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Easy bootsplash hack?

well ive been trying to customize every little thing on my g1 to get the procedures down before i go and start programming for android, and ive been trying to find out how to change the bootsplash and all my searches have come up with is mixed results and so far i think ive pieced together the procedure for the abd method; but someone mentioned that you could change the bootsplash using a recovery mode update.zip, what would i need to do it and how? Because i really hate abd and fastboot (i blame ubuntu) because it a big pain in the ass.

You can change the animated (shiny android) screen with an update.zip. You cannot change the splash1 screen with an update. That one has to be done with fastboot.

knowfear said:
You can change the animated (shiny android) screen with an update.zip. You cannot change the splash1 screen with an update. That one has to be done with fastboot.
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how? is just a pre made one or can i make my own?

johnnytablet said:
how? is just a pre made one or can i make my own?
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How to which? Splash1 can be changed by using the bootscreen changer program listed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=543095&highlight=bootscreen+3000
The animated screen can be changed by opening either your theme or your ROM and locating the framework.res.apk file. Open that and go to assets and then images and change the android-logo-mask and the android-logo-shine to what you want. resign it and flash. or push it with adb.
A search will bring all of this information up as these posts have been active in the past day or so.

knowfear said:
How to which? Splash1 can be changed by using the bootscreen changer program listed http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=543095&highlight=bootscreen+3000
The animated screen can be changed by opening either your theme or your ROM and locating the framework.res.apk file. Open that and go to assets and then images and change the android-logo-mask and the android-logo-shine to what you want. resign it and flash.
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question 1 will i need to have abd for it to work? (the exe and bat thing)
question 2 is just extract the apk change android-logo-mask and android-logo-shine (with a different picture but the same name)? and is logo mask boot 1 and logo shine boot 2? and this is done with out abd?

1. You will need adb for the splash1 change as it is done with fastboot.
2. Yes, change the logo mask and shine files keeping them named as they are now. They are for the animated screen. The mask basically sits on top of the shine file. The shine file kinda spins around behind it.

knowfear said:
1. You will need adb for the splash1 change as it is done with fastboot.
2. Yes, change the logo mask and shine files keeping them named as they are now. They are for the animated screen. The mask basically sits on top of the shine file. The shine file kinda spins around behind it.
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so could i just delete shine? because i just plan to have just a png picture thats it or do i have to put 2 of the same images there?
(sorry for all the questions i just it to work)

Not sure about deleting it. However if you have no transparent places on your logo mask, nothing will shine anyhow.

Thanks for clearing that up for me

[THE] Espresso Bios Boot Animation!

First off, im not posting this for any kind of credit i just want to share it...i got the original bios boot from here...all i did was change the word Sapphire to Espresso...
since it goes in /data you dont have to reboot into recovery, just plug in usb and
Code:
adb push {path/to}/bootanimation.zip /data/local
when its done,
Code:
adb reboot
unplug and...
Enjoy!
-BMFC

How do we back up the old/stock one?

If you have the stock mytouch slide one, you don't have to because its a .gif in /system/customize/resource/ and it won't be overwritten or messed with at all...
If you have another bootanimation in .zip format and you wanna back it up just
Code:
adb pull /data/local/bootanimation.zip /path/to/wherever/
-BMFC

I have a tutorial and explanation here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=708316

You can Place the File in data or system/media. It will work in either place.

eugene373 said:
You can Place the File in data or system/media. It will work in either place.
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thats good to know...do you know whether one spot overrides the other? and if so, which one? i.e. if i have a bootanimation.zip in /data/local and i push another bootanimation.zip to /system/media, which one will show up?
-BMFC

bmfc187 said:
thats good to know...do you know whether one spot overrides the other? and if so, which one? i.e. if i have a bootanimation.zip in /data/local and i push another bootanimation.zip to /system/media, which one will show up?
-BMFC
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The data local bootanimation.zip. It is a user defined animation that can be accessed on both root and unrooted devices. The animation in system is only accessable with root and will act as a default fall back if nothing is in local.
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Ahh I understand now .. so lets say I install this one in data/local.. then later want the stock stuff back I just delete this from /data/local and the stock one will start coming up again from /system/media

that is correct! well actually the STOCK one is in /system/customize/resource/ and its something like mytough_v8_final.gif or something like that...
so even if you push it to /system/media the stock one will still be untouched in its directory, itll just get overridden by the new one.
but yeah...
-BMFC

uuuhhh...
Does it still say "Press TRACKBALL for help" at the bottom? You should change it to "Optical" or somethin OP, that would be dope.

