Okay,
I was fiddling around with boot animations on my sensation an made a sweet one that i like from a couple of youtube vids all credit goes to them ie korea android ad and i think a fellow in a design class made the other one (look below i have attached) but when i tried to do the same for my xoom i got stuck in the boot animation where it kept recylcing the boot and never actually booted into the rom... to say the least i had to do a nandroid to get back just from a boot animation which kinda sucks... anyway ill lay out the specifics
1. I used jpgs, same as with my sensation they seem to work just as well as .pngs but keep the zip much much smaller and dont look choppy
2. I use the original boot animation from the tiamat 2.2.2 version as my base zip file which i edited with my pictures
3. I used the actually spec'd dimensions of the xoom of 1280 x 800 for the pictures, however i noticed that the boot from tiamat used 704 x 440 maybe that could be it (i will be trying that now and report back)
4. as my boot time took a while i thought i may try to use 900 images (a bit dumb i know, in my sensation i use 400 and it gets through them nicely, each pic is a pretty quick segment tho) (i will edit the same amount as my sensation and try again)
can anyone shed some light onto why mine may not have worked other than the amount of pics..
here is a youtube link for what i actually made
boot
i tried to just change the resolution to 704 x 440... and i deleted half the images... and tried again... again it kept replaying and never actually booted into the rom so again i am nandroiding lol
You will need to edit your desc.txt file
1408 880 24
p 0 0 part 0
put all your pictures in folder named part0.
Then zip folder using 7zip and make sure you choose store as compression method.
Hope this helps.
i have done that but used done3 as my folder name.. as i said i used the tiamat moray boot animation as my base zip =]
the name of the folder inside the zip shouldn't make a difference especially as i got it to play but it keeps playing and playing a small bit and not the whole file nor booting into the rom...
on all my bootanimations, it helps if you make each image 960 x 600.
then on your desc.txt file, make the screen size 1280 x 800 (the correct size for the xoom).
sometimes if there is an extra pixel hanging off it could cause you to blackscreen or bootloop.
also, sometimes you'll get a bad jpg file, that could also cause the black screen or bootloop.
best suggestion would be to get the desc.txt file from a known working bootanimation and just adjust the frame rate. be sure to hit enter for a new line after you have put in the info for the last part folder.
oh, and a little trick i found. use the bootanimation installer to push the bootanimation, then restart the xoom and be sure to close the bootanimation installer.
leave your xoom connected to your pc. if you do get into a bootloop, wait a few minutes for it to loop then just reopen the bootanimation installer and push a known working bootanimation. after a few seconds the new bootanimation (or default one) should show and should boot normally. this is my procedure.
Sardo Numspa said:
on all my bootanimations, it helps if you make each image 960 x 600.
then on your desc.txt file, make the screen size 1280 x 800 (the correct size for the xoom).
sometimes if there is an extra pixel hanging off it could cause you to blackscreen or bootloop.
also, sometimes you'll get a bad jpg file, that could also cause the black screen or bootloop.
best suggestion would be to get the desc.txt file from a known working bootanimation and just adjust the frame rate. be sure to hit enter for a new line after you have put in the info for the last part folder.
oh, and a little trick i found. use the bootanimation installer to push the bootanimation, then restart the xoom and be sure to close the bootanimation installer.
leave your xoom connected to your pc. if you do get into a bootloop, wait a few minutes for it to loop then just reopen the bootanimation installer and push a known working bootanimation. after a few seconds the new bootanimation (or default one) should show and should boot normally. this is my procedure.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sweet ill try that.. I tried 3 dimension sizes the true size, and 2 dimensions i got from boot animations with the roms.. I reduced the number of jpgs..
One last thing what setting do u choose for your jpg in photoshop? Or do u jyst use pngs.. I can use setting of 6 medium sized compression for me sensation even tho it works for my phone that may be affecting the xoom
Sent from my mind control device
doesnt really matter the file size. we've made bootanimations with upwards of 7 parts and 200+ mb.
i would say try it first with pngs and if it works then convert to jpgs. i use a file sizing program to make sure of the picture ratio, it gets rid of any of those hanging pixels.
Sardo Numspa said:
doesnt really matter the file size. we've made bootanimations with upwards of 7 parts and 200+ mb.
i would say try it first with pngs and if it works then convert to jpgs. i use a file sizing program to make sure of the picture ratio, it gets rid of any of those hanging pixels.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well considering i set canvas size with photoshop that constricts pixel dimensions quiet well but ill take ya advice and try that and i might split it up too
Sent from my mind control device
also remember that there is a file number limit per part (folder).
looks good
Success it would seem.. Jpgs are fine.. I think i have found the upper limit of pictures no matter the amount of folders.. The 130 per folder helped.. Will update when i get home from work
Sent from my mind control device
Just like the title reads, I am not looking for a custom boot animation, I already have some, but rather before the boot animation, right when you turn on the phone, there is a gray Google logo and a lock/unlock logo that appears before the animation, wondering if there is a way to change the layout on this, just looking for another little something to tweak thanks
Always wondered the same thing,I know there is the first Google logo, then it flickers and a second one shows.it may be a permanent logo?
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium
gotta be a pic somewhere in the files, I'll find it and when I change it will take pics
It's hard-coded to the kernel, you'll need to recompile the kernel with changed picture.
I downloaded a few Boot Animations, but they're all the wrong size.
I looked in desc.txt and changed the first two numbers (resolution) but when I boot I get a black screen.
Do I need to resize all of the pictures as well?
Im just looking for a similiar program to note ++, that i can run on android. Just want to make some boot animations and it seems like the text editor i have is corrupting the desc.txt. When i used a premade bootanimation.zip and just threw in my animation it works but i cant edit the times it loops or the screen size.
Thanks!
Sent from my GT-S7560M using xda app-developers app
I have a Droid Incredible which is an 800x480 resolution. The stock CM10 boot animation at 480x480 works well on it. Someone modified that boot animation to add different colors, but the resulting animation is a larger resolution than my phone can accept. I've tried to edit the jpg's inside the animation down to either 800x480 or 480x480 without good results. 800x480 results in a stretched appearance and 480x480 makes the CM logo at the center too large for the screen (the sides are clipped off).
Clearly, I'm doing something wrong. Does anyone have any insight on how to scale the jpg's down effectively?
TIA,
CheapDad
CheapDad said:
I have a Droid Incredible which is an 800x480 resolution. The stock CM10 boot animation at 480x480 works well on it. Someone modified that boot animation to add different colors, but the resulting animation is a larger resolution than my phone can accept. I've tried to edit the jpg's inside the animation down to either 800x480 or 480x480 without good results. 800x480 results in a stretched appearance and 480x480 makes the CM logo at the center too large for the screen (the sides are clipped off).
Clearly, I'm doing something wrong. Does anyone have any insight on how to scale the jpg's down effectively?
TIA,
CheapDad
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You have to modify the resolution into the desc.txt file. Read available guides on XDA to know how to create/modify a bootanimation.