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[Q] How do I; Wallpaper sizing

I have a pic in my gallery that I want as my home scree. The only way I know to do this is Apps>Gallery>Image(of choice)>Menu>More>Set as>Wallpaper>...It's at this point I get lost. I want the entire pic to be a wallpaper but when your in wallpaper you get a box that will only stretch so far. How do I get the whole pic as my wallpaper?
I tryed resizing the image to 480 X 800 but the best it will allow is 480 x 618. Even with this, I still need to use the wallpaper sizer.
How do I fix this?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=707

wallpapers for our phone need to be sized at 960x800

Use Dodol Wallpaper Maker
https://market.android.com/details?id=demo.galmoori.wallpapereditor

I normally just download flikkie hd wallpapers and then just move the wallpaper I want into the flikkie folder.
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Free+Awesome Wallpaper source

I have been going to this site for awhile and downloading wallpapers for my PC and knew they had walls for Apple devices. So I checked and they have Windows Phone 7 section at a resolution of 480x800 which is the same at the Inspire.
The site is: Interfacelift.com
http://interfacelift.com/
There are pages and pages and pages of user submitted wallpapers. All you need to do is click on the drop down next to the wallpaper you want and select 480x800. Then click "Download."
However there are drawbacks. Currently there are only 108 wallpapers with this size available. If you have an account, you can bulk download any resolution from all the years they have wallpapers for.
Check them out!

Thanks for the heads up... Also if you hit netbook theres a 800x480 tab with like 98 pages.. so theres alot more than 108 wallpapers

Thanks for the link.. But I thought our resolution was 960x800

Love interfacelift. been using them for a few years now.
960x800 sounds like the qhd resolution.
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bbrou33 said:
Thanks for the link.. But I thought our resolution was 960x800
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yes, that is the resolution of the image you need to use as your background. If you notice when you scroll between home screens, the image moves slightly, so the background image has to be larger than 480x800.
480x800 is the resolution of your 'screen'.

Use fullscreen 1280X1024. When you choose a wallpaper you should be able to crop. It will just crop the sides off a bit. There are some wallpapers hosted there that are 960X800, but not alot. Have fun sifting through the site!

also here is a pretty nice site with 960x800 wallpapers
Android Wallpapers

I use Flikie Wallpapers HD from the market. Great app

What do you think about Inspire's Wallpaper Option?

So, I'm not very happy with the wallpaper options in this phone. I understand that, it's more of HTC Sense setting, but it doesn't let me choose home or lock screen. Plus, when I choose a picture from my gallery to use as a wallpaper, the weird crop square shows up and doesn't let me use the whole picture. What's up with that? Am I missing something? What do other people think?

The wall paper is ok but, I went to the market and downloaded city at night wallpaper and its a lot better for my tastes.

goldentequila said:
So, I'm not very happy with the wallpaper options in this phone. I understand that, it's more of HTC Sense setting, but it doesn't let me choose home or lock screen. Plus, when I choose a picture from my gallery to use as a wallpaper, the weird crop square shows up and doesn't let me use the whole picture. What's up with that? Am I missing something? What do other people think?
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You should use 960x800 sized wallpapers. You can't select the whole picture because your iPhone wallpapers or whatever are the wrong aspect. There are some good downloadable wallpapers in the HTC Hub and there are a million wallpaper apps in the market.

Your wallpaper is scrolling as you swipe left and right to different screens, that's why it's square. I just use 1920X1080 wallpapers and they look fine.

[Q] Oversized Wallpapers

Hi guys
I'm a total 'droid n00b so please be gentle with me.
I know I have seen Android devices which kinda "spread" an oversized wallpaper across all the home screens so that scrolling through the home screens also scrolls across the wallpaper. I just tried to set an oversized wallpaper and it made me crop it to the screen res
Is this a feature which is only available on some phones, or is there a tweak you have to load first... or am I totally blowing it out of my arse and the whole thing is a figment of my imagination?

stonelaughter said:
Hi guys
I'm a total 'droid n00b so please be gentle with me.
I know I have seen Android devices which kinda "spread" an oversized wallpaper across all the home screens so that scrolling through the home screens also scrolls across the wallpaper. I just tried to set an oversized wallpaper and it made me crop it to the screen res
Is this a feature which is only available on some phones, or is there a tweak you have to load first... or am I totally blowing it out of my arse and the whole thing is a figment of my imagination?
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get rid of Sense by replacing it with ADW Launcher. It will allow you to crop a wallpaper correctly for your home screen and it runs WAY faster with a ton more features. I would also recommend getting the paid version of the app. You can get it from Market.
also.. after you get ADW and are running it... go into Accounts & Sync in your settings and disable all of the Sense stuff.
edit: thought i should also add this recommendation. if you like the sense widgets and hate to part with them. or the weather clock...etc. you can get an app from market called Beautiful Widgets. it runs way faster than sense and does the same stuff... again with more options.

Errr.... that's all very nice but how does it relate to my question?

It is sense that is causing the wallpaper to display as it is, change sense back to the android stock option by removing sense will then enable the wallpaper you wanted.
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In response to your original question, most Android devices and versions do spread the wallpaper across all the home screens, including older versions of Sense. Sense 3.0 however uses vertical wallpapers that do not scroll, it is a new feature in this version. I imagine they did it because of the 3D rotation of the home screens and it would make stretched wallpapers look weird when swiping, but who knows.

It would be pretty complex to have each screen with its own section of the wallpaper seperate, spin, slow and expand, and finally rest at the ending homescreen.
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Thanks Cyberstorm98 - I shall lobby HTC and see if they'll make it an option when anims are off.

[Q] Removing wallpaper size restriction?

Hey guys, with all the flexibility that Android OS is supposed to have, one restriction that is really aggravating me is the wallpaper size contstraint...
Is there any way to get rid of the wallpaper size restriction? My goal basically is to able to make a wallpaper as wide as the amount of screens I have so that when I go to a different screen it looks like a different wallpaper. To see what i mean, take a wallpaper and use 2 home screens only. When you switch between the two, it loads a half of the wallpaper, so if you made one picture with 2 480x800 pictures, it would look like two seperate wallpapers. What I would like to do is use 3 home screens, and a wallpaper created by using 3 480x800 pictures (1440x800), but whenever I try to set a wallpaper it forces me to crop it to a 960x800 area. Can anyone chime in on if this is at all possible?
Thanks!

I like the idea and would like to know aswell..

I think wallpaper wizardrii works.
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OK. It had been a really long time since I used multi live wallpaper.
My goal was to be able to have, on my 3 screens, individual wallpapers that i compiled randomly, and use a wallpaper changer to always have a different wallpaper on each screen. Multilive does that now! Just set it for random, and eveyr hour, all 3 of my screens update with a different wallpaper. All I did was create 480x800 versions of all the wallpapers i was going to randomly combine into large wide wallpapers, throw them all into a folder, and tell multilive wallpaper to pick from there. It's pretty damn sweet. Also, if a wallpaper that I don't want to see at that time comes around double tapping the screen changes them all up again. It's great.

kravguy said:
I think wallpaper wizardrii works.
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Worked like a camp! Running C.M. 7.1 RC1