Introduction
Okay, so there are lots of good boot animations out there but you can only choose one? Not good enough I say!
So, here I provide a script that will allow you to have multiple boot animations that are randomly selected each time you boot you phone!
This script was originally provided by Nighthound here many moons ago but I've since adapted it to my Nexus One ROM (Kang-o-rama) and now for the LG Star.
This version should be compatible with *all* custom ROM's LG P990, P999 as well as other manufactures and ROM's with init.d support.Installation
It's pretty simple to install and very little configuration is required. Simply download the attached .zip file, install it from recovery and you're all set!
Download zip file below
Install zip from SD Card in recovery
Copy any boot animation .zip you want to use to /data/local/bootanimations/
Give each boot animation .zip file a unique name!
Reboot and enjoy
Hit 'Thanks' below
The 'bootanimations' directory will be created for you the first time you boot after applying this update zip and then you can download any suitable boot animation you want at any time and just place it in /data/local/bootanimations/ (make sure it is not called 'bootanimation.zip' to avoid conflicts). Easy as pie.Animation Authors
To help our user community I have two suggestions:
Please let users know in your thread of this script; and,
Put a note in about unique file names so users don't get confused
Have fun kids and don't run with scissors, be safe...
haha nice! I'll check it out in a few! Thanks for the effort tho!
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Ok installed it and installed some boot animations i like and it works like a charm thanks!
Thank you! Like custom bootanimations, so this is something I can use!
ARGHHHH, what files does this replace as after installing this my phone just reboots just after the lock screen shows.
Although it does show me MANY random bootscreen now.
i've placed over 10 bootanims, everything is working as is should be
thnx m8
stevvie said:
ARGHHHH, what files does this replace as after installing this my phone just reboots just after the lock screen shows.
Although it does show me MANY random bootscreen now.
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It just adds one file called 10bootanimations to /system/etc/init.d/ - you can of course remove this if you like.
It won't actually show *any* random boot animations until you add them so I'm not sure I've understood your problem correctly.
I'm trying to using this on my LG G2x running CM7 and nothing happens ... I've copied a few bootanimations to data/local/bootanimations ... and nothing at all
I've confirmed that the file got flashed to system/etc/init.d ... is there a way i can confirm if it is actually running etc?
Another thing of importance perhaps, the first time i rebooted after flashing the attached zip through recovery, it didn't create the folder at data/local/bootanimations like the script says it should ...
any thoughts?
Nice little tool, thx.
ridicool said:
I'm trying to using this on my LG G2x running CM7 and nothing happens ... I've copied a few bootanimations to data/local/bootanimations ... and nothing at all
I've confirmed that the file got flashed to system/etc/init.d ... is there a way i can confirm if it is actually running etc?
Another thing of importance perhaps, the first time i rebooted after flashing the attached zip through recovery, it didn't create the folder at data/local/bootanimations like the script says it should ...
any thoughts?
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I'm not sure, is the CM7 processing init.d? Logcat at boot will tell you, the script should launch very early in the boot process and will write to the main log.
djmcnz said:
I'm not sure, is the CM7 processing init.d? Logcat at boot will tell you, the script should launch very early in the boot process and will write to the main log.
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I think you're right because on the logcat, there is no mention of randombootanimations ... no one over at cyanogenmod answered when i asked if it was a bug that init.d wasn't being processed ...
anywyas, i'll keep this and keep giving it a shot and eventually it will work
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Im a Huge star wars fan and i would love to have this leaked boot animation ported to my vogue if anyone is willing to help me out i would be very grateful
i wish i know how to do it myself
for those that want the androidupdate i put one together the link is below http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DJV03Z6M
i have tested this on my own vogue and it works great
thank you Kallt_Kaffe for the resizing
here is the links to droidlife
http://www.droid-life.com/2010/09/08/download-official-r2-d2-droid-2-boot-animation/
and there are also leaked live wallpapers for anyone who wants them
http://www.droid-life.com/2010/09/08/download-leaked-r2-d2-live-wallpapers/
I'll have a look at the bootanimation. I have the resizing tools needed so it's usually a few commands at the command line.
