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How to change the boot images without ADB?

How would it be able to do this? I've seen terminal codes floating around, but none of them look like they'd be replacing the proper files for a cupcake build (old RC33 builds I believe, long lost now!)
I'm running TheDude's 1.3 RC2. I've seen plenty of ADB commands, however I've never been able to get ADB to work on my computer, and I don't feel like putting more pointless hours into it
So how would the terminal commands work, and what would the pre-requisites for the files have to be? Thanks!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467693 Im pretty sure all you need is fastboot not adb for splash1 the animated splash just requires you to resign an update.zip http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467693

crotalusfreak said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467693 Im pretty sure all you need is fastboot not adb for splash1 the animated splash just requires you to resign an update.zip http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467693
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I'm pretty sure it uses ADB, hence why I'm asking...Fastboot IS ADB

yea fastboot is the only other way that I know of!!
this is where i downloaded the tools for creating your own boot image!
http://www.modmygphone.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=1471&act=down
this is the link that teaches on how to make one and im pretty sure there is one here in the forums!
http://modmygphone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10461
if you need help PM me ill take you step by step!
or email [email protected]

lukekirstein said:
I'm pretty sure it uses ADB, hence why I'm asking...Fastboot IS ADB
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it wont use ADB, fastboot is like an alternate route...

Drizzy Drake Rogers said:
yea fastboot is the only other way that I know of!!
this is where i downloaded the tools for creating your own boot image!
http://www.modmygphone.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=1471&act=down
this is the link that teaches on how to make one and im pretty sure there is one here in the forums!
http://modmygphone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10461
if you need help PM me ill take you step by step!
or email [email protected]
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Step number two of those directions: "2. Get ADB setup and working. Read here. "
Let's clarify. I cannot get ADB to work, at all, on my computer. Fastboot doesn't work because I can't get ADB to work. Moreso, I just realized that I can't even find my data cord.
Either way, the point of my post is to find a way to change the boot animation at start up, without having to use anything but the phone and maybe some photo editing software.
So how can we do this?

You do not have to have the whole sdk(adb etc..) for fastboot to work you do have to have a driver running for android found in the sdk or here http://dl.google.com/android/android_usb_windows.zip .
The boot animation is found in /system/framework/framework-res.apk/assets/images,android-logo-mask.png and android-logo-shine.png are the images you wanna edit.Dont believe you can get it back on your phone without the sdk set up with adb working though as you will either have to resign an update or push the edited files back somehow.
Edit:without a data cord I think this is an impossibility I dont think you can go through the process needed on your phone,dont hold me to that though good luck man.

crotalusfreak said:
You do not have to have the whole sdk(adb etc..) for fastboot to work you do have to have a driver running for android found in the sdk or here http://dl.google.com/android/android_usb_windows.zip .
The boot animation is found in /system/framework/framework-res.apk/assets/images,android-logo-mask.png and android-logo-shine.png are the images you wanna edit.Dont believe you can get it back on your phone without the sdk set up with adb working though as you will either have to resign an update or push the edited files back somehow.
Edit:without a data cord I think this is an impossibility I dont think you can go through the process needed on your phone,dont hold me to that though good luck man.
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Alright, I just confirmed the location on the phone. So if I upload a file onto my SD card, and overwrite it through Terminal, what do you think that'll do? I'm not big into the Themes section, I'm into the Development section, so I'm not sure what overwriting will do to my phone.

Actually you might be able to get away with that.Try backing up framework res in terminal type:
$su
#mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
#cp -r /system/framework/framework-res.apk /sdcard
Now the .apk you want is on your sdcard root pull that onto a computer unzip it with 7zip.In the framework-res folder there are some more folders go to assets then images edit those two images to your liking.Then go back to your framework-res.apk that you backed up add .zip to the end,right click it and choose open or explore navigate back to the images folder and paste your edited boot images in there.Now remove .zip so it is framework-res.apk again put that back on your sd cards root.Go to terminal and type
$su
#mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
#cp -f /sdcard/framework-res.apk /system/framework
#reboot
If all goes well that should work.

crotalusfreak said:
Then go back to your framework-res.apk that you backed up add .zip to the end,right click it and choose open or explore navigate back to the images folder and paste your edited boot images in there.Now remove .zip so it is framework-res.apk again put that back on your sd cards root.
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Lost you at naming it as a .zip. I can't explore or open the file, as Windows Vista doesn't know how to handle it. Any ideas?

