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::boot animations::shut down animations::tutorials for both::

With permission from the very gifted grafix man TonicAcid from the vibrant Forum. Here are some already made Boot/Shutdown animations.
Plus a tutorial to help create your own
Click link to be taken to his thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=862537
Understand that these files are set up to be flashed with CWM which we do not have. They have to be Non- flashable and moved using Root Explorer or similar app.
I am awaiting a reply from TonicAcid that will tell me what needs to be removed from CWM version to make them work right for us.
(Edit) confirmed: we can pull the bootanimation file from the flashable files and push them with root explorer or something that does the samething.
If you create any Non-Flashable Boots post them for others if you like:

Awesome, I found quite a few I like here
http://www.xda-developers.com/?s=boot+animations&x=37&y=8

good find
will try it tomorrow , after i find my favorite movie lol

Anyone here have the boot animation of that new Samsung Droid phone for Verizon... I really want that robot eye on my phone...
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Yogi3 said:
Anyone here have the boot animation of that new Samsung Droid phone for Verizon... I really want that robot eye on my phone...
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try and check the droid forums, someone may have posted the dump for device which may include the bootup animations.

fknfocused said:
try and check the droid forums, someone may have posted the dump for device which may include the bootup animations.
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OK thanks!
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What about the Samsung boot animation?
Just the shiny S without the t-mobile crap?
l googled all over the place and can't seem to find it...
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thx for the info, im a n00b at this but will try

so all you have to do is just rename it to bootanimation.zip and push it to system/data?

Young Kim said:
so all you have to do is just rename it to bootanimation.zip and push it to system/data?
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Yep that's all you gotta do. Make sure you delete the samsungboot and the samsungbootloop files in /system/media
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Sorry I didn't read your post clearly. It goes it "/system/media" not in /system/data
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How can i do it? When changing the mount to r/w to r/o i cant do it. And after deleting samsung boot files it keeps on returning. What will i do?
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Hmmmmm... i'm having issues here.
I had these running with 2.1uv kernel, but now with 3.1uv they don't want to take.
deodexed KD1
3.1uv kernel
removed the boot and bootloop samsung files, copied the bootanimation.zip to /system/media and i get no animation at all....
used to work when i was running 2.1uv. the original galaxy s animations work fine, but not bootanimation.zip...
any advice?

I use an app called bootanimation utility and it works fine.
You can import your own, or choose from some downloads. I currently have a cm7 one.
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MarkP80nj said:
I use an app called bootanimation utility and it works fine.
You can import your own, or choose from some downloads. I currently have a cm7 one.
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does it work with gingerbread?

MarkP80nj said:
I use an app called bootanimation utility and it works fine.
You can import your own, or choose from some downloads. I currently have a cm7 one.
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Tried that with no luck...it's not that big of a deal.. I have the galaxy s original animations.
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I pushed it to system/data and reboot the fone. After that i only got a black screen for my bootanimation. What will i do? :-(
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then you're pushing it to the wrong place. you place bootanimation.zip to system/media. shutdown sound goes in system/media/audo/ui. shutdown folder goes in system/media/video.

jager555 said:
then you're pushing it to the wrong place. you place bootanimation.zip to system/media. shutdown sound goes in system/media/audo/ui. shutdown folder goes in system/media/video.
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I've already did that sir. But still it is blank screen for my bootanimation. What else I can do?
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hmm....so....
you downloaded an animation from this link, right?:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1053250
when you download the file, it comes in a zip file. open the zip file and you should notice a system folder. open that system folder and open the media folder within it. you should see a bootanimation.zip. that file is the one you are copying to system/media on your phone, right?
i know some people simply download the file and rename it to bootanimation.zip. they are actually renaming the cwm flashable file and not pushing the correct zip. you do not have to rename anything during this process. i would say to try and flash it, but for some reason, it never works for me, but you are more than welcome to try and flash it yourself. the above method is just in case that doesnt work.

