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Incredible Boot Animation

civicsisedan said:
Not to sound dumb or anything.

But are you guys making sure your sound is all the way up before your restarting your phone?
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again, this is very vague. by "sound", what do you mean? ringer volume? its at max. Media volume? its at max too. Is there another "sound" setting I'm not aware of?
 
xDarKnighTx said:
It won't. If the animation's not working, it will just display a black screen during startup, and eventually you'll see the sense UI lock screen.

If you managed to put it in, then all you need to do is do "adb shell", then "rm /data/local/bootanimation.zip" to remove the file from your phone, and you will see the Verizon bootup again.

It helps if you're familiar with unix/linux :)
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Thanks for the info, maybe I'll give it a try even though I'm NOT even close to familiar with unix/linux!

As a self pat on the back I'm installed 2 apk files on my phone with no issue, I know it's not the same but I was excited!

Is there any chance for a boot up animation with r2d2 sounds up until droids appears with "Droid" sound then Transformer sounds until the end????

I'm sure that is a lot of work but wouldn't that be cool????
 
pikappetapi022 said:
Thanks for the info, maybe I'll give it a try even though I'm NOT even close to familiar with unix/linux!

As a self pat on the back I'm installed 2 apk files on my phone with no issue, I know it's not the same but I was excited!

Is there any chance for a boot up animation with r2d2 sounds up until droids appears with "Droid" sound then Transformer sounds until the end????

I'm sure that is a lot of work but wouldn't that be cool????
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It would be cool, and I've already got some ideas on what sounds to add. The problem now is that I'm unable to get sounds to work... :(
 
It's gonna be a few days before I spend the hours it'll take me to attemp this so I'll be very interested to hear/see what you come up with.

Good luck
 
For those of you that got the boot audio working, can you open up /system/customize/CID/default.xml file and let me know what's in the <BootAnimation> tag?

Mines look like this:

<BootAnimation image = "/system/customize/resource/HTC_Quietly_Brilliant.gif" image2="/system/customize/resource/VZW.gif" useAudio="0" />

I'm wondering if its because of the useAudio="0" that's not letting me use the android_audio.mp3 in my /data/local/
 
Just checked my /system/customize/CID/default.xml file - and it also has useAudio="0" - but my sound has been ok.. Maybe there's something about the specific mp3 file your trying to use..? you could always try the one I'm using - as a test if you want: android_audio.mp3
 
Not one question asked because everyone beat me to it. I now have a new boot animation after 4 hours. It can be done people, just be patient. Now for the music. How do I push this, the same way except replace the bootanimation.zip with a mp3? Thanks in advance and thanks for all the help in this forum.
 
Hey I have a live wallpaper liek these if you want to check them out look for pub:l2oflproductions on your android phone.



~14 year old developer Tim.
 
Ok, this is VERY strange...

I decided to load up the untouched bootanimation.zip made by ZeliardM (link), and the audio worked!!!

i've been messing with that for a while, didn't think reverting back to the original would do anything.

I'm very baffled by this....

anyways, I have modified ZeliardM's version to fix up the aspect ratio of the droid eye, and converted the images from png to jpg. This made the animation smoother.

bootanimation.zip (rapidshare)

Again, credit goes to b00sted4fun and ZeliardM for capturing the frames from the video and creating the original, I just tweaked it a little. This worked with sound as well.

And for those that still have problems with your audio file, just copy the mp3 file into your "tools" directory (same place where "bootanimation.zip" goes), and push it to your phone using this:

adb push android_audio.mp3 /data/local

Hope this helps.

Edit: added b00sted4fun to the credits :)
 
xDarKnighTx said:
Ok, this is VERY strange...

I decided to load up the untouched bootanimation.zip made by ZeliardM (link), and the audio worked!!!

i've been messing with that for a while, didn't think reverting back to the original would do anything.

I'm very baffled by this....

anyways, I have modified ZeliardM's version to fix up the aspect ratio of the droid eye, and converted the images from png to jpg. This made the animation smoother.

bootanimation.zip (rapidshare)

Again, credit goes to ZeliardM for capturing the frames from the video, I just tweaked it a little. This worked with sound as well.

And for those that still have problems with your audio file, just copy the mp3 file into your "tools" directory (same place where "bootanimation.zip" goes), and push it to your phone using this:

adb push android_audio.mp3 /data/local

Hope this helps.
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Did you find anything different in the "original" bootanimation.zip file that would allow the sound to play?

I want to use the animation file I have (Droid pissing on apple) with the droid sound, but can't get the sound to play. And I install the audio file the same way you mentioned.
 
Hahahaha!!! The animation on my HTC HERO works perfect!! The funny thing is though.....It says DROID during the INCREDIBLE part! Lmao! Is there anyway to fix this so it says it on the droid part?

dalumberjack said:
worked for me when I named it android_audio.mp3. Now I am just wondering what other sounds i can use =)

Now just gotta do some live wall papers and I'm good to go!
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I guess I will try it on my desktop when I get home tomorrow running xp. Tried everything on my vista laptop and no go lol.
 
