Searched through almost every thread relating to this post and found absolutely nothing. I just flashed Cog 3.0.2 and it works like a dream. The only issue is I am trying to now change the boot sound to a file of my choosing. Default has no sound file. I have looked in these place so far with no luck:
system/media
system/etc
There is no poweron.wav file anywhere and adding one i created myself did nothing.
Any sure fire ways to do this? Id really appreciate some help
Still searching and found nothing. Does anyone even know the designgears site url? The wordpress they have is outdated and cached. Seriously even suggestions would help at this point
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Let me preface this statement with the chance that I may have put this in the wrong thread entirely and if the powers to be deem it to be moved, so be it and I apologize for posting improperly.
Ok, that out of the way, I have an issue! I have taken my time to go through and create a "fade in" effect with a logo that I would like to replace my boot animation with. First and foremost, here are my specs:
Rooted nexus one
Locked bootloaded
Stock ROM, FRF91 2.2
I've examined the stock animation and the custom animations that came included with the boot animation changer app. I have no idea what I am doing wrong but I am sure it has to do something with the desc.txt file. If anyone would be so kind as to modify the attached files (probably just the desc.txt), it would be appreciated. Better yet, explain what I am doing wrong and I will do it myself. Attached is bootanimation.zip with a compression type of *store*, including ~100 .png files.
Much thanks
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I haven't read your .txt file because I'm at work, but did you compress the .zip? And make sure you're not using transparent images. I heard it causes problems.
Did you try zipping up just the contents? When I unzip the file, it looks like -
/bootanimation/bootanimation/part0/
/bootanimation/bootanimation/desc.txt
Looking at a known, working bootanimation, it looks like this -
/bootanimation/folders
/bootanimation/desc.txt
This is a common problem when devs first start out. I've done it myself when signing a new ROM and trying to flash it.
Not too sure what was wrong other than maybe the "false" line breaks in notepad or something.
Opened a shell in cygwin, nano'd the txt file and made my changes. Wrote it, and dos2unix'd it. Proceeded with a "zip -r -0 part*/*.png desc.txt" and everything is working. Although after I figured it out, I appreciate your responses.
its not working for me D:
Tried a quick search, but couldnt find anything that really helped. I installed ApeX a while ago, and got tired of my boot. I installed the pro boot animation, found here, but I want the stock startup shutdown sounds enabled again. How could I do this? Ive tried editing build.prop as suggested by birdman at alldroid, and tried putting android_audio.mp3 in the data/local folder. Im not a total noob, but I was hoping someone has experience with this.
EDIT: Finally got the startup sound to work, but no shutdown sound still. Any ideas?
SoundZombie said:
Tried a quick search, but couldnt find anything that really helped. I installed ApeX a while ago, and got tired of my boot. I installed the pro boot animation, found here, but I want the stock startup shutdown sounds enabled again. How could I do this? Ive tried editing build.prop as suggested by birdman at alldroid, and tried putting android_audio.mp3 in the data/local folder. Im not a total noob, but I was hoping someone has experience with this.
EDIT: Finally got the startup sound to work, but no shutdown sound still. Any ideas?
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You have to edit desc.txt in the bootanimation zip to match the apex sound file name and extension.
The droid pro bootanimation you installed most likely calls for "droid.ogg" for the sound, you need to change it to call for (let's say the apex sound is called apex.mp3), well, you need to change desc.txt to call for "apex.mp3" instead of "droid.ogg". Make sure you put "apex.mp3" in the correct location system/media.
I'm trying to use this and for the life of me no matter what I do it always puts out an error when trying to create the zip file. Any suggestions or ideas? I thought I tried uploading the right files and settings but I've done it four times now and to no avail.
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I'm trying to use this and for the life of me no matter what I do it always puts out an error when trying to create the zip file. Any suggestions or ideas? I thought I tried uploading the right files and settings but I've done it four times now and to no avail.
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You will probably get flamed for not posting this in Themes and Apps or some other section as this is not development.
I used UOT today and had no issues for Infused v2.0.
