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Hey guys,
First time around here since I don't own a nexus one yet. I made the new boot animation screen for the CyanogenMod 5, and a few themes for pre-nexus devices/roms. Anywho's I've already gotten a lot of requests for boot screens on other nexus roms. Thankfully I don't have to do too much work to get it in.
Video Preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFxjKdjJV8w
If you want the Cyanogenmod 5 boot screen on your own nexus rom (even works on non rooted I believe, not positive though) do the following:
1) Download this file: http://injun.org/bootanimation.zip
2) Without unzipping, put it on your phones /data/local folder (create it if its not there)
3) Reboot and watch the new boot screen.
Easy as that.
Enjoy,
-Prash
If you want to see more of my work for nexus, I'd really appreciate a donation to my n1 fund via paypal: [email protected], I'd love to take a crack at themes for the n1 and the amazing screen
thanks so much for your contributions to the rom.. your boot image is beyond badass i love it thanks.. donated!
Totally Awsome.
Very Awesome!
hmm..didnt work for me. i created the local folder (/data already created) and put the .zip file in the /data/local folder and rebooted but same boot animation. am i missing something?
can i ask how you did it please? Is it something to do with how you rezip the folder? I have edited the original images- put them all back in and rezipped my bootanimation but it just gives me black and no boot animation at all.
thanks- love the CM animation BTW.
/data/local folder is located in the phone, not the sd card.
use
android-sdk kit & AndroidCommander_v0.7.4.1 to get into your phone, and drop the bootanimation.zip into the /data/local folder of your phone. not the sd card. Then just reboot.
t6waver said:
/data/local folder is located in the phone, not the sd card.
use
android-sdk kit & AndroidCommander_v0.7.4.1 to get into your phone, and drop the bootanimation.zip into the /data/local folder of your phone. not the sd card. Then just reboot.
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ooooohhhh.. thanks!
prash said:
Hey guys,
First time around here since I don't own a nexus one yet. I made the new boot animation screen for the CyanogenMod 5, and a few themes for pre-nexus devices/roms. Anywho's I've already gotten a lot of requests for boot screens on other nexus roms. Thankfully I don't have to do too much work to get it in.
Video Preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFxjKdjJV8w
If you want the Cyanogenmod 5 boot screen on your own nexus rom (even works on non rooted I believe, not positive though) do the following:
1) Download this file: http://injun.org/bootanimation.zip
2) Without unzipping, put it on your phones /data/local folder (create it if its not there)
3) Reboot and watch the new boot screen.
Easy as that.
Enjoy,
-Prash
If you want to see more of my work for nexus, I'd really appreciate a donation to my n1 fund via paypal: [email protected], I'd love to take a crack at themes for the n1 and the amazing screen
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wow, sweet, can you please made the same one for G1/MT3G?
How is it different exactly? Just the colors?
Hahaha absolutely love this boot animation! love the lil cyanogenmod android in the middle of the "X"!
wow! nice!! thank you!!!
can you tell me how to get the original boot animation?
thanks
I am extremely excited to move past the limitations of the Dream, and use real animations on the Nexus One. (if there was sound, I'd wet my pants)
I've made an animation with the same dimensions as yours, and I exported each frame to png. I kept your naming convention, started with boot_00003, and used the same number of files, split into 2 folders. What else do I need to get it to work? Would using Stericson's utility to sign the zip work? (The one he made for the Dream)
I have a few more questions, but if someone could answer the above, I can probably figure the rest out on my own.
Thank you, Prash, great work.
this is great, works fine on my g1 using openeclair.
Great work Prash... this bootanimation and the wallpaper you made for cyanogenmod are awesome It would be fantastic to have next a cyanogenmod live wallpaper
prash
awesome freaking boot screen. you wouldn't happen to have a version without the "little dude" in the middle would you? sort of like it even more stripped down and simple.
again though, totally freaking cool. can't imagine how you "searched and replaced" all those little lines in Photoshop (or even worse, sat and redrew all of them on top of the old ones), but you did.
thanks
NICE love the cyanogen android in the middle!
mikecyber said:
... I've made an animation with the same dimensions as yours, and I exported each frame to png. I kept your naming convention, started with boot_00003, and used the same number of files, split into 2 folders. What else do I need to get it to work? Would using Stericson's utility to sign the zip work? (The one he made for the Dream)
I have a few more questions, but if someone could answer the above, I can probably figure the rest out on my own.
Thank you, Prash, great work.
