Hello all, I have created a simple script that will allow you to quickly change your bootanimation to whatever favorite you want.
This script will only work on windows sorry. Any mac,linux savy people feel free to port the tool without asking.
This is a simple one click tool. All you need to provide is the custom bootanimation.zip you want to use.
Prerequisites to install:
Windows computer
Drivers for nexus 7 installed
Rooted nexus 7
Install:
Download bootaniflasher7.zip
Extract the zip to your desktop
Replace the bootanimation.zip and file in the folder with the one you want making sure you rename it to bootanimation.zip.
Click the bootani.bat file
follow on screen instructions
Phone will reboot at end allowing you to see the results
voila
Please hit the THANKS button if you like this tool.
Download:
DOWNLOAD
Hey
reserve?
Whats for a Picture Size is recommended to use for the Nexus 7 Bootanimation?
$wissdroid said:
Whats for a Picture Size is recommended to use for the Nexus 7 Bootanimation?
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I believe it's 480x700
Scribed on my Clean one X
I get the error message: "failed to copy 'bootanimation.zip' to 'system/media/bootanimation.zip': Read only File System". I checked in root explorer and it is mounted as R/W.
Another question. I have made several Doctor Who Boot Animations for the HTC EVO 4G (original) and so I have done boot animations. However for some reason I have never been able to get my bootanimations to work Since like CM 7.2.
When looking into the actual bootanimation.zip the desc file is exactly alike.
The bootanimation you have in the root of your zipped directory has this desc information:
" 700 700 20
p 1 30 android
p 0 0 ATT "
I know the 700 700 is the res at which the phone should display the images in said "android" and "ATT" folders. I also know that 20 is the framerate at which it should play. I also know that p 1 means play once (if I remember right), but what is the 30? (how many times to play that picture before moving to the second folder I am assuming). Then of course P 0 0 means loop until it boots. FROM my experience it didn't matter what you named the folders as long as you have that in the desc.txt file.
My desc file consists of this:
1280 720 30
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
I have a part0 and a part1 folder each with images in it. EACH consisting of boot_0001..etc (in numerical order). Yet I can't get it to work. It flickers but the screen stays black. I am almost wondering if I have to change some other file to make it work with CM. Any ideas? For the record I copied and pasted my bootanimation.zip from the internal memory to /system/media using Root Explorer. I also tried changing the desc.txt file to 700 700 20 just for the hell of it and it is still black screen. I haven't had good luck at all with the newer CMs I maybe have tried it with Sense as well. I should try it. I would also like to find out if for some reason there is a size limit now in the newer android versions. This bootanimation.zip is 21 mbs. So let me know!
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settings > Developer Options > Root Access = ADB and Apps. (Android Debugging was already on)
cmd > cd blah (to your directory) <enter>
adb root
adb remount (remount successful)
Ran your bootanimation changer .bat and it was successful flashing (copying) my bootanimation.zip to the system.
Reboot
Still black screen
So I have to assume my bootanimation is whats wrong. I am going to try 1 more thing (before saving this).
I found a boot animation creator on xda. I have been using that. NOW I have some images but it wont move to part 1 folder. This thing is getting REAL frustrating. I am playing with resolutions as well. Find a resolution I like for this tablet/images.
I got it working by just having p 1 0 part 0 then have all my images in that. It isn't long enough to last the whole boot time even if I lower the frame rate to 20. I have over 300 images sized at 1280x720. Which btw the working boot animation I have now is set to 1024 720. I know this post is very bipolar in the sense I ask for help then sorta answer my own crap...but hey. Maybe someone can read all this and know exactly what to do lol.
Balian67 said:
I get the error message: "failed to copy 'bootanimation.zip' to 'system/media/bootanimation.zip': Read only File System". I checked in root explorer and it is mounted as R/W.
Another question. I have made several Doctor Who Boot Animations for the HTC EVO 4G (original) and so I have done boot animations. However for some reason I have never been able to get my bootanimations to work Since like CM 7.2.
When looking into the actual bootanimation.zip the desc file is exactly alike.
The bootanimation you have in the root of your zipped directory has this desc information:
" 700 700 20
p 1 30 android
p 0 0 ATT "
I know the 700 700 is the res at which the phone should display the images in said "android" and "ATT" folders. I also know that 20 is the framerate at which it should play. I also know that p 1 means play once (if I remember right), but what is the 30? (how many times to play that picture before moving to the second folder I am assuming). Then of course P 0 0 means loop until it boots. FROM my experience it didn't matter what you named the folders as long as you have that in the desc.txt file.
