Hi,
I have been playing around with the apple pissing and apple bashing boot screens.
As they were not in the order i wanted i decided to try and make my own bootanimation.zip. To do this i downloaded the .gif files and converted them to .png.
I then put these into folders called "part0" and "part1" and zipped it up with desc.txt which looks like this
Code:
480 800 30
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
However when I flashed it by putting it on my SD and selecting the flash zip option in recovery nothing changed.
I think this is because my .png files are animated. Does anyone know how to convert them to normal .png files with an image for each frame?
Or anything else i could have done wrong?
I followed this guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=623960
I have included the files as well.
Thanks
Update
Iv been playing around a bit more and have now managed to get the animated .gif into individual .png frames.
Iv renamed them, put them into part0 & part1 and created my desc.txt
I then zipped it into bootanimation .zip.
I booted into recovery and did
Code:
adb shell mount /system
adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media
adb reboot
When it rebooted the startup animation was replaced by a black screen.
Can anyone help me, as obviously other desire users have managed to create custom boot animations.
Iv attached my bootanimation.zip file.
Thanks
Right its definitely something to do with unzipping/zipping.
I know this because i downloaded one of the animations from the themes and apps section, unzipped it and zipped it again. This have me a black screen like whats happening with mine.
What procedure/program are other people following/using to create the bootanimation.zip?
Thanks
the ZIP needs to have no compression
you must choose STORE method when you are compressing it....and how did you mnaage to export the gif into png ????
I have been compressing it using the STORE method with Z-zip.
I can't remember exactly what i used to extract the frames as the .exe is on my work computer and im off today. I can post it up tomorrow for you.
Iv uploaded a screenshot showing the size before and after zipping.
Thanks for all your help
same problem here. I think the whole thing is somehow corrupted because the normal unmodified bootanimation doesnt show part 1 just the apple bashing.
agreed, pieing before bashing.
i've been playing with this too, but the result is black screen..
So I have been trying to get a BIOS boot animation together for the Evo based off of frysee's animations.
I have everything made but my phone keeps skipping the animation and going strait to the home screen.
*I have attached a copy of my zip*
I used RickBaller's Jurassic park style animation as a basis for folder structure and desc.txt file, which is really frustrating me because if i use "pushboot" with his it will show up but if i use it with mine it wont.
Used photoshop to edit images
All images saved as .png files with no interlacing
All sizes are 480x800
.zip made with store compression
Is there a maximum size that an image can be?
Looking for some advice as to where I have messed things up.
The frame numbers have to be five characters long, e.g. 00001 instead of 001. Also make sure you don't edit the desc.txt file with notepad since that will screw things up.
In the good old day when we had so many gingerbread options, if your rom allowed it you could change boot animation simply put zip into system/media now that we are moving on to ICS that no longer works, I did some searching that a second file needs to be made or placed for it to work, I tried toolbox but most of those although they do work are droid themes or lame. So the question is was anyone able to change the boot animation with a ICS rom, without using toolbox, if so please post how you were able to do it. I love the android pissing on apple boot. Does any one have that anmation by chance most links I found were to megaupload which has been shut down.
Once you find the one you want just place it into system\media make sure its named bootanimation.zip
It works with dark side evolution ics. I know because I made a animation from scratch and I run it in my phone.
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robandcathy said:
In the good old day when we had so many gingerbread options, if your rom allowed it you could change boot animation simply put zip into system/media now that we are moving on to ICS that no longer works, I did some searching that a second file needs to be made or placed for it to work, I tried toolbox but most of those although they do work are droid themes or lame. So the question is was anyone able to change the boot animation with a ICS rom, without using toolbox, if so please post how you were able to do it. I love the android pissing on apple boot. Does any one have that anmation by chance most links I found were to megaupload which has been shut down.
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The problem with the bootanimation.zip file you were trying to use was that when I unzipped and took a look into the desc.txt file, the second line where it states what folder to run first was not named the same as the folder that contained the images. So when you were telling your phone to look in a certain folder it was never found. In case you run into other problems follow these basic steps.
You need to unzip it and make sure that it is filed in the correct order. When a bootanimation.zip is made it consist of a desc.txt and at least one folder with many or few .png images. The folder that contains the .png images must be named the same in the txt file. In order of course of how you want to see it run. All this is stated in the desc.txt.