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a small kine of a tutorial will be lovely
Prash, you are the man. I love this. And it goes perfect to my theme in progress
Hey guys,
I'm trying to finish up my new homescreens, and my last widget is Audio Manager Pro. I've tried the metamorph on it, but it wasn't working. I've also tried to manually open the .apk and edit the .pngs i needed to edit, but have issues getting it signed. Any modders have some free time to help a theme noob?
What I am trying to do is make the background .pngs for the widgets transparent. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Bump, any help or suggestions would be great!
Sent from my Evo.
I will be keeping an eye on this. The transparent skin they have for AM is transparent BUT the little bars that show levels are yellow, orange, and green or red or some yucky (to me) color combo! (they match NONE of the wallpapers I use) I wrote the developer this morning and asked for transparent but with like white, or shiny metallic bars ....
Yea, the am transparent skin on the market isn't really fully transparent. I also want the background to the fuxia skin transparent.
Sent from my Evo.
I answered my own question, but I thought I'd share what I did to make it happen.
1. adb pulled the apk
2. Opened the .apk in betterzip (mac user) WITHOUT EXTRACTING, and pulled the folders that needed editing.
3. Edited .pngs in Photoshop
4. Dragged the folders back into Betterzip into the correct directories.
5. Saved the changes to the .apk
6. adb pushed the .apk to /system/app
7. Profit!
Hopefully that helped someone!
That would help me IF i knew what I was doing ... I don't have Photoshop and I def don't know how to do that.
I did see under standalone's on this following link, 6th one down had it. Isn't that it? I tried it but it didnt' work for me. Just like the Genie one won't. Everything else my phone had taken easy.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=652661
kyleblakepeters said:
I answered my own question, but I thought I'd share what I did to make it happen.
1. adb pulled the apk
2. Opened the .apk in betterzip (mac user) WITHOUT EXTRACTING, and pulled the folders that needed editing.
3. Edited .pngs in Photoshop
4. Dragged the folders back into Betterzip into the correct directories.
5. Saved the changes to the .apk
6. adb pushed the .apk to /system/app
7. Profit!
Hopefully that helped someone!
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Having the same problem, also can't get SetCPU widget to go transparent.
So, open the apk in a zip program, take out what needs editing, edit, put back in?
Yes and push back to system/app. Make sure to delete the app from the phone before pushing back.
Sent from my Evo.
effluent said:
Having the same problem, also can't get SetCPU widget to go transparent.
So, open the apk in a zip program, take out what needs editing, edit, put back in?
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Umm.. SetCPU has an option to make the background clear.. Just an FYI.. It's a setting you change when you first open the widget..
This may be common knowledge to all, but in case it is not:
1) To disable the start up sound, in the /etc directory, rename the file PowerOn.wav to PowerOn.wav.bak.
2) To disable the shutdown sound, in the /system/media/audio/ui directory, rename shutdown.ogg to shutdown.ogg.bak.
I did this using a rooted phone with ADB. I am sure there may be an easier way if someone would like to provide further instructions regarding this.
I hope this info helps someone, those sounds very super-loud and annoying! If this info is available elsewhere, let me know and I will remove this post.
Sounds great! Thanks for the tip.
Also, for those that do wish to have startup/shutdown sounds: Rename your favorite sound in the same format as the file you will be replacing and you should have new sounds.
Since we have a lot of Noobs here (no derogatory intent as I was once a noob as well) here is a little bit better explanation:
Startup sound: locate the sound file you want played, convert it to a .wav file format, rename the file to "PowerOn.wav" and remove the original/replace it with your new file.
Shutdown sound: The same above - but the sound file must be in the .ogg file format and needs to be renamed "shutdown.ogg"
The location of the two files can be found in the above post.
shaneaus said:
Sounds great! Thanks for the tip.
Also, for those that do wish to have startup/shutdown sounds: Rename your favorite sound in the same format as the file you will be replacing and you should have new sounds.
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Good point. In fact, just replacing these files with modified versions that are a much lower volume might be a good way to go, so you still get the sounds but without them being annoyingly loud.
THANK YOU!!!!!
Or, if you go to settings>sound and display>system volume you can turn the volume all the way down, which effectively mutes the start up/shut down sounds. No need for root or anything like that.
Thank you!
I disabled the startup animation but was still left with the startup sound. Now things are complete. Did you find out where this PowerOn.wav is being referenced? And why didn't they put this in the media folder with the rest???
haydonxda said:
Thank you!
I disabled the startup animation but was still left with the startup sound. Now things are complete. Did you find out where this PowerOn.wav is being referenced? And why didn't they put this in the media folder with the rest???
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How did you disabled the startup animation? Is possible to replace it?
clocke said:
Or, if you go to settings>sound and display>system volume you can turn the volume all the way down, which effectively mutes the start up/shut down sounds. No need for root or anything like that.
