Root Custom boot animation

[Blackhawk1969]

All you needed to do was flash the restore zip, reboot recovery, mount system in twrp, and use the twrp file manager to delete /system/media/boot animation.zip. Situations like this are exactly why twrp has a built in file manager.

forgot to mention it wouldnt let me mount the system in twrp so i could delete the bootanimation...thats why i started sweating. I thought it had something to do with the permissions of the zip i created. not sure why it locked me out of the system. i just need to read a little more considering my novice abilities with stuff like this

 

[Masterchief87]

forgot to mention it wouldnt let me mount the system in twrp so i could delete the bootanimation...thats why i started sweating. I thought it had something to do with the permissions of the zip i created. not sure why it locked me out of the system. i just need to read a little more considering my novice abilities with stuff like this

It wouldn't let you mount system in twrp because it was still switched out. You have to flash the restore zip, then reboot recovery. Then and only then can you mount system in twrp.
Edit: When you flash the restore zip, the change does not take effect until you reboot recovery.
That is why you couldn't mount system.

 

[Blackhawk1969]

It wouldn't let you mount system in twrp because it was still switched out. You have to flash the restore zip, then reboot recovery. Then and only then can you mount system in twrp.
Edit: When you flash the restore zip, the change does not take effect until you reboot recovery.
That is why you couldn't mount system.

I appreciate the help, that makes sense now. im glad i wasnt too far along, i will keep that in mind if i screw anything up again, going to make a back up of my rooted progress now too so i dont have to repeat those steps, Nand baeckup is so important, I never would have tried any of this without it thanks alot Masterchief and thanks for all you have done on the forums, you have been a life saver to alot of people

 

[The-Truth]

Yes nandroid backup can be a life saver. & its always a good idea to keep a copy of say the ROM ur on on you're Ext SD card. For instance I didn't realize I needed to partition my SD card for the KK ROM Carbon ROM I'm going to eventually run so I'm back and forth alot trying this and that and any big issues I just reflash in my case the Xperion ROM JB for my LGMS500. Idk guess we all have our own lil bag of tricks.

 

[Blackhawk1969]

Made a few boot animations on my pc.. had some old live wallpapers I made a few years ago and just took the images upscaled them to 720x1280 and replaced the ones in a copy of my current bootanimation.. made a cuztom shutdownanimation the same way.. only way I could change the permissions was by using master chiefs boot switcher booting to recovery and changing permissions with root explorer.. then using boot restore once I was sure it worked. Only wanted to keep r/w on my system as long as I needed it for the process. CAUTION! if you try this with a mac convert the files on a pc and test it with a boot animation program. I converted my jpegs with photoshop on pc.. for some reason it didnt like the files I used and zipped directly from my mac.. most likely because Mac creates resource fork files you cant see on the mac.. only reason I can think of ..and when you zip the file make sure its set to store or no compression the quantity of files.doesnt seem to.matter..I used from 56 to 200 or so. Lots of tutorials out there but using existing android bootanimation as a base worked best for me.