[How To] How To Install a Boot Animation (Rooted AND Non-Rooted)

Nolam20 · Apr 3, 2012

This is mainly for the users of my animations who were asking! - Have fun guys!

If you are rooted:
1. Download a root explorer app (ES File Explorer is suggested and free)
2. Enable root directory (in ES File Explorer hit menu, go to settings, and check "Up to Root", then go farther down and check "Root Explorer". Accept any Superuser requests.
3. Go back to your explorer and navigate to where you downloaded the "bootanimation.zip" file. Copy (or cut) it.
4. Navigate as far up as you can into your root directory, and then to /data/local/
5. Paste your "bootanimation.zip" file into /data/local/ (it MUST be named bootanimation.zip)
6. Reboot and enjoy!

Alternatively, you can put it in /system/media, HOWEVER, make sure you back up your stock bootanimation.zip (rename it to bootanimation.zip.bak or move it to your sdcard somewhere) in case something goes wrong.

If you are not rooted (or rooted, this method works with both)
**PC only! I'm not sure how to set the Max OSX terminal to accept "adb" commands by default!**

Setup:
1. Download the newest Android SDK
2. Click the start menu, right click "Computer", and click "Properties"
3. Click "Advanced System Settings" on the left (On Win7)
4. In the advanced tab, click "Environment Variables"
5. In the system variables window, find "Path", select it and click "edit"
6. At the end of the bottom line, paste:
For 64-bit users:

Code:

;C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools

For 32-bit users:

Code:

;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools

7. Click OK.

Process:
1. Plug in your device using a USB cable and enable USB Debugging (in the settings menu under development on your device)
2. Click the start menu, and either search for "cmd" or click run, and type "cmd.exe"
3. Navigate to the folder that you downloaded the bootanimation.zip file to using the following commands:

Code:

dir - lists all files in the directory stated
cd - changes directory to the given path. If "cd ..", it will navigate one folder backwards.

4. Use the following commands (your file must be named bootanimation.zip)

Code:

adb pull /data/local/bootanimation.zip C:\
adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local

NOTE: Alternatively for part 2 you can type "adb push ", open windows explorer, and drag the file infront of the command which will give you the path without having to type it in or navigate to it.

5. Be patient, when it is done it will say something like "X kb/s (X bytes) in X seconds"
6. You can test to see if you did it correctly by rebooting manually or entering

Code:

adb reboot

7. If you no longer want a custom bootanimation, just enter

Code:

adb pull /data/local/bootanimation.zip C:\

Remember to look in your main HDD directory and delete the bootanimation.zip file if it in fact did show up there for some reason.

Note: if it STILL does not revert to the stock boot animation after doing this step, type

Code:

adb shell

cd /data/local

rm bootanimation.zip

**If you have adb problems or questions, I'm not the one to ask, Google is

Thank you for thanking me!

lt thistle · Apr 4, 2012

I was completely unaware you could change your boot animation unrooted, thanks

Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201 using Tapatalk 2 Beta-5

racerxx · Apr 4, 2012

Thanks for this.
I thought it could not be done without a un-rooted Prime.

rndmnss · Apr 5, 2012

Thanks for this! Wasn't planning on rooting my Prime just yet and it's great that I can change the boot animation!

RonH54 · Apr 5, 2012

If you do copy a bootanimation.zip to the data/local directory do you have to do anything to the Original bootanimation.zip in the system/media Directory?

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Nolam20 · Apr 5, 2012

RonH54 said:
If you do copy a bootanimation.zip to the data/local directory do you have to do anything to the Original bootanimation.zip in the system/media Directory?

Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201 using Tapatalk

Nope! It stays there safe and sound and will start playing again as soon as you remove the one from /data/local!

RonH54 · Apr 5, 2012

Nolam20 said:
Nope! It stays there safe and sound and will start playing again as soon as you remove the one from /data/local!

Thanks. I had always just renamed my bootanimation.zip file and copied new one to the system/media directory but with these Bigger File size bootanimation.zip I was getting error that there not enough room to copy some of these bootanimation.zip files to the system/media directory.

hogges · Apr 10, 2012

Thanks

lovit

theManchur · Jul 5, 2012

Awesome Workaround, but I have a little problem

I'm trying to get this working, but when I type in the commands in cmd, it says the adb is not recognized as a command. Help?

