yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] jman2020:
It won't without a custom kernel that supports it like voodoo our something like that
[Android Apps and Games] oeN:
thanks :)
[Android Apps and Games] james60007:
excellent. Bought the paid version to support dev. But something cosmetic: Donate bottun is still in the Menu for pro version?
[Android Apps and Games] evets90:
LG Ally has no default animation to backup (no custom, just rooted whatever LG puts on it...2.2)

So does it support animations?
[Android Apps and Games] EddyBalls:
Hey dev, so far I'm loving the idea, but I'm on a Samsung Epic with a Stock EC05 Froyo with Genocide kernel. I'm having the same problem as everyone else. I'm on version 1.1.1 of your app and it says i have no bootani to backup, and when i try to import through file browser, nothing happens. I can download fine, but the import just doesn't work. I've tried rebooting too but nothing. I think i read earlier it might be SGS that's causing the problem? I hope not cause this app sounds killer. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] jman2020:
I am running this on an SGS phone just fine. Make sure you have a kernel that can do custom boot animations first and foremost. If you do, the utility will still not see a backup etc because Samsung uses a funky boot animation stock. What you need to do is use adb or terminal to push an animation to /system/media then reboot. This will change your boot ani as well as give the utility something to backup. But from that point on, you should be able to use the utility to change the animations. It's like it needs to be shown initially where the animations are and it wont until there is one in the correct spot.
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
It seems to be galaxy s devices dont support the bootanimation unless you flash a custom kernel....
[Android Apps and Games] jman2020:
that is exactly it. And even then you have to manually push the animation the 1st time so that the app can "see" where they go. After that it's golden.
[Android Apps and Games] EddyBalls:
sweet thanks for the quick reply guys. Currently i am on a custom kernel, but i guess now it's up to ADB. Once i get home i will for sure do this.

wait quick question. when i push it to that path, what is it that i necessarily need to push? is it the .zip that i download from the app? because so far i get this from what your saying: push said .zip to system/media, app will read it as a bootani, it will use that one as a backup, then the app will work, now i can change it. Am i wrong? Thanks in advance
[Android Apps and Games] jman2020:
actually you can do it with terminal too.

su

cp /sdcard/path/to/animation /system/media/bootanimation.zip

reboot

so if you wanted to try it without waiting. I am impatient like that though lol.
[Android Apps and Games] EddyBalls:
lol i'm impatient too. after i posted that, i was like "wait...i can do it right now in terminal." i will try right now and report ASAP. also i edited my post with another question, don't wanna double post >.< kinda new to the forum so don't wanna be all noobish and stuff and totally make some party fouls. thanks a lot man!
[Android Apps and Games] jman2020:
say you download BlueHoneycomb.zip from the app. move it to your SD card root (just to make things easier) then open terminal and do the following:

su

cp /sdcard/BlueHoneycomb.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip

reboot

this will copy and rename the file to bootanimation.zip. If you have it somewhere else on your card then you just need to put in the correct path.

##### something I forgot to mention... you will need to make sure you have write access to the /system folder as well. I downloaded "mount /system (rw/ro)" from the market just because it does the script for you instead of needing to type out the whole thing in terminal.
[Android Apps and Games] EddyBalls:
PFFT DERRR sorrry, the post before already answered that lol. Well quick question...idk why terminal is telling me this, but it says that it's a read-only system/file. i always do other stuff to other files, how can i make that path or file RW?
[Android Apps and Games] jman2020:
##### something I forgot to mention... you will need to make sure you have write access to the /system folder as well. I downloaded "mount /system (rw/ro)" from the market just because it does the script for you instead of needing to type out the whole thing in terminal.
[Android Apps and Games] jman2020:
Here is a link for that app if you need it:

MARKET LINK
[Android Apps and Games] EddyBalls:
awesome sauce. Thanks alot man, i remember the script was extremely long. but got everything set up, it worked and all, rebooted my phone, and much to my dismay another problem. -_-

the boot animation i downloaded from the app that i imported worked great, problem is that stupid samsung's bootani is there too. so both play at the same time. So in the background you see the sprint ani playing, and in the foreground the downloaded one plays too. pretty funny actually. At least i'm halfway through the battle?
[Android Apps and Games] jman2020:
Interesting. When I did it I had no remnants of the old one playing... I would suggest maybe using a root explorer (Astro is a good free one) and check /system/media for any other bootanimation files. one SHOULD play instead of the other so it's weird that they are playing at the same time. Also if you look now does the utility show /system/media as your backup location now? You should be able to use the utility to select new animations now.
[Android Apps and Games] jman2020:
through some research you can try putting the animation in the /data/local folder as well. Give that a try and see what happens.
[Android Apps and Games] jman2020:
also try this link minus the CWM flashing... I believe you said you were running an Epic right?

http://forum.androidcentral.com/epi...w-remove-stock-boot-animation-froyo-eb13.html
[Android Apps and Games] EddyBalls:
Firstly, yes the utility does show that /system/media is my default backup location, which is a good start!

Secondly, using Astro didn't (for some odd reason) display any .zip files only .qmg files. So I used Root Explorer instead and the bootanimation.zip is there, but it's the one that i downloaded from the app. I did realize though, that one of the .qmg files in there is called bootani.qmg and another bootsamsung.qmg and another bootsamsungloop.qmg. i have never seen these, and never knew qmg files existed.

I remember when i had my droid all i did was replace the bootanimation.zip with the current stock one and viola. but here it seems like maybe any of these is the perpetrator? Thanks again for the millionth time xD

Edit: Yes I'm running on an Epic, and do you think there is a bootani in the /data/local folder that plays along with the one in the /system/media? cause that sounds more likely to me. :/
[Android Apps and Games] jman2020:
rename the .qmg files to something else like bootani.bak etc and that SHOULD solve your problem. Sammy chose to do a lot of things different with Galaxy phones. Like using a crappy file system and non-standard boot animation. makes it hard for devs to incorporate our devices into their work. We typically need to wait for Galaxy S versions of stuff... CM7 anyone?
[Android Apps and Games] EddyBalls:
AHH!! i knew it before even clicking the link!! ahaha wow, it's funny because the SOLE reason why i wanted to use this app was to remove that stupid sideways android brand over the stock samsung bootani. ok will try all that right now...

LOL though, dam sammy. always making things difficult. unfortunately...CM7 for epic is still in Alpha phase -___-
[Android Apps and Games] jman2020:
Same with the Mesmerize. A few guys here managed to port it but it's still pretty buggy.
[Android Apps and Games] EddyBalls:
Totally worked!!! Now that stupid samsung bootani is off and the custom one is working. Totally going to click that thanks button. Thanks jman.

Samsung - 0

Us - *infinity*
[Android Apps and Games] EddyBalls:
ch...at least you're was ported good enough. on the epic nothing works. 4g is last priority, camera doesn't work, brightness is glitchy, oh man don't get me started... and to make matters worse, they're now switching the gingerbread and ditching froyo since gingerbread got leaked, further delaying progress.
[Android Apps and Games] jman2020:
yeah I am not a patient person. I know they are working on it and I appreciate it but man I am chomping at the bit here. Anywho, not a problem with the boot utility, glad I could help.
[Android Apps and Games] EddyBalls:
see i can be patient, but as far as the things they have planned for the Epic, it drives me crazy that i have to wait. i read that for the epic, the dev team isn't really that stable. kinda sad, i think most people dev stuff for other more "popular" phones. again though, thanks again. glad it wasn't a more major problem XD
[Android Apps and Games] triagetoday:
Cool baby cool.
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
Does anyone have the exact names of those files? I can make the app back them up and then delete them so you can finally import them right
[Android Apps and Games] EddyBalls:
sure thing man, sorry for late reply. the files are in system/media

bootani.qmg - bootsamsung.qmg - bootsamsungloop.qmg

so far those are the only ones in there that have to do with the bootanimation (i think)

the one i got to work obviously was bootani.qmg. thanks again dev for your wonderful work. hope this helps.
[Android Apps and Games] mobile-freak:
nice one best:D thumbs UP
[Android Apps and Games] sudo.adam:
Nice app man! Any new features on the way?
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
Yup new preview dialog, swipe between tabs and possibly a new UI
[Android Apps and Games] thronka:
Arayray is the man! :D

Lot of features with the app and i like testing out new roms with it to make sure it works so he knows what works and doesn't.

