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LATEST UPDATE: I will start working on this again soon. I didn't realize so many people had downloaded it until today when I went to add this thread to the Hero wiki. I will not be replacing the initial "Hero" splash screen, as that requires the installation of an unlocked HardSPL, and I don't have a reason to unlock my own SPL.
Hey all.
So, remember way way back in Android's pre-release days when the boot screen was an oscillating red dot, similar to the eye of a Cylon? Well, it was always my favourite boot animation, so I decided to bring it back. I found an animated gif on the net, removed the word "ANDROID" from it, made it fit our resolution, and voila. Here it is.
I've updated this considerably. I did some smoothing on the red animation so it won't look so pixel-y, I've scaled down the animated gif so that it doesn't get nearly as choppy as it did before, and removed that pesky red dot on the left side. It looks much, much nicer now.
Planned updates:
- Sound. I'm thinking either the low "whirring" noise the cylons make as they scan, or the brief piano music that plays during the first intro to the episodes (not the opening credits.) Thoughts? Does anyone even want sound in their bootscreen?
- Add more frames to smooth the animation out (right now it's about 12 FPS)
- Add a more enticing background picture, such as a Cylon head rather than the solid black.
As always, feedback is welcomed.
A picture would be nice.
TheBrit said:
A picture would be nice.
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Done and done!
Updated. It's a significant improvement over the previous version. See first post.
Can you please post the original bootscreen so we can always fall back??
Invade said:
Can you please post the original bootscreen so we can always fall back??
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There we go.
craig0r said:
There we go.
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Thanks man
awsome
Flashed it on mcr 2.8.
Love it.
The first HERO pic should be nice to ditch to.
A five and a cylon somewhere maybe?
Thanks man
how do i apply this boot screen ?
thx in advance
darkenergy said:
how do i apply this boot screen ?
thx in advance
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I THINK you have to flash it like a ROM.
Please correct me if I'm wrong someone.
CONFIRMED: you flash it like a ROM (looks really cool!)
Carlis said:
Flashed it on mcr 2.8.
Love it.
The first HERO pic should be nice to ditch to.
A five and a cylon somewhere maybe?
Thanks man
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Getting rid of the first HERO screen is a bit more difficult. It requires you to remove the device's security/cid checks or something. There's a thread about how to do that in the "Hero Android Development" forum. It's stickied. As of now I'm pretty sure you need to make some custom serial/usb cable to do it, and I can't be bothered. If anyone knows a simpler way to change that first splash screen, I'd love to hear it.
darkenergy said:
how do i apply this boot screen ?
thx in advance
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You need to have a rooted phone and the patched recovery image installed. Boot into recovery mode by holding the Home button while you power up your phone, and select "upgrade via choose .zip" or whatever the option is. Exactly the same as flashing a new ROM, as Amdathlonuk said.
Thanks dude!
Smooth
Hi,
Firstly, thanks for this craig0r, I've been looking for this ever since I got my phone, don't understand why they took it out, it's so cool.
Anyway, I'm hoping someone can help me get it working.
I've tried to flash both 0.7 and 0.8 but I get the following error each time:
installing update...
copying files...
E: Failure at line 3:
copy_dir PACKAGE:system SYSTEM:
Installation aborted.
I have root and I'm running BeHero 1.3.2.
I looked at the update and found that in:
cylon0.8_signed/system/media/bootscreen/boot_animation.xml
There's this line:
audio="/system/media/bootscreen/boot.mp3"
It's referring to an mp3 but the boot sound is wav, could this be the problem?
Cheers guys
Working flawlessly!
Running Android 1.5 - SenseHero1.6 ROM
Sounds will be awesome, no need for an ugly cylon tho!
EDIT: @Sparmian I believe its because Android 2.1 storage bootscreen in another directory. Correct me if I'm mistaken
spamianspoon said:
Hi,
Firstly, thanks for this craig0r, I've been looking for this ever since I got my phone, don't understand why they took it out, it's so cool.
Anyway, I'm hoping someone can help me get it working.
I've tried to flash both 0.7 and 0.8 but I get the following error each time:
installing update...
copying files...
E: Failure at line 3:
copy_dir PACKAGE:system SYSTEM:
Installation aborted.
I have root and I'm running BeHero 1.3.2.
I looked at the update and found that in:
cylon0.8_signed/system/media/bootscreen/boot_animation.xml
There's this line:
audio="/system/media/bootscreen/boot.mp3"
It's referring to an mp3 but the boot sound is wav, could this be the problem?
