Where is Android boot animation saved?

Question

When you start an Android device, there is an animation showed, usually "Android", but sometimes the manufacturer's logo.

Where is this animation stored? I have looked in the boot.img, but can't see it there.

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 26 '23 at 12:56

The boot animation is normally located in /system/media under the name bootanimation.zip. This is a zip file containing one or more directories named part0, part1, part2, and so on, and a text file named desc.txt. The directories each contain a number of still images, JPEG or PNG, sequentially numbered, for example, 0001.png, 0002.png, 0003.png, and so on. The text file is a simple description of the properties, such as how many times to loop each directory, the pixel size of the images, and the framerate. Like this:

width height framerate
p loop pause directory

For example:

1080 1920 20
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1

0 for loop means that it loops until the boot process is complete, and the pause is specified in number of frames, so with a framerate of 20, a pause of 1 would mean 0.05 seconds pause before moving on to the next loop or the next part.

Some manufacturers may use a proprietary file format, which may or may not have a different name than bootanimation.zip, so make sure that your current file uses the above format before replacing it with a custom one. If the boot animation is corrupted, the phone may boot loop or simply ignore the animation.

The file should be owned by root:root and have permissions set to 644 (rw-r--r--). It must not be compressed.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 10 '17 at 11:17

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The boot animation is located at

/(Home directory) > System > Media > ... (for me it's bootanimation.zip)

And of course you need a file explorer and a rooted phone I guess.

answered Feb 10 '17 at 11:17

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You don't need a rooted device to reach it – android developer Oct 23 '23 at 06:52

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 26 '23 at 12:59

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A root is required to perform this task.
Use any file explorer application such as ES File Explorer, with root access.
Go to the root directory of internal / system / media. You can see a file named bootanimation.zip, which is the one that loaded during boot.

Extracting the zip may display multiple folders named as part0, part1, part2,.. and desc.txt.

edited Apr 26 '23 at 12:59

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answered Feb 10 '17 at 11:41

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You don't need a rooted device to reach it – android developer Oct 23 '23 at 06:53

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 28 '24 at 01:00

If you have a computer with Android Debug Bridge (ADB) available, you can run this command to find its location:

$ adb shell

# find . -iname "bootanimation.zip" 2>/dev/null

On one of my devices it was stored in /oem/media/bootanimation.zip and on the other device it was stored in /product/media/bootanimation.zip

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 26 '23 at 08:41

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For me, on Pixel 6 with Android 13, it's actually on:

/system/product/media/bootanimation-dark.zip
/system/product/media/bootanimation.zip

answered Apr 26 '23 at 08:41

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 30 '24 at 13:54

It appears you can override the boot animation on a device. Create a boot animation file, as described in the other answers, and copy it to /data/local, which is writable by adb without rooting:

adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local

Source: Emteria article on boot animations. I have not tried this yet.

Where is Android boot animation saved?

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