Never in my life have I seem a developer so responsive. His roms were awesome but dang his apps are just as good.

Keep up the good work!
[Android Apps and Games] dirtsky:
Very nice. i was just wondering the other day if there was an app for this when i decided to change my boot animation.
[Android Apps and Games] amosher13:
hey dev, thanks for the awesome app, though its not working on my Epic running Bonsai ROM, no stock samsung boot animations at all. It gets past root, donate and google analytics. Then the loading popup sits for a second and it flashes back and forth between that and the initial app screen but continues doing so.

logcat

thanks for looking into it!
[Android Apps and Games] mkrstf:
sorry. wrong thread :)
[Android Apps and Games] neowarf:
Nice, this app it's for me lol

Thanks for this good work
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
Which version is the app? Looks like its older code I used to use....
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
Sorry guys, I update will be out soon! Itll be packed with new features... Im sure you will love it, I know I do! :p
[Android Apps and Games] amosher13:
hmmm, its the 1.1.1 i pulled from the first post, i'll uninstall and download new from market. then see if your coming update fixes it, thanks!

EDIT: uninstalled and downloaded the 1.1.1 from market, works fine now, maybe the version from the OP isnt the correct 1.1.1?
[Android Apps and Games] :
Can we get some randomizer please? Like, stick a collection of favorite boot animations to a folder on SD, the app copies one to phone to be used on next reboot ;)
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
Ill definitely look into that! That sounds really cool! THanks :)
[Android Apps and Games] tomj777:
Something strange here - when I attempt to preview I'm shown an (I think) in app browser page for MyBookFace.net (a site McAffee views unsafe, btw).

Being a cautious and suspicious good citizen I ran a whois http://whois.domaintools.com/arayraymod.com and learnt that arraymod.com is hosted by byet.org http://byet.org/premiumsupport/

who have problems

@araray - take a look at http://www.webhostingreviews.com/byethost-reviews.htm

Great app - when confident about security of hosting site I will gladly pay.
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
I accidentally deleted the previews on my site.... a new version will be out soon with working previews (and better) :)
[Android Apps and Games] mario06:
I Second this!!

Regards
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
Version 2.0.0 was posted with these new features:
[Android Apps and Games] afifth:
Its for cm rom?

Or it can use with original mod?

Thank
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
Its not rom specific, as long as you can use a bootanimation.zip itll work
[Android Apps and Games] afifth:
ok i hope so.
[Android Apps and Games] allchannels99:
I am excited
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
A tablet optimized version is coming soon! :)
[Android Apps and Games] Ultro:
I have a question. I've tried to use some bootanimations found on other device forums apart from my own, and I notice sometimes they won't work. Device just shows logo and no animation at bootup. I normally just push the bootanimation.zip via Root Explorer from a thread in my device forums and they work. Any chance I will encounter incompatible bootanimations even if I use this app?
[Android Apps and Games] chulo46:
Motorola Atrix compatible??
[Android Apps and Games] airbus318:
How do I delete/remove the selected boot animation and just revert back to stock?
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
New version 2.0.2 is posted with the following changes:
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
Version 2.0.3 posted with the following changes:
[Android Apps and Games] DaHorse:
Nice stuff, simple and easy to use... THANKS!
[Android Apps and Games] therkr:
Not compatible.

Motorola Charm MB502.

QVGA.
[Android Apps and Games] Helluuum:
Thanks for this
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
Version 2.0.4 was released! If your coming from 2.0.3 and below you must unistall Bootanimation Utility first and then install 2.0.4 or you will get an error 'The package was not signed correctly'.

Changes for 2.0.4:
[Android Apps and Games] pedrosa:
Hi,

I downloaded the app and bought the premium key but the preview function doesn't appear to work on my phone. I have a Galaxy S Int'l with Darky's GB v10.2.2. Final Extreme Ed ROM and the kernal that came with it. I've downloaded a couple of animations and imported them but I still don't get a preview of those animations.

I don't want to reboot at the present time as i'm re-calibrating my battery (so I'm waiting for the battery to discharge and auto shut down before rebooting) but I suspect that this shouldn't have any effect on the ability to preview an animation, or does it?

