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Boot Animation - Simple Inverted Incredible Loading

A lot of people like to have flashy, colorful, crazy boot animations. I like to keep it simple, very simple.
Overwrite the bootanimation.zip or VZW_bootanimation.zip wherever it's located on your ROM (usually /data/local or /system/customize/resource). I prefer to do this with Root Explorer.
I don't know if small-sized boot animations have any impact on start-up speed, but this one's pretty lightweight.
(Update: matching splash screen added in post below)

This looks really good and I have installed it.
Can you make a splash screen that appears just prior to this animation?

luvit said:
This looks really good and I have installed it.
Can you make a splash screen that appears just prior to this animation?
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Here you go!
Place PB31IMG.zip on the root of your SD card. Reboot to Hboot.
You should be prompted to install your custom splash1.
(I actually made this splash screen a couple months ago, but I since removed the 'TM' from the logo --- original thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=753938)

I got em both working!
Thanks, again!

theotherrogue said:
A lot of people like to have flashy, colorful, crazy boot animations. I like to keep it simple, very simple.
Overwrite the bootanimation.zip or VZW_bootanimation.zip wherever it's located on your ROM (usually /data/local or /system/customize/resource). I prefer to do this with Root Explorer.
I don't know if small-sized boot animations have any impact on start-up speed, but this one's pretty lightweight.
(Update: matching splash screen added in post below)
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I love the simplicity of this. I took a similar approach in uncommon sense. well done.

Before I try this, I just want to make sure that my phone can take it. Im running CMod and I just want to replace the splash screen that first pops up when it turns on, not the boot animation. If I install the Pbimg.zip file will that just replace my splash screen? also before I do this, can a nandroid backup restore my splash screen If I want to revert back to the origional? Thanks. I really like this splash screen and it looks totally awesome. Please PM me for your Answers!

mikeacela said:
Before I try this, I just want to make sure that my phone can take it. Im running CMod and I just want to replace the splash screen that first pops up when it turns on, not the boot animation. If I install the Pbimg.zip file will that just replace my splash screen? also before I do this, can a nandroid backup restore my splash screen If I want to revert back to the origional? Thanks. I really like this splash screen and it looks totally awesome. Please PM me for your Answers!
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The splash screen wont replace your boot animation. And nandroid doesnt save splash screens.
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For some reason every time I try to install the PB31Img.zip it doesent install in HBoot. I have no idea what could be the problem. i also tried to install it from CWmod and that didnt work Either? Any ideas as to what might be the cause? I really like this splash screen but for some reason it just wont flash in hboot. I have S-Off but for some reason it still doesent work.

mikeacela said:
For some reason every time I try to install the PB31Img.zip it doesent install in HBoot. I have no idea what could be the problem. i also tried to install it from CWmod and that didnt work Either? Any ideas as to what might be the cause? I really like this splash screen but for some reason it just wont flash in hboot. I have S-Off but for some reason it still doesent work.
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I'm not sure what the issue might be. Make sure you are in the Bootloader screen that says "HBOOT", not "FASTBOOT". When you load HBOOT, it should prompt you after a few seconds to install the update. (ClockworkMod/Recovery shouldn't be used at all for updating splash screens)
I just double checked the attachment posted here. Works fine. Make sure you place it on the root of your SD card.

Thanks for the boot animation. It's lightweight and speedy, just what I needed.
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theotherrogue said:
I'm not sure what the issue might be. Make sure you are in the Bootloader screen that says "HBOOT", not "FASTBOOT". When you load HBOOT, it should prompt you after a few seconds to install the update. (ClockworkMod/Recovery shouldn't be used at all for updating splash screens)
I just double checked the attachment posted here. Works fine. Make sure you place it on the root of your SD card.
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try to format your sdcard to fat32 then try again..

theotherrogue said:
A lot of people like to have flashy, colorful, crazy boot animations. I like to keep it simple, very simple.
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This splash screen/boot animation set is beautiful.
I owe you a beer.
/me looks at OP's location...
****, you're awfully close to home. Doesn't matter. Should I get a chance to cross paths, I owe you a beer.

