Hey all,
I think it would be a good idea to have a one stop shop for people to get splash screens. It's something that's easy to add to your phone when it's done up but it's not always so easy for people to make them up with all the kitchens.
any way I'll try and start it off with a splash screen I made a while back and finally got around to putting on my phone if anyone wants it.
It's a simple one, but I think it fits in great with the Wizard Mobile Theme Though
I created the first one a while ago(with nothin's background from core kitchen 4.0 as a backdrop). I still have the layered pngs so I'm sure I'll end up swapping out some different backgrounds that I create or find(and uploading the merlin pngs if anyone wants em).
Let me know if I'm posting something that's already been done.
Update: Ive added an xp themed version now. I'll leave both on here if you like the version with nothin's crossbow background better
Each zip file contains an nk.nbf file to flash with the rom upgrade utility of your choice and a cab file to install the 3rd splash(welcome) screen
Just an FYI, but the 3rd splash screen (welcomehead.96..png) should be 320x320 (your's appears to be 240x320) so that it will work properly in Landscape mode. Main graphics should be in the 240x320 area, but it won't look right if you happen to be in Landscape (keyboard open) when you reboot.
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Just an FYI, but the 3rd splash screen (welcomehead.96..png) should be 320x320 (your's appears to be 240x320) so that it will work properly in Landscape mode. Main graphics should be in the 240x320 area, but it won't look right if you happen to be in Landscape (keyboard open) when you reboot.
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Thanks mfrazz, I didnt realize that. Ill change the third splash screen a little later tonight, and will post when I do. Feel free to post any splash screens you've made as well
Ok I padded the third splash screen so it doesn't show a black bar in landscape mode and updated the original post with it.
Does any one have any splash screens they have done or any that they would like to see?
btw....why you used my old xplore splashes without permission....:S
they are there - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=304876&highlight=xplore
my original one(3rd splash, "crossbow" was second one):
nevermind...though.
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btw....why you used my old xplore splashes without permission....:S
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Recently, I edited the original post hoping to turn it from a question to a discussion, and in doing so I left out where I got the "crossbow" background. I got the BMP from the Core Kitchen 4.0 release, I then created a layered png out of it(only b/c they were the only 24 bit bitmaps I had on hand) for each merlin screen(only using your image as the backdrop). If you want me to remove your background as i stated originally that i planned on doing anyway when i update, i will.
My original post was to ask if we had a repository, and i had said i came up with these by adding merlin to the spash screen images included in the core kitchen. that's why the post said "Like I Said" although what i said isn't there anymore
Although, if the images where included in a kitchen to use freely, why would I need your permission to use them :|
no ouches required.... i re edited the original post to state that the background image came from the core kitchen.. why not link directly to your post with the splash screens here so others can get some use of them from here(although a link to the post is probably sufficient)/ thanks for your input to the "community"....
all right.
Ok I added a new version of the Merlin Splash Screen to my original post. This version uses a bit more color and is a little bigger but still flashes fine and looks good.
nothin i also left the version with your background attached for people who want the gray version, but I noted you in the file name of it. If you want me to remove it alltogether let me know
Here's a pic of the new version
Merlin XP
Im going to make a vista one soon too. Let me know what you think or if you have any cool splash screens feel free to post them.
Has anyone ever made an app to swap the third splash screen each time the device boots? That might be a fun tool to have
I've been using the cool Terminator boot animation which inspired me to make one of my own. I've been working on the tractor beam power down sequence from Star Wars Episode IV and I can get it to work aside from the fact that it starts out black for about 4 seconds and then cuts off early about 3 or 4 seconds into the animation. I have no idea why, and countless Google searches yield no results. Maybe someone else would be willing to test this out and let me know if you see the same thing? I have nothing else to test with, so that's why I'm posting here. I welcome any thoughts as to why this isn't working.
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I've been using the cool Terminator boot animation which inspired me to make one of my own. I've been working on the tractor beam power down sequence from Star Wars Episode IV and I can get it to work aside from the fact that it starts out black for about 4 seconds and then cuts off early about 3 or 4 seconds into the animation. I have no idea why, and countless Google searches yield no results. Maybe someone else would be willing to test this out and let me know if you see the same thing? I have nothing else to test with, so that's why I'm posting here. I welcome any thoughts as to why this isn't working.
