Hi All,
I hope you can help me - I promise I've searched for a solution!
I downloaded a few new boot animations to try on my CM6 install (on G1).
At first I tried simply copying a bootanimation.zip to /data/local and rebooting. So far so good - the animation worked perfectly. Then it looped, and looped, and...well you get the idea. Phone no longer actually booted!
No problem I thought, I'll get a flashable zip and flash a new animation using the recovery console (Amon_RA's). Did that, and it changed the animation OK, but still no dice on the OS loading (waited 10 mins plus to be sure).
For info, the animations were the pc-style one from Superbad Eclair and the CM6 one for the N1 (big X with the little android in the middle). Both worked fine and didn't freeze or anything, but they won't stop looping.
Tried the recovery console, but my linux exp. is limited and I didn't manage to access /data/local to delete bootanimation.zip (can cd to data but ls in data shows nothing - I guess it's coz I'm in recovery).
Getting a little worried here - can someone please suggest a solution that doesn't involve re-flashing CM6?
UPDATE: Tried flashing two more anims (R2D2 and Matrix from this forum) and no dice - Nexus 1-style animation stays. Basically, I've made no progress and I'm more confused.
UPDATE 2: Ah well I got too impatient and re-flashed CM6. Jeez there are a lot of settings to change. Anyhoo, will leave thread here for a bit in the hope that someone tells me what the issue was, so I can change my boot animation in future w/o fear.
The problem I think ur having was u copied it to the local file ur suppsed to install it straight onto the sd then open emulator and enter
Su
Cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /data/local/
Reboot
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I had the same issue. All I did was
I used abd push bootanimation.zip data/local/ "to install"
adb shell
#rm /data/local/bootanimation.zip
You can actually still do it even though the boot animation is running.
Freaked me out i didn't want to start over on Angry Birds.
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In Roger's ROM,I could change the boot Screen to the cute android logo animation by the instructions -
adb remount
adb push boot.gif /system/media
adb push boot.mp3 /system/media
But it could not work in CM3.6.5,nothing happened to the orignal boot screen.
How should I do now in CM3.6.5?
Thanks everybody!
Lol it's different because theres no boot.gif in cyanogen's ROM. Try this, I think it's what you want.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467693&highlight=boot
So although I'm a veteran here at XDA, I must admit i'm a noob at the G1 ( was a pro at the WM smartphone) Is there a way to add a startup sound & or a shutdown sound for the phone. I'm using the dudes cupcake rom. If there is a way. are there a set of instructions to follow?
nemo.mole said:
In Roger's ROM,I could change the boot Screen to the cute android logo animation by the instructions -
adb remount
adb push boot.gif /system/media
adb push boot.mp3 /system/media
But it could not work in CM3.6.5,nothing happened to the orignal boot screen.
How should I do now in CM3.6.5?
Thanks everybody!
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Cyan's mod uses the classic 2 part animation boot screen, with the green "shining" Android boot screen. This being, the Android lettering is a transparent .png, and the shining animation is a scrolling .gif that shines through it, thus getting that effect. In order to change the boot screen, you have to edit both of those and then use similar adb commands. They're both in a APK file though, which makes it a bit tricky.
This is indeed the correct link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467693&highlight=boot
im having some serious issues with my SU.
i tried temporizer's fix with no help.
it started a while ago when i flashed a theme and i could never get it back.
Ive tried EVERYTHING (to my knowledge which is definitely not vast lol) to no avail. and from what temp and a couple others have told me its a problem with cyan recovery 1.3, but now i cant flash to 1.4. im stuck with no SU, no way to flash a new recovery and pretty much half ass phone. ive never had this type of problem since i rooted back in januaryish. any help would be much appreciated.
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im having some serious issues with my SU.
i tried temporizer's fix with no help.
it started a while ago when i flashed a theme and i could never get it back.
Ive tried EVERYTHING (to my knowledge which is definitely not vast lol) to no avail. and from what temp and a couple others have told me its a problem with cyan recovery 1.3, but now i cant flash to 1.4. im stuck with no SU, no way to flash a new recovery and pretty much half ass phone. ive never had this type of problem since i rooted back in januaryish. any help would be much appreciated.
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Download cyan's recovery 1.4 to your sdk tools folder, start the phone in fastboot mode [back+power] folder and run:
Code:
fastboot boot cm-recovery-1.4.img
That should boot the recovery image and you can work from there to reflash whatever you want.
sdk tools folder? and that would beeeeeeee?
apparently im not as savvy as i once thought..... lol
anon1ski said:
sdk tools folder? and that would beeeeeeee?
apparently im not as savvy as i once thought..... lol
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Errr... you don't have the sdk?
You don't use adb...?!
That's like trying to play football with no limbs..
