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Return to HTC bootanimation

If your particular ROM has a non-HTC bootanimation and you wish to return to the original HTC 'Quietly Brilliant' version just do this...
Copy the appended file to the tools directory of android-sdk on your desktop PC. If you don't have android-sdk Google, download and install it.
Connect your phone by USB to your PC; select Synchronize on your phone when prompted and wait for the phone to settle and OK any prompts.
On your PC, open an xterm window on linux or run cmd -w on Windoze to get a terminal window
cd to your android-sdk/tools directory -Replace your own path in the following line!!!
Code:
cd /usr/bin/android-sdk-linux_86/tools
(the following commands are for linux; for windoze miss off the ./)
Code:
./adb kill-server
./adb start-server
./adb remount
the following line moves bootanimation.zip to bootanimation.bak so you have a backup of the ROM customiser's artwork.[
Code:
./adb shell mv /system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource/bootanimation.bak
now we are going to upload the HTC bootanimation.zip to replace the one we've just renamed and set file permissions.
Code:
./adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/resource/
./adb shell chmod 0644 /system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip
just to check...
Code:
./adb shell ls -la /system/customize/resource/boot*
should show two lines for bootanimation.bak and bootanimation.zip with each line starting -rw-r--r--
When you reboot your phone you should now have HTC's animation.

Just remember the bootanimation is not located in system/.... Sometimes it's located in data/local and in SenseHero it's located in system/media/bootscreen and then it's gif files so this doesen't work for SenseHero Nice guide BTW Also have you thaught about putting it into an update.zip to make it easier?

C0mpu13rFr34k said:
Just remember the bootanimation is not located in system/.... Sometimes it's located in data/local and in SenseHero it's located in system/media/bootscreen
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Thanks .. I should have said this was really for Villain 12 Rom.
C0mpu13rFr34k said:
Also have you thaught about putting it into an update.zip to make it easier?
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I'm still finding my way and haven't learnt to do that yet!

Here is an update_signed.zip of that bootanimation.zip.
I just signed it, didn't test.
EDIT: This places the bootanimation.zip to /system/media/bootanimation.zip

iiro said:
EDIT: This places the bootanimation.zip to /system/media/bootanimation.zip
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To work on the Villain Rom - bootanimation.zip must be in /system/customize/resource/
The signed update may well work with other roms?

iiro said:
Here is an update_signed.zip of that bootanimation.zip.
I just signed it, didn't test.
EDIT: This places the bootanimation.zip to /system/media/bootanimation.zip
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actually that doesen't work for any ROMs. No ROMs has bootanimation.zip located there

Have a look at this thread as 1.5 bootscreens do actually work on 2.1 ROMs.
(You need to know where the bootanimation.zip is stored on your ROM first, as this needs to be removed.)

A signed update zip is appended which will return the Villain 12 Rom to HTC's 'Quietly Brilliant' animation.
This is ONLY for Villain 12. It over writes Villains boot animation so if you want to keep that as an alternative the adb push method above will be better.
It has been tested.

Thanks a lot, I've been trying to change my boot logo for some time now but didn't realise that VillainROM's was in a different location.

filipharvey said:
Have a look at this thread as 1.5 bootscreens do actually work on 2.1 ROMs.
(You need to know where the bootanimation.zip is stored on your ROM first, as this needs to be removed.)
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I know that but no 2.1 ROM has the bootanimation stored there...

C0mpu13rFr34k said:
I know that but no 2.1 ROM has the bootanimation stored there...
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At least that's where it is on VanillaEclair and CyanogenMod.

iiro said:
At least that's where it is on VanillaEclair and CyanogenMod.
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Oh... Didn't know that... I've never had a Vanilla ROM running on my phone At least no 2.1 Sense ROMs has it stored there

C0mpu13rFr34k said:
I know that but no 2.1 ROM has the bootanimation stored there...
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That is irrelevant, as it will work from /system/media in any ROM.

Can somebody sum up instructions to change the bootscreen on a VillainROM 12 for the GSM Hero? Things are getting a bit messy...

I've started so I'll finish...
manachinmaniac said:
Can somebody sum up instructions to change the bootscreen on a VillainROM 12 for the GSM Hero? Things are getting a bit messy...
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VillainRom puts bootanimation.zip in /system/customize/resource. It is the second boot screen to load.
To replace the VillainRom bootanimation with HTC's 'Quietly Brilliant' just run the update file appended.

filipharvey said:
That is irrelevant, as it will work from /system/media in any ROM.
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Not by default?

