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I am attempting to build an Ubuntu like boot screen for my phone with the default Ubuntu logon sound.
However in my failed attempts to do this, I have ruined/misplaced my original Sprint.Gif and boot.mp3.
Could one of you please email me a copy of your Sprint.gif and Boot.mp3. You can adb shell in to /system/media/bootscreen and cp them to you sd card.
You can email them to me kcarpenter five two eight AT gmail.com
Thanks a million in advance!

You could also grab the boot screens from the fresh pre kitchen. he has 5 other s screen as well as the original Sprint in there

I am on a linux machine right now, wouldn't run.

Kcarpenter said:
I am on a linux machine right now, wouldn't run.
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Does not need to, the files are all in folders, the proggie is just a simple .exe to access them. Just unzip and you will have all you need.

Doesnt have to, the files are included. Just get them from the folder.

Kcarpenter said:
I am attempting to build an Ubuntu like boot screen for my phone with the default Ubuntu logon sound.
However in my failed attempts to do this, I have ruined/misplaced my original Sprint.Gif and boot.mp3.
Could one of you please email me a copy of your Sprint.gif and Boot.mp3. You can adb shell in to /system/media/bootscreen and cp them to you sd card.
You can email them to me kcarpenter five two eight AT gmail.com
Thanks a million in advance!
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Email Sent.

Ahhhhh, thank you gents for the enlightenment. On with my screw ups. Any of you know if these gifs have certain requirements? Like can only have x ammount of colors? When I put my GIFs in, its like a broken video card - all staicy and pixelated can't even tell what the image is.

There may be code that specifies the height and width..
Did you match your size with the file you replaced?

N0J said:
There may be code that specifies the height and width..
Did you match your size with the file you replaced?
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Yes sir, 320 x 480 on the sprint logo. The XML file has some numbers but I have no clue what they are refering to.
ScreenX = 100
ScreenY = 130
Noj you seem to be the art guy, any ideas?

Kcarpenter said:
Yes sir, 320 x 480 on the sprint logo. The XML file has some numbers but I have no clue what they are refering to.
ScreenX = 100
ScreenY = 130
Noj you seem to be the art guy, any ideas?
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I may be incorrect about this but if you compare those numbers to actual screen size that seems very close to the size of the animation.

@ WTPhoto, the HTC and HERO images are 300 x 120 the Sprint image is 320 x 480 - I replaced the Sprint.gif with this one.
If someone has any clue what I am doing wrong here let me know.
I have another thread going about that specific problem in the Apps/Themes sub forum.
I am making a new boot screen for my self that mimics an Ubuntu one. Problem I have, is durring the animation, as far as I can tell frame 2...crap hits the fan. The image distorts in a funny pixelated way. Not sure how to describe it other than an explosion of random colored pixels. Well not so random colored, they are the colors that are in the image.
So I guess my question is, are there certain ways the GIF needs to be formated? Color restrictions? Frame restriction? In all the image is 32 kb so its not huge. I have it formated is a Animated Gif WebSnap 128 - There is no transparency.
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Ok so uploading the image to the thread didn't keep the animation - promise its not just a black picture lol

Kcarpenter said:
@ WTPhoto, the HTC and HERO images are 300 x 120 the Sprint image is 320 x 480 - I replaced the Sprint.gif with this one.
If someone has any clue what I am doing wrong here let me know.
I have another thread going about that specific problem in the Apps/Themes sub forum.
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Ok so uploading the image to the thread didn't keep the animation - promise its not just a black picture lol
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lol like I said I I could be wrong. I dont know ANYTHING about GIF's never had any desire to mess with them until now. I am however pretty happy with the horizontal nexus one bootscreen just added the "fresh" sound to it.
be intresting to see if you can get this going.

This is what the boot actually looks like...screen-o-garbage
Just another thing that stops me from putting my ROM out there, I don't want to have to fix this crap lol.

Kcarpenter said:
Yes sir, 320 x 480 on the sprint logo. The XML file has some numbers but I have no clue what they are refering to.
ScreenX = 100
ScreenY = 130
Noj you seem to be the art guy, any ideas?
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Kcarpenter said:
This is what the boot actually looks like...screen-o-garbage
Just another thing that stops me from putting my ROM out there, I don't want to have to fix this crap lol.
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hmmm, I needed to look into bootscreens anyway, lol
got a request for one
1st guess is the x and y are either screen position coordinates or a timer for each image.
Can you setup a dl for your file, pm it to me?
I can make a animated gif from scratch if I need to

N0J said:
hmmm, I needed to look into bootscreens anyway, lol
got a request for one
1st guess is the x and y are either screen position coordinates or a timer for each image.
Can you setup a dl for your file, pm it to me?
I can make a animated gif from scratch if I need to
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Yeah, Ill PM . Right now we are snowed in at my In-laws house, it will be a day or two before we dig out.

