Hello, Im new here to the community and I am (of course) loving my rooted, ROM'd Droid. I have been trying custom boot animations, which is quite easy to do. My problem is, I found a ''basic'' bootanimation (here in the Eris section), and decided that I should try to customize it (as it was only text on the boot animation). I edited each .png file, saved, rezipped, and flashed. Now all I get is a black screen before boot.
I tried to change the size (in the desc.txt) but that didnt work either. I was hoping someone could look at it and let me know where I have went wrong. Like I said, all I did was add/move words on the .pngs.
I am including the original boot animation: 'YearoftheDroid.zip' and then the one I edited: 'bootanimation.zip'. Any help would be greatly apprectated, as I want to get rid of the Motorola Logo also.
Thanks for all of your help and this community! (I hope Im asking in the right place)
Oh yeah, the original YearoftheDroid.zip boot animations works fine on my Droid before I edit it.
(Also, is there a program for me to test boot animations on my pc before I try it on the Droid? I did see one post with it, but it was sent via pm, so I could not find a download link.)
The file sizes are way off, is this why? Also, why would the file size change so dramtically if all I am doing is moving text and adding the 'DROID' logo? (I would think that my edited one would be bigger).
Thanks Again!
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I have been trying to get this boot animation to work. I video that is too small and every attempt to change it has failed. I'm probably in over my head! Anyway I'm hoping that someone could point me in the direction of it already resized for touchpad. Also have been toying with the sound but no luck for me. I'm happy I've made it this far. I wish I could put a link to the YouTube video but have no clue how to. Its on there search bad android boot animation
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I have been trying to get this boot animation to work. I video that is too small and every attempt to change it has failed. I'm probably in over my head! Anyway I'm hoping that someone could point me in the direction of it already resized for touchpad. Also have been toying with the sound but no luck for me. I'm happy I've made it this far. I wish I could put a link to the YouTube video but have no clue how to. Its on there search bad android boot animation
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Which boot animation? You don't specify.
You can try the fix for full screen boot animation that gav_chap posted in the development forum. I'm using it and it's working for me. Instructions are in the post. All you have to do is flash the zip. If you don't like it, he's posted a way to revert it.
Sorry should have been more clear. The name of the boot animation is "bad android ". Its for cm7 android 2.3.7 and its on a HP touchpad. 768 x 1024.
Hi, I have a good one that all of you could answer for me but first I would Like to say I Love the registration video. I would Love to shake your guys hands for that. Anyways I am going in details of this odd problem I am having.
First I have a HTC ONE, no GSM carrier because I live in a city that has many wifi hotspots and I am not going to why don't I have a GSM Carrier.
Second it is rooted, I am running clockwork mod 6.0, I have clockwork mod and rom manager and ROM toolbox pro. Busybox and SuperSU.
Now my problem is this, I can't get rid of the the damn AT&T Boot animation. I have tried to delete it in root explore, still would not disappear after I restart the device. I even tried to replace it with a different animation which I was intending of doing with a different animation but replacing the name with At&T boot animation. But still when I reset the device it would some how replace the whole damn zip file with the original one. I tried to install bootanimation.zip into system/media, the zip is there but it is not doing nothing. I tried to flash the zip in recovery and it failed. I tried Android commander, I delete it there, reset and still the same even using AC and renaming the file with another animation still the same. I am coming to understand that AT&T Zip is still locked onto my drive somewhere and I looked there isn't anything anywhere. I know the binaries will have nothing to do with this because that is a coded lines that ran tasks. So I don't even know why this is even happening, this is the first of seeing this. Also am thinking the partition of the drive may only be writable not re-writable but this can't be when I am able to delete the zip in the first place. But I can understand to a point because the other damn apps of att is still on my drive as well. So my question is this.
How do I get around this?
Is there a better tool for PC to write files onto the drive of the device?
Is there anything I have not done?
Is it that the drive not in re-writable format?
Is Att the Fing child from Hell?
Please let me know if you know anything, I am able to do everything else expect this.
Also if this is already been answered direct me to the forum because I looked and nothing helps other then installing the Animations.
Also if this is in the wrong forum direct it to the right one.
Thank You.
Flash a new kernel. Stock kernel doesn't have R/W enabled, therefore restores any modified files in /system to the original.