You can grab it here.
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i had the same problem, ok before i try and tell you whats wrong, do you have the text document? that is neccesary if not just dl 1 one here i got it off off revolverbootanimation, i used it as a template
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Text document, as in desc.txt? Yes, that's in there. It's odd because the boot animation shows for a few seconds, so based on the reading I've done, that shows that everything's setup properly. I mean, the desc.txt file is just an edited version from another (working) boot animation, the zip was packed by 7z with no compression, and the folder structure is correct. I'm using JPGs but so do the Terminator and Galaxy Nexus boot animations (when I used PNGs, the file size shot up to around 150 MB). I don't see any visible corruption on any of the images, and I've actually gone so far as to recreate them to test - it always cuts off at the same point. So I'm just left scratching my head here.
megacoolrock, if you have time and are willing, would you mind testing this to see if it behaves the same way on your device? If you see the whole thing, then I'll try reflashing my ROM.
What part are you trying to use man? I can help out with the animation if you let me know what parts of the movie? I have them all in avi format.
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What part are you trying to use man? I can help out with the animation if you let me know what parts of the movie? I have them all in avi format.
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Actually, so do I, that's how I ripped it to begin with. I'm using the scene in Episode IV where Obi Wan turns off the tractor beam - there's a cool shot where the power meter goes from 100% to 0% and there are LEDs on the top and bottom that alternate on and off. I had planned to use the scene from the point where he walks in to the tractor beam control room and loop the part where the power meter is sitting at 0 and the LEDs are flashing on and off.
I've already ripped it, converted the video into JPGs and created a (partially) working boot animation. Only problem is that it doesn't play the whole thing. You can download it from the link in my first post and play around with it if you want.
Also, I reflashed my ROM today (wiping data and cache - totally fresh installation) and the first thing I did was try the boot animation - same problem, so that rules pretty much points to an issue with the boot animation.
sorry for the delay, ive been trying to get ubuntu up and running on my pad today lol sure ill test it for you, downloading now
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just because you asked nicely ill fix it and upload it for ya
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ok first of all these are JPEG and they need to be PNG
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ok, sorry dude. i dont have a converter but if you have photoshop you can do it that way
I finally managed to get this working. Not exactly sure what the actual fix was but I recreated all of the images from the source files and went from there. I might post this in the Themes & Apps section after a little more tweaking if you guys like it. Maybe I'll add a scene of the Millennium Falcon escaping the Death Star hangar bay. Any other suggestions are welcome as well.
Anyway, if you're interested, you can download a working version from here.
I know this is probably petty, but for me it's sort of a big deal.
I like light characters on a black screen, especially at night. There are flashlight apps to turn the screen white because it's bright and at night I would prefer to have a black screen.
Is there a way to change the conversation history to black, and lso for the background behind the balloons in an SMS?
Is there a ROM that has an option for this?
Thanks for the help!
Go sms. Totally customizable. Backgrounds, fonts, font colors, etc
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Go sms. Totally customizable. Backgrounds, fonts, font colors, etc
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Handcent will let you do this too.
If you get GoSMS Pro, grab the Theme builder in the market as well. It will allow you to totally create your own theme.
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Handcent will let you do this too.
If you get GoSMS Pro, grab the Theme builder in the market as well. It will allow you to totally create your own theme.
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I should have included that I've tried all those. Yes, they're good and very customizable. But I've not been able to get them to work seamlessly and to replace the stock messaging. One of those my keyboard does't display properly with and simple other things. Plus I really like how I can go to messages and slide to the right to call. That's the easiest way to call people. That's my favorite feature and no one else has that.
What's so hard about changing the stock messaging to black with white text? lol At one point there was a night mode that made the conversation history black, but not now.
One question... For example a lock screen. There are different ones to install. Is there a different messaging to install to replace stock that someone has added things to? I don't even know if it's possible to replace messaging or not. I don't really want to install another app... I've just not had the best luck with them having the right feel.
Firstly, are you on GB or ICS? And which ROM?
