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Incredible Boot Animation

OK so I downloaded the Space Odyssey Boot intro effect and that works perfect on my phone.
I used the adb push data local and it works perfect.
I've changed my bootscreen alot of times now and I added sound as well.
I'm new to doing this but I did get stuck..lol.
Now I have my own mp3 that I would like to put on there instead. It shows that adb pushes it and it works but when turn on my phone is still have the space odyssey one :/
I tried usuing "rm" in CMD but that didnt work :/
I deleted the original one I used out of the tools folder.
I have the new mp3 in my tools folder
When I try to remove the old one, it says error its a read only file.
I'm not sure what to do..
Please help. Thanks :D
 
Guys,

When I get to this part of the instructions, its not there, any idea what im doing wrong?

On your PC, Go to Start->Right-Click My Computer->Manage

You should see a device with a warning on it called Other->ADB.

 
blk_she3p said:
Guys,

When I get to this part of the instructions, its not there, any idea what im doing wrong?

On your PC, Go to Start->Right-Click My Computer->Manage

You should see a device with a warning on it called Other->ADB.
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Not sure that way.
This is they way I did it.

Okay, the original instructions are great... provided you aren't a noob. I had to find a lot of stuff out on my own... so please amend the original instructions with these noob friendly additions.

First, you need the Android SDK. You can find that here: Android SDK | Android Developers

Extract the folder and run Setup. It will ask you to download files, do so.



Place this bootanimation.zip into the tools folder of the SDK. You can find the tools folder inside of the android_sdk_windows folder you extracted when you downloaded the SDK.

Connect your phone to your computer with USB. Mount your phone by clicking on the USB message in the notification bar. You will then need to run Debugging mode by going on your phone to: Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging. Make sure this is checked; you should get an exclamation mark icon in your notification bar.

Once you are connected, mounted, and in debugging mode, go to on your computer: Start > Run. Type in "cmd" and hit Ok. This will open command prompt.

You need to navigate to the android_sdk_folder from command prompt. If the folder is in your C drive and the letter next to your cursor is different, simply type: "c:" and it will switch to the correct drive. If you are on an XP machine and the folder is on your desktop, you will need to navigate to the tools folder by typing:

cd c:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\android-sdk-windows\tools

...where "user" is your login name. THIS IS NOT ALWAYS THE ADDRESS, you can see the full path at the top of the open tools folder. The "cd" before the directory path is necessary--it tells the command prompt to "change directory".

If you have correctly typed in the exact directory your tools folder is in, you should see the entire directory path displayed to the left of your cursor on the new line. Now, you need to push the bootanimation.zip folder to your phone by entering in this line of text:
adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local

Once you hit enter, a second should go by and you should see that a certain amount of data was added to the phone. When you see this, turn off your phone and reboot. You should now see the new animation! You may need to unplug your USB cable before you turn the power back on. In debugging mode, it may display weird menu text when you boot up if you are still connected to the PC.

I hope this helps, I know I was in the same boat as a lot of you, I had to scrounge around to find all this info, don't know why it's not all in one place.



Also a big big big tip...
For all those typing the info into CMD don't do it.... slow way.
Just copy the location of the tools folder in the address field then type cd ..(then right click paste)....then enter button.
Same thing with the push.. copy it and paste it. No since in messing up typing something wrong. copy paste 100000 times faster...
 
Musky said:
Hey DK!

I have gone over and over your instructions trying to ad audio to the bootanimation file. If I make any changes to the desc.txt file, not only do I not get audio, but the animation will no longer work. I am using "textpad" and saving the file as a unix file, although I have tried a regular text file just to see if that was my problem.

When I make the changes and zip it up, I can't find the option in Winrar not to compress. I have tried "normal" and "store", but the animation still won't work. I don't know if that's the problem or not. When I reload the original bootanimation.zip file, it plays fine but has no audio.

Here is the file I'm trying to add audio to, if you have time, can you see what you can do with it? Just edit the desc.txt file the way it should be and zip it and send it back.

bootanimation.zip

I would really appreciate it!

Thanks!
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Give this a try. Haven't tested it, but should work.

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Yes!

That was it! Thanks so much!

What exactly did you do with the desc.txt file?

I really appreciate it. :D
 
Jakaro said:
Has anyone made this into a boot animation yet? with sound? this would be effin awesome!
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I agree that is the one i been waiting for also, there is the one that uses the end of the video clip and looks decent except for the android character being in it in the beginning totally ruins it. IMO.
 
