Hey, guys! I haven't really posted on here yet. Though once I got my Pixel 2 XL and root was achieved I immediately got to work on modding. I hadn't ever rooted a device before and it took so much trial and error. But I've gotten to a point where I'm relatively comfortable with my device except for one issue: restarting my phone causes that AWFUL bright, max brightness screen to be displayed. Most of my apps and such are dark if I can help it.
I've been trying to flash/move the file/alter my boot animation using substratum, system/media/ in solid explorer, etc. No dice thus far! Substratum just gives me an error.
I'm not able to modify/rename things in system/media/ and have only managed thus far to copy/paste a .zip renamed to "bootanimation.zip" into the folder and overwrite the original. It definitely overwrote it. But now I just get a black screen with Android across it for an animation. I assume that's the OS fallback.
Is it just not possible yet in Oreo? I can deal with it. But it's bugging me and I don't know if I'm just missing something.
No need to flash a new boot animation, just take whatever boot animation zip file you want to change it to and replace the original one. The location is in system/media, the name you need to use for the zip is bootanimation, and once your new boot animation is in the system/media folder, change the permissions of the file so that it reads rw-r-r-
The boot animations in substratum themes often do not work, but any properly assembled bootanimation of the appropriate size will work when replaced in the above described method.
Definitely sounds like a permissions issue. Make sure you change the permissions for the zip file when it is in the system/media folder other wise any file you paste into that folder will just revert back to -rw-rw---- which of course will not play during the boot and you will experience the black screen.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852621
This might help also. But what he said too.
jasonstackhouse said:
No need to flash a new boot animation, just take whatever boot animation zip file you want to change it to and replace the original one. The location is in system/media, the name you need to use for the zip is bootanimation, and once your new boot animation is in the system/media folder, change the permissions of the file so that it reads rw-r-r-
The boot animations in substratum themes often do not work, but any properly assembled bootanimation of the appropriate size will work when replaced in the above described method.
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I just checked and it appears I do have the right permissions. Could it be the permissive thing, as mentioned below?
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Definitely sounds like a permissions issue. Make sure you change the permissions for the zip file when it is in the system/media folder other wise any file you paste into that folder will just revert back to -rw-rw---- which of course will not play during the boot and you will experience the black screen.
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I have it set for rw-r-r- and it is still just the black "Android" animation.
Finally got it fixed! Ultimately I found that setting permissions in solid explorer wasn't enough. I downloaded Root toolkit by cpu82 on here, mounted system r/w, then I moved things around.
Renamed original bootanimation.zip to bootanimation.zip.bak, moved the new "bootanimation.zip" to the /system/media folder, set the permissions (as suggested on this post), then rebooted to test.
Other than the REALLY white Google splash screen with the unlocked lock icon, the boot animation is dark! I'm very pleased with it, as it now matches my system. Thanks for the help, guys! I just needed another way to make the system folder writable.
jgreen077 said:
Finally got it fixed! Ultimately I found that setting permissions in solid explorer wasn't enough. I downloaded Root toolkit by cpu82 on here, mounted system r/w, then I moved things around.
Renamed original bootanimation.zip to bootanimation.zip.bak, moved the new "bootanimation.zip" to the /system/media folder, set the permissions (as suggested on this post), then rebooted to test.
Other than the REALLY white Google splash screen with the unlocked lock icon, the boot animation is dark! I'm very pleased with it, as it now matches my system. Thanks for the help, guys! I just needed another way to make the system folder writable.
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Does SafetyNet still pass when altering the boot animation in system?
ilal2ielli said:
Does SafetyNet still pass when altering the boot animation in system?
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Yes mine does
ilal2ielli said:
Does SafetyNet still pass when altering the boot animation in system?
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Mine does as well! It still has the white screen that shows the unlocked icon, but after that the boot animation kicks in.
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Yes mine does
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jgreen077 said:
Mine does as well! It still has the white screen that shows the unlocked icon, but after that the boot animation kicks in.
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Thank you both for confirming. I had been waiting for someone to confirm, as I hadn't seen any information whether or not it would trip SafetyNet.
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Hey all. I'm having trouble adding a custom boot animation. I've been trying to use adb push to move it to /data/local/. It seems to work initially. Cmd shows it moved over the full zip file and I can see it in my phone with root explorer but when I restart my phone it just uses the default animation. I'm trying to switch to the bios boot animation that I've found on the forums. Ive only had my Incredible for about a week so its mainly stock other than rooted. Any advice? Thanks
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Hey all. I'm having trouble adding a custom boot animation. I've been trying to use adb push to move it to /data/local/. It seems to work initially. Cmd shows it moved over the full zip file and I can see it in my phone with root explorer but when I restart my phone it just uses the default animation. I'm trying to switch to the bios boot animation that I've found on the forums. Ive only had my Incredible for about a week so its mainly stock other than rooted. Any advice? Thanks
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My boot animation is actually in /system/customize/resource, maybe you could try sending it there and see if it works? Also, just checking, it is named bootanimation.zip right? I believe that matters lol, not sure. I'm sorry if I wasn't helpful, I don't exactly know much about boot animations tbh.