HOW TO ADD AUDIO TO YOUR BOOT ANIMATION

The reason why so many people here do not hear audio on bootup is because the bootanimation.zip file was created incorrectly.

In order for the Android OS to play this mp3 file on boot up, bootanimation.zip MUST conform to the following rule:


  • one of the folders must be named "android", and must be listed in the "desc.txt" file. Additional folders can be named anything.

Additionally, as someone has already mentioned earlier, the audio file must be in MP3 format, named "android_audio.mp3".

So in the end, your folder structure inside bootanimation.zip might look similar to this:

folderf.png


And your "desc.txt" would look like this (I won't go into detail on what each number mean, as it has already been described everywhere else):

480 638 15
p 1 0 android
p 0 0 loading

NOTE: Make sure you save this file as a UNIX file, otherwise it won't work. You can use textpad or jEdit to do this.

Once your image sequence is in place, zip them up with no compression. In WinRAR for example, you would set this:

zipd.png


Once this is done, simply copy the bootanimation.zip and android_audio.mp3 into your android SDK's tools directory. Then push the bootanimation.zip and the android_audio.mp3 files into your phone's "/data/local" directory by the same method mentioned throughout this thread:

cmdi.png


Now you should be able to get audio on boot up.
 
The "desc.txt" file inside my "bootanimation.zip" file just says this:

480 427 30 p 0 10 part0p

All on one line like that.

What can I add to this to enable the sound?

Thanks much for your help!
 
Musky said:
The "desc.txt" file inside my "bootanimation.zip" file just says this:

480 427 30 p 0 10 part0p

All on one line like that.

What can I add to this to enable the sound?

Thanks much for your help!
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are you viewing this file in notepad? notepad doesn't view UNIX text files correctly. you would need one of the two editors (textpad or jEdit) I mentioned in my post above to view this correctly.

to get sound, you just need to rename the "part0" folder to "android", then update this desc.txt file by changing the "part0" to "android", so that it looks like this:

480 427 30 p 0 10 androidp

NOTE: if you plan to continue to use notepad, manually do this edit, don't just copy/paste the above string into the desc.txt file. there are "hidden" (in windows anyway) characters right before each of the "p" that notepad can't display. If you open it up in textpad or jedit, you'll see that there's a line break before each of the "p".

Afterwards, just zip up everything (make sure not to use compression), push out this new bootanimation.zip and the android_audio.mp3, and you should be set.
 
xDarKnighTx said:
HOW TO ADD AUDIO TO YOUR BOOT ANIMATION

The reason why so many people here do not hear audio on bootup is because the bootanimation.zip file was created incorrectly.

In order for the Android OS to play this mp3 file on boot up, bootanimation.zip MUST conform to the following rule:


  • one of the folders must be named "android", and must be listed in the "desc.txt" file. Additional folders can be named anything.

Additionally, as someone has already mentioned earlier, the audio file must be in MP3 format, named "android_audio.mp3".

So in the end, your folder structure inside bootanimation.zip might look similar to this:

folderf.png


And your "desc.txt" would look like this (I won't go into detail on what each number mean, as it has already been described everywhere else):

480 638 15
p 1 0 android
p 0 0 loading

NOTE: Make sure you save this file as a UNIX file, otherwise it won't work. You can use textpad or jEdit to do this.

Once your image sequence is in place, zip them up with no compression. In WinRAR for example, you would set this:

zipd.png


Once this is done, simply copy the bootanimation.zip and android_audio.mp3 into your android SDK's tools directory. Then push the bootanimation.zip and the android_audio.mp3 files into your phone's "/data/local" directory by the same method mentioned throughout this thread:

cmdi.png


Now you should be able to get audio on boot up.
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can you show how to compress these files on a mac. I couldn't figure it out. when i unzipped my downloaded boot animation and renamed one folder to android and the other to loading and then hit compress to create a zip the regular way you do on a mac, a new file was placed in the folder and wouldnt boot after pushing it. If not, I am just going to stick with a silent boot animation of the android pissing on apple. I was trying to use the transformers one from droidboots.com with a soundclip i found online but no luck lol
 
I was hoping it would be as simple as pushing the audio just like the animation, it appears that's no the case. I will have to try this later tonight when i get home. Hope it goes smoother then the whole animation push. Almost there! Your description is good but for a newby I may have more questions. Just reading that for the first time I am wondering if I'm suppose to save the mp3 in the bootanimation in the android folder then rezip it, push the animation again then push the mp3?? Sorry, like I said- newby. Although four hours later(last night) I do have a new bootanimation, so it can be done. Thanks again!
 
Everything worked perfect with the bootanimation and the audio mp3 file...the only thing is that during the screen that says incredible...it says DROID!! HAHAHA
This is now on my HTC Hero. Is there anyway so it actually says Droid on the screen that says droid?

dalumberjack said:
worked for me when I named it android_audio.mp3. Now I am just wondering what other sounds i can use =)



Now just gotta do some live wall papers and I'm good to go!
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