Ok so I made a bootanimation but when I put it in the right folder my boot up is just black the .png images are 480x800 and the image number starts at 00001 can u please help I think it might be the desc.txt file oh and the pictures are 8-bit
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
Post your files and I will take a look at it. Also include the information for what rom you are trying to use it with.
Wolf_2 said:
Post your files and I will take a look at it. Also include the information for what rom you are trying to use it with.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ok thanks ill upload the file on late Saturday because I won't have access to a computer until then thank you and its for rooted stock Rom for HTC inspire
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
Ok. Just attach the file to your post. Try to include the name, such as Cleardroid rom or Android Revolution, etc. It can make a difference sometimes as to where the boot animation is supposed to go.
mcslamer said:
Ok so I made a bootanimation but when I put it in the right folder my boot up is just black the .png images are 480x800 and the image number starts at 00001 can u please help I think it might be the desc.txt file oh and the pictures are 8-bit
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
After you put it in the correct folder did you make sure you set the correct permissions? I did this and it took me a while to figure that out. You have to have every box checked except for the three on the bottom, I forget what they say. If that doesn't work I'm not sure.
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using XDA Premium App
here you go the file it is suppose to go in is /system/customize/resource/ because it is a att sense stock rooted rom.
and what are the permission setting and how do i set them.
I just took a look at your file and I found your problems. I will redo your text file and check if it will work with the current image frames which I don't think it will. I will let you know after I test it.
Ok, try this first. Use this naming method for all of your files. An example would be "bootanim_480x800_00000", "bootanim_480x800_00001", and so on. Always start with 00000 and it goes up from there and the second folder would continue where the first one left off. The first part is not important as to what name you use. It could be "bootanim" or "Joe" or whatever. The other parts are important. Leave them as they are except of course the numbers for the frames are changing just like you have now. The second problem is that you are trying to run this at 7 fps and the phone does not know how to read that. It likes 15fps, 24fps, and 30fps. You are going to have to add more frames to your animation because it will be too fast as is. Easiest way without creating new images would be to double the sets and add one extra so that you can come out with 15 frames per second. Also just to make sure, when you add this to a zip file named ATT_bootanimation, make sure you are not using any compression. Use a program such as 7_zip and when you make this into a zip file set the compression to "Store". I have rezipped your file and included a new text document already inside of the zip file and as an extra. You should just need to rename and create more frames now. (As far as what myphoneisbroken was referring to, I am not sure. He may have meant to make sure to use a program such as Root Explorer which would have root access to write to system folders. If that is not what he meant then he would have to elaborate a little more.)
Ok ill rename them all and how many frames do you. suggest I make
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
Well that depends on how smooth you want it to play. It will take a bit of experimentation on your part. If you go for 15fps to keep the image count down then you are just going to have to check your timing. If your animation played out smoothly before, just remember you have two seconds of animation as it stands right now before you get to the boot loop. You may want to do at least 3 to 4 or even more seconds depending on how fast it plays through. Just watch the total size of the file so that it does not grow too large. Even the smoothest animation may not always play out on the phone perfectly because the phone is loading stuff and sometimes causes it to stutter. The easy way would be to simply double each of your images, but again, you have to experiment and see what looks the best. You may have to create the inbetweens.
Ok I renamed the pictures to what you said iput it in the boot folder and when it boots up it skips folder part0 and goes looping part1
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
Something has to be wrong with a part of the name or something in the first folder if it is only showing the second part. The text document is correct and was tested. If it was incorrect you would have a black screen again. Re post your file and I will look at it again.
yeah sorry but here you go and thanks ( i also hit the button)
I got the revised file and I am going through it now.
Edit: You are correct. Only the second part is playing even though everything looks correct in the first folder. I am going through each image to see if I can find the problem.
Edit # 2: I believe I found the problem. I am re doing your images and will test to make sure it works. I will let you know what the outcome is in a while.
