Hello,
I was wondering if we can make boot animations from video? There was a game boot for PSP of one from the movie 'the crow', and was just wondering if it was possible to 'port' it.
Thanks
2Ceedz said:
Hello,
I was wondering if we can make boot animations from video? There was a game boot for PSP of one from the movie 'the crow', and was just wondering if it was possible to 'port' it.
Thanks
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All you have to do is save frames of the video to the format used by boot animations. Boot animations are a series (or several series) of individual pictures in a particular format, at this time it escapes me what format since I haven't fooled with them for a while. You can find more details around XDA, or download a working boot animation for the Eris and examine it's contents. Or you can look at the boot animation files currently on your phone. I think the name of the folder is media/misc in the root of your phone. Again, you can find out the exact details elsewhere on here.
Hey, guys. First time poster here, and I have a question/problem. For my GTablet, I wanted to make a simple and clean boot animation, but it constantly just displays a black screen on bootup. I thought it might be the desc.txt file was formatted incorrectly (by Windows) and tried a few seperate methods of making it, but I have so far failed to get it to work.
I saw this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=749576 and thought it was relevant, but no solution was actually posted. If anyone can fix this file and tell me what was wrong with it, I would appreciate it!
stact13 said:
Hey, guys. First time poster here, and I have a question/problem. For my GTablet, I wanted to make a simple and clean boot animation, but it constantly just displays a black screen on bootup. I thought it might be the desc.txt file was formatted incorrectly (by Windows) and tried a few seperate methods of making it, but I have so far failed to get it to work.
I saw this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=749576 and thought it was relevant, but no solution was actually posted. If anyone can fix this file and tell me what was wrong with it, I would appreciate it!
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This one helped me to get Animations to work and i hope it will work 4 u too
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13515045&postcount=145
In your desc.txt, hit enter after the second line, leaving a third blank line at the end.
Also, I've never tried a bootanimation using .jpg, if what I said above does not fix it try converting the files to .png.
First off, thanks to everyone for helping make the Nook Color such a vibrant community. There's a wealth of information here and I'm really grateful for it. I love the NC and it's great that we can unlock its full Android potential thanks to the hard work of the folks here... both the people that make the tools, and the people that help support it.
I am curious to know if anyone out there has some custom boot animations that aren't so flashy. Both the wife (who also rooted her NC) and I suffer from migraines, and the bootup sequence can be really painful with the bright flashing colors. Something a little more subdued would be preferable.
I'm also not sure if I can run a custom boot animation on the NC without using Cyanogen? I've upgraded to 1.4.1 today (which promptly went into a boot loop which MN 4.6.16 didn't solve, so I reverted to 1.2 and then went back to 1.4.1 and got it re-rooted with MN 5.12.20 properly... thanks again for all the info here!), so I'm just using a rooted stock system. I searched for boot animations on the forum but most of the results were pages of people mentioning which animation they got stuck on while trying to root
Also, does anyone know anything about NookDevs.com going dark? Their site just shows a blank HTML page and any old links give a 404. It's a pity, because their wiki was a bit more in-depth than the NC wiki here.
stormerider said:
[...] I am curious to know if anyone out there has some custom boot animations that aren't so flashy. Both the wife (who also rooted her NC) and I suffer from migraines, and the bootup sequence can be really painful with the bright flashing colors. Something a little more subdued would be preferable.
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I'm also not a fan of the early MN startup screens, but there's an easy fix (see below).
I'm also not sure if I can run a custom boot animation on the NC without using Cyanogen?
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Yes, you can. MN changes it on B&N firmware.
If you've already over-written the boot animation by running MN, you'll need to find a replacement somewhere. Not sure how to do that. However, if you either haven't replaced it yet or are willing to do a factory reset, you can tweak the ManualNooter scripts. If you open the MN .zip file, go into /META-INF/com/google/android/ and edit the updater-script file with a text editor. Look for the 3 lines that begin with "ui_print("Installing Boot Animation...");" and comment them out by putting '#' characters at the start of each line. There are 3 lines in 5.12.20. Write the modified version to that same location, and then run it to (re)root your unit.
Alternately, you could modify /data/local/bootanimation.zip in manualnooter-5.12.20.zip. Hack down the updater-script, and you can have it install ONLY the boot animation if you want to try a few variations.
Finally, if you've already rooted, you could try plugging a replacement in to /data/local/bootanimation.zip directly. No guarantees on this one, though.
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I'm also not a fan of the early MN startup screens, but there's an easy fix (see below).Yes, you can. MN changes it on B&N firmware.
If you've already over-written the boot animation by running MN, you'll need to find a replacement somewhere. Not sure how to do that. However, if you either haven't replaced it yet or are willing to do a factory reset, you can tweak the ManualNooter scripts. If you open the MN .zip file, go into /META-INF/com/google/android/ and edit the updater-script file with a text editor. Look for the 3 lines that begin with "ui_print("Installing Boot Animation...");" and comment them out by putting '#' characters at the start of each line. There are 3 lines in 5.12.20. Write the modified version to that same location, and then run it to (re)root your unit.
