I was wondering if anyone could link a guide or give me step by step info on changing certain parts of a rom. Mostly it will be .apk and boots animations. Ive tried just adding the apks into a CWM zip and trying to flash it that way and had no luck what so ever. I can get the different boots onto the phone after flash but was wondering if it was possible to due it before a flash by putting it into a zip.
This will be for my personal use only and will talk to all dev about what im changing to make sure they wouldnt mine, if i could ever figure out how to do it right.
Im running GC FE 2.0 with EE4 modems. Plan on staying with EE4 untill more stable EQ1W GB.
Thanks for your time and your replys.
Check out UOT - http://uot.dakra.lt/ Has some cool animations. Flash the animation you like with CWM. If that doesnt work unzip the file and copy the zip file in media folder to your /system/media using root explorer.
Thanks for the info but im pretty decent at using the kitchen. What i really want to be able to do is take say the brower apk from gummy and put it on any rom i use. Its the one that had bookmarks from the menu key.
Again thanks for any info or links on how to do it that anyone can provide.
Rip the apks from the cwm zip and put them in system/app.
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I've been trying to load a custom boot animation from Rom toolbox. Not having any luck. It has an install option that doesn't seem to work. I've gone into system media file and there are no signs of any bootanimation.zip. I've copied the custom ba into the system bin and replaced the existing file with it and all I managed to do was get a black screen rather than the stock ba. As far as I can tell I have full r/w permissions. Am I going about it wrong or is Rom toolboxes boot animation not compatible with inspire?
Thanks
tomahawk13 said:
I've been trying to load a custom boot animation from Rom toolbox. Not having any luck. It has an install option that doesn't seem to work. I've gone into system media file and there are no signs of any bootanimation.zip. I've copied the custom ba into the system bin and replaced the existing file with it and all I managed to do was get a black screen rather than the stock ba. As far as I can tell I have full r/w permissions. Am I going about it wrong or is Rom toolboxes boot animation not compatible with inspire?
Thanks
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After replacing bootanimation.zip are you changing permissions to R/W, R, R? Don't know if it's necessary, but I always do it that way and have never had a problem.
If you don't see bootanimation.zip in /system/media/, do you see it in /system/customize/resource? If so, put it here
Youre the man. I didn't even think to look in there. Thank you
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I'm using rooted samsung galaxy s advance with DDLD4 gingerbread. The custom font instaler from ROM toolbox works but the booranim. doesn't. And where can I get a custom ROM for my phone. Please help.
Posted from my S Advance.
Guyz, Do not ever flash the zip file obtained from UOT kitchen directly to the galaxy r. The Manifest and settings.uot files in the UOT zip file have the wrong configurations ie. not compatible with our phone. The assumed busybox location in the settings and Manifest file is wrong as a result when you flash the zip file it will only delete the original framework-res.apk, systemui.apk and twframework.apk but would not replace them with the modified ones from the UOT zip file. So when you reboot.....---> BOOT LOOP...dead end. I would suggest you to manually push the modified files to their respective locations. I myself ended up into a boot loop yesterday and as luck would have it even my nandroid backup had become corrupt...so had to flash a stock rom through odin..atleast it saved me.
Thanks saurabh.khare for the info.
i've used UOT kitchen many time and i didn't face any problem, when you are flashing the wrong zip file you will have these kind of issues for eg: once i've uploaded the stock ROM framework and flashed it on custom ROM then i faced these kind of issue's..
Yup me too, I've flashed uot-files several times. Never faced such issues.
mj.vikram said:
i've used UOT kitchen many time and i didn't face any problem, when you are flashing the wrong zip file you will have these kind of issues for eg: once i've uploaded the stock ROM framework and flashed it on custom ROM then i faced these kind of issue's..
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Buddy I'm very much sure that I did nothing wrong. I extracted the files out of a rooted stock ROM(XWKI5) and flashed the cooked zip file over the same rooted Stock ROM through CWM. I have attached the file for you reference...If you could go through and point out where I went wrong I would be very glad
saurabh.khare1000 said:
Guyz, Do not ever flash the zip file obtained from UOT kitchen directly to the galaxy r. The Manifest and settings.uot files in the UOT zip file have the wrong configurations ie. not compatible with our phone. The assumed busybox location in the settings and Manifest file is wrong as a result when you flash the zip file it will only delete the original framework-res.apk, systemui.apk and twframework.apk but would not replace them with the modified ones from the UOT zip file. So when you reboot.....---> BOOT LOOP...dead end. I would suggest you to manually push the modified files to their respective locations. I myself ended up into a boot loop yesterday and as luck would have it even my nandroid backup had become corrupt...so had to flash a stock rom through odin..atleast it saved me.
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I have flashed files from UOT several times on Galaxy R without any errors(Both Stock Odex and Deodex ones). Not sure why you had issues.
I have been searching on xda for some time now and here is a question. I am looking to change my bootanimation on the s3 as I am not happy with the verizon animation. When I had the droid bionic, all I had to do was change the name of the animation in system/media and place the new one and change accordingly. I saw two posts in here that did not exactly answer the question completely. If I flash an animation with cwm do I need to rename or move anything in system/media beforehand? Can the animation be extracted and just placed in the system/media folder? What is the best way to do this? I am rooted, stock with frozen bloat and some inverted gapps.
If you are rooted, you can use ROM Manager to change your boot animation quickly.
I have tried with rom toolbox however it did not work and I believe it mentioned something in rom toolbox about how it will not change if samsung uses a qmg format. Basically, I am asking for directions on how to change the boot animation once I have the new bootanimation.zip on my sd card. Is it even possible on the stock rooted s3?
