So, I went and found some pretty 1280x800 images that I wanted to try out as wallpapers for my new transformer. I loaded them onto the device, they show up in the gallery app fine. I am able to select these images and then choose set as wallpaper. However, when I do this, it brings up a cropping tool and wont let me select the whole image, and when I choose to set the cropped image as the wallpaper, the wallpaper only turns out to be a zoomed portion of part of the cropped selection.
Am I being dumb here and missing something? Is there a different resolution image that I need to find for the whole image to show as my wallpaper? This is my first venture into the world of Android, so I may just be missing something obvious.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1059924
The wall paper is panned when you go between sections of the desktop, that thread has more details and confusion on the topic.
just like the phones, the screen resolution is not the resolution of the wallpaper.
So for tablets, you need a 4:3 wallpaper same as the phones. 1920x1408 or higher for the best resolution. though 1600x1200 works pretty good as well.
the 1280x800 is what you'll see at any given time.
check out this template to see how it works: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=580148&d=1303942727
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What would be necessary in order to change the resolution. I feel smartphones don't need a bigger interface but maybe a bigger resolution.
Also anyone care to point me in the direction of flashing daemon oc on a mod.
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Can't answer the first question, but second one is did you check the development section?
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For the resolution you need an app that allows you to change the density of your screen. There are a few in the market.
Be warned though, changing your density can cause some apps to act up or not install at all even.
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You will need an app that can edit the build.prop files and change the density from the stock 230 I believe to something higher.
You can use something such as...
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.n00bware.propmodder&feature=search_result
or
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.canvs2321.absolute.system&feature=search_result
My density is 160, and everything looks great, but I want to change the wallpaper size, as well. Everything is small, but the wallpaper is friggin' huge... like normal. I have nosense script, so I can't do live, plus live wallpapers is not used by GoLauncher. Wallpapyrus won't load and I has this other app that puts the whole wallpaper, but it does it by width, not hight. Wouldn't it be nice if a wallpaper could be set to hight and just adjust to width or drop off excess from width?
For example. Using a 1024x600 res wallpaper on a device with 480ishx800ish screen. Make the hight fill/stretch to the 800 and scroll the excess or cut it off but leave the hight at 800. Of course, you would have to maintin the aspect ratio of the image, no stretching the width to fill the screen, you know. Instead of cropping an image to...
Even of excessively large wallpapers with a hight of 1024, it takes it and supersizes it, but only allows a crop bix of 480ishx800ish. I just want to fill a high def wall paper on this screen and have it scroll left to right accordingly.
If anyone knows of an app I can get my hands on to do this, please let me know. Also, there is a line in build.prop that says ro.product.display_resolution=4.3 | 480x800 WVGA Resolution... Would it be possible to change the resolution from there?
Golauncher can most certainly use live wallpapers.
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So, what is the issue? Why when I load wakkpapyrus and click the "Set Live Wallpaper" button it crashes? Everything else works fine except that.
I have a feeling that the issue is your screen density. Alot of apps will not work when you change your density. I just tried wallpapyrus and it works no problem. Another app you might try is multipicturelive. Change you're density back and try again..
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Gonna give it a shot... Get back with you tomorrow night.
Hey,
Just a quick one, what size does a Image have to be so that i can set it as a scrolling wallpaper without cropping, as its annoying to loose lots of the image!
Cheers in advance!
1080x960
greets,
ossy1337
Its still getting me to crop the picture :S
ossy1337 said:
1080x960
greets,
ossy1337
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The included wallpapers are 3040x1710 or 1710x3040, so 16:9 horizontal or vertical.
the ratio of width to height should be 1.125, says 1080 x 960, but even that's the right resolution, cropping still occur. The workaround is adding a black frame around the wallpaper, so the final size should be 1.25 times larger than the original, for the 1080x960 wallpaper, it's 1350x1200. well the color of frame could be any, cuz it will be cropped out in any way. I put an example in the attachment.
I recommend using higher quality images rather than a border. due to cropping you will have to precisely move the field to avoid the border, otherwise it will show up when scrolling/reaching the edge, making the border visible. Really ugly.
The wallpaper should be any size higher than 1080x960. Oversampling due to the higher resolution of the image makes the image look more detailed and crips than if you have resized the image to 1080x960 in Photoshop for example, no matter how good it looks then. Because of the cropping even at 1080x960 the 'true' resolution is a few thousand pixels less from the true ~1MP image, resulting in a very slight upsizing by the OS - and even the smallest upsizing without control over the sampling method, might give vague results.
Senzune said:
I recommend using higher quality images rather than a border. due to cropping you will have to precisely move the field to avoid the border, otherwise it will show up when scrolling/reaching the edge, making the border visible. Really ugly.
The wallpaper should be any size higher than 1080x960. Oversampling due to the higher resolution of the image makes the image look more detailed and crips than if you have resized the image to 1080x960 in Photoshop for example, no matter how good it looks then. Because of the cropping even at 1080x960 the 'true' resolution is a few thousand pixels less from the true ~1MP image, resulting in a very slight upsizing by the OS - and even the smallest upsizing without control over the sampling method, might give vague results.
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If you have tried my sample, you will find that the field just precisely match the border in the default position, so no border edge show up, and no cropping out. I just told my found that the ratio of entire area to the cropping area is 1.25
I just didn't described clearly in the previous post, sorry for my poor English.
Just wondering what size wallpaper I should use if going with a 1 screen homepage.
It has to be 2160 wide by 1920 tall even if you have a single page on your Home screen. The content you want to actually see (if you intend to keep just a single page) needs to be left justified meaning it's on the left-most 1080 pixels (half of the 2180 total). Kinda weird but apparently Kit Kat works that way...
