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[Q]Samsung Galaxy S bootscreen

Hello,
I know you guys probably get this answer often but can someone explain to me very slowly and clearly what i'm doing wrong.
I tried to edit the bootscreen of my custom rom (from romkitchen)
I got a file from the interwebz named bootscreen.zip and edited this with my .png
Than i copied it to my phone via BT and used rootexplorer to paste it in system/media i set the permissions to read only and execute... no1 can write it. than i changed rootexplorer back to RO. so now it is in there ( still the good 1 with my .png)
than i closed rootexplorer and tried to reboot, but now it doesn't show my bootscreen nor the bootanimation from romkitchen, but the standard bootscreen from Samsung (the shiny S)
is there something wrong with my bootanimation.zip or am i doing something wrong?
Please help me
PS this image is just the basic one... gonna make a glowing animation of it later on ( with multiple .png's with succeeding numbers right?)....... i hope...
-EDIT-
Ok so i think i found out what the problem is... the bootanimation.zip is wrong i just examined a bootscreen from a romkitchen .tar and that has a different structure, because this one has a part 0 and a part 1 with jpg's instead of png's so i guess that's the problem. But where do i put my bootscreen? in part 0 or 1? and do i have to delete one? What is the difference even between the 2? It's kinda odd because part 0 goes from image 1-9 and part 1 10-30ish
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Using the new bootanimation.zip i've made a little progress.... its custom now... custom black. i get an entirely black screen. made me even panic for a sec there but still booted afterwards
I googled it and some1 had the same problem, but his solution didn't help me. apparently android cant play this animation ( still 1 pic but now i dupped it like 50x XD
I've added the .zip as it looks right now i made it a zip as a store... no compression at all... so that isn't the problem

I really don't know enough to tell you why its not working but it's my understanding that part 0 runs once & then part 1 runs in a loop.

3rdstring said:
I really don't know enough to tell you why its not working but it's my understanding that part 0 runs once & then part 1 runs in a loop.
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hmmm that would make sense.... as u'll only want to fade in once... Still haven't fixed black screen problem tho.

Find your bootanimation file. on my SGS Continuum it is in the /system/media folder as bootsamsung.qmg and bootsamsungloop.qmg. if you have these.qmg files, there is currently no easy away around them. they do not use the common bootanimation.zip like most other phones. search the forums for the ".qmg" boot images and there are some not so perfect ways around this without a whole new kernel flash.

Ok i just examined a .tar from romkitchen.... and in it is a bootanimation.zip so if i change that with my own animation and flash the kernel it should work right? or is there an easier way? and if u use the same settings for romkitchen that i have right now i dont even need to flash right?

[Q] White screens/flashes in bootanimation!

Ive prepared a bootanim. It contains 449 frames. Runs at 35 FPS. Should work... The bootanim even gets loaded on boot, and it even runs. But white screens repeat on every loop... Cant just figure out why!
If there is an existing thread TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM DIRECTLY, Please let me know... coz I couldnt find one!
The desc.txt file code is as follows:
Code:
240 400 35
p 0 0 part0

Contact friend863. I believe he used to have this problem anyway he's great with boot animations.
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bscraze said:
Contact friend863. I believe he used to have this problem anyway he's great with boot animations.
Sent from my GT-i9003 powered by MIUI
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Thanks for that... anyways, I expect some more direct replies... But I will contact him in the mean time...

CyberZ-JB said:
Thanks for that... anyways, I expect some more direct replies... But I will contact him in the mean time...
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I couldn't find his original thread. Sorry
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bscraze said:
I couldn't find his original thread. Sorry
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Never mind... I pm'd him. His primary idea didn't work... That's was to set the fps under 30. Let's see more...

I can help to find the problem if you can send me the boot animation files.

friend863 said:
I can help to find the problem if you can send me the boot animation files.
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IM on a reply slow internet connection bro... Isn't there any other way?