I may be in the minority but I like the original Kitkat boot animation that carried on to Lollipop 5.01. Also I would like to keep that original boot screen and animation in case something goes wrong and I need to return the phone on the extended warranty I have. Now when I load the custom rooms, I get another boot logo and animation, a new M and colored dots running about the screen instead of the world thing that normally animates. How can I extract the animation sequence and either flash it back with TWRP or manually change it in my phone. Thanks.
Tel864 said:
I may be in the minority but I like the original Kitkat boot animation that carried on to Lollipop 5.01. Also I would like to keep that original boot screen and animation in case something goes wrong and I need to return the phone on the extended warranty I have. Now when I load the custom rooms, I get another boot logo and animation, a new M and colored dots running about the screen instead of the world thing that normally animates. How can I extract the animation sequence and either flash it back with TWRP or manually change it in my phone. Thanks.
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Place bootanimation to system/media and set permissions to rw-r-r
Tonal4Nagual said:
Place bootanimation to system/media and set permissions to rw-r-r
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Thanks a million for that. I looked all over and couldn't find it.
Tonal4Nagual said:
Place bootanimation to system/media and set permissions to rw-r-r
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After putting it in there and deleting the old bootanimation, making sure it was set for rw-r-r, and booting umpteen times, I have no animation at all now. I can open it up and run the animations inside it, so I know it's good. I did a search, and it's the only bootanimation.zip on my device but it still won't show when I boot. When I start up, all I see is the new "M" with the "by Lenovo" under the "M" and no animations. I don't know where that new "M" is coming from but it's not in the system/media directory.
I thought you are on stock rom but you flashed different bootanimation and you want old one.
I think video bootanimation works only on stock or the stock based rom. On which ROM you are ?
I am not sure , but I think that CM based rom dont support video mp4 bootanimations.
I read somewhere that some changes in the system / bin /bootanimation can help but I did not try.
Anyway if it is for waranty purposes as you said you can allways flash stock rom and you will have stock bootanimation.
But unlocked bootloader is generally no waranty
Tonal4Nagual said:
I thought you are on stock rom but you flashed different bootanimation and you want old one.
I think video bootanimation works only on stock or the stock based rom. On which ROM you are ?
I am not sure , but I think that CM based rom dont support video mp4 bootanimations.
I read somewhere that some changes in the system / bin /bootanimation can help but I did not try.
Anyway if it is for waranty purposes as you said you can allways flash stock rom and you will have stock bootanimation.
But unlocked bootloader is generally no waranty
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Yeah, I think you're right. I'm using Shawn's Titan Prime and his animation is a series of "png" files that I would have known if I'd looked at it.. I'll go back to the Rom's original one now. Thanks for the help.
You can try with instructions on this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/xda-university/guide-set-video-bootanimationtesters-t2915445
But backup first your original bootanimation binaries from system/bin and bootanimation zip from system/media.
Many people who have tried say it works.
Tonal4Nagual said:
You can try with instructions on this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/xda-university/guide-set-video-bootanimationtesters-t2915445
But backup first your original bootanimation binaries from system/bin and bootanimation zip from system/media.
Many people who have tried say it works.
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It worked, Boot time is much faster now also. Thanks
Hi can some one please post the System/Media/ folder. I've been trying to resolve an issue i have with the boot animation and i was wondering if just replacing the whole folder would fix it.
What are you trying to do?
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What are you trying to do?
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Im trying to fix the issue i had here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note-4-tmobile/help/boot-animation-trouble-experience-t3036965
I tried changing roms to Firekat for about 3 days and during that time i got the old boot animation back. But when i switched back to my old recovery i lost it again.
It seems when I installed "CWM_CustomBootanimation_44_Enable.zip" as stated in the link, i lost the ability to boot up to a ".qmg" or a "bootanimation.zip"
Ive tried both.
Flashable zip?...
Hey man
I don't think you still have this problem...
But this zip that you are saying to us, is a flashable one...