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Sure, that works if (a) you want to always keep your system sound muted or (b) you always remember to change this setting before rebooting. If you never want the start up or shutdown sounds to play at all, regardless of system volume, then you can rename those files and you never need to worry about it.
All it muted was the startup/shutdown noises... My notifications, ringtones, etc still sound off. Sounds still work on my games. And even with a reboot my settings are still saved.
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How did you disabled the startup animation? Is possible to replace it?
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yesss, i am also interested in finding out how to disable (at least the att) startup animation
jsmith8858 said:
Good point. In fact, just replacing these files with modified versions that are a much lower volume might be a good way to go, so you still get the sounds but without them being annoyingly loud.
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The sound level of the startup and shutdown screens depends on whatever volume you had your phone at when you shut it down.
haydonxda said:
I disabled the startup animation but was still left with the startup sound.
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yesss, i am also interested in finding out how to disable (at least the att) startup animation
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Waiting on this too - if we disable the horrid AT&T bars logo animation, I can leave the startup sound and animation for the Galaxy S right where it is! that's the hope at least, disable individual animations instead of a setting like "disable all startup animations"
Startup Video
The Bars video is located at /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg
Renaming this kills both the bars and the Samsung startup
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The Bars video is located at /system/media/bootsamsung.qmg
Renaming this kills both the bars and the Samsung startup
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Does this boot faster by removing them? I guess I could sacrifice the cool Galaxy S startup IF it boots faster!
Please forgive me, I'm a total noob when it comes to android. Can you give me exactly what app you guys use to get to these files and rename them? Thanks.
Install "busybox" from the Market, then install Droid Explorer to view root files
(don't worry, I'm a n00b too, just found those instructions and glad to pass it on!)
Unfortunately, like another user on the other thread, even with busybox installed, I cannot get certain folders to open AND cannot make my file renaming stick - I'll rename a file and click another folder, then go back and it hasn't been renamed! I'm certain this has something to do with busybox, but can't figure it out!
Droid Explorer Debug Console
[CommandRunner] adb.exe -s I897793353b8 shell busybox ls -lF --color=never "/data/"
[CommandRunner] ls: can't open '/data/': Permission denied
[CommandRunner] adb.exe -s I897793353b8 shell busybox ls -lF --color=never "/cache/"
[CommandRunner] ls: can't open '/cache/': Permission denied
[CommandRunner] adb.exe -s I897793353b8 shell busybox ls -lF --color=never "/config/"
[CommandRunner] ls: can't open '/config/': Permission denied
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Help please.
I renamed and deleted the files listed above and they seem to recreate themmselves after. Am I missing something?
Quarter-volume startup sound...
jsmith8858 said:
Good point. In fact, just replacing these files with modified versions that are a much lower volume might be a good way to go, so you still get the sounds but without them being annoyingly loud.
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Taking jsmith's suggestion, I've edited the PowerOn.wav sound file down to 1/4 original volume for those like me that don't mind the sound itself, only the ridiculous volume of it.
I am, however, not so skilled at using adb to copy/replace the original in the /etc folder so, any help would be greatly appreciated. I just keep getting permissions errors. Anyway, if someone can offer up specific adb commands for us semi-noobs, it would be a plus. Thanks in advance.
H_Scrappy
-note: File is zipped; just unzip to get to the .wav file.
I also experienced issues with renaming files and having them return to their previous name. I resolved this by re-rooting the phone, used root file explorer and then moved/copied/renamed as I deemed fit.
You need to remount /system as read/write instead of read-only. This can be done with the mount command or with some file managers like root explorer.
Made a mixture of a few boot animations for my DROID X.
Rotten Apple
Stock DROID boot
NeXus Holiday Red
Then added (and mixed horribly) a sound I made from Apple startup, then some stock DROID auido files.
Sorry if its rotated, I forgot about that when I filmed it, but that actual phone and file are in portrait mode. Also, sorry about the "fisheye". My camera is a compact hand held with a 10x zoom. That close, and the lens warped the image a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ5DqbbZ2QY
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I have been able to get bootanimations to play on my droid x with sound. I took the following steps to enable this. I used root explorer to move the files.
1. Download the attached file. This file is one that I removed from a R2D2 D2.
2. Unzip the file and save the file to your sdcard. The file is labeled bootanimation.
3. Use root explorer and go to the folder /system/bin.
4. In that folder locate the file named bootanimation and save it as bootanimation2
5. move the file that you just renamed to your sdcard
6. move the new file that you downloaded and placed on your sdcard to the folder /system/bin
7. simple as that.
