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.
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Can someone who has created a successful custom boot animation please email me? I have all the files necessary but I keep getting a blank start-up screen, and I can't find anything wrong. I appreciate any help!
Ok so it could be a few things but most likely the text file. For example it should be called desc and it will look something similar to this. 450 854 30 p 1 0 part0 p 0 0 part1. If this still is no help have a look at one of my bootanimations to get the feel of how it should be.
I have absolutely no idea about developing boot animations but what I can say from my experience of using custom boot animations is that you would usually get a black screen while booting if the boot animation is slow. Happened to me when I installed the BIOS boot animation. Nexus One is a pretty fast phone. I had to install its faster version in order to get it to work. May be you could try increasing its frame rate (not sure if that is what it is called) step-by-step and see
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.
Introduction
Okay, so there are lots of good boot animations out there but you can only choose one? Not good enough I say!
So, here I provide a script that will allow you to have multiple boot animations that are randomly selected each time you boot you phone!
This script was originally provided by Nighthound here many moons ago but I've since adapted it to my Nexus One ROM (Kang-o-rama) and now for the LG Star.
This version should be compatible with *all* custom ROM's LG P990, P999 as well as other manufactures and ROM's with init.d support.Installation
It's pretty simple to install and very little configuration is required. Simply download the attached .zip file, install it from recovery and you're all set!
Download zip file below
Install zip from SD Card in recovery
Copy any boot animation .zip you want to use to /data/local/bootanimations/
Give each boot animation .zip file a unique name!
Reboot and enjoy
Hit 'Thanks' below
The 'bootanimations' directory will be created for you the first time you boot after applying this update zip and then you can download any suitable boot animation you want at any time and just place it in /data/local/bootanimations/ (make sure it is not called 'bootanimation.zip' to avoid conflicts). Easy as pie.Animation Authors
To help our user community I have two suggestions:
Please let users know in your thread of this script; and,
Put a note in about unique file names so users don't get confused
Have fun kids and don't run with scissors, be safe...
haha nice! I'll check it out in a few! Thanks for the effort tho!
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Ok installed it and installed some boot animations i like and it works like a charm thanks!
Thank you! Like custom bootanimations, so this is something I can use!
ARGHHHH, what files does this replace as after installing this my phone just reboots just after the lock screen shows.
Although it does show me MANY random bootscreen now.
i've placed over 10 bootanims, everything is working as is should be
thnx m8
stevvie said:
ARGHHHH, what files does this replace as after installing this my phone just reboots just after the lock screen shows.
Although it does show me MANY random bootscreen now.
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It just adds one file called 10bootanimations to /system/etc/init.d/ - you can of course remove this if you like.
It won't actually show *any* random boot animations until you add them so I'm not sure I've understood your problem correctly.
I'm trying to using this on my LG G2x running CM7 and nothing happens ... I've copied a few bootanimations to data/local/bootanimations ... and nothing at all
I've confirmed that the file got flashed to system/etc/init.d ... is there a way i can confirm if it is actually running etc?
Another thing of importance perhaps, the first time i rebooted after flashing the attached zip through recovery, it didn't create the folder at data/local/bootanimations like the script says it should ...
any thoughts?
Nice little tool, thx.
ridicool said:
I'm trying to using this on my LG G2x running CM7 and nothing happens ... I've copied a few bootanimations to data/local/bootanimations ... and nothing at all
I've confirmed that the file got flashed to system/etc/init.d ... is there a way i can confirm if it is actually running etc?
Another thing of importance perhaps, the first time i rebooted after flashing the attached zip through recovery, it didn't create the folder at data/local/bootanimations like the script says it should ...
any thoughts?
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I'm not sure, is the CM7 processing init.d? Logcat at boot will tell you, the script should launch very early in the boot process and will write to the main log.
djmcnz said:
I'm not sure, is the CM7 processing init.d? Logcat at boot will tell you, the script should launch very early in the boot process and will write to the main log.
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I think you're right because on the logcat, there is no mention of randombootanimations ... no one over at cyanogenmod answered when i asked if it was a bug that init.d wasn't being processed ...
anywyas, i'll keep this and keep giving it a shot and eventually it will work
One day fitsnugly told me: I have an idea…
This is the video of the PNG sequence
Files can be found here or fitsnugly threads here:
[GIGGLEBREAD][CM7][N1] Stan's Previously-Owned Coffins (06232011-0844)
[GIGGLEBREAD][CM7][G2X] Look behind you! A three-headed monkey! (06232011-0803)
Animation is also available as a Live Wallpaper in my apk here
Hope you like it. If so, use thank button or donation (I'll appreciate it. LOL)
hi, this is really cool. unfortunately, it really bugs my LG Optimus up after booting. Gmail will continue to force close and it takes my apps a lot longer to load. i installed the bootanimation thru Terminal Emulator. do you have any tips? did i do something wrong? how can i reverse it and go back to the standard boot animation?
thanks!
I'm sorry but the boot animation has nothing to do with the issues you are having now. It's only a sequence of png files to be loaded during boot.
Boot animation should go in system/media or data/local if you want it to survive to further rom updates.
If you wanna go back to stock boot, download again the zip of your rom and copy bootanimation.zip from there.
I'm positive that your issues are not related to the zip file. Trust me I made tons of boot.
mjs2011 said:
hi, this is really cool. unfortunately, it really bugs my LG Optimus up after booting. Gmail will continue to force close and it takes my apps a lot longer to load. i installed the bootanimation thru Terminal Emulator. do you have any tips? did i do something wrong? how can i reverse it and go back to the standard boot animation?
thanks!
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awesome...
FYI after deleting this file, my phone now starts up correctly and my apps don't all force close. no other settings were changed before or after i downloaded the file.
maybe it's just not compatible with the LG Optimus V?
well, i don't know
it works on all phones as long as they are 800x480
if you want, ask on lg thread and report. I will appreciated.
thanks
mjs2011 said:
FYI after deleting this file, my phone now starts up correctly and my apps don't all force close. no other settings were changed before or after i downloaded the file.
maybe it's just not compatible with the LG Optimus V?
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That video made me laugh.....Thnx for making my evening...
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
sent from my still kicking ass aria