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Quick and Easy Bootanimation.zip Swap for the G2

****Disclaimer!!! I am not responsible for any errors or issues that may come from using these directions. This method has been tested and used by me on the T-Mobile G2 ONLY.****
Ok, I like playing with boot animations on my device. And I have this quirk for running everything I can on the device, rather than through ADB, unless I have to. While digging through assorted threads, here and abroad, I ran across a nifty app called GScript lite, free on the Market, and amazingly useful. On another thread, someone pointed out that if you copy a boot animation to /data/local, it will take precedence over any boot animations that your favorite ROM may install. So, I decided to simplify changing boot ani's, so I can swap them around whenever I feel like it. I now have it down to about 30 sec, and decided to post this for everyone interested to try it. Ok, so, here's the details;
Requirements: GScript lite, file manager, new boot animations
1) Download the animation you want to try to your SDcard
2) Copy the zip to /mnt/sdcard
3) Rename animation file "bootanimation.zip"
4) Open GScript and hit menu
a) Type in whatever you want to call the script in the top
box
b) Make sure "Needs SU?" is checked
c) Type cp /mnt/sdcard/bootanimation.zip /data/local
<enter>
reboot
d) Now hit "save"
5) Just press your scriptname in the list and enjoy!
From here on out, to change boot animations, all you need to do is copy the renamed file to SD root, and click on that script, phone will reboot showing your brand new animation. "Share and Enjoy!"
I'd like to thank the GScript devs for a very useful tool, and Kaanha for the commands
Click the Thanks button if this helps you.

Nice...definitely makes switching them pretty simple. Thanks!
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Works like a charm!!!!
Thanks Much!!!

There are a few apps on the Market that can do this as well, no Terminal knowledge required (or scripts)
Simply search for your bootanimation from the GUI and it should do the job for you...
Boot Animation Changer Lite comes to mind, it's free.
There are a few other ones if you search for bootanimation on the Market.
Hope this helps. Good luck

perfect, worked like a charm, enjoying my honeycomb animation now. thank you.

neophyte8 said:
perfect, worked like a charm, enjoying my honeycomb animation now. thank you.
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Link me to your honeycomb animation?
*Edit nevermind i just used the boot animation from the honeycomb port 18 thanks.

[Solved] Boot Animation Help

Ok, I have been pulling my hair out over this creating a boot animation process! Here are the things I have tried:
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/tutorial-and-step-by-step-guide-to-creating-boot-animations/
This is a great tutorial and I am pretty sure I am following it correctly, but when I install the one I created I get a black screen instead of a boot animation.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1678540&highlight=create+boot+animation
This is a nice little tool, and I used it. I created the animation, previewed the animation and it all looks good and appears to work. That is until I install it on my phone, I have even tried to use the program to push to my phone, but I don't think it likes me. All I get a black screen instead of the boot animation.
I have changed the permissions to rw--r--r.
I have created the desc.txt with Notepad++ and windows based notepad.
I am saving it into system/media.
I am verifying the name is "bootanimation.zip".
I have tried to use ROM Toolbox to install it but still get a black screen.
The dimensions are 480x800 and FPS is 30.
I am running the CM10 Global ROM build 1 by DKStunna108
Here is the file if someone has time to look at it and see if something looks off: http://d-h.st/I1Y
Any help would greatly be appreciated, I am just not sure what I am doing wrong...it is probably something easy that I am over looking.

Ironman Jarvis boot animation for Nexus 7

Can someone add the Jarvis boot animation for Nexus 7 ?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...at-with-your-iron-man-mk42-halloween-costume/

Locutus5382 said:
Can someone add the Jarvis boot animation for Nexus 7 ?
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/1...at-with-your-iron-man-mk42-halloween-costume/
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you can make it yourself with ROM toolbox.
in the boot animation section, there is an option for gif to boot. so you can save those gif and convert it to boot animation

TMK, the link is already ready to be a boot animation. It just needs to be renamed bootanimation.zip and pushed to system/media
As for the "proper" screen size for the N7 ... IDK, that'd be my only question
**edit: it is already named properly, so just push it to system/media ... and reboot, viola.

Mtk devices
C.Hatfield said:
TMK, the link is already ready to be a boot animation. It just needs to be renamed bootanimation.zip and pushed to system/media
As for the "proper" screen size for the N7 ... IDK, that'd be my only question
**edit: it is already named properly, so just push it to system/media ... and reboot, viola.
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:fingers-crossed: Please add (for noobs like me) boot sound will work if renamed to bootaudio.mp3
anyways I figured it out and thanks a lot coz i was unable to workout that fps part and my phone booted up before completing the animation.
Thanks a lot again(already hitted thanks ). :fingers-crossed:

Cannot create bootlogo from scratch

I had some good ideas of creating boot animations and so I looked up how to create one which led me to this guide. Before creating of my own, I had installed Android Wear boot animation from Boot animations app (Playstore) and I wanted to add some more frames after the boot-up completes. I copied and extracted it, added few frames to it, zipped it and replaced the one I had in system/media. The animation did not work. I had the warning sign till my phone booted. Help.

111MIndfreak said:
I had some good ideas of creating boot animations and so I looked up how to create one which led me to this guide. Before creating of my own, I had installed Android Wear boot animation from Boot animations app (Playstore) and I wanted to add some more frames after the boot-up completes. I copied and extracted it, added few frames to it, zipped it and replaced the one I had in system/media. The animation did not work. I had the warning sign till my phone booted. Help.
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looks like you made 2 mistakes, 1st it's bootanimation, not bootlogo, those 2 are different. 2nd, the tutorial you use is for older version of Android. Started from lollipop, the loop parts was changed.

Changing Boot Animation?

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?

jasonstackhouse said:
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.

jrbxx7 said:
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.