So I pretty much have the custom boot animations figured out... It seems to work whether I put bootanimation.zip in /data/local or /system/media no problem... but the one thing I can't figure out is how to get a sound to play. I've tried every combination I can think of... boot.mp3 in the zip file, android_audio.mp3 in the zip file... tried the zip without the mp3, just placing the mp3 in the same directory as the zip (and also tried both names that way, in both directories stated above).
Is there something I'm supposed to add to the desc.txt file? What am I missing?? The only info I can find for the Eris is just "put a boot.mp3 in the zip file" which is just not working...
I am almost ready to explode...
Any help?? It would be much appreciated!
You cannot use sound using the bootscreen.zip. You have to use the old method. Search for Stock bootscreen w sounds, In the Eris dev forum.
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You could check out my rom. It has the nexus boot screen with the mac bong sound.
Alright, I searched a bit more and had no luck with the .xml (stock) method... It just simply doesn't acknowledge it. It works fine using the bootanimation.zip method (well, no sound of course), in either location as stated above, but if I remove/rename them and try the /system/media/bootscreen location with .xml, .gif, and .mp3 files, it completely ignores them. I copied the exact file structure from the CookieRom and got nothing.
Is there a setting somewhere that I am missing? Like maybe some sort of switch that says "LOOK HERE FOR BOOT ANIMATION" or something?
I've even tried taking the /system/bin/bootanimation file from Cookie and replacing mine with it, but then it doesn't even run.
There has to be something simple I'm missing and I just have no idea what it is...
FYI I'm using a non-Sense ROM if that makes any difference...
Anybody??
Anyone...? Bueller...?
i am just a puzzled about this. If you get it figured out.... lets us know!
You need to take the boot animation from a rom like cookie rom or damaged tazz, that have sound enabled. It usually in in the system/bin folder. Put in into the rom of your choice and then flash the bootanimation.zip file and it should work. That's what I did and it worked for me...DROID
mcook1670 said:
You need to take the boot animation from a rom like cookie rom or damaged tazz, that have sound enabled. It usually in in the system/bin folder. Put in into the rom of your choice and then flash the bootanimation.zip file and it should work. That's what I did and it worked for me...DROID
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Do you have that bootanimation.zip that you can post or pm me?
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First time poster here. I am working on a boot animation for the Droid X that features a clip from the 1986 animated movie of Optimus Prime blasting some Decepticons before his battle with Megatron.
Just have to fix a few things before I release it for download. I am trying to add audio but am having a problem. I have tried everything I can think of. Named the file boot.mp3 boot.ogg (changed format of course) I have placed the file in the /system/media/audio/ and /system/media/ directories.
I have edited the build.prop file. When UI do that i get like 1 second of audio after the animation is done and it brings up the lock screen.
I have looked everywhere online. there doesnt seem to be any easy solution or for that matter, any solution. I was hoping someone out there can help. I have a pretty cool boot animation I am working on.
I would like to show it to you.... but I guess my account has to be approved.
cullenisprime said:
First time poster here. I am working on a boot animation for the Droid X that features a clip from the 1986 animated movie of Optimus Prime blasting some Decepticons before his battle with Megatron.
Just have to fix a few things before I release it for download. I am trying to add audio but am having a problem. I have tried everything I can think of. Named the file boot.mp3 boot.ogg (changed format of course) I have placed the file in the /system/media/audio/ and /system/media/ directories.
I have edited the build.prop file. When UI do that i get like 1 second of audio after the animation is done and it brings up the lock screen.
I have looked everywhere online. there doesnt seem to be any easy solution or for that matter, any solution. I was hoping someone out there can help. I have a pretty cool boot animation I am working on.
I would like to show it to you.... but I guess my account has to be approved.
