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I am playing with creating a custom splash screen using lewcamino's instructions in the home cooked rom thread found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=958523&postcount=72 . I have gone through and installed my splash screen, but it is a very low res. Can anyone give me any tips as to what I'm doing wrong. I created the picture in PS elements. My BMP looks great, but when I extract a test image from my nk.nbf file I make it looks all messed up.
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The splash screen of Wizard can't support more than 256 colours, and hence your issue. I suggest you use a simple picture for your purpose, might work better
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I am playing with creating a custom splash screen using lewcamino's instructions in the home cooked rom thread found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=958523&postcount=72 . I have gone through and installed my splash screen, but it is a very low res. Can anyone give me any tips as to what I'm doing wrong. I created the picture in PS elements. My BMP looks great, but when I extract a test image from my nk.nbf file I make it looks all messed up.
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Have you seen this tutorial? It might point you in the right direction. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=284006
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thanks vseehua I'll try simplifying it. As I recalled the splash screens of teh various ROM's I've loaded I started to realize this must be my problem.
Demontefixo, thanks I had seen that tut...thats what got me started. I had posted at teh end with a few problems, but it turned out it was related to my POS computer I was working on.
Thanks for your help. When I get a splash I'm happy with I'll post it. The reason I like the tut I linked to earlier is that it is a very easy installed file, and now that I've done it, its not very tough to put together
ok, born from the verbose bootscreen idea there was the fake verbose bootscreen idea, credit goes here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4912469
this is what i came up with in a quick session, i think there is much room for improvement. if anybody likes to contribute, i would be glad for creative support
apply the zip as update.zip, make a nandroid backup before just in case. to make it easier to revert i attached a zipfile with the original files in them to revert to original, one with the sounds activated, one silent.
please tell me what you think
Hello,
do you have any screenshot of the boot or video?
Just extract the gif files and open them in IE or firefox. They'll play the anim. Very funny
thats quite funny
Lol
You are completely cool!
Thank you for this Bootscreens.
Now, Hero Booting isn't pain anymore!
glad you liked it. stay tuned for next version, already working on a progress bar... won't be out before weekend i guess.
still looking for a fingerprint scanner animation.
Nice one Thou i kinda miss my androids popping up everywhere. Would it be cool if you had a Android face popping down from the top of the screen?
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Nice one Thou i kinda miss my androids popping up everywhere. Would it be cool if you had a Android face popping down from the top of the screen?
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nice one, on the list!
keep it coming!
btw i am also open for tips on a good tool for animated gifs, begins to be a PITA to arrange everything by hand...
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nice one, on the list!
keep it coming!
btw i am also open for tips on a good tool for animated gifs, begins to be a PITA to arrange everything by hand...
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which tool do ya use atm?
felikz said:
which tool do ya use atm?
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for now i found a way to edit the files in inkscape, one layer per frame, exporting them to .xcf keeping the layers, and then use gimp to convert to animated gif. works, but is a lot of footwork... but i guess as i am trying to make a rather "complex" (at least for a gif) animation it just is a lot of footwork...
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ok, born from the verbose bootscreen idea there was the fake verbose bootscreen idea, credit goes here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4912469
this is what i came up with in a quick session, i think there is much room for improvement. if anybody likes to contribute, i would be glad for creative support
apply the zip as update.zip, make a nandroid backup before just in case. to make it easier to revert i attached a zipfile with the original files in them to revert to original, one with the sounds activated, one silent.
please tell me what you think
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Hey, I was wondering if you could help me out. I dig your boot animation, and it's inspired me to make my own (OK, I'm just stealing the old "Cylon Eye" animation from the pre-release days.) Anyway, I've got the animation zip installed and working, however it seems like the phone is ignoring the frame delay. The animation seems to be going as fast as the phone can handle. So maybe there's a setting on the animated GIF that I'm not applying. Are there any specific settings you applied to your gifs?
