How to Switch Out Your Shutdown Animation on Your Phone

By David from Pham buff.com

To start this tutorial, you will need to have Root Explorer and be rooted. If you haven't already downloaded Root Explorer from the Android market, now is the time to do so. Once you've got your hands on Root Explorer, it's time to dive into the world of customizing your phone.

To begin, you'll need to open up Root Explorer and navigate to the root folder of your phone. At the top bar, there should be a slash followed by nothing behind it. This indicates that you're currently at the root level of your phone. If there's something behind this slash, it means you're in a folder and you'll need to back out of it until you reach the very root of your phone.

Once you've reached the root level, it's time to find the shutdown animation you'd like to switch with. I personally stored mine on my SD card, but yours may be located somewhere else depending on your device. Using Root Explorer, navigate to the location where you stored your shutdown animation and select all the images that make up the sequence.

Next, hit menu multi-select and then select all again. You'll see a copy option appear - this is what we'll use to paste our new shutdown animation over the old one. Copy the selected images and return to the root level of your phone. From there, navigate to the system folder, which should be located in the root directory.

Within the system folder, find the media folder. The name may vary depending on your device, but it should be similar to "system/media". Once you've found the media folder, click on the "shutdown" option and select all the images that make up the sequence again.

Hit delete to remove the old shutdown animation, and then hit paste to replace it with the new one. This is where the magic happens! Your phone will now boot into your custom shutdown animation instead of its default sequence.

After completing these steps, you'll need to perform a quick reset on your device to see the changes take effect. Once you've done this, you should be able to enjoy your newly customized shutdown animation. And that's it - switching out your shutdown animation is as simple as following these steps.

Thank you for watching this tutorial, and don't forget to visit PhoneBuff.com for more cell phone news, reviews, and how-to guides!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi this is David from fb.com and today I'm be doing a video on how to switch out your shutdown animation um on your phone so in order to be able to do that you are going to need to have Root Explorer and in order to be able to root use Root Explorer you're going to need to be rooted so make sure your phone's rooted and uh download root explorer from the Android market if you haven't already and uh with that said let's go into how to actually do it so you're going to open up Root Explorer you want to go to the uh root folder of your phone so you can see uh at the top bar there's a slash and nothing behind it that means you're at the root if there's something behind this slash it means you're in a folder you want to back out of it until you're at the uh the very root of your phone so once you do that what you want to do is you want to go into uh where you downloaded the shutdown animation so I put my shutdown animation on my SD card so I'll go ahead and find that shut down animation here it is um basically the shutdown animations is just a bunch of pictures um that the phone will automatically you know go through when it shuts down so I'm just going to select all so Hit menu multi select and then select all and I'm going to hit copy and um from here you want to go back to the root like I was telling you guys earlier and go to the system folder so system and from the system folder you want to find the media folder and uh it should look like this in the top should say system slash and then media might be a named something else depending on your phone but um it should be somewhat similar if not the same so I'll go into video after I go into the uh media folder and from here you see it's this says shutdown click on that and um this is my old shutdown animation it's actually the same one because it's the one I like I don't want to replace it but I'm just showing you guys how to do it so I'm just going to hit select all so and then um delete so it's going to delete and you you want to hit paste and it's going to paste the one that you're copying over from your SD card and um that's it it's as simple as that you're just going to need to probably do a quick reset on your phone in order for able or in order for it to actually work but um it's pretty much it it's something really easy to do all right uh thank you for watching the video this is David from Pham buff.com and don't forget to visit phonebuff outcom for more cell phone news reviews and howtoshi this is David from fb.com and today I'm be doing a video on how to switch out your shutdown animation um on your phone so in order to be able to do that you are going to need to have Root Explorer and in order to be able to root use Root Explorer you're going to need to be rooted so make sure your phone's rooted and uh download root explorer from the Android market if you haven't already and uh with that said let's go into how to actually do it so you're going to open up Root Explorer you want to go to the uh root folder of your phone so you can see uh at the top bar there's a slash and nothing behind it that means you're at the root if there's something behind this slash it means you're in a folder you want to back out of it until you're at the uh the very root of your phone so once you do that what you want to do is you want to go into uh where you downloaded the shutdown animation so I put my shutdown animation on my SD card so I'll go ahead and find that shut down animation here it is um basically the shutdown animations is just a bunch of pictures um that the phone will automatically you know go through when it shuts down so I'm just going to select all so Hit menu multi select and then select all and I'm going to hit copy and um from here you want to go back to the root like I was telling you guys earlier and go to the system folder so system and from the system folder you want to find the media folder and uh it should look like this in the top should say system slash and then media might be a named something else depending on your phone but um it should be somewhat similar if not the same so I'll go into video after I go into the uh media folder and from here you see it's this says shutdown click on that and um this is my old shutdown animation it's actually the same one because it's the one I like I don't want to replace it but I'm just showing you guys how to do it so I'm just going to hit select all so and then um delete so it's going to delete and you you want to hit paste and it's going to paste the one that you're copying over from your SD card and um that's it it's as simple as that you're just going to need to probably do a quick reset on your phone in order for able or in order for it to actually work but um it's pretty much it it's something really easy to do all right uh thank you for watching the video this is David from Pham buff.com and don't forget to visit phonebuff outcom for more cell phone news reviews and howtos\n"