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Root [How To] + [MOD] Custom Transition Animations

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humungus

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Watching the same transition animations over and over is boring. You can speed them up with Spare Parts or you can just shut them off entirely within settings. There is, though, a third road: change 'em.

These are videos of most of the transition animations packs (Drod's rubiX animations, Fab's animation mix, and Android Stock have no videos at present).

Flip
YouTube - Android Screen Transitions

Bounce
YouTube - Samsung moment animations, bounce

Fold
YouTube - Sbtwca

FlyIn
YouTube - Samsung moment animations, fly in


There are two preferred ways to use these animations:

1. Add Animations Using Metamorph: should work for most roms. Thanks Haxzamatic!

Transition Animation MetaMorph Files - http://bit.ly/gwEB5F

Note: there is no current MetaMorph file for either Android Stock or Fab's mix (see below).


2. Manually Add Animations: should work for most roms

This process will be helpful for those wanting to mix and match animations from the folders. In fact, why don't you create your own mix and post it here so everyone else can appreciate your awesomeness. I'll add new mixes below if they come in.

1. Simply get ahold of the anim folder with the animations you want to use and the framework-res.apk from the rom you're interested in modifying (/system/framework/framework-res.apk).
2. Open up the framework-res.apk in 7zip (right click on it, and select "open archive").
3. Drag the anim folder with the animations (which you can download below) into /res folder in your framework-res.apk. This will replace the files currently in /res/anim.
4. Exit out of 7zip.
5. You now need to push the modified framework-res.apk onto the phone. You can do this by placing the modified framework-res.apk in the root sdcard folder, and entering the following into terminal emulator on your phone or using ADB when the sdcard is mounted:

su
mount -o rw,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
cp /sdcard/framework-res.apk /system/framework
mount -o ro,remount -t ext3 /dev/block/mmcblk1p21 /system
reboot

If you're using terminal emulator, your phone will probably reboot before you finish re-mounting and/or typing reboot.

NOTE: This is taken almost wholesale from MagnusRagnarok (initial post) and ronhova (detailed instructions) on XDA; they deserve the credit. Link To Original Post.

Since this process modifies your rom's framework-res.apk, it obviously won't work with other roms. Translation: don't take the framework you've just modified and try to put it on other roms. IF YOU DO THIS, YOU WILL DIE.

Animation Files: for manual addition

Bounce

Flip

Fly In

Fold

Drop In (from Drod's rubiX focused series)

Fly In and Flip Mix (from Fab's Apex)

Android Stock
 
Thanks for the info, humungus. I installed "fold" using MetaMorph. It works great on my ApeX 1.0. I'm very happy with it. :) I looked at the videos and liked "fold" the best, and so it becomes part of my modding.

Steven
 
I put bounce on mine running Fission 2.2.2 today and its working very good. Thank Stericson for MetaMorph.
 
Note: if you don't see animations, possibly you turned them off? (Settings... display settings... animation)
 
you need to be rooted. metamorph requires root acess and the other method require superuser in terminal which also requires root access.
 
I know this is an old thread, but I just rooted my Asus Transformer last week. :o

My n00b questions are:

1) if I install a couple transitions using Metamorph, will that mean I will get
random transitions or will only the most recently installed transition work?

2) Is there a way to delete a transition?

:confused:
 
Correction,,, this does work. There is a check box in the settings for the app that addresses the error I was getting. My bad.
 
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