[Droid Eris Themes and Apps] synaptyc:
I have made bunches of Bootanimations & Bootscreens in the past.

I will list them here.

Note: some are good :o ... some are bad. :(

But you can find anything I make in this thread.

What is the difference between bootscreen and bootanimation? (Both produce an animation upon boot.)

BOOTANIMATION

resides in the "/data/local/" or /system/media/" folder on your phone

is made up of individual picture files and strung together upon boot to make an animation

does not read any audio file therefore doesn't have sound upon boot

BOOTSCREEN

resides in the "/system/media/bootscreen/" folder on your phone

is made up of a animated GIF file and played as an animation upon boot.

plays an mp3 file to add audio to the animation (but only works on certain ROM's. I use them with xtrROM & xtrSENSE ROM's and have no issues. other ROM's may not support them)

NOTE: both should not be on your device at the same time, or it will only play the bootanimation and never the bootscreen

Helpful links

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Custom Boot Animation Gallery {No root Needed}

[HOW-TO]--Stock Bootscreen w/ Sound

Animations

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CLICK A PICTURE AND GO TO THAT ANIMATIONS POST

DroidX

Andy Colors

xtrROM & xtrSENSE

Andy Does

Sylock

Droid Eye

3D Plasma

Plasma RGB

Wait Circle

Unstable Core

Andy Colors V2

Loading System Check: Blue

Loading System Check: xtrROM & xtrSENSE

Andy Power Black and Colors

Loading Semicircles

B&W

portrait_________landscape

Red

...coming soon

Green

...coming soon

Blue

Pink

R2-D2 with sound!

Preview Bootanimation on phone while in Android!

1) Install GScript Lite from the app market

2) Create a script called "Bootanimation"

3) Make sure "Needs SU?" is checked

4) In the bottom field type:

TIMEOUT=20
( bootanimation & sleep $TIMEOUT; kill $! 2>/dev/null )

The TIMEOUT is in seconds and can be changed as you like.

*** this code was contributed by Arabia ***

5) Save the script

6) Click on the Bootanimation script you just created. Let the animation run all the way through until the script ends returning you to the GScript app.

7) Show off your bootanimation whenever you want =)

Helpful files

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Here are a few BATCH files I use to swap BootAnimations and BootScreens.

(you are responsible for backing up any animations you want to keep before running any of these batch files)

Just make a TEXT file and save it as "whatever.bat"

RemoveAnimations.bat

:: this batch file will remove ANY bootscreen or bootanimation on the device
:: ***make sure you backup any that you want to keep***
@echo on
path=C:\android-sdk-windows\tools
adb remount
adb shell rm /system/media/bootscreen/*.*
adb shell rm /system/media/bootanimation.zip
adb shell rm /data/local/bootanimation.zip

Preview.bat

:: connect your phone to your PC and select Charge Only or HTC Sync
:: This batch file will demo the bootscreen/bootanimation on your phone
@echo on
path=C:\Android-SDK-windows\tools
adb shell bootanimation

ADBWireless.bat

:: Sets the PATH for ADB and enables ADB Wireless. Launch the APK on the phone first.
@echo off
path=c:\android-sdk-windows\tools
adb connect 192.168.1.5:5555

BootanimationRemovePushPreview.bat

:: connect your phone to your PC and select Charge Only or HTC Sync or install "ADB Wireless".

@echo on
:: Sets the PATH for ADB.
path=C:\android-sdk-windows\tools

:: Enables "adbWireless". Launch the app on your phone first.
adb connect 192.168.1.5:5555

:: Remove ANY bootscreen or bootanimation on the device.
:: ***make sure you backup any that you want to keep***
adb remount
adb shell rm /system/media/bootscreen/*.*
adb shell rm /system/media/bootanimation.zip
adb shell rm /data/local/bootanimation.zip

:: Install the bootanimation on your phone and preview it.
adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local/
adb shell bootanimation

BootscreenRemovePushPreview.bat

:: connect your phone to your PC and select Charge Only or HTC Sync or install "ADB Wireless".

@echo on
:: Sets the PATH for ADB.
path=C:\android-sdk-windows\tools

:: Enables "adbWireless". Launch the app on your phone first.
adb connect 192.168.1.5:5555

:: Remove ANY bootscreen or bootanimation on the device.
:: ***make sure you backup any that you want to keep***
adb remount
adb shell rm /system/media/bootscreen/*.*
adb shell rm /system/media/bootanimation.zip
adb shell rm /data/local/bootanimation.zip

:: Copies the 5 bootscreen files to your phone and previews the bootscreen.
adb push .DS_Store /system/media/bootscreen
adb push boot1.gif /system/media/bootscreen
adb push boot2.gif /system/media/bootscreen
adb push droid.mp3 /system/media/bootscreen
adb push boot_animation.xml /system/media/bootscreen
adb shell bootanimation