yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Continuum Android Development] spearoid:
I had a rooted Hero before this and now I have rooted Continuum...I've hit "Problems?" and downloaded the busybox update.......I select Force Remove App.....Titanium Backup says my phone will restart twice....but it only restarts once, and the program I'm trying to remove is still there. I get no error messages.

I had similar experiences on the Hero. What am I missing? I would really like to get rid of this extra crap Verizon put on my phone.
[Continuum Android Development] dfgged:
I will say this once,and only

once

.

Do not uninstall bloatware.

If you do delete it, you will not be able to get any OTA updates, but yes it does work. You can ask around, there a few people the deleted it, and they were stuck on DJ20 for a while.
[Continuum Android Development] imnuts:
Rather than uninstalling bloatware, why not just freeze it with TiBu? It will have the same effect, but then, you just need to thaw all the bloat when an update is released, and then you can update, and just refreeze whatever is there that you don't want again.
[Continuum Android Development] spearoid:
I am an idiot. I finally realized what I've been doing wrong with TB. I was always long-pressing the programs in the backup/restore view. It brought up a window of options but never what I thought I should see. Quick tapping an item is what I apparently NEVER thought to do until now. What an imbecile!

By the way, the freezing suggestion is nice, but you have to pay for the app to do that.

Thanks to the dev work, I'll revert to my former method of backing the whole ROM up with CMR and flashing a new clean ROM.

thanks for the responses
[Continuum Android Development] logan302:
TiB

come over to the IRC tonight
[G2 and Desire Z General] testerman123:
This issue is still happening to me - 5 months into my contract, and it still hasnt fixed itself!! i still get the garbled alien sound at least once a day and my phone still has random restarts. any luck with finding a fix for this?
[G2 and Desire Z General] SomEngangVar:
I seriously think that it's a software issue. I used to get this noise as well but after switching to CM7 when the first nightly came out I haven't had it happen. Just my two cents.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Miketoberfest:
I've been experiencing the same problems since getting this device. Sometimes it happens more frequently, often I can go a few weeks without experiencing it. Currently I have cm7.0 and it's happened twice last week. Quite the pain in the arse.
[G2 and Desire Z General] zaghy2zy:
Not happening to me.... HTC DZ from Bell, unlocked and rooted and used on Rogers.... Using the Virtuous ROM (almost entirely stock ROM)

I suppose the issue is the software and Bell... before I had a custom ROM and still using the stock pre-installed ROM, I had none of these issues... at all, and I was using it over Rogers (I paid to unlock the phone not knowing I can unlock for free)
[G2 and Desire Z General] awsrasool:
this is an issue with the radio that was shipped with the bell desire z (not sure if other versions had it too)... you can solve it by simply flashing a new radio to your phone... I had this issue a while back and solved by flashing the latest radio it solved the weird noise u get when u call or recive a call, and it also made the GPS issues go away... read through the development form and the Q&A forum as this issue has been previously discussed e.g. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=899993

hope that helps
[G2 and Desire Z General] Miketoberfest:
Thanks for the insight. Gonna try this right now.
[G2 and Desire Z General] psangha:
I used to get complaints about being garbled. Changing radios fixed the problem for me too.

Btw, I didn't match ril files when I changed radio files.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ptesmoke:
i still wish it was bell's fault. i jumped ship to rogers over a year ago and ill never go back with bell. however the wife is still with them with an LG smartphone, and she has full signal yet drops calls consistantly all the time as well as wierd interference noises, while i can sit next to her on my DZ on rogers and talk for hours without a single hiccup. I blame th eold radio that came stock on bells DZ and bells chitty arse network for the issues you guys see.
[G2 and Desire Z General] zaghy2zy:
I still remeber Roger's commercial on the reliability of their network... aaahhhh, funny times
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] cloverdale:
Boot Animations:Tutorial & A Place To Post Your Own. UPDATED 04/10/2011 NEW ANIMATION

How To Create Your Own Boot Animations

Here is a flashable zip from sparksco that will install any bootanimation placed on the root of the sdcard

Download Here

Just place the bootanimation on the root of the sd, then flash this from recovery.

Created Boot Animations Are At The End Of This Post​

There are five steps in creating a boot animation:

Enjoy, and be sure to post your creations.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] riggsandroid:
Did this simple one.

Only looks grainy because of resizing. Looks fine full size.

DL zip here - rename to appropriate .zip name based on ROM you are on.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] RyteSyde:
yeah great wu clover. thanks for the time
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] cloverdale:
No problem, I used to love making these, but found it so tricky at first. With a few tips it is really easy.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] cloverdale:
Has anyone tried this?
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] Nitro3a:
Boot animation Simple.

I made a simple boot ani the only problem I did was try to use the desc.txt to call a different sound file following the rules that Motorola uses for their phones. Needless to say it still plays the original boot sound from sprint. I put the custom mp3 file in /system/customize/resource and it still plays the default sprint sound when booting. I haven't figured out where the sound file is supposed to go yet, but I haven't looked very hard either.

Here is the simple boot ani I made. The Background is transparent not white. Also note that this update zip will only work with CWM 2.5.X

Here is smaller size boot ani.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] Nitro3a:
7zip commands for Windows 7

These are the commands that I used to make a boot animation using 7zip on a windows platform.

7za a -mx0 nitro3a.zip part0
7za a -mx0 nitro3a.zip part1
7za a -mx0 nitro3a.zip desc.txt

a = add to zip

-mx0 = Zero compression

nitro3a.zip = If you can't figure this out hmmm.....*Think happy thoughts*the zip file name (at the time the rom I was using you could put as many zip files on your sd card and it would randomly pick one as your boot animation)

part0 = First folder in the sequence

As I said earlier you might be able to zip it all in one command and I just did it the wrong way but I do it this way because I know it works. You might be able to switch up which image folder zips first I don't know I just did it on order because it seemed logical , but I am sure that all the image folders have to be added before you add the "desc.txt" file.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] cloverdale:
Thank you. I have no idea how to things on windows these days. I always appreciate someone filling in the details.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] cloverdale:
I am going to start moving the posted animations to the OP. If anyone has an issue with this, please let me know.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] BuddahWolf01:
I've made one successfull animation, using the factory desc file and just changing the file names to match the original.

I have now made a different version that I'm having issues with...

I'm editing the file like you said, but for some reason I get white screen flashes during the animation. One at the very start and another everytime the second part of the animation repeats itself.

Any ideas why this is happening?

currently my desc file looks like this

480 800 15

p 1 0 android

p 1 0 part0

p 0 0 part1

I also tried this one (and some with different FPS values)

480 800 15

p 1 0 android

p 1 1 part0

p 0 1 part1
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] cloverdale:
Search through all of the image files, and make sure the numbering is consecutive, and that there are no missing numbers (such as image0005.png, image0007.png).
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] BuddahWolf01:
No, there weren't any... but I did delete some trying to fix it and that did make it worse.

Any chance it could be something with how the pngs are saved? I didn't use photoshop this time like I did the first time. I used After Effects to save my movie as a png sequence.

EDIT: I figured out the flashes. There are hidden files in the folders that contain pictures. On windows7 they are "ds.store" or something. Pretty much the same as .thumb files that allow you to see thumbnail previews. These must be removed or they will show as white flashes in your animation.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] cloverdale:
That makes a lot of sense. Damn windows :-)
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] BuddahWolf01:
well I figured out it may not have been windows! I usually do everything on mac, but didn't have an easy way to zip without compression... so I used windows for that part and the ADB part because it is slightly simpler.

I tried a couple different ways and some terminal commands on mac that also ended up zipping the ds_store files, so I guess they are a file that is hidden when you zip stuff that way.

Anyways tonight I figured out that I can just run the command you listed in step (3) and it works just fine without putting the ds_store files in!

So now after editing my images and videos, I wont have to switch to windows to zip and push them anymore!!!
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] kbrn:
I used root explorer to replace the bootanimation.zip.

Just backed up my original to my sdcard and then overwrited it with a custom one after.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] cloverdale:
I just wanted to let everyone know that I will not be around much for awhile, so please do not get upset if you think I am ignoring questions. I am working on a huge project at work (I am a researcher at the NIH, working on a major project from the SSA), and have been putting in 60 hour work weeks. People with terminal illness are dependent upon my work, so it comes before my health, my hobbies, and definitely before a phone. When things settle down a bit, I will become more active again. Talk to you all soon.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] cloverdale:
Work has been too much, and I had to take a break and make myself a new boot animation. Check the OP for this update.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] public acess:
So I tested this out I was able to get a premade boot ani to work but when I make my own it dosent work I think its the zipping part because I took the orignal boot an unzipped and rezipped just to test and it still dosent work is there an app I can DL on my phone or something special I have to do on my windows 7 7-zip program... I made a family guy boot ani will try to load once I get it to work :)
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] tambourineman86:
Try changing the zip compression level from Normal to Store after you've added your files to the archive. I think that's what he meant by a zero compression zip file. :S

EDIT: OP states:

The nice thing about GIMP is that it works with terminal commands, so it is possible to resize the entire folder of images with one line of code in the terminal.

What is the terminal command for windows? Where would I find that? Thanks in advance.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] public acess:
If you open the start menue search cmd it will open then in the 7-zip help section under contents cmd line ver then syntax it explains it but I can get it to work termanal tell me that its not a program or batch file
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] public acess:
I got it to work I used 7zip -store an I was trying to zip the 1 folder instead of the android folder an txt app ty for your help now I just gotta touch up my boot ani
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] pctech101:
Boost Mobile Animation

I dont know how to post animated screenshot
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] danaff37:
How many people have tried making their own? I tried to make one out of a scene from Tron Legacy... Ripped a clip to a gif, split the gif, tried as png and as jpg, and with different frame rates, but no matter what, it runs choppy on the first run, then runs super way fast when it loops. The speed it runs when looping seems to be the same speed (ludicrous speed) no matter what value I set the frame rate
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] Nitro3a:
From my experience that is the way it works. Remember that your phone is booting, henc using all of it's resources. Now on top of that it has to process and load the images. I have found when I make a very colorful, full screen animation that it runs slow because it is trying to process all the data. I use png files because they are easier for the phone to interpret/display then jpg's with their compression. Also with png files you can use transparency.

For the fact that the loop goes super fast I have not been able to figure out how to slow it down. I know when I first started I did all the things you mentioned and none of it worked. Y opinion is that sence the images are already loaded it just dispalys them as fast as it can. I just make duplicate frames or increase the frames and decrease the movement per frame to make it smooth.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] danaff37:
I tried png first. Went to jpg going that smaller file size might help memory wise. I'm running android particles right now, which only has shades of green, and it still is choppy at first, then takes off. I had a second animation for looping with 50 frames trying to smooth it out, and even with frame rate at 15 it went through it in less than a second once it took off
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] riggsandroid:
Added one to post #2. Hope you like it.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] mcarrion78:
how hard would it be to get this to work on our phones?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=990606
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] JKILO:
Does it not work when you push it?

Sent from my HTC Knight using MikShift

Edit: it has to resized
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] SHMaRiM:
If I were to Edit the boot images in a ROM file and make sure they keep the same file name will that work to achieve a custom boot screen?
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] riggsandroid:
The file name really doesn't matter, just that they are consecutive in numbering. But yea if you just replaced the image files in a zip, it could work.

The OP does a pretty good job of outlining what needs to be done. Maybe read thru one more time?
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] cloverdale:
You do not even need to go through resizing the images, just change the size in the desc.txt file as outlined in the OP.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] cloverdale:
The weird thing is, if you do one run, the lag does not seem to happen, at least for me. I know what you are referring to, but it only seems to happen when looping.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] riggsandroid:
I made these at the request of Crash. They are based on the Honeycomb Bee animation - I just modified the colors and resized them to fit our screen.

Here is a .gif for the Orange/Red one -

Blue Bee

Orange/Red Bee

Green Bee

Pink Bee

Grey Bee
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] CrashV2010:
You one bad mo fo man... LOve it !!!
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] riggsandroid:
Another one at the request of JesusIce

gif animation here

and I added the green honeycomb bee from above at the end...

here is the link to the boot animation.

it is not flashable. Have to push to correct location.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] jesusice:
Awesome! Jesusice is very satisfied :) Good job, Riggs!

^ Shift Faced
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] cloverdale:
I added riggsandroid's animations to the OP, along with a new one by me.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] dubs.law:
Just applied hypersurface animation. I agree, no lag. Thanks for these!
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] deezndc:
First crack at it and bingo! I used terminal emulator, changed the BIOS-bootanimation.zip to bootanimation.zip, and followed the instructions. Now to the funny part, I downloaded two animations from the OP and now have two bootanimations running consecutively. First the BiOS, then the green bee. I only pushed the BiOS though, I think. I know for sure I only changed the name on the one I used. Anyone up for an explanation?
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] riggsandroid:
the green bee is included at the end of the bios one. :D i said as much in this post here
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] sparksco:
Hey cloverdale, great job on this posting this thread, there's a lot of nice bootanimations and very detailed info as well. I was going to make one of these default for my rockmod rom, but instead I found it easier to make a flashable zip that will install any bootanimation.zip from the root of the sdcard in about 2 seconds flat lol. And it only installs it to the /data/local directory of the phone. So here it is, feel free to update on the OP if you wish :D

http://db.tt/0HRt83E
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] cloverdale:
Thank you, I will add it when I some time today (hopefully).
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] mrclark5688:
here's a quick boot I made for myself and anyone who may be a One Piece fan out there. Its a loop of chopper eating cotton candy. its larger than the upload limit here so threw it on dropbox.

http://goo.gl/2up3N
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] jrx859:
well, I have a question. I have using just NFX stock ROM 2.2 and using the BIOS-BEE boot screen. I switched to evervol's rom which so far I really like. but I can not get the BIO-BEE boot screen to work. I was wondering if I have to start from scratch with it since now its 2.3.3

Thanks
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] cloverdale:
For AOSP ROMs, you need to place bootanimation.zip in either /system/media or /data/local
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] jwigley24:
this stuff is too crazy for me, i know i'd mess something up
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] deezndc:
Oops....
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] prboy1969:
I am using the MikShift Beta Gingerbread Rom 2.3.3 and want to flash the Bios Bee boot animation. Is this possible? Or do I have to modify it? Will it work with my rom?
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] riggsandroid:
just find where the current bootanimation.zip is and replace it with the bootanimation.zip you want.

I just checked in the 2.3.3 leak and it seems the animation is named spc_bootanimation.zip, not sure if that is the case with your ROM, as I havn't used it.

Just check in /system/customize/resource for the .zip file and replace it (make sure with the same name) with whatever boot animation you want.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] prboy1969:
Can I just flash it with this?

EDIT: Found it gonna try in a few. Thanks for the info.

Shifted on my Mik BETA G powered Shift from neverland using XDA Premium App
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] riggsandroid:
that's not gonna work as that seems to be for aosp roms.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] prboy1969:
I'm just going to replace the bootanimation zip. The way you said to.

Shifted on my Mik BETA G powered Shift from neverland using XDA Premium App
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] prboy1969:
Thanks. Worked like a charm. Installed Bios Bee. Now if I could only get Bios with a Green Gingerbread Man on the end instead of the Bee :rolleyes: .
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] riggsandroid:
Is that a request? :p
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] prboy1969:
Well if somebody wants to make one, I'll definately use it :rolleyes:
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] :
I'm all in for that request please. :D
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] riggsandroid:
Give me the image or boot ani u want to run after the bios and ill post it up for you guys.

Also make more requests I work better with ideas given to me.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] prboy1969:
Good deal. Will post up the image in a bit. Thanks.

Shifted on my Mik BETA G powered Shift from neverland using XDA Premium App
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] prboy1969:
Hey thanks again for working on this. Here's the image I was thinking about for after BIOS.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] riggsandroid:
had to find a diff. version as the quality was low of the one you posted.

if you have a higher resolution image just PM me and ill give u my email

change file name to bootanimation.zip and put it wherever it needs to go.

THIS IS NOT FLASHABLE.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] prboy1969:
Good look. Thanks. Will DL now and check it out.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] prboy1969:
Works great. Except there's no Gingerbread man on the end?

MikShifted from Mik GB powered HTC
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] riggsandroid:
sorry - i didn't test it. will have updated one up hopefully tonight.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] prboy1969:
No need to apologize. Hell, I'm luckey that your sharing your skills and time with me. Thank you for taking the time to make it for me :) .
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] EindhovenOne:
Pulling my hair out!

I have no idea what the problem is...let me explain...

So I have always has the old BIOS looking boot animation, and I always went about editing the .png files to make everything match up with how my phone was actually provisioned just for the hell of it, so when I recently switched from Fresh to Synergy and 2.2 to 2.3.3 I needed to edit the pictures to match. I unzipped my bootanimation file, edited what I needed to and didn't change the desc.txt file whatsoever. Nothing got moved from its original location and no file names got changed at all. Unfortunately, now the animation is 3x faster and I didn't touch the frame rate values, and instead of it staying on the single .png file I had it set to stay on until boot into ROM it stays on for a moment and then goes black until it boots into my home screen?!?!? WTH!?!?!!

I have been over it and over it and over it and everything stayed the same. I even had a friend check and make sure everything was the same but NFG.

Help?

-E

EDIT: I did check for hidden ds.store files and used a clever "ds.store cleaner" that was well spoken for and there weren't any of those files. Also, if I simply take my working bootanimation, copy it, unzip it, don't do anything to it, and then put it right back into a ZIP file, it goes from being a 4.36MB file to a 4.73MB file for God knows what reason and then they file will do the same thing: speed up a lot, and go right to black before booting into ROM. :-/
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] turkbot:
tried 3 or 4 times twice with adb and twice with term everytime unsuccesful
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] cruse2382:
how do i split the flv into multiple frame images without having to save each frame individually with vlc ive downloaded Avidemux but just cant figure it out
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] fallnSaint:
If memory serves: file, save as, then select the option for stills.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] cruse2382:
Yeah i figured it but thanks for the fast reply it was as you said
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] jrny99:
please delete me
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] kendotelie:
heres my boot anim i made using this tutorial. thanks OP

the first 7 seconds of this video are what i used

Introducing Galaxy Nexus
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] drob311:
Thanks for this... very cool. Works great. Good work. Thanks again!
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] bubbaearl:
I made a "Pink Floyd The Wall" boot animation if anyone's interested. I also made a gif of it, but I can't post a link to it...I'm still too noobish (not enough posts). I've attached the gif in an uncompressed zip file. Keep in mind that this zip is not flashable. It only contains the gif file. The gif is a little choppy, but the boot looks great on my Shift. If anyone wants the actual bootanimation.zip, I can post it when I get home from work. Warning--it's a big file!
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] Aaargh!:
anyway to preview the pink Floyd

Sent from the beach with a conch shell
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] bubbaearl:
Since I don't have enough posts to put up a link, I can email the gif to you. Just PM me with your email address. Sorry, I'll try to get my post count up :D

Hey Aaargh!, check your PM.
[EVO Shift 4G Themes and Apps] Aaargh!:
Finally got it working and it rocks. Thank you sir

Sent from the beach with a conch shell