How the heck do I set a correct 100% good looking authentic wallpaper? I've tried dual wide HD (2560x800) wallpapers, HD (2560x1600), (1280x800), and many other different combos, but I just don't understand how the Android wallpaper system works.
First of all, the "set as" function by the gallery is absolutely terrible. It only lets me select 40% of my picture and crops out the rest! WTF!
Next, i've tried alternatives such as the app "Wallpaper Set and Save" from the market, and sure it definitely looks a lot better, but it isn't able to do the perfect job either, the top and bottom of the pictures I have get cut off while the width surprisingly works well.
What is the correct way to get a good wallpaper on honeycomb!?
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https://market.android.com/details?id=org.tamanegi.wallpaper.multipicture&feature=search_result
This will change how your TF uses wallpaper.
I was able to fill the screen to proper preportions a photo of my wife, then set it to not slide. My 5 screens flow by as the picture stays still.
This free app will help you do so much I think it's worth a shot.
Agreed, MultiPicture Live Wallpaper but please, next time do a SEARCH before you post. There are literally dozens of topics dedicated to this aspect already.
Please help keep the forum clean.
I've tried that app before, the thing is, I want my wallpaper to "pan" across the (3) homescreens I use, it's just that I want it to do so while having the correct aspect ratio. I don't want one static image for each homescreen.
u can use an app named Wallpaper Wizardii , U can find it in the market
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What issue up with the wallpaper in cm6. If I load a wallpaper from an app it is perfect. But in gallery3d and 2d it just gives a tiny little box to assign. Then you have a zoomed on section of the wallpaper. Which looks like crap. Yes the pictures are the right size and I have used many of them thru multiple roms with no issues.
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ya I know what u mean ... I was noticing that the other day ....
do you know of a app that u can load ur own wallpapers in and then apply them that works properly? I don't mind using a app, I just want my wallpapers to display properly lol.
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What issue up with the wallpaper in cm6. If I load a wallpaper from an app it is perfect. But in gallery3d and 2d it just gives a tiny little box to assign. Then you have a zoomed on section of the wallpaper. Which looks like crap. Yes the pictures are the right size and I have used many of them thru multiple roms with no issues.
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Haha okay this is just funny ... you drag the corners of the box to expand it. Its a cropping tool. You can expand it to full size, just press, hold, and drag.
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Haha okay this is just funny ... you drag the corners of the box to expand it. Its a cropping tool. You can expand it to full size, just press, hold, and drag.
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oh I didn't know he was talking about that ....
I was referring to a one screen wallpaper. If I have the background set to not scroll in LP and I try adding a wallpaper that is 320x480 (which should be the size for a single screen) it is all stretched and weird looking. I don't know if anyone else has experienced this .... Ill have to test it out some more.
Omg lol
I tried moving it with the pinch zoom. I didn't realize you had to tap it to start the moveing of it. Rhbx alot.
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I can only choose, at most, half of the wallpaper. Once you have dragged to the sides, thats it. You cannot sellected the entire photo for the background
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I can only choose, at most, half of the wallpaper. Once you have dragged to the sides, thats it. You cannot sellected the entire photo for the background
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The selection is based on the dimensions of the picture provided. It will keep the scale of the background because it doesn't contort the image to fit all dimensions. Using portrait photographs and such isn't very good for backgrounds for this reason.
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The selection is based on the dimensions of the picture provided. It will keep the scale of the background because it doesn't contort the image to fit all dimensions. Using portrait photographs and such isn't very good for backgrounds for this reason.
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Same prob w/ my N1 and CM. I'm not using a portrait photograph, using a vertical one that when I view the pic on my screen, it fills the screen perfectly in the correct resolution, but when I try and set it as a wallpaper, the cropping tool is a square, instead of a vertical rectangle as it should be, so I can only get part of the picture in the cropping square, and then it blows that up and distorts it...
Some pictures cant be allotted to the correct size it makes you crop, however.
Pictures taken from the phones camera won't crop and display correctly for me at times. I generally just download stuff thats already at the right resolution though
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Some pictures cant be allotted to the correct size it makes you crop, however.