You will need to make sure that what ever audio file that is assigned to your bootanimation is saved in the folder /system/media
Have to give squidlymandingo a thanks for supplying the files from the R2D2 D2. Thanks
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That is how you apply sound. the .zip is located at
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-hacks/85339-adding-boot-sound-x.html
I have already edited the desc.txt to play one sound at the beginning of the animation. you can use what ever file you want, but it has to be named android.mp3
The sound file needs to be place in the /system/media/ folder, along with the boot animation.
EDIT:: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=AY9FDTRL Link for the zip with bootanimation, sound file, and the /system/bin/ file.
Looks great. Where can we download it from?
I want this too. Looks great.
Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk
Anybody want to host the files? Im not sure of a good free site to do it at.
Also, PM with emails and ill send out the animation.
Let me know if u want sound too, as that requires a few extra steps which i will post later/
megaupload.com is a good site to use and its free.
Added link to first post
Very nice mix. Only downside is that I'm gonna be booting my Dx a lot at the bar with my iPhone hobbled friends now
Any one get it to play sound from the start? Tried changing out that bootanimation file in /system/bin/ no luck. Plus the last image from the animation never went away. just showed the image, then i did the slide to unlock and it went to my homescreen.
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Any one get it to play sound from the start? Tried changing out that bootanimation file in /system/bin/ no luck. Plus the last image from the animation never went away. just showed the image, then i did the slide to unlock and it went to my homescreen.
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Define "from beginning".
My phone has the bong right when the apple appears.. maybe a quarter second delay.
and ive never heard nor seen the last image staying until you unlock.
ok sound plays and animation fixed. I turned your files into an update.zip.
Left in my transformers sound. But its cut off when it starts playing the second set of file.
any work around for this? Do I have to break the audio into 2 seperate files and tell the second one to play once the second animation starts?
Also, what are the restrictions on the files, for instance, i tried to change the hue on another bootani so the colors were closer to the theme i was on. But after changing the hue the animation wont play. Ideas?
bad4u6669 said:
ok sound plays and animation fixed. I turned your files into an update.zip.
Left in my transformers sound. But its cut off when it starts playing the second set of file.
any work around for this? Do I have to break the audio into 2 seperate files and tell the second one to play once the second animation starts?
Also, what are the restrictions on the files, for instance, i tried to change the hue on another bootani so the colors were closer to the theme i was on. But after changing the hue the animation wont play. Ideas?
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IM new to all this, so i will give you what i know
The breaking up the sound. I am not sure, but you can try it. In the desc.txt you will notice there is a
480 480 13
(stuff)
s android.mp3
(stuff)
***Just add a s (name of file).mp3 here. I am not sure, but i think it may loop with the animation.
for changing the hue, what do you have right now? Whats in the bootaniamtion file. Also, remember when you zip the file it needs to be in store compression, or no compression.
bad4u6669 said:
ok sound plays and animation fixed. I turned your files into an update.zip.
Left in my transformers sound. But its cut off when it starts playing the second set of file.
any work around for this? Do I have to break the audio into 2 seperate files and tell the second one to play once the second animation starts?
Also, what are the restrictions on the files, for instance, i tried to change the hue on another bootani so the colors were closer to the theme i was on. But after changing the hue the animation wont play. Ideas?
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Also, could you tell me how to make an update.zip.. Just something simple as a boot animation change like the one you made.
Casen said:
Also, could you tell me how to make an update.zip.. Just something simple as a boot animation change like the one you made.
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I wonder if its the compression messing it up. DO you know why it has to have no compression?
Pm me your email. I will send you and update.zip with all your stuff. Use 7zip or what ever to browse the file structure, its super easy to figure out.
do you know what those lines in the desc.txt mean?
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I wonder if its the compression messing it up. DO you know why it has to have no compression?
Pm me your email. I will send you and update.zip with all your stuff. Use 7zip or what ever to browse the file structure, its super easy to figure out.
do you know what those lines in the desc.txt mean?
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PM sent, and i dont know why it has to have no compression, but i do know (from trial and error)that if there is compression, you will get a black screen until its time to unlock your phone.