Here's what I've got right now:
Code:
Interlace: No
GIF Comment: No
Loop Forever: Yes
Delay between frames where unspecified: 10ms
Frame disposal where unspecified: "I don't care" (other options are Combine and Replace)
Use Delay entered for all frames: Yes
Use Disposal entered for all frames: Yes
These settings are in GIMP. If you could help me figure this out, I'd greatly appreciate it.
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Here's what I've got right now:
Code:
Delay between frames where unspecified: 10ms
These settings are in GIMP. If you could help me figure this out, I'd greatly appreciate it.
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set that value to a higher number, try 100ms. this specifies the general frame delay, you can set per-frame delays in the name of the frame. for example:
"Frame#1" is the layer name, make it
"Frame#1(500ms)" to make the delay half a second long.
(if that doesn't work try to google it, i am not 100% sure about the syntax)
would you mind sharing that animation you are talking about?
btw: work is still ongoing here, nuclear power now has a colored progress bar, but it is getting complicated handling 150+ layers in inkscape...
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set that value to a higher number, try 100ms. this specifies the general frame delay, you can set per-frame delays in the name of the frame. for example:
"Frame#1" is the layer name, make it
"Frame#1(500ms)" to make the delay half a second long.
(if that doesn't work try to google it, i am not 100% sure about the syntax)
would you mind sharing that animation you are talking about?
btw: work is still ongoing here, nuclear power now has a colored progress bar, but it is getting complicated handling 150+ layers in inkscape...
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Yeah, I realized that my math was off with the delay, after noticing yours was 500ms. I'm going to try a couple other things to get it smoother as well. The stock boot animation has a small animated gif in the middle of the screen with a black background, so I imagine the phone can handle that easier than a full 480x320 animation, so that's my next step. I was actually just about to post my animation in a separate thread, so I'll link that post here when I've done that.
EDIT: My initial attempt is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583094
There's still work to be done, so don't judge me to hard!
thank you for the bootscreen.. finally removed that dreaded sprint bootup animation =)
motoyola said:
thank you for the bootscreen.. finally removed that dreaded sprint bootup animation =)
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well it is actually not done yet, work is still ongoing here
i don't know when i can finish this, when i had time some kernel-compiling came across my way glad you liked it though, it is a lot of work but not very difficult.
Very nice Boot SCreen. Hoping for android icons too.Thanks
Do I just have to rename it to update.zip and flash it via recovery ?
Thanks
alpha124
alpha124 said:
Do I just have to rename it to update.zip and flash it via recovery ?
Thanks
alpha124
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yes
actually you don't need to rename it with the latest recovery image.
ok thanks for the quick reply
thats weird... I just flashed my hero with your bootscreen but it doesn't show up on booting.?
alpha124
Android Themes Basics 4:
Finally got round to making the requested .9s video:
-Retrieving and backing up the original framework-res.apk
-Using the Draw9Patcher tool to create the required guides
-Using eclipse to apply the guides to the image
-Pushing the file back to your phone
I hope the video is helpful, I know a lot of people do not like .9 files at all
Android Themes Basics 3:
Back after a long break. Easy one to get going again: Changing system font.
-Backing up original fonts from your phone
-Replacing with new ones
Sorry been lazy recently =o)
Android Themes Basics 2:
Second Part of the video series is now finished =o). The topic this time is changing the status bar:
- Pulling necessary files from phone
- Extracting files required
- Editing the status_bar.xml file and classes.dex file to change status bar colours
- Repackaging the dex file
- Pushing modified files back to the phone
The video is split to 2 parts unfortunately due to Youtube having a 10 minute limit and I didn't want to cut anything out to keep it simple.
Android Themes Basics 1:
Just finished my first video tutorial for creating android themes. The topic of the first video is changing basic images so covers:
- Pulling files from the phone
- Extracting images from APK
- Placing edited images back to the APK
- Pushing the file back to phone.
I know this is very basic and most of you know perfectly how to do this but I thought I would start from the very basics
Let me know what you think and any areas you would like me to cover in future videos, Ideally I would like to create a series of videos that new people can work through to create full themes.
