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[Q] change boot animation?

i have searched but cant find the ideal guide on how to change the boot animation AND mp3 sound. i see it all on youtube but its confusing the way they do it.
someone point me in the right direction?? thanks in advanced.
also do i need to have NAND unlocked??

I would purchase Root Explorer for $1 and do it through that app.
You basically need to find the thread located on this website with a collection of boot animations. Download the zip that's included and flash through recovery. If you wish to change the .mp3 sound for let's say the Dancing Droid boot animation you would want to go through Root Explorer and overwrite/place mp3 file in the correct formatted name.
Here's the thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=708173

Cool thanks but root explorer is like $5 where do you get it for $1?
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Oops my bad. I probably too it for another app. Try downloading ES File Explorer since it's free. I buy so many apps that I forget the price sometimes.

so it there any exact walkthrough?
im just not used to all the "experienced people should know what this means"
stuff..
like when u say recovery u mean hboot??

Recovery is when you power off your phone, hold volume down and boot on your phone while holding it down. You can then flash .zip from recovery by choosing "choose zip from sdcard" and finding the boot animation, confirming (as in yes) and installing.

if i mess up can i reflash my nand??
i already backed everything up..

Yes you can do a Nand restore.

cool thank you

gqstatus0685 said:
Recovery is when you power off your phone, hold volume down and boot on your phone while holding it down. You can then flash .zip from recovery by choosing "choose zip from sdcard" and finding the boot animation, confirming (as in yes) and installing.
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didnt work in recovery.. i flashed and everything but no success.. same old one..

I've been trying to figure it out too?
Swyped From Eva Running Myn's RLS4.95 On The Now Network!

The boot animation is in /system/media put the file in there & replace the existing one. It must be named the exact same & be a .zip I suggest booting into recovery & wiping cache & dalvik after replacing it

Will try that hope it works
theultimatev said:
The boot animation is in /system/media put the file in there & replace the existing one. It must be named the exact same & be a .zip I suggest booting into recovery & wiping cache & dalvik after replacing it
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Let me know if it works nuggy
-On That Black Ops Status-

Didn't let me overwrite my boot out said its read only. So my guess is I have to do it through adb?
xtrubambinoxpr said:
Let me know if it works nuggy
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Swyped From Eva Running Myn's RLS4.95 On The Now Network!

Pushboot is the easiest way

Oh boy. Have you guys actually made a rom or flashed a boot animation? I don't think so. Here's a step-by-step tutorial.
1. NANDROID NANDROID NANDROID <--- Always do this when modifying your rom unless you like starting over.
2. Find the bootanimation that you want. Some come with the sound and some don't. I prefer ones without sound.
3. Get the Android USB drivers and ADB from the Android SDK if you haven't already and make sure the drivers are installed for your phone. If I have to explain that, then you shouldn't use technology.
4. Now, I would just do this the easy way and open up the zip file that the bootanimation comes in. If the bootanimation is named bootanimation.zip, then there's nothing to extract as that's the file we need. The sound file will be called SPC_animation_final.mp3. That's what the file names for the animation and sound must be.
5. Now, make sure that bootanimation.zip and SPC_animation_final.mp3 are in the same folder as ADB and open a command prompt. Make sure you Chdir to the same directory that ADB is and then type: adb remount
6. If you're rooted, you should see "remount succeeded" and you'll have read/write on your phone. If you don't see that message, you have to remount another way. The other way is to type: adb shell. Then, type: cat /proc/mounts. Look for the line that has an mtdblock in it and /system. You'll need that mtdblock number. The command I use is: mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system. Yours may be different if your partition setup is different. Yours could be 3, 5, 6, etc. If you aren't rooted, then leave this thread and go do that.
7. If you are still in adb shell, type exit to go back to the normal CMD. Otherwise, just go to step #8.
8. Next, type: adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource. It should copy it over without error.
9. Then, type adb push SPC_animation_final.mp3 /system/customize/resource. Again, it should copy without error.
10. Now, to test to make sure this worked, you can type adb shell bootanimation. Watch your phone and if you see your bootanimation, then it worked. If you don't, then it didn't copy right. Not sure if this test will play the animation sound as I don't use one.
11. If you really want to make sure it worked, type adb shell reboot and that will reboot your phone.
12. ???
13. Profit!

