thanks to swagger I was able to change my boot animation successfully manually but my question would be.
Where do you place the bootanimation.zip to have the 2.01 toolbox install it?
(If I place it in the sdcard root then go to the liberty toolbox and click install bootanimation I just get a error message).
Also when I installed the bootanimation manually and successfully,how come when I use astro to navigate to the system/media folder I do not see the bootanimation.zip?
Thanks for the help guys!
Correction: It's in /system/bin/bootanimation
Note: Please do not mess with that file unless you're doing an adb pull to customize it and know what you're doing.
Using Liberty Toolbox to install bootanimation.zip:
Put the custom bootanimation.zip file in your /data/local folder. Open up Liberty Toolbox, click on Liberty Tweaks, click on Manage Boot Animation, make sure you click on Enable boot animation (just to be sure), then click on Install bootanimation.zip on SD and find the bootanimation.zip on your /data/local folder, reboot.
Manually installing bootanimation.zip with Android Terminal:
Put the bootanimation.zip in your sdcard root.
Open up your Android terminal and type this in the terminal window:
dd if=/sdcard/bootanimation.zip of=/data/local/bootanimation.zip
If you wish to revert back to the original, just delete the bootanimation.zip in /data/local. The original bootanimation.zip will still stay in the /system/media.
Side notes:
You cannot install a bootanimation file that is renamed to something else. Change the name to bootanimation.zip and follow steps above. As mentioned, Android cannot understand such file with a different name or format for that specific purpose and it cannot understand the format(s) of extra subfolders that are not necessary. If you need to find out what the folders look like then use your PC/latop, use Winrar or 7-zip, pull up an original bootanimation.zip and look at the folder structures. If a custom, uncompressed, or different format file is used then you need to make sure that the files are not in a folder that is in another folder or else it won't work. A simple rename from bootanimationname.zip to bootanimation.zip will work.
what do i do then? unzip it?
it has: bootanimation folder>desc.txt, Part0 and part1.
the file was called "R2D2-bootanimation-with-yellow-logo.zip"
the other link is the logo bin
You are not suppose to extract anything unless you are doing work on it and know what you're doing. Leave it as it is. Rename file to bootanimation.zip and use steps above to install it.
Thanks for the awsome tut on the various steps! You rock dancedroid