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Root [Virgin Mobile] Boot Animation

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jabstep12

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Anybody successfully change their boot animation from the stock "Virgin Mobile Party Scene" (with audio sound I might add) to any other one?

I tried it with Rom Toolbox Pro and it doesn't work.

I am rooted.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
 
Thanks for the info.

But I think I tried everything to no success. I think my phone is "cursed" with that stupid Virgin Mobile intro.
 
Oddly, I have the sound and not the party scene video clip. Wonder if its because I accidentally flashed a Sprint kernel then a VM one again
 
I successfully disabled the Virgin boot scene and that stupid jingle. I have not tried to replace with a different animation to be honest yet. You should just be able to rename the file to EXACTLY the same name as the file that is there for Virgin's splash screen and it should work.
 
Tejer,

Thanks for the info. Can you provide the file names you renamed? And if you did use another file to replace the original (your blank screen) was it a "dummy" 0kb file?

I appreciate the help!
 
I have replaced the sound with a custom sound just for testing it... It was fairly easy and took less than a minute. As for the animation, I haven't looked into it... If I can find out about the animation, I will post both in the next post and if I can't find out about the animation, then I will just post how to change or remove the sound.
 
19wilkerson99 said:
I have replaced the sound with a custom sound just for testing it... It was fairly easy and took less than a minute. As for the animation, I haven't looked into it... If I can find out about the animation, I will post both in the next post and if I can't find out about the animation, then I will just post how to change or remove the sound.
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How was the custom sound accomplished?
 
you need root and es file explorer with rw set for everything. your looking in system/media/ui or some such for booton or some such.ogg simply rename and take the .ogg away for the sound and the video is samsungor other. same process

system/media/

VMU-bootsamsung.ogg for video

system/media/audio/ui
poweron.ogg
poweroff.ogg

for sounds
 
lordmage said:
you need root and es file explorer with rw set for everything. your looking in system/media/ui or some such for booton or some such.ogg simply rename and take the .ogg away for the sound and the video is samsungor other. same process

system/media/

VMU-bootsamsung.ogg for video

system/media/audio/ui
poweron.ogg
poweroff.ogg

for sounds
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I'm actually in the process of making a video for this already :D
 
19wilkerson99 said:
I'm actually in the process of making a video for this already :D
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i am just looking to remove as many of the annoying sounds and ani i can. simply because i can i know the lock sounds can be turned off in the menu i wanted to kill em period.

kill shutter sound for camera thanks to a change in the xml file so i can toggle it.
killed alot in my book. got link2sd working
 
lordmage said:
i am just looking to remove as many of the annoying sounds and ani i can.

kill shutter sound for camera thanks to a change in the xml file so i can toggle it.
killed alot in my book. got link2sd working
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I got rid of a ton of sounds too! Just got to make the video for the shutter sound. I would be interested in the toggle for the shutter sound though... If you could send that to me somehow that'd be great!
 
19wilkerson99 said:
I got rid of a ton of sounds too! Just got to make the video for the shutter sound. I would be interested in the toggle for the shutter sound though... If you could send that to me somehow that'd be great!
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this is all you have to do How to Turn Off Your Shutter Sound In 2 Minutes - Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com first post snipped for easy of answering

1. browse to system/csc

2. open feature.xml in a text editor. (With root explorer hold down on the file and choose open in text editor.)

3. Under find the following line
false

Change the false to true. Save and exit. Reboot your phone and under camera settings just under GPS Tag you will have the option to turn it on or off.

To get this to work you must also change permissions.
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If anyone can guide me to some kool animations and sounds, i can try and include them in my experimental kernel i will publish soon. Am already working on the CRT-TV mod for my OC kernel
 
lordmage:

Thanks for the info; I have successfully removed the stupid "Virgin Mobile Party Scene" (video and audio) as well as the annoying sounds turning the phone on and off.

In addition to what you recommended, I went into:

system/media/audio/ui/VMU

to change "PowerOn.ogg" to just "PowerOn"
 
If anyone is just sick of the Party audio, just find the app Silent Boot and enable it after install. Doesn't even require root. I believe all it does it mute the audio upon shutdown or restarts and turns the audio setting back to whatever it was after it boots back up.

However, if the phone shuts down inappropriately for whatever reason (ex. memory lock, battery pull, etc) then Silent Boot will not be successful since it didn't have any time to mute the audio.
 
For anyone interested, you can go to the Samsung developer's site and download their theme building software for feature phones and use it to make qmg files. It has worked on the S2, so it probably can be made to work on the Victory. I tried one unsuccessfully, but I didn't pay attention to image dimensions, so that may have borked it. It may have to perfectly mirror the size and time of the original in order to work with the bootanimation binary. I haven't tried another one yet, been busy deodexing the stock firmware, once I do I'll post the results.

If we can't get it to work on the Victory, we can always write our own bootanimation binary and repack it and the necessary changes to init in the boot image. This would allow me to port my bootanimation chooser from Gingerbread to the Victory's JellyBean, so I would prefer going this route (also allows for PNGs and JPEGs instead of having to convert to RLEs and/or QMGs).
 
I finally figured out how to make custom bootanimations that work on the Victory! ;) Here's the original thread with download links, video, and step by step picture instructions, huge thanks to xessus and djanbech!

QMG file creation thread



Here is the android particle animation in blue (my fav). There are three files, two for boot and one for shutdown animations:
  1. bootsamsung.qmg
  2. bootsamsungloog.qmg
  3. shutdown.qmg
Download and put on your sdcard, then copy to the following:
  • Place 1. bootsamsung.qmg and 2. bootsamsungloop.qmg in /system/media
  • Place 3. shutdown.qmg in /system/media/video/shutdown
  • Rename /system/media/VMU_bootsamsung.qmg to VMU_bootsamsung.bak
  • Set permissions on all three to rw-r--r--
Note - If you follow the tutorial/video to make your own custom bootanimations, I've only been able to get 480x800 images to work, please let me know if you have success with other formats.

Note 2 - Obviously you must be rooted to change files in the /system folders. ;)
 
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