Kernel Messages boot animation

teknoraver · May 27, 2012

Hi,

I have made this custom boot image for myself and I wanted to share it.
I have disabled the bootanimation and I have enabled the kernel messages instead.

just flash the boot image and remove/rename /system/bin/bootanimation

if anyone is willing to help I would create an update zip which flashes the boot partition and renames /system/bin/bootanimation

Cheers,
Matteo

leos0000 · May 27, 2012

teknoraver said:
Hi,

I have made this custom boot image for myself and I wanted to share it.
I have disabled the bootanimation and I have enabled the kernel messages instead.

just flash the boot image and remove/rename /system/bin/bootanimation

if anyone is willing to help I would create an update zip which flashes the boot partition and renames /system/bin/bootanimation

Cheers,
Matteo

Nice work bro

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leos0000 · May 27, 2012

Hey man can u make please zip

for recovery

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teknoraver · May 27, 2012

leos0000 said:
Hey man can u make please zip for recovery

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I've never did that, but if someone is kind enough to do it or point me to a good tutorial I will do

MistaBishi · May 27, 2012

CM9 Skankwich doesn't like it, causes non-stop FC's upon bootup.

tidal25w · May 27, 2012

Do you know if this will work on a HTC One X?

Thanks

Mojochief · May 27, 2012

tidal25w said:
Do you know if this will work on a HTC One X?

Thanks

I really don't think so! This is as far as I know a modified Galaxy nexus boot image.

teknoraver · May 28, 2012

The thread was moved to "Galaxy Nexus Themes and Apps" but I don't really think that it's correct.
Tecnically it isn't a boot animation, is a kernel hack to disable it and show the "raw" boot.
Everything that is printed is printed by the TTY subsystem, it's not rendered by a bootanimation

leets4uc3 · May 28, 2012

this is awesome. I disabled my boot animation and it only shows the kernel messages for a few seconds then a plain android boot animation appears. Is there any way to make it longer or is that all that is supposed to come up?

i am on aokp b37 also.

good work!

wilskywalker · May 29, 2012

@teknoraver

I would like to add this as a completely new section in my boot animation thread if that's cool??

Couple of clarifications though:

This looks more like a kernel edit to me and therefore this is somewhat ROM specific in that if folks flash this boot.img it will disable certain ROM specific features controlled by the kernel?

Assuming the above is true, a per ROM boot.img would need to be created to make this work whilst preserving all functionality?

To give an example, if you flash a custom kernel over cm9 you will find some of the settings options are blanked out and you are no longer able to use them unless you have a specific kernel control app or you start fiddling around with init.d scripts.

WiredPirate · May 29, 2012

This sounds kind of like "live logcat", is it similar?

teknoraver · May 29, 2012

leets4uc3 said:
this is awesome. I disabled my boot animation and it only shows the kernel messages for a few seconds then a plain android boot animation appears. Is there any way to make it longer or is that all that is supposed to come up?

i am on aokp b37 also.

good work!

You need to rename /system/bin/bootanimation to something else

ArmanUV · May 30, 2012

WiredPirate said:
This sounds kind of like "live logcat", is it similar?

exactly what I came here to say. I tried it a while back and it worked flawlessly: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.livelogcat.lite&hl=en

teknoraver · May 31, 2012

ArmanUV said:
exactly what I came here to say. I tried it a while back and it worked flawlessly: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.livelogcat.lite&hl=en

No it's different.
Livelogcat is a bootanimation which draws logcat messages in a complex manner.
My patch disables the animation and let the kernel print messages like it does on PC and servers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo7f1UHb-Fs
http://youtu.be/NQ8rzbW1Wdk?t=41s

gianguido · May 31, 2012

can you give us the source code?

phone_user · May 31, 2012

teknoraver said:
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if anyone is willing to help I would create an update zip which flashes the boot partition and renames /system/bin/bootanimation

Cheers,
Matteo

Here, flashable zip in recovery

Using any kernel format installer (koush) does not touch the existing ramdisk (no problem on CM etc)

and Kernel.Messages.bootanimation_Restore.zip reverting /system/bin/bootanimation
(Edit : If you deleted that file already, flash Installing_system.bin.bootanimation.zip to restore)

FrostyF7 · May 31, 2012

I used image flasher GUI on my ns4g but apparently it is not supported for gnex. What are some other methods of flashing an image.

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