Ok I've been trying to change my stock boot animation to the honeycomb but having no luck at all. I used root explorer to put the bootanimation.zip in the path system/media . I noticed on the other devices its data/local . Also I notice that when I'm in system/media it says bootani.qmg not bootanimation.zip. so I changed the zip to look exactly like the bootani.qmg still didn't work. So could someone please tell me what to do or point me in a direction that will help me? Also I'm running stock eb13 froyo and I'm rooted.
Thanks in advance
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I don't know why no one has answered you yet, but you cannot replace the boot animation on stock samsung with a boot.zip. Stock Samsung uses a QMG file for the boot animation, to use a zip to replace the boot animation you must be on a custom kernel or ROM.
Censura_Umbra said:
I don't know why no one has answered you yet, but you cannot replace the boot animation on stock samsung with a boot.zip. Stock Samsung uses a QMG file for the boot animation, to use a zip to replace the boot animation you must be on a custom kernel or ROM.
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This. You need a custom kernel that supports custom bootanimation. Then you can change the bootanimation.zip provided in that kernel with the one you have.
On a custom kernel that can support it, you just delete the old bootanimation.zip and copy a new one that is compatible in your rom/kernel, correct?
I am using ACS frozenRom 1.1.1 and wanted to use the awesome boot animation from midnight byor. I was able to simply copy the bootanimation.zip from system/media inside the midnight rom zip and overwrite the one on the phone in the same directory. After I rebooted I got google framework force close errors, so I cleared the google framework data, as well as contact data to be sure, rebooted and everything is groovy.
Now, naturally the second question would be, how do I change the shutdown animation?
Thanks
:EDIT: And here's the answer for shutdown animations: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829529
How can i find out if a dev is working on a boot animation modable kernel for the epic touch?
Ask in the E4GT section for one...
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So I was screwing around trying to push a boot animation, deleted the bootanimation.zip in system/media and now all I have is the android boot ani.
Anyone know where I can find the bootanimation.zip from system/media, so I can at least flash boot animations again?
Thanks
It'll be in the install zip for whichever ROM you're currently using. Same place /system/media/.
epic4GEE said:
So I was screwing around trying to push a boot animation, deleted the bootanimation.zip in system/media and now all I have is the android boot ani.
Anyone know where I can find the bootanimation.zip from system/media, so I can at least flash boot animations again?
Thanks
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p3dr0maz said:
It'll be in the install zip for whichever ROM you're currently using. Same place /system/media/.
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I tried that and also tried one from a theme, no go. In the end I flashed the hc2.0 theme again and that fixed me right up.
I would like to be able to backup the stock boot animation first, which im guessing all I have to do is copy it over to the SD card, correct me if im wrong. And would like to replace it with the one in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZkADy9-Xcg
it comes with a dl link but is in the zip format. I hear that samsung has to be .qmg so if anyone can convert this into the proper qmg file thatd be great. Im running the epic 4g stock rom with twilight kernal
Can anyone help??
The stock animation can be pulled from your phone by adb or a file browser from /system/media called bootanimation.zip.
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The stock animation can be pulled from your phone by adb or a file browser from /system/media called bootanimation.zip.
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There is no bootanimation.zip in /system/media
just a bunch of qmg files
There is no bootanimation.zip in /system/media
just a bunch of qmg files
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It will be bootani.qmg. but you can't do .zip files unless your kernal supports it. I use drockstars clean kernal eco5 which has voodoo support and boot ani. What stock are you using?
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You need a kernel that supports custom bootanimation like genocide kernel
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I installed a boot animation on my phone without clearing the cache or backing up stock animation. I can't change to a different animation on the phone. Is there a way I can overwrite the current animation?
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JMalibu75 said:
I installed a boot animation on my phone without clearing the cache or backing up stock animation. I can't change to a different animation on the phone. Is there a way I can overwrite the current animation?
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yes post the info/files & I'll figure it out
JMalibu75 said:
I installed a boot animation on my phone without clearing the cache or backing up stock animation. I can't change to a different animation on the phone. Is there a way I can overwrite the current animation?
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Find a thread by nubecoder. He has the stock animation available.
And only way to change the animation is just flashing another. Or pushing the bootanimation.zip file into system/media using root explorer or another file manager with root access
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This is the animation files I installed. The startup zip never worked. The shutdown zip did, but screen animation is frozen. I installed another zip animation file, and it shows up in my /system/media as bootanimation.zip, but is not working when I startup or shutdown my phone.
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This is the animation files I installed. The startup zip never worked. The shutdown zip did, but screen animation is frozen. I installed another zip animation file, and it shows up in my /system/media as bootanimation.zip, but is not working when I startup or shutdown my phone.
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Search for "find & post boot" in the theme forum & my thread will pop up & I have almost every boot ani for the epic & more & the stock boot too
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Does anyone know of a better boot animation for the Blend Rom? Something more like the Caulkin ROMS boot animation.
Will it blend? Yes.
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and what is that suppose to mean?
joecr250r said:
and what is that suppose to mean?
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It's completely irrelevant. I am however relatively surprised that you have never heard of the blender guy... enjoy:http://www.youtube.com/user/Blendtec
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Does anyone know of a better boot animation for the Blend Rom? Something more like the Caulkin ROMS boot animation.
