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Root How do you change your Boot animation and Font?

Google Play has apps for it. I use Font Installer. And for Boot Animations I use Rom Toolbox but you need the pro version I believe.
 
There's some magic VM or LG hocus pocus hidden away in our phone that lets you use a custom boot animation without needing root and without needing to write anything to the /system partition. If you have an app installed with the name "com.redbend.vdmc", its boot animation will be used when the phone starts up, and its files will be included in $PATH during a FOTA update.

The program /system/bin/bootanimation first checks for "/data/data/com.redbend.vdmc/files/bootanimation.zip". If that doesnt exist, it falls back to "/system/media/bootanimation.zip". IT does the same with the bootsound, checking first for "/data/data/com.redbend.vdmc/files/PowerOn.mp3" before loading the one from /system. You can install your own program to this spot and use it to change your boot animation and bootsounds.
 
kakapopo said:
Can I just flash boot animation in recovery?
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In my personal experience if you try to move the current boot animation out of system media and replace with another, then you run into problems (that is using what ever file manager you use, I've experimented with ES and root explorer, and various others. My recommendation for if you want to replace the boot animation with one that you found already premade. Is just to use a boot animation installing app (ie: Absolute system toolshttp://www.sendspace.com/file/p4q0dv

.......otherwise I suppose I could go into greater depths about all this...ugh.....and as far as what pune is talking about, didn't know that one. Yet another freaking loophole, Jesus man what did they do to this phone!
 
Its not too much of a loophole. The code originally loads "/data/local/bootanimation.zip" and falls back to the one in /system. You need to be root or use adb to write to that location. Somewhere along the line, they changed it to read from the com.redbend.vdmc app. It lets you change the animation and sound using an app instead of adb.

And no, you cant just flash the boot animation in recovery. Boot animation zips and flashable zips are each expected to have different structures inside them. They are not interchangeable. You can stick the animation.zip inside a flashable zip and it will work.
 
giantpune said:
Its not too much of a loophole. The code originally loads "/data/local/bootanimation.zip" and falls back to the one in /system. You need to be root or use adb to write to that location. Somewhere along the line, they changed it to read from the com.redbend.vdmc app. It lets you change the animation and sound using an app instead of adb.
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Right, right I figured out the whole data local thing, but I found quite a versatile easy way to alter the animations just by going through the /system/media path and it seems easiest and works well for me at least, Maybe I'll have to throw a guide together or something.

And no, you cant just flash the boot animation in recovery. Boot animation zips and flashable zips are each expected to have different structures inside them. They are not interchangeable. You can stick the animation.zip inside a flashable zip and it will work.
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Yes and also thought about this, for example.....say taking your ROM/zip you're about to flash, dig into the files with a zip viewer and replace the original animation with whatever, I haven't done it this way so I don't know. Compression rates can get screwed up, so if anything use a dedicated archiver for any decompressing/compressing ZArchiver works well.
 
I installed a new boot animation using Tool Box Root and a put in a new boot sound which is about 15 seconds because in a guide I read in this forum it said it nedds to be 10-15 seconds. Can I make my boot sound longer because it finishes while it's still booting.
 
kakapopo said:
I installed a new boot animation using Tool Box Root and a put in a new boot sound which is about 15 seconds because in a guide I read in this forum it said it nedds to be 10-15 seconds. Can I make my boot sound longer because it finishes while it's still booting.
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That's a typical guideline. In earlier builds of
 
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