Anyone here good with creating Boot Animations? [RESOLVED] - AT&T, Rogers, Bell, Telus Samsung Galaxy S III

I created a GIF using Photoshop CS2.
When I open the GIF using Internet Explorer, it looks great.
But when I use Boot Animation Factory to create the bootanimation.zip, it ends up looking very choppy and the text part of the GIF comes & goes. Looks terrible, lower resolution and not at all like my GIF. I've attached both the GIF and the animation I created. If anyone can fix it, or tell me how to fix it... I would really appreciate it. :good:
EDIT: I gave up on trying to create the GIF from a GIF. So I created the boot animation from individual slides in a part01 folder (after resizing to 720x1280 in Paint) and it worked great.

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Testing new wallpapers

Hi guys
I have been playing with my pc and my G1,I am trying out some wallpapers,resolutions and little by little I like what I am getting.....this is not amazing and I am sure some of you have done something similar....but I thought it would be nice if I share it with you,so that we can share our ideas and thoughts.The resolution is 480x320,I will change the resolution and try others out.
Put the wallpapers on the same folder as your pictures once you've done that you can start using the new wallpapers.
You can download them from the link:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?enwnnkjiqmi
Here are you have some more.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?5m2tfzfiydz
nice wallpaper what I have read the wallpapers resolution is 640x480 here is some I made
Yours are really nice too
Thanks for sharing those screenshots.
by the way how did you get the screenshots?
you can do it like here http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/10/22/taking-screenshots-on-an-android-based-phone/#comments or
if all you won’t to do is screen shots all you need to do is enable usb debugging on the G1 buy going to Settings, then Applications, and then Development. Check the checkbox for “USB debugging.install the sdk and install the windows drivers from here http://www.anddev.org/debugging-installing_apps_on_the_g1_windows_driver-t3236.html this is all i did and it works for me on vista did not install eclipse or jdk just go to the tools folder in the android sdk main folder
Ok...I got it..took me a while but finally I can post some screenshots.
Once again thank you so much.
nvm noob moment
dta1974 said:
Here are you have some more.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?5m2tfzfiydz
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Nice work, seems like the 800x600 wallpapers fit perfect! We need some more 3d wallpapers now
Thanks man....I am glad you like them.
I'll get some more and upload them.
Here you are some more wallpapers,I think I found the right resolution 640x480.As you can see below there are some different ones....download the folder and get the ones you don´t see.
Enjoy it.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gdujjnjnuhg
dta1974 said:
Here you are some more wallpapers,I think I found the right resolution 640x480.As you can see below there are some different ones....download the folder and get the ones you don´t see.
Enjoy it.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gdujjnjnuhg
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hehe, thanks...
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Wallpaper problem
I created this wallpaper...... When going into photo viewer, it looks fantastic. Can zoom in without any dithering.
However, the moment I apply as my wallpaper, it looks like poop.
Have tried as a JPG and PNG
Awesome wallpaper... but question do you have root? maybe you can replace the originals.
neoobs said:
Awesome wallpaper... but question do you have root? maybe you can replace the originals.
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I do have root and will try that. Anyone wanna put this on their phone and see if it's just me?
When you select it as the wallpaper, do you expand the box to cover the whole pic? So far, every pic I've resized to 640x480 and thrown on have been absolutely flawless. I'm using paint.net to resize and convert them to jpg, if that makes a difference.
Mi|enko said:
When you select it as the wallpaper, do you expand the box to cover the whole pic? So far, every pic I've resized to 640x480 and thrown on have been absolutely flawless. I'm using paint.net to resize and convert them to jpg, if that makes a difference.
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Yes I have.... Can you try and use it yourself and see what it looks like on your device?
When I use a 640x480 image and try and set it as a wallpaper it always asks me to crop it. Does it then strech the cropped image?
Im really confused about the wallpapers atm.
Btw, I know tmobile (in the UK) reduces image quality if you browse a image on the web via there data connection (eg save picture as, in the browser) but over wifi you loose no image quality.
[Edit] This Kinda helped slightly.... http://www.androidwallpapers.mobi/help.php
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Adding wallpapers to system default options
I wanted to add some wallpapers to the SD card but have them pop up under the phone wallpaper options instead of under photos. Is there a place on the SD card I can put them so they are grouped with the default ones? I have a lot of pics so it takes a long time to scroll through them to find my wallpapers so I am hoping I can make it a bit more organized.
The defaults reside in /system/app/Launcher.apk/res/drawable/
Can I add wallpaper and apps to an update.zip?
I have created a custom theme and I am wondering if I can just throw more .apk programs into the app folder to install additional programs?
Also, I am trying to add my own wallpaper to launcher.apk with the 2 file sizes and proper naming but they arent coming up, is there something else I need to edit to have them showup as "default" wallpaper?

M2D change background in all tabs.