Get yourself rigged up with this:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/1.5_r3/installing.html
btw.. you won't need to set up eclipse or the adt plugin for this, just make sure your environment variables and java paths are set up as per the guide.
well while football WITH limbs does sound much less entertaining, i am normally no where near a computer, and do almost everything right from my phone.... and i mean everything..... i download all my roms, themes, etc. right to my download folder, find em', rename em' flash em' and im good to go. i went on a computer to get the recovery simply because it downloads wrong on my phone and saves as a text file, seems like it does the same on mozilla for some people but i got it in .img form and its on the root of my card, and nothing.
anon1ski said:
well while football WITH limbs does sound much less entertaining, i am normally no where near a computer, and do almost everything right from my phone.... and i mean everything..... i download all my roms, themes, etc. right to my download folder, find em', rename em' flash em' and im good to go. i went on a computer to get the recovery simply because it downloads wrong on my phone and saves as a text file, seems like it does the same on mozilla for some people but i got it in .img form and its on the root of my card, and nothing.
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I do a lot of stuff from my phone too tbh, Somehow it satisfies my geek cravings more fully.. But adb is massively useful when you're on the pc.. saves a lot of cramped typing on the device keyboard.
Fastboot will be your saviour in this case though, and you're gonna need a proper box to run that on.
i have NO idea what im doing with adb, i just downloaded it and im just starign at my screen like it tried to feed me a cheeseburger.....
anon1ski said:
i have NO idea what im doing with adb, i just downloaded it and im just starign at my screen like it tried to feed me a cheeseburger.....
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lol.. adb is pretty simple.. a few examples:
Code:
adb push localpath devicepath # push files to your phone eg: adb push c:\update.zip /sdcard
adb pull devicepath localpath # pull files from device
adb shell # basically a terminal running on your device that you control from your pc.. im sure you can figure this out if you do everything from your phone.
adb shell reboot # guess?
adb shell reboot recovery # go straight to recovery without holding any buttons
fastboot should be in the same folder as adb.. you can use it to flash .img files from the pc or just boot the images without flashing them.
how do i run fastboot, adb, etc. in relation to them running processes on my phone.
i downloaded everything. i just dont know how to run it or if i have to run a couple things, have my phone in recovery or fastboot(im guessing).
god. i feel like a moron.
anon1ski said:
how do i run fastboot, adb, etc. in relation to them running processes on my phone.
i downloaded everything. i just dont know how to run it or if i have to run a couple things, have my phone in recovery or fastboot(im guessing).
god. i feel like a moron.
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Assuming you're on windows, you'll have to install the adb driver first (not the standard android that windows installs automatically, theres a seperate driver in the usb_driver folder of the sdk). You also need to enable usb debugging on your phone.
Follow this guide if you need to:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=532719
You can use adb whatever mode your phone is in.. even when its stuck in a bootloop usually. You don't need to be running anything on the phone, the drivers are switched on by init.rc.
Fastboot can only be run with the phone in fastboot mode (surpisingly).
thanka alot man. im gonna give this all a try.
Good luck
ok. got adb running. ran the command you gave me. it brings up 1.4 but doesnt push it to my phone...... can i actually INSTALL 1.4 from fastboot/adb?
nevermind. figured it out. used common sense and just ran fastboot flash recovery recovery.img and it worked. thanks for everything
my super user still wont work.; so apparently it had nothing to do with the recovery..... im going to wipe, reflash cyan 3.9.1. and see if that works.
So I'm booting Honeycomb off SD and all was fine and dandy. I got Market setup and all was well.
Well I decided to get a little adventurous thinking there wasn't much to lose and decided to push the system folder for all the GApps in the Froyo walkthrough. Now my Nook just boot loops, each time displaying an activation screen with LogicPD Zoom2 then immediately rebooting.
I have an idea of what is wrong, its trying to run a Google activation when it boots up, but since its the wrong device is boot looping. What I'm looking for is what apk to take off the SD card and in what directory I would find it to get myself out of this pickle. I'm trying to avoid starting over with the Honeycomb build, but it wouldn't be the end of the world.
So I'm thinking it may be OneTimeInitilizer.apk but am realizing I can't access the partition on the SD card directly from Windows. Any ideas
Edit: I may be able to get adb shell for a few seconds before reboot if that helps, I may be able to queue up the commands necessary and get them off in time.
Edit 2: Tried my (most likely wrong) attempt at the above idea. Created a batch file to mount as rw and then run adb uninstall /system/app/OneTimeInitializer.apk but it never worked. Either gave me Failure or "Error: Could not access the Package Manager. Is the system running?"
Hi,
I've downloaded and installed though recovery mode the boot animation from Nexus Prime on my Galaxy S but now that animation doesn't leave my screen anymore, it keeps running in the foreground even after boot is complete. I can feel and "interact" with the home screen in the background but I'm totally blind.
Already attempt to install Samsung stock boot animation back and also other ones without any success. Prime animation is still there.
Anyone here had the same issue or know some smarter and better way to remove this without have to install custom rom back? Unfortunately I don't have a backup for everything :/ (lessons learned)
Appreciate your attention and help!
