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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.

Help with custom made bootscreen, its.... blank

Plz help I made a bootscreen named ubuntu, I placed all images as required I signed it and flashed it but when I reboot my hero I see a blank screen.
I have attached it please someone take a look and tell what am I doing wrong
Here it ishttp://elliotn.wen.ru/ubuntu.zip
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Fixed, there was an error in your desc.txt, it looked like this-
320 480 15
p 1 0 ubuntup 0 0 ubuntu-loop
It should have looked like this-
320 480 15
p 1 0 ubuntu
p 0 0 ubuntu-loop
Other than that it was perfect!

thanks mate wow I have been struggling the whole day mmmm wow and its beautiful

No probs m8, change the title to solved before a mod gives you a new arse hole.

[Q] Help With Bootanimation

Trying to create my own bootanimation based on one of my favorite shows stargate
So far i have all the .png files and have a uncompressed zip file were i have
two folders and desc.txt file
folders are
part0
part1
desct.txt
480 800 30
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
Issue i am having is
1. that when i try to boot this up the animation plays whats in part0 but gives me a black screen when it gets to part1
2. the opening sequence lags horribly
I have tried everything i can think of to make this work and nothing.
Tried taking a working bootanimation and simply switching out the .pngs and same effect
To my knowledge all the files are the same size
Can a few of you guys take a look and inform a noob whats going wrong here
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IWOYW658
Edit: Seems i posted in the wrong forum .. Can mod move this to Themes and Apps please. However don't let this stop you from commenting and telling me what might be wrong

The reason it goes black at part1 is due to your numbering. Instead of part1 starting with 10060 it starts with 11063. There shouldn't be any gaps in the numbering. As for the performance, you can try a couple of things.
Firstly, try reducing the quality of the images if possible, they are pretty big and I've found that lowering file size improves boot up speed. Secondly, try resizing the images. You can reduce the size but still fill the screen, your desc.txt dictates at what size the animation plays, therefore if you resize to 256x256 (Or whatever you like) it'll still be stretched to fit the whole screen. Quality will be reduced but the speed should increase.

Oh ok Thanks for the info ... I thought that the files only had to be in sequence in the folder there in .. Never realized they had to be a constant sequence
Will report back here once i fix it up

[Q] Custom boot animation isn't playing part of the animation

I made a custom boot animation that I wanted to use on my bionic. It plays fine in the boot animation previewer app, but only partially plays on the actual phone.
To break down the animation:
bootanimation.zip consists of two folders (part0 and part1) and desc.txt
part0 should play through once, followed by part1 playing and looping over and over til the phone finishes booting.
part0 contains 216 images, named 000.jpg through 215.jpg.
part1 contains 60 images, named 216.jpg through 275.jpg.
desc.txt is:
540 960 30
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
*tried changing names of part1 images to 000.jpg through 059.jpg, with no luck
*all images are formatted as png, just with jpg extension
*all images are 960x540 as required for a Bionic.
*part0 plays through to completion, then the screen goes blank and does not even begin playing part1.
*entire bootanimation.zip is 18.2mb in size
I cannot figure out what is wrong with my animation file. Any help would be very much appreciated.
thanks!
edit: forgot to add, running Liberty 2.0, and I tried putting the boot animation in both /system/media and /data/local, with no difference in outcome.

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Make sure and use 0 compression rate when zipping it also try
p 1 5
p 0 0
instead that will give it a 5 sec pause before playing it.
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Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately zero compression was already used, and using the delay of 5 didnt help. If I upload the boot animation, would anyone care to test if it works? Wondering if it might just be me.
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mewmew0 said:
Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately zero compression was already used, and using the delay of 5 didnt help. If I upload the boot animation, would anyone care to test if it works? Wondering if it might just be me.
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get with jaekar99. hes the best boot animation guy i know of.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1053250

320 x 480 stock Nougat shutdown animation

I have found a good Nougat shutdown animation, but it was too big, and plays slowly on devices with low-res screens. I have uploaded a resized version, and a cut version, which should be used on phones that shutdown quickly.
Full-length 320 x 480 shutdown animation:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MEWUt4iksSY-rHomnVoO81nBXpaN8ru_/view?usp=drivesdk
Cut animation: (Should be used on phones such as my ZTE Zinger, which shut down quickly, and don't allow for the whole shut down animation to play.)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1meKqygcYP6SA79ydLTWU3XJQLDo2zMf5/view?usp=drivesdk
*Rename from shutdownanimation3.zip to shutdownanimation.zip before using.*