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boot sound is found in /data/local directory as a mp3 file, try there
also to get ur boot sound working properly, you have to edit desc.txt in the bootanimation.zip file according to all your specification of your bootanimation, good luck on this.
dr154 said:
boot sound is found in /data/local directory as a mp3 file, try there
also to get ur boot sound working properly, you have to edit desc.txt in the bootanimation.zip file according to all your specification of your bootanimation, good luck on this.
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I too am looking for a way to add a sound. You wouldnt happen to have a link to a post to look towards for editing the desc.txt to allow sounds would you?
How do I flash my bootanimation.zip file through terminal emulator?
Just use root explorer or any other file manager with root rights and copy it. No need to flash.
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What of I want to revert? How would I do that through terminal emulator?
what rom are you using? Depending on the ROM, you navigate to where it is with a file explorer, rename the stock to whatever, copy the animation .zip that you want to the same folder (renaming it what the stock was, exactly) and you're done.
Royal Ginger 1.5
So I download the stock boot animation and put the files into the bootanimation.zip file I already have?
I'm assuming you've downloaded a zip file from somewhere. Do not unzip it, just rename it to "bootanimation.zip" and place it in the directory that holds the original bootanimation.zip file. You can always make a backup of the original first.
This may depend on the rom, but usually you can put your new bootanimation.zip file in the /data/local/ directory, and the phone will use that without you having to disturb the original.
jdkoren said:
This may depend on the rom, but usually you can put your new bootanimation.zip file in the /data/local/ directory, and the phone will use that without you having to disturb the original.
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It belongs in System/media, you must delete the original though or you wont get an animation
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Nicgraner said:
It belongs in System/media, you must delete the original though or you wont get an animation
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I'm trying to change my boot animation also. I changed the zipped file to bootanimation.zip. How do I access System/media ? When I mount, it just opens the sd drive on my computer.
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I'm trying to change my boot animation also. I changed the zipped file to bootanimation.zip. How do I access System/media ? When I mount, it just opens the sd drive on my computer.
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You need to be rooted and you need to do it with your device with some kind of file manager like root explorer.
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Once ur rooted u could just go into recovery and install the zip manually that's usually how I do it or download the bootloader changer app either requires root
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wtf, i can't change the bootanimation... whats wrong?
I used the OTA app to chance the bootanimation, nothing...
I've tried to replace the bootanimation in system/media .. nothing still the "S"
Then I copied the bootanimation.zip into date/local ... nothing
I've deleted the bootanimation in system/media ... STILL the S..
Where is the bootanimation?? Ive installed SpeedMod kernel K2-21 ..
With supercore, I had no problems.
Please help
ademischko said:
wtf, i can't change the bootanimation... whats wrong?
I used the OTA app to chance the bootanimation, nothing...
I've tried to replace the bootanimation in system/media .. nothing still the "S"
Then I copied the bootanimation.zip into date/local ... nothing
I've deleted the bootanimation in system/media ... STILL the S..
Where is the bootanimation?? Ive installed SpeedMod kernel K2-21 ..
With supercore, I had no problems.
Please help
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What from you using and what animation you trying to add?
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I just dont understand what you mean with: "What from you using"
I tried the SGS2 Bios from OTA app. Before flashing Speedmodkernel, it worked great.
Then I tried to replace the Bootanimation with any other.. I found that thread:
Bootanimation
I downdloaded bootanimation_v2.zip and renamed it into bootanimation.zip, then replaced it like i said in the post before..
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I just dont understand what you mean with: "What from you using"
I tried the SGS2 Bios from OTA app. Before flashing Speedmodkernel, it worked great.
Then I tried to replace the Bootanimation with any other.. I found that thread:
Bootanimation
I downdloaded bootanimation_v2.zip and renamed it into bootanimation.zip, then replaced it like i said in the post before..
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My bad, I meant to type rom. Auto correct is killing me. Anyways, depending on the rom you're in, you will have to name the boot animation differently and place it in a specific place also depending on the rom.
If the rom you're in is aosp, then you're naming it right but it will go in system/media.
