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[Android Themes] mjybarr:
What software do you need to make a boot animation??

I see in the OP to use Flash, but is that the only software needed to make a custom boot animation? I use a Windows based computer.

As far a Linux based computer, what software is needed to create a boot animation?

Thanks in advanced!
[Android Themes] ray243:
Anyone have the 'droid' boot? I want to try it.
[Android Themes] drater:
You can use any animation software, just make sure you can convert it into a series of png files.

if anyone needs a boot animation, pm me with details of what you need and what phone you have, and i'll see what i can do
[Android Themes] aazmath:
Hello;)

does anybody have seen boot animation from Leshak's Froyo?

This silver ANDROID...

I Cant find it anywhere...
[Android Themes] TonyStark R.I.P.:
How, if possible, could this be accomplished on your computer ans saved as a CWM file?
[Android Themes] leatherneck6017:
Here's one that I ported to the Samsung Epic from a TP2 format. Have a look around inside the .zip to discover how to make these things flashable in CWM.
[Android Themes] joeybear23:
tagged in favorites...
[Android Themes] Khar00f:
Here is my contribution to this thread,

Regarding this particular bootanimation that I posted

This GIF was custom made for me from a friend a while back it was inspired by the spinning logo on the jumbotron of the Bell Center, and thought it would be cool to have it as a desktop background. Just 2 days ago I stumbled on it by mistake and decided to try to use it as my boot screen (it looks very sweet too).

as for details, regarding it, there's a total of 100 frames of 480x400 resolution

A few things I would like to note that could probably help a lot of ppl or maybe it's just me :)

I went thought a lot of trial and error to try and understand why I was getting a black screen everytime until it finally worked.

First some tool that can help you guys.

Both tools are available as a standalone zips without the need to installing them.

This tool will allow you to rename one or more files, it's extremely powerfull, although takes some getting used to at first

Bulk Rename Utility

This will allow you to extract an animated GIF into PNG files or other formats

GIF Frame Extractor

Now one thing to note that took a long time to figure out was that you gotta follow the naming convention of the original bootanimation.zip of your rom, since I checked out a lot of animation and saw they each ha diff names in the folders part0/1 figured as long as there's a sequential numbering for the files that the animation will kick in.... unfortunately NO, save yourself a lot of headaches, extract the bootanimation.zip from your phone look at the naming convention and rename your files to match using the tool above.
[Android Themes] Mr.Fr33man:
Ok i have tried it now for hours and i have read the full tread and everything but i am stuck... it wont work at all.

is there an exact format to be used to make it work? because i tried every setting with ps cs3 as png but one time i got an white screen and then an other time an blackscreen... has it to be smaller than the display? or is there any limitation i miss?

please help i don't know what i am doing wrong...

wanted to help with a request... (even if i don't get it :P (the jugalo thing?! :confused:))

I messed around with the file attached
[Android Themes] Evo4sickness:
OK Ive been making badass video tansformer clips for the boot animation. The problem Iam having it says not to compress in zip but how the do you do that when you suppose to turn it into a zip as in bootanimation.zip. When I store in 7zip I cant do anything with the three folders there so how Iam I suppose to do this. This has been pissing me off for hours.
[Android Themes] OmenSixSixSix:
Use winrar to save your zip in a store-mode. No compression is in use. I'm sure you can also do it with 7zip but not familiar with it. Options for maximum, medium or store/no compression choice must be somewhere in the options. I've done mine with winrar and worked every time. Hope that helped.

Sent from my Stargåte Galaxy S
[Android Themes] Evo4sickness:
Ok but again once you store how do save to become a .zip file to install on the phone.
[Android Themes] Evo4sickness:
I downloaded winrar and still havent been able to get this properly done. I changed the setting to store and no compression this really ****ing driving me insane now. The only improvement that my boot animation went from a black screen to white screen. Let me know anything you can so I can try fix this problem
[Android Themes] silverxbv2:
With 7zip, highlight all the folders you want to zip then right click on one of them, choose 7zip, then add to archive. This will show you a bunch of options. Name it bootanimation.zip or whatever it is for your phone. The second or third line down, choose store for compression. Hit ok.

Heres the secret. Now go back to your zip you just created and open it. Open every folder in there and delete any thumbs.db that you find. Those can cause flickering, pausing, all kinds of bad stuff.

