yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S III General] omnikam:
Reproduced with kind permission by xessus

Hi everyone, this is my guide to create extension .QMG files used by Samsung to storage images & animations like bootanimation and shutdown animation.

ok lets kick it!

Software required:

Samsung theme Designer http://www.softpedia.com/get/Mobile-Phone-Tools/Others/Samsung-Theme-Designer.shtml

(7zip, winrar, winzip) http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Root Explorer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speedsoftware.rootexplorer&hl=en

Note: you will need your full animation sequence frame by frame in 720X 1280(Samsung Galaxy S3) resolution and named with numeric sequence example: Image_000.png, image_001.png, image_002.png, etc.

1.- Open Samsung Theme Designer and create new theme, use type "feature(NonTouch) phone", then "select model" and use any model and "select Showcase" use default, name your theme.

2.- Chose "Idle Component" then "Idle Background" and change "Background Type" to "animated", select "frame" the qty. of frames your animation have, example 62 "Duration" = delay in seconds so 0 means no delay and each second it will delay same time between frames, "Repeat" true/false chose true if you want to create a loop animation or false in case you only want to play a single cycle.

3.- Drag your image files sequence from your folder to the empty squares in the bottom of the theme designer (pay no attention to the canvas it is smaller than your images)

4.- Now export your theme and accept the Samsung terms & conditions and wait for your .STM file theme.

5.- Rename the .STM file to .ZIP file and open it

6.- Copy the "IdleBgAnimObj.qmg" (Idle Background Animation Objet) to your desktop.

7.- Rename it to: bootanimation.qmg or shutdown.qmg as you required

the route for your file in the stock rom is:

bootanimation: system/media

shutdown: system/media/video/shutdown

And that's it, easy isn't? no scripts!
[Galaxy S III General] omnikam:
Re: [How To] Create your own boot animations that work on stock kernel [must be root

A word of caution, limit your final sizes to around 4-5mb, otherwise the system may not load it, more testing is required on this limitation
[Galaxy S III General] omnikam:
Re: [How To] Create your own boot animations that work on stock kernel [must be root

Reserved
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
A query regarding QMG does editing this file system not require the very expensive tool from Quram /Samsung .That is what has prevented stock boot animation editing for years .Although i am aware of one who did mod a QMG file on SGS1 .

jje
[Galaxy S III General] DSA:
Great question:good: I was thinking this

Would also like to see the tutorial as it would make life easier
[Galaxy S III General] omnikam:
Re: [How To] Create your own boot animations that work on stock kernel [must be root

We can't modify Qmg files but we can create them for free, okay ill post it later today, seems like it hasn't been done on s3 which makes it worth my time.
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
Thats interesting ,

I actually have a created SGS2 QMG boot animation only one i ever came across .

jje
[Galaxy S III General] omnikam:
Yeah that's why I posted this here, seems like it was needed
[Galaxy S III General] MattBooth:
Fantastic. I will be giving this a go later tomorrow :)
[Galaxy S III General] saywhatt:
nice guide :good:

just what i need :angel:

but you really have to give this guy some credits for that

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2189934

^I believe this is the original thread :|
[Galaxy S III General] thexplanet:
Hello All,

Thanks to OP "omnikam"

after many tries and reflashing multiple times, i was not able to change to custom boot animation.

I had tried CWM boot animation Enable/Disable as well.

it was working with the ones which were posted somewhere, but not the ones which i had manually created.

now, after giving up with the DESC.txt and Part0 and Part1 method,

i found this link of current post, and i thought why not give it a try.

so i followed all the instructions and WOW!!

it worked smoothly.

Key points to remember:

1> if CWM custom boot animation is Enabled, then this wont work

2>you have to turn off the Custom boot animation to Disable.

3>you have to rename the bootanimation.qmg to bootsamsung.qmg [bcoz i am on stock rom 4.1.2 JB and rooted]

4>same with shutdown, it has to be renamed to shutdown.qmg file.

my make and model:

Samsung GT- I9300

I9300XXELLC_I9300ODDEMA2_INS

rooted with CWM and SuperSU

also the Auto Call recording works fine SecPhone.apk

I have used "S3_SecPhone_CallAutoRecord_deOdex" it also works fine.

can someone suggest on how do i post the video of my boot and shutdown, i know the option of recording via handycam/ videocam.

any other way?? pls suggest

1 question:

how to get rid of the SAMSUNG animation post boot animation, i guess part2 which stays for around 4-6 seconds, i didnt want to risk,

bcoz i am not aware if it loop settings are 0 / or ?

any help or suggestion please.

