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.
I spent 8 hours for this:-( in photoshop.
I made an animation of all the 49 images where this animation made of. What an awful job to line everything right...but the result is stunning!!
As the images are rather small I rotated them 90 degrees to keep visibility of it and streched them to 480x800. So instead it starts from the outside left and right on your device it starts from the bottom and top. I made an interval of 0,06 seconds per frame, which looks the best in my opinion.
I saved it as SEMC1904.gif in the zipfile.
For Xperia X1 users, just place it in your windows folder and overwrite the existing file.
For other users, rename the .gif file as you need it on your phone.
If some one can make a cab of it, so it will install on all wvga devices, please let me know and I post this in the first post.
Beware there are 49 images in there, so the file is 3,5 MB instead of the default Xperia one of 554KB (7 times more).
SO YOU NEED 3,6 MB FREE SPACE ON YOUR DEVICE!!!
I can't take a screenshot from Starting the device, but here is one of the photoshop made ones, I will not post all 49 if you don't mind:
Cheers,
Arnold
Really good contribution, I know what pain it is to create such a complicated animation!
Well, it's done and it looks really colourfull!!
Cheers,
Arnold
PollPixx said:
Well, it's done and it looks really colourfull!!
Cheers,
Arnold
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COOL PollPixx i will download now and try it will write comment leter,
You did it
P.S After a Test on Blackstone the Animation is really Heavy and not runing smooth the Animation i think can be around 800kb maximum and with less delay to run faster and smooth
Okay, I can make it faster, no problem, but how to decrease the size of a gif it to 800KB keeping the same resolution?????
EDIT: It runs now twice as fast, 0,05 seconds a frame, edited the zip file in post 1. Does this help?
Otherwise I know a lot of photoshopping, I grouped all files together but can't get it less MB without resizing the resolution...
Cheers,
Arnold
PollPixx said:
Okay, I can make it faster, no problem, but how to decrease the size of a gif it to 800KB keeping the same resolution?????
Cheers,
Arnold
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the resolution can be the same but the Animation to be ligther i will explain you how.
for example there have 95 images but they are big size because are Hight Quality images, honestly on our devices we can`t see the big diference with naked eye so what can be done is for example using Irfanview open image 1 and save as but when you save as just dicreasse the quality from 100% to be like 85% this will make the whole image 10 time smaller when all is done with all the images and they are made in one single gif animation the total size of the gif file will be too 10 times smaller and also i open now your animation with all the files there is not need i speak for a blackstone 95 frames because no matter how fast is the animation you dont have so much time when the phone start up have time only to play it once i mean to loop the whole idea Once so in this 95 files the whole idea is looped 2 times witch is not usefull i chek it out from frame 1 to frame 49 including is the ONE LOOP that is needed i did a gif and when i test it yes the animation loop only once and my phone is ready not have time for 2 times looping this gif.
If you do this with dicreasing the images quality the final gif file can be even under 800kb and also the gif animation can be made from many sort of images files i mean not only png if they are Jpg will work too
i chek it out with 03 delay is super fast
so I only need image 1 to 49 (goodbye a few hours of spare time hahaha)
Well, that decrease it a lot, don't it....will work on it now...
Edited zipfile, now 3,5MB.....will test it now on x1
Cheers,
Arnold
PollPixx said:
so I only need image 1 to 49 (goodbye a few hours of spare time hahaha)
Well, that decrease it a lot, don't it....will work on it now...
Edited zipfile, now 3,5MB.....will test it now on x1
Cheers,
Arnold
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Yes because in all this 95 frames the whole animation loop 2 times so if you have from 1 to 49 the whole animation will loop Once and will be withthe same quality like this one with the 95 images the diference is how many times will loop the animation but like i sa you dont have time for 2 full loops. so its uselless to be used 95 frames
okay, didn't noticed that, otherwise I wouldn't went through all the hassle.
Anyway, I tested it on Xperia with just one loop on 0,05 frames a second and it works fine. I just left a fraction of a second watching the black screen on the end of the animation, so it is fine.
