Complete Comprehensive Tutorial on Custom Boot Animations

[csmith197]

Hello again,
After doing all the stuff from my other tutorial I figured I would jump further into custom boot animations. As I said before, I document everything I do and this my start to finish method for creating and installing custom boot animations. Some of the significant things about this method; are you only need the part0 folder and there is no limit to the amount of images you use.

ROOT IS NOT REQUIRED FOR THIS and there is no need to make changes to your default BA!

ok, let's start

Download 7-zip 7-Zip
In a command prompt cd into your adb tools directory

paste or type

Mkdir png
Cd png
Mkdir bootanimation
Cd bootanimation
Mkdir  part0
Cd part0

Download attached png’s, or use your own. (Thank you b00sted4fun for the awesome boot animation!) fkapple.zip
Name them in sequential order starting from 0. (ex- 0.png, 1.png, 2.png, 3.png)
place them in the png\bootanimation\part0 folder you have just created.

open notepad and copy or paste

480 480 8
p 0 0 part0

save as desc.txt to png\bootanimation

In your browser navigate to the png\bootanimation folder, highlight part0 and desc.text, right click, find 7-zip, and select add to archive.
Name archive bootanimation.zip
Select Archive format: zip
Select Compression level: store
Select ok
Copy and paste bootanimation.zip to your adb tools folder.

In command prompt of adb tools directory paste or type

adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local

Reboot and thats it, enjoy!


To use default boot animation paste or type in command prompt of adb tools directory

adb shell
rm /data/local/bootanimation.zip

reboot and there you go.

success will look like this

[lvlln]

You should include backing up the old bootanimation.zip file when you push the new file in. I.e. mv bootanimation.zip bootanimation.bak

[csmith197]

I have that in my other walk-through, but for this one I figured providing the default bootanimation.zip would suffice.

[Bear in NM]

CS,

Thank you for all of your hard work on this. Especially for reducing the number of image files. I was just about to start tearing into this, and I was a bit uncertain about modifying the text file that supports the animation, or playing with large quantity of image files.

One quick question, and I apolgize if this was answered in the other thread(s) or is obvious. If we botch up the imagery, will the phone still boot up, albiet with a black or botched animation screen? This process looks like a fun way to fiddle with the phone without getting too deep into trouble.

Craig

[csmith197]

Yup. Any mistakes just mean your file doesnt play; however, the phone still boots. also the default zip and desc.txt are provided above as well.

[oldblue]

@csmith197 Yo I like your booty....but I'm not gay

[miglo]

Someone please make a BA with the Android pissing on an apple?

[oldblue]

Someone please make a BA with the Android pissing on an apple?

Google droid wallpaper dude. Its there.

3rd page

[csmith197]

Someone please make a BA with the Android pissing on an apple?

Google droid wallpaper dude. Its there.

3rd page

hahahaha! please post when you are done. I would love to have that as my boot animation

[Bear in NM]

Yup. Any mistakes just mean your file doesnt play; however, the phone still boots. also the default zip and desc.txt are provided above as well.

C,

Thank you again sir, I like the idea of having a phone mod to piddle around with that is low on the brickability index. Now to find some robust software for possibly dealing with AV files other than still imagery.

Craig