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Badbert's Custom WIZARD BootScreen Store!!

Please Post here, so questions can be answered by more than me... NO PMs please!
My method is from this Thread
After alot of taking from this site, I am prepared to give something back!! I can make boot-screens and splash screens for you, if you like.
I will also upload my own customs, ready to flash!!
Here is the first set, I found a Picture of a little boy wearing a wizard costume.
It contains just Bootscreens, will not change anything else, you will not lose data.
They are only for Wizards!!
As requested I will share my "Method of Manipulation"... Hope you can follow along... As a side-note I will try to explain what makes an Image complex. If the image has clouds or gradients or highly detailed or a lot of black with white dots. It will be hard to compress. If it is a solid color it will compress easily. Sometimes I "pen" out the subject and put it on a soild color background to save the image quality..
First I open the file in photoshop. And crop it to 480x640x96dpi. If the file has a "complex-background" I go to "Part One;Step one. If it has a solid color background go to "Part One;Step 4"
Part one:
1.Using the pen tool (or your selection tool of choice) I create a work path of the subject (foreground).
2.Then I create a new 480x640x96dpi image And drag the subject (foreground) into the new document.
3.If the background is important to the image I then clear the selection.
4.Then I choose "save image for web". When the image opens up into the save for web sub-program, I choose "GIF" format, resize the image to 240x320 using "bi-cubic smoother".
5.Then I manipulate the "Lossy", "Colors",and "Dither" values until I come up with an image I find pleasing. Try to keep the "optimized" file size down below 15k to 20k if it is just the background. And less than 27k if it is the whole picture.
6.I then save the file as HTC.GIF in My "equinoxe boot/splash kitchen".
If the HTC.GIF is just a background go to "Part TWO".
If it is the whole Image, continue to part 7
7.Then I open the kitchen and right click on the HTC.GIF file and choose "edit". this opens the file in MS PAINT. Choose "save as" and save it as a "24-bit Bitmap".
8.Then I say a prayer, and click on "htc-compres.bat" and hope for a 65536 byte file. I always end up with a 67235 or something the first try.
If it is not, go back to photoshop and start over at "step 4" until you get a perfect 65536 bytes.
Part two:
"If the HTC.GIF file you saved was just the background"
1.Open the HTC.GIF file in Photoshop.
2.Resize it to 480x640x96 dpi
3.Change the mode to RGB
4."Drag and drop" The layer from "Part One; Step 2" onto The HTC.GIF file while holding "SHIFT" Move it around if it doesn't land right until it looks right.
5.Go to "Part One; Step 4"
Good Luck

Just an FYI, the 3rd splash screen should really be 320x320 so that it shows up correctly in landscape mode. The design still mainly needs to be kept in the 240x320 area (ie: the left side of the 320x320) as it doesn't get stretched.
To be honest, I don't know how many people start their phones in landscape mode, so its probably not a big issue, but if you see the original welcomehead.96.png files, you'll see they are 320x320 for this reason.

Thanx mfrazz, changing now!

Found the coolest little 3-D devil!! Added a welcome screen.

Made a new Black Windows Logo (Inspired by inneyeseakay). Moved the original here.

Found another Wizard!

Pardon my ignorance but do these replace the first sceen you see on soft reset or the second?

rmg said:
Pardon my ignorance but do these replace the first sceen you see on soft reset or the second?
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There are actually three screens:
The first is the "HTC-Logo" screen it has no IPL/SPL.
The second is the "Splash" screen it has the IPL/SPL.
The third is the "Welcome" screen (usually windows mobile)
The "zip" files replace the LOGO and SPLASH screens.
The "cab" files replace the third screen.

One for the Ladies in your life (or just want a lady wizard on your screen)

Purple Wizard Paradox!

Anyone a fan of Michelle-Lee Phelan? This is her Fairy God-Mother.

badbert said:
Made a new Black Windows Logo (Inspired by inneyeseakay).
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I'm flattered... lol. Anyway, really like the Wizard logos!

inneyeseakay said:
I'm flattered... lol. Anyway, really like the Wizard logos!
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Thank You! I Like your work as well!!

Another Phelan, "The Little Red Number".

And Matrix Code?? Please!!!
Thank you

LeoArg said:
And Matrix Code?? Please!!!
Thank you
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hmm any images?? tomorrow for sure.
Creative Juices flowing.... Maybe something special....

Matrix Code Images
Do you like?

LeoArg said:
Do you like?
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Yes, please share it

badbert, do you like?
Do it, please. I don´t know the method
Thank

to bad
to bad its not for G4 lock wizard

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.

Nexus One Boot Animation (REQ)

Hello, can anyone make a Nexus One Boot Animation in WVGA ?
I try with no sucess because i can`t find the right source for this animation.
Chek out this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTex7taLiGs
If anyone make animation like this will be awesome
Thanks

tsalta said:
Hello, can anyone make a Nexus One Boot Animation in WVGA ?
I try with no sucess because i can`t find the right source for this animation.
Chek out this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTex7taLiGs
If anyone make animation like this will be awesome
Thanks
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yes i want it too +1

looking really good indeed.
Here the "start up" on video http://www.tmonews.com/2009/12/htc-nexus-one-boot-animation/
Like that too....
But when you have all png files how do you make a boot animation???
I found the files on the internet (lot of png's actually, 95 to be precise, which you have to stick together)
They are in alndscape, I can make those portrait wvga size when I have time, but than you have up and down a black area of course.
Cheers,
Arnold

PollPixx said:
looking really good indeed.
Here the "start up" on video http://www.tmonews.com/2009/12/htc-nexus-one-boot-animation/
Like that too....
But when you have all png files how do you make a boot animation???
I found the files on the internet (lot of png's actually, 95 to be precise, which you have to stick together)
They are in alndscape, I can make those portrait wvga size when I have time, but than you have up and down a black area of course.
Cheers,
Arnold
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To make a Bootanimation so this is a gif file when you have all the png images for example 95 images all image are a step by step so this mean the animation will have 95 frames in internet have some Android animation with only 45 Frames and have some with 95 frames this one with 95 frames mean More frames with mean the animation will be smoother but on the same time bigger size so its easy to make all the image in gif because already have many programs doing this, for example im using Uliead Gif Animator 5 witch is very easy to use.. you just need to add all 95 images and to save as them like a gif file, also you are able to make the delay in ms so you can make the Animation to be faster.. or slower depends from the needs after all is done you just can put that gif file in your windows folder and you are done
If you wana try by yourself just download Unlied Gif Animator 5 if you think you cant do it give me all the 95 images in WVGA resolution and i will make the gif. Remember the animation quality depends from the images so if you make the images in hight quality the animation will be with the same result.

well, I like to fool around with photoshop so I gave it a shot:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=676165
Cheers,
Arnold

[Q] Custom Boot Animation

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.

Sardo Numspa said:
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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[Q] Custom Boot Animation Help...

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...