Roms and Custom Boot animations - Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Alrighty now. This is my first big question to post and I have looked for a real answer for this. It concerns customized boot animations. What depends on the use of using custom boot animation? The rom or the kernel. I have just installed Simply Honey 5.1 beta 1 and forced a custom into system/media using root explorer r/w set and permissions set as what I have seen on every link I have read. Rebbot and nothing. Does SH 5.1B1 not support them or is it Bullet because I had just created my own bootanime with Samus scene from Metroid Other M and using death scene from Metroid Prime 3 as shutdown?
Nevermid, I found the info I was looking for, mostly. Only problem is still bootanimation.zip not playing still but shutdown is. I will prevail but if someone knows what I am doing wrong please throw your two cents in, please.

Not certain but is the location for the bootanim different in GB?
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Samsung animations are in the same locations in froyo and GB. I have changed boot sounds and now loaded audiophile on 4g and valhalla on the vibrant. No go on both. I am guessing but guess i will ask both creators of these great roms since GB is new for sgs4g and a ported rom on vibrant. i have both boot and shutdown animations ready to run.

Im sorry audiophile on sgs4g and simply honey on the vibrant. DOH!!

I got a reply from explodingboy last night and he said the talon kernel does custom boot animations so I tested it out today with my own. And it works! Just rename bootanimation.zip to sanim.zip push into system/media and set your permissions to rw-r--r--. I used root explorer but I you can use advanced. Just remember to set it back to ro or something will or wont happen. Talon for the vibrant can be found in the Simply Honey Gingerbread thread third post. Thank you eb!

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[Q] Question regarding Voodoo and changing boot animations

Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere but I've searched all over and didn't find anything that answered my particular question...
So anyways I've installed the new Voodoo lagfix (v0.2) and it mentions being able to swap in new boot animations and it sounds simple enough but when I look in my /system/media or data/local directories I don't see an existing bootanimation.zip file to replace.
In /system/media all I have in there is an audio folder, a bunch of .qmg files, and a video folder containing the shutdown .pngs.
In data/local there is only a tmp folder with 2 .lck files.
I've tried copying a bootanimation.zip into both of those and rebooting but still got the stock samsung/verizion bootup animation. Any idea what I'm doing wrong or what else I need to do to get it to use the new boot animation?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
Did you install just the Voodoo lagfix or the Lagfix/bootanimation/OC kernel?
I didn't know you could change it yourself without any coding experience o.o
However I do not know how to change it
But in the event someone posts how, what are some cool boot animations?
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To change the boot animation you need to make sure your kernel supports it. In the Voodoo thread there are 3 kernels.... one with just the Voodoo fix. One with the Voodoo, boot animation, and one with the lagfix, boot animation, and OC. Make sure you are using one with the boot animation change, and put a bootanimation.zip in to /data/local/ or /system/media/
You are my hero, but where are these folders? And were can I find a boot animation?
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HardcorePooka said:
Did you install just the Voodoo lagfix or the Lagfix/bootanimation/OC kernel?
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Sorry guess I should have specified...
(btw sorry if I'm about to butcher any lingo.. I'm still new to the whole scene here)
I rooted, followed the instructions on using Odin to flash ClockworkMod then applied the lagfix from the Voodoo thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804317) while in ClockworkMod Recovery which appeared to work as my quadrant scores went from ~900 to ~1700.
HardcorePooka said:
To change the boot animation you need to make sure your kernel supports it. In the Voodoo thread there are 3 kernels.... one with just the Voodoo fix. One with the Voodoo, boot animation, and one with the lagfix, boot animation, and OC. Make sure you are using one with the boot animation change, and put a bootanimation.zip in to /data/local/ or /system/media/
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Oh gotcha. I guess I know what I did wrong then. I believe I only used the voodoo_kernel_0.2.zip which I guess is just the one with the lag fix.
How would I go about changing to one of the other 2 from where I'm currently at with just the lag fix?
Also I'm assuming the one I'd want to use this time is the " 1200_voodoo_bootanimation_0.2.zip" correct? I'm guessing that's the one with all 3 (lag fix, boot animation and OC)?
adianlorenzana said:
You are my hero, but where are these folders? And were can I find a boot animation?
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The folders are on the device. You can use adb commands to push the bootanimation.zip file to them. "adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local"
Search online to find boot animations. Pretty easy to find.
ryanbeu said:
Sorry guess I should have specified...
(btw sorry if I'm about to butcher any lingo.. I'm still new to the whole scene here)
I rooted, followed the instructions on using Odin to flash ClockworkMod then applied the lagfix from the Voodoo thread while in ClockworkMod Recovery which appeared to work as my quadrant scores went from ~900 to ~1700.
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You will need to reflash using either the 1000_voodoo_bootanimation_0.2.zip or the 1200 one to use the boot animations.
ryanbeu said:
Oh gotcha. I guess I know what I did wrong then. I believe I only used the voodoo_kernel_0.2.zip which I guess is just the one with the lag fix.
How would I go about changing to one of the other 2 from where I'm currently at with just the lag fix?
Also I'm assuming the one I'd want to use this time is the " 1200_voodoo_bootanimation_0.2.zip" correct? I'm guessing that's the one with all 3 (lag fix, boot animation and OC)?
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The 1200 is the one with all 3 yes. And use the same method you did before with just the Voodoo lagfix to reflash with the new kernel. Very easy and should only take a couple mins.
ryanbeu said:
Oh gotcha. I guess I know what I did wrong then. I believe I only used the voodoo_kernel_0.2.zip which I guess is just the one with the lag fix.
How would I go about changing to one of the other 2 from where I'm currently at with just the lag fix?
Also I'm assuming the one I'd want to use this time is the " 1200_voodoo_bootanimation_0.2.zip" correct? I'm guessing that's the one with all 3 (lag fix, boot animation and OC)?
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Just flash it like you did the first time through clockwork. Then move the boot animation zip over.
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Should I disable voodoo first?
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Ok cool, so I should be able to just toss the 1200_voodoo_bootanimation_0.2.zip to the /voodoo folder on my sdcard, boot into CWRecovery and reapply the zip?
Sounds easy enough. I'll give that a try, thanks guys!
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Awesome, it worked. Saw the new boot animation after reflashing in CWRecovery. Thanks for the help guys.
Now to change that awful boot music and change the shutdown animation....
ryanbeu said:
Awesome, it worked. Saw the new boot animation after reflashing in CWRecovery. Thanks for the help guys.
Now to change that awful boot music and change the shutdown animation....
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Did you have to uninstall the 0.2 lagfix before flashing this new?
BTW...there's a post in the Fascinate Themes forum that has information on start and shutdown sounds as well as animations.
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ryanbeu said:
Awesome, it worked. Saw the new boot animation after reflashing in CWRecovery. Thanks for the help guys.
Now to change that awful boot music and change the shutdown animation....
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just in case you didn't know the details about that:
boot music is in /system/etc and is called "PowerOn.wav"
shutdown music is in /system/media/audio/ui and is called "shutdown.ogg"
AlgorithmX said:
Did you have to uninstall the 0.2 lagfix before flashing this new?
BTW...there's a post in the Fascinate Themes forum that has information on start and shutdown sounds as well as animations.
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you don't have to uninstall the voodoo 0.2 to upgrade (sidegrade?) to the new kernels with the bootanimation or OC
Just so we're clear, all these boot anim. and boot changes can be made just using Root Explorer? Yes?
saps said:
Just so we're clear, all these boot anim. and boot changes can be made just using Root Explorer? Yes?
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Once you've got the right Voodoo, yes.
adiliyo said:
just in case you didn't know the details about that:
boot music is in /system/etc and is called "PowerOn.wav"
shutdown music is in /system/media/audio/ui and is called "shutdown.ogg"
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Roger that.. now my only issue is trying to find a new custom shutdown animation to replace the crappy verizon one with.. It was easy to find boot animations but there doesn't seem to be many shutdown ones out there.
Anyone know of any good sites/links where I could find some?

