Hi all!
I have encountered a really pesky problem that I'd like some assistance with please.
I recently rooted my HTC M8 (Carrier - 3) and am trying to remove the carrier boot animation. I already like the HTC/Android bot animation I already have, it's just that the carrier boot animation gets in the way. I don't need to change or replace the boot animation in any way whatsoever - I just want to REMOVE the carrier boot animations.
Upon navigating my way through System>Customize>Resource I find the following folders:
- hTC_bootup_one.zip
- hTC_downanimation.zip
- H3GAT_bootanimation.zip
- H3GAT_downanimation.zip
- H3GIT_bootanimation.zip
- H3GIT_downanimation.zip
- H3GUK_bootanimation.zip
- H3GUK_downanimation.zip
Now, assuming I am correct that the files beginning with "H3G" are the carrier boot animations, I have proceeded to go ahead and delete all of them, except the files starting with "hTC". Upon rebooting my phone, the carrier boot animation is still present, and when navigating back to the Resource folder, the "H3G" have magically reappeared. Now I'm a little annoyed.
So I turn back and head into the CID folder and play around with the XML files. When entering the CID folder, as well as the default.xml file, I find the following:
- H3G_001.xml
- H3G_106.xml
- H3G_402.xml
- H3G_G04.xml
I try deleting the H3G xml files as well as the H3G ZIP files and reboot. Still no luck as the files reappear again.
This time, I try to go into the H3G xml files and replace the coding for the H3G boot animation with the hTC boot animations. After another reboot, still no change.
I am getting really frustrated now as these H3G files and folders are getting to become a really pesky annoyance.
Please, please tell me what I'm doing wrong and what I can do to remove these carrier files so that I have clean boot animation.
This may be a simple fix, but I really do not know what do and it is really frustrating me now. Please help.
Thanks.
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What is the correct way to remove the custom sprint boot/shutdown animations? I did it by removing the following files:
/system/customize/resource/Sprint_bootanimation.zip
/system/customize/resource/Sprint_downanimation.zip
This results in the default "ANDROID" boot animation and no shutdown screen (like I wanted) Is this the correct way of going about it?
supaboom said:
What is the correct way to remove the custom sprint boot/shutdown animations? I did it by removing the following files:
/system/customize/resource/Sprint_bootanimation.zip
/system/customize/resource/Sprint_downanimation.zip
This results in the default "ANDROID" boot animation and no shutdown screen (like I wanted) Is this the correct way of going about it?
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Do you want HTC boot animations or vanilla virgin boot animations?
I just wanted to completely remove the sprint boot animations, as I hate them. I was just wondering if simply removing the files was the correct way to go about it, or If I needed to modify anything else.
Right now I have a HTC boot animation, that is stock, and I'm fine with that.
Hi, I've followed the instructions from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321360
Not only do I not get my boot and down animations to not work, now they are showing different text from the original Mean ROM animations that I backed up, now the say "Androi"d on booting and "Powering Down", I haven't seen this is any of my searching...
I've checked the default.xml file and they point to the regular System/Customize/Resource folders.
Zips work in the boot animation factory.
My png files are 360x640 and the desc files are listed as 720x1080 (all portrait files) including blank space at the end
Files are named: SPC_bootanimation.zip and SPC_downanimation.zip
Can anyone advise? Thanks in advance.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zz44x927cpobbzv/SPC_bootanimation.zip
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u6ujepb9vvxwhyy/SPC_downanimation.zip
Edit: just checked my file permission: rw-,r--,r-- still no change.
Hmm maybe this should be in the Q&A forum, mod please move if appropriate. thanks!
I'll take a look at it in about an hour
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DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that zip is 258mb
for a bootani wtf whats in there???
lol thanks for checking...I got about 40 seconds of 360x640 frames at 30fps. When I extracted frames from a GIF for the down animation, the files were small. but when I extracted frames from a downloaded youtube clip, they all became bitmap images and exploded in size.
try this
Thanks Dased14 so I downloaded the bootanimation.zip file
I was curious about the format and so I booted into HBoot->TWRP recovery and installed that, it said successful however there was no change to the boot/down animation.