For sense roms, you will have to rename the boot animation to htc_bootanimation.zip and place it in system/customize/resource.
EDIT: I actually downloaded the boot animation myself, and I think I found the reason probably why is not working. In the desc.txt file, the screen res is wrong for our device. That boot animations res is 480x115, our supposed to be 480x800.
So do this,
Extract the bootanimation.zip you downloaded
Open and edit the desc.txt file with your file managers text editor
Change the res from 480x115 to 480x800 save and exit
Zip back the file, name it correctly, fix permissions and move it to its correctsponding place and reboot. See if that works.
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Thanks for your help. But I think this is the SpeedMod Kernel blocking everything...
I tried that bootanimation which I attached just now. The desc.txt file is correct, placed in system/media but it doesn't work.
I am on darkys HD rom. Without the Speedmodkernel everything is fine. to change my THEME I had to flash the supercore kernel and then back to SpeedMod, because when I try it with the Speedmod kernel, nothing happens. Just like the bootanimation, when I try it zu replace and reboot, nothing happens xD
It has to be the Speedmod Kernel. What else?
So I was looking around some forum and found a droid x bootanimation with sound.
I pushed the mp3 file (maybe the bootanimation.zip navigated to the .mp3? I don't want that bootanimation though) and it doesn't appear to have done anything.
So I tried some other methods:
In terminal emulator...
I ran allinone
under boot properties I found a boot sound enabler.
It says it enables bootup.ogg from system/media/audio or something.
Whatever it was...I pulled the droid.ogg
Renamed it to bootup.ogg and pushed it to the correct area.
Rebooting doesn't appear to give me any sound.
Sad day.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
I then found some bootanimation file that supposedly links your Droid X to play a boot sound. I pushed that after making a hasty backup of the original. Then realized the file wasn't for gingerbread...and repushed the original back (I think I may have deleted the original and pushed the same file back again). After this step I have no bootanimation.
Does anyone have the stock bootanimation file from system/bin and can you upload?
Since my bootanimation is broken...this last try may be a futile attempt.
But just now I used this
http://www.droidxforums.com/forum/dr...tml#post266035
as a reference
Unzipped the default liberty bootanimation.zip and edited desc.txt by adding a "s droid.ogg" line.
Rezipped (the proper way without compression).
No go.
Then used liberty toolbox to try and flash the original liberty bootanimation.zip back (in case jrummy is using some method I'm not, rather than pushing it there myself) and I'm still without a bootanimation.
I'm sure I can fix the missing bootanimation eventually...
But the bootanimation file from system/bin would be nice if you have it handy.
Or if you know what else I can do to restore it.
But mainly...any idea how to get sound working?!
I'm going to bed at the moment...too tired and I work tonight.
Thanks in advance!
P.S.
I know there is an SD notification that many are confusing with the bootup sound. This just seems to be an alternative that should keep the "drrrooooiiid" sound as default...if my thinking is correct.
The first thing I wanted to do after I root my Desire was to change the boot animation from 'screaming' white to black.
Since a few friends begged me to put them somewhere that is always available, I decided to do here
So for those who want the original, but black HTC boot, down and shotdown animation they are free to take it from here
P.S. I added the splash screen, if someone wants to
Boot animation for HTC Sensation is here.
Ooh, looks nice, I'll have a go at that thank you - much easier on the eyes!
This is exactly what I was looking for
Thank you very much
mexxxico said:
The first thing I wanted to do after I root my Desire was to change the boot animation from 'screaming' white to black.
Since a few friends begged me to put them somewhere that is always available, I decided to do here
So for those who want the original, but black HTC boot, down and shotdown animation they are free to take it from here
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Haha! I made this exact same boot splash1 for my phone! Took a black background, added the Green HTC and used an inverted "Quietly Brilliant" image!
I tried to have my own down animation wherein it had the quietly brilliant visible which then slowly faded away but it refused to work
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1156366
Help me out?!
