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weeks ago someone post a splash screen that was a at&t logo looking like star wars death star. I search but found nothing if somebody can help me will be appreciated
I couldn't find one either, so I just slapped this one together...
thanks great splash screen
That would be a cool startup screen - if you make it I sure would like to have it.
Right on, thanks. Glad you guys like it.
Yeah, I'd like to make that my startup screen too... =P
I made it and then realized I didn't know how to change the splash screen. Ahh well. I'm sure the instructions are on the board somewhere!
In the mean time, I decided to make a background based on this graphic...
It actually works out pretty well with the black theme and HTC Home.
Nice Graphic, Here's it converted into a usable splash screen. It needs to be 320x320 24bit PNG file. Unzip it and copy it into your phone's windows folder.
You may need to use something like resco file explorer to change the original splash graphic (welcomehead96.png) to remove the read-only attribute so you can copy the new one in.
Have fun.
P.S. This is the "2nd" splash screen and comes up after the ROM splash.
Here's an updated version with the starfield background...
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...It needs to be 320x320 24bit PNG file...
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Oops... Just saw your post.
Hmmm.. Not sure I can do that with paint.NET, which is all I have installed on this box at the moment. It looks like it can save PNG files, but I have no idea if that's 24bit or what.
Here you go..
could you be talking about this one???
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Here you go..
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Okay, that looks freaking great! Thank you for your file!
AT&T Boot Splash Screen
If you want this image as the very first start screen as you power your kaiser up (boot splash screen) then I have created the relevant file for you to flash on your phone.
Click Here and follow instructions The deathstar splash file is a little way down.
Russ
Hello, is it possible to implement "HTC quietly brilliant" to the standard HTC bootscreen ?
Are the standard bootscreen connected together? (I mean HERO + HTC animations ) or two GIF's side by side?
Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=587867
I'll try to do it alone
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Hello, is it possible to implement "HTC quietly brilliant" to the standard HTC bootscreen ?
Are the standard bootscreen connected together? (I mean HERO + HTC animations ) or two GIF's side by side?
Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=587867
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they are two single gifs. look in /system/media/bootscreen.
Would be really good if we can apply this, its a really nice bootscreen im bored of the Hero one
i don't think you can use it as a splashscreen. the splashscreen is the very first screen to appear, usually your operator's logo (or the operator who sold the phone, i.e. t-mobile for me). this is a static picture, and can be updated since paul released the hacked spl.
the bootscreen is by default the two androids popping up behind the "hero", and then the sparkling htc logo. this can be replaced. give me two minutes, i'll make you an update.zip...
edit: no luck, the gif somehow doesn't work as a bootscreen. if you could find it in / change it to 320x480 it might work though.
Thanks for having ago, i really dunno where to start with all of this, have you tried changin the size? i dont have a carrier animation as i have MoDaCos rom.
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Thanks for having ago, i really dunno where to start with all of this, have you tried changin the size? i dont have a carrier animation as i have MoDaCos rom.
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hm, you don't get it. the carrier logo is not animated. it is shown for 40-45 seconds as the first picture when the phone is started. maybe it is the htc's stock picture, the hero writing. it just sits there, then quickly fades out and back in, and then the little androids come out. the moment where it fades is when the splashscreen is changed to the bootscreen. in this case they are just the same picture, except the bootscreen being animated.
the splashscreen can only be a static image.
the bootscreen can be up (or more?) three animated gifs, fullscreen or cropped with another (probably static, didn't test animated) gif for the background. you can loop the last image or just let it sit at the last frame. look into /system/media/bootscreen, and check the contents of the boot_animation.xml, it is pretty self-explainatory.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=582336&highlight=bootscreen
have a look into the stock_bootscreen_nosound.zip, it is the original stock htc bootscreen (not splashscreen!). the bootscreen can be applied via update.zip or adb push, the splashscreen must be written in fastboot mode as it is kind of a "low-level" image presentation. this is also the reason why the image must be rgb565-coded before flashing. on modaco there is a howto for the splashscreen, which needs the modified hboot (also called spl) for the hero just released by paul.
this should do it, hope this helps
edit: i tried changing the size, but somehow the gif looks wired when i open it with gimp, it seems to destroy all the animation timing... should be possible though.
Thanks for explaining all that, GIFs are tricky but very effective, i dont really have time to look into all that u described, but thanks for having a go. I just hope someone that may have more experience with the hero may do it. I dont know where to find a file explorer for the hero on windows.