C0mpu13rFr34k said:
Not by default?
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It will if you remove the current bootscreen from wherever it is located, yes.

filipharvey said:
It will if you remove the current bootscreen from wherever it is located, yes.
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Okay that's what I thaught What I meant with the first post was that if you just flash it i'ts not going to change the bootanimation straight away unless you put the bootanimation.zip in the folder where it's located by default

C0mpu13rFr34k said:
Okay that's what I thaught What I meant with the first post was that if you just flash it i'ts not going to change the bootanimation straight away unless you put the bootanimation.zip in the folder where it's located by default
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That's right yes. You need to remove the old one first. If it is a bootanimation.zip from 2.1 it needs to go where the original one was located. If it is a bootscreen folder from 1.5, it needs to go in /system/media.
Even if you flash an update.zip from 1.5 to change the bootscreen in a 2.1 ROM, you need to delete the bootanimation.zip from wherever the dev has located it in your ROM.

I am currently running VillianROM 12.0.0 and have just flashed the HTC bootanimation file without removing the original bootanimation.zip file.
Thought I would try this to see what would happen. I backed up my phone then flashed the update, rebooted and the new HTC boot screen was there.
I just checked and the original bootanimation is still in it folder, system/customize/resource.
I'm running a pretty clean install,only a few days old.
Hopefully this helps.

Trouble changing boot animation

I posted this in Q&A but got no responses. I'm hoping someone here may have some advice.
Im running CM 6.1.1-Stable with pershoots kernel (rooted via gfree method) and I am trying to use the Droid X boot animation on my phone. However, I keep getting the default android bootanimation with silver text with the word "android" and some intermittent shining of the text.
I downloaded the bootanimation from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=710204
I copied both the audio and the bootanimation.zip files to /system/media according to these instructions:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=9118652&postcount=12
It erases the cyanogenmod boot animation, but instead i get the default silver android text bootanimation. I tried deleting the system/media/bootanimation.zip file and placing the new bootanimation.zip and audio in /data/local but this resulted in the same default bootanimation.
Am I missing something here? Most people seem to be able to easily change their bootanimation by pushing the file to /data/local, but for me, the cyanogenmod bootanimation in /system/media seems to take priority. Either way, pushing the bootanimation to either /system/media or /data/local is not working. Any ideas?
Also, do I need to do anything special to get the droid sound to work besides pushing it along with the bootanimation.zip file?
Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

Download a boot animation from this section. I know someone ported the Droid image to the G2.
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Yes try one from this section the one you downloaded isn't sized for our screen so probably won't play, so the phone plays the old default. If you want this one pm me and let me know
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When you place your bootanimation.zip do you use adb or terminal emulation?
Is so much easier with a terminal emulator
Place your bootanimation.zip in the root of your sdcard
Open terminal emulator
-su
-cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /data/local/
This will not give you any feedback if it was done correctly but it will if you get an error
-reboot
Sent by inconveniencing a large number of electrons from my mobile command center

HaXspresso boot sound -- make it stop!

Running HaXspresso on my wife's MT3GS -- awesome ROM, and she really loves it!
...EXCEPT for the sound that goes with the boot animation.
I've tried installing different boot animation zip files into /system/media but it looks like this ROM uses some other location for the boot animation.
So I'm wondering if anybody has ideas on how I can disable that boot sound?

blacra said:
Running HaXspresso on my wife's MT3GS -- awesome ROM, and she really loves it!
...EXCEPT for the sound that goes with the boot animation.
I've tried installing different boot animation zip files into /system/media but it looks like this ROM uses some other location for the boot animation.
So I'm wondering if anybody has ideas on how I can disable that boot sound?
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its under system/customize/resource/ its called TMO_Bootup_sound.mp3 if you have S-OFF you can just delete it using root explorer or some app like that, if not you can do this:
go into recovery, plug your usb cable and using adb type adb remount first, adb shell and then type cd system/customize/resource after that type rm TMO_Bootup_sound.mp3 (with the capitals and all, otherwise it wont delete it) and then reboot, it should be gone
I dont know if there is any easier way to do it (u can delete the file from the rom zip file, wipe and reflash it but you would have to do a backup of the apps and all that so xD) if anyone know an easier way please share it

Cool!
I just didn't know where the file was located to delete it.
I ended up running ADB shell in recovery, but it worked out just fine. No more boot sound to annoy my wife! Yay!

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.
-Nipqer
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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.
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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.
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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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brunobbarcelos said:
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):
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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):
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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.