I might be missing something here but I can't apply a wallpaper without it being either bad quality (even with a high quality image) or misc. launchers and apps. I am running CM7.
I have the same problem, and also the wallpaper keeps changing to the wallpaper from the lock screen. I'm sure there's a solution posted somewhere.
I'm sure there are plenty of ways to do this, but I used the Kindle Fire Utility. Under "Extras", there's an option to lock or unlock the wallpaper. Unlock the wallpaper, make your change, and then lock it again. Mine hasn't changed since.
I think the quality problem has something to do with how the device is scaling the image if it's not the correct resolution.
I found that it's very hard to get a wallpaper to look good in both landscape and portrait view depending on the resolution. This is unfortunate because I have a ton of wallpapers that would look great on the kindle but they just don't display right.
Having issues with this myself...tried the lock / unlock..no luck.
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Having issues with this myself...tried the lock / unlock..no luck.
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Just checking...did you mean unlock / lock ?
The default factory setting is unlocked (and lock screen changes the wallpaper every time it is cycled) so use bebrooks1 method (post #3)...it worked for me on stock rooted.
I found this. I haven't tried it yet but it's worth a shot.
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1987...nt-the-wallpaper-from-automatically-changing/
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I found this. I haven't tried it yet but it's worth a shot.
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1987...nt-the-wallpaper-from-automatically-changing/
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I just tried this! It really worked! Now wallpapers are not changing automatically
Matt V said:
I might be missing something here but I can't apply a wallpaper without it being either bad quality (even with a high quality image) or misc. launchers and apps. I am running CM7.
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As far as I know, the accepted method for properly setting wallpapers (on Android in general) is to use an app such as Wallpaper Set And Save from the market. It'll set the wallpaper at the original image quality.
I always use Wallpaper Wizardri to set my wallpapers......but with this postiive comes a negative....for some reason it constantly runs in the background. I just use Titanium Backup Pro to freeze it and unfreeze it whenever I need to change wallpapers. Works like a charm.
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As far as I know, the accepted method for properly setting wallpapers (on Android in general) is to use an app such as Wallpaper Set And Save from the market. It'll set the wallpaper at the original image quality.
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Downloaded this app and tried it out and it doesnt work. The wallpaper is still very blurry. Looks nothing like the image i selected for the wallpaper.
To change the wallpaper on your kindle and make it "stick", do the following:
Set your wallpaper
Open Root Explorer
Navigate to data/data/com.Android.settings/files/wallpaper
Long press on wallpaper, select permissions from the menu that drops down.
Uncheck the "write" permission for all users then click OK.
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I couldn't find anything from /data/. The folder is basically empty, what am I missing here? Can anyone help plz
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I couldn't find anything from /data/. The folder is basically empty, what am I missing here? Can anyone help plz
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Are you sure you are at /data/ and not /sdcard/data/ ??
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Are you sure you are at /data/ and not /sdcard/data/ ??
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Yes I am.
It's /data/, not /