ok i have a rooted droid x2 (via gingerbreak) and have been having no luck finding the splash screen files or .png so that i can replace with my own. i have checked the system/media and the data/local directories and still nothing.
my second problem is that in my attempts to create my own boot animations i only get a black screen on reboot. all i am doing is extracting the bootanimation.zip file, editing the .png's with GIMP, then re-zipping with winrar. not sure if i am compressing incorrectly?
any help or redirection with either of these would be greatly apprieciated. thank you for your time.
for those who are looking at this for answers you just change the winrar compression setting to store for the boot screen.
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I'm trying to create my own bootanimation and was wondering if any of you guys know how to make it play in landscape mode?
I'm not aware of any way using the desc.txt so you'll probably just have to rotate the images.
Yup. Have to rotate images.
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Do I have to change the pixel resolution? I have it 960x540 right now.
lvlonkii said:
Do I have to change the pixel resolution? I have it 960x540 right now.
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No, resolution will be exactly the same. Just you are rotating the images through 90 degrees.
ok, i have another problem. I been reading different tutorials on how to make my own boot animation but when my bootanimation.zip into the system/media. I restarted the phone and the animation is just blank then the phone just loads up. I had the files as .png but it didn't work so I changed them to jpg and still nothing. Can anyone check what i done wrong? I will attach my bootanimation file.
BOOTANIMATION.ZIP
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=THH790AQ
audiofile
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7R36QTH5
lvlonkii said:
ok, i have another problem. I been reading different tutorials on how to make my own boot animation but when my bootanimation.zip into the system/media. I restarted the phone and the animation is just blank then the phone just loads up. I had the files as .png but it didn't work so I changed them to jpg and still nothing. Can anyone check what i done wrong? I will attach my bootanimation file.
BOOTANIMATION.ZIP
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=THH790AQ
audiofile
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7R36QTH5
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Without downloading your files, (I am at work and don't have the time right now), I would say you probably did not zip the files correctly.
1. Download and install 7-Zip.
2. Highlight your boot animation files, (CTRL or SHIFT and left click).
3. Right click on selected files.
4. Select 7-Zip > Add to archive.
5. Set Archive Format to Zip and Compression Level to Store.
6. Name your zip file accordingly (e.g. bootanimation).
7. Click OK.
Your bootanimation.zip should now be zipped correctly.
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OK, I did the work for you. It was the way you zipped the boot animation up. Here is the working animation:
http://www.mediafire.com/?5hn2wl4d1st8o3k
Remember to rename it to bootanimation.zip
Cheers!
Thanks a bunch, I just tried it and it only plays 1/4 of the images and then turns black, I have to see what's going on.
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lvlonkii said:
Thanks a bunch, I just tried it and it only plays 1/4 of the images and then turns black, I have to see what's going on.
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I use this to preview my boot animations before installing them, got it from despotovski01 on this thread... nice write up and tools.. the links are @ step 7 of the first post...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1096068
I found that editing the desc.txt file to make sure that there is a 'return' after the last line cures alot of the issues, and making sure you're zipping in 'store' mode..
Thanks I will try it when I get home from work
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I finally got it, Thanks for the links. It helped me out so much.
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I finally got it, Thanks for the links. It helped me out so much.
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Yeah, I found that even at 32bits, the animation works, it was the last return after the last line in desx.txt file that was killing my animation.. haha.. but, I try to save in .jpg as it takes up less space and I couldn't tell the difference between the .png and .jpg boot animations...
have fun!
From what I had read here and in a couple of other forums, changing the boot animations and sounds SHOULD be as easy as finding the animation you want( in .png format) putting it and your preferred sound effect(in mp3 or .ogg format) in an uncompressed .zip file, place the .zip in the system/customize/resource folder on your phone with the name bootanimation.zip. (you would obviously have to replace the existing file by that name
I went looking in that folder on my evo, and discovered that the file is actually named Sprint_bootanimation.zip. So I downloaded the animation I wanted. (The red DROID eye) and the sound I wanted (The DROID voice), renamed them accordingly, and placed them in the proper folder. Now I just get a black screen with NO animation when I boot up. Everything else works fine. The phone boots with no problem, I just have no animations. I still have the old files present, just renamed, so its not a problem to put them back, but I WANT that DROID eye and sound!!!
Any ideas as to what I may be doing wrong? Honestly, this little thing is more important to me than almost any other mod/hack/rom that I could change.
I've installed Gigabread+.
I want to change the default bootanimation.zip in system/media. I made the desc.txt like the original and the folder part0 with 192 png but the phone don't read the zip created by me. I tried with other custom bootanimation.zip for sgs+ but the same. Can you tell me what's wrong? The phone accept only the sanim.zip renamed in bootanimation.zip. Unzipping first this file and zipping again I have the same result, black screen. Must respect some parameters or must change something?
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Now it's alright. I made my custom bootanimation with the frames of a personal movie. After zipping without compression it works fine. Thank you for your ROM. Good job.
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next time you can also pm me. didn't saw this thread in this section
This is totally unrelated to anything posted here as of yet but I was wondering if anyone can tell me how to add a custom sound to the boot animation of this rom(paranoid android 4.43). I have themed to android L but im using the stock boot animation and I had a nice sound file I wanted to play while the phone is starting up. I've tried renaming my custom file to PowerOn.mp3 and .ogg and placing it in system/media folder also in the etc folder with no luck. This is driving me crazy. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Not at pc, but I think it has to go in bootanimation, and you will have to edit the file that loads the boot animation if I remember right