The folder size limitation is 120 frames per folder (at least on CM7) after that you'll get white screen. If you have all the 400-something frames in one folder there is no doubt you are going to get a white screen.
You'll have to split it up in many folders or, if you wanna loop it properly, reduce the number of frames and the frame rate and apply some motion blur to your frames (400+ frames is just A LOT of frames...)
If that's not the error check if the frames that are white are in the correct color format (RGB 8bit or RGB 16bit)
muromysli
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muromysli said:
The folder size limitation is 120 frames per folder (at least on CM7) after that you'll get white screen. If you have all the 400-something frames in one folder there is no doubt you are going to get a white screen.
You'll have to split it up in many folders or, if you wanna loop it properly, reduce the number of frames and the frame rate and apply some motion blur to your frames (400+ frames is just A LOT of frames...)
If that's not the error check if the frames that are white are in the correct color format (RGB 8bit or RGB 16bit)
muromysli
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Muromysli, ur reply seems the most legible one! Thanks a lot bro! This must be the cure for the Itch, coz Ive seen similar references all throughout xda about this prob... But if I want to split it into multiple folders, then how can i loop all the folders? I mean like,
part0
part1
part2
part3
4 folders will be needed for 449 frames...
so can I loop these folders in some way?

muromysli said:
The folder size limitation is 120 frames per folder (at least on CM7) after that you'll get white screen. If you have all the 400-something frames in one folder there is no doubt you are going to get a white screen.
You'll have to split it up in many folders or, if you wanna loop it properly, reduce the number of frames and the frame rate and apply some motion blur to your frames (400+ frames is just A LOT of frames...)
If that's not the error check if the frames that are white are in the correct color format (RGB 8bit or RGB 16bit)
muromysli
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Not sure about that because all my boot animations works perfectly on CM7 and there are over 900+ images in one folder.
I will advice you to read this tutorial and make sure all the steps you done are correct.
Edit: Rename your image files to 3 digits i.e change 0001 to 001 and try.

friend863 said:
Not sure about that because all my boot animations works perfectly on CM7 and there are over 900+ images in one folder.
I will advice you to read this tutorial and make sure all the steps you done are correct.
Edit: Rename your image files to 3 digits i.e change 0001 to 001 and try.
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Well, that cud b possible. Im reading ur thread friend863.

Oh wait... Ive seen that thread long ago... thats by Chirayu... But if that was the case then my bootanim wold have worked perfectly! Im attempting to upload my bootanim, lets see when it goes online...

CyberZ-JB said:
Muromysli, ur reply seems the most legible one! Thanks a lot bro! This must be the cure for the Itch, coz Ive seen similar references all throughout xda about this prob... But if I want to split it into multiple folders, then how can i loop all the folders? I mean like,
part0
part1
part2
part3
4 folders will be needed for 449 frames...
so can I loop these folders in some way?
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You can't loop them properly if you want the bootanimation to loop until the OS is finished booting. but you can however write in the desc.txt file that it will play part0,part1,part2,part3,part0,part1,part2... BUT if you do that the OS has to wait for the bootaimation to finish playng all folders as many times you've told it to play them before the OS can finish booting. In other words, even though the OS would finish booting and be ready for use it has to play trough all the folders that are left before it can be used.
And I refere you to follow this tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1096068
I still recommend that you reduce the number of frames frame and the frame rate and add motion blur. Your boot animation is 13 seconds long (449frames / 35fps = 12.8 seconds) there is no need for 449 frames. you can put the frame rate to aroud 20 or even 15 and it will still be smoot ( if u use motion blur)

muromysli said:
You can't loop them properly if you want the bootanimation to loop until the OS is finished booting. but you can however write in the desc.txt file that it will play part0,part1,part2,part3,part0,part1,part2... BUT if you do that the OS has to wait for the bootaimation to finish playng all folders as many times you've told it to play them before the OS can finish booting. In other words, even though the OS would finish booting and be ready for use it has to play trough all the folders that are left before it can be used.
And I refere you to follow this tutorial http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1096068
I still recommend that you reduce the number of frames frame and the frame rate and add motion blur. Your boot animation is 13 seconds long (449frames / 35fps = 12.8 seconds) there is no need for 449 frames. you can put the frame rate to aroud 20 or even 15 and it will still be smoot ( if u use motion blur)
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Even this tutorial is similar to that of Chirayu, The best tutorial was in the Galaxy S forums or something...