Thanks to XDA forum.

Nitin Kushwaha
[Galaxy S III General] MattBooth:
Tried this a few times now. Doesn't work.
[Galaxy S III General] cincyreds:
I wanted to get rid of that garish Verizon LTE start animation and replace it with something more subtle (and less attention grabbing if you're in the middle of a meeting when you start your phone).

Created the new qmg file just fine, but still doesn't seem to work on Galaxy Note 2 (Verizon). Rooted/stock ROM. Maybe the GN2 is using an updated version of qmg?? Who knows.

Oh well, great post anyhow.

:)
[Galaxy S III General] hkbladelawhk:
Garbage program...nice job Samsung. Freezes and force closes every 2 minutes. Leave it to Windblows.
[Galaxy S III General] Samzter:
+1

just heard the thanks button click :D
[Galaxy S III General] MotoDefier:
Don't do it before reading this

just wanted to say, this is a great tutorial and it does work, however i think you should all be warned that this tripped my binary and flash counter on the T999L and i haven't looked to see if Triangle Away is safe to reset the flash counter and binary status on my device without bricking it, it should be fine but until DocHolliday77 and I have finished our work on the stock firmware for odin for the T999L i won't be trying it, or if someone else beats us to it then i will try but im not getting stuck on a T999 Rom because there is no way to restore the T999L firmware when bricked. i know thats not a big issue for most, but its a huge issue for me to be tripped to modified binary and a flash count of 1 simply for replacing the stock boot animation, and no i tried deleting your custom boot animation and reinstalling the orginal does not change it back, i am now stuck with my flash counter set at 1 and my binary set at modified until i can find if the reset in Triange Away is safe for the T999L or not.:(
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
As this is the I9300/I9305 forum the above post does not apply .

We know the method works on I9300 but other phones some problems it appears with QMG .

jje
[Galaxy S III General] Kuroyukii:
I need help, somehow on my S3 it shows nothing. I made it like this thread says.

http://puu.sh/3Vor9.png

After that Export Theme -> Open the file with Winrar -> extract the IdleBgAnimObj.qmg -> renamed it to bootsamsung.qmg and to shutdown.qmg, none shows. Any help please? D=

Or can someone make me a Bootanimation out of these pictures? Would be nice :)
[Galaxy S III General] mrdreamers:
In Samsung Theme Designer

how to i set the duration? or how do i get the animation to play in normal speed?

its always to fast!!
[Galaxy S III General] LuigiBull23:
Thanks a lot for this!
[Galaxy S III General] onikage31:
Very nice tutorial !

Thanks for share ! :good:
[Galaxy S III General] FatBoyNate:
not working on the note 2 gt-n7100
[Galaxy S III General] exia336:
I follow the tutorial, but there is only bootsamsung.qmg and bootsamsungloop.qmg in my S4 I9500, should I rename "IdleBgAnimObj.qmg" to "bootsamsung.qmg"? I did so, however, it didn't work.
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
This is not I9500 forum suggest you ask in relevant forum .

See previous posts .
[Galaxy S III General] babakgol70:
GREAT :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] pas2001:
change duration from 0 to 40 It mean 40 msec which= 25 frame/sec
[Galaxy S III General] XxTeXx07xX:
Very useful

THANK YOU FOR THIS. VERY HELPFUL !! :good: :good: :good:

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[Galaxy S III General] vhfw:
Awesome tutorial. Thanks!

Just one problem I'm having... followed your instructions to a T. My animation shows up... but it looks like a 1970s Beatles music video with a bunch of crazy colors and duplicate images flashing everywhere. The emulator in the program seemed to show it fine. I am on TMobile's Galaxy SIII

Any advice?? :D

EDIT- Nevermind figured it out. I had to replace both the samsungbootloop and samsungboot files. The phone doesn't seem to like having only one different animation.
[Galaxy S III General] SomeGuy4:
Works with the SGH-I257M
[Galaxy S III General] Fusseldieb:
Thanks

It works perfectly! Thanks for sharing this with us :laugh:
[Galaxy S III General] johnathanamber:
Awesome, thanks for this!

