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gothicnerd1033

gothicnerd1033

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Awesome show. :D Id LOVE this as a boot image.. How to do it? I saw theres an easy way to make static boot images.. But what about a .gif?
 
Did you try replacing the boot animation in system/media? At least that's where the boot animation is located in g60madman Angry Beans rom. I tried using that app to change my boot animation and it led me to a black screen to
 
Also correct me if i'm wrong but aren't the images in part0 & part1 supposed to be PNG images not jpg?


[edit] ok I think i was wrong in this post lol
 
Ive tried:
1.) renaming the images,
2.) saving them as .jpegs and .pngs,
3.) Changed the compression of the .zip(supposed to be no compression),
4.) Changing manually in system/media.
5.) Using that app from the play store,
6.) And using pacmans built in boot changer under "ROM Control" in settings.

Every one seems to just give a black screen. I dont get it. Has anyone else tried to copy this over to their phone? Does it give the same results?
 
gothicnerd1033 said:
Ive tried:
1.) renaming the images,
2.) saving them as .jpegs and .pngs,
3.) Changed the compression of the .zip(supposed to be no compression),
4.) Changing manually in system/media.
5.) Using that app from the play store,
6.) And using pacmans built in boot changer under "ROM Control" in settings.

Every one seems to just give a black screen. I dont get it. Has anyone else tried to copy this over to their phone? Does it give the same results?
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I'll mess with it when I get home, see what I can do for ya
 
gothicnerd1033 said:
Ive tried:
1.) renaming the images,
2.) saving them as .jpegs and .pngs,
3.) Changed the compression of the .zip(supposed to be no compression),
4.) Changing manually in system/media.
5.) Using that app from the play store,
6.) And using pacmans built in boot changer under "ROM Control" in settings.

Every one seems to just give a black screen. I dont get it. Has anyone else tried to copy this over to their phone? Does it give the same results?
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Try this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/100923173/metalocalypse_bootanimation.zip
 
Update. Just tested and it works. :) I am going to re-upload though with a slower speed. It's way too fast haha. It looks ridiculous!

Edit: Okay, slowed it down to the gif speed. Working good now :)

Also, are you setting the permissions? I don't know a lot about permissions but I changed mine to match my existing boot animation which for me was rw-r--r--
 
One more thing: where are you saving the zip and what are you naming it?
My system/customize/resource folder has always had SPC_bootanimation.zip (which is what actually displays at boot) and hTC_bootanimation.zip (which does nothing).
In the app I mentioned you can change the install location/name.

(sorry if this is already obvious info, but I always had trouble until I used SPC)
 
Regulus19 said:
One more thing: where are you saving the zip and what are you naming it?
My system/customize/resource folder has always had SPC_bootanimation.zip (which is what actually displays at boot) and hTC_bootanimation.zip (which does nothing).
In the app I mentioned you can change the install location/name.

(sorry if this is already obvious info, but I always had trouble until I used SPC)
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That would work for the stock Sense Rom but the OP is trying to get it working on an AOSP Rom so its a bit different
 
Weird. Now all of a sudden it is working.

I dont get why it wasnt working, Then a after a few reboots... Its working... I didnt change anything since yesterday... So I dont know..

Anyway... Thanks for the help! Im not sure how I fixed it, But its good now. :D
 
Kinda off topic, but fyi if you delete the SPC one on the stock rom, it will show the flashing ANDROID as your ani....
That's all
 
Brian706 said:
Nice!!! You should make that your avatar :) Love that show.
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I tried a while ago, But the image is too large. :( Id have to resize the frames and remake the gif to do it, But I dont want to deal with it right now. Ill do it when my new 3.3ghz 6core AMD with 8gb RAM computer comes in the mail, which should be here by the end of the week. :D

SO glad my 1.8 ghz dual core with 2 gb ram, 8 year old desktop fried. :p
 
I'm using PAC as well. It worked fine for me the first time. :/ So the the one you originally made started working or did you download the one I made?
 
Brian706 said:
I'm using PAC as well. It worked fine for me the first time. :/ So the the one you originally made started working or did you download the one I made?
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I just downloaded yours to try it out, And it worked out of the box.. Went back to mine.. And back to black screen. Went back to yours and its working.. Idk what the difference is, But yours works and mine kinda works. mine might only work when it wants to. who knows. But ill be using yours now :p

but originally, I was only using the one I made. yes the speed was fast, But I wasnt gonna remake it and fight with it to get it to work again. Yours is much better.

What did you do that was different from the one I had? I notice your file size is almost double what mine was. What was your procedure?
 
I just followed this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852621

as it was my first attempt at a boot animation...

You can see the contents of the zip I made. But the only place I could see where there may be trouble was in the compression. Not sure exactly how you zipped it, but I used 7-zip and set the compression mode to "Store".

I don't see where else any problems could really arise. I downloaded a couple different boot animations to compare. Didn't matter what the images were named as long as they ended in the proper number sequence it seems. Jpg vs Png doesn't seem to matter. My only guess is somewhere in the compression?
 
Brian706 said:
I just followed this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852621

as it was my first attempt at a boot animation...

You can see the contents of the zip I made. But the only place I could see where there may be trouble was in the compression. Not sure exactly how you zipped it, but I used 7-zip and set the compression mode to "Store".

I don't see where else any problems could really arise. I downloaded a couple different boot animations to compare. Didn't matter what the images were named as long as they ended in the proper number sequence it seems. Jpg vs Png doesn't seem to matter. My only guess is somewhere in the compression?
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Thats crazy. Thats the guide I followed when I attempted mine. I was using winrar to save as a .zip with "Store" as the compression format. I thought it was winrar causing the problem, So I ended up trying it with winzip, with compression format set to store. I have peazip installed.. Although I didnt try it through peazip.

Only thing I can think of, If it wasnt the compression format, is somehow my desc.txt file was messed up.. But I cant see it.

I dont know. Makes no sense to me.
 
Hmmm interesting.... I must just have the magic touch :p

Maybe it had to do with the way we decompiled the gif?
 
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