Big Lou's Boot Animation Tutorial for Noobs

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Originally Posted by lwl209

I'm having trouble. I have been able to push downloaded boot animations from my mac to my phone, but I haven't been able to properly zip and push my own.

I create a file "bootanimation" with desc, part0, and part1 in it. I zip the bootanimation file and put the "bootanimation.zip" into sdk/tools, and then I push it onto my phone. My phone receives it, I unplug it from my computer, and then I restart it. However, when I turn it back on, the animation doesn't run--it goes straight from the moto logo to the unlock screen. What am I doing wrong???

I have adjustied the zip compression level to 0 using stuffit, but it still doesn't work.

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I'm having the same problem. Did you ever find out exactly how to fix it? I can put downloaded animations on but not my own. please help if you can

can anyone explain what the numbers in the desc.txt file mean? It would be useful if I knew exactly what that was doing

I know this thread is old and I have a metropcs huawei ascend, but this guide helped me change my boot animation. The only thing is, I had to put the zip file in the platform-tools folder and run the adb command from there.

Ok so I got everything working fine until I get to the adb push. When I type in the command "adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local/" I get a message saying "adb is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." Someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong. One guy had the same problem and fixed it but didn't post how. Yes, I have debugging on, all the drivers are properly installed. Yes, I put a space in between .zip and the /. I'm even open to someone texting me and telling me how to fix this. Reply here or email me @ spc.hicks09@yahoo.com or text me at "seven four zero - two five one - three nine three four. Thanks for anyones help !!!!!!

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Originally Posted by spc_hicks09

Ok so I got everything working fine until I get to the adb push. When I type in the command "adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local/" I get a message saying "adb is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file." Someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong. One guy had the same problem and fixed it but didn't post how. Yes, I have debugging on, all the drivers are properly installed. Yes, I put a space in between .zip and the /. I'm even open to someone texting me and telling me how to fix this. Reply here or email me @ spc.hicks09@yahoo.com or text me at "seven four zero - two five one - three nine three four. Thanks for anyones help !!!!!!

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I am having this exact same problem, did anyone figure out a solution to this?

I think I may have.
Instead of keeping it in the (x86) folder (it requires admin access) move the folder to your desktop, then install all of the tools you need. Once installed, go ahead and try the steps again, this time utilizing desktop as the path and not folder X86

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Originally Posted by mammlouk

Just delete the bootanimation.zip from /data/local

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adb shell
rm /data/local/bootanimation.zip

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Does this remove work (as an unrooted user) even though I can't see inside of /data in adb shell??? I tried to do an ls and it din't work... just permission denied.

One more question about this....

I have a Gnex.

I wanted to see what would happen if I did an adb push of an arbitrary file to /data/local... you know, something like a "foo.txt" test. I wanted to see if I could delete it afterwards... all I got was "permission denied"

Bottom line, I don't recall anyone flat out saying this but:

does the file HAVE to be named bootanimation.zip in order for the push to even work?? That would imply that there is something in /data/local that holds a place for it with open permissions, yes? But on my rooted d1, I see nothing there named bootanimation.zip with open perms.

So IF I push bootanimation.zip to /data/local, it "just works" and an "adb shell rm /data/local/bootanimation.zip" .... also will just work even though I cannot adb ls anything that's IN /data/local?

I'm thinking this MUST be how it works otherwise nobody would get it to work, but I'm asking for peace-of-mind please....