Handful Of Boot Animations Released To Fit On The Galaxy Nexus

• -Note- I realize it says Droid… but really don’t care, the Prime is sweet

• What Happened to this 
  http://carlz28.com/NexusPrime.html
  I still want it as my Boot Animation

  -Note- I realize it says Droid… but really don’t care, the Prime is sweet

• so do I have to be rooted to install these?

• nice, when i get around to rooting my gnexus, i’ll add one of these.

• http://phandroid.com/2012/01/05/white-galaxy-nexus-coming-in-february/

  • Ewww, thats just gross….. glad I didnt wait  🙂  I dont get the ‘hype’ with white phones… guess that’s for the chicks…  😉

    • Wow, that sounded really sexest… sorry, didnt mean it to sound like that… I just dont get the white phones, but the females I know do like them more it seems (for the most part).

      • don’t worry. the only people that would think that sounds sexist are stupid chicks.

• Will these work on other phones? (tbolt)..

  • They should, but have the gnex’s resolution, maybe your only ”issue”.

• Nice, wish I could decide between the gnex or razr lol

  • Ive had both here, both are great.. blur just killed it for me… as I came from the DROID…. but brother-in-law just exchanged his for a GNex… and seems real happy with it (once i got volume+ installed – LOL – sad)….
    He could just be happier because he knows I can ‘fix’ it like I do mine and I did with the DROID. 
    (Thanks Peter Alfonso!!)

• Cool very nice!

• I dont think any of these are as good as the one thats one it

• Back when I had the Droid, having a good boot animation was cool because the phone rebooted itself so often 😛

• Strange request but does anyone know if there is a knock off of the Razr Boot Animation for the nexus?

  • You can find one in Rom Toolbox in the Marketplace. Not sized for the Nexus but it works.

• They do look amazing! 
  Galaxy Nexus story: rumors and facts http://k-selezneva.blogspot.com/2011/12/galaxy-nexus-story-rumors-and-truth.html

• Why can’t they make live wallpapers as cool as the boot animations?

• Touch enabled Clockwork Mod Recovery for the GNex – sweet

  https://plus.google.com/u/1/102668644728495519296/posts/A6dUdXr7y6a

  • Woah, that’s awesome.  Thanks!

    • flash it via fastboot. Works okay – I downloaded mine before he fixed the flashing issue at the top of the screen (it’s still alpha), I’m downloading his updated one. But he’s going to change the font to Roboto soon – that would be awesome.

      • Does it work ok for Alpha?  If not, I’ll probably sit on this one for a little bit.

        • I only flashed the Andromeda boot animation with it so far – works fine. The first version I downloaded had a flashing issue at the top but the dev posted a 2nd one late last night. Fixed it. It’s a lot easier to navigate with the on screen buttons, but not earth shattering.

  • Got it.  It is a beautiful thing. 

• These would be great as live wallpapers on my G-nex, is there a way to save them as live wallpapers?

  • No – they need to be written as an app for that, however, check this out. Stock boot animation written as a LW.

    http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18728303#post18728303

    • Thanks mom really wanted this as her LWP… wonder how itll effect battery life, we’ll find out…
      Thanks!!

      • live wallpapers drain battery, but are pure eye candy. And it’s always something to show off to (stock) iPhone owners

        • These are boot animations not live wallpapers.

        • Read what I posted. I sent 2ceez an XDA link for a LIVE WALLPAPER of the boot animation.

          Reading is fundamental.

• I’m really digging the “Galaxus” boot animation. And it seems fitting considering my phone is a Galaxy Nexus after all…hahah.

  In the process of getting that boot animation set up right now.

• Tim, how about a review post comparing and reviewing custom GNex ROMs? There’s nearly 20 of them now floating the interwebs…thanks!

• Been had the azul machine for a week Kelex ur behind in times bro

• Itll be cool..if there was a ghostrider skull gif

• Stock HD and Andromeda are my favs…thanks!

• would be nice if these were usable as live wallpapers

• Could we use these as wallpapers?

• I’m rooted but still trying adb push, because I figure if I stored it in data/local it’d be easy to delete at any time and return to stock. However, the filesystem is read-only; I can’t adb push to /data/local at all. I tried mounting the filesystem but I must be doing it wrong.

• The middle animation looks straight out of a scientology video

• The flux capacitor one is bad ass

• This is exclusive !!! The best thing to watch while your phone goes in and out of consciousness …

• wait. WTH?! SeaNanners? I am pretty sure that is wrong/imposter…

• This is embarrassing….

• Should mention you have to scroll through the whole thread as he posts many many many more through out it.

  • yea the flux capacitor one is pretty BA. i chose the blue plasma (something or other)…goes excellent with the holo/roboto theme of ICS.

• Other install method: extract bootanimation.zip from the zip files and replace the one in system/media using root explorer

  • I support this method because it allows for saving the stock animation in case you want to go back.

• shmeh. I love the stock one too much.

  • mr too!

    • me too?

      • me three*

  • Then you, like me, should get the Stock HD one

    • I already have it…? 😀

      • Isn’t the Stock HD one already on the Galaxy Nexus by default? Or is it just the regular one? It looks pretty damn good for a regular one though.

        • Not exactly.  Some people improved the original a bit with some tweaks, apparently.

        • Ahh…okay. Will have to give that one a try, as well!