Here you go... not tested though... resized to 240x427 then cropped to 240x320.
EDIT: Tested it on my QVGA Huawei U8100 and it worked just fine so it should work OK.
SWEET!!! thanks to you both
kallt_kaffe said:
Here you go... not tested though... resized to 240x427 then cropped to 240x320.
EDIT: Tested it on my QVGA Huawei U8100 and it worked just fine so it should work OK.[/uQUOTE]
Thank you
That was fast
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I was try to make my own bootanimation for my own device. But it won't load during booting. Is there any compression or encryption method should i use when re package it to zip file ?
vellowax said:
I was try to make my own bootanimation for my own device. But it won't load during booting. Is there any compression or encryption method should i use when re package it to zip file ?
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It's an uncompressed zip. More like an archive.
Thank you, I will try again later.
awesome, thanks OP and kallt_kaffe
edit: so where do I put this?
radar5 said:
awesome, thanks OP and kallt_kaffe
edit: so where do I put this?
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if you use the update file i posted then put it on your sd card in the andboot file
then reset your phone and when you power on hold down the volume or d pad center
that will take you to the installer
from there pick number 4 install update
let it install
when its done you will be back at the install menu
then pick number 10
the phone will boot up and you should see the new boot animations
enjoy
evilclosetmonkeynate said:
if you use the update file i posted then put it on your sd card in the andboot file
then reset your phone and when you power on hold down the volume or d pad center
that will take you to the installer
from there pick number 4 install update
let it install
when its done you will be back at the install menu
then pick number 10
the phone will boot up and you should see the new boot animations
enjoy
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thanks, I didn't realize that was the edited one. No access to mega upload at work though so this will have to wait until later.
Hey I downloaded the androidupdate.tar and I ran the update from the installer, but whenever I boot it just shows a blank screen
delivery_dragon said:
Hey I downloaded the androidupdate.tar and I ran the update from the installer, but whenever I boot it just shows a blank screen
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it worked fine for me is anyone else having this problem
try running it again
Awesome thanks for this. Lovin seein good ol' R2 on boot
My Vogue is now really a droid
Just wondering if there is a mechanism for running a custom post install script after flashing a rom, specifically CM.
There are things that I always do after I flash a rom and it would be nice to be able to do these as a part of the flashing process, so I don't forget. For example, symlinking /system/etc/hosts to /data/data/hosts. I also would like to remove the videos app as it serves no purpose since the 3D gallery displays my videos in it.
It would be awesome if I could have a script on the SD card that would just get executed right before reboot after the rom was flashed.
A bit less elegant than what you're suggesting, but I just made an update.zip to do that symlinking. Have to apply it with ROM Manager after flashing (so an extra reboot when flashing a new rom), but it beats booting into recovery and doing it by adb.
Link if anyone is interested: http://oysteivi.tihlde.org/adfree-symlink.zip
With this flashed, the "adfree android" app seems to work nicely when I tick "symlink from /data/data/hosts".
Didn't feel a need to remove the videos app, but it should be easy to add it in there. Just add something like this to the update-script in the zip:
delete SYSTEM:app/Videos.apk
(untested, and you'll have to replace "Videos" with the actual apk name. I'm too lazy to check what it is )
This is pretty much what I was looking for, thanks a lot!
Hi there,
Thanks a lot, due to this zipfile I finally got adfree working appropriately.
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Finally ! That bug was very annoying to me.
I'll try the fix asap, thanks a lot!
e: works like a charm!
Yeah, it was a so annoying issue...
I wonder why so less people visited this thread .
I copied this ZIP onto my SD card,rebooted, went into clockwork mod, install zip, choose zip and flashed this,rebooted but am stuck on the HTC screen now for over 7 minutes am i doing something wrong?
