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[Epic 4G Themes] rcastel2:
Installing with EI22

I tried to install the helix_boot.zip using Clockwork Mod Recovery 3.1 purple edition and I keep getting a installation aborted message. Do you know whats wrong?

Edit: Figured it out by deleting the entire system/media folder but for some reason the old Sprint sound keeps playing as before with the Helix animation.

Also, do you know how to get rid of the potato bobblehead in nubernel kernel?
[Epic 4G Themes] zman519:
Did you look in \system\media\audio\ui i know that the shutdown.ogg & Power_off.ogg are in there i just cant remember where the boot up sound is.

Logo info http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=939585
[Epic 4G Themes] rcastel2:
Yes all I see in there are my ringtones, notifications and other .ogg files. I guess the bootup sound is not really annoying, maybe I will just leave it.

However I asked the ACS team about removing their kernel bootup logo and I have to remove it by recompiling source or installing the stock kernel.
[Epic 4G Themes] RandomKing:
/system/etc/poweron.snd

/system/etc/poweroff.snd

Delete them.
[Epic 4G Themes] Jmax0420:
Dl'd all of emails they look great. Wish the shutdown was a little better. But thank you for all these.
[Epic 4G Themes] mrleprechaunboy:
Flashing the shutdown animation worked, but when I tried flashing the boot animation, I reboot and the boot animation my ROM uses (legendary RC 2.2) is still there. Any suggestions?
[Epic 4G Themes] flastnoles11:
Go in and delete the bootanimation.zip and sanim.zip and then reflash what you are trying to use... if it still doesn't work rename it to sanim.zip and then it will
[Epic 4G Themes] mrleprechaunboy:
Thanks, surprisingly enough i actually fixed this before reading your post xD. i looked in the zip folder and realized that the boot animation was called "bootanimation.zip" instead of "sanim.zip" so i had to extract it all, rename that folder, then zip it back up. I don't know if i did this the long way, but it worked. Awesome boot animation!
[Epic 4G Themes] flastnoles11:
Lol ya you did it the long way.. next time don't unzip just rename the file sanim.zip... no need to unzip anything...
[Epic 4G Themes] AOD_Corwin:
This been adressed but its not working for me. I have legandary rc 2.2 I took the red helix out of the revival rom and droped it manually and it works great. Then I discovered this thread. I want the green helix. For some reason es root explorer won't let me delete the old red helix boonanimatin.zip or the video folder for shutdown and flashing didn't work either. I'm on mtd if that makes a difference bujt I'm sure I was when I put them there in the first place

---------- Post added at 10:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:57 PM ----------

figured it out

MTD have to mount system first
[Epic 4G Themes] KennyG123:
I see you got it. I don't know if that gives ES File explorer a problem but Root explorer mounts system fine.
[Epic 4G Themes] webslasher:
this one really badass animation, keep up the good work,

reported working in cleangb-MTD 1.0.5
[Epic 4G Themes] tmcwilliam01:
I'm having issues getting the shutdown to work on CM9. I tried flashing it with clockwork with no luck and then just tried manually placing the shutdown folder in the system/media/video/ folder and that didn't work either.

Any tips for a noob? Or is it not compatible with CM9 or ICS?

The boot ani I just placed manually with root explore bc flashing did not work either. Loving it!
[Epic 4G Themes] narddawg314:
worked for you?

I wasn't able to get the shutdown working on CM9 either...I also couldn't get the boot ani to work for some reason..which one did you use? Tried manually placing the bootanimation.zip in the system/media folder with no luck, and when I flashed with CWM nothing happened at all...
[Epic 4G Themes] tmcwilliam01:
I'm using the blue one and flashing the boot ani did not work for me I had to manually place the bootanimation.zip in system/media folder. If you have disabled the boot animation if you were on cm7 you need to delete a file that I can't remember where it was. I was pointed to the right place in the CM9 forum. If I get a chance I'll find it but it was recently posted.
[Epic 4G Themes] invasion2:
Hey can you make the red helix ones for hdpi (480x800)? Thanks! Good work.
[Epic 4G Themes] Nashdogg:
Was wondering if the author or someone else could make one that's a darker blue. Tried to edit the png's and theme it myself to go with my theme but there must be a certain way that the changes must be made and saved cause it didn't work out the way I hoped.

If someone could shed some light on this that would be great. Thank you for these great boot animations.
[Epic 4G Themes] keatsan:
I manage to install it on my i9100G 2.3.6 GB.