so everything is done through adb command..
-_- thats too difficult for me.. cuz if overtime i wanna change it again..
its a hassle..

xtrubambinoxpr said:
so everything is done through adb command..
-_- thats too difficult for me.. cuz if overtime i wanna change it again..
its a hassle..
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what exactly is it that you want to do? I might help

basically want one of the animations from this page http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=708173
i really want the dancing android and a song of my choice but if its too complicated i dont think its worth it..
i use boot animation changer lite on my evo and it works fine..
maybe there is an easy way??

[Q] boot animation doesnt override

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.

[Q] can't flash loading screen

Hi guys,
I recently rooted and S-OFF'ed my Desire. Really amazing. Everything went fine.
Really enjoying my phone more than ever before.
Now trying to flash my splash screen and boot loading screen.
I'm using Android Flasher 1.8.0 as suggested in the Noob tutorial section.
Splash screen went fine. Automatically reboots into fastboot. And flashes.
The tutorial doesn't actually doesn't go deeper into flashing the loading screen and whether or not it's supposed to automatically reboot into fastboot.
When i manually reboot into fastboot sometimes it can't find the process fastboot.exe and sometimes it can.
When it can it says it can't find my device when it's trying to flash the new loading screen. I don't understand why. Everything else i have tried works fine (except the first time i tried to S-OFF, it also said it couldn't find my device)
It did actually remove my RCmix-S loading screen. So now i only get a black screen when starting up. Everyhing still works fine though. Boots normally.
What should I do?

You cannot flash a new bootanimation with android flasher or fastboot. You have to replace the bootanimation.zip in /data/local or /system/media. You are s-off, so you can do this in os. Just use an explorer with root access (e.g. root explorer), mount /data or /system as r/w (read write) and replace the existing one with yours (but make a backup of the old before and make sure you used the correct resolution).

Okay that was kind of confusing then.
Still weird it's not recognizing my phone but is finding fastboot.exe
Anyway I got root explorer mounted /data/local and put a bootanimation.zip in the folder. It doesn't work though. Does it also have to be in /system/media
or just in one of them??
Thnx

It only has to be in /system/media.
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i got a weird error trying to flash a new splash screen
"sending splash1...OKAY"
"writing splash1"...FAILED <remote not allowed>
phone is recognised in fastboot etc...
any ideas?
thanks

00mpollard said:
i got a weird error trying to flash a new splash screen
"sending splash1...OKAY"
"writing splash1"...FAILED <remote not allowed>
phone is recognised in fastboot etc...
any ideas?
thanks
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Do not post in a thread which has nothing to do with your problem! And use the search.

I tried putting it only in /system/media and only in /data/local.
Both don't work.
My loading screen is still total black. I don't get it. What am I doing wrong. Is there some other file interfering. Do I have to delete something else....

PixelApocalypse said:
I tried putting it only in /system/media and only in /data/local.
Both don't work.
My loading screen is still total black. I don't get it. What am I doing wrong. Is there some other file interfering. Do I have to delete something else....
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It does not have the correct resolution. It has to be 480x800.

Actually it has. I checked.
They are 480 x 800, 24 bit *.PNG. Downloaded these in the splash screen thread.
I got it sort of working now.
I renamed the zip to bootanim.zip instead of bootanimation.zip. Don't know if it should matter but now i'm getting a loading screen.
It's just text reading "Android" with a animated glow going over it.
This is not the one i put on the phone though. Not the pictures in the zip.
Is this some kind of default loading screen?
Which means it's still not working....

