So I used Da_G's pre rooted kernel to root my phone with Odin, installed CWM and moved on to the Holonote branch of Da_G's O'Clock kernel which removes Ghost Touch.
i have my custom animation file in system/media/ name sanim.zip I put it there by using File Expert with root permissions and mounting system/media with RW permissions.
when I boot I only get the default Android name showing on my screen, no animation.
It's behaving as if the kernel doesn't support custom boot animations, do I have to enable somehing to make this work??
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I tried this on a Samsung Kies update on my Vibrant and it works for me. First you have to be rooted and have CWM... You will need to flash Overstock on your fresh stock rooted Vibrant, this is the only Kernel that works for me.. mileage may vary..
Use root explorer to backup the files bootsamsung.qmg and bootsamsungloop.qmg to someplace safe... these are found in /system/media/ then delete them. copy over your downloaded bootanimation.zip file to /system/media/ directory and reboot and poof your custom animation will play..
if this has been posted before I'm sorry... I am in no way responsable if you Jack up your phone!!! just be able to Odin and backup your current Rom..
thanks go out to CMENARD for an awesome kernel that supports boot animation!!!
basically any kernel that supports bootanimation.zip will work but havn't tested any others... i'm using the portal boot animation right now and it's awesome...
if you like.... hit the thanks button!!!!
let me stress this is a bone stock factory kies update with overstock flashed!!!
Trying to remove a boot animation i installed, However Androzip says access denied whenever i try to rename/move/delete put a new boot animation in the system folder.
Any ideas?
Villain Rom
Nipo kernel
CF root.
I had the GLaDOS kernel installed, but I changed to Eugene's, but the Aperture boot animation is still here... How do I reset it back to the normal stock ICS animation?
Or do I really have to flash my custom ROM again?
You can pull the bootanimation.zip from your ROM (I'm not sure where it's located for you, sorry). Once you have it on your SD card, copy it and then override the one currently there using Root Explorer. Just to be safe you can rename the current one to bootanimation.bak or whatever you'd like. Be sure to set permissions on the file to match the old one (mine are rwxrwxr-x, meaning everything is checked except write for "others", but yours could be different). With Root Explorer you can do so by long-pressing the file and selecting "permissions" from the menu. It should be similar for any other root file explorer.
You can reflash your ROM, but you'll lose any other mods you've made and will need to reflash your kernel if it's a custom one. To reflash without losing data, just wipe cache and dalvik then flash.
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Whe I change the boot animation in the rom's .zip do I then reflash the rom?
And if so do I do a wipe or just reflash without any wipe.
Thanks
you can just make a zip with the bootanimation and then flash that only.. no need to reflash the rom
Any time I have tried to just flash the zip with the boot animation it didn't take and the animation for the rom I am running (CleanRom) is still present.
Burkejt1 said:
Any time I have tried to just flash the zip with the boot animation it didn't take and the animation for the rom I am running (CleanRom) is still present.
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Did you make sure that the bootanimation.zip in located in the in the same directory in the flashable zip as it is in the rom. For example, alot of roms the boot animation is located in system/media, therefore it would need to be in the same directory in the flashable zip. you can also just use a file manager like root explorer or es file explorer and just swap out the animations.
It seems like swapping them out is a tad easier
hardfallen87 said:
Did you make sure that the bootanimation.zip in located in the in the same directory in the flashable zip as it is in the rom. For example, alot of roms the boot animation is located in system/media, therefore it would need to be in the same directory in the flashable zip. you can also just use a file manager like root explorer or es file explorer and just swap out the animations.
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Burkejt1 said:
It seems like swapping them out is a tad easier
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if you need any more help shoot me a pm. i have no problem helping out, i was in the same boat at one point.
I'm running the stock ROM, rooted, and just with a few mods (back button menu, 1% battery, remove ATT bloatware).
Whenever I make a change to the host file at /system/etc/hosts, after I reboot to apply, it's been reset to the 60-byte default host file, wiping my changes out. Yes, I am mounting /system R/W before making my changes. It doesn't matter if I remount /system back to R/O before rebooting, the file still reverts. Even if I set the permissions on the file to read-only after making my change, it still reverts.
Is there anything I can set to make my modified host file stick? Or is /system always reloaded?
I do see that the Cognition ROM has writable /system as one of its features, suggesting that the stock ROM does something like this with /system.
There's a kernel mod you can flash over on the international side that disables the stock kernel protection, or you can flash one of the custom kernels that have no such protection.
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There's a kernel mod you can flash over on the international side that disables the stock kernel protection, or you can flash one of the custom kernels that have no such protection.
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Thanks.
Flashed Cognition ROM and my host file stayed modified after a reboot. May have been more heavy-handed a change than required, but it worked.
:laugh:use root explorer to make the host's file will be read only and try again