Then I recalled some people putting the bootanimation.zip file in their System\Media\ folder (likely for other devices) but I did it anyways and confirmed permissions were correct: rw-,r--,r--
The interesting change this time is there was no "Android" text on boot and "Powering Down" on down...just black screen
What do you think I can try next...
Or did I fail loading the bootanimation.zip file to the device. here's some supporting info I guess.
http://imageshack.us/scaled/medium/708/20130219104954.png
http://imageshack.us/scaled/medium/542/20130219104616.png
You flashed that zip in recovery? Right
That zip i posted was flashable. (ie reboot in to recovery, click install, locate the bootanimation.zip click it click install wipe cache and reboot system
Sent From My Sweet Ass EVO LTE
I installed in recovery but there was no change to boot animation. I'll try again...
BaconMunch said:
Hi, I've followed the instructions from: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1321360
Not only do I not get my boot and down animations to not work, now they are showing different text from the original Mean ROM animations that I backed up, now the say "Androi"d on booting and "Powering Down", I haven't seen this is any of my searching...
I've checked the default.xml file and they point to the regular System/Customize/Resource folders.
Zips work in the boot animation factory.
My png files are 360x640 and the desc files are listed as 720x1080 (all portrait files) including blank space at the end
Files are named: SPC_bootanimation.zip and SPC_downanimation.zip
Can anyone advise? Thanks in advance.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zz44x927cpobbzv/SPC_bootanimation.zip
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u6ujepb9vvxwhyy/SPC_downanimation.zip
Edit: just checked my file permission: rw-,r--,r-- still no change.
Hmm maybe this should be in the Q&A forum, mod please move if appropriate. thanks!
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and not to burst you bubble but that boot anim is massive and i mean massive... I just made on recently and slimmed it down to 125mb which is huge and 258mb is extremely large your sucking up your system partition space and memory.
Just made this one like 5 days ago best bet is to remove every other image... I batched it out in ps to change the names to single digitis with an action and then use batch to remove the odd numbers... Thats what I did but your best bet is probably to just remove them by hand every odd image remove it out... Originally this boot animation was 540mb and i got it down to 120 and I did that through winoptpng and removing images... Remember dont opt regular black images b/c they'll index... Enjoy that tid bit of information..
I slimmed it down to 21mb for him
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yup total file from dased14 was 40MB for both files vs my 258MB + 3MB...still scratching my head here.
Good tip though.
I re-installed in custom recovery and cleared cache. Default Android text is on boot animation. Shut down is black screen only.
Might be a meanrom thing you can try unzipping the rom chamging out the two zips and dirty flash the rom
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1678540
This tool helped me get my last boot animation to work. Maybe it will do the trick for you.
Woohoo! dirty copy into System/Customize/Resource worked! I also have a feeling I may have borked a setting or the fact that I created a .old file might have messed things up.
Updated to the new MeanBean ROM and then proceeded with copying the files over and both files worked great! Thanks for slimming down the files!
This has only been thested on stock rom HTC ONE M8 for AT&T, don't try it if you are on another network.
First thanks & credit to user Wonders_Never_Cease who helped me figure this out.
Your device must be with bootloader unlocked, rooted and s-off'ed. How to unlock bootloader: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2702325. How to s-off: http://firewater-soff.com/instructions/. (Adb & fasboot knowledge required.)
I'm not resposible for any damage done to your device, you do this at your own risk. But it's safe as long as you follow instructions.
Steps:
1. Download this file: https://mega.co.nz/#!HZgDUCoK!OnMUJ-B5XPiBUuTbL1sHSBK6bI2PfAUBHOnpK82pleQ
2. Place on SD card or anywhere you want but remember where you copied it to.
3. Use any file explorer, I recommend Root Explorer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speedsoftware.rootexplorer&hl=en), go to /system/customize/CID/ and rename default.xml to default.xml.bak (just in case anything goes wrong, so you can restore the original). Then copy the default.xml you downloaded in the first step to this folder, verify the permissions on default.xml.bak, and change the permissions to the new default.xml to match the backup file.
4. Reboot, now you should have the Google Boot Animation & the HTC Bootup Sound!
In case you want to come back, delete the default.xml and rename the default.xml.bak to default.xml, that easy. Once again thanks to Wonders_Never_Cease, without his direction I wouldn't have found this, so all credit to him, I just made it more accessible.
