I recently created a pretty cool vintage droid bootanimation but with all the png's it is 150mb and each png is 336kb, is there a way to optimize the png's so they are smaller? there is only 499 png's in total. Thank you for your help.
I ran into a similar problem the other day. There are a couple of programs that can shrink the PNGs down without loss of quality(they are considered lossless files). There is PNGout and PNGcrush. These are command line programs. Then, if you need a GUI style one, check out PNGWin(I thought it was called, but can't find info ATM). I found it easier though to use the online program found at http://www.gracepointafterfive.com/punypng . You can only do 25 at a time, but it's quick and you can download the finished ones in .zip format instead of individually. With all that info bouncing around your head, I might add that there is probably no way to get that big of a file down to a manageable size as PNGs. The best you can hope for(at least quickly/easily) is a 40-50% reduction overall. I ended up just converting everything to JPG status and it worked well enough, combined with the files being 20% of the size of even my crushed PNGs, to make it worthwile. Hope this helps!
Thank you, the jpg idea worked like a charm. Was able to get the boot screen down to 13mb from 150mb. I didn't know you could use jpg. Again, thank you.
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Glad to help I struggled with that for like 3 days, reading different forums, trying to ask in chat rooms, etc. Another forum member ihtfp69 showed me one of his that used JPGs and yea, that made life so much easier. 13MB is still a pretty hefty sized boot animation since it gets stored in your internal phone memory. If you use a2sd it's probably not too big of an issue, but if you are wanting to share with the community then it might be something to look into as that might scare a few of them away. Check out my Mario one in this forum, I think it's pretty cool too I have a Wall-e and Eve one that I did for a forum member over at android forums but not quite sure if it is polished yet, waiting to see how it works for him. Anyway, have a good one!
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I've been helping buddies get rooted on their phones and one thing they always want is a custom theme... because of this I research and find good (professional) ones for them, and there are MANY to choose from.
I don't expect people to start fresh, but can some of these be ported?
Bring the Vibrant some Sexy-Time.
Black Froyo is amazing... wish there were more options
(especially ones that played well with Nero too)
Back in the game and I've really just started using widgets to customize if you dont mind losing some battery life launcher pro plus is awesome for this
Nerov3 voodoo
^ check out some other theme sections and you'll discover what I mean.
Example:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853923
Looking at that made me want a clear swype pad
Nerov3 voodoo
I agree but beggers can't be choosy. I would love to learn how to theme however I never find the time to learn with so many things going on in my life. I read somewhere that junkdruggler will help you theme if you ask. Hopefully next Monday pr Tuesday I can start to play with new themes and morphs.
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I know good and well where my skill set lies, and it's not with themes. I can beg all I want to, just hope it benefits ALL of us.
Just a heads up, a basic theme for the Vibrant will involve roughly 750 image edits in order to make it consistent enough to feel right. That isn't even getting into app specific edits to fit the system theme.
You think it's possible if we all share these files in PSD and edit them from there? The only thing I know how to do is edit pictures on Photoshop which I usually do. I haven't even tried edit .9.pngs but i'm willing to do it if it's not that time consuming either.
That would be pretty awesome if we had a shared dropbox folder or something.... shoot, I'll try and learn!
One of the reasons I bought my Vega for was that I could mess a bit with an Android device and learn about it without having to put my phone in peril (in the end I've been flashing ROMs on my phone with a daily frequence anyways, so it was more a good excuse than anything else ). I've considered the idea to build an Ubuntu theme for our devices: there are many icon packs available and as an Ubuntu user I'm familiar and keen on the look and feel.
I've seen some tutorials, but they seem to be quite old and perhaps in the meantime the process of building Android themes has become easier than in 2009.
Any ideas on the topic?
Thanks in advance!
I woke up one day last week and decided I wanted to change to look of my Vega.
Searched all over XDA and found plenty of icon packs, but most needed Bettercut etc, which didn't seem to work very well on the Vega. Other icon packs were PNGs, which firstly crashed my gallery app every time and secondly were also low res. I tried a few other apps but they all seem designed for small screens - the icons they create are very pixellated and small with no way to change.
I also wanted to change the icons in the app drawer, apparently the only way to do this is to reassign each icon within the APK of each app and reinstall.
I gave up in the end, I am flashing a new rom almost weekly and I don't fancy going through all that hassle every time.
Logseman said:
One of the reasons I bought my Vega for was that I could mess a bit with an Android device and learn about it without having to put my phone in peril (in the end I've been flashing ROMs on my phone with a daily frequence anyways, so it was more a good excuse than anything else ). I've considered the idea to build an Ubuntu theme for our devices: there are many icon packs available and as an Ubuntu user I'm familiar and keen on the look and feel.
I've seen some tutorials, but they seem to be quite old and perhaps in the meantime the process of building Android themes has become easier than in 2009.
Any ideas on the topic?
Thanks in advance!
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Maybe try speaking to some people from here (Viewsonic G-Tablet forums):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=841
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=845
It may be helpful, as they have similar roms to us (software 'buttons' at the top of the screen), and have the same screen resolution too.
EDIT: I found this page specifically, which could help.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=878518
First off. I have searched all over the placed for these wallpapers. Ever since Virus's Kingdom ROM for the OG EVO I have used it as my background.
The wallpapers are attached. These are currently in 800x480 format and converted to our 960x540 screen. I did one, the My Water one by editing some smali and such. But, I can't remember which since it was a while ago.
Anyways, I have attached the one that does work without the white line (due to the resolution). It's the MyWater one below.
The others, still in 800x480, are attached in zip. Please someone smarter than me point me in the right direction to change the resolution of the others. Willing to donate big....
