Original boot screen - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I'm searching for a zip to flash original boot screen animation. Actually i have cm10 animation and i don't like it. So if somebody can help me... thanks
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pull it out of a stock or aosp rom, then copy/paste it into /data/local/ or /system/media/. its easier than putting together a zip to flash.

Here you go http://db.tt/FZXC70fK. Note I make no guarantees as to how long the link will be available as I tend to delete files from Dropbox after some time.
It is really easy to create your own zip files. All you need is ES File Explorer or Solid Explorer to extract and pack zip files. And use ZipSigner to sign the zip file. It's a useful skill to learn.
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Here ya go, drop in /system/media

For the record almost any boot animation changer on the market will work with The rooted nexus..
I have one very serious.. well maybe not serious just more of WHY does the boot animation matter so much to people.. I never reboot my tablet enough to really care.
anyone know???

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Virus boot animation

My friend has the HTC evo which is the same screen size as the DX, and I noticed he had a sick boot animation from the Virus rom. I had him send me the bootanimation.zip file.
Would this work if I replace my current bootanimation with it?
I am just worried about whether or not it will boot. I know how to do everything else
Give it a try. Your phone will still boot if it doesn't work.
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Yea all that will happen if it doesnt work is ull have a black screen while it boots up instead of an animation... Even if it wasnt sized right as long as u put it in data/local in its zipped form it should work
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Do u have a preview? Could u post the file here?
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owenbeals said:
Yea all that will happen if it doesnt work is ull have a black screen while it boots up instead of an animation... Even if it wasnt sized right as long as u put it in data/local in its zipped form it should work
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/data/local? In all of my experiences it has only worked in /system/media, which is where my current one is and there is nothing in /data/local. I will try both I guess.
And yes I will post the file here, just after I test it
Well apparently data/local is the default for any rom... (it would override system/media if there was somthing there.) Let us know how it works for you.
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I just tried it, and it worked perfectly. I copied the file into /system/media where my old bootanimation.zip was, and rebooted, and it worked. There was no boot animation in /data/local, and when I put it there in the past, it didn't work, so I did not try it in there.
I have attached the file with my post if anyone else would like to try it out.
Hmmmm..... Never mind my computer is not allowing me to upload the file, I will do it in an hour or two with my phone.
Jmoney47 said:
I have attached the file with my post if anyone else would like to try it out.
Hmmmm..... Never mind my computer is not allowing me to upload the file, I will do it in an hour or two with my phone.
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Thanks, I've been looking for a new boot ani
Sweet thanks Jmoney
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Here it is... Credit goes to the creator of virusROM - XxXViRuSXxX (or whoever created the boot animation for his ROM).
Rename to bootanimation.zip and copy to /data/local/ (for me it did not work in /system/media/ where I usually put it, but try it in either one).
virusROM bootanimation.zip
Thanks for posting. Sorry everybody, my computer was being gay last night.
Please nobody try to flash this in CWM, it will not work
Jmoney47 said:
Thanks for posting. Sorry everybody, my computer was being gay last night.
Please nobody try to flash this in CWM, it will not work
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No prob! Didn't mean to impose, just figured you either forgot or your computer indeed was still being "gay" haha.
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[BOOT ANIMATION] CyanogenMod 9

Hi guys I extracted the CyanogenMod boot animation from the ROM itself, and my oh my it looks wonderful! I attached it below. To install, simply after downloading it and placing it in a comfortable location, copy it, go to system>media, and paste it there It should overwrite your current boot animation and replace it but if it does not, simply just paste the CM9 boot animation there and delete the old one I tested it only on my Samsung Galaxy S2. Works perfect. Enjoy! And remember this is made by the CM9 team not me, so give them the credit. I'm only sharing their awesome boot animation to the community and not stealing their work
Edit: OH YES I recommend that you guys use Root Explorer to copy and paste the boot animation! Cause that what I used But if you have any other alternatives that you think might be better or you are more comfortable with, please share it or use it at your own risk
you might wanna see what ive done see in my signiture at the buttom click > bootanimation< ull gonna like it 100% sure
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unfortunately doesn't work
hello2ew said:
Hi guys I extracted the CyanogenMod boot animation from the ROM itself, and my oh my it looks wonderful! I attached it below. To install, simply after downloading it and placing it in a comfortable location, copy it, go to system>media, and paste it there It should overwrite your current boot animation and replace it but if it does not, simply just paste the CM9 boot animation there and delete the old one I tested it only on my Samsung Galaxy S2. Works perfect. Enjoy! And remember this is made by the CM9 team not me, so give them the credit. I'm only sharing their awesome boot animation to the community and not stealing their work
Edit: OH YES I recommend that you guys use Root Explorer to copy and paste the boot animation! Cause that what I used But if you have any other alternatives that you think might be better or you are more comfortable with, please share it or use it at your own risk
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Hi!
I changed the boot animation of my Galaxy S i9000 using the app "Boot Animations * root" from the Play Store.
I took a very cool one but its getting really nasty after a while and I want to rechange it to the default animation but don't know how . Already tried what you wrote: place the .zip in the media folder and I deinstalled the app because I didn't know where to find the boot animations. Then I restardet my phone but it still didn't change the boot animation.
sry for using the word 'boot animation' that often
Hope you can help me
********solved the problem**********
BashUdown96 said:
Hi!
I changed the boot animation of my Galaxy S i9000 using the app "Boot Animations * root" from the Play Store.
I took a very cool one but its getting really nasty after a while and I want to rechange it to the default animation but don't know how . Already tried what you wrote: place the .zip in the media folder and I deinstalled the app because I didn't know where to find the boot animations. Then I restardet my phone but it still didn't change the boot animation.
sry for using the word 'boot animation' that often
Hope you can help me
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Try looking in /data/local
If there's a bootanimation.zip in there it'll override the one in /system/media (which is kinda useful for keeping animations across upgrades when no data wipe is involved.)
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[Q] How do you install .zip updates without CWM or TWRP?