Or, pm me and I'll walk you through it more if you'd like.
[Android Themes] silverxbv2:
I optimized your pngs to reduce the file size. The desc.txt was all wrong, sort of.

You have

480 800 30p 1 10 part0

You SHOULD have

480 800 30

p 1 10 part0

***BLANK LINE HERE*** The last line has to be blank.

Try this out and post your results. It may need to be slowed down a bit.
[Android Themes] silverxbv2:
Not true. Every boot animation I've tried and made have had different names. My current one is image1.png, image2.png etc. The last one I made was 001.png, 002.png, etc. Now with non rooted phones it may be different.
[Android Themes] TheWeasl:
is there anyway you can do one in bios style for the galaxy tab running overcome?

that'll be damn nice...

TABatalk'd from somewhere in the galaxy
[Android Themes] Mr.Fr33man:
I tried but i only got again a black screen.

Thanks for the tip with the desc.txt file i will def look into it.
[Android Themes] silverxbv2:
I uploaded the wrong file. I'll post the correct one in a minute.
[Android Themes] Mr.Fr33man:
allright :)
[Android Themes] silverxbv2:
Correct file

Alright. This is the correct one. Let me know
[Android Themes] Mr.Fr33man:
It's working!!! thank you

and it is looking nice and running smooth, excellent.

now can you tell me what i did wrong? with what tools do you work?

i am on a Windows based system, and would like to work there :)
[Android Themes] silverxbv2:
The images were fine. It was all in the desc.txt. It has to be formatted the way I described earlier.

First line is size and speed

480 800 15

Next lines are for the folders and how they "play"

p 0 1 partx, x being whatever the folder is.

There has to be a blank line at the end. If you use notepad++, you will see the blank line.

View attachment 587878

Then make sure it is saved as a unix file with ansi encoding.

View attachment 587880
[Android Themes] Mr.Fr33man:
Thank you, i have now school so i have much time to try it :D
[Android Themes] silverxbv2:
If you have any more questions please feel free to ask.
[Android Themes] Mr.Fr33man:
after my second try i got it right i made a test animation and it worked like a charm :>

so thank you

the most important part is the desc.txt file... now i know :)

so i am ready to make some awesome bootanimations :>
[Android Themes] silverxbv2:
Great. Now let's see some sweet boot animations!
[Android Themes] 2leaponover1:
So is there a different way to do it for gingerbread. How would you turn perhaps the intro of a tv show into a boot animation? Any way to do it?
[Android Themes] silverxbv2:
I don't know about gingerbread, but it should be the same. Pull a boot animation off of a gingerbread rom a look through the files. AFAIK it should be the same setup. Do you have a certain video clip in mind? If so post it and I can take a look.
[Android Themes] 2leaponover1:
Just confirming that these steps work for gingerbread as well, although i followed a tutorial that was much more in depth but also a lot more confusing, lol. This seemed much simpler than the one I followed. I had was trying to create the title sequence to fringe as a bootanimation and it seems to play part0 fine, it's just part1 cuts off very quickly. I am having trouble gauging how long it should be. I'm going to finish reading this thread, so my answer might be in there. Anyway, gingerbread is fine for this.
[Android Themes] silverxbv2:
What do you mean by it cuts off? Does it finish or is it playing back really fast?
[Android Themes] 2leaponover1:
Well, the initial tutorial i followed said dump half the pngs in part0 and the other half in part1. Now that i have more experience with it and what the parts do i need to try to do that differently. What happens is it plays part0 and then it looks like when it hits part1 the screen goes black until boot is finished. Would this be the symptom if the whole file was too big? I heard some people say that 3-400 pngs is about right, mine is 504. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!
[Android Themes] silverxbv2:
Mine is 500+ so I don't think that's the problem. Look at your desc.txt file. What does it say. Also, check both part 0 and part 1 for thumbs.db. Delete it if it's there. Post it up and I can look it over it you'd like.
[Android Themes] Mr.Fr33man:
Here i have tried something... i have much ideas but not the skill to make those real :( so i will stick with simple things like this...
[Android Themes] erdano:
please help

I'm crazy trying to make boots, but I always black out

boots in question

http://www.multiupload.com/0EIDVAPZMC
[Android Themes] Mr.Fr33man:
you got everything right only the line feed was not right... it has to be unix...
[Android Themes] erdano:
thanks Mr.Fr33man

the problem was to compress time and solve it

soon I'll upload the boot for you enjoy

http://www.multiupload.com/LM5RWM5S8A
[Android Themes] darinmc:
Can someone give me a hand getting my animation up and running? I just get a black screen...

http://www.multiupload.com/JCO53UGAUJ
[Android Themes] Mr.Fr33man:
same apply to you... no compression is right

but desc file should be unix line feed and one empty line after the last ;)
[Android Themes] erdano:
to have it, I hope to have successful with the frequency and speed.

http://www.multiupload.com/VXK3SL9LVG
[Android Themes] Whippler:
Is there Aperture science boot animation? would love one. :)

Maybe i'll make one myself, just rooted my desire Z yesterday so much to customize.

Edit: Oh god i should have used search!!!
[Android Themes] Whippler:
okey, now i'm using MIUI and staying in it, tried to push boot animation whit adb to system/media, but it givis me that the filesystem is read only?, what should i do? How do i enable writing?
[Android Themes] Odinbear:
Very Clever

Hi, Very Clever.. :D

Would like OdinBear if your still doing these and if possible a short tutorial on how your doing them.. :)
[Android Themes] Mr.Fr33man:
either in shell or on terminal emulator remount your system partition read/write

$ adb shell

$ su

$ mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

this should work after your system is RW you can copy the files over the files
[Android Themes] slukk:
Everybody, please help me.

How can i do this my files?
[Android Themes] owen1978:
http://pnggauntlet.com/

Giving this a try...

making a thundercats boot animation....
[Android Themes] nipun1110:
Shutdown Problem

man, thanks for yr giude at first.. I have created a bootanimation myself in this way. it's working, but the problem is i cannot shutdown my phone any more. everytime i shut it down , it restarts. what might be the problem???
[Android Themes] gominolo2002:
Hi everybody!

I have problem with my Bootanimation for my HTC Desire HD.

- I make with flash (for mac) my images, and save in sequence.

- I Make a "Part0" folder and copy the jpg files inside

- I Make a desc.txt file with 480 800 30, p 0 0 part0

- Copy the zip file (boot animation.zip) without compress into the folder using Rootexplorer.

- Restart my phone and the screen is in black...

I follow the steps, but not understand what happen...

I share my files, flash file, etc. if one expert can running my animation. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6FKMP6PY

PD. Use Macintosh, Flash CS5 Mac, Winzip for Mac.

Thank you very much!
[Android Themes] Jocke45:
pics should be in ".png" not ".jpg", "bootanimation.zip" not "boot animation.zip", but then my animation won't work either..:D
[Android Themes] SpaceCaker:
ive got the same problem

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SGSII styled rom

for galaxy ace

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The Serious MOD V0

for galaxy gio

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made by Robinandroid
[Android Themes] SpaceCaker:
what do you mean with i usually make them with 'Flash'

?? i want that program too

======================

SGSII styled rom

for galaxy ace

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The Serious MOD V0

for galaxy gio

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made by Robinandroid
[Android Themes] kurdo_kolene:
pics CAN be in .jpg format but perhaps not all devices and android versions support them (Dell Streak 5 2.3.3 here)

I would suggest, before wasting your time with a reboot, after you've transfered your animation to the device via adb, simply use

$ adb shell

sh$ bootanimation

to see whether you have a working bootanimation or not.

Another suggestion i can give to you is to try Boot Animation Creator made by a fellow forum member. You can install it on OSX using the instructions for Linux, replacing wine with the free (as in freedom and as in beer)PlayOnMac or Crossover (there is a trial version) both are front ends for wine.
[Android Themes] rawrv42:
I had the same problem. Once you make sure all the files/folders are properly named and you go to zip them up, on the "Archive name and parameters" menu make sure under the "compression" option it's set to "store". On mine it was set to "normal" by default. As soon as I changed it to "store" it worked.

Hope this helps,

~Rawrv42

P.S. if it means anything, I'm using Windows 7, so there may be differences with Winzip across windows and mac.
[Android Themes] MrMetalBomber:
You have to make sure it fits your resoulution. Had the same problem with my Xperia
[Android Themes] cuiltheory:
After 5hr "fighting" with the bootanimation and my phone, I finally made it working. I am strongly recommending Boot Animation Factory.

It is free and let you preview zip file. If no errors, put in your phone. I use root explorer. All my pics are in .jpg and the zip file is 13Mb. I will convert to .png and see if I can get smaller size. Thanks for the tutorial and help.
[Android Themes] neosoyo:
black screen

Hey guy, first post here after several hours trying to make this bootanimation works..

i have a lg optimus net dual chip, run android 2.3.4, screen resolution of 320x480 and crash a lot. So to calm down i make a bootanimation just to troll myself..hehe.

I made a animation on photoshop, export as 3 png sequences, saving png-8 to minimize the size of the files.

15 frames at the first and second sequence and 45 frames at the third sequence.

i make the desc.txt file on notepad++ encoded to UNIX ANSI.

zipped everything with winrar without compression, in the boot animation factory the preview work fine.

after upload to /system/media/ and running on terminal the bootanimation i've got the 'segmentation fault' error... i schearch a lot on the forum but can't solve the problem by myself, can anyone help me?

ps=windows 8 64bits

++EDIT++

it's working, after shut down for changing a chip.. i don't know why the error in shell
[Hero CDMA Android Development] chanhuff:
I am trying to use the RUU_Hero_C_Sprint_1.56.651.2 signed release.exe on a Sprint HTC Hero that came with 1.56 installed and has "with Google" branding on back. But when I try to restore it says ERROR[180]:PPST UNSUPPORTED ERROR I have the correct drivers installed and the device shows up as ADB in device manager.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Kcarpenter:
Try putting the phone in fast boot first.

Hold home and volume down while its booting.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] thedudejdog:
this has been covered about 129345 million times,

please search first!!

p.s. i'm not trying to be a ****, its just the 40th thread about this, there is a RUU thread if you search then post it there
[Hero CDMA Android Development] chanhuff:
I sorry but when I searched for the error I couldn't find anything it showed a ton of threads and searching inside the threads didn't help anyway I figured out it was because I had Android 2.1 installed when I needed to have 1.5 installed.
[HD2 General] Jubranz:
Hi, I was trying to install a Rom..

everything was ok until my HD2 restarted and end up with a colored screen but later it stops the connecting to the PC using USB.

I tried several times and never run.

now my device is showing white HTC background and nothing more.

Now I think I've deleted my original Rom and my PC stopped recognizing my HD2.

how can I reinstall the Rom again without connecting to my PC??

I am on Windows7.

Please help me
[HD2 General] Cass67:
Follow the install from Micro SD section of the following FAQ

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=609477

EDIT :- You probably want to read and understand the whole FAQ since you have not made it clear whether or not its a custom rom or an official one, or if you have a HardSPL installed ..
[HD2 General] Jubranz:
Thank you so much

the problem solved.

I restart the device while I'm holding Volume button down.
[HTC Vox] menafree:
How to read and write arabic for S710 for rom ?
[HTC Vox] RxenDrav:
Arabic for Vox

go here for details.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=535108

hope it helps:)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] bgmarian:
hi friends. can you tell me please where i find a rom for verizon phones????? PLEEEASEE
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] twopumpchump:
look in the touch pro2 cmda section, thread closed
[Android Themes] diggidy:
Hi, I am currently working on aHome themes and clocks. I got that down but I would like to have the ability to have more than one clock with a theme. Any ideas anybody on how to implement that?
[Android Themes] diggidy:
I'm kinda reintroducing myself to Java, its been sometime since I last used it.
[Android Themes] cloverdale:
Adding more than one clock would require some major edits to the source code in AlarmClock.apk. What would be easier is creating a directory in the sdcard that holds multiple clock files, then incorporating a script in your ROM that will switch out the clocks (using metamorph for example).
[Android Themes] jairomeo:
He wants to add it to an aHome theme, so he'd have to edit the source for the theme to be able to somehow give the choice of which clock widget you would like, it would be a good amount of editing since the Home Replacements just look for a specific name in the theme and match it to the android source.

The code for adding the widget comes from aHome itself, not the theme though, the theme merely assigns image files to their location in the system. The sdcard idea is probably the easiest way to do it, instead of having it call out the image, it could call out the directory on the sdcard where they are stored.
[Android Themes] diggidy:
Thank you for the responses, I figured it would be a little more complicated than just matching a file name. can you put the images in the drawable folder and call them from there?
[Android Themes] cloverdale:
Not without some serious recoding of the source.
[Android Themes] diggidy:
Actually the code for the single clocks isn’t that big, kinda figured I could add the extra dial.pngs and duplicate my code. Or something of that nature
[G1 Apps and Games] elzee:
www.funmail.com recently released an App, funnily enough called Funmail. They have a qCode link on their page but seems the AMarket can't find it?

Anyone had any luck finding or downloading this Applet?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deeznuts:
I will gladly pay $10usd to anyone who can get an actual working cab for the AVRCP to work in sense 2.1 music tab on the tilt2/rhodium device. Attached is a cab Captain Throwback tried getting to work but it doesn't so maybe that will help some.

(AVRCP control in the Sense Music Player) working, since it apparently doesn't work on the (stock) Tilt 2. I'm sure it's a driver issue, but I don't know what driver it would be, since the Rhodium uses a different BT stack than the Topaz/Raphael/Diamond.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] t69broken:
bump

Any luck?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deeznuts:
Well, 81 views and you're the first to post. So obviously theres a calling for such a fix. Now we just need someone whos up for the task.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] t69broken:
Yep I am loving the Energy Roms but it is the only Rom that doesn't have it.

If you are up for flashing another rom Valkyrie has it for sure.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kk0813:
Try this. working for me with sense 2.5.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=5223047&postcount=107
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deeznuts:
Thank you so much for this great find! I knew i should have asked JVH first! Just didn't think to since hes on the att fuze and not the tilt2 yet. Anyways, this works perfect on the att tilt2 running latest version of sense 2.1 on NRG's rom. Perfect!
[HD2 General] gsingh7:
WOW!! :eek:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/htc-supersonic-for-sprint-possibly-spotted-in-the-very-very-ugl/

and notice it says HTC SSD test means
[Nexus One General] anthro:
I configured my work email to work with Nexus One's stock email app. I can download emails from the server, but there's a problem.

In the case of most messages, whenever I mark them as read, they are marked as unread again whenever I update my mail account from the server.

I deleted and configured this account 3-4 times already, but it's always the case.

Any fix?

EDIT:

When I configure it for the firs time, all the emails are unread. There are the ones that I actually open and they won't revert back to being unread. However, the ones that I just marked as read (with the "Mark Read" button while they are selected) revert back to being unread
[Nexus One General] jarude:
same thing.

i thought it's something wrong with the email server (i have some live.com and hotmail.com email accounts installed). no problems with the gmail accounts tho.

to solve this annoying problem (if unread then you's keep receiving notifications), i have to open every single emails to actually 'read' them.

i am looking for a better way to solve this.
[Nexus One General] anthro:
This is a bit offtopic, but do you find it slow to fetch messages too? My iPod Touch downloads messages for the same account faster
[Nexus One General] shirato:
I have exactly the same problem on my N1..

If anyone knows how to fix, please tell us too. thanks.

p.s. I don't think it's problem at mail server, it should be the email app problem for sure. Because I using pop3. the read/unread status is handle at email client app.
[Nexus One General] anthro:
Yep. My iPod Touch downloads the mails from the same server without any issue
[Nexus One General] Abbsta:
I mentioned this before on another thread but I use my main Gmail to poll all my POP3 accounts which are then pushed to the Gmail App labelled. I don't use the Email App at all.
[HD2 General] gsingh7:
WOW!! :eek:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/htc-supersonic-for-sprint-possibly-spotted-in-the-very-very-ugl/

and notice it says HTC SSD test!! So 1GHz+SSD= Super fast

and dont forget Android!!
[HD2 General] aceo07:
Something doesn't look right to me with the android screen. I have an HTC G1 and I've also tried Android 2.1. Wonder what the 'clock' app is for.

To be honest I'm looking forward to HD2 w/ WM, when it's finally released in the US. Android has a nice interface and concepts, such as the homescreens/widgets/app market/google intergration/etc, but I miss apps from WM6. I hope they still work as I remember from my iPaq.