Gootah said:
Does it still say "Press TRACKBALL for help" at the bottom? You should change it to "Optical" or somethin OP, that would be dope.
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No it says "press volume up + power to enter recovery" or somethin, ...
-BMFC
Sent from my ROOTED MyTouch3G Slide

Is there any way to change the boot animation by just using my phone via terminal or root explorer??
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Not sure why mine didn't work. Running SMR5r1, pushed to data/local/ and on reboot, I get the usual MyTouch3GSlide boot screen, then blank, then lock screen...

fermunky said:
Not sure why mine didn't work. Running SMR5r1, pushed to data/local/ and on reboot, I get the usual MyTouch3GSlide boot screen, then blank, then lock screen...
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Yeah me too...I did this when I was on slideMEROOT2 and it worked fine...then about a week after that I switched to 5r1 and bootanims don't work on 5r1...sucks, I know...I haven't tried any other roms lately, been working on theming 5r1, so I dunno what roms have bootanims working or not...
-BMFC
Sent from my ROOTED myTouch3G Slide

Boot Animation Compilation

I'm trying to compile some boot animations that are 320x480 for the Aria. This is all I got so far.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696193
http://androidforums.com/htc-droid-eris/56647-boot-animation-gallery.html
and here is a neat tool for previewing boot animations.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=676385
I posted the links to give credit where it's due, as I didn't create any of this. If anyone knows of anymore 320X480 boot animations, post them here please.

Here's another page that I just found.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=737873

Most of these are 478x318
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=623960

which size do we want for our aria?
Thanks,
Mike

320x480 it's the same as the G1.

thanks
-Mike

just take a normal boot animation and resize it to 320 480

anyone have any good recomendations on bootanimations im addicted to mixing it up lol

IM running the nexus one boot up, looks very cool. I like the red rage one too but id like to speed it up a tad.

Here's my bootanimation.zip created specifically for the Aria (480 x 320).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=359230&d=1278999405
It's the green android peeking out from behind the HTC logo. Just adb push.
GIF shown below for preview.

Heres a Matrix boot animation. I didnt create this boot animation nor do I know who did. I got from the UOT Kitchen and modified it to work with our devices by changing the resolution.
http://www.mediafire.com/?7e01whe21xupkko

Can I just boot into clockwork and install the zip file from my sd card? I do not know anything about sdk tools
Thanks

durtydawg said:
Can I just boot into clockwork and install the zip file from my sd card? I do not know anything about sdk tools
Thanks
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if you have sdk installed its not that complicated.
Reboot your phone into recovery and go to the partition menu and mount system.
Put the bootanimation.zip file into your sdk>tools folder. Then startup a command prompt.
from there change to the directory of your sdk tools folder. For me I would type "cd C:\Users\Jason\Documents\android-sdk-windows\tools" and hit Enter, but it all depends on where you have sdk installed on your computer. Theres also a thread on here on how to make a cmd shortcut that takes you straight to that folder each time.
Then type these commands into the command prompt (w/o the "")
1. "adb shell" and hit Enter.
2. "cd /data/local" and hit Enter.
3. "rm bootanimation.zip" and hit Enter.
4. "cd /system/media/" and hit Enter.
5. "rm bootanimation.zip" and hit Enter.
6. "exit" and hit Enter.
7. "adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local" and hit Enter.
8. "adb reboot" and Enter and you should have yourself a new bootanimation
Edit: Steps 1-6 may be optional...Im not sure if you have to remove the previous bootanimation.zip from those folders before installing a new one...but I do it anyways just to be safe.