Help with bootanimation and shutdown animation

Im having trouble getting audio for my boot animation to work (not sure what to name it or where to place) . Boot animation works just cant get sound, tryed moving it to the etc folder and audio folder. Would some1 please help me out or send me in the right direction. And yes I did search on this but seem different from phone to phone.thanks in advance for any help.
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What version are you running?
Fully stock?
Kd1?
Kc1?
If your running kd1 your going to have to look in sgs4g/development thread, well same for kc1
If your running any other version than I'm sure you will have to reflash your phone with the boot animation kernel(make sure it's for sgs4g not any other phone model)
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I have stock KB5 and I have flashed the bootanimation kernal. I have not flashed anything else. Everything is great except no sounds on the boot up screen.
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Try using sgs tools from the market it helps put your boot up and shut down sounds in the right folders just make sure you have the sounds in your root folder in your sd card
A lot of people have tried just pushing the sound files in their respected folders and just doing it over and over til it works.
But for kb5 boot up sound should be in system/etc(should be in .wav format)
For shut down sound it should be in system/media/ui (should be in .ogg format)
Oh for kb5 you can go to the development section and there is a thread for boot animation file called modd5 or something, that could help you
Hope that helps
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Ill give it a shot and post results today. And thank you
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Ok tryed sgs tools but it would not change the ext. Placed it were it said to sdcard/sgstools, used sgs tools and nothing happened. also the file im trying to change is in mp3 format, dont know if that makes a differince.
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poopypoo13 said:
Try using sgs tools from the market it helps put your boot up and shut down sounds in the right folders just make sure you have the sounds in your root folder in your sd card
A lot of people have tried just pushing the sound files in their respected folders and just doing it over and over til it works.
But for kb5 boot up sound should be in system/etc(should be in .wav format)
For shut down sound it should be in system/media/ui (should be in .ogg format)
Oh for kb5 you can go to the development section and there is a thread for boot animation file called modd5 or something, that could help you
Hope that helps
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I use SGS Tools also, you have to apply it twice till it reboots your device. I used it on KB5 before and now use it on KC1. I cannot confirm it on KD1 because im still on KC1.
note: GdofWr420 you have to use the above formats for it to work. Convert MP3 to .ogg and .wav using appropriate program.

Thanks fknfocused for the info. I went ahead and flashed the deodexed KD1 and im in the process of trying again. now no bootanimation at all just on shutdown cause all I had to do was swap .png files. Ill let yall know.
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Kd1 is not going to let you boot up animation the files are different, well as I understand it.also the boot up sound is in a different format too, we will have to figure out how to change that.
So far I have no luck.
Kb5,kc1 is good to modbut kd1i have no luck
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I recall krylon360 saying new .zips. need too be in edify format or something to that affect. I just get the black screen bootup now not a big deal. I am however going to see about edifying script maybe we just have to alter old bootanimation.zip slightly.
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I can confirm that SGS tools will work for the bootup sounds on KD1. Haven't checked the shutdown sounds yet.

Now that I'm on KD1 my boot animation does not come up. Tryed flashing edifyed version of bootanimation but didn't take and installation was aborted.
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Yes kd1 won't take boot animation, I haven't found a work around yet sorry
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Ill be waiting. Take your time devs rather have it good and stable. Thank you.
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Check out my thread in themes. Galaxys s original boot and shutdown screens and sounds... Hope it helps!
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Okay so I see what is has happened with the 4g/update and its nothing you all don't know.
1st off even if you do white's kd1 deodexed the boot up audio has changed/dissappeared to a .sng or something file but if you add a powron.wav file to system/etc. It will boot up with that audio
2nd shut down animation is still the same just push the .png files to the system/media/video folder and your golden
3rd building a mod might take some time for. Zip files to work but for now only .qmg files will work for boot up animation
Sorry if you already knew this
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fly in and flip animation from animation mod.
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poopypoo13 said:
Okay so I see what is has happened with the 4g/update and its nothing you all don't know.
1st off even if you do white's kd1 deodexed the boot up audio has changed/dissappeared to a .sng or something file but if you add a powron.wav file to system/etc. It will boot up with that audio
2nd shut down animation is still the same just push the .png files to the system/media/video folder and your golden
3rd building a mod might take some time for. Zip files to work but for now only .qmg files will work for boot up animation
Sorry if you already knew this
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airfluip! gingerbread theme
fly in and flip animation from animation mod.
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Thanks man didn't even think anyone was still checking this thread. Anyway ill be trying out that new Bali kernel from Drhonk. Thanks again
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changing bootanimation requires a modded kernel. if you're running KD1 bootanimation.zip will not work. unless you know how to convert bootanimation.zip to a .qmg file.