mikeacela said:
For some reason every time I try to install the PB31Img.zip it doesent install in HBoot. I have no idea what could be the problem. i also tried to install it from CWmod and that didnt work Either? Any ideas as to what might be the cause? I really like this splash screen but for some reason it just wont flash in hboot. I have S-Off but for some reason it still doesent work.
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Is your SD Card formatted to FAT32? That's where I slipped up, once I did that I could mod my splash to my heart's content
EDIT: Agh, sorry, didn't see page 2 of this thread and thus remy2501's already suggested this. What else could be wrong.. is it on the root of your SD Card? Is the volume up rocker the first button you press when going in to hboot?

mikeacela said:
For some reason every time I try to install the PB31Img.zip it doesent install in HBoot. I have no idea what could be the problem. i also tried to install it from CWmod and that didnt work Either? Any ideas as to what might be the cause? I really like this splash screen but for some reason it just wont flash in hboot. I have S-Off but for some reason it still doesent work.
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Remember to be very specific as to the name, the only thing you should be installing in the root must be named: PB31IMG
Not PB31IMG.zip or PB31img and so on.....if that doesn't work there might be a problem with that particular splash screen. Once you get it installed, remember to remove that zip file from the root otherwise next time you go into HBoot it will ask you to reinstall......Good luck !

Oddly enough, I lost 3G after installing this. After rolling back to a previous backup, 3G is back.
I installed it around 3pm yesterday and somehow was oblivious to not having 3G. My phone had even restarted a few times after that, yet no 3G. All day I have been wondering why my 3G hasn't been working, never tied it back to this load screen. I rolled back to a previous backup and 3G came on instantly and a full day's worth of emails and gtalk messages streamed in.
Curious to know if anyone else encountered the same?
I'm running Miui btw.

wow nice combo looks smoothe and simple and just what i was looking for.

Aeckert said:
Oddly enough, I lost 3G after installing this. After rolling back to a previous backup, 3G is back.
I installed it around 3pm yesterday and somehow was oblivious to not having 3G. My phone had even restarted a few times after that, yet no 3G. All day I have been wondering why my 3G hasn't been working, never tied it back to this load screen. I rolled back to a previous backup and 3G came on instantly and a full day's worth of emails and gtalk messages streamed in.
Curious to know if anyone else encountered the same?
I'm running Miui btw.
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i had this problem too but not with the boot animation. i had to install king kernel to get 3g working on virtuious rom in order to fix it.

any chance of making a shutdown.zip?

causing 3g to not work.
Not sure if it was the splash or boot animation, but 3g would not work after installing these on Virtuous 3.01 with the Adrynalyne Custom Kernel v2.

Flashed this and have no problems with 3g on virtuous. Thanks for it!
Sent from my HTC Incredible

Here are some custom easy boot animations.

First things first. Make a backup.
Now, here are a few of my boot animations made as a simple update.zip. You NEED to be rooted, and just apply these in bootstrap recovery as a .zip and they *should* work.
****EDIT*** I updated all the mega uploads on the first page.. If there is no link, its because i lost the file when i erased off megaupload, and I NEED somebody to email me the files of whoever had
the Rick Roll
Star Wars
Blue lightning
Bed Intruder.
If you have those files, please PM me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENWu4i652g0
This is a update.zip. Just apply with bootstrapper or equivalent.
(NO working animation)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjm0oid-pRA
Here is the best boot animation ever-ish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ5DqbbZ2QY
and here is my original animation with sound, also as a simple update.zip
FROYO ONLY! This is the red one, I also made a white one, located just below.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KPD3YY5R
GINGERBREAD ONLY!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F8PGMIAT
Rotten Apple White
FROYO ONLY!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KPD3YY5R
GINGERBREAD ONLY!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XZ8T2ZIL
Enjoy these, and hopefully I'll make some more later.

