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Incredible Boot Animation

Does anyone have the"droid" voice in an mp3, the only ones i find other net have a weird noise at the end.
 
macdaddybuff said:
If you are having problems follow this by the letter.
I did and It works......




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.
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Thanks for these instructions. Just sat down to try this out for the first time and I was successful in all of 10 minutes.

u2gator
 
xDarKnighTx said:
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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Thanks for this little tip (and the code to just copy and paste with). Worked like a charm and have a new boot animation and audio in 10 minutes.

U2gator
 
AWESOME!!! I have been fighting this for days and getting it piece by piece to work. The audio file was the last thing to figure out and this is what I was doing wrong:

When you put the audio file into the tools folder, don't name it android_audio.mp3. Just name it android_audio. Once I decided to try that it push immediately and is now on my phone!!! yea. I was pulling my hair out. Might be obvious to others, but those of us just learning it was easy to look past lol.

Hope this helps somebody else out.

Glenn
 
Has anyone had any luck using terminal emulator to move the zip file? I have tried but keep getting the message "mount: Operation not allowed" when issuing the first line of instructions and I have tried with both mtdblock3 and 4.

Should be Operation not permitted for mount message.
 
some guy posted this on droid life blog site comments section:

"All of you DROID INCREDIBLE owners will soon get a surprise on the next update. The boot-up sequence will be there as so the rest of the DROID brand elements. We weren't able to include them in the first batch but they are coming and you will love it if you loved the teaser.

Yes. Packaging, New Eye Animation and DROID tones will all be coming in an OTA update soon. HTC has them testing right now. Should be any day now."

Cant wait! How its true
 
LancerzEvo said:
some guy posted this on droid life blog site comments section:

"All of you DROID INCREDIBLE owners will soon get a surprise on the next update. The boot-up sequence will be there as so the rest of the DROID brand elements. We weren't able to include them in the first batch but they are coming and you will love it if you loved the teaser.

Yes. Packaging, New Eye Animation and DROID tones will all be coming in an OTA update soon. HTC has them testing right now. Should be any day now."

Cant wait! How its true
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Does that mean our custom boot animations will be gone and we'll be defaulted back to the HTC/Verizon boot animation?
 
hey i'm using macdaddypuff's boot animation but for some reason it's a little laggy on my phone when booting - especially after the eye is formed and the red balls are moving back and forth. is something wrong?
 
CRPercodani said:
Actually if ADB scares you or you don't have it on your PC you can doo everything directly from the Incredible with terminal emulator from the market. Thee commands would be basically the same...

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system

mv /system/media/bootanimation.zip /system/media/bootanimation.bak
cat /sdcard/bootanimation.zip > /system/media/
OR
mv /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip
sync
reboot

It will reboot with the new animation, this way is easier if you don't mind using the virtual keyboard.
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my apologies for being a noob, I've tried downloading Android SDK, Galileo and the like, I have the bootanimation I want to add to my incredible on the sd card ... above, you indicate that the existing bootanimation is in the system/media folder, on mine it is not

I have a bootanimation file in /system/bin ... also, the mtdblock section, i have 1 through 6 ... if I move 3 and it should be 4 what is the downside?

so lastly, do I simply follow your code using android terminal emulator using the file locations as they exist on my device and I should be good to go?

ADB didn't scare me, I just couldn't get past the su permission denied and all the posts I could find spoke to the moto droid ...
 
Easiest way to get boot animations on your phone.
Try this on for size :
1) Download this file PutYourBootHERE.zip ? RGhost ? file sharing
2) Make a folder called PutYourBootHERE and extract the files from above zip file into it
3) Drop a copy of the .zip file for the boot animation you want -don't even have to rename it, the batch will rename it for you- into the PutYourBootHERE folder
4) Run the .bat file
5) Enjoy your new boot
6) Hit Thanks >>>

If you get a 'device not found error' make sure to run the HTC Sync app, that will make sure you have all the drivers you need installed.
 
mattguyver said:
Easiest way to get boot animations on your phone.
Try this on for size :
1) Download this file PutYourBootHERE.zip ? RGhost ? file sharing
2) Make a folder called PutYourBootHERE and extract the files from above zip file into it
3) Drop a copy of the .zip file for the boot animation you want -don't even have to rename it, the batch will rename it for you- into the PutYourBootHERE folder
4) Run the .bat file
5) Enjoy your new boot
6) Hit Thanks >>>
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Thanks for the files...very easy...but...

I followed the directions to the T...but now I don't have any animation screen at all?...

It say's new boot has been added ect...

I have the HTC Incredible screen...then it goes black...then boots up...

I tried it twice still nothing...

Any ideas?...or how to get the original animation screen back?...

Thanks...

*Edit*...I tried another animation and got it to work...

Whats the easiest way to get the original boot animation back?...

Sorry for the nOOb stuff...

Thanks again...
 
mattguyver said:
Easiest way to get boot animations on your phone.
Try this on for size :
1) Download this file PutYourBootHERE.zip ? RGhost ? file sharing
2) Make a folder called PutYourBootHERE and extract the files from above zip file into it
3) Drop a copy of the .zip file for the boot animation you want -don't even have to rename it, the batch will rename it for you- into the PutYourBootHERE folder
4) Run the .bat file
5) Enjoy your new boot
6) Hit Thanks >>>
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Thanks for that. Is there any way to get an audio file working with the boot animation using a similar method? I placed the audio file in the same folder (not as zip but mp3) but it only loaded the animation.
 
I have a problem. . . I ACTUALLY changed my boot animation (amazingly) after an hour or so. Now that I have, my animation is sooo slow that my sound goes WAY ahead of the animation. Any help figuring out why it's so slow?

EDIT: Nevermind, I found another version of the animation in this thread and it works MUCH better. Thanks to all for your contributions. Just ANOTHER reason why Android Rocks!
 
iowabowtech said:
Thanks for that. Is there any way to get an audio file working with the boot animation using a similar method? I placed the audio file in the same folder (not as zip but mp3) but it only loaded the animation.
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I uploaded a new version of the file for you. PutYourBootHERE2.zip ? RGhost ? file sharing
If you want to include audio use the RunMEnowWITHaudio.bat file instead. It will copy the animation and the sound.

Enjoy!
 
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