lukekirstein said:
Lost you at naming it as a .zip. I can't explore or open the file, as Windows Vista doesn't know how to handle it. Any ideas?
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right click-> open with -> WinRAR
Or go to Folder Options and uncheck "Hide extensions for known filetypes" (you should do that for all folders.... its a bad idea not to because a virus may look like *.doc instead of *.doc.exe anyways its also more convenient)

does anyone know how to change the boot image for a rogers g1 none of these things work for me i bricked my last phone a week ago cause someone said it would work

jokefox said:
does anyone know how to change the boot image for a rogers g1 none of these things work for me i bricked my last phone a week ago cause someone said it would work
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Well if you're bricking phones, I wouldn't recommend trying it again

[Q] Boot Screen

Ok so i have looked at all the other posts on how to change the boot screen animation, but none of them seem to work. My phone is running on Android 2.2. Does anybody have any ideas on what i should do?

I JUST did this and it worked for me. I am on the 8/1 2.2 leak as well.
Plug in phone
reboot to recovery
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adb reboot recovery
Once booted in to recovery do
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adb shell
mount -a
It will give you this error. Thats fine (It's just saying it couldnt mount the sdcard which we dont need right now.)
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~ # mount -a
mount -a
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk1 on /sdcard failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 on /sd-ext failed: No such file or directory
now type exit to get back to your computer prompt.
Now push your bootanimation.zip you want to /system/customize/resource
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adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource
now now get back in to adb shell and type
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cd /system/customize/resource
then ls *.zip and it should look like this. l = lowercase L
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/system/customize/resource # ls *.zip
ls *.zip
bootanimation.zip VZW_bootanimation.zip
Now we want to rename the vzw boot animation to .back to save it
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mv VZW_bootanimation.zip VZW_bootanimation.back
Then we want to rename the new bootanimation to the vzw bootanimation
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mv bootanimation.zip VZW_bootanimation.zip
OPTIONAL STEP: IF YOU DONT WANT THE DROID SOUND ON BOOT
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mv Droid.mp3 Droid.back
type exit and adb reboot . It should now boot with your new boot animation.

Ok so i just did that twice and every time i try to all it does reboot my phone and its all the same nothing changed

Check where I've been posting. Somewhere along the way I was in a thread that worked for me. I just can't remember where.

Utopia73 said:
Ok so i just did that twice and every time i try to all it does reboot my phone and its all the same nothing changed
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so you have a bootanimation.zip downloaded to the folder you have adb at? and you followed my steps EXACTLY?
So is it still just showing the stock boot animation?

zerf said:
so you have a bootanimation.zip downloaded to the folder you have adb at? and you followed my steps EXACTLY?
So is it still just showing the stock boot animation?
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Yes i have everything in the right spot, and followed the steps exactly. I did once more and the animation was gone, now all there is, is a black screen.

Utopia73 said:
Yes i have everything in the right spot, and followed the steps exactly. I did once more and the animation was gone, now all there is, is a black screen.
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boot your phone to recovery and then adb shell then run this for me and paste in your output.
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ls -l /system/customize/resource/*.zip

zerf said:
boot your phone to recovery and then adb shell then run this for me and paste in your output.
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ls -l /system/customize/resource/*.zip
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Ok did that. Nothing happened

sorry forgot to tell you to either run mount -a or go in the partitions menu of your phone and mount /system

zerf said:
sorry forgot to tell you to either run mount -a or go in the partitions menu of your phone and mount /system
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Ok sweet that worked! Although its not the animation i downloaded hmm... oh well this one is cool too.

Utopia73 said:
Ok sweet that worked! Although its not the animation i downloaded hmm... oh well this one is cool too.
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haha ok.. not sure how you got an animiation you didnt download.... but glad its working. Im guessing you missed the step at the top of my instructions that says mount -a after you adb shell in the first time but anyway let me know if you have any more issues.

zerf said:
haha ok.. not sure how you got an animiation you didnt download.... but glad its working. Im guessing you missed the step at the top of my instructions that says mount -a after you adb shell in the first time but anyway let me know if you have any more issues.
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Well i saw that...maybe its another mount but instead of mounting in prompt i just went to the partitions menu and did it there. Thank you very much!