Here is my next one. Im still trying to get the framerate to play right. Once I get it down, these should be much better. But, I present to you.
Bed Intruder: The Boot Animation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emBeNvUTKcg
Update.zip format here.
***Need file***

casen said:
here is my next one. Im still trying to get the framerate to play right. Once i get it down, these should be much better. But, i present to you.
Bed intruder: The boot animation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=embenvutkcg
update.zip format here.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=oxmec6gb
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pure genius!
Golden

Casen said:
Here is my next one. Im still trying to get the framerate to play right. Once I get it down, these should be much better. But, I present to you.
Bed Intruder: The Boot Animation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emBeNvUTKcg
Update.zip format here.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OXMEC6GB
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LMFAO! PURE GENIOUS! How do u make one?? how r u converting the videos or whatever to a bootanimmation?

Lots of cntrl prntscrn
DROID X: Rooted, DeoDexed, BigDXSerenity Red

I used to convert avi movies into a series of jpeg images (can't recall what I used)
You could probably find something similar to convert to png

These are all actually jpeg. And I have A program that pulls out Each frame too.
DROID X: Rooted, DeoDexed, BigDXSerenity Red

lol these are great. I need them lock sliders. Where can I get them?

How do you install this? I tried to go to recovery then install zip and chhose that and nothing happened..?

droidtnt said:
lol these are great. I need them lock sliders. Where can I get them?
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Widget locker, themed with BigDXSerenity

MonoDraken said:
How do you install this? I tried to go to recovery then install zip and chhose that and nothing happened..?
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which one are you having trouble with.. and define nothing

Im trying the rottenappledroid one and it just stays at my boot animation i have currently. which is the Android peeing on apple. i Used BootAnimationSwitcher app to get the Android Peeing one.

MonoDraken said:
Im trying the rottenappledroid one and it just stays at my boot animation i have currently. which is the Android peeing on apple. i Used BootAnimationSwitcher app to get the Android Peeing one.
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I made them as a bootstrap install .zip from sdcard. I don't know anything about the animation switcher program
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Ya I know that's what I used to get the peeing android one. to do yours I did your instructions and it still stayed at android peeing.
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Navigate to /data/local/ in root explorer. If there is a boot animation in there, rename or erase it
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Is anybody having problems were the boot animation image gets stuck over the lock screen. The phone will still function normally but the first lock screen looks like the last image in the boot animation. Im using a different animation then these with rubix 1.0 thought I could start here for help. Thank you.
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If anybody lost or deleted, or just want it for peace of mind, here is a link to the original boot animation that came on your phone.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IK507YB5

deadlyv2 said:
Is anybody having problems were the boot animation image gets stuck over the lock screen. The phone will still function normally but the first lock screen looks like the last image in the boot animation. Im using a different animation then these with rubix 1.0 thought I could start here for help. Thank you.
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Yes, that started a little after the 2.2 update for me though. It did become more prevalent with my new animations, but after a full 2.2SBF (which i performed to clean out my phone, and start anew) that just came out, on the first boot, the original animation stayed on the screen.

This one was a small request, this takes the rotten apple I found and mixes it to the Blue Lightning Droid X eye. Intalls as a update.zip through bootstrap.
***Need File***

I've been trying to apply the Star Wars animation but I can't figure it out. If someone could post detailed instructions on how to apply it that would be awesome.

Verizon bootanimation

I am running the latest SynergyRom and love everything about it....but I do miss the stock Verizon bootanimation I had before synergy. Anyway to get it back?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1734434
Download the bootanimation.zip file from the bottom of the first post, that should be the stock animation. Flash it in CWM or an application of your preference.

Vorfidus said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1734434
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This is not the stock Verizon bootanimation. It seems to be some sort of bootanimation for the I9300.

So much better than the Verizon animation, even if it is pretty plain. But I like not having any of their crap on my phone.

I would like the stock boot animation as well. The one that came with the Verizon Model. I am using CM10.
Thank you
Bleeds
PS: Can we make it a CWM Flashable..?
THank you
Bleeds

LOL, I thought the stock VZ boot animation was so annoying I wanted to smash the phone everytime it was booting.........
I swapped it out for the generic Samsung boot (A blue swirly thing) with no sound.....

jmorton10 said:
LOL, I thought the stock VZ boot animation was so annoying I wanted to smash the phone everytime it was booting.........
I swapped it out for the generic Samsung boot (A blue swirly thing) with no sound.....
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+1

here you go...
http://www.mediafire.com/file/jk1vrrl80rasvga/boot.ani.stock.signed.zip

Thank you! pjamv5 you are awesome.