I'm using rage bootanimation however if anyone here has tried it on the aria will notice that the animation is either too long or too slow. I'm wondering if anyone can suggestion how I can make the animation faster or shorter. I prefer to make it faster if possible. TIA
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Thanks for the info followed your directions to the letter but does not change my animation, I see where it loads it tells me the size of the file. But after reboot same ole screen.
I am running the ATT stock rom rooted would that be the issue? That its the stock rom?
Thanks again for all the help. I am loving this root stuff I must have fifty live wallpapers now, of course hardly ever use them just nice to do it if I want to instead of a company deciding what I can run or not run on something I paid for.

This is weird I used the boot animation preview tool to verify the zip file was good seen a button that said send to device clicked it rebooted phone and there it was.

Here is an animated gif I made of a droid commercial if someone wants to make boot animation out of it. I am not sure how to do it myself total noob to droid.

zeyoner said:
I'm using rage bootanimation however if anyone here has tried it on the aria will notice that the animation is either too long or too slow. I'm wondering if anyone can suggestion how I can make the animation faster or shorter. I prefer to make it faster if possible. TIA
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could you post a link to that rage bootanimation TIA. also i read at the top of this page where someone changed the resolution of a matrix boot animation to fit the aria using the uot kitchin i dont really know if that helps but maybe...

zeyoner said:
I'm using rage bootanimation however if anyone here has tried it on the aria will notice that the animation is either too long or too slow. I'm wondering if anyone can suggestion how I can make the animation faster or shorter. I prefer to make it faster if possible. TIA
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Here's how you breakdown the desc.txt file with the bootanimation:
320 480 25
p 0 0 droid
the '320 480' is the resolution.
the '25' is the frames per second.
not sure what the 'p' stands for.
the first number after the 'p' is the number of times the animation will loop. '0' means infintely til the device boots.
the second number is how many 'fps' gap there is inbetween animation loops. '0' would mean it just continues to loop with no pause.
the 'droid' is the folder name that contains the .gif's for the animation. This will change based on the folder name.
Some bootanimations have more than one folder. Like the nexus bootanimation has a 'part0' and a 'part1' folder. The first folders .gif's are set not to repeat and the second folder is set to loop infinitely.
Here's an example:
480 320 30
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
So you could either remove some of the gif's from the folders or you could simply speed up the fps for a faster boot animation.

i couldnt get this rage bootanimation to work so if someone does, please post a link to it..or if someone could help me that would also be cool thanks for any help guys

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.

[Boot Animation] Red Planet Xoom Boot Animation

I have put together another boot animation for my xoom. I decided to share it. I used some stuff from the internet. threw in some of my stuff and came up with this. Its not the best but i think its cool for now.
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Red Planet Xoom Boot Animation
How to Install Using Root Explorer
1. Download the boot animation file
2. Rename to bootanimation.zip
3. Using Root Explorer, copy bootanimation.zip to /data/local
How to Install Using ADB
1. Download the boot animation file
2. Rename to bootanimation.zip
3. Copy to your "Tools" folder that contains adb commands
4. Open command prompt and enter the command below
Code:
adb push boot animation.zip /data/local
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See my Minimalistic Boot Animation Here

I like it! Nice work.

That is FANTASTIC...most creative I have seen. Better yet it looks like it belongs with the device from stock. Great use of the Moto logo.

I like it. Not going to use it quite yet though.

Love it installing right now thanks alot
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Sweet. Looks good man.

Great work, thanks for posting this/

looks really good, thanks for sharing

@jase33
Looks really good! I love how u got the logo on the planet
I have some constructive criticism...
Have you thought about or tried removing the end of animation/loading loop that says "XOOM" to... keeping the planet on screen after it rotated to reveal the moto logo then glow and/or loop the clouds/mist atmosphere moving a bit? while everything loads...
Still an awesome job!

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This need te xoom rooded

CARLITOZ18 said:
This need te xoom rooded
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xoom does not need to be rooted. adb push the file to data/local

This is really nice! Thank you

Will this work with the Tiamat ROM?
Sick animation.

well after doing it your way the system wont accept the boot animation for some odd reason and just went back to the stock hc animation is this because maybe im using a custom rom ?

oh nvm i guess its only a problem when i reboot using vol up + power as it just bootloops 2 time then shows animation which is kinda annoying