Boot Animations

Step 1: Now, place your bootanimation.zip on your SDCard root

Step 2: Now, mount file system read/write

• mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3/system

Step 3: Let first backup your current bootanimation.zip

• cd/system/media
• mv bootanimation.zip bootanimation.bak

Step 4: Now, copy the custom bootanimation.zip to the correct folder

• cat/sdcard/bootanimation.zip > botanimation.zip

Step 5: Now, reboot your device. Now, reboot your device.

That’s it! You should see the new boot animation on your Droid.

First, you need the Android SDK. You can find that here: Android SDK | Android Developers

Extract the folder and run Setup. It will ask you to download files, do so.

Place this bootanimation.zip into the tools folder of the SDK. You can find the tools folder inside of the android_sdk_windows folder you extracted when you downloaded the SDK.

Connect your phone to your computer with USB. Mount your phone by clicking on the USB message in the notification bar. You will then need to run Debugging mode by going on your phone to: Settings > Applications ; Development > USB Debugging. Make sure this is checked; you should get an exclamation mark icon in your notification bar.

Once you are connected, mounted, and in debugging mode, go to on your computer: Start > Run. Type in “cmd” and hit Ok. This will open .

You need to navigate to the android_sdk_folder from command prompt. If the folder is in your C drive and the letter next to your cursor is different, simply type: “c:” and it will switch to the correct drive. If you are on an XP machine and the folder is on your , you will need to navigate to the tools folder by typing:

cd c:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\android-sdk-windows\tools

…where “user” is your login name. THIS IS NOT ALWAYS THE ADDRESS, you can see the full path at the top of the open tools folder. The “cd” before the directory path is necessary–it tells the command prompt to “change directory”.

If you have correctly typed in the exact directory your tools folder is in, you should see the entire directory path displayed to the left of your cursor on the new line. Now, you need to push the bootanimation.zip folder to your phone by entering in this line of text:
adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local (HTC Devices) /system/media/ (Motorola Devices)

Once you hit enter, a second should go by and you should see that a certain amount of data was added to the phone. When you see this, turn off your phone and reboot. You should now see the new animation! You may need to unplug your before you turn the power back on. In debugging mode, it may display weird menu text when you boot up if you are still connected to the PC.