Videos:
Android Themes Basics 1: Changing Images
Android Themes Basics 2: Changing Statusbar (1/2)
Android Themes Basics 2: Changing Statusbar (2/2)
Android Themes Basics 3: Changing System Font
Android Themes Basics 4: Changing Buttons (The .9s video)
Upcoming:
- Changing the battery display
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video
How are you I just tried to view the video an youtube is saying that the video is not available
Just yesterday I was hoping someone would do something like this. Thank you. Much easier than I thought it would be.
Looks good, now just do one on .9's for the love of god PLEASE!
Do you know how to create an update file with the Mac?
Now I use windows to create an update file ... is there a signing script available for the Mac?
very cool
thanks man
cant wait for the upcoming vids and some .9 vids
T3hFurious1, maybe it was your post I saw yesterday that gave me the idea then, it was on this forum someone mentioned would be nice =o)
MurderDeathKill & smackiesfunkies, added the .9s video to the upcoming, I'll start scripting it out soon for you guys.
cybapaddy, absolutely no idea as I wouldnt touch Mac with a veeeeeeeeeery long stick, only reason the video is in windows is cause I thought it would be more helpful to majority than the linux version
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Do you know how to create an update file with the Mac?
Now I use windows to create an update file ... is there a signing script available for the Mac?
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I have the file somewhere hold on.
Edit: http://www.417photography.net/mac.zip comes with all 3 files!
Added a second video now with details on changing the statusbar, details in the first post
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awesome man
these videos are a big help
i was wondering tho if you could add voice walkthrough as you are goin through it?
just a preference and a lil bit easier to follow along as youre doing it :]
if not its still very helpful
I was thinking of that but couple of reasons why I decided to go without tho, mainly I do these whilst I'm at work tho
I'll see what ill do for future lessons, although I do think the first 2 should be clear enough without audio, even tho the 2nd video gets bit tricky at times.
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fxn said:
I was thinking of that but couple of reasons why I decided to go without tho, mainly I do these whilst I'm at work tho
I'll see what ill do for future lessons, although I do think the first 2 should be clear enough without audio, even tho the 2nd video gets bit tricky at times.
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ohhhhh lol got it
yeah the first two are easy enough to follow
good job with em
Could you make a tutorial on pushing a framework-res.apk?
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Android Themes Basics 2:
Upcoming:
- .9s (as requested)
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Im waiting for this too
Great job, dude. Thanks!
t3hfurious1, if you have a look at the 2nd part of 2nd video it pushes the framework-res.apk to the phone, is that what you meant?
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t3hfurious1, if you have a look at the 2nd part of 2nd video it pushes the framework-res.apk to the phone, is that what you meant?
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Haha, woops, didn't notice it. Thanks for pointing it out.
Hi,
big thanks for the Videos.
Now I have one problem:
The Text is white and quite good. But the clock isn't white. It's still black.
Could you please help me and say where my problem is?
could you do a video on how to do these changes if you wish to upload a zip to the public. also if you pull the apk from your phone does it physically take it out of your phone till you put it back in? Because what i'm thinking is that instead of pulling every .apk why not just download a stock 1.6 rom and use the files from there. i just dont know how to sign it/make the zip so that i can flash it on my phone.
Formel-LMS, There are two files to change, one of them will change text and the other changes the clock If I remember correctly, both files we're covered on the video however but it could be that some things have changed...I wouldn't know haven't done any of this stuff for months
MFK DGAF, No doing a pull on an APK doesn't remove it from your phone just takes a copy of it, the reason I pull the files from my own phone before making changes is because I use a custom rom and it could well be that the person cooking the rom (Cyanogen/JAC) have made a modification to that file or other files which would make the stock file incompatible with rest of the rom.
Toying with the idea of making another video, feeling lazy as hell though so dunno if that'll happen
3rd Video up, easy one mind you but hopefully will be putting another one up shortly =o)
Can anyone help?