Is there something i'm doing wrong?

Please help.

Many thanks

Pete
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
Sorry about that.. Its fixed in the new release, it was an error in the url for the previews! Its all fixed now :) Check the main page for version 2.0.5
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
Version 2.0.5 posted with the following changes:
[Android Apps and Games] pedrosa:
Nice one. Thanks very much
[Android Apps and Games] engkozhe:
Works on Custom Kernel ??

im using custom kernel on X ray, is it possible to immplement this mod ? :confused::confused::confused::confused:
[Android Apps and Games] Eve_brea:
download broken
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
Is anyone interested in a new version?
[Android Apps and Games] FadeFx:
Yes..., or you could just provide the animations you had in there...

_________________________

tapatalked from GalaxyS3
[Android Apps and Games] Andro Boy:
I couldn't download it all the links not working even android market ??!
[Android Apps and Games] Joecascio2000:
There is a force close when importing through file manager and hit the menu button. Not a big issue, I just have to remember menu does nothing.

Galaxy S - Captivate

Serendipity 6.4
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
Thank you, it will be fixed in the next release :)
[Android Apps and Games] Smokexz:
Lol this is pretty funny, an update to tell the app that there are no updates, lol.
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
#latenightcoding at its best :o
[Android Apps and Games] 10507:
Yes, is there anyway to have preview menu for animation? Menu like in Theme Chooser.

Thanks,
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
I started work on a preview option, it may be in the next release depends on how late I stay up tonight :D
[Android Apps and Games] 10507:
Thank for the great work. Also, is there anyway to have the application automatically reboot after it has copied over the bootfile?
[Android Apps and Games] rmcsc:
Awesome! Worked wonderfully. Clicked ads and will every time I change the bootanimation. Thanks for this app!
[Android Apps and Games] alexmcrae:
thank you...:cool:
[Android Apps and Games] Hotzigetty:
JVK/JVB Bootanimation

Has anyone tried this on JVK/JVB roms on the SGS? I know that it's mentioned that a kernel that supports different bootanimations isn't required, but when I tried to backup my bootanimation (it should have found the stock SGS bootanimation), it said no animation found..
[Android Apps and Games] subworx:
v1.0.4: "No bootanimation found" on backup page on my Desire Z, using stock hTC ROM (2.2.1) with root.

Then, as expected, Backup doesn't do anything and I won't try import, of course.

Kind regards,

Sub
[Android Apps and Games] IE-coRe:
Works great, Defy CM7. Will you make more Bootanimations Downloadable?
[Android Apps and Games] androc:
v1.0.4: Force closed when starting application on myTouch 3G

Is this app supposed to run on that phone?

EDIT: Does only force close when no data connection is available...
[Android Apps and Games] ahess0815:
Tried on my Evo 4G running CM7 and it force closes when I tried to choose an animation. If it doesn't force close it just sits there.
[Android Apps and Games] BackfireNL:
I would like to have the stock Nexus One bootanimation!

It works great here btw! i gives an fc error but i press wait and it works!
[Android Apps and Games] yoyoche:
Like it

Works very good on my Nook Color Gingy Cyanogen mod 7 final.

On my Droid X with Liberty Gingy 0.1 Rom, when it goes to cwm to install it hangs on reboot device. I have to perform a battery pull to reboot, but the new boot animation does take when it reboots. This is with ver. 1.0.4

EDIT: Well after further test on my Liberty 0.1 ROM on my DX, I can not get the program to change the boot animation. It always locks in CWM when saying it is installing. Have to pull battery to reboot.

Very nice program and thanks for the new boot animations.

Hope this helps
[Android Apps and Games] srickert12:
Works great on inspire 4g
[Android Apps and Games] :
What about a progress bar showing how much of the bootanimation is downloaded?
[Android Apps and Games] mulletcutter:
most bootanimations are like less then 5mb. it takes no time
[Android Apps and Games] :
Of course but it is still much better to have some kind of progress in a usability perspective. If I'm on a slow connection it may take over a minute and I'm not going to sit there and wait for it to succeed in more than a minute..
[Android Apps and Games] Tonio88:
Any support for the epic 4g ?

