[Boot Animation] BIOS-Style Boot Animation for HP Touchpad CyanogenMod - Feb 23, 2012 - TouchPad General

I found this wicked boot animation for the Nexus One (From Frysee), and decided I wanted to make one similar for the X10, and then yet again here for the HP TouchPad. So, using those older images as a base, I made a collection of PNG's, and now I have a working BIOS-style boot, made to the HP Touchpad specs running either CyanogenMod 7 Alpha or CyanogenMod 9 Alpha.
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Now, there are both flashable and NOT flashable ZIP files - that way, you can choose what you with.
Installation Instructions (for manual install)
Download whichever of the two versions you would like from the manual links below. Rename it to bootanimation.zip
On your TouchPad, copy the file to the /data/local folder (you need a decent explorer-type tool to do this - I use RootExplorer myself)
Long-press on the bootanimation.zip file and choose Permissions.
Set your permissions to Owner: Read, Write, Execute. Group: Read, Execute. Other: Read, Execute. (It should look like a lower-case N).
Now, long-press on that bootanimation.zip you just put there, and choose COPY again.
Browse to your /system/media folder. You might have to mount it read/write - depends on your file browser.
Paste the copy here as well. Don't forget to check your permissions.
Reboot your TouchPad and enjoy the old-schoolness of a BIOS boot.
Installation Instructions (for flashable zip)
Download the zip file of your choice from below. You want one of the ones that's labeled CWM.
Copy it to your SD card somewhere you can find easily.
Reboot your tablet into Clockwork Mod.
Choose 'Install ZIP from SD Card.'
Browse to the downloaded zip file.
Choose it to have it install.
Back out, reboot, and enjoy a BIOS-style boot for the HP Touchpad.
DOWNLOAD LINKS (please do not mirror):
http://bitly.com/zNgLiU - CyanogenMod 7 Bootanimation - Manual Install
http://bitly.com/AllCyP - CyanogenMod 7 Bootanimation - CWM Install
http://bitly.com/xr2EZ6 - CyanogenMod 9 Bootanimation - Manual Install
http://bitly.com/xpZJE9 - CyanogenMod 9 Bootanimation - CWM Install
http://bitly.com/wcYcuS - CyanogenMod 9 Boot animation (Landscape, from zagnut103) - CWM Install
If you have any comments / concerns / questions, please feel free to ask.

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Boot animation updates
February 28, 2012
- Fixed a compression glitch in all four of the ZIP files I host (flashable and non-flashable CM7 and CM9 portrait style) that had them not working properly.
- Awaiting Partition Table information for 32GB and 64GB - need size of partitions of /system, /mnt/sdcard, /data and /cache.
February 23, 2012
- Over 450 downloads now total across the board ! Am happy !
- Fixed the abruptness of parts of the animation - now it should flow a little smoother.
- Adjusted the speed down to 20fps.
- Planning on creating the 32GB versions after recovery from surgery, as well as Landscape versions for 16 and 32GB CM9.
- Need input as to whether to continue supporting and updating for CM7. Please post in the comments below if you wish more updates for the CM7 or if I should just make a 32GB version once and call it good.
January 30, 2012
- Added a link to a user-generated Landscape mode from zagnut103. It is flashable from CWM. I'll be adding my own landscape versions in the near future, as well as 32GB versions (sorry, all of mine are 16's at the moment)
January 21, 2012
- Fixed a missing image change in CM9 (both zips) where it would flash SUCESS for one image, then back to SUCCESS. Thanks again to SyncV2 for pointing that out.
January 20, 2012
- Fixed the spelling issue pointed out by [TSON] and SyncV2.
- Fixed the one image being out of orientation in the CM9 zip's (one of the images was still in portrait orientation, rather than landscape, so it made for a funky looking flicker in the animation).
- Fixed the doo-dad not completing it's third rotation in the CM7 animation.
- Slowed the animations down just a hair more, so that you can see what's going on, and it doesn't finish quite as quickly.
- Fixed the flashable zips to unpack to both /data/local and /system/media - that way, no matter what, it SHOULD work on your Touchpad.
- Big thanks to krook6023 (Forum moderator) for moving this from the Dev forum to this current one.
- 150 downloads in the first 48 hours... DAYUM !!!
January 18, 2012, later that night
- HUGE thanks to Joker Fuel for finding out how to fix the CM9 version to show in Portrait orientation like I originally planned for it to be done.