My desc file consists of this:
1280 720 30
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
I have a part0 and a part1 folder each with images in it. EACH consisting of boot_0001..etc (in numerical order). Yet I can't get it to work. It flickers but the screen stays black. I am almost wondering if I have to change some other file to make it work with CM. Any ideas? For the record I copied and pasted my bootanimation.zip from the internal memory to /system/media using Root Explorer. I also tried changing the desc.txt file to 700 700 20 just for the hell of it and it is still black screen. I haven't had good luck at all with the newer CMs I maybe have tried it with Sense as well. I should try it. I would also like to find out if for some reason there is a size limit now in the newer android versions. This bootanimation.zip is 21 mbs. So let me know!
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settings > Developer Options > Root Access = ADB and Apps. (Android Debugging was already on)
cmd > cd blah (to your directory) <enter>
adb root
adb remount (remount successful)
Ran your bootanimation changer .bat and it was successful flashing (copying) my bootanimation.zip to the system.
Reboot
Still black screen
So I have to assume my bootanimation is whats wrong. I am going to try 1 more thing (before saving this).
I found a boot animation creator on xda. I have been using that. NOW I have some images but it wont move to part 1 folder. This thing is getting REAL frustrating. I am playing with resolutions as well. Find a resolution I like for this tablet/images.
I got it working by just having p 1 0 part 0 then have all my images in that. It isn't long enough to last the whole boot time even if I lower the frame rate to 20. I have over 300 images sized at 1280x720. Which btw the working boot animation I have now is set to 1024 720. I know this post is very bipolar in the sense I ask for help then sorta answer my own crap...but hey. Maybe someone can read all this and know exactly what to do lol.
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Ok I'll answer the one you didn't lol. The 30 in the code line represents a pause before moving to the next line. So you would see folder part0 play then a pause then part1 would play and loop until boot.
This pause helps "extend" short boot animations. If your using the one x its boot time is approx 30seconds. So I have some animations that are 20 seconds long, I would add a pause in to extend it those 10 extra seconds, you can create a pause at the end of the last folder and the animation will just stop there until boot instead of looping.
So one of my animations
1. 720 1280
2. p 1 10 ATT
3. p 0 20 android
4. This should be a blank line.
So a typical desc file when edited in notepad++ should have 3 lines of code one blank line at bottom. Also if your using windows that ugly flicker of the screen when it flashes white etc before looping is usually caused by a hidden windows file or to large of a package, picture size. The one x doesn't like bootanimation zips larger than 6mb
Make sure to have hidden files shown and extensions and delete any pesky thumbs. Files windows creates in your folders when you open to view them.
Hope this helps ya.
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Actually my E4GLTE played my 21meg boot animation.
In the desc file p = play correct? And does the first 0 mean replay or loop over and over or does the 1 mean loop?
Also the delay....how would that effect the look of the animation if i want it a fluid video like animation?
I also did check for the pesky thumbs.db file and deleted them from both folders. As of right now i like the 720 1024 look. I just want to find a way to make it last the whole boot time
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
Balian67 said:
Actually my E4GLTE played my 21meg boot animation.
In the desc file p = play correct? And does the first 0 mean replay or loop over and over or does the 1 mean loop?
Also the delay....how would that effect the look of the animation if i want it a fluid video like animation?
I also did check for the pesky thumbs.db file and deleted them from both folders. As of right now i like the 720 1024 look. I just want to find a way to make it last the whole boot time
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
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Yes that's right
p is play then 0 or 1,2,etc is how many times to play it then next 0,10,20,30,40,etc is delay until it plays next folder.
To use the delay think of folder 1 as the "intro" then folder 2 etc the actual animation.
You could make up an intro to the animation containing about 5 or 6 images, add a delay at the end of it. Then start your actual animation.
Like on my phone I have cleanrom animations. The "intro" is part0 containing about 7 images. Then I add a delay at the end of this intro and my actual animation all contained in part1 then start to play and loop until boot never returning to the "intro" folder.
