Hello everyone,
I found this boot animation here:
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/21/download-honeycomb-bee-3d-boot-animation/
It links back to xda here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000311
I couldn't find an optimized version for tablets.
So here it is.
I take absolutely no credit for anything!
All props go to danmcq !!!
All I did was take the images in the original bootanimation and make the canvas (image size) 1280x800 instead of the originals which were 480x854.
Then modified the little config file.
Tested on my Xoom running Tiamat 2.0.1 with Tachi kernel.
Works great.
Only thing that bothers me is that the original background was not truly black; it's a couple shades lighter...so the background appears a little washed out (like you have the brightness on super high).
do you need to be rooted to install this?
(sorry haven't really read up much on the xoom)
yes you do. file goes in /system/media so you need root access.
to the OP: tested the animation. looks beautiful but loads a little slowly (i'm O'C'd to 1.6ghz). very sharp graphics though. I still prefer to the flying bee animation I worked on but i'm keeping this one for the future
Looks good and run as well, great share thx.
you can also put the bootanimation.zip file in the data/local folder, then it will not overwrite the stock bootanimation.
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Hey all,
I have the Droid1 boot animation running on my hero. it was one that was created for a phone with a lot lower res than the hero (as the original is way too high for it to handle properly). Was hoping someone can advise how to resize/refit the official droid2 bootscreen to the hero.
Thanks guys.
is it in bootanimation.zip?
EDIT: Here you go, i think its the right one!
http://www.multiupload.com/MTJSOQLQQQ
I edited desc.txt in wordpad to change the resolution (originally 480x480) to 320x320 then saved the bootanimation.zip compression as STORE,normal and such like will not work you will get a blank screen
yeah, thats the original droid bootscreen loop - i quite like it, but want to see about putting the new droid2 one on.
if you post it i will do it for you?i dont have a clue what the new one is
here is the newest one.taken from skyraiders rom
awesome! Thanks so very much! Works like a treat!
I'd like to start making some boot animations. Since I have a bit of animation experience and I don't really like any of the ones that I've found.
Once I get started I'll start posting them here for you all to use.
I have a just a few questions before I get started.
First of all I'm assuming it has to be the proper resolution and I believe they need to be gif files.
Is there anything else that I need to know? I've read a few threads and saw that some people had trouble getting them to boot for some reason or another. So is there anything else that I need to look out for?
Thanksss.
mcdaaaniel said:
I'd like to start making some boot animations. Since I have a bit of animation experience and I don't really like any of the ones that I've found.
Once I get started I'll start posting them here for you all to use.
I have a just a few questions before I get started.
First of all I'm assuming it has to be the proper resolution and I believe they need to be gif files.
Is there anything else that I need to know? I've read a few threads and saw that some people had trouble getting them to boot for some reason or another. So is there anything else that I need to look out for?
Thanksss.
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From what I recall, different phones don't necessarily keep the boot animation file(s) in the same place. AFAIK, that's the only real issue other than that you would have to provide different resolution versions if you want your boot animation to be usable on different phones. IMHO, I would just make it for the Eris first and if there's a demand for specific other phones/resolutions, then cross that bridge since there's no use doing work that's not needed yet.
You might end up tweaking the animation too, so you might as well "beta test" it only on the Eris to begin with for that reason, too.
Sorry if I'm ranting, I'm really really tired so I'm extra silly. LOL.
I don't think they use GIFs. I think they use a sequence of JPGs (completely up to you how many frames. Normally I could double check on my phone but I can't at the moment but I'm sure you could find the info somewhere in here.
I hope I'm not misleading you about JPG versus GIF; take it with a grain of salt since as I mentioned I'm tired. Good luck!
mcdaaaniel said:
I'd like to start making some boot animations. Since I have a bit of animation experience and I don't really like any of the ones that I've found.
Once I get started I'll start posting them here for you all to use.
I have a just a few questions before I get started.
First of all I'm assuming it has to be the proper resolution and I believe they need to be gif files.
Is there anything else that I need to know? I've read a few threads and saw that some people had trouble getting them to boot for some reason or another. So is there anything else that I need to look out for?
Thanksss.
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I could be wrong but I thought they were png files in the boot animation. I'm pretty sure that it's usually located in /system/media but I thought I read at one time that they can sometimes be located in data also. Good luck with the work though. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
you can use either one, gif or .png... use png for better quality (if using photoshop, save as for web, then use png-24 option and save.
also, make sure you don't compress the zip at all when you package it. Use the option "store" to zip the files up using no compression. If you compress it, it won't be accessible during boot and you'll have a black screen.
