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[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
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This post will NOT be updated anymore, as i made a new thread which is more clean:

Custom Bootanimations Collection + How To Install

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hi there,

ive made two cwm flash zip's that can do the job for you.. it requires busybox, but as you stated that youre using omega v13, you should have that already..

copy your bootanimation.zip to /data/local or /system/media..

boot into cwm, flash CWM_CustomBootanimation_Enable.zip and reboot to see changes take effect..

[--EDIT: IGNORE THIS!--

!!!THIS IS IMPORTANT!!! Dont ever flash the CWM_CustomBootanimation_Enable.zip more than once, or it will overwrite the backup file, and you cant get the stock booanimation back..

--/EDIT: IGNORE THIS!--]

if you want the stock bootanimation again or there is something wrong with the animation (bootloop, etc..), just flash the CWM_CustomBootanimation_Disable.zip ... or you can use adb to delete/replace the bootanimation.zip with a working one: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=31756526&postcount=50 .. thanks to Kryten2k35, for pointing it out.

if ive helped, hit thanks ;)

EDIT: updated the flashable-zips, so that it dosent matter how many times you flash, it will still keep the backup created at first flash..

EDIT2: Remember to get the disable-zip file too! if you end up with a bootloop because of a bad animation, you can just flash the disable-zip, replace the non-working bootanimation with a working one, and flash the enable-zip again... so its a good thing to have both on the device, when trying out animations..

EDIT3: the enable and disable flashable zips works on stock roms, just tested it.. the only thing that is required for it too work, is cf-root w/ cwm, and busybox installed.. it also works on Jellybean roms, but its worth to mention that loopable bootanimations will NOT work on ICS, only on JB.. if you use a looped animation on ICS you will get a bootloop, but on JB it will pass through the bootup..
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Dannyk90:
allmooossttt

Okay well it got the custom boot animation working :)

but lol.. thats the only thing the phone will display now -__- i waited a while so i tried swiping the screen and it made the unlock sound and i press the lock button and it does the lock animation then locks, press home button and still can only see the custom boot animation.

Guess il go back and disable it :/

Any ideas lol?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
Thats a problem with your animation.. Inside the bootanimation.zip there is desc.txt file.. Open that, and where it says: p 0 0 part0... Or something like that, change it to p 1 0 part0... If there are more parts, change those too.

The first digit - is how many times that part should be played (0 means infinite/forever)

The last digit - is the delay before the animation begins to play, in milliseconds.

Part0 - is the folder with the animation
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Dannyk90:
Can you show me how should a .desc file look?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Dannyk90:
I have tried a few different boot animations from different websites, all do the same thing.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] JJEgan:
Are they for SGS3 as SGS2 is a different size .

jje
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Mopral:
Thanks!

Works for me on stock XXBLG8/Siyah kernel with modified desc.txt file in the bootanimation.zip file
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Dannyk90:
They didnt say.

I cba with all this anymore, im going back to stock -_-
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
Have you changed anything before running my enable-flash-zip? in that case, what have you changed?

Have you tried open the bootanimation.zip with winrar / 7zip or something similar? If so, there should be a file named "desc.txt" and at least one folder usally called part0..

You could try flash omega again, and then flash my enable-zip, and copy bootanimation.zip to /data/local...

But try send the link to the bootanimation that youve got, and i can test it for you..

usally a desc.txt file looks like this:

or

EDIT: try download this custom bootanimation test, and copy it to your /data/local

bootanimation.zip

if this one works, it is the animations you tried that dosent work for this device or need some modification for it to work..
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Dannyk90:
I didnt change anything.

Yeah thats what i did, i looked at each desc file and they all seemed pretty much the same.

I noticed my battery was going down faster with this root and kernel on so im back on stock now.

I cant link it, its from Rom Tool Box Pro collection of boot animations. Theres a free app of it too if you dont have it. (from play store)

Im guessing it was the rom/kernel that wouldnt let it work properly.

Thanks for helping though :)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
yeah ok, i have omega and siyah too, so dont think thats the case.. but youre welcome :)

see ya
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Atomregen:
Have a loop on this Rom: [ROM][22Aug][XXBLG9 V2.2][XXDLH6 V3.0RC2] WanamLite Smooth,Stable & Battery Friendly

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1705866
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
Have you tried checking the desc.txt file in the bootanimation.zip file? If its 0 (zero) after p, it will loop the animation forever..

If it is 0 try change it to 1..

You might check post #13 in this thread so that you can compare..
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Atomregen:
Ok thanks to you.

Yes there was a 0 because the start sequence takes longer for other phones, it should be play the second folder until it is launched.

and sorry, I overlooked the other post.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
Thats good to hear :)

For the boot sound you might want to check /system/media/audio/ui folder. And search for PowerOn.ogg...
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] GaborDenes:
Do I need an alternate kernel to use the custom boot animation?