That's really all you would use the delay for. Only way to make it last until boot without looping is to add more images, add an intro. I have found framerate settings really have little effect on extending the animations time while trying to keep it lag free and looking fluid.
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Im going to get an mp3 of the new doctor who intro song and make it a complete package
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda premium
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Below was my attempt and it didn't work!
But jthurs was able to have a dancing android with a full while background.
I added a song (It's peanutbutter Jelly Time) in a zip file it
should be good!
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I tried to make the dancing droid a boot animation today.
~~~~~~~~~~~~Some helpful information!~~~~~~~~~~~~ I use root explorer to change my boot animation. To do so you I took the bootanimation.zip file and put the file in /system/customize/resource folder also tried in system/media and in data/local and rebooted my HTC Evo and it worked.
1st attempt:
When I added my created bootanimation it to /system/customize/resource folder I saw the Starwars bootanimation (which is in good quality). I looked in /system/customize/resource folder and the starwars bootanimation.zip file wasn’t in there I found it in system/media folder. So I changed the name so it would no longer show up.
2nd Attempt:
I added my bootanimation.zip file to system/media and rebooted my phone and this time it showed the old version of the word andoid that looks like a splash screen from the G1.
3rd Attempt:
I than checked data/local folder and saw a bootanimation.zip in there and changed that name and added my bootanimation.zip file when I rebooted I saw the old style anroid splash screen again.
Conclusion from my many attempts!!!!
Conclusion 1:
I think there’s a preference in location where the phone will look for the bootanimation. I could be wrong but I think it goes in this order:
1. /system/customize/resource folder
2. /system/media folder
3. data/local
Conclusion 2:
Also I think I made a bad file for the boot animation.
Attempt 1:
The boot animation zip file consisted of a desc.txt file with the code
480 800 30
P 0 0 part 0
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in it. and a folder named “part 0” with all the dancingdroid png files.
I created the zip file with 7-zip and added it to archive and created a 7z file and archive format store.
Attempt 2:
This one had 3 files:
Folder named “part0” a desc.txt file and a Thumbs.db.(this file was automatically created when I made the zip file and archive format store.
This time when I archived it I made sure to create a .zip file. Also the code looked this this:
480 800 10
p 0 0 part0
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When i tried this bootanimation i just saw a black screen.
Can anyone show me some insight or help?? If you think I should take this post out of here or put it somewhere else let me know A.S.A.P.
If you like take a look at the bootanimation i have created!!
reserved just in case
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Did you make sure that the zip program was set to "store" and not "compress"? If the zip file is compressed any, it won't show.
I did that
@bluebeast213 I did archive format as store.
If you like you can take a look at the bootanimation file i created. I added the attachment to the original post.
three quick tips
1. bootanimation.zip cannot be compressed the compress must be on store winrar has this option win you make a zip file under the compress type.
2. if your seeing the android bootanimation its because your system can't find a bootanimation.zip so it reverts to the default one.
3. the desc.txt describes how to animate the bootanimation. heres a break down
480 800 10 .... this means its resolution 480 width by 800 height and the last is the frames per second.
p 0 0 part0 p= part... the first zero is the delay before playing... the second 0 is how many times to loop with zero it loops forever and part0 is the folder to look in for this particular part.
I'll come back later and try and help more.
Edit: if your seeing a black screen your bootanimation is in the right place but your bootanimation.zip is compressed and the compression needs to be on store.
Thanks
ASimmons said:
three quick tips
1. bootanimation.zip cannot be compressed the compress must be on store winrar has this option win you make a zip file under the compress type.
2. if your seeing the android bootanimation its because your system can't find a bootanimation.zip so it reverts to the default one.
3. the desc.txt describes how to animate the bootanimation. heres a break down
480 800 10 .... this means its resolution 480 width by 800 height and the last is the frames per second.
p 0 0 part0 p= part... the first zero is the delay before playing... the second 0 is how many times to loop with zero it loops forever and part0 is the folder to look in for this particular part.
I'll come back later and try and help more.
Edit: if your seeing a black screen your bootanimation is in the right place but your bootanimation.zip is compressed and the compression needs to be on store.
