[SOLVED] Why is my custom boot animation not working?

[lynchyy89]

It's interesting that I had exactly the same problem you did when I used your animation zip. And the image names were the issue.

By the way, you remember you'd made an off hand remark about changing the image formats to PNG? It's quite possible that this could be a solution (Lol...funny that you'd have come up with it yourself) given the numerical names of the images.

Only reason I point this out is that I've seen a couple other animations with numerical names and they all were PNG format (well not all but the vasy majority of those zips).

Bottom line as you said...it couldn't hurt to try though it would clearly be a pain to execute. Yet, we learn from the experience.

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I have a batch renamer so will be quick and easy yet to try the png zip, will transfer to my phone when I get 5 minutes to see if that works

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[CVAngelo]

Actually, I don't think you can simply rename the JPG files with a PNG extension. You have to load each one individually into a program like Paint and save as PNG. It's a pain as there tend to be so many files in these animations.

By the way, what is this batch renamer program of which you speak. How does it work? Is it an MS-DOS type bat file or what? I can see some use for this. Where can I find it.

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[lynchyy89]

Actually, I don't think you can simply rename the JPG files with a PNG extension. You have to load each one individually into a program like Paint and save as PNG. It's a pain as there tend to be so many files in these animations.

By the way, what is this batch renamer program of which you speak. How does it work? Is it an MS-DOS type bat file or what? I can see some use for this. Where can I find it.

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I don't rename them I use FastStone photo resizer to conver file type from JPG to PNG and other way round, and I use a program called Advanced Renamer 3.65 to rename files.. Faststone does have the rename feature but I prefer the advanced renamer because its so easy and simple to use

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[CVAngelo]

Ok I get it. Thanks for the references to those software tools. Sound very useful. Let me know how it all turns out.

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[lynchyy89]

Ok I get it. Thanks for the references to those software tools. Sound very useful. Let me know how it all turns out.

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FIXED! was something as simple as just renaming the files! I decided to add image to the start eg: image00001 ect and eurika! It runs as it should :thumbup: I also changed folder names and carried on the sequence over 2 folders.. But thankfully it works! But Thank you for taking the time to help out, its much appreciated

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[CVAngelo]

Way to go!

FIXED! was something as simple as just renaming the files! I decided to add image to the start eg: image00001 ect and eurika! It runs as it should :thumbup: I also changed folder names and carried on the sequence over 2 folders.. But thankfully it works! But Thank you for taking the time to help out, its much appreciated

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Excellent! I'm happy it all worked out. Glad to have been of help. I knew if we stuck with it, we'd get to the bottom of the mystery. Man, hard to believe that it was something so simple. Who would imagine? So now we know. LOL. Hopefully our escapade of 2 whole pages here on this thread may help others in future.

Meanwhile, I've gone ahead and downloaded those two utilities you mentioned!

 

[lynchyy89]

Excellent! I'm happy it all worked out. Glad to have been of help. I knew if we stuck with it, we'd get to the bottom of the mystery. Man, hard to believe that it was something so simple. Who would imagine? So now we know. LOL. Hopefully our escapade of 2 whole pages here on this thread may help others in future.

Meanwhile, I've gone ahead and downloaded those two utilities you mentioned!

As I was always told, you'll never get anywhere if you give up at the first hurdle. And that's always the way that its something so simple that gets in the way, and excellent! Both brilliant and speedy pieces of software

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[janvantonder]

Thumbs.db

My Bootanimation.zip file was not working / not showing up at all. In my case it turns out Windows created (hidden) Thumbs.db files in the graphics directories and that confused my phone.

Hope that helps someone.

 

[lynchyy89]

My Bootanimation.zip file was not working / not showing up at all. In my case it turns out Windows created (hidden) Thumbs.db files in the graphics directories and that confused my phone.

Hope that helps someone.

I had this, its quite simple to disable windows from creating them

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[G.S Khokhar]

Boot Animation not working

I have coolpad mi-496. I am trying to change bootanimation, but not succeded. This phone strucked on boot 2 times and I flashed it ROM downloaded fron xda. Thank you for the ROM. Kindly tell what to do when phone became soft brick like this.?

 

[CVAngelo]

I have coolpad mi-496. I am trying to change bootanimation, but not succeded. This phone strucked on boot 2 times and I flashed it ROM downloaded fron xda. Thank you for the ROM. Kindly tell what to do when phone became soft brick like this.?

We can't help you unless you give more details! Please describe how you went about changing the boot animation. What tools did you use? Did you make sure you used image files of the correct dimension for your screen? What files in what directories did you change/replace?