If GB, you could swap out the AT&T mms.apk with the Rogers version, as they use a dark charcoal background behind matte blue and yellow bubbles (was always my favorite). Or you could try the mms.apk that Sean used to include in his GB ROMs. It was basically stock, but came with 5 themes. If you're on NexusMod GB, somewhere in the thread R4INS posted a CM7 mms.apk which has a light and dark theme.
If you're on an AOSP ICS (which I know you're not since you mention swipe to call), you could try the inverted mms.apk, which is black. If you're on stock ICS, the only thing I can think of is to just decompile the apk and use Gimp to change the colors as you'd like them (which goes for any apk really), although I think the important images are *.9.png's which are tricky. Or since you like TouchWiz, see what the T-Mobile mms.apk from their leak looks like? And if it works? As I don't know the answer to either.
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I'm running ICS that I just flashed. I put in SKYICS also.
Thank you for getting back to me. I'm new to this and starting to figure things out. I opened the mms.apk with WinRar and found most of what I want to change. I've not used Gimp. For colors I usually use Office Picture Manager. I'll have to check out Gimp. I'm starting to understand a little about the xdaAutoTool. I suppose I have to decompile the mms.apk , modify what I want, then recompile it, zip it all back up, then install it through CWM. I can't get the adaAutoTool to run because of the OCX thing and I don't know how to register the files. I wish I knew someone that could decompile the apk, let me change some of the .png files and recompile it for me. I want to change the editor box from this almost black to black beause it looks incredibly grainy at 1% gray or whatever it is. The hard thing for me would be figure out how to change the text color to white if I had to on the conversation list. I think I'll do as you suggested and look for another mms.apk.
You said I like TouchWiz... I'm not exactly sure what that even is. Isn't that something to do with the buttons and how they look at the bottom?
You mentioned the CM7 something. I'm not exactly sure what the CM is. I have CM5 and it said I have a mismatch when I tried to restore my original ROM that I backed up. it was 2.3.6 I think.
Thanks for the help and I'll be back. I'm going to look for another mms.apk...
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I'm running ICS that I just flashed. I put in SKYICS also.
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I'm going to look for another mms.apk...
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I think I may have just come across a solution for you. Did you see this post in the SkyICS thread?? I'd look into that one first before attempting any of the above.
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I'm new to this and starting to figure things out. I opened the mms.apk with WinRar and found most of what I want to change. I've not used Gimp. For colors I usually use Office Picture Manager. I'll have to check out Gimp. I'm starting to understand a little about the xdaAutoTool. I suppose I have to decompile the mms.apk , modify what I want, then recompile it, zip it all back up, then install it through CWM. I can't get the adaAutoTool to run because of the OCX thing and I don't know how to register the files. I wish I knew someone that could decompile the apk, let me change some of the .png files and recompile it for me. I want to change the editor box from this almost black to black beause it looks incredibly grainy at 1% gray or whatever it is. The hard thing for me would be figure out how to change the text color to white if I had to on the conversation list. I think I'll do as you suggested and look for another mms.apk.
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Now I'm no expert on this or anything and haven't done much research on it, so I don't know everything you're talking about. But when I manually swapped out battery icon images from framework-res.apk, I didn't do any unzipping, rezipping, decompiling, recompiling. All I had to do was *open* the archive with 7zip (NOT unzip). Delete the images in there I wanted to replace. Then drag and drop the new images into the archive. As long as they were the same names and I wasn't adding or removing any images, there was no need to change any of the XML files. And it all worked fine.
As I said though, if I recall (as I actually looked into trying to do this myself with the help of another guy -- I wanted to make the AT&T mms.apk look like the Rogers mms.apk) the background image and maybe the bubble images too are 9-patch files, which are the image_name.9.png files. They require a very special process for editing. So that might require a bit more work.
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You said I like TouchWiz... I'm not exactly sure what that even is. Isn't that something to do with the buttons and how they look at the bottom?
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Haha something like that. TouchWiz is the graphical overlay (UI skin) Samsung puts on top of "vanilla" Android, or AOSP. Every manufacture does it. Motorola's is called MotoBlur. HTC's is called Sense. And so on. The Nexus line of phones is the only one to get stock, vanilla Android (AOSP). So it's the reason all android phones from the same manufacture look somewhat the same.