Thanks for your assistance in this one. This was the first time I modified an excisting Boot Animation, therefor a couple of bugs where in it. Now it is working fine and with 3,5 MB my xperia doesn't slow down or anything...
Cheers,
Arnold
PollPixx said:
okay, didn't noticed that, otherwise I wouldn't went through all the hassle.
Anyway, I tested it on Xperia with just one loop on 0,05 frames a second and it works fine. I just left a fraction of a second watching the black screen on the end of the animation, so it is fine.
Thanks for your assistance in this one. This was the first time I modified an excisting Boot Animation, therefor a couple of bugs where in it. Now it is working fine and with 3,5 MB my xperia doesn't slow down or anything...
Cheers,
Arnold
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No problem
Then if you do it 06 ms delay all will be fine i mean u will not see a fraction of second the black screen anymore, but this all depends from the device and many other things... so same device the one can boot for 2 sec the other for 2.5sec so you can`t make it to be good for everyone
The bad thing is that we can`t make it like real Android and i dont know why heheh
see what i mean.
Once befor a few mounths i flash my Blackstone with Android 2.1 and when the device start up the Animation was Super perfect i mean really Hight Quality and was WVGA like it must to be i mean not like now they colours to appear from top and bottom they was from left and right and the speed of the animation and colours was more than perfect for this reason i asked befor can anyone make it we to use under window.. but.. the quality the speed and everything is not the same
tsalta said:
The bad thing is that we can`t make it like real Android and i dont know why heheh
see what i mean.
Once befor a few mounths i flash my Blackstone with Android 2.1 and when the device start up the Animation was Super perfect i mean really Hight Quality and was WVGA like it must to be i mean not like now they colours to appear from top and bottom they was from left and right and the speed of the animation and colours was more than perfect for this reason i asked befor can anyone make it we to use under window.. but.. the quality the speed and everything is not the same
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Well, it's the best I could do with the images which are around on the internet.
Cheers,
Arnold
PollPixx said:
I spent 8 hours for this:-( in photoshop.
I made an animation of all the 49 images where this animation made of. What an awful job to line everything right...but the result is stunning!!
As the images are rather small I rotated them 90 degrees to keep visibility of it and streched them to 480x800. So instead it starts from the outside left and right on your device it starts from the bottom and top. I made an interval of 0,06 seconds per frame, which looks the best in my opinion.
I saved it as SEMC1904.gif in the zipfile.
For Xperia X1 users, just place it in your windows folder and overwrite the existing file.
For other users, rename the .gif file as you need it on your phone.
If some one can make a cab of it, so it will install on all wvga devices, please let me know and I post this in the first post.
Beware there are 49 images in there, so the file is 3,5 MB instead of the default Xperia one of 554KB (7 times more).
SO YOU NEED 3,6 MB FREE SPACE ON YOUR DEVICE!!!
I can't take a screenshot from Starting the device, but here is one of the photoshop made ones, I will not post all 49 if you don't mind:
Cheers,
Arnold
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When we can have VGA version....awesome work. you are creative man
i had made my own nexus one boot also before..its here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=644501
(i uploaded it at the bottom partof the thread)
i really do understand what "PollPixx" is telling.. its really a pain doing this one.. i used this one before for my own unit.. but since new builds of x1 go pass by the animated boot screen im not using this one anymore.. just want to share
PollPixx said:
I spent 8 hours for this:-( in photoshop.
I made an animation of all the 49 images where this animation made of. What an awful job to line everything right...but the result is stunning!!
As the images are rather small I rotated them 90 degrees to keep visibility of it and streched them to 480x800. So instead it starts from the outside left and right on your device it starts from the bottom and top. I made an interval of 0,06 seconds per frame, which looks the best in my opinion.
I saved it as SEMC1904.gif in the zipfile.
For Xperia X1 users, just place it in your windows folder and overwrite the existing file.
For other users, rename the .gif file as you need it on your phone.
If some one can make a cab of it, so it will install on all wvga devices, please let me know and I post this in the first post.
