Hello all, quick question. I rooted my LG Optimus T using z4root and Shorty after I downloaded "Root Tools" from the market. Really the only thing I used it for was to change my boot animations, I tried a few of them. Through the program it backed up my original animation in a zip file on my SD card. The program has an option to restore the original animation but it just won't allow me. Since I've done a full back up with Titanium Pro and a Band back up after installing a custom recovery. Is there another way to restore my boot animation from my SD card using Terminal Emulator or a copy paste?
You say you have the original boot animation then it's possible
Make sure the file is bootanimation.zip.
Things you need
1)Phone is Rooted
2)Root Explorer(Market)
3)Boot Animation (Original On Your SdCard)
Open your root explorer and find system. Then open that folder and choose media. That is where you should place your bootanimation.zip
Thanks, turns out I do not have the original boot animation that came with the phone. I must of missed the button when installing the new animation. I tried looking for one to download but did not have luck. Not that big of a deal, though.
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I have a different boot animation on my phone and I'm not sure hot to apply it I don't have a pc so I want to do this straight through the phone I have sufb and astro file and the new boot animation shows up but I don't know where to put it any body know what I can do?
Willsnews
So just to be clear I have it on my phone but don't know how to switch between the stock and the new one x_x help me please I can't stand the stock animation t mobile gives
Willsnews
You want root explorer. First you want to extract the zip file that contains the boot animation that you want, using astro file manager. Then go into root explorer, and replace /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg and /system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg
That will replace the video. The bootup sound is /system/etc/PowerOn.wav
replace those files with the one from the zip.
The shutdown video is a handful of image files located in /system/media/video/shutdown
and the shutdown sound is /system/media/audio/ui/Shutdown_128.ogg
Any other program other than root explorer cause I can't buy it cause I can't put it on my bill?
Willsnews
I have sufbs astro and andexplorer can I use those to do it?
Willsnews
Astro file manager doesn't give me a extract option but sufbs does but I guess I need ther root explorer for this cause I haven't had any luck any other way if you do know of a way to do this with the things I have listed it would be awesome to know and thanks for the reply x_x
Willsnews
I also do not have busybox wil that make a difference?
Willsnews
i tried a different approach but it worked for me.
i used root explorer and deleted the .PNG files from
/system/media/video/shutdown
then, i used VirtualDub (free download, just google it) and opened a gif that i wanted to use as my shutdown animation
once in virtualdub, go to file, export, image sequence and change the name to
shutdown_
for the number of digits in select 1
then change output to .PNG
click ok.
Go to the folder that you exported it to and select 14 consecutive images that you want to use and change the file names in order to shutdown_1, shutdown_2 etc....
move these files to your external sd card.
Now go back into root explorer and find these files. Select all of them and move them to system/media/video/shutdown.
You are done. With this method you can use any .gif you want so long as it has only 14 frames. I'm sure there is a way you can use more than 14 frames but I haven't figured that out yet.
I followed all these steps.
1) I'm rooted
2) Have Root Explorer
When I go to paste my new .png files over the old ones, everything seems fine. But when I check the files, they are still the old ones.
Also when I try and delete some of them, they appear gone for a second, then re-appear.
I've tried changing permissions for the files / folders, which appears to work. But then when I look at the permissions again, they have been set back to the way they were before.
Any help appreciated.
Mike
Same thing for me, I have no idea where to go from here, all i know is i will do anything it takes to never have to see that eye sore of a pink square t mobile bootup again... Someone help a brotha out
bump!
There is an app to do it on the evo... not that it helps us.
Yeah I figured this out while ago thank you his for trying to help me and the thread can be deleted or closed
willsnews said:
I have a different boot animation on my phone and I'm not sure hot to apply it I don't have a pc so I want to do this straight through the phone I have sufb and astro file and the new boot animation shows up but I don't know where to put it any body know what I can do?
Willsnews
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if you have CWM go to recovery and install the zip of your boot animation (if its not in a zip idk) but this worked for me
Hey guys. Just to preface, I'm running MIUIUS-ICS-EN-MECHA by DroidVicious. I really wanted to create a custom boot animation, so like everyone else, I went to the forms.
