I've made a boot animation (attached as a ZIP file) and tried putting it in /system/media which didn't work and then I tried putting it in /data/local and it didn't work for this either.
It just shows the default AOSP boot animation on boot.
I've tested the animation I made on a second device and it worked fine, I've also ran it through several pieces of software on Windows and Android and it's worked fine in them as well.
Does anybody know why this isn't working?
I'm running stock 5.0.1 with Xposed. I've also had this problem before, but I can't remember what I was running when that occurred.
Would really appreciate any help!
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jd1639 said:
Are you settings the permissIons correctly? rw,r,r
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Sorry for the late reply, I went away for a couple days and forgot to check XDA!
Yes the permissions are rw,r,r.
rafspeik said:
Sorry for the late reply, I went away for a couple days and forgot to check XDA!
Yes the permissions are rw,r,r.
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Did you make the zip yourself? You can't use compression when you zip it.
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jd1639 said:
Did you make the zip yourself? You can't use compression when you zip it.
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Yes I did, but I set the compression method to "store"
Likely problems:
Your desc.txt is probably not parseable? It's got CR+LF at end of line. Android (and Unix) only wants LFs.
The frame rate of 150fps is a little ambitious. Stock Android uses 30.
Your PNG images contain transparency (an alpha channel).
You should probably rename the stock bootanimation.zip to some other name...
nowster said:
Likely problems:
Your desc.txt is probably not parseable? It's got CR+LF at end of line. Android (and Unix) only wants LFs.
The frame rate of 150fps is a little ambitious. Stock Android uses 30.
Your PNG images contain transparency (an alpha channel).
You should probably rename the stock bootanimation.zip to some other name...
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How can I fix the desc.txt and transparency issues?
Is 150fps just "not recommended" or is it a real issue? If I were to put it back to 30 how else could I make the animation faster? It's a bit slow for my liking at 30.
I can't find the stock animation in any of the usual folders. It's the backup animation that comes with Android in case there's no other animation found.
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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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After days of unsuccessful searching of the forums and also Google and multiple flashes between stock Rom and Th3ory's I have figured out how to add sound to his boot animation or your own custom boot animation in his rom.
NANDROID BACKUP FIRST!! YOU WILL BE EDITING A SYSTEM FILE USED DURING BOOT
1. copy default.xml from /system/customize/CID to /sdcard using Root Explorer or another app.
2. open VZW_bootanimation.zip to see what the name of the folder with your boot png's in it is named. Write that down. If using the boot animation that comes with GINGERTH3ORY the folder will be "part0"
3. open default.xml from your sdcard using a web editor. I use Android Web Editor Lite.
4. on line 120 will be the info for where the phone looks for the boot animation and boot audio. notice that boot animation is VZW_bootanimation.zip and audio is Verizon_Thunderbolt_3sec.mp3
5. on line 120 change audiostart="VZW" to audiostart="part0" or whatever the name of the folder is with your boot animation png's in it
6. save the xml and exit your editor
7. change the name of the original default.xml to default.xml.old
8. using Root Explorer paste the edited default.xml from /sdcard into /system/customize/CID
9. now paste whatever mp3 you want to play at boot into the /system/customize/resource folder and rename it to Verizon_Thunderbolt_3sec.mp3
10. reboot and finally enjoy the audio
If using a custom boot animation simply rename it to VZW_bootanimation.zip and paste it into the /system/customize/resource folder.
Hope this helps those that were having issues!
Kudos man. I can't test tonight, but will test it in the morning.
EDIT: Worked perfectly on Th3ory's v4.5.1 Great work!
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Currently making a backup and then I'm going to try this... hope this works for me. Haha.
EDIT: Works great. Thanks so much. I missed my phone coming to life.
THANK YOU!!! This worked great! Now I can apply thunder/heart beat combo as the eye comes to life...lol
@ ILMF - Thanks for keeping a look out.
hinds73
great tutorial, thanks for posting it.
anyone want to share their custom sounds for the stock Gingerth3ory animation?
Excellent tutorial, gave me back my thunder.
Ron750ss said:
great tutorial, thanks for posting it.
anyone want to share their custom sounds for the stock Gingerth3ory animation?
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Thanks for the thanks everyone.
I don't have the stock animation any more. I inverted the colors on th3ory's stock animation and added the first dozen or so png's (the one's that fade in to "Th3ory" and then fade out, not the eye ones) to the beginning of the white boot ani from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024038
mp3 of "Bodies" by Drowning Pool plays while those zombie's get shot up and hit the floor.
Hi stoudtlr, I'm trying to do a custom boot animation. I zipped the files and named it VZW_bootanimation.zip but all I get is an empty screen after the white htc screen. Any ideas?
I'm on gingerth3ory and I took the boot animation zip from there and put in my own icons with the same file names and format, but nada.
stoudtlr said:
Thanks for the thanks everyone.
I don't have the stock animation any more. I inverted the colors on th3ory's stock animation and added the first dozen or so png's (the one's that fade in to "Th3ory" and then fade out, not the eye ones) to the beginning of the white boot ani from here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1024038
mp3 of "Bodies" by Drowning Pool plays while those zombie's get shot up and hit the floor.
