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htctoucher s2u2 dark skin plus.. The cannabis package!.. wmstartup animation

First post is windows mobile startup.. second post is s2u2
I recently fell across this
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and liked the smoke animation, so decided I would just go all out on the cannabis theme and make some more animated gifs..
here is what I came up with!
This is for the first animated.gif that shows up at startup
This is the welcomehead.96.png I have that comes after the animated above:
The .png file MUST BE NAMED welcomehead.96.png and placed in your \windows directory (overwrite original) - for HTC Touch at least
I suggest this (it makes the animated .gif at startup smoother):
get total commander and go into your registry
HKLM\Software\HTC\StartupAnimation\DelayPerFrame.....80
HKLM\Software\HTC\StartupAnimation\Enabled..............1
HKLM\Software\HTC\StartupAnimation\GIFFILE......wherever you saved it
HKLM\Software\HTC\StartupAnimation\Volumn...............1
Enjoy!
htctoucher
more to come

And for s2u2 I have two jpegs:
and
And s2u2 animated .gif:
For s2u2 I suggest this (this is the setting I found that seemed smoothest.. toy around with it to find what you like):
Put the "Override GIF Speed for Animated GIFS" at 5 and enable "Endless GIF Animation"
AND if you would like a darker button package for s2u2 (slider, call, end, sms, voicemail all that) look below! i will attach a zip with all of them but a preview below:
the images look a little grainy in places.. but I suspect that is the capture utility, since it doesnt look like that on the device. Check below for the .zip!
drag all contents of .zip into \program files\s2u2\gfx ... they will overwrite the originals so you might want to back up the images that are already in that folder
Enjoy!

Nice animations....I like the green cannabis...
Thanks....

I am feeling ya, if you would like leaf graphics I can shoot you some of my photography.
Send me a PM if you are interested.

Changing the OMNIA's splash screen HOWTO+DISCUSSION

Heya folks, so I was screwing around with my OMNIA on the weekend and I figured out how to change the splash screen (woot lol for a first time winmo user)
The screen size for the Omnia is 240x400. The resolution is 96 (ppi? i think it is).
The animations are gif files, hehe. Namely
Ani_Poweron.gif (~800k)
Ani_Poweroff.gif (~550k)
this are located within the windows folder of your Mobile Device (Omnia) and are hidden. These gif files are originally 20 frame animations at 96ppi resolution - and are very basic.
I'll be writing a basic tutorial here, on how to make a gif file using Photoshop CS3 (imageready is gone in CS3). But for those who know how to make one, you know where they are now, so you can have a go.
Please note however, that the screen resolution is strict and normally the screen resolution for gif files in these types of programs is 72. I'll post up how I figured out how to change the resolution, (its a bit freaky, pixel sizes change etc etc).
Currently I have this animation - its heavily downgraded as large file sizes seem to have problems. - EDIT: I've pulled this off my unit directly. so it doesn't loop. If you miss it, save it onto your desktop, right-click and preview.
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I also put out a call to anyone who has tried this or is trying this or is good at making gif files. If you know how to improve the quality of the gif file whilst keeping its file size low.. OR ALTERNATIVELY, making it play better on the windows mobile device (OMNIA). Please discuss it here.
I WILL UPDATE this first post as more information is available or contributed.

Update?
Any update on this?
Anyone have any new gifs to replace the Animations in the Omnia?
Carlos.

[Q] How to Color these Icon's wihout Error!

Hejj Guy's
I want to Change the Color of some Icons i have but every time i Open it i get a Error it looks like that!
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But normally it should looks like this
Here a oder Example!
A yes and Photoshop says an the Layer INDEX
Have try Change the Mode to RGB and Grayscale and BIT too 16BIT but nothings works!
Have you a Idea?
Greetz

Photoshop opens badly indexed files.
Use ImageMagick to convert those images to rgb and then you can use in photoshop.

Thx
Have Dl the Programm looked around but i didn't find the option to convert!

I'm glad someone has bought this up, I've had this problem forever.
Like mendozinas said, its to do with indexed files and some thing to do
with the transparency. I've googled around to try and get info but answers
are hard to find. some kind of conversion is needed. Some indexed files open
fine and some don't that's what's strange.

esk02k said:
I'm glad someone has bought this up, I've had this problem forever.
Like mendozinas said, its to do with indexed files and some thing to do
with the transparency. I've googled around to try and get info but answers
are hard to find. some kind of conversion is needed. Some indexed files open
fine and some don't that's what's strange.
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there is nothing strange in it.
If image have gradient fill (into transparency) and colors are indexed - photoshop opens bad.
With ImageMagick you can convert those images command line command: convert
Just google how to use it and how to specify RGB color space.
If I can remember correctly:
convert -colorspace RGB bad-image.png good-image.png

How do I change the size of the battery and Wi-Fi icons?

Hey guys,
I'm on Jelly Bean for performance, but I'm trying to replicate the looks of Honeycomb the best I can. I just swapped out the Wi-Fi and battery icons but as you can see below, they're too small. I believe I would change the size settings for these icons in the following xml files, but I looked with PSPad and a hex editor, and I don't see any values to change.
systemui.apk - drawable.xml and layout-sw600dp.xml
and here is the pic:
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Please help - I'm so close to being done with this!

Glad to see someone else likes the Honeycomb look. You might need to change the actual drawable for this, I don't think it has a value that can be edited.

Armada,
Thanks for the reply. So do you mean the entire folder?
I see in res:
/layout:
battery_low.xml
/drawable:
stat_sys_battery.xml
stat_sys_battery_charge.xml
stat_sys_battery_charge_min.xml
stat_sys_kb_battery.xml
stat_sys_kb_battery_charge.xml
but no reference to Wi-Fi. So maybe it is the whole folder...
armada786 said:
Glad to see someone else likes the Honeycomb look. You might need to change the actual drawable for this, I don't think it has a value that can be edited.
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Thanks to a suggestion by Sonny Sekhon, the problem has been fixed and I now have a fairly complete Honeycomb look on Jelly Bean! Since the images were too small, there was no need to edit any .xml but instead, I just multiplied the size of the drawables by 1.5x.
Thanks, Sonny!

Boot animation not working

The device is a Canadian Note 4 (SM-N910W8) running CM12.1, I downloaded the "CyanogenMod 9" boot animation from here, opened the files up in photoshop, made an action to rename CyanogenMod 9 to CyanogenMod 12.1 so it's more current with the ROM I'm running, and changed the resolution from 800x1280 to 1440x2560 to match the Note 4 resolution.
The desc.txt resolution was changed to 1440x2560 to accommodate the new resolution too, made sure to leave the blank line at the end like I've read in many other threads, but, no matter what I do, it will not load. I even tried dropping the resolution of the .png files and the desc.txt to 1080x1920 with no avail.
Phone boots, says the opening Galaxy Note 4 screen, nothing loads, no boot, not even a black screen live I've read in other threads, nothing, just the main Galaxy Note 4 screen and after a few seconds it loads the lock screen.
If I open Theme Engine and look at the stock boot animation it shows the one I've made and the preview works.
Any idea's?
EDIT:
Here's a preview, if I get this working I can post the working file if anyone is interested.
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I did more testing, I downloaded the "CyanogenMod 9" boot animation again, didn't touch anything, installed, and it works, but it shows up only a small picture in the middle of the screen, the rest of the screen has black all around it so the resolution doesn't work.
Does anyone know if there is a file size limitation for the boot animation? Each photo in the part0 folder is 300kb, do I need to resave them with a lower output quality?