Root Resize bootanimation

blaze420916 said:

Does any one know how to resize a bootanimation to fit our phones screen size?

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Yes, you will need to resize it with an image editor. It is a series of images played either once or in a loop. It depends on the settings you put in the zip file. As far as the location of the bootanimation.zip....I have no idea where its located on stock.

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Have you tried editing the desc file that is inside the bootanimation.zip?

blaze420916 said:

No don't know how to do that

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I'm pretty sure there's app that can do that.
I know romtoolbox pro has the option to resize. But I've never tried

Rom Toolbox works...if you're trying to resize it and it's giving you a black screen then you have to manually resize each picture using an image editor...that takes a while...

blaze420916 said:

It does not work it just gives you a black screen during boot

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I think this is what u looking for a bootanimation.

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Krlypumaa said:

I think this is what u looking for

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I got a software u can download free n do it or self... I will post the site later 2nite when I get how

Absolute System Tools allows you to resize

here are the free software to create, customize boot animations.

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How to remove post? This was a double post and I don't see where to remove it. I clicked the "edit" button and don't see anything anywhere.....

I've been talking with a couple people in PM and figured I would share my experiences here in this thread so other people can possibly benefit as well.

1. Use a root explorer app (I use es file explorer)

2. Copy the bootanimation.zip file (stored in /system/media and usually done by 'long-holding' until a menu comes up)

3. Navigate to your pc (I do most of mine wirelessly, just makes it a lot easier. For those of you without a wireless connection you can do it over bluetooth (in my opinion is SLOW) or if you have the charger/connection cable do it that way)

4. Save the bootanimation.zip file onto your pc (you can skip steps 1-4 if you have the boot animation on your pc already)

5. unzip the bootanimation.zip file and open the desc.txt file

6. Edit or check the top line (which for our phone should say 320 480 30. You can change the 30 if you want. This is your frames-per-second. Some boot animations I speed up, some I slow down. On average I keep them about 30. If you slow them down too much (this amount changes for every boot animation) they will become choppy, and if you speed them up too much (again, this changes for every boot animation) they'll blur by really fast.

7. After changing the desc.txt file you select all the 'part' folders and the desc.txt file (basically everything that the bootanimation.zip unpacked) you right click and select "Add to archive" if you are using Winrar. For other zipping software you'll just have to mess around with it. Winrar is all I use. Sorry.

8. MAKE SURE that the compression is set to STORE and nothing else. Basically you want 0% compression (if you click on a zip file and goto properties it shows you the ratio %. You want this to say 100%)

9. Go back into your root file explorer(make sure you have root access enabled in the settings of your root explorer or you won't be able to make any changes) and rename your original bootanimation.zip to bootanimation.zip.bak. After you do this you can copy your now changed/new boot animation to the same folder.

10. Exit out of the root explorer app and reboot your phone and enjoy your new re-sized boot animation.

I realize this "seems" like a lot of steps but to be honest, once you get the hang of it, it'll take you like 30-60 seconds. I can pull, edit, push a boot animation file almost instantly now that I've gotten the hang of it. As far as PHYSICALLY changing the boot animation files. Well, you'll have to use an image editor (any should be fine. I use photoshop) and change EVERY SINGLE jpg/png inside of those 'part' folders after you unzip the bootanimation.zip file. Obviously if the jpg/png files are smaller than our phone screen and you change the desc.txt file the picture will be stretched and look like crap.

On the other side of the coin if the picture is WAY bigger than our screen it will be shrunk down (sometimes looking a little off) but in the long run giving you a cleaner boot animation. Thing here is though you'll also be dealing with a larger boot animation file size. Most of the one's I've been pushing to my phone have been about 5-7 Mbs. Again, this is just all a personal preference and how you think it looks on your phone. Me, I want a nice crisp, clean boot animation. Not one that's all grainy looking.

Hopefully this helps someone. I know I was kinda skittish about messing with the boot animation but once I did it a time or two and actually did some reading/researching I became a lot more comfortable with messing around. Here's a few sites that I read stuff and it helped me understand better.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1100716

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=862537

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852621
This one is my favorite because it goes into detail about

Edit: I wanted to add that before you move the bootanimation.zip file over to your phone, but after you zip it, that you open it up and go into each 'part' folder and delete any thumbs.db files. This will cut out quite a bit of un-needed data.

I followed it.... but unfortunately the phone stopped showing boot animations now!