          Also, quick question: Is there an app that will allow a user to pick a boot animation from a list of installed animations?

          So say…if I wanted to use the stock animation one day, I can without having to re-flash that animation. Or is “flashing” the only way right now?

        • not sure if theres an app but you can just replace whatever bootanimation.zip you have with a different one with root explorer at any time

        • I’m not aware of any apps to just change the animation.  I think you have to flash it.  Maybe ROM Toolbox Pro, that Jason recommended, has such a feature. 

      • The “HD” versions are retouched versions posed around various forums.  I haven’t tried any, but apparently they look a bit better.  See http://rootzwiki.com/topic/12868-hd-original-galaxy-nexus-boot-animation/ as an example. 

        • how do you push it with adb? I am nawt rooooot’d

        • Assuming the location is writable by the shell user (that would be adb in this case), then the process would be the same.  Though, I don’t know if /system/media/ allows the shell user to write.  If that doesn’t work, you can always push it to /data/local, but I don’t believe the animation would stick after an OTA update or installing a ROM (if you ever decide to get into that scene).  Of course, if your phone ever reverts back to the stock animation, you could always push the file again, so it’s not a huge loss.  Did that help or do you need some full on ADB instruction?  If you need more ADB info, just reply and I’ll pass you some links.

        • I am going to get into roms. I just haven’t yet. It doesn’t matter. I am waiting for something special in terms of roms.

        • If you follow the guide for unlocking the bootloader, you’ll have ADB setup.  Even if you don’t go forward with unlocking, that’ll get ADB on your machine.  You could also follow the guide at http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/what-is-adb-and-how-to-install-it-android/ to setup ADB.  Check out http://www.londatiga.net/it/how-to-use-android-adb-command-line-tool/ for some info on the various ADB commands.  I never bothered with ADB on my OG Droid, but now I’m wishing I did.  It’s actually pretty easy to use and it makes some operations pretty easy, especially when combined with fastboot.

        • Yeah, I just got into it myself and I was just wondering for future reference. Thanks.

        • stock HD one does look a bit better

• The middle one really reminds me of the beginning of an IMAX movie.

  • ^ this

• The middle one reminds me too much of an old internet explorer logo animation.  In other words.. no.

• Is it weird some days I kinda want a DROID eye? haha

• Meh… And I own a Gnex. LOVE it and I dig the stock animation.

  •  A lot of us use custom ROMs and don’t like the like the animation. While I am a fan of droidth3ory I don’t like that my boot animation is his name.

• there cool but pointless…ill stick with stock…its rarely a day i power off my phone completely.

  • If you ever had a DroidX running Gingerbread that rebooted every 10 minutes you would know how nice it is to have a good looking boot animation 😛

    • No kidding. I always wanted to make a simple one that said. “Yeah this again…oops. Sorry, Motorola”

    • +1 haha stupid moto. Sad how a BETA build of ICS by some kid on the internet is more stable on my X than the stock softwear.

    • Touché tim-o-tato Touché… though i never had that problem, i only had the thunderbolt restart problem :p, but i can’t wait to get my gnex this weekend! 🙂 and hopefully the docks for it soon…

  • They’re.

• I guess I just don’t understand all the boot animation hype.  What do these people do… sit around and reboot their phone to look at the animation?  I’d laugh if someone wanted to reboot their phone to show me an animation.

  • Early November 2009… I used to reboot my D1 just to watch the bootanimation over and over… haha. Times were so much simpler back then…

  • Well if you constantly flash ROMs, kernels, etc then I guess you would be watching the boot animation a lot.

  • i have a extra battery for my nexus so im always swapping them vs. being connect to a wall charger. plus you have roms, themes, kernals, radios, boot animations, mods and all kinds of things to flash on any given day!

    • Off topic.  I have an extra battery too.  Do you have a way to charge the battery without the phone?

      • Simply Google “standalone battery charger verizon galaxy nexus” They are out there…. good luck!

      • I should have jumped on that standalone charger while VZW still had it. Most of the time I’m fine, but every once in a while when I drain both my batteries then it’s a pain when I’m tied to an outlet until both are charged again.

      • i got mine at a verizon store the week before xmas for 29.99

      • http://msgdigital.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus-battery-charger.html

  • because you can….so you can make it that much more personal.

  • me either. i have a simple animation that the whole zip takes up a whopping 82kb – i do reboot my phone about every third day, and occasionally when i swap batteries. so it does get some use, but im not about to flash a crazy awesome mini movie that weighs in at 73mb for a *bopefully* brief 30-45 second thing

    • Yeah because 73mb is so taxing on a phone with 32gb of memory. Lame.

  • I did when I had the R2D2 boot animation 😀 so much fun

  • I never knew this was considered hype…

  • it’s simple – because WE CAN.

  • When you mess up your phone and it goes into constant bootloop mode, it will give you something to look at

  • If you can do it, then why not do it? And it’s just a boot animation…also, it’s fun.

  • I hate to say it but the best way to show off the Gnex screen is the boot animation. When i tell someone about my HD screen they don’t understand or see any difference. Then i restart my phone and they see the boot animation and bingo, they get it!!!!!!

    but you’re right, thats all it’s good for. not much else.

  • Hey Joe, wanna see my boot animation? /kicksjoeintheface

  • and if you load a new rom and cant stand their custom boot animation,  why not flash something you like.

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