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IF ANY ONE HAS SOME OR HAS AN IDEA OF ONE PLEASE POST. WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IS A BLACK BACKGROUND WITH RED HTC LETTERS THEN TO THE INCREDIBLE EYE CAMERA THING... BUT I HAVE NO IDEA ON HOW TO MAKE BOOTS
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You might of have caps lock on by accident, just keep a look out for that (some people can get bent out of shape about it... not me though, because I am looking for some sort of specs/guide for boot animations). So far I've only seen boot animations ported from other phones, which while cool, there is something special about making exactly what you want.
There is a lack of info out there (I believe), because this really isn't something meant for end-users (compared to creating backgrounds or ringtones). Feel free to PM me if you have info on creating custom boot animations (we need to celebrate the rooting of our beloved Incredible =p).

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You might of have caps lock on by accident, just keep a look out for that (some people can get bent out of shape about it... not me though, because I am looking for some sort of specs/guide for boot animations). So far I've only seen boot animations ported from other phones, which while cool, there is something special about making exactly what you want.
There is a lack of info out there (I believe), because this really isn't something meant for end-users (compared to creating backgrounds or ringtones). Feel free to PM me if you have info on creating custom boot animations (we need to celebrate the rooting of our beloved Incredible =p).
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There is loads on info on this stuff. You just have to search. Below is an example desc.txt file. This describes how to construct your desc.txt file and what everything does.
#example desc.txt
Code:
480 800 15
p 1 0 android
p 1 5 end
p 0 0 loop
The first line is Width, Height and Frame Rate respectively. The width and height do not need to be the size of your screen in case your frmaes are an odd size. The remaining lines describe your folders that contain the animations and what to do with them. Each remaining line begins with the letter 'p' as a separator. The first digit after the 'p' defines how many times to play through the animation. A zero (0) in that position will cause that animation to loop indefinitely until the boot process is complete. The second digit defines how many frames to pause before moving on to the next line or animation. The time elapsed is defined by your frame rate and the number of frames paused. For example, if your frame rate is 15 and you choose to pause for 30 frames, the time elapsed will be two (2) seconds. The last element in the line is the folder name to pull the animation from.
The pictures in your folders are the individual frames for your animation. They can be either .JPG or .PNG file types. If your finished product ends up being too large, you can usually reduce the size by converting the frames to .JPG format. The only other requirement is the file names must follow a sequential number sequence incrementing from start to finish.
If you wish to add sound to your animation, it should sync to your storyboard. The sound will start playing immediately after the boot animation starts and will play to either it ends or the phone finishes booting. The audio will not loop unless it is looped in the audio file itself. The audio file name must be named android_audio.mp3 for it to be recognized. The only other requirement is that one of your folders MUST be named 'android'.
It is important to note that when creating a boot animation, the finished product must be placed in a zip file named bootanimation.zip (with the exception of the audio file). However, when doing this always select the 'store' method for compression so the data is NOT compressed. If you mess up, you will know by the blank, black screen you see while booting.
Both the bootanimation.zip and android_audio.mp3 need to be pushed or copied to /data/local/ for the system animation to be overridden.

If you have pushed a boot animation previously do you need to remove it? If so what are the commands for adb. Thanks for the instructions they were very clear for us noobs..
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No you can just overwrite with the new one.
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I used these two threads to get my new animation. The second one over at AndroidForums has a ton to choose from. Just gotta look through the pages.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=682860&highlight=boot+animation
http://androidforums.com/htc-incredible/70040-incredible-boot-animation.html
This is the one I currently use:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SnsXKFvGQs

very thanks

[Q] how do i make boot animation from avi?

i found the coolest thing ever, its avi and almost a minute long. i really want it to become my boot animation, i really dont have any idea how to do it. does anyone have any suggestions for how to get this done? ps - the avi has audio too, and that would be even more awesome to include.

