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So, with the iphone it was possible (once jailbroken) to swap out system images (status bar, battery images, fonts and so on) on the fly via a file manger, once you uploaded the images to the device or connected via SSH to your computer of choice. So I'm curios if this is possible with android or is baking it into a custom rom / update and flashing it the only option?
Also wondering if there is anything like winterboard for android? I have toyed around with apps like ahome, pandahome and the likes, but I dont really like the idea of a replacement home screen.
regular way is creating an update file that you flash in recovery with all the mods you done. new way where you can watch videos about.. is kind of cool you do it without the need of update file and mostly without the need to reboot the device to take effect. check it out. thanks to stericson ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=574556
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regular way is creating an update file that you flash in recovery with all the mods you done. new way where you can watch videos about.. is kind of cool you do it without the need of update file and mostly without the need to reboot the device to take effect. check it out. thanks to stericson ..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=574556
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That looks promising. A lot like winterboard for the iphone. Just needs a GUI and more safety checks, but, I'm sure that will come in time. I'll start making packs for it in a week or two hopefully once I figure out all the file names and paths.
Thanks for the tip!
About me:
I have a mytouch3g running cyanogenmod 5.0.7ds
I have a mac, so most (pretty much all) of the boot screen instructions won't work for me.
The questions I have:
How can I change the boot screens on my mt3g
I found a .png that is awesome and I want to make it my first boot screen, how can I differentiate which boot screen I am changing?
Is there a less complex way of changing a boot screen than have been described? like a simple flash from recovery or something?
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That doesnt help. i've read all the post about it already and they are all for windows, linux and the g1. none of which I have.
...A little help
If you have the Android SDK installed on your Mac... (which you should already have done) Kick your phone into "Fastboot" (I.E. Power+Back Button) From your Mac... Open up CMD line, and follow the same instructions you found for windows. Its really no different. As, long as you have properly installed the SDK and USB Drivers on your Mac. Hope this helps.
Also...
Read this post for the instructions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=467693
Okay... I've installed Android SDK, I followed the instructions in the Cyanogenmod Wiki, and on the Android SDK website, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to run the SDK. I have Eclipse classic installed, but i'm just utterly confused. Can someone give me a description of how it's supposed to look or what i'm supposed to do or how I can get it up and running. I really need help with this.
bchsun said:
Okay... I've installed Android SDK, I followed the instructions in the Cyanogenmod Wiki, and on the Android SDK website, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to run the SDK. I have Eclipse classic installed, but i'm just utterly confused. Can someone give me a description of how it's supposed to look or what i'm supposed to do or how I can get it up and running. I really need help with this.
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Easy fix to all this. Take your desired boot screen and place it on your sd card. DO NANDROID BACKUP. Use Root explorer and copy and paste that bootanimation.zip into system/media folder and then reboot. Thats all there is to it
EDIT: Oh im sorry. Just noticed you want the boot IMAGE not the Boot animation. Sorry
I asked this same question about two days ago but put it in the android themes section. So far every response i have gotten has not worked. I know how to flash the splash screen when i get the correct image file, but my problem has been finding a way to change a .png or.jpg image into a .rgb565 image file. Every topic on xda that tells you how to do this requires a .exe program which me and you both know we can't run on mac without paying 50+ dollars for an extra program. I continue to look but so far the only solution i have come up with is to borrow a friends windows computer to convert my pictures. Unfortunately i just moved to a new city and don't know anyone with a windows computer. best of luck to you.
Hey, guys. First time poster here, and I have a question/problem. For my GTablet, I wanted to make a simple and clean boot animation, but it constantly just displays a black screen on bootup. I thought it might be the desc.txt file was formatted incorrectly (by Windows) and tried a few seperate methods of making it, but I have so far failed to get it to work.
I saw this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=749576 and thought it was relevant, but no solution was actually posted. If anyone can fix this file and tell me what was wrong with it, I would appreciate it!
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Hey, guys. First time poster here, and I have a question/problem. For my GTablet, I wanted to make a simple and clean boot animation, but it constantly just displays a black screen on bootup. I thought it might be the desc.txt file was formatted incorrectly (by Windows) and tried a few seperate methods of making it, but I have so far failed to get it to work.
I saw this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=749576 and thought it was relevant, but no solution was actually posted. If anyone can fix this file and tell me what was wrong with it, I would appreciate it!
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This one helped me to get Animations to work and i hope it will work 4 u too
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13515045&postcount=145
In your desc.txt, hit enter after the second line, leaving a third blank line at the end.
Also, I've never tried a bootanimation using .jpg, if what I said above does not fix it try converting the files to .png.
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.
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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.
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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!
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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 =)
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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?
Asmodeus6 said:
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!
4Geezy ON DopeDiculous's ROOTED TBeezy!
First off, thanks to everyone for helping make the Nook Color such a vibrant community. There's a wealth of information here and I'm really grateful for it. I love the NC and it's great that we can unlock its full Android potential thanks to the hard work of the folks here... both the people that make the tools, and the people that help support it.
I am curious to know if anyone out there has some custom boot animations that aren't so flashy. Both the wife (who also rooted her NC) and I suffer from migraines, and the bootup sequence can be really painful with the bright flashing colors. Something a little more subdued would be preferable.
