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HTC Desire Boot Animation [Ubuntu Guide]

Thought I would post as I'm not sure if anyone has tried this yet but I used the nexus 1 bootloader anamation found here and it works perfectly.
So for anyone who wants to do it them selves heres a guide once you have rooted your desire follow these steps.
1. Put the nexus-bios-boot.zip onto your sd card.
2. Load up into ubuntu.
3. Turn off your desire.
4. Turn it on again while holding down the 'volume down' button this time. The screen will look similar to before, but will say 'HBOOT' instead of 'FASTBOOT'. Use the volume buttons and the power button to select the 'RECOVERY' option. You should then see a screen with a red triangle - at this point, plug it into your usb.
5. Now you need to unzip the 'push files' zip that you downloaded.
6. copy pushfiles folder to the desktop
7. open terminal
8. type this into the terminal window
Code:
cd ~/Desktop/pushfiles
9. then type
Code:
sudo ./recovery-linux.sh
10. In the recovery image (moving around using the optical trackball), select 'Flash zip from sdcard' and choose the nexus-bios-boot.zip
11. Confirm then reboot desire.
I would like to point out that none of this is my own work I simply compiled all of the above information from others work to make a simple guide. All credits goto Paul @ MoDaCo for rooting and his guide and I am unsure of who actually made the boot screen. But the link is at the top of the post.
Below are all of the files you will need to get started
and here is a quick vid

nice one, thanks

Installed this too, looks smart!

Dont know if anyone noticed but as its booting it says nexus one lol I have posted in the original thread maybe someone who knows what they are doing will edit it and make one specifically for the desire.

Hi,
Great work!
Would this work for all Boot screens for Android?
Regards
Mo

I'm honestly not sure this is my first android phone. I saw the boot animation thread a few weeks ago an thought as soon as we have root I'm going to try it and to my sunrise it worked. I would guess any existing nexus one animations would work on the desire fine but I an not 100% sure. If you find any others I would be happy to try them and post my results.
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FeaRThiS said:
I'm honestly not sure this is my first android phone. I saw the boot animation thread a few weeks ago an thought as soon as we have root I'm going to try it and to my sunrise it worked. I would guess any existing nexus one animations would work on the desire fine but I an not 100% sure. If you find any others I would be happy to try them and post my results.
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Umm How about..
These over at modaco?
Green Android is Very Cool....
Regards
MoJo

As soon as I get my pc up and running again (can't believe I still use Windows) I will test them out and let you know if they are working
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FeaRThiS said:
As soon as I get my pc up and running again (can't believe I still use Windows) I will test them out and let you know if they are working
Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
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Thanks buddy.
I'm looking forward to it.

It would be nice to have a bootup with the actual android on the screen lol

I quite like the Open Eclair boot animation. The one with the logo exploding into a million androids that fly at the screen.
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as you can restore the original boot?
Thanks

I have not tried but as the boot animation is loaded onto the rom I would guess if you restored an original rom I would set it back to "how it was ment to be". I am jus grabbing the files I need now and will test a few more out and post my results + vids.

mojavaid36 said:
Umm How about..
These over at modaco?
Green Android is Very Cool....
Regards
MoJo
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I have just tried all three and get the same message saying... E: No signiture E: Verification failed
I also tried another from the original thread I linked to the nexus-boot-apple 1 and it worked fine. Possible they need signing properly and then they would work but dont really know enough about android phones atm to really sepectualte.
Edit: Just been told that the files you linked to do not get flashed but you push them over via adb.

bootanimation.zip
Just a wierd question.
I tried to create a bunch of png files to create an animation.
Numbered from 00001 to 00009
I placed those in a folder named android.
Edited the desc.txt file to:
480 800 1
p 1 1 android
Zipped this to bootanimation.zip and placed this zip file in /data/local
When rebooting the phone i get a nice black screen.
Now what am i doing wrong in this progress?
Greetings from a vastloper

You need to re-sign the package. To do that just zip up the 'data' and 'META-INF' directories then use the following guide to sign it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3175518&postcount=2

i signed it also.
Didnt work either.
Do i need to change the meta.inf file ?
Thanks for the reply

It shouldn't be a file called meta.inf, it should be a directory named META-INF.
If you use nexus-bios-boot.zip as an example (from Post #1) then in the META-INF directory should be a few signature files:
CERT.RSA
CERT.SF
MANIFEST.MF
(delete these - they will be recreated when you sign the file)
and subdirectories com -> google -> android containing the update-script
(which can be left alone)
Do you have the update-script in the correct place? Zip it all up, sign and apply. Any change?