Thanks
Here ya go. But for some odd reason, it doesn't show up correctly. Dunno why. I just made it into an animated gif with the right size.
tristan it works what you made?
Not exactly. It works fine on the pc, but when put on the phone it flickers. I don't have the knowhow to get it to work, but I thought that if I uploaded the gif, soeone with the wits could fix it.
I am having the same issue, tristan202. I edited and moved the tattoo boot animation ( HERE ) but when flashed to the phone, it gets garbled and looks weird.
I made the animation in Flash CS4.
Anybody know the solution to this?
i wanna usee it hoepfully somebody can make it work
can't delete bootlogo :[
when making the nexus bootscreen i found out that the gif needs to be 255 color indexed mode. 128 colors won't work, for example. what seems to work is to use rgb files, throw them together in gimp, and let it do the indexing automatically when exporting. source material needs to be rgb (at least the first image), otherwise the result will be using the palette of the first image, which will make the rest of the frames look like crap.
I have made gifs for a custom boot screen and have been playing around with getting it them to work.
I flash over the previous bootscreen it reboots, my images show but then when they are meant to be animated the image gets scrambled and makes no sense, i did rather cheekily just replace the .gifs from someone elses custom boot screen and signed the zip file.
does anyone know whats going wrong or can anyone point me in the direction of creating the files to go with the gifs so i can get this working.
Cheers
John
They need to be in indexed 255 colors. And they mustn't have any transparent layers. Then they should work just fine.
ahh tristan...you've learnt well... ;D
cheers for the help gents, will try it in the morning.
hmm this is annoying, i have my gif files all built nicely but not using indexed 255 .... does anyone know of a tutorial for converting it without loosing all animations? im searching the net at the moment but no luck
gimp -> image -> mode -> indexed
Will it change a current gif or do i have to make the frames again in gimp?
It works through all the frames.
just used gimp under ubuntu, opened the animations selected image >> mode >> indexed flashed my boot files and they are still not displaying right, beter as you can see part of the animation playing but its far from perfect.
shal i just try creating the images again? or has anyone got any other suggestions?
thanks for everyones help so far though
John
Hello, first post here. I am having the same problems as jonny in creating a custom bootscreen. The first frame of my animation will show before it scrambles. Iam using photoshop. I created my animation in imageready, imported to photoshop, made an indexed 255 color palate and went back to imageready and loaded the palate. I feel like I'm missing something obvious.
BTW, I love this forum. You are all great. I am learning so much. Recently created my own lockscreen, and after I can get the bootscreen down I want to try my hand at the taskbar icons
I swapped to GIMP image editor (which is 100% free) to actualy animate my gifs in indexed 255, i did it in photoshop but it didnt work for some reason even when using indexed 255 colour.
Okay, after much fooling around, I finally got it to work properly . In case anyone cares, here's what I did:
Created the animation in PS (didn't realize you could do animation in PS and didn't need IR) to how I want it to run. Once it looks exactly how you want it, click "Flatten frames into layers". Now delete your original layers so all you have left is the animation frames. Save PSD and open it in GIMP. Go to file, save as, and save as a gif. Click the "save as animation" and "convert to indexed" (that is the key right there) bubbles, and click "export" then save.
Viola! now more problems. I can't figure out how to post it as a gif, but it is the boot process from windows xp.
I spent 8 hours for this:-( in photoshop.
I made an animation of all the 49 images where this animation made of. What an awful job to line everything right...but the result is stunning!!
As the images are rather small I rotated them 90 degrees to keep visibility of it and streched them to 480x800. So instead it starts from the outside left and right on your device it starts from the bottom and top. I made an interval of 0,06 seconds per frame, which looks the best in my opinion.
I saved it as SEMC1904.gif in the zipfile.
For Xperia X1 users, just place it in your windows folder and overwrite the existing file.
For other users, rename the .gif file as you need it on your phone.
If some one can make a cab of it, so it will install on all wvga devices, please let me know and I post this in the first post.
Beware there are 49 images in there, so the file is 3,5 MB instead of the default Xperia one of 554KB (7 times more).
SO YOU NEED 3,6 MB FREE SPACE ON YOUR DEVICE!!!
I can't take a screenshot from Starting the device, but here is one of the photoshop made ones, I will not post all 49 if you don't mind:
Cheers,
Arnold
Really good contribution, I know what pain it is to create such a complicated animation!