And to put it on your phone just copy paste into system/media make sure that you can RW in that directory. Then reboot and your good.
Or an easier way just do adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media from platform tools in your SDK.
XDA upload wasn't working so here ya go!
Ok first off big thanks to cesar, I didnt get his post at first and didnt feel like bothering him any more as he has been much to helpful so in lamemans terms, you need it to be in a zip format when you put it into system/media.....within that zip should be a folder containing you pics and a text file (what ever the folder is called should also be referenced in the text file) I was a little lost when I saw boot and tried several different ways till I got it, and now I understand, also I think within the text file you can set the size of video on the first line. Again big thanks to Cesar.
What about power on sound?
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What rom you running?
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Darkside evolution 3 says it on my signature lol
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UPDATE 4th POST
This is just a start of some of my favorite boot animations. These boot animations are raw. I did not make them flashable because CWM zips are kernel sensitive and this way everyone with a kernel that has added boot support can use them. The PLAYSTATION boot animation has power on sound too!!!! Great for the new FF11 kernel (thanks Agat63, sfhub) and for Mijjahz new Blend No Name (FF11) AND the (el29) version of Mijjahz Blend 3.0. * Thanks goes out to mijjahz for helping me out, and for his awsome ROMS. Of course as long as your kernel provides boot animation support these will work. I've tested all the boot animations here and that I will post later. Also this is just the start to a collection that I've gained from everywhere on the net so I'm not sure who made all these. Thanks goes out to all the animators who made these as well. Also, some of these I HAVE made, so thanks to me as well lol. Ok so here we go.
Devs: I don't mind if you want to use one of my boot animations, just let me know first and give me credit on your thread.
1. download zip to your sd card
2. Make nandroid back up
3. push to /system/media with root explorer or ES file exporer. (if its the PowerOn .wav for boot anim push to /system/etc. edit:For ICS PowerOn.wav and PowerOn.ogg are required! Just make a copy of the wave file and rename the extention to .ogg and place in </system/etc> with the PowerOn.wav)
4. Delete old boot animation.zip and sanim.zip.
5. Rename your boot animation.zip of choice to "bootanimation.zip"
6. Make a copy of your new "bootanimation.zip" and paste there in /system/media. Rename the copy "bootanmimation_copy.zip" to sanim.zip
7. Reboot.- enjoy
Always make a nandroid backup when working with the system files and bootloader. I am not responsible for what you do.. laddie dah.. you know the drill.
BOOT ANIMATIONS
1. PLAYSTATION. This is the original Playstation boot animation with the power on .wav. Turn your e4gt into a retro game console. This one is on my phone.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
http://www.4shared.com/music/XvJNAxuH/PlaystationPowerOn.html
http://www.4shared.com/zip/6Xpn0T9h/Playstationbootanimation.html
2. apple "deathstar" blows up!
http://www.4shared.com/zip/FnIVZrMh/death_star_bootanimation.html
NEW!! -->DeathStar boot sound!!!
3.The Simpsons
http://www.4shared.com/zip/oN7ihNSC/The_Simpsons_bootanimation.html
-> ->New Boot Sound simpsons_theme.wav
4.Android Cyborg
http://www.4shared.com/zip/SnfS8z1j/cyborg.html
5.Android MW3
http://www.4shared.com/zip/BO3oVfUg/androidmodernwarbootanimation.html
Ok, thats all for now.. I will update this periodically over the next few days. I have plenty more but wanna see if there is a demand for kick ace boot animations first. So stop back here cause there will be another post. or update.
UPDATE 5/16/12 MORE KICK ACE BOOT ANIMATIONS
Here are a few more boot animations. I got some poweron sound wav files for fun. Its like they forgot about them or something. Anyway, to change your BOOT SOUND..
DIRECTIONS:
make sure you mount your sd card in root explorer as read/write
1. Download wav file to your sd with your boot animation. after pushing boot animation as described in the above post, go to the folder that the wave file is in. Copy paste into "/system/etc."edit:For ICS PowerOn.wav and PowerOn.ogg are required! Just make a copy of the wave file and rename the extention to .ogg and place in </system/etc> with the PowerOn.wav)
2. delete old "PowerOn.zip"/"PowerOn.ogg". Paste wav file of your boot animation.
