Honeycomb Bee Boot Animation

**tntdroid** · 03-09-2011, 12:15 AM

Since I unlocked and rooted last night lets get the fun started. I made a nice simple boot animation for the Xoom. Need root to drop in data/local or system/media. I just renamed the boot in system/media to .bak and dropped in the new one. Enjoy!

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**FluxTZ** · 03-09-2011, 12:59 AM

Sweet! Well done!

**wg#ac** · 03-09-2011, 01:26 AM

very nice. congrats.

**doctorlove316** · 03-09-2011, 03:00 AM

That's dope!

It's a keeper here. Thanks.

**bbalz** · 03-09-2011, 06:52 AM

Nice! So you need to root in order to do this, correct?

I've been on the fence about rooting because I haven't seen anything besides the 1.5 OCing. That plus the animation might make me change my mind.

**tntdroid** · 03-09-2011, 09:37 AM

Yes you need root access to place the zip file into the xooms system. Rooting was very easy if you know adb commands. Its just a few files and a few command lines to unlock and root.

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**DreamSTi** · 03-09-2011, 09:39 AM

So much better than the pixely stock animated boot up.

**terrain** · 03-09-2011, 10:00 AM

Don't mind the stock animation but yours is in its own class - NICE!

**tntdroid** · 03-09-2011, 10:03 AM

Thanks! I do love the stock but they could have done it better. Stock images are half the screen size and then stretched. Mine was created with full screen images so it keeps the image quality. More boots to come

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**terrain** · 03-09-2011, 10:07 AM

While you are at it -- can you provide me with a Apex or Liberty type custom rom

**tntdroid** · 03-09-2011, 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by xier

While you are at it -- can you provide me with a Apex or Liberty type custom rom

Lol. Once sd card works and we have source files apex will be ready for the xoom. I already have the boot animation ready for the apex xoom rom.

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**doctorlove316** · 03-09-2011, 11:53 AM

Honestly, the honeycomb stock bootanimation looks better on my Droid X than it does on the Xoom.

**DreamSTi** · 03-09-2011, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by avlfive

Honestly, the honeycomb stock bootanimation looks better on my Droid X than it does on the Xoom.

I dont doubt that, it looks horrible on the Xoom if you ask me.

**tntdroid** · 03-09-2011, 01:49 PM

That's why I put the xoom boot zip together for the X. Looks so much better on the phone. It looks like it was made for a phone and someone was lazy and didn't do it up for the tablet size.

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**b0ricua** · 03-28-2011, 01:23 PM

I renamed the bootanimation that was in system/media to bootanimation.bak and put the new one inside that folder.

That alone didn't change my boot animation upon rebooting. Do I need to put it in data/local as well?

**tntdroid** · 03-28-2011, 05:13 PM

Move the new one to data local.

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**b0ricua** · 03-28-2011, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by tntdroid

Move the new one to data local.

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Did that, and the old boot animation still shows up. (I'm rooted and using root explorer to copy/paste)

**tntdroid** · 03-28-2011, 09:33 PM

OK what boot animation did you rename. I'm thinking the bootanimation.zip and not the other one in system media right? OK with my boot in data local using root explorer long hold the file and click permissions. Then select the boxes in user to read and write and click OK. See if that helps.

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**b0ricua** · 03-28-2011, 10:49 PM

Originally Posted by tntdroid

OK what boot animation did you rename. I'm thinking the bootanimation.zip and not the other one in system media right? OK with my boot in data local using root explorer long hold the file and click permissions. Then select the boxes in user to read and write and click OK. See if that helps.

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Checked the permissions, all matches. If I don't rename the bootanimation.zip inside system/media then standard boot animation displays. If I rename bootanimation.zip in system/media then my boot animation just reads "android". Mind you the modified bootanimation.zip is in data/local for all of this.

Sorry for being a nuisance! Normally I don't get hung up on these types of things!

**Girth** · 03-29-2011, 01:57 AM

I keep getting told I can't change the name of the file in /system/media folder. Says write only. I am doing this in terminal though so that might be the problem.

**b0ricua** · 03-29-2011, 11:37 AM

Originally Posted by Girth

I keep getting told I can't change the name of the file in /system/media folder. Says write only. I am doing this in terminal though so that might be the problem.

You can mount as R/W in an app such as Root explorer.

**Holsum** · 03-31-2011, 05:43 PM

here is what i did:

1) go to system/media/
2) rename bootanimation.zip bootanimation.bak
3)copy the *NEW* bootanimation.zip to system/media
4)copy the *NEW* bootanimation.zip to /data/local
5)REBOOT!
6)profit??

that worked prefectly for me without a hitch!

**Holsum** · 03-31-2011, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by Girth

I keep getting told I can't change the name of the file in /system/media folder. Says write only. I am doing this in terminal though so that might be the problem.

you cant do this in terminal unless you change the files system from -ro to -rw let me check the command for you. (be sure to change it back when you are done)

edit:here are the commands from terminal

su
mount -w -o remount /system/media

then when you are done

mount -r -o remount /system/media

i believe that is it, can someone confirm?

thanks,
holsum

**b0ricua** · 03-31-2011, 08:26 PM

Originally Posted by Holsum

here is what i did:

1) go to system/media/
2) rename bootanimation.zip bootanimation.bak
3)copy the *NEW* bootanimation.zip to system/media
4)copy the *NEW* bootanimation.zip to /data/local
5)REBOOT!
6)profit??

that worked prefectly for me without a hitch!

For some reason, when I downloaded the file from my Xoom, it just wouldn't work! But when I downloaded to my PC and transferred file to Xoom, it works just fine.

/facepalm

Well at least I have the bootanimation now! :P

**tntdroid** · 04-01-2011, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by b0ricua

For some reason, when I downloaded the file from my Xoom, it just wouldn't work! But when I downloaded to my PC and transferred file to Xoom, it works just fine.

/facepalm

Well at least I have the bootanimation now! :P

Lol very good. I too had issues like that. Sometimes the XOOM or a phone wont fully dl a file even when it said it did.

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