You can create a boot animation from any type of video format even if the format is in flash (swf) what you need is a programs that convert videos to either. Jpg or. PNG file (boot animation can be done using only those two formats) ..... about adding sound to your animation yo need to know if the ROM you are running right now is capable to do audio @ boot if not you wont be able to make it work with sound.
Send from My Draken X

Okay thanks, I'm on it.

only .png picture files

Not sure this is right, I have saved the sequence as jpg images - 1418 of them - to a folder size of 58.4 mb with each image sized 704 X 400. Do they need to match droid x screen size to fill screen? And does my desc.txt really have to be 1418 plus lines? is there an easier way?
Thanks for any help with this, if I can do it I will post it so others might decide to use it.

mattmartin77 said:
only .png picture files
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Wait, what?

the desc.txt file will have max prob 5 lines
my custom boot animation txt looks like this exactly, but yours would prob be a little different
480 480 15
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
(480 is the width/height; 15 is the fps; 1= #of times that part loops, 0= not freeze on last image of fps unlike the liberty boot animation which would have a 10)
part0 is a folder that contains the images that would be the non looping part, and part1 is the looping pictures folder
the .png is the file extension of the pictures

mattmartin77 said:
the desc.txt file will have max prob 5 lines
my custom boot animation txt looks like this exactly
480 480 15
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
(480 is the width/height; 15 is the fps; 1= #of times that part loops, 0= not freeze on last image of fps unlike the liberty boot animation which would have a 10)
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OH okay I get it. Can the fps be higher? Like 25? And can it not loop? It's like a minute long.
Does the phone start after the boot or when its ready? Like if the boot animation was too long would the phone start without showing it all? And do jpg files not work?

mattmartin77 said:
only .png picture files
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.jpg format works as well, that what i use to make mine animations
marculous said:
Not sure this is right, I have saved the sequence as jpg images - 1418 of them - to a folder size of 58.4 mb with each image sized 704 X 400. Do they need to match droid x screen size to fill screen? And does my desc.txt really have to be 1418 plus lines? is there an easier way?
Thanks for any help with this, if I can do it I will post it so others might decide to use it.
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no you dont have to add 1418 of lines create , download one of mine bootanimation and decompress the zip file you see how they work... plus DO NOT USE the NOTEPAD from windows (dont know way but android doesnt like .txt created by this notepad) and download notepad++ from here [url="http://notepad-plus-plus.org/release/5.8.7]Notepad++ (Free)[/url] use that notepad to modified the desc.txt

Okay I think I can do that, going to tackle it after a break.

Okay can't get it to work right. Only plays 2 of the 20 folders, and its choppy. Changed the frame rate to 50 because it played slow. Desc.txt looks like
480 854 50
p 1 0 part0
p 1 0 part1
etc on up to part20
And when it played the aspect ratio was jacked up.
Tried four times.

marculous said:
Okay can't get it to work right. Only plays 2 of the 20 folders, and its choppy. Changed the frame rate to 50 because it played slow. Desc.txt looks like
480 854 50
p 1 0 part0
p 1 0 part1
etc on up to part20
And when it played the aspect ratio was jacked up.
Tried four times.
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1450 frames is way to much for a Boot Animation (sorry if i didn't mention that before) max i have run is 390 frames @ 120 an still running very tide to the end, i dont know what app are you using to create you frames but if that app give you the options to make for sample 500 frames out of the clip you have that will be better....from there you can start your testing stage and deleted as many necessary frames to make your animation run smooth
P.S. you don't need to create 20 folders for your animation 1 folder is enought for it, 2 folders is more likely when the 2nd folder contains a loop of the animation in question

draken78 said:
1450 frames is way to much for a Boot Animation (sorry if i didn't mention that before) max i have run is 390 frames @ 120 an still running very tide to the end, i dont know what app are you using to create you frames but if that app give you the options to make for sample 500 frames out of the clip you have that will be better....from there you can start your testing stage and deleted as many necessary frames to make your animation run smooth
P.S. you don't need to create 20 folders for your animation 1 folder is enought for it, 2 folders is more likely when the 2nd folder contains a loop of the animation in question
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Oh. Crap. I read a thread said no more than 3mb per folder. The thing is, I didn't want to loop it.
Let me try this,
Can I make a boot animation that's close to a minute long with an avi as the source, have it play full screen with audio and look good? And if not, how close to what I want can I get?
I'm on apex 1.4.1 and I used avidemux 2.5 to make jpegs from the avi selection.