Ok thanks can you please give a description of what it is your doing so I don't have any problems next time I make a bootanimation, and sorry for not pressing the thanks button as you can probably tell I'm doing this on my phone most of the time and I can't find the thanks button on here (if there is one)
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
I understand, it was just a hint for the future. As far as the images go, the first folder was not in the correct RGB color mode, (second folder was) so I am re doing them now and I will test when I finish with them to make sure it works.
It works. Attached is your boot animation. Enjoy. (I re saved all of the images in the correct format just to make sure they were all good. Everything should be fine now.) Out of curiosity, what program did you use to make these? Was it Photoshop, paint, or something else?
Thanks for the help ill hit the button when I get on a computer and the program I used for the pictures was paint.net I'm to young to buy PhotoShop
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
That's fine. I am happy I was able to help you get it working. I asked about the program because I only use PS and other programs like it so I was guessing that something had gone wrong and that it was probably with a program like Paint. Everything comes with time. Keep working at it. It plays out fast because there is only two seconds of animation there. An easy thing you could do which would be a little bit of a pain is to make copies of each image so that there are doubles and then re number all of them. It would play out a bit slower then. Good luck.
Related
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=648555
Looks pretty epic if I say so myself. I dont even care about the ending animaions, but the award bios bootup is pure winz.
this should be under the theming section
If you just want it as a bootscreen, I'll make a zip. Gimmie a few.
I lied. I can't get it to work...Could be cause I need sleep. Maybe someone else can or I'll try again later.
Sporkman said:
this should be under the theming section
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I couldnt decide where to post this...maybe since I was tired because of finals. But, your right and it should have been obvious that this belonged in themes vs here. I went ahead and reported this, so maybe a mod will move it.
notasimpleway said:
I lied. I can't get it to work...Could be cause I need sleep. Maybe someone else can or I'll try again later.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for trying, let me know if you get a chance to try again
Ohh
Woww, that would be nice if we can get that to work on the Hero
I actually tried them out a few days ago, I'm not the best w/ graphics, but all someone has to do it resize the images and it will work. runs fine, just too big.
It's made for 2.1 roms. Follow the instructions in the thread it should just work. The guy says it was pulled from villain Rom which is a gsm hero Rom. If you're already running a 2.1 Rom and have problems rename the zip bootanimation.zip and copy it to /system/media using root explorer or push it through adb and reboot.
EDIT:
Got it working it's attached.
Push the GIF to /system/media/bootscreen/
I think I need to mess with the lenght still its begins to loop again.
Not sure hwo to fix that.
But I think that is what the Part 1 folder is for.
I renamed it dancing.gif before I pushed it so I wouldn't ahve to mess with the XML file, but you guys do what you will with it.
Works fine on my phone other than the Fresh boot music doesn't match and it begins to loop a second time LOL.
Kcarpenter said:
I looked at it and maybe I don't know enough about the boot screens, but I thought our Boot Images where animated GIFs. The zip he has here is a series of PNG's. I would be more than happy to play with it if someone can confirm this is how 2.1 boot screens work.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
they work the same way, this is just another way to do it. If there is no /system/media/bootscreen folder, it defaults to using the bootanimation.zip
either way works.
I looked for the villain rom one, couldn't find it.
regaw_leinad said:
they work the same way, this is just another way to do it. If there is no /system/media/bootscreen folder, it defaults to using the bootanimation.zip
either way works.
I looked for the villain rom one, couldn't find it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
See edits above.
I can't make an update zip I am on my work PC. Probably get yelled at in a few for runing Gimp instead of PS. They like to spy. LOL
i'm making an update zip. hopefully it works.
edit. ok i have all pngs resized to 320x480 now trying to animate. 90+ images surprised not more really.
Moved to theming as this is not related to rom development.
egzthunder1 said:
Moved to theming as this is not related to rom development.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the move!
sdotcarlisle said:
i'm making an update zip. hopefully it works.
edit. ok i have all pngs resized to 320x480 now trying to animate. 90+ images surprised not more really.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did you resize one by one? Gimp lets you open them all as layers and then resize all of them at once.
ok my pc is sucking it up. i have the 90 some individual images resized and everytime i go to save it photoshop just closes out so i have yet to make the gif.