The bootanimation should go in data/local
here is my red cyanogen bootanimation zip, feel free to pack your own bootanimation into it, then sign it and it'll be flashable in recovery.
remember: the bootanimation.zip cannot be compressed... the flashable zip CAN be compressed.
Good luck! Hope to see something cool soon.
WOW i wasn't really expecting that much feedback. thanks a lot guys. i'll start playing around with this stuff as soon as finals week is over! :X thanks again!
Sent from my Floyo Tazz using XDA App
edit: I'm already bouncing around a few ideas in my head. I don't think I'll be able to get around to it until tuesday at the earliest though.
Also if you guys have any requests, my animation experience is somewhat limited but I'm willing to try anything!
mcdaaaniel said:
WOW i wasn't really expecting that much feedback. thanks a lot guys. i'll start playing around with this stuff as soon as finals week is over! :X thanks again!
Sent from my Floyo Tazz using XDA App
edit: I'm already bouncing around a few ideas in my head. I don't think I'll be able to get around to it until tuesday at the earliest though.
Also if you guys have any requests, my animation experience is somewhat limited but I'm willing to try anything!
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How about an apple burning while a droid pokes it with a pitchfork.
CondemnedSoul said:
How about an apple burning while a droid pokes it with a pitchfork.
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hahahahahaha yeah I'm pretty sure I can do that.
CondemnedSoul said:
I could be wrong but I thought they were png files in the boot animation. I'm pretty sure that it's usually located in /system/media but I thought I read at one time that they can sometimes be located in data also. Good luck with the work though. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
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Just to be clear for anyone else that reads this... if you're cooking your own rom, you'd want it there in system/media ... if you're making a flashable zip you'd want it to go into data/local
workshed said:
Just to be clear for anyone else that reads this... if you're cooking your own rom, you'd want it there in system/media ... if you're making a flashable zip you'd want it to go into data/local
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Thanks for clearing that up shed. I knew there were 2 different places it could go just couldn't remember the difference. Lol. Xda app needs the thank button. I'll hit you later on it. Lol
Sent from my Floyo Tazz
CondemnedSoul said:
How about an apple burning while a droid pokes it with a pitchfork.
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I like it!!!
I have a .gif file that I would like to make my boot animation ... can someone tell me what or where it needs to go, please ?
Does it need to be signed and zipped or can it just be placed in system/media or .... what ?
Sorry if this elementary .... never messed with boot ani's before, just stuck with the ROM boot ani.
>> just tried a RedCMbootanimation.zip .... placed it in system/media (removing the ROM's bootanimation.zip > Nonsensikal 15.2 blue CM boot ani) ... renamed it the same as the boot ani I replaced (bootanimation.zip) ... no worky ... just a black screen ... is it b/c the zip file is compressed ? D
>> Also tried to put my gif. img there ... got a standard 'android' boot img.
>> Do I need to open the ROM boot ani .zip file in AC/adb and replace something in there ?
C.Hatfield said:
I have a .gif file that I would like to make my boot animation ... can someone tell me what or where it needs to go, please ?
Does it need to be signed and zipped or can it just be placed in system/media or .... what ?
Sorry if this elementary .... never messed with boot ani's before, just stuck with the ROM boot ani.
>> just tried a RedCMbootanimation.zip .... placed it in system/media (removing the ROM's bootanimation.zip > Nonsensikal 15.2 blue CM boot ani) ... renamed it the same as the boot ani I replaced (bootanimation.zip) ... no worky ... just a black screen ... is it b/c the zip file is compressed ? D
>> Also tried to put my gif. img there ... got a standard 'android' boot img.
>> Do I need to open the ROM boot ani .zip file in AC/adb and replace something in there ?
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It needs to be made into a zip named bootanimation.zip and not compressed and pushed to data/local. the redcmbootanimation is flashable from recovery.
Alright guys so i've made my first animation just to kind of test the waters. Definately not something I'd release on here quite yet.
The issue I'm having is that it is going at a very slow frame rate. What can be done about that?
mcdaaaniel said:
Alright guys so i've made my first animation just to kind of test the waters. Definately not something I'd release on here quite yet.
The issue I'm having is that it is going at a very slow frame rate. What can be done about that?
