OK, I'm moving this out of J's CM7 thread so that I'm not spamming it on him. This is a boot animation done for J's CM7/FreeXperia 2.3 but will work with other ROM's as well.
I kind of like a little action with the boot animation on my phone so I decided to cobble something together to replace the (rather excellent) splash screen that J included with v018. It turned out OK so I thought I would share it with you all.
It's not my work. Animation is thanks to cole20444 over at droidforums.net and the splash is thanks to Uraharasama from the bootscreen contest here on XDA. All I did was remove some frames and add a few others to give a smooth transition from animation to the splash.
V1 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DRWXXI9I
V2 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=96IUBGWF
Screen shots
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Bootanimation.zip is not flashed with XRecovery and is used as is without unzipping it. You can use adb to push the file to either /system/media (this will overwrite the original) or to /data/local (leaves original as is and this version will be used instead) an alternative to using adb is to use root explorer.
Gingerbreadman reports that it's a bit laggy and doesn't have time to complete before lock screen appears. I'll continue to strip it down to reduce the length and to make it smoother.
OP updated with V2 which should be shorter. Still going to need some working on smoothing the animation out.
An easy way to install this for guys like me that dont know about adb and stuff is get root explorer (mount r/w) and go to system/media and cut the boot animation out and place it on your sd card as a backup and then find your downloaded one and move it to system/media. Dont unzip the file. Reboot to see effects ;-)
Ok v2 is much much smoother and better and doesnt lag. Has plenty of chance to complete. Perhaps the animation could be a little longer cos the splash screen is shown for perhaps twice the length of time of the animation.
Another small suggestion would be to perhaps replace the android on the splash screen with a cyanogenmod android with his skate board but of course this is personal taste
Thanks very much GreatBigDog grand job
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It seems to be great.I'd like to have a try.
Thanks a lot.
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This is my first ever attempt at "compiling" a boot animation, so bare with me (suggestions are welcome!). I spent the last 2-hours resizing all the images then playing with all files and such trying to get it to properly boot. Added a little "Kindle" logo modified with PaintShop Pro X to "splash" in Ice Cream Sandwich logo at the end of an existing animation. Finally got everything working correctly, so here it is.
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*all credits go to the ORIGINAL creators of each animation (Google/Medroid/etc).
How-To
Download File
Re-name File Bootanimation-Custom to Bootanimation
Move File (using Root Explorer or similar) to /system/media (rename your current bootanimation to "bootanimation1" in case you want to revert).
If Using Root Explorer, Click The "Mount R/W" (to allow read-write)
Long Press File, Press "Permissions" and Check Mark The First Box of Each Collum and The Second Box Of The First Collum (uncheck all others).
Long Press "Change Owner" and Change Both Drop Down Boxes To "0-Root".
Reboot Phone & Enjoy!
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This is awesome thanks. Do you happen to know the animation demensions? I would like.to try to make one myself.
Jspex said:
This is awesome thanks. Do you happen to know the animation demensions? I would like.to try to make one myself.
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No problem man.
I'm at work, when I get home I'll let you know. I think its 600/1260 or something but I'm not certain.
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The desc file requires to be set at 600x1024.
My actual image files are set at 360x640.
Thank you and fyi
To OP; Your info on how to change boot animation helped me, but i had to figure out that you meant rows not columns. Columns go up and down, rows go side to side.
I know this post is pretty old but do you still have that animation? The link is for a pulsing "Android".
--edit-- NM. Didn't adjust permissions.
This is awesome!!! Thanks!
I lost the boot animation on my kindle fire hd 10 7 gen. does anyone have the bootanimation file in the system/bin section?
My favorite aspect of the new Windows 8 was the little spinning dots that would be there at startup (at least in the developer builds). Well, I decided to make a boot animation from that.
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The actual boot amination runs much smoother than the gif
I made this for the G2x so it should work on any HDPI display.
To install:
Download the zip: View attachment W8BootSpin.zip
Use any file manager with Root access (ie. Rootexplorer)
Move the zip to /system/media/ and rename it to bootanimation.zip
Change the permissions to (rw-r--r--) or (Owner: Read Write, Group: Read, Others: Read)
Reboot and enjoy!
If you like this, please click thanks!
phone is not starting after doing that thing, I think i gotta reinstall the ROM !! ?
0b095 said:
phone is not starting after doing that thing, I think i gotta reinstall the ROM !! ?
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What all did you do? I have never had a boot animation cause a no boot issue.
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I downloaded the zip file and moved it to system/media and then renamed as bootanimation.zip
Before that I deleted the old animation because it did not let me change the name.
I did the wipe from cwm menu phone works now without win 8 animation...
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Have you tried one of those boot animation managers that they have on the play store. I don't know if that will work or not but it could be worth a try.
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Have you tried one of those boot animation managers that they have on the play store. I don't know if that will work or not but it could be worth a try.
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no I have not, but it is okay I actually does not need to add a bootanimation.
Here is a Droid Boot Animation for the HTC One SV. I think this was a stock boot animation i found a few years ago for my old phone. I forget where i got it at but all images are made by who ever made this and thanks go to them.
What i did was converted it to make the images work on the HTC One SV and made a sound to go with it. It took awhile to get the sound to sync up with the animation but i got it working on my phone so hopefully its synced on others as well.
