Each ROM try to have one or several boot animations: a cartoon or animated banner, whatever. I find it childist and sometimes non-sense.
I mean: who is powering-on a device and stay watching it while booting?
By the way, I preffer that standard Motorola with the M inside the circle instead of those full color...
... Maybe because M for Melvyn
Rebooting your phone is not a very fun and exciting experience, so why not at least try to make it more bearable with some pretty? By that token, why bother changing the boot logo too?
To each their own. If you're happy with your stock stuff, then by all means stick with it.
Counter-question: why the need for a new thread though? And in the wrong section too... Should be in Q&A, since it's a question.
melvynperez said:
Each ROM try to have one or several boot animations: a cartoon or animated banner, whatever. I find it childist and sometimes non-sense.
I mean: who is powering-on a device and stay watching it while booting?
By the way, I preffer that standard Motorola with the M inside the circle instead of those full color...
... Maybe because M for Melvyn
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It's all about customization. personally I like to change both the boot logo and animation. I fail to see why this is childish. I think your post however is!
Cheers!
I like the animation a lot. And honestly for me its part of the room experience.
Stock blur with the pulsing m, cm7 with the android and now epinters cm10 with the animated circle - they all give me this specific rom feeling. I dont see this as childish.
I dont quite get it either. The only reason I can think of is that you reboot your phone on a regular basis, in which case there's something wrong with it. I myself dont care so long as it doesnt make me somewhat embarrassed should my phone reboot. So over the life of my phone, I've used the stock Moto boot animation, the stock CM7 one (since it wasnt too bad) and the stock CM10 one. When on other roms and while on CM9, I removed it entirely to get the standard "ANDROID" text boot logo.
TL;DR version: the more flashy, the less I like it. The more minimalist or discrete, the better.
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I like the animation a lot. And honestly for me its part of the room experience.
Stock blur with the pulsing m, cm7 with the android and now epinters cm10 with the animated circle - they all give me this specific rom feeling. I dont see this as childish.
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agree!
it is all part of the customization
anyway, why does it bother you? hopefully you don't reboot your phone many times per day...
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Hey all,
This is my second boot animation. It is, of course, based on Naruto! (because that show and manga is awesome). It is lighter than my simply a ninja boot animation. For now I just have a little animation but I will work on animating more things (hopefully).
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---I am not responsible if anything crazy happens to your phone---
Must be root. Should work with all custom roms (gingerbread&froyo)
Use Root Explorer
Push bootanimation.zip to /system/media (mount as r/w)
Reboot
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GIF: http://i56.tinypic.com/2isgsd5.gif
.zip is attached
Haha that is too clean! You should make an Itachi version :O
no, no better make a Sasuke version ;p
How about one of Neji? Or Gaara? That'll be bad ass!!
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Or better yet, how about Hoshigaki Kisame?? Thanks.
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+1 on the gaara, so this only works on gingbread based roms? Not on royal glacier?
I am on royalglacier and it works as well. And I will turn this thread into a naruto thread I suppose! Will do other characters when I get off work
Looks great. My only suggestion would be to throw some blue in there like the shippuuden logo has. Maybe the "4g" part of "mytouch 4g" could be a blue gradient and the rest red. Either way, nice boot.
kyuza said:
Looks great. My only suggestion would be to throw some blue in there like the shippuuden logo has. Maybe the "4g" part of "mytouch 4g" could be a blue gradient and the rest red. Either way, nice boot.
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no doubt
Any updates? Would LOVE me a gaara boot screen
featured on the xda main page this new android back lit logo fits perfectly on the nook color screen. i like the blue
link to original thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1102211
Nice, thanks! I have been looking to change up my boot animation. I've been rockin' the XDA one for a long time.
I'm using the blue one, seems a little small. Which resolution did u pick?
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I'm using the blue one, seems a little small. Which resolution did u pick?
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480x800 is what works for me
it's hard to get a good boot animation to work in a real fullscreen (1024x600) setting because it's just too hard to display that many images (it's just pictures) and boot up at the same time. That's why I've started sticking with the cyanogen versions.
I would dig on nice looking boot up screens that were not designed to be viewed on smaller displays (ie, no hard edges, just black edges to the images)
That one looks very nice though.
chisleu said:
it's hard to get a good boot animation to work in a real fullscreen (1024x600) setting because it's just too hard to display that many images (it's just pictures) and boot up at the same time. That's why I've started sticking with the cyanogen versions.