chadster214 said:
changing bootanimation requires a modded kernel. if you're running KD1 bootanimation.zip will not work. unless you know how to convert bootanimation.zip to a .qmg file.
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Do you convert the whole zip or files inside the zip?
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You pretty much have to convert the files in the .Zip but also have to mod the kernal to read the .zip
If you just convert the .zip then you wont need the .zip anymore,basically the files in the zip will be combined into a .qmg
Which I don't know how to do =P
If that made sense
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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.

Stock boot animation for anyone who wants it back.

Here is the Nexus s boot animation. It will work with any rom or kernel. Has your favorite kernel or rom change your boot animation well just down load this and flash using clockwork and youll have the stock boot animation back. Alternatively you can unpack the zip and copy bootanimation.zip over to the system/media folder on your phone.
http://www.mediafire.com/?3kftz8h46cnj1dh

I'll never quite understand why, but it's always bothered me having a different boot screen.. Thank you
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Isn't there a way to just restore it? I thought I remember reading on here that you can override a kernel boot animation with whatever one the rom came with... be it stock, cm7, etc.

There is and i have just figured it out with upload the file in a minute

NYYFan325 said:
Isn't there a way to just restore it? I thought I remember reading on here that you can override a kernel boot animation with whatever one the rom came with... be it stock, cm7, etc.
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Ok i have fixed it so it will work the way you described. Now it will also work on other android phones

Thanks I also just like the stock

Thanks just trying to help
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Thanks Mike. I appreciate it
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Great post..... thanks
Edit: Which variant of matr1x kernel is included in the Op.?
Cm7 or aosp
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I love the stock boot animation. Nice work.
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Michael, these are the universal zips I sent u right?
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Yes the first one is the zip you sent me its 3.5 cfs
The second one does not include your kernal it's just an installer package I created to reinstall the stock bootanimation.zip which I pulled from my nandroid backup. You can read through the update script in the zip and see for yourself
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Alright haha thanks
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No problem lol. I figured that others may what the same thing. After recieving your zips i realized they did not contain the stock boot animation so i was still stuck with the matriz animation till i reinstalled the stock boot animation which i pulled from my nandroid backup. Then i decided to make an install package for it so it could be used on any phone kernel or rom. if you would like to you can post a link to my second download so others can change if they want.

Cool ty
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I think this will be the first custom Kernel to test on my NS

im loving this kernel, but is it possible in future versions to use cm7 built in oc controls instead of setcpu. netarchy kernel is able to use the build in cm7 controls and its nice not having to use an extra app, other than that great work!

I remembered the stupid easy way I was thinking about yesterday. I remembered after reading something that the boot animation is is /system/media. All I did was copy the animation I wanted (in my case the CM7, now using the 3D CM7 one I JUST found) and copied it over the bootanimation.zip that was currently residing in said folder.
Bam, back to stock or whatever boot animation without flashing anything

yes you can do that to. using root explorer. or you can even use adb if you want. the file resides in system/media/bootanimation.zip

NYYFan325 said:
I remembered the stupid easy way I was thinking about yesterday. I remembered after reading something that the boot animation is is /system/media. All I did was copy the animation I wanted (in my case the CM7, now using the 3D CM7 one I JUST found) and copied it over the bootanimation.zip that was currently residing in said folder.
Bam, back to stock or whatever boot animation without flashing anything
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NYYFan.....where did you locate the 3D CM7? I wouldn't mind trying it out.
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[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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