TouchWiz does consist of those buttons at the bottom and how they look (I assume you're talking about the docked apps - Phone, Contacts, Email, Apps). But it's also the system apps (Messaging, Email, Phone, Contacts, Settings, etc.) and how they look and act. The swipe right to call / swipe left to message is a feature of TouchWiz, which is why I said you liked TW because you like that feature.
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You mentioned the CM7 something. I'm not exactly sure what the CM is. I have CM5 and it said I have a mismatch when I tried to restore my original ROM that I backed up. it was 2.3.6 I think.
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CM stands for CyanogenMod and consists of a more AOSP feel, unlike Samsung's TouchWiz. So it doesn't have the swipe to call feature; usually just tap the contact picture inside Messaging and it gives you the option to call. CM7 was their Gingerbread build. CM9 is their Ice Cream Sandwich build.
Basically CyanogenMod has created a replacement/aftermarket firmware to replace Google Android (AOSP). It's sort of different than just a custom ROM because a custom ROM is usually just built with one phone in mind (whichever one the developer owns). CM is a firmware built the same way, with the same features, for as many phones as they can support. So your specific phone still needs to be supported and have its own specific build, but once you have it on you phone, it will look and feel just like any HTC, Motorola, etc. that is also running CM.
So it's based off of Google Android (AOSP), it's completely self-contained as its own operating system (somewhat anyway).
We have an unofficial alpha of CM9 in the development section if you want to give it a shot! (Unofficial means it's not being built by or currently supported by the actual CyanogenMod team. Just a private individual is using their source code to make it work with our Skyrocket.) It works rather well and is like 99.5% a daily driver.
Wow, thank you for that information. Some of the fuzzy things are a little clearer now but not much. lol
What you said about replacing a png - I opened the ROM in 7Zip, clicked down to the Mms.apk. I right clicked and copied to desktop. I opened that in 7Zip and dragged and dropped the png into that. I changed the file extinsion to .zip and put in on my phone. When I tried to install it though CWM touch it just aborted.
I'm not 100% sure, but I edited the png in paint. I magnified it 800 times and could see a perfect rectangle inside of this other stuff. I only made the perfect rectangle black and saved. The one I'm doing is textfield_default_dark.9.png. I don't quite think I edited it wrong since it wouldn't even install. My editing wrong would make it FC or not show right?? I don't know how to troubleshoot.
In the meantime I'm going to check out some of your other suggestions. However I would LOVE to be able to fix what I want. Why make a black that's not black and can't be displayed right by the display because the pixels are just barely on?
Suggestions on my proceedure? I read somewhere earlier that there has to be some something done to the png for permission or something strange....
I checked out the dark themed Mms.apk you mentioned at the top. This is what it says.
This is not flashable. what you'll need to do is navigate to system--> app, rename your current mms.apk to something like "mms.apk.old" or "mms.apk.bak". Then paste the attached into the same folder. Reboot your phone and voila.
I lost root access and cannot get it back when I installed SKYICS. I'm running UCLD2. I haven't been able to put together what to do about this. I tried to install my original backup and it said CM5 mismatch or something. I do believe I need root access to navigate to the system folder because I can't find it?
yeah. you need root. you dont really need to "flash" in CWM. Just replace the original in the system. But you do need root. Reboot into recovery and flash superuser
I did that a few times and nothing. I gave up on rooting for a while then now I'm rooted. Titanium, when I opened it, asked for permission. It wouldn't do that yesterday. I'm just going to have to say okay I'm rooted.
I'm trying to find the system directory right now...
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I'm not 100% sure, but I edited the png in paint. I magnified it 800 times and could see a perfect rectangle inside of this other stuff. I only made the perfect rectangle black and saved. The one I'm doing is textfield_default_dark.9.png. I don't quite think I edited it wrong since it wouldn't even install. My editing wrong would make it FC or not show right?? I don't know how to troubleshoot.