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hmmmm.....
when i use the 7-zip program it gives me the option to store and i did that the 2nd time around and that's how i got the black screen. I will try again.
http://db.tt/tdsEB50
This is the Droid dance boot animation that I customized a little to work good with my evo. I made it have twice as many frames and run twice as fast. It looks great and has no lag. Just rename it to bootanimation.zip and use Root Explorer to replace your original in /system/customize/resource and it should run when u reboot. If you want a sound clip to go with it use ringdroid app to make a 20 second .mp3 clip for the Droid to dance to and rename it to SPC_animation_final.mp3 and put it in the same folder. Good luck and enjoy.
No good!
@Clay333 I tried the link http://db.tt/tdsEB50 and it didn't work
UPdate.
I think my connection was bad or the page was bad but it's downloading now.
Update!
It worked! Thank you!
I just wish the background was all the same color
Hi,
When I try to flash this, I just get my old bootanimation back, nothing happens really :-(
I would really like to get this working, because it's awesome!
edit: I got the bootanimation working by just pushing bootanimation in /data/local/
Thanks anyway for this awesome animation!!
cheers
I am fairly new to android ROMs and what not, and I am trying to make a custom boot screen. I researched online how to make a bootanimation.zip and my attempt lead to the AT&T world phone screen to show, following a Samsung screen, and then the screen goes black (where my boot animation should play) and the phone continues to load.
My bootanimation.zip looks something like this..
bootanimation.zip
part0
boot_00003.png
boot_00004.png
and etc...
part1
(there are four *.png files in here following the ordered numbers from part0)
desc.txt
512 256 20
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
I used notepad++ to make the desc.txt file aswell.
I don't know what I am doing wrong, can someone please help me.
heyy fellow skyrocketers
Iv been trying to make my own boot animations. after finally finding a proper software to create an image sequence. i still cant get it to work.
im using virtualdub to turn an .avi into an image sequence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHvcBga2ino
i am trying to take each clip out of that video and make 5 separate boot animations.
i will take you through my steps
1. put the .avi into virtualdub and specify the start and end times.
2. rotate 90 degrees
3.resize to 480x800
4.export as image sequence
after i package up the zip and everything it doesn't work just black.
it did work ONCE but the size was smaller and i got excited thinking i got it andi ended up deleting that zip... now im back to 0.
if anyone can help in any way it will be greatly appreciated. thankss!
There are two parts to a typical boot animation. Part0 and part1. It display 0 to 1 and then loops part 1. Within the bootanimation.zip you also have a desc.txt that gives the size, the speed, and the parts.
So your typical hierarchy looks like this.
Code:
bootanimation.zip\
part0\
--FileXX.jpg
part1\
--FileXX.jpg
--desc.txt
The images are in chronological order by number and sequence with each folder starting at File0.
The desc.txt looks similar to this (This was PA's)
Code:
720 816 10
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
Again, it goes, size then speed. The rest can be explained here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852621
FluffyRabbit said:
There are two parts to a typical boot animation. Part0 and part1. It display 0 to 1 and then loops part 1. Within the bootanimation.zip you also have a desc.txt that gives the size, the speed, and the parts.
So your typical hierarchy looks like this.
Code:
bootanimation.zip\
part0\
--FileXX.jpg
part1\
--FileXX.jpg
--desc.txt
The images are in chronological order by number and sequence with each folder starting at File0.
The desc.txt looks similar to this (This was PA's)
Code:
720 816 10
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
Again, it goes, size then speed. The rest can be explained here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852621
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sorry i didint make it clear but i am aware of all these steps. but there must be something i am doing wrong.
i am attaching the boot animation i made. maybe that helps,
You are renaming it to "bootanimation.zip" right? Only asking because of the file you attached above, but I'm sure you just changed that name.
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From looking at your file structure and desc file it would appear correct. A couple things though. The file name should be bootanimation not tok. Not sure of that is the issue.
Im assuming you are rooted and havea rom that supports boot animations.
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Did you get it working, or did you give up?
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just tested it on ucll3 superlite jb and sl cm10, it works
ucll3 rom has the added bootani hack, thread in the themeing forum
edit: i made it flashable and uploaded for you to try http://d-h.st/sw6
Hey, guys! If there's a boot animation you've been wanting that isn't the correct size for our phone, this will help you get it.
