Droid Custom Boot Screen

[krelvinaz]

I think all you need to do is push the MP3 with the sound you want and the normal boot screen will display with the sound. You could take one of the existing sound files and edit it so that it only has the droid sound in it. Then push it to your device and reboot.

 

[Raptor007]

I am new to the Android world, and traded way up to the Incredible on launch day from my tried and true BlackBerry Storm2. The Andorid offers so much more and before I swap out files I have no experience with I wanted to figure out how to push the audio file yourfriendwayned included with his customer book screen.

 

[yourfriendwayned]

Android Forums - View Single Post - Incrdible Boot Animation heres the instructions someone posted in early pages..

 

[IncredibleLane]

That was awesome! Wish I had the guts to mess around with my phone that way..

 

[Qazme]

It's not hard be adventurous and try it. Worse that going to happen is the default Verizon screen will show as black instead of the red Verizon swirl. Still a win win in my opinion!

 

[Raptor007]

Thanks. Inserting the new boot animation seems simple enough (relatively speaking) but where do you put the audio file like the one yourfriendwayned posted?

 

[krelvinaz]

The mp3 goes into the same directory you put the animation file.

 

[Raptor007]

Thank you. So pretty much follow the same directions as you do the boot loader animation but instead select the audio file.

 

[krelvinaz]

Yes. Same method to put the file, will also work for the MP3.

I'm surprised that the OP of that article, didn't consolidate all the steps, and files into a single posting. You have to kind of dig around to get all the pieces and parts to match what he shows in the video. Would make it a lot less confusing, especially for newer users.

I wrote up one for the wiki at work for co-workers which included the files and all of the steps...

I seem to be the only one at work that actually has the DI so far. Seems nobody ordered one in time to get on the first shipments, and most are on back order.

 

[CharlesA03]

Can someone explain to me how to get the "DROID" voice on start-up?

I know someone said something about moving the MP3 file to the start-up folder or something like that.

Just break it down as simply as you possibly can....I'm a complete n00b when it comes to doing things like this to my phone.

 

[trock70]

Black screen

Has anyone been successful with this? I did everything I found from thisBoot Animation Gallery - Android Forums but I get the black screen. I assume this did something but I'm not sure what I did wrong. any suggestions?

 

[trock70]

I guess it was a bad file- I got the right one from hereIncrdible Boot Animation - Page 2 - Android Forums

 

[Raptor007]

Yes. Same method to put the file, will also work for the MP3.

I'm surprised that the OP of that article, didn't consolidate all the steps, and files into a single posting. You have to kind of dig around to get all the pieces and parts to match what he shows in the video. Would make it a lot less confusing, especially for newer users.

I wrote up one for the wiki at work for co-workers which included the files and all of the steps...

I seem to be the only one at work that actually has the DI so far. Seems nobody ordered one in time to get on the first shipments, and most are on back order.

Can you point me to the wiki you wrote up or PM it to the details. I don't cutting in my DI but I need a little bit off info to follow before I make a mess. Confidence will come with time.

 

[trock70]

Got the sound to work too. Sick!

 

[krelvinaz]

Can you point me to the wiki you wrote up or PM it to the details. I don't cutting in my DI but I need a little bit off info to follow before I make a mess. Confidence will come with time.

It is on a corp network. Not Internet facing.

Will copy it over to here.

 

[krelvinaz]

This method uses the Android SDK. You will need to have it loaded along with Java JDK. You will have already gotten the phone USB Driver and succesfully connected your phone to your workstation.

These instructions are for Windows. Linux/Unix should not be hard to figure out.

Pre-Requisites:

1) Java JDK (Java SE Downloads - Sun Developer Network (SDN))
2) Android SDK (Android SDK | Android Developers)
3) HTC Sync to provide the USB Driver (Droid Incredible Internal Drive)
4) Phone needs to be in USB Debug Mode.
Menu > Setup > Applications > Development
Turn on USB Debugging.

With all this... you should already be able to plug in your phone and run the DDMS utility and be able to see your phone.

Once you are at this point...

Download file:

Incredible_boot_wEye.zip via RapidShare (~4mb)

Unzip the file:

This contains 2 files:

o bootloader.zip (Don't unzip this file)
o android_audio.mp3

Copy them to the tools directory under your SDK configuration (commonly c:\SDK\tools)

Change to the SDK\tools directory

From the SDK tools directory use the following commands:

adb push bootloader.zip /data/local
adb push android_audio.mp3 /data/local

The bootloader will take a bit, the mp3 won't.

After complete, you need to turn off your phone and turn it back on.

You should now have the new bootloader with sound.

 

[Qazme]

Yeah followed those direction about a week ago. Works great now instead of that damn verizon red swirl boot animation I got a nice Nexus One animation.

If you do these steps and get a black screen your zip is corrupt or has a bad file in it, ditch it and get another one. You can't mess this up, it's pretty easy.

 

[JF]

When I try to install Android SDK, I get the following message:

Failed to fetch URL https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository.xml, reason: HTTPS SSL error. You might want to force download through HTTP in the settings.

So when this happens go to "Settings: in the SDK manager and select Force HTTS.

 

[JF]

Got it to load and it is pretty sweet.

The Droid volume is pretty loud though.

Can this be changed?

 

[imma_rage_quit]

Probably need to edit it in a wave editor.