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How to change the boot images without ADB?

How would it be able to do this? I've seen terminal codes floating around, but none of them look like they'd be replacing the proper files for a cupcake build (old RC33 builds I believe, long lost now!)
I'm running TheDude's 1.3 RC2. I've seen plenty of ADB commands, however I've never been able to get ADB to work on my computer, and I don't feel like putting more pointless hours into it
So how would the terminal commands work, and what would the pre-requisites for the files have to be? Thanks!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467693 Im pretty sure all you need is fastboot not adb for splash1 the animated splash just requires you to resign an update.zip http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467693

crotalusfreak said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467693 Im pretty sure all you need is fastboot not adb for splash1 the animated splash just requires you to resign an update.zip http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467693
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I'm pretty sure it uses ADB, hence why I'm asking...Fastboot IS ADB

yea fastboot is the only other way that I know of!!
this is where i downloaded the tools for creating your own boot image!
http://www.modmygphone.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=1471&act=down
this is the link that teaches on how to make one and im pretty sure there is one here in the forums!
http://modmygphone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10461
if you need help PM me ill take you step by step!
or email [email protected]

lukekirstein said:
I'm pretty sure it uses ADB, hence why I'm asking...Fastboot IS ADB
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it wont use ADB, fastboot is like an alternate route...

Drizzy Drake Rogers said:
yea fastboot is the only other way that I know of!!
this is where i downloaded the tools for creating your own boot image!
http://www.modmygphone.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=1471&act=down
this is the link that teaches on how to make one and im pretty sure there is one here in the forums!
http://modmygphone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10461
if you need help PM me ill take you step by step!
or email [email protected]
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Step number two of those directions: "2. Get ADB setup and working. Read here. "
Let's clarify. I cannot get ADB to work, at all, on my computer. Fastboot doesn't work because I can't get ADB to work. Moreso, I just realized that I can't even find my data cord.
Either way, the point of my post is to find a way to change the boot animation at start up, without having to use anything but the phone and maybe some photo editing software.
So how can we do this?

You do not have to have the whole sdk(adb etc..) for fastboot to work you do have to have a driver running for android found in the sdk or here http://dl.google.com/android/android_usb_windows.zip .
The boot animation is found in /system/framework/framework-res.apk/assets/images,android-logo-mask.png and android-logo-shine.png are the images you wanna edit.Dont believe you can get it back on your phone without the sdk set up with adb working though as you will either have to resign an update or push the edited files back somehow.
Edit:without a data cord I think this is an impossibility I dont think you can go through the process needed on your phone,dont hold me to that though good luck man.

crotalusfreak said:
You do not have to have the whole sdk(adb etc..) for fastboot to work you do have to have a driver running for android found in the sdk or here http://dl.google.com/android/android_usb_windows.zip .
The boot animation is found in /system/framework/framework-res.apk/assets/images,android-logo-mask.png and android-logo-shine.png are the images you wanna edit.Dont believe you can get it back on your phone without the sdk set up with adb working though as you will either have to resign an update or push the edited files back somehow.
Edit:without a data cord I think this is an impossibility I dont think you can go through the process needed on your phone,dont hold me to that though good luck man.
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Alright, I just confirmed the location on the phone. So if I upload a file onto my SD card, and overwrite it through Terminal, what do you think that'll do? I'm not big into the Themes section, I'm into the Development section, so I'm not sure what overwriting will do to my phone.

Actually you might be able to get away with that.Try backing up framework res in terminal type:
$su
#mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
#cp -r /system/framework/framework-res.apk /sdcard
Now the .apk you want is on your sdcard root pull that onto a computer unzip it with 7zip.In the framework-res folder there are some more folders go to assets then images edit those two images to your liking.Then go back to your framework-res.apk that you backed up add .zip to the end,right click it and choose open or explore navigate back to the images folder and paste your edited boot images in there.Now remove .zip so it is framework-res.apk again put that back on your sd cards root.Go to terminal and type
$su
#mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
#cp -f /sdcard/framework-res.apk /system/framework
#reboot
If all goes well that should work.