Posts your results or if you have any issues.
Do you know if the boot animation changer in ROM Toolbox will work with the AT&T M8? I've been sketchy on trying it.
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Do you know if the boot animation changer in ROM Toolbox will work with the AT&T M8? I've been sketchy on trying it.
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Sorry haven't tried it.
capeman316
thx
Desire_X_All-In-One_Kit_v1.1 - mega soft for HTC!:good:
Default.xml?
Do you know what the change is to the default.xml file? I have already modified mine, and would rather not replace it.
Caution:::: I have today (1-18-2015) heard on the rumor mill that Motorola have used a new binary in the 5.0.2 update, this binary affects the boot animation. In effect it may only allow animations made in an mp4 format to work and causes a system crash if using the old, tried and tested format of frames of jpg's or png's. This of course fits in with Motorola's own animations which are mp4's. I can't vouch for the fact that it may be possible to overcome this by changing permissions but it seems that the new binary will have to be installed. In view of the fact that all my animations up to now are jpg's and png's I would strongly advise you don't install them on a 5.0.2 upgrade. I hope I'm being over cautious but I wouldn't want anyone to have to go through the number of re-sets that I have had to do over the past few days.
I've made a couple of animations for the 2014 moto g so over the next couple of days I'll post them to this thread in case anyone is interested. The usual disclaimer applies i.e. I am not responsible if installing these files causes your house to blow up, your cat to run away or your wife,partner or friend leave you for the next door neighbor.
This first one is CIA themed so I have made a similar bootlogo file in case anyone wants to go the whole way! The two files are easily identifiable by the names.
The "Logo" file is a flashable zip using any custom recovery (TWRP - CWM - Philz).
The animation zip has to be placed manually using any file manager you like.
First - go to ..... /system/media ..... and rename the bootanimation which is there to avoid it being overwritten. You can add the word "old" or "bak" or anything you like.
Second - copy the CIA-Anim.zip file to the folder ...../system/media ..... and then rename it bootanimation.zip
These files will work with KK and Lollipop O/S's and with all versions of moto g 2014 edition.
The PNG file shows you the Logo ..... The GIF file gives you an idea of the animation.
OK here is another one. Same as before all disclaimers apply i.e. house - cat - neighbor.
Logo file is "recovery flashable zip"
Anim file is put into ...../system/media ..... folder
JPG shows how Logo looks ..... GIF gives you an idea of the animation.
OK here is another one. Same as before all disclaimers apply i.e. house - cat - neighbor.
Logo file is "recovery flashable zip"
Anim file is put into ...../system/media ..... folder
JPG shows how Logo looks ..... GIF gives you an idea of the animation
Here's one for the Marvel Fans.
Usual disclaimer and guidance applies
Logo is flashable in recovery ..... Anim rename and place in /system/media
JPG shows Logo ..... GIF gives idea of Anim
OK as before same disclaimer and guidance apply
Logo file is flashable in recovery ..... Anim file placed in /system/media
At the moment I am holding off from posting any further anims. Before posting I always try out new anims on my own XT1064 to make certain they work and there is no possibility of bootlooping for other users. Since updating to 5.0.2 I have found problems installing new anims i.e. continuous bootlooping causing me several instances of having to factory reset and re-install the update. Until I can determine whether this is a fault on my phone or is caused by the 5.0.2 update I won't post any more. As a possible related issue, I have found that I can no longer make alterations to the "build.prop" file without causing a bootloop and crash.
I made a simple boot animation for my LS991 and it previews flawlessly in Boot Animation Factory, but I can't seem to get it to work on my phone. I found the carrier/cust boot animation and tried to replace that, but my file explorer is failing to copy the zip over to it. So I tried in system/media and replaced both the default boot animation and the bootanimation_sprint files. Now the screen just starts up with the typical LG - Powered by Android, then goes black for a bit, and then the OS loads up.
I'm not sure if I'm putting my custom animation in the wrong spot or what. The permissions are set to rw-r-r as per this thread, but still nothing.
I'm attaching the boot animation to this post if anyone wants to take a look at it and make sure I've got everything done right. When I zipped it with 7zip, I made sure to set compression method to "store". Thanks for looking at this.