Which rom do you currently run? If a sense one, the bootanimation has to be in /data/local. If aosp one, it has to be in /system/media. That's the basic. Furthermore, in your bootanimation.zip has to be minimum two parts:
- one folder named part0
- one file named "desc.txt" (description file)
In the folder named part0 has to be the png files in the correct resolution (480x800x24). In the desc.txt you have to put the following ouput:
Code:
480 400 x p 1 0 part0
'480' is the width (not variable)
'800' is the height (not variable)
'x' is here just a placeholder. You have to replace with a number. This number sets the frames (your choice, what you set)
'1' is the count how often the bootanimation loops (your choice)
'0' sets the a pause (max 10 possible)
'part 0' sets the folder in which the bootanimation files are (not variable).
Source: http://android.modaco.com/topic/338...nimationzip-futurama-bender-bootanimationzip/

Woooot it's working!!
I'm using RCMixS_v2.0_A2SD+_BravoHboot which is a sense rom.
I put it in /data/local.
The animation was only 6 frames. Which was incorrect in the desc.txt.
Also using NO compression when zipping was the key.
Not knowing this is probably key to many people not getting this to work.
Maybe it's a good idea to have that tutorial be made a sticky or include it in the "Complete upgrading guide"
Thnx a lot MatDrOiD!

PixelApocalypse said:
Woooot it's working!!
I'm using RCMixS_v2.0_A2SD+_BravoHboot which is a sense rom.
I put it in /data/local.
The animation was only 6 frames. Which was incorrect in the desc.txt.
Also using NO compression when zipping was the key.
Not knowing this is probably key to many people not getting this to work.
Maybe it's a good idea to have that tutorial be made a sticky or include it in the "Complete upgrading guide"
Thnx a lot MatDrOiD!
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No problem. And you could make very happy if you press the thanks-button.

Boot Sound

I have been banging my head against the wall for days now regarding this problem and can't quite figure it out. I created my own boot animation and was able to get that running just fine. I wanted to add a boot sound as well, so I did my homework and followed the instructions to a T. I resolved an error that I was getting while running the command sh bootsnd.sh, but even after it ran successfully I still was left with no boot sound. In the /system/media folder I have an mp3 named android_audio.mp3. I also verified that the build.prop file in the system folder had the line ro.config.play.bootsound=1 in it as well. I am currently running CM9 RC2 on my T-Mobile G2. Is there something I am missing? Can the G2 even play boot sounds? Has anyone gotten boot sounds to run on their G2? If so, how? Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated and thank you all in advance for any help you may be able to provide.

Did you set permissions for the file to rwxrxxrxx?
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Atomix86 said:
Did you set permissions for the file to rwxrxxrxx?
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I double checked to make sure, but yeah the permissions were set correctly.
I can run the command 'stagefright -a -o /system/media/android_audio.mp3' from the terminal and it plays the sound without a problem.
Any other suggestions?

Are you calling it in desc.txt inside the bootanimation? I'm sure that's a part of it.
-Nipqer

I don't know if this makes a difference at all, but in the rom I use (EliteMod ICS, modified CM9 kernel, AOKP rom), seems you need to only place an boot_audio.mp3 file into /system/media/ , much like how you place boot animation.zip in /system/media, and chmod 644

Nipqer said:
Are you calling it in desc.txt inside the bootanimation? I'm sure that's a part of it.
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I did some additional research and did find a few references to adding the audio to the desc.txt file by adding a line like this 's android_audio.mp3' to it. I tried doing this and it borked the entire thing. On the reboot I saw the HTC logo, then was met by a black screen with no sound for a few moments before my home screen appeared.
kbeezie said:
I don't know if this makes a difference at all, but in the rom I use (EliteMod ICS, modified CM9 kernel, AOKP rom), seems you need to only place an boot_audio.mp3 file into /system/media/ , much like how you place boot animation.zip in /system/media, and chmod 644
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I tried renaming it and changing the permissions again only to be met again by silence.
Thank you both for the suggestions. Do you guys have anything else I could try?

http://www.mydroidworld.com/topic/7677-how-to-add-a-bootsound-to-cyanogenmod/
i managed to add boot sound thx to that method... you will need bootsound.zip... here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1298144 and follow instructions of first link... hope it will help...