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Would a video of the boot be too much to ask? Sounds awesome and I'd love to see it in action.

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VGSmatt said:
Would a video of the boot be too much to ask? Sounds awesome and I'd love to see it in action.
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Click on the first link of the thread, you will see an animated gif

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@VGSMatt:
There's a preview up there - it's an animated GIF image, shows up fine on my PC. And on my mobile browser.
However, if you want to direct-link to the image and look at it that way, feel free. http://bitly.com/xe9g3F is where it's hosted.
@Balkar:
That's for the Nexus One. The third link in there to my one for the X10.

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Nice work on this one! Will be adding this for sure, its kick ass, didn't even try it yet and I like it haha!

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ve6ay said:
@VGSMatt:
There's a preview up there - it's an animated GIF image, shows up fine on my PC. And on my mobile browser.
However, if you want to direct-link to the image and look at it that way, feel free. http://bitly.com/xe9g3F is where it's hosted.
@Balkar:
That's for the Nexus One, as well as other links in there to my one for the X10.
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Yeah but i only see preview on that link not on this thread directly... Anyways just tried it and its sick!
EDIT: I see the link now, probably had errors on the page the first time, it takes some time to load also...
Sent from my touchpad using Tapatalk

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Tapatalk (and the XDA app) don't allow you to see images - at least, I haven't been able to find a way to let it load up images for me. But if you load it in a browser, you'll see the sweet animation that I've done for this little addon.
Now, all I gotta figure out is why it shows up as Landscape mode in CM9, and fix it, and I'll be set.

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ve6ay said:
Tapatalk (and the XDA app) don't allow you to see images - at least, I haven't been able to find a way to let it load up images for me. But if you load it in a browser, you'll see the sweet animation that I've done for this little addon.
Now, all I gotta figure out is why it shows up as Landscape mode in CM9, and fix it, and I'll be set.
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Hey, don't know if uve figured it out yet or not but
U have to rotate all the images counter clock wise. And swap the resolution in desc.txt to 1024 768
This displays the animation correctly.
And thank you isanrap for testing for this solution
Sent from my HTC Glacier using Tapatalk

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haha, these are sweet!

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Perfect ! Worked like a charm ! Now, to upload my CM9 flashable zip and have the links put back !

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ve6ay said:
Tapatalk (and the XDA app) don't allow you to see images - at least, I haven't been able to find a way to let it load up images for me. But if you load it in a browser, you'll see the sweet animation that I've done for this little addon.
Now, all I gotta figure out is why it shows up as Landscape mode in CM9, and fix it, and I'll be set.
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In the first post, you mentioned to copy to /data/local for the boot animation for the custom method, the correct way I had to do it for my TP to work with CM7 was rename the file(nothing new here) and place it to /system/media.
Tested both and only the/system/media works for me, just my 2 cents

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For some people, /system/media works. For others, it's /data/local. For my phone, it only works in /system/media. For my tablet, it works only in /data/local. It makes no sense.
Time to update my ZIP files to put 'em in both places, just to cover all of my bases.
Thanks for that, Balkar !

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ve6ay said:
For some people, /system/media works. For others, it's /data/local. For my phone, it only works in /system/media. For my tablet, it works only in /data/local. It makes no sense.
Time to update my ZIP files to put 'em in both places, just to cover all of my bases.
Thanks for that, Balkar !
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No prob, I just tried the zip too and it didn't work for me, then again i bet it's made in a way that it unpacks to /data/local

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This is one awesome boot screen.
I had no problems installing this manually with Root Explorer.

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"Sucess" is spelled wrong

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Works great, but as TSON said, success is spelled wrong.

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Have not installed it yet as I am going to wait for cm9 to get a little more stable before I make the jump, but I am curious does this loop or just run though once?

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I realise that SUCESS should be SUCCESS but I won't be able to change that until at least tomorrow when I get my PC back from it's diagnostic I am running. So look for an update early next week.
And this only does a single loop - I need to slow it down a bit but it is just the one go-through.
Sent from my HP Touchpad running CyanogenMod 9 alpha0.

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No, need to slow down, it's fine in my opinion.