Because I just made my account here, xda won't allow me to post the link to the thread I used into this post. You can find it by typing in "create custom boot animation android" into google. It is the first link that comes up.
After creating all the files and .png images in the right places, I realized that my phone doesn't have the the "system" folder on the SD card. I think this might be because of MIUI's ability to change the boot animation inside the "theme" settings. Anyway, I would really appreciate it if someone would help me out with this.
Things I've tried:
Placing it in the root of SD card and installing .zip from SD card through recovery
Importing to the MIUI "theme" settings under boot animation.
Thanks.
You usually don't install boot animations that way. On most roms the current boot animation is located at /system/media/bootanimation.zip, not on the sdcard. And you just use a file explorer app to copy it from your sdcard to that location and overwrite the old one.
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Well that's the problem... I can find the system/bootanimation. that's why I was wondering if maybe it was different for MIUI. Thanks for the reply.
Sent from my HTC Thunderbolt.
Hello,
I have a rooted Gtablet running the latest ICS DRH Beta2(fixed) ROM. I surely have NOTHING against the boot animation zip file that comes loaded with the rom, but I just want to flash a different image there instead of seeing the 'Team DRH' boot image all the time. Has anyone tried doing so ?
Thanks,
David
Davy49 said:
Hello,
I have a rooted Gtablet running the latest ICS DRH Beta2(fixed) ROM. I surely have NOTHING against the boot animation zip file that comes loaded with the rom, but I just want to flash a different image there instead of seeing the 'Team DRH' boot image all the time. Has anyone tried doing so ?
Thanks,
David
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Since you are already running a Custom ROM you have options.
1st. Download and install ES File Explorer from the Market and go into the settings and grant it Superuser permmision and mark the System as RW. All that found on the bottom of the settings in the ES File Explorer settings.
2nd. Find a Custom bootanimation that you like. There is allot of them around so after downloading them you can open them up in ES and view the pictures to see which one that you like. I change the names just so that I know which one it is. Example: if it downloads with name bootanimation.zip rename it (xxxxxx)bootanimation.zip. The x is the name that you perferr.
3rd. Here is where it gets a bit tricky. After finding the one you like guide your way using ES to the system files. Upper corner says favorites and (/) means system. So the bootanimation would be found in ./system/media. Make backup if you need it by long press until option menu pops up and select Copy to. Now go back to Favorite/sdcard to where you store your new bootanimation. Rename just bootanimation.zip and then Copy to the ./system/media folder that you were in earilier. You will get a overright messeage just allow it and reboot and enjoy.
Dear nobe1976,
Thanks so much for your very informative reply, I already have the ES File Explorer software you mentioned installed on my gtablet. Also I have the Ghost Commander app installed, it also works well. Is there a certain place that has a good selection of boot animation files?
Thanks,
David
Hi,
Is there any mod, which has the stock android 4 boot animation (like this)
I found this Thread, but he stopped developing and I love the stock boot animation. Is there one I can flash with cwm?
Thx
Michael
You only need root access and some file manager to change your boot animation. CWM is not necessary.
Use file manager that can mount system partition (probably need to check 'allow mounting system partition' in the settings) and replace /system/media/bootanimation.zip with your own custom animation (of course you should rename/backup your old/original bootanimation file just in case). Afterwards set permission of bootanimation.zip file to rw/r/r.
Ask creator of that thread to send you bootanimation.zip file, and you're set to go. Also there are tools for that, so if you want to, you can create an animation yourself.
I changed my boot animation few days ago, using this thread. Hope it helps you.
Thanks a lot a few minutes before I had found the windows boot animation too.
Here's a very nice site for boot animations. I'll try some
I was "messing" with creating boot animation for 4hr. Had to reformat and restore 3 times. I finally found a program Boot Animation Factory that let me preview the zip before I put on phone. I am using CM10 base ROM and the bootanimation.zip is in /system/media.
I do not have "sophisticated" photo editing programs, so I use Photo Studio 6 to create the text and my old PhotoSuite4 to fix the transparency. It took me few hours to make it. I use winrar for ziping. In winrar chose zip and store. Transfer trough usb to my sd card and copy to /system/media using Root Browser Lite(free). I am attaching my bootanimation.zip. Preview in Boot Animation Factory or trough adb.
Do not get scare - it is for fun.