Remove AT&T logo?

Basically I want to get rid of the AT&T logo from the boot screen because I'm unlocked and on another carrier.
I've been trying to work out how to do this but to no avail. Apparently I need to hard root by doing this:
(from androidcommander.com)
Edit your boot image.
Pull out your boot.img.
Unpack.
Edit default.prop file, set value „ro.debuggable” to „1″.
Re-Pack.
Flash.
Can anyone tell me how to actually do this or if it's even possible on the Captivate Glide?

The AT&T logo at boot isn't part of the boot.img, that's the boot animation. Samsung uses their own format for the bootanim, so you can't just replace it with one of the thousands out there, but you should be able to replace it with the bootanim from another samsung phone. I'll see if I can dig up the link where someone replaced it with the anim from an SGIII.

bakageta said:
The AT&T logo at boot isn't part of the boot.img, that's the boot animation. Samsung uses their own format for the bootanim, so you can't just replace it with one of the thousands out there, but you should be able to replace it with the bootanim from another samsung phone. I'll see if I can dig up the link where someone replaced it with the anim from an SGIII.
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I know the boot.img doesn't contain the animation. But according to a guide that I read I have to edit the boot.img file in order to hard root the phone so that I can then delete the bootsamsung.qmg file which contains the AT&T animation so I can just have a blank screen at the startup.

I've never heard that called "hard root" before but it's baked into the keyboard light fix which you probably have installed anyway.
Sent from my SGH-I927 using xda premium

Well, according to someone else, none of that is necessary, you can just replace the .qmg files and be set.
brunobbarcelos said:
I changed the bootanimation, now using the ICS stock from Galaxy SII. Just had to copy two .qmg files over the old ones, set the permissions, wiped cache and dalvik. Did this because while we don´t have custom kernel will not be possible to use .zip bootanimation and i couldn´t find a way to edit .qmg file.
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The Zip with ICS Galaxy SII boot files, i used only bootsamsung.qmg and bootsamsungloop.qmg.
Rename old ones
Copy new,
Change permissions,
Reboot cwm,
Wipe cache and dalvik,
Boot twice
(that´s how worked for me).
Permissions:
x x 0
x 0 0
x 0 0
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0 0 0
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Android Commander won't let me rename the bootsamsung.qmg file though so I don't see how I could replace it.

Did you make sure you mounted /system as rw? I was able to rename the files and copy over the new ones just fine through a terminal window.
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To clarify, I put the two .qmg files in /sdcard, and then did the following from a terminal (or adb shell):
Code:
su
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-num/p2 /system
mv /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg.bak
mv /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg.bak
cp /sdcard/bootsamsung.qmg /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg
cp /sdcard/bootsamsungloop.qmg /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg
chmod 644 /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg
chmod 644 /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg
I didn't need to wipe cache or dalvik, and it worked perfectly on first reboot - I now have the Galaxy SII boot logo. I'm now off to poke around and see if I can find anything I like better.

Let me know if you find anything you like better. I'm thinking if I'm going to replace the AT&T logo I just want something generic, not the name of another phone model.

Yeah, I'm not big on having it say Galaxy SII at the bottom. Ideally I'd like the plain ICS animation, but I doubt any samsung phone came with that. Next up is anything that's just generic Samsung, and if that fails, I'm looking for something that just says Galaxy S, since the phone was sold as the Galaxy S Glide in Canada.

If there's a way to convert a normal bootanimation.zip into a bootsamsung.qmg that'd be ideal, but I don't think it can be done. Or if we could make the Glide accept a bootanimation.zip that'd be perfect.

