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 :/
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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.
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Hi,
I've been playing around transferring files onto my phone, but I just can't get my lock screen to look right.
1. Does anyone know what the exact dimensions of the lockscreen image should be? I read 320x480 somewhere, but this isn't correct. I've also tried 360x380, 340x480. Maybe it's 345x480? I want to get this right because...
2. Whenever I set an image onto the lock screen, the phone seems to compress the image really badly and I see loads of jpg artifacts on the parts that should be solid colour. I'm hoping that if the image is the right size, it won't convert/re-sample/re-compress the file.
Any ideas?
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1. Does anyone know what the exact dimensions of the lockscreen image should be?
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The stock ones are 320 x 455, and I've had good results using those dimensions for my own images.
Im sure i read that converting your image to a png and using that instead of the png file gave better results also. Not 100% on that though lol
.png gives better quality than jpg.
320x455 px is the right size. But everytime you set wallpaper, HTC software it re-compress as JPEG in tragical quality. PNG or JPEG, that makes no difference.
Will be nice software like Wallpaper Set & Save for lock screen wallpaper. But I can't find something like that.
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320x455 px is the right size. But everytime you set wallpaper, HTC software it re-compress as JPEG in tragical quality.
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Not my experience. My own images are usually desktop 'papers resized and/or cropped to 320x455 and saved as JPEGs, and provided I ensure the green 'crop box' is expanded to encompass the entire image when selecting the lockscreen they look just as good as the originals.
I've tried many images. At most (as you) cropped or resized desktop wallpapers. I prepare the correct size and copy to phone. I keep JPEG at 90 to 100% of quality and also convert it to PNG. And every image was resampled during setting up as lock screen wallpaper. Everytime its quality goes rapidly down. Even I used exactly the same way like you.
It is not good visible on landscape wallpapers with. But on artifical images it's very big problem. It blurs every contrast line on image.
Try it on this image: http://anowia.deviantart.com/art/Light-Blaze-HD-Wallpaper-129153930 If you don't notice any resample after setting up as lock screen wallpaper, please provide screenshot.
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Try it on this image: http://anowia.deviantart.com/art/Light-Blaze-HD-Wallpaper-129153930 If you don't notice any resample after setting up as lock screen wallpaper, please provide screenshot.
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Here you go.... see what you think. View attachment lockscreen.zip
Not perfect, but it was a rush job. Resized from 1280x1024 to ???x455, then cropped to 320x455. Saved as JPEG @ 100% for use. Photoshop Elements 7 used. If I had more time I'd probably play with the sharpening to compensate for the downsizing.
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I've tried many images. At most (as you) cropped or resized desktop wallpapers. I prepare the correct size and copy to phone. I keep JPEG at 90 to 100% of quality and also convert it to PNG. And every image was resampled during setting up as lock screen wallpaper. Everytime its quality goes rapidly down. Even I used exactly the same way like you.
It is not good visible on landscape wallpapers with. But on artifical images it's very big problem. It blurs every contrast line on image.
Try it on this image: http://anowia.deviantart.com/art/Light-Blaze-HD-Wallpaper-129153930 If you don't notice any resample after setting up as lock screen wallpaper, please provide screenshot.
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Also having this issue with this image..
I have problems with all images. But on this it's good visible. And as Shluggity's screenshots shows, it's not only my problem. I think it's not good
I'm not sure what's going on but there's definitely some sort of degradation visible, a softening of the edges. I honestly haven't seen it in my own wallpapers, but I haven't used images like this with lots of thin sharp 'light beam' effects. Maybe original image res is a factor, maybe screen dpi, maybe something completely different... If I have time tomorrow I'll do some tests.
how does wallpaper set and save work? maybe the wallpaper directory is similar to the lockscreen directory?
Have you tried HeroLockWall? (Market)
lockscreen wallpaper help..
i have the same problem i cant get lockscreen wallpaper to work every time i try i get a tile wallpaper and not a stretch wallpaper that i want can sum body help me plz??
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.
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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
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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
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.
Okay,
I was fiddling around with boot animations on my sensation an made a sweet one that i like from a couple of youtube vids all credit goes to them ie korea android ad and i think a fellow in a design class made the other one (look below i have attached) but when i tried to do the same for my xoom i got stuck in the boot animation where it kept recylcing the boot and never actually booted into the rom... to say the least i had to do a nandroid to get back just from a boot animation which kinda sucks... anyway ill lay out the specifics
1. I used jpgs, same as with my sensation they seem to work just as well as .pngs but keep the zip much much smaller and dont look choppy
2. I use the original boot animation from the tiamat 2.2.2 version as my base zip file which i edited with my pictures
3. I used the actually spec'd dimensions of the xoom of 1280 x 800 for the pictures, however i noticed that the boot from tiamat used 704 x 440 maybe that could be it (i will be trying that now and report back)
4. as my boot time took a while i thought i may try to use 900 images (a bit dumb i know, in my sensation i use 400 and it gets through them nicely, each pic is a pretty quick segment tho) (i will edit the same amount as my sensation and try again)
can anyone shed some light onto why mine may not have worked other than the amount of pics..
here is a youtube link for what i actually made
boot
i tried to just change the resolution to 704 x 440... and i deleted half the images... and tried again... again it kept replaying and never actually booted into the rom so again i am nandroiding lol
You will need to edit your desc.txt file
1408 880 24
p 0 0 part 0
put all your pictures in folder named part0.
Then zip folder using 7zip and make sure you choose store as compression method.
Hope this helps.
i have done that but used done3 as my folder name.. as i said i used the tiamat moray boot animation as my base zip =]
the name of the folder inside the zip shouldn't make a difference especially as i got it to play but it keeps playing and playing a small bit and not the whole file nor booting into the rom...
on all my bootanimations, it helps if you make each image 960 x 600.
then on your desc.txt file, make the screen size 1280 x 800 (the correct size for the xoom).
sometimes if there is an extra pixel hanging off it could cause you to blackscreen or bootloop.
also, sometimes you'll get a bad jpg file, that could also cause the black screen or bootloop.
best suggestion would be to get the desc.txt file from a known working bootanimation and just adjust the frame rate. be sure to hit enter for a new line after you have put in the info for the last part folder.
oh, and a little trick i found. use the bootanimation installer to push the bootanimation, then restart the xoom and be sure to close the bootanimation installer.
leave your xoom connected to your pc. if you do get into a bootloop, wait a few minutes for it to loop then just reopen the bootanimation installer and push a known working bootanimation. after a few seconds the new bootanimation (or default one) should show and should boot normally. this is my procedure.
Sardo Numspa said:
on all my bootanimations, it helps if you make each image 960 x 600.
then on your desc.txt file, make the screen size 1280 x 800 (the correct size for the xoom).
sometimes if there is an extra pixel hanging off it could cause you to blackscreen or bootloop.
also, sometimes you'll get a bad jpg file, that could also cause the black screen or bootloop.
best suggestion would be to get the desc.txt file from a known working bootanimation and just adjust the frame rate. be sure to hit enter for a new line after you have put in the info for the last part folder.
oh, and a little trick i found. use the bootanimation installer to push the bootanimation, then restart the xoom and be sure to close the bootanimation installer.
leave your xoom connected to your pc. if you do get into a bootloop, wait a few minutes for it to loop then just reopen the bootanimation installer and push a known working bootanimation. after a few seconds the new bootanimation (or default one) should show and should boot normally. this is my procedure.
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Sweet ill try that.. I tried 3 dimension sizes the true size, and 2 dimensions i got from boot animations with the roms.. I reduced the number of jpgs..
One last thing what setting do u choose for your jpg in photoshop? Or do u jyst use pngs.. I can use setting of 6 medium sized compression for me sensation even tho it works for my phone that may be affecting the xoom
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doesnt really matter the file size. we've made bootanimations with upwards of 7 parts and 200+ mb.
i would say try it first with pngs and if it works then convert to jpgs. i use a file sizing program to make sure of the picture ratio, it gets rid of any of those hanging pixels.
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doesnt really matter the file size. we've made bootanimations with upwards of 7 parts and 200+ mb.
i would say try it first with pngs and if it works then convert to jpgs. i use a file sizing program to make sure of the picture ratio, it gets rid of any of those hanging pixels.
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Well considering i set canvas size with photoshop that constricts pixel dimensions quiet well but ill take ya advice and try that and i might split it up too
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also remember that there is a file number limit per part (folder).
looks good
Success it would seem.. Jpgs are fine.. I think i have found the upper limit of pictures no matter the amount of folders.. The 130 per folder helped.. Will update when i get home from work
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