Droid Custom Boot Screen

[blw1230]

Qazme,
Do you have a link for the Nexus One boot animation zip file???

Thanks

 

[GooTz66]

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_sounds.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_sounds.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.

Thanks for all this. Along with the other kind this helped out a lot. Only thing is that the mp3 file is android_audio not "sounds". Took me few times before I caught it.

This was my first tinkering job with this awesome device! Cant wait to do more.

on a related note if I wanted to remove the boot animation and go back to stock do I just need to delete the 2 files from the tools folder?

 

[drPheta]

I can't get the sound to work. did the

adb push android_audio.mp3 /data/local

but it has no sound. Verified the mp3 is working on my mp3 computer, and the boot animation works. any ideas?

 

[GooTz66]

I can't get the sound to work. did the

adb push android_audio.mp3 /data/local

but it has no sound. Verified the mp3 is working on my mp3 computer, and the boot animation works. any ideas?

Did the load go through in cmd prompt?

 

[drPheta]

Did the load go through in cmd prompt?

yes.

CMD prompts shows this:
adb push android_audio.mp3p /data/local
1885 KB/s (160256 bytes in 0.083s)

EDIT: got it. you gotta make sure you phone is not on silent or vibrate mode. Whoops.

 

[GooTz66]

yes.

CMD prompts shows this:
adb push android_audio.mp3p /data/local
1885 KB/s (160256 bytes in 0.083s)

EDIT: got it. you gotta make sure you phone is not on silent or vibrate mode. Whoops.

Sweet! Good to know. On a side note I realized that after I loaded the new boot animation and sound all my ringtones for email, sms, etc changed? Dont know if its related to loading up the custom boot but thought it was weird.

Any insight from the Android pros?

TIA

 

[Qazme]

Nah those weren't reset because of the boot animation. At least it didn't do it when I did mine, granted I didn't do a sound with mine, just the Nexus One animation.

 

[GooTz66]

Nah those weren't reset because of the boot animation. At least it didn't do it when I did mine, granted I didn't do a sound with mine, just the Nexus One animation.

hmmmm? I wonder what caused it?

 

[xLwoodx]

its soo easy to use adb. i just pushed the boot up. and the audio.

 

[Raptor007]

I am still having issues getting it to load on mine. I will try again this weekend, but one question I know I have to allow debug mode, got that, but when I attach the Incredible via USB cable which connection type are you supposed to use, is it mount the phone?

 

[Qazme]

Yes mount it as a drive so you can push the files to it.

 

[slinky317]

Very nice, thanks guys!

 

[JF]

Yes mount it as a drive so you can push the files to it.

I thought HTC Sync is the only way for the desktop computer to "see" your DI.

My computer couldn't see the phone when it was mounted. I could navigate, but the adb commands wouldn't work without an official sync.

 

[Qazme]

I don't even have sync installed on my computers. All I have are the HTC drivers x64 from Vista installed on my Windows 7 x64 machine. You may need those drivers, which if your computer see's it as a sync connection there is no reason it shouldn't see it as disk drives.

 

[StayFly]

I want to do this but i don't understand how I'm a super novice when it comes to things like this can someone give me a step by step help? And I'm running windows 7

 

[GooTz66]

I want to do this but i don't understand how I'm a super novice when it comes to things like this can someone give me a step by step help? And I'm running windows 7

I used this:

Android Forums - View Single Post - Incrdible Boot Animation

Along with post #36 in this thread and I was good to go.

 

[izzyncade]

I want to do something like this in the worst way, just know that Murphy's law in conjunction with the current state of back orders, is telling me to stay away for a bit...

 

[GooTz66]

I want to do something like this in the worst way, just know that Murphy's law in conjunction with the current state of back orders, is telling me to stay away for a bit...

Do it! Its really not that hard to do.

PS I love the avatar and sig!

 

[Qazme]

I want to do something like this in the worst way, just know that Murphy's law in conjunction with the current state of back orders, is telling me to stay away for a bit...

All that will happen if something goes "wrong" is you will end up seeing a black screen instead of the Verizon red swirl on boot up.

 

[dhardison]

YouTube - Droid Incredible Custom Boot

I figured you guys would like this, had to show it off

cool indeed. I got it running on mine Friday. Painless install.