You should try to flash it with a custom recovery
Sorry for my english if it's bad
Note 4 - System/Media
Yeah, so can someone please post that now? Put up a couple screenshots & or a detailed list. I used the S Boot Animations App to download & install new bootanimation for my Note 4. The one I liked was corrupted so I settled for another & it worked fine. Then I tried making the corrupted one work by downloading the GIF & renaming it a qmg, but it didn't work & now when it boots it only loads the Galaxy Note 4 still frame for the whole duration. I put the boot file I didn't like as much back up & it does the same thing. It's as if, even though I only replaced one file with an identical file, that I accidentally erased something else important & against caution I did not make a backup before doing any of this, because it sounded too hard to mess up, but here I did it... So it would be great to see what comes stock with every Note 4 in this file address: System/Media
I can only imagine how many people came to this link hoping it would be here so for me & all future idiots just like me 'if you got'em light'em up!'
Does anyone have the stock shutdown animation in a flashable zip? I want to get rid of the carrier shutdown animation on my Note5. It's driving me insane. I was able to flash the stock Marshmallow boot animation and that works so I imagine the shutdown animation from any Note5 variant works well on my SM-9208. Thanks!
Check this themes and apps thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note5/themes-apps/mod-enable-zip-bootanimation-aroma-boot-t3205323
He has multiple boot and shutdown animations all preloaded. Not sure if it has the stock one you're looking for but it has a bunch to choose from. Check it out.
HNIC215 said:
Check this themes and apps thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/note5/themes-apps/mod-enable-zip-bootanimation-aroma-boot-t3205323
He has multiple boot and shutdown animations all preloaded. Not sure if it has the stock one you're looking for but it has a bunch to choose from. Check it out.
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Thank you. I saw that after I started the post but wasn't certain whether the Sammy animation in his preview was the official one that comes with the non-carrier versions. Do you know if it is?
Update: I tried it. Doesn't work. Oh well. I guess I'll have to root around a bit more.
jpbl1976 said:
I tried it. Doesn't work. Oh well. I guess I'll have to root around a bit more.
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What didn't work? I had it up and running on my phone. I deleted the file after I chose my animations (Marshmallow boot, CRT Shutdown), so I can't go and check if they had the Samsung shutdown animation.
It should work though, so long as you're rooted.
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What didn't work? I had it up and running on my phone. I deleted the file after I chose my animations (Marshmallow boot, CRT Shutdown), so I can't go and check if they had the Samsung shutdown animation.
It should work though, so long as you're rooted.
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I'm rooted. I still have my carrier boot animation on shutdown. It might be a quirk of my carrier's ROM. I understand it doesn't work on some other carrier-branded ROMs too.
Sent from my SM-N9208 using Tapatalk
why would you need a flashable zip if you are rooted? Just delete shutdown.qmg or whatever that file is called, and replace it with the shutdown animation you want.
Maybe your carrier has a different name for the animation file, but the process should still be the same - just rename the shutdown animation file to match whatever the original one was called.
Kalm_Traveler said:
why would you need a flashable zip if you are rooted? Just delete shutdown.qmg or whatever that file is called, and replace it with the shutdown animation you want.
Maybe your carrier has a different name for the animation file, but the process should still be the same - just rename the shutdown animation file to match whatever the original one was called.
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I have 6 files -- bootsamsung.qmg, bootsamsungloop.qmg, bootsamsungmini.qmg, bootsamsungmini2.qmg, bootsamsungmini2loop.qmg and bootsamsungminiloop.qmg.
I also have crypt_bootsamsung.qmg and crypt_bootsamsungloop.qmg.
I'm not certain which of those is the one I should be renaming. That's why I wanted the zip. I wanted to take it apart to see which one it is so I don't accidentally do something to my device that I'll regret.
Also, I don't actually have the animation from the non-carrier SM-9208 so I don't have anything to replace the QMG file with.
EDIT: I found it!! It wasn't any of those. My carrier hid it in another folder. Just renamed it and now it's gone. Thank goodness. Their stuff was garbage.
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Also, I don't actually have the animation from the non-carrier SM-9208 so I don't have anything to replace the QMG file with.
EDIT: I found it!! It wasn't any of those. My carrier hid it in another folder. Just renamed it and now it's gone. Thank goodness. Their stuff was garbage.
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I am having a hard time changing start up and shut down. Would one of you be willing to walk me through it?
Update: successfully installed both. Sorry for the 20 questions. Where do i put the sound files for the boot and shut down animations? Thank you in advance, and thank you for your hard work developing this.