Pictures taken from the phones camera won't crop and display correctly for me at times. I generally just download stuff thats already at the right resolution though
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I ended up buying Wallpaper Plus (since I usually make my own wallpapers) off the market and got my desired results. Seems to be the only way to get that to happen... Weird problem, wouldn't think it would exist...
You can also use a live wallpaper called multpicture to select either one picture or a folder to show fullscreen. Mp is free on the market
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What issue up with the wallpaper in cm6. If I load a wallpaper from an app it is perfect. But in gallery3d and 2d it just gives a tiny little box to assign. Then you have a zoomed on section of the wallpaper. Which looks like crap. Yes the pictures are the right size and I have used many of them thru multiple roms with no issues.
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The answer to your question can be found here and here
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The answer to your question can be found here and here
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LOL
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I went to wallpapercasa.com and picked up some sweet wallpapers for the Xooms screen size. I'm trying to assign it but I get to the screen where you have to adjust it. I want to put the whole wallpaper and not adjustor's because it gets cut off. What do I do?
Can someone give me the directoryof the stock wallpapers? Maybe I can just throw them in there and be done with.
Thers s an app on the market called wallpaper slide show it displays the whole wallpaper but if you just want one photo put it on a different folder
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I poked around a bit and couldn't find them.
I guess its possible they're actually inside framework-res.apk
I didn't see a com.htc.resources.apk like we've seen in the phones.
Look up "wallpaper wizadrii" in the market.
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Look up "wallpaper wizadrii" in the market.
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That app didn't work. It didn't fit the wallpaper to my screen. I downloaded the wallpaper image for our Xoom's screen size.
When I set it with that app I chose no crop and it came out small.
Wizardrii works perfectly for phones...i havent had success with it on my Xoom either....force closes
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Why couldn't they make it simple. As long as you download the correct resolution they'd allow to set the whole pictiee. The cropper sucks brass balls.
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There's a template that you can use as a ref. point on how the wallpaper actually looks when using on the XOOM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=993596&highlight=wallpaper
Pretty much you have 5 regions. Center region that shows when you're on the center of the screen. The left region that slowly shows when scrolling to the left of the center region. The right region that slowly shows when scrolling to the right of the center region. The bottom region that shows when you open the widgets' menu. And the top region that only shows when you open the apps menu.
If the wallpaper was specify designed for the XOOM, then it'll come out looking bad.
use wallpaper slide show. Works great
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.birbeck.wallpaperslideshow&feature=search_result
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That app didn't work. It didn't fit the wallpaper to my screen. I downloaded the wallpaper image for our Xoom's screen size.
When I set it with that app I chose no crop and it came out small.
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You have to set it to scroll.
Rooted my Fire and installed CM7. I am trying to install wallpaper but i cant get the size figured out. When i go to set the jpg as the wallpaper it is making me draw a box around an area and the box is smaller than the jpg. The wallpapers that come with CM7 work and look great, but i cant figure out the size of the screen for wallpapers i want to make. Thanks
Something like 960x800 (default Zedge wallpapers size) worked for me.
Take a look on that pack.
Around 40 wallpapers from there, simply chosen by me.
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Something like 960x800 (default Zedge wallpapers size) worked for me.
Take a look on that pack.
Around 40 wallpapers from there, simply chosen by me.
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I will give it a try
can you get the zedge app on the amazon app market?
Can't tell you, I'm on CM7.
Try simply search for "Zedge" or if you can't get it through Amazon, try to sideload it. Apk for you is right here.
The app is free, so nothing criminal, I think.
It looks like the wallpaper size is actually 1024x600
I'm having an issue installing wallpapers. I'm trying to pull them from my gallery but it keeps re-sizing.
Is there some trick to keeping the original size?
hnosaj said:
It looks like the wallpaper size is actually 1024x600
I'm having an issue installing wallpapers. I'm trying to pull them from my gallery but it keeps re-sizing.
Is there some trick to keeping the original size?
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This appears to be the same problem i am having. The gallery is making me re-size the pic.
