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Root Rage Red Boot Animation

This would have been so cool on the Storm 1. Always doing bat pulls, you get to see a lot of boot animations. As is, I hardly ever have to reboot! :lol:
 
pm1066 said:
This would have been so cool on the Storm 1. Always doing bat pulls, you get to see a lot of boot animations. As is, I hardly ever have to reboot! :lol:
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I think these animations would cause the storm to freeze and require a battery pull though, lol
 
This boot is pretty cool, but the end is also sort of anticlimactic, don't you think? :confused: It's all badass and sleek up until about 2/3 of the way through when it starts to get kind of plain and boring. :(

I just used adbWireless and pushed it over. Then used Quick Boot to Reboot. Worked great for me. Now to test out some others. :D

EDIT: Also,
jonathanmsims said:
Looks awesome btw on the X. Worked perfectly. Added a .bak to the bootanimation.zip that was in system/media.
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You don't need to change the original boot animation file or location. The system looks in /data/local/ first, and if there's an animation there, it uses it instead of looking to /system/media/. Having one in /data/local/ should not affect your original boot file in any way. Simply remove the boot animation archive that you placed in /data/local/ and the system will use the one in /system/media/.

EDIT2: I also just realized that I could very well just type, "adb reboot," instead of exiting adbWireless and opening yet another application lolz. Saved myself some time this go around. :D
 
jonathanmsims said:
Looks awesome btw on the X. Worked perfectly. Added a .bak to the bootanimation.zip that was in system/media.
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you should undo that. it looks in data/local first, so there is no need. plus, in case you ever need to do a data wipe from recovery, i would want to make sure the stock one is available. i dont know if it would make a difference, but i'm the type of person that just likes to aviod anything unnecessary.
 
You need to be rooted and have root access. You can place the .zip archive on your SD card, then cut and paste in Root Explorer to /data/local/. /data/local/ is not located on the SD card. It's located on the phone's internal memory and requires root to gain access to.
 
eraursls1984 said:
How do I get it in "/data/local?" Root Explorer, Root Manager? I see "data" on the sd card but all it has in it is Beautiful Widgets

Which is better, Root Explorer or Root Manager?
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root explorer, hands down. and, it's not on the sd card. get out to the root of the phone, then look for data, then local. there should be one folder in there that is labeled tmp. if you see that, you're in the right place. then, just paste the bootanimation.zip there
 
Cool, I was in the root but without root explorer it wouldn't show me the contents of the data folder. Thanks for the help you guys.
 
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