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.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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?
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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.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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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.
I've almost successfully altered the manila files I wanted with the exception of the CAMERA and VIDEO ones. Perhaps one of you manila pro's could tell me what I'm doing wrong.
As seen below, in the Messaging Tab, I changed the 'new message' icon(2b45998a_manila) and when it is selected(150b5a39_manila/4b21931a_manila) successfully.
(SELECTED ITEM transitions to a smaller greyscale version of the icon I made)
I wanted to do the same for the CAMERA and VIDEO ones and I thought I had all the manila files covered but a weird thing keeps happening.. a double image happens when I select it? I thought maybe I'm not editing the right manila's but can't seem to find any other occurences of it.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
For the CAMERA I edited:
4ac05905_manila - UP (not selected)
38f05467_manila - DOWN (selected)
For the VIDEO CAMERA I edited:
076e279a_manila - UP (not selected)
2de5febc_manila - DOWN (selected)
I thought maybe my transparancies on my images had been off but that seems to be okay also.
I've done so many edits I can't remember if I've edited any other occurences of the images but I can't seem to find it anywhere else, but it is possible.
Can anyone confirm that there are the only ones to be edited for those icons?
I've attached the manila's I edited as well as the images.
Anyone able to tell me what the dealyo?
From what you describe it seems like the smaller icon is drawn on top of the bigger one, instead of replacing it. Try giving the small icon a non-transparent background
Chainfire said:
From what you describe it seems like the smaller icon is drawn on top of the bigger one, instead of replacing it. Try giving the small icon a non-transparent background
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That totally and utterly worked.
You're the best. Thank you!
Thought I'd share this boot animation that I made based on the 1968 science film 'Powers of Ten: A film dealing with the relative size of things in the Universe and the effect of adding another zero' by Charles and Ray Eames.
It shows the section from 10^24 meters (100 million light years) down to 10^-16 meters (0.000001 angstroms) so shows the universe from the largest scale down to the smallest.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Image quality from the actual bootanimation.zip is better than the animated gif.
I made it from automated vlc png snapshots which I've then resized to a 480 pixel width, converted to jpegs to make the file sizes smaller and reconverted back to pngs.
In the desc.txt file I found I had to set the height for the images to scale to to be 372 pixels instead of the actual images' 371 pixels otherwise a thin bar appeared above the animation.
Sorry about the file size (17MB) but any lower and image quality was poor. if anyone's got any suggestions how to maintain image quality and cut down file size please let me know.
Can't attach it to post as file size is too big so here's a mediafire link:
Download bootanimation.zip
push to /data/local with adb:
Code:
adb devices
adb push bootanimation.zip /data/local
Or to flash from recovery:
Download flashable_bootanimation-signed.zip
incidentally can anyone point me in the direction of instructions for making it flashable from recovery?
sierraindigo said:
incidentally can anyone point me in the direction of instructions for making it flashable from recovery?
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never mind, i worked it out. added to above as flashable_bootanimation-signed.zip
thanks
thanks looks good
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!
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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
I've been trying to set a wallpaper to look correctly on the Nook Color. I've read a lot of topics arguing about different screen sizes and such -- I've tried all options, and still come out with a really ugly looking wallpaper... looking almost like the NookColor might be altering the color palette of the background image?
My source image is beautiful, but it really does appear like Android is changing the color palette, because my beautiful gradient smooth blended images are coming out in crappy stages.
Original Source:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
What my Nook Color renders:
Whyyy????? Can anyone help?
So I found that by using Wallpaper Set and Save, it sets the image correctly without color distortion. So what's wrong with the native Gallery app?
Assuming you used the App - Wallpaper Set And Save
Onarres Solutions the problem might be that particular App is only setting wallpapers at 640x480 resolution while Nook Color screen resolution is 1024x800.
If you read the App details it says For best results use PNG and a 640x480 resolution. Allows you to set a crisp wallpaper.
You also want to check that use 16 bit transparency is not checked in performance settings. If you use Nook Tweaks also make sure use 32 bit frame buffer is checked in there under display settings.