3.Hard press on the wav file and rename it to "PowerOn.zip/.ogg". If you don't rename it exactly with the capital "P" and"O", then it WONT WORK.
4.Reboot. ENJOY
1. (Samsung Captivate) This is my Captivate ..Full Metal CaptivateSpells out .."this is my captivate. There are many like it but this one is mine" and fades into the Samsung Galaxy "S". All the whileBOOT SOUND in cadence "this is my rifle this is my gun. This ones for fighting this one's for fun."
http://www.4shared.com/zip/JY2qe987/full_metal_galaxy_s_bootanimat.html
This one with boot sound!!!http://www.4shared.com/music/JicRWhZM/myriflePowerOn.html
2. Family Guy's "Drunken Clam"
http://www.4shared.com/zip/PVCggvA8/DrunkenClam.html
3. The TRANSFORMERS intro. also with YOUR choice of boot sound! I couldn't decide which boot poweron sound was better... so I'm posting both. Gimme some feed back as to which one you like more
transformers.bootanimation.zip
1.transformers optimus "autobots boot sound"http://www.4shared.com/music/BTpPMKs0/autobots.html
2.transformers movie intro power on boot soundhttp://www.4shared.com/music/-g_NktsD/Transformer_movie_BeginningPow.html
4. Modern warfare 2.
http://www.4shared.com/zip/8f837eM5/mw2.html
I will update with some more boot animations periodically over the next few days. If you have any you would like to post here feel free. If you want a particular boot animation, PM me. If you want some boot sound wav files, PM me. If you like this post give me some love and thank me please. I will update over the next few days after I try out the latest ROMs and work some more on some themes to come...
UPDATE: 5/28/2012A COUPLE MORE ..KICK ACE BOOT ANIMATIONS
Android Boing
Boing Boot Animation ZIP File
Apple Smash
Android smashes apple
Apple Smash Boot Animation
Windows 7 Phone Now you can make your Android look like a Windows 7 Phone
Windows7.bootanimation
ooh-->windows boot sound Windows boot sound
Some of you may remember the old BBC show Dr.WhoDr.Who
Dr.Who boot animation
->--> Boot SoundDR.Who boot sound
I made this boot animation with a big thanks and shout out to esoteric who gave me the idea for her young man. Hope you enjoy this one, I made it from the official game trailor
SkyRim
SkyRim bootanimation
ooh ya boot sound-->SkyRim boot sound
Dark Knight Rises This is truly "kick ace" from the new Batman movie trailor. I made this
DarkKnight_bootanimation
DarkKnight_bootsound
XBOX-bootup For all you XBOX fans out there. I made this
XBOX_bootanimation.html
you know you love it,, bootsound babyXBOX_PowerOn.html
UPDATE!!!6/06/12"The Hunger Games"
Coming Soon!! "DC Comics themed" bootanimations!!
I made this from the official movie trailor. I also rotated it 90 degrees so it would have that widescreen look to it.So when you boot up with this boot animation, rotate the screen. Now without further babbling from me......
Here is The Hunger Games
Dont forget boot sound-->HungerGames_PowerON
TheHungerGames
Update!! 6/14/2012
This update is one that I've always wanted to do. Also if you love it let me know. I've scaled it like the Hunger games in the 90degree rotation like a wide screen. So for all you SUPERMAN fans out there..I present..
Smallville
boot sound--->Smallville PowerOn by Remi Zero
Smallville_bootanimation
nice boot animations ill have to give them a try
Linux215 said:
nice boot animations ill have to give them a try
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Thanks man. Keep checking back cause I got a ton more i'll be posting over the next few days. These are guaranteed to make ya go ... damn!!!
Timmetal how do i get sound for the first one, playstation wav. Where is that one being pushed to system/ _____ I know where bootanimaton goes, does the sound go to same place, also will these work on blazer ROM 4.1 el29?
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kevo3000 said:
Timmetal how do i get sound for the first one, playstation wav. Where is that one being pushed to system/ _____ I know where bootanimaton goes, does the sound go to same place, also will these work on blazer ROM 4.1 el29?