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To actually answer your question, yes, you can. I know there is another play where you can put it, but the bootanimation.zip is commonly put in system>media. You'll need to delete the other bootanimation.zip before you do it, but if you put the attached .zip in that folder, it should work just fine. Note, this unlike most things I help with on here, I have not tested myself. I have previous knowledge and know that this works on htc phone. This one is however quite a bit different. The attached file is the bootanimation.zip that has been extracted from Calk's 2.8.1.
I previously had the HTC EVO and that was the method used on that phone if I recall correctly. I searched for the system/media folder and came up with nothing! I also looked in nearly every folder to find a sub folder that might work, but found nothing. Any clues?
I cant be the only guy out here that wants to change the boot animation. Someone has to know how.
Joecr250r
Depending on your kernel (I think its the kernel that decides, may be the ROM, any who), the .zip folder must be named "sanim.zip".
I'm currently running Blend v2.6.1 with Rogue kernel 1.4.0 "Gunslinger" and have changed my boot animation. The .zip must me named "sanim.zip" or it uses a default that's in one of the other /system files.
Still not sure as to where to put the .zip folder. Should I load it thru the Rogue Bootloader?
Found where it needed to go using ES file explorer. The boot animation is under system/media and the sound is system/etc PowerOn.wav for anyone else who wanted to know.
Thanks again for all the help.
Joecr250r
Hi All,
Here's how to change the boot animation for the device. Do at your own risk. I've attached the Cyanogenmod boot animation for starters.
Boot Animation
1. Using your file manager browse to system > media
2. You will see a file called bootanimation.zip and varients. Rename it to bootanimation.bak and add .bak to all the others as well.
3. Browse to your sdcard to the location of your new boot animation
4. Rename your new boot animation to bootanimation.zip if it isn't already
5. Copy the new boot animation to system > media
6. Give the new boot animate all the permissions.
7. Reboot and Enjoy
Cyanogenmod boot animation
Anyone tried it out yet?
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There's a few apps in the market that have a bunch of boot animation options. They're all sort of consolidated, I wonder if they're safe
Do you have to be rooted or unlocked to attempt?
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You will have to be rooted, not sure about unlocked. I"m guessing OP didn't actually bother to look at the files though. There are 3 boot animations in the folder. Assuming you are on sprint, you can delete bootanimation_boost.zip. The bootanimation.zip runs before the bootanimation_sprint.zip runs. I don't know if deleting one would cause it to revert to running the other one twice or longer but it probably wouldn't hurt anything to test. The bootanimation.zip is the LG logo animation and the bootanimation_sprint.zip is the sprint logo animation. I would guess that you could customize each of these if you gave them the same name, or maybe if you deleted the sprint one, the other bootanimation.zip would run longer. I don't have time to test it now...
Are the third party boot animation apps safe?
sheek360 said:
Are the third party boot animation apps safe?
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If by safe you mean it won't brick it, then yes they are. They should work too.
Thanks, will attempt after root. Haven't had time to do jack squat yet.
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Tried a few of those boot animation switchers. No dice
Just fyi for anyone who tried flash this, it isn't flashable, it just contains all the different dimensions.
Ok so I see the boost file. The sprint file. And the regular one. I changed it to .Bak and pasted the new one. But no dice
This will not work for the sprint att and boost versions i will use sprint for example...
You're mostly right however if you on one of the named providers above you must rename the old boot animation from bootanimation_sprint.zip to
bootanimation_sprint.bak then rename the file bootanimation.zip to bootanimation_sprint.zip i did this to restore the stock lg boot animation that was in there already i don't see why this would not work with other boot animation files
Enjoy
AdriVelazquez said:
Hi All,
Here's how to change the boot animation for the device. Do at your own risk. I've attached the Cyanogenmod boot animation for starters.
Boot Animation
1. Using your file manager browse to system > media
2. You will see a file called bootanimation.zip. Rename it to bootanimation.bak
3. Browse to your sdcard to the location of your new boot animation
4. Rename your new boot animation to bootanimation.zip if it isn't already
5. Copy the new boot animation to system > media
6. Reboot and Enjoy
Cyanogenmod boot animation
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The "boot animations" application from play store works perfectly if you change "install location" in preferences to system/media and the preset file name in preferences to "bootanimation_sprint.zip". You can then just click install on any animation you like.
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I cannot get that cyanogen animation to work though
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Not working for me, for whatever reason. Trying to use my own boot animation, and all I get is a black screen.This is my animation if perhaps you want to test if I've done something wrong. All I did was rename the bootanimation_sprint.zip into .bak and place that file in there instead. It should work, but it isn't.
just loaded yours up and just got a black screen, so i think its the actual animation thats messed up
I cannot get it to work either
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Hmm, guess I'll look into why the animation isn't working. Even made it from scratch and then using boot animation factory.
Epic has a guide that works better.
Also, to make it work you need to change the permissions of the new file.
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AdriVelazquez said:
Epic has a guide that works better.
Also, to make it work you need to change the permissions of the new file.
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Tried it with his guide and changed the permissions as well. I'm able to get stock JB to load on mine, it's just my boot animation that fails to work for some reason. I recreated it again from scratch and still don't really know what's wrong with it. Using 8bit color, stock compression, everything seems just fine; and yet it isn't. Maybe I'll take this up to the boot animation tutorial thread to see if anyone there can help me.
Edit: Nevermind, it was something extremely trivial that I should have noticed that just slipped by me. The folder name had a space in it, which pretty much made it useless. Fixed by removing the spaces.