Anyone know how to enable boot animation sounds? I tried placing android_audio.mp3 in /data/local and /system/media but neither work.
I can't find any information on this anywhere. I think it has something to do with the bootanimation binary. I tried some other ones and set the permissions but I couldn't get them to work at all. It wouldn't even play the animation.
I think the boot animation sounds worked in the MCR Desire port if you enabled it in the kitchen but I don't know how to get it to work on other roms. Any ideas?
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I've done some searching for trying to add sounds to the boot animations, and found something about adding a boot.mp3 in the animation zip or something like that (not sure if it was for root only), which didn't seem to work for me. Is this possible without root, and if so how? Thanks, and hope this is posted in the right section.
yep, just make a sound file, name it boot.mp3 and throw it into the zip folder.
I've tried that on a non-rooted 2.1 eris, the boot animation works but the boot.mp3 that i added wouldn't play. Not sure why, tried some other things also with no luck.
I've also tried just throwing a boot.mp3 into a rooted 2.1 phone's boot animation, and it seems the same there too, the boot animation loads but the sound doesn't. Does anyone have a boot animation with sound working on a 2.1 phone? Looks like they done away with the sound from the default boot when switching from 1.5 to 2.1... looked like in 1.5 it worked off a bootscreen folder and xml file etc.. and 2.1 with the bootanimation.zip with a different setup etc..
From what I know, the sound will not work unless the desc tells it to play the sound... was there sound with the original bootanimation? If there was, you might try pushing the original files back and then trying... maybe in pushing the animation .zip, you overwrote the desc that told the phone to play the sound.. from what I have seen, the bootanimations that play sound have script in the desc file that tell it to play the sound....
droidfreak said:
From what I know, the sound will not work unless the desc tells it to play the sound... was there sound with the original bootanimation? If there was, you might try pushing the original files back and then trying... maybe in pushing the animation .zip, you overwrote the desc that told the phone to play the sound.. from what I have seen, the bootanimations that play sound have script in the desc file that tell it to play the sound....
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the desc.txt i've seen don't have anything telling it to play the boot mp3 just the size, framerate, and folders... you wouldn't happen to know what needs added in into the desc txt would you? Don't think i've seen any boot animations with sound to check the desc. txt, mostly the ones i've seen with sound are based on the xml file type.
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the desc.txt i've seen don't have anything telling it to play the boot mp3 just the size, framerate, and folders... you wouldn't happen to know what needs added in into the desc txt would you? Don't think i've seen any boot animations with sound to check the desc. txt, mostly the ones i've seen with sound are based on the xml file type.
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You are right, I just checked and it was a .xml file... what does yours use? a desc?
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You are right, I just checked and it was a .xml file... what does yours use? a desc?
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Yeah mine is a desc. and it seems the ones which use the xml won't work with 2.1.
did yours originally make sound?
Not after upgrading to 2.1.
I see the problem... sorry.. I am at a loss...
np, thanks for trying.
Can someone try pushing their boot sound to /data/local and name the file android_audio.mp3 and see if it plays then?
ZeliardM said:
Can someone try pushing their boot sound to /data/local and name the file android_audio.mp3 and see if it plays then?
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tried it, but didn't play on mine.
Is there any way to put the stock captivate boot screen animations and sound back on the Captivate after installing cognition? I'm not too big of a fan of the cognition boot screen.
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Is there any way to put the stock captivate boot screen animations and sound back on the Captivate after installing cognition? I'm not too big of a fan of the cognition boot screen.
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I have the stock bootanimation.zip. I'll upload the file when I get off work. Just drop it into system/media/ named as bootanimation.zip. As far as the boot sound goes, nobody to my knowledge has had any luck with that. Everything I have tried to restore custom/stock bootsounds has failed.
Thank you very much!
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I have the stock bootanimation.zip. I'll upload the file when I get off work. Just drop it into system/media/ named as bootanimation.zip. As far as the boot sound goes, nobody to my knowledge has had any luck with that. Everything I have tried to restore custom/stock bootsounds has failed.
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Minor difficulties. The bootanimation.zip file I have for the true stock animation is corrupted and I'm not having any luck fixing it.
I've attached two alternatives though. The first file is the SGS bootanimation that has been optimized for a smaller screen. It works fine, but it is smaller than it would normally be.
The other is a modded version with a BIOS boot intro followed by the SGS boot animation (full sized). In my opinion, its pretty freakin sweet. Credit to specialex and LitePro. This one is their work, not mine.
Either way, download, rename to bootanimation.zip and drop it into system/media folder using root explorer or a comparible file manager app.
Thanks man. The BIOS style one looks sick. It seems that you can restore a bootsound through SGSTools, but when I set a random .ogg notification sound as the shut down sound, it played it in a never ending loop. I'll try and tinker with it some.
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Thanks man. The BIOS style one looks sick. It seems that you can restore a bootsound through SGSTools, but when I set a random .ogg notification sound as the shut down sound, it played it in a never ending loop. I'll try and tinker with it some.
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Yea, I had no luck working with SGS Tools and the boot/shutdown sound changer. It works great on stock 2.1 w/ root (I tested it the last time I flashed back to stock- rocking the "droid" voice on boot for a while).