Nolam20 · Jul 5, 2012

theManchur said:
I'm trying to get this working, but when I type in the commands in cmd, it says the adb is not recognized as a command. Help?

Make sure you've correctly done steps 3-7 of setup, otherwise cmd.exe will not know what to do with adb commands.

blaxican25 · Jul 6, 2012

i always put my bootanimations in system/media and make sure your permissions are set like this

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Nolam20 · Jul 6, 2012

blaxican25 said:
i always put my bootanimations in system/media and make sure your permissions are set like this

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His problem appears to be something different.

riorancho · Sep 16, 2012

Can't get past the CMD command section. more detail help for us no bodies

Nolam20 said:
This is mainly for the users of my animations who were asking! - Have fun guys!

If you are rooted:
1. Download a root explorer app (ES File Explorer is suggested and free)
2. Enable root directory (in ES File Explorer hit menu, go to settings, and check "Up to Root", then go farther down and check "Root Explorer". Accept any Superuser requests.
3. Go back to your explorer and navigate to where you downloaded the "bootanimation.zip" file. Copy (or cut) it.
4. Navigate as far up as you can into your root directory, and then to /data/local/
5. Paste your "bootanimation.zip" file into /data/local/ (it MUST be named bootanimation.zip)
6. Reboot and enjoy!

Alternatively, you can put it in /system/media, HOWEVER, make sure you back up your stock bootanimation.zip (rename it to bootanimation.zip.bak or move it to your sdcard somewhere) in case something goes wrong.

If you are not rooted (or rooted, this method works with both)
**PC only! I'm not sure how to set the Max OSX terminal to accept "adb" commands by default!**

Setup:
1. Download the newest Android SDK
2. Click the start menu, right click "Computer", and click "Properties"
3. Click "Advanced System Settings" on the left (On Win7)
4. In the advanced tab, click "Environment Variables"
5. In the system variables window, find "Path", select it and click "edit"
6. At the end of the bottom line, paste:
For 64-bit users:

Code:

;C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools

For 32-bit users:

Code:

;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools

7. Click OK.

Process:
1. Plug in your device using a USB cable and enable USB Debugging (in the settings menu under development on your device)
2. Click the start menu, and either search for "cmd" or click run, and type "cmd.exe"
3. Navigate to the folder that you downloaded the bootanimation.zip file to using the following commands:

Code:

dir - lists all files in the directory stated cd - changes directory to the given path. If "cd ..", it will navigate one folder backwards.

4. Use the following commands (your file must be named bootanimation.zip)

Code:

adb pull /data/local/bootanimation.zip C:\ adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local

NOTE: Alternatively for part 2 you can type "adb push ", open windows explorer, and drag the file infront of the command which will give you the path without having to type it in or navigate to it.

5. Be patient, when it is done it will say something like "X kb/s (X bytes) in X seconds"
6. You can test to see if you did it correctly by rebooting manually or entering

Code:

adb reboot

7. If you no longer want a custom bootanimation, just enter

Code:

adb pull /data/local/bootanimation.zip C:\

Remember to look in your main HDD directory and delete the bootanimation.zip file if it in fact did show up there for some reason.

Note: if it STILL does not revert to the stock boot animation after doing this step, type

Code:

adb shell cd /data/local rm bootanimation.zip

**If you have adb problems or questions, I'm not the one to ask, Google is

Thank you for thanking me!

Nolam20 · Sep 16, 2012

riorancho said:
Can't get past the CMD command section. more detail help for us no bodies

What specifically are you having trouble with?

riorancho · Sep 16, 2012

Section 7 and down. I am not that dos smart to understand what you substitute in the cmd screen and I don't even know if my zip file is correct. I had it on my desktop then in c: adk\tool folder but I can't get any further than completing line 6 set up. Compressed with no compression using winzip.

And I really don't know if my txt file is correct?? My image size is 960 x 540

Using a Razr Maxx. site won't let me download the win zip file

Nolam20 said:
What specifically are you having trouble with?

