HOWTO Install Any Droid 2 ROM on your R2-D2 Droid 2 and keep all the R2-D2 theme bits

[hellmonkey]

Thats what I did. I extracted the bootani-with-yellow, and placed the bootanimation.zip in the media folder. if i try to manually do it, it says it can not be completed. I placed the new boot ani in the full .zip package and tried to install it from clockwork, but that did not work either. Do i need to moutn /system before I do that?

 

[hellmonkey]

Ok, tried mounting /system in clockwork. That did it. sorry for being a knob. Now, I just need to get the lockscreen and Ill be all set. For somereason, metamorph wont apply it.

 

[mingaldrichgan]

Thats what I did. I extracted the bootani-with-yellow, and placed the bootanimation.zip in the media folder. if i try to manually do it, it says it can not be completed. I placed the new boot ani in the full .zip package and tried to install it from clockwork, but that did not work either. Do i need to moutn /system before I do that?

You can't install bootanimation.zip file directly from within ClockworkMod Recovery because it's not an update ZIP file (that contains an update-script). But if I understand you correctly, you tried to place it into the appropriate directory in the "bootanimationmod" ZIP package that I made... in that case, yes, you have to mount /system before flashing it.

Just to make sure we're on the same page... did you copy bootanimation.zip into /system/media using Root Explorer, overwriting the old one? If that's what you did and it didn't work, try moving it to /data/local and see if it works.

EDIT: Sorry, I posted this reply before I saw your latest post. Unfortunately, the R2-D2 lockscreen won't work in recent versions of Fission (or Liberty, and any other ROM that uses the AOSP lockscreen slider). At least not without extensive modification, which I haven't yet felt motivated to do.

 

[hellmonkey]

I need to get root explorer I think. I was unable to edit or even paste into the data folder. Im assuming its write protected or something. But I did get it working. I just repalced the boot animation in your full package with the updated one. Thanks for the help.

 

[mingaldrichgan]

I need to get root explorer I think. I was unable to edit or even paste into the data folder. Im assuming its write protected or something. But I did get it working. I just repalced the boot animation in your full package with the updated one. Thanks for the help.

If you don't have Root Explorer, how did you copy the file into /system/media in the first place? Unless, of course, you copied it to a different location, which would explain why it didn't work...

Of course, you got it to work, which is really all that matters...

 

[hellmonkey]

Well, I was not able to get the r2d2 lockscreen to work with metamorph, so I got widget locker, found a theme I liked and added in the Star Wars/R2D2 Icons. I like it.

 

[mingaldrichgan]

Well, I was not able to get the r2d2 lockscreen to work with metamorph, so I got widget locker, found a theme I liked and added in the Star Wars/R2D2 Icons. I like it.

Also, check out my Gingerblade theme for WidgetLocker! You can have lightsabers on your lockscreen. =)

 

[hellmonkey]

Do you by chance know if widget locker supports animated bars? A light saber with a bit a pulsing glow/auro would be cool. I was thinking about making the thrust on the mil falcon a gif, but I have no idea if that would work or not. Im still trying to figure out how to make themes. All I did was make some icons and rename them.

 

[mingaldrichgan]

Do you by chance know if widget locker supports animated bars? A light saber with a bit a pulsing glow/auro would be cool. I was thinking about making the thrust on the mil falcon a gif, but I have no idea if that would work or not. Im still trying to figure out how to make themes. All I did was make some icons and rename them.

No animation, unfortunately. But go ahead and take my theme apart and see if that helps you figure it out.

 

[hellmonkey]

So, from what I can gather, widget locker just takes bar and stretches it from the side instead of just reveal more of the image, or can you use a longer bar and have show more as you drag?

 

[mingaldrichgan]

So, from what I can gather, widget locker just takes bar and stretches it from the side instead of just reveal more of the image, or can you use a longer bar and have show more as you drag?

There are several different slider styles (each of which behave differently) that WidgetLocker supports; my Gingerblade theme is based on the Android style, which has a hidden portion that is revealed as you drag the slider across the screen. Only a part of the image is stretched as much as needed (in my case, only one pixel wide), and that part is indicated by a black line (or dot in my case) along the top of the image.

For more information about theming, check out the developer's official guide here.

 

[banana_split]

Hello, I'm new in this hacking stuff, but it sound interesting having a new custom rom

I have R2D2, is there a way to check my firmware version,
And if it is okay to install lberty 2.0 rom on my R2D2, if not, what requirement needed?dancedroid

Edit: I've alrdy rooted, with bootstrap, and backed up with titanium,

 

[mingaldrichgan]

Hello, I'm new in this hacking stuff, but it sound interesting having a new custom rom

I have R2D2, is there a way to check my firmware version,
And if it is okay to install lberty 2.0 rom on my R2D2, if not, what requirement needed?dancedroid

Edit: I've alrdy rooted, with bootstrap, and backed up with titanium,

Personally, I SBF'd to 2.3.20 first, which is the latest over-the-air update for the regular Droid 2. But others have reported success flashing Liberty right over stock R2-D2. So go ahead and try it... but make sure you make a backup first in case you don't like it!

 

[smccloud]

minaldrichgan, I'm trying to apply your R2D2-bootanimationmod.zip in Clockwork mod, but its not applying the boot animation even after mounting /system (& /sdcard for good measure). Any ideas on what could be wrong? I'm running Liberty 2.0.1

 

[smccloud]

Got it figured out, your zip puts bootanimation.zip in /system/media and the Liberty people put theirs in /data/local.....