I searched far and wide on how to do this and finally found it, thanks to detroit_doug who posted this on ppcgeeks. Just rename any image you would like to set as a background to hh_fw_background.png (must be a png file to work or at least for me). Turn off Touchflo (settings-today-items), copy the .png file into the widows folder on your device and replace the existing one , restart touchflo and all tabs will have the background you chose. If you simply rename the extension from .jpg (or any other image file) will still work. Be wary, it slightly slows down how fast tabs are loaded, I quickly went back to the stock after changing. Good luck.
Do you have M2DC installed?
Under "background picture", choose any picture you want (no renaming, but all my wallpapers are edited to 240x320), and presto.
No slowdowns or anything.
jmitr said:
Do you have M2DC installed?
Under "background picture", choose any picture you want (no renaming, but all my wallpapers are edited to 240x320), and presto.
No slowdowns or anything.
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Ok, didn't try it till today, jmitr thank you. For everyone else reading this post jmitr's way is by far better and easier than mine, there is no slowing down. Thanks again sir.
change m2d background
bigough13 u are correct with your method cause m2dc does not change landscape background. u have to replace the "hh_fw_background_landscape.png" image too in windows folder.Also the reason your method slows down how tabs load is because as jmitr said wallpaper has to be 240x320 and about 50kb large. took me a while but mine works flawlessly!! no lag or slow downs

[Q] need help w/ boot animation [incredible] VGA

hi.
i edited the droid 2 boot animation specific for the incredible's 400x800 VGA.
i had it working very smoothly, but then i edited the desc file and can't get it working again. -- i didn't save the working desc.
Overall,
i removed many frames from the beginning (words).
i downsized images to 400x800 and re-centered R2.
i converted images from jpg to png, just like the Incredible's original boot animation.
i changed image bit depth from 24 to 8.
it ran smooth and looked great.
i put more time into this than i should have. can anyone troubleshoot my desc file? -- i don't know how i had this working at one time.
other renders of R2D2 boot animation were sluggish.
see attachment.

[Boot Animation] My Avatar Boot Animation

I finally made my own Boot animation.
The original idea was made by others (BIOS boot up) I never did figure out where I got my first one (the Galaxy Nexus one)
I typed in every single letter in every single image of this boot anim except the grey letters at the bottom I added Volume Down and left it as it was.
I have an avatar live wallpaper. I got ahold of the author and he told me how to get the images out of it. I used those for the second portion.
I found some zebra wallpaper and recolored and scaled it for the background.
DEEP respect to people who make these things. its an insane amount of work having to do each and every frame individually. I think I have 9-10 hours into this total ! not counting photoshop research to make life easier with some semi automation with recorded shortcuts. and I HAD A TEMPLATE to work from !!
took me forever to figure out how to automate a copy paste to overlay the stripes under the text without it MOVING the "pasted" content (centering) during the paste operation (that is why each frame has that white square at the bottom
I am thinking of making another with an android icon instead of the avatar movie sequence where I "avatarize" the android robot
maybe
its 16mb so I am hosting it and linking here. does anyone know how to reduce png image size without killing quality?
Enjoy let me know what you think.
I am also attaching my SII Bios one with no avatar theming. the second half the android matrix thing I did not make I left that in from the template I used to make this one (the galaxy nexus bios boot anim) that is not my work.
the first half is all mine.
Here is the Avatarized one
http://www.mylittlemouse.com/other/bootanimation(Avatar).zip
Here is a Video of it booting up. The sound file is a Mixture and Edit of the Old School computer disk spin up I found on a youtube video from here on the forums (on another SII bios anim) that I clipped parts out of and merged with the windows boot sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZri21-NvdQ
if anyone knows who made that original (original to me at least) Google Nexus Bios boot anime let me know so I can credit them as the source for the idea for this.

[HOW TO] [Custom Wallpapers] w/Gimp 2

NOTE: This is only instructional information for those looking to make their own 1920x1920 edited HD wallpapers and are tired of looking for 1920x1920 wallpapers. I didn't see a similar thread on here and thought I would share some tips for those who aren't familiar with making/editing their own wallpapers.
So I got tired of searching for wallpapers and just edited desktop wallpapers for myself. I just searched on Google for cool stuff, like zombies, movies, anime, digital art, robots, etc, and found a bunch of 1920x1080 wallpapers. I would also recommend adding HD or 1080p in your search criteria to ensure the best quality. Obviously they are made for desktops, so I used Gimp 2 to edit them, by doing an Image > Canvas Size, switching the width to 1080 so it's then 1080x1080. Then do an Image > Scale Image and upscale them to 1920x1920. It's difficult to do because you're essentially taking a rectangular image and making it into a square image when it's not really designed for that. But if you can find the right images, it should be pretty easy to decide how to resize them and to know what to cut off. I've attached an example below. Once you've resized the image to 1080x1080, scale it to 1920x1920, and then if it needs a Sharpen filter, go to Filter > Enhance > Sharpen. And I found out the hard way that Gimp is different from photoshop, as you can't save files that easily as .png/.jpg/.gif file types. You can't just select Save As, you have to go to File and then Export to save it that way.
You can use Photoshop to do this as well. I just particularly prefer Gimp, but to each their own And you can get Gimp for free, just search for Gimp on google.com and it should be the first or second link there that you can download and install it for free. If you want to see more of the ones I've made, as I've made a good bit, just PM me and I can email you a zip file with all the ones I've made in it. If enough people ask for them, I may just edit this post and see if I can just upload them all on here. Or some of them anyway
Image 1. Shows how to resize
Image 2. Shows how to scale image
Image 3. Shows final image
If you have any questions, let me know. (Tried to make this as detailed as possible if you aren't familiar with Gimp or photo editing)

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