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The.wav file is pushed to "/system/etc". Just copy paste the file there and then hard press and change file permissions to that of all the other system files. If you already have sound at boot up then delete that wav. File and replace it. Also make sure to rename to "PowerOn.zip" I'm pretty sure blazer 4.1 doesn't have a sound file so just paste it in /system/etc. Also if my memory serves blazer 4.1 supports boot animation unless you flashed a stock kernel or other kernel that doesn't support boot animation over the kernel provided in blazer, so to answer your question, yes all the boot animations will work no matter what ROM you are on providing that you have a kernel that supports boot animation, from ICS to GB. Just as long as you're not on a stock kernel. Im using rogue 1.4.1... gunslinger I believe. The only stock kernel I know of that supports boot animation is the new (ICS ) FE10 modified kernel with UN-Locked recovery.(thanks sfhub) Give me thanks if I helped you out.
Thanks Timmetal bout to try it now..
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kevo3000 said:
Thanks Timmetal bout to try it now..
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No prob. Come back in a few hours, I'm about to post some more!
Thanks.. this will help us make our E4GT's really ours.
zx3junglist said:
Thanks.. this will help us make our E4GT's really ours.
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I appreciate the support.
I just get a black screen and no sound. I've tried sound file as PowerOn.zip and PowerOn.ogg. If I flash another boot ani from one made to be kernel flashable they work. I'm baffled.
wraith404 said:
I just get a black screen and no sound. I've tried sound file as PowerOn.zip and PowerOn.ogg. If I flash another boot ani from one made to be kernel flashable they work. I'm baffled.
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I made the instructions in the op pretty specific I thouht, but it still might be confusing. Ok as for three black screen. Means it wasnt installed incorrectly. Make sure you delete both of the original files in/system media. BOTH the bootanimation.zip and the sanim.zip file. Now you need to replace those files. take your new boot animation and rename it to "bootanimation.zip" with out the quotes. Now copy paste it /system/media. Now take that same file you just copied and copy it again to same location. rename the second bootanimation.zip to"sanim.zip". Now hard press on both of your newly renamed files and set the permeissions to that of the rest of the system folders. . ..
Reboot...
Now for sound. You had it named right. PowerOn.wav but it needs tho be pushed to /system/etc. Reboot. You good buddy. Now if it still doesn't work and you followed this specifically, then you need a kernel that supports boot animation. I would tell you how tho hack a stock kernel but its a little complicated i think. Hope this works out for you man.
Can't get sound to work on CM9.
Named right. Permissions set.
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Got the animations... now for sound
got the animations running but im having trouble with the sound. Copied the sound file to system/etc and renamed it PowerOn.zip. Still not working . Thanks for the help
Ok got everything working
Ok its working now. Had to change the file name for the sound to "PowerOn.ogg"
scubasteve19842004 said:
Ok its working now. Had to change the file name for the sound to "PowerOn.ogg"
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Tried that too. Didn't work for me.
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timmetal6669 said:
I made the instructions in the op pretty specific I thouht, but it still might be confusing. Ok as for three black screen. Means it wasnt installed correctly. Make sure you delete both of the original files in/system media. BOTH the bootanimation.zip and the sanim.zip file. Now you need to replace those files. take your new boot animation and rename it to "bootanimation.zip" with out the quotes. Now copy paste it /system/media. Now take that same file you just copied and copy it again to same location. rename the second bootanimation.zip to"sanim.zip". Now hard press on both of your newly renamed files and set the permeissions to that of the rest of the system folders. . ..
Reboot...
Now for sound. You had it named right. PowerOn.wav but it needs tho be pushed to /system/etc. Reboot. You good buddy. Now if it still doesn't work and you followed this specifically, then you need a kernel that supports boot animation. I would tell you how tho hack a stock kernel but its a little complicated i think. Hope this works out for you man.
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Honestly, I felt your instructions were very clear as well.
I'm using sfhub's "plus" kernel, which supports boot animation, I can flash a few other animations that were packaged for for install from recovery. I definitely had the PowerOn.zip(.ogg) file in /system/etc, and verified it would play as a .ogg using vlc.