Have the bootanimation.zip and rename into sanim.zip. Use root explorer and place it at system/media.

But the shutdown animation doesn't work because the stock itself is shutdown.qmg.

So if you can create ito a qmg file, then it'll be success.

CWM installation doesn't work on both boot up and shutdown animation btw. :)
[Epic 4G Themes] EwOkie:
Any chance you could do the blue helix for galaxy s i9000 and without the epc logo thx
[Epic 4G Themes] warcraft2k2k:
I'm on BML, FC09 or FC19 with People ROM v2, shutdown helix works fine, but bootup only have sound and no video. I tried renaming bootanimation to sanim and put it in the system\media, but only sounds no video. i put both bootanimation and sanim, same thing.

any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance
[Epic 4G Themes] Nashdogg:
I renamed one bootanimation.zip and rebooted and worked. Another bootanimation I tried same thing and it didn't work so I renamed it Sanim.zip and rebooted and worked fine. :confused:
[Epic 4G Themes] warcraft2k2k:
Well, I flashed the CleanGB kernel (or Samurai kernel) and it fixed the problem. :D
[Epic 4G Themes] The-Droidster:
Should I just flash it through CWM??? Sorry I'm a noob:D
[Epic 4G Themes] Naddict:
Yes...clear dalvik...dont forget to mount system too.

Sent via a non-cancer forming method of electromagnetic radiation.
[Epic 4G Themes] Spyke912:
great work but i need some help :P

hey guys :) i love this animations :D they are so great but i have a bit problem :S i flashed the .zip file with CWM from my phone's sdcard the bootanimation is working great no problem but with the shutdown animation well it doesn't want to work :( i did the flash with "flash update" option in CWM i guess thats the thing i should use or its not?:S im new in this changing animations thing. but now for some reasony the shutdown animation doesnt want to appear :/ i only see the notification "phone is shutting down" :S can anybody help me?

Phone: Samsung Galaxy S2 latest Jelly Bean 4.1.2 VK rom with siyah's latest kernel
[Epic 4G Themes] asdfasdfvful:
[MENTION=3004928]optmsprim2[/MENTION]

Your animations are too epic...

However, I'm wondering if I can modify one of your gifs to make a bootanimation for a specific rom. I will give full credits to you.
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
Feel free to use and edit them however you like

Cheers!
[Epic 4G Themes] deano0714:
This is great
[Epic 4G Themes] amosher13:
absolutely incredible!

might be a better vid somewhere, but i'd ilke to make a request which i'd like to inlcude as an addon to the honeycomb theme if possible, either way, see what you can do but it would be hard to make me switch off of this helix:

http://phandroid.com/2011/02/05/android-honeycomb-boot-animation-video/

thanks!

edit: oh yeah, and make a shut down ani thats just as nasty! lol ;)
[Epic 4G Themes] iamchocho:
Very nice, I like it. Big ole thanks to you.
[Epic 4G Themes] SpartanVissepo:
And just in case you whant to go back to previous boot animation is it posible?

Ps:this look really sick bro.
[Epic 4G Themes] Esteway.619:
I already have this bootanimtion. On my phone and I changed it to this ssick helix one but if u want the honeycomb one all u have to do is download frankensines ebee13 rom and extract it. Go into system media and take the bootanimation.zip. download root explorer take the bootanimation.zip and paste it into your system/media reboot and u have the honeycomb boot up. No flashing needed
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
If you want to keep your current animation around just use something like root explorer and change the name of your current zip file from bootanimation.zip to something like bootanimation.bak or anything else and you can always go back by restoring the file name.

Also, amosher, that honeycomb animation is awesome. I think it looks like good inspiration for something cool. Also I am working on a shutdown animation too to go with the helix.
[Epic 4G Themes] kristv:
I just installed it on my Bonsai 4.0 Epic and it works just fine. One small complaint....the graphics/text look slightly fuzzy/blurry to me, even from a couple of feet away. Great boot up animation though. I'll keep it on my phone regardless. :)
[Epic 4G Themes] you1000000:
+1 for shutdown animation!
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
You are totally right about the text. The main problem is that I have to output it at 240x400 to get it down to even 7.5 MB, because at maximum resolution it's 20 MB and moves to slowly to get through half the animation before the phone starts up :(

However, once I get the shutdown finished I will be replacing those few frames with the higher res ones so those won't be so fuzzy and it should only be very slightly bigger.
[Epic 4G Themes] SpartanVissepo:
Thanks a lot bro I was just curious cuz I don't think I'm going back to the original this is to kool.
[Epic 4G Themes] decalex:
this is fantastic. bravo.
[Epic 4G Themes] ringold24:
Anyway to make it a live wallpaper?
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
That I don't know. I've always wondered those were made. After I finish up a couple of animations that I'm working on i'll be interested in looking into that.
[Epic 4G Themes] ringold24:
That would be awesome but anyways nice work, best animation yet!
[Epic 4G Themes] squshy 7:
Hoollllyyy crap...this is sick..i can't stop restarting my phone lol.

