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[Q] Creating Bootanimation, FPS locked to 10fps?

Hey there. I'm attempting to create my own bootanimation and get it working.
Thus far I've finished creating the animation itself. Everything is packed into bootanimation.zip correctly and I've installed the bootanimation to my Desire HD. Everything works great, it's installed ok and it plays on boot-up like it should, however it appears to only play at 10FPS as opposed to the 30FPS I've told it to play at in the desc.txt.
What I've noticed is that the desc.txt is modified/changed after I boot the phone up and the animation plays.
The original desc.txt when I install the bootanimation looks like this:
Code:
480 800 30
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
However after booting up and playing for the first time, it changes to the following all by itself:
Code:
480 800 10
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
I thought to myself "Alright, maybe bootanimations are just locked to 10fps."
I then had my friend test out the boot animation on his Droid X and it also seemed to play at 10fps, however desc.txt did not get modified on his device.
At this point I was pretty sure that bootanimations are locked to 10fps, but to be sure I downloaded a few other bootanimations and found some that also are set to 30fps in desc.txt. I installed these and tried them out and they seemed to play at the correct speed and desc.txt was NOT modified to 10fps in these bootanimations.
So my questions are:
A) Are boot animations locked to 10FPS?
B) If they are not, why could mine be playing at 10FPS and why is desc.txt being modified?
Any help is much appreciated - thanks in advance.

Denavar said:
Hey there. I'm attempting to create my own bootanimation and get it working.
Thus far I've finished creating the animation itself. Everything is packed into bootanimation.zip correctly and I've installed the bootanimation to my Desire HD. Everything works great, it's installed ok and it plays on boot-up like it should, however it appears to only play at 10FPS as opposed to the 30FPS I've told it to play at in the desc.txt.
What I've noticed is that the desc.txt is modified/changed after I boot the phone up and the animation plays.
The original desc.txt when I install the bootanimation looks like this:
Code:
480 800 30
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
However after booting up and playing for the first time, it changes to the following all by itself:
Code:
480 800 10
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
I thought to myself "Alright, maybe bootanimations are just locked to 10fps."
I then had my friend test out the boot animation on his Droid X and it also seemed to play at 10fps, however desc.txt did not get modified on his device.
At this point I was pretty sure that bootanimations are locked to 10fps, but to be sure I downloaded a few other bootanimations and found some that also are set to 30fps in desc.txt. I installed these and tried them out and they seemed to play at the correct speed and desc.txt was NOT modified to 10fps in these bootanimations.
So my questions are:
A) Are boot animations locked to 10FPS?
B) If they are not, why could mine be playing at 10FPS and why is desc.txt being modified?
Any help is much appreciated - thanks in advance.
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No boot animations are not locked to 10 frames per second, and ive neva heard of an instance of android modifying the desc.txt, thats really odd, is your boot a big file? Are you zipping the file with no compression?
Sent from my Desire HD using Tapatalk

Yup! Zipped with no compression and the animation has 362 images total.

Still need a little help with this~

Denavar said:
Still need a little help with this~
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I tried editing desc.txt before as well, it never saves. I recommend you extract the bootanimation.zip to your computer, edit desc.txt, then transfer back and see how it goes

(Q) downanimation missing/corrupt

hi, i already change my both animation, i did it successfully via root explorer (copy/paste) but after i replace the default downanimation with my new one i have only a black screen when shutting down or reboot my desire
i dont know where the problem can be cuz i did it correctly, both down and boot animation are located in data/local
bootanimation working and downanimation just blackscreen.
can somebody hleps me pls?

have you checked the filerights?
maybe have to chmod it
just a guess, cuz this happens sometimes

custom boot animation!

Trying to put together a bootanimation and I can't get it to work no matter what I do.....I've got the files all in png format. I've created part0 and part1 folders though i do not need to use the part0 I have tried putting things in it and not but neither works......I have used notepad++ to create desc.txt file with 480 800 30, p 1 0 part0, p 0 0 part1 - text inside...on different lines...I've followed about 3 different methods of putting the zip file in to the system/media folder and it's not working at all....All I get is a black screen on startup :S well confused and getting a bit pissed off to be honest lol!!

If your getting a black start up screen then it is loading your bootanim. As when it fails to load a boot animation you get the stock "ANDROID" screen.
Are your PNG's in the correct format? Have you optimised them in any way? Correct size?

They're bang on the right size....haven't touched them but have had another idea that I'm going to try later on. I did a boot anim for a user and it worked perfectly first time so I'm going to keep going until I.can get it to work......
Thanks for your input at least I know its loading up....
Sent from my Desire HD using BlackICE......

