Guest 325i Posted October 27, 2010 Report Posted October 27, 2010 On the r9 rom I can't seem to change the boot animation. I have got the BIOS animation from xda and have pasted it into data/local. But it does not change, it stays on the black screen with white android animation.
Guest Asselberghs Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 Isen´t bootanimation.zip on the SD card symlinked to an internal position on the phone in Pauls MCR roms? I´m not entirely sure it´s been a while since I put Starwars boot animation on my phone.
Guest Asselberghs Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 (edited) From the Nexus One boot animation thread: this is not an update.zip but you can open shell in recovery: open a second terminal: adb shell mount /data adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local (bootanimation in the same folder as adb.exe) replace adb with adb-windows when using the r4 tools folder as base credit goes to aslocum, that there should do it, if the symlink to bootanimaiton.zip on the SD Card fails you. Just to be clear about it, install Android SDK, this will give you adb. go to the sdk folder, find the adb program. Place your bootanimation.zip file here (your costum boot animation has to have this name) Then go into cmd and find the folder where you are now and where your bootanimation zip resides. Then it should be sufficient to do adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local But maybe just try it as it is there. Hope this will work for you. Edited October 28, 2010 by Asselberghs
Guest BashyUK Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 From the Nexus One boot animation thread: credit goes to aslocum, that there should do it, if the symlink to bootanimaiton.zip on the SD Card fails you. Just to be clear about it, install Android SDK, this will give you adb. go to the sdk folder, find the adb program. Place your bootanimation.zip file here (your costum boot animation has to have this name) Then go into cmd and find the folder where you are now and where your bootanimation zip resides. Then it should be sufficient to do adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local But maybe just try it as it is there. Hope this will work for you. Or you can just use 1 Android Flasher from XDA?
Guest Asselberghs Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 BashyUK: Looks like a cool little tool:D Think I´ll use that next time I have to flash a boot screen the hard way. Don´t know why the SW boot screen failed the symlink back then. I hope 325i can use that one, it sure seems easier than ADB´s cli commands.
Guest LowRun Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 From the Nexus One boot animation thread: credit goes to aslocum, that there should do it, if the symlink to bootanimaiton.zip on the SD Card fails you. Just to be clear about it, install Android SDK, this will give you adb. go to the sdk folder, find the adb program. Place your bootanimation.zip file here (your costum boot animation has to have this name) Then go into cmd and find the folder where you are now and where your bootanimation zip resides. Then it should be sufficient to do adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local But maybe just try it as it is there. Hope this will work for you. Or you can just use 1 Android Flasher from XDA? None of this will work, at least it didn't for me. This worked tho': cd /system/media ln-s /data/local/bootanimation.zip that's it. Hope it helps.
Guest Asselberghs Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 None of this will work, at least it didn't for me. This worked tho': cd /system/media ln-s /data/local/bootanimation.zip that's it. Hope it helps. Ofc it diden´t m8 your on Linux, the things we have mentioned is for Windows users. I use both, Windows at home and Linux at work. I just presumed the dude was using Windows since he diden´t mention anything about a Linux box. The most common thing is for people to use Windows and then some times we find people on a Linux box like myself.
Guest LowRun Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 Ofc it diden´t m8 your on Linux, the things we have mentioned is for Windows users. I use both, Windows at home and Linux at work. I just presumed the dude was using Windows since he diden´t mention anything about a Linux box. The most common thing is for people to use Windows and then some times we find people on a Linux box like myself. I'm using windows 7 64 buddy. What i mean is, simply pushing a file in /data/local won't work. I did everything directly on the phone without resorting to windows, linux or whatever.
Guest Asselberghs Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 I'm using windows 7 64 buddy. What i mean is, simply pushing a file in /data/local won't work. I did everything directly on the phone without resorting to windows, linux or whatever. Ahh you did that through ADB on the phone then? ln is definitely the link command in a Linux based system. Nothing to do with Windows. But let´s hope some of it will work for him, I´m all out of ideas otherwise at least for now. But on the other hand there´s lots of people here with a lot of knowledge when you put it all together:)
Guest LowRun Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 (edited) Ahh you did that through ADB on the phone then? ln is definitely the link command in a Linux based system. Nothing to do with Windows. But let´s hope some of it will work for him, I´m all out of ideas otherwise at least for now. But on the other hand there´s lots of people here with a lot of knowledge when you put it all together:) What i did exactly is use Terminal Emulator su cd /system/media ln -s /data/local/bootanimation.zip it complained about /system/media being read only, so i made it read/write using Root Explorer and did ln -s again, problem solved. And of course ln is a Linux command. Edited October 28, 2010 by LowRun
Guest 325i Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 What i did exactly is use Terminal Emulator su cd /system/media ln -s /data/local/bootanimation.zip it complained about /system/media being read only, so i made it read/write using Root Explorer and did ln -s again, problem solved. And of course ln is a Linux command. I need help doing this method as i have tried pushing it using ADB but no luck. In CMD, i get the following error when i type SU, C:\AndroidSDK\tools>su 'su' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
Guest LowRun Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 I need help doing this method as i have tried pushing it using ADB but no luck. In CMD, i get the following error when i type SU, C:\AndroidSDK\tools>su 'su' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Do it on the phone like i did. You will need to use Terminal Emulator and Root Explorer (look for them in the market). I never used the Android SDK to date, so i can't help you with that but maybe you don't need to use the "su" command and can make the symlink (ln -s) directly.
Guest woti17 Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 (edited) Do it on the phone like i did. You will need to use Terminal Emulator and Root Explorer (look for them in the market). I never used the Android SDK to date, so i can't help you with that but maybe you don't need to use the "su" command and can make the symlink (ln -s) directly. your method will not work without s-off (system write) and mounting /system readwrite or with roms that have system rw filesystem overlay (like aura xtsense rom ie) even if rootexplorer claims he can make /system rw - it doesn't - its locked the only way without s-off and with windows adb in recovery connect phone with usb in windows adb directory adb-windows shell mount /system (ignore error if its already monted) adb-windows shell mount /system -o remount,rw adb-windows shell mount /data adb-windows push bootanimation.zip /data/local/ adb-windows shell (you get a shell which you see when # appears, then put in) # cd /system/media # ln -s /data/local/bootanimation.zip # exit then reboot phone Edited October 28, 2010 by woti17
Guest LowRun Posted October 28, 2010 Report Posted October 28, 2010 your method will not work without s-off (system write) and mounting /system readwrite or with roms that have system rw filesystem overlay (like aura xtsense rom ie) even if rootexplorer claims he can make /system rw - it doesn't - its locked the only way without s-off and with windows adb in recovery connect phone with usb in windows adb directory adb-windows shell mount /system (ignore error if its already monted) adb-windows shell mount /system -o remount,rw adb-windows shell mount /data adb-windows push bootanimation.zip /data/local/ adb-windows shell (you get a shell which you see when # appears, then put in) # cd /system/media # ln -s /data/local/bootanimation.zip # exit then reboot phone Sorry, my bad, i totally forgot about the need for S-OFF.
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