Hallo, I've Been Playing With My GT-S5301 Boot Animations & It's Easy To Change It. Now, I Made An CWM Backup With Rom Manager Yesterday & But I Forgot That The BootAnimation On It was Faulty, So Now When I Restore That Backup I Have An Boot Loop Issue. I Want To Know If It Is Possble To CHANGE The BootAnimation Inside The Nandroid Backup Folder & If Yes, Can You Tell Me How Please.
Hi,
There are a few ways such as using android kitchen to disassemble the system.img but this depends on the back up format (probably not .img unless an old recovery)
But the easiest way I can think of is to restore ROM and then within recovery use adb to push a working bootanimation to /system and then fix permissions.
But the purpose of xda-assist is not to be a help thread rather to point you in the right direction. So if you have any further questions please post in the general q&a forum found here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help
Either I or another helpful member will coach you through this if you aren't able to search out the answer yourself.
Best of luck!
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Ok i have a US Cellular Galaxy S3 and i want a custom boot animation, and boot audio, currently running LiquidSmooth beta2. i can replace the boot animation but nothing ive tried allows me to use a custom boot audio file, can anyone tell me where the file needs to go, what file name / format it needs to be? is there something else that needs to be done in order to get it to work properly?
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Ok i have a US Cellular Galaxy S3 and i want a custom boot animation, and boot audio, currently running LiquidSmooth beta2. i can replace the boot animation but nothing ive tried allows me to use a custom boot audio file, can anyone tell me where the file needs to go, what file name / format it needs to be? is there something else that needs to be done in order to get it to work properly?
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on aosp roms look in system/media folder for the bootanimation.zip. Correct me if I'm wrong but, I'm thinking the bootaudio goes there also. And most likely you will have to add the line for the boot audio to the build.prop and I'm sure the kernel will have to support it.
Like I said someone correct me if I'm wrong about the boot audio.
Good luck
Oh and the formats will be bootanimation.zip and bootaudio.mp3 or bootaudio.ogg. try both
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on aosp roms look in system/media folder for the bootanimation.zip. Correct me if I'm wrong but, I'm thinking the bootaudio goes there also. And most likely you will have to add the line for the boot audio to the build.prop and I'm sure the kernel will have to support it.
Like I said someone correct me if I'm wrong about the boot audio.
Good luck
Oh and the formats will be bootanimation.zip and bootaudio.mp3 or bootaudio.ogg. try both
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thank you for the info, ill see if i can find the stuff for the build.prop and see if i cant get it working, i may also be able to set the filename/find out the file name from build.prop
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I figured I haven't seen this mentioned in this forum, so due to all the new ROMs and experiments coming for the VilleC2 I thought perhaps it'd be of some use to people. I've attached the stock boot animation for the HTC One S in case anybody is trying to get their device back to stock and has flashed their own animation without backing up.
If you're using a custom ROM such as MIUI or CM10, you can just copy the animation to the following path (make sure to rename your file to bootanimation.zip):
Code:
/system/media/bootanimation.zip
Otherwise if you're sat on a stock ROM you need to copy it to the following path (make sure to use the original file name of the download):
Code:
/system/customize/resource/hTC_bootup_one.zip
In addition, I added the shutdown animation to the post too although I think this is only really going to be needed by people on stock ROMs. The shutdown animation goes to the same file path on a stock ROM as the boot animation.
Just thought this might be helpful as I was in this situation earlier!
We appreciate the helpful post, however this thread is more suited for the themes and apps section. I have already moved it for you
good thing
ZackehSoul said:
I figured I haven't seen this mentioned in this forum, so due to all the new ROMs and experiments coming for the VilleC2 I thought perhaps it'd be of some use to people. I've attached the stock boot animation for the HTC One S in case anybody is trying to get their device back to stock and has flashed their own animation without backing up.
If you're using a custom ROM such as MIUI or CM10, you can just copy the animation to the following path (make sure to rename your file to bootanimation.zip):
Code:
/system/media/bootanimation.zip
Otherwise if you're sat on a stock ROM you need to copy it to the following path (make sure to use the original file name of the download):
Code:
/system/customize/resource/hTC_bootup_one.zip
In addition, I added the shutdown animation to the post too although I think this is only really going to be needed by people on stock ROMs. The shutdown animation goes to the same file path on a stock ROM as the boot animation.