UPDATE: I am currently looking into taking Movie, or music video clips, and turning them into bootanimations. Im not taking requests, as i am very busy with the move, but I will tell you if this is feasible, and if its easily done i will post up what and how to do it
so what does the "13" indicate on the first line? Im guessing the 480 480 is the HxW of the image.
the other animation im messing with, i can now zip it (without compression) and it works, but once i add the "s android.mp3" it wont show the animation.
in this one it is "480 480 10"
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so what does the "13" indicate on the first line? Im guessing the 480 480 is the HxW of the image.
the other animation im messing with, i can now zip it (without compression) and it works, but once i add the "s android.mp3" it wont show the animation.
in this one it is "480 480 10"
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The "10" is FPS
bad4u6669 said:
so what does the "13" indicate on the first line? Im guessing the 480 480 is the HxW of the image.
the other animation im messing with, i can now zip it (without compression) and it works, but once i add the "s android.mp3" it wont show the animation.
in this one it is "480 480 10"
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also post your desc text.
the "s android.mp3" should be underneath the first p0 line
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also post your desc text.
the "s android.mp3" should be underneath the first p0 line
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thats where its at.
480 480 10
p 1 0 part0
s android.mp3
p 0 0 part1
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thats where its at.
480 480 10
p 1 0 part0
s android.mp3
p 0 0 part1
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are you putting any space or anything in there? (inbetween the lines)?
just sharing my latest creation.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pxvg9fhsx181grd/bootanimation.zip?dl=0
i did not make the original video this was pulled from, if anyone knows who made it or if you made it please let me know so i can give credit.
I simply modded an old video i had into an animation and resized it for optimal quality for G3 resolution.
to install push this file to /system/media and overwrite original (or rename original if you want to save for later or as a backup) then set permissions to rwx rwx r-x and reboot.
to preview this boot animation download this GIF file and watch it.
(link coming soon still uploading file (its large))
my upload failed, i might try it again later but for now i just uploaded a thumbnail so you can get an idea of what it looks like.
If you want to modify this animation for another resolution:
- extract the entire zip file to a folder.
- use faststone phono resizer to change the resolution but don't change the file names or folder names (you can mess up the order of the animation)
- change the resolution in the desc.txt file using notepad++ but don't change the number of lines in the file (you can also change fps: default 12) and number of times the animations play (default 1/3).
- then using 7-zip open the original archive and drop the modified files back into the zip file in the same directory they originated and push it to system/media/ and set permit then reboot.
- you can also change the animation to portrait instead of landscape by highlighting all the image files right click and rotate them to desired orientation, also swap the two resolution parameters in the desc.txt file with notepad++ and put files back in zip like i mentioned above.
- there are other methods but i just put what i thought would be hardest to screw up.
if you run into problems modifying the animation feel free to ask questions but reply to this post so i get a notification as I will probably not be checking this thread.
one thing i forgot to mention is that if you are modifying to portrait you'll need to trim the sides off (like when you resize a landscape wallpaper to portrait which will degrade quality) of every jpg in the animation. This is why i haven't done it yet it's alot of work and the landscape mode will look better just because thats the native orientation of the original video.
I think people will watch me weirdly if I start my phone in public with it :laugh:
sleiphir said:
I think people will watch me weirdly if I start my phone in public with it :laugh:
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i really doubt anyone cares lol
doesnt work no idea why :S but at the end of the boot there are blue points on top right
did as you said
to install push this file to /system/media and overwrite original (or rename original if you want to save for later or as a backup) then set permissions to rwx rwx r-x and reboot.
LG G3 D855
Any photo apps on android that can mass rotate or mass set resolution? Windows days are swiftly coming to an end. Literally nobody seems to have a laptop anymore around me that isn't an Apple coffee shop caddy.
Very good guy
Youssef mo7a said:
doesnt work no idea why :S but at the end of the boot there are blue points on top right
did as you said
to install push this file to /system/media and overwrite original (or rename original if you want to save for later or as a backup) then set permissions to rwx rwx r-x and reboot.
LG G3 D855
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that's wierd the blue dots are the 2nd part of the animation it sounds like something is wrong with the first part for you. there is a few things you can try, try downloading the file again and pushing the new file again, maybe something is corrupt. the fact the 2nd part works tells me its not a permission problem. do you have any resolution mods on your phone? what rom are you on?
you could try wiping cache but that's a long shot.
Luke Kynix Sahre said:
Very good guy
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Krystalmyth said:
Any photo apps on android that can mass rotate or mass set resolution? Windows days are swiftly coming to an end. Literally nobody seems to have a laptop anymore around me that isn't an Apple coffee shop caddy.
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probably but i have a windows pc so i've never looked for one.
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that's wierd the blue dots are the 2nd part of the animation it sounds like something is wrong with the first part for you. there is a few things you can try, try downloading the file again and pushing the new file again, maybe something is corrupt. the fact the 2nd part works tells me its not a permission problem. do you have any resolution mods on your phone? what rom are you on?
you could try wiping cache but that's a long shot.
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running Cloudy 2.5 rom it is a stock based rom i dont think i hafve any resolution mods
did u try to download again and push new file?