Ok i have one last question.
So now that the boot screen has been changed this is what i get when i try to change it again...
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cannot stat 'bootanimation.zip' : No such file or directory
And i can see the file in the folder....so now what?

Utopia73 said:
Ok i have one last question.
So now that the boot screen has been changed this is what i get when i try to change it again...
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cannot stat 'bootanimation.zip' : No such file or directory
And i can see the file in the folder....so now what?
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where are you seeing this (what directory) and what command are you trying to run?

Not sure what version of 2.2 you're running. I know on SkyRaider you can't put your boots in resource anymore. They now reside in /system/media. You'd need to:
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adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media/
You can also push a custom sound to the same folder, outside of the zip. I'll also take this as an opportunity to shamelessly plug the boot animation I created for SkyRaider. It can be found in the Goodies section of ROM Manager.

zerf said:
where are you seeing this (what directory) and what command are you trying to run?
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I was trying to run
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adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource
Ok, now its saying
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adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource
failed to copy 'bootanimation.zip' to '/system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip': No space left on device
So maybe i tried to many times or something.

vbhines said:
Not sure what version of 2.2 you're running. I know on SkyRaider you can't put your boots in resource anymore. They now reside in /system/media. You'd need to:
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adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media/
You can also push a custom sound to the same folder, outside of the zip. I'll also take this as an opportunity to shamelessly plug the boot animation I created for SkyRaider. It can be found in the Goodies section of ROM Manager.
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I tried that too, now its saying
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adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource
failed to copy 'bootanimation.zip' to '/system/media/bootanimation.zip': No space left on device

Not sure what version of 2.2 you're running. I know on SkyRaider you can't put your boots in resource anymore. They now reside in /system/media. You'd
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I tried that too, now its saying
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource
failed to copy 'bootanimation.zip' to '/system/media/bootanimation.zip': No space left on device
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You have to push it while in Recovery until we have s-off/full NAND. If you're already doing it in Recovery, make sure you've mounted /system first.
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help changing boot screen

Hey all, ive been trying to change my boot screen to the haters gonna hate one for a few days now but cant seem to get it to work at all, i have full root and tried to the fastboot method and recovery/adb method. no matter what it stays the same as the one i had originally, i never get errors when trying to push the files if someone can give me instructions for dummies haha or another method id really appreciate it sorry for being a noob at all this.

I had the same problem
First of all, what rom are you using? Different rooms pull from different places. I might be able to help you out. If you are running cyan6, try this:
Adb reboot recovery
Adb remount (make sure it remounts. Maybe also do adb root to make sure.)
Adb push blahblah.zip /system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip
Adb push blahblah.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip
Adb push blahblah.zip /data/local/bootanimation.zip
If you want sound, push that to the same locations. Make sure there is only one of each file in each folder. Then, to check,
Adb reboot
Hope this helps

oh yeah sorry i should have included that i am on evios 1.2 beta 2 rom

I'm not familiar on where to place boot on this rom. Try all three locations I suggested. System customize resource. System media. Data local. Tell me if it works out.

I had this animation on EViO. I just pushed it from my desktop to system/media. Worked fine for me.

how do you push it from the desktop? i tried all 3 methods posted above and none worked. i had the file in the android sdk tools folder though...also whenever i try to do adb remount i get "remount failed:invalid argument" and adb root gives me "error:closed" i tried killing adb and restarting but no luck

This might be an obvious question, but do you have USB debugging enabled on your phone? Under Setting>Applications>Development
You arent going to be able to push anything if you can't get ADB running first.

yeah debugging has been enabled the whole time

ok have you been in recovery mode?
try typing
adb shell
su (make sure #comes up.)
exit (retype until you get back to the tools directory)
then do the push commands to system media, system customize resource, and data local.