Sadly, I tried this on CM10, but it didnt "take" it statyed the CM10 Boot screen..oh well..
But thank you for taking the time..
Bleeds

bleeds said:
Sadly, I tried this on CM10, but it didnt "take" it statyed the CM10 Boot screen..oh well..
But thank you for taking the time..
Bleeds
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Yes, unfortunately this will only work for stock-based ROMs. CM boot method is different from stock. It uses a set of individual images in sequence for animation while stock uses a single qmg file (that is basically a compiled set of images).

Vorfidus said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1734434
Download the bootanimation.zip file from the bottom of the first post, that should be the stock animation. Flash it in CWM or an application of your preference.
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This zip has jpg files. Doesn't the Verizon s3 need a bootsamsung.qmg and bootsamsungloop.qmg replacement? I'm looking for a boot animation replacement but can't find any. I would appreciate a link if you know of one.
Rom Toolkit didn't work for me. Perhaps only some of the animations work on the s3 but I didn't feel like installing and trying them all out. If you've used Rom toolkit and got it working, which animation did you use?

michael* said:
This zip has jpg files. Doesn't the Verizon s3 need a bootsamsung.qmg and bootsamsungloop.qmg replacement? I'm looking for a boot animation replacement but can't find any. I would appreciate a link if you know of one.
Rom Toolkit didn't work for me. Perhaps only some of the animations work on the s3 but I didn't feel like installing and trying them all out. If you've used Rom toolkit and got it working, which animation did you use?
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The zip file contains those. You have to place them in the proper directories. With some roms the boot animations don't have to be qmg though.
To use ROM toolbox I believe you need to have a Rom with init.d support.
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Vorfidus said:
The zip file contains those. You have to place them in the proper directories. With some roms the boot animations don't have to be qmg though.
To use ROM toolbox I believe you need to have a Rom with init.d support.
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Right, makes sense. Since I'm stock rom, guess I'm stuck with qmg. I'll keep looking

Need help pushing gapps with odin ASAP!

I installed paranandroid and gapps but it was the wrong gapps which caused it to error out during install. so now I have the correct gapps on my SD card but do not know how to access it through my phone since I have no recovery. How do I get gapps back on phone so I can get into recovery?

damn....

PHUCK! ok now I'm really freaking out... flashed gapps and says framework as stopped. wont let me past the front screen saying touch android to begin...

1Android said:
PHUCK! ok now I'm really freaking out... flashed gapps and says framework as stopped. wont let me past the front screen saying touch android to begin...
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OK, don't panic yet! Basic questions first:
Did you flash a recovery like CWM (Clockworkmod) before trying to flash the rom?
Are you able to get into recovery mode via volume up+power+home?

Why dont you reflash the ROM and then do the right Gapps? That way you wont have any screwed up files at all. If you really screwed it up just Odin back to stock and start again.

just flash the rom over the top then flash the right gapps

I went into panic mode and my head went cloudy. I kept olding down volume instead of volume up. Got into recovery and just doing a restore for now till I can make sure I have all the right files...
thanks guys for answering so quickly.

1Android said:
I went into panic mode and my head went cloudy. I kept olding down volume instead of volume up. Got into recovery and just doing a restore for now till I can make sure I have all the right files...
thanks guys for answering so quickly.
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Good, now when that's done, lets get you up and running with paranoid. It is alot easier, and generally safer to flash through CWM on the phone itself then through odin on your desktop or even the odin app. What method were you using? And more importantly did you do a IMEI backup?