I assume we can simply replace the zips found in system/resource/customise. Where does the shutdown.zip live though?
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I assume we can simply replace the zips found in system/resource/customise. Where does the shutdown.zip live though?
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Yes. Simply replace the existing file with this.
Every developer puts the animation to another place
Shotdown animation is just for froyo rom because gingerbread has only boot & down animation.
And these are made even while the froyo was topical
Kryten2k35 said:
Haha! I made this exact same boot splash1 for my phone! Took a black background, added the Green HTC and used an inverted "Quietly Brilliant" image!
I tried to have my own down animation wherein it had the quietly brilliant visible which then slowly faded away but it refused to work
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1156366
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Here, your downanimation.zip now works. Checked.
Don't forget to check permition after copying. (rw-r--r--).
Good luck
Thanks, but, how do I check permissions? I'm not that adept with Linux, so I'm very new to the adb shell.
Also, I threw this into /data/local/ where I think the downanimations and such should be (I think they start in system/customize/resource/ and then get moved on install) but it still didn't work. I'm going to try the resource folder and see where that gets me, but it could be that I didn't manually change permissions. I can't see my data/local/ folder in ASTRO.
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Thanks, but, how do I check permissions? I'm not that adept with Linux, so I'm very new to the adb shell.
Also, I threw this into /data/local/ where I think the downanimations and such should be (I think they start in system/customize/resource/ and then get moved on install) but it still didn't work. I'm going to try the resource folder and see where that gets me, but it could be that I didn't manually change permissions. I can't see my data/local/ folder in ASTRO.
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Which rom (LeeDroid, Baadnewz, Robocik, Coolexe...) and which hboot (a2sd, cm7...) you use? Your desire must be a s-off.
Thanks for the clarification, looks very slick.
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Which rom (LeeDroid, Baadnewz, Robocik, Coolexe...) and which hboot (a2sd, cm7...) you use? Your desire must be a s-off.
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I'm S-OFF'd using RCMixS (Robocik) v2.0 using this mod: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110921 which is just the stock Robocik ROM with D2EXT. I didn't want any of the test unstable stuff.
It's the stock hboot version and I used the stock hboot when I S-OFF'd.
I've upped downanimations before and it worked without changing permissions. Also, I've tried just opening the ROM .rar file and added them to that (replacing the ones already there) then repacking the rar and flashing but that sometimes doesn't like to work. Is there some process to follow when repacking a ROM?
I think that error is the only thing stopping me from changing ROM's to how I like them to be fair.
This is exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you
Kryten2k35 said:
I'm S-OFF'd using RCMixS (Robocik) v2.0 using this mod: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1110921 which is just the stock Robocik ROM with D2EXT. I didn't want any of the test unstable stuff.
It's the stock hboot version and I used the stock hboot when I S-OFF'd.
I've upped downanimations before and it worked without changing permissions. Also, I've tried just opening the ROM .rar file and added them to that (replacing the ones already there) then repacking the rar and flashing but that sometimes doesn't like to work. Is there some process to follow when repacking a ROM?
I think that error is the only thing stopping me from changing ROM's to how I like them to be fair.
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Try with Root Explorer or estrong file manager.
Boot & down animations are in /data/local or /system/customize/resource. It depends on the developer. But you must see a files. Root explorer shows that even if the file on that location is real or just simlink.
After copying the file with Root Explorer to the location, by clicking on the file, you get a menu. Select permission and set permission (rw-r--r--) for downanimation.zip
It must work.
I put my boot & downanimations and other essential items are usually put the zip before the flash
nice. i think they will need a matching splash to go with
Thanks for this, can you use root explorer to add these?
sterankin said:
Thanks for this, can you use root explorer to add these?
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Yes, you can.
After copying the file with Root Explorer to the location, by clicking on the file, you get a menu. Select permission and set permission (rw-r--r--) for both animations.
It's ok, ADB worked well. The animation only works on shutdown, not reboot. So it was just my bad!