One little deviation that I did have to apply - it is the death star ani that I want to use, but it's several MB to large for my stock el16 + ICS theme, so I removed about half the frames, but renumbered them all meticulously. Maybe I screwed the pooch there but I didn't see anything about the file structure that would indicate that. I'm going to try it all again. My best guess is that I have the permissions wrong. I even tried packaging them for recovery flash, but I fear I'm reaching there.. it flashed but still no go.
Could it because I'm manipulating the zip contents and re-zipping from windows?
Thanks for your help, these anis are awesome.
Ok its working now. Had to change the file name for the sound to "PowerOn.ogg"*
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glad you got it working.
Honestly, I felt your instructions were very clear as well.I'm using sfhub's "plus" kernel, which supports boot animation, I can flash a few other animations that were packaged for for install from recovery. I definitely had the PowerOn.zip(.ogg) file in /system/etc, and verified it would play as a .ogg using vlc.*One little deviation that I did have to apply - it is the death star ani that I want to use, but it's several MB to large for my stock el16 + ICS theme, so I removed about half the frames, but renumbered them all meticulously. Maybe I screwed the pooch there but I didn't see anything about the file structure that would indicate that. I'm going to try it all again. My best guess is that I have the permissions wrong. I even tried packaging them for recovery flash, but I fear I'm reaching there.. it flashed but still no go.Could it because I'm manipulating the zip contents and re-zipping from windows?*Thanks for your help, these are are awesome.
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It seems like you are putting too much into it. If you are trying to rebuild the animation you may have to edit the script file associated with it to compensate for frame speed. Tell me how that turns out. There are several online converters to help with a project like that. I will not write a whole tutorial on how to make a boot animation at this time. Maybe a future post. There is a nice batch file you can use called boot animation creator. You can find it by using the xda search tool.
I've tried 2 different kernels that have boot animation support and it's not working any way I try to update it. I follow your instructions exactly. I use Explorer ES, I copy the file twice renaming bootanimation.zip and sanim.zip in the system/media folder after deleting the old ones and it's just the stock SG2 boot load screen. What am I doing wrong? I'm definitely rooted, I've tried 3 different permissions settings from different folders in the area. Everything else is still fine I just can't change my boot screen, any tips?
Specifically I'm on FE16 Repack with ACS recovery. I also tried FD26 one with rogue and it didn't work either. Same stock boot screen.
Second edit - I thought I could extract the zip and use that bootanimation.zip but I still get the same stock animation.
watchout5 said:
I've tried 2 different kernels that have boot animation support and it's not working any way I try to update it. I follow your instructions exactly. I use Explorer ES, I copy the file twice renaming bootanimation.zip and sanim.zip in the system/media folder after deleting the old ones and it's just the stock SG2 boot load screen. What am I doing wrong? I'm definitely rooted, I've tried 3 different permissions settings from different folders in the area. Everything else is still fine I just can't change my boot screen, any tips?
Specifically I'm on FE16 Repack with ACS recovery. I also tried FD26 one with rogue and it didn't work either. Same stock boot screen.
Second edit - I thought I could extract the zip and use that bootanimation.zip but I still get the same stock animation.
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OK, firstly, let me suggest to try and use root explorer instead of ES file explorer. Es file explorer its a good program, but ive had issues while trying to over write files with it. Make sure that r/w is mounted on the sd. Also ensure that it has super user permissions prior to attempting to over write. You can check if your file explorer has su/permissions by looking in your app drawer and clicking on super user. This will bring up a list of apps that have su enabled. If your file explorer doesn't have super user permissions it will look like its over writing the file when its not. Finally if none of that works, try going into /system/bin/samsungani and rename toto something else... (i.e. samsungani.old)then rename /system/bin/bootanimation to /system/bin/samsungani.
Then it should change the boot animation kernel settings and load whatever bootanimation is at /system/media/sanim.zip, unless the kernel wasn't built from source. (some ICS leaks, AOKP/AOSP/CM9). You can also try running Calkins modified format to wipe your dalvik cashe after installing a new boot animation but PRIOR to rebooting. Some times data has a way of Swyping through from one ROM to the next while flashing. Hopefully one of these suggestions will get your boot animation up and running. Lemme know how it goes and gimme thanks if I helped you out.