1. Take the bootanimation.zip you want to modify and extract it
2. Open desc.txt. You will then see something like this:
Code:
1080 1920 45
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
This code is from a boot animation for our S4. The resolution for the S4 is 1920x1080 but in the text it should be listed 1080 1920 (as in the example). 45 in the example is the fps the boot animation runs at (you can also change this in order to speed up or slow down your boot animation)
3. Change the resolution/fps accordingly.
4. Rezip the boot animation, making sure that the compression method is "store".
5. Congrats! You've just converted a bootanimation :good:
If you guys have any questions, feel free to let me know in the comments (Also, I highly recommend using a tablet bootanimation and sizing it down since, if a smaller one is used, the boot animation will lose quality and be stretched out )
Big thanks to 12MaNy since I learned this from him :highfive:
MHousos said:
Hey, guys! If there's a boot animation you've been wanting that isn't the correct size for our phone, this will help you get it.
1. Take the bootanimation.zip you want to modify and extract it
2. Open desc.txt. You will then see something like this:
Code:
1080 1920 45
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
This code is from a boot animation for our S4. The resolution for the S4 is 1920x1080 but in the text it should be listed 1080 1920 (as in the example). 45 in the example is the fps the boot animation runs at (you can also change this in order to speed up or slow down your boot animation)
3. Change the resolution/fps accordingly.
4. Rezip the boot animation, making sure that the compression method is "store".
5. Congrats! You've just converted a bootanimation :good:
If you guys have any questions, feel free to let me know in the comments (Also, I highly recommend using a tablet bootanimation and sizing it down since, if a smaller one is used, the boot animation will lose quality and be stretched out )
Big thanks to 12MaNy since I learned this from him :highfive:
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Thanks for this bro! :thumbup:
Sent from my hand to your face! Cheers!
MHousos said:
Hey, guys! If there's a boot animation you've been wanting that isn't the correct size for our phone, this will help you get it.
1. Take the bootanimation.zip you want to modify and extract it
2. Open desc.txt. You will then see something like this:
Code:
1080 1920 45
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
This code is from a boot animation for our S4. The resolution for the S4 is 1920x1080 but in the text it should be listed 1080 1920 (as in the example). 45 in the example is the fps the boot animation runs at (you can also change this in order to speed up or slow down your boot animation)
3. Change the resolution/fps accordingly.
4. Rezip the boot animation, making sure that the compression method is "store".
5. Congrats! You've just converted a bootanimation :good:
If you guys have any questions, feel free to let me know in the comments (Also, I highly recommend using a tablet bootanimation and sizing it down since, if a smaller one is used, the boot animation will lose quality and be stretched out )
Big thanks to 12MaNy since I learned this from him :highfive:
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I'll be using this for my ROMs new boot animation
Thanks for that guys
Please refresh me, because it has been a long while, where this zip resides.
Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
Just wondering how do we make sure the compression method is stored? The only way I know how to re-zip a folder is to just right click--> send to--> compressed zipped folder.
pIxiLatEd said:
Please refresh me, because it has been a long while, where this zip resides.
Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
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If you download a boot animation they'll almost always come as a zip. If you're looking for the one on the phone, it is in system/media
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
Joe0113 said:
Just wondering how do we make sure the compression method is stored? The only way I know how to re-zip a folder is to just right click--> send to--> compressed zipped folder.
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I use 7zip, and when you add to archive, there will be an option to change the compression method. I'm not really sure how to do it with and other compression tools
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
MHousos said:
I use 7zip, and when you add to archive, there will be an option to change the compression method. I'm not really sure how to do it with and other compression tools
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
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None of the compression methods say store though!
Joe0113 said:
None of the compression methods say store though!
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Sorry about that, it's actually under compression level Knew it was around there somewhere
My custom boot animation is not working and after reading about every post I could find, using every file format I could reason being relevant, and comparing my animation to known working animations.... I simply am out of ideas with trying to figure out what is wrong with my animation. I am, for reference, on a Nexus 5 device that is rooted (and confirmed to work with other pre-made boot animations outside of stock).
Here is my desc.txt file:
Code:
1080 1920 8
p 0 0 part0
I'm using 8 jpeg image files (PNG was not working either) running at 720x1280 (1080x1920 did not work either) with 72dpi and 24 bit depth. Each file is 28.9KB a piece and titled f0000.jpg, f0001.jpg... etc. all within a part0 folder and then zipped with the desc.txt using store as the format (and of course named bootanimation.zip). If there is any more data needed to help solve this just ask.
I seem to have forgotten to upload the actual bootanimation... should be here now.