animated gif eats power???

simply put, yes 😊

Yes, screen saver eats more battery power.

And it is kind of obvious when you think about it; there is some work involved in updating the screen (CPU processing, memory access, display access) and work means consumption of energy = it uses up your battery (eventually).

I honestly agree...

screen saver with animated gif is totaly batery killer

I use the technique someone posted here some time ago. I have a gif file with 1x1 pixels as a screensaver. the screen appears blank and i really does save battery! how do I know? well, with the nokia screensaver I would hear the phone beeping twice due to power shortage before it turned off and now I hear the beep about 5 or 6 times... not an exact scientific test, but I think it gives us an idea...

You can try creating a very very slow animation of a still image. Like showing off a simple message such as "BACK OFF!!!!" and let it appear randomly.

This is what our default screen saver does and it does not eat that much battery.

thanks for the info and thanks for the tip tatuachem

LOL maybe create a Screensaver with

"Visit www.AllAboutSymbian.com" --- advertisement 😮 😮 😮

The GIF images i sent to my phone does not repeat itself when I view them there. (not talking about the screensavers) Is there a way to set the settings so that the phone does so? I have some stereo images that I want to view on my phone but the GIF images do not repeat at all.

anywiew can paly repeated gif anims

You mean anyview? Is that a software? Nokia's own picture viewer can't do that? And where can I find this anyview?

create an mms with the gif and select "preview"... that should do the trick... tell me if it worked.

it works alright but then that would mean I'd have to do that everytime I wanna view a GIF image. Is there no other way?

[quote="Sin Pride"]it works alright but then that would mean I'd have to do that everytime I wanna view a GIF image. Is there no other way?[/quote]
Hi!
Try this here:
http://koti.phnet.fi/jarilaak/software/aniview.html

😃

that's cool. It's sad the 3650 doesn't have a decent built-in gif viewer...

yeah... so sad...