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[FUN] Random Boot Animations

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

(Update 12/22/11) [Bootanimation/Splash] Lightning Vortex w/ animated HTC splash

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

bobz1993 said:
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?
Asmodeus6 said:
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!

[Q] Reboot when editing system files ??

Whenever I try editing or copying and pasting system files my phone reboots...has this happened to anyone else if so please help me understand what is happening and how to fix this problem. THANKS !!

Depends what your doing or if you doing it right. Give step by step directions on what you doing
BAD ASS NOTE 4

BACARDILIMON said:
Depends what your doing or if you doing it right. Give step by step directions on what you doing
BAD ASS NOTE 4
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Ok for starters I'm rooted lol I use es explorer and have been for a very long time so I have all proper preferences selected and have edited sound,build,host files etc. in the past plenty of times.
My phone felt laggy and on some accounts even stopped downloading properly from play store (start dl and half way through just stop and hang) so I odined back to stock cuz for some reason twrp didnt show my copy of my backup. Strange. Long story short I'm trying to re edit my sound file,build and host as well as delete some bloat back to the way I had things, and like I stated my phone doesn't allow for these edits to go through and instead hangs and then reboots.
NOTE 12-10+2 ?

T LEONARDIS said:
Ok for starters I'm rooted lol I use es explorer and have been for a very long time so I have all proper preferences selected and have edited sound,build,host files etc. in the past plenty of times.
My phone felt laggy and on some accounts even stopped downloading properly from play store (start dl and half way through just stop and hang) so I odined back to stock cuz for some reason twrp didnt show my copy of my backup. Strange. Long story short I'm trying to re edit my sound file,build and host as well as delete some bloat back to the way I had things, and like I stated my phone doesn't allow for these edits to go through and instead hangs and then reboots.
NOTE 12-10+2 ?
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It sounds like something is not loaded right or missing. I have edited all 3 and no issues. When you say you removed bloat. What bloat? If you have any xposed or are trying to run art don't. Will create havoc.
BAD ASS NOTE 4

@BACARDILIMON bloat like flipboard,hangouts,tmo tv...stuff I don't use. Im on dalv not art and I have xposed installed, but haven't even gotten that far yet as far loading mods. I just tried a different file explorer and same outcome when I tried editing my host file smh.
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T LEONARDIS said:
@BACARDILIMON bloat like flipboard,hangouts,tmo tv...stuff I don't use. Im on dalv not art and I have xposed installed, but haven't even gotten that far yet as far loading mods. I just tried a different file explorer and same outcome when I tried editing my host file smh.
NOTE 12-10+2 ?
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Unfortunately the step I would do is delete xposed and clean flash Odin. Just freeze apps don't delete. And fresh install all apps even su and es fileexploer
BAD ASS NOTE 4

@BACARDILIMON yeah man I think so...I like what xposed can do but I don't think it's that stable yet. Thanks for your help bro :thumbup::thumbup:
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Have you tried repairing permissions?
You could also mount your phone and edit the files by pulling them with adb and then pushing them back after editing. Reboot into recovery and repair.
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Temetka said:
Have you tried repairing permissions?
You could also mount your phone and edit the files by pulling them with adb and then pushing them back after editing. Reboot into recovery and repair.
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I first tried repairing through tarp but nothing changed so just finished reflashing back to stock and starting from scratch,but thanks for the suggestion. I'm still kinda new to all this and honestly wouldn't have known how to debug properly anyhow.
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HELP - Black screen on XT1060 5.1

Ok, I dun goofed. Phone was working fine but I tried to add a line to build.prop and now the phone will show the boot logo but then goes black. I made a copy of the file first and tried putting the old one back with the TWRP file manager, but it's still doing the same thing.
I need help with this fast, my gf is going to kill me if I don't get he phone working again soon. :/
Can someone post a flashable zip of the 5.1 build.prop please. I'm just assuming this will fix it. I've tried extracting the system.img to get it but I obviously don't know what I'm doing.
Thanks

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!!
After sitting here with high blood pressure for 45 minutes I fixed it. I just pulled and pushed the files with ADB. I guess using ES file explorer to play with system files is a big NO. Lesson learned. :/

Removing Samsung boot animation binary from Nexus 6, need assistance.

I'm sure this is the right spot since it has to do with troubleshooting. Okay here goes, so I've looked in a lot of places in the nexus 6 and Samsung sections and cannot find any info on how to remove the binary for Samsung devices (I know, let me explain first) to be able to boot animation screens.... So, let me back up a bit and explain why I'm an idiot. I've been using rom installer to install boot screen animations for my rooted nexus 6 with 6.0.1 Marshmallow. Well, I noticed that some were the incorrect size for my phone when I installed them. I had noticed an option in the app under room extras to install binary to allow boot screen animations (boot animation fixer). I was in such a hurry that I didn't notice that right above it said Samsung. I foolishly installed it, it rebooted and now the boy animation is a plain Jane google writing in white with no animation. Can't remove it or revert to backup because all my backups got corrupted somehow. So now I thought if I can reverse this somehow by deleting the binary, or script, or whatever, it will fix it. I did research on the app and can't find out where it installs the binary to. I came on here and looked in the Samsung section as well as the nexus 6 section, which led me to ask for help. I've looked where the boot animations are stored on the system and there's nothing there and I'm worried if I dig anywhere else blindly I'll have to wipe and install 6.0.1 and root all over again, using up a LOT of my data to reinstall a LOT of apps that I have. I have like 239 apps so I would like to make that a last resort. The phone boots fine, I just don't like the bland boot animation. I want to show off the different animations that I use. I would appreciate the direction anyone could lead me in to solve this goof up that is my fault, but hey, I'm learning a lesson here.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I did find the XDA forum on the binary samsungani related to this (/system/bin/samsungani) and the boot animation binary (/system/bin/bootanimation) and deleted them. However, this did not change a thing.

I mean, as long as you're able to boot up, why not just install Titanium Backup and backup the apps. Reinstall your rom and just restore the apps, I would say that would be an easier fix. That way you won't be using any data.

The problem is, as you yourself found it, the bootanimation.zip is missing. Copy one in system/media, give 644 as permissions (rw-r--r--). And there you are.
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