Sent from my Droid Incredible running Myn's Warm Two Point Two RLS5.3.
Blah12543 said:
My boot animation is actually in /system/customize/resource, maybe you could try sending it there and see if it works? Also, just checking, it is named bootanimation.zip right? I believe that matters lol, not sure. I'm sorry if I wasn't helpful, I don't exactly know much about boot animations tbh.
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Yeah, it has the right name but still isn't working even in the folder you suggested. Also the zip file just has the part0, part1, and desc.txt files in it so I'm not sure exactly what the problem is. I'm pretty new to the droid scene. Thanks for trying though.
Finally! After a lot of searching I found out it needs to be named VZW_bootanimation.zip and the sound file is VZW_Droid.mp3 with Froyo at least. It actually is in /system/customize/resource/ after all. I just didn't scroll that far down since I didn't know about the name change. It does replace the stock animation file though so I saved it in another folder before replacing it in case I ever want to go back. Thanks for the help
The file name and location depend on the ROM being used.
Thanks for checking in, ok I opened the bootanimation-orig.zip with 7-Zip and copied out the part0 folder, changed each png to be black and white. Then dropped the files back in 7-Zip (it was named bootanimation.zip then) and then took that zip and put it in system/media folder in the theme I flashed. Basically Bionix 4.1
My phone boots fine, but the boot animation doesn't show anything. I just had a blank screen (seemingly) ... I was thinking maybe the whites aren't white enough?
Could someone take a peak, attached with the orig file and my bootanimation.zip that resulted in my edits.
Thanks a ton!!
I've run into this before - the solution, I've found, is to set the compression level to 'store'. It didn't seem to work any other way.
k0nane said:
I've run into this before - the solution, I've found, is to set the compression level to 'store'. It didn't seem to work any other way.
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Yep that was it. Thanks for that!
Hi guys,
I recently rooted and S-OFF'ed my Desire. Really amazing. Everything went fine.
Really enjoying my phone more than ever before.
Now trying to flash my splash screen and boot loading screen.
I'm using Android Flasher 1.8.0 as suggested in the Noob tutorial section.
Splash screen went fine. Automatically reboots into fastboot. And flashes.
The tutorial doesn't actually doesn't go deeper into flashing the loading screen and whether or not it's supposed to automatically reboot into fastboot.
When i manually reboot into fastboot sometimes it can't find the process fastboot.exe and sometimes it can.
When it can it says it can't find my device when it's trying to flash the new loading screen. I don't understand why. Everything else i have tried works fine (except the first time i tried to S-OFF, it also said it couldn't find my device)
It did actually remove my RCmix-S loading screen. So now i only get a black screen when starting up. Everyhing still works fine though. Boots normally.
What should I do?
You cannot flash a new bootanimation with android flasher or fastboot. You have to replace the bootanimation.zip in /data/local or /system/media. You are s-off, so you can do this in os. Just use an explorer with root access (e.g. root explorer), mount /data or /system as r/w (read write) and replace the existing one with yours (but make a backup of the old before and make sure you used the correct resolution).
Okay that was kind of confusing then.
Still weird it's not recognizing my phone but is finding fastboot.exe
Anyway I got root explorer mounted /data/local and put a bootanimation.zip in the folder. It doesn't work though. Does it also have to be in /system/media
or just in one of them??
Thnx
It only has to be in /system/media.
SwiftKeyed from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App
i got a weird error trying to flash a new splash screen
"sending splash1...OKAY"
"writing splash1"...FAILED <remote not allowed>
phone is recognised in fastboot etc...
any ideas?
thanks
00mpollard said:
i got a weird error trying to flash a new splash screen
"sending splash1...OKAY"
"writing splash1"...FAILED <remote not allowed>
phone is recognised in fastboot etc...
any ideas?
thanks
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Do not post in a thread which has nothing to do with your problem! And use the search.
I tried putting it only in /system/media and only in /data/local.
Both don't work.
My loading screen is still total black. I don't get it. What am I doing wrong. Is there some other file interfering. Do I have to delete something else....
PixelApocalypse said:
I tried putting it only in /system/media and only in /data/local.
Both don't work.
My loading screen is still total black. I don't get it. What am I doing wrong. Is there some other file interfering. Do I have to delete something else....