What program you use?

Also what's the font?
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
I do all my animations (so far) in after effects. The font is one that I have become quite fond of called Futurist Fixed-Width
[Epic 4G Themes] jspsuperman:
the shutdown ani looks great! thank u so much! :D
[Epic 4G Themes] amosher13:
good to know, thanks!
[Epic 4G Themes] DeeODoubleD:
Best boot animation on any phone, period. Awesome work!
[Epic 4G Themes] Animas1020:
The shutdown animation keeps freezing on me when it comes together as a circle then just hangs till the phone shuts off. I've tried re-downloading, clearing dalvik cache manually, reflashing, still does the same. Any suggestions? Great work by the way!
[Epic 4G Themes] kristv:
I hadn't thought of how much the size would affect the animation time...makes perfect sense though! I just saw the shutdown animation and it looks SWEET! Definitely gonna install that! :)
[Epic 4G Themes] DeeODoubleD:
The shutdown is sweet too man. My phone is running so well these days I don't get on a computer but I'll have to tonight just to thank you a bunch.

EDIT: There we go, wiped out my daily thanks :D
[Epic 4G Themes] harlowlax:
awesome, thanks!

how do i delete the files i need to in the shutdown folder? My "adao file manager" says i need permission"
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
I don't know about Adao File Manager but if that is not working the free version of Astro File Manager should do the trick.
[Epic 4G Themes] ecooce:
Nice work...
[Epic 4G Themes] harlowlax:
When using astro, I get "delete error". Is this because I have this shut down set lready? If so, how can I disable it so I can re flash it fresh?
[Epic 4G Themes] Animas1020:
Try getting Root Explorer. Some of these file browsing apps don't have the proper permission settings to change things outside of the sdcard. Root Explorer allows you to do this, or, you could use adb if you know how to use it.
[Epic 4G Themes] tenaciousj:
I flashed the boot animation and shutdown animation at the same time, cleared dalvik and partition cache and when I went to reboot was stuck at boot animation repeating over and over. Any idea why it happened? I have flashed boot animations before but never shutdown.

On ACS 1.02

Got this fixed. Guess you cannot flash the two files back to back without rebooting.

Thanks for the animations, they great.
[Epic 4G Themes] warcraft2k2k:
thank you for helix boot (request)

i really like the helix boot. great work.

would it be possible to make the android green instead of blue?

I like blue also, but would like to see an option for green also. :D
[Epic 4G Themes] B4EK:
So incredible! Looks absolutely amazing- using both the boot and shut-down animations =)
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
Tenaciousj: sorry to hear that, glad it is working now. I don't know what would cause that but I have had boot loops when flashing multiple zips as well. Usually a battery pull fixes it for me.

Also I can make a green glowing one. Right now I am offline for the time being because I am on dsl and a new construction next door managed to cut my phone line. Super annoying. In any case I'll update the OP when I get it uploaded.
[Epic 4G Themes] rhyme187:
truely astounding work bro any chance to get this in like

neon red

tho so it can go with my ACS MaDE REDSTAR theme willing to donate for it thanx
[Epic 4G Themes] othan1:
Awesome work. Got the shutdown working on stock (rooted) EC05 but having some difficulty with the bootup. Will continue messing with it until I find a good way to get it working.
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
To use a custom boot animation you need to be on a custom kernel. Shutdown animation is just PNGs in a folder so those can be replaced, but the stock boot animation is a samsung proprietary .qmg file. You need to flash a custom kernel to get it to look for the animation in a .zip
[Epic 4G Themes] othan1:
/Facepalm

I've only been doing this stuff for over a year now...lol. It's kinda like computers. Been working with them for 20 years and sometimes I forget to check to see if it's plugged in first.