Haven't done the imei backup yet. Need to though asap. I always flash through cwm but once I installed the wrong gapps (didn't even think of grabbing a JB gapps until after I got my phone into recovery and restored) I had no idea how to get into recovery. Once I found the goo manager in system settings I was able to get into recovery. Tried flashing another gapps file (which again was the wrong file) which is where I really freaked out with my framework and setup no working. Was able to clear my head and remember the volume UP not down. I'm restored now and will leave it on synergy till I do my imei backup. Haven't even looked into it to be honest. Is it difficult? Is paranandroid really much better as far as battery life to worry about taking the time to do it?
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1Android said:
Haven't done the imei backup yet. Need to though asap. I always flash through cwm but once I installed the wrong gapps (didn't even think of grabbing a JB gapps until after I got my phone into recovery and restored) I had no idea how to get into recovery. Once I found the goo manager in system settings I was able to get into recovery. Tried flashing another gapps file (which again was the wrong file) which is where I really freaked out with my framework and setup no working. Was able to clear my head and remember the volume UP not down. I'm restored now and will leave it on synergy till I do my imei backup. Haven't even looked into it to be honest. Is it difficult? Is paranandroid really much better as far as battery life to worry about taking the time to do it?
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The IMEI is very easy to do, especially if your running Synergy. There are 3 methods in the link I'll attach. The first uses any terminal emulator app (free in play store) and simply typing in a code: su (enter) then: reboot nvbackup (enter)...done! Then there is the next way to create a second easier to install if something were to happen way using a Synergy recovery zip. You must do the first method first or the zip way will backup the wrong IMEI. On the link there is another link to the Synergy Key zip file (its right in the directions with HERE in bold as the link). Download zip, run it in recovery ONCE to create the backup, thats it! The synergy backup can then be used on other roms. Overall its super easy, I spent 2hrs researching and 5 min creating the backup. IT really is as simple as that, just do it in order. As far as paranoid goes, I don't have hands on with it, too many bugs for me to bother with it yet, but yes it generally should use less battery due to JB's unmatched efficiency.
Here's the link: (only need to read the first page for making the backups, read further to restore which hopefully won't be needed!)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852255

I will look into it tomorrow. Thank you so much for your help!! Very much appreciated.
I need/want a fully functional Rom without a bunch of bugs. Might stay with synergy till some bugs can be worked out.
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Working custom kernel(s) for Motorola Updated system?

Hi all.
I wanted to thank all of the devs and modders on this device forum for all your hard work and feedback.
I have the unlocked/software updated/rooted/deodexed system, now I am wondering if your custom kernels will be compatible with the
system update? I tried the AdrenalineInjector sans Fugo option, ummmm.....nope. Didn't like that at ALL lol.
Let's hear it for Nandroids.
I have, well, more than my share of Nandroids and working TWRP recovery, so I am confident to the point of reckless with experimental flashes/mods. I have just tweaked out my DeOdexed system with the power boot menu, and just finished customizing my launcher, homescreen, apps, etc.
That being said, I am doing yet one more Nandroid of this one and trying both aaarrrggghhhs kernel (I apologize for the misspell) and shabby's p's and q's kernel.
I will post an update of either "woohoo!!" or "nnnyohhhhhh..."
Keep the mods coming, I am ready to try them all!
drakeheart77

drakeheart77 said:
Hi all.
I wanted to thank all of the devs and modders on this device forum for all your hard work and feedback.
I have the unlocked/software updated/rooted/deodexed system, now I am wondering if your custom kernels will be compatible with the
system update? I tried the AdrenalineInjector sans Fugo option, ummmm.....nope. Didn't like that at ALL lol.
Let's hear it for Nandroids.
I have, well, more than my share of Nandroids and working TWRP recovery, so I am confident to the point of reckless with experimental flashes/mods. I have just tweaked out my DeOdexed system with the power boot menu, and just finished customizing my launcher, homescreen, apps, etc.
That being said, I am doing yet one more Nandroid of this one and trying both aaarrrggghhhs kernel (I apologize for the misspell) and shabby's p's and q's kernel.
I will post an update of either "woohoo!!" or "nnnyohhhhhh..."
Keep the mods coming, I am ready to try them all!
drakeheart77
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You didn't like the adrenaline injector? I just flashed that and I really don't see any negative effects so far.
What didn't you like about it?

None that work completely. You can flash arrrghhh's kernel if you'd like. You can overclock up to 1.89 GHz and underclock down to 96 MHz ... but it will break your wifi until the kernel gets updated. I'm not sure how long that will take though. Other than that, everything else works perfectly fine on it. Other than that, I believe a few options are in the works, but nothing's been finaled yet.

