CONTEST for community boot animation

[Douwe]

Hey @jaymanu!

This is such a nice idea of yours! I just showed it to our developers and together we were thinking that we could make community boot animations part of #software:fp-open-os!

So, I’d like to support this idea of you and tell everyone in this thread: if you make a cool, original and great boot animation; we will include it in a future update of Fairphone Open OS.

Looking forward to your creations

Douwe

[TobiasF]

That means the boot animation is changed with every update? So more than one person gets the chance?

[Jerry]

@Patrick1

I liked their homepage some time ago where you could see the disassembling of the phone while scrolling down the web page. I guess this would be my favorite boot animation. Maybe they do us a favor and provide us with a small selection of such anims and a custom option to switch between them

Something more loading-screen-y could be to see the FairPhone assembled from back to front as if the screen is a transparent window into what’s behind it.

[Douwe]

@TobiasF

That means the boot animation is changed with every update? So more than one person gets the chance?

Probably not every update; but as soon as there is a piece of animation art uploaded here that is really cool; yeah, we’ll try to include it in the next update.

And yeah, that means that more then one person can have it’s boot animation be part of Fairphone Open OS.

[mungo]

Doesn’t work for now:

Auflösen des Hostnamen »www.fairphone.com (www.fairphone.com)«… 84.22.108.22
Verbindungsaufbau zu www.fairphone.com (www.fairphone.com)|84.22.108.22|:443… verbunden.
HTTP-Anforderung gesendet, warte auf Antwort… 403 Forbidden
2017-01-01 19:21:00 FEHLER 403: Forbidden.

[Johannes]

Fairphone probably (re)moved the files when they revamped their site a while back. Not sure whether there’s an ‘official’ source now…

[YtvwlD]

I made the official one a bit darker.

I was told by @paulakreuzer to post it here, too.

(It’s originally made for the FP 1, but should work on the FP 2, too.)

Link

whole comment:

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I really like the new bootanimation, but I think the images 403 and on are a bit too bright.
This is mostly only distracting, but in some cases (Hello, broken USB connector!) this might be even dangerous, because in some circumstances the battery will only charge if the phone is mostly booted up.
So any bright screen can hurt.

I’ve simply made all images a bit more dark.

script for use in GIMP (extract the bootanimation.zip to a folder called "bootanimation"):

# to be pasted in the GIMP console
# GIMP is to be run from "."

import os

def load(name):
        return pdb.file_png_load(name, name)

def save(image, name):
        pdb.file_png_save_defaults(image, image.active_layer, name, name)

def main_func(arg, dirname, fnames):
       assert arg is None
       if dirname == "bootanimation":
               return
       for file in fnames:
                # number = int(file.split(".")[0])
                complete_filename = os.path.join(dirname, file)
                image = load(complete_filename)
                pdb.gimp_brightness_contrast(image.active_layer, -50, 0)
                save(image, complete_filename)

# bottom
os.path.walk("bootanimation", main_func, None)

The resulting bootanimation.zip. (You can put this in /data/local/ and it will survive ROM updates!)

The differences:

before	after

Disclaimer: I have just tested this in an emulator. But it shouldn’t brick anything. If it doesn’t work, just connect your phone to a PC, delete the file (via adb) and reboot.

edit: A note if you want to create your own: Be sure that you don’t compress the zip file. (I did that mistake first.)

edit 2: The weird thing is that it works fine when I run bootanimation by hand, but not on startup…

[jaymanu]

Thanks for your contribution !

Correct me if i’m wrong, but i believe color values have no impact on energy use on an LCD screen. You can display full black or full white, the display will drain the same amount of watts. This would be different with an oled display.