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Any way to reduce size of boot animation?

So, i made a boot animation that has around 220 pictures.
Ive compressed it ect and its turned out to be 40 mb -.-
im guessing that wont fit on my internal boot animation slot
Is there a way to reduce its size?
Thanks

Try reducing image quality, colours etc.
Also have you actually tried it? It may work

Yeah, it fits and everything, just i only have 20 mb left (according to root explorer)
Whats this memory used for? -In system media

Very slow with it in full screen, doesnt even make it through half of the animation

Try removing every other frame, that'll speed it up and usually doesn't decrease the animation quality much (so "keep one, skip one, keep one, skip one, keep one, skip one, etc.)

[Q] whats wrong with my bootanimation?

Hi
I have gotten a working bootanimation.zip and it worked 100%. But i edited it so that it would fit even better for me but after i edited it it just wouldn't open. I created the edited bootanimation with the Boot Animation Creator but it's still just a black screen.
Plz can any1 check it out?
What am i doing wrong?
All i did was removing some letters and adding "HTC quietly brilliant" logo and then saved the pics but they were saved in indexed colors so i then had to resave them in RGB mode. It then said it was in RGB/8. After that was done i was able to make the bootanimation.zip with the creator and then i just pasted over the old desc.txt into the zip.
Can any1 tell me what i did wrong?
Here are the not-edited version that is working
and the edited that isn't working
Thanks alot in Advance
EDIT: I just read that in order to make it work there has to be no transparency. I don't know if there was transparency but I will try to remove the alpha channel and see if it changes anything.

What are you using to save the edited pictures, as could be wrong bit depth. I think pngs need to be 24-bit (can't remember off the top of my head). I know Paint.net (nothing to do with MS Paint) will let you save to different bit depths - Gimp probably would as well.
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beachcomber said:
What are you using to save the edited pictures, as could be wrong bit depth. I think pngs need to be 24-bit (can't remember off the top of my head). I know Paint.net (nothing to do with MS Paint) will let you save to different bit depths - Gimp probably would as well.
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I also read that the 8-bit/channel in rgb is the same as 24-bit color depth in pgn. I'm doing it all through Photoshop. I will try also in paint.net if it doesn't work.
I read it all here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1560836
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EDIT: There is one thing that bothers me. When i extract the working bootanimation photoshop says that all the pics are not in rgb mode but in indexed colors. Then im wondering how come the bootanimation is working then?
EDIT 2: Well i solved the problem by comparing with a working pgn bootanimation. I saw that the working bootanimation had Layer 0 instead of Backgroung and so i put my pics in Layer 0 and then it worked but was slow. After that I used a program to reduce the size and then I put the pics into Layer 0, RGB 8-bit/channel again and then just hit save and the bootanimation was reduced with more than 1 mb and the bootanimation isnt slow anymore but its almost perfect.

adelboy said:
EDIT 2: Well i solved the problem by comparing with a working pgn bootanimation. I saw that the working bootanimation had Layer 0 instead of Backgroung and so i put my pics in Layer 0 and then it worked but was slow. After that I used a program to reduce the size and then I put the pics into Layer 0, RGB 8-bit/channel again and then just hit save and the bootanimation was reduced with more than 1 mb and the bootanimation isnt slow anymore but its almost perfect.
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Edit: I have just had a read of this since sending you a PM. Makes perfect sense!
http://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/layers/background-layer/

Galaxy S3 Boot Animation Showing White Frames

I am making a custom boot animation for my GS3 running CM10.1. After the animation hits the 100th frame, it just shows white until the next loop starts.
Any help would be appreciated!

2RandomStudios said:
I am making a custom boot animation for my GS3 running CM10.1. After the animation hits the 100th frame, it just shows white until the next loop starts.
Any help would be appreciated!
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I think its because of the high frame rate that you have specified in desc. Try reducing it to 24, 15 etc.

Diy, Home screen Wallpaper does not show randomly on phone unlock.

I made some wallpapers from anime characters as jpeg 1080x2340 and set them as my Home Screen.
My problems is when unlocking up my phone, maybe 1 out of 20 times the wallpaper does not show only the theme wallpaper, If i lock my phone and unlock my wallpaper is instantly back.
I have tried different theme`s and wallpapers and rebooted a number to times but the problem remains.
Is anybody else have this problem.
edit: also sometimes the wallpapers even screenshots from the phone look magnified 4x when set as wallpaper and then i have to load a new theme and then load the image again to get them to show at the correct size.
Thanks
John.
edit: there is a free windows program called "Image Cropper" you can as it says crop an area out of a larger photo, The aspect ratio for RNP8 is 6 x 13 then set the save resolution to 1080x2340, use the highest quality image you can find, There is also one for android called CropImage, select custom and set to 6x13 aspect.

Tinderbox (UK) said:
I made some wallpapers from anime characters as jpeg 1080x2340 and set them as my Home Screen.
My problems is when unlocking up my phone, maybe 1 out of 20 times the wallpaper does not show only the theme wallpaper, If i lock my phone and unlock my wallpaper is instantly back.
I have tried different theme`s and wallpapers and rebooted a number to times but the problem remains.
Is anybody else have this problem.
edit: also sometimes the wallpapers even screenshots from the phone look magnified 4x when set as wallpaper and then i have to load a new theme and then load the image again to get them to show at the correct size.
Thanks
John.
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When you select the option to set a wallpaper from the home screen there are various icons.
Perhaps you have to de-select the double arrow in the wallpaper preview window? When it's on it expands the wallpaper or something.
Compass.

Looks like with the Theme app, you can save your current theme including modification, So i have saved my theme with my wallpaper and them re-loaded it, Hopefully this might have fixed my problem but only time will tell.
EDIT: 5 day`s and my problem is still fixed
EDIT 2: My problems is back
EDIT 3: I have used the "ChaoMe Theme Editor" on the Play Store to edit a theme and add my own wallpaper, It seems to be working so far,

General (Ugly) Colors on boot animation (+ workaround)

Hmm ... after the December update, I have this ugly bluish colours on the boot animation screen.
I think I've read somewhere that this is supposed to match the Material you theme (which I don't use as I use Nova).
I digged around a bit and found that it is controlled by 4 properties:
Code:
persist.bootanim.color1
persist.bootanim.color2
persist.bootanim.color3
persist.bootanim.color4
They have some weird (negative) integer value determining the colors on the boot animation.
Not sure exactly how to interpret the numbers.
Anyway, I just find it ugly and inconsistent ... first the traditional Google logo appear in the traditional colours, then the circling G logo in another color scheme.
Weird ... and ugly (my opinion).
I actually managed to work around it. In my personal Magisk module, I have "resetprop" these 4 properties to an empty string (""). i.e.
Code:
resetprop persist.bootanim.color1 ""
(do this for all 4 of them)
Then, upon reboot, I get the old boot animation colours back.

On my phone, the values reverted back to the ones before I empty them after the boot. So next restarts give me weird negative colors again