marculous said:
Oh. Crap. I read a thread said no more than 3mb per folder. The thing is, I didn't want to loop it.
Let me try this,
Can I make a boot animation that's close to a minute long with an avi as the source, have it play full screen with audio and look good? And if not, how close to what I want can I get?
I'm on apex 1.4.1 and I used avidemux 2.5 to make jpegs from the avi selection.
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actually that really doesnt matter cuz i have some animation over 10 MB in a single folder and still working like a charm.....well like i said 2 folders is more like doing a loop out of one of them, having an AVI as boot animation that will be sweet is Google implement that feature in near future on Android using avi, mpg2 or mp4 as boot animation.
i heard (not sure) that Apex CAN run Boot animation with, i have no way to test it cuz im Running Liberty 1.5 (1.75 very soon) ....
P.S. if you want i can help you out with your animation just send me the Link of the video and ill create one and you can have that one as a reference for future animation of yours

well you can have it be a minute long if you want, but i think that is a long time personally, my custom one is pushing 15 seconds and i think it is long. i was told audio doesnt work on liberty rom. the audio must be named "Android_Audio.mp3" without quotes. it is going to be in the same folder on your phone where the bootanimation.zip is kept, /data/local make sure that the audio file is not in the .zip. the desc must contain a line that says "part 0 1 android" also without quotes. btw 1400 frames is not at all recommendable

draken78 said:
actually that really doesnt matter cuz i have some animation over 10 MB in a single folder and still working like a charm.....well like i said 2 folders is more like doing a loop out of one of them, having an AVI as boot animation that will be sweet is Google implement that feature in near future on Android using avi, mpg2 or mp4 as boot animation.
i heard (not sure) that Apex CAN run Boot animation with, i have no way to test it cuz im Running Liberty 1.5 (1.75 very soon) ....
P.S. if you want i can help you out with your animation just send me the Link of the video and ill create one and you can have that one as a reference for future animation of yours
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I know apex can run audio at boot, 1.4.1 boots with the thx sound playing. I will send you a link later this evening with the avi. And thanks.

mattmartin77 said:
well you can have it be a minute long if you want, but i think that is a long time personally, my custom one is pushing 15 seconds and i think it is long. i was told audio doesnt work on liberty rom. the audio must be named "Android_Audio.mp3" without quotes. it is going to be in the same folder on your phone where the bootanimation.zip is kept, /data/local make sure that the audio file is not in the .zip. the desc must contain a line that says "part 0 1 android" also without quotes. btw 1400 frames is not at all recommendable
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I could go with it being shorter, and it doesn't have to include audio, but I know it can.

[Q]Am I missing something? bootanimation jpegs not work after editing?

EDIT!!! F*&% photoshop defaults to background again when I save! This is ****ting me to tears.
EDIT: Just had a read of this articleabout photoshop background layer being saved by default after reading this guy's thread here
Short answer is that Layer 1 is an arbitrary assigned value to any layer above the background. Layer 0 is what your image needs to be so simply renaming the default value of 1 to 0 works AFAIK. I will be testing this in a couple of minutes.
Will leave the rest as a reference for everyone else. They may learn from my stupidity. I did use the search button though it just took searching and searching till I found that guys thread above that had something specific that applied to my situation.
Hi,
I have am a confident at Android, I have build ROMs and I have a great deal of knowledge and for some reason the most simplest thing stumps me and that is getting bootanimations to work. I understand how they work and I know its not the frame rate or anything like that it has to be something to do with my export settings? Can someone here point me in the right direction?
I will give you a scenario here and why I have mentioned the above. I can get an existing boot animation that is 100% functioning and working and then I might edit the images, say for instance I am changing the colours. I don't change their size or physical dimensions in any way shape or form (they will even play in the preview emulator perfectly), I flash them to the device and nothing? Blank screen on boot up. It completed the boot and opens the OS, but for teh duration of the boot sequence when there is usually a boot animation working it shows completely blank?
Surely it has to do with my export settings? I'm competent with use of GIMP and Photoshop, I have GIMP 2.8 the latest and PS CS6.
Can someone with some knowhow here PLEASE help me with supply "secret settings" for their export of images?
I read somewhere that the images need to be reindexed? I don't know how to do this? I have edited other PNGs that are non-bootanimation PNGS and I knew I had to uncheck indexing and check the box for R,G,B and that allowed me to edit the image.....but if I check the box for an boot animation image (set to R, G, B) back to indexed; when I close the image and re-open it again its back as a R, G, B image? WTF?
I have heard somewhere they need to be 24bit? I have NFI what that means or where to change it? My version of photoshop only has listings for 8bit, 16bit and 32bit?
Yes my kernel allows for bootanimations. Yes a boot animation was working on my phone!
I can change nothing except the colour of the images; package them in the same location in the zip; Test on the previewer for Windows; load it to the phone -> nothing!
EDIT: YES Permissions are set correctly. I can even change back to the boot animation that I changed the colour and it works perfectly

I read now 8 bits per channel. And there is 3 being that they are RGB, which makes them 24bit anyway? WTF is wrong. I fail hard if I can't get a boot animation working LOL.