I want to create some animated wallpapers for myself, friends & family. No interaction, just a looped video.
I can create video's easily, been doing it for years, but I have no idea how to programme in any language
Is it possible for someone to create a template that I (and others) can just add a small video to and (somehow) convert to an apk?
I can promise I will not sell anything and will only be for people I know
is it even possible to use videos or are the current live wallpapers rendered on the fly?
any help/advise appreciated
mmace said:
Can anyone help?
I want to create some animated wallpapers for myself, friends & family. No interaction, just a looped video.
I can create video's easily, been doing it for years, but I have no idea how to programme in any language
Is it possible for someone to create a template that I (and others) can just add a small video to and (somehow) convert to an apk?
I can promise I will not sell anything and will only be for people I know
is it even possible to use videos or are the current live wallpapers rendered on the fly?
any help/advise appreciated
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I know the nexus boot animation uses the actual bootanimation.zip from the system folder. I'm sure you could create another animation.zip and redirected to that without much trouble. I hope that's a good starting point for you or whoever decides to help you.
BTW, the boot animation is basically just a short video clip with each frame saved as an individual png.
bahnburner said:
I know the nexus boot animation uses the actual bootanimation.zip from the system folder. I'm sure you could create another animation.zip and redirected to that without much trouble. I hope that's a good starting point for you or whoever decides to help you.
BTW, the boot animation is basically just a short video clip with each frame saved as an individual png.
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thank you, I will look into it
OK, looked into the above but can only find info about boot animations. Can anyone help with the original request?
cheers
mmace said:
OK, looked into the above but can only find info about boot animations. Can anyone help with the original request?
cheers
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Like I said, you only have to convert your video clip into a boot animation, which is just an animated GIF with each frame broken out into a separate PNG image file.
Email the guy that made the Earth Live wallpaper. He can point you in the right direction.
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Like I said, you only have to convert your video clip into a boot animation, which is just an animated GIF with each frame broken out into a separate PNG image file.
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cheers, I know how to do that, but I wanted a live wallpaper, not a boot animation
uberingram said:
Email the guy that made the Earth Live wallpaper. He can point you in the right direction.
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will look into it, cheers
Progress?
I have the same interest... changing a loopable video file into a live background. Were you able to figure anything out?
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I've foudn a fantastic LCARS boot animation that id like to use on my Note but it is a little two small. Does anyone know how to resize it please.
I have tried to edit the desc file to 1280 x 800 and also 800 x 1280 but it wont work. It is either distorted or all I get is a black screen while the boot sound is played....im using a seperate boot ogg file.
Here is the link to the boot animation file
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=701574&page=12
Thanks in advance and a large cookie to whoever does it :laugh::silly:
theres an app called Absolute System that can do it, Unfortunately it is a paid app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...EsImNvbS5jYW52czIzMjEuYWJzb2x1dGUuc3lzdGVtIl0.
EDIT: found this, I think its what you need
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1234611
thanks il give it a try.
Would i just copy the bootanimation.zip to my phone then run it through this programme?
yes, once the program has created it, move it to your phone and replace the original one with the one you made
What about ones someone else has made but just need resizing?
I should imagine it would be the same as creating your own, Just edit the resolution and let the program generate it ??
Ive never actually used the program i just remember seeing it one time, and when you asked about it i remembered
Curious did it work for you
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Curious did it work for you
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Im just about to try it buddy, just finishing off on Fleabay then its prodding tiime....Ill post back laters.
unfortunatley it wont work for me I keep getting FC's with it...so im back to the drawing board.
I have just used the other app ( boot animation creator ) and bongo worked perfectley. top advice thank you.
if the animation comes in typical zip file, you should be able to unpack it and just resize all the pics,
or am I missing something? (sorry, now unable to check the file by myself)
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ITs ok bud i managed to sort it out
can someone resize this
I have this bootanimation but its small so i want to resize to fit the screen of my nexus 5 pls