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Yea so like I said, since it's a 9-patch file (*.9.png), I'm not sure if you can just edit the image and throw it back in there. I'm guessing that Paint only recognizes it as a *.png, and so saves it as such. 9-patch images need to be recompiled, as far as I know. So that might've screwed you up, even if you installed it right.
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What you said about replacing a png - I opened the ROM in 7Zip, clicked down to the Mms.apk. I right clicked and copied to desktop. I opened that in 7Zip and dragged and dropped the png into that. I changed the file extinsion to .zip and put in on my phone. When I tried to install it though CWM touch it just aborted.
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So about installing it. Everything above sounds like the correct process EXCEPT for changing the file extension. A CWM flashable zip isn't just any old zip file. It's has a certain structure to it and includes a script file that tells CWM exactly what to do with the information contained inside the zip. With a system apk, all you need to do is get the file on your phone somehow (microSD, USB cable, Dropbox, etc.), and then copy and paste it into the /system/app directory, afterwards setting its permissions to rw-r--r--. To do this, yes you will need root access. It shouldn't be that hard to just root again if you lost it somehow. Or judging by your last post, you may have successfully rooted again.
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I checked out the dark themed Mms.apk you mentioned at the top. This is what it says.
This is not flashable. what you'll need to do is navigate to system--> app, rename your current mms.apk to something like "mms.apk.old" or "mms.apk.bak". Then paste the attached into the same folder. Reboot your phone and voila.
I lost root access and cannot get it back when I installed SKYICS. I'm running UCLD2. I haven't been able to put together what to do about this. I tried to install my original backup and it said CM5 mismatch or something. I do believe I need root access to navigate to the system folder because I can't find it?
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Which brings us back to this mms.apk. Definitely give this app another shot using the above method once you obtain root again. You will need an app such as Root Explorer, which can be downloaded from the Market.
As far as restoring your backup, the error you received was an MD5 checksum mismatch error. You can Google what MD5 means, and possible reasons why CWM gave you that error. I think it gives it to you sometimes when you rename a backup file and put a space in the file name.
I'll have to research that MD5 thing...
I got the Mms.apk copied to the right directory and my changes worked. I have to use something other than paint that allows me to keep white as the transparant color. This is pretty awesome... Maybe I'll post my result when I figure out what's going on. I'm thinking the text field is a box within a box. I got a black box with a very dark gray one in the middle... But it's progress! Thanks for your help!
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I'll have to research that MD5 thing...
I got the Mms.apk copied to the right directory and my changes worked. I have to use something other than paint that allows me to keep white as the transparant color. This is pretty awesome... Maybe I'll post my result when I figure out what's going on. I'm thinking the text field is a box within a box. I got a black box with a very dark gray one in the middle... But it's progress! Thanks for your help!
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That's awesome man, good job! Wanna post a screenshot for me? A before and after if you have it?
But if you need something better than Paint, I'd look into Gimp. It's what most of the guys on here use. It's basically the Linux version of Photoshop. And being Linux, it's free and open source... and has been ported over to Windows. It works great for quick image editing. Just takes a bit of Googling to learn all the buttons haha.
I'm using Gimp because it keeps the transparant background. I had a big white box around my box from paint.
Update: When I used paint, it seemed things worked correctly besides the white box around the editor. The transparancy was lost. In Gimp, if I change 1 pixel I get a whole distorted image for the editor. In paint, I made the blue line gold and the box black. That looked great. Nothing seems to be working right with Gimp. Wait, in Paint I did notice one thing. The box was a true black, but with a lighter black, wide stripe in the middle from end to end, as if it was another png inserted into it. Hmmm... In Gimp it looks like nothing is getting inserted and the small image is stretching all the way across with the thin blue line getting super fat. I didn't jack the image up. I only changed one pixel to red in the middle of the black. I'm thinking there's more to this. Someone posted something about a decompiled image that had extra dots around the edge and one a one pixel line on two sides or something. I didn't break anything, because I put in an untouched png and it fixed things, so it's just the image.
Any ideas? I'm headed out to watch a movie, but I'm determined.
Look for a brush diameter or feathering option in Gimp and change it to the smallest one you have. I've had to do that in both Photoshop and Gimp before to get the apk changes I've made to look right and not have that outlining that you're referring to.