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It does not have the correct resolution. It has to be 480x800.
Actually it has. I checked.
They are 480 x 800, 24 bit *.PNG. Downloaded these in the splash screen thread.
I got it sort of working now.
I renamed the zip to bootanim.zip instead of bootanimation.zip. Don't know if it should matter but now i'm getting a loading screen.
It's just text reading "Android" with a animated glow going over it.
This is not the one i put on the phone though. Not the pictures in the zip.
Is this some kind of default loading screen?
Which means it's still not working....
Which rom do you currently run? If a sense one, the bootanimation has to be in /data/local. If aosp one, it has to be in /system/media. That's the basic. Furthermore, in your bootanimation.zip has to be minimum two parts:
- one folder named part0
- one file named "desc.txt" (description file)
In the folder named part0 has to be the png files in the correct resolution (480x800x24). In the desc.txt you have to put the following ouput:
Code:
480 400 x p 1 0 part0
'480' is the width (not variable)
'800' is the height (not variable)
'x' is here just a placeholder. You have to replace with a number. This number sets the frames (your choice, what you set)
'1' is the count how often the bootanimation loops (your choice)
'0' sets the a pause (max 10 possible)
'part 0' sets the folder in which the bootanimation files are (not variable).
Source: http://android.modaco.com/topic/338...nimationzip-futurama-bender-bootanimationzip/
Woooot it's working!!
I'm using RCMixS_v2.0_A2SD+_BravoHboot which is a sense rom.
I put it in /data/local.
The animation was only 6 frames. Which was incorrect in the desc.txt.
Also using NO compression when zipping was the key.
Not knowing this is probably key to many people not getting this to work.
Maybe it's a good idea to have that tutorial be made a sticky or include it in the "Complete upgrading guide"
Thnx a lot MatDrOiD!
PixelApocalypse said:
Woooot it's working!!
I'm using RCMixS_v2.0_A2SD+_BravoHboot which is a sense rom.
I put it in /data/local.
The animation was only 6 frames. Which was incorrect in the desc.txt.
Also using NO compression when zipping was the key.
Not knowing this is probably key to many people not getting this to work.
Maybe it's a good idea to have that tutorial be made a sticky or include it in the "Complete upgrading guide"
Thnx a lot MatDrOiD!
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No problem. And you could make very happy if you press the thanks-button.
Hi, I am currently using stock JB with a couple of mods/extras i managed to link in via the kitchen. But frustratingly so I cannot change the boot image and are hoping with appreciation someone in here can direct me. So far I have tried everything I am capable of. That is from within the kitchen enabling the function which is suppose to allow you to change your boot animation. Although it gives you the tick and creates a different directory for your boot animation this still doesn't work. I have tried replacing hTC_boot_one.zip file but does not work. Whenever i do replace or alter that file the boot starts as normal with white htc and then goes to black with android with a back light rolling from side to side, like kit in night rider. I also have tried flashing Mattmans-Boot-Animation which uses aroma installer. Still didnt work and as far as I know it just added the file in system/customize/resource/. There appears to be a command file preventing any changes internally in stock. Really appreciate and hope someone can help. Thanks in advance......happy new years.....:good:
Did you root the rom ?
You need root acces to write in the system directory's ......
You need SU
Mr Hofs said:
Did you root the rom ?
You need root acces to write in the system directory's ......
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Yeah rooted with su access to system files.....cheers!
basically is just stock jb base.....
veroby said:
Hi, I am currently using stock JB with a couple of mods/extras i managed to link in via the kitchen. But frustratingly so I cannot change the boot image and are hoping with appreciation someone in here can direct me. So far I have tried everything I am capable of. That is from within the kitchen enabling the function which is suppose to allow you to change your boot animation. Although it gives you the tick and creates a different directory for your boot animation this still doesn't work. I have tried replacing hTC_boot_one.zip file but does not work. Whenever i do replace or alter that file the boot starts as normal with white htc and then goes to black with android with a back light rolling from side to side, like kit in night rider. I also have tried flashing Mattmans-Boot-Animation which uses aroma installer. Still didnt work and as far as I know it just added the file in system/customize/resource/. There appears to be a command file preventing any changes internally in stock. Really appreciate and hope someone can help. Thanks in advance......happy new years.....:good:
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Dude. I think you need root your rom to get custom boot (-:
There're a lot ready-to-go tools for booting animation
Good luck !
allv.newbie said:
Dude. I think you need root your rom to get custom boot (-:
There're a lot ready-to-go tools for booting animation
Good luck !
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its rooooooooooteeeeeeeed thx..
veroby said:
its rooooooooooteeeeeeeed thx..