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I just finished getting everything set back up (I hit a setting page that did a reset on my unit... not so happy. Running Titanium Backup now...), so I'm not really keen on re-running MN. I'd rather just tweak what needs to be done, as things seem to be a little bit fragile and breaking things requires a lot of time to get back up and running.
Alternately, you could modify /data/local/bootanimation.zip in manualnooter-5.12.20.zip. Hack down the updater-script, and you can have it install ONLY the boot animation if you want to try a few variations.
Finally, if you've already rooted, you could try plugging a replacement in to /data/local/bootanimation.zip directly. No guarantees on this one, though.
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Does MN override the bootanimation binary to support /data/local, or does bootanimation support that location directly? I did some searching and it looks like some people are patching the binary so it works with more standard Android boot animations and it was unclear to me if the /data/local path was part of that customization as well or not.
Also, I was in part posting to see if anyone had any recommendations for the animations themselves. Graphics work is definitely not my forte, I'm more of a server guy
bobstro said:
I'm also not a fan of the early MN startup screens, but there's an easy fix (see below).Yes, you can. MN changes it on B&N firmware.
If you've already over-written the boot animation by running MN, you'll need to find a replacement somewhere. Not sure how to do that. However, if you either haven't replaced it yet or are willing to do a factory reset, you can tweak the ManualNooter scripts. If you open the MN .zip file, go into /META-INF/com/google/android/ and edit the updater-script file with a text editor. Look for the 3 lines that begin with "ui_print("Installing Boot Animation...");" and comment them out by putting '#' characters at the start of each line. There are 3 lines in 5.12.20. Write the modified version to that same location, and then run it to (re)root your unit.
Alternately, you could modify /data/local/bootanimation.zip in manualnooter-5.12.20.zip. Hack down the updater-script, and you can have it install ONLY the boot animation if you want to try a few variations.
Finally, if you've already rooted, you could try plugging a replacement in to /data/local/bootanimation.zip directly. No guarantees on this one, though.
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No need to go through all of that trouble. If you don’t like the boot animation in MN, simply go to /data/local, and delete or rename bootanimation.zip to bootanimation.zip.old, this will take you back to the factory boot animation.
The NC will work with any boot animation you can think of, you just need to follow a few basic rules. The rules are outline at nookdevs.com, Link, the site is down at this time, so here is a link for the cached site, Link.
If you are going to take a boot animation from another device, or from online, and edit it for the NC, the most important step is to NOT use any compression when you zip it back up. You can screw-up almost every other step, and still have a working boot animation, but if you compress the zip, it will not work at all.
CM 7.1.0-encore note
FYI: After putting CM 7.1.0-encore on my NC (and then wanting to change the boot animation), I discovered that the path is: /system/media/bootanimation.zip
Awesome. thanks for the info. Starting to build my own intro...
Hi,
I am no noob, been around a while but I am having the most dramas with my ROM with the boot animation? Go figure?
Anyone want to help me out here? works fine in the bootanimation preview windows application?
all of the files I have used to make the boot animation in here (66Mb) as well as several zips and bootanimation previewer
download absolute system from the market. it has a bunch of b.a. to choose from and you can edit to you phone size and fps
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I'm sure this is the right spot since it has to do with troubleshooting. Okay here goes, so I've looked in a lot of places in the nexus 6 and Samsung sections and cannot find any info on how to remove the binary for Samsung devices (I know, let me explain first) to be able to boot animation screens.... So, let me back up a bit and explain why I'm an idiot. I've been using rom installer to install boot screen animations for my rooted nexus 6 with 6.0.1 Marshmallow. Well, I noticed that some were the incorrect size for my phone when I installed them. I had noticed an option in the app under room extras to install binary to allow boot screen animations (boot animation fixer). I was in such a hurry that I didn't notice that right above it said Samsung. I foolishly installed it, it rebooted and now the boy animation is a plain Jane google writing in white with no animation. Can't remove it or revert to backup because all my backups got corrupted somehow. So now I thought if I can reverse this somehow by deleting the binary, or script, or whatever, it will fix it. I did research on the app and can't find out where it installs the binary to. I came on here and looked in the Samsung section as well as the nexus 6 section, which led me to ask for help. I've looked where the boot animations are stored on the system and there's nothing there and I'm worried if I dig anywhere else blindly I'll have to wipe and install 6.0.1 and root all over again, using up a LOT of my data to reinstall a LOT of apps that I have. I have like 239 apps so I would like to make that a last resort. The phone boots fine, I just don't like the bland boot animation. I want to show off the different animations that I use. I would appreciate the direction anyone could lead me in to solve this goof up that is my fault, but hey, I'm learning a lesson here.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I did find the XDA forum on the binary samsungani related to this (/system/bin/samsungani) and the boot animation binary (/system/bin/bootanimation) and deleted them. However, this did not change a thing.
I mean, as long as you're able to boot up, why not just install Titanium Backup and backup the apps. Reinstall your rom and just restore the apps, I would say that would be an easier fix. That way you won't be using any data.
The problem is, as you yourself found it, the bootanimation.zip is missing. Copy one in system/media, give 644 as permissions (rw-r--r--). And there you are.
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