Cheers guys
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That certainly could be a problem. Also, I've only tested this in Modaco roms, although I should think it would work on any cupcake system. I won't be porting it to eclair until we have an official Hero release from HTC. Not that it would be particularly difficult with our current "faked" eclair roms, but they aren't functional enough for me, so I can't be bothered.
As far as sounds go, at this point I will probably wait for the eclair release as well.
Aaaaahhh!
Thanks for the help guys. I didn't realize this was a cupcake only release - I'm running eclair. Doh!.
Anyone have any idea how I can get this to work on eclair?
Cheers.
Can someone please help me out? I am wanting to install a custom boot animation. I downloaded one from this forum and renamed it to bootanimation.zip. I place on my memory card then used Root Explorer to move it to /system/media. I rebooted the phone but no animation comes up.
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Can someone please help me out? I am wanting to install a custom boot animation. I downloaded one from this forum and renamed it to bootanimation.zip. I place on my memory card then used Root Explorer to move it to /system/media. I rebooted the phone but no animation comes up.
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Galaxy S phones don't use bootanmation.zip they use a proprietary format QMG or something.
Thanks for the quick reply.
any luck??? I have been all over different forums trying to figure this out with zero luck....
aceman0455 said:
any luck??? I have been all over different forums trying to figure this out with zero luck....
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negative.. Gunnyman stated it perfectly.. I researched for hours trying to figure out how to decode the QMG format into frames.. and met with no success.
I'm digging into QMG tonight. If there are mac tools for editing them I'll work on it.
please do, I would really like the boot animation from jh2 (not the S breaking into pieces and rebuilding, but the blue and purple shine that runs though it a couple of times.
super sexy imo.
gunnyman said:
I'm digging into QMG tonight. If there are mac tools for editing them I'll work on it.
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I'm sure you could purchase the tools for several thousands of dollars from the proprietor, Quram Soft.
The price isn't even available on their web site, http://quramsoft.com/solution_e/qmage.asp
The name of the QMG format is Qmage, I've been unable to ascertain if our phones use Qmage or Qmage - F.
See Topic: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=736412 for all the information that we have on boot animations, shut down animations, and sounds.
actually, you can do the bootanimation.zip, one of my co-workers was messing with it today... you probably need to set the permissions on the zip correctly.
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adding this to SRE right now
When will it stop. Every time I get a new version of are you release another one!
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using Tapatalk
designgears said:
adding this to SRE right now
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Please tell me your not messing with us. That would be amazing, being able to flash any boot image?
Dani897 said:
When will it stop. Every time I get a new version of are you release another one!
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i know how you feel my poor phone is only 4 days old. day one 1.2.2a, day two 1.2.3, day 4 1.2.3a lol
I grew tired of doing this manually via the command line every time I re-flashed so I followed what others did and pieced this together. This takes cares of startup/shutdown audio and video. It basically eliminates anything that remotely resembles T-Mobile and gives that extra long shutdown sequence (60 frames). UPDATE: It works great with UVJI5. In fact, the new ROM is the reason why I created this and thus the only ROM I've tested it on. UPDATE: As expected, it works with UVJI6. You will just have to re-root. ROM Manager's automatic process was acting up so I had to go into its manual mode and choose the file myself.
You will need to flash this via ROM Manager.
Best,
DCC
UPDATE: Attached to post; VapidShare gave up on us prematurely.
UPDATE: I apologize for being a little vague, unintentionally ... this gives the phone the stock SGS I9000 startup/shutdown animations. There is another update out there that accomplishes the same thing but for whatever reason only offered 14 frames in the shutdown. This is the full 60 frames of the S breaking up into little pieces. It's the reverse of the startup, essentially.
Reserved by OP for future use
Totally joking of course ... I just always wanted to do that!
Works great, thanks! First time I have seen the shutdown longer than 14 frames. Hooray!
Does this work on the new firmware?
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rUsTyRuSs said:
Does this work on the new firmware?
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Great question ... I forgot to mention in my original post: this update works great with UVJI5 ... in fact, it's what led me to create it. Jacking around with Kies for an hour in vain left me with no energy to deal with extricating my phone from those horrid T-mobile startup/shutdown sounds and graphics.
