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[Boot Animation] Guru Boot Animation

This is my first attempt at building a custom boot animation, so go easy on me. I built this by hand, creating each frame individually in Photoshop. It's a huge pain, but worth it to me.
I used to run http://www.Symbian-Guru.com, and I'm still emotionally attached to the 'Guru' brand, so I wanted that on my Nexus One. I'll work on this some more to try to make it better, but here's a video showing the first iteration:
You can download the bootanimation.zip from here: http://bit.ly/guruboot
You *should* be able to just paste this into data\local using Root Explorer, but if you're on CM6, the only way I could get it to work was using the following adb instructions:
adb remount
(should say successful here)
adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local
(should show the info of the move)
adb reboot

nice boot animation!
kind of off topic, but what case is that? do you have anymore pictures of it?

SubyWill said:
nice boot animation!
kind of off topic, but what case is that? do you have anymore pictures of it?
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Glad you like it. The case is the Otterbox Commuter case.

Kind of creepy how it sounds like right as the boot animation starts, you go "Yeaaah" as though you're about to get off, haha.
Looks good though.

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Ok so I made a bootanimation but when I put it in the right folder my boot up is just black the .png images are 480x800 and the image number starts at 00001 can u please help I think it might be the desc.txt file oh and the pictures are 8-bit
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Post your files and I will take a look at it. Also include the information for what rom you are trying to use it with.

Wolf_2 said:
Post your files and I will take a look at it. Also include the information for what rom you are trying to use it with.
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ok thanks ill upload the file on late Saturday because I won't have access to a computer until then thank you and its for rooted stock Rom for HTC inspire
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Ok. Just attach the file to your post. Try to include the name, such as Cleardroid rom or Android Revolution, etc. It can make a difference sometimes as to where the boot animation is supposed to go.

mcslamer said:
Ok so I made a bootanimation but when I put it in the right folder my boot up is just black the .png images are 480x800 and the image number starts at 00001 can u please help I think it might be the desc.txt file oh and the pictures are 8-bit
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After you put it in the correct folder did you make sure you set the correct permissions? I did this and it took me a while to figure that out. You have to have every box checked except for the three on the bottom, I forget what they say. If that doesn't work I'm not sure.
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here you go the file it is suppose to go in is /system/customize/resource/ because it is a att sense stock rooted rom.
and what are the permission setting and how do i set them.

I just took a look at your file and I found your problems. I will redo your text file and check if it will work with the current image frames which I don't think it will. I will let you know after I test it.

Ok, try this first. Use this naming method for all of your files. An example would be "bootanim_480x800_00000", "bootanim_480x800_00001", and so on. Always start with 00000 and it goes up from there and the second folder would continue where the first one left off. The first part is not important as to what name you use. It could be "bootanim" or "Joe" or whatever. The other parts are important. Leave them as they are except of course the numbers for the frames are changing just like you have now. The second problem is that you are trying to run this at 7 fps and the phone does not know how to read that. It likes 15fps, 24fps, and 30fps. You are going to have to add more frames to your animation because it will be too fast as is. Easiest way without creating new images would be to double the sets and add one extra so that you can come out with 15 frames per second. Also just to make sure, when you add this to a zip file named ATT_bootanimation, make sure you are not using any compression. Use a program such as 7_zip and when you make this into a zip file set the compression to "Store". I have rezipped your file and included a new text document already inside of the zip file and as an extra. You should just need to rename and create more frames now. (As far as what myphoneisbroken was referring to, I am not sure. He may have meant to make sure to use a program such as Root Explorer which would have root access to write to system folders. If that is not what he meant then he would have to elaborate a little more.)

Ok ill rename them all and how many frames do you. suggest I make
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Well that depends on how smooth you want it to play. It will take a bit of experimentation on your part. If you go for 15fps to keep the image count down then you are just going to have to check your timing. If your animation played out smoothly before, just remember you have two seconds of animation as it stands right now before you get to the boot loop. You may want to do at least 3 to 4 or even more seconds depending on how fast it plays through. Just watch the total size of the file so that it does not grow too large. Even the smoothest animation may not always play out on the phone perfectly because the phone is loading stuff and sometimes causes it to stutter. The easy way would be to simply double each of your images, but again, you have to experiment and see what looks the best. You may have to create the inbetweens.

