sound in boot animation - Motorola Photon 4G

anyone know how to add sound to a boot animation or can help me out the miui boot has sound but no matter where I put the music file it doesn't work. anyone know where to put it?
I know you are supposed to edit the desc.txt but what do you add? also what is the name supposed to be boot_audio.ogg? bootanimation_audio.ogg/ or _sound.ogg? if anyone knows and can help would be wonderful.... could get us sound in our roms..... I know most are going to say search but thats just it I have and cannot get it working
MIUI/ICS for the Photon
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I don't know if all Motorola's would follow the same guidelines, but I'm assuming that they do so try this.
For ICS, The audio file goes in the system/media folder (same place as bootanimation) and must be named
"android_audio.mp3"
And permissions to match bootanimation.
Let me know if it works.
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moonzbabysh said:
I don't know if all Motorola's would follow the same guidelines, but I'm assuming that they do so try this.
For ICS, The audio file goes in the system/media folder (same place as bootanimation) and must be named
"android_audio.mp3"
And permissions to match bootanimation.
Let me know if it works.
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I've tried that in my personal tests while working in my ports. I think my issue its not knowing what to type in the script and/or the desc.txt I've even copied the mount Olympus files for it. if you swap a few files in it to make it boot(constant fc) but you will hear miui sound in its Desc.txt has a 's' at the bottom I didn't notice anything in script for it but when trying to apply same thing to ours I get nothing.
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spleef said:
I've tried that in my personal tests while working in my ports. I think my issue its not knowing what to type in the script and/or the desc.txt I've even copied the mount Olympus files for it. if you swap a few files in it to make it boot(constant fc) but you will hear miui sound in its Desc.txt has a 's' at the bottom I didn't notice anything in script for it but when trying to apply same thing to ours I get nothing.
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There is also a line that is added to the build.prop in the Droid Bionic for bootsound. Im not sure if you have to add that as well. I've been trying to get the CM9 build for that phone (as it has working bootsound, and as our build is off cm9, it may work for us as well), but the dev doesn't seem to respond on his site, and took down my comment requesting the link. Tried messaging him on here as well with no luck as well On my 5th droid forum trying to sign up so I can try a download link...LOL

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Th3Bill said:
There is also a line that is added to the build.prop in the Droid Bionic for bootsound. Im not sure if you have to add that as well. I've been trying to get the CM9 build for that phone (as it has working bootsound, and as our build is off cm9, it may work for us as well), but the dev doesn't seem to respond on his site, and took down my comment requesting the link. Tried messaging him on here as well with no luck as well On my 5th droid forum trying to sign up so I can try a download link...LOL
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desc.txt I've run across with sound look like this
some numbers part1
s android_audio.mp3
some more numbers part2
s android_audio.mp3
I've even included the files from bin associated with boot animation
tried the
bootsnd.sh
other roms bin for boot animation as well as some other files named
boot soundon, off, turn on, turn off, enable
still nothing only thing I've really managed to do was remove the animation entirely
MIUI/ICS for the Photon
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spleef said:
desc.txt I've run across with sound look like this
some numbers part1
s android_audio.mp3
some more numbers part2
s android_audio.mp3
I've even included the files from bin associated with boot animation
tried the
bootsnd.sh
other roms bin for boot animation as well as some other files named
boot soundon, off, turn on, turn off, enable
still nothing only thing I've really managed to do was remove the animation entirely
MIUI/ICS for the Photon
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Same here...lol
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Yea, I've been trying too, even added this to build too along with supporting file but nothing.
# To enable boot sounds set value to 1 and place /system/media/android_audio.mp3
# or edit /system/bin/bootsound with the name of your audio
ro.config.play.bootsound=1
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Found on another forum, only scripting
This into /etc/init.local.rc:
###Bootsound - Safe to Delete: Start ###
service bootsound /system/bin/bootsound
user media
group audio
disabled
oneshot
# to correct timing
on property:init.svc.bootanim=running
start bootsound
on property:dev.bootcomplete=1
stop bootsound
### Bootsound - Safe to Delete: End ###
This into new created file /system/bin/bootsound (rwxr-xr-x, root:shell):
#!/system/bin/sh
bprop=/system/build.prop
play=$(cat $bprop | egrep -c -i -o bootsound)
if [ "$play" = "1" ]; then
stagefright -a -o /data/local/android_audio.mp3
fi
exit 0
And this into /system/build.prop:
ro.config.play.bootsound=1
But do not forget, no volume working at boot time.
Oh, and you must have android_audio.mp3 in /data/local/