It's as well i made a backup or id lose everthing
jonny68 said:
I copied this ZIP onto my SD card,rebooted, went into clockwork mod, install zip, choose zip and flashed this,rebooted but am stuck on the HTC screen now for over 7 minutes am i doing something wrong?
It's as well i made a backup or id lose everthing
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Try adding the libaudio.so to your ROM.zip (with 7-zip or WinRAR) at the right directory and flash the ROM.zip again. That's what I am doing everytime I change something
j4n87 said:
Yeah, it was a so annoying issue...
I wonder why so less people visited this thread .
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Because you posted it in the "Themes and Apps" section
thanks a lot for post here
great job
kackburt said:
Try adding the libaudio.so to your ROM.zip (with 7-zip or WinRAR) at the right directory and flash the ROM.zip again. That's what I am doing everytime I change something
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you mean copy the actual zip file into the ROM zip and then flash?
jonny68 said:
you mean copy the actual zip file into the ROM zip and then flash?
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Unzip the cwm with the fix and navigate to "system/lib" and copy the "libaudio.so".
then open the rom zip navigate to "system/lib" and paste the "libaudio.so" there.
Didn't understand your previous post..did you make a backup or not?
If not...just flash your current rom again, you won't lose your data if you do this.
Only the files that you edited in /system like gps.conf or other tweaks you have to edit again.
Tried on UD3.3.0 wont boot... :s
People dont understand that this work the best on CM7 nexus roms.
That by installing this fix on CM7 or AOSP you will probaly lose the robo and high volume on first call fix. That most roms have custom libs including this lib. Minimum requirements I would say CM7 2.34 and AOSP 2.34 since cm7 and AOSP are the most equal roms to each other.
To say it simple you cant just simply flash this on every rom also make sure your permission is right.
Is this fix able to work on an HTC Desire running 2.3.4 Oxygen ROM?
jonny68 said:
I copied this ZIP onto my SD card,rebooted, went into clockwork mod, install zip, choose zip and flashed this,rebooted but am stuck on the HTC screen now for over 7 minutes am i doing something wrong?
It's as well i made a backup or id lose everthing
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If you have a nandroid backup, you should be on the safe side!
Try to wipe cache partition first, then the dalvik cache and then flash the zip-file.
All of these actions take place in the CWM.
Hope it works!
The libaudio.so fix was submitted to gerrit (Change I24a4a11b: Fix for a1026 suspend)by Jordon aka Jyxent. It was mergered with the latest nightlies, and should be merged with CM 7.0.4
jens1288 said:
The libaudio.so fix was submitted to gerrit (Change I24a4a11b: Fix for a1026 suspend)by Jordon aka Jyxent. It was mergered with the latest nightlies, and should be merged with CM 7.0.4
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Yes, that fix works fine. I'm not sure it fixes the few seconds delay that affects all Gingerbread phones though but there was another potential workaround submitted for that too.
http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,5420
I have yet to include it in my build and try it though.
The story on the front page links to the wrong fix. The libaudio fix was for the wonk on the Nexus One. The libaudio library is hardware specific and may cause issues on other devices that don't share the same processor.
I've submitted a patch to gerrit that helps with the call delay here:
http://review.cyanogenmod.com/#change,5420
Thank you for clearing that up jyxent. To go into a bit more detail...
The fix that was posted, as jyxent mentioned, is for the Nexus One. That is for the infamous "wonk" that has been plaguing N1 users since the Gingerbread nightlies started (who woulda thunk it was just a single line that needed to be added).
