Does anyone know what the underlying mechanism for running the boot animation is? I have Android 2.2 on an HTC Incredible and replaced the VZW_Droid.mp3 and VZW_bootanimation.zip with some animations I did, but all I get on boot is a blank screen. Do the files in the zip have to be named the same way, or do they just have to be in alphabetical order?
Thanks!
adprice said:
Does anyone know what the underlying mechanism for running the boot animation is? I have Android 2.2 on an HTC Incredible and replaced the VZW_Droid.mp3 and VZW_bootanimation.zip with some animations I did, but all I get on boot is a blank screen. Do the files in the zip have to be named the same way, or do they just have to be in alphabetical order?
Thanks!
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post the animation zip file you are tryin to use and I will see if there are any obvious issues with it
I did a quick search and found this, not sure if this is what your looking for!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=708316
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Cool, thanks guys. I will post when I get back home. I've been doing some searching as well and it seems that you have to set the compression mode to "store" when you create the archive. Not sure where to do this on a mac, but I'll see if I can figure it out.
As a side note, does anyone know what the fields in the desc.txt file are? I figured out the first two are image size, but any idea what the third number on the first line is? Frame rate maybe? And then the next lines specify directories, but I have no clue what the numbers in front of them mean.
Arg, sorry - second paragraph of questions answered in the thread IncredibleDoes posted...
SOLVED
Alright, the "store" problem was the issue. According to the zip documentation, "store" compression doesn't actually compress the files, it just archives them (I guess similar to .tar). So once I did that it worked fine. For anyone else using a Mac from the command line its
Code:
zip -r -Z store desc.txt part0 VZW_bootanimation.zip
You can, of course, specify other directories as well. The sound also started working once the animation did, nothing special there.
And now, I've posted the animation I made. Nothing special, I'm just a big half life fan and whipped this up with my very limited animating skills. Enjoy!
Hmm...won't let me upload the .mp3 file. I guess message me if you want it...
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i went ahead and resized the droid boot animation to fit the G1 and it look great and works well. may do droid x and incredible later on. for ppl with the x and incredible plz extract the boot animation.zip file and send it to me by using adb
Code:
adb pull /system/media/bootanimation.zip C:\users\[your name]\desktop
here is the link
Download
add it with adb by typing in:
Code:
adb push C:\[file location]\bootanimation.zip /data/local/bootanimation.zip
to remove it to go back to the original boot screen, use adb and type:
Code:
adb shell rm /data/local/bootanimation.zip
this does require root for the purpose of installing eclair/froyo to use it.
happy modding
im having a small problems, that i hope you can clear for me.
(not with the process of sending a new bootanim to the phone)
sooo.. steps im doing...
create frames of animation (24bit PNG files, 220x220)
put them in two different folders,
create conf file,
pack up into bootanimation.zip and adb push it to the phone...
yet all im getting is black screen...
are my png files not correct?
zip program? (im using winrar to zip it to bootanimation.zip)
http://muziol.us/misc/g1/bootanimation.zip
he3r0 said:
im having a small problems, that i hope you can clear for me.
(not with the process of sending a new bootanim to the phone)
sooo.. steps im doing...
create frames of animation (24bit PNG files, 220x220)
put them in two different folders,
create conf file,
pack up into bootanimation.zip and adb push it to the phone...
yet all im getting is black screen...
are my png files not correct?
zip program? (im using winrar to zip it to bootanimation.zip)
http://muziol.us/misc/g1/bootanimation.zip
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I PM'd you your working boot animation. Let me know how it goes.
he3r0 said:
im having a small problems, that i hope you can clear for me.
(not with the process of sending a new bootanim to the phone)
sooo.. steps im doing...
create frames of animation (24bit PNG files, 220x220)
put them in two different folders,
create conf file,
pack up into bootanimation.zip and adb push it to the phone...
yet all im getting is black screen...
are my png files not correct?
zip program? (im using winrar to zip it to bootanimation.zip)
http://muziol.us/misc/g1/bootanimation.zip
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sorry for not responding. didnt realize i had my old email in my profile so the email notifications werent working.
