Originally Posted by metpolds

@toonsofpcs..... I have made and published in this thread approximately 60 bootanimations for the A500, on not one of these have I ever had to touch "permissions".

This may be an issue with the ROM I'm using or the way that Root Explorer interacts with it. I'm not sure. It puts the file there as 0000 permissions which isn't helpful.

To not affect the speed and duration of your boot-up you will find it better to keep animations to 10Mb or smaller.

In my testing with various encodings, I've found that optimizing images to minimize the CPU power needed to decode them makes it boot faster (that is, no interlace no additional encoding, simplified palette, etc.). I'm currently booting with a 80 MB boot sequence that boots quite fast (sorry, it contains copyrighted features and I don't think I can share it but booting to a Simpsons opening followed by an Itchy & Scratchy loop on their TV set is quite nice). I do need to tweak the Memtest boot animation so that its image files are more optimized.

If you wish to publish it on XDA it will have to be 8 Mb or smaller (XDA's upload size limitation for "zip" files is 8 Mb)

well, I guess I'll have to host it elsewhere. Good thing Box gave me 50 GB!

To start getting the size down you should use JPG's not PNG's.

JPEGs use more processing power to decode/display (DCTs and all). I haven't tested to see if they run slower on the A500 boot but I would guess that they do.

-- tonsofpcs

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Originally Posted by RiceDie

Prime for Android waiting for the final release then! Will install this for my friends A501 see if he likes it.

Edit: is it ICS ready?

I've still got a bit of work to do. Took a break to make an animation just for me . If you want to see it as-is, send a PM or hit me up on IRC, I can give you the link.

Not sure what you mean by "ICS ready". It's two 'loops', the first plays once and the second loops until it is done booting (the flashing red at the end with all errors shown). I have it running on my tablet with JB but that shouldn't matter, I don't think.

-- tonsofpcs

Originally Posted by JdgM3NT4L

This animation was taken from the video here http://vimeo.com/47138207 . You should check it out, amazing stuff. It was filmed by a guy named Mark Peters and he named his film "The Blue". He custom built the torpedo cam that filmed the video. Our kinda guy.



There are two versions.

One is at 8 FPS, My Wife likes it at that speed.

The other is at 10 FPS. The way I like it.

I'll give you a guess which one is on my tab...

thanx for this S!!! I'm with yr wife on this one - love it at 8!! -

Just because I should:


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You guys have some sweet looking boot ani's going on,excelent job guys.

Annnnnnd one more..

Dark Side:

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Hi All..... Don't do many animations these days but thought I would post this one. I did one like this early last year but because I had ported it from a phone animation I was never really satisfied with the result..... So I've re-jigged it and personally I like this one much better.
The animation runs a little quicker than the GIF and at the end loops the last couple of frames.
Usual caveat..... change the name to bootanimation.zip and place in either /data/local..... OR ..... /system/media ..... If you already have one there change it's name or move it elsewhere to avoid it being overwritten.
As I said it's some time since I did these so if I remember how to post the animated GIF I will do.
I'm running a "Civato" ICS rom and it works fine on that.

Not yet test, please help to modify

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Not yet test, please help to modify


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