Tutorial: How to create a custom boot animation for Android headunit

This is a tutorial on how to create a custom boot animation for your Android headunit with use of free tools.

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[EsotericArctos]

Good thing most Android head units are still Android 10. 90%, if not all of them, advertising as 11 or 12 are fake 11 and 12 still running API 29, which is android 10.
Thanks for the tutroiral

[ChristopherAalto]

hey man are you working on a theme that looks like connect drive for the android? just like you did with the keyboard that is awesome! ill be buying that soon!

[vadimtatarnitsev]

Nice tutorial. Thank you for efforts did this! Could you please help where to get lights (9:26) and e93 picture (8:58) in barberrot colour? I would like to creat own video by this tutorial :)

[camillareyes]

How do you put a blank text document in your folder? I have a Mac and I don’t have an option for that. I’m not sure what to do because I can’t get past that stage..

[RohanSaridena]

Can you please share a download link for the BMW M animation you made please? I would love to donate and I really appreciate it :)

[BXFISTIcefreestylers]

You deserve alot more subscribers, is your name the same on XDA forums?

[willalbinclark]

Great video, looking for some advice on actually uploading this to the android unit. When trying to add the boot animation it says can’t load the logo, any advice? I followed everything here but a little confused on then adding it to the device

[nox]

Great video, thanks for showing this!
I managed to create my own video following your steps, however i am not able to install it on my unit (it is uckazy 6/128, 8259l, with android 11 (api30), pretty much junsun rebranded).
I am 100% sure i did all steps as described, but when i put into usb slot, nothing happens. I can see in ES explorer files are there.
Tried 3 different usb's (all under 15gb, exfat and fat32)

Is there a way to manually run install?
Thanks in advance!

[ihorkolianovskyi]

Thank you! This helps a lot. I have android 11 or 12, so splash did not go through and does that static image in part1 supposed to replace phone is loading message with 2 sec of that image?

[Eron.]

First, thank you for your work ! :) I've tried this method but I'm on 11 unit (snapdragon 662) so I don't have put my splash.img on OEM folder, just bootanimation.zip. The think is, when I plug my usb drive, the unit show me this message "The boot animation has already been changed".. Do you have any idea about that ? Thank you in advance ! :)

[redshock]

Ciao come si fa a inserire il mio nome alla fine? volevo metterlo sulla mia autoradio android

[boxenstopptv]

I Really like to create some boot animation but i dont know where you get the bmw configurator picture of the car and where i can get the lights or how i can take my own car for this picture

[jasonpaiva]

RedErik, I have a question regarding the bootlogo for Android 13 mercedes. I managed to update the bootanimation based on your tutorial. What I am struggling with is how to change the bootlogo. When I tried importing the bootlogo.zip, I had no luck. I put it in the OEM folder but for some reason I think the way I have the files setup on the USB drive is not correct. Any ideas?

[ChrisCoelho]

does this apply to android 12 as well not being able to use a sound effect? :( damn i was really hoping I could use something ...any other ideas what I could do even if the system is booted already and it plays the sound effect?

[BXFISTIcefreestylers]

This is very similar to phone animations, Last time I made one was the Samsung S3 though, just rooted a Lenovo tablet M10 so interested in starting to mod android again, Looking at buying an s22 and if I do ill want to install magisk etc. Are Mercedes and Audi's version of Android also rootable via magisk are you using a patched boot image or is it TWRP and flash what you want after?

[papuchrts]

I have followed this tutorial and created my own animation. When I plug in my USB, it does not give any prompt to change boot animation. I couldn't make the splash because I'm using a mac. Please help!

Head Unit Information:
Android Version: 12
MCU: Z35_BMHA30105B_8581_NN
Version: M_OS_1.60

[bvsl]

Boss, for HEADUNIT ORCA 9988 - Dynamic Boot Logo, how to install file animation on there? Please help me, i can't find folder adding animation to reading my file custom. Thankyou 🙏🙏

[AdamCunniffe]

I have followed this tutorial and created my own animation. When i plugin my usb it does not give any prompt to change boot animation. I have an adroid 12 unit. I have also used bmp for the splash

[greenadeeb]

Really great, but i don't really have the time to make this, so can u please make an animation of the Mitsubishi Pajero (im not picky but if u can, can u make it black?) I really want to replace that android animation.

[krzysztofmakowski]

Cn you help me, i can change boot logo, on my headunit with androd 12, but boot animation cant change