I understand what you mean, but this is different.The .9.png looks exactly the same when I edit it. I'm just making it darker. The .9.png files are made of 9 sections taht are stretched individually so the image is not distorted. In my case, Gimp is destroying that ability and the image is getting stretched the wrong way when displayed. For example, if you stretch a line along its lengt it still looks like the same line only longer, which is what they do. But if you stretch it across its width, it becomes this fat line, which is what is happening in my case.
I think you're editig just .png and not .9.png files?
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I understand what you mean, but this is different.The .9.png looks exactly the same when I edit it. I'm just making it darker. The .9.png files are made of 9 sections taht are stretched individually so the image is not distorted. In my case, Gimp is destroying that ability and the image is getting stretched the wrong way when displayed. For example, if you stretch a line along its lengt it still looks like the same line only longer, which is what they do. But if you stretch it across its width, it becomes this fat line, which is what is happening in my case.
I think you're editig just .png and not .9.png files?
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Do you think some information in this tutorial could be of any help? There's also a video tutorial available.
Yes it's possible that would be very helpful. I found either that or another tutorial last night. It was interesting how the .9.png files are sectioned. I conda figured that out on my own, because it would have to be to get bigger and not distort fine lines. I'll have to find that tutorial itself, because that post you linked has no links in it. I went to a 9patch website or something that had all the stuff, but it got too deep pretty quickly. In the short time I studied it, I had no clue how to even begin to install and use the program.
What baffles me is how Paint didn't screw up the .9.png. It worked fine with my edits, only it had no transparency so there was a white border. It was able to scale fine to landscape and portrait. It looked great. I totally though I had it figured out. :/ Have you looked at how to do .9.png files?
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Yes it's possible that would be very helpful. I found either that or another tutorial last night. It was interesting how the .9.png files are sectioned. I conda figured that out on my own, because it would have to be to get bigger and not distort fine lines. I'll have to find that tutorial itself, because that post you linked has no links in it. I went to a 9patch website or something that had all the stuff, but it got too deep pretty quickly. In the short time I studied it, I had no clue how to even begin to install and use the program.
What baffles me is how Paint didn't screw up the .9.png. It worked fine with my edits, only it had no transparency so there was a white border. It was able to scale fine to landscape and portrait. It looked great. I totally though I had it figured out. :/ Have you looked at how to do .9.png files?
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The tutorial is contained in the OP of that post I linked to. It contains links for all the tools you need and a short description of the process to follow. And then I think the video tutorial might just guide you through the OP of that first link.
But yea, that's really interesting how Paint worked so well. Did you happen to take any screenshots of the Paint-edited apk running on your phone?
And no, I actually have never looked into editing .9.png files. Didn't really even know how they worked until you explained them a little bit in one of the above posts.
I attached an image. I'm not sure if it's going to show up in the post as an image; we'll see.
There is a white box around what is suppose to be shown as the editor. In the center of the black box it's not true black as the black surrounding it that I changed in the .9.png. The center must be another image.
I'm thinking I'm just going to make the white black, find the other gray images the buttons are on and make that one black. Who needs transparancy when it's all black, which is what I want anyway. lol
I'm going to look into the 9patch some more... It just seems so complicated with how to install and get working. It would be nice to work with someone who is actively editing .9.png's to get me on track....
Do you have an interest in editing those png's? lol
So in my quest to make the phone more unique after rooting, I was EXTREMELY tired (after 4 days of ownership) tired of the stupid sprint sound and logo both before and after shutdown...
I found a thread where someone has the normal Samsung boot animation and right before I was about to install the 3 files into system\media. I took note of something.
We have multiple boot screens by default (or at least my Sprint phone does)
Ours are indicated by the SPR_bootfilename.
You can see the stock Samsung boot images.
Then I had BST, crypt, VMU, XAS...etc
So I first labeled all the SPR_bootsamsung images .bak hoping they would not then run, and in fact they did not. The stupid yellow spring flag logo went away and it just showed the fading sprint.
I then looked at the following and you can see where I was testing the file names and changed somethings.
VMU, is the Virgin Mobile boot screen.
BST has some super bright orange screen that says LTE.