/walks away in shame
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
HA! Tell me about it. Even when I'm trying these out 25% of the time I forget to name it bootanimation.zip and then wonder why it's not working :o
[Epic 4G Themes] XxLostSoulxX:
Will the Bootup stay on the android logo at the end or does it keep redoing it self?

25+ secs to boot up it actually took 28. Im running SRF 1.0.2 EXT4

Below 9 secs to boot, i find that kind of hard to believe
[Epic 4G Themes] jjbrooks75:
Thanks man this is awesome! Was so interested when I saw that guy ask for a helix boot screen a few days ago... you totally nailed this.
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
After flashing and flushing the caches it always takes a very long time (30ish seconds) to boot. It will stay on the android.

Subsequent boots are much faster. I had to shorten it from what I originally made to get through the whole thing and by boot I mean lockscreen. Takes longer still until the phone is fully responsive. Then again, I don't know about what everyone has, I am running Bonsai 3.0.1 still with pretty much nothing else (no themes, just stuff from market) so that is how long it takes for me. I can make a video if necessary :)
[Epic 4G Themes] XxLostSoulxX:
I would love to see that because i never have seen a phone boot in less tha 9 secs not even a regular phone that has nothing to do load. But is the animation fast or medium like 30 FPS versus 120 FPS
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
This one runs at 45 fps as per the desc.txt, but I've never found it to really run like the file says for any animation of appreciable complexity. And as I should have specified, whatever background processes load during the animation until the lockscreen shows, at least for me, happen in 9-14 seconds. That doesn't mean I can use my phone tho. I can unlock the screen but if I try even opening up the app drawer in the first 30 seconds I end up crashing my launcher. The problem tho, is that the lockscreen will take over the screen whenever it gets to some point while booting, it won't wait for the animation to finish. So when I say 9 seconds it is in a very specific sense. I suppose I should say I only get 10 seconds to fit an animation into. However, I personally am at the fastest boot time to usable I have ever had with eb13, I would love to make a 30 second animation to fill that but I don't get to.

Sorry to confuse, and certainly not trying to boast about anything.
[Epic 4G Themes] DeeODoubleD:
You're right on. It takes my phone 15 seconds from samsong to lockscreen. It leaves 9-10 seconds for an animation. Now it takes 30+ after wiping cache, but that's the only time.
[Epic 4G Themes] Animas1020:
Agreed. ^

I'm still having problems with the shutdown to work... Still freezes a little before the white flash at the end. Tried redownloading the .zip, clearing cache manually before, no go.
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
Did you clear out the /system/media/video/shutdown folder before flashing? Sometimes there can be weird stuttering if it starts playing frames from another shutdown animation. Otherwise I'm not sure. All the shutdown flashable zip does is fill the folder with PNGs. Unlike the bootanimation there is no file that sets resolution or play speed so it just runs at whatever default speed shutdown animations are supposed to run at.
[Epic 4G Themes] Animas1020:
That did the trick! I thought that would only have to be done if the original shutdown animation exceeded 118 PNGs, which the original didn't. Either way, it works and I'm happy.

Thanks!
[Epic 4G Themes] JGeZau:
Awesome work man!!!
[Epic 4G Themes] rhyme187:
any word on getting this awesome boot and shutdown in

RED

?
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
HA! Just uploaded it as you were typing. Like I said in the OP I am also looking at animating them a bit differently. If you like the movement of the first better though I can also make that in red. Shutdown is also being worked on and I'll probably have it ready some time tomorrow evening.
[Epic 4G Themes] rhyme187:
sweet bro im lovin the red one already n my wife is like crushin on your blue one the new animation is definitely dope as "Fun Um Crazy Kool" (gotta love focal points lol!!!)

i cant wait to see what you whip up for the shutdown im like anxious now
[Epic 4G Themes] schnergun:
it says insufficent permission when i try to delete everything in the folder. what could i be doing wrong?
[Epic 4G Themes] jct522:
This animations are freaking dope man! They just blow me away everytime I see them. Thanks for doing this.
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
What are you using to try and delete them? Are you using root explorer? If so when you go into your system folder does it say something like "184 MB used, 68 MB free, r/w" or "mounted as r/o"? If it is mounted as r/o then there should be a button at the top of the directory list that says mount r/w and if it has proper superuser permission then you will be able to edit files within /system once you do that.
[Epic 4G Themes] schnergun:
just using adao file manager
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
Not sure what the problem could be. I downloaded adao and was able to delete them, tho I couldn't find anything for permission settings. It might be easier to remove the folder using adb. Anyone else have any ideas?
[Epic 4G Themes] jerbeck24:
These are very cool! I'm using the green version. Any plans of doing the green version shutdown?
[Epic 4G Themes] warcraft2k2k:
Green Boot... So Cool!!!