crotalusfreak said:
Then go back to your framework-res.apk that you backed up add .zip to the end,right click it and choose open or explore navigate back to the images folder and paste your edited boot images in there.Now remove .zip so it is framework-res.apk again put that back on your sd cards root.
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Lost you at naming it as a .zip. I can't explore or open the file, as Windows Vista doesn't know how to handle it. Any ideas?

lukekirstein said:
Lost you at naming it as a .zip. I can't explore or open the file, as Windows Vista doesn't know how to handle it. Any ideas?
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right click-> open with -> WinRAR
Or go to Folder Options and uncheck "Hide extensions for known filetypes" (you should do that for all folders.... its a bad idea not to because a virus may look like *.doc instead of *.doc.exe anyways its also more convenient)

does anyone know how to change the boot image for a rogers g1 none of these things work for me i bricked my last phone a week ago cause someone said it would work

jokefox said:
does anyone know how to change the boot image for a rogers g1 none of these things work for me i bricked my last phone a week ago cause someone said it would work
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Well if you're bricking phones, I wouldn't recommend trying it again

help changing boot screen

Hey all, ive been trying to change my boot screen to the haters gonna hate one for a few days now but cant seem to get it to work at all, i have full root and tried to the fastboot method and recovery/adb method. no matter what it stays the same as the one i had originally, i never get errors when trying to push the files if someone can give me instructions for dummies haha or another method id really appreciate it sorry for being a noob at all this.

I had the same problem
First of all, what rom are you using? Different rooms pull from different places. I might be able to help you out. If you are running cyan6, try this:
Adb reboot recovery
Adb remount (make sure it remounts. Maybe also do adb root to make sure.)
Adb push blahblah.zip /system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip
Adb push blahblah.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip
Adb push blahblah.zip /data/local/bootanimation.zip
If you want sound, push that to the same locations. Make sure there is only one of each file in each folder. Then, to check,
Adb reboot
Hope this helps

oh yeah sorry i should have included that i am on evios 1.2 beta 2 rom

I'm not familiar on where to place boot on this rom. Try all three locations I suggested. System customize resource. System media. Data local. Tell me if it works out.

I had this animation on EViO. I just pushed it from my desktop to system/media. Worked fine for me.

how do you push it from the desktop? i tried all 3 methods posted above and none worked. i had the file in the android sdk tools folder though...also whenever i try to do adb remount i get "remount failed:invalid argument" and adb root gives me "error:closed" i tried killing adb and restarting but no luck

This might be an obvious question, but do you have USB debugging enabled on your phone? Under Setting>Applications>Development
You arent going to be able to push anything if you can't get ADB running first.

yeah debugging has been enabled the whole time

ok have you been in recovery mode?
try typing
adb shell
su (make sure #comes up.)
exit (retype until you get back to the tools directory)
then do the push commands to system media, system customize resource, and data local.

Just use this program. Its as easy as it gets.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=701295

dkdude36 said:
First of all, what rom are you using? Different rooms pull from different places. I might be able to help you out. If you are running cyan6, try this:
Adb reboot recovery
Adb remount (make sure it remounts. Maybe also do adb root to make sure.)
Adb push blahblah.zip /system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip
Adb push blahblah.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip
Adb push blahblah.zip /data/local/bootanimation.zip
If you want sound, push that to the same locations. Make sure there is only one of each file in each folder. Then, to check,
Adb reboot
Hope this helps
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Putting sound in boot animation doesn't work with cm6. Just to clarify. No one has been able to get it to work unless you found something out to make it work please share as I have hates going to hate also and want to use haters everywhere mp3 and is perfect for it.
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yeah i have also been in recovery mode every time i tried to run a command prompt for adb...i tried that when i hit adb shell i get # but when i type su after the # it says "/sbin/sh: su: not found"

mount: mounting /dev/block/mtdblock4 on /system failed: Device or resource busy
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
A duplicate file name exists, or the file
cannot be found.
thats what i get when in command prompt when i try to use the program you just posted above

Want a easier way? Use root explorer and copy and paste. Works for my every time. It's in the market. And root explore you can manually turn writeable on and off to move it into system. It's on the top right of screen in root explorer when you go into system folder.
Edit: the command you are tying to put in enables you to push and pull in the system folder. Root explore you can just click a button.
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Good idea
Root explorer works most of the time. If you have the cash, go ahead. You should make site out posted though.