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lol
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simproductions.bachanger&hl=it I think it can works
fez vrasta said:
lol
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simproductions.bachanger&hl=it I think it can works
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hey thx, but it did not work. I cant even find where it has placed the file. If it managed to. Man im p-i-s-s-e-d. not your fault its just on my tits. cheers....
allv.newbie said:
Dude. I think you need root your rom to get custom boot (-:
There're a lot ready-to-go tools for booting animation
Good luck !
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Its rooooooooooooooooooteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed cheers....
Its my own custom rom but this little simple thing i cannot get around. I can only semis that within stock base there's a system file preventing any change...
Have you mounted system as rw? In root explorer you just press the button, not sure on other apps, and have you set the right permissions? rw-r--r-- to match everything else in system/customize/resource.
maXimus One X
evo1rs said:
Have you mounted system as rw? In root explorer you just press the button, not sure on other apps, and have you set the right permissions? rw-r--r-- to match everything else in system/customize/resource.
maXimus One X
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Thanks for your help. Not sure what you mean by mount the system as rw. The permissions - yes always changed permissions when trying to replace the hTC_bootup_one.zip file. Cheers...
veroby said:
Thanks for your help. Not sure what you mean by mount the system as rw. The permissions - yes always changed permissions when trying to replace the hTC_bootup_one.zip file. Cheers...
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If system is mounted as ro (read only) you can't change anything in the folder, this is the default setting I think and it needs to be mounted as rw to allow changes.
You could try to rename something in the system directory and if it doesn't actually change then you need to change it, or check if the filesize of the boot animation you replace changes.
Like I said, rootexplorer app changes it with a tap of the button, not sure what else to use
maXimus One X
evo1rs said:
If system is mounted as ro (read only) you can't change anything in the folder, this is the default setting I think and it needs to be mounted as rw to allow changes.
You could try to rename something in the system directory and if it doesn't actually change then you need to change it, or check if the filesize of the boot animation you replace changes.
Like I said, rootexplorer app changes it with a tap of the button, not sure what else to use
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Thanks again. No problem renaming any file within system so I guess it is mounted as rw. As to file size, i have tried different file sizes and identical file sizes to the hTC_boot_one.zip file. I have even tried using the same Zip file and just replacing with different images. Making sure to end up with the same values. Nothing seems to work.
Strange, I had rooted stock Rom and it worked fine, maybe you have the wrong format of files or haven't zipped as store only, no compression. I assume it is a sense one x Rom?
Maybe try this one I made for the Rom I use
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31136343#post31136343
maXimus One X
evo1rs said:
Strange, I had rooted stock Rom and it worked fine, maybe you have the wrong format of files or haven't zipped as store only, no compression. I assume it is a sense one x Rom?
Maybe try this one I made for the Rom I use
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31136343#post31136343
maXimus One X
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Lol - hadnt planned on having maximus on my own custom rom but will give it a try tomorrow. Let you know...cheers again...:good:
Yeah, just to test formats and setup of course!
maXimus One X
i downloaded a zip which enable custom boot animation and downloaded animation placed in system/media
it worked but it's not fit in screen well , i want to remove it , tryied to do it and now ended up with black screen , i have backup of the old boot animation files and when i copied them back with the right permissions nothing happened i need help how to remove the custom boot animation please , thanks in advance
NVM5282 said:
i downloaded a zip which enable custom boot animation and downloaded animation placed in system/media
it worked but it's not fit in screen well , i want to remove it , tryied to do it and now ended up with black screen , i have backup of the old boot animation files and when i copied them back with the right permissions nothing happened i need help how to remove the custom boot animation please , thanks in advance
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One important thing to notice, meant for all who flash any zips:
Always take a look into META-INF click thru subfolders and find updater-script and open with an editor.
Within you will find exactly what the zip does, what changes will be made and maybe you understand how to revert back.
In your case you got to disable bootanimation in /system/bin again.
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One important thing to notice, meant for all who flash any zips:
Always take a look into META-INF click thru subfolders and find updater-script and open with an editor.
Within you will find exactly what the zip does, what changes will be made and maybe you understand how to revert back.
In your case you got to disable bootanimation in /system/bin again.
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well , how exactly to do that sir? thanks for ur rapid reply
NVM5282 said:
well , how exactly to do that sir? thanks for ur rapid reply
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Go into /system/bin with any file explorer, find bootanimation and bootanimation.original,
delete first and rename second by deleting the extension .original.
Androidwizzard said:
Go into /system/bin with any file explorer, find bootanimation and bootanimation.original,
delete first and rename second by deleting the extension .original.
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i never made a back up of boot animation
NVM5282 said:
i never made a back up of boot animation
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No need for backup here. I guess that both files are there. otherwise I hit the bootanim-creator.