Thank you for making the Green boot. Really appreciate it.

Much Thanx! :D
[Epic 4G Themes] XxLostSoulxX:
This works but verry laggy is it because its the first time booting?

EDIT: Nevermind i just forgot it would because of wiping Dalvic

EDIT2: Just curious why is that the picture of it is very low quality i mean on the phone when its booting i can see jagged edges like its a low resolution picture stretched.

I do admire this and really do appreciate you making this.
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
The reason it seems low resolution is because it totally is. With these it is either 240x400 or slightly less. The idea was to have a compromise between image quality and file size. This is why I've been trying (with varying degrees of success) to cover it up with the light bleed, blur and particle effects (like the smoke in the first one). The green one at half res was about 10 MB which was why i lowered it slightly, but I'm thinking I should at least post up the half res one at that size because I'm also not very satisfied with the look.

Full 480x800 resolution is certainly doable, the issue I have is that the zip file at that point is usually 20+ MB at an animation length of ~400 PNGs. On my phone the /system folder says 182.65 MB used and 77 MB free when I don't have any bootanimation.zip in there. I don't know what that whole partition is used for and what the actual devs need that space for so I am always scared to make these too big and use too much space. However, if you all want higher res ones (probably in the area of 15 - 20 MB) I can certainly put those up there.

What do you guys think?
[Epic 4G Themes] then00b:
I think these are amazing, and that you should make many, many more. Lol

:D

EDIT: But first, make a red shutdown! lol
[Epic 4G Themes] XxLostSoulxX:
Yea definitely but now will cause the phone to boot slower or will it still be same speed. But that would be very nice if you could.
[Epic 4G Themes] then00b:
I've had these for a couple days...they don't slow it down at all. After the first boot, they move very fluid and never lag or hang up. Only time you'll see it is on initial start up and shut down. After that, they're solid. I think you could get away with higher res. Worth a shot anyways!
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
Have the green shutdown finished and working on getting the red one done, will upload both as soon as I get it done. Also experimenting with higher res images for both the boot and shutdown. Full res images are not really going to work, did the green one at 480x800 and made it until just after the "ANDROID" wiped off before the lockscreen kicked in. With images of that size, setting the fps in the desc.txt higher doesn't make a difference and it just goes at whatever maximum fps it can handle (I think). It runs smoothly, but too slow to finish. I'm checking out resolutions above 75% to see how they do.
[Epic 4G Themes] traumahawk:
gotta ask... WHAT are you using to make these? after effects?
[Epic 4G Themes] traumahawk:
and ftr- these are AWESOME. getting better and better with each one.
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
Exactly right. I use after effects to make these. I render them as a full res PNG sequence then I use photoshop to reduce the bit depth since after effects only outputs in 24 bit color which is way too big and way too much depth for boot animations. I reduce it to 8 bpp and also use it to alter the resolution since full 480x800 PNGs and the fact that I tend to make very long animations tend to require a lot of finessing to make it play fully in the time allotted.
[Epic 4G Themes] jjbrooks75:
How does one add audio to the boot animation? Wanting to add a short audio clip from the Tron soundtrack.
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
For the boot sound it has to be in wav format, be named PowerOn.wav and goes in the /system/etc folder. Shutdown sound is in ogg format, named Power_off.ogg and goes in /system/media/audio/ui
[Epic 4G Themes] SpartanVissepo:
For some reason it says file not supported for the power on. o_O

sent from my super slick Bonsai plant
[Epic 4G Themes] XxLostSoulxX:
Sweet alright yea see if you an can reach a resolution that will look nice it doesn't need to be HD lol but nice enough. Thanks 4 your work
[Epic 4G Themes] traumahawk:
gotta get my hands on a copy of that... >.<

now do you use trapcode at all? or just AE?
[Epic 4G Themes] thomasskull666:
Had to pop in and say this is amazing, great job man!!
[Epic 4G Themes] optmsprim2:
It depends on what the effect is going to be. For these there is a lot of trapcode particular since it is relatively simple, though the "rungs" of the helix are a little bit more complicated. But in these pretty much everything is generated by particular except the flares.
[Epic 4G Themes] IMPuLSe EX:
good **** mateee :D