I spent like 3 hours creating a boot animation for my xoom and can't get the thing to work. I sent the stock one to my comp and altered only the images and nothing more. I left the notepad info in there and zipped to a file and put back in the directory on my xoom that it started in. Using the same permissions as the stock animation and giving it the exact same name and moving the stock one out of there rebooted and now it goes from the stock dual core screen, to home page. No boot animation at all.
The only difference between the one that I made and the stock one is the file size. Mine is just over 9mb and stock is just over 2mb. Will this make the difference?
any help is appreciated.
Original post at xoom forums here (since I haven't posted 8 times it won't let me post the actual link so add the necessary prefix if you will
xoomforums.com/forum/motorola-xoom-themes/563-my-first-xoom-boot-animation.html
Where are you pushing it to. ? And and dimesions on desc.txt file should match the img's dimensions
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Putting it into system/media which is where stock boot animation is and I used the notepad info from original boot animation and kept pics the same height and width, they are just larger files...
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HAs any one had any luck
i tried changing the desc .txt and any changes i made booted to a black screen
yes i saved it
but i guess the question is how do i do it the txt file is way more complex than previous ive seen
Have you tried to change bootanimation on the rom I it work that way before I flashes it. Open the rom go to system media delete the bootanimation rename the new one you want to bootanimation and put in It's place
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seanzscreams said:
HAs any one had any luck
i tried changing the desc .txt and any changes i made booted to a black screen
yes i saved it
but i guess the question is how do i do it the txt file is way more complex than previous ive seen
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Did you compress the zip? You have to create it as "store" files and not compress.
It should remain a zip file
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Someone has been doing the work to port the animation to multiple devices. I haven't tried it to see if it works, but here's the link. He's taken out the Star Wars and Droid logo part.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=779571
Has anyone figured out how to change the boot animations yet and add a custom animation? I haven't had much chance to look too far into it yet, but I see that it is different than what I am used to.
No recovery yet so no one is willing to screw around with boot
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I am working on it right now. Was able to convert to .rle in photoshop. I am having an issue with extracting the boot.img to edit the files within the ramdisk (if that is where they are stored), because simply editing the files in system/media does not work.
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Hey Everyone,
Just wanted to let everybody know that replacing the bootanimation.zip file with the DROID RAZR in the /system/media folder works with the XT860. I know it's a minor thing, but I thought it was cool.
For updatability (and because we don't have an SBF for the XT860) I recommend to rename the original bootanimation.zip to bootanimation.zip.orig and then copy a new bootanimation.zip in there.
if you dump the new animation to data/local it will boot up and you can leave system/media alone. either way. at least you renamed it instead of deleting. just an fyi
It would be even better if you can upload it for us
Even though I backed my original boot ani I somehow still lost it. Would someone be so kind as to upload it so I can have it just in case. Thanks
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perhaps a good idea will be to upload here both animations...
As requested...
both animations!
The file should only be named bootanimation.zip and has the permissions of 644 (but it doesn't matter really) and the owner/group is 0/0 (root/root).
I know how to change permissions but what's the command for.changing owners
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Change owner is chown, or it's the 2nd last option in root explorer's long click.
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So chown 00 or chown 11 etc
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works perfectly. is it too much to ask to add here the Official Nexus Prime boot animation...in the same file format..in order to collect all working options?
bogdan_wrc said:
works perfectly. is it too much to ask to add here the Official Nexus Prime boot animation...in the same file format..in order to collect all working options?
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I can't find a Galaxy Nexus system dump, they seem to all be removed. If you have one PM me with a link and I'll see what I can do.
do these have the boot sound as well?
I have the Galaxy Nexus boot animation, and I'll post it a little later today. If anyone is losing original boot animations, use Root Explorer, go into System Media, and rename the existing boot animation to something like "d3bootanimation.zip" (that's exactly what I did). If you're simply renaming old animations as "bootanimation.bak" or something similar, you'll end up overwriting a few from time to time, depending on how many boot animations you have on your SD. Just use a more specific label for backups, and you should be fine.
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Just downloaded the razr bootanimation and put it in data/local. I shut my phone off and started and didn't get it to work
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Put it in the system/media folder. Be sure to rename the boot animation that's already there.