Kcarpenter said:
Did you resize one by one? Gimp lets you open them all as layers and then resize all of them at once.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
no i made an action in photoshop and resized them all. i'm having problems trying to make the animation.
here's the right one
the first one doesn't loop, just reload or right click and view image
edit: see next page for download
sdotcarlisle said:
no i made an action in photoshop and resized them all. i'm having problems trying to make the animation.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sooo 90 images is a little much for PS to handle at once. I am not infront of mine right now BUT there should be an Import as Layers options some where. Gimp is "Open as Layers". When you take all 90 images in as layers each layer is a new frame of the animation.
Once they are all in one gif, then resize the whole gif instead of all of them individually. This will take the strain off PS.
Then on mine, the animation needed to be brought out a little bit longer.
You can either do this or just take my gif I posted a few posts above. It needs the timing played with though.
I have a feeling that even when it is set to Not Loop, the boot screen will loop it regardless. I distinctly remember telling it not to loop but it did any way. That or GIMP is jacked up.
danaff37 said:
here's the right one
the first one doesn't loop, just reload or right click and view image
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Is this ready for the Hero and already resized????
Hey everyone, I took some time today to change the default boot animation and sound; here are the results:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZqLGg8cBA
Instructions can be found at the links under the video. As always, all credit is to those who have made the animation and provided the sound clip!
On a side note: Does anyone know how to change the shutdown animation? I've tried guides online which tell you to change the system/media/video/shutdown files, but that directory (starting from /video) doesn't even exist on the G2X!
Dude those say epic 4g on them, why don't you actually post a version for our phone.
Sent from my LG-P999 using XDA Premium App
rubicstrue said:
Hey everyone, I took some time today to change the default boot animation and sound; here are the results:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZqLGg8cBA
Instructions can be found at the links under the video. As always, all credit is to those who have made the animation and provided the sound clip!
On a side note: Does anyone know how to change the shutdown animation? I've tried guides online which tell you to change the system/media/video/shutdown files, but that directory (starting from /video) doesn't even exist on the G2X!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You need to edit PowerOff.apk
Sent from my Calculator with Android.
Thats pretty nice.
just unzip it and push it to system/media.... through root explorer.....
jose makalolot said:
You need to edit PowerOff.apk
Sent from my Calculator with Android.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok.. So where the heck is the PowerOff.apk located at? I've searched all over in RE and can't find it..
Also, why don't we just make APKs of boot animation/shutdowns and sounds to go along with them? I mean it seems like it should be easy. Maybe that's just my ignorance of some Android "thing".
Oh there it is, .system/app/PowerOff.apk - went cross-eyed looking at them all.
hmm, when I look in the poweroff.apk I find only like 10 images for the shutdown animation. and it has both a MP3 and a OGG shutdown sound, both the same. It also has a LG shutdown image set AND a verizon shutdown image set. Amusing stuff. So I cant modify this file and then just save it and it work right? It has to be signed or some such? and what controls how long it runs, the layout XML file?
Ok, Wel I answered my on question on the first part, but not sure about the layout XML file and what it does. I just renamed the LG animation files to what the T-mo files were named and poof, it worked. I made a backup of the file OFC. I can't seem to make it go beyond those file names of PowerOff_000.png - PowerOff_0010.png. It always cuts off there.
I'd love to see a Big Bang Theory boot animation with sound
So would i. But I'm not sure of the legal ramifications (copyrighted song and copyrighted tv show). Not sure if its possible, but let those more learned than i speak.
did some digging and found this file
xxx.megaupload.com/?d=7K6G40ZR
however i can't seem to get it to play on my phone. i changed the resolution in the desc.txt to 480 800 but i just get a black screen. anyway here are the files hopefully someone can make it work
I'll take this on tomorrow. No guarantees...but I usually don't stop til I get what I'm after
Looking at the one you provided - all the images are .jpg. I haven't done a boot animation in a while but if I recall they need to be .png, and have the naming scheme fast_boot_p_xx.png (where xx is a 2 digit number starting with 00 - in sequence). Like I said - I'll mess with it tomorrow...sleep is too precious to me. Besides, it's my birthday and I haven't even started drinking yet...
For the audio file and theand animation, rename them to bootanimation.zip and android_audio.mp3 before doing anything else. Put the audio file in the same folder as your bootanimation. Make sure both have permissions set to RW R R .Here's the animation...working on my phone. Let me know if there's anything you'd change. Working on the audio now
Animation
http://www.mediafire.com/?cf4fubvohfjvsh9
Audio File
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?82pyvaia47p6g58
Download counter is showing 14 downloads. No feedback?
Find HQ intro on YouTube
KeepVid the video
Rip audio from video
Rename audio
Find software to convert .mp4 to animated .gif
Find software to extract images from .gif
Find software to batch rename/resize ~65 images
Create folder structure for .zip
Test
Distribute
Not something I did in 5 minutes - hope I helped though
homeslice976 said:
Download counter is showing 14 downloads. No feedback? That wasn't easy to do. if you're interested here was my process:
Find HQ intro on YouTube
KeepVid the video
Rip audio from video
Rename audio
Find software to convert .mp4 to animated .gif
Find software to extract images from .gif
Find software to batch rename ~65 images
Create folder structure for .zip
Test
Distribute
Not something I did in 5 minutes
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
For future reference, you could try mplayer/mencoder. It would save quite a few steps. I also use imagemagick's `convert' utility for batch image manipulation. Both of these have windows ports, but I haven't tried them on windows, only linux.
Gene Poole said:
For future reference, you could try mplayer/mencoder. It would save quite a few steps. I also use imagemagick's `convert' utility for batch image manipulation. Both of these have windows ports, but I haven't tried them on windows, only linux.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you my good man. I'll try those out.
I had all the software I previously mentioned, but haven't made a boot animation since the last wipe of my computer. just a pain to find the stuff to do it again - but i'll give those a shot!
I used a prog called "Free Video to GIF Converter" (clever, right?) for the conversion, "Animated GIF Frame Extractor" for extracting, and iFranView for the rename/resizing
Here's a better one I just made. 300 images rather than 60. use the same audio. Make sure to set permissions to RW/R/R
http://www.mediafire.com/?cf4fubvohfjvsh9
original one seemed a little jumpy
Lightguy84 said:
original one seemed a little jumpy
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yup. that's why i made another. ~300 images compared to ~60 in the same amount of time
Lightguy84 said:
I'd love to see a Big Bang Theory boot animation with sound
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Bump, that would be sweet
The boot with sound would be great!
Is like to ser one of just kaley...... Lol
Sent from my Inspire 4G using xda premium
sk8rade1 said:
Bump, that would be sweet
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Jarora said:
The boot with sound would be great!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Post 5 of THIS thread. come on guys...
homeslice976 said:
Post 5 of THIS thread. come on guys...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sent to a tower near you using ClearDroid and XDA app.
Lightguy84 said:
I'd love to see a Big Bang Theory boot animation with sound
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I agree. Let's see it.
psych0naut said:
I agree. Let's see it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
:facpalm: harder than I ever have before. I give up
Sent from my LG-KH5200 using xda premium
homeslice976 said:
Here's a better one I just made. 300 images rather than 60. use the same audio. Make sure to set permissions to
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Nice, gonna try it out. Thanx
Um....
Link to post on instructions to add boot animation:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1096068
does anyone have the background wallpaper for valhalla black???
m0bstr said:
does anyone have the background wallpaper for valhalla black???
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
10 characters
I had the exact same problem as you did trying to get that wallpaper back...
I really do like it a lot & I think it's the best of the entire bunch that is included in that ROM.
The long answer to your question is in this thread, second post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1480248, which states,
How i can get the blue eye (or any other) wallpaper again?
Which ROM was it in? Do you still have the .zip?
- Pull the system/app/Launcher.apk
- Unzip it. Yes, apk is a zip file.
- Look in res/drawable-hdpi folder.
Although I did manage to open the apk file mentioned above, I did not see that particular image at all. I even tried a bunch of other files, and of course, it wasn't there, either.
Needless to say, I managed to find the wallpaper I was looking for on another of lumin30's posts and I saved it to my harddrive.
*************************************************************************************************************************
I stand corrected. If you follow lumin30's instructions, (written directly below this post), then you will indeed find that exact file. It is called, "default_wallpaper.jpg". From what I can tell, it's the only wallpaper that is in that file.
*************************************************************************************************************************
I know that some images need to be resized depending on the launcher that you're using. I kept having problems with my wallpapers fitting correctly when I was using Go Launcher EX.
I read around on the Internet & found a post suggesting an app called Wallpaper Wizard ii. It's available on Google Play Store for free. The good thing about that app is that you can use it on whatever image you want.
Before you give up, perhaps you should give that a try.
The default wallpaper is found in the \system\framework\framework-res.apk.
Then in framework-res.apk --> \res\drawable
I tried the picture you posted but when I try to use it as my background, it's a blurry and not the whole picture
Sent from my SGH-T959V using XDA
I pulled it straight from the ROM for you.
I use this one...
Sent from my SGH-T959V
@itzik2sh
Got any more backgrounds? I'm looking for brighter ones since all icons in VB are kind of dark. Thanks!
does anyone know how to put the whole background in?? because it forces me to crop it and i dont want that
Whenever I used Wallpaper Wizard ii, I just set it to "scale" & it looked good to me.
I can't tell you for sure what all that did, but I was satisfied with the results.
Good luck & don't forget to let us know if you find something that works better for you.
Put the wallpaper in framework-res.apk in the res/drawable-hdpi folder then reflash the rom
i found it, do i just post it anywhere in the folder??
erikmm said:
Put the wallpaper in framework-res.apk in the res/drawable-hdpi folder then reflash the rom
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Couldnt he just push the .apk to /system/framework and boot to recovery and fix permissions? That would avoid having to reflash and download apps right?
Hey All,
I've been playing around with boot animations the past day or two, just for fun. Going through all the ones in this thread I found an issue where, even without changing them at all, I was getting the first part of the animation and then a white screen.
After a lot of research and experimentation, I figured out that each folder of the boot animation had to be under 500k. If I modified any of the previously non-working animations to fit this constraint, they worked.
I realize it's a long shot, but has anyone else played with this / hit this limitation? Is there any way around it (since it makes it particularly difficult to use any animation that loops)? Or is it something specific to my phone or the way I'm doing things? (tried using Venom Tweaks to install or manually copying the relevant .zip to /system/customize/resource)
ViperXL 3.2.3, Elemental 4.5, HBOOT 1.09, S-OFF if any of that is relevant.
Yeah, I got that too. What exactly did you do to fix it? Just delete files until the folder was under 500k? Or create more folders?
iElvis said:
Yeah, I got that too. What exactly did you do to fix it? Just delete files until the folder was under 500k? Or create more folders?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Create more folders, which ... a) was a pain in the ass and b) doesn't really work, since the only way to "loop" that is to run it twice manually.
The Viper animation is pretty long, i"m going to dig into the zip and see how that one is arranged.
thebobmannh said:
Create more folders, which ... a) was a pain in the ass and b) doesn't really work, since the only way to "loop" that is to run it twice manually.
The Viper animation is pretty long, i"m going to dig into the zip and see how that one is arranged.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The stockinverted animations work just fine for me, but the others I tried all did that loop/white flash thing. I noticed that the settings in the desc.txt file were different, but when I tried to copy them from the one that worked, the other animation didn't work at all. I suspect it's something in there, though.
iElvis said:
The stockinverted animations work just fine for me, but the others I tried all did that loop/white flash thing. I noticed that the settings in the desc.txt file were different, but when I tried to copy them from the one that worked, the other animation didn't work at all. I suspect it's something in there, though.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The desc.txt file is finicky but the Viper stock one doesn't look any different from the ones I've tried, and his .png images are huge.... very weird.
Glad I'm not the only one with an issue, I guess
I have the same issue.
Flash one boot anim, it works for a fews sce then screen goes blank, works again a few sec, then screen goes blank again. But the phone does boot normally.
On Viper 3.2.3