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xjedi said:
Hi stoudtlr, I'm trying to do a custom boot animation. I zipped the files and named it VZW_bootanimation.zip but all I get is an empty screen after the white htc screen. Any ideas?
I'm on gingerth3ory and I took the boot animation zip from there and put in my own icons with the same file names and format, but nada.
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When you zip the files make sure that compression is set to "store". That's the first thing that comes to mind if you are sure you don't have a typo in the name and you have them in the right location.
Ron750ss said:
great tutorial, thanks for posting it.
anyone want to share their custom sounds for the stock Gingerth3ory animation?
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Here's one that I did.
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"Bodies" by Drowning Pool plays while those zombie's get shot up and hit the floor.
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Wow, that sounds really badass. I might do that.
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hinds73 said:
Here's one that I did.
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AC/DC Nice! might go back to stock animation for a bit just to have that.
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Hello, does anyone know where to find MIUI Multilingual's bootanimation and bootaudio, and the .xml file so i can edit them?
In system/media there is bootanimation.zip and bootaudio.mp3. If you want to edit the bootanimation look at desc.txt.
Thank you, however it seems that my phone still uses the IDEOS logo as bootanimation, and that one is located in "pink-screen" mode, is it okay to delete it?
You mean the splashscreen? I believe that is located in the kernel, and not easy to edit.
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You mean the splashscreen? I believe that is located in the kernel, and not easy to edit.
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Well, when i boot, it doesn't use the MIUI bootanimation, it still uses stock Ideos animation, and i think that one is located in pinkscreen-mode.
Try placing the bootanimation.zip in /data/local on your phone with root explorer. Then reboot, it should work
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Try placing the bootanimation.zip in /data/local on your phone with root explorer. Then reboot, it should work
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Hmm, it didn't work, and i even tried replacing the bootanimation.zip in cust/Dialect/SE/media (which is where i go when i go into pinkscreen-mode) with the MIUI one, still nothing.
Sorry, I see no reason why it won't work.. You can try to delete the whole cust folder (in pink screen), it that don't work preform a full wipe.
What ROM version are you talking about? If latest, then you should pay more attention to rom changelog. retart said there, that he turned off bootanimation for faster boot.
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be careful messing with these files
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What ROM version are you talking about? If latest, then you should pay more attention to rom changelog. retart said there, that he turned off bootanimation for faster boot.
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Thank you!
I found the debug.hw.bootanimation set to 1, changed it to 0, and BAM!
Bootanimation+ audio.
My only concern now is the splashscreen and that the bootaudio is loud/bad quality
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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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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hi,
saw a cool boot animation in reddit.. http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1pb6dv/jarvis_boot_animation_480x800/
i downloaded this file, extracted the archive, changed the desc.txt file to suit nexus 4's resolution put it in a archive named 'bootanimation.zip' and placed it in /system/media/. but when i rebooted the phone only the black screen was there to greet me
i even tried the default resolution in desc.txt but still the boot screen is completely black..
i'm on stock rom, rooted with franco kernel.. what am i missing here.. help me to set up the boot animation please..
When you zip it back up, you need to use the "store" compression method.
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When you zip it back up, you need to use the "store" compression method.
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Yep.. did that too.. i used 7zip to create the archive.. and the permissions have been set as rw-r-r using ES explorer..
vic6888 said:
Yep.. did that too.. i used 7zip to create the archive.. and the permissions have been set as rw-r-r using ES explorer..
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Do you have an empty extra line in your desc? This is necessary.
Upload it here so that I can take a look at it and hopefully find the issue.
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Chromium_ said:
Do you have an empty extra line in your desc? This is necessary.
Upload it here so that I can take a look at it and hopefully find the issue.
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yep.. just checked the file and it has the empty line in the end..
i'm sorry i couldn't attach the zip file since it is over 12mb.. i have attached the desc.txt file and will give the link for boot animation..
https://eos.feralhosting.com/fuller/bootanimation.zip
thanks for your help..
FWIW i tried previewing this animation in the Boot Animation app.. it threw an error.. so there might be a possibility that this zip has some issue..
I just checked out the zip and everything seems to be fine. I also tried it out (put it in system/media) and it worked perfectly.
Are you sure the one that you linked above isn't working for you? Try using it without any modifications just to be sure.
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Chromium_ said:
I just checked out the zip and everything seems to be fine. I also tried it out (put it in system/media) and it worked perfectly.
Are you sure the one that you linked above isn't working for you? Try using it without any modifications just to be sure.
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now i feel stupid.. reddit op had given a mediafire link too.. i downloaded from that link.. the issue with that link was that all the part folders and desc.txt were present under a folder and that folder was zipped as bootanimation.zip.. in the new link which i gave in my previous post the part folders and desc.txt were directly zipped...
now the animation works perfect and i have even modded the desc to suit nexus 4's resolution.. :laugh:
thanks a lot Chromium_
Chromium_ said:
I just checked out the zip and everything seems to be fine. I also tried it out (put it in system/media) and it worked perfectly.
Are you sure the one that you linked above isn't working for you? Try using it without any modifications just to be sure.
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now is there any guide to add a sound file to this boot animation.. let me know if you know any guide.. thanks..