Instructions:
1. Your device must be ROOTED, if not then you shouldn’t be reading this
2. You must have the Root Explorer (file manager) app installed on your device if you don’t Click here
3. Download a boot animation you would like to install, when you save it rename it to “bootanimation.zip”. Or you can download the Droid Incredible boot animation for an example (Be sure you do not unzip or rename this file) – Download via Megaupload
4. Add the bootanimation.zip to the root of your SD-Card
5. Unmount your device from the computer or remove USB connection
6. Open Root Explorer application on your device, tap on “sdcard” and locate bootanimation.zip
7. Long press on bootanimation.zip and choose “Move”
8. Hit the back button once and locate the “data” folder.
9. Tap and open “data” and then “local”
If your /data/local/ folder already has a bootanimation.zip then you can skip to step 11. If it is missing, proceed to step 10. You must complete this step or the boot animation will not install properly
10. Since you did not have a bootanimation.zip in your /data/local/ folder we need to find it. There is a search function in Root Explorer which can find it. Or, you can navigate straight to /system/media/ which is where I found mine. Once you find it, return to your to your SD card, long press on the bootanimation.zip that you downloaded and select “move” one more time. Now navigate to the folder which is holding your current bootanimation.zip and proceed to step 11
11. Hit “Paste” which should be an option at the bottom of your screen
11. If there is already a bootanimation.zip file, let Root Explorer overwrite it
12. Back out of Root Explorer, reboot your phone, and you are complete
13. Once you reboot and you do not see the new boot animation something went wrong. Either post a comment here on whats happening or try the steps again make sure you complete everything in the sequential order as listed.
Location of Boot Animation if you are Running Ultimate Droid:
I recently switched my ROM to Ultimate Droid, and the same how to as posted above did not work using the ROM Ultimate Droid. Here is the path where you need to place your “bootanimation.zip“.
/system/media
/data/local
Video of what the boot animation should look like once installed on your device:
