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DROID's boot animation, in Adobe Bridge

messenger13

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Dec 8, 2009
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Cleveland, OH
Getting ready to customize my DROID's boot animation. Opened 1 of 2 folders of PNG files using Adobe Bridge. 76 files in the first folder, 16 files in the second. The first set of files draw the "DROID" word, then the eye.

bridge.jpg



The second 16 files animate the eye.

Droid_eye.gif
 
May I ask where those files are located on the phone?

/system/media/bootanimation.zip


Does droid have to be rooted to do this?

I don't know of any other way to do it, as you need root access to the system files. At least, for the time being. Who knows what apps are coming down the pipe.
 
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Joe - can you make the eye blink and open again - I'm sure if you are open to trying, you could throw your artistic side to it and make it fit the whole idea of this crazy droid eye.
Lemme know
Just think it would be cool if it blinked a couple times at you.


Did you see the finished product?

Joe Droid boot animation
 
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doesn't it checks "/data/local/bootanimation.zip"
then "/system/media/bootanimation.zip"
?
i thought it works in that way ? :S

Yes. But I *think* it then writes it to the /system/media directory. So, either directory works actually. I'm just used to this way.

The /data/local/ directory was discovered later on.
 
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