GUIDE – How to install custom full screen boot animations on rooted Fire TV Stick

Hi,

I started playing around with custom boot animations on my rooted Fire TV Stick and thought I’d share the process with everyone. Firstly I would like to note that I am using Ubuntu in this guide.

First download a custom boot animation (bootanimation.zip) from the Internet or make your own. The one I have used in this example is a Dark Knight one downloaded from the Internet and I’ve set the resolution of the image to 1080×1920 (HxW) and the fps at 30.

Then you need to connect to the rooted Fire TV Stick via adb using Terminal using the adb connect command:

adb connect <IP of Fire Stick>

Your command should look something like this:

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adb connect 192.168.0.8

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Now you need to send the bootanimation.zip file to the Fire TV Stick using the adb push command. This may take some time depending on the size of the new bootanimation and the strength/speed of your network.

adb push <source-of-new-bootanimation.zip> /sdcard/

So your command should look something like this:

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adb push /home/ian/Desktop/bootanimation.zip /sdcard/

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(Optional step) Backup original bootanimation.zip by using the abd pull command:

adb pull /system/media/bootanimation.zip <directory-to-save-backup>

So the command used should look like:

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adb pull /system/media/bootanimation.zip /home/ian/Documents/

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You then need to start an adb shell by using the command:

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adb shell

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Get root access in the shell by using the su command:

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su

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Then you need to use the mount command to get a list of the mounted partitions so we can copy the address of the system partition:

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mount

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Once the mount command has returned the mounted partition list then need to find the system partition, mine is listed as:

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/dev/block/platform/sdhci.1/by-name/system /system

Copy that address and then remount the partition as read/write instead of read only with the following command.

mount -o rw,remount -t ext4 <address of system partition>

The complete command should look something like this:

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mount -o rw,remount -t ext4 /dev/block/platform/sdhci.1/by-name/system /system

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Once you have remounted the drive you need to remove the original bootanimation.zip using the rm command:

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rm /system/media/bootanimation.zip

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Now you have to copy the new bootanimation.zip file that was sent over to the sdcard with the following command:

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cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /system/media/

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Now the custombootanimation.zip file has been copied over we need to set the correct file permissions using the chmod command:

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chmod 0644 /system/media/bootanimation.zip

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Once that has been completed you can then remount the system partition as read only by using the following command:

mount -o ro,remount -t ext4 <address of system partition>

Your complete command should look like this:

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mount -o ro,remount -t ext4 /dev/block/platform/sdhci.1/by-name/system /system

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(Optional step) You can then remove the copy of the bootanimation.zip file from the sdcard by using:

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rm /sdcard/bootanimation.zip

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Then type exit three times and reboot your Fire Stick to see your shiny new boot animation

I have put up a video on YouTube named:

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Custom boot animation running on rooted Fire TV Stick.

This video shows the end result in action, however as I am a new user here it will not allow me to share the link or embed the video.

Download from this link