I'm trying to put the boot animation from this thread on my Nook but it is displaying in portrait instead of landscape and I'm not sure how to flip it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s2/themes-apps/bootanimation-marvel-bootanimation-t1515321
Anyone have any tips? I've tried extracting the images and flipping them to the right by 90 degrees but all I get is a black screen. :/
The Nook Color itself reports the natural orientation of the screen to be in landscape, and that's why the boot animation appears “rotated”. IIRC, older ROMs had a kernel patch included to make the kernel report the screen to be “portrait” and that fixed the boot animation orientation.
Rotating each image of the “bootanimation.zip” file and repacking it should work. The reason why you are getting a black screen usually is that you re-created the ZIP file using compression. Boot animation ZIP files must not be compressed (i.e. they are just a container for the files). In an Unix-like system you have to create the ZIP file using zip -r0 (dunno about Windows compressors).
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Hi guys, I wish the boot animation of N1 in my background's computer. There is any Gif or some else over there? I was searching for it but I didnt found anything.
Im pretty sure it wont fit your screen.. Is quite small in size.
I believe what you are looking for is the bootanimation.zip that you can flash to your n1 to set the boot animation. If you open up the .zip (winrar, winzip, etc.) it contains something like 64 pictures of the startup animation. Then, you can make them into a .gif and set it to your backround (not at all experienced at that last step).
Just search around for the bootanimation.zip. It shouldn't be too hard to find.
I have a rooted nst that I would like to customize the booting.pgm on. I thought I could do it by myself by just pasting a black and white image over the original booting.pgm but when i do that I just get a white screen on boot and no boot image at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
All the PGM files in the boot partition are 800 x 600 monochrome 8 bit bitmaps in the PGM format.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_graymap
http://www.gimp.org/ can save images in this format.
They are actually upside-down landscape. The left side is near the "n" button.
awesome thanks for the tips. Can photoshop also save files in that format?
So i went ahead and tried to create one with photoshop and it didnt work and then I followed your instructions and used gimp and it worked perfect. Once again thanks for the help
So I just recently found a subreddit that has some loading icons that'd look great as a boot animation. So I downloaded the .gif, gif -> zip via Rom Toolbox, and install.
Nope. Just shows the default 'android' boot animation.
Tried to install the boot animation manually?
Nope. Same thing.
Finally try putting back the original boot animation.
Nope. Same thing.
What's up? Is there some hash that has to match for the animation to work? Or is there multiple places the animation zip has to be in? I don't think it's my animation because it does the same thing to the original animation. Any help? I can attach images/video if that helps.
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bootanimation.zip can go in two locations
root/system/media
and/or
root/data/local (placing one here will override any bootanimation.zip in the system/media location)
I generally leave the stock bootanimation in the system/media location and place the one I want to try in the data/local location.
Don't forget to set the permissions.
See the attached screenshot...
Ah, didn't know I needed to do that. Thanks Juggernaut!
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You're welcome.
Hello guys!
OK, so here we go. I installed CM12 official nightly on my samsung galaxy s4 GT-I9505 and i wanted to change the boot aninmation, normally a simple task. so I installed the disco ball boot animation from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2334927
this worked totally fine, but i decided to make the bootanimation a little bit more personal, so i went to photoshop and eddited all 30 PNG files, put it back together as a bootanimation.zip and installed it in my phone.
now when i go to the theme engine in CM12, and i go to my current theme (the original cm12 theme) and i preview the bootanimation, it shows my own made animation perfect, but when i restart my phone to actually view it, it becomes just a black screen
Download This is the original discoball bootanimation.
Download This is my own one. (i know its not much but i would like to have this one)
and yes i did change the permissions.
URL's uploaded via Airload
Fix the following problems with your zip and the boot animation will work properly.
1. You have a "thumbs.db" file in your personal version of the boot animation. Remove this.
2. When you made the zip file, you compressed the images within it. In order for a boot animation to work the images within it must be stored in an uncompressed form. For example, WinRAR has a setting titled "Compression Method". You would set this to "store".
Strephon Alkhalikoi said:
Fix the following problems with your zip and the boot animation will work properly.
1. You have a "thumbs.db" file in your personal version of the boot animation. Remove this.
2. When you made the zip file, you compressed the images within it. In order for a boot animation to work the images within it must be stored in an uncompressed form. For example, WinRAR has a setting titled "Compression Method". You would set this to "store".
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thanks man, i dont know how that thumbs.db file got in there but it works fine now, thanks!
Windows automatically drops them into every location that has a picture or document. It is possible to disable this behavior, by following the instructions here.
Hi,
is there a way to change the boot animation in xdauto 1.6.2c ? I would like to see my Chrysler car logo animation.
Thanks in advance
any luck with that yet? been thinking of changing the boot animation too.
Well, I have gone through a series of trial and error, and have successfully gotten my own created boot animation to work. However, I havent figured out the max resolution I can use (my animation looks to small from the one I originally created. Using xdAuto, the current boot animation resolution is at 480x292. Anything bigger than that, causes a black screen during the boot process (or at least this is what I've led myself to believe, if anyone finds anything different please update let us know.) Although I was under the assumption that I could use 1024x600 but my animation won't work if I use this big of a resolution.
It goes basically like this:
1. on your computer - Create a new folder and rename it to bootanimation
2. Create a folder inside bootanimation called part0 (you can add more parts if you wish increasing by increments of 1. part1, part2, part3, etc.)
3. in the part0 folder, make sure all images are in the same format. I used .png format, and make sure the pictures are in order, eg. 00000.png, 00001.png, 00002.png, etc. (You are essentially making a slideshow that plays at a max of 30 frames per second)
4. Install "boot animation creator." You can google for this or search for it here on XDA. (I cant post urls yet.)
5. open boot animation creator, follow the prompts to make your boot file, don't forget to add a loop when that section comes up for making your bootanimation.zip file.
6. place your bootanimation.zip file in your android HU (I'm using a carpad III).
7. (root required) go to the root of your Android HU/carpad. Go to this path /system/media
8. make a backup copy of the current bootanimation.zip file and place it in a safe place.
9. copy and paste your created bootanimation.zip file in /system/media
10. reboot, if done correctly you should see your new bootanimation.
Hope this helps.
Update: So my main problem, was that root browser was giving me a "operation failed" error. Its strange because sometimes it would let me write to the /system/media
folder. I was able to get a 819x432 bootanimation.zip to write. But now for some reason I can't get anything else to write to it... very strange. I am pretty sure that the max resolution for bootanimation.zip for Carpad II / III is 1024x600, getting it to write when I want it to is the issue I am having now.
Okay, well I found out why I was getting the write errors. Well, at least this worked for me.
I went into SuperSU, settings, and unchecked Mount namespace sepraration.
This allowed me to write my bootanimation.zip file to the /system/media/ folder.
I was also able to use my original 1024x600 bootanimation.
Hope this helps.