Jarmezrocks said:
I read now 8 bits per channel. And there is 3 being that they are RGB, which makes them 24bit anyway? WTF is wrong. I fail hard if I can't get a boot animation working LOL.
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you should upload here that bootanimation.zip file

Quick question about creating a boot animation

Hey everyone
I just got Cinema 4d and thought id create a boot animation for the TF101 as my first project. My question is how many frames, and what resolution would be the best. Im rendering at the moment 500-600 frames at 1280x800 each and i assume that will end up far to big also what's some good software to convert avi's to .png or .jpeg? (I think cinema 4d does it just havnt got that far)
Cheers

I've been searching for some boot animations, and downloaded a few, and I saw that most have the resolution set to:
Code:
1282x802
although some have it to:
Code:
1280x720
so I don't think the resolution you selected was the ideal xD. About the fps, they ranged between 10 to 40. So your fps I think is too much, but, I'm not really sure of the fps of a boot animation. Sorry .
In terms of the software you want, I've found this:
Click here
Hope that helped. Bye.

I have done quite a bit in terms of boot animations and i can say 30fps looks the best anything above that might have skipped frames or trouble loading quickly any lower and it will look jittery. As for res the going 2px above isnt necessarily anymore it was just a honeycomb issue afaik. And a big boot animation will maybe have 200~ frames

mrevankyle said:
I have done quite a bit in terms of boot animations and i can say 30fps looks the best anything above that might have skipped frames or trouble loading quickly any lower and it will look jittery. As for res the going 2px above isnt necessarily anymore it was just a honeycomb issue afaik. And a big boot animation will maybe have 200~ frames
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Im currently rendering it at 640x400 id like it to be 300 frames because its not really a loopable animation but the file size ends up at like 60mb lol (at 500 frames). I packaged that with the desc file into a bootanimation.zip just to see it working (even if it was slow) but it always ended up playing the default android boot animation would this be because of the size? (Ive never changed the boot animation before)

JoinTheRealms said:
Im currently rendering it at 640x400 id like it to be 300 frames because its not really a loopable animation but the file size ends up at like 60mb lol (at 500 frames). I packaged that with the desc file into a bootanimation.zip just to see it working (even if it was slow) but it always ended up playing the default android boot animation would this be because of the size? (Ive never changed the boot animation before)
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Where are you putting it? and whats the compression on your zip?

mrevankyle said:
Where are you putting it? and whats the compression on your zip?
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Im on team eos jelly bean I put it in both data/local and system/media because i wasn't sure which one to use, the compression is set to store, im following the instructions from here: (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122535) also im a bit unsure on the naming format I tring to find a batch file renamer to rename the files to android xxx is this right?

JoinTheRealms said:
Im on team eos jelly bean I put it in both data/local and system/media because i wasn't sure which one to use, the compression is set to store, im following the instructions from here: (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1122535) also im a bit unsure on the naming format I tring to find a batch file renamer to rename the files to android xxx is this right?
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The naming convention does not matter at all it just does them in order eg a-z 1-99 ect
So it just does not play at all then? Not even a black screen just the old boot animation?

mrevankyle said:
The naming convention does not matter at all it just does them in order eg a-z 1-99 ect
So it just does not play at all then? Not even a black screen just the old boot animation?
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Yeah it wiped the eos boot animation that was in system/media and now plays the animation with the gray "android" which some reflections on it
my new bootanimation.zip is 25.9 mb at 222 frames the images are all .pngs named android 001 to android 222
cheers

Sorry to waste your time dude, I got it to work just needed to add file permissions:silly:
Cheers

JoinTheRealms said:
Sorry to waste your time dude, I got it to work just needed to add file permissions:silly:
Cheers
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That wasn't an issue with ICS so its weird that it would be in JB. but its good to know for future reference.
Looking forward to seeing what you have come up with

mrevankyle said:
That wasn't an issue with ICS so its weird that it would be in JB. but its good to know for future reference.
Looking forward to seeing what you have come up with
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Ah that is strange, Im uploading it now (I made it for RaymanFX's rom) but its still 69 mb, how can i get it smaller it had been rendered at 640x400 at 42 dpi at 500 frames (It still plays fine though)

here's a link to it if anyone's interested (https://dl.dropbox.com/u/39805348/Boot Animation/bootanimation.zip) (still 69mb) it would be good to get some opinions on how to make it better
cheers

Q- Droid Animation with sound on Verizon M8 ?