CyberZ-JB said:
Ive prepared a bootanim. It contains 449 frames. Runs at 35 FPS. Should work... The bootanim even gets loaded on boot, and it even runs. But white screens repeat on every loop... Cant just figure out why!
If there is an existing thread TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM DIRECTLY, Please let me know... coz I couldnt find one!
The desc.txt file code is as follows:
Code:
240 400 35
p 0 0 part0
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Windows image editor side effect. When you are viewing files in the windows picture viewer it will place a hidden file in the folder usually thumbs.db or imagethumb.db or other *.db file. This will cause the boot to flash white as the player tries to play the image sequence. This file must be removed from the folder for your boot to work right – when it is in the ‘stored’ format you can right click then select 7zip in the dropdown go over to open archive and then examine the contents of each folder if you see a *.db file – delete it. That will correct the problem.
hope i helped.
dont forget to press thanks

anonymousninja said:
Windows image editor side effect. When you are viewing files in the windows picture viewer it will place a hidden file in the folder usually thumbs.db or imagethumb.db or other *.db file. This will cause the boot to flash white as the player tries to play the image sequence. This file must be removed from the folder for your boot to work right – when it is in the ‘stored’ format you can right click then select 7zip in the dropdown go over to open archive and then examine the contents of each folder if you see a *.db file – delete it. That will correct the problem.
hope i helped.
dont forget to press thanks
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It's been over two years since I had that problem, but I think I did remove the thumbs.db that I saw in there, in any case, if I didn't, I hope someone else coming across this problem may be able to verify this. Thanks for replying though.

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Delete Thumbs.db in your parts. It is a system hidden file, so you'll need to be able to show system hidden files in Windows. After that, it should work.

[Q] Why is my boot animation now working?????

hey
so i am trying to create my first boot animation, and have done everything according to the guide, well i think i have at least, and have tried so many different things i am kinda out of ideas. so please if someone can tell me what i am doing wrong i would really appreciate it a lot.
so this is basically what i have tried: tried running only the "part0" folder with one pic inside, it worked but then as soon as added in the "part1" it didnt. also tried using a boot animation that works and putting just my pics in the folders, didnt work. also changed the "c" to "p" and vice versa and it didnt work. so to be honest i have no more ideas:/
i am doing it for my samsung s5830i.
this is the boot animation i made View attachment bootanimation.zip
would really really appreciate it if somone could help.

Don't know what is exactly you problem but here are somethings which you should remeber while creating bootanimation.
1. First and most important, always choose "store" or "none " compression method while which actually means there should be no compression. If you choose even 1% compression you will get error (blank screen )
2. Always remember to leave last line of "desc.txt" blank.
3. P or C doesn't matter. It only tells about instruction.
4. Only 1 part is sufficient but if you have more than 1, dont forget about to give instructions about it in desc.txt
5. Set permission to rw-r-r- of bootanimation.zip
6. in "desc.txt", each instruction should be on new line.
Try these. I will see your bootanimation.zip file and will tell you.

sheru7 said:
Don't know what is exactly you problem but here are somethings which you should remeber while creating bootanimation.
1. First and most important, always choose "store" or "none " compression method while which actually means there should be no compression. If you choose even 1% compression you will get error (blank screen )
2. Always remember to leave last line of "desc.txt" blank.
3. P or C doesn't matter. It only tells about instruction.
4. Only 1 part is sufficient but if you have more than 1, dont forget about to give instructions about it in desc.txt
5. Set permission to rw-r-r- of bootanimation.zip
6. in "desc.txt", each instruction should be on new line.
Try these. I will see your bootanimation.zip file and will tell you.
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ok cool. well it shows nothing, it is almost as if it is skipping the boot animation all together.
so i did all that u mentioned except leave last line open in desc.txt and then also setting the permission, how do u set the permisinon?

KTM Stretch said:
ok cool. well it shows nothing, it is almost as if it is skipping the boot animation all together.
so i did all that u mentioned except leave last line open in desc.txt and then also setting the permission, how do u set the permisinon?
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Yes, You have to leave last line blank.
I don't know which file explorer you use. I use root explorer.
When you paste bootanimation.zip in system>media folder, just press on it for 2-3 seconds, menu will appear on which you will see an option named "permissions". Open it and tick as shown in image attached. Then press ok. Done!
Press thank if i helped!

sheru7 said:
Yes, You have to leave last line blank.
I don't know which file explorer you use. I use root explorer.
When you paste bootanimation.zip in system>media folder, just press on it for 2-3 seconds, menu will appear on which you will see an option named "permissions". Open it and tick as shown in image attached. Then press ok. Done!
Press thank if i helped!
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Ok so i did that. I set permissions exactly like you mentioned. then i rebooted and still the same thing. also i have the last line blank in the txt file. I am not sure if it is possible, but can you perhaps download it and try it on your device, not sure if you can do that? i am using es file explorer by the way. Any more suggestions, i really want to get this right?