Stock Kernel For Jelly Bean That Provides Boot Animation

Anyone know of a kernel I can use with my AT&T S3 - UCDLK3/Jelly Bean. I am looking for one that doesn't have modifications to WiFi/Bluetooth, and pretty much only allows for Boot Animations. I am using the latest Stock/Rooted ROM.

dratsablive said:
Anyone know of a kernel I can use with my AT&T S3 - UCDLK3/Jelly Bean. I am looking for one that doesn't have modifications to WiFi/Bluetooth, and pretty much only allows for Boot Animations. I am using the latest Stock/Rooted ROM.
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Unless you really just want a new kernel, the stock ATT kernel will allow custom boot animations with a few minor edits... this works for JB or ICS. Make backup copies of files just in case, or Nandroid but this is simple change, really.
in /system/bin, do the following:
1. delete samsungani
2. rename bootanimation to samsungani (the file, not a zip file)
You will need to edit the boot animation zip you want to use. Open with archiver of choice and navigate to the desc.txt file.
Change the 0 after the p in the second line to a 1. Here's an example in bold:
720 1280 30
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
change to:
720 1280 30
p 1 0 part0
p 1 0 part1
Save, and place in /system/media. Reboot. Profit.
Oh yeah, make sure perms are set (644) or it won't work.
Credit to billard412 for this

78Staff said:
Unless you really just want a new kernel, the stock ATT kernel will allow custom boot animations with a few minor edits... this works for JB or ICS. Make backup copies of files just in case, or Nandroid but this is simple change, really.
in /system/bin, do the following:
1. delete samsungani
2. rename bootanimation to samsungani (the file, not a zip file)
You will need to edit the boot animation zip you want to use. Open with archiver of choice and navigate to the desc.txt file.
Change the 0 after the p in the second line to a 1. Here's an example in bold:
720 1280 30
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
change to:
720 1280 30
p 1 0 part0
p 1 0 part1
Save, and place in /system/media. Reboot. Profit.
Oh yeah, make sure perms are set (644) or it won't work.
Credit to billard412 for this
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Worked thanks Now need to change the startup audio.

Well I thought it worked, but I don't get the Animation I was expecting, but just a multi colored "X" which I think is the default Nexus boot animation?
Found the PowerOn.ogg file in /system/media/audio/ui folder. Renamed that to PowerOn.old and copied a wav file to same folder as PowerOn.ogg, works. Just can't get the bootanimation.zip file to load. Just the glowing "X" loads as the animation.
EDIT:
Using the above method just prevents the AT&T logo boot animation from running, and it defaults to /data/local/bootanimation.zip. I tried renaming that file, and copying the custom bootanimation.zip to /data/local, but that seemed to mess up my phone. It would boot, but the screen was blank, and then parts would become visible. Had to restore from a backup to get phone working again.
EDIT AGAIN:
Looks like one particular Boot Animation ZIP file is the culprit. I tried another and placed it in /data/local and it worked.

This mess up my phone all i get it is black screen even after i wait good 10 min. I had to restore nandroid backup..

norbarb said:
This mess up my phone all i get it is black screen even after i wait good 10 min. I had to restore nandroid backup..
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Just saw this...black screen after boot is usually a perms issue. Double check all file perms before rebooting.

Why isn't my custom bootanimation working?

So, I've tried just about everything I can think of here and my bootanimation still won't play and I get a black screen after the LG boot screen until the phone turns on. I created a custom boot animation using the Gamecube startup animation and every image is in 1080 x 1920 at 24 bit depth. There are 162 frames and they are all in a folder named Part0. My desc.txt file looks as follows:
1080 1920 30p 1 0 part0
All of this is compiled in a NONcompressed zip named bootanimation.zip and located in System/Media (the old animation is now bootanimation.bak)
I honestly don't see any flaws in the zip, yet my phone still won't use it. I'm running rooted stock 5.0.1 on VS985 23C.
Any ideas? Can't link the file since I'm new to the forum unfortunately. :/

Thesanealien said:
So, I've tried just about everything I can think of here and my bootanimation still won't play and I get a black screen after the LG boot screen until the phone turns on. I created a custom boot animation using the Gamecube startup animation and every image is in 1080 x 1920 at 24 bit depth. There are 162 frames and they are all in a folder named Part0. My desc.txt file looks as follows:
1080 1920 30p 1 0 part0
All of this is compiled in a NONcompressed zip named bootanimation.zip and located in System/Media (the old animation is now bootanimation.bak)
I honestly don't see any flaws in the zip, yet my phone still won't use it. I'm running rooted stock 5.0.1 on VS985 23C.
Any ideas? Can't link the file since I'm new to the forum unfortunately. :/
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Do you have correct permissions set?

tallman43 said:
Do you have correct permissions set?
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I think so. they are set to rw-r--r--

The g3 has to use 1440p boot anis