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Root Offline charging animation

Kahroo

Kahroo

Android Expert
Anyone here remember the LG OV and when you turned off the phone a charging animation with a charging battery would happen. I liked that. Is there anyway to get that on our phones?
 
I'm not sure if this is possible but if it is it would require root. Moved to ATR accordingly. :D
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Been wondering this myself. I used to have the Moto Cliq on T-Mo and it did that too. Bump for someone to say if its possible or not. I'd love it.
 
I think it would be possible. I'm pretty sure you can add a shutdown animation to the phone. I've never done it though, so I can't offer any suggestions. :p
 
Brian706 said:
I think it would be possible. I'm pretty sure you can add a shutdown animation to the phone. I've never done it though, so I can't offer any suggestions. :p
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Just to clarify, I don't believe we're talking about shutdown animations (although I think you're right about that being possible). What OP suggested is if the phone is already shut down and you plug it in to charge, an animation appears on screen of a battery filling up or something similar. The way my old Cliq did it was that the battery actually filled up on screen as it charged, so you could look at it at a glance and know when it was done. Plugging into a USB plug however would automatically boot the phone rather than displaying the animation, although I think this was a Moto feature as my Triumph did the same thing.
 
Ah, I see now. I misinterpreted the op. I think it would still be a possibility though I'm not sure if some of it would have to be done on a developer level, like building the functionality into a rom. I would imagine that if the rom wasn't programmed to use such a file, then the file would be useless.

Also, I think that fastboot mode would need to be enabled on the phone. I don't think it will work if the phone is actually powered completely off. Enabling fastboot puts the phone into a sort of sleep mode rather than fully powering down.

The fact that we can enable fastboot on our devices leads me to believe that there's a good chance this could work. It's been a long time since I've been stock, I can't remember if there was a charging animation? I seem to remember one vaguely.

I don't have time right now, but maybe someone could flash back to the stock rom or RUU and verify the charge animation. If it exists, theoretically you would just need to replace the file with your own.

I don't think that any of the jellybean roms can do this. At least not as-is currently. This is sort of just thinking out loud, I'm not a developer so there could be plenty I'm overlooking. All of the JB roms I've used have fastboot disabled by default (pretty sure) and I've never seen the option to enable it anywhere. Probably because that is a Sense feature and not an Android feature.

So to sum it up, I think it's a good possibility for stock based roms, but not aosp roms without some reworking.
 
Brian706 said:
It's been a long time since I've been stock, I can't remember if there was a charging animation? I seem to remember one vaguely.

I don't have time right now, but maybe someone could flash back to the stock rom or RUU and verify the charge animation. If it exists, theoretically you would just need to replace the file with your own.
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Literally as I'm reading this, what should happen but the doorbell ring - it's FedEx with my replacement Evo V (warranty replacement for finicky vibrator). Plugged that bad boy in and......... no charging animation. Red light indicates charging, green light indicates it's done.
 
Hm... well... I would assume the rom would need a feature like that programmed in then. Might be time to talk to a dev and ask if it's even possible and what would be involved to add the functionality if it is possible.
 
Brian706 said:
Hm... well... I would assume the rom would need a feature like that programmed in then. Might be time to talk to a dev and ask if it's even possible and what would be involved to add the functionality if it is possible.
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As I recall with the Triumph it wasn't on the System I think it was in a hidden partition so I assume it has to be built into the phone
 
Brian706 said:
Hm... well... I would assume the rom would need a feature like that programmed in then. Might be time to talk to a dev and ask if it's even possible and what would be involved to add the functionality if it is possible.
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Leslieann and mrg666 both built roms for the ov and had to make changes to enable it once tdm discovered how to fix offline charging. I'd be interested to hear their take on the subject.
 
Thewraith420 said:
Leslieann and mrg666 both built roms for the ov and had to make changes to enable it once tdm discovered how to fix offline charging. I'd be interested to hear their take on the subject.
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For charging animation to work, the phone must initiate a boot sequence when it is plugged to the charger in the off state. I think this requires a specific hardware capability/configuration and EVO3D doesn't seem to have it, just stays off when plugged in. Then, the init process checks how the boot initiated (i.e. power button or plugged in) and decides if the phone should go into full boot sequence or just run the charging animation on the screen. That to happen, OEM-proprietary charging-animation and specifically configured init binaries must be in the ramdisk. I am not sure if HTC has these mechanisms in place. I actually think that full-screen charging animation is just eye candy and it could even delay the full charge time by using some of the current.
 
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