Same thing for me it forces me to resize and the quality turns to crap
No luck. I tried .jgp and .png files. Tried all kinds of different sizes and it still makes me crop it......
Have this problem with Gallery too.
Only option now for me is 960x800, at least looking not so low-res.
I tend to stick to very simple Live Wallpapers or none at all due to how fugly any image file tends to look
anyone come up with a solution to this problem yet?
this stupid problem ... I too annoying.
I just set wallpapers through PicSpeed Wallpapers. When it asks you to resize, pick the portrait box and it looks good
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If you search google for a wallpaper that is 2048x1600 or something huge like that and use it on CM7 it works out looking great, at least it did for me.
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If you search google for a wallpaper that is 2048x1600 or something huge like that and use it on CM7 it works out looking great, at least it did for me.
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Thanks, wallpapers with a resolution WHUXGA (7680 × 4800) really kicked ass this stupid error.
gabe565 said:
I just set wallpapers through PicSpeed Wallpapers. When it asks you to resize, pick the portrait box and it looks good
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You can do this with WallBase. make sure whatever wallpapers you want(whether they be from your pc or downloaded on to your Kindle) are in the "saved" folder of the "WallBase" folder. You don't even have to resize it. It also keeps all the images high res.
Hi!
I've got a Motorola Xoom, and I'm trying to personalize it a bit, but when it comes to setting the wallpaper I want I'm stuck.
Apparently some design-genious at Google found out that you have to crop your wallpaper so it fits both in landscape- and portrait-view. Doesn't actually sound too bad, but when you realize what resolution the wallpapers need to be; it starts getting utterly stupid. In order to make the wallpaper fit perfectly into the crop-frame it has to be 1920 x 1408px. That means that i have to crop all my 16:10 wallpapers quite a bit in order to make them fit.
What I actually want is a fixed wallpaper. I want a wallpaper that fits in landscape-view (1280 x 800px) and doesn't move when scrolling through the home-screens.
Is this possible?
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Maybe I can give you some ideas. First a disclaimer: I'm running ICS and using Trebuchet launcher, and I add my custom wallpapers to the Trebuchet launcher before compiling it myself. I like to have the fancy wallpaper selection screen with my custom wallpapers, so I don't know how this would turn out if you just selected a wallpaper from the sd card and used that annoying crop screen to select a wallpaper. Anyhow, with that out of the way, this is how I do what you describe using a photo editor such as GIMP. Maybe you can adapt this to your situation:
1. Resize the original wallpaper to 1920x1408
2. Add solid black background layer of same size (1920x1408)
3. Resize the foreground picture layer to 1280x800 and save
4. Using Trebuchet launcher, disable wallpaper scrolling
That gives me the entire photo inside one screen without scrolling (landscape mode only). When in portait I have black bars on top and bottom. I'll attach an example. Maybe you can adapt this somehow because I'm not sure how it would work with the wallpaper picker that makes you crop the photo.
That is actually the best solution I've seen so far, but I still feel it is a little too much hassle for something that really should be easy to do.
Thanks for your help!
I think, unfortunately, the most common fix to this issue is to install Multi Picture Live Wallpaper (free in the market).
You can set the picture as the source image and you'll want to disable vertical sync I think it is..
Unfortunately the cropping issue blows and we have to go elsewhere to fix it.
Multi Picture Live Wallpaper is an okay solution, but it is kind of buggy. When changing to portrait-view and back to landscape-view the wallpaper gets zoomed.
After checking the Android bug-tracker I found that there were several people with the same problem, and I added a comment. I suggest that everyone else who is bothered by this, does the same.
bZerk
i use Quickpic from market its free and use "set as quickpic wallpaper" and it doesnt crop the living hell out of the pic....best solution as cropping on xoom is def broken.
bucketmouth said:
i use Quickpic from market its free and use "set as quickpic wallpaper" and it doesnt crop the living hell out of the pic....best solution as cropping on xoom is def broken.
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I just tried QuickPic and it works great, no cropping necessary, but it leaves you the option to do it if you so choose.