I would dig on nice looking boot up screens that were not designed to be viewed on smaller displays (ie, no hard edges, just black edges to the images)
That one looks very nice though.
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This guy (actually the logcat version) seems to speed up boot by a few seconds, and is uber-nerdy
https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.chainfire.livedmesg
Here's the boot animation that I use. I extracted it from the flashable Dark Horse theme in the Hero C forums (thanks to Kfunk & Mod Nation for actually making it usable) and resized it to 1024X600 and added a few additional frames for a smoother look if anyone wants to try it. I've been to lazy to make it a flashable, so drop it in /system/media and rename it from honeyblue.zip to bootanimation.zip.
***Edited*** Added Honeyred to the post
hockeyfamily737 said:
Here's the boot animation that I use. I extracted it from the flashable Dark Horse theme in the Hero C forums (thanks to Kfunk & Mod Nation for actually making it) and resized it to 1024X600 and added a few additional frames for a smoother look if anyone wants to try it. I've been to lazy to make it a flashable, so drop it in /system/media and rename it from honeyblue.zip to bootanimation.zip.
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thats the xoom boot anim. its nice but been around for awhile
luciferii said:
thats the xoom boot anim. its nice but been around for awhile
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LOL....So basically, I took a boot animation that was used on a tablet, then resized for a cell phone & packed into a theme, extracted it edited in a couple of additional still frames and resized it back to it's original tablet form.....Good grief. At least I know how to do it. I've been working on my own for a couple of days now
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LOL....So basically, I took a boot animation that was used on a tablet, then resized for a cell phone & packed into a theme, extracted it edited in a couple of additional still frames and resized it back to it's original tablet form.....Good grief. At least I know how to do it. I've been working on my own for a couple of days now
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lol! yep.. hey sometimes practice makes perfect, i once wrote cwm flashable font installer before someone pointed out it was done for about 500 fonts before i thought of it.
luciferii said:
lol! yep.. hey sometimes practice makes perfect, i once wrote cwm flashable font installer before someone pointed out it was done for about 500 fonts before i thought of it.
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Nice!!! Guess I won't bother posting the red version I did of the same boot animation then. On a seperate, and only partially related topic....Anyone want to share any boot sound ideas? I've been using Brass Bonanza for a while and want something different....just not sure what.
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Nice!!! Guess I won't bother posting the red version I did of the same boot animation then. On a seperate, and only partially related topic....Anyone want to share any boot sound ideas? I've been using Brass Bonanza for a while and want something different....just not sure what.
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go ahead and post it, i wouldnt mind seeing it.
I was wondering if there is a way now that we have root to enable the Gingerbread on / off animation that HTC removed, without having to flash a new ROM?
This is different than the power up / restart / down animation that is listed elsewhere in this forum.
Thanks!
I just searched around, and maybe it's lack of proper wording but all I turned up was "it's in Gingerbread" Nothing relating to how to activate/deactivate/change it. What I would surmise from all of this is that HTC chose not to implement it in their build, so an AOSP build would/should have it vs the HTC build.. Sucks but it seems like all we have right now.
Of course the last link I try, I find this: http://droidmodderx.com/old-school-crt-animation-for-gingerbread-tv-off/
Don't go flashing it, but we should be able to pick it apart and determine what we need to add in.
I was able to add it in but HTC messed something in the code up and the animation plays extremely slow. I'm still looking around to see if i can figure out how to speed it up and once i do it'll be in my rom.
Awesome. This is my first Android and I've seen it in videos. Seems pretty cool!
u can try spare parts+ to speed up the animation.
Ndaoud360 said:
u can try spare parts+ to speed up the animation.
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Wish it was that simple... Lol
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Good stuff, thanks for the reply guys. Seems like it should be something to easy to add in but I guess not.
Are you talking about the animation that comes up when you turn your phone off/on? The animation on the CM roms? If thats the one your talking about I would love it too.
bal1985 said:
Are you talking about the animation that comes up when you turn your phone off/on? The animation on the CM roms? If thats the one your talking about I would love it too.
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No, this is when you put the screen to sleep(tap the power button, or wait for the screen timeout).
It's called the CRT animation, is mimics the screen "twitch" old CRT computer monitors.
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It's called the CRT animation, is mimics the screen "twitch" old CRT computer monitors.
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yeah thats it, is this out yet for rezound?
Negative, according to Newt and Chingy, the animation does work but there's something within the OS that slows it down dramatically, so it's pretty much useless.
We'll have this soon enough, the dev's are awesome and they'll figure it out. I do like having those animations.
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Negative, according to Newt and Chingy, the animation does work but there's something within the OS that slows it down dramatically, so it's pretty much useless.
We'll have this soon enough, the dev's are awesome and they'll figure it out. I do like having those animations.
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Good ol' HTC crapping on native Android code again...
MrSmith317 said:
Good ol' HTC crapping on native Android code again...
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Eh, at least our bootloader is unlocked... (LOL @ Motorola)
Droid 2 deja vu. That was such a pain to have a locked bootloader
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Coming from EVO 3D, I know it took them quite a while to get CRT working there, as well.
Yup
-Mediums-
So tell me what you want in your boot animation. Be detailed or not. I'm comfortable with Blender (3D modeling & animation suite), Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, and Audacity, so I can make an animation from scratch on any medium, compose videos, and even do basic sound mixing for it.
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If an idea sounds cool & easy I'll do that first, and if it's ROM/user specific (like a name animation), I'll save it for later. If it sounds too difficult and/or ugly I'll also save it for later, and I can't guarantee I'll get to all of them (depending on if this gets popular)
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You can be as detailed as you want (or not at all), and I'd prefer if you linked effects videos (free stock videos) and/or sounds to mix. I'll also just cut up & format a youtube video or something if you want that. FYI I'd say I have a very good eye for things that look good, so you can just be broad and let me do the rest if you want. The product will also depend on how lazy I am at that time.
The boot animation is composed of multiple parts, and each part can be played once, looped a certain number of times, or looped infinitely (of course you would loop the last part infinitely, or make sure the animation is long enough to accommodate all boot lengths). No one part can contain too many frames or else the boot animation will glitch or hang. Also specify if you want me to cut the framerate or resolution of the animation if it makes the animation glitch.
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Thanks's. I also get a warm fuzzy feeling from this .
Hmm, actually there is something I'd appreciate in return if anyone can do it for me. I'm currently using teamd3rp's Blue Dust skin, and it's beautiful. The only thing that really bugs me is that the selection colors (colors when selecting menu items or pressing buttons) and scrollbar are grey. The selections are also gradients, I'd rather prefer the same flat ICS blue. If anyone can replace those items (as well as the lock ring) with the ones in this skin (ICSSpark), or at least point me in the right direction, I'd be really appreciate it. Thanks!
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Depending on how lazy I am, I'll either provide a flashable zip or just the raw files. Also it can be different for some roms.
-Disclaimer-
I am in no way responsible for anything bad happening to you or your phone. It's not my fault, use these at your own risk. You broke it, not me. I am not responsible for damages to your phone, these include but are not limited to your phone bricking, breaking, bursting into flames, stealing your wife, falsifying police reports on you, winning against you in court, sending you to prison, and taking your home and children.
NOTE: I will NOT be testing these on my own phone (unless otherwise specified), I will only be testing these in the Boot Animation Previewer so if the animation does glitch, just let me know and I'll adjust the framerate/resolution.
Finished Animations
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One I did for myself, for warm 2.3
Download|default.xml
Can you make something like this
It should be in portrait
Without "Assassins Creed" words or any other words
Without audio
First part of animation should be while it spins until it transforms and the rest should repeat until phone boots up
Hope its not to complicated
There is also some kind of template here
http://www.mediafire.com/?y5ld1ascgvjy442
pedja1 said:
Can you make something like this
It should be in portrait
Without "Assassins Creed" words or any other words
Without audio
First part of animation should be while it spins until it transforms and the rest should repeat until phone boots up
Hope its not to complicated
There is also some kind of template here
http://www.mediafire.com/?y5ld1ascgvjy442
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On it . I will post the results here & pm to let you know it's done. Spin how many times?
Cynovae said:
On it . I will post the results here & pm to let you know it's done. Spin how many times?
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I dont know, same as in video?, or whatever you think its ok. Thanks
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I dont know, same as in video?, or whatever you think its ok. Thanks
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Holy crap, that template includes the actual after effects file. This makes things so easy. I should able to get it done tonight easily.