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peetr_ said:
Found on another forum, only scripting
This into /etc/init.local.rc:
###Bootsound - Safe to Delete: Start ###
service bootsound /system/bin/bootsound
user media
group audio
disabled
oneshot
# to correct timing
on property:init.svc.bootanim=running
start bootsound
on property:dev.bootcomplete=1
stop bootsound
### Bootsound - Safe to Delete: End ###
This into new created file /system/bin/bootsound (rwxr-xr-x, root:shell):
#!/system/bin/sh
bprop=/system/build.prop
play=$(cat $bprop | egrep -c -i -o bootsound)
if [ "$play" = "1" ]; then
stagefright -a -o /data/local/android_audio.mp3
fi
exit 0
And this into /system/build.prop:
ro.config.play.bootsound=1
But do not forget, no volume working at boot time.
Oh, and you must have android_audio.mp3 in /data/local/
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so....... need to make 2 new files one for init.local.rc one fire system/bin with those lines in it making sure to give the right permissions and add those lines in build prop and make sure the audio file is in data/local and that should make sound? what do you mean by don't forget no volume at boot time? thanks so much for finding this really wanting to get the sound going. I know its not a major thing but to me when you turn that phone on and it starts to make that noise feels strong gives you just that little extra yeah this phone rocks feeling
MIUI/ICS for the Photon
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1536161

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spleef said:
so....... need to make 2 new files one for init.local.rc one fire system/bin with those lines in it making sure to give the right permissions and add those lines in build prop and make sure the audio file is in data/local and that should make sound? what do you mean by don't forget no volume at boot time? thanks so much for finding this really wanting to get the sound going. I know its not a major thing but to me when you turn that phone on and it starts to make that noise feels strong gives you just that little extra yeah this phone rocks feeling
MIUI/ICS for the Photon
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I just tried it...made/edited all the files, but no dice. I've tried every variation of volumes from none to vibrate to full to half. Also using the "DROID" android_audio.mp3 sound since it's short...
any ideas peetr?

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I think something in the frameworkres apk needs to be modded too
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Th3Bill said:
I just tried it...made/edited all the files, but no dice. I've tried every variation of volumes from none to vibrate to full to half. Also using the "DROID" android_audio.mp3 sound since it's short...
any ideas peetr?
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aww man talk about bust a bubble thought we had a break through for a minute there.

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spleef said:
aww man talk about bust a bubble thought we had a break through for a minute there.
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That's why I want that Bionic zip so badly. Having one that has a working bootsound might make the fix obvious.

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What rom do you have?
init.local.rc is included in CyanogenMod
On stock, boot.img has to be modified.
Or maybe the bootsound service could be initialized by init.d script... But I didn't tried.
And no volume means, it's pretty loud, if you did not edited the mp3 sound to be more quiet.

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I found the bionic MIUI rom that has working bootsound here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1535293
I don't know if you've torn this one apart already though
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I don't understand, what you are searching for yet? I have working bootsound with that method I wrote.
Plus I commented that lines about stopping bootsound, to here the sound until the end. I am on cm7, but
should be working on all roms, with "import /etc/init.local.rc" in init.rc file. Jokers 1.3 kernel has it.

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peetr_ said:
I don't understand, what you are searching for yet? I have working bootsound with that method I wrote.
Plus I commented that lines about stopping bootsound, to here the sound until the end. I am on cm7, but
should be working on all roms, with "import /etc/init.local.rc" in init.rc file. Jokers 1.3 kernel has it.
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bootsound isn't contained in the ramdisk. Should it be there?

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I think yes. Bootsound service looks like the only way, how to start anything before boot completed. If you have kernel, that's not importing init.local.rc, then it won't work.

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Kernel imports init.rc, which has entry for boot animation, but not boot sound. I tried to edit, but boot.img didn't recompile correctly...
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And init.rc should import init.local.rc, for repacking boot.img use dxidas android kitchen. Not every rom has stagefright binary, take it from cm7.