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It has to be 2160 wide by 1920 tall even if you have a single page on your Home screen. The content you want to actually see (if you intend to keep just a single page) needs to be left justified meaning it's on the left-most 1080 pixels (half of the 2180 total). Kinda weird but apparently Kit Kat works that way...
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Or you could just go somewhere like interfacelift.com, find a wallpaper you like, select the resolution as 1080x1920, save it to your phone, open it in the Gallery, and set it as your wallpaper from there, which allows you to pan/zoom the photo and pick exactly what part of the picture you want to use as the background.
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Or you could just go somewhere like interfacelift.com, find a wallpaper you like, select the resolution as 1080x1920, save it to your phone, open it in the Gallery, and set it as your wallpaper from there, which allows you to pan/zoom the photo and pick exactly what part of the picture you want to use as the background.
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Just to confirm this is correct. I cropped the stock Wallpaper to 1080x1920 and did as explained above. The crop tool lets you select the whole image so you get what you want on the homescreen,
I am downloading 1080x1920 pics and then cropping them in portrait mode (for 1 homescreen) like you guys said but many of the pics are losing there sharpness in the process and no longer look hd cause I am basically zooming so much.
Can someone just tell me what size one homescreen page is?
Hand76 said:
I am downloading 1080x1920 pics and then cropping them in portrait mode (for 1 homescreen) like you guys said but many of the pics are losing there sharpness in the process and no longer look hd cause I am basically zooming so much.
Can someone just tell me what size one homescreen page is?
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its absolutely necessary to have 2160x1920 wallpapers when using stock way of applying wallpapers. you can use image 2 wallpaper to make it so you can use 1920x1080 vertical wallpapers though. The way android does wallpapers is ridiculous.
So Who else is having issues with wallpapers? After about 5 tries my wallpaper randomly decided to semi-work but the ends are still cropped but it's usable.
Can't find too much information on what the default 4.4 wallpaper crop thing does or how to use it (got mine from random luck).
For example the image i'm trying to use is 1920x1080
images6.alphacoders.com/419/419916.jpg
Managed to get it to center but it only shows this (from full left to right on my 3 pages/homescreens)
postimg.org/image/nl9r0o42l
So basically -
1. Anyway to resize or anything to show the full image on my nexus? (Have 3 homescreens/windows). I tried image2wallpaper but it only showed the same as above
2. How the hell does 4.4 kitkat's wallpaper settings work? Sometimes it would choose full left (So only cloud was shown), othertimes full right(So only sephiroth) and from random luck it centered with the edges cut like i said above.
Or is this simply just the limitation because of the devices size
skules said:
So Who else is having issues with wallpapers? After about 5 tries my wallpaper randomly decided to semi-work but the ends are still cropped but it's usable.
Can't find too much information on what the default 4.4 wallpaper crop thing does or how to use it (got mine from random luck).
For example the image i'm trying to use is 1920x1080
images6.alphacoders.com/419/419916.jpg
Managed to get it to center but it only shows this (from full left to right on my 3 pages/homescreens)
postimg.org/image/nl9r0o42l
So basically -
1. Anyway to resize or anything to show the full image on my nexus? (Have 3 homescreens/windows). I tried image2wallpaper but it only showed the same as above
2. How the hell does 4.4 kitkat's wallpaper settings work? Sometimes it would choose full left (So only cloud was shown), othertimes full right(So only sephiroth) and from random luck it centered with the edges cut like i said above.
Or is this simply just the limitation because of the devices size
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Some images, based on their file type and size and how you crop it, will try and push itself behind your Google Now home page rather than only behind your custom home screens. The best way to probably do this and resize your image to the same size as the default wallpapers included with KitKat to give you a better understanding of where they need to be.
Test cropping - apply a default wallpaper and get used to the crop pattern and then try that with your re sized image to apply to your custom lock screens.
Just a thought.
Seems like what i'm looking for is the "proper" wallpaper size rather than the resolution
So I noticed that with the Nexus 5 image that's on the box (like this one http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/787373KitKatWallpaper03copie.jpg), except I don't think that's the actual one, if I zoom out from Google Photos, I see the red bar at the top. Android lets me set it as my wallpaper, but when I reboot, the view is zoomed in again. It seems Android resizes wallpapers on its own.
Proper wallpaper size is 2160 x 1920.
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What is the resolution for the N5's viewable screen area? I want to make some custom wallpapers but I'm trying to find the best wallpaper resolution for them... the portrait size.
Thanks!
At the risk of being enabling, 1080x1920.
I'm not sure if the stock launcher lets you set static wallpapers though. If you're trying to fit it in that cross, you're going to have to make it bigger than 1080x1920. Sure you can find a template somewhere. Or use a different launcher.
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What is the resolution for the N5's viewable screen area? I want to make some custom wallpapers but I'm trying to find the best wallpaper resolution for them... the portrait size.
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Still have no N5, but I might tell you about another android device I have.
I made double width size wallpaper and it asked to trim it. So far, so good.
To make jpg I used imagemagic remotelly with something like:
convert -size 2160x1920 xc:"#color" background.jpg
If this method fails, you could always try again.
Best regards.
I just run a bunch of tests on my Nexus 5x (the screen size is the same as Nexus 5) using an image with a grid and I thought I should write down my findings here.
I have icons on two screens, so it is asymmetric: I have my main screen and a screen on the right, there is no screen on the left. The image has to be a little larger so that it scrolls nicely. The thing is that my phone shows _the middle_ of the image on the main screen. So the main screen is 1920×1080, when I scroll right 60 more pixels on the right become visible. Since there is nowhere to scroll left, 60 leftmost pixels of the image are never visible.
To sum up: one needs a 1920×1200 image (1200 = 60 + 1080 + 60). Leftmost 60 pixels are never visible.