Might be a problem with bootanimation.zip actually.
http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-droid/25774-custom-boot-animation-figured-out.html
I think the folder with the .pngs needs to be called part0 and part1:
"the folder part 0 is the part that does not loop. part 1 will loop after part 0 plays and while phone is still loading."

Final tidbit...
You could always just use adb to push the bootanimation.zip to the correct place.
No need to worry about signing or update-script! Of course you have to do this from recovery mode after mounting the system, so the full code you would run:
Code:
adb shell mount /system
followed by:
Code:
adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local/

File Pulling?

I'm current running meXdroidMod meXperia remeX ROM and I really like it especially the screen transitions and phone dialer setup. Today I found Ultimate Droid ROM which is extremely fast. I wanted to ask how do I pull the phone dialer, screen transitions and apply them to UD ROM? I've searched the thread looking for an answer but couldn't find what I was looking for.

I'm current running meXdroidMod meXperia remeX ROM and I really like it especially the screen transitions and phone dialer setup. Today I found Ultimate Droid ROM which is extremely fast. I wanted to ask how do I pull the phone dialer, screen transitions and apply them to UD ROM? I've searched the thread looking for an answer but couldn't find what I was looking for.
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Wouldn't mind knowing that myself. My UD 3.0.X is starting to act up though
dont send me pm's crying about how i hurt your feelings in a thread

you can pull files using ADB
but doin that may not work for the phone do different kernal and builds
but if you want to give it a try
you can do
Adb pull /system/Phone.apk (drag a folder in terminal/cmd pmrpt)
then push it in

ilostchild said:
you can pull files using ADB
but doin that may not work for the phone do different kernal and builds
but if you want to give it a try
you can do
Adb pull /system/Phone.apk (drag a folder in terminal/cmd pmrpt)
then push it in
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adb pull /system/app/Phone.apk
The total command would look something like this;
Code:
adb pull /system/app/Phone.apk c:\android-sdk\apps
The second part of the command (c:\...) is the path to whatever location you want to save the app to. Don't forget Linux/Android is (/) vs. Windows (\)
Honestly though, I would just DL the ROM and use 7zip to open it and drag out the .apk you want. Then open (don't extract) the other ROM and replace the .apk with the one you want. Flash and enjoy. Much easier IMO.

thts flash a whole rom over again, simply pulling and pushing would jus do that and see if would FC if it does, you can jus push old Phone.apk back
thats why i said you can drag a folder/destination into cmd prompt/terminal and it will show with out typing the whole file path where you want

what bugs are u seeing with ultimate droid. I was able to fix the led issue but know my phone shuts off when I unplug the usb cable

slider6000 said:
what bugs are u seeing with ultimate droid. I was able to fix the led issue but know my phone shuts off when I unplug the usb cable
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I'm not having any issues with UD but I really like the theme (icons, phone, screen transitions) of meXdroid and want to basically copy the theme to my UD ROM. But still trying to locate the right files for the theme.

CRT Screen Off Mod

Here is an interesting article that will help you if you want CRT screen Off animation like in Nexus S:
http://www.freeyourandroid.com/guide/enable-crt-animation
Worked with no problems on my SGC with Rogers ROM.
I actually used NinjaMorph to package the modified resources.arsc into framework-res.apk, but I assume the original method will work too.

Safe to flash
this?

Aquethys said:
Safe to flash
this?
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Probably no. Most likely you will end up with phone freezing on the Samsung logo at boot. framework-res.apk files are not interchangeable between models, maybe not even between firmware versions for the same phone.

