Root and Boot Animation ?'s

[Berry2Droid]

First off, im running HC2.1,
1.Dont you have to root to be able to upgrade to a different software type? I rooted before in stalling greek35 2.1, then upgraded to HC2.1, do i have to reroot?
2. Rooting is just, using the update.zip file you download, then using droidroothelp.apk program, mount3, update those 3 things, flash 15.0, rename, reboot ect...so basically as long as you have SU app on your phone your rooted no?

Now boot animation question
I downloaded a boot animation, connected my phone with usb debugging, used the cd command and abd push bootanimation.zip /data/local, rebooted and the boot animation didnt change..after i used the push command, it said x.xkb transfered in 1.23seconds or whatever...any suggestions?

 

[CRPercodani]

You can just put the bootanimation.zip on your sd card, then in a adb shell do

su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mv /system/media/bootanimation.zip /system/media/bootanimation.bak
cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip
sync
reboot


That is it, if cp comes back as not found then just do
mv /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip
OR
cat /sdcard/bootanimation.zip > /system/media/bootanimation.zip

 

[CRPercodani]

Oh and with humancyborg's 2.1 you should already have root. Yep I just checked and it is already rooted.

 

[blue rocket]

THERE IS NO NEED TO ROOT TO CHANGE YOUR BOOT ANIMATION.

Follow these SIMPLE instructions and mod your boot ani the safe way without having to root your droid!

Big Lou's Boot Animation Tutorial for Noobs - Droid Forum - Verizon Droid & the Motorola Droid Forum

Various boot ani's can be found here:

Boot Animations - Droidboots

Enjoy.

 

[CRPercodani]

Except he is already rooted and wasn't asking if he needed to do it for that.

 

[blue rocket]

ahhh my B.

 

[CRPercodani]

All good, thanks for the link to that boot ani site though.

 

[Berry2Droid]

You can just put the bootanimation.zip on your sd card, then in a adb shell do

su
mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system
mv /system/media/bootanimation.zip /system/media/bootanimation.bak
cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip
sync
reboot


That is it, if cp comes back as not found then just do
mv /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip
OR
cat /sdcard/bootanimation.zip > /system/media/bootanimation.zip

Its been partially explained to me but im not grasping this abd shell. I dont know what im not getting about it. I followed all of the instructions on Big Lou's post with push bootanimation.zip ect and it didnt work.

I did all his commands by using usb debug and using start>run>cmd

Whats abd shell?

 

[Berry2Droid]

nvm got it to work, noone ever told me i neede to install the motorola drivers thanks

 

[blue]

First off, im running HC2.1,
1.Dont you have to root to be able to upgrade to a different software type? I rooted before in stalling greek35 2.1, then upgraded to HC2.1, do i have to reroot?
2. Rooting is just, using the update.zip file you download, then using droidroothelp.apk program, mount3, update those 3 things, flash 15.0, rename, reboot ect...so basically as long as you have SU app on your phone your rooted no?

Now boot animation question
I downloaded a boot animation, connected my phone with usb debugging, used the cd command and abd push bootanimation.zip /data/local, rebooted and the boot animation didnt change..after i used the push command, it said x.xkb transfered in 1.23seconds or whatever...any suggestions?

did you put the zip you want to push onto your phone in the tools folder?

 

[Berry2Droid]

did you put the zip you want to push onto your phone in the tools folder?

Yea i did, was having issues with adb shell, im good now, its on there =) thanks