Problem replacing animated GIF in Hero - G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I am trying to replace the HTC and Hero animated GIFs in JACxHERO v1.2. The image loads, but does not animate properly. It is very distorted and mainly just colored noise, with the actual image flashing every few seconds.
Any help will be appreciated!

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[HERO bootscreen] "HTC quietly brilliant" (anyone?)

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
etecdailey said:
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.
jayw08 said:
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.

Custom Android Boot Animation, moving images

Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to put up an animated boot animation instead of the old android one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=527200
There's that tutorial, but that just shows you how to make a custom image with the shining animation.
I'm talking full on animations, like a gif of a video clip or something. And also, is there a way to incorporate sounds with it, like when the droid is done booting up, it makes that droid robot voice?
Thanks.
my signature says im running eclair, but i recently changed it to cyanogenmod 4.2.9.1 due to some errors in the eclair on my phone.
RodrigoKim said:
Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to put up an animated boot animation instead of the old android one.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=527200
There's that tutorial, but that just shows you how to make a custom image with the shining animation.
I'm talking full on animations, like a gif of a video clip or something. And also, is there a way to incorporate sounds with it, like when the droid is done booting up, it makes that droid robot voice?
Thanks.
my signature says im running eclair, but i recently changed it to cyanogenmod 4.2.9.1 due to some errors in the eclair on my phone.
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Well, as of now hero does gifs and sound. From what I can understand, animated bootscreens (like gifs) cannot be done in 1.6 down, it seems animated boots were supported in 2.0+

Boot Screen Help

I am making a new boot screen for my self that mimics an Ubuntu one. Problem I have, is durring the animation, as far as I can tell frame 2...crap hits the fan. The image distorts in a funny pixelated way. Not sure how to describe it other than an explosion of random colored pixels. Well not so random colored, they are the colors that are in the image.
So I guess my question is, are there certain ways the GIF needs to be formated? Color restrictions? Frame restriction? In all the image is 32 kb so its not huge. I have it formated is a Animated Gif WebSnap 128 - There is no transparency.
There are definitely frame restrictions. I made my own bootscreen a while back and ran into the very same issue. I downloaded an animated gif to base my screen on, and I tried a few things to fix it. The problem ended up being that all the animated frames need to be exactly the same size/shape/location. The frames don't have to take up the entire 320x480, you can just have a static background take up that space, and have the animation within smaller frames. In fact, the smaller your animation frames are, the smoother the animation will be. I initially tried making the animation frames take up the entire screen, but it was very choppy.
The gif I downloaded had the frames moving along with the animation, presumably to keep the file size down. I'm not sure what program the initial gif was made in, but I used The GIMP to re-create it.
BTW AFAIK, you can use transparencies... but it's been a little while since I touched that file, so I could be wrong.
Hope this helps! Sorry if this was a little long-winded :/
craig0r said:
There are definitely frame restrictions. I made my own bootscreen a while back and ran into the very same issue. I downloaded an animated gif to base my screen on, and I tried a few things to fix it. The problem ended up being that all the animated frames need to be exactly the same size/shape/location. The frames don't have to take up the entire 320x480, you can just have a static background take up that space, and have the animation within smaller frames. In fact, the smaller your animation frames are, the smoother the animation will be. I initially tried making the animation frames take up the entire screen, but it was very choppy.
The gif I downloaded had the frames moving along with the animation, presumably to keep the file size down. I'm not sure what program the initial gif was made in, but I used The GIMP to re-create it.
BTW AFAIK, you can use transparencies... but it's been a little while since I touched that file, so I could be wrong.
Hope this helps! Sorry if this was a little long-winded :/
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I think I am going to try it again in GIMP, I wonder if Fireworks has a lot of overhead that is messing with the file. The image is pretty much static with the exception of a progress bar. 17-ish Frames/Slates.
Here is the GIF if you want to take a look at it.
it needs to be 255 colors. no more, no less. and instead of websnap, choose exact.

[Boot Animation/Splash] 8-bit HD Bootup

Not sure what prompted me to spend a day making this and, if it's not painfully obvious, I relied on PowerPoint and Paint for most of this. Since it's finished, though, I decided to share. Hope someone enjoys rocking it on their TB as much as I do.
Also, added a .gif of the sequence down below. Timing is off and quality is poor in the .gif, but the bootanimation.zip contains all .png's. The .gif is of the White version. My OCD noticed a little ring of light color around the Droid in the Black version, so I went back in with Gimp and made a White version and am uploading both.
Note: I didn't add a sound for it. I prefer to not have a boot sound, but if someone finds/mixes one appropriate, I'm game to try it.
Files attached below, but also MultiUploaded
Black Boot Animation - bootanimation.zip
Black Splash Screen - PG05IMG.zip
White Boot Animation - bootanimation.zip
White Splash Screen - PG05IMG.zip
How to change your Boot Animation
How to change your Splash screen
In the Downloads below, the Black version's files come first.
*scratching head....
Where is the gif? Only see a jpeg.

[REQ] Transformers Boot Animation With Sound WIP Help?

I've had trouble finding a Transformers boot animation that I like that includes sound. I've started trying to make my own with Boot Animation Factory, but the sound is way out of sync with the video. I don't know if the problem is due to rendering the png images incorrectly or what. Perhaps there's a better boot animation creation tool now?
I'd like to try to do a pacific rim boot animation but as of yet I haven't found any source material I like to work with. (I usually like to stick to animated logos & whatnot.)
Here's the video I was trying to convert to a boot animation:
sendspace.com/file/unco9f
I'm still a bit new to android at the moment, but I do have backgrounds in programming, web design, and graphic design. Any help with either converting this video to a boot animation, or just pointing me in the right direction to make it properly myself would be greatly appreciated. I'm making it for a 10.1" tablet running android 4.4.2

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