I'm also not sure if I can run a custom boot animation on the NC without using Cyanogen? I've upgraded to 1.4.1 today (which promptly went into a boot loop which MN 4.6.16 didn't solve, so I reverted to 1.2 and then went back to 1.4.1 and got it re-rooted with MN 5.12.20 properly... thanks again for all the info here!), so I'm just using a rooted stock system. I searched for boot animations on the forum but most of the results were pages of people mentioning which animation they got stuck on while trying to root
Also, does anyone know anything about NookDevs.com going dark? Their site just shows a blank HTML page and any old links give a 404. It's a pity, because their wiki was a bit more in-depth than the NC wiki here.
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[...] I am curious to know if anyone out there has some custom boot animations that aren't so flashy. Both the wife (who also rooted her NC) and I suffer from migraines, and the bootup sequence can be really painful with the bright flashing colors. Something a little more subdued would be preferable.
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I'm also not a fan of the early MN startup screens, but there's an easy fix (see below).
I'm also not sure if I can run a custom boot animation on the NC without using Cyanogen?
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Yes, you can. MN changes it on B&N firmware.
If you've already over-written the boot animation by running MN, you'll need to find a replacement somewhere. Not sure how to do that. However, if you either haven't replaced it yet or are willing to do a factory reset, you can tweak the ManualNooter scripts. If you open the MN .zip file, go into /META-INF/com/google/android/ and edit the updater-script file with a text editor. Look for the 3 lines that begin with "ui_print("Installing Boot Animation...");" and comment them out by putting '#' characters at the start of each line. There are 3 lines in 5.12.20. Write the modified version to that same location, and then run it to (re)root your unit.
Alternately, you could modify /data/local/bootanimation.zip in manualnooter-5.12.20.zip. Hack down the updater-script, and you can have it install ONLY the boot animation if you want to try a few variations.
Finally, if you've already rooted, you could try plugging a replacement in to /data/local/bootanimation.zip directly. No guarantees on this one, though.
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I'm also not a fan of the early MN startup screens, but there's an easy fix (see below).Yes, you can. MN changes it on B&N firmware.
If you've already over-written the boot animation by running MN, you'll need to find a replacement somewhere. Not sure how to do that. However, if you either haven't replaced it yet or are willing to do a factory reset, you can tweak the ManualNooter scripts. If you open the MN .zip file, go into /META-INF/com/google/android/ and edit the updater-script file with a text editor. Look for the 3 lines that begin with "ui_print("Installing Boot Animation...");" and comment them out by putting '#' characters at the start of each line. There are 3 lines in 5.12.20. Write the modified version to that same location, and then run it to (re)root your unit.
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I just finished getting everything set back up (I hit a setting page that did a reset on my unit... not so happy. Running Titanium Backup now...), so I'm not really keen on re-running MN. I'd rather just tweak what needs to be done, as things seem to be a little bit fragile and breaking things requires a lot of time to get back up and running.
Alternately, you could modify /data/local/bootanimation.zip in manualnooter-5.12.20.zip. Hack down the updater-script, and you can have it install ONLY the boot animation if you want to try a few variations.
Finally, if you've already rooted, you could try plugging a replacement in to /data/local/bootanimation.zip directly. No guarantees on this one, though.
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Does MN override the bootanimation binary to support /data/local, or does bootanimation support that location directly? I did some searching and it looks like some people are patching the binary so it works with more standard Android boot animations and it was unclear to me if the /data/local path was part of that customization as well or not.
Also, I was in part posting to see if anyone had any recommendations for the animations themselves. Graphics work is definitely not my forte, I'm more of a server guy
bobstro said:
I'm also not a fan of the early MN startup screens, but there's an easy fix (see below).Yes, you can. MN changes it on B&N firmware.
If you've already over-written the boot animation by running MN, you'll need to find a replacement somewhere. Not sure how to do that. However, if you either haven't replaced it yet or are willing to do a factory reset, you can tweak the ManualNooter scripts. If you open the MN .zip file, go into /META-INF/com/google/android/ and edit the updater-script file with a text editor. Look for the 3 lines that begin with "ui_print("Installing Boot Animation...");" and comment them out by putting '#' characters at the start of each line. There are 3 lines in 5.12.20. Write the modified version to that same location, and then run it to (re)root your unit.
Alternately, you could modify /data/local/bootanimation.zip in manualnooter-5.12.20.zip. Hack down the updater-script, and you can have it install ONLY the boot animation if you want to try a few variations.
Finally, if you've already rooted, you could try plugging a replacement in to /data/local/bootanimation.zip directly. No guarantees on this one, though.
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No need to go through all of that trouble. If you don’t like the boot animation in MN, simply go to /data/local, and delete or rename bootanimation.zip to bootanimation.zip.old, this will take you back to the factory boot animation.
The NC will work with any boot animation you can think of, you just need to follow a few basic rules. The rules are outline at nookdevs.com, Link, the site is down at this time, so here is a link for the cached site, Link.
If you are going to take a boot animation from another device, or from online, and edit it for the NC, the most important step is to NOT use any compression when you zip it back up. You can screw-up almost every other step, and still have a working boot animation, but if you compress the zip, it will not work at all.
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FYI: After putting CM 7.1.0-encore on my NC (and then wanting to change the boot animation), I discovered that the path is: /system/media/bootanimation.zip
Awesome. thanks for the info. Starting to build my own intro...