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Boot Animation for my Wife

xmr405o

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Dec 7, 2009
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Where is the best place to request a boot animation? I'm getting my wife a droid and wanted to make it a little special by putting on a custom boot animation for her. Her name is Evelyn and I wanted to use something similar to this....but just the name. Any ideas? Thanks!

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Anyone? :D Maybe how about this, how do I create one? I saw the thread in regards to how to create a boot animation but I guess I need to know how to get the frames that I can rename to png. I was thinking of making a boot animation of Eve from Wall-e? I tried searching for animation frames but I had no luck.

Any experts here in the Android Forums?
 
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Note: I have not tried to change my boot animation (yet).

You'd have to root the phone to be able to apply the new animation...

I've read that you dont need root access to do it.
From this thread -
http://androidforums.com/sprint-htc-hero/83137-2-1-start-up-screen.html
There's plenty of discussion in another forum about customizing boot animation. You can even do it without root access, just need to push your custom bootanimation.zip file to /data/local directory using adb.


From akkidy in the same thread -
Big Lou's Boot Animation Tutorial for Noobs - Droid Forum - Verizon Droid & the Motorola Droid Forum

Either way, good luck and please post back with your results.
 
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Hey there. Hope you don't mind, but created a little boot animation for your wife when I was bored at work today. It's only my second one I've ever done, so might still be a little rough around the edges. On my Eris it loads a little slow until right before the phone boots then it cycles through kind of quick. I am running a custom rom though, so that might have something to do with it. Let me know how it runs on her phone and I can adjust it, or show you how to do it yourself, whichever you prefer. I uploaded it here:

RapidShare: 1-CLICK Web hosting - Easy Filehosting
MD5: FEDAA64C102D8660D9EB4A2D845790E8

Don't be afraid to ask me to tweak it for you, because I know every phone is a little different and it might not run the same. Enjoy...
 
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I apologize. I did not realize there was a time limit on those files. I hate Rapidshare anyway after they changed a bunch of their policies. I only use Multiupload anymore. Unfortunately, I don't even have this zip anymore either as I made it on another computer that I don't have access to anymore. Also my computer is down due to hard drive issues as well. Hoping to get it fixed up and back on track after work tonight, but we'll see. It might be beyond repair. Anyway, if it is fixed up, I'll give it another go. I enjoy making them and now that I have done quite a few, it doesn't take me near as long as did to make this one. I was also a little annoyed I never got any feed back one way or another from the original poster. I did spend a couple of hours on it, at least I could have got a thanks, but not what I was looking for... Ah well, what are you gonna do?
 
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I apologize. I did not realize there was a time limit on those files. I hate Rapidshare anyway after they changed a bunch of their policies. I only use Multiupload anymore. Unfortunately, I don't even have this zip anymore either as I made it on another computer that I don't have access to anymore. Also my computer is down due to hard drive issues as well. Hoping to get it fixed up and back on track after work tonight, but we'll see. It might be beyond repair. Anyway, if it is fixed up, I'll give it another go. I enjoy making them and now that I have done quite a few, it doesn't take me near as long as did to make this one. I was also a little annoyed I never got any feed back one way or another from the original poster. I did spend a couple of hours on it, at least I could have got a thanks, but not what I was looking for... Ah well, what are you gonna do?

Oh man! I'm sorry dude. Really I am. That was ultra rude of me. I actually messed up her phone trying to root it around the time I posted this and I completely forgot about my plans about the boot animation. Please accept my apologies. My thanks is about 3 months late but it's sincere.
 
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