- Willian
Get to recovery and try connect your phone via adb, then replace the boot animation... But it sounds like the boot animation may not be the issue...
I've tried to mount /system and move the boot animation to /system/media without any luck, getting 'permission denied' everytime.
C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb push GalaxyS-Edify.zip /system/media/
failed to copy 'GalaxyS-Edify.zip' to '/system/media//GalaxyS-Edify.zip': Permis
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/system/media $ mv /sdcard/GalaxyS-Edify.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip
mv /sdcard/GalaxyS-Edify.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip
mv: overwrite '/system/media/bootanimation.zip'? y
y
mv: can't remove '/system/media/bootanimation.zip': Permission denied
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Any idea?
Thanks again!
You could try to make an update.zip which replaces the nexus prime bootanimation with the stock one.
I'll give a try. First time creating an update.zip but let's see if it works.
Thank you.
Nothing ;/
unless I've made something wrong
Im not too familiar with adb but ill give it a shot... Btw you have root and busybox installed?
Get to recovery..hopefully debug is on, plug it in..
Get to platform-tools as you did, then type
adb devices (you should see your device, if not close it all and install the drivers again from kies, then try again...)
type the following, after you have got to platform-tools using the cd command
adb shell mount /system
nothing should show up
you know where the bootanimation is? if not find it, using "adb shell ls /" this will show all the directories, carry on searching it till you find it
next you want to move it so like you did...or like this
"adb shell rm /system/media/bootanimation.zip"
Now check its gone, using the ls command
now put yours in.. rename it to bootanimation.zip
"adb push C:\your full directory of where it is with bootanimation.zip /system/media"
and it should say that its gone....
hopefully that all works..
let us know
Hey Talon, thanks for helping me out, really appreciate!
Hmm, yes for root but no quite sure about busybox now.
I found bootanimation.zip inside /system/media and there's also a bootanimation file inside /system/bin but not quite sure what it's used for.
Got a permission problem when trying to remove the .zip file:
C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb shell rm -f /system/media/bootanimatio
n.zip
rm: can't remove '/system/media/bootanimation.zip': Permission denied
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C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools>adb shell chmod 755 /system/media/bootanim
ation.zip
chmod: /system/media/bootanimation.zip: Operation not permitted
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What am I missing?
Regards.
Ok maybe you know more about these commands but why did you type "-f" after rm? have you tried without it?
In the second box you were trying to change permission (had to search that ) why not change it to 777 for full, and instead apply it to the directory, so the media folder then try...
have you tried just pushing the new file to the media folder?
Btw why not just try flash a new rom either through recovery or odin. I guess you can try this so you don't loose anything, but i think that would be the simplest of things to do. You will loose apps and settings, but int sd should still be there.
Anyway see how that goes...
Just seen this says to remove you can use "adb shell rm -r" so add "-r" instead of the f that you did.
Oh and lastly, if you still cant do that, try copy the whole media folder, make sure you have everything by using ls /system/media then try remove the media file and put it all back with your new boot animation.. (dont forget to rename the bootanimation
Not really, just a few commands. The "-f" just removes the file without the need to confirm your action but no enough permission to perform such action and I'm not able to change this.
I have been trying many ways to move the file to the media folder but could not find one that works yet.
Hmm, I would like to avoid that :/ but maybe it's the only way.
I think my problem here is that I can't get superuser access. When I type "su" I just get a segmentation fault message. Couldn't find a way to fix that yet.
Thanks.
willian7 said:
Nothing ;/
unless I've made something wrong
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Try to flash this update.zip threw your cwm, just go to install zip from sdcard and choose the update.zip, sure first you have to copy it to your sdcrad . (i've tested it, for me everything worked fine)
hope i was able to help
My screen broke tonight enough to make it unusable, and I was offered in store exchange when I called B&N support. I am running CM7, and would like to know if it is possible to either restore to stock or wipe the hard drive to remove evidence of rooting before I send it back.
I managed to get into adb and read in another thread to try rm -r *, which is supposed to wipe everything, but I got a bunch of read only errors. It appears that the nook will now not boot into CM7 (which is good), but I fear that I haven't wiped it far enough to be safe from a chargeback. Any ADB wizards out there with some advice?
I think I have done it. I opened up a shell in adb, mounted /system as r/w, then did rm -r *. after a reboot it won't even boot into adb anymore. it comes on for about 4 seconds then shuts off immediately. I can't tell what is happening on the screen because of the damage, but i'm hoping it is enough that the folks who check returns at BN can't prove it was rooted.
What are you wanting it to boot into if you just deleted everything in the system partition?
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I think he wanted it to not boot at all in preference to booting into CM7.
I'm pretty sure that if they looked beyond the broken screen they'd be able to determine that you've rooted it: Having no files but still a filesystem on /system is kinda suspicious, and I imagine that having CWM instead of the stock recovery would be something of a giveaway as well.