Ok I renamed the pictures to what you said iput it in the boot folder and when it boots up it skips folder part0 and goes looping part1
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Something has to be wrong with a part of the name or something in the first folder if it is only showing the second part. The text document is correct and was tested. If it was incorrect you would have a black screen again. Re post your file and I will look at it again.

yeah sorry but here you go and thanks ( i also hit the button)

I got the revised file and I am going through it now.
Edit: You are correct. Only the second part is playing even though everything looks correct in the first folder. I am going through each image to see if I can find the problem.
Edit # 2: I believe I found the problem. I am re doing your images and will test to make sure it works. I will let you know what the outcome is in a while.

Ok thanks can you please give a description of what it is your doing so I don't have any problems next time I make a bootanimation, and sorry for not pressing the thanks button as you can probably tell I'm doing this on my phone most of the time and I can't find the thanks button on here (if there is one)
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I understand, it was just a hint for the future. As far as the images go, the first folder was not in the correct RGB color mode, (second folder was) so I am re doing them now and I will test when I finish with them to make sure it works.

It works. Attached is your boot animation. Enjoy. (I re saved all of the images in the correct format just to make sure they were all good. Everything should be fine now.) Out of curiosity, what program did you use to make these? Was it Photoshop, paint, or something else?

Thanks for the help ill hit the button when I get on a computer and the program I used for the pictures was paint.net I'm to young to buy PhotoShop
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That's fine. I am happy I was able to help you get it working. I asked about the program because I only use PS and other programs like it so I was guessing that something had gone wrong and that it was probably with a program like Paint. Everything comes with time. Keep working at it. It plays out fast because there is only two seconds of animation there. An easy thing you could do which would be a little bit of a pain is to make copies of each image so that there are doubles and then re number all of them. It would play out a bit slower then. Good luck.

My modified boot animation

Hey everyone, I took some time today to change the default boot animation and sound; here are the results:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZqLGg8cBA
Instructions can be found at the links under the video. As always, all credit is to those who have made the animation and provided the sound clip!
On a side note: Does anyone know how to change the shutdown animation? I've tried guides online which tell you to change the system/media/video/shutdown files, but that directory (starting from /video) doesn't even exist on the G2X!

Dude those say epic 4g on them, why don't you actually post a version for our phone.
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rubicstrue said:
Hey everyone, I took some time today to change the default boot animation and sound; here are the results:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZqLGg8cBA
Instructions can be found at the links under the video. As always, all credit is to those who have made the animation and provided the sound clip!
On a side note: Does anyone know how to change the shutdown animation? I've tried guides online which tell you to change the system/media/video/shutdown files, but that directory (starting from /video) doesn't even exist on the G2X!
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You need to edit PowerOff.apk
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Thats pretty nice.

just unzip it and push it to system/media.... through root explorer.....

jose makalolot said:
You need to edit PowerOff.apk
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Ok.. So where the heck is the PowerOff.apk located at? I've searched all over in RE and can't find it..
Also, why don't we just make APKs of boot animation/shutdowns and sounds to go along with them? I mean it seems like it should be easy. Maybe that's just my ignorance of some Android "thing".
Oh there it is, .system/app/PowerOff.apk - went cross-eyed looking at them all.

hmm, when I look in the poweroff.apk I find only like 10 images for the shutdown animation. and it has both a MP3 and a OGG shutdown sound, both the same. It also has a LG shutdown image set AND a verizon shutdown image set. Amusing stuff. So I cant modify this file and then just save it and it work right? It has to be signed or some such? and what controls how long it runs, the layout XML file?
Ok, Wel I answered my on question on the first part, but not sure about the layout XML file and what it does. I just renamed the LG animation files to what the T-mo files were named and poof, it worked. I made a backup of the file OFC. I can't seem to make it go beyond those file names of PowerOff_000.png - PowerOff_0010.png. It always cuts off there.