Nolam20 · Sep 16, 2012

riorancho said:
Section 7 and down. I am not that dos smart to understand what you substitute in the cmd screen and I don't even know if my zip file is correct. I had it on my desktop then in c: adk\tool folder but I can't get any further than completing line 6 set up. Compressed with no compression using winzip.

And I really don't know if my txt file is correct?? My image size is 960 x 540

Using a Razr Maxx. site won't let me download the win zip file

I'm not really sure how exactly I can help you, I'd go over the guide a few more times and google your problem.

I need specific problems like errors or what you don't understand.

Also, I don't know the size for a Droid Razr, but you can probably find it via a quick search.

riorancho · Sep 16, 2012

I get lost here

Process:

1. Plug in your device using a USB cable and enable USB Debugging (in the settings menu under development on your device) OK
2. Click the start menu, and either search for "cmd" or click run, and type "cmd.exe" OK
3. Navigate to the folder that you downloaded the bootanimation.zip file to using the following commands:
Code: LOST RIGHT HERE WITH THE PROPER COMMAND
dir - lists all files in the directory stated
cd - changes directory to the given path. If "cd ..", it will navigate one folder backwards.

what command do I put in in cmd at this point?
dir - lists all files in the directory stated
cd - changes directory to the given path. If "cd ..", it will navigate one folder backwards.

and then:

Use the following commands (your file must be named bootanimation.zip)
Code:
adb pull /data/local/bootanimation.zip C:\
adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local

what is this command above??

Where do I save my boot zip file to??

Nolam20 said:
I'm not really sure how exactly I can help you, I'd go over the guide a few more times and google your problem.

I need specific problems like errors or what you don't understand.

Also, I don't know the size for a Droid Razr, but you can probably find it via a quick search.

Nolam20 · Sep 16, 2012

riorancho said:
I get lost here

Process:

1. Plug in your device using a USB cable and enable USB Debugging (in the settings menu under development on your device) OK
2. Click the start menu, and either search for "cmd" or click run, and type "cmd.exe" OK
3. Navigate to the folder that you downloaded the bootanimation.zip file to using the following commands:
Code: LOST RIGHT HERE WITH THE PROPER COMMAND
dir - lists all files in the directory stated
cd - changes directory to the given path. If "cd ..", it will navigate one folder backwards.

what command do I put in in cmd at this point?
dir - lists all files in the directory stated
cd - changes directory to the given path. If "cd ..", it will navigate one folder backwards.

and then:

Use the following commands (your file must be named bootanimation.zip)
Code:
adb pull /data/local/bootanimation.zip C:\
adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local

what is this command above??

Where do I save my boot zip file to??

Ok, so, for example, if your file is in user/Fred/Documents and named bootanimation.zip, then you need to type:

Code:

cd users

then

Code:

cd Fred

then

Code:

documents

then type

Code:

adb pull /data/local/bootanimation.zip

Then

Code:

adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local

riorancho · Sep 16, 2012

part of the problem may be that I have a mac and use windows under parellas so the files are not the same

in c: Users\DT\Documents DOCUMENTS IS WHERE ZIP FILE IS LOCATED

get error message: "adb" is not reconized as an internal or external command operabtle program or batch file

Nolam20 said:
Ok, so, for example, if your file is in user/Fred/Documents and named bootanimation.zip, then you need to type:

Code:

cd users

then

Code:

cd Fred

then

Code:

documents

then type

Code:

adb pull /data/local/bootanimation.zip

Then

Code:

adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local

Nolam20 · Sep 16, 2012

riorancho said:
part of the problem may be that I have a mac and use windows under parellas so the files are not the same

in c: Users\DT\Documents DOCUMENTS IS WHERE ZIP FILE IS LOCATED

get error message: "adb" is not reconized as an internal or external command operabtle program or batch file

Then you didn't follow steps 2-7 correctly.

2. Click the start menu, right click "Computer", and click "Properties"
3. Click "Advanced System Settings" on the left (On Win7)
4. In the advanced tab, click "Environment Variables"
5. In the system variables window, find "Path", select it and click "edit"
6. At the end of the bottom line, paste:
For 64-bit users:
Code:
;C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools
For 32-bit users:
Code:
;C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools
7. Click OK.

This guide is for windows, if you're having problems getting it to work on Mac or a virtual Windows machine, I'm sorry but I can't help you.

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