Not sure why ASTRO can't see inside the the data/local/ folder, but it sees the rest of the root file system. Strange, but ADB push worked initially!
Thanks.....
Always on the hunt for nice(r) boot/down screens....
Hi. I'm running a Galaxy S4 AT&T with Danvdh's Google Edition 4.4.4 ROM (here). I had just flashed this ROM today, and now I can't get a custom bootanimation.zip file to work. I'll explain what happened.
Before today, I was using his 4.4.2 ROM, and I had no issues with my bootanimation.zip working. Then I decided to try out a TouchWiz-based ROM (Skyfall ROM). I just wanted to compare a Google Edition ROM to a TouchWiz-based ROM. Well, I realized I prefer Google Edition, so today I decided to go back to Dan's GE ROM, updated to 4.4.4. But when I tried to put back my old bootanimation.zip file in /system/media, it wouldn't work! I just get Dan's default boot animation (the Google logo with the spinning circles).
I notice that there are instead two of these bootanimation.qmg files in /system/media folder. I Googled around and found out that these are Samsung's proprietary boot animation files. But here's the strange thing; the boot animation I have right now is Dan's GE animation, not the Samsung boot animation that I would expect from QMG files. How is this possible? I did a complete wipe (I'm using PhilZ recovery) before flashing Dan's ROM after coming from the Skyfall ROM, so why are these QMG files still left behind?
I tried renaming the QMG files (bootsamsung.qmg and bootsamsungloop.qmg) to disable them. But then I get no boot animation at all, just a black screen, even though I have bootanimation.zip in the /system/media folder. So how can I get rid of these QMG files and just return back to a good ol' fashion bootanimation.zip format?
Did you give your biotechnology boot animation zip the permissions rw,r,r?
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jd1639 said:
Did you give your biotechnology boot animation zip the permissions rw,r,r?
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Yes, the bootanimation.zip file in /system/media is set to rw-r--r--. I also have a bootanimation.zip file in /data/local set to the same permissions, but neither of those work. I also tried this fix, but to no avail. All that gives me is a black screen instead of the boot animation, even when bootanimation.zip is still in the right folder with the right permissions.
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Yes, the bootanimation.zip file in /system/media is set to rw-r--r--. I also have a bootanimation.zip file in /data/local set to the same permissions, but neither of those work. I also tried this fix, but to no avail. All that gives me is a black screen instead of the boot animation, even when bootanimation.zip is still in the right folder with the right permissions.
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Don't you love word correction
Not sure what else to tell you. Sounds like the animation is in the right place and setup right.
Edit, do you still have the original sound files? Maybe there messing things up. /system/media/audio/ui. A couple of ogg files. Rename them to .ogg.bak
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Don't you love word correction
Not sure what else to tell you. Sounds like the animation is in the right place and setup right.
Edit, do you still have the original sound files? Maybe there messing things up. /system/media/audio/ui. A couple of ogg files. Rename them to .ogg.bak
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I tried that. I had several OGG files, most of them seemed to be related to charging or docking or keyboard pressing. In any case, renaming them didn't help. I think at this point I might just re-flash the ROM. Still, I'm perplexed as to why those QMG files were still in my /system/media folder in the first place. I've been using Dan's GPE ROM for a long time now, and I have never seen those files there. I'm pretty sure they must have come from that TouchWiz ROM (Skyfall).
Another weird thing is that I didn't have any bootanimation.zip file to begin with. Previously, like when I was on the 4.4.2 ROM, there was an initial bootanimation.zip file that I'd rename to bootanimation.zip.bak, and then replace with my own bootanimation.zip. And presto, it worked like a charm, quick and easy. This time, there was no initial bootanimation.zip file, just those two QMG files. Yet somehow I still got the Google circle boot animation to play at first startup (this is on a newly-flashed ROM, mind you; I haven't even installed gapps yet, let alone any other modifications).
Any thoughts on this?