I installed a boot animation on my phone without clearing the cache or backing up stock animation. I can't change to a different animation on the phone. Is there a way I can overwrite the current animation?
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JMalibu75 said:
I installed a boot animation on my phone without clearing the cache or backing up stock animation. I can't change to a different animation on the phone. Is there a way I can overwrite the current animation?
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yes post the info/files & I'll figure it out
JMalibu75 said:
I installed a boot animation on my phone without clearing the cache or backing up stock animation. I can't change to a different animation on the phone. Is there a way I can overwrite the current animation?
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Find a thread by nubecoder. He has the stock animation available.
And only way to change the animation is just flashing another. Or pushing the bootanimation.zip file into system/media using root explorer or another file manager with root access
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This is the animation files I installed. The startup zip never worked. The shutdown zip did, but screen animation is frozen. I installed another zip animation file, and it shows up in my /system/media as bootanimation.zip, but is not working when I startup or shutdown my phone.
JMalibu75 said:
This is the animation files I installed. The startup zip never worked. The shutdown zip did, but screen animation is frozen. I installed another zip animation file, and it shows up in my /system/media as bootanimation.zip, but is not working when I startup or shutdown my phone.
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Search for "find & post boot" in the theme forum & my thread will pop up & I have almost every boot ani for the epic & more & the stock boot too
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Ok I've been trying to change my stock boot animation to the honeycomb but having no luck at all. I used root explorer to put the bootanimation.zip in the path system/media . I noticed on the other devices its data/local . Also I notice that when I'm in system/media it says bootani.qmg not bootanimation.zip. so I changed the zip to look exactly like the bootani.qmg still didn't work. So could someone please tell me what to do or point me in a direction that will help me? Also I'm running stock eb13 froyo and I'm rooted.
Thanks in advance
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I don't know why no one has answered you yet, but you cannot replace the boot animation on stock samsung with a boot.zip. Stock Samsung uses a QMG file for the boot animation, to use a zip to replace the boot animation you must be on a custom kernel or ROM.
Censura_Umbra said:
I don't know why no one has answered you yet, but you cannot replace the boot animation on stock samsung with a boot.zip. Stock Samsung uses a QMG file for the boot animation, to use a zip to replace the boot animation you must be on a custom kernel or ROM.
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This. You need a custom kernel that supports custom bootanimation. Then you can change the bootanimation.zip provided in that kernel with the one you have.
On a custom kernel that can support it, you just delete the old bootanimation.zip and copy a new one that is compatible in your rom/kernel, correct?
I am using ACS frozenRom 1.1.1 and wanted to use the awesome boot animation from midnight byor. I was able to simply copy the bootanimation.zip from system/media inside the midnight rom zip and overwrite the one on the phone in the same directory. After I rebooted I got google framework force close errors, so I cleared the google framework data, as well as contact data to be sure, rebooted and everything is groovy.
Now, naturally the second question would be, how do I change the shutdown animation?
Thanks
:EDIT: And here's the answer for shutdown animations: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829529
How can i find out if a dev is working on a boot animation modable kernel for the epic touch?
Ask in the E4GT section for one...
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So I was screwing around trying to push a boot animation, deleted the bootanimation.zip in system/media and now all I have is the android boot ani.
Anyone know where I can find the bootanimation.zip from system/media, so I can at least flash boot animations again?
Thanks
It'll be in the install zip for whichever ROM you're currently using. Same place /system/media/.
epic4GEE said:
So I was screwing around trying to push a boot animation, deleted the bootanimation.zip in system/media and now all I have is the android boot ani.
Anyone know where I can find the bootanimation.zip from system/media, so I can at least flash boot animations again?
Thanks
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p3dr0maz said:
It'll be in the install zip for whichever ROM you're currently using. Same place /system/media/.
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I tried that and also tried one from a theme, no go. In the end I flashed the hc2.0 theme again and that fixed me right up.
Ive yet to see it posted, but are we able to change the boot screen and sound?
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Wouldnt it be like any other phone , root explorer , system , media, then change bootanimation.zip with the one u wan ?
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If they are talking about the boot animation than ya it is that simple. If you want to change that first screen that comes up before the boot animation, i am not sure how with this phone.
it is not really that simple ... Samsung uses compiled .qmg files for the boot animations.
If you have a custom kernel that supports bootanimation.zip then it should be the same as any other ROM ..
Hey everyone, every time I try to change my boot animation it never works and gives me the stock AOSP android screen. It doesn't matter which ROM or boot animation OR method of adding it. I can be in CM10 or paranoid android and it won't work. It can be any animation and it won't work. I can adb push, use ROM toolbox, or copy manually and it won't work. Any help is needed please.
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DERP- it wasn't with the right permissions.
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Changing permission !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've never done that !!!!!!!!!!!!
And, what are right permissions.
Posted from a smartphone which is my Note(memo)Pad thats why everybody says it Galaxy "Note"
bootanimation.zip copy paste to system/media and reboot. That's how I always do it and never had issues.
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Ayush770 said:
Changing permission !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've never done that !!!!!!!!!!!!
And, what are right permissions.