Thank to everyone who helped in this thread, my Inc now has an awesome boot screen with matching audio. This forum rocks.
 
I'd like to ask the experts... What is the largest dimensions I can use for the boot animation?

Thanks in Advance for thoughts!

*EDIT... OK so i answered my own question... thx anywho.
 
You guys seriously rock!!

I finally got it all to work and have a new bootanimation lol. Is there any way that they could have a thread with just boot animations and links to download the zip files? This thread is getting pretty long, but a condensed one with just the boots themselves would be cool to check out and share.

Glenn
 
mdimbler said:
I added the droid sound by renaming the droid mp3 to "android_audio.mp3" and pushing it to the device using the command "adb push android_audio.mp3 /data/local" and it plays the sound while playing the boot animation. Also tried the same with a song mp3 renamed and it works just fine.
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Okay, got the animation to work but can't get the sound to work. I saved the droid sound to a folder that the sdk is in and also renamed it. Then I opened up tools in the sdk and copied the mp3 file into there like I did the animation file and then tried to push it to the device using the above commands but it doesn't go.

What am I doing wrong?
 
golfinglenn said:
Okay, got the animation to work but can't get the sound to work. I saved the droid sound to a folder that the sdk is in and also renamed it. Then I opened up tools in the sdk and copied the mp3 file into there like I did the animation file and then tried to push it to the device using the above commands but it doesn't go.

What am I doing wrong?
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I was having the same issue and Dark Knight helped me out, so I'll try and pass the info along.

The problem is in the "desc.txt" file.

You need to unzip bootanimation.zip to a folder and edit the desc.txt file.

You need to open it and see what it says. Notepad doesn't view UNIX text files correctly. you would need one of the two editors (textpad or jEdit), either can be downloaded free on the net.

And your "desc.txt" would look like this :

480 638 15
p 1 0 android
p 0 0 loading

Or something close. My problem is Instead of saying "android" my folder was named "part0" in this text field. So my sound wasn't playing.

NOTE: When you're done editing the file, make sure you save it as a UNIX file, otherwise it won't work. You can use textpad or jEdit to do this.

Then zip the folder up again (without compression) and replace your bootanimation.zip file with it, and you know how to do that already.

Good Luck!
 
Musky said:
I was having the same issue and Dark Knight helped me out, so I'll try and pass the info along.

The problem is in the "desc.txt" file.

You need to unzip bootanimation.zip to a folder and edit the desc.txt file.

You need to open it and see what it says. Notepad doesn't view UNIX text files correctly. you would need one of the two editors (textpad or jEdit), either can be downloaded free on the net.

And your "desc.txt" would look like this :

480 638 15
p 1 0 android
p 0 0 loading

Or something close. My problem is Instead of saying "android" my folder was named "part0" in this text field. So my sound wasn't playing.

NOTE: When you're done editing the file, make sure you save it as a UNIX file, otherwise it won't work. You can use textpad or jEdit to do this.

Then zip the folder up again (without compression) and replace your bootanimation.zip file with it, and you know how to do that already.

Good Luck!
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Okay, I followed those instructions and this is what I found in the desc. file:

400 600 15
p 1 0 android
p 1 0 eye
p 0 0 loading

So, mine is already named android. Where do I put the mp3 file that I downloaded so that it works? Do I need to find a file called android somewhere and replace it with the mp3 file I downloaded?

Thanks for all the help btw. Seems silly for a short start up theme, but its fun to play with lol.
 
yourfriendwayned said:
Put android_audio.mp3 in the tools folder then do the thing you did with boot but use the file above...
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Okay, I put the mp3 file in tools and then tried to push it to the device, but I get:

cannot stat 'android_audio.mp3': No such file or directory.

This is making me look really stupid lol.
 
I got the boot with sound working. Now, I think the sound is too loud and I just want to get rid of it. How would I go about this. I still want to keep the animation, just not the sound. Thanks.
 
Mandrew said:
I got the boot with sound working. Now, I think the sound is too loud and I just want to get rid of it. How would I go about this. I still want to keep the animation, just not the sound. Thanks.
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I am no expert on this but looking up the commands used with adb i think you could just do

adb shell rm -r /data/local/android_audio.mp3

or if that doesnt work

adb pull /data/local/android_audio.mp3
 
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