Crypt has a really simple but cool green lock that has a circle spinning around it.
XAS didn't have anything and just defaulted to the Samsung boot.
I deleted the VMU and BST. Thinking I might run the crypt because it's super simple and clean looking.
My one question is that by default if I label anything SPR_ it will run that first, where should I look to change the script so that it would just run look at the normal Samsung file name instead of the SPR_.
Apologies if this is super old news but I thought it was interesting to say the least.
Video showing Crypt boot screen:
https://youtu.be/MnrywcfraaY
-Nigel
theyre packaged in the ROM itself and i havent been on a stock ROM in so long, i wouldnt have the foggiest whats included in one. Id have to unpack a zip and look. but if there are several in there, its probably sprint being too lazy to remove the others but virgin and boost are both MVNOs for sprint, so it kinda makes sense as the S5s available from all 3 carriers are all G900Ps, which is what you have
NewShockerGuy said:
So in my quest to make the phone more unique after rooting, I was EXTREMELY tired (after 4 days of ownership) tired of the stupid sprint sound and logo both before and after shutdown...
I found a thread where someone has the normal Samsung boot animation and right before I was about to install the 3 files into system\media. I took note of something.
We have multiple boot screens by default (or at least my Sprint phone does)
Ours are indicated by the SPR_bootfilename.
You can see the stock Samsung boot images.
Then I had BST, crypt, VMU, XAS...etc
So I first labeled all the SPR_bootsamsung images .bak hoping they would not then run, and in fact they did not. The stupid yellow spring flag logo went away and it just showed the fading sprint.
I then looked at the following and you can see where I was testing the file names and changed somethings.
VMU, is the Virgin Mobile boot screen.
BST has some super bright orange screen that says LTE.
Crypt has a really simple but cool green lock that has a circle spinning around it.
XAS didn't have anything and just defaulted to the Samsung boot.
I deleted the VMU and BST. Thinking I might run the crypt because it's super simple and clean looking.
My one question is that by default if I label anything SPR_ it will run that first, where should I look to change the script so that it would just run look at the normal Samsung file name instead of the SPR_.
Apologies if this is super old news but I thought it was interesting to say the least.
-Nigel
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I have to thank you for the post! I renamed the SPR files with ".bak" and the boot is faster, dimmer, and quieter. Thank you!
How did you view the other animations?
tofudisan said:
I have to thank you for the post! I renamed the SPR files with ".bak" and the boot is faster, dimmer, and quieter. Thank you!
How did you view the other animations?
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if you want some flavor choices, youre in luck! Many people make their own boot animations and some of them are pretty dang sweet!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/themes-apps/bootanimations-samsung-galaxy-s5-bios-t2800820
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/themes-apps/galaxy-s7-boot-animation-t3324518
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s5/themes-apps/boot-animations-watchdogs-android-n-t3410400
heres a few links with some animations for ya. Ive seen tons more in the past. Sports teams themed, cars, bikes, babes, bands, android vs apple. The list goes on and on. Just takes some googleing and many of them are flashable in recovery
tofudisan said:
I have to thank you for the post! I renamed the SPR files with ".bak" and the boot is faster, dimmer, and quieter. Thank you!
How did you view the other animations?
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No problem. I couldn't stand the stupid sprint logo because the phone would be dark, then a BRIGHT WHITE sprint yellow flag would show, which was blinding at night. I just did the above to disable them.
However to view the other ones simply add SPR_ to the front of them.
So for instance the crypt_bootsamsungloop.qmg should be renamed to SPR_bootsamsungloop.qmg.
Then just restart the phone and you will see the animation. If you like it, keep it, if not, just rename it back to the crypt*or whatever it was and you're done.
I deleted the factory SPR_ boot animations since I will never use those. I also deleted the Virgin mobile, XAS. They took up space so figured why need them.. Both the Virgin and the Sprint were something like 4mb each which is ridic.
I like the crypt though the more I look at it. Super simple, and doesn't tell you what the rom, or phone is which is cool. Very simple. I had someone with the same phone (who's had theirs for a couple years now) ask wait what is that? my phone doesn't do that..lol
-Nigel
Here is the video I made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnrywcfraaY
-Nigel