Posted from a smartphone which is my Note(memo)Pad thats why everybody says it Galaxy "Note"
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The same for moving apps to the system. The bootanimation.zip has to be rw-r--r--
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Place the file in /system/media/bootanimation.zip. It will get wiped when performing ROM upgrades. I've read that also placing the file in /data/local/bootanimation.zip will overwrite what's placed in /system/media/bootanimation.zip but I haven't tried it.
BTW, I user ROM Toolbox and AniBoot to download and install boot animations.
netbuzz said:
Place the file in /system/media/bootanimation.zip. It will get wiped when performing ROM upgrades. I've read that also placing the file in /data/local/bootanimation.zip will overwrite what's placed in /system/media/bootanimation.zip but I haven't tried it.
BTW, I user ROM Toolbox and AniBoot to download and install boot animations.
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Yep, putting boot animation.zip in /data/local is much easier and safer. You don't have to bother setting permissions there. It doesn't delete the one in /system/media, it just takes precedence over it. The system looks in /data/local first, and if no boot animation is there it runs the one in /system/media instead.
Thanks guys
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Hi All,
Here's how to change the boot animation for the device. Do at your own risk. I've attached the Cyanogenmod boot animation for starters.
Boot Animation
1. Using your file manager browse to system > media
2. You will see a file called bootanimation.zip and varients. Rename it to bootanimation.bak and add .bak to all the others as well.
3. Browse to your sdcard to the location of your new boot animation
4. Rename your new boot animation to bootanimation.zip if it isn't already
5. Copy the new boot animation to system > media
6. Give the new boot animate all the permissions.
7. Reboot and Enjoy
Cyanogenmod boot animation
Anyone tried it out yet?
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There's a few apps in the market that have a bunch of boot animation options. They're all sort of consolidated, I wonder if they're safe
Do you have to be rooted or unlocked to attempt?
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You will have to be rooted, not sure about unlocked. I"m guessing OP didn't actually bother to look at the files though. There are 3 boot animations in the folder. Assuming you are on sprint, you can delete bootanimation_boost.zip. The bootanimation.zip runs before the bootanimation_sprint.zip runs. I don't know if deleting one would cause it to revert to running the other one twice or longer but it probably wouldn't hurt anything to test. The bootanimation.zip is the LG logo animation and the bootanimation_sprint.zip is the sprint logo animation. I would guess that you could customize each of these if you gave them the same name, or maybe if you deleted the sprint one, the other bootanimation.zip would run longer. I don't have time to test it now...
Are the third party boot animation apps safe?
sheek360 said:
Are the third party boot animation apps safe?
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If by safe you mean it won't brick it, then yes they are. They should work too.
Thanks, will attempt after root. Haven't had time to do jack squat yet.
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Tried a few of those boot animation switchers. No dice
Just fyi for anyone who tried flash this, it isn't flashable, it just contains all the different dimensions.
Ok so I see the boost file. The sprint file. And the regular one. I changed it to .Bak and pasted the new one. But no dice
This will not work for the sprint att and boost versions i will use sprint for example...
You're mostly right however if you on one of the named providers above you must rename the old boot animation from bootanimation_sprint.zip to
bootanimation_sprint.bak then rename the file bootanimation.zip to bootanimation_sprint.zip i did this to restore the stock lg boot animation that was in there already i don't see why this would not work with other boot animation files
Enjoy
AdriVelazquez said:
Hi All,
Here's how to change the boot animation for the device. Do at your own risk. I've attached the Cyanogenmod boot animation for starters.
Boot Animation
1. Using your file manager browse to system > media
2. You will see a file called bootanimation.zip. Rename it to bootanimation.bak
3. Browse to your sdcard to the location of your new boot animation
4. Rename your new boot animation to bootanimation.zip if it isn't already
5. Copy the new boot animation to system > media
6. Reboot and Enjoy
Cyanogenmod boot animation
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The "boot animations" application from play store works perfectly if you change "install location" in preferences to system/media and the preset file name in preferences to "bootanimation_sprint.zip". You can then just click install on any animation you like.
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I cannot get that cyanogen animation to work though
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Not working for me, for whatever reason. Trying to use my own boot animation, and all I get is a black screen.This is my animation if perhaps you want to test if I've done something wrong. All I did was rename the bootanimation_sprint.zip into .bak and place that file in there instead. It should work, but it isn't.
just loaded yours up and just got a black screen, so i think its the actual animation thats messed up
I cannot get it to work either
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Hmm, guess I'll look into why the animation isn't working. Even made it from scratch and then using boot animation factory.
Epic has a guide that works better.
Also, to make it work you need to change the permissions of the new file.
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AdriVelazquez said:
Epic has a guide that works better.
Also, to make it work you need to change the permissions of the new file.
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Tried it with his guide and changed the permissions as well. I'm able to get stock JB to load on mine, it's just my boot animation that fails to work for some reason. I recreated it again from scratch and still don't really know what's wrong with it. Using 8bit color, stock compression, everything seems just fine; and yet it isn't. Maybe I'll take this up to the boot animation tutorial thread to see if anyone there can help me.
Edit: Nevermind, it was something extremely trivial that I should have noticed that just slipped by me. The folder name had a space in it, which pretty much made it useless. Fixed by removing the spaces.