/sbin/sh: reboot: not found
been trying to use adb and i keep on getting that....any of you know a fix?

[Q] Problems with bootanimation.zip

I've had a bit of trouble with pushing my bootanimation.zip to my phone. I got a .zip from here and modified it a bit so it would last longer and I wouldn't end up with a black screen for 20 seconds every time I booted. I did:
adb shell
got su
mounted rw on /system
exited adb shell
pushed the bootanimation.zip to /system/media
got confirmation
went back to adb shell
mounted ro on /system
exited
Now, I restart my phone to confirm it worked, but I just get a black screen until my lock screen loads. I attached the .zip to this post.
I don't know if I need to sign it or zip it with something other than 7zip or whatever. Can someone with more experience with adb help me out with this?

Well I looked at your desc txt file, and it was a little off from what I've seen so I changed it, hope it works; and in adb do it this way, a lil faster
adb remount
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media
adb reboot

Thank you. I'm trying it now.
EDIT: I didn't work...

I think that should work.

What are you running for a ROM? If you are on a Sense based ROM, it needs to go in system/customize/resource.
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I'm running Salvage MOD 1.0. It's AOSP GB.

Maybe try using root explorer to go in and replace the file. That's how I usually change boot animations. This should accomplish the same thing as using ADB push but it's worth a try.
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Towleeeie9613 said:
I'm running Salvage MOD 1.0. It's AOSP GB.
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Did it work?

Bricked my phone after LCD Density Modder

Hi, First I'm not a clever man, nor do I know what I did to brick it but, I used
"LCD Density Modder" on the market and bricked my phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.birdapi.android.dpi&hl=en
My phone is bricked, it won't load anything past "Google", I've taken out the battery and put it back in MULTIPLE times, I've tried to reboot into Recovery Mode and get a red Triangle with an error.
I'm on 4.1.1 GSM model, Rooted and Stock ROM.
Is there anyway to fix this issue without completely wiping out my phone? The last backup I did was a week ago by hand, with click and drag.
Thanks for any help, I would appreciate it.

That's not bricking. And the red android is the stock recovery. Your going to need to flash a recovery and flash another ROM.
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First off, your device is not bricked. Bricked means it is irreparable.
Second, all you have to do is get a hold of the stock build.prop file for your ROM build and replace what you currently have with it.
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efrant said:
First off, your device is not bricked. Bricked means it is irreparable.
Second, all you have to do is get a hold of the stock build.prop file for your ROM build and replace what you currently have with it.
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Or this
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Oh, wow, thanks, and that will save my files?
Is there a step by step process? I...am not a clever man =| or if there's a keyword I can search. Thanks...
I'm asking because I can't transfer files via USB to my Galaxy Nexus, nor does my computer detect it.

Download CWM, rename it to cwm.img and place it in the same directory as your fastboot.exe file on your PC
Boot your device into the bootloader
Type: fastboot boot cwm.img
In the CWM menu on your device, navigate the mounts menu and click mount /system
Type: adb pull /system/build.prop
Open it up in a text editor, change the value in the ro.sf.lcd_density to 320 and save it.
Type: adb push build.prop /system/
Type: adb shell chmod 0644 /system/build.prop
Type: adb reboot

Ignore the post I just made,
I found it manually, and rebooted the phone but it's still black screen when I pushe d it to the phone.
"build.prop /system/" sounds wrong though...but I am still shocked I was able to pull it.