KTM Stretch said:
Ok so i did that. I set permissions exactly like you mentioned. then i rebooted and still the same thing. also i have the last line blank in the txt file. I am not sure if it is possible, but can you perhaps download it and try it on your device, not sure if you can do that? i am using es file explorer by the way. Any more suggestions, i really want to get this right?
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Donno if it will work with my device. Coz the resolution is different. Still I will try and tell you.

Ok thanks. I really appreciate the help!!!!
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KTM Stretch said:
Ok thanks. I really appreciate the help!!!!
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You were correct. Its really pissing me off too!
btw i forgot to mention you one important thing. When you compress all the zip files, choose "store" or "none" compression. It basically means 0% compression. Hope you have done this.
If not, just try with original files as i dont have them. Remember dont use extracted/compressed files, use original size files. Hope you have not deleted them.
If you cant find option of store in your zip archiver, use 7-zip and zip them.
If it still fails, let me know. We will start again from scratch.

Yeah u mentioned about the compression. And yes I have just zipped to store. So it should work. But yes I still have original files. Do u want me to upload the original files to?
Btw I really appreciate your help and effort
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KTM Stretch said:
Yeah u mentioned about the compression. And yes I have just zipped to store. So it should work. But yes I still have original files. Do u want me to upload the original files to?
Btw I really appreciate your help and effort
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IT WORKED BRO! :victory:
I just extracted all your images. Resized all of them to 240x320 (my screen size). Also I replaced c with p in desc.txt (because 'c' only supports for jellybean onwards, I am on gingerbread). Then I compressed them and placed in system > media, and changed permission. And rebooted. And BOOM! It worked.
I saw your image size 321x480. I think you should resize all of them to 320x480. Maybe that is causing problem.
P.S. I used this tool to resize multiple images at once.Online Batch resize

What really!!!! That's so awesome!!!! Ok well I will try it and let u know....I really hope it works.
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What really!!!! That's so awesome!!!! Ok well I will try it and let u know....I really hope it works.
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Yup try it n let me know.
Btw your boot animation is cool. I liked your concept.
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sheru7 said:
Yup try it n let me know.
Btw your boot animation is cool. I liked your concept.
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Ok so i have read through this whole thread all over again, and its so irritating cause im sure its not supposed to be this difficult to do this. so i tried changing the desc.txt file where it says 320 480, i changed it to 321 480, also changed the p to a c. tried this and it didnt work. then changed it back to 320 480(still got a p, not a c) and resized all the pictures(320 480), zipped(store not compress) moved it into system/media and then changed permissions. rebooted and still not working.
here is my bootanimation. View attachment bootanimation.zip
can you please attach the working one you have, then i will try it( used a bootanimaion with incorrect resolution and it worked before)
Why why why....???

KTM Stretch said:
Ok so i have read through this whole thread all over again, and its so irritating cause im sure its not supposed to be this difficult to do this. so i tried changing the desc.txt file where it says 320 480, i changed it to 321 480, also changed the p to a c. tried this and it didnt work. then changed it back to 320 480(still got a p, not a c) and resized all the pictures(320 480), zipped(store not compress) moved it into system/media and then changed permissions. rebooted and still not working.
here is my bootanimation. View attachment 2720076
can you please attach the working one you have, then i will try it( used a bootanimaion with incorrect resolution and it worked before)
Why why why....???
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Oh thats really bad. Well can you tell me if now its only happening with your animation or with every animation? Try other bootanimations.
And i will upload zip tomorrow as currently I don't have pc with me.
Sent from my GT-S5360.

sheru7 said:
Oh thats really bad. Well can you tell me if now its only happening with your animation or with every animation? Try other bootanimations.
And i will upload zip tomorrow as currently I don't have pc with me.
Sent from my GT-S5360.
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Ok so i tried another bootanimation and it did work. Here it is:View attachment bootanimation.zip
Ok thats fine. really appreciate the help so far

KTM Stretch said:
Ok so i tried another bootanimation and it did work. Here it is:View attachment 2721145
Ok thats fine. really appreciate the help so far
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Mention not buddy!
Here is mine working bootanimation.zip, try it and let me know.

sheru7 said:
Mention not buddy!
Here is mine working bootanimation.zip, try it and let me know.
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It worked......it finally worked, thanks so much for the help!!!!!!!!! So glad it finally works. Last problem is that i dont know how yours does and mine doesnt, the only thing i can think of is the app you used to zip and change permissions. would you mind telling me which one, then i can also make other ones.