Yes, you can easily create a bootloop or prevent your device from properly booting if you make the wrong changes in the boot animation. So we need to know what you did to help understand what caused the phone to soft-brick.

The easiest way to recover from a soft-brick caused by mucking with the boot animation is to backup your phone using your custom recovery BEFORE mucking with it, then flashing your backup immediately after you brick it! The harder way is to hope you still have access via fastboot and then replace the boot animation files you mucked with using the backups of the original files that you presumably saved.

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[itsmedRb]

I have created this wasting whole day but it does not work. Can anyone help me out what I have done errors thanks?
here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3-NCstEO255VEJIazVaWi1pdG8/view?usp=docslist_api

---------- Post added at 07:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:01 PM ----------

I spend a whole lazy sunday designing a custom boot animation.
It's supposed to look like that (two parts):


[Left: part0 - play once] [Right: part1 - loop]

Device: HTC Legend with CyanogenMod 6.1.0 (Android 2.2.1 Froyo).
I created a file bootanimation.zip (not compressed), following this howto I found on addictivetips.com
My Legend is rooted
I use ROM Manager to reboot into Recovery
I move the files to their destion directories with adb commands.

But when I store it in /data/local or in system/media and reboot my phone, only the first part (part0) is played. Then the animation stops, a black screen is displayed for about ten seconds, then the Enter PIN screen appears. I tried almost everything to make part1 visible:
Deleting and re-installing the animation with different parameters
Changing values in desc.txt (below)
Re-processing the .png files (8bit, 24bit, resizing etc.)
Changing the .png file names


My desc.txt:
320 480 24
p 1 10 part0
p 0 0 part1

Can someone tell me what is wrong with the attached bootanimation_NOTWORKING.zip file?

pls help me

 

[CVAngelo]

I have created this wasting whole day but it does not work. Can anyone help me out what I have done errors thanks?
here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3-NCstEO255VEJIazVaWi1pdG8/view?usp=docslist_api

---------- Post added at 07:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:01 PM ----------


pls help me

Read every post in this thread. The solution is in one of the earlier posts.

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[itsmedRb]

Now works. Problems was in txt file

 

[flaxx187]

hey
i wanna make a bootanimation from sony until my lockscreen.

my desc.txt is

1080 1920 30
p 0 0 part0
p 0 0 part1
p 0 0 part2

i put it in /system/media
premission (via root explorer)
read: own group other
write: own
other :
right on oktal is the number 0644 rw-r--r--


but is doesn't work


what happend when i edit the last two "p" from txt in "c" ?
or
i reboot my phone without some bootanimation.zip (i deleted one time)
could be the reason ?

1)Open a Root Explorer app or any file manager with root permissions.

2)Go to /system

3)Mount folder in R/W and open build.prop in text editor

4)Scroll to the very bottom and enter


Code:
debug.sf.nobootanimation=1

5)Save and Exit. A full reboot is required to see that this works.

You can change =1 to =0 to disable this. Or simply delete the line that was added.

haven't the "debug.sf.nobootanimation" in my build.prop could that the fault ?

 

[Officeryanki]

I'm bringing this post alive again because it is relevant to a solution i found.
I don't know if the "actual" solution was posted earlier in this issue, but i'm to lazy to check.
So i had the exact same problem with my boot animation, and i figured out that my problem was in my desc.txt

1080 1920 33
p 1 0 part0
p 0 0 part1

the "p" represents the type of way we are playing it.
We have to replace it with a "c" so that it continues playing after the actual booting is done.

1080 1920 33
c 1 0 part0
c 0 0 part1

Hope this helps!!!

 

[SpectorOfDeath]

I'm bringing this post alive again because it is relevant to a solution i found.
I don't know if the "actual" solution was posted earlier in this issue, but i'm to lazy to check.
So i had the exact same problem with my boot animation, and i figured out that my problem was in my desc.txt

the "p" represents the type of way we are playing it.
We have to replace it with a "c" so that it continues playing after the actual booting is done.

Hope this helps!!!

Had this issue with +700 frame bootanimation.zip, wouldnt get very far at first.

I had to delete the poweron.ogg sound effect, it was somehow triggering boot completion.

After that it would get too about frame 250 but then phone boot would complete and it would stop.
I can confirm the above solution of changing

P into C

Does force the boot animation to play thru completly without a loop, i wouldnt do rhis with a loop for obv. reasons.

Anyways, i wamted too thank everyone, but special shout out for the answer that really got me what i needed!