Just thought this might be helpful as I was in this situation earlier!
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thanks bro i searched for so long before i found this post i don't know where its been moved to but it dam near impossible to find !!! :good:
Sick of taking huge sized nandroid backups before applying any tiny tweak/MOD and then undergo the long painful procedure of restoring ??
Through this guide , I will tell you about some really simple yet effective ways to unbrick your soft-bricked phone/get out of boot loops.
Our Unbricking Weapon
Android Commander - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=628138
About Android Commander - Android Commander is windows application to keep control on your android apps and files from PC.
It detects your device even when it is in a bootloop!
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TIP : You need a kernel/ROM with root enabled for ADB otherwise the AndroidCommander program will give NO root access ( since it is operated via ADB)
Ok so below are some of the most common reasons of bootloops :
1. Incorrect/Incompatible Build.prop Tweaks - SomeBuild.prop tweaks which you add to your Build.prop file located in /system folder might not be compatible with your device's hardware or firmware and this causes bootloops .
For eg - Over Sized heap limit , changing rendering methods to those which are not supported etc.
Solution - Have a backup of your Build.prop file before adding/removing/changing any build.prop tweak (its doesnt even take 2 minutes ) and if you face a bootloop, simply replace your current build.prop file with your backed up one.
2. A corrupt/incompatible System application / jar file (for eg - a wrong framework-res.apk) - Most of the time when theming or modifying, we might replace a system app with a modified app which might not be made for our device/hardware. This can lead to both bootlooping and/or crashing of the app
Solution - Have a backup of the original apk or download it from anywhere and simply replace( delete the apk and push your downloaded apk ) it via AndroidCommander.
3-An incompatible bootanimation - a bootanimation which either has a wrong desc.txt file with wrong resolution or wrongly sized images can lead to bootlooping
Solution - simply replace the bootanimation.zip file located in /system/media folder with any compatible bootanimation.
4An incorrect/corrupt Dalvik Cache - This can be simply solved by wiping the dalvik cache in recovery. Btw, clearing cache and dalvik cache can solve most of the bootloops which are not caused by incompatible mods/tweaks.
5.An incorrect init.d script and/or a system file like a lib/configuration/property/firmware etc( like efg.cfg file missing )
Solution Delete if its an addition , correct it or simply replace it with an original one
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There are many other ways to get out of a boot loop like flashing a CWM zip to replace your corrupt file / mounting as USB storage via Recovery but personally i feel that this is the easiest and fastest way to recover from a soft-brick.
These are only a few which i remember, i will post more in the future. As you can see that i didnt go into details of each and every category since there are endless problems and solutions which are obviously very specific. My main motive was to spread this idea since it has really saved me the hassles of restoring a backup for every small tweak i apply. All of the above problems have occurred to my device for once at least. This method has saved me a lot of times , Hope this guide helped you :angel: No more getting scaredof Soft-Bricks :laugh:
Press Thanks:good: if this helped you
But i tried it got some data corruption errors. could not find proper guidance / help on that , after few days sold the device.
Hi,
I need to change some file in system,ext4.tar generated from nandroid backup.
I try to open tar with 7zip. deleted some files in system/app and system/framework. Then added some files in the directories app and framework
then i fixed md5
But in restoring with nandroid backup I receive an error in restoring system files.
is there a right way to make new system.ext4.tar good for nandroid backup?
thanks and sorry for my poor english
Hi
For what device ?
So I give you some general links
I would suggest you to go here => [Guide] How to create EXT4 images.
and [GUIDE] Unpack/repack ext4 Android system images
and Android Development and Hacking > Android Software Development >[APP][v2.4] Nandroid Manager (idea from my colleague @Perseus71)
and finally go here => General discussion > XDA-University - The best place for learning
Well, I have system folder of my phone (samsung) and everything is fine but I'm stuck with updater script. I sign the zip but that's not enough as updater script is not generated!
I have extracted files from img and I have system folders.
I'm not sure much about working on updater script and thus i can't flash my rom because I end up with errors!
I just want to make a simple flashable ROM from system and sign it!
I found some tools but they only make update zips but not a complete ROM.
I just want to format system and then flash my ROM zip and that's all but update script is troubling me.
Any help ?
Hi,
Look through this guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2290009
If your still stuck post your question in that thread with as much info as you can and you will find the help you need there
Best of luck!
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