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try editing the desc.txt framerate. that's the number right after the resolution (ie. 320 480 15) the bold number is the framerate, try upping that, but I wouldn't go any higher than 25.
Good luck, hope to see it soon
workshed said:
try editing the desc.txt framerate. that's the number right after the resolution (ie. 320 480 15) the bold number is the framerate, try upping that, but I wouldn't go any higher than 25.
Good luck, hope to see it soon
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Thanks dude. Yeah I actually figured that out. What I actually did was i changed the framerate of the boot animation it's self because naturally I just set it to 29.97 since that's standard ntsc. so i changed that to 24 so it matched the desc.txt and i saw a slight increase in speed. I'm gonna play around with it a little more, maybe make the frame rate of the animation it's self even lower and see if i can get higher speeds. Hopefully without losing too much quality though.
Also, I read somewhere that if you use a smaller resolution it will go faster. So i'll give that a shot as well.
mcdaaaniel said:
Also, I read somewhere that if you use a smaller resolution it will go faster. So i'll give that a shot as well.
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Yeah, you can make it 320 x 320 like the cyanogenmod bootanimation, just make it's background black. That's why theirs runs nice, it's 320 x 320 -vs- 320 x 480
downloaded the zip, thanks mate
gonna play around with it and see what works
anyone got a signing program? my SDK is being stupid tonight
workshed said:
Yeah, you can make it 320 x 320 like the cyanogenmod bootanimation, just make it's background black. That's why theirs runs nice, it's 320 x 320 -vs- 320 x 480
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Yeah I noticed that and I figured that was why it looks so nice. Kind of a bummer you can't have a full screen one that runs that nice though. Oh well.
Retrogress said:
downloaded the zip, thanks mate
gonna play around with it and see what works
anyone got a signing program? my SDK is being stupid tonight
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I just use this. it's for mac but i'm sure you could find something similar.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=573498
Retrogress said:
downloaded the zip, thanks mate
gonna play around with it and see what works
anyone got a signing program? my SDK is being stupid tonight
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I use AndroidSigner. Very easy to use, just drag and drop and sign. you can find it here:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/android-development/126517-pc-ppcgeeks-android-apk-zip-signer.html
CondemnedSoul said:
I use AndroidSigner. Very easy to use, just drag and drop and sign. you can find it here:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/android-development/126517-pc-ppcgeeks-android-apk-zip-signer.html
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thanks for the signer that was simple to use
i got one, just to see if i could get it to work, i will be making my own soon.
all props go to: mj_b90 at http://androidforums.com/htc-droid-eris/56647-boot-animation-gallery.html
Little Big Planet Sackboy Dancing flashable boot animation
it worked on froshedyo v7, nandroid before flashing plz
I've been looking around for some nice boot animations for my phone, and I thought: "Why should people go to more trouble than they need to, to find a boot animation?" So I thought I'd create a thread, and hope that people share their findings here and make things better for everyone!
So...who's gonna start the ball rolling?
Here are some really nice animations from Dysgenic, credits to him!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905538
Doesn't wanna one wanna contribute? lol
Another link with some good animations!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=880991
Here's my "Waving Android" boot animation. goes great with the boot sound from leedroids rom
This is what we need...
Honeycomb bootanimation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LJrgSC6uh0&feature=player_embedded
AndroHero said:
Here's my "Waving Android" boot animation. goes great with the boot sound from leedroids rom
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Awesome, thanks for sharing.
Looks nice!
waving droid nice^^
Here's a quite a few different boot anims from different phones... all should work on DHD.
All credit to the original people who made them
Scribble
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696193
The Droids
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=905538
R2D2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=780355
Android
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865427
Metal Droid
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=868769
Various
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=9815647
I'm currently using the bomb one from the last link and it's awesome, if a little dramatic!
We still need a decent port of that new Honeycomb one though
CitizenLee said:
We still need a decent port of that new Honeycomb one though
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what dya like about the honeycomb one reminds me of that crappy start menu on windows mobile 6.5
AndroHero said:
what dya like about the honeycomb one reminds me of that crappy start menu on windows mobile 6.5
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Dunno really, I just think it's cool
Never had a WinMo phone
CitizenLee said:
Dunno really, I just think it's cool
Never had a WinMo phone
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i saw the video on youtube for that, the animation only lasts a few seconds dosent it? dont we have a dump of a honeycomb device yet to rip it from?
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i saw the video on youtube for that, the animation only lasts a few seconds dosent it? dont we have a dump of a honeycomb device yet to rip it from?