It wasn't that I didn't like Adrenaline, it's that it wouldn't boot lol. I don't think I did a proper clean before installing, plus my question is since my system is already deodexed, would it do more harm than good?
As far as the kernel goes, I both am not put out yet slightly perturbed by the wifi issue. Whenever a custom ROM does come our way, kernel devs will have to be leery of that little bug...could delay a port to our system a bit. I don't really OC for any reason, but many users do and will want a working kernel. MY desire for a kernel is one that is ready for wifi tethering for root users....Net-something lol i forgot the term.
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Please don't post question threads in the Development sections as they have no place there and we have a Q&A section designed for all your questions.
Thanks
AvRS

drakeheart77 said:
As far as the kernel goes, I both am not put out yet slightly perturbed by the wifi issue. Whenever a custom ROM does come our way, kernel devs will have to be leery of that little bug...could delay a port to our system a bit. I don't really OC for any reason, but many users do and will want a working kernel. MY desire for a kernel is one that is ready for wifi tethering for root users....Net-something lol i forgot the term.
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The only reason the wifi won't work on the update with the old kernels is because of the changes the update made. Any ports should have that issue resolved prior to release, and once stable depending on what gets updated I doubt we'll run into kernel/wifi issues although I cannot guarantee that. I know the current OTA made changes to the modem drivers which I'm sure is part of the reason the kernels are incompatable.
I know when I was running the OTA and broke my wifi and tried restoring the stock boot.img (with original oem kernel) it wouldn't even boot the updated system. They're almost like two completely different softwares with the same UI lol.

How do we get new updated stock boot and recovery images? I rely on restoring pre-update Nandroids for whatever flub I may have yet to pull off lol. Anything I can do to help.
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drakeheart77 said:
It wasn't that I didn't like Adrenaline, it's that it wouldn't boot lol. I don't think I did a proper clean before installing, plus my question is since my system is already deodexed, would it do more harm than good?
As far as the kernel goes, I both am not put out yet slightly perturbed by the wifi issue. Whenever a custom ROM does come our way, kernel devs will have to be leery of that little bug...could delay a port to our system a bit. I don't really OC for any reason, but many users do and will want a working kernel. MY desire for a kernel is one that is ready for wifi tethering for root users....Net-something lol i forgot the term.
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Did you replace the update binary?

Sorry for the laziness on my replies. All I did was cache/dalvik wipe and success.
However I do need some help, I am uploading to Dropbox my non-rooted system and boot images. How do I share the links to my DP URL?
Also, where do I locate the stock recovery? Wouldn't the recovery be the same, because it wasn't a total ROM/system revamp? if that is the case then shabby has posted links for stock system and boot.
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Oh btw the files are for the 77.1.80 system update and NO root, and completely bare and odexed.
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http://db.tt/7p2Gv4cl
System
http://db.tt/qzu66AyF
System md5
http://db.tt/T2N0vYne
Stock recovery
http://db.tt/gbnt0Ddg
Boot
http://db.tt/oz8QPkP8
Boot md5
Sorry they are not clickable links, just copy & paste until I figure out the process lol.
Hope these files help!!
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drakeheart77 said:
http://db.tt/7p2Gv4cl
System
http://db.tt/qzu66AyF
System md5
http://db.tt/T2N0vYne
Stock recovery
http://db.tt/gbnt0Ddg
Boot
http://db.tt/oz8QPkP8
Boot md5
Sorry they are not clickable links, just copy & paste until I figure out the process lol.
Hope these files help!!
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Seeing as its been a while since I have had to do anything manually (so spoiled these days!)
I know I can use fastboot to push the img for the recovery, but how do I go about getting the system/boot flashed over?
Thanks!
EDIT: TBQH, never had to deal with .win files...