Thank you
Thank you, it looks pretty nice on my Mytouch 3G...
Best regards
This is awesome! Thank you for putting this together for everyone. I do wish that I could have the cool "droid" voice on bootup (while the animation is going) but I will have to do some more research on how to do it correctly. If anyone wants to take a stab at it, the soundfile is available via the zedge app. If I get it working I'll zip it myself and put it up here for the dev to add to the OP.
Thanks again!
Sent from my HTC Dream SparksMod using XDA App
darthlukan said:
If I get it working I'll zip it myself and put it up here for the dev to add to the OP.
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it actually needs to be in a separate folder (the sound bite) but afaik it doesnt work with the G1 or MT3G
can i install it via terminal emulator
No you would need root manager or ghost droid
Sent from my Droid using XDA App
Hey all. I'm having trouble adding a custom boot animation. I've been trying to use adb push to move it to /data/local/. It seems to work initially. Cmd shows it moved over the full zip file and I can see it in my phone with root explorer but when I restart my phone it just uses the default animation. I'm trying to switch to the bios boot animation that I've found on the forums. Ive only had my Incredible for about a week so its mainly stock other than rooted. Any advice? Thanks
pandalearius said:
Hey all. I'm having trouble adding a custom boot animation. I've been trying to use adb push to move it to /data/local/. It seems to work initially. Cmd shows it moved over the full zip file and I can see it in my phone with root explorer but when I restart my phone it just uses the default animation. I'm trying to switch to the bios boot animation that I've found on the forums. Ive only had my Incredible for about a week so its mainly stock other than rooted. Any advice? Thanks
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My boot animation is actually in /system/customize/resource, maybe you could try sending it there and see if it works? Also, just checking, it is named bootanimation.zip right? I believe that matters lol, not sure. I'm sorry if I wasn't helpful, I don't exactly know much about boot animations tbh.
Sent from my Droid Incredible running Myn's Warm Two Point Two RLS5.3.
Blah12543 said:
My boot animation is actually in /system/customize/resource, maybe you could try sending it there and see if it works? Also, just checking, it is named bootanimation.zip right? I believe that matters lol, not sure. I'm sorry if I wasn't helpful, I don't exactly know much about boot animations tbh.
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Yeah, it has the right name but still isn't working even in the folder you suggested. Also the zip file just has the part0, part1, and desc.txt files in it so I'm not sure exactly what the problem is. I'm pretty new to the droid scene. Thanks for trying though.
Finally! After a lot of searching I found out it needs to be named VZW_bootanimation.zip and the sound file is VZW_Droid.mp3 with Froyo at least. It actually is in /system/customize/resource/ after all. I just didn't scroll that far down since I didn't know about the name change. It does replace the stock animation file though so I saved it in another folder before replacing it in case I ever want to go back. Thanks for the help
The file name and location depend on the ROM being used.
(idk if this is the right section for this post)
So I'm trying to make a custom boot screen for my G2. I made a png in photoshop thats 480 by 800 and put it in bootanimation.zip and all that. I put it in /system/media replacing the previous bootscreen.zip (the MIUI one because I'm using that rom). The problem is that, when I reboot my phone after the HTC splash screen, it just shows a black screen until the phone is done booting. I might have something wrong in the desc file or maybe i need to make my pic 24-bit or something. Any help would be great. I'll include the file and the image, because the image is awesome.
My image is supposed to look like the THX logo that is sometimes at the beginning of movies, except it says HTC. Eventually, if I get this to work, I might make it animated and add sound to be like the THX thing.
Anyone? Does anyone here have any suggestions? Or should I put this in Android Q&A
Pr.TOSHIBA said:
(idk if this is the right section for this post)
So I'm trying to make a custom boot screen for my G2. I made a png in photoshop thats 480 by 800 and put it in bootanimation.zip and all that. I put it in /system/media replacing the previous bootscreen.zip (the MIUI one because I'm using that rom). The problem is that, when I reboot my phone after the HTC splash screen, it just shows a black screen until the phone is done booting. I might have something wrong in the desc file or maybe i need to make my pic 24-bit or something. Any help would be great. I'll include the file and the image, because the image is awesome.