I would really like to install the Droid Boot animation with sound on my M8 and convert my M8 to a Droid Rom, with the custom ringtones, and wallpaper, and everything. Can you actually do this ?

cjegan2008 said:
I would really like to install the Droid Boot animation with sound on my M8 and convert my M8 to a Droid Rom, with the custom ringtones, and wallpaper, and everything. Can you actually do this ?
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If you are rooted and have write access to system, yes, this is possible (and I do it all the time). I have a boot animation with sound that I prefer (and I have sound for my down animation as well).
The boot animation is stored as \system\customize\resource\vzw_bootup.zip. Its permissions are rw-r--r--.
Any audio should be in the same location (but that is not critical, as you'll see below).
You also need to edit a default.xml file with a text editor located in \system\customize\cid.
Find the following text in that file:
HTML:
<BootConfiguration>
<BootAnimation animation ="/system/customize/resource/vzw_bootup.zip" />
Add before the /> the following:
HTML:
audio="/system/customize/resource/filename.mp3"
Where filename.mp3 is the name of your audio. I have not tested it, but I suppose you could put that mp3 anywhere and as long as you point to it in the default.xml you may be good to go. (For that matter, maybe you can put the boot animation somewhere else, too, but, again, I have not tested this).
You can do the same with your down animation a few lines later, the key is to insert
audio="/system/customize/resource/filename.mp3" in the same line as the downanimation is identified and before />
As far as your own system sounds, etc., I regularly load the /alarms, /notifications and /ringtones folders with my own sounds. Sometimes I move them to /system, sometimes just keep them on the internal card.
One "gotcha," 99% of all errors with these changes are attributable to user mistyping and/or permissions not being properly set. So be careful.

I would like to thank you for your input. That's very much I informative, thanks. Now, I'm having an issue with the screen size. I used a droid razor boot animation, but the size of the animation was way to small. How do upscale the image size to fit the screen like the Verizon boot screen does ?
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If you are rooted and have write access to system, yes, this is possible (and I do it all the time). I have a boot animation with sound that I prefer (and I have sound for my down animation as well).
The boot animation is stored as \system\customize\resource\vzw_bootup.zip. Its permissions are rw-r--r--.
Any audio should be in the same location (but that is not critical, as you'll see below).
You also need to edit a default.xml file with a text editor located in \system\customize\cid.
Find the following text in that file:
HTML:
<BootConfiguration>
<BootAnimation animation ="/system/customize/resource/vzw_bootup.zip" />
Add before the /> the following:
HTML:
audio="/system/customize/resource/filename.mp3"
Where filename.mp3 is the name of your audio. I have not tested it, but I suppose you could put that mp3 anywhere and as long as you point to it in the default.xml you may be good to go. (For that matter, maybe you can put the boot animation somewhere else, too, but, again, I have not tested this).
You can do the same with your down animation a few lines later, the key is to insert
audio="/system/customize/resource/filename.mp3" in the same line as the downanimation is identified and before />
As far as your own system sounds, etc., I regularly load the /alarms, /notifications and /ringtones folders with my own sounds. Sometimes I move them to /system, sometimes just keep them on the internal card.
One "gotcha," 99% of all errors with these changes are attributable to user mistyping and/or permissions not being properly set. So be careful.
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cjegan2008 said:
I would like to thank you for your input. That's very much I informative, thanks. Now, I'm having an issue with the screen size. I used a droid razor boot animation, but the size of the animation was way to small. How do upscale the image size to fit the screen like the Verizon boot screen does ?
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Way beyond my expertise. Suggest you poke around in the various threads that discuss creating boot animations. Since boot animations are series of jpgs, I suspect you need to resize each individual jpg in the animation, then recompile the animation.

Do you know anyone on here that may have a Droid boot animation that could fit the M8's screen size ?
hgoldner said:
Way beyond my expertise. Suggest you poke around in the various threads that discuss creating boot animations. Since boot animations are series of jpgs, I suspect you need to resize each individual jpg in the animation, then recompile the animation.
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cjegan2008 said:
Do you know anyone on here that may have a Droid boot animation that could fit the M8's screen size ?
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Not sure I catch your drift, you mean a Motorola Droid boot animation that already fits the M8? I imagine you could post a request in the Q&A forum of the M8. Or you could look for the boot animation threads and see how you could do one yourself.
Take a look here, here, here, here or here.