CRT Gingerbread standby animation

I know you guys have seen this on the Nexus S or DX running 2.3. It's the screen-off animation that looks like an old style TV turning off. This is it on the Nexus, but my brother has in on his DX running 2.3.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lv1p4TvRw4
Any way I can get this on my 2.2 SF???? I want it bad!
Man I've been wanting that for a while now.
The SteelBlue Midnight theme that Bigloof ported to the fascinate has it in version 1.5. I think you can pull it from the zip using root explorer but don't know which folder to put it in.
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the shutdown animation can be placed in /system/media/video
In there is a folder called shutdown with the .png's (named shutdown_1, shutdown_2, and so on - not a zip file like a boot animation) and a shutdown.cfg file.
Since I like that shutdown animation so much, I keep a media folder on my PC. Whenever I swap to a new ROM, I bring my favorite sounds and shutdown and boot animations with me.
That TV off is what I use as well, You can find it linked below, all ready to go.
Just DL the file, unzip it and place the folder in /system/media/
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15766790/video.zip
M00NEY said:
the shutdown animation can be placed in /system/media/video
In there is a folder called shutdown with the .png's (named shutdown_1, shutdown_2, and so on - not a zip file like a boot animation) and a shutdown.cfg file.
Since I like that shutdown animation so much, I keep a media folder on my PC. Whenever I swap to a new ROM, I bring my favorite sounds and shutdown and boot animations with me.
That TV off is what I use as well, You can find it linked below, all ready to go.
Just DL the file, unzip it and place the folder in /system/media/
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15766790/video.zip
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That's for the shutdown animation. I'm talking about when you hit the power button to go into standby mode.
for that I can be of no assistance.
I was actually just looking for a mod for that last night. From what I understand, it's not something you can port to froyo - you need to legitimately running gingerbread to have it.
My understanding is it is baked into the GB kernel
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I was actually just looking for a mod for that last night. From what I understand, it's not something you can port to froyo - you need to legitimately running gingerbread to have it.
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Wellllll crap. I guess we have a little while to wait then. Unless cm7 with 2.3 will be released soon......?