The 2-3 second delay is something that affects most (if not all) Gingerbread installs. Currently there isn't a simple "fix" for this. It requires recompiling portions of Gingerbread. jyxent's fix is submitted to CM, but I don't see any reason why this can't be applied to AOSP as well. It has yet to be reviewed by the CM dev team (at least it doesn't have any comments on it yet). It might be something that can be made into some device-independent flashable zip, but it has yet to be created.
j4n87 said:
Unzip the cwm with the fix and navigate to "system/lib" and copy the "libaudio.so".
then open the rom zip navigate to "system/lib" and paste the "libaudio.so" there.
Didn't understand your previous post..did you make a backup or not?
If not...just flash your current rom again, you won't lose your data if you do this.
Only the files that you edited in /system like gps.conf or other tweaks you have to edit again.
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done thanks
Can this be done manually with root explorer, by copying the libaudio.so to/system/lib and a reboot?
Hey XDA, been away for a while and just finished my first semester of college. Checked up on my old thread to find alot of positive things. A while back I wanted to do more with this and never got around to it, but figured it was about time I did...
The new animation starts somewhat similarly to the old one with added transition between the HTC logo and the vortex. Also after the vortex, instead of a static image at the end I've thrown together a completely new piece that will loop until the phone finally decides to start.
This version also uses JPGs rather than PNGs. I just found out JPGs could be used the other day... After optimizing the PNGs, (something that wasn't considered for the old one) this new one comes out to a total of 234MB... (one of those things that happen when you only use AfterFX for the project...) If anyone would like this anyway... Let me know and I'll put it up somewhere.
I also made a basic splash screen, something that was misadvertised with the old version. It is the first image in the attachments and can be installed thru bootloader. (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?37e8as4f4m68cwu)
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?w1ci9p2ugk7271d
If you would like the stock sound to use with this download it from the attachments below, extract the mp3 and add it to /system/media.
GIFs were 4-5MB each so heres a video instead...
Old version has been moved to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20568970 if anyone wants to check it out.
Thanks for the link, and if you get a chance to try it out let me know how you like it
This is [email protected]$$! Way better then the stock bootanimation
Great work!
>--The Game--<
How to I install this? HBoot or Recovery? I know sometimes you need to rename it to the PG0059 thing (I know it's not right) and I'm just curious before I go screwing anything up
Bigwidge said:
How to I install this? HBoot or Recovery? I know sometimes you need to rename it to the PG0059 thing (I know it's not right) and I'm just curious before I go screwing anything up
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I personally used clockwork recovery and did install sdcard/update.zip
Place the update.zip from the download onto the root of the sd card, then in ROM manager, reboot into recovery and install the update.
There are alternatives to this such as just putting the bootanimation.zip into the right folder using root explorer, but I ran into permission problems so I did it this way.
If you have any other questions feel free to ask.
bobz1993 said:
I personally used clockwork recovery and did install sdcard/update.zip
Place the update.zip from the download onto the root of the sd card, then in ROM manager, reboot into recovery and install the update.
There are alternatives to this such as just putting the bootanimation.zip into the right folder using root explorer, but I ran into permission problems so I did it this way.
If you have any other questions feel free to ask.
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Thanks alot bud! Thats what I thaught but I figured I would ask before doing anything. Looks sick- thanks for posting!
EDIT: Just flashed it and it looks amazing! Definitley a keeper! I like how fast it spells "quietly brilliant" (I hate slow screens) and the animations on the boot animation is just plain awesome. ++++1
DUDE this is sweeet! Thanks!
Glad you guys like it. Are you using the stock sound with it. Seems like it would work good with this, but I lost it when I flashed to the ROM I'm on >.>
yes stock sound and it is perfect!
bobz1993 said:
Glad you guys like it. Are you using the stock sound with it. Seems like it would work good with this, but I lost it when I flashed to the ROM I'm on >.>
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bobz1993 said:
Glad you guys like it. Are you using the stock sound with it. Seems like it would work good with this, but I lost it when I flashed to the ROM I'm on >.>
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Yeah same here, the stock sound works great with it
Is this new boot animation really 24MB? Like, I yanked it out of the update .zip because I normally move them with Root Explorer. I find easier, and I have a system to doing this where I save the old ones in the folder and just rename them. Allowing me to swap them out at will by simply altering the name of the bootanimation . zip back to that.
