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I wasn’t very impressed with Sapphire’s bootskin so I decided to change it, here’s how you can do the same.

First of all, the boot skin is the graphic that shows up as the phone is turning on.  The default droid bootskin looks like this:

Here is how to change your bootskin (root required):

1. Download a skin you like, most are zipped and ready to install.
2. Install [ Android Terminal Emulator ] from the market.
3. Copy the bootskin you downloaded onto the root of your SDCard and name it “bootanimation.zip”.
4. Open terminal emulator and run the following commands.  (Ignore the $ and # signs).
   $su
   #cp /sdcard/bootanimation.zip /data/local/
   #reboot
5. Your phone should now reboot with the new bootskin.

These are the steps I used to change my boot skin, if they don’t work for you, you may want to try some of the other steps listed [ Here ].

There is also a free version of a paid app that you can use, although you can’t import new skins unless you pay.  The app still requires root:  [ Boot Animation Changer LITE ]  I will most likely post a review of this app in the near future.

I have not found a good source for bootskins yet, [ This Site ] has a handful, but only a few good ones.
If you know of a good place to find skins, leave a comment!

Here are a few good skins from the link above:

Midnight, default skin recolor:

Aperture Science skin:

Modern Warfare 2:

Now that I have rooted my phone to droid 2.2 [ using this great walk-through ] I can finally get around to reviewing some of my favorite apps!

I will be posting short reviews of apps or app categories, along with screenshots and/or videos.

I will try to remember to tag my review posts correctly so they show up on this page.

For anyone wondering;
I have a rooted Motorola Droid running Android 2.2-Sapphire 0.7.0
I will try to remember to post if an app requires root access.