Well, it's done and it looks really colourfull!!
Cheers,
Arnold
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Well, it's done and it looks really colourfull!!
Cheers,
Arnold
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COOL PollPixx i will download now and try it will write comment leter,
You did it
P.S After a Test on Blackstone the Animation is really Heavy and not runing smooth the Animation i think can be around 800kb maximum and with less delay to run faster and smooth
Okay, I can make it faster, no problem, but how to decrease the size of a gif it to 800KB keeping the same resolution?????
EDIT: It runs now twice as fast, 0,05 seconds a frame, edited the zip file in post 1. Does this help?
Otherwise I know a lot of photoshopping, I grouped all files together but can't get it less MB without resizing the resolution...
Cheers,
Arnold
PollPixx said:
Okay, I can make it faster, no problem, but how to decrease the size of a gif it to 800KB keeping the same resolution?????
Cheers,
Arnold
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the resolution can be the same but the Animation to be ligther i will explain you how.
for example there have 95 images but they are big size because are Hight Quality images, honestly on our devices we can`t see the big diference with naked eye so what can be done is for example using Irfanview open image 1 and save as but when you save as just dicreasse the quality from 100% to be like 85% this will make the whole image 10 time smaller when all is done with all the images and they are made in one single gif animation the total size of the gif file will be too 10 times smaller and also i open now your animation with all the files there is not need i speak for a blackstone 95 frames because no matter how fast is the animation you dont have so much time when the phone start up have time only to play it once i mean to loop the whole idea Once so in this 95 files the whole idea is looped 2 times witch is not usefull i chek it out from frame 1 to frame 49 including is the ONE LOOP that is needed i did a gif and when i test it yes the animation loop only once and my phone is ready not have time for 2 times looping this gif.
If you do this with dicreasing the images quality the final gif file can be even under 800kb and also the gif animation can be made from many sort of images files i mean not only png if they are Jpg will work too
i chek it out with 03 delay is super fast
so I only need image 1 to 49 (goodbye a few hours of spare time hahaha)
Well, that decrease it a lot, don't it....will work on it now...
Edited zipfile, now 3,5MB.....will test it now on x1
Cheers,
Arnold
PollPixx said:
so I only need image 1 to 49 (goodbye a few hours of spare time hahaha)
Well, that decrease it a lot, don't it....will work on it now...
Edited zipfile, now 3,5MB.....will test it now on x1
Cheers,
Arnold
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Yes because in all this 95 frames the whole animation loop 2 times so if you have from 1 to 49 the whole animation will loop Once and will be withthe same quality like this one with the 95 images the diference is how many times will loop the animation but like i sa you dont have time for 2 full loops. so its uselless to be used 95 frames
okay, didn't noticed that, otherwise I wouldn't went through all the hassle.
Anyway, I tested it on Xperia with just one loop on 0,05 frames a second and it works fine. I just left a fraction of a second watching the black screen on the end of the animation, so it is fine.
Thanks for your assistance in this one. This was the first time I modified an excisting Boot Animation, therefor a couple of bugs where in it. Now it is working fine and with 3,5 MB my xperia doesn't slow down or anything...
Cheers,
Arnold
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okay, didn't noticed that, otherwise I wouldn't went through all the hassle.
Anyway, I tested it on Xperia with just one loop on 0,05 frames a second and it works fine. I just left a fraction of a second watching the black screen on the end of the animation, so it is fine.
Thanks for your assistance in this one. This was the first time I modified an excisting Boot Animation, therefor a couple of bugs where in it. Now it is working fine and with 3,5 MB my xperia doesn't slow down or anything...
Cheers,
Arnold
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No problem
Then if you do it 06 ms delay all will be fine i mean u will not see a fraction of second the black screen anymore, but this all depends from the device and many other things... so same device the one can boot for 2 sec the other for 2.5sec so you can`t make it to be good for everyone
The bad thing is that we can`t make it like real Android and i dont know why heheh
see what i mean.
Once befor a few mounths i flash my Blackstone with Android 2.1 and when the device start up the Animation was Super perfect i mean really Hight Quality and was WVGA like it must to be i mean not like now they colours to appear from top and bottom they was from left and right and the speed of the animation and colours was more than perfect for this reason i asked befor can anyone make it we to use under window.. but.. the quality the speed and everything is not the same
tsalta said:
The bad thing is that we can`t make it like real Android and i dont know why heheh
see what i mean.
Once befor a few mounths i flash my Blackstone with Android 2.1 and when the device start up the Animation was Super perfect i mean really Hight Quality and was WVGA like it must to be i mean not like now they colours to appear from top and bottom they was from left and right and the speed of the animation and colours was more than perfect for this reason i asked befor can anyone make it we to use under window.. but.. the quality the speed and everything is not the same
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Well, it's the best I could do with the images which are around on the internet.
Cheers,
Arnold
PollPixx said:
I spent 8 hours for this:-( in photoshop.
I made an animation of all the 49 images where this animation made of. What an awful job to line everything right...but the result is stunning!!
As the images are rather small I rotated them 90 degrees to keep visibility of it and streched them to 480x800. So instead it starts from the outside left and right on your device it starts from the bottom and top. I made an interval of 0,06 seconds per frame, which looks the best in my opinion.
I saved it as SEMC1904.gif in the zipfile.
For Xperia X1 users, just place it in your windows folder and overwrite the existing file.
For other users, rename the .gif file as you need it on your phone.
If some one can make a cab of it, so it will install on all wvga devices, please let me know and I post this in the first post.
Beware there are 49 images in there, so the file is 3,5 MB instead of the default Xperia one of 554KB (7 times more).
SO YOU NEED 3,6 MB FREE SPACE ON YOUR DEVICE!!!
I can't take a screenshot from Starting the device, but here is one of the photoshop made ones, I will not post all 49 if you don't mind:
Cheers,
Arnold
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When we can have VGA version....awesome work. you are creative man
i had made my own nexus one boot also before..its here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=644501
(i uploaded it at the bottom partof the thread)
i really do understand what "PollPixx" is telling.. its really a pain doing this one.. i used this one before for my own unit.. but since new builds of x1 go pass by the animated boot screen im not using this one anymore.. just want to share
PollPixx said:
I spent 8 hours for this:-( in photoshop.
I made an animation of all the 49 images where this animation made of. What an awful job to line everything right...but the result is stunning!!
As the images are rather small I rotated them 90 degrees to keep visibility of it and streched them to 480x800. So instead it starts from the outside left and right on your device it starts from the bottom and top. I made an interval of 0,06 seconds per frame, which looks the best in my opinion.
I saved it as SEMC1904.gif in the zipfile.
For Xperia X1 users, just place it in your windows folder and overwrite the existing file.
For other users, rename the .gif file as you need it on your phone.
If some one can make a cab of it, so it will install on all wvga devices, please let me know and I post this in the first post.
Beware there are 49 images in there, so the file is 3,5 MB instead of the default Xperia one of 554KB (7 times more).
SO YOU NEED 3,6 MB FREE SPACE ON YOUR DEVICE!!!
I can't take a screenshot from Starting the device, but here is one of the photoshop made ones, I will not post all 49 if you don't mind:
Cheers,
Arnold
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Please Please!! Can you tell me how to apply this Boot Animation??
I used to push the bootanimation.zip folder in system/media, but how to proceed for this one? What do I have to do with the SEMC1904.gif??
Btw I have a Motorola Defy.. please reply me
So I'm making a custom animation and I'm wondering whether or not I should use this in it... (Retro Arcade themed)
If so, so I recolor the background black or keep it as is?
(P.S. The image is really big so I can't have it shown here...)
http://i.imgur.com/6uAGX.png
I decided to add it anyways...
The boot animation was going to originally designed just for us, but I figured why not just make it for everyone...
There's no text/images specifying any particular device/version...
Here's a sneak peek of 2 of the frames...
The whole idea of the animation is to "simulate" an old arcade cabinet booting up...
Feel free to give your opinion of it so far...
"Frames" 00 to 20 are done...
All that's left to do is just finish up the "loading" bit, save as a gif and test it...
Just working on this...
Almost done... (Hopefully...)
Oh, what's a good resolution for a boot animation... I don't want this to be too small...
Here's what I did so far... (Not much new... Had no motivation today since my brother stole my phone this morning while I was sleeping...)
All that's left is the timings, and the "now loading" part I need to finish up...
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Just in case, I've doubled the size to 512x512 so far...
Also, if it's too small, would getting it to 768x768 be a better idea... I could use some help on this... It's why I made the thread...
Can I get some help closing/removing this thread please...
I kinda don't it lying around still open and stuff...