I just used rom toolbox, found the one I wanted and installed it. Then went to recovery and flashed it, it showed an error, but I just left it alone and rebooted, and now I have a dancing droid! I would also recommend buying the full version so you can use the randomizer, its a fun feature.
hotnvicious5 said:
I just used rom toolbox, found the one I wanted and installed it. Then went to recovery and flashed it, it showed an error, but I just left it alone and rebooted, and now I have a dancing droid! I would also recommend buying the full version so you can use the randomizer, its a fun feature.
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I have the full version but changing the boot animation definitely does not work on a rooted stock ROM setup.
The bootanimation.zip support is dependent on a custom kernel on Samsung devices. In stock form only .qmg format will play. No one to this point can edit or create .qmg files, they are proprietary to Samsung devices and their Bada OS. If you want to change it you will need to flash imnuts' lean kernel (assuming you are stock rooted as it is a touchwiz kernel). On a side note i personally think the boot animation from the droid charge is pretty BA and is floating around the net in .qmg format, don't know if it would work or not though due to differences in screen resolution. Here it is if you want to give it a try, just unzip and rename/paste the files where they need to go. It also has audio, place in system/media/audio/ui.
http://db.tt/spY4QX4p
Like i said,i have no clue if it will actually work or not but you could try ..... or just flash the kernel and use whatever lol. It's not my fault if it breaks stuff. Sorry for the long winded answer.
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Thank you. I just changed the animation to the stock Samsung one that I believe came on the i9300. Nothing special, but it is 100 times better than that Verizon boot animation.
Did you flash the zip file in recovery? If you use the randomizer I don't think you have to flash the zip though.
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elreydenj said:
Thank you. I just changed the animation to the stock Samsung one that I believe came on the i9300. Nothing special, but it is 100 times better than that Verizon boot animation.
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I did the same thing. I also swapped the PowerOn.ogg and PowerOff.ogg files for files with no sounds so the boot up and shutdown are now quiet. The replacement audio files may be found in this thread.
hesh.monster said:
The bootanimation.zip support is dependent on a custom kernel on Samsung devices. In stock form only .qmg format will play. No one to this point can edit or create .qmg files, they are proprietary to Samsung devices and their Bada OS. If you want to change it you will need to flash imnuts' lean kernel (assuming you are stock rooted as it is a touchwiz kernel). On a side note i personally think the boot animation from the droid charge is pretty BA and is floating around the net in .qmg format, don't know if it would work or not though due to differences in screen resolution. Here it is if you want to give it a try, just unzip and rename/paste the files where they need to go. It also has audio, place in system/media/audio/ui.
http://db.tt/spY4QX4p
Like i said,i have no clue if it will actually work or not but you could try ..... or just flash the kernel and use whatever lol. It's not my fault if it breaks stuff. Sorry for the long winded answer.
Sent from my Galaxy S III using Xda Premium
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You can edit the .qmg files. You have to use Samsung's Theme Designer to view the .pngs. From there, you can edit the bootanimation how you like.
can the png sequence be extracted now? I wrote off using the theme designer a long time ago because i could not extract them
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elreydenj said:
Thank you. I just changed the animation to the stock Samsung one that I believe came on the i9300. Nothing special, but it is 100 times better than that Verizon boot animation.
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Do you have a link for this file?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835143
Google my friend...it was the first search result. The instructions are in the OP at the link.
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hesh.monster said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835143
Google my friend...it was the first search result. The instructions are in the OP at the link.
Sent from my Galaxy S III using Xda Premium
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I presumed that if elreyden was able to change the animation to the i9300 stock one, that I should be able to do it also. The animation that he refers to won't work with a stock rom (contains jpg, not qmg files), hence my confusion. I thought I must have had found the wrong link.
michael* said:
I presumed that if elreyden was able to change the animation to the i9300 stock one, that I should be able to do it also. The animation that he refers to won't work with a stock rom (contains jpg, not qmg files), hence my confusion. I thought I must have had found the wrong link.
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Not sure what your particular situation is, but try putting the bootanimation.zip (not a flashable file. If you have one of those, extract the bootanimation.zip) to /data/local/ instead.
Tried it and it didn't work. I've given up - there doesn't seem to be a solution for stock rom. I will wait and probably flash a rom when they've had a chance to get solid.
michael* said:
Tried it and it didn't work. I've given up - there doesn't seem to be a solution for stock rom. I will wait and probably flash a rom when they've had a chance to get solid.
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I'm on a stock rom and changed my VZW animation to the I9300 w/o any real problem, other than locating the qmg files. I've included to 2 files that I used in the attached zip so you should have it pretty easy To use them simply extract the files and put them into the /system/media folder using Root Explorer or whatever root based file utility you prefer. I simply renamed my existing versions and then copied these into the folder and made sure the permissions were the same. Once done I rebooted and the VZW version was nowhere to be seen.
It's also possible to replace the audio files. I wound up using "empty" files so I no longer have to listen to startup/shutdown sounds either. :good:
ETA: Here's the link to the thread with the silent startup & shutdown sounds. Scroll down to post #9.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801554
tgmorris said:
I'm on a stock rom and changed my VZW animation to the I9300 w/o any real problem, other than locating the qmg files. I've included to 2 files that I used in the attached zip so you should have it pretty easy To use them simply extract the files and put them into the /system/media folder using Root Explorer or whatever root based file utility you prefer. I simply renamed my existing versions and then copied these into the folder and made sure the permissions were the same. Once done I rebooted and the VZW version was nowhere to be seen.
It's also possible to replace the audio files. I wound up using "empty" files so I no longer have to listen to startup/shutdown sounds either. :good:
ETA: Here's the link to the thread with the silent startup & shutdown sounds. Scroll down to post #9.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1801554
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Thank you. I did this last week and it worked great. Stock Samsung bootanimation is less annoying than the Verizon 4glte one.
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):
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/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):
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/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
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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: