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[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
FIXED::

Alright, if anyone encounters the problem mentioned above, which is: your custom boot screen flashes, and when it boots up, only shows for about 2 seconds and then the screen goes black -- that means that you have transparency in one or more of your screens, which will automatically BREAK the gif/boot screen.

To overcome this, you need to either fill the selected area or the entire area of the screen to a color (black, white, red, whatever)... as long as its not transparent. It should work after that.

Now, I have a new problem! (****!)

After figuring this out, I experienced another problem. My boot screen runs the entire time, but when it displays, its EXTREMELY distorted and the entire screen makes a "wave/wobbly" like animation while the boot screen runs in the back ground.

So, I ask again... has anyone ever had THIS problem, if so -- anything I should try? Are there certain settings I need to use, etc. Thanks again.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
shoot me your gif and ill take a look...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Papa Smurf151:
is there a way of combining boot screen. id like to have a couple running together
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] sdotcarlisle:
:) +some more characters
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] OtisFeelgood:
I'm digging the fresh boot screens. Good job on those. ;o
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
yeah sorry but the shine created from this renders like crap on the phone... sorry...

found my problem, software i was using to create the animation wasnt rendering properly on the computer but looked like crap on phone...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
yes there is... there are 2 ways...

hard way:

stich the gifs together... via photoshop or similar software...

easy way:

create a sequence via xml i.e. boot1.gif boot2.gif boot3.gif boot4.gif ... etc...

though if you want to cut specific portions of each one you will have to edit them via photoshop or like software...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
be more specific... im not gonna sit infront of the computer to create things people dont want... besides read my first post...

my order of priority:

WIFE > CAR > WORK > COMPUTER > PHONE > GUN > NEWS > EVERYTHING ELSE

anyway... im not mad... but... be more specific if ou want something... at the moment only person i dislike is obama... a lot of people on here will want to ass steve jobs on here... but sorry... im a mac user... and if you owned one you would never switch back to windows... there just is no comparison MAC > WINDOWS

wow... did i go on a tangent... anyway...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Jus10o:
Your bootscreens are very clean and nice. I would use the fresh ones if I ever used his roms. Im more of a damage person with my own tweaks.

So what about a cool simple HTC or android bootscreen. With some blue and chrome somewhere in it. Its sorta the theme of my phone.

I understand if you dont have time or it takes awhile. Just thought I would put the idea out there.

Just 2 gif photos are fine.. I can sign and flash them myself in a bootscreen.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
load up the RegawMOD rom... that one is... a A freaking + ... P.S. i just thested the rom out a bit... Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom fast...

ill get to making something blue and shiny... at the moment im creating something for darch rom users... so they dont feel left out...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] johntheman_692003:
can someone helP????

HI I have a sprint hero. Im trying to load the nexus boot screen can anyone help? I have the desc.txt and the many .gifs but when i push from adb to system/media/bootanimation something goes wrong and my boot screen dissappears altogether. can some one shed some ligt for a newb please. been spending about 5 hours a day researching and nothing helpful.. very much appreciated
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Jus10o:
Re: problems setting custom boot screen...

type this

adb remount

Adb shell

rm /system/media/bootanimation.zip

After this you will need to flash a boot screen to it, search for a flashable bootscreen. I can attach a nexus one when I get home
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Alright guys, after a little struggling, I've finally been made to able the boot screen. A lot of credit to wrx4memp for actually getting this to boot. So thank him as well.

Anyways, here's the boot screen I've created. The animation will run a little slower when it boots. Enjoy.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] sdotcarlisle:
flashing now :)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Awesome, thanks!:D Any progress on yours??
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] the0ckid82:
i love the damage one but the colors invert during the loop and it looks really bad .. is anyone else having this issue?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
Hmmm. Anyone know the file size limit for boot.gifs? I combined my two favorite bootscreens and my .gifs are huge...but even optimized down to just over 1mb the first one freaks out a bit and the second one renders crazy...the effect is pretty cool though.. I will attach the .zip for that one.

I was going to break my two gifs into four gifs, but I think I will just use the bootscreen method on Darch's legend build..Does anyone know how to decipher the configuration file (desc) for that? 320 480 is resolution. android, sprint and last are image folders and the rest is a mystery to me...no config comments in this one.

From a stock ROM

320 480 15
p 1 150 android
p 1 1 sprint
p 50000 1 last

From DarchLegend

512 256 30
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1

The attached .zip is signed. I think it looks super cool (slightly resembles the original .gifs, LOL) . The first boot.gif shows a bunch of static, but then gets cooler if you wait a second.

*edit*final updated .zip below (transparency issue is fixed)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
i just flashed ... yup you are right... gimme a few min and ill update with a fixed version... the first image sticher i was using was creating some problems... ive ironed them out since... i just have to recreate the image sequence...

Update

FIXED GIF:

and its up and running... !
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] flipzmode:
Sounds like you probably have transparency in there.

This is actually the way that stock android does it's boot screens. I honestly prefer HTC's way (although seems like they are getting away from it) with the ./bootscreen/ folder however if you want to make your own bootanimation.zip then check here for how to write the script: http://www.lostsync.net/2010/04/07/how-to-install-and-create-a-custom-boot-animation-on-android-2-1/
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
p 1 1 sprint = play folder sprint 1 time <- know for fact
p 50000 1 last = play folder last 50000 times? or maybe 50000sec <- folder contains buncha images that are numbered in sequence instead of a gif where its all stitched into one file
p 0 0 part1 = folder part1 = background <- loaded before any and all animations...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
Hmmm..I didn't know transparency was a no go :( Thanks for the link :)

Thanks!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
oh no... there is a transparency all over the image... 113 frames to be exact... im looking at your gif right now... gimme a min let me try something... and hopefully i can get it to flash right...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
LOL crap. I'm sure that means the other .gif has 41 images with transparency as well. Hmmm...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
as crazy as it may sound... actually no... there was about 17 or so i ironed them out and here it is... : booted it on my phone and comes up nice... i added some NOS to it... you will see what i mean when you boot it on the phone...

you seem to know what you are doing with it so i wont bother with making a update.zip...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
another thing i noticed the gif that was in the boot folder was all tweaked... there are several frames that are not proper size... ? dont ask how... ? because i dont know... ? im assuming photoshop or whatever software you are using is compressing the image... that second image just may be beyond repair... i tried twice so far and all i get is crap booting on the phone...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
Strange. Thanks for fixing the one .gif. I will try to fix the other, at least to get the size right. Jasc Animation Shop is the program.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
give it a try... im off for a power nap... only 2 hrs till i got to be @ work... :eek:
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
Thanks for your help. I finally figured it out..it optimized the .gif by using transparency to decrease overall size.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
I got everything sorted..and won't be having any more transparency issues.

Flashable zip is attached below if anyone wants it.

Hard to tell here, but the first .gif runs half the speed of the second looping .gif. You will see if you flash it.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
Lol... you are probably using the one I created... I liked it sped up... makes the phone seem more capable... you can change the speed when you are outputting to gif set ms delay the same as the other one and speed is synchronized...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] johntheman_692003:
I downloaded the fixed damageboot. pushed it to system/media and i lost my bootscreen. any ideas?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] CarbonKang:
Did you put it in the right folder?

Should go in something like, Sprint/media/animation.zip?

You should just replace the images already in there with the ones provided.

Its the long and hard way, but it has no other choice but to work. ;)

EDIT: Wait... That's a flashable Zip. Just add it too root, And flash. Dont wipe, you will lose your stuff.

but do a nandroid back up(:
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
Bad idea to create zip with individual frames... I've tried for days and didnt work...

Just do whats proven to work:

I think I may have goofed when i signed that damage boot zip... in either case the gif in there works I tested it on my phone... just go to system/media/bootanimation/

On the phone delete everything there push the xml and the gif from the zip file I created into that empty folder and it should work...

I'm @ work right now so I cant resign that zip propper... ill see if regaw has a spare min to do that...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] regaw_leinad:
the path in red above should be /system/media/bootscreen ;)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] regaw_leinad:
Also, to everyone signing zips, make sure there are NO spaces in the name of the zip, or else it won't work :D

About to re-up the damaged boot screen
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] regaw_leinad:
here you go guys.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
I redid them both without the transparancy "optimization". :D I modified the speed on purpose, I used 4ms per frame for the first since it only runs once and 2ms per frame for the looping gif.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Judging by what the both of you are saying... am I to assume that when you guys make your .gif images you're not using the "Save for Web devices" setting in Photoshop and outputting the .gif that way?

How are you guys creating the actually gif file or exporting them?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
I'm using Jasc animation shop. It tries to optimize .gifs when you save or output them. One part of the optimization adds transparency over every part of each frame that doesn't change frame to frame (No good for Android), another part on rewrites the sections that change frame to frame (Android also hates).

Of course you can customize whatever you want with the optimizations. I had never made animations for Android so I didn't know transparencies were an issue (thanks Flipz!).

There isn't a preset for saving for web devices, but I have the settings saved so they will work great now.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] the0ckid82:
what exactly did you have to do to get rid of your transparency issues ? i think im having the same problem
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
I see. I had the same problems with transparency as well and then another problem with the .gif file becoming distorted, but that was all fixed thanks to wrx4memp.

Thanks for the info.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] the0ckid82:
im using photoshop save for web/devices to export the gif but i seem to still be running in to issues .. ive looked for any transparency in my file and am pretty sure there is none left .. is there something else in the save for web process that im missing ?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
For me I had to choose for all frames to be saved flat (not layered).

I also had to eliminate most of the optimizations that would typically compress the size of the gif (they also added transparencies).
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
The above in bold is important. See if that works for you.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] looneylu:
no custom darch bootscreen yet?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] animal7296:
can I get one made please

I am an avid player of the game M.A.G and would love to have one that flashes through the different PMCs I have the images I would like used and a boot sound if someone can make it for me.

I understand that the boot sound can only be 10 sec long. If this is incorrect I would like to make the boot.mp3 longer but 10 sec will do.

Here is the boot sound I would like to use.

http://www.4shared.com/audio/MT4q9AOR/boot.html

And the pics.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
Those images are no good. Pick an image that is at least 320 x 480
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
It can be done with the images he's given, though you'll have to use a background image... I'll see what I can create later tonight.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] animal7296:
Just a white background will be fine if possible.

Thanx for your help.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Alright, I'll see what I can do.:D
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
I didn't use your images, but I made you a MAG theme including your sound clip. Signed zip is attached.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Well, thank you for stealing my project!:p You did a great job, looks good! The spinning concept was exactly what I was going to use....
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
Sorry! :D I didn't see you had taken it on. I started pulling better images to use after I saw his request.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Hahaha, its alrgiht. Try to make one with a white background, that's what he wanted.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
Nah, I'll leave that to you. I'm working on something else.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] the0ckid82:
did that still having issues ... after reading that transparency i went back and made each frame a flat image and then redid it .. also made sure that in the save for web dialog transparency is unchecked ... still having issues with it .. any more suggestions?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] animal7296:
That is nice. I will use it when I get my replacement Hero (speaker blew up) and root and flash a rom.

@pseudoremora if you want to I would like to see some of your work as well.:D
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Send me the file, via PM or upload it here? I'll see what I can do.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] the0ckid82:
pm sent thanks
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Got it, I'll work on it later tonight.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
Expect it tonight... California time... I sent a preview to darch bit he hasn't responded... probably cooking up something new ... :D
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
Get Gimp... create your goods in PhotoShop and then open it in Gimp you will get a view of exactly what the phone tries to decipher and why you have a problem...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
Post your gif or project file so someone can take a look at it
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
+1

You can post large .gif files for free here >> http://xs.to/ or .zip them and attach them to your forum post.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] recognize_atm:
i love the damaged one is there any way someone could make it into a zip so i can flash ip
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] regaw_leinad:
I did already, flash the attachment in this post.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6170640&postcount=108

You might wanna add this to the first post wrx..
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] the0ckid82:
heres the image

pseudoremora has the psd file and said he would take a look at it later but if anyone else would like to look the as well the psd is at http://dondrake3.com/android/boot1.psd also if anyone needs hosting for files let me know ive got unlimited storage and bandwidth on my server and would be glad to help ...

Thanks again
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
check out what the layers show up like on my computer...

and that is the problem... the layers are shrunk to only changes from one frame to the next... and the the phone doesn not know how to handle that...

you can see all the transparency added to shrink the file size down... depending on how you look at it... the phone is selective about the gifs contents... or photoshop outputs a ****y gif... or both... maybe... ???

now see this:

notice something... ? all the frames are full not a single one has transparency... so when you output the file to gif you get:

FYI: this one will look good on the phone and though it sais 100ms i pu it to 40ms when i output the file...

p.s. stick to 256 colors... that light in the background shows up kinda odd on the phone screen...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
Cool boot screen! I fixed the .gif for you and made a bootable .zip if you want it (no sound).

All I did was de-optimize the image (made it quite a bit bigger...it had been optimized heavily) and I flattened each frame.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] the0ckid82:
awesome thanks ...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
Putting Final Touches on the DARCH bootscreen... muhaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaa haaaaa... the first person to request it will get a sneak peak...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] looneylu:
i'd like a sneak peak!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
he he he sneak preview has been spoken for... lol... check your PM... hopefully comments of its awesomeness will follow... ... im gonna be testing and looking for bugs now...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Hey, can someone figure out what's wrong with this .gif? I think I'm having the compressing issue again. How do I uncompress these .gifs in Photoshop or any of the programs you guys are using? I'm making another boot screen for someone here, but mine keeps distorting after I flash it...

Here's the gif.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
if you see anything named alpha, transparency, optimise, compress, shrink any other synonym... anything of that sort... make sure it is off...

make sure you flatten your layers... output to gif...

if that does does not work... download a copy of GIMP... and open your gif in that see what went wrong... gimp is a bare ass as it gets... it will show you exactly what the phone is seeing...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
Alright, I'm looking into it now.

EDIT:: FIXED

Again, thank you wrx4memp!! All I had to do was de-optomize the gif (I used Gimp, by the way - like instructed).

Wow, maybe I should just switch to Gimp altogether...:rolleyes:
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
yup... i like gimp... it ugly compared to photoshop... but it gets the job done... and for free... :D
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] animal7296:
I tried flashing this and it still boots as the original boot screen. What do I have to do to fix this?

EDIT: Running damages latest rom.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
define your use of the word "this" there is a lot of this... around here...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] animal7296:
Crap, sorry. Quoted the wrong post. I tried flashing both mag boots and nothing happens other than the original damage boot.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
lol... yeah... you can get mad at me for that one... i need to clean up the first post with all background info...

to make it work on damage rom there is a bootanimation.zip file in /system/media/ remove that file then everything should work fine...

again... my bad...\
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
+1 Good call

adb remount
adb shell rm /system/media/bootanimation.zip
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
part1 - no loop

part2 - no loop

part3 - loop

thats the xml:

<BootConfiguration>
<BootAnimation
image="/system/media/bootscreen/boot1.gif"
image2="/system/media/bootscreen/boot2.gif"
loopimage="/system/media/bootscreen/boot3.gif"
audio="/system/media/bootscreen/boot.mp3"
useAudio="0"
/>
</BootConfiguration>

i put it all in a update.zip... signed it... yet for some reason when i flash it... alls i get it a black screen and it wont show on boot... but when i push the files... it al works flawlessly...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] animal7296:
This worked flawlessly. Thank you all for your help.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
I just tested the new .zip below, works great! You just missed

image3="/system/media/bootscreen/boot3.gif"

in the xml.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
Win7 boot screen with Win 7 default logon sound:
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
This is my new favorite boot screen!

Found the girl from the HD2 XDA forums and found the cool Android render on a blog (I did have to cut him up to make him wiggle though).

I paired it with a big pimpin mp3. Represent lil' android. :cool:

You gotta see this one on the phone, it looks awesome!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] sdotcarlisle:
bond style

thanks to Pseud for figuring out our problems with the help of wrx4memp i got my first boot screen. I know not the best but it is my first.

Right click the image then rename from .jpeg to .gif to preview sorry for the work but xda changes to jpeg.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
I wonder what this looks like:D
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] sdotcarlisle:
This is the first zip i signed too thanks pseud. The attached is same graphics but with the bond theme playing! thanks again pseud!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
New one today:

Transformers with the transformation sound. :)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
wow... THATS NICE...!!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] kratos313:
Thats Perfect man i love Transformers...Great job
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] J Piddy:
Transformers bootscreen = badass! Thanks

Do you think you could do one that goes from decepticon to autobots, with one sound from each? Just a thought. Thanks again
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
After I put the transformers screen on I regretted the fade out at the end. Here is a the same except no fade and I looped it once because I think it makes it look less choppy. Transforming sound is still intact:
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
This one turned out good IMO. A guy at deviant art had compiled the .gif (here) that I borrowed for this one.

The sound file needs 1-2 seconds of silence at the beginning to match up with the transformation plus a sound for the decepticon.. If anyone gets a chance to make a boot.mp3 I'll update it here.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
dont use photobucket... use googles own tool of the trade... picasa... <- love the interface on 3d gallery with it...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
Yeah I haven't used Picasa in awhile, but I do like how it integrates gallery3d. Does Picasa support .gif files?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] wrx4memp:
yup thats where i host all my gifs... :p... but they are not animated in the 3d gallery app :(
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] pseudoremora:
I'll test!:D I want to see what the music sounds like, lol. Oh, by the way, the name is pseudo - remora... the o is important, otherwise it loses its meaning...:(:rolleyes: Haha (I'm selfish, I know), thanks for the credit though.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Papa Smurf151:
dude that is sweet.

wonder if u could do the same thing to the android icon
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] danknee:
Thank Hasbro for that render, it was ripped out of the Transformers game. ;)
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Papa Smurf151:
yeah i got that part. so i doubt that anyone could tear the android apart like that huh. i know im not skilled enough to do it. But there has to be some