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Old 12-28-2011, 10:13 PM   #6
mike998
Exasperated Kobo Lover
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Device: Kobo Touch, Kobo Vox
Quote:
Originally Posted by mr_nobody View Post
I just dropped in one of the w(q)vga ones from here and it worked fine. I think those are 800x480 which is smaller than the vox's screen.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696193

I was getting a little tired of the kobo animation. (not nearly as tired as I was of the startup sound when I blew it away a month ago...now I can't even remember what it sounds like!)

[edit]: Ended up going with AndroidParticles2 from here which is pretty sweet:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905538
To clarify :
  • Ensure your Kobo Vox is rooted as per jefftheworld's How-To (How-To is HERE)
  • Assuming the new files are : The new bootanimation.zip is called NEWBOOTANIMATION.ZIP and NEWBOOTAUDIO.ZIP (if you're updating the audio file)
  • Find a 480 x 800 bootanimation.zip and bootaudio.mp3 that you like. They are seperate files, as mr_nobody noted, there's some good bootanimation.zip files HERE
  • Personally, I used the bootanimation.zip and bootaudio.mp3 files found HERE (I like Star Trek...)
  • Copy the bootanimation.zip and bootaudio.mp3 files to the root of your SD card. This is accomplished by connecting your Vox to your PC and performing a drag 'n' drop.
  • Fire up a terminal emulator on your Vox (ConnectBot is a very good Terminal Emulator.)
  • Remount the filesystem as RW
  • Copy the files to the right locations
  • Correct the file permissions
  • Reboot your Vox to allow the filesystems to remount in the correct fashion and also to check your new animation loads correctly.


Use the following commands :

Code:
su
mount -o remount,rw -t ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /system
This mounts the /system partition in a re-write mode so you can make changes.
Code:
mv /system/media/bootanimation.zip /system/media/bootanimation.zip.bak
mv /system/media/bootaudio.mp3 /system/media/bootaudio.mp3.bak
This backs up the old animation and audio so you aren't over-writing it.
Code:
cp /mnt/sdcard/NEWBOOTANIMATION.ZIP /system/media/bootanimation.zip
cp /mnt/sdcard/NEWBOOTAUDIO.MP3 /system/media/bootaudio.mp3
This copies the files from the root of your SD card to the correct location
Code:
chmod 0644 /system/media/bootanimation.zip
chmod 0644 /system/media/bootaudio.mp3
exit
This corrects the permissions on the newly copied files so they are the same as the old files.


After the above, REBOOT your Vox.

Enjoy your new Boot Splash!

It is entirely possible that you can use ADP to push this to your Vox. Someone else can feel free to adjust this for non-rooted Vox devices.
Feel free to make this post a new thread or sticky this information. Just attribute the information. This took me an hour to get it clarified.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Jesslynne View Post
Or you can use ES File Explorer in Root mode, and move the new animation to /system/media and remove the default, whether moving it to someplace else to store or delete it.
Yes, you can use file explorers, I'm comfortable using command line.

Last edited by mike998; 12-28-2011 at 10:54 PM. Reason: Bullets and yeah, file managers will work too!
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