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Boot Animation Help.

First things first i have a rooted Samsung Continuum, And i want to change my boot screen and since i dont have a recovery option right now i cant flash anything.
So i have to place the boot animation zip on the phone, Well heres the problem i cant find where im suppose to place the file?? Any help would be great.

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You should ask this in the correct area for your phone. I have no knowledge of any other phones but Magic.
Still, see if this helps. When I change my boot animation I put it to system/media/bootanimation.zip.
Why can't you get to recovery?

I checked there i couldnt find anything.
There is no recovery for my phone yet.
Yeah ill ask in the correct forums.

It's either /system/media, /system/customize/resource or /data/local, or more than one of them.

1st off I love how you bump your own thread lol.
2nd, If you phone is rooted install 'root explorer' or simular and search for bootanimation.zip, this will show you where your current animation is stored.
3rd. Remember the directory & copy the bootanimation.zip you want into that folder & overwrite, reboot.
4th. Hope that helps, enjoy !

Try to push it to /data/local/ with adb.

Honeycomb Original Boot Animation

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Hi there ppl, here I post you a link to a lil modified version of the original honeycomb rip boot animation that will work in our Arias fullscreen. Is just the dimensions changed in the desc.txt file but it'll save you sometime (as I had to go all the way to get how boot animation worked q: )
Here how it looks on a Nexus S: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrAoqgAzKyQ
If you're running CM7 it should be as simply as replacing the bootanimation.zip located in /data/local/ with this one (use root explorer or ES file explorer with root explorer option to navigate there). If you're running another ROM (and you dont have a bootanimation at /data/local/) take the second version and flash it in recovery. Not sure if that would work (havent tried) but it'll replace the animation found at /system/media/ folder as our Arias are s-on still.
Bare Version (just drop it in /data/local/)
Recovery Flasheable Version (replaces bootanimation found at /system/media/)

Neither way works breh
Edit: CM 7rc
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There's really no science to have it, you just need to replace the bootanimation.zip in /data/local/ (that folder is hidden, you need root explorer to get in there, is in the phone memory, not the sdcard)

Darius_bd said:
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There's really no science to have it, you just need to replace the bootanimation.zip in /data/local/ (that folder is hidden, you need root explorer to get in there, is in the phone memory, not the sdcard)
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The original is in /system/media. Putting a bootanimation.zip in /data/local will supercede the original. It looks great on the aria. Thanks for the port.

It should work on any rooted phone, CM or not.
Also, there's no need to use root explorer. Just place bootanimation.zip on your sdcard root and open Terminal Emulator:
su
cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /data/local/
reboot
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Works like a charm.
Some of the versions floating around have white flashes between the loops - this one fixes that:
http://lts.cr/QHX

bkmo said:
The original is in /system/media. Putting a bootanimation.zip in /data/local will supercede the original. It looks great on the aria. Thanks for the port.
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Thank you, that was very helpful. But it is a sick boot animation.
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Perhaps I did it wrong, but the image appears rather pixelated to me during load up.

Awesome. Cheers!

seboj said:
Some of the versions floating around have white flashes between the loops - this one fixes that:
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The white flashes happens when there are foreign files inside the folder with the PNGs. In most case, a certain thumb.db hidden file I think we all have meet before
powerchess said:
Perhaps I did it wrong, but the image appears rather pixelated to me during load up.
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You can try cooking your framework and add the HC boot animation @ the UOT Kitchen

merged 10chrs

Looks awesome Darius, thanks for sharing.

I am drooling right now that's the most epic thing I have sawn lol
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Thanks this is awesome. Took me a while to install it. Running liberated 2.2 based on the gratia release and none of the above methods worked. Finally replaced the boot file in system/customize/resource with this one and flashed the whole Rom thru recovery no wipes. Worked perfectly.
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Wow, it looks great and the install was a piece of cake. I don't really spend much time watching the phone boot, but it's cool anyway.

awesome boot animation, but i'm curious about changing the boot image like the one in the video to like a picture in my gallery?

thanks for this!! worked like a charm.

can't get it working, running FR008.

HTC White-screen
I used Root Explorer to drop the file into the right folder, and when I rebooted the phone (multiple times), it got stuck at the HTC Screen.
Not worth the hassle...at least for something that lasts less than a minute.

Did it wow for a complete noob, if no one doesn't know how to do this shouldn't be rooted at all lol.
1. Get root explorer
2. Download his bare version and put it right on ur sd card so u can find it
3. Then go to phone on root explorer go out of where it first takes u via back button
4. Copy the bootanimation.zip
5. Then it'll have a option to paste hit back button it will take u back to where u were
6. Go to data/local/ and hit paste
7. Reboot and watch the awesome boot!
-AriaUSer_

AriaUSer_ said:
Did it wow for a complete noob, if no one doesn't know how to do this shouldn't be rooted at all lol.
1. Get root explorer
2. Download his bare version and put it right on ur sd card so u can find it
3. Then go to phone on root explorer go out of where it first takes u via back button
4. Copy the bootanimation.zip
5. Then it'll have a option to paste hit back button it will take u back to where u were
6. Go to data/local/ and hit paste
7. Reboot and watch the awesome boot!
-AriaUSer_
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Better yet:
Copy the bootanimation.zip file to the ROM zip file (system/media folder) and THEN copy the ROM file to your device using your choice of file exchange.
The first thing I do with new ROMs is to delete the files I don't want or need (like the language files) and add those I want to have (e.g., the original CM7 email app that supports color-coding accounts).
You can also replace the ROMs bootanimation the same way.
I've significantly reduced the size of the ROM by getting rid of unnecessary ring tones (who needs 50 of them?), programs (e.g., ROM Manager), and wallpapers (e.g., smoke, other useless ones).
I can shave typically 5-7 MB off the size, which may not seem like a lot, but helps.