This is a great tut.

I've been working, using this tut, to create my own custom boot animation. I've done the boot and shutdown animations and they both work great.

How do you assign the sound file for these though? I do have the PowerOn.ogg and PowerOff.ogg files replaced but it isn't using them.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Johnathan
[Galaxy S III General] Cyber-Ninja:
Very nice tutorial !

Thanks for share !
[Galaxy S III General] StuartTheFish:
Going to give this a go sometime, thanks for the guide!
[Galaxy S III General] bauerfih:
Too Fast

First i wanna thank you for the great tutorial you have made! Thanks!

Now, i managed to convert the images i wanted as my bootanimation, but the bootanimation is way too fast.. is there any way to slow it down to a normal speed or it goes into just one loop and then it stays with the final frame?

Thanks! Really excited to get my BA working 100%
[Galaxy S III General] lacoursiere18:
Look at the image below

You need to adjust the duration from 0 to a larger number..

And then below that where it says "Repeat" make it say "True":good:
[Galaxy S III General] bauerfih:
Thanks, I'll try that! One of the .qmg files I made (bootsamsungloop) has the True option and the other (bootsamsung) doesn't! Is that correct? Thanks, I'm trying to get the stock htc m8 bootanimation!
[Galaxy S III General] lacoursiere18:
Well it depends on if you want it to "Repeat" meaning that the boot image will keep repeating all the frames until the phone is up and running..
[Galaxy S III General] bauerfih:
I want it to keep repeating, so I'll stick with both files and adjust the duration value.. But if I wanted it to go one time only would be okay to delete the bootsamsungloop.qmg and just keep the bootsamsung.qmg?

Btw is there a specific duration value to put? I mean with the galaxy s4 normal fps.. I tried 50 before because another thread tell to use this equation, 1000/20(fps described in the .txt file in the bootanimation zip)= 50 and nothing really changed..

Sorry about the noob questions! Hehehe
[Galaxy S III General] lacoursiere18:
Not sure about the first question..Maybe someone else can chime in..

2nd question.. I just simply used trial and error.. Might be a little time consuming but it works. Set it to a ridiculous value and then revert back;)
[Galaxy S III General] avivik:
Works for me! Thanks!
[Galaxy S III General] amberflamber:
Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] My1xT:
just a question, can we make animations that start off with a part that plays only once and the other part is looped???
[Galaxy S III General] kiklopcuk:
good work, thanx
[Galaxy S III General] treii28:
Getting blank screen on Note 3

I was able to create qmg files, tried using jpg, png, tried different sizes, all I get is a blank screen at boot.

I've been able to get other QMGs to work from the one's other people have made and posted. So I'm getting the filenames and permissions correct. What else might I be missing?

Tre
[Galaxy S III General] WhiteK0304:
Good post!

Thanks for posting this!
[Galaxy S III General] TheColin21:
doesn't work for me

I tried this step by step, it didn't work, pictures were FullHD jpegs , animation rendered with C4D, any idea?

thx
[Galaxy S III General] necsay:
can this be used with all android phones ??
[Galaxy S III General] CAG-man:
I don't know about other brands for sure for QMG. Most Androids use a zip for the boot animations. I can tell you, Samsung's definitely use QMG and are likely the only brand to do so.
[Galaxy S III General] sorg:
I'm trying to find small, preferable command-line utility which can convert qmg->png (and back, but it's not very important). In latest I9305 and E210 KK firmwares Samsung switched to QMG format whole firmware. It means, all APKs in firmware don't use PNG anymore. All images are in QMG format :(