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Nah, the dump just has a bootanim with some "Andriod 3.0" crap from the recent Honeycomb conference.
I'm sure it wont be long before the real thing finds it's way to XDA though
The honeycomb boot animation reminds me of Smackdown Just Bring It on PS2. The game hat such grid animations in the back of the menu.
having some instructions on how to replace the file wouldn't harm anyone...
i have a tmobile logo at startup that i want to remove...cannot find it anywhere
32 bootanimations in UOT kitchen http://circle.glx.nl/
1. Choose option "No battery, theme only",
2. press next till bootanimation section
3. select desirable bootanimation
4 .press next till finish
5. wait for flashable zip (no need to upload anything)
Do they fit the DHD's screen?
Last time I tried a bootanim from UOT a few weeks ago it was too small and off-centre.
I think the Honeycomb bootanimation would be good for fast boot?
juno256 said:
having some instructions on how to replace the file wouldn't harm anyone...
i have a tmobile logo at startup that i want to remove...cannot find it anywhere
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Thats the splash screen not bootanimation
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Yes you are right. My mistake I thought it was part of the animation yet I cannot find it anywhere.
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
Changing the boot animiation is easy.
Find a boot animation you like, download it, rename zip to bootanimation.zip and then use Root Explorer or ES File Explorer (in root mode) to replace the existing file in /data/local/
Back-up the file that's there 1st obviously, or do what I do and just rename it to bootanimation_orig.zip.
Changing the splash screen requires a different approach... but I already answered that for you here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=886467&page=8
Hello
recently i started to play around with after effects and created this small android text animation.
video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FNnYS0Gz_c
bootanimation.zip here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?vtjifnxq45c5xl8
you install this simply by overwriting your bootanimation in system/media on froyo roms!
I dont know if this works on ginger roms if anyone can say it will be apreciated
the animation is 480x800 for phones like galaxy s, htc desire and so on.
remember to make a copy of your original bootanimation if you want to rever back to it
in future i will be releasing more and more animations like this one if there will be demand!
I am also willing to make custom animationes for rom cooks, so feel free to contact me!
If you like my work, pls consider a small donation as all this stuff requires alot of time!
this is all for now.
cheers!
That's pretty good looking stiff you got there. Love the contrast between the wild particles and the plain logo.
Sent from my DHD
I'm loving Android.
Oooh, so much.
Even more I'm loving the amount of possible customization we're given from Cyanogenmod!!
Which takes me now to theming.
Ok, so we all like it and we all love to make our minis look like they're not that mini.
I've found a very valid theme and I'm loving it to bits, but I just can't cope with the images shown during calls.
Yeah, cause apparently we use mobile phones to call people. Sometimes.
So, i went, extracted the theme apk, found the files i've been tch-tch-ing about, edited them with photoshop (didn't even bother to make anything too fancy, just some diagonal 1px stripes over a background colour plus a black gradient fading it all to black) and put them back in the apk with 7zip.
...And of course the installer spat it back in my face.
I knew it wasn't going to be that easy and i seriously only have to change 4 pngs from the whole theme (i'm fine with everything else!), so I wouldn't really want to go and make a whole new theme by myself (maybe later one day?).
So, is there a way for me to overcome this heartbreaking problem and make my life ABSOLUTELY perfect?
Thank you guys in advance, you seriously rock our android world and i'll throw in a strawberry cheesecake if you manage to give me any advices.
Peace
Install apologize multi tool extract ,change PNG, zip,sign,install
I don't like strawberry cheesecake just give a normal cheesecake
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grap zipsigner from market, (if it's not compatible, from somewhere else) sign it and install OR push it to /system/app and set permissions to
x x -
x - -
x - -
You guys are BEAUTIFUL!
Silly stupid me. Never thought it all came down to signing the thing.
I just realized i don't have any strawberry cheesecakes with me.
Would a strawberry shortcake be ok instead?
(http://80scartoonpodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/strawberryshortcake1.jpg)
Thanks again buddies.
Also, in the end i used "one click signer".
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=822388
Now, managed to install the apk and everything. Does anybody know though why dialer would fc after i edited the call background pngs?
I also edited some other parts of the theme but they don't seem to be giving me any problems.
Do i have to save them in some specific format? After i edited them in photoshop i saved them as indexed but i did notice they were slightly bigger than the source files...
Never mind. A reboot solved the problem. Have to say, i'm pretty happy now.
Thanks once more buddies!