Hammerfest said:
Seeing as its been a while since I have had to do anything manually (so spoiled these days!)
I know I can use fastboot to push the img for the recovery, but how do I go about getting the system/boot flashed over?
Thanks!
EDIT: TBQH, never had to deal with .win files...
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You need the TWRP recovery installed. If you've never used it before, you'll need to make a backup in order to generate the correct folders necessary. The directory will be either on your memory card (/external1) or internal memory (/sdcard). The folder path will be TWRP/BACKUPS/**your**phone's**serial**number**/
Inside that folder, create a folder and name it "stock backup" or whatever you want to name it. Then put the *.win and the *.md5 files in there. Put the stock recover in whatever folder you have your adb installed.
Reboot to recovery.
Restore the boot and system partitions from this backup (will show as "stock backup" or whatever you named it)
Once the restore is complete, back out to the main menu ... go to reboot -> choose bootloader
Flash your stock recovery ( fastboot flash recovery **whatever you named your recovery file**.img )
I typically flash this twice one right after the other just in case​
Reboot your system ( fastboot reboot )
From there you should be all set.

drakeheart77 said:
http://db.tt/7p2Gv4cl
System
http://db.tt/qzu66AyF
System md5
http://db.tt/T2N0vYne
Stock recovery
http://db.tt/gbnt0Ddg
Boot
http://db.tt/oz8QPkP8
Boot md5
Sorry they are not clickable links, just copy & paste until I figure out the process lol.
Hope these files help!!
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Thanks for the files Drake!
However, I must be missing something because I flashed that system file and when I go to about phone it shows 7.7.1Q 8/3/12 not 7.7.80.
I'm pretty sure I flashed it right because I lost root and got back a bunch of the stupid Sprint stuff that I had removed and got your spiffy boot logo. I'm thinking about doing the OTA update from this baseline with stock recovery and then reinstalling twrp and re-running root.
*edit*
And that just put me back to infinite reboots again. I'm going to delete the stupid update from cache again and cut my losses for now, I've been up 22 hours so perhaps a fresh look tomorrow will help.

Not sure about the update not being there...don't know if that is system-specific or not all I know is that I made that back-up after the update was installed. Please leave any other feedback thank u for the reply. I may try and post a new system file.!
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Were u looking at the Build # or SW Version in "settings/about phone"?
The only thing simple is the belief in simplicity.

Also u cannot install Any OTA updates with ANY custom recovery on this phone. Stock recovery is necessary that's why I posted the image.
The only thing simple is the belief in simplicity.

afidel said:
Thanks for the files Drake!
However, I must be missing something because I flashed that system file and when I go to about phone it shows 7.7.1Q 8/3/12 not 7.7.80.
I'm pretty sure I flashed it right because I lost root and got back a bunch of the stupid Sprint stuff that I had removed and got your spiffy boot logo. I'm thinking about doing the OTA update from this baseline with stock recovery and then reinstalling twrp and re-running root.
*edit*
And that just put me back to infinite reboots again. I'm going to delete the stupid update from cache again and cut my losses for now, I've been up 22 hours so perhaps a fresh look tomorrow will help.
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I'm having/had the same exact results.
Just got the phone today, rooted it, installed CWM, then decided to do the update not realizing the issue that would cause. Of course it failed in CWM and then I got into a reboot loop.
Flashed TWRP, restored the files listed here, got me back to a bootable ROM. Then, downloaded the update, told it to apply, shuts down,...bam,...boot loop. :silly:
All I want to do is get back to a completely stock (unlocked bootloader is fine), so I can update to 7.7.80, then mod & tweak from there.
This phone is so dang frustrating after coming from an Epic which was pretty brainless to flash. This Photon is kicking my butt..

Finally got past it, not sure how...then I fubar'd it again by trying to do the 1% & toggle mods. Ugh...so frustrating..

Just putting this out there, may not be true for all phones, but with my Q I got a lot of boot loops restoring backups from my external sd card, the ones I restored from internal storage worked okay. Obviously it could be corruption with the backups/sd card as well. With the toggles make sure you flash the toggles for the updated systemui and framework files and not the stock system files if you have taken the ota update. In other words make sure you match the version of the mods to your current software version. I found this phone very frustrating from a modder's perspective at first, I have really come to love the qwerty and hardware over time... the Snap Dragon s4 is fast!
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