I hate double bumping but "efrant" instructions, I pushed it via your manner, which still boots into the black screen via build.prop /system" and it goes to black screen...and I tried pushing to "/system/build.prop" still doesn't work.
Any assistance?

smartedpanda said:
I hate double bumping but "efrant" instructions, I pushed it via your manner, which still boots into the black screen via build.prop /system" and it goes to black screen...and I tried pushing to "/system/build.prop" still doesn't work.
Any assistance?
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So what did you do exactly? Did you pull the file from your ROM first, modify it, and then push it back?

So, I'm not using ADB kit, I'm using Galaxy Nexus Tookit v 7.4. I pull it through there, and modify it from 241 to 320 by hand. Save the file. Push it back up using the toolkit, and it's not sticking to the ROM.
I push it up, reboot, and check it by re-pulling it making sure it stucks but I keep seeing the 241 density not the corrected 320.
Should, I be pushing to /system/build.prop or "build.prop /system/" ?
Both methods aren't sticking to /system/build.prop

smartedpanda said:
So, I'm not using ADB kit, I'm using Galaxy Nexus Tookit v 7.4. I pull it through there, and modify it from 241 to 320 by hand. Save the file. Push it back up using the toolkit, and it's not sticking to the ROM.
I push it up, reboot, and check it by re-pulling it making sure it stucks but I keep seeing the 241 density not the corrected 320.
Should, I be pushing to /system/build.prop or "build.prop /system/" ?
Both methods aren't sticking to /system/build.prop
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I don't provide support for toolkit use. Either do it the way I mentioned or ask in the toolkit thread for support if you want to use a toolkit.

It's to do with the permissions that get set on the file when you push it back to the device. it needs to be read only for the group and world
It baffled me for a good while. After pushing the file, do the following.
Code:
adb shell chmod 0644 /system/build.prop
Hope that helps
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efrant said:
I don't provide support for toolkit use. Either do it the way I mentioned or ask in the toolkit thread for support if you want to use a toolkit.
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- Didn't know it was a hassle, my apologizes. I'll try to do it the old school method.
trevd said:
Its to do with the permissions that get set on the file when you push it back to the device. it needs to be read only for the group and world
It baffled me for a good while. After pushing the file, do the following.
Code:
adb shell chmod 0644 /system/build.prop
Hope that helps
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I had a feeling it was a permissions issue, but wasn't sure how to fix it.
I'll start pulling up the command prompts...wish me luck, thanks for all the help so far guys. I'll do two backup a week from now on, instead of weekly.

Finally got adb in cmd setup, I get a "failed to copy 'build.prop' to '/system/build.prop': Read-Only file system
I'll try it again, I'm pretty sure I forgot a step.

smartedpanda said:
Finally got adb in cmd setup, I get a "failed to copy 'build.prop' to '/system/build.prop': Read-Only file system
I'll try it again, I'm pretty sure I forgot a step.
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Probably missed this step:
efrant said:
In the CWM menu on your device, navigate the mounts menu and click mount /system
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efrant said:
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LOL, yeah I did, got that, did everything from scratch per your instructions, got up to the lovely adb reboot...and nothing, at all, black screen.
I re-pulled it, to make sure the DPI was changed to 320...and it was, and still black screen...=[ I'm really sad now.

smartedpanda said:
LOL, yeah I did, got that, did everything from scratch per your instructions, got up to the lovely adb reboot...and nothing, at all, black screen.
I re-pulled it, to make sure the DPI was changed to 320...and it was, and still black screen...=[ I'm really sad now.
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Did you change the permissions like trevd suggested?
While booted in CWM with /system mounted:
adb shell chmod 0644 /system/build.prop
If that still doesn't work after a reboot, I suggest you re-flash grab the system image for 4.1.1 from Google's site, extract the system.img, reboot your device into the bootloader, and type: fastboot flash system system.img. It won't wipe your device, but it should fix anything that was messed up. (It will also remove root and busybox and whatever else you have installed on the system partition.
)

FINALLY! SUCCESS! I forgot the permission like you mentioned, but it didn't work the first two times, guess I mistyped something, it worked the third time.
I honestly appreciate all the help, and all the inputs. My phone is at 100%, and I'm doing a backup as we speak now.