Beware there are 49 images in there, so the file is 3,5 MB instead of the default Xperia one of 554KB (7 times more).
SO YOU NEED 3,6 MB FREE SPACE ON YOUR DEVICE!!!
I can't take a screenshot from Starting the device, but here is one of the photoshop made ones, I will not post all 49 if you don't mind:
Cheers,
Arnold
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Please Please!! Can you tell me how to apply this Boot Animation??
I used to push the bootanimation.zip folder in system/media, but how to proceed for this one? What do I have to do with the SEMC1904.gif??
Btw I have a Motorola Defy.. please reply me
Hello. I have Sony Xperia Z1, Android 4.4.4, build number 14.4.A.0.157, unlocked bootloader, dual recovery, stock ROM with 4k video and timeshift video mod and I made my own bootanimation in Adobe Photoshop CC. What I have done:
Animation created in resolution 1920*1080, as Z1´s display resolution.
Animation created in JPEG image sequention (JPEG settings - tried quality 8, 9, 12 with optimalized and standard compressing)
Animation has two parts, first part contains 153 pictures (called part0), I tried making only 99 pics too, second part (called part1) contains one picture that stays until phone succesfully boots. I tried resizing the image to 1280*720 like i found that resolution in Jarvis custom animation and still nothing chnanged.
Animation zipped with WinRAR.
Animation called bootanimation.zip (I have NOT made that mistake with bootanimation.zip.zip)
Animation has 7.67MB zipped, unzipped 11.4MB.
As I read yesterday someone told me I have to make desc.txt file in Notepad++, make it ANSI coded and convert it to UNIX format and make there last blank line. Done
Permissions I tried to set was -rwxrwxrwx and -rw-r--r--
Here you can download the animation: http://ulozto.cz/x8RU4UJM/bootanimation-zip
The problem is when I power on the phone it shows me Sony logo, then it vibrates two times (as normally does) and then shows black screen. And then It asks me for PIN etc. and phone is succesfully booted. But why that black screen? I set (I hope) everything good, what I did not tried is change the resolution of all pics to smaller (HD or etc) because original bootanimation is 960x540 and that working Jarvis is 1280*720 (and shows smaller so it looks pretty weird and also with bad framerate so it looks laggy) and i do not tried changing image from JPEG to PNG but original bootanimation is in JPEG as mine so I dont think it will help. Thank you all for your help guys!!! And of course If you liek that and you will solve my problem I can do the same bootanimation for you with your own text but it must have 6 letters as mine
EDIT:
I tried bootanimation factory and now my bootanimation works but ends after the image about 100...
Can you create bootanimation for me
I have a bootanimation that is from the Scott Pilgrim video game. I used it on my old Nexus 5 and it was awesome, however I am unable to use this bootanimation on the N6 as the resolution is a lot higher on the N6. Can anyone tell me if its possible to convert it to the N6 resolution and have it work? I used Jrummy Root Tools and converted it to my phones resolution but it would not work, only showed a black screen.
I have attached the bootanimation file just in case. As I am not the original maker of this boot animation, if anyone likes to have it your welcome to. Id really love to have this boot animation to go with my phones wallpaper (also attached)
EDIT: Figured it out. Had to resize all the photos to the N6 screen resolution and then compress it as "store" only. Then copy to internal location for the stock bootanimation and BAM! All works. I have attached a link for the newly resized and working version for the N6. Enjoy yall
Link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6oz0OoWTiptazE2RkNoZkFvOEE/view
You should be able do it yourself without relying on an app. Unzip the boot animation. Change the first line in desc.txt using Notepad++ in Windows as follows and save the file. Zip the boot animation files, making sure to set compression to "store", then copy to the device and reboot.
Code:
1440 2560 15
The boot animation should have no problems upscaling to the N6 screen size. I use this upscaling on my own boot animation to keep the file size down, and I've been using the same boot animation for six years now. The original incarnation was scaled for a Dell Streak's 800 x 480 screen, then upscaled for a Galaxy S4 screen (1920 x 1080), and upscaled a third time for the N6.