-Edit- NVM. I see why it's 24MB now.
Holy effing sh!t cakes! That's a lot of graphical content to run through there in the beginning. Looks awesome though!
Again, just to anyone reading this that hasn't tried this boot animation yet.
THIS BOOT ANIMATION IS AWESOME!
Asmodeus6 said:
Is this new boot animation really 24MB? Like, I yanked it out of the update .zip because I normally move them with Root Explorer. I find easier, and I have a system to doing this where I save the old ones in the folder and just rename them. Allowing me to swap them out at will by simply altering the name of the bootanimation . zip back to that.
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Glad you like it. I would have done the same using root explorer, but I ran into read only and permission problems for anything i tried to use it with. And I really tryed to lower the size the best I could... It was originally 165mb, then found out it was rendering w/o compression (lossless), changed render settings managed to get to 95mb... to get it to 24mb I lowered the quality a little more and it skips every other frame. After uploading it I attempted to make it smaller but all i can do is lower the quality even more, and at 17mb it looked pretty bad.
PS- could someone link me to the stock FinalThunder.mp3 I haven't had it since I flashed my ROM
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Glad you like it. I would have done the same using root explorer, but I ran into read only and permission problems for anything i tried to use it with. And I really tryed to lower the size the best I could... It was originally 165mb, then found out it was rendering w/o compression (lossless), changed render settings managed to get to 95mb... to get it to 24mb I lowered the quality a little more and it skips every other frame. After uploading it I attempted to make it smaller but all i can do is lower the quality even more, and at 17mb it looked pretty bad.
PS- could someone link me to the stock FinalThunder.mp3 I haven't had it since I flashed my ROM
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No I wasn't *****ing about the size. I was checking to make sure I didn't bork something up extracting it. I was just verifying as most of them are 2-6MB.
Here's the Final Thunder .mp3
I ripped it right from the system folder with RE so it should be good. Make sure you check the permissions though. As they may need to be altered to get it to jive with the way it gets read. It should be;
X-X-[0]
X-[0]-[0]
X-[0]-[0]
I think.
X meaning checked.
I had to rar it to post it.
Edit: Yes, that's the way the permissions need to be above, but when it gets extracted it changes them to;
[0]-[0]-[0]
X-X-X
X-[0]-X
So if you just drop it in there it probably WON'T WORK. Make sure you change the permissions!
Again, thanks for the awesome boot animation!
Thanks, I just now noticed the mount r/w button at the top of root explorer >.>
I also did all of this before I saw the post edit, so I did just throw it in there, but it still worked =o
Now I can see the bootscreen everyones been thanking me for lol... Thanks again for the sound clip =)
bobz1993 said:
Thanks, I just now noticed the mount r/w button at the top of root explorer >.>
I also did all of this before I saw the post edit, so I did just throw it in there, but it still worked =o
Now I can see the bootscreen everyones been thanking me for lol... Thanks again for the sound clip =)
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Hardly a fair trade for the kick ass boot animation. But no problem.
Yeah, many moons ago RE owned me until I found that little mount r/w button. After finding it however it's been an extremely useful tool.
I'm surprised the MP3 worked for you actually w/o changing permissions. :shrugs: I'm leaving the warning there in case someone else downloads it for the same purpose and it doesn't.
Which file or folder do i drop this into to make sound work. I am on gingeritis and had to delete the VZW_bootanimation and there is no sound once i swapped that boot animation out with this one?
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No I wasn't *****ing about the size. I was checking to make sure I didn't bork something up extracting it. I was just verifying as most of them are 2-6MB.
