Video of custom boot animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CHowIw_g3Q
How-To:
Download custom bootanimation and images for it - first and second
Backuping old bootanimation:
adb pull /system/bin/bootanimation bootanimation_backup
adb remount
Installing new bootanimation:
adb push bootanimation /system/bin/bootanimation
adb shell
cd /system/bin
chmod 777 bootanimation
Uploading boot images:
adb push boot-logo-1.png /system/media/boot-logo-1.png
adb push boot-logo-2.png /system/media/boot-logo-2.png
Improvements:
You may customize this bootanimation by changing this images, but they must have the same size and it must be equal to (2^n) x (2^n), so they must be also square. The background is white.
Original is in my blog (Russian) - http://stepa.name/archives/332
will this work for mytouch3g 32b?
kuntri said:
will this work for mytouch3g 32b?
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This thread is very old, any 2.X rom can use animated boot screens regardless of phone
I thought that i just had to place the bootanimation.zip file in /data/local and that was it, but its not working. is there another way?
New location is /system/customize/resource/VZW_bootanimation.zip
Rebooted into recovery, mounted system and did:
adb shell
cp /system/customize/resource/VZW_bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource/VZW_bootanimation.zip.bak
exit
adb push VZW_bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource/
I made sure that my animation was named VZW_bootanimation.zip and in the same folder as adb.
^ taken from SimonTuffGuy
How to replace the stock boot animation with a custom boot animation:
1. rename the extension of the current bootanimation in system/customize/resource to .bak (just skip this if you never want to use it anymore)
For unbranded phones this is bootanimation.zip
branded phones have bootanimation.zip as well as a boot and a down/shutdown animation from the provider.
Vodafone:
VF_bootanimation.zip
VF_downanimation.zip
TMOUS:
TMOUS_bootanimation.zip
TMOUS_downanimation.zip
You only need to replace the two VF_ or TMOUS_ files. As far as I know the normal bootanimation.zip is there but not used for anything for branded phones.
2. rename your bootanimation to what the bootanimation on your device is called. Copy the file to system/customize/resource with root explorer
3. in root explorer hold your finger on the file till the menu pops up. Tap on "permissions"
Owner: read & write checked, execute unchecked
Group: read checked, rest unchecked
Others: read checked, rest unchecked
4. restart and you're done!
How to create your own boot animation:
1. create a folder called "android" and place the frames of your animation in that folder in PNG format.
2. name them as follows:
NAME_01.png
NAME_02.png
...
NAME_xx.png
3. create a text file called "desc.txt" containing for example:
540 960 15
p 1 1 android
explanation of the desc file:
Width Height Frame-rate
p Loop Pause Folder
width: width of your animation
height: height of your animation
frame-rate: how many frames to be shown per second. If your animation has 30frames and you enter 10 then one replay takes 3 seconds
p: just stands for play, don't alter this, just put it there.
Loop: how often to loop the animation before pausing on the last frame. If you enter 0 it will loop indefinitely until the device is done booting. 1 will play the animation once, 2 twice etc.
Pause: For how many frames to pause the animation after every loop. The actual pause time depends on the frame-rate you chose above. For example a pause of 90 with 10 fps will translate to a 9 second pause
Folder: the name of the folder we created above.
4. add the desc.txt and the folder with your png files to an uncompressed zip file
You can do this with 7zip. Right click the files, 7zip -> add to archive -> for "compression level" select "store"
5. sign the zip
not sure if this is necessary although I simply sign everything that goes into my system folders. You can use ZipSigner from the market. (For "key/mode" select "platform")
Here are some qHD HTC quietly brilliant bootanimations that I made for good measure.
blue, dark blue background, qHD
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
green, black background, qHD
blue, black background, qHD
followed every step to the letter not sure how or with what to create a text file so took one from another bootanimation but still not working for me blanc screen.
Can you make me one with green HTC letters? Thanks in advance.
Did anyone notice in the T-mobile Sensation there is a TMOUS_bootanimation.zip, bootanimation.zip, TMOUSdownanimation.zip & a downanimation.zip all in this folder? Which one are we replacing?