Can you post a step by step guide then? I can't really understand anything here

The step-by-step instructions from the link in the first post are pretty much what i did. Read the comment by ravenstark - if you mount the filesystem with root explorer there will be no need to execute the commands in red in section 8.
The instructions from the link in your post cover steps 3-7. You still have to download the file to your PC (1), decompile it (2) and upload it back to the phone once you are done with it (8).

For the first step which terminal do you use??
(Free Your Android guide)

adb. If you don't have you can download it from here. It is part of the SDK and probably the most essential tool.
The command is exactly as written there

Aquethys said:
For the first step which terminal do you use??
(Free Your Android guide)
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What do you mean? If you're using a Windows PC, then just open up a cmd prompt. You should read the guides at the beginning of that page so you know how to setup adb and the apk tool.
The big picture is this. Connect your pc to computer, pull file from phone to PC using adb, modify file on PC, push file back to phone using adb.
For what it's worth, here's a thread I wrote quite a long time ago, some is not applicable for the Glide, but most of it still applies. If you're going to be mucking around in your phone it's best to know how to do a few things first. Read Before Flashing.

When I try and open SDK or AVD (what's the difference :| ) then I just get a quick terminal screen that closes.

It would be appreciated if someone could just create a flashable CWM version >_<

I hate my inexperience @ this. It keeps saying this isn't "adb" isn't recognized, but I've downloaded it! How can I check?!

Aquethys said:
I hate my inexperience @ this. It keeps saying this isn't "adb" isn't recognized, but I've downloaded it! How can I check?!
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Ok, so what have you done so far?
What should be done. Assuming you're using Windows, install the Android SDK. Once installed, launch the SDK Manager. Then from the list of installable options, choose the Platform Tools and I always like to get the drivers. Once done, you will have this path, CrogramFiles(x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools, now you could add this path to your variables in Windows, which would be easiest, or copy the Platform-tools folder to C:. Then plug in your phone via USB to your computer.
Now, if you added the Path to your variables, just go Start>Run>cmd, and at the cmd prompt type adb devices. If you see a device you're good.
If you copied the Platform-tools folder over, then Start>Run>cmd, and in the cmd prompt type,
C:
then
cd platform-tools
then
adb devices
Beyond that, can't really help, never use apk tool. Good luck.

Aquethys said:
It would be appreciated if someone could just create a flashable CWM version >_<
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Attached to this post is a CWM update with CRT Screen OFF and battery icon with percent for ROGERS ROM. I'm not sure this will work on AT&T ROM.
Make a backup before applying this update so you can restore if you end up stuck on SAMSUNG logo on boot.
Apologies to the author of the battery mod - I couldn't find his post to link to here...

Aquethys said:
I hate my inexperience @ this. It keeps saying this isn't "adb" isn't recognized, but I've downloaded it! How can I check?!
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Hopefully the file tcfx44 posted works for you. Either way, I highly suggest you learn how to use adb and some other tools if you plan on flashing your phone in the future. It could prove useful some day.

Will this apply over OsiMood? I really am not sure if I am using the Rogers, but apparently I am because in XDA App it says I927-R and same with a benchmark.

Doesn't work for OsI mood 2.1.30 or whatever version was released today. I don't want to give up the amazing UI and stuff of OSi. I'm working fine though, so doesn't look like the install failed or bricked. Any revisions?

Aquethys said:
Doesn't work for OsI mood 2.1.30 or whatever version was released today. I don't want to give up the amazing UI and stuff of OSi. I'm working fine though, so doesn't look like the install failed or bricked. Any revisions?
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I changed a bit the CWM mod. Hopefully this one will work. Make a backup of your current ROM - I'm not sure if this mod is compatible with OsiMood.

tcfx44 said:
I changed a bit the CWM mod. Hopefully this one will work. Make a backup of your current ROM - I'm not sure if this mod is compatible with OsiMood.
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CRT Screen Mod -- Works with Rom manager..
Addition
Default Battery Indicator Changed.. Shows Percentage in steps of 5%..

Anyone having problems powering off and crashing GO Launcher? (then run through media scanner, etc..)
Could you remove the battery mod? I don't like it compared to OSiMood battery >_>
Finally, sorry for demanding so much, could you also put CRT on and ICS animations here?
Sorry!!!!!

Having serious problems turning off. This then affects my underclock.