I apologize. Perhaps you can PM me exactly what you are selecting when on the file upload page. I've tried every combination it seems. Maybe my files do not like some of the mods I have made, I don't know.
Move this thread if need be, don't want to piss anyone off.
The developers are very sensitive to posting things in that section that aren't development related. I found that out the hard way myself!
Anyway, all I wanted was a circle battery mod so I selected the one I wanted on the battery mod tab, clicked preview to see what it looked like then went to the tab to upload the 2 system files for gingerbread from my phone (framework-res.apk and systemui.apk). Submitted that and that was all I did. Didn't select anything else.
Thanks man. Yea I finally figured it out.... I was uploading files that were read only because I did not change the mount when I copied them from root explorer to sd card to my phone.
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I've done a fair bit of googling and searching here on XDA but haven't found anything that worked and wondered if perhaps I was simply doing something incorrectly.
I've tried placing my poweron.mp3 and poweroff.mp3 in folders with those same names under root\system\media\audio
the files themselves directly in the audio folder, tried them under system\etc
and I believe another location but no matter what I hear nothing when booting using EB's build 2.
Anybody have any ideas on where to go next with this?
They need to be in .ogg format. Go here (http://media.io/) and convert the .mp3 files to .ogg and place them in the poweron and poweroff folders under System\Media\Audio. They should be named PowerOn.ogg and PowerOff.ogg respectively. Should work after that.
Should this work under CM7 / EB 2.3.7 also? I just tried it exactly as you said and no dice
Are this and the reason we can't have bootanimation(is that poweron?) noises the same?
Cause if so... That's a CM7(probably 9) issue.
I've been googling for a few days now and can't seem to find how to use poweron/poweroff sounds with CM-based ROMS. Anybody else have any luck?
I guess the Cyanogen stuff may not support it. I use Weapon w/Faux Kernel and it works fine for me. Sorry guys.
I'll try asking on the cyanogen forums and post any relevant answers here. Thanks again though.
Hello, I would like to install a new boot animation.
I rooted my S3, installed Rom toolbox pro and went through the different boot animations. I previewed several of them. Installed the one I liked (actually changed the size to the max size as well, hopefully this isn't the cause of the issue I'm having). and even viewed the current animation (which it actually showed the one I choose).
I then rebooted as I couldn't find any other options for confirming that I selected a new animation. However my phones original animation continues to show.
With this I did a little digging and on a youtube video someone eluded to having to move the animation to another file, but gave no direction on how to perform this task.
I can't seem to get the animation to actually install or become my boot animation. What am I doing wrong? Please help
Edit: I've looked through similar threads on this forum and while at least 1 of them had the same issue, I couldn't find a solution that fixes this issue. (unless I just completely missed it of course and in that case please just point me in the right direction)
Thank you for taking the time to look and any help you can provide
Ok, I'm really pulling my hair out here. All of the videos and instructions I have found have looked really simple (just click this button "install" and it works) whereas when I follow their "insturctions" nothing happens.
I know this is a simple process here but I am missing something.
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Ok, I'm really pulling my hair out here. All of the videos and instructions I have found have looked really simple (just click this button "install" and it works) whereas when I follow their "insturctions" nothing happens.
I know this is a simple process here but I am missing something.
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in system/media there should be a file named bootanimation.zip overwrite it. fix permissions to match the folder/old one :good:
so the easiest way to get them from romtoolbox would be to download and move like i said. not the safest to let it install on its own.
also, half of the boot animations on there are not even in the correct dimensions. there are plenty of places on XDA and other sites where you can find WAY more , and probably in the correct size. hope this helps.
another thing : in the themes and apps section, there are even flashable boot animations. saves some of the hassle.
Lorenzo VonMatterhorn said:
in system/media there should be a file named bootanimation.zip overwrite it. fix permissions to match the folder/old one :good:
so the easiest way to get them from romtoolbox would be to download and move like i said. not the safest to let it install on its own.
also, half of the boot animations on there are not even in the correct dimensions. there are plenty of places on XDA and other sites where you can find WAY more , and probably in the correct size. hope this helps.
another thing : in the themes and apps section, there are even flashable boot animations. saves some of the hassle.