Won't allow me to delete certain files etc in System?

I am currently looking to install a new boot animation
in /system/media/bootanimation.zip
However, it is to my surprise it will not allow me to do that?
I have super manager and my system is rooted.
Android 2.27x

What file explorer are you using? You have to mount the directory as r/w. You have to use root explorer for this (it works for others but ES file explorer would never work for me with it's root options enabled) or you have to adb push the file
[dpeeps74]

Solved my own problem. Got Super Manager to work it out. Root enabled+BB and CHMOD and it was done with.

Indirect said:
I am currently looking to install a new boot animation
in /system/media/bootanimation.zip
However, it is to my surprise it will not allow me to do that?
I have super manager and my system is rooted.
Android 2.27x
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Custom boot animations should go into /data/local/, not /system/media/

jasonmaloney said:
Custom boot animations should go into /data/local/, not /system/media/
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Out of curiosity, why is that? I've always slid mine into system/media with no issues.
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user7618 said:
Out of curiosity, why is that? I've always slid mine into system/media with no issues.
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It's really just a matter of style. The ROM checks /data/local before it checks /system/media, and you don't have to be root to push to /data/local.

There is an 'HTC' screen that comes up before my new boot screen. Is it inside of /data/local/ ?
or am I stuck with it forever?

jasonmaloney said:
Custom boot animations should go into /data/local/, not /system/media/
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If you ever go to replace the boot animation with a flashable zip, you'll need to delete the old one from data/local or that will be the one that boots up.
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Indirect said:
There is an 'HTC' screen that comes up before my new boot screen. Is it inside of /data/local/ ?
or am I stuck with it forever?
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Check your other thread.
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Indirect said:
There is an 'HTC' screen that comes up before my new boot screen. Is it inside of /data/local/ ?
or am I stuck with it forever?
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That would bw your splash screen. There is a way to change it, though I don't have a link. If you can't find it, Impaler can direct you to it.
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No Boot Animation?

Somehow my Boot Animation disappeared? I'm running sense virus rom. I deleted all my boot animation. zips to try to get everything off the device and then I downloaded the stock animation and put it in the media file and the system custom resource file and it goes to my splash screen, then goes black, and then the phone comes on. Any idea how to fix this so I don't have just a black boot animation? Is there a stock boot animation around? What are the steps to properly installing it?

Didu name it right? Some have to b VZW_bootanimation. Others just bootanimation
inc

try this name it bootanimation i think thats what virus needs not VZW_bootanimation and pretty sure ur right about location(sys/customize/resource/)
still savin fora TB so dont have one to test

Downloaded it and renamed it bootanimation.zip then copied it from my SD card in root explorer and placed it into my system/customize/resource folder along with my system/media folder.
Restarted my phone. Got my splash screen, then screen went black. No animation.
Then I tried it using VZW_Bootanimation.zip
No luck. WTF!!!!!

Are u pasten 2 times?
inc

It only goes in resources
inc

Rom-Addict said:
It only goes in resources
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Would it matter if it was in both though? It should still work even if it was in both...?

droidboy850 said:
Would it matter if it was in both though? It should still work even if it was in both...?
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Don't think so
inc

Well I'm stuck. Ha.

Take the one outta media?
inc

have stock virus animation but too big to uplaod.......virus bootanimation is a bit dif from stock

Extract all the files from the zip on your CPU.....hilight all the files and right click, select archive, when the window appears select zip, and from the drop menu select store....mine was doing this also if I just zip it.....hope this isn't too confusing
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Boot animation

So I just spent a long as time working on a bootanimation. I pushed through adb and it doesn't work... now I have almost two hundred png files that are useless and a bad attitude. Anybody have any tips on boot animation that I might have missed? The boot screen comes up black and wont show my animation at all.
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is it installed in the right folder? I know on my Evo it was in a different one (system/customize), but make sure yours is named bootanimation.zip and its in your /system/media folder.
If that fails, go into your system/customize/CID folder and look in the default.xml file to see the path of where it goes

Yeah its in the right place I think I did something when I made it but I followed directions...
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Old school method is
Data/local

MONKY_1 said:
Old school method is
Data/local
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Yep. Data/local ftw.
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Yeah but I am not thinking that's the problem. Any other animation works just not my custom one.
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hopefully i might be able to shed some light on what you may of over looked. happened to me way back.
1. when you made the .zip did you compress it? or did you set it at no compression/storage?
2. open your bootanimation.zip and make sure it doesnt have an extra subfolder that doesnt belong. This usually happens when selecting the whole bootanimation folder and telling it to zip, instead of the 2 sub folders. (that make sense?)

OK so it works but now I get a weird white flash during the loop part
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