Fortunately, png is accepted as well. But i need utility to convert graphics.
[Galaxy S III General] arf8:
Figured it out, for those starting with scratch, you can not use the native resolution of your phone if it is an s6 or s6e.
[Galaxy S III General] captivated1971:
Files come out way to big?
[Galaxy S III General] arf8:
No not at all, it has to do with the resolution itself.
[Galaxy S III General] vcdsupside:
boot animation automation

hello people, long time listerner first time caller lol I have a sgs3 rooted stock touchwiz rom jelly bean 4.3 , I tried a while back to change the boot ani's and ended up with a blank boot screen, thats the joy with nandroid backup's, as saved my rear lol I came across a app on the play store called "bootanimation for samsung", there are 2 versions free and paid, I'm using the free version and now have changed my boot and shutdown ani's several times now and it worked every time, others may not have the same result but everyone has a different setup, I'm only commenting as this makes it easy pizy, there are loads of diff qmg animations on xda, I've used peter V Washy fight as the boot, and shutdown is a red background with android written across it in black, lush as f*#^@ lol
[Galaxy S III General] NT21:
Help me ! My bootanimation have 1260 frames and it wont go in STD !! What I do now ?
[Galaxy S III General] JJEgan:
Last post 2015.

Suggest cut frames.
[Galaxy S III General] Teracotta:
this works if using system.img from i9300, all Galaxy S3 use same SoC

need nandroid for 4.1 because 4.3 has knox BL
[Galaxy S III General] Doraemon124:
Samsung theme designer having 255 max frames , is thr any option to add more bcz most animation required more than 255 also ,
[Nook Touch General] Goggles2114:
To put simply after rooting with the NookManager does the simple touch still glow? I'd picked one up but figured before rooting poke around see what the best noob friendly method is and whie at first I thought the whole glowlight thing was a gimmick after using I actually like having the option.
[Nook Touch General] osowiecki:
yes
[Nook Touch General] Goggles2114:
Anything special i should know or does buttonsavior have the glow thing in it's options list?
[Nook Touch General] neoman4426:
By default the "long press nook button to turn it on" and "short press, click glowlight, tick checkbox and/or adjust level" methods still work. I know at least the long press, and possibly the on screen button, can be remapped to other things if you wish in the "Nook Touch Mod Manager" app, but as I said the defaults for those match stock. Just checked, there are options to remap both.
[Nook Touch General] Goggles2114:
Groovy. Borrowing a card to root/backup as i type this. Not expecting a whole lot. Mostly just expanded/better PDF reading and the ability for light note-taking (mostly due to touch screeen keypads blowing major chunks.)

If I can get a mush app running that'd be pretty neat, but for now it's PDF's and lite mail and RSS reading. Glad to know I'll be able to do all that even in the dark.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yourpassenger:
Can someone who already has this device comment on the volume of ringtones and notifications?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mancuk29:
It's damn loud frightens me to death every time some one rings me
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CNexus:
I don't have this yet, but I've heard it's like a freakin' blowhorn
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craftycarper1:
Yeah, it's LOUD
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SmokyM79:
Oh yes, it's dam loud, mine is on the lowest setting and it's still too loud haha.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geordieboy2011:
its the loudest handset iv ever had even vid clips sound amazing and loud

but be warned if used as a alarm clock do a sound test first cos mine just woke the whole street up at 5-45am lol:victory:
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yourpassenger:
That's what I like to hear, thanks!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaythenut:
dont find my ringtones that loud it was a lot louder on my galaxy note 2 but music and youtube is way louder
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iKoyy:
Yeah it's damn loud and for me it is a real issue as you cannot dissociate Ringtones volume and notifications volume.

You'll either have to lower the volume to the point notifications are barely audible or have everyone around you staring at you because your Led Zep Kashmir Ringtones sounds amazingly loud in your office.

If anyone got an idea to dissociate these 2 volumes please shoot :p

I didn't plan on using another ROM than the stock one but I'm seriously considering it for this very reason.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jake460:
stock boot up jingle is very loud, its now gone, cos on rooted arhd 3.6
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compact_bijou:
Loud. Too loud for my liking in most instances.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] basil281:
Try using a volume control app, it seperates the ringtone from notification. I have the notification & ringer on 1 (of 7) which is fine.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MediocreFred:
Have a rooted Dev Edition One. Not being able to set separate volume settings for Ringer and Notification was pretty frustrating. I installed Power Toggles and can now set separate volumes for Ringer and Notification.

