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.
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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?
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.
vaiol123 said:
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!
10tonhammr said:
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
Searched through almost every thread relating to this post and found absolutely nothing. I just flashed Cog 3.0.2 and it works like a dream. The only issue is I am trying to now change the boot sound to a file of my choosing. Default has no sound file. I have looked in these place so far with no luck:
system/media
system/etc
There is no poweron.wav file anywhere and adding one i created myself did nothing.
Any sure fire ways to do this? Id really appreciate some help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=775154
sgs tools here has an easy way to set the boot or shutdown sound
Boot and shutdown sounds as well as qmg animations have been disabled in custom ROMs AFAIK. If you really need it bad, the official factory ROM will work.
I appreciate you being the only persn to respond but that is actually false. I dont have,any qmg files to mess w. I have already made a working boot ani and its zip. Not qrm. Plus alot of roms use .wav files for boot sounds....
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Xaviorin said:
I appreciate you being the only persn to respond but that is actually false. I dont have,any qmg files to mess w. I have already made a working boot ani and its zip. Not qrm. Plus alot of roms use .wav files for boot sounds....
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You should have no problems inserting a poweron.wav into system/etc and have it execute upon boot up. I have created my own start up and shutdown both with and without voice and they work fine. Just make sure it is in the correct format.
Oh heck, I must have tried the wrong places. Cool! Was thinking it's /system/media/audio/ui or /system/media/audio
I've done a few searchs to try and figure this out on my own, but I've been coming up short. I'm just trying to get a custom boot animation on my Sprint Tab. I'm comfortable removing the stock animation and audio. I can't, however, find anyway to add my own. I've tried renaming the custom animation to bootani.qmg with the stock one deleted out. When I boot up, though, it shows nothing still and boots up with no animation. Not asking for someone to reply with a written out guide, but a point in the right direction would be awesome.
Thanks!
Get your new bootanim (usually called bootanimation.zip butbif bit not, then rename it to that) then move it to system/media. Reboot and you should have been new boot anim
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That's the issue. Thought that's all I needed to do, but after trying that exact method repeatedly with different animations and bootanimation.zip files, it does not work for me.
I've tried renaming the file bootani.qmg, bootanimation.qmg, bootani.zip, and bootanimation.zip.
The .qmg is the sound file so you don't need that. What video format is your animation? It isn't just the name that has to be correct, its the format and file size too.
I would suggest using the DukeNukem boot file, since we know it works, to verify the process, then go make a custom file. And be sure to post back with your results!
That would make more sense. I just sorta assumed maybe it was searching for a file name and not finding it. Will try once more with the suggested boot animation and let ya know!
DukeNukem was also a no go. :/
I don't have a sprint tab, but the system folders and files sound the same as my at&t tab. What I did was create a folder and moved the boot animation.zip, and the .qmg files in there, then moved the duke animation into the system/media folder.
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.