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Root Customizing Boot Animation's ?

Jaay Dogg

Jaay Dogg

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I put some writing in the Boot Animation I made, but it freeze's up then boots a couple of seconds later ? Is there something I'm missing ? I don't believe that the boot animation is made up of. 9 PNG's so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. If anybody could help me with my theming problem that would be great.
 
Jaay Dogg said:
I put some writing in the Boot Animation I made, but it freeze's up then boots a couple of seconds later ? Is there something I'm missing ? I don't believe that the boot animation is made up of. 9 PNG's so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. If anybody could help me with my theming problem that would be great.
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Got a link to the boot animation? Also I know that the PGN's need to be in a specific format to load. Had this problem when I was trying to hack on a prebuilt one.
 
Jaay Dogg said:
I put some writing in the Boot Animation I made, but it freeze's up then boots a couple of seconds later ? Is there something I'm missing ? I don't believe that the boot animation is made up of. 9 PNG's so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. If anybody could help me with my theming problem that would be great.
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Your pictures need to be in png format. I'm sure of that. Nice animation though.
 
Ok well I know that all 120 images of the boot ani are PNG's, I cut the Chaos logo out from a jpeg image & then pasted it to the PNG's, Do you think that's why ? Should I have converted the image to PNG before the cut & paste ?
 
Jaay Dogg said:
Ok well I know that all 120 images of the boot ani are PNG's, I cut the Chaos logo out from a jpeg image & then pasted it to the PNG's, Do you think that's why ? Should I have converted the image to PNG before the cut & paste ?
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dunno if it was just me but i downloaded your zip just to take a look and all 120 images come up as JPEG
 
Really I don't know how the hell that happened ? Because I've used this boot ani before & it worked just fine, all I did was add the chaos image to it ?
 
JaayDog,

I don't know how much help I can be here. CornfedChris might be the man. However when I first tried to make a boot animation it failed because I used different formats on the export of the image. It shouldn't matter if it's jpeg or png but it matters on the image properties. Take a look at what I mean in the image I attached.
 

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So make sure the resolution unit is at 2 ?
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Yes, if you notice your new images have that unit resolution 2 but the original ones don't. All images need to be identical on the export. Paint.net seems to be adding the 2 so I would go back and export all your unedited images so they all have the same resolution properties and try it again.
 
What are you using to edit the images?

And what format are you saving them as after you're finished?

After downloading them, I too noticed that every frame is in .jpg format and they need to be .png.

Also, the resolution should be 480*800 px not 420*700.

I know that it doesn't necessarily need to take up the entire screen (instead it will center it) but your script in the desc.txt file should reflect the resolution of you're frames... and it doesn't. That's another reason why it might not be working.
 
CornfedChris, your the man. If anyone would know it would be you!!! :rock: I was trying to give some insight in the issues I ran into but you brother are the master of boot animations!!!
 
g60madman said:
CornfedChris, your the man. If anyone would know it would be you!!! :rock: I was trying to give some insight in the issues I ran into but you brother are the master of boot animations!!!
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Nahhh ... you sir are the man! haha:p. I'm just sharing the little bit of android knowledge I have. It took me so many hours to figure out the animation stuff myself, let me know if that helps Jay.
 
Well when I have to tear down an apk or decompile I use apk manager, I was trying to half ass it with 7zip. So should I be decompiling the boot ani ? Then so do a recompile with my added images ?
 
Jaay Dogg said:
Well when I have to tear down an apk or decompile I use apk manager, I was trying to half ass it with 7zip. So should I be decompiling the boot ani ? Then so do a recompile with my added images ?
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You don't need to compile a boot animation zip or use apk manager. I usually just compress it all using 7zip or winzip. Just make sure when you compress to use the "store" compression. Very simple.

EDIT: I'm not sure how you would go about adding it to a theme or rom if that's what you're asking. I'm not too familiar with theming quite yet or how to use apk manager.... tho I would like to learn someday.
 
Jaay Dogg said:
I normally use 7zip also, so i need to resize & cange the format to PNG then all should be good ?
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Yeah... either resize the images or change the text in the desc.txt script to match the size of the images. And make sure they are .png then you should be good.
 
Well I converted 119 JPEG images into PNG's & now the boot ani doesn't boot at all, Before I added the writing to it, it worked just fine & all those images are JPEG images, So I'm confused because it's not working at all now.
 
Jaay Dogg said:
Really I don't know how the hell that happened ? Because I've used this boot ani before & it worked just fine, all I did was add the chaos image to it ?
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Im not a Dev or anything but it sounds like that chaos image is causing the problems, change that to PNG double check all files and run it. shouldnt be no problems afterwards

Check the writing format to.
 
The link I provided at the beginning of this thread is good & is the modified boot ani untouched other than the chaos image I added
 
just to clear up one apparent source of confusion here... boot animations can be either png or jpg images. both are valid and work.
 
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