Is there an easier way to change boot animation.??

**JDM_SOHC** · #1 (**permalink**) 08-31-2010, 05:37 PM

I've tried to read the instructions over on XDA but that thread is so cluttered it's crazy and almost unreadable..

I found a kick ass animation I want to put as my boot animation but I'm used to the windows mobile days where it was just rename, copy, paste, done... Now with Android it's seemingly a bit more involved... Someone said I have to flash it like I would a ROM or something, but that right there just confuses me because how do you flash an image..?? I've searched for more help but can't find anything but useless clutter, if anyone knows of maybe a 1, 2, 3 step method I'd appreciate it...

**stanglifemike** · #2 (**permalink**) 09-01-2010, 04:57 PM

Going in to Rom manager or Quick boot and flashing a .zip is simple enough. Especially if you rooted your phone and your flashing ROMs. I was recently told, after asking a couple times, that any boot animation can be flashed. That was great for me becuase the last one that I installed was through Pushboot. Its not that pushboot is hard to use, I just like to able to do everything on the fly...not have to be beside my laptop to change ROMs or boot animation. This way I can throw a few ROMs and a few boot animations on my sd card and flash away while I'm stuck at the mall shopping with my fiance....

So you prefer Pushboot or ADB over flashing it?

**Karl** · #3 (**permalink**) 09-01-2010, 06:09 PM

heres pushboot if you want it with some boot animations. someone at XDA cooked it up

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y4IKH13I

**JDM_SOHC** · #4 (**permalink**) 09-02-2010, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by KarlE

heres pushboot if you want it with some boot animations. someone at XDA cooked it up

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y4IKH13I

Says file is temporarily unavailable..??

**JDM_SOHC** · #5 (**permalink**) 09-02-2010, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by stanglifemike

Going in to Rom manager or Quick boot and flashing a .zip is simple enough. Especially if you rooted your phone and your flashing ROMs. I was recently told, after asking a couple times, that any boot animation can be flashed. That was great for me becuase the last one that I installed was through Pushboot. Its not that pushboot is hard to use, I just like to able to do everything on the fly...not have to be beside my laptop to change ROMs or boot animation. This way I can throw a few ROMs and a few boot animations on my sd card and flash away while I'm stuck at the mall shopping with my fiance....

So you prefer Pushboot or ADB over flashing it?

See i'm the same way, I don't always have computer access so to be able to preload some things on my SD card would be beneficial because than, like you, I could do things on the fly... I'm still learning this whole android/linux operation as I've been accustomed to windows for the past 20 years almost lol... I was astonished that I rooted my phone after the OTA 2.2, and had no issues at all... I've been flashing since wm5 days so flashing is nothing new to me, it's just the process and terminology that's different...

So I can basically copy any zip to my SD card, and using ROM manager or Quickboot just install that zip, than that's it..?? Sounds pretty basic...

**JDM_SOHC** · #6 (**permalink**) 09-02-2010, 10:56 AM

haha just did it, wow that was pretty easy through recovery... I didn't realize we could flash individual files, for some reason I thought it only let us flash ROM's through recovery... lol FML =)

**gullzway** · #7 (**permalink**) 09-02-2010, 10:57 AM

Download the animation .zip file to your micro SD using phone's browser.

Boot phone into Recovery and select "apply from .zip" Reboot.
That's how I did it, Pretty Simple.

**JDM_SOHC** · #8 (**permalink**) 09-03-2010, 10:46 AM

Yeah I got it thanks, was pretty basic lol..

**JDM_SOHC** · #9 (**permalink**) 09-19-2010, 07:31 PM

Ok now I found some bootanimation's that can't be flashed through recovery, and require pushboot... I've done some reading and wow this shit seems complicated lol...

**Karl** · #10 (**permalink**) 09-19-2010, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by JDM_SOHC

Ok now I found some bootanimation's that can't be flashed through recovery, and require pushboot... I've done some reading and wow this shit seems complicated lol...

its easy just put the zip and the mp3 in the same folder as push boot then run bush boot it will automatically rename the files and push them for you