Here's the Final Thunder .mp3
I ripped it right from the system folder with RE so it should be good. Make sure you check the permissions though. As they may need to be altered to get it to jive with the way it gets read. It should be;
X-X-[0]
X-[0]-[0]
X-[0]-[0]
I think.
X meaning checked.
I had to rar it to post it.
Edit: Yes, that's the way the permissions need to be above, but when it gets extracted it changes them to;
[0]-[0]-[0]
X-X-X
X-[0]-X
So if you just drop it in there it probably WON'T WORK. Make sure you change the permissions!
Again, thanks for the awesome boot animation!
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It's either system/media
or
system/customize/resource
But I think it's system/media
Find the bootanimation .zip and that's where the sound file should go.
I tried putting it system/customize/resource and that didnt do anything so i will try system media I guess just put in the main file or any one of the sbu files I have
audio
GPU
weather
folders in there will try a few i guess?
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It's either system/media
or
system/customize/resource
But I think it's system/media
Find the bootanimation .zip and that's where the sound file should go.
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If anyone wants to try this, it is a zip of the vortex boot animation hopefully with the sound. It is for anyone running a rom that has a boot animation in the system/customize/resource folder and the boot animation is labeled VZW_bootanimation.
Let me know how it goes please
My apologies if the OP does not want this and will take down if asked
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9663029/VortexBootAnimation.zip
I got the animation to work, but no thunder. Tried everything! I think it may be my current set up (gingeritits and imosyons 2.5.4.test.4 kernel) since day one, there's been no sound. It came with the old school PC looking bootanimation and I read somewhere that, that boot ani is supposed to sound like a disc drive spooling up with clicks n what not, but it never did. I remember on the virus Rom I had, it DID have sound and the .mp3 was called VRsound.mp3. I made my own, fixed permissions, renamed it to VRsound.mp3 and replaced it. That worked. I could be wrong, but because this ROM didn't come with sound in the first place, I just can't get it.... Oh well. Still a tight boot! sound or not!
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One day fitsnugly told me: I have an idea…
This is the video of the PNG sequence
Files can be found here or fitsnugly threads here:
[GIGGLEBREAD][CM7][N1] Stan's Previously-Owned Coffins (06232011-0844)
[GIGGLEBREAD][CM7][G2X] Look behind you! A three-headed monkey! (06232011-0803)
Animation is also available as a Live Wallpaper in my apk here
Hope you like it. If so, use thank button or donation (I'll appreciate it. LOL)
hi, this is really cool. unfortunately, it really bugs my LG Optimus up after booting. Gmail will continue to force close and it takes my apps a lot longer to load. i installed the bootanimation thru Terminal Emulator. do you have any tips? did i do something wrong? how can i reverse it and go back to the standard boot animation?
thanks!
I'm sorry but the boot animation has nothing to do with the issues you are having now. It's only a sequence of png files to be loaded during boot.
Boot animation should go in system/media or data/local if you want it to survive to further rom updates.
If you wanna go back to stock boot, download again the zip of your rom and copy bootanimation.zip from there.
I'm positive that your issues are not related to the zip file. Trust me I made tons of boot.
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hi, this is really cool. unfortunately, it really bugs my LG Optimus up after booting. Gmail will continue to force close and it takes my apps a lot longer to load. i installed the bootanimation thru Terminal Emulator. do you have any tips? did i do something wrong? how can i reverse it and go back to the standard boot animation?
thanks!
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awesome...
FYI after deleting this file, my phone now starts up correctly and my apps don't all force close. no other settings were changed before or after i downloaded the file.
maybe it's just not compatible with the LG Optimus V?
well, i don't know
it works on all phones as long as they are 800x480
if you want, ask on lg thread and report. I will appreciated.
thanks
mjs2011 said:
FYI after deleting this file, my phone now starts up correctly and my apps don't all force close. no other settings were changed before or after i downloaded the file.
maybe it's just not compatible with the LG Optimus V?
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That video made me laugh.....Thnx for making my evening...