Thanks a lot. I have been trying to do it myself but i dont have nearly enough skill to do it
Done. I tested it and it's working on my phone, but for some reason it speeds up a lot during the last part (the infinite loop part) and idk why. It looks fine in the previewer. It's probably something in the rom (I'm using ZR3D 2.0.1GT vB).
Took a bit of tweaking to actually get it to fit well and loop right. Let me know if it looks fine on yours.
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Looks good. You are right it speeds up at the end(repearing part)
Maybe it will even bee bether without that last part, only spining animation, what do you think?
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Sure, but then I need to lose the cloud and glowing square animations for it to loop right (unless I try some fading trickery). Actually I think one of the cloud layers was based on an algorithm that I can adjust... I'll see about it tomorrow as I need to sleep right now, just let me know what your conclusion is.
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It looks excelent like this if you can make that last part run in normal speed, if not than only spin is fine
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megan fox boot animation please
Cynovae said:
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Thanks's. I also get a warm fuzzy feeling from this .
Hmm, actually there is something I'd appreciate in return if anyone can do it for me. I'm currently using teamd3rp's Blue Dust skin, and it's beautiful. The only thing that really bugs me is that the selection colors (colors when selecting menu items or pressing buttons) and scrollbar are grey. The selections are also gradients, I'd rather prefer the same flat ICS blue. If anyone can replace those items (as well as the lock ring) with the ones in this skin (ICSSpark), or at least point me in the right direction, I'd be really appreciate it. Thanks!
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Well I'm not going to swap images with spark, but I just finished dinging around in blue dust skin. Might not be perfect, but look for an update in my skins thread in a bit.
Not one to rant but gotta add my 2 cent here.
It's great that you like both of those themes and can only use one at a time. Not cool to ask anyone to swap out images in those themes(without asking the creators of them)in trade for anything. Mash-ups are great for personal use but to ask to have images swapped from two different teams themes in a post not so much(99% of the themers here don't mind sharing) .Now if you want to learn to do that for personal use there's a great thread to learn from in this very section of the forum. Or you can ask the creators about maybe New colors coming to the theme of choice.<rant over>
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pedja1 said:
It looks excelent like this if you can make that last part run in normal speed, if not than only spin is fine
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I spent quite some time trying to get it working correctly and tried compensating by slowing it down beforehand, and also lowering the file sizes so there isn't any lag from reading. But I guess it doesn't like me . Anyway, I also put together an only spinning animation at 60 & 30 fps. Though it's still very strange, the first loop is slow then the rest is at normal speed. I spent a couple hours troubleshooting this but can't find anything, I'm stumped! I tried different renderers, compression formats, resolutions, and tried switching to pngs but it still won't look right, which is very strange because my Warm 2.3 animation looks fine. Sorry I can'y get this working right, but here are the best three versions of it:
Just spinning (30fps)
Just spinning (60fps) [more lag but gets much smoother]
Full animation attempt [still not perfect]
iDannyPR said:
megan fox boot animation please
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Do you have a specific video in mind? I don't know where to go with this!
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Well I'm not going to swap images with spark, but I just finished dinging around in blue dust skin. Might not be perfect, but look for an update in my skins thread in a bit.
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Thank you so much il Duce!
dased14 said:
Not one to rant but gotta add my 2 cent here.
It's great that you like both of those themes and can only use one at a time. Not cool to ask anyone to swap out images in those themes(without asking the creators of them)in trade for anything. Mash-ups are great for personal use but to ask to have images swapped from two different teams themes in a post not so much(99% of the themers here don't mind sharing) .Now if you want to learn to do that for personal use there's a great thread to learn from in this very section of the forum. Or you can ask the creators about maybe New colors coming to the theme of choice.<rant over>
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Sorry about that, I guess "Payment" wasn't the correct word for it, maybe just a favor. I wanted to give something back with this thread so I don't feel like a mooch. I also tried to go at it myself a few days ago but I'm unsure of what images are what, whether I need to decompile/recompile the apk or if I could just drag and drop the pngs in Winrar, etc. It was my first time rooting and such just a few days ago so I'm still a super n00b. Just asking for a favor openly, sorry if I offended anyone!
Though, would you happen to know why these boot animations are speeding up during loops? I tried googling it but only found an unresolved thread. I'm stumped as to why they aren't working correctly.
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I spent quite some time trying to get it working correctly and tried compensating by slowing it down beforehand, and also lowering the file sizes so there isn't any lag from reading. But I guess it doesn't like me . Anyway, I also put together an only spinning animation at 60 & 30 fps. Though it's still very strange, the first loop is slow then the rest is at normal speed. I spent a couple hours troubleshooting this but can't find anything, I'm stumped! I tried different renderers, compression formats, resolutions, and tried switching to pngs but it still won't look right, which is very strange because my Warm 2.3 animation looks fine. Sorry I can'y get this working right, but here are the best three versions of it:
Just spinning (30fps)
Just spinning (60fps) [more lag but gets much smoother]
Full animation attempt [still not perfect]
Do you have a specific video in mind? I don't know where to go with this!
Thank you so much il Duce!
Sorry about that, I guess "Payment" wasn't the correct word for it, maybe just a favor. I wanted to give something back with this thread so I don't feel like a mooch. I also tried to go at it myself a few days ago but I'm unsure of what images are what, whether I need to decompile/recompile the apk or if I could just drag and drop the pngs in Winrar, etc. It was my first time rooting and such just a few days ago so I'm still a super n00b. Just asking for a favor openly, sorry if I offended anyone!
Though, would you happen to know why these boot animations are speeding up during loops? I tried googling it but only found an unresolved thread. I'm stumped as to why they aren't working correctly.
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Wasn't offended. But if you wish to mash up for personal use please take a look at interactive phone modification guide( questions welcome) Wasn't trying to be a **** ( sorry if I came off that way)
As to your bootani's speeding up, I can take a look if you want and it's just the looping part? The other parts are running as intended? Is it all of the or just the one?
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Just my experiences here: in ROMs with GPU rendering (is that the right term? I'm sleep deprived right now...), like ZR3D and Eternity ROMs, the bootanimations always speed up after the first repetition in a loop. I don't move away from those ROMs and reaper ROM much so I can't tell you if it does the same on other ROMs or not.
Could you make a bootanimation of of red and black UFO (beats audio colored) abducting our phone and then saying beats audio?
this one, http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uO9Jhm3QZcM
Hi there would you be able do this for me please,
I would like the medallion spinning but still readable and 3d if possible, keep the colours and writing.
Be good to see, thank you
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How can I go about removing the boot image? Running CoolRom DE 1.4.
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Now why would you want to do that?
I guess you could just delete Vigor_VZW_bootanimation.zip from system/customize/resource but then you would have like 20 seconds of black screen when your phone boots up.
or you can just change the boot animation!
True. Maybe I'll do that.
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I suppose you could make a zip with just one image as opposed to several and name it Vigor_VZW_bootamimation.zip and put it in /system/customize/resources
So you are ok with black screen?
The coolest boot animation I have seen is Live Logcat and Live Dmesg. It's been a while since I've tried, but I didn't have success on the Rezound.
Anybody want to try out either of them? If you buy both paid versions, then you can run both and touch the screen to switch between them or run both at the same time.
It is animation to end all animations...
Would removing it increase boot time at all? If it doesn't I wouldn't see the point in removing it. It let me know if something is wrong when it just hangs.
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I actually found the boot animation thread and grabbed the Nexus one off of there and it's fine. I just don't like the CoolRom one. Was sweet when I first flashed it, but now I'm tired of it.
jbuffethed said:
Would removing it increase boot time at all? If it doesn't I wouldn't see the point in removing it. It let me know if something is wrong when it just hangs.
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Naw it wouldn't increase the boot time. I wanted it removed because I just didn't like the CleanRom animation, but I found an alternative that's fine for me.
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Naw it wouldn't increase the boot time. I wanted it removed because I just didn't like the CleanRom animation, but I found an alternative that's fine for me.
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Sorry, I meant speed up boot time. I wasn't too fond of the Clean Rom boot animation either.
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Sorry, I meant speed up boot time. I wasn't too fond of the Clean Rom boot animation either.
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Oh, I thought everyone wanted to increase their boot time?
Supposedly disabling boot animation provides a faster boot. I never tested it though but it seems like it should.
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Supposedly disabling boot animation provides a faster boot. I never tested it though but it seems like it should.
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It shouldn't. The phone is doing it's boot up stuff while the bootanimation is playing