Just use this program. Its as easy as it gets.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=701295

dkdude36 said:
First of all, what rom are you using? Different rooms pull from different places. I might be able to help you out. If you are running cyan6, try this:
Adb reboot recovery
Adb remount (make sure it remounts. Maybe also do adb root to make sure.)
Adb push blahblah.zip /system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip
Adb push blahblah.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip
Adb push blahblah.zip /data/local/bootanimation.zip
If you want sound, push that to the same locations. Make sure there is only one of each file in each folder. Then, to check,
Adb reboot
Hope this helps
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Putting sound in boot animation doesn't work with cm6. Just to clarify. No one has been able to get it to work unless you found something out to make it work please share as I have hates going to hate also and want to use haters everywhere mp3 and is perfect for it.
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yeah i have also been in recovery mode every time i tried to run a command prompt for adb...i tried that when i hit adb shell i get # but when i type su after the # it says "/sbin/sh: su: not found"

mount: mounting /dev/block/mtdblock4 on /system failed: Device or resource busy
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
thats what i get when in command prompt when i try to use the program you just posted above

Want a easier way? Use root explorer and copy and paste. Works for my every time. It's in the market. And root explore you can manually turn writeable on and off to move it into system. It's on the top right of screen in root explorer when you go into system folder.
Edit: the command you are tying to put in enables you to push and pull in the system folder. Root explore you can just click a button.
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Good idea
Root explorer works most of the time. If you have the cash, go ahead. You should make site out posted though.

/sbin/sh: reboot: not found
been trying to use adb and i keep on getting that....any of you know a fix?

HBOOT Problems

History:
A few weeks ago: Used unrevoked3 to root, installed the leaked 2.2 OTA.
Two days ago: Was bored so I decided to try cyanogen mod 6.02. Got it up and running, but upon rebooting, it got stuck in a loop during the blue cyanogen boot animation. I said screw it and found the OTA leak again, loaded it and everything works fine...
Except... Last night I was trying to get a new splash image to load, but it wouldn't load. I can't get PB31IMG.zip to load, either automatically upon entering HBOOT, or manually from within clockworkmod recovery. This is the error that comes up when I click RECOVERY from within HBOOT:
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I can't get any SD Checking...
Loading...[PB31DIAG.zip]
No image!
Loading...[PB31DIAG.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
Loading...[PB31IMG.zip]
No image!
Loading...[PB31IMG.nbh]
No image or wrong image!
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This happens with ANY PB31IMG.zip. It will not load automatically. I tried doing a new splash screen, so I downloaded a couple, already named appropriately, with the appropriate files [and they worked for other people], but still, it reads out the same errors as above.
So, what can I do? I don't mind doing full, rock bottom, format's/reinstalls, etc, I just need to know how or what to do. I really don't want to mess this phone up beyond repair.
Don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I also can't get any bootanimations to work. Actually, I got a download [from the boot animation thread on here] of the stock one working by mount /system, mount /sdcard and adb push from my computer. But, no other animations will work.
From within clockworkmod recovery, when should I, and when should I not mount /system, /data, /cashe, /sdcard, /sd-ext? I understand the mount USB storage, but isn't that the same as mount /sdcard above?
Some of my troubleshooting from last night [in the wrong thread... oops]: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=753788&page=13
Thanks in advance!

Did you format your SD card to fat32? Only thing I know that could cause it not reading.

blakeem said:
Did you format your SD card to fat32? Only thing I know that could cause it not reading.
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The card reads perfectly fine any other time. Would that matter?
How should I check? Via windows?

When I plug into this computer [vista], and do properties on the mounted sdcard, it shows File system: FAT. I'm not sure, but that's not the same as FAT32, right? So then, how should I fix that? The normal right-click > format method?
Done.. testing.
EDIT: Nope, that didn't work.
EDIT: Damn.. that DID work! I rebooted into recovery before. Now I just rebooted into HBOOT and it asked if I wanted to update. Damn!
EDIT: Ok, now let me see if I can get a custom bootanimation to work.
EDIT: It did not. Just blank.

