I made a simple boot animation for my LS991 and it previews flawlessly in Boot Animation Factory, but I can't seem to get it to work on my phone. I found the carrier/cust boot animation and tried to replace that, but my file explorer is failing to copy the zip over to it. So I tried in system/media and replaced both the default boot animation and the bootanimation_sprint files. Now the screen just starts up with the typical LG - Powered by Android, then goes black for a bit, and then the OS loads up.
I'm not sure if I'm putting my custom animation in the wrong spot or what. The permissions are set to rw-r-r as per this thread, but still nothing.
I'm attaching the boot animation to this post if anyone wants to take a look at it and make sure I've got everything done right. When I zipped it with 7zip, I made sure to set compression method to "store". Thanks for looking at this.
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Hey all,
I am having trouble making the custom boot animation for my tbolt.
I copied off the one from /system/media, which is from Das BAMF. When copied my own bootanimation.zip nothing happens. No boot animation, just wait 30 seconds or so and the phone comes up.
I have the 3 folders set up for android, progress, and VZW, and the desc.txt which i copied straight from the original bootanimation.zip
I have 120 JPG files in VZW which are all my animations. In my progress folder i have a .GIF instead of a JPG which i dont think is a problem. and in the android folder i have a modified HTC screen.
Can anyone who has successfully created on let me know what i may be doing wrong??
MODS, Close Thread, issue resolved now
This bootanimation is created by eyesonlybob
just thought I would share the working version on here since I had to do some digging online to find the working non blank version for our respective device
preview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jdkh5kKJzo
Instructions:
refer to amazinglarry's boot audio enabler here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016208 for sounds
1. use root explorer to copy bootanimation.zip
2. navigate to /system/media on RE, mount rw and paste the bootanimation.zip overwriting the existing one
3* if you have bootanimation sounds enabled using the above audio enabler. paste the android_audio.mp3 again overwriting the existing one
4. reboot, enjoy and hit thanks
Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?oebay2beoixf5e6
included a matching audio if you have boot animation sounds enabled.
Wow real nice
it doesnt loop
mrmako777 said:
it doesnt loop
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it won't be as appealing if it loops... and looping was giving me issues such as the android just disappearing and a black screen staying on till boot. anyone wanna edit the images and add more animations? Maybe a CRT turn off animation similar to the portal boot animation, and then put a text saying Android or something?
_ice_ said:
it won't be as appealing if it loops... and looping was giving me issues such as the android just disappearing and a black screen staying on till boot. anyone wanna edit the images and add more animations? Maybe a CRT turn off animation similar to the portal boot animation, and then put a text saying Android or something?
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i tried to make it loop as well and couldnt figure it out. as far as i understand the part1 folder is the one that loops. i copied the images from part0 to part1 and renamed them in sequential order and got nothing. maybe one of the pros on here could help us out?
mrmako777 said:
i tried to make it loop as well and couldnt figure it out. as far as i understand the part1 folder is the one that loops. i copied the images from part0 to part1 and renamed them in sequential order and got nothing. maybe one of the pros on here could help us out?
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you want the original bootanimation.zip file that is supposed to loop? its f*cked since the black screen keeps coming on instead of a loop :S this is actually a evo boot animation tweaked for our device (evo takes sh!t long to boot)
I can edit the images but IDK how to do a crt animation on photoshop using different images
Will this work on myt4g with S=off and stock everything?
Yep it should
Rooted/OC'd/De-bloated
For the boot animation loop you have to edit the text file that is for screen size frame rate and how many times to play each folder.
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Is there any chance that this will work on my rooted HTC Incredible S?? I love this mod
Download link is dead, can you please update it?