There is also a T-jingle.ogg & a writeon_jingle.wav file. Would those be the boot up & shutdown sounds?
Beast84 said:
Did anyone notice in the T-mobile Sensation there is a TMOUS_bootanimation.zip, bootanimation.zip, TMOUSdownanimation.zip & a downanimation.zip all in this folder? Which one are we replacing?
There is also a T-jingle.ogg & a writeon_jingle.wav file. Would those be the boot up & shutdown sounds?
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Following another guide, what worked for me was, changing bootanimation.zip to bootanimation.zip.bak and then pasting the bootanimation.zip you want to be your new splash screen.
Then, renaming that to the TMOUS_bootanimation.zip
So in the end that's the one you want to replace.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using XDA App
There you go mate!
green, qHD, black background:
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@gilbert11231123 you must have either added compression to the .zip or made a mistake with the desc.txt or didn't sign the zip correctly or some other thing. Can't tell from here, sorry!
Beast84 said:
Did anyone notice in the T-mobile Sensation there is a TMOUS_bootanimation.zip, bootanimation.zip, TMOUSdownanimation.zip & a downanimation.zip all in this folder? Which one are we replacing?
There is also a T-jingle.ogg & a writeon_jingle.wav file. Would those be the boot up & shutdown sounds?
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I have a Vodafone branded Sensation. I only have to replace the VF_bootanimation.zip and VF_downanimation.zip ... I replaced the bootanimation.zip as well but it was not necessary.
the VF_downanimation.zip shows when shutting the phone down. VF_bootanimation.zip shows when booting.
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here is also a clean blue one with black background. The one in first post has a dark blue background and the "quietly brilliant" is also somewhat blue.
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Ok so I tried making on but it didn't quite work. I tried using it for the TMOUS_bootanimation.zip & the TMOUS_downanimation.zip
For the bootanimation, it was just a blank black screen. For the downanimation, it was correct but it had a quick white flash in it. I was wondering if anyone could take a look at what I did & modify it for me. Thanks in advance
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Ok so I tried making on but it didn't quite work. I tried using it for the TMOUS_bootanimation.zip & the TMOUS_downanimation.zip
For the bootanimation, it was just a blank black screen. For the downanimation, it was correct but it had a quick white flash in it. I was wondering if anyone could take a look at what I did & modify it for me. Thanks in advance
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your .zip is definitely not signed or it would have a META-INF folder in it. Also, in your desc.txt you have a blank line after the first line. That probably screws things up as well. Lastly, your .zip does also seem to have compression so it doesn't seem like you did anything I described above
Oh and about the white flash - Image 11 is transparent on top and has a white stripe and image 13 is almost entirely white. Suppose that is your white flash
for the shutdown animation android seems to be more loose on restrictions. When I had the compression wrong the downanimation also worked for me but the bootanimation didn't even though it was the same file!
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your .zip is definitely not signed or it would have a META-INF folder in it. Also, in your desc.txt you have a blank line after the first line. That probably screws things up as well. Lastly, your .zip does also seem to have compression so it doesn't seem like you did anything I described above
Oh and about the white flash - Image 11 is transparent on top and has a white stripe and image 13 is almost entirely white. Suppose that is your white flash
for the shutdown animation android seems to be more loose on restrictions. When I had the compression wrong the downanimation also worked for me but the bootanimation didn't even though it was the same file!
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Just tried doing it again & this time they switched. The bootanimation had the white flashing screen & the downanimation had a blank black screen. I don't know what I am doing. Think you could whip something up for me with my provided zip earlier?
here is my chaotic thing I did to get it working.