Lost boot animation, I've got nothing...

Not that I mind too terribly much but when I installed dmesg and ran it I lost my boot animation all together. Fun.
I'm rooted on 4.1.57 running GreyBlur 2.1 or whatever the newest is. I used root explorer and made sure there is a bootanimation.zip file where it belongs. Tried manually adding different boot animation zips via rootexplorer. Nada.
Am I missing something?
You can try this, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1042736, but I don't really know if it will work or not. It is a theme removal app which will also allow you to attempt to reset your boot animation to stock. Has worked for me. It will only replace the bootanimation.zip but won't change any of the settings that call it., so if those are messed up then this won't help.
Just make sure you say no to the first question in the bat or else it will maul your greyblur theming.
Awesome! Ill give that a shot once I can get on a windows machine at work tomorrow. Luckily this isn't a life or death problem.
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You can also download one of the fine boot animations here in the forum straight to your device and then copy it to the /system/media directory on your phone.
heres two I made
red: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AEN45QBA
blue: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PKBOLCT4
Ive actually tried that with no dice.

[Q] Custom Boot Animations?

Okay, I've used a ROM before on my Captivate that allowed them in the data/local/ folder, but I never really tried that on my E3D yet...I installed Supra because it's the closest thing to AOSP we have right now, and I like it. However, how do you change the boot animation? I was looking through folders and found the file bootanimation.booted located within /data/app-private/ ? But I don't want to touch stuff that will ruin anything...so I guess how would you use custom boot animations? or can you not do that quite yet?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1194459
Spicy has a great write up. Stock built roms use something completely different to bootanimation.zip. supra is themed and still 100% sense
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[solved]boot animation problem

hi everyone .....today I wanted to change my bootanimation so went to the system/media to find stock bootamimation to my surprise there was no file named bootamimation.zip .......I'm running ics passion with kiss kernel v8.2 ....I'm dont have any problem rebooting .....plz help me out .
Not sure why it is not there but if you want to change your boot animation you can drop the new one in /data/local and it will show up on your next boot, leaving you original (which should be in but isn't for some reason) in /system/media.
Just drop the new one here /data/local and set your permissions and you will be good to go.
thanx for ur reply ....is it safe to do in this way? .......if so then how can I get back my stock bootamimation ?
akarshfrevr said:
hi everyone .....today I wanted to change my bootanimation so went to the system/media to find stock bootamimation to my surprise there was no file named bootamimation.zip .......I'm running ics passion with kiss kernel v8.2 ....I'm dont have any problem rebooting .....plz help me out .
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I'm running ICZen, which is based on AOKP and had discovered the same thing. However if you find a bootanimation.zip that you like, download it and place it in system/media. Although there is no stock boot animation there, after a reboot the new boot animation should appear. For some reason, ICS roms store the boot animation away in another location. Thus, just like Woods method, the custom boot animation you install will not overwrite the stock one. Just delete (or move it [to a new directory like your SD card]) the custom boot animation you installed and bam! You'll have the stock one back.
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akarshfrevr said:
thanx for ur reply ....is it safe to do in this way? .......if so then how can I get back my stock bootamimation ?
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Yes it is safe to do it that way. You can inter-changed bootanimations at will when you put them in /data/local. In fact sometimes, I will drop one in my wife's phone's /data/local just to mess with her. She is pretty savvy, so it doesn't take long for her to figure it our and go in there and delete it.
That is the beauty of dropping it in /data/local, it does nothing to your stock one. If you don't like the one you put in /data/local, then just deleted it or move it on your SD card for later use and your oringinal BA is still in tact.
N00B_IN_N33D said:
I'm running ICZen, which is based on AOKP and had discovered the same thing. However if you find a bootanimation.zip that you like, download it and place it in system/media. Although there is no stock boot animation there, after a reboot the new boot animation should appear.
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Not sure if dropping it in /system/media is a good thing b/c it might throw an error at some point either on bootup or when you decide that you want to change it down the road. I have looked over the Zen releases and never found where it was kept, but then again, I always have dropped mine in /data/local.
Double post.
thanx for replying .....I will try to put it in system/media and I will report it back .....
N00B_IN_N33D I did in ur way it worked fine ......thanx again .......if I want stock just deleting copied zip will do that rite?
akarshfrevr said:
N00B_IN_N33D I did in ur way it worked fine ......thanx again .......if I want stock just deleting copied zip will do that rite?
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Yes, that's correct. Or you can also just move it to your SD card and that will also work. As long as you remove the custom boot animation from the system/media directory it will return to the stock boot.
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u are running iczen rite ....whenever I install iczen it works fine for one day later I won't receive any call but I can make calls ......do u no what might be the problem?

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