I am still on stock-rom and kernel.

Update: No, I dont. Tried it today and the bootanimation.zip in this thread does work, but others from here: hxxp://androidbootanimation.com/category/1280x720-boot-animations/ dont (black screen only).

I tried to convert the *.png to *.jpeg from the Nexus-Animation, but no change :(
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
im guessing that you just needs to be root, and if you plan to use the flashable-zips ive made, then you will need CWM and Busybox too.. but you could try, and if dosent work, just flash the disable-zip..

i havent personally tried with a stock rom and kernel myself, so im not quite sure.. :)

EDIT: if you want to do it manually rather than using my scripts and without the need of busybox, you have to navigate to /system/bin and rename samsungani to something like samsungani.bak... then make a copy of /system/bin/bootanimation and rename that new copy to samsungani.. ive just made the flash-scripts so that it was alot faster and easier to accomplish this.. but, remember to make a backup of your rom before trying, as you cant just flash the disable-zip with this method..! :)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
ive tried it myself and its working fine here, but got a loop as it was, so ive edited the desc.txt with notepad++, so it looks like this:

instead of this:

notice the change from 0 to 1..

hmm.. not sure why it isnt working for you.. have you copied it to /data/local directory? as what i did...
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] MattBooth:
I'm having issues with this:

I've tried the CWM zips and they disable the boot animation, but the one I put in data/local doesn't play. I tried changing the desc in the file I used and it was going to loop, but I stopped that. However, it doesn't display.

Going to try the test animation now.

EDIT:

Test animation works :D I think the problem with the one I have may be the file format. They're jpg, not jpeg. I'll try changing them now.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
yea ok, if the test animation i made works, it should work with others as well.. the filetype name shouldnt be a problem, as it works with both jpg, jpeg and png, as ive tried all of them.. try post whats inside the desc.txt, i think thats where the problem is.. and i will take a look at it.. :)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] MattBooth:
Yeah just tried batfch rename of the files:

cmd

ren *.jpg *.jpeg

:D

But that didn't change it. Here's the zip and contents of the desc.txt

With this I hear the boot sound, but the screen is blank. Boots ok, like, but no animation!

EDIT:

Also, with us not looping the animation, this means we'll have to make them longer to simulate a loop? For instance, that one I posted is 49 images long and 25FPS, so that'll be two seconds, then it'll just freeze until fully booted?

EDIT 2:

None of the images in the boot animation I posted are 720x1280... That won't help!

EDIT 3:

Just changed them to 720x1280... didn't make a difference though :(
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
sounds weird, ive got the animation working here.. try replacing the desc.txt with this one attached.. about loop, check one of the older posts in this thread by me.. the digit right next to the p is how many times it loops..

hmm.. not quite sure why it isnt working on your device.. but try replacing the desc.txt with the one ive attached in this post..
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] MattBooth:
I got it working now.

Weird. What I did was:

rename all the files to your naming convention "720_00000.jpeg" and I also colourized the images. I'm going to try with just 49 images and the 6 loop you've done there though as I actually made 200 images for this lol.

EDIT:

Also, this looks crap cause it's been upscaled to the correct resolution :D Need to find one that's the right resolution!

EDIT2 :

Wow, no.

I just took the same file, extracted, deleted the excess images and changed the desc file to what you had and it didn't work. This is quite fussy about working.

EDIT3:

Just found out it's possible to test the boot animation using adb shell bootanimation <- handy.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
yeah it looks a bit odd when its not the correct resolution :P

hmm.. then i must admit that i dont know, it works fine here.. ill attached the whole bootanimation.zip ive edited, as it should work for you too..

thx for the tip! didnt know, and honestly havent tried fooling around with adb that much, so maybe this should be the reason why i should do it more often.. thx again :)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] MattBooth:
See, that works ok for me! :(

Ah well!
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
well, thats a relief.. now we know that ;)

maybe you messed it up somewhere.. hmm.. what did you change all in all?
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] MattBooth:
Well, firstly, just the desc.txt to stop it looping, then I threw that in the zip (overwrote and just used store) and put the zip in the folder. That didn't work.

But when I got it working myself I had like 200 images, which wasn't ideal, but I'd copied your naming convention!

I'm looking for other boot animations now but there aren't many in actual 720x1280 resolution (I'm yet to find one!)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
hmm.. sounds to me that the desc.txt file got ruined somehow.. did you use notepad++? its freeware, and its keeping the structure of the file when editing, which could be ruined if using the standard notepad..

did you open the bootanimation.zip with winrar and just drag+dropped the desc.txt file to the archive? 7zip works as well..

the reason i ask these questions is because thats the only things ive did, for making it work..

