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HTC EVO Wallpaper Thread

Post em up!
Walls sized 960x800.... yeah i know the EVO resolution, but this is the correct size...same as the incredible
Here is a collection that i stole from another site... i take no credit...i just .rar'ed em up.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WT79M4Z2
40ish nice walls.
Why 960x800?
"The homescreen is 800 pixels in length and 480 pixels wide. The thing is, as you swipe between the 6 other panels, the wallpaper shifts a tad bit so you need to compensate for that. 960 pixels wide should be what all 7 panels are from end to end, not just the home panel."
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544217
http://mrono.net/voguewallpapers
mine are in 800 resolution, there's a little over 900 total

Audi RS 8
Any requests?

Can you Zip those pics
Can you zip those 900 pics?

mdot718 said:
Can you zip those 900 pics?
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I'm working on uploading them, they arn't the resized ones though, full sized.
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I lied, their resized, and there's over 1.1k
http://mrono.net/files/mobilewallpapers.zip

I think this will make a good wallpaper. It is a Solargram I made this winter/spring with a pinhole camera.
Hope you like it!
edit: I'm not sure what happened, it got scaled down to 959x799 somewhere. I'll try and fix it. (uh, yeah, lets try this again... disregard my ineptitude.)

Maybe I am doing something incorrectly, but when i attempt to take my image and select them as a wallpaper, it prompts me to crop the image and then its all stretched out and ugly on the home screen. can someone provide me with some help on this...thanks

nofattys said:
Maybe I am doing something incorrectly, but when i attempt to take my image and select them as a wallpaper, it prompts me to crop the image and then its all stretched out and ugly on the home screen. can someone provide me with some help on this...thanks
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I'm having the exact same issue, any one have any suggestions?
thanks!

When it prompted me to crop I just made the crop rectangle the size of the entire image. Then it just didn't crop anything off and looked fine.

Mine will only me to expand the box to a bit less then half the picture...so far ive tried playing with different picture sizes, but no joy. someone help, i feel like a window licker

Here are some i have
coming from the hero

I resized this picture i want as my wallpaper and even though I tried both sizes whenever I try to set it as wall paper it does a super enlarged zoomed in view as the wallpaper.

there's an app that will stretch the picture to go across all of the screens and use the full image.
does anyone know what this app is called?
I used to have it on my touch pro 2 with android.

slow4g63 said:
there's an app that will stretch the picture to go across all of the screens and use the full image.
does anyone know what this app is called?
I used to have it on my touch pro 2 with android.
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i think
"wallpaper set and save"

fdot said:
i think
"wallpaper set and save"
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WORKS GREAT!
thank you!!

here are a couple i've resized for personal use, but figured i'd post them in case anyone else has a similiar sense of style.
i'll keep posting more as i 'make' them, so if you like these, you'll probably like the rest i post.

all the wallpapers are zoomed in and i can only choose a small part of the picture am i doing something wrong?

I love that london bridge pic

Here are some that I use. I didn't create any of these images. They have been re-sized to 960x800
http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy119/koricua74/EVO%20Wallpaper/****Macs.jpg

slylust said:
all the wallpapers are zoomed in and i can only choose a small part of the picture am i doing something wrong?
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What do you mean? Remember the wallpapers stretch over all 7 screens of Sense. So you won't see the whole image on your screen at once.

full size wallpapers on VEGAn (or any other ROM)??

how on earth do you get a fullsize custom wallpaper? no matter what i download, it wants me to use the square crop tool which always results in a horrible looking image. i know the screen size is 1024x600, but it seems like you can't set any image that is actually that resolution as a fullsize wallpaper.

solved it!! amazing how you always seem to find these things as soon as you make a post about it, lol.
multipicture live wallpaper will allow you to do it, the APK is available here:
h++p://m.apkshare.com/item_details.php?softid=6567&p=94&c=001002
(change the "+'s" to "t's", as i can't post links yet)

solidorange said:
solved it!! amazing how you always seem to find these things as soon as you make a post about it, lol.
multipicture live wallpaper will allow you to do it, the APK is available here:
h++p://m.apkshare.com/item_details.php?softid=6567&p=94&c=001002
(change the "+'s" to "t's", as i can't post links yet)
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thanks!! i was looking like crazy for this apk

solidorange said:
how on earth do you get a fullsize custom wallpaper? no matter what i download, it wants me to use the square crop tool which always results in a horrible looking image. i know the screen size is 1024x600, but it seems like you can't set any image that is actually that resolution as a fullsize wallpaper.
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I'm just guessing here, but i'd wager that static wallpaper should be 1024x1024 so it can be displayed "upright" either portrait or landscape - in portrait leaving off top and bottom. In landscape leaving off the sides.