Here is the gif if you want to take a look at it. I had to zip it, if you upload a gif the site turns it to a jpeg.

Forgot to post the zip.

HTC EVO Wallpaper Thread

Post em up!
Walls sized 960x800.... yeah i know the EVO resolution, but this is the correct size...same as the incredible
Here is a collection that i stole from another site... i take no credit...i just .rar'ed em up.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WT79M4Z2
40ish nice walls.
Why 960x800?
"The homescreen is 800 pixels in length and 480 pixels wide. The thing is, as you swipe between the 6 other panels, the wallpaper shifts a tad bit so you need to compensate for that. 960 pixels wide should be what all 7 panels are from end to end, not just the home panel."
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544217
http://mrono.net/voguewallpapers
mine are in 800 resolution, there's a little over 900 total

Audi RS 8
Any requests?

Can you Zip those pics
Can you zip those 900 pics?

mdot718 said:
Can you zip those 900 pics?
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I'm working on uploading them, they arn't the resized ones though, full sized.
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I lied, their resized, and there's over 1.1k
http://mrono.net/files/mobilewallpapers.zip

I think this will make a good wallpaper. It is a Solargram I made this winter/spring with a pinhole camera.
Hope you like it!
edit: I'm not sure what happened, it got scaled down to 959x799 somewhere. I'll try and fix it. (uh, yeah, lets try this again... disregard my ineptitude.)

Maybe I am doing something incorrectly, but when i attempt to take my image and select them as a wallpaper, it prompts me to crop the image and then its all stretched out and ugly on the home screen. can someone provide me with some help on this...thanks

nofattys said:
Maybe I am doing something incorrectly, but when i attempt to take my image and select them as a wallpaper, it prompts me to crop the image and then its all stretched out and ugly on the home screen. can someone provide me with some help on this...thanks
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I'm having the exact same issue, any one have any suggestions?
thanks!

When it prompted me to crop I just made the crop rectangle the size of the entire image. Then it just didn't crop anything off and looked fine.

Mine will only me to expand the box to a bit less then half the picture...so far ive tried playing with different picture sizes, but no joy. someone help, i feel like a window licker

Here are some i have
coming from the hero

I resized this picture i want as my wallpaper and even though I tried both sizes whenever I try to set it as wall paper it does a super enlarged zoomed in view as the wallpaper.

there's an app that will stretch the picture to go across all of the screens and use the full image.
does anyone know what this app is called?
I used to have it on my touch pro 2 with android.

slow4g63 said:
there's an app that will stretch the picture to go across all of the screens and use the full image.
does anyone know what this app is called?
I used to have it on my touch pro 2 with android.
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i think
"wallpaper set and save"

fdot said:
i think
"wallpaper set and save"
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WORKS GREAT!
thank you!!

here are a couple i've resized for personal use, but figured i'd post them in case anyone else has a similiar sense of style.
i'll keep posting more as i 'make' them, so if you like these, you'll probably like the rest i post.

all the wallpapers are zoomed in and i can only choose a small part of the picture am i doing something wrong?

I love that london bridge pic

Here are some that I use. I didn't create any of these images. They have been re-sized to 960x800
http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy119/koricua74/EVO%20Wallpaper/****Macs.jpg

slylust said:
all the wallpapers are zoomed in and i can only choose a small part of the picture am i doing something wrong?
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What do you mean? Remember the wallpapers stretch over all 7 screens of Sense. So you won't see the whole image on your screen at once.

Wallpaper size?

Does anyone know what the wallpaper resolution is on the Captivate? Whenever I try and make a picture a background, it crops it to certain dimensions (yes, I know that you can expand and shrink it), but the cropped images always look awful. So if I could just feed it the size it already wants, I figure things will be prettier.

I have no clue, but I compared the orange crop area of the phone with the same image opened in Photoshop in my PC.
That gave me a crop size of about 960x800
I then resized the image and uploaded it to the phone. It looks great!
Here is the image:
(As I'm a new user, I can't post links. So copy and paste it in a browser)
img375.imageshack.us/img375/7333/clownfish960800.jpg

guillolb said:
I have no clue, but I compared the orange crop area of the phone with the same image opened in Photoshop in my PC.
That gave me a crop size of about 960x800
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That looks good! You're my hero! At least my wallpaper hero.

creatrixx said:
That looks good! You're my hero! At least my wallpaper hero.
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Woohooo..... Wallpaper Hero... Now I can wear a cape and underwear over my pants...

[Q] What's a good resolution for Wallpaper?

We all know Android's wallpaper scrolls left/right, so wallpapers are not the size of the screen's resolution.
Anyone figured out what the right size for the Transformer yet?
EDIT: So I used the app "Wallpaper Set & Save" and Saved the stock wallpapers.
Guess what the resolution is.... 1920X1408!!! crazy.

