cant put this bootanimation on phone?

[Guest heavyduty00]

hey

i want to put this bootanimation on my phone :

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1003618

he said you cant use cwm to flash so i decided to use a file explorer

Do i use a file explorer on my phone such as file manager? I am on cm7 stable and i tried using the file manager to delete the bootanimation.zip in system/media but it doesnt delete??

Am i supposed to change the cm7 rom itself on my pc by editing it and then reflashing the rom over my current one?

or is adb an easier option? I know nothing about adb :/

[Guest Swimmerboy]

hey

i want to put this bootanimation on my phone :

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1003618

he said you cant use cwm to flash so i decided to use a file explorer

Do i use a file explorer on my phone such as file manager? I am on cm7 stable and i tried using the file manager to delete the bootanimation.zip in system/media but it doesnt delete??

Am i supposed to change the cm7 rom itself on my pc by editing it and then reflashing the rom over my current one?

or is adb an easier option? I know nothing about adb :/

ADB is the easier option if you're happy with command line work. If not you'll need a file explorer that can 'see' the system partition. I believe 'Root Explorer' is one of these (but I could be making it up!)

[Guest Phoenix Silver]

hey

i want to put this bootanimation on my phone :

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1003618

he said you cant use cwm to flash so i decided to use a file explorer

Do i use a file explorer on my phone such as file manager? I am on cm7 stable and i tried using the file manager to delete the bootanimation.zip in system/media but it doesnt delete??

Am i supposed to change the cm7 rom itself on my pc by editing it and then reflashing the rom over my current one?

or is adb an easier option? I know nothing about adb :/

Code is :

Adb remount

Adb push bootanimation.zip /System/média

Adb shell reboot

[Guest heavyduty00]

do i need to install adb onto my phone? how?

is the command line just using the command prompt in windows? like when you install cwm on your phone with fastboot?

if it is, then im fine with that

edit: should i use this guide?

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...rivers-and-adb/

Edited April 13, 2011 by heavyduty00

[Guest Swimmerboy]

do i need to install adb onto my phone? how?

No, just ensure USB debugging is turned on via settings -> applications -> development

is the command line just using the command prompt in windows? like when you install cwm on your phone with fastboot?

Yes

if it is, then im fine with that

Good good

edit: should i use this guide?

http://android.modaco.com/content/zte-blad...rivers-and-adb/

That'll get the drivers set up, for ADB you might want to look somewhere like here: http://androidsamurai.com/forum/viewtopic....70e98dfbafce4a0

Or alternatively just download and extract the android SDK, unzip it, and then manually CD into the tools directory (this is where the adb application is located)

[Guest heavyduty00]

Or alternatively just download and extract the android SDK, unzip it, and then manually CD into the tools directory (this is where the adb application is located)

what does extract android SDK and manually CD into the tools directory mean??!

[Guest Swimmerboy]

what does extract android SDK and manually CD into the tools directory mean??!

The sdk is in a zip format, extract it (eg c:\android-sdk-windows).

When you open up the command prompt windows doesn't know where adb is. So you'll have to do:

cd c:\android-sdk-windows\tools

before trying to use the adb command.

[Guest heavyduty00]

where do i get this android sdk? do i extract on my pc?

edit: do i use this android sdk?

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Edited April 13, 2011 by heavyduty00

[Guest Swimmerboy]

where do i get this android sdk? do i extract on my pc?

edit: do i use this android sdk?

http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

Google is your friend. :)

I'd recommend reading up on what you're doing when it comes to this sort of stuff. If you understand what you're doing and why you're doing it you won't have to ask questions on forums every time you want to do something. It also means that if something should go wrong you're in a much better position to know why it happened and either solve it yourself or give technical details to the community when asking for assitance.

It's really not that hard to get this installed and working - just give it a bash!

[Guest heavyduty00]

ok i followed this guie:

http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/what-i...all-it-android/

and i've done everything but up to the last part, 'how to use adb' when i go into command prompt and type in 'adb devices' it just comes up with 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file'

what does this mean? my device shows up in device manager under adb interface but it doesnt work in command prompt?

[Guest Swimmerboy]

ok i followed this guie:

http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/what-i...all-it-android/

and i've done everything but up to the last part, 'how to use adb' when i go into command prompt and type in 'adb devices' it just comes up with 'adb' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file'

what does this mean? my device shows up in device manager under adb interface but it doesnt work in command prompt?

Looks like this bit hasn't been done, or hasn't worked correctly:

Step 3: Setting the Path variable

Now you have ADB installed but using it this way will require you to either use the complete path of the ADB command (C:\android-sdk-windows\platform-tools\adb) or to first change directory to the platform-tools subfolder of the SDK folder each time, and this can become quite a hassle. To make ADB along with other Android SDK tools and platform tools easily accessible from anywhere at the command line, we shall add their paths to the PATH environment variable.

[Guest heavyduty00]

thanks, my device shows up on cmd now :)

( I had put the sdk folder in a different directory, so i just transferred it back to c drive)

but now i cant push the bootanimation.zip?

The adb remount worked, but when i type in adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media it just comes up with 'cannon stat 'boot animation.zip' : no such file or directory

i checked on fle manager on my phone and i have a bootanimation.zip on the root of my sd card..

do i need to delete the bootanimation.zip on my system/media first? if so, how?

I have usb debugging mode and my phone is connected to pc on usb storage as well.

[Guest heavyduty00]

lol nvm, i used root explorer and did it all in less than 60 seconds :)

[Guest Swimmerboy]

thanks, my device shows up on cmd now :)

( I had put the sdk folder in a different directory, so i just transferred it back to c drive)

but now i cant push the bootanimation.zip?

The adb remount worked, but when i type in adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media it just comes up with 'cannon stat 'boot animation.zip' : no such file or directory

i checked on fle manager on my phone and i have a bootanimation.zip on the root of my sd card..

do i need to delete the bootanimation.zip on my system/media first? if so, how?

I have usb debugging mode and my phone is connected to pc on usb storage as well.

"Adb Push" is for 'Pushing' files from PC-->Phone. Unless you have a file called bootanimation.zip in the directory you're in it won't find the file you're asking it to push.

Provided the 'Adb remount' command went through successfully your two options are:

A) Copy the file to the directory you're woking from and re-issue the command above

B ) Log onto the phone through ADB and do a local copy by using the following commands:

1. "adb shell" (You're now working from the command line of the phone, not your PC!)
   
2. "ls" (will list the contents of the current directory - not needed, but just to prove to yourself you're 'on' the phone)
   
3. "cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip"
   

Edited April 13, 2011 by Swimmerboy

[Guest Swimmerboy]

lol nvm, i used root explorer and did it all in less than 60 seconds :)

ADB has its uses though - for instance when upgrading between ROM's you can use titanium backup to backup and then restore your apps (but you have to tap 'install' on each one manually).

I've got a script that can 'Pull' all installed apps from the phone, and then another to install them all after and upgrade. Sadly it's not smart enough to keep the user data, but the installation is all automated and takes hardly any time at all. :)

[Guest muller37]

Have you tried android commander? google it for a free download and you get easy access to root. you just drag and drop into data --> local. takes minutes!