How To Change A Boot Animation Using Twrp

How to customize the Kick Animation on a rooted Fire Tv or Burn TV Stick

The default colorful Amazon kicking animation on the Fire Television set and Burn TV Stick is fine, but if your device is rooted, yous tin install your ain custom boot blitheness to give your device a bit more character. This guide will walk you through the steps of how to supplant the default kick animation.

I began researching and writing this guide a couple weeks agone after a reader asked if changing the kick animation was possible during the Q&A section of my AFTVnewscast podcast. A big cheers goes out to Ian.Moz (aka CrashInc on the XDA forum) for figuring out the process himself and posting his own guide on how to install a custom boot animation, which allowed me to fill in the missing pieces for the guide below.

If at that place is enough involvement, I'll write a guide on how to create your own custom kick animations, just y'all can find several great guides through a quick web search. The Burn Goggle box uses standard Android boot animations, so most boot animation files you lot discover online should work with the Fire TV. Installing an incompatible kick animation could crusade your Fire Idiot box or Fire Television Stick to non boot, then I recommend only following this guide if you take TWRP custom recovery installed.

I created a Kodi kick blitheness for the Fire Boob tube, which you can download hither, by using samfisher'south awesome Kodi logo clip. The video below shows the boot animation in action.

Demo Video

Install Custom Kick Animation

Rename the kick animation file that you want to use to bootanimation.nil. The Kodi boot animation I created can be downloaded hither.
Connect to your device via ADB.
Transfer the file to your device's /sdcard/ directory by running the command:
adb button [Full-PATH-TO-bootanimation.nothing] /sdcard/
Notation: Be certain to replace [Total-PATH-TO-bootanimation.naught] in the to a higher place command with the location of the bootanimation.null file on your PC.
Enter ADB shell past running the command: adb trounce
Enter su mode by running the command: su
Mount the device'due south organization partition equally read+write, so it can be modified, by running the command:
mountain -o remount,rw /system
Backup the default kick animation to your device's /sdcard/ directory by running the control:
cp /organization/media/bootanimation.naught /sdcard/bootanimation.null.original
Remove the default kicking animation by running the command:
rm -f /system/media/bootanimation.zip
Install your new kick blitheness by running the command:
cp /sdcard/bootanimation.nil /organization/media/bootanimation.null
Set the advisable file permissions for the new boot animation by running the command:
chmod 0644 /organization/media/bootanimation.cypher
Restore the device's system partition to read-simply by running the command:
mount -o remount,ro /system
[OPTIONAL] Delete the new kicking animation from your /sdcard/ directory by running the command:
rm -f /sdcard/bootanimation.nix
Exit su mode by running the command: exit
Exit ADB shell by running the command: leave
Disconnect ADB and restart your device to see your new boot blitheness in action.

Restore Original Boot Animation

Connect to your device via ADB.
Enter ADB trounce past running the control: adb crush
Enter su mode by running the command: su
Mount the device'southward system sectionalization equally read+write, then it can be modified, by running the command:
mount -o remount,rw /system
Remove the custom boot animation by running the command:
rm -f /system/media/bootanimation.zip
Restore the default boot animation by running the command:
cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip.original /system/media/bootanimation.zippo
Set the appropriate file permissions for the default boot animation by running the command:
chmod 0644 /system/media/bootanimation.zip
Restore the device'due south system partition to read-only past running the command:
mountain -o remount,ro /system
[OPTIONAL] Delete the backed up boot animation from your /sdcard/ directory by running the command:
rm -f /sdcard/bootanimation.zip.original
Exit su style by running the command: get out
Exit ADB shell past running the command: go out
Disconnect ADB and restart your device to run into the default boot blitheness.

Troubleshooting

If your device no longer boots due to an incompatible kick animation, one option is to simply re-install a pre-rooted ROM.

If you rather try to set up the problem, practise the following to restore the default kick animation via terminal in custom recovery:

Boot into TWRP custom recovery.
Select the "Mountain" choice on the master menu.
Check the box next to "organisation"
Press the home button in the bottom eye to return to the master menu.
Enter the "ADVANCED" carte.
Enter the "TERMINAL" carte.
On the final screen, run the post-obit commands:
- rm -f /arrangement/media/bootanimation.zip
- cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip.original /arrangement/media/bootanimation.zip
- chmod 0644 /system/media/bootanimation.zip
Restart the device