It's 2135 x 1408 pixels. More details in my list here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033811

this is all so dumb, I can never get a damn wallpaper to show what I want.
****

stuntdouble said:
It's 2135 x 1408 pixels. More details in my list here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033811
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Is it definitely 2135x1408? I was messing about with some yesterday and found that 1920x1408 seemed correct... am I missing something?

Disinform said:
Is it definitely 2135x1408? I was messing about with some yesterday and found that 1920x1408 seemed correct... am I missing something?
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Neither of those work for me though.
god dammit

Zach Alt said:
Neither of those work for me though.
god dammit
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I modified that template that's been floating around - resized and I added some yellow shading to show sections that appear as you scroll between screens...
Hope this helps, or at least gives people a springboard to start showing me the error of my ways.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3680556/Wallpaper-Template_main.png
Edited to make link instead of destroying page.

Disinform said:
Is it definitely 2135x1408? I was messing about with some yesterday and found that 1920x1408 seemed correct... am I missing something?
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The first person who had extracted the default asus trees wallpaper image said that it was 2135x1408pixels, and I had no reason to doubt them. I think what most people aren't realising is that there's an 'overscrolling' part to the image, so when you get to the furthest left or right screen, it scrolls a bit more if you try to keep scrolling. That image posted in the tips thread wasn't exactly to size by the way. It was just a representation of how the panels are, and what screens you see them on. The top and bottom of the image are only shown if you bring up the apps or home menu screen respectively. I'll probably modify it a bit later.
You can use any image and it will stretch it just fine anyways.

Can someone size these so I see them on my first page?
Everything I try messes up!

Zach Alt said:
Can someone size these so I see them on my first page?
Everything I try messes up!
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Yeah I tried can't. I made it exactly as what I extracted from the stock wallpapers and still cropped all over the place.
This is really confusing/frustrating. argh.

nxt said:
Yeah I tried can't. I made it exactly as what I extracted from the stock wallpapers and still cropped all over the place.
This is really confusing/frustrating. argh.
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son of a *****

A great workaround is the wallpaper slideshow live wallpaper. Just put your 1280x800 image in a folder and select the folder in the settings. Positions perfectly and doesn't scroll off.

here you go... when you go to set the cropping, put the box all the way to upper left and expand it to the bottom right all the way... that should set the image to the center home screen, with some black bars on pane A B D and E... these are inevitable unless if you can source an image that is extra wide... use the image i provided to create the rest of your wallpapers... let me know if you have any issues...

Man, it's really hard making a wallpaper that has a picture of people/things and make it show up correctly, even with the template.
With patterned pictures, it's easy but a picture of something it's hard. Easy to just make it centered and have blank top/bottom/left/right, but it's ugly heh.
I think the Transformer/Honeycomb treats the tablet when setting wallpapers as Portrait instead of Landscape. I'd prefer it Landscape like on phones, makes cropping wallpapers easier.

If you want a wallpaper that works good in both landscape and portrate try
1608 width x 1280 high works good for me

Has anybody been able to get a definative answer on the right resolution to use for custom wallpapers yet? I to have tried a few different ones and am having 0 luck

stuntdouble said:
The first person who had extracted the default asus trees wallpaper image said that it was 2135x1408pixels, and I had no reason to doubt them. I think what most people aren't realising is that there's an 'overscrolling' part to the image, so when you get to the furthest left or right screen, it scrolls a bit more if you try to keep scrolling. That image posted in the tips thread wasn't exactly to size by the way. It was just a representation of how the panels are, and what screens you see them on. The top and bottom of the image are only shown if you bring up the apps or home menu screen respectively. I'll probably modify it a bit later.
You can use any image and it will stretch it just fine anyways.
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I created the template, which is just that a template so that people can tell what part of the image will be shown on the wall. The new crop tool in 3.1 helps resolve this issue, but its still nice to build them outside of Android for many reasons.
Never really thought about the over-scrolling. That maybe because I like static walls that do not move. Its much easier to design interesting layouts when they are static.
One think that YOU may be overlooking is the fact that using the crop tool to scale a larger image WILL NOT produce as clear an image as doing so im photoshop and making the image fit with the native resolution of the screen. Is it a large difference in quality? No, but for graphics nerds its noticeable.

Zach Alt said:
Can someone size these so I see them on my first page?
Everything I try messes up!
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These walls are not large enough to be used on these tablets. If you want a good spot for HD walls check out wallbase.net I get most of my walls from there.
On another not this is the EXACT reason why I want an alternative launcher like ADW or LP so that I can stop the background from scrolling.