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I have the Galaxy Nexus boot animation, and I'll post it a little later today. If anyone is losing original boot animations, use Root Explorer, go into System Media, and rename the existing boot animation to something like "d3bootanimation.zip" (that's exactly what I did). If you're simply renaming old animations as "bootanimation.bak" or something similar, you'll end up overwriting a few from time to time, depending on how many boot animations you have on your SD. Just use a more specific label for backups, and you should be fine.
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Here's the boot animation for Galaxy Nexus. Rename this file to bootanimation.zip and place it in /data/local OR /system/media (if placing the file into /system/media, rename the original bootanimation.zip file to something different so you can restore if required).
for the ones who want smth different, here is a link to a blue bootanimation.
(c) http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-razr-themes/217089-cyan-razr-diamond-boot-animation.html
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for the ones who want smth different, here is a link to a blue bootanimation.
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That link no longer works. I found the the blue animation deeper in that thread, and have attached it to this post. The blue animation is working fine on my XT862 / XT883.
I went ahead and used the international stock animation in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2502550
I have since created my own boot animation, but I can't seem to get ANY animations to work.
I've tried several in the boot animations thread in the themes section. I just get a black screen at boot.
I deleted the files that i placed under system for the stock animation, and I have added the bootanimation bin file to enable the zip folders.
I made sure all the permissions were correct, too.
I have no idea why the bootanimations won't work. Please help.
I also tried the "enable samsung boot animation" zips from around XDA. No luck
Anyone?
They work for me. Which .ogg are you replacing
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I figured it was the bootanimation file and permissions, I also tried the permissions for the bootanimation.zip.
My phone started to get laggy and take forever to load up. Then the stock animations wouldn't even work. I restored all the original files (had them saved as .bak) and nothing went back to normal (even put the default bootanimation file in system/bin)
Soooo, I just reflashed the stock rom and rerooted and called it a jelly donut. The SAME exact bootanimation and bootanimation.zip files are working perfect now. No freaking clue what messed up. :silly:
Hi All,
Back again to share my latest work. I have taken the Google Pixel XL boot animation and converted it to have a black background. Its 1440p resolution.
I spent a lot of time learning to make python plugin for use with GIMP image editor to apply a number of image processing procedures and then batch process all the boot animation files. The result is I can quickly do this conversion now in less than 5min! This plugin does not simply do background paint bucket fills. The problem I found with this is you are left with intermediate colours remaining on the edge of the google letters from the white background. You might be able to solve that by increasing the threshold but then you are left with pixel, jagged edges which also sux! Instead I played with RGB modes, selective selection by colour, alpha colour, etc, etc. The result is a black background, with nice edges of the coloured google letters, and I think i did a good job to keep original colours. Someone with a trained photoshop'd eye may beg to differ but I think its ok for now.
Only thing I ask for in return is give credit where credit is due if you include this in your work/projects.
If anyone is interested in have the Pixel boot animation for devices of other resolutions (e.g. Nexus 5X) let me know and send the original boot animation and I'll convert.
Paul.
Oh! And as always - DO A NANDROID BACKUP!!! I will take not responsibility.
God bless you developers and XDA
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Working all good and perfect... Looks regal in black
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Thank u for doing this I always hated the White BC it's so bright and now it's perfect.. thanks for sharing. God bless
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The background looks yellowish on my device
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Hi All,
Back again to share my latest work. I have taken the Google Pixel XL boot animation and converted it to have a black background. Its 1440p resolution.
I spent a lot of time learning to make python plugin for use with GIMP image editor to apply a number of image processing procedures and then batch process all the boot animation files. The result is I can quickly do this conversion now in less than 5min! This plugin does not simply do background paint bucket fills. The problem I found with this is you are left with intermediate colours remaining on the edge of the google letters from the white background. You might be able to solve that by increasing the threshold but then you are left with pixel, jagged edges which also sux! Instead I played with RGB modes, selective selection by colour, alpha colour, etc, etc. The result is a black background, with nice edges of the coloured google letters, and I think i did a good job to keep original colours. Someone with a trained photoshop'd eye may beg to differ but I think its ok for now.
Only thing I ask for in return is give credit where credit is due if you include this in your work/projects.
If anyone is interested in have the Pixel boot animation for devices of other resolutions (e.g. Nexus 5X) let me know and send the original boot animation and I'll convert.
Paul.
Oh! And as always - DO A NANDROID BACKUP!!! I will take not responsibility.
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Thanks man
Please. Can you make Pixel device style BootLogo (logo.bin)?
