Root Followed Every Tutorial On The Web Still No Luck Changing the Boot Animation

OMJ · Oct 27, 2010

must mean the mount command isnt working. I will look and see if I can find the correct mount command for the wildfire.

OMJ · Oct 27, 2010

apparently its tough to do on the wildfire. Theres a thread on it here. Custom bootanimators - xda-developers

You need to use your computer and adb while the phone is in recovery. (Clockwork has an option for mounting /system its either under mounts and storage or partitions menu.)
You will have to put the bootanimation.zip in your adb tools folder on your computer. Then use the following commands with adb.

adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local/
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media/
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/ressource/

DanielJamesHTC · Oct 29, 2010

These sounds like it will work since we are in recovery mode. I actually managed to change the animation by installing a new Rom in recovery mode. I have the new Rom installed but will use your method to change boot animations.

Thank you

DanielJamesHTC · Oct 29, 2010

WOW it worked fantastic..

Maybe I will post a you-tube video.... Using the recovery mode which is 100% the answer as the other time the system was read only.

thank you both for helping

that's amazing ty. its only a boot screen but I think that's fantastic you solved the problem

thank you

Daniel James

SUroot · Oct 29, 2010

Once S-off AlphaRev 1.5 is available on the wildfire, you will be able to just browse via root explorer and do it on the phone with no adb shell.

piemasta93 · Oct 29, 2010

OMJ said:
assuming you have the bootanimation.zip on your sdcard but not in a folder this is the commands that should work. Again I dont have a wildfire so I cant be positive.

In better terminal

su
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mv /system/media/bootanimation.zip /system/media/bootanimation.old
dd if=/sdcard/bootanimation.zip of=/system/media/bootanimation.zip
reboot

that should work

wow it actually worked thank you so much.

piemasta93 · Oct 29, 2010

OMJ said:
assuming you have the bootanimation.zip on your sdcard but not in a folder this is the commands that should work. Again I dont have a wildfire so I cant be positive.

In better terminal

su
mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
mv /system/media/bootanimation.zip /system/media/bootanimation.old
dd if=/sdcard/bootanimation.zip of=/system/media/bootanimation.zip
reboot

that should work

ok ummm take back what i said. it worked but not the right way. it changed it to something that just says android...its boring and that not the animation i put on there. plz help me i want some awesome boot animations. btw i have a droid 1 2.2

DanielJamesHTC · Oct 29, 2010

what i have done is use a music video and create a boot animation from that. You can use DVDVideoSoft Free Studio with the "Free video to jpeg converter"

and then use " photo magician" to convert jpeg to png. Currently I boot without any sound, but you could also have sound if you wanted too.

Hope this gives you ideas about converting videos.

DanielJamesHTC · Oct 29, 2010

All those stupid tutorials I read and the solution was so simple. go into recovery mode lol. why do people make the other tutorials so complicated haha

piemasta93 · Oct 29, 2010

DanielJamesHTC said:
All those stupid tutorials I read and the solution was so simple. go into recovery mode lol. why do people make the other tutorials so complicated haha

ok well you abviously know how to do it the easy way. plz give me a step by step guide. thank you.

DanielJamesHTC · Nov 2, 2010

piemasta93N read the previous posts:

adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local/
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/media/
adb push bootanimation.zip /system/customize/ressource/

You need to download the sdk for android and place the folder in C:

You place the bootanimation folder in the SDK folder

You need to have the phone in recovery mode if you have rooted the mobile. press the power button and the volume down button when booting the mobile.

what OMJ said:

"Clockwork has an option for mounting /system its either under mounts and storage or partitions menu.) "

You run the commands from CMD command prompt on your computer.

hope this helps you, this method is the easiest method. I don't take any credit that goes to OMJ.....

piemasta93 · Nov 2, 2010

hey thanks but dont worry i found a way easier way to get any boot screen you want. you dont need to download really anything.
first you will need your boot screen file and you will need to download terminal emulator from the app store.
after that plug your phone into your computer.
when you pull up all the files just put the boot screen file on the phone NOT in any folder. after it is done copying rename the file "bootanimation" you dont need to put .zip at the end it does that atomatically. then unplug phone and go into the termianl emulator and put in this code.
su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
dd if=/sdcard/bootanimation.zip of=/system/media/bootanimation.zip
reboot
its so much faster and easyier and there is no way to screw up your phone. thanks for everyone who tryed to help. but i figued since no one had a way to do this a really easy way. i figued i would do it myself

DanielJamesHTC · Nov 11, 2010

I already tried this method and for me it never worked if it works for you than fantastic

Root Followed Every Tutorial On The Web Still No Luck Changing the Boot Animation

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