The animation is easy enough to re enable... The directions for doing it are listed in the tips and tricks (or useful hacks?) thread for FL16. I've got it working here on GA10 just fine... You do needed to be rooted to edit the necessary file though.
(Here's the link to the quoted thread, in case anyone else was looking for it...)
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2068988&highlight=tips+fl16