For those of us with a locked bootloader who can't install CWM or TWRP, how do we install zip files? Such as a theme for a deodex TW ROM?
I've done some googling but everything I find just says "install CWM". ugh
Looks like some devs in the past have been able to modify the 3E recovery to remove the signature verification check. But I don't think we have that yet.
There is a modified 3E recovery in this thread below with instructions on how to install. But it's for a different phone and might kill ours. I dunno.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=909213
You dont.
Place or replace the files manually. Or be paitient and wait a bit for the bootloader unlock
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Bender B. Rodgriguez said:
You dont.
Place or replace the files manually. Or be paitient and wait a bit for the bootloader unlock
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Perfect answer.
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Bender B. Rodgriguez said:
You dont.
Place or replace the files manually. Or be paitient and wait a bit for the bootloader unlock
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There is a huge amount of files in the extracted zip. Not really sure what all needs to be copied over. I did manually replace the systemui and it changed a few things. But I'm definitely missing quite a bit of the theme still. I'll keep playing with it for a bit longer I guess.
Edit: I think I'm starting to figure it out. There are a ton of res folders in the theme and if I open the stock APK's and copy the res contents from the theme over to the existing res folders, that might do it.
But it's time to eat dinner now.
CZ Eddie said:
There is a huge amount of files in the extracted zip. Not really sure what all needs to be copied over. I did manually replace the systemui and it changed a few things. But I'm definitely missing quite a bit of the theme still. I'll keep playing with it for a bit longer I guess.
Edit: I think I'm starting to figure it out. There are a ton of res folders in the theme and if I open the stock APK's and copy the res contents from the theme over to the existing res folders, that might do it.
But it's time to eat dinner now.
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CWM flashables are nothing more than batch files or macros of sorts. Just manually follow along with whatever the updater-script is doing.
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Yay, it worked. Thanks guys.
7zip & Root Explorer are once again my two favorite utilities on the planet.
This is the theme I just applied to my deodex AT&T ROM in case anyone is wondering.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2264498
CZ Eddie said:
Yay, it worked. Thanks guys.
7zip & Root Explorer are once again my two favorite utilities on the planet.
This is the theme I just applied to my deodex AT&T ROM in case anyone is wondering.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2264498
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So how did you do it? And does it work for any other zip files ?
eraycetin said:
So how did you do it? And does it work for any other zip files ?
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For themes you can just open the zip file in Windows and locate the internal files. Then use those to replace the same files that are on the phone.
But the Google Play store has apps that will flash zips without needing recovery or a reboot. I don't know the names but if you Google you'll find it.

Boot Animations

I am trying to change the boot animation on my S4 but it seems that Samsung devices use a different file for the boot animation rather than bootanimation.zip. Can anybody help me changing it to Jellybean's standard booting animation?
mintjustin said:
I am trying to change the boot animation on my S4 but it seems that Samsung devices use a different file for the boot animation rather than bootanimation.zip. Can anybody help me changing it to Jellybean's standard booting animation?
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whit a root explorer go to system/media changMount as R/W and paste there a bootanimation.zip file reboot and done.. ( phone will read the zip file first when it boot ).
Or go Here and flash it through recovery
Doesn't work. It seem that this phone (or ROM) is reading from a "bootsamsung.qmg". I don't know this format so better ask first before doing anything.
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mintjustin said:
Doesn't work. It seem that this phone (or ROM) is reading from a "bootsamsung.qmg". I don't know this format so better ask first before doing anything.
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Check in the themes&apps section, there was a thread dedicated to that.
Also, if you are interest in making .qmg files, you are free to make one with Samsung Themer (or something, I forgot the name xD)
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[Q] QMG to Bootanimation.zip

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.
Completely_Clueless said:
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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jd1639 said:
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?

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