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Root Boot animations by Loota

Ok, any one have a clue about a fix for changing the boot animation in android 2.3.6? I'll wait a few more days then if nothing I'll start a seperate thread asking for help with this.
 
Yes thanks again Loota. Can't wait to show it to my peeps stuck with a contract and an Iphone. What I can do with wifi direct/ root explorer already gave them serious phone envy, this is the perfect salt for that wound.

and thanks in advance for the Lcars.:D.
 
Thanks guys I appreciate all the accolades but even the dancing android was taken from somewhere else ;-).
 
yes but finding them here from a regular contributer is a far better way of getting cool stuff like this.

You took the time to share something new (to me anyway) and it is something freakin cool.

That earned a big thanks from me.

P2P4ALL
 
@Loota, first of all let me say mad props to ya man. Even if you just took another's work and tweaked it for our lowly TU's, it's still a cool thing. I followed the intructions for re-enabling custom bootani's, and got rid of the stock ani and .snd and I dl'ed the lcar zip and snd. Now the bootani.zip is where it should be but it's not playing and the phone won't let me rename or move or delete the old poweron.snd in order to replace it with the new one. What am I doing wrong. I think I followed all your steps properly......btw I'm using Jrummy's root browser. Thanks for any help you or anyone else is able to provide on this. I'm trying to use the lcar ani and the wife wants the apple slice.

Edit:
Root Browser won't let me move bootanimation.zip to data/local
 
You need to make the drive r/w (read / write). a lot of these "file managers " don't give you that option. Let you look but not touch.
Not familiar with that app but check in the settings and see if you can change the default directory from /sdcard to / and look for something that says it gives you the option to make files r/w.

I would recommend using Root Explorer or ES file manager. RE is a paid app but is already set to go. Its worth the couple of $$. ES is free but you have to set it up like I described.
 
I'm not sure if this helps any but if you don't have any luck with those apps I use Total Commander for all my root exploring needs. I know you can set permissions and all that. It's free *shrug*
 
I have only paid for 2 apps so far. Root Explorer and Space Physics. Been a long long time since I paid for an app for a pc so it was a bit of a new experience :D. It is worth the couple of dollars.

But what ever he is using Im pretty sure what I stated before is the problem.
 
I have not tried putting a boot ani into /data/local since renabling boot anis on my phone per katracho's work around. it may not work at all. try it in /system/media like he suggests.. also poweron.snd may or may not be working now too.. I have not tried.
 
Loota said:
I have not tried putting a boot ani into /data/local since renabling boot anis on my phone per katracho's work around. it may not work at all. try it in /system/media like he suggests.. also poweron.snd may or may not be working now too.. I have not tried.
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I have done the katracho's work around and used your (loota) method for the powering.snd and be rest assured they both work.
 
I will be updating these to boot animations to a flashable zip format that includes Katracho's fix found in this post..

http://androidforums.com/transform-...ustom-boot-animation-2-3-6-a.html#post4690104

Thanks again to Katracho!

Each zip will delete the "bootsamsung.qmg" and "bootsamsungloop.qmg" from /system/media/, install the bootanimation.zip and associated poweron.snd, install the "samsungani" and "bootanimation" in /system/bin/, and edit permissions for each file installed.

I will try to follow up with a reversal zip to set things back to stock but Im gonna need someone to point me to a comprehensive guide for edify permission numbers.. I've literally searched all night and came up with
Code: 
set_perm(uid, gid, mode, "/path/to/file");
But that doesn't tell me why 755 is 06755 or 0755 in edify scripting...
 
Loota said:
I will be updating these to boot animations to a flashable zip format that includes Katracho's fix found in this post..

http://androidforums.com/transform-...ustom-boot-animation-2-3-6-a.html#post4690104

Thanks again to Katracho!

Each zip will delete the "bootsamsung.qmg" and "bootsamsungloop.qmg" from /system/media/, install the bootanimation.zip and associated poweron.snd, install the "samsungani" and "bootanimation" in /system/bin/, and edit permissions for each file installed.

I will try to follow up with a reversal zip to set things back to stock but Im gonna need someone to point me to a comprehensive guide for edify permission numbers.. I've literally searched all night and came up with
Code: 
set_perm(uid, gid, mode, "/path/to/file");
But that doesn't tell me why 755 is 06755 or 0755 in edify scripting...
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755 is the same as 0755. The first digit is assumed to be a zero. This permission code means that the owner can read/write/execute, the group can read/execute, and all other users (aka "world") can read/execute

06755 is probably the same as 6755 (i'm not sure why there would be an extra zero, but as long as it's always a zero, i wouldn't worry about it). 6755 means the same as 755, but the setuid and setgid bits are set. Which translates to "set user ID upon execution" and "set group ID upon execution." This allows a user to run an exectuable (like su) as another user. If that's not clear enough, or not what you were asking, let me know and I'll try to help.

Once you make one of those flashable zips, would you mind if I examined it to allow my gif2boot program to create them?
 
Cool thanks man but in perm_set 0, 2000, 0755 I thought 2000 was the gid?

The zip for applesplit is converted already. Pm me and I will give you a run down of how I did it..
 
Loota said:
Cool thanks man but in perm_set 0, 2000, 0755 I thought 2000 was the gid?

The zip for applesplit is converted already. Pm me and I will give you a run down of how I did it..
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Yes, 2000 is the GID.

lets say you have a user named "Bob" with a UID of 1000, and you have a group called "staff" with a GID of 2000.

If you did set_perm(1000, 2000, 6775, "/path/to/executable_file"); that means that the owner is now "Bob", the group is now "staff", and anyone can read and execute the file. Additionally (because of the '6' in 6755), any user who executes the file will be doing so using Bob's permissions, and permissions of the "staff" group. The '6' in 6755 is not the UID or GID, but it is the bit that say whether we want to give whoever is executing the file the permissions of that UID/GID.

I hope that was more clear. I'm not the best at explaining these kinds of things :P
 
Hello. I just tried to install the Lcars boot animation. Cwm went through its motions and then it said action aborted. I am currently 2.3.4. Do I have to be 2.3.6 for this to work? Thanks
 
Nah I'm just lazy and have not yet made lcars installable through zip. If you have 2.3.4 you can just copy it to /system/media/ with no probs in the meantime.
 
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