[BOOTANIMATION] Van Gogh morph for Note (Landscape)

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Doesn't work. "Not enough free disk space to complete the operation."
EDIT: It works. And it's big.
Can you make one in vertical format? If not, can you share the big PNG files in a zip so I can make one? Thanks. Cool animation, by the way.

bobet96 said:
Doesn't work. "Not enough free disk space to complete the operation."
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for root user,
delette in system/app apps you not work exemple swype you win 25mo
after you install swype via playstore
congrats for your bootanim man, it's beautiful
it's not my style but it's great !
thx for share
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I managed to reduce the file size from 300MB to 38MB without much quality loss. If anybody is interested, let me know.

bobet96 said:
I managed to reduce the file size from 300MB to 38MB without much quality loss. If anybody is interested, let me know.
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Thanks jakeordie,
@bobet96, I am interested. Please give me a recipe

Here you go.
https://www.box.com/shared/6626deb754a34f5e386a
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Here's the vertical version. The photos are a bit squished so we don't lose much of the sides.
EDIT: Here's an updated version with better resolution, colors and cropping and even smaller file size.
https://www.box.com/shared/6626deb754a34f5e386a
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I'm updating the vertical animation with better cropping and colors. If I were you I'd wait. Will be finished in half-an-hour.
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I'm deleting the original vertical animation file and replacing it with a better version. Check the link above.
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Is there a good link to the smaller-size landscape version? (both links above point to the same Vertical v2) Thanks for this!

@bobet96
Love the vertical version. Absolutely gorgeous!
Would you please make it loop. Following a Dalvik cache clear, the screen goes black at the end of the bootanimation while the reboot finishes. Looping the animation at the end would keep the screen from going blank. Thank you.
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krazman325 said:
@bobet96
Love the vertical version. Absolutely gorgeous!
Would you please make it loop. Following a Dalvik cache clear, the screen goes black at the end of the bootanimation while the reboot finishes. Looping the animation at the end would keep the screen from going blank. Thank you.
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+1

@bobet96
thanks for sharing..i love it..

permissions to rw-r--r-- haw do i set that ?
permissions and then i can check like 9 voxes.
Which one should i select ?

Hi CoopZor
Do refer to this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1474987
for more info. Basically rw-r-r means Owner "Read, Write" Group "Read" and Other "Read". You have to tap on R/W before changing the setting.

Installed vertical version works and looks great! Thanks!
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To make it loop, edit desc.txt inside the zip file. Originally, the second line looks like this:
p 1 0 part1
Change it to:
p 0 0 part1
Make sure you don't compress the new zip file. To do this, you can extract the files in a folder (retain the structure) and rezip it after editing desc.txt. Tick "storage/uncompressed" or a similar option when rezipping the files into bootanimation.zip.
P.S.
Mine ends with the last frame, not a black one, before the lock screen.
Sent from my Galaxy Note

CoopZor said:
permissions to rw-r--r-- haw do i set that ?
permissions and then i can check like 9 voxes.
Which one should i select ?
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It should work without changing the permissions, I think.
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bobet96 said:
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Mine ends with the last frame, not a black one, before the lock screen.
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Mine too, except when I clear Dalvik. Then the reboot takes about 3-4 times as long and there is a long blank screen (resembling the SoD). If something is flashing before my eyes, I will know my Note is running! DUH!!!!!!!!
Thank you!
kraz
Edit Made the change to the desc.txt and inserted it back in the bootanimation.zip file. Verified the change was there. Rebooted and no loop. Checked the desc.txt file and the file was back to the original.??????? I made the changes all within Root Explorer. I had everything set to R/W.
Any suggestions to get this to work?
Thanks.
kraz

[TWEAK] [TW] [UI SOUNDS] Change Default TW Screen Touch Sound!

Disclaimer…
In no way should this be considered safe. While it’s fairly straight forward…messing with ANY system files could result in bootloops, lost sounds, World Wars, or complete device destruction. You’ve already rooted your phone…so you should be able to handle this but please don’t hold me liable if your device does turn into an expensive brick.
What you will need…
Your favorite root explorer (I use Solid Explorer Pro).
UI Sounds (I found a pack of royalty free UI Sounds from Narfstuff http://www.narfstuff.co.uk/2009/09/13/royalty-free-ui-sound-pack-now-free/)
Steps…
Fire up your root explorer app and navigate to system/media/audio/ui.
Locate TW_Touch.ogg file.
Instead of backing up the file I just copied it and then pasted it back into the same folder and renamed the copy to TW_Touch_OLD.ogg.
Navigate back to your SD Card and create a folder where you can manage your new sounds…copy any of the sounds you would like to use to replace the screen touch sound with here (if you are using the UI pack I provided just extract the .zip and then copy the sounds you want to use into your newly created folder).
Once you have identified the sound you want to use you will want to rename it to the original file name…TW_Touch.ogg. (Please note that the sounds I provided are not in .ogg format! You must RENAME THE FILE/EXTENSION to TW_Touch.ogg! Don’t forget the .ogg part!
Once the file has been renamed to TW_Touch.ogg copy the file.
Now browse back to system/media/audio/ui and PASTE the file into the UI folder. Your root explorer should give you the option to OVERWRITE…this is what you’ll want to do.
Once the file has been overwritten reboot your phone and enjoy not having to hear your significant other complain about the “water drop” noise while using your Note 3 in bed.
Please note!
This method can be used to replace any system UI sounds you’d like…obviously you will just need to rename files. Just be extremely careful! See disclaimer at the top of this post for further information.