New for the Devs: ROOTED system dump here

Major edit:
This is now the rooted system pull, including EVERYTHING that you'll need to dev for this phone. Links are here:
http://d-h.st/2No This link is system.img compressed to a 7z format, expect it to be HUGE (about 1.4gb) when uncompressed.
http://d-h.st/7YC This is the standard system.tar.gz pull.
http://d-h.st/wvp System.tar.gz mirror

If anyone needs another system dump uploaded let me know. Got mine today and am in no hurry to switch over to it so its a test bed.

Thanks for posting. I'm sure this will be of great help to some folks doing research on the device for some flashing goodness!

anyone wanna test TW launcher with wallpaper scrolling
already have it done.

howtomen said:
anyone wanna test TW launcher with wallpaper scrolling
already have it done.
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You're already on a roll! Good to see some familiar SN's on this side already!

howtomen said:
anyone wanna test TW launcher with wallpaper scrolling
already have it done.
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wut? lol the launcher doesn't have wallpaper scrolling? wow didn't know that.

HERE IS A JumboFiles MIRROR

Thanks, Neverends. Just edited my first post.

I got a T-mo version today, and would love to provide a dump, but I don't have a clue how. My Odin/adb are all good, I just don't know what the commands are. Anyone want to give me a list so I can have at it?

Janis said:
I got a T-mo version today, and would love to provide a dump, but I don't have a clue how. My Odin/adb are all good, I just don't know what the commands are. Anyone want to give me a list so I can have at it?
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Adb pull /system and post in tmobile forum
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Janis said:
I got a T-mo version today, and would love to provide a dump, but I don't have a clue how. My Odin/adb are all good, I just don't know what the commands are. Anyone want to give me a list so I can have at it?
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Make a folder to hold the dump. I did C:/SGS3Dump
Then type adb pull /system C:/SGS3Dump and it takes about 15 minutes to complete

entropism said:
Make a folder to hold the dump. I did C:/SGS3Dump
Then type adb pull /system C:/SGS3Dump and it takes about 15 minutes to complete
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There is a better way to do this. By doing it the way that you mention windows will add a carriage return to end of every line of the basic files, since Adnroid is linux at it's base, that is not a good thing.
The better way to grab a system image is like this:
adb shell
cat /dev/block/system > /sdcard/system.img
This can be mounted like an iso on any OS.

I'll do this now. Thanks for the tip!
Edit: Says no such file or directory. odd

jimbridgman said:
There is a better way to do this. By doing it the way that you mention windows will add a carriage return to end of every line of the basic files, since Adnroid is linux at it's base, that is not a good thing.
The better way to grab a system image is like this:
adb shell
cat /dev/block/system > /sdcard/system.img
This can be mounted like an iso on any OS.
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no root so it cant be done....

howtomen said:
no root so it cant be done....
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Yes that is true, but still a better way for a true image. The other way, will miss any files that are not readable by "other" on the filesystem, so that can be an issue, as well.

As soon as we get root, I'll post up a proper system dump. I just need to know how to get access to the boot.img, so we can get root.

entropism said:
I'll do this now. Thanks for the tip!
Edit: Says no such file or directory. odd
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You may have to figure out where the device for /system is at in /dev it may be something like /dev/block/mmcblk0p(1-26). Those last numbers in the parenthesis are the partition number for /system, that will be what you will need to find in /dev/block, and it will be a number between 1 and 25 usually.
You will need root to this, just like howtomen mentioned. For now how you mentioned will just sort of do the job. It would be best to do it from cygwin rather than from the windows command line though, as cygwin should NOT add the carriage returns.

OK well... I have a linux machine I can use, but I never used ADB on it. if someone wants to walk me through it, I'll do a system dump on linux. If not, well, not much I can do...

