How to change your Android Boot Animation
This
guide will be fairly short, sweet and to the point. This is a simple
tutorial that anybody with or without Root access can accomplish, so let
us begin.
If you aren’t familiar with the
term “Boot Animation”, it’s just the little animation that your screen
shows when you power on/reboot your device. If you are a Nexus user, you
should see the Nexus/Google Boot animation. You can easily change this
animation with a File explorer, or if you are a Cyanogenmod user, this
feature is built in to the Rom.
Before we
start on something like this, or anything that requires you to modify
system files, there is a slight chance that something may go terribly
wrong, so like all the other tutorials I’ve covered, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND
that you head into your Stock Recovery, or Custom Recovery and create a
backup file of your device, and make a copy of it and store it on an
external storage source, like a computer or a hard drive/USB Flash
drive/SD Card.
First things first, go online
and find a Boot Animation that you like, and download it. The File
should have a .zip file extension. This Websiteanimestion is a good source for high definition Boot animations, so feel free to check that out, or browse other sites for downloads.
You
will also need an app that lets you browse your phone’s storage,
something like ES File explorer, or Root browser are some good examples.
So
once you have your Boot Animation zip file downloaded, navigate to
where you downloaded your boot animation file. Most likely that would be
under your device’s internal storage>Downloads, or
SDCARD>Downloads. So find the file and copy or move the file. Next,
navigate to the Root of your device’s storage, and go to /system/media
and you should see your device’s stock default Boot Animation. The file
name should be “bootanimation.zip”. Rename the default file from “bootanimation.zip” to “bootanimation.zip.bak”all
you need to do is pretty much add a .bak extension to your existing
boot animation file, to make the file into a backup file, and not an
actual boot animation. Next, paste the downloaded boot animation into
the directory, and name it “bootanimation.zip”.
Next, highlight the new Boot animation file, and click on properties.
Next, click on permissions. Uncheck the write box that’s ticked by
default and tick the “other” box under read and click ok. Now your
desired boot animation is now your default animation, just reboot your
device, and you should be pretty satisfied with the new changes we have
just performed. So we are pretty much done!
That
was pretty simple and straight forward wasn’t it? If you need to revert
your boot animation back to the stock Boot Animation, just delete your
current bootanimation.zip file, (this is safe to do, because this was
the file we downloaded, so it’s disposable, as long as you didn’t delete
the backup of the stock boot animation we had earlier), and rename the
stock boot animation file from “bootanimation.zip.bak” back to “bootanimation.zip”,
so all you did was remove the .bak from the name, and your stock boot
animation is successfully reverted back to its original state.
If this was helpful, why not
If
for some reason you encounter errors with your device, you should boot
into your recovery, and restore the backup we made earlier, and your
device should be back to normal. Alright, that rounds out this short
tutorial on how to change your device’s Boot Animation, if you have more
questions please do not hesitate to contact us.
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