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Help Changing boot animation

Matthew peters

Matthew peters

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Hi folks.
I have a note 2 which I love, it is rooted a had a custom Rom flash. I'm trying to change the boot animation.....I've tried all the apps, Ive followed all the instructions I can find but I still can't get it to work.....I've renamed the Samsung start up files and I've put my boit animation file in system/media and still no joy......any help or suggestions?
 
Welcome to AF, @Matthew peters :).

Have you set the ownership and permissions properly for the bootanimation.zip file?

I know that it (usually) takes specific settings for those for the boot animation to work (I don't know what the proper settings are at the moment, but since you didn't mention that you had changed/set them, I thought I would ask...).
 
I could move your thread over to the SG Note 2 area for you if you'd like (just lemme know), or you can have a gander to see if anyone's already posted anything relevant re. that yourself.

What tool are you using to set the ownership and permissions and can you post a screenshot or an "ls -l" output of the file?
 
Hey, quick follow-up: it doesn't appear that there are any special permissions needed (not sure where I thought/got that from...:eek:).

The only Samsung device I have is an old Galaxy Nexus--I'm happy to try your animation on my device if you'd like...just attach it here or post a link.
 
Thanks!

Charging my Gnex now--been a while since I've booted it up ;).

Also, can you tell me what you named your boot animation .zip file--i.e., was it "bootanimation.zip"?

(I ask because the download name is long and has spaces, but if you renamed it before installing, that would make sense...)
 
I down loaded another one as well and that one was already called bootanimation.zip and that didn't work. But what I've also noticed is that when I change the name of the Samsung boot animation as your meant to both times I've done it the phone won't go into sleep mode the screen stays on. Strange
 
Well, it didn't work for me, either, I'm afraid...

That's not 100% conclusive, though...but I'm not sure what else to help you with from here--I'm not a boot animation expert by any stretch :p.
 
Matthew peters said:
Hi folks.
I have a note 2 which I love, it is rooted a had a custom Rom flash. I'm trying to change the boot animation.....I've tried all the apps, Ive followed all the instructions I can find but I still can't get it to work.....I've renamed the Samsung start up files and I've put my boit animation file in system/media and still no joy......any help or suggestions?
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Does anyone know a way to change the boot animation without rooting?
 
Caleb Swag Wolf said:
Does anyone know a way to change the boot animation without rooting?
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That's usually not possible since the folder / subdirectory where the bootanimation.zip lives is typically protected and not viewable without root access.

There are a few (older) devices where that wasn't the case, but pretty sure things are locked-down / protected in the last few years.
 
scary alien said:
That's usually not possible since the folder / subdirectory where the bootanimation.zip lives is typically protected and not viewable without root access.

There are a few (older) devices where that wasn't the case, but pretty sure things are locked-down / protected in the last few years.
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Oh well in that case I might as well try to find another way. I guess
 
Okay, I've figured it out ;) :) :D.

Attached is the fixed version of your (@Matthew peters) boot animation file.

It worked--after my changes--on my Nexus 5.

Here's the trick and what I believe were your two issues:

1. You need to make sure you don't use an editor for your desc.txt file that will include carriage-returns. I.e., don't use notepad.exe on Windows. Try something like vi / vim / gvim / UltraEdit, etc. The original boot animation .zip file on my N5 had it's lines separated by only newline (linefeed) characters.

2. Finally--and I'm not sure if this was your issue, but I certainly had it--you need to build the new .zip file as an uncompressed archive. I did this through a cygwin session on my Windows PC and used the "zip -r -0 new-kitt-bootanimation.zip *" command to build the new .zip file.

:)
 

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scary alien said:
That's usually not possible since the folder / subdirectory where the bootanimation.zip lives is typically protected and not viewable without root access.

There are a few (older) devices where that wasn't the case, but pretty sure things are locked-down / protected in the last few years.
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The phone does have root access
 
scary alien said:
Okay, I've figured it out ;) :) :D.

Attached is the fixed version of your (@Matthew peters) boot animation file.

It worked--after my changes--on my Nexus 5.

Here's the trick and what I believe were your two issues:

1. You need to make sure you don't use an editor for your desc.txt file that will include carriage-returns. I.e., don't use notepad.exe on Windows. Try something like vi / vim / gvim / UltraEdit, etc. The original boot animation .zip file on my N5 had it's lines separated by only newline (linefeed) characters.

2. Finally--and I'm not sure if this was your issue, but I certainly had it--you need to build the new .zip file as an uncompressed archive. I did this through a cygwin session on my Windows PC and used the "zip -r -0 new-kitt-bootanimation.zip *" command to build the new .zip file.

:)
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This sounds complicated
 
Matthew peters said:
This sounds complicated
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Well, it's really just a matter of having the right tools--I didn't know what kind of setup / tools you have available, so I just listed what I did/used...

gVim is a nice freeware editor that you should be able to use to create/edit the desc.txt file without introducing the extra carriage-return characters.

It's possible that the real issue you had was that your .zip file you created contained compressed files. Creating a .zip file without compress was pretty simple--also using a freeware (gnu) zip utility I got several years back.
 
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