My image is supposed to look like the THX logo that is sometimes at the beginning of movies, except it says HTC. Eventually, if I get this to work, I might make it animated and add sound to be like the THX thing.
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I'm not sure what your problem is, I just go into terminal emulator and do
Code:
su
mount -o remount,rw /system
cp /filelocation/bootanimation.zip /system/media/
which I believe is pretty much the same thing you've been doing, but your picture is way cool! if you end up getting it working you should share it
I want it now, but with sound and animation. Please, make it now. I'd even pay .99 for it.
duh, read things properly chris
I have been trying desperately to get my boot animation to change, and have made some success from just locking the device up to skipping the animation all together.
I can't seem to figure out what people mean when they say to save the desc.txt file as a UNIX file, but have been trying to use UTF-8 in Notepad++. This is what searching google has showed as the prefered *nix text file encoding. I even went so far as to just copy and paste the desc.txt file from one of the other zips on the device to my zip to get it to work, and no joy. So, I am not sure if this is the trouble or not.
This is on a Sprint lovers rom and I have put them in /data/animation. I had them in /system/customize/resource along with another spash screen, but it just ignored it there and went to the /data/animation ones. Or, maybe was using those all along. I am not sure.
So, I shall include my zip for scrutiny, and my audio for scrutiny as well. I have removed most of the images to get the zip down to size limits and stuffed the audio file in the zip as well.
I would like some hints on what I did wrong. I am trying to learn this stuff....
I use a program called Text Pad. It's free just search for it on Google. After creating the file hit "save as" name the file "desc" and at the bottom you will see a drop down menu labeled "file format" and it will give you the option to save as PC, UNIX, MAC. Choose UNIX. The second step is putting it all into a zip folder that isn't compressed. For this I use 7-Zip. Open 7 zip and highlight the desc file and the folders that have your animations. Next click the add button at the top menu, when the next window pops up you will be able to name the zip "bootanimation". Find the drop down menu labeled "compression level" and select "store", next find the drop down menu labeled "update mode" and select add and replace files. Last hit the ok button and your zip will be created and should be usable.
i have been dealing with the same thing all day but i got it to work the problem was that the png has to be no more than 24 bit i downloaded your zip and they are at 32 bit mine would not work at that rate i remade the png at 24 bit and all is well..hope this helps
you may also want to run png through pngoptimizer(google it) make sure you hit enter at the end of desc file then save. sound on system/custosimize/resource should be named SPC_animation_final.mp3 and zipped (storage)with same name (no mp3 should be).zip
see if this works for you
Will it boot?
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you may also want to run png through pngoptimizer(google it) make sure you hit enter at the end of desc file then save. sound on system/custosimize/resource should be named SPC_animation_final.mp3 and zipped (storage)with same name (no mp3 should be).zip
see if this works for you
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I have a question about the kindle fires Bootanimation.zip
will the kindle still boot without the Bootanimation.zip or will it just lock up?
is there anyway to turn off the boot animation? I am running a jb rom and would really prefer it if there were no boot animation..
skipwilly said:
is there anyway to turn off the boot animation? I am running a jb rom and would really prefer it if there were no boot animation..
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Try deleting sanim and bootanimation zips from /system/media.
Thanks for checking in, ok I opened the bootanimation-orig.zip with 7-Zip and copied out the part0 folder, changed each png to be black and white. Then dropped the files back in 7-Zip (it was named bootanimation.zip then) and then took that zip and put it in system/media folder in the theme I flashed. Basically Bionix 4.1
My phone boots fine, but the boot animation doesn't show anything. I just had a blank screen (seemingly) ... I was thinking maybe the whites aren't white enough?
Could someone take a peak, attached with the orig file and my bootanimation.zip that resulted in my edits.
Thanks a ton!!
I've run into this before - the solution, I've found, is to set the compression level to 'store'. It didn't seem to work any other way.
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I've run into this before - the solution, I've found, is to set the compression level to 'store'. It didn't seem to work any other way.
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Yep that was it. Thanks for that!