tropazr said:
Disclaimer…
In no way should this be considered safe. While it’s fairly straight forward…messing with ANY system files could result in bootloops, lost sounds, World Wars, or complete device destruction. You’ve already rooted your phone…so you should be able to handle this but please don’t hold me liable if your device does turn into an expensive brick.
What you will need…
Your favorite root explorer (I use Solid Explorer Pro).
UI Sounds (I found a pack of royalty free UI Sounds from Narfstuff http://www.narfstuff.co.uk/2009/09/13/royalty-free-ui-sound-pack-now-free/)
Steps…
Fire up your root explorer app and navigate to system/media/audio/ui.
Locate TW_Touch.ogg file.
Instead of backing up the file I just copied it and then pasted it back into the same folder and renamed the copy to TW_Touch_OLD.ogg.
Navigate back to your SD Card and create a folder where you can manage your new sounds…copy any of the sounds you would like to use to replace the screen touch sound with here (if you are using the UI pack I provided just extract the .zip and then copy the sounds you want to use into your newly created folder).
Once you have identified the sound you want to use you will want to rename it to the original file name…TW_Touch.ogg. (Please note that the sounds I provided are not in .ogg format! You must RENAME THE FILE/EXTENSION to TW_Touch.ogg! Don’t forget the .ogg part!
Once the file has been renamed to TW_Touch.ogg copy the file.
Now browse back to system/media/audio/ui and PASTE the file into the UI folder. Your root explorer should give you the option to OVERWRITE…this is what you’ll want to do.
Once the file has been overwritten reboot your phone and enjoy not having to hear your significant other complain about the “water drop” noise while using your Note 3 in bed.
Please note!
This method can be used to replace any system UI sounds you’d like…obviously you will just need to rename files. Just be extremely careful! See disclaimer at the top of this post for further information.
Easier (but less fun) method…
Buy the pro version of Ultimate Sound Control (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2482155). This app will allow you to easily replace any system sound you’d like. It’s $1.99….support the dev!
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This seems almost too good to be true. The reviews for that USC app are pretty dismal. Have you had any experience using the actual app yet?
I want to change sounds of unlocking and locking the phone as well. Hopefully this works.

Slicc98 said:
This seems almost too good to be true. The reviews for that USC app are pretty dismal. Have you had any experience using the actual app yet?
I want to change sounds of unlocking and locking the phone as well. Hopefully this works.
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Honestly...if you know how to copy and paste using a root file explorer it's pretty simple without the app. Pretty much all of the UI sounds are in the file destination listed. PM me if I can help you.

I switched back to the sidekick 4g's touch noise.a nice elegant click
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Great write up! I changed all my touch sounds to Effect_Tic.ogg and its a nice soft tic noise instead of the standard tw noise. If you want to change the hard button sounds (menu and back) you have to replace the S_HW_Touch.ogg file to the sound of your preference.
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Quickvic30 said:
Great write up! I changed all my touch sounds to Effect_Tic.ogg and its a nice soft tic noise instead of the standard tw noise. If you want to change the hard button sounds (menu and back) you have to replace the S_HW_Touch.ogg file to the sound of your preference.
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Sweet. Thanks for the tip! Please hit thanks if I helped you!

Any suggestions for the best sounds?
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Slicc98 said:
Any suggestions for the best sounds?
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I am using a sound from this sound pack ( http://www.narfstuff.co.uk/2009/09/13/royalty-free-ui-sound-pack-now-free/ )...lot's of good and free UI sounds. I think I'm using one of the "knock" sounds.

