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This is so stupid difficult & I'm not sure why. I'm only mildly tech savvy. I can read & write, know how to plug things in, change a battery in a car, or phone alike. My point is I'm not special. I thought this stuff was supposed to be wicked easy. Let me begin my trouble from the android app, S Boot Animations. When open w/ root it's basically a short cut for the Samsung boot, bootloop, & shutdown so one does not have to use a root explorer and remove & replace the files manually. There's also a link called 'Download Animations' that takes us to a site that hasn't been updated since 2014 as I see it. The address is: http://www.note2forum.com/forum/galaxy-note-3-development/4505-tool-change-boot-animation-your-galaxy-note-3-all-carriers.html

It contains uploaded bootanimation's for Android. They're pretty cool. There's one on page 5 that I particularly like. Maybe I have a dark mind, but I think it's the best hands down, not just in theme, but in artistic merit. The animation is called 'Android Propaganda' it was supposedly created by SimsDelt & uploaded by, or at least archived by ScottyBeGood in Photobucket. That's the site linked to the GIF if you click on it. The zip for it's corrupted. It contains nothing. I tried searching for it on other sites & it exists in exactly the same way on all sites including xda. I downloaded something else that works, but alas I'm obsessive and not easily satiated.

I downloaded the GIF & renamed it the respective qmg (bootsamsung.qmg). It failed. The load screen for my Galaxy Note 4 remains & no animation occurs. I converted the GIF into MP4 & again renamed it in hopes it would be a valid qmg, but again it failed. I know it's not user error & there's a difference in the files, because when I open 'my qmg' file it will play as a video. If I open one of the downloaded qmg's that wasn't corrupted & installed correctly it just blinks, but doesn't open. But that's what it takes. That's how to know it's a true qmg & not simply named as one. I've looked for video to qmg, & MP4 to qmg & the closest thing I could find to applicable software is Any Video Converter (AVC). It had a small description in the search engine implying it uses qmg format, but it was the only one & it looked sketchy. They have soooo many formats to pick from, but nay, not one is qmg. The only other thing I can find on this is how to make your own bootanimation from scratch. It involves compiling single frame .png files in the correct frame for your phone & then blah, blah, blah with Samsung Theme Designer from a desktop. You can see it here: https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2189934 WTF?? Isn't that essentially what a video converter does? It seems so counterproductive to take a video in full that looks the way I want it to, that's already perfectly suited for my phone, & break it down to put it back together again. Which quite frankly I don't know how to do, nor do I really want to spend hours figuring it out. I'd much rather spat my woes to you wonderful people, because there HAS to be a better way. Really, should I even have to get off my phone to do this? I did everything up to the point where it said I need a desktop to use Samsung Theme Designer, from my Note 4. Then I started doing it & was like 'This just doesn't make sense.' What y'all think?