Would love to look at the dump, but that mirror ain't working well for me.
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Me neither... I'm posting up my dropbox again.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6421623/ATTSGS3 System Dump.7z

[TUT] {EASY!} Batch APK Install WITHOUT Prompts

HOW TO INSTALL BATCH APK FILES WITHOUT PROMPT​for n00bs too..​
It's like this -
1. Place all your APK files into a folder.
2. Extract all the files from the ZIP Attachment below the post into it.
4. Enable 'Android Debugging' or 'USB Debugging' in Settings->Developer options and select 'Apps and ADB' in the Root Access option.
2. Connect your mobile to your PC.
3. Open the 'cmd.exe'.. (included in the folder you extracted).
4. Type
Code:
adb devices
5. If your device gets listed, you've successfully connected through ADB. :good:
6. Type this code into the command prompt window :
Code:
forfiles /m *.apk /c "cmd /c adb install @file"
7. Done! The APK files will automatically get installed onto your device!!
You can also use this to install batch APK files to your emulators like BlueStacks. Just check if it's connected using the 'adb devices' command.
EnJoY! :fingers-crossed::victory:​

So is this a tutorial on how to download pirated apps, then install them all at once

Re: [HOW TO] Batch APK Install WITHOUT any Prompt
rockstar_26 said:
So is this a tutorial on how to download pirated apps, then install them all at once
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I never said that anywhere.. :screwy: :what:
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You can skip steps 1-10 in the first part, and replace steps 6-7 in the second part with
Code:
forfiles /m *.apk /c "cmd /c adb install @file"
It's much easier that way.

Re: [HOW TO] Batch APK Install WITHOUT any Prompt
you download apk's.. that mean they are pirated... does anyone here download apk of free app? lol i don't... nd don't think anyone here does... nws nyc tutorial.. and we have told you fukn thousands of time use black color only... i just can't read what's in green :/
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Re: [HOW TO] Batch APK Install WITHOUT any Prompt
Or if you don't have computer handy you can always throw all the works into a folder and open a terminal window and execute this command
pm install *.apk
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paarthdesai said:
you download apk's.. that mean they are pirated... does anyone here download apk of free app? lol i don't... nd don't think anyone here does...
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Heyy.. I never download any APK's..! It's just that I have a really slow internet connection (I don't even have it in my PC, I use USB Tethering for all I do on the internet.) So, I can't afford to download the same apps again and again.. why to waste so much of my data by downloading every app again when changing ROMs? So, I download games and everything from the Play Store and make a backup of them in the form of APKs..
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Or if you don't have computer handy you can always throw all the works into a folder and open a terminal window and execute this command
pm install *.apk
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Thanks.. as soon as I try it, I'll change my tutorial.
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Colours Removed.
paarthdesai said:
we have told you fukn thousands of time use black color only... i just can't read what's in green :/
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Colours removed.. Now... please adjust with some!
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Most of my apps have two-part names like "Skype Wifi". These apps fail to install. What should I do?

valapsp said:
Most of my apps have two-part names like "Skype Wifi". These apps fail to install. What should I do?
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Remove that space between them using a dot or an underscore or any other character. No space is allowed.
Then start the process from Step 2 again.
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Thanx I thought there would be another way. (Typing something else in CMD)

valapsp said:
Thanx I thought there would be another way. (Typing something else in CMD)
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No.
So, it worked? It saves a hell lot of Time!
Send from my One V waiting for Samsung PSS ROM

Ur an Indian and u don't pirate, lol? Hard to believe
Send me a log of ur phone , I'll check
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cybervibin said:
Ur an Indian and u don't pirate, lol? Hard to believe
Send me a log of ur phone , I'll check
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LoLz haha! :laugh::laugh:

paarthdesai said:
you download apk's.. that mean they are pirated... does anyone here download apk of free app? lol i don't... nd don't think anyone here does... nws nyc tutorial.. and we have told you fukn thousands of time use black color only... i just can't read what's in green :/
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I do... Google Play Music... coz i can't find it in the Play Store in my region~
Btw, nice tutorial~

For people experiencing installing difficulties.
Add double quotes to the file names since sometimes there is a space between file names which causes problems parsing the name in adb install command.
Otherwise very good tutorial.

kalpak2021 said:
For people experiencing installing difficulties.
Add double quotes to the file names since sometimes there is a space between file names which causes problems parsing the name in adb install command.
Otherwise very good tutorial.
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Updated the tutorial
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great now I can install all the apps at once.
Thank you

I am very thankful to you . You saved my time