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Root Boot Animation?

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Smoovefan1104

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Hey does anyone know how to do boot animations? I would like to do my own if its possible. If anyone tells me how that would be great and thanks.
 
its actually not a difficult process to create a simple one, its just rather tedious. get yourself a good photo editing program like gimp or if you can get your hands on a copy of photoshop (legally of course) ;) you just have to make a bunch of png files, each png file is a frame, tear apart the stock boot animation and see what it looks like on the inside, i normally use an already created template like that and just modify it, makes things easier.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852621

theres a good tutorial for you as far as i can tell. should explain everything and walk you through it
 
yes, that would work as well as long as it saves into the proper png formatting frame by frame, and youll want to match your frame rates between the dump and the file in the zip, also, if you want sound youll have to dump that and convert it to ogg format, then use the instructions i posted a while back to pop it in the right place and fine tune the timing of the video and audio accordingly
 
root browser set to mount the root file system as writable, the same way you would do any modifying of the file system
 
wait... wrong thread... ok umm, i dunno something must have gone wrong. the boot animation may not be properly formatted or something. i dunno why it would be doing that
 
if i remember correctly it makes no difference what you name them as long as they are numbered correctly to give it an order. its the folder names inside the zip that matter as shown in that tutorial. and they go in system/media, which if it gave you a blank screen its in the right place, your formatting is just bad. upload the zip you made and ill take a look at it see if i can spot any errors
 
im not gonna go through signing up for a 4shared account to download, sorry. but basically if you followed the instructions it should be fine. one possible issue is if you created the text file from scratch in windows its not gonna work, they use a different EOL marker, End Of Line, it confuses the hell out of unix based systems, aka everything but windows... youll want to get notepad++ and there is an option to do eol conversion to unix style that may help things. also you have to make sure that the png files are the right color formatting, the zip is created at the right compression ratio(store), things of that nature, but your main problem right now is probably that you created the thing in windows from scratch, that wont work. i forgot about that part sorry
 
eh, that can be done but easy isnt always the way to go. back in grade school, if you always just used a calculator, you wouldnt know math, and if you were to run into a problem that couldnt just be punched in, youd be hopelessly lost. what if the timing is off, what if the frame size is messed up, would you know how to adjust it by hand without understanding the script file?
 
not to say that wont be the way youll want to do it from now on, and not saying that it wont work perfectly every time either, just saying its better to understand how it all works rather than to rely on a program to do it all for you
5 months ago, i knew little to nothing about android, 4 months ago, i helped build the cwm you guys use and started patrolling the warp sequent section regularly to help people, and now days if i run into a problem with my phone, chances are i can figure it out without having to wait around for assistance.
mind you, im dont expect anyone to do what i did, i got very lucky, had a good partner(superr), had alot of the work already done for me thanks to playfulgod, and even with all that i took a major risk, one wrong move and i could have turned my phone into a paperweight, im just trying to encourage learning as much as you can and if you decide you want to take that step towards development thats great, but a power user is plenty good enough in my book. also anyone interested in learning to program things, from simple batch files like the ones used in my cwm installer and the root method, all the way to cwm itself and cm10, please do not hesitate to ask, the more developers there are, the more we can get done
 
Agreed. A lot of people on here want the quick solution, though, so that's usually the path I recommend. If one of my friends want to root their phone, I always recommend scripts. Otherwise, being the entry-level that they are, they'll probably brick the phone. If they ask to learn the long way, I show them. Same reason I don't start people out who want to learn Linux with Slackware. They're just not interested in taking up all the extra work. They just want a free, easy-to-use OS.
 
I have a boot animation I made for my Prevail but can't make it work on this phone. All pics are numbered correctly, made in .png format. Used note++ for text file... Help?
 
hmm... well if you used notepad++ i dont see why it wouldnt work. pastebin both your meta file and mine(im not in windows so i dont have it on me) and i will take a look at it
 
Ok, I have my boot animation running with sound! If someone can tell me how to make it into a zip file I will post it
 
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