[Thunderbolt Themes and Apps] hinds73:
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I thought I'd do a write up on how you can add, remove, or change your ROOTED Thunderbolt animation sound. You have to do some of your own poking around to locate the files needed for your specific rom. There are many people that don't want to do this cause they are afraid they will screw something up. You can safely do this on your PC. Create a folder and extract your rom into that folder. Navigate to system/customize/cid where you extracted your rom. Locate the default.xml file and right click and to open with notepad. Now, scroll to the bottom and look for something that resembles the following.

OR this...

OR maybe even this...

You are looking for the name of the boot animation and sound. Write down the location and exact spelling paying attention to capitalization. Now go back to your extracted rom and look for your boot animation in the path that you wrote down. Open the zip and look at the folders contained inside. This will vary. Some animations have part0 and part1, while others might have just android. This will be needed for the start up boot animation and/or the down boot animation sounds.

***If you're running Synergy Rom yours will most likely look like the last one above.*** I've always edited the "audio="/data/local/bootsound.wav" />" string to match that of the boot animation. Just makes it easier in the long run. Modifying the xml file is easy to do on your phone with a web editing app from the market and never have to touch a PC. However, I prefer to do it with the PC because it is much easier to read, and edit.

To simplify things a bit I’m going to post some pics with the corrected strings so that you can copy and paste to your own XML file.

Synergy’s Stock XML

Notice there is no string for the down boot animation audio. We will be adding that next as well as changing the location and identity of the boot sounds. Overwrite by copying and pasting the following into your XML starting directly below <BootConfiguration> and stopping after </ShutdownConfiguration>

Synergy’s Stock XML should now look like this.

Once your XML file matches the above, you are now ready to save and close out of notepad. Transfer the edited default.xml file to your phones sd card. Using Root Explorer (mount R/W) copy the transfered file to system/customize/cid. Before you paste the edited XML file, rename your existing file by putting .old on the end for a backup. Paste the edited file. Give the default.xml proper permissions and ownership. Long press on the XML file and select "Permissions". Make it look like below and select ok.

X X

X

X

Now long press on the file again and select "Change Owner". Make it look like below.

Owner - Root

Group - Root

Time for your mp3 file! Your start up mp3 can be as long as you want but keep in mind that it will keep playing (mine are around 30 seconds). In contrast, your shutdown mp3 should be no longer than 4 to 5 seconds. Name your start up mp3 FinalThunder.mp3. Name your shutdown mp3 DownSound.mp3. Place your properly named mp3’s on the sd card and with root explorer (mounted R/W). Copy and paste the two mp3 files to system/customize/resources. Give them proper permissions and ownership as shown above.

Reboot and enjoy!

See Post 2 for Th3ory V6.02 and Bamf. The directions are exactly the same.

I'd like to give THANKS to McLabia for testing things out for me and also giving me some "constructive" criticism!

:D

If this helped you at all, hit the Thanks!

hinds73