Since root explorer costs so much $$$$. I rebootified in recovery via 'adb reboot recovery'
D:\sdk>cd platform-tools
D:\sdk\platform-tools>adb push bootanimationBB.zip /system/customize/resource
145 KB/s (458475 bytes in 3.082s)
D:\sdk\platform-tools>adb shell
~ # cd /system/customize/resource
cd /system/customize/resource
/system/customize/resource # ls boo*
ls boo*
bootanimation.zip bootanimationBB.zip
/system/customize/resource # ls TMO*
ls TMO*
TMOUS_bootanimation.zip TMOUS_downanimation.zip
/system/customize/resource # ls -l TMO*
ls -l TMO*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 869055 May 23 04:06 TMOUS_bootanimation.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 365229 May 23 04:06 TMOUS_downanimation.zip
/system/customize/resource # mv TMOUS_bootanimation.zip TMOUS_bootanimation.zip.
bak
mv TMOUS_bootanimation.zip TMOUS_bootanimation.zip.
bak
/system/customize/resource # mv TMOUS_downanimation.zip TMOUS_downanimation.zip.
bak
mv TMOUS_downanimation.zip TMOUS_downanimation.zip.
bak
/system/customize/resource # cp bootanimationBB.zip TMOUS_bootanimation.zip
cp bootanimationBB.zip TMOUS_bootanimation.zip
/system/customize/resource # cp bootanimationBB.zip TMOUS_downanimation.zip
cp bootanimationBB.zip TMOUS_downanimation.zip
/system/customize/resource # chmod 644 TMOUS_bootanimation.zip
chmod 644 TMOUS_bootanimation.zip
/system/customize/resource # chmod 644 TMOUS_downanimation.zip
chmod 644 TMOUS_downanimation.zip
/system/customize/resource #
D:\sdk\platform-tools>
I hope you learned something... lol.
WoW man... worked like a charm... chose your Green with Black animation...
looks great... and the procedure to do it cannot be more simpler than you explained...
wonderful...
Thanks +1
Any advice on how to change the boot sound to go along with the animation? The other walkthrough guide references things that don't exist (init.local.rc) on the Sensation. The guide was in the Desire HD forum (I think).
never added a boot sound myself but after asking brother google it seems android doesn't support playing boot sounds as it is. One or more system files have to be altered to get boot sound support such as bootanimation in system/bin ..
http://androidforums.com/liquid0624/234917-gingerbread-bootani-sound.html
that's the first page I found. It says it's for gingerbread but I'd choose not to replace system files unless I'm sure they work on sensation
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There you go mate!
green, qHD, black background:
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Hi again,
Could you make this one or one like this one but in qHD?
Thanks in advance.
uhm isn't that exactly like the one I made for you already?
Forget about that. I've another already. Thanks anyway.
I don't really care about the boot animation, but I'd love to get rid of the nasty sound it makes during booting
wakes up everyone in the office and attracts unwanted attention too
at least I could change it from "quietly brilliant" to "loud but ok"
I think I'm gonna try and make my own boot animation but have a few questions about the desc fle-
1. How do u know what to put for the frame rate? I see OP put 10 but what does that mean..? 10 frames per second or what?
2. For loop OP put 0, so does that mean it plays it once, 1 loop would play twice, 2 loop play 3 times etc...?
3. For pause OP put 90? what does that represent like is that 90 ms? How'd you pick that?
4. What did you use to make the images?
Thanks for anyone that can help and for the great guide OP.
Hey guys. I whipped up this bootanimation for the MT4GS as it was the one I was using on my G2 for ages.
It's the normal nexus boot animation, but in all white. open up one of the images in part0 or part1 to get a visual. you can modify how fast it goes by changing the third value (framerate) in the desc.txt file. it's set @ 20fps right now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAFSEsEZnnE (this is the colored version, but you get the idea)
Instructions for installation:
(using file explorer like root explorer)
download the zip, place on sd card.
find the zip in your file browser and move it to /system/customize/resource/ (overwrite existing bootanimation file)
change permissions to rw-r--r-- (read/write owner, read for group/others)
(using terminal emulator/adb, assuming file is already on the root of your sdcard)
[first command below only if you're starting with adb]
adb shell
su
mount -o rw,remount /system
mv /system/customize/resource/TMUS_bootanimation.zip /sdcard/TMUS_bootanimationBAK.zip //*this creates a backup of your existing bootanimation*\\
cp /sdcard/TMUS_bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource/TMUS_bootanimation.zip
chmod 644 /system/customize/resource/TMUS_bootanimation.zip
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reboot and enjoy. thanks to Sonny for making the original bootanimation. he's the man.