Do you have a mirror rapidshare keeps giving me an error message
Same here with error msg
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Download doesn't work anymore
I'm currently using this on JI5
here you go
demo23019 said:
Download doesn't work anymore
I'm currently using this on JI5
here you go
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This looks like the same one I already had I want to one with the extended shutdown animation like the OP had posted
IDK the one i posted replaces tmobile with the original galaxy s boot/shutdown
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Sorry guys, I am at work and my client's firewall does not let me through to rapidshare ... if I can find a few minutes of downtime, I will seek alternatives. I can't even download the file to attach it to a post in this forum (it's almost 8MB, BTW; I don't know if I'm even allowed to). I will see if it's at least still on my phone.
Yes, this removes the T-Mobile start-up shutdown animations (audio and video) with the stock SGS I9000 ones but it has the extended version of the shutdown. As I originally mentioned, I pieced it together from others' updates.
UPDATE: I attached the file to the original post! My apologies to all who were inconvenienced by the RapidShare link.
NP no rush here.
dcchristopher said:
UPDATE: I attached the file to the original post! My apologies to all who were inconvenienced by the RapidShare link.
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Thanks, much appreciated
Installed through Rom Manager with no issues.
Very nice. Thank you very much.
the reason the original only had 14 frames is because the original shutdown would only play 14 frames and stop.
Does this work on the stock roms and some of Eugenes.
I haven't ventured out into the JI5 stuff simply because I'm waiting for all the smoke to clear.
got it working
kizer said:
Does this work on the stock roms and some of Eugenes.
I haven't ventured out into the JI5 stuff simply because I'm waiting for all the smoke to clear.
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It should work just fine with any ROM. It is a very simple script. It just removes the existing PowerOn and Shutdown sounds and replaces the two bootsamsung QMG files and overwrites the shutdown animation folder. In the worst case, it would just do nothing.
Folks, feel free to download it and see the constituent files. There is an update-script in the META-INF/com/google/.... directory.
Good luck,
DCC
demo23019 said:
what option in rommanager u using?
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Click "Install ROM from SD Card", then choose this file (GalaxySBoot.zip or whatever), don't choose any "Pre-installation" options, and just click OK. Since it's not named update.zip, it shouldn't conflict with ROM Manager's "process" (for some people, ROM Manager needs to lay down its update.zip in order to ensure that when booting into the stock recovery it is able to load itself via said file).
I hope this helped.
Here is a custom boot animation I put together of the Galaxy S boot up screen without the verizon logo/bootup. Load it on your phone and tell me what you think.
So basically you just removed the VZW portion of the boot animation. Wouldnt deleting that file sorta do the same thing.
Try it and see, Verizon stuff is deleted and galaxy S looped a couple of times.
Yea I opened and played it on my pc. But like I said, same boot animation but without the VZW crap. Nice job though.
Just curious, how do you play it on a computer?
For me, I just open the part0 file, ctrl a, right click and select open. Windows pic viewer will open them all in order and it looks like it does on the phone, with a bit more lag of course.
yoitsbry said:
Just curious, how do you play it on a computer?
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You can try the program that is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=6400540
thanks i like it how do u get sound to work.. I lost it after i flashed zinc rom.
bL33d said:
thanks i like it how do u get sound to work.. I lost it after i flashed zinc rom.
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A lot of ROMs remove the bootup sound because a lot of us find it annoying. You can use any sound you want, as long as you can make it a wav file. Name it PowerOn.wav and place it the /system/etc folder
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I have been trying to get this boot animation to work. I video that is too small and every attempt to change it has failed. I'm probably in over my head! Anyway I'm hoping that someone could point me in the direction of it already resized for touchpad. Also have been toying with the sound but no luck for me. I'm happy I've made it this far. I wish I could put a link to the YouTube video but have no clue how to. Its on there search bad android boot animation
touchdroid420 said:
I have been trying to get this boot animation to work. I video that is too small and every attempt to change it has failed. I'm probably in over my head! Anyway I'm hoping that someone could point me in the direction of it already resized for touchpad. Also have been toying with the sound but no luck for me. I'm happy I've made it this far. I wish I could put a link to the YouTube video but have no clue how to. Its on there search bad android boot animation
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Which boot animation? You don't specify.
You can try the fix for full screen boot animation that gav_chap posted in the development forum. I'm using it and it's working for me. Instructions are in the post. All you have to do is flash the zip. If you don't like it, he's posted a way to revert it.
Sorry should have been more clear. The name of the boot animation is "bad android ". Its for cm7 android 2.3.7 and its on a HP touchpad. 768 x 1024.