There's no tool for converting that I know of, unfortunately. As for bootanimation.zip, once the ICS kernel sources get released that'll be possible. The current kernel doesn't have support for bootanimation.zip, but a few of the custom ones from GB added it, and it shouldn't be difficult to add to an ICS kernel.
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Unfortunately, it appears the Galaxy S III animations won't work. I assume the higher resolution is the problem, as I get just a black screen on boot. That's pretty disappointing, as this would've looked just fine. Anyone know another Samsung device that doesn't list it's model in the boot animation?

I haven't tried it yet on the SGH-I927, but a trick that we used on the Gio to change the boot animation was to overwrite/rename the /system/bin/samsungani file with /system/bin/bootanimation binary (which is also present on the stock ROM) which will either show the "stock" green Android text, or an appropriately formatted bootanimation.zip if present.
I'll get back to you guys later once I've had time to try it out.
There might also be a (non-animated) logo in boot.img, I haven't unpacked one yet to check it out.
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Quick update:
There is a logo in the boot.img (or somewhere else in the bootloader.)
The samsungani/bootanimation switcheroo has a bug: it doesn't stop. I opened the slider, and I can see the animation running in a loop on the left half of the screen. Had to issue a kill command via ADB to stop it.
If you want to stick to a stock kernel and unbrand the boot animations: copy /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg in place of bootsamsung.qmg, and then rename /system/media/video/shutdown/shutdown.qmg to something else.

Aha, I've located some decent model-free .qmg's, from the Samsung Galaxy Ace 2. You can see the animation here on a Galaxy Ace Plus. File's were pulled from Cosmo123's post here.
I've pulled the files from his dump, and attached them here. I've also included a mediafire mirror.

Wow, that animation looks great. So I just follow the terminal instructions with those files from the Ace? Do I need to worry about getting rid of/replacing the PowerOn.wav?

I followed your instructions up to "cp /sdcard/bootsamsung.qmg /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg" in Terminal Emulator, but when I clicked enter on that line it came up saying "sh: cp: not found". So I don't know why it's saying that if that means the qmg file isn't found because I put both the new qmg files onto the internal SD card. Any thoughts?

Well I managed to rename the qmg files and the PowerOn files on the phone so now I just have the static Samsung logo on startup. So actually I've fairly happy with just that. So if you don't know how to fix the terminal problem I was having it's OK. It'd just be handy to know what the problem was in case I need to copy anything onto the root in future.

bakageta said:
Aha, I've located some decent model-free .qmg's, from the Samsung Galaxy Ace 2. You can see the animation here on a Galaxy Ace Plus. File's were pulled from Cosmo123's post here.
I've pulled the files from his dump, and attached them here. I've also included a mediafire mirror.
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This is exactly what I was looking for, and with the boot logo that came with the ICS Leak, I'm set :
PD: Anyone noticed that the Galaxy R just got an Update to ICS ?

liquidmetalrob said:
I followed your instructions up to "cp /sdcard/bootsamsung.qmg /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg" in Terminal Emulator, but when I clicked enter on that line it came up saying "sh: cp: not found". So I don't know why it's saying that if that means the qmg file isn't found because I put both the new qmg files onto the internal SD card. Any thoughts?
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Ah, you don't have busybox installed. By default, our rom doesn't have several typical commands set up, it's the only device I've owned that didn't have cp out of the box. Go snag busybox and you'll be able to copy those files over.

bakageta said:
Did you make sure you mounted /system as rw? I was able to rename the files and copy over the new ones just fine through a terminal window.
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To clarify, I put the two .qmg files in /sdcard, and then did the following from a terminal (or adb shell):
Code:
su
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-num/p2 /system
mv /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg.bak
mv /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg.bak
cp /sdcard/bootsamsung.qmg /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg
cp /sdcard/bootsamsungloop.qmg /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg
chmod 644 /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg
chmod 644 /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg
I didn't need to wipe cache or dalvik, and it worked perfectly on first reboot - I now have the Galaxy SII boot logo. I'm now off to poke around and see if I can find anything I like better.
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Worked like a charm, on first reboot, like you, I didn't need to wipe anything. Just remember people, install Busybox before following this steps.