How to apply this? When i try to flash it using boot animations app by jrummy then it shows error "please select a valid file" even though i select the correct zip, is there any other way to flash ? Can i directly flash it using twrp ?
yeah i also tried to put the zip in system/media and replaced the old bootanimation.zip with the new one and put the permissions the same octal 644 still didn't work.
Looks much better than the white version. I didn't flash it though. Just extracted zip and placed the bootanimation file in system/media and set permissions to rw/r/r
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yeah i also tried to put the zip in system/media and replaced the old bootanimation.zip with the new one and put the permissions the same octal 644 still didn't work.
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I downloaded the zip then extracted it then found the boot animation.zip then went to system/media then renamed the original bootanimation.zip to .zip.bak then pasted the copied zip and made sure permissions was rw/r/r
Rebooted works great
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scoot0073 said:
I downloaded the zip then extracted it then found the boot animation.zip then went to system/media then renamed the original bootanimation.zip to .zip.bak then pasted the copied zip and made sure permissions was rw/r/r
Rebooted works great
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ok thanks can confirm that this worked for me the problem was I didn't extract the bootanimation from the zip file above. Also changed my permissions for octal 644 and it works.
Great job dev thanks
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Please. Can you make Pixel device style BootLogo (logo.bin)?
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From what I understand this is not possible on our device, or at least no one has figured how to do it yet.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3260264
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ok thanks can confirm that this worked for me the problem was I didn't extract the bootanimation from the zip file above. Also changed my permissions for octal 644 and it works.
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Hmm I tried this. Not working for some reason. The zip has the right permissions and its in the right folder and I used the extracted zip as well. I'm on 6.0, do I need to be on nougat?
I'm getting a small lag spike right before it goes into the final G at the end. It freezes for a second and then finishes the animation. Any fixes?
i also made this for personal use but i simply used gimp to batch edit invert all whit eto black...retaining original rgb
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Hmm I tried this. Not working for some reason. The zip has the right permissions and its in the right folder and I used the extracted zip as well. I'm on 6.0, do I need to be on nougat?
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No. Boot animations are in no way whatsoever OS dependent. I have literally been using the same boot animation since Ice Cream Sandwich. It's been the exact install method since that time as well.
Download your boot animation. Use a file explorer to take a peek inside it. Do you see a "META-INF" folder inside? If yes, that's a flashable zip and you will be installing it via recovery.
If no, then you should see several folders named 'part0, part1, part2, part3, etc., along with a desc.txt. Inside each folder is a picture. Together they all make up the entire animation. The desc.txt tells it how to play. The speed, resolution & order of the animation. If that's what you see then that's the actual boot animation itself and in that case;
Use a file explorer with root permissions. Navigate to /system/media and you will see the stock 'bootanimation.zip'
If you're never going to use it again and you know it, you can delete it. Otherwise you can rename it exactly 'bootanimation.zip.bak' and just delete the .bak extension you added if you ever wish to revert (after deleting the custom boot animation you installed).
Another thing to note is that the new boot animation you're downloading here (or anywhere) must always be named exactly the same as stock. So say you download a Spiderman themed boot animation named "spidey_BA.zip" you will need to rename it "bootanimation.zip".
So once your old boot animation is either changed to bootanimation.zip.bak or deleted, move the file of your choice into /system/media. Once the new animation is there make sure you're setting the correct permissions. They should be exactly -rw-r--r-- (644).
That's it. Reboot. Enjoy your new boot animation.
So remember, if your zip has a "META-INF" folder inside of it, that is meant to be flashed in recovery. If it only has folders named part0, part1 part2...in that fashion + a desc.txt, that is the actual boot animation which needs to go to /system/media and have its permissions granted to 644. That's been the case for changing boot animations since I got on Android in 2010, probably longer than that, I'd imagine. Every single phone. Not trying to bash or anything just help you understand. If you followed these steps and you don't see a new boot animation then you are in fact doing something wrong.
It's pretty straightforward. You shouldn't have any trouble or mess anything up. Worst thing you could probably do is just delete any animations. That wouldn't even boot loop you. You'd either end up with a black screen or the old default 'Android' still image until your phone booted. Let me know if you need more help.
Just wow. The black is just immaculate.
Works great on my 7.1 ROM thanks!
Is there a white version for ROMs that don't already have it too please?