EDIT:

just re-read your post:

" and put the zip in the folder. That didn't work."

did you put a zip-file with the images inside the bootanimation.zip?? if so, that could highly be the problem, as it should only be one zip, with the desc.txt and partX folders with the including images...

its not for being arrogant or something if you already knew, but im only saying it if you didnt know or didnt thought about it.. ive could being misreading it.. sry if i sounds stupid, its late here :P
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] MattBooth:
Ahh, I used both winrar, drag drop and notepad.exe :(

Hmm, I'll try those two methods out when I find another suitable one!

Totally after a proper 720x1280 one

BTW, this is mod is quite awesome. I was totally dismayed when I found out you couldn't use bootanimations! Now I can :D
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
yea ok.. then that could be the problem.. try it with notepad++ next time, and see if that works out for you..

it took me some time to figure it out too.. got informations here and there, on different threads here at xda and other forums found with google, and when ive found out how to accomplish it, i made those flashable-zips for future use, and im just glad it comes handy for other users as well.. i like to share :)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] MattBooth:
Yep, using CrimsonEditor (another programming language editor I usually use anyway) and 7zip seems to have sorted it. I'm messing with zips and such without a problem :)

Here's one I made for the Galaxy S3:

http://alpha-techs.co.uk/files/matt/bootanimations/Jelly_Bean_Animation/bootanimation.zip

Took it from here: http://www.mattman.org/index.php/downloads/jelly-bean-boot-animtion and made the desc.txt changes :D
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
Glad to hear that you made it work mate.. Now go make some animations ;)

Cheers
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] MattBooth:
You should start your own thread, mate ;) ROM devs need to include this into their ROMs and then we'll see a lot more animations getting made in 720x1280 :)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
i dont think i will do that, as this thread is renowned by the google-bots already, because of the activity.. if you try and type "custom boot animation i9300" at google, it shows up as the first link.. and if you replace "i9300" with "galaxy s3" it is showed as the fifth link.. :)

but it would be great if the OP of this thread could mark it as [SOLVED] in the beginning of the title and give it happy smiley instead of the crying one, though it didnt work out for him.. just because he gave up, it did help alot of other people already.. i still think his problem was the animation he used, and he didnt try the test animation ive made for him..

and in this thread there is alot of How-to-do-this-and-that, to make animations work for the i9300 device.. so i would have to rewrite it all.. :)

yeah, it would be great with alot more animations to choose from, but im working on it ;)

cheers
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] MattBooth:
I'd be happy to write it up!

Yeah I'm crap at graphics and design, but coding and other messing is what I'm okay at!

Either way more devs need to put this in their rom! :cool:
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
Thanks, but i think its better using this thread, as its more or less topic related, and so the forum isnt having two of the same contents.. Ive pm'ed the OP to request this thread marked as solved, so hoping that hes going to change it..

Yeah couldnt agree more :)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] :
Try Rom toolbox.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] gordonx10i:
Was getting black screen error and couldnt seem to get desc.txt right also think images were incorrect size.

But now is working !!!!!!!

Will post once ive made one ... if .

Thx again
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] lang peng siang:
Hi,

i try to enable the animation but now i am suck with the mario boot screen looping.How do i getout of the loop?????
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
Have you read the whole thread? If not, check post #7 and #13. The desc.txt file should be edited in notepad++ or something similar instead of regular notepad..

EDIT: if you cant start up the device, just flash the disable-zip ive made. Then replace the bootanimation.zip with a working one, and flash the enable-zip again.

---------- Post added at 07:39 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:37 AM ----------

Thats good to hear :)

Looking forward to see it.

Btw, the size shouldnt matter as long as its equal or less than 720 x1280

Cheers
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] justnoone:
test it on my samsung s3 I9300

hello guys, i am new again here at xda, i don't know if this is the right thread for me, but i guess, this is the right topic for me. anyway, i have tried to find out and search everywhere to make my s3 perform custom boot animation. after searching and reading of so many topics, i found this thread. and must i say, i' ve read and followed instructions, after messing up with my phone, freeze to boot up, boot animations are looping, and many times, i flashed and reflashed the Cwm_enable and disable_custombootanimation.zip, it didn't work for me, until, i read again, from the beginning of this thread, up to the last thread, taking note 1 by 1, until, i finally come up, with a summary of the instruction, now, this custom boot animation looks very cool on my phone, and working well now on my samsung s3, rooted, with stock kernel... i really thank the author of this script, anbech..whose done a great job on this issue..