Thanks!!
bucketmouth said:
i use Quickpic from market its free and use "set as quickpic wallpaper" and it doesnt crop the living hell out of the pic....best solution as cropping on xoom is def broken.
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you sir, just saved my life thank you!
Thanks!!
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I am using HTC One V and I tried using quickpic but it doesn't work for me as mentioned above I used option "Set as quickpic wallpaper" and still shows me frame to crop and it doesnt stretch to entire screen. Anybody else faced this problem? Please help. Its annoying that HTC is forcing crop to set image as wallpaper. I downloaded HD 480x800 resolution wallpapers to go with my screen resolution and it still doesn't work
What a great idea though....quick pic def crops but if you put an extension on the photo you could get the whole photo in the crop
How would one do that? Or if someone can make an app...
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I use PicSpeed from the market.
Select a pic from my gallery and then set as PicSpeed wallpaper.
Worked great for me.
dellenrules said:
I use PicSpeed from the market.
Select a pic from my gallery and then set as PicSpeed wallpaper.
Worked great for me.
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DUDE! PicSpeed works perfect for me!Thanks for the Suggestion
dellenrules said:
I use PicSpeed from the market.
Select a pic from my gallery and then set as PicSpeed wallpaper.
Worked great for me.
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How did you do that? I can't figure out how....
rosystreasures said:
How did you do that? I can't figure out how....
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Read my previous post.
dellenrules said:
I use PicSpeed from the market.
Select a pic from my gallery and then set as PicSpeed wallpaper.
Worked great for me.
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dellenrules said:
Read my previous post.
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I've tried this on kindle fire and transformer prime and my wallpaper always resets back to default crop after I go from landscape to portrait, or when I reboot. Any fixes for that?
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I'm not the creator of the app. I don't own a kindle fire to try it out so I'm not sure why that is happening or how to fix it.
As for the transformer... not sure either. I use that app on the tf01 transformer without any issues.
I have also used it on the xoom as well without a problem.
Both of those devices are running ICS ROMS with a custom kernel.
Maybe it's just my launcher then as I use nova prime on both devices
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That would make sense. I don't use nova.
PicSpeed to the Rescue
dellenrules said:
I use PicSpeed from the market.
Select a pic from my gallery and then set as PicSpeed wallpaper.
Worked great for me.
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FREAKING GENIUS!!! Made an account just to tell you THANKS!!! :good:
So in Jelly Bean, the option to crop when setting a wallpaper is becoming a breaking point for me. I can never get the entire parts of the wallpapers I want to use, as it will let me crop mostly only a third of the whole picture! Is there a way around the cropping process so that I can set the picture directly to my wallpaper? I will provide a screenshot of what I'm talking about to help. Currently running Slim Bean ROM v3.0.0
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I noticed the same thing about my G3 and realized that its just ICE or even the Samsung firmware, of course you're obviously limited as to the size of image you can use but there is a way around this . I installed a new launcher( Next launcher) that gave me scrollable wallpapers but I still had the cropping issue. The next step was installing Quick Pic , it overrides the crop and you can scroll the image .
I hope that helps a little
deejis said:
So in Jelly Bean, the option to crop when setting a wallpaper is becoming a breaking point for me. I can never get the entire parts of the wallpapers I want to use, as it will let me crop mostly only a third of the whole picture! Is there a way around the cropping process so that I can set the picture directly to my wallpaper? I will provide a screenshot of what I'm talking about to help. Currently running Slim Bean ROM v3.0.0
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You should be thankful you can't get that whole picture as your wallpaper.... :/
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ajrty33 said:
You should be thankful you can't get that whole picture as your wallpaper.... :/
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I asked for answers, not petty remarks.
There are multiple apps in the play store that will not crop pics but if the pic has a small or a wide resolution obviously you wont fit it all on your screen. I use this app personally https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5qcGN4Yy53YWxscGFwZXIiXQ..
I have always used 'wallpaper wizardii' to set pics as exact and not cropped. I think all this stems from old phones that didn't have scrolling screens. We all(those of us old enough) got used to seeing the whole picture that we chose. With scrolling screens the software wants to expand the image.
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