So will others, I guarantee it..
These have been on the 3d for a while http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1165563&highlight=my+water
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These have been on the 3d for a while http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1165563&highlight=my+water
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Yea, read again please....The MY WATER one is the only one without a white bar going across the bottom of the screen after being ported. All others have the white bar do the resolution. Please answer my question or read carefully before commenting.
Thanks though for your attempt at helping.
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First off. I have searched all over the placed for these wallpapers. Ever since Virus's Kingdom ROM for the OG EVO I have used it as my background.
The wallpapers are attached. These are currently in 800x480 format and converted to our 960x540 screen. I did one, the My Water one by editing some smali and such. But, I can't remember which since it was a while ago.
Anyways, I have attached the one that does work without the white line (due to the resolution). It's the MyWater one below.
The others, still in 800x480, are attached in zip. Please someone smarter than me point me in the right direction to change the resolution of the others. Willing to donate big....
So will others, I guarantee it..
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Here's the fix:
I'm the one who originally was gonna rework all these. But what a freaking pain in the ass that was..(I pm'd you with the instructions).
Anyway, by chance, I noticed that the Rom I'm currently using (viperROM 1. 2) only had the dalvik cache heap size set at 32m, when past experience tells me that MANY more apps will actually work at 48m. So, I changed the build.prop. to 48m, and cleared dalvik cache in a reboot.
A side effect of this was that all these HERE :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=15263089
work now, with no resizing necessary. The main ones, at the top of that thread, work as well, and those are the ones you really wanted.
So, just do the same thing, but I would totally uninstall the nonworking one's you have now. Forget all that resizing garbage. Let me know how it works out for you.
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Hey I've been thinking about how parts of this swtor trailer would make a badass boot animation.
You can download the 720p version using tubemate.
is there specific parts you want of the trailer?
6 min is a bit long for a boot screen animation... fyi
Pretty much any of the parts involving the combat between the Jedi and the Sith. The part where he grabs the second lightsaber and starts kicking ass is cool (would require editing because it cuts to the girl/smuggler), as well as the part where darth malgus leaps through the fire and kills the jedi.
lol sorry but could you give me the time where that spot is? would make my life easier to edit for you
*wasn't in to starwars so i have no idea who and what you're talking about*
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Try this one
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2041638/starwars.zip
see if you like the quality at all
i haven't tested it on my prime yet tho
make sure you rename the zip file
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lol sorry but could you give me the time where that spot is? would make my life easier to edit for you
*wasn't in to starwars so i have no idea who and what you're talking about*
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Try this one
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2041638/starwars.zip
see if you like the quality at all
i haven't tested it on my prime yet tho
make sure you rename the zip file
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Wow!
Runs fine, Its a little pixelated (looks like 360p running fullscreen).
The part in specific was from around 3:25 to 4:25, minus the parts when it cuts to ship (just the battle).
If thats too much work - the current one is nice as well, just the quality could be a bit better.
Thanks by the way
try this one
http://www.mediafire.com/?r7zbt3fdrwyfu4x
or this one for the longer version
http://www.mediafire.com/?fxiaew25bi2u22q
HEY check my custome animation thread out! i have two that should be done tonight if u have a request post it there
Ok so this is my first post and im hoping its in the right spot! First off my name is TehJibba and ive been messing around with my evo3d sprint cdma for a few months now flashing different roms and exploring them. ive gone as far as installing dsxida's kitchen and fooled around with deodexing and other settings then flashing the results to my phone mostly with success.
So my main goal now is to get info on where to go from here.
What i want to accomplish in the end is to have a fully working evo3d with beats + leedroid + a custom kernel (yet to be decided on atm) As well as removing ALL stock bloatware leaving only whats needed to run the basic sense 3.6 on the 2.89. ics ota. To be honest all i really like of the stock htc widgets is the clock / weather widgets / animations everything else can go as far as im concerened. Eventually id like to port sense 4.1 to it as well (why? why not i like new dont you?)
So i hope that gives you a basic idea of what i want to accomplish. What i need is a few references as to possible hiccups while installing said mods and possible solutions that i might need. Im also in need of a list of evo3d 2.89 ics ota apps that can be safely removed but leave full functionality of the phne Or any insight would be nice along those lines. Be patient and remember we were all noobs at one point!
P.S. I was also wondering if theres a way to compensate the stock 1500mha full battery charge to 3500mha as i recently got an extended life battery
I'm gonna be hoppin back on the development game in a few weeks or so, so if you wanna PM or Gtalk me or anything, feel free because I would have no problem sittin down for a little while and help you sort some stuff out. Plus, it would help me shed some rust before I start toying around again haha :good: :laugh:
Thank you man ill be taking you up on that offer. Im pretty adept at coding in general so this shouldnt be to hard to pickup
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Thank you man ill be taking you up on that offer. Im pretty adept at coding in general so this shouldnt be to hard to pickup
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Just so coincidental that I signed on as soon as you replied lol, it's no problem at all. There's not really much you need to know as far as apps and mods and stuff, but actually digging deeper, that's when the fun starts. I'll be available to help probably tomorrow night, and then we can start rollin.
OK So thanks to beneath-a-burning-turtle and his kindness in helping a complete stranger this lil project is moving along nicely. Currently im averaging 490mb free ram, 140mb of installed apps leaving about 1gb free memory, as well as getting around 3600~ on quadrant. Total rom size (so far) is 323mb.
Im still in need of input tho from other experienced cooks, anything insightful or that would be a useful addition or anything really would be nice. So lets hear some feedback! :good: Also if theres anything thats considered a must have inthis project feel free to ask for it