Rarz_INC.. Is this just to do for Droid Incredible or could I put animation & sound on my Bionic? I'm getting sort of use to the boot stuff but no pro. I know where to put the Zip and audio and I believe what to mark for permissions and what & to name. Thanks in advance.. You all rock .

Ubtoo said:
I rarely ask anything or respond since newbie pretty much. Sorry if posting question in wrong area for this here too. I notice says for Rarz_INC.. Is this just to do for Droid Incredible or could I put animation & sound on my Bionic? I'm getting sort of use to the boot stuff but no pro. I know where to put the Zip and audio and I believe what to mark for permissions and what & to name. Thanks in advance.. You all rock .
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there is a thread in the bionic forum for this animation, you can download it from there
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Splash Screens

I remember back on the mt4g forums they had a thread going that users could flash a .zip file and change their splash screen(very first screen that pops up on boot) Now i'm just wondering if anyone on here knows how to make these flashable zips on the g2x, or would it be possible to use the ones on the mt4g section for our device as well?

I remember when I was able to do that with my MT3G, had so much fun with that capability, that was one of my things to make my iPhone friends jealous... I always stuck with a custom one that I made saying NOFTCHX with a red slash through one LOVED it.

I had a similar thread when the G2x first came out, here's where it lead me.

I found a way to change it but don't remember the file name. If you look in the trinity kernel zip its in there though. Its not wireless.ko, boot.img or bootanimation.zip. I want to say its named boot something though. And I don't think it involves messing with the kernel itself. However I don't remember for sure been a while.
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I found a way to change it but don't remember the file name. If you look in the trinity kernel zip its in there though. Its not wireless.ko, boot.img or bootanimation.zip. I want to say its named boot something though. And I don't think it involves messing with the kernel itself. However I don't remember for sure been a while.
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Yeah, i think is like /system/bin/bootanimation or something
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kwes1020 said:
I found a way to change it but don't remember the file name. If you look in the trinity kernel zip its in there though. Its not wireless.ko, boot.img or bootanimation.zip. I want to say its named boot something though. And I don't think it involves messing with the kernel itself. However I don't remember for sure been a while.
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It would be pretty awesome if you wouldn't mind to look into it a bit more. I would love to have the Nexus One's Splash Screen.
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