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Thank you so much for the reply, however (as I am newer) I am stuck.
I went into system > Media and found no such file as bootanimation.zip.
I have seen this solution before, so I know others have had success with it. However it isn't there.
I have root access and I'm access this file system through rom toolbox, root browser.
There are no .zip files in that folder at all. The closest I came to is bootsamsung.qmg and bootsamsungloop.qmg
Now, I did check out the theme and app section but couldn't find this same issue there.
Thank you for your assistance.
Update:
I downloaded Root Explorer and found the file you were referring to. Another thread suggested to rename the file bootanimation_bak.zip. I thought that route was a little less evasive as it didn't really get rid of the old boot animation. However, when I did that and copied the new animation in it still registered the original animation.
So, with that said, should I follow your first instructions as to overwrite the original file or is there something else here that I'm missing?
Sithlyone said:
Update:
I downloaded Root Explorer and found the file you were referring to. Another thread suggested to rename the file bootanimation_bak.zip. I thought that route was a little less evasive as it didn't really get rid of the old boot animation. However, when I did that and copied the new animation in it still registered the original animation.
So, with that said, should I follow your first instructions as to overwrite the original file or is there something else here that I'm missing?
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Try renaming the original bootanimation file to bootanimation.zip.bak then move the boot animation you want to system/media and name it bootanimation.zip. If that doesn't work it might be that the rom/kernel doesn't support custom boot animations.
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Try renaming the original bootanimation file to bootanimation.zip.bak then move the boot animation you want to system/media and name it bootanimation.zip. If that doesn't work it might be that the rom/kernel doesn't support custom boot animations.
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No dice.
I thought you were on to something here as I found the system/media folder and had to change the permission to r/w and placed the boot animation.zip into it. However my old persistent one keeps popping up.
Now maybe I'm totally skipping a whole step here that everyone is assuming I'm taking. Do I have to have a custom Rom installed? I haven't done that yet, as none of the videos I've watched had instructed to do so. I'm rooted, that's it at this point.
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Yes, the issue is the kernel not the rom. Your stock kernel is overwriting the boot animation. Considering you did do everything as the other user instructed you to do. You renamed the stock boot animation to .Bak and you renamed the one you want to play bootanimation.zip and placed it in the same folder?
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It's should look like this look at the bootanimation zip file and the one right above it. View attachment 2181260
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It's should look like this look at the bootanimation zip file and the one right above it. View attachment 2181260
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Ok here are a couple screen shots of what I'm working with. I have followed every instruction through this thread.
This first shot is of the System/media folder. I pasted my new bootanimation.zip file here. Originally there was not a Bootanimation file here at all.
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This second screenshot of the Data/local folder. This is where the orginal bootanimation.zip file was located. I was instructed to rename it as Bootanimation_bak.zip and paste my new Bootanimation.zip file here. Then was suggested that I change it from "_bak.zip" to ."zip.bak". Neither suggestion worked. Then it was suggested to move my new bootanimation.zip from the Data/local folder to the system/media folder. I did so and I changed the original name back to bootanimation_bak.zip. And this is where I currently am stuck at.
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Now, I haven't done anything with my bootloader. I'm wondering if that is my issue, if I need to unlock my bootloader. I didn't want to get to involved with things that I didn't understand to fast and felt that replacing my boot animation seemed simple enough. So, do I need to unlock my boot loader?
Thanks so much for all of the time and effort.
As another user mentioned the stock kernel you are using doesn't allow you to use a custom boot animation. You will have to unlock your boot loader in order to flash a custom kernel that allows you to change the boot animation.
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As another user mentioned the stock kernel you are using doesn't allow you to use a custom boot animation. You will have to unlock your boot loader in order to flash a custom kernel that allows you to change the boot animation.
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Ok, thanks. I just unlocked the boot loader. How do I know which kernel I should flash? Any suggestions?
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Just make sure the kernel you flash is for your carrier and either touch wiz or aosp. If you're stock rooted it will be touch wiz. Just look through the development forums and find what works best for you. Right now I'm on bonestock rom with stock kernel but I really like Zeus kernel as well.
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