To Install (Sorry no flashing)
1 Your phone has to be Rooted, S-Off, Unlocked Bootloader and SuperCID
2 Use your favorite file explorer that gives you Superuser rights.
3 Browse to /system/customize/resource Make a backup of these 2 files CKT_bootup_one.zip and pUp_H3000C.wav
4 Unzip the file below and copy over the zip file and wav file to /system/customize/resource overwriting the ones in there
5 Reboot to see your new animation with sound.
WARNING!!!!
As with any modifying of system files anything can go wrong!!! Make a FULL BACKUP before using this. It does work for me and have been using it for a few days with no problems. But i hold no responsibility if your phone bricks from this, your doing it at your own risk. So please know what you are doing and if you need help ask before not after you bricked your phone.
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Issues:
This as far as i know, only works on the cricket version as it was only tested on that version. I'm sure with the rename of the zip file and sound file to the proper names for other versions that this will work also for them versions. Please test it and let others know.
The sound file is synced on my phone so it should be synced on all phones but due to different roms and how there set up the sound could be off if it is i am sorry bout that and there's nothing i can really do about it that i am aware of. If i am wrong let me know.
I hope you all enjoy it and thanks to old.splatterhand for helping me with the zip problem.
For the Cricket LTE 4G (may work for other versions)
Test it out and let me know what you all think. I hope you all enjoy it as i had making it.
My first boot animation.
If i get board i will add a new style.
Thanks to seriosbrad for the bios boot idea.
4.4.2 based Bootanimation.zip
Here's the boot animation.
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Has anyone used or made a bootanimation that is woprking on 757 rom?
I have tried to make one and i keep getting black screens.
Here's what i have done,
1. used bootanimation zip from munjeni rom (thats what I'm running)
2. changed images to my images
3. created a install zip and added the right permission
4. checked permissions when phone boots and they are correct (rw r r)
1. created bootanimation from scratch and phone screen stays black even after phone boot's, I can hear and feel that the phone responds to touches. screen is just black.
I have asked munjeni if he has signed his rom as this may be the issue as well. (his rom is signed)
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I tried to built a bootanimation the same way with no success. But bootanimation created with Boot Animation Factory work fine with .757
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1678540
Folder's organization are different (name of folders)... but it works. I installed by moving bootanimation.zip to /system/media directly (in CWM with adb)
Gwynned said:
I tried to built a bootanimation the same way with no success. But bootanimation created with Boot Animation Factory work fine with .757
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1678540
Folder's organization are different (name of folders)... but it works. I installed by moving bootanimation.zip to /system/media directly (in CWM with adb)
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Thanks, i did install that last night. I was having a hard time opening the bootanimation. just figured out the bootanimation folder structure can'r be the new style.
thanks again.
Very nice Bootanimation
Indeed, very nice.
Not a huge fan of the last "Z1 Compact" part of the boot. But I love the rest of it !!
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I love it! But could you please change the Energy Star ally part to the Fixedsys font also? And you overlooked the display resolution, which is 720p
will it go on 4.4.4 ?
How do you install this?
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Here's the boot animation.
I am not used to android or the z1 compact as I use a touch pro 2 with windows mobile 6.5, so yeah, how do you install this?
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Wannabe developers stepping into the ROM Development scene usually begin with theming and porting. One Themeable feature of Android is the Boot Animation. Traditionally it is located in /system/media for the latest versions of the OS. But sometimes it is possible that the folder contains this :
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So what to do in this case ??? Yeah you can copy the bootanimation.zip to /data/local after the first boot, change permissions to rw-r--r-- and reboot to see the glorius boot animation you just planted. This is fine if you are a end user, but if you're theming a ROM, it can be quite frustrating to ask the user to do this, since most people would be overwhelmed by this procedure (Not anyone here at the Android Development and Hacking forums - it's supposed to be noob-resistant, right ). So here I am with the tutorial for themers and devs alike who want to mod the supposedly hidden bootanimation.
Before we begin, ensure you have the following installed and ready to go :
Prerequisites
APK Tool by @iBotPeaches
Java 7 JRE and JDK
ADB (If you want to do this without any flashing)
Brain.jar and Common Sense.apk (Plenty required if you do not fit into the [Developers Only] parameter)
So Let's Begin
Get the framework-res.apk of the ROM you want to theme (Either from the zip or using adb pull /system/framework/framework-res.apk)
Decompile it using apktool
Navigate to framework-res/assets/images. Here you'll find android-logo-mask.png and android-logo-shine.png
Replace the android-logo-mask.png with your custom splash of the EXACT same dimensions(Or you can change the width to your device's screen's width if you have borders in the image). I used my team's logo and cut out the white parts to let the shine shine through
Optional : If you want, you can also edit the android-logo-shine.png to mod the color of the shine
Compile the framework-res.apk (Ignore the errors, if any. They are harmless......Atleast in my case)
Copy the the META-INF folder and AndroidManifest.xml from framework-res/original to the apk in /framework-res/dist
Copy the apk to the framework folder in the ROM zip or use adb push framework-res.apk /system/framework
Done! You have competed the tutorial. Flash/Reboot to see the fruits of your labour
Demonstration
Before
After
Hit Thanks if I helped you and let me know below if you're stuck or have a suggestion
This tutorial was done with Evervolv 4.0.0 as the ROM in question.
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