Boot Animations location question. - Galaxy S III Q&A, (US Carriers)

Hey,
I have looked all over my S3, can anyone tell me where the boot animation us stored?
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BeADroid said:
Hey,
I have looked all over my S3, can anyone tell me where the boot animation us stored?
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Root explorer... System.. Media..
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Or you can put it in. /data/local and it will over ride what is in here^^^
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Thanks guys, but that doesn't work for SG3. I have tried both places. And I can't seem to find where the bootanimation is stored. I know it can be changed, since a lot of devs have added the international boot animation. So any help?
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BeADroid said:
Thanks guys, but that doesn't work for SG3. I have tried both places. And I can't seem to find where the bootanimation is stored. I know it can be changed, since a lot of devs have added the international boot animation. So any help?
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Dunno what to tell you, but it is root/system/media. It's the two bootsamsung qmg files. If you rename the extension to .bak like I did you will see you have no boot animations.

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Use root explorer and search for boot....zip
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Thanks, I was looking for the old bootanimation.zip. I found this thread at android police on changing. qmg boot files
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...-waiting-for-your-phone-to-turn-on-suck-less/
Haven't tried it all yet. But way different than my other 7 android devices.
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Karl said:
Use root explorer and search for boot....zip
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There is no bootanimation.zip on the vzw gs3. It is bootsamsung.qmg
The only way, I think, to get a custom animation is to flash it in recovery... or figure out how to convert videos to Samsung's proprietary qmg format.

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Boot animation files:
/system/media/bootsamsung.qmg
/system/media/bootsamsungloop.qmg
Boot sound files:
/system/media/audio/ui/PowerOff.ogg
/system/media/audio/ui/PowerOn.ogg

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QUESTIONS GO IN Q&A, NOT DEVELOPMENT!!.

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Moved

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mb27 said:
There is no bootanimation.zip on the vzw gs3. It is bootsamsung.qmg
The only way, I think, to get a custom animation is to flash it in recovery... or figure out how to convert videos to Samsung's proprietary qmg format.
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thanks for pointing that out

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You dont need to flash anything or change the qmg files. Put the bootanimation.zip into system/media then go to system/bin and find two files named samsungani and bootanimation(no extension on these). delete samsungani and rename bootanimation to samsungani. Must warn tho you have to alter the bootanimation.zip you are using. inside your bootanimation.zip will be a file called desc.txt and it will look something like this
720 1280 30
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
You must change the 0 in the second line to 1 or higher otherwise it will stay on the animation and the phone wont finish booting. it should look like this
720 1280 30
p 1 0 part0
p 1 0 part1
you only have to change that one 0 thats in bold

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billard412 said:
You dont need to flash anything or change the qmg files. Put the bootanimation.zip into system/media then go to system/bin and find two files named samsungani and bootanimation(no extension on these). delete samsungani and rename bootanimation to samsungani. Must warn tho you have to alter the bootanimation.zip you are using. inside your bootanimation.zip will be a file called desc.txt and it will look something like this
720 1280 30
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
You must change the 0 in the second line to 1 or higher otherwise it will stay on the animation and the phone wont finish booting. it should look like this
720 1280 30
p 1 0 part0
p 1 0 part1
you only have to change that one 0 thats in bold
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Awesome thanks, I'll give it a try today.
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BeADroid said:
Awesome thanks, I'll give it a try today.
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Any luck? I think I've read about what billard412 posted in another place but I could have sworn someone followed up saying it didn't work for them. Maybe they did it wrong? I'm not sure, but I really hate the factory boot animation so I'd love to know!

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billard412 said:
You dont need to flash anything or change the qmg files. Put the bootanimation.zip into system/media then go to system/bin and find two files named samsungani and bootanimation(no extension on these). delete samsungani and rename bootanimation to samsungani. Must warn tho you have to alter the bootanimation.zip you are using. inside your bootanimation.zip will be a file called desc.txt and it will look something like this
720 1280 30
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
You must change the 0 in the second line to 1 or higher otherwise it will stay on the animation and the phone wont finish booting. it should look like this
720 1280 30
p 1 0 part0
p 1 0 part1
you only have to change that one 0 thats in bold
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WorkedForMe.
And thanks for the tip about the final part# not being able to loop infinitely since the phone won't break out of the loop when it's done booting up and you'll be stuck. I just had to test to see if that was the case, and it is, but I made a simple clockworkmod script to delete("/system/bin/samsungani") to fix it for me, which I'm glad worked, since my current clockwordmod version doesn't support either ADB or the external SD. If it didn't work, I would've had to reflash from Odin.
---------- Post added at 01:30 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:07 AM ----------
I haven't created a boot animation in almost 2 years, but made one tonight just to mess around with the higher resolution, and it turned out alright.
And, IN DETAIL, on a rooted stock Touchwiz ROM, this is how you set it up for custom boot animations. You only have to do following setup once:
Code:
$ [B]adb shell[/B]
[email protected]:/ $ [B]su[/B]
[email protected]:/ # [B]mount -oremount,rw /system[/B]
[email protected]:/ # [B]cd /system/bin[/B]
[email protected]:/system/bin # [B]ll sam* boot*[/B]
-rwxr-xr-x root shell 14572 2012-05-21 13:41 samsungani
-rwxr-xr-x root shell 5540 2012-05-21 13:41 samsungpowersoundplay
-rwxr-xr-x root shell 23236 2012-05-21 13:41 bootanimation
[email protected]:/ # [B]cp -a samsungani samsungani.bak[/B]
[email protected]:/ # [B]cp bootanimation samsungani[/B]
If you want to go back to the old samsung bootanimation, just copy samsungani.bak back over samsungani.
Now all you have to do is put your bootanimation.zip in /data/local and you're done.
Code:
$ adb push ../jb2_720x1280_bootanimation.zip /data/local/bootanimation.zip
9010 KB/s (16290715 bytes in 1.765s)
$ adb reboot
And here's a screenshot of one frame in my lame-ish test bootanimation:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Doesn't look as good on the phone, though. There's some bad banding, as if it's converting the 16bit pngs to 8bit.
HTH.
EDIT: uploaded this jellybean bootanimation here. I'll be releasing a much better one (of glowing beans filling a jar) down the road when my phone actually gets JB (either official, or CM10).

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zmore said:
WorkedForMe.
And thanks for the tip about the final part# not being able to loop infinitely since the phone won't break out of the loop when it's done booting up and you'll be stuck. I just had to test to see if that was the case, and it is, but I made a simple clockworkmod script to delete("/system/bin/samsungani") to fix it for me, which I'm glad worked, since my current clockwordmod version doesn't support either ADB or the external SD. If it didn't work, I would've had to reflash from Odin.
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Wish I could understand why it doesn't stop looping without the change. Never had a phone do that.

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I just want to get rid of the ATT "rethink possible" portion of the animation. On my old phones it was always two different files, is it the same here or is the Samsung and ATT all one animation?

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drock212 said:
I just want to get rid of the ATT "rethink possible" portion of the animation. On my old phones it was always two different files, is it the same here or is the Samsung and ATT all one animation?
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If I had to guess I'd say one, but I'm on sprint who makes the whole bootanimation a fukn advertisement for their non-existent LTE. So I can't say for sure. I feel u on the "rethink possible" tho wat a dumbass slogan.

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billard412 said:
Wish I could understand why it doesn't stop looping without the change. Never had a phone do that.
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Yeah, haven't run into this before either. Just an annoying Samsung quirk.
FWIW, I uploaded my first jellybean bootanimation here. I'll be releasing a much better one (of glowing beans filling a jar) down the road when my phone actually gets JB (either official, or CM10)