[BootAnimation] The Final Countdown! (NO NEED FOR ROOT ACCESS!) [UPDATE 05/27/11]

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You do NOT need root access!
Easy to restore stock animation!

2 Play speed options! 45FPS is faster (45 frames per second) and 30FPS slower (since the tf takes forever to boot!)

Asus_animation.zip is just the last part, the asus logo animation on loop.

3 Options to install.

First Download the attached the animation you want and extract it to reveal "bootanimation.zip

1. ADB
Navigate to the folder containing "bootanimation.zip" in terminal/command prompt.
Type the following

adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local

Then to test

adb shell bootanimation

2. Root Explorer
Copy "bootanimation.zip" to your SD card
On your Streak open up Root Explorer (or any other app that allows you to copy paste to the internal memory)
Copy "bootanimation.zip" and paste it to /Data/Local

3. Terminal Emulator
thanks nickshertzer, his directions are for drop box but can easily be manipulated for simply copying the bootanimation.zip to your SDcard

Originally Posted by nickshertzer

Bump! This is awesome! Thanks for sharing.

BTW, if you don't have / want to get out that sync cable for ADB, use dropbox & Terminal Emulator. Make sure you download the .zip using dropbox longpress first before running following command

su 
cp /sdcard/dropbox/bootanimation.zip /data/local/ 
reboot

To remove and restore stock animation just enter the following command in shell/terminal:

adb shell rm /data/local/bootanimation.zip

Enjoy


Updated it by slimming it down and fixed it so asus animation isn't stretched.

FIXED white pixels on edges!

Think this is the final and its good to go!

Looks cool. Makes me wish I'd rooted mine.

makes it from 10 to the ASUS logo. all looks good except asus logo looks terrible. try it out once you get your TF. good work though.

Originally Posted by fone_fanatic

My transformer is coming in today so I decided to make a countdown boot animation to pass the time



The animation goes a lot faster on the device (tested it out on my dell streak) but since I don't have my transfomer yet I don't know how fast it boots.

If this is too long, I'll either make it start counting down from 5 or 3 and/or just speed it up (depends on how fast the transformer boots).

Please leave a reply concerning the length of the animation and speed of the transformer's boot time.

Also if you would like the countdown without the asus at the end, i have that too, request it and i'll post.

3 Options to install.

First step: Download the "bootanimation.zip"

1. ADB
Navigate to the folder containing "bootanimation.zip" in terminal/command prompt.
Type the following

adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local

Then to test

adb shell bootanimation

2. Root Explorer
Copy "bootanimation.zip" to your SD card
On your Streak open up Root Explorer (or any other app that allows you to copy paste to the internal memory)
Copy "bootanimation.zip" and paste it to /Data/Local

3. Terminal Emulator
thanks nickshertzer, his directions are for drop box but can easily be manipulated for simply copying the bootanimation.zip to your SDcard



Enjoy

DOWNLOAD LINK

Sorry for the megaupload link but the file is 8.45MB and xda's limit for .zip files is 8.0
Once i get my transformer I'll downgrade the files a bit and take some repeated ones out to slim it down and speed it up.

I'm a little disappointed it's not playing "the final countdown" by Europe.

Originally Posted by nxp3

I'm a little disappointed it's not playing "the final countdown" by Europe.

It is in my head! haha
I'll mess around with boot sounds and try to get them working when i get mine.

Originally Posted by nxp3

i'm a little disappointed it's not playing "the final countdown" by europe.

+1 .

~dc

Got my tf today but sorry to say I'm not gonna root it till after the weekend because i'm not gonna have time to mess with it till monday.

I understand why the Asus part looks bad but haven't seen it for myself. But overall what u guys think?

Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium App

Originally Posted by stuntdouble

Looks cool. Makes me wish I'd rooted mine.

I haven't rooted my Transformer and I have found that I can use adb to push bootanimation.zip files to /data/local and use custom boot animations.

Originally Posted by jschmier

I haven't rooted my Transformer and I have found that I can use adb to push bootanimation.zip files to /data/local and use custom boot animations.

Cool didnt know that. Can you also save the original animation file using ADB, just in case you'd ever need to put it back on and return it under warranty?

Originally Posted by stuntdouble

Cool didnt know that. Can you also save the original animation file using ADB, just in case you'd ever need to put it back on and return it under warranty?

Yes it is possible to save the original bootanimation.zip using ADB.

adb pull /system/media/bootanimation.zip bootanimation.zip

That being said, my post entitled custom bootanimation w/o root in a separate thread hints at why you don't necessarily need to.

The tablet will first look to /data/local and then /system/media for the boot animation. The Asus boot animation is found in /system/media and you need to have root permissions to write to this directory. However, root permissions are not required to write to /data/local. Reverting back to the stock boot animation is as simple as removing the custom animation from the /data/local directory.