I think a more important question is the aspect ratio. Can't find the sweet spot for both landscape and portrait wallpaper
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

You can't use 2135x1408pixels because when you go to the gallery to fetch the wallpaper you select the image and you are confronted by the 'selection block' (where you have to drag the area to select your wallaper) and 2135x1408pixels doesn't fit within the parameters eg: it's to wide.
If you want to use something that big use 2135x1700

after searching around and trial/error, i've found that 2048x1504 works fine for me...

[Request][Bootanimation] Have images, can someone make a working animation zip please

I found a nice animated gif on reddit that I thought would make a cool fullscreen boot animation for the N5.
So, I contacted the guy who made the gif, and asked him to make some 1920 resolution individual frames for it.
Today I got a reply from him with an album of all the individual frames re-rendered in high 1920 resolution.
Here it is: http://imgur.com/gallery/ALyzv
can someone please take these frames (there is also a gif on the front of the album for reference of what it looks like animated), crop them if needed, and make them into a nice smooth boot animation zip please?
I know how to copy it in and do the permissions manually, I just need the zip file with the right frame timing etc
The guy responsible for the frames/render asked me to link his tumblr as credit: http://admiralpotato.tumblr.com/
Thanks XDA

Try this one first, if it doesn't work, give this one a shot. the first one I set the FPS to 0 in hopes that it would just run through it smoothly. The second, the FPS is set to 30.

BrianAllred said:
Try this one first, if it doesn't work, give this one a shot. the first one I set the FPS to 0 in hopes that it would just run through it smoothly. The second, the FPS is set to 30.
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Thanks, that's a great start, however the framerate really isn't working properly.
The first ~5? seconds of the boot it will stutter along at, I dunno, 2-3 FPS, after that it becomes smooth as it's supposed to be. Same case with both files.
More specifically: the first time it plays through the files (24 frames) it goes really slowly, as though it's loading each one one by one very unsmoothly. After that the animation is smooth. Any way to fix this?

DryEagle said:
Thanks, that's a great start, however the framerate really isn't working properly.
The first ~5? seconds of the boot it will stutter along at, I dunno, 2-3 FPS, after that it becomes smooth as it's supposed to be. Same case with both files.
More specifically: the first time it plays through the files (24 frames) it goes really slowly, as though it's loading each one one by one very unsmoothly. After that the animation is smooth. Any way to fix this?
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It might be because of the high file size of each frame. Let me see if I can do anything about that.
Since the images really take up all 1080x1920 pixels, it's hard to get the file size down. This is pretty much the best I could get.

BrianAllred said:
It might be because of the high file size of each frame. Let me see if I can do anything about that.
Since the images really take up all 1080x1920 pixels, it's hard to get the file size down. This is pretty much the best I could get.
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I brought the animation size down to ~3.3MB and there still seems to be a rough beginning, but I think the animation looks great regardless. Get it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49106124

overhauling said:
I brought the animation size down to ~3.3MB and there still seems to be a rough beginning, but I think the animation looks great regardless. Get it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=49106124
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that's great, almost perfect, except the aspect ratio is all squished and wierd on yours. can you use the image frames from the first reply in this thread so it's not squidged? thanks, this is gonna be a real nice boot anim i think

DryEagle said:
that's great, almost perfect, except the aspect ratio is all squished and wierd on yours. can you use the image frames from the first reply in this thread so it's not squidged? thanks, this is gonna be a real nice boot anim i think
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I already made an animation that's scaled properly, I'm not home right now and it's in my laptop so I'll post it later on today. I didn't use the images in the first animation, instead I cropped the images in half and used the left side of the image. It still looks great.

overhauling said:
I already made an animation that's scaled properly, I'm not home right now and it's in my laptop so I'll post it later on today. I didn't use the images in the first animation, instead I cropped the images in half and used the left side of the image. It still looks great.
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whenever you're ready then

DryEagle said:
whenever you're ready then
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Try the attached one, it's even smaller.

overhauling said:
Try the attached one, it's even smaller.
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great job, the filesize is very impress, but... seems there was a problem when you were doing batch crop on the images, because they're all completely off-centre... getting so close to perfect, i know you can do it!

DryEagle said:
I found a nice animated gif on reddit that I thought would make a cool fullscreen boot animation for the N5.
So, I contacted the guy who made the gif, and asked him to make some 1920 resolution individual frames for it.
Today I got a reply from him with an album of all the individual frames re-rendered in high 1920 resolution.
Here it is: http://imgur.com/gallery/ALyzv
can someone please take these frames (there is also a gif on the front of the album for reference of what it looks like animated), crop them if needed, and make them into a nice smooth boot animation zip please?
I know how to copy it in and do the permissions manually, I just need the zip file with the right frame timing etc
The guy responsible for the frames/render asked me to link his tumblr as credit: http://admiralpotato.tumblr.com/
Thanks XDA
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=53563814&postcount=1
See if that works.