[Q] What's a good resolution for Wallpaper?

We all know Android's wallpaper scrolls left/right, so wallpapers are not the size of the screen's resolution.
Anyone figured out what the right size for the Transformer yet?
EDIT: So I used the app "Wallpaper Set & Save" and Saved the stock wallpapers.
Guess what the resolution is.... 1920X1408!!! crazy.

It's 2135 x 1408 pixels. More details in my list here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033811

this is all so dumb, I can never get a damn wallpaper to show what I want.
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stuntdouble said:
It's 2135 x 1408 pixels. More details in my list here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033811
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Is it definitely 2135x1408? I was messing about with some yesterday and found that 1920x1408 seemed correct... am I missing something?

Disinform said:
Is it definitely 2135x1408? I was messing about with some yesterday and found that 1920x1408 seemed correct... am I missing something?
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Neither of those work for me though.
god dammit

Zach Alt said:
Neither of those work for me though.
god dammit
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I modified that template that's been floating around - resized and I added some yellow shading to show sections that appear as you scroll between screens...
Hope this helps, or at least gives people a springboard to start showing me the error of my ways.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3680556/Wallpaper-Template_main.png
Edited to make link instead of destroying page.

Disinform said:
Is it definitely 2135x1408? I was messing about with some yesterday and found that 1920x1408 seemed correct... am I missing something?
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The first person who had extracted the default asus trees wallpaper image said that it was 2135x1408pixels, and I had no reason to doubt them. I think what most people aren't realising is that there's an 'overscrolling' part to the image, so when you get to the furthest left or right screen, it scrolls a bit more if you try to keep scrolling. That image posted in the tips thread wasn't exactly to size by the way. It was just a representation of how the panels are, and what screens you see them on. The top and bottom of the image are only shown if you bring up the apps or home menu screen respectively. I'll probably modify it a bit later.
You can use any image and it will stretch it just fine anyways.

Can someone size these so I see them on my first page?
Everything I try messes up!

Zach Alt said:
Can someone size these so I see them on my first page?
Everything I try messes up!
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Yeah I tried can't. I made it exactly as what I extracted from the stock wallpapers and still cropped all over the place.
This is really confusing/frustrating. argh.

nxt said:
Yeah I tried can't. I made it exactly as what I extracted from the stock wallpapers and still cropped all over the place.
This is really confusing/frustrating. argh.
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son of a *****

A great workaround is the wallpaper slideshow live wallpaper. Just put your 1280x800 image in a folder and select the folder in the settings. Positions perfectly and doesn't scroll off.

here you go... when you go to set the cropping, put the box all the way to upper left and expand it to the bottom right all the way... that should set the image to the center home screen, with some black bars on pane A B D and E... these are inevitable unless if you can source an image that is extra wide... use the image i provided to create the rest of your wallpapers... let me know if you have any issues...

Man, it's really hard making a wallpaper that has a picture of people/things and make it show up correctly, even with the template.
With patterned pictures, it's easy but a picture of something it's hard. Easy to just make it centered and have blank top/bottom/left/right, but it's ugly heh.
I think the Transformer/Honeycomb treats the tablet when setting wallpapers as Portrait instead of Landscape. I'd prefer it Landscape like on phones, makes cropping wallpapers easier.

If you want a wallpaper that works good in both landscape and portrate try
1608 width x 1280 high works good for me

Has anybody been able to get a definative answer on the right resolution to use for custom wallpapers yet? I to have tried a few different ones and am having 0 luck

stuntdouble said:
The first person who had extracted the default asus trees wallpaper image said that it was 2135x1408pixels, and I had no reason to doubt them. I think what most people aren't realising is that there's an 'overscrolling' part to the image, so when you get to the furthest left or right screen, it scrolls a bit more if you try to keep scrolling. That image posted in the tips thread wasn't exactly to size by the way. It was just a representation of how the panels are, and what screens you see them on. The top and bottom of the image are only shown if you bring up the apps or home menu screen respectively. I'll probably modify it a bit later.
You can use any image and it will stretch it just fine anyways.
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I created the template, which is just that a template so that people can tell what part of the image will be shown on the wall. The new crop tool in 3.1 helps resolve this issue, but its still nice to build them outside of Android for many reasons.
Never really thought about the over-scrolling. That maybe because I like static walls that do not move. Its much easier to design interesting layouts when they are static.
One think that YOU may be overlooking is the fact that using the crop tool to scale a larger image WILL NOT produce as clear an image as doing so im photoshop and making the image fit with the native resolution of the screen. Is it a large difference in quality? No, but for graphics nerds its noticeable.

