[EVO 4G Android Development] NxNW:
Ok here it is (attached).

If you want to try this, the attached file should replace the one in /system/customize/resource

PS

Noobs: this may look like a zip but you don't flash it in recovery. Read on.

To spell it out a little,

1) get adb or some file explorer (eg ES File Explorer (free) or of course Root Explorer($)) with the ability to mount /system with read/write access

2) navigate to /system/customize/resource

3) [optional, but good style] rename existing downanimation.zip (if you can't accomplish this, go back to step [1] til you have some system that works)

3) copy the attachment into this location

4) [optional, but good style] Set permissions on the new file the same as everything else in this folder

5) no restart necessary, just power off and check to see you get collapsing green synapses instead of static

6) if you change your mind later on, re-re-name the original file in [3] back the way you found it (now you see why [3] is good style)

PPS

For anyone who wants to learn from my travails, this animation was included in Virus' 7/21 nightly build of "Synergy-Kingdom" ROM. You have to go back to this date to be sure to get it, because subsequent builds had the same 'CRT static' animation as the "Stock" Synergy ROM that this thread is about.

Actually if you think about it, the downanimation and bootanimation zips are really just zip archives of simple jpegs, so in this case you could just take the stock bootanimation.zip you already have and rename the first 36 jpegs with filenames corresponding to the inverse order, repackage them (there may be a trick to this- not sure if things have to be signed or named carefully or something - that's why I simply copied a known-good one from Virus) into something called downanimation.zip, and then do the procedure above.

But I didn't want to do all that so I decided to get it from the ROM where I knew I'd seen it working before.

PPPS

..and for you absolute beginners like myself, pulling a single resource out of a ROM is easy to do when the ROM is a big fat zip of nicely hierarchical files, as in later builds of "Synergy-Kingdom", but not so easy when the ROM just contains a system.img

The conventional wisdom says instead of flashing the ROM to see what's in it, just extract whatever you want from system.img using unyaffs. Unfortunately (especially for mac users) the traditional way of obtaining unyaffs is to compile it yourself using the development environment of your choice and the source files at http://code.google.com/p/unyaffs/downloads/list

I tried grabbing some pre-built executables of unyaffs for MacOS that others had posted but kept getting segmentation faults etc and finally got fed up.

I somehow thought it would take too long to make my own so I mistakenly just flashed the ROM. What a mistake. My phone is highly allergic to godmode (which the 7/21 nightly used and which Virus subsequently abandoned, make of that what you will) and I basically lost control of the phone for an hour before it became responsive enough for me to grab the necessary file from the file location described above.

Next time maybe I *will* just load up a compiler on whatever computer I'm on and build unyaffs myself..

Anyways if you just want the damn mod described at the top, well, here it is. Enjoy.