OK, I got a new boot animation working. It had to have been my process., I followed this:
Plug in phone
reboot to recovery
Code:
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adb reboot recovery
Once booted in to recovery do
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adb shell
mount -a
It will give you this error. Thats fine (It's just saying it couldnt mount the sdcard which we dont need right now.)
Code:
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~ # mount -a
mount -a
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk1 on /sdcard failed: Invalid argument
mount: mounting /dev/block/mmcblk1p2 on /sd-ext failed: No such file or directory
now type exit to get back to your computer prompt.
Now push your bootanimation.zip you want to /system/customize/resource
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adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource
now now get back in to adb shell and type
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cd /system/customize/resource
Then we want to rename the new bootanimation to the vzw bootanimation
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mv bootanimation.zip VZW_bootanimation.zip

OK, i have verified the procedure above works several times. You can close this thread.
Splash problems fix: format SDCARD to FAT32 from within windows [plug in phone, right click on appropriate drive, format, choose FAT32]. Thanks to blakeem!
Boot animations fix: use correct process. *Entirely from within cmd/adb.*

You can condense pushing the bootanimation down to one step by using the following command:
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adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource/VZW_bootanimation.zip
It'll overwrite the file already there.

Ya, that's actually when I was doing, but decided to leave it spelled out, you know, for the record.

.zip
i had this happen once. when i named it I put .zip on it and that was wrong, i went and found it with astro manager and it .zip.zip so i deleted the extra .zip and it worked. hope this helps. and i hope its that simple for you.

[Q] Custom boot animation attempt gone wrong

I don't understand why this won't work. I'm running the stock 2.2 rom and I've tried all the correct directories like system/media or system/customize/resources and still the boot screen won't change. Somewhere along the way I lost my original boot screen too, so now all I have it the words "android" when it boots up.
Any ideas on how to make this work other than doing a restore?

Umm, you should have the PB zip file in the SD card, go to bootloader, have it update, and then it should work. o.o

AKHincredible said:
Umm, you should have the PB zip file in the SD card, go to bootloader, have it update, and then it should work. o.o
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Negative. Bootanimations are not flashed as a PB31IMG. You're confusing it with Splash1.
OP- what are you naming the zip? VZW_bootanimation.zip or bootanimation.zip? If you're stock 2.2, it should be the former and placed in system/customize/resource, IIRC.

Problem solved, flashed incredibly re-engineered rom. Used adb to push bootanimation.zip. It worked. Pushed android_audio.mp3, didn't work. Its probably needing to be named VZW_Droid.mp3 or something, but I don't really care for sound.
All else fails, flash a custom rom.
PS: A ideas why xda's search function hasn't worked for days? EPST doesn't work at all in this rom and I'm being forced to use qpst, which lacks some of the features I'm looking to edit.

The audio needs to be named boot_audio.mp3 for it to work correctly.

got bored and tried pushing a new boot audio. So far boot_audio.mp3 doesn't work, nor VZW_Droid.mp3. I'm still trying more names

rotaryboots said:
got bored and tried pushing a new boot audio. So far boot_audio.mp3 doesn't work, nor VZW_Droid.mp3. I'm still trying more names
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I use root explorer to do things like this, and it's very simple. Let me know if you make progress! I don't see how it's not working....
More than likely, its going to be named VZW_Droid on the inc.

regarding your first un-edited post, no I'm not adding .mp3 to the mp3's file name. I'm simply using adb push boot_audio.mp3 /system/customize/resource
Just tried putting it in /system/media, no dice

rotaryboots said:
regarding your first un-edited post, no I'm not adding .mp3 to the mp3's file name. I'm simply using adb push boot_audio.mp3 /system/customize/resource
Just tried putting it in /system/media, no dice
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If you want it that bad, spend the 4 bucks and get root explorer, and try that method. Couldn't hurt, and root exp is a great tool to have if you're rooted. That is my suggestion, sir

your kidding right? Or I could just use terminal and use commands like mv, chmod, rm, cd, ls, ls -l, etc. Been using linux commands since redhat came out. I could also just use adb shell, then cd /system/customize/resource, ls, mv boot_animation.mp3 VZW_Droid.mp3, then ls, cd /, umount /system, (command C), adb reboot, and then check to see if it works.
root explorer doesn't offer me anything I can't just do with adb or terminal on the phone.

rotaryboots said:
your kidding right? Or I could just use terminal and use commands like mv, chmod, rm, cd, ls, ls -l, etc. Been using linux commands since redhat came out. I could also just use adb shell, then cd /system/customize/resource, ls, mv boot_animation.mp3 VZW_Droid.mp3, then ls, cd /, umount /system, (command C), adb reboot, and then check to see if it works.
root explorer doesn't offer me anything I can't just do with adb or terminal on the phone.
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Just letting you know of the hands down simplest way to do it, bud