Zach Alt said:
Can someone size these so I see them on my first page?
Everything I try messes up!
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These walls are not large enough to be used on these tablets. If you want a good spot for HD walls check out wallbase.net I get most of my walls from there.
On another not this is the EXACT reason why I want an alternative launcher like ADW or LP so that I can stop the background from scrolling.

I think a more important question is the aspect ratio. Can't find the sweet spot for both landscape and portrait wallpaper
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

You can't use 2135x1408pixels because when you go to the gallery to fetch the wallpaper you select the image and you are confronted by the 'selection block' (where you have to drag the area to select your wallaper) and 2135x1408pixels doesn't fit within the parameters eg: it's to wide.
If you want to use something that big use 2135x1700

after searching around and trial/error, i've found that 2048x1504 works fine for me...

Text for Dock Icons

I'm trying to make them in SimpleText, but in ADW, Launcher Pro, Go Launcher, they come out too small.
How do I make them bigger? How do you guys make them?

acmys said:
I'm trying to make them in SimpleText, but in ADW, Launcher Pro, Go Launcher, they come out too small.
How do I make them bigger? How do you guys make them?
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You need to adjust the text size i do 60 and select all three settings at the bottom, bold linear and the other one slips my mind. Hope this helps
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Trevino07 said:
You need to adjust the text size i do 60 and select all three settings at the bottom, bold linear and the other one slips my mind. Hope this helps
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Also when I do mine I use the simple box not the simple text one, hope that makes sense to you.

[Q] SW2 Wallpaper format

Assuming my PC is better at resizing and cropping than the host app, what resolution and format should I use if I want to create a custom wallpaper? Any tricks to making the icons stand out?

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I only just discovered this feature thanks to your post and don't have photoshop installed so can't try it out myself yet but the displays resolution is 220x176 so I would try that out first.
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juzza87 said:
I only just discovered this feature thanks to your post and don't have photoshop installed so can't try it out myself yet but the displays resolution is 220x176 so I would try that out first.
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I have just installed photoshop, found a nice full HD wallpaper from Google, cropped to the correct ratio and resized to the exact dimensions of the display. I put the picture on the phone, set it as the custom wallpaper, tried cropping with both the Samsung gallery app and the Google gallery app and the picture looks a bit jaggy in the thumbnail in "Smart Connect". The picture on the device is highly pixelated and looks like crap! I will continue researching and if I find out a way to make them look good I'll post a reply.
EDIT: In response to OP's original question anything without a lot of detail will make the icons stand out, try not using photos or highly detailed pictures but rather simple one coloured textured/patterns (space stars, carbon fibre etc.)

I think there will be a limitation of file size so that your cropped image will be downgraded in colours to fit this limitations. Just try to use graphics with less colors..
Von meinem Sony Xperia Z1 gesendet. Mit Hirn.

The correct size will likely be wider than 220 as the wallpaper slides behind the icons. I'll do some experimenting as well. Maybe someone with the know how could unpack the apk for the host app and post the stock backgrounds for us?

Code:
unzip BLAH.apk

OK, finding the stock wallpaper files was easier than I thought. The result is a bit odd. It has each wallpaper in PNG with 4 different dimensions: 120x96, 180x144, 240x192, and 360x288. None of them correspond to the physical screen resolution. My uneducated guess would be that the larger two are used when the watch is awake, and the other two are half res to be used in low power mode. I'll try feeding the app a 360x288 and see what happens.

Could you have a look at the colours? How many colours do they offer?
Von meinem Sony Xperia Z1 gesendet. Mit Hirn.

The black and multicolor wallpaper is 24 bit, with roughly 37,000 unique colors.

The four wallpaper dimensions all have the same aspect ratio as the display resolution. If I choose the stock multicolor wallpaper it slides behind the icons, but a 360x288 wallpaper that I added does not slide. Has anyone had any luck getting a custom wallpaper to slide, and if so, what were its dimensions?