Now the only question is, where do i hit thanks?:D lol, i found it....:highfive:
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
thx mate,

but if you want to say thanks for the enable/disable-scripts in particular, you should propably hit the thanks button at post #5 where the files are attached, so that other people can see that they actually work.. but im not walking in small shoes, so if you hit thanks elsewhere, thats good too :)

and im glad to hear that youve got it working :)

cheers
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] justnoone:
well, i guess, i made a lot of reading and writing, and excitement sunk me in,mostly when i got it all working, and forgot to go back to the right post and hit thanks..:D...lol...

anyway, keep up the good work.... salute to you...:victory:
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
haha, no worries mate.. thx and salute to you too :)

take care
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] raubkatze:
Thanx mate! Works perfectly well on Omega v26 (XXDLI8)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] MattBooth:
Nice one, glad to know it works ok on JellyBean and that loopable animations are back for it.

Also, just worth noting, but if there is a bad animation, it generally does get to desktop but doesn't show it. If you have ADB you can delete the offending animation or replace it with a known working one (I'd recommend people using your test animation for that) and then reboot (adb reboot) and it's all good. If you end up with a bad animation all is not lost, you just need to use ADB to get yourself out of a stick situation :D

Oh, thanks for the friends add ;)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
glad to hear that mate :)

it worked on all the other earlier omega releases, that ive tried, up to v25 (havent updated to v26 yet..), and i think it will work for the future versions too.. so im glad that you can confirm that.. :)

thanks for the tip mate, but i actually did know that already, just didnt thought about posting it.. i thought it would be easier for beginners, who dont know about adb and its set of commands, that they could just flash the disable file from CWM.. alot more beginner-friendly, i think..

but i will add a link to your post about it, into the post ive made with the attached files.. in that way more experienced users can see that as an option too.. thanks again mate :)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] Altair8800:
I am on wanam lite 1.2 rom (stock based ICS). When I flash the enable zip and reboot, my phone boots up but the screen just says android and i can not do anything with the screen. Only the physical buttons work. This happens when the booanimation.zip is inside /data/local. This still happens if I delete the bootanimation.zip and my /data/local/ just has a temp folder. Where is this never ending loop coming from? Any ideas?

I took a screenshot of the bootloop. The phone does boot up but the screen does not change. This happens with the bootanimation.zip folder inside /data/local/ as well!!!
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] anbech:
have you tried with my testing animation?

Custom Bootanimations Collection + How To Install + Enable/Disable --- at step 2, in post #4, try download that bootanimation.zip and place it in /data/local/ ..

the symptoms you are describing tells me that its the animation youre using that should be modified..

and ICS dosent support looped animations, but you can read more about it the thread ive posted link to, its also in my signature.. :)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] justnoone:
The same thing happened to me before, just because i am excited or too much excited to replace my custom boot animation. i flashed and i copied, and it boot looped and never moved on. and since i forgot to download the disable.zip file, it gives me a greater problem. what i did was do the following.

i read again and take note of every possible way to replace it, taking a time to write the steps of how to do it.

downloaded the disable.zip file, got a memory card & card reader, copy it there and replace it back to my phone.

open my phone to recovery mode,

i flashed the disable.zip (just to return to the stock animation and make the phone goes normal)

i stopped.. i read again and follow the steps once again.

connect my phone to my pc,

i copied my bootanimation.zip from my phone to my pc

double click the zip file which i copied,

it then gave me 3 files,

2 folders with images

1 desc file

i double clicked the desc file let it be opened by notepad++

*if this doesn't happen to you, you can extract the desc file, right click it, select open with notepad++

then just drag it back again to your bootanimation zip file again replacing the old one once you modified it.

the built in notepad provided by ms will not do the job, hence i use notepad ++

(please try reading the posts on all pages, it will help you a lot)

after modifying it, i saved it and close notepad ++

zip app asked me if i would like to save the files i modified, i answered yes.

and copy the modified bootanimation back again to phone.

i took my phone, i removed it from my pc,

open my root browser, copied the modified bootanimation.zip to data/local

i open CWM, flashed the enable.zip.

then, i prayed, well, it's working.. it really looks cool...:D

hope it works for you too...

be happy and enjoy life...

Goodluck and god bless...;)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] unit68:
im on a stock rom that i have rooted and installed a kernel. once i did this i no longer have the full samsung boot animation. it goes from Samsung logo to galaxy s3 logo then to android logo. before the third part use to have the blue swirls and make the noise. it is still making noise just has the ugly android logo.

the kernel i flashed was ktoonz, ive looked in the zip file for the kernel and there is no boot animation files at all. i have also looked in my system/media folder and all i have is bootsamsung.qmg and bootsamsungloop.qmg and in the data/local section all i have is a temp folder.

i also have a second stock rooted s3 with stock kernel and it boots fine. i have looked in these two sections and they have the same files. ive even tried to replace them.

there is no bootanimation.zip files on either phone

does anyone happen to know another location where the default samsung boot animations are stored? or how to return to them?

i just flashed the enable custom boot and i got the test image but when i flash the disable i still get the test image...