I have always used Tasker to change these volumes depending on where I am and the time of day. However, on the One, even though Tasker shows separate volume settings for Ringer and Notification, it sets them both to whatever is the last action. For instance, if I am at work, I set my ringer volume to 1 and notifications to 5. Depending on which one I put first, both volumes get set to the last one set. Any thoughts on how to set these separately using Tasker?

Thanks.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cc999:
What app

What app are you using?

CC
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dal1970:
Just tried around 15 different apps for controlling the volume. Most of them separate the ring and the notifications, until you go back in and they have linked again.

There does not appear to be anyway of unlinking them
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MediocreFred:
Dang it! You're absolutely right. Power Toggles appears to allow the volumes to be set separately, but, when I go back and look, they are set the same. I set my ringer at 1 and notifications at 5 this morning (I use a really quiet notification sound and even at 5, it is not too loud). Was in a meeting at work.. I get a call and the #&%$(*(*$ ringer goes off SUPER LOUD!!! So terribly embarrassing and uncool.

Hard to believe that HTC would have goofed this one. Haven't seen any other phone to date that does not allow setting the volumes independently. If I can't find a fix quickly, this will force me to start flashing custom ROMs. (I really like Sense 5 and had made up my mind to stay stock (albeit, rooted) for at least a few months).
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ckegg:
The only app I've found can actually separate and keep the setting is ICS Enhanced Ringer Control (or Volume), it is a paid app, however, after changing system sound profile from normal > silent or vibrate and the phone still rings... I am so frustrating, it is either adjusting the actual notification file volume for a workaround, or install the ICS control app but you will lose the sound profile feature.....

The other alternative is Sound Profile apps that takes over system profile, it separates notification from ringtone and has its own profile widget you can put on your home page for fast switches. It also comes with scheduler that replaced my other sleep silent apps, so finally I picked Sound Profile for all trouble saver, and it is free.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Messinger:
Using an ascending ringtone app

I agree; these suckers are too loud.

To help to deal with this, I installed HandyPhone, which allows me to set any ringtone to become an ascending ringtone. With luck, I can answer before that ringer becomes really intrusive.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Okaay:
Honestly it hurts my ears someyimes because of how loud it is
[Networking] cmccarter:
Can anyone give me the correct settings for using WAP and GRPS with Cingular?

tia

chester
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imrankhushwaqt:
hi

I have a Samsung galaxy S (Any Call Korean version )GT I9000. I was working fine untill I flashed it with custom rom. I just googled for custom rom downloaded it and flahed with Odin. Now my phone is soft brick. I can only access download mode and nothing else. I tried to recove my phone with one of the tutorial on google and it says invalid boot loader. Can anyone help me? before flashing my phone was running android 4.0 (Rooted).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Veyrontarga:
Try this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1647890
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zia_7575:
Did you find the solution?

---------- Post added at 08:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:28 PM ----------

Did you find the solution ? From where can I find stock rom of Gt-i9000 (anycall).. not shw-m110s.. ?
[Galaxy S III General] CrimsinX:
I just got a message from "Redbox Instant (beta) by Verizon" that reads

"Sorry. For your security, we can't let you continue because your device is rooted. Rooted devices increase risk to you and to us. That's why we can't let you enter your credit card information, make a purchase or stream movies."

Anyone know a way around this?

Thanks
[Galaxy S III General] slaphead20:
Wrong forum, this is the international i9300 forum
[Galaxy S III General] Glebun:
and ask in the help section
[HTC EVO 3D] RAM_1994:
Is there any fully working flash player for JB, without bugs? The one I'm using now has too much graphical tears...
[HTC EVO 3D] Bigbabyjesus:
As html5 becomes more and more common the need for flash becomes less and less. Adobe flash is almost obsolete and if you're running Chrome for browsing you are not going to find any flash support. A good media player to try is MX player. You can find it in the market.

Please hit Thanks if I've been helpful at all.
[HTC EVO 3D] raptoro07:
It is not flash. The graphical tearing is because of legacy code for graphics used to get JB working on devices. Unfortunately without source code JB will most likely have this issue.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps] BulleT-ProoF:
Could somebody make or maybe someone already did , the animation for Omega Rom or stock roms.I am talking about that cool animation when you are in Multitasker and when you press "Close all apps" , they are disappearing in cool way .Like CyanogenMod has.Ty in advance :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMVXkn5IctM 9:00