Ok so i found the problem. When i was using es viewer for some reason it was changing the format of the .txt file. so i downloaded aonther one and boom it works. so now i have made two bootanimations so far thanks for all the help

Boot animation not changing in nexus 5

Hey guys, today i tried to change my boot animation with ROM toolbox but it failed. Then i also tried by copying boot animation.zip in root/system/media but still it didn't change.
What should i do ?

put the bootanimation.zip into (root)/data/local/, save and reboot(with a root file explorer). if its still not working, then wont work with the n5. rom toolbox is an old app, and has old boot animations. its possible they wont work with the n5.

@simms22
Worked by placing zip in data/local
Thanks , from where can i get batman boot animation for nexus 5 .
Tried google it bt no good results

jaferiqbal said:
@simms22
Worked by placing zip in data/local
Thanks , from where can i get batman boot animation for nexus 5 .
Tried google it bt no good results
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you can make one
if you do find older boot animations, most will be tiny on the n5screen.n because the n5 has a much greater screen resolution than any older device. i havent seen any newer batman boot animations.

simms22 said:
put the bootanimation.zip into (root)/data/local/, save and reboot(with a root file explorer). if its still not working, then wont work with the n5. rom toolbox is an old app, and has old boot animations. its possible they wont work with the n5.
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Old or not, there's no reason they shouldn't work. If they aren't made for this specific screen resolution, all you need to do is unzip the animation, batch resize all the images in the the folders, edit desc.txt and compress it back to a zip file again. Pretty simple, actually! :good:

RoyJ said:
Old or not, there's no reason they shouldn't work. If they aren't made for this specific screen resolution, all you need to do is unzip the animation, batch resize all the images in the the folders, edit desc.txt and compress it back to a zip file again. Pretty simple, actually! :good:
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i said older and being tiny on the screen. anyways, i think if the op knew how to enlarge them and zip them back up, then he wouldnt be looking for a batman boot animation, he would make his own

simms22 said:
i said older and being tiny on the screen. anyways, i think if the op knew how to enlarge them and zip them back up, then he wouldnt be looking for a batman boot animation, he would make his own
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Yeah u r right

RoyJ said:
Old or not, there's no reason they shouldn't work. If they aren't made for this specific screen resolution, all you need to do is unzip the animation, batch resize all the images in the the folders, edit desc.txt and compress it back to a zip file again. Pretty simple, actually! :good:
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That sounds like a lot of work to me

Boot animation not working correctly.

I have made a boot animation, but it is not working correctly. It plays part0 until the system finishes booting, rather than just once. What am I doing wrong? I have CM13 on a gt-p5113.

Ka-B00M said:
I have made a boot animation, but it is not working correctly. It plays part0 until the system finishes booting, rather than just once. What am I doing wrong? I have CM13 on a gt-p5113.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30691312#post30691312

smart-t78 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=30691312#post30691312
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That's the guide I followed. It didn't work.

Ka-B00M said:
That's the guide I followed. It didn't work.
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maybe wrong settings in desc.txt??

smart-t78 said:
maybe wrong settings in desc.txt??
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Uploaded my desc.txt for you to look at.

Ka-B00M said:
Uploaded my desc.txt for you to look at.
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how many images do you have in your part folders??
you set the framerate in desc.txt to 2. thats very low. standard bootanimations runs with a framerate of 30

smart-t78 said:
how many images do you have in your part folders??
you set the framerate in desc.txt to 2. thats very low. standard bootanimations runs with a framerate of 30
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I am making an extremely simple one to start with, and there are 2 images per folder. This is my first boot animation.

check the image name
it should be in same order
folder part 0
image_0.jpg
image_1.jpg
part 1
image_2.jpg (exact name and following number from the previous folder)
and so on..
also try using "p 1 1" for first line in desc
since you are using 3 fps, that is seriously low, even if you have less images.
your second line in desc which is c 0 0, that would go on with the loop, if you're using that in android version below lollipop that would also not work properly.