Unfortunately, it never worked for me on custom roms. Even tried .mp3 and .oog files instead of .wav just for the hell of it. I think the issue has to do with the playlogos1 file that the devs modify to kill the default shutdown/startup sounds. I'm going to try SGST again though... its been a while and that app has been updated 4 or 5 times since I last tried.
Well, I found the shutdown.ogg file from the JH7 OTA .zip file and yes, it did work through SGSTools! If I find the original boot animation in one of these folders it'll be back to stock appearence Now whether or not I want to do that is the question hehehe....
EDIT: Turns out only the shutdown sound was working. Im doing a Rom Manager backup now, but my plan is too remove the bootanimation.zip file and restore the factory playlogos and playlogos1 files back to system/bin and see what happens.
EDIT 2: Well that didn't work... I found two other files called bootsamsung.qmg and bootsamsungloop.qmg and seeing if those work.
EDIT 3: No luck there either. I wonder if it is possible at all to restore the boot animation and sound, and what the developers did to remove it. Its very interesting...
Here's a copy of the stock bootanimation.zip. Credit to whoever I got this from. Personally I like the BIOS one
Ok, silly question / problem. I've been tinkering with my phone trying to get the startup sound changed and its REALLY kicking my hind quarters. I've got a replacement PowerOn.wav and PowerOn.snd (properly mod'd) with 16-bit / 44100hz settings (same as the default file) but no joy. I've tried a couple different files in this format with no luck. I've even tried it on different roms (cognition, perception, dilligaf, darky, and paragon) all with no luck. I'm doing something wrong and I have no idea what it is.
Can someone break it down for me barney-style exactly what the requirements are for a startup sound?
Help?
I don't know if there are specific requirements, but I have had success with using SGS Tools to replace my startup sound. All I did was put my sound file on my phone (in wav format) in sdcard/sgstools/. I went into SGS Tools and chose modify boot sound, navigated to my file, and it worked. You can do the same with the shutdown sound.
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if you're using a kernel that supports custom boot animations (bootanimation.zip) then you cannot change it (in fact, there is no boot sound).
if you are using a stock kernel that supports samsung's boot animation (bootsamsung.qmg) then you can change it with any .wav using SGS tools.
the custom boot animation is the key then. been bashing my head against a brick wall for a week now. thanks for clearing it up for me. so now my question becomes, what do i need to do to change the script to run the boot sound? what enables a custom boot animation? i remember something about playlogos1 or something.
playlogos1 is samsung's binary for showing their "bootsamsung.qmg" files, all the custom kernels that support "bootanimation.zip" have a change in initramfs to support the AOSP boot animation support that removes "playlogos1"... you'd have to either modify the initramfs and compile a new kernel OR use one of samsung's kernels to restore the playlogos1 binary to it's old functionality.
as for getting a boot sound to play with the bootanimation.zip, as of right now, I do not know of any way to do this. I tried recreating the boot sound script from various verizon phones that do that loud "DROID" sound, but it refused to even run from the command line (stagefright seems to be finnicky on our phones) let alone during boot because I didn't create a service for the boot sound. <--- someone would have to do this and create a kernel and working binary/script
That's the explenation I've been looking for, I knew when the boot sounds quit working just not why. Thanks.
On the other side, shutdown sounds and custom shutdown animations work.
well... you can put a script in /system/etc/init.d/S01bootsound and have it do this
Code:
#!/system/bin/sh
/system/bin/playlogos1 &
sleep 10
killall playlogos1
if you've removed the samsung boot qmg files then this will only play the sound file. problem is its delayed by 10 seconds into the boot process and i'm having a devil of a time making a boot animation sync up to that particular time. still trying to figure out how to insert the file earlier into the boot process.
I'm trying to get custom boot animations working on a stock deodexed ROM. What I've done so far is in /system/bin: deleted "samsungani" and then renamed "bootanimation" to "samsungani". This got rid of the Samsung boot animation in place of the Vanilla Android one and this works fine (although it is rather crap!).
However if I place any custom boot animation at /system/media/bootanimation.zip it works, but it just plays indefinitely and fails to disappear once the Android interface has loaded. I've tried editing the animation settings inside the zip file. I've also tried a boot animation pulled straight out of the Simplicity v2.1 ROM's zip file which doesn't work either, so it is obviously not a problem with the actual bootanimation.zip as that one must be preconfigured to work on an S5830i.
I must need to change something else but I have no idea what? I tried deleting "bootsamsungloop.qmg" "bootsamsung.qmg" from /system/media which done absolutely nothing.
Bump: I think custom ROM developers should know the answer to this or anyone else please?
EDIT: I worked it out. If anyone wants to know, forget about what I said in the first post. It seems that /system/bin/samsungani is modded in ROMs with custom boot animations as there is a difference in file size. So just overwrite your samsungani with the modified version from a ROM's zip file that has a custom boot animation, such as Simplicity v2.1. Then put your bootanimation.zip in /system/media and that's it.
To remove/replace the boot animation sound the file is /system/etc/poweron.ogg, delete it or replace it.
I was wondering if we can do custom boot animations using a variation of this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2063280? I was looking in the system files and I didn't see the samsungani in the /system/bin folder so I'm not sure if this will work or not.
Dunno if you've searched or not but have you read this thread?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2478302
Just a quick browse through it seems that the boot animation is all in one file.