Developer must have pulled the pro version seems like their was a lot of issues with it. So I will have to wait..
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changing ogg files
there is a aroma zip i used to get alot of sound files. All from my note 2. I copied every sound file i liked using es file explorer, to a whatever named folder which i then transfer to systems. I then use Rom Toolbox pro to overwrite copy the new sound files over. works great

tropazr said:
Disclaimer…
In no way should this be considered safe. While it’s fairly straight forward…messing with ANY system files could result in bootloops, lost sounds, World Wars, or complete device destruction. You’ve already rooted your phone…so you should be able to handle this but please don’t hold me liable if your device does turn into an expensive brick.
What you will need…
Your favorite root explorer (I use Solid Explorer Pro).
UI Sounds (I found a pack of royalty free UI Sounds from Narfstuff http://www.narfstuff.co.uk/2009/09/13/royalty-free-ui-sound-pack-now-free/)
Steps…
Fire up your root explorer app and navigate to system/media/audio/ui.
Locate TW_Touch.ogg file.
Instead of backing up the file I just copied it and then pasted it back into the same folder and renamed the copy to TW_Touch_OLD.ogg.
Navigate back to your SD Card and create a folder where you can manage your new sounds…copy any of the sounds you would like to use to replace the screen touch sound with here (if you are using the UI pack I provided just extract the .zip and then copy the sounds you want to use into your newly created folder).
Once you have identified the sound you want to use you will want to rename it to the original file name…TW_Touch.ogg. (Please note that the sounds I provided are not in .ogg format! You must RENAME THE FILE/EXTENSION to TW_Touch.ogg! Don’t forget the .ogg part!
Once the file has been renamed to TW_Touch.ogg copy the file.
Now browse back to system/media/audio/ui and PASTE the file into the UI folder. Your root explorer should give you the option to OVERWRITE…this is what you’ll want to do.
Once the file has been overwritten reboot your phone and enjoy not having to hear your significant other complain about the “water drop” noise while using your Note 3 in bed.
Please note!
This method can be used to replace any system UI sounds you’d like…obviously you will just need to rename files. Just be extremely careful! See disclaimer at the top of this post for further information.
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Thanks for writing, hope it will help to work

No way , this is Pretty awesome. I missed doing this on my Note z . Now I need to Find my sounds that l used to . have and Ill be set for awhile , Thank you !!
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Gotta put the lightsaber sounds back on my stylus. I did alot of this stuff on my other phones. Try using an actual submarine nuclear alert sound as power_on if you want to make the wife happy.
Edit- I moved some stuff off of my sd card to the pc, I'll see if I saved my sounds file and share a couple.
Meanwhile here's a free online converter if you want to convert to .ogg. I used ringtone maker to take parts of songs and clip them, then convert to .ogg to yse as a system sound. Use your imagination, this can be fun.
There's also an AT&T site that will convert what you type into spoken word in several different accents, for awhile my power off was a girl saying "commence shutdown protocol" with a french accent.
http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
http://media.io/

Here's the lightsaber stylus sounds. Already named, copypasta, fix permissions.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4sby05clpghtven/Pen_att_noti1.ogg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x4re9ehee66zf1i/Pen_det_noti1.ogg

Ogg files
Would be nice if you guys could post some Ogg sounds you have so we can copy n paste.

Cod3L1ne said:
Would be nice if you guys could post some Ogg sounds you have so we can copy n paste.
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You didn't like the lightsaber sounds?

9wire said:
You didn't like the lightsaber sounds?
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Oh yea but I like a lot of different sound I was basically seeing what or wanting to know what others are using. I have the sound aroma zip and there cool but not updated like what's new lol
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Guys..i cant rename the twtouch file...it is read only...any idea?thanks

urakanje said:
Guys..i cant rename the twtouch file...it is read only...any idea?thanks
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You need a file browser. Something like es file explorer works good. Then in settings of that app turn on root explorer and mount system as writable. You must be rooted for four this to work

chitral
tropazr said:
Honestly...if you know how to copy and paste using a root file explorer it's pretty simple without the app. Pretty much all of the UI sounds are in the file destination listed. PM me if I can help you.
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heyyy please show me or guide me step by step how change system and other sonds ...please..... truly appreciated....need your help