efrant said:
Download CWM, rename it to cwm.img and place it in the same directory as your fastboot.exe file on your PC
Boot your device into the bootloader
Type: fastboot boot cwm.img
In the CWM menu on your device, navigate the mounts menu and click mount /system
Type: adb pull /system/build.prop
Open it up in a text editor, change the value in the ro.sf.lcd_density to 320 and save it.
Type: adb push build.prop /system/
Type: adb shell chmod 0644 /system/build.prop
Type: adb reboot
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I know this thread is dead but I would like to say that this is the single most useful post I've seen in ages! I was looking around for nearly an hour and every post resulted in saying "reflash rom"...
Then I saw this, and worked!! My phone is her old self again
thumbs up!

[Q] replace framework-res.apk?

Was just wondering if there is a way to replace the framework with just using root without a custom recovery for the stock Rom?
On my s3 I couldn't do it with just root don't know if that would work on this or if I might have missed something.
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TheArtiszan said:
Was just wondering if there is a way to replace the framework with just using root without a custom recovery for the stock Rom?
On my s3 I couldn't do it with just root don't know if that would work on this or if I might have missed something.
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All you need is to be rooted, it does not matter if you have custom recovery or not.
You can install any apk's since you do not need to go into recovery to install apks.

When I tried with root only before on a different phone I used root explorer to replace.
But when I went to paste it in the folder the phone locked up and rebooted.
Was that not the right way to do it?
Maybe using adb terminal would be better and not cause it to lock and reboot when I paste over the existing framework-res.apk.
Being in the system directory causes some issue with being that is also a constant used file.
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re: install apk
TheArtiszan said:
When I tried with root only before on a different phone I used root explorer to replace.
But when I went to paste it in the folder the phone locked up and rebooted.
Was that not the right way to do it?
Maybe using adb terminal would be better and not cause it to lock and reboot when I paste over the existing framework-res.apk.
Being in the system directory causes some issue with being that is also a constant used file.
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The framework-res.apk should be installed like any other app
unless the OP of wherever you got it from gives instructions
to "copy" it to the /system/app folder.
Why not do it the default normal way? just double click on it
when you are in root explorer and it should install like any
other app. If it gives an error, then you can copy it.
If you "copy" it you have to fix permissions and you have to
change the attributes of the /system/app folder so it's "read and write".
NOTE: if there is an existing framework-res-apk in /system/app
delete it with root explorer before doing any of the above.

Framework-Res.apk must reside in system directory. /system/framework to be exact.
Easiest way to do it without locking up is with adb.
You were right OP that it locks up because it's consistently being used. When I make my mods and such to the framework, this is how I quickly get it to the device.
adb remount (if the kernel supports it in other words, anything but stock)
Turn phone screen on
Adb shell stop (your phone should now have a black screen. This command stops all running threads except the one for adb)
Adb push framework-Res.apk /system/framework
Adb shell chmod 644 /system/framework/framework-Res.apk
Adb shell start
You should now see the boot animation then the prompt "android is upgrading"
If you do not have adb remount option (it returns with permission denied)
Copy new framework Res apk to root of internal sd card.
Adb shell stop
Adb shell mount -o remount,rw /system
Adb shell cp /sdcard/framework-Res.apk /system/framework/framework-Res.apk
Adb shell chmod 644 /system/framework/framework-Res.apk
Adb shell start
Just a pointer, disregard my capitalization. Only capitalize when needed.
This method should get everything copied successfully. Any issues just post back!
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Oh thank you very much.
I will give that a try and sounds exactly like what I was looking for.
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Not sure if this is really relevant but...
When I had the samsung vibrant, I used root explorer to make a copy of my framework-res.apk. I extracted the entire thing, found my battery icon files, replaced them with different images given the same name, then repacked the file. Then I copied it back to the original folder to replace the original apk and my phone immediately shut off and rebooted. When it came back I had my new battery icon working just as I had hoped. I was rooted running stock.

Wait... Are you saying that I can simply copy the framework-res.apk from SlimKat and use it on a Google Play Edition ROM?
I'm going to try it!