Does this work on the epic 4G, specifically with the stock EC05 setup ?
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
If your running stock htc rom that is why, I havent made my app detect bootanimations in /system/customize/resource/

Sometimes it does that, its best to hit wait and then itll work, ill be fixing it soon :)
[Android Apps and Games] 10507:
Once you import bootanimations from file manager, how do you apply it? I was able to apply all bootanimations from download only.
[Android Apps and Games] Humanio:
It worked twice on CM7 HTC Incredible now force closes every time. Great idea though. Liked it when it worked.
[Android Apps and Games] syslogic:
HTC Desire HD

This tool won't work on DHD because the path is different:

/system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip
[Android Apps and Games] jman2020:
Same goes for SGS phones. No boot animation found on my SGS Mesmerize 2.2 rooted
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
My next release will support bootanimations in /system/customize/resource/ please be patient with me :)
[Android Apps and Games] jk0l:
just curious

why does the app involve with google analytics?

and it fc everytime i turn on airplane mode?
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
Im collecting data to see how many people are using my app, and you need a data connection to use it
[Android Apps and Games] 10507:
I am running 1.0.5 and only able to apply change boot from download. Still can not pick bootanimation from File Manager nor import folder.

ROM CM7

Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] androc:
Why do I need a data connection? It would also be a very nice app to manage the locally stored bootanimations... I would appreciate a version that works even if I'm offline.
[Android Apps and Games] Furzbirre:
Please add a option to disable that or remove. Thank you.

Sent from my Dark Galaxy
[Android Apps and Games] subworx:
If by this you mean 1.0.5 which I'm using now - it doesn't work yet.

If not, never mind, I can wait :)

Btw, an about screen or something would be nice, maybe even a changelog.

Kind regards,

Sub
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
Next release will allow you to backup bootanimations from /system/customize/resource/ and will have a new download progress when downloading bootanimations
[Android Apps and Games] Chosen_on184:
Nice App. Glad you made this makes it easy to keep track of everything.

One question when it imports it automatically changes the file to bootanimation.zip right.

Also will you add more bootanimations to your repo or will you create a way for people to auto upload directly from the app. I think that would go great with the preview function i seen mentioned. This way people can contribute and before you download and import you have a idea what the animation looks like.

Keep up the great work :D
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
Yes it does change it to bootanimation.zip and Im looking into a better way of handleing the bootanimations because of different resolutions, but if anyone wants to send me bootanimations send them to arayray94@gmail.com
[Android Apps and Games] subworx:
maybe just split the downloads into resolution categories?

most people with root know what their display resolution is, and will choose the right one.

edit: just tried the 1.0.6 release, as I didn't see it when writing my reply.

It now correctly locates /system/customize/resource/bootanimation.zip

Although when I press the Backup button, nothing happens.

adb logcat does not show anything happening, as if the button was not bound to an action.

@ johnmcmolyneux: even better, didn't think of that

kind regards,

Sub
[Android Apps and Games] Archer:
The software can simply show you the ones suitable for the current screen resolution. It's not gonna change, is it!
[Android Apps and Games] jenarelJAM:
This probably explains why it FC'd on my phone. I use a whitelist with DroidWall (ie. by default no internet), and as all your application should need to do is make local configuration changes, I didn't think your app would need internet.

From a usability perspective, you should probably handle the case when a user does not have a connection to the Internet and either fail gracefully (informing the user that they need internet for the application to work), or allow service without Internet.

From a user privacy standpoint, I really hate user-analytics. I don't like applications using my (limited) data plan to accumulate data about my behavior. I find actions like this invasive and in violation of my privacy. Please give users an option to turn this off.
[Android Apps and Games] arayray:
I already added that to my next release, if no data connection is available you will need to connect to wifi
[Android Apps and Games] woznet:
Thanks for the Bootanimation app, Im downloading now. Im looking forward to an easier way to change animations.
[Android Apps and Games] zombrex:
Hi

The Bootanimation Tool doesnt do anything on my Phone.

I can start it and i can download an animation but i cant import or backup. When i press the button nothing happens.

Galaxy S with Root and SU

what did i do wrong?
[Android Apps and Games] JohnnyEpic:
No go on the Epic 4g?

Backup does nothing. Import, download works.

Rooted Epic, Stock.