From what I had read here and in a couple of other forums, changing the boot animations and sounds SHOULD be as easy as finding the animation you want( in .png format) putting it and your preferred sound effect(in mp3 or .ogg format) in an uncompressed .zip file, place the .zip in the system/customize/resource folder on your phone with the name bootanimation.zip. (you would obviously have to replace the existing file by that name
I went looking in that folder on my evo, and discovered that the file is actually named Sprint_bootanimation.zip. So I downloaded the animation I wanted. (The red DROID eye) and the sound I wanted (The DROID voice), renamed them accordingly, and placed them in the proper folder. Now I just get a black screen with NO animation when I boot up. Everything else works fine. The phone boots with no problem, I just have no animations. I still have the old files present, just renamed, so its not a problem to put them back, but I WANT that DROID eye and sound!!!
Any ideas as to what I may be doing wrong? Honestly, this little thing is more important to me than almost any other mod/hack/rom that I could change.
Hi, I've followed the instructions from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321360
Not only do I not get my boot and down animations to not work, now they are showing different text from the original Mean ROM animations that I backed up, now the say "Androi"d on booting and "Powering Down", I haven't seen this is any of my searching...
I've checked the default.xml file and they point to the regular System/Customize/Resource folders.
Zips work in the boot animation factory.
My png files are 360x640 and the desc files are listed as 720x1080 (all portrait files) including blank space at the end
Files are named: SPC_bootanimation.zip and SPC_downanimation.zip
Can anyone advise? Thanks in advance.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zz44x927cpobbzv/SPC_bootanimation.zip
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u6ujepb9vvxwhyy/SPC_downanimation.zip
Edit: just checked my file permission: rw-,r--,r-- still no change.
Hmm maybe this should be in the Q&A forum, mod please move if appropriate. thanks!
I'll take a look at it in about an hour
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DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that zip is 258mb
for a bootani wtf whats in there???
lol thanks for checking...I got about 40 seconds of 360x640 frames at 30fps. When I extracted frames from a GIF for the down animation, the files were small. but when I extracted frames from a downloaded youtube clip, they all became bitmap images and exploded in size.
try this
Thanks Dased14 so I downloaded the bootanimation.zip file
I was curious about the format and so I booted into HBoot->TWRP recovery and installed that, it said successful however there was no change to the boot/down animation.
Then I recalled some people putting the bootanimation.zip file in their System\Media\ folder (likely for other devices) but I did it anyways and confirmed permissions were correct: rw-,r--,r--
The interesting change this time is there was no "Android" text on boot and "Powering Down" on down...just black screen
What do you think I can try next...
Or did I fail loading the bootanimation.zip file to the device. here's some supporting info I guess.
http://imageshack.us/scaled/medium/708/20130219104954.png
http://imageshack.us/scaled/medium/542/20130219104616.png
You flashed that zip in recovery? Right
That zip i posted was flashable. (ie reboot in to recovery, click install, locate the bootanimation.zip click it click install wipe cache and reboot system
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I installed in recovery but there was no change to boot animation. I'll try again...
BaconMunch said:
Hi, I've followed the instructions from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321360
Not only do I not get my boot and down animations to not work, now they are showing different text from the original Mean ROM animations that I backed up, now the say "Androi"d on booting and "Powering Down", I haven't seen this is any of my searching...
I've checked the default.xml file and they point to the regular System/Customize/Resource folders.
Zips work in the boot animation factory.
My png files are 360x640 and the desc files are listed as 720x1080 (all portrait files) including blank space at the end
Files are named: SPC_bootanimation.zip and SPC_downanimation.zip
Can anyone advise? Thanks in advance.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zz44x927cpobbzv/SPC_bootanimation.zip
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u6ujepb9vvxwhyy/SPC_downanimation.zip
Edit: just checked my file permission: rw-,r--,r-- still no change.
Hmm maybe this should be in the Q&A forum, mod please move if appropriate. thanks!
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and not to burst you bubble but that boot anim is massive and i mean massive... I just made on recently and slimmed it down to 125mb which is huge and 258mb is extremely large your sucking up your system partition space and memory.
Just made this one like 5 days ago best bet is to remove every other image... I batched it out in ps to change the names to single digitis with an action and then use batch to remove the odd numbers... Thats what I did but your best bet is probably to just remove them by hand every odd image remove it out... Originally this boot animation was 540mb and i got it down to 120 and I did that through winoptpng and removing images... Remember dont opt regular black images b/c they'll index... Enjoy that tid bit of information..
I slimmed it down to 21mb for him
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yup total file from dased14 was 40MB for both files vs my 258MB + 3MB...still scratching my head here.
Good tip though.
I re-installed in custom recovery and cleared cache. Default Android text is on boot animation. Shut down is black screen only.
Might be a meanrom thing you can try unzipping the rom chamging out the two zips and dirty flash the rom
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1678540
This tool helped me get my last boot animation to work. Maybe it will do the trick for you.
Woohoo! dirty copy into System/Customize/Resource worked! I also have a feeling I may have borked a setting or the fact that I created a .old file might have messed things up.
Updated to the new MeanBean ROM and then proceeded with copying the files over and both files worked great! Thanks for slimming down the files!
Caution:::: I have today (1-18-2015) heard on the rumor mill that Motorola have used a new binary in the 5.0.2 update, this binary affects the boot animation. In effect it may only allow animations made in an mp4 format to work and causes a system crash if using the old, tried and tested format of frames of jpg's or png's. This of course fits in with Motorola's own animations which are mp4's. I can't vouch for the fact that it may be possible to overcome this by changing permissions but it seems that the new binary will have to be installed. In view of the fact that all my animations up to now are jpg's and png's I would strongly advise you don't install them on a 5.0.2 upgrade. I hope I'm being over cautious but I wouldn't want anyone to have to go through the number of re-sets that I have had to do over the past few days.
I've made a couple of animations for the 2014 moto g so over the next couple of days I'll post them to this thread in case anyone is interested. The usual disclaimer applies i.e. I am not responsible if installing these files causes your house to blow up, your cat to run away or your wife,partner or friend leave you for the next door neighbor.
This first one is CIA themed so I have made a similar bootlogo file in case anyone wants to go the whole way! The two files are easily identifiable by the names.
The "Logo" file is a flashable zip using any custom recovery (TWRP - CWM - Philz).
The animation zip has to be placed manually using any file manager you like.
First - go to ..... /system/media ..... and rename the bootanimation which is there to avoid it being overwritten. You can add the word "old" or "bak" or anything you like.
Second - copy the CIA-Anim.zip file to the folder ...../system/media ..... and then rename it bootanimation.zip
These files will work with KK and Lollipop O/S's and with all versions of moto g 2014 edition.
The PNG file shows you the Logo ..... The GIF file gives you an idea of the animation.
OK here is another one. Same as before all disclaimers apply i.e. house - cat - neighbor.
Logo file is "recovery flashable zip"
Anim file is put into ...../system/media ..... folder
JPG shows how Logo looks ..... GIF gives you an idea of the animation.
OK here is another one. Same as before all disclaimers apply i.e. house - cat - neighbor.
Logo file is "recovery flashable zip"
Anim file is put into ...../system/media ..... folder
JPG shows how Logo looks ..... GIF gives you an idea of the animation
Here's one for the Marvel Fans.
Usual disclaimer and guidance applies
Logo is flashable in recovery ..... Anim rename and place in /system/media
JPG shows Logo ..... GIF gives idea of Anim
OK as before same disclaimer and guidance apply
Logo file is flashable in recovery ..... Anim file placed in /system/media
At the moment I am holding off from posting any further anims. Before posting I always try out new anims on my own XT1064 to make certain they work and there is no possibility of bootlooping for other users. Since updating to 5.0.2 I have found problems installing new anims i.e. continuous bootlooping causing me several instances of having to factory reset and re-install the update. Until I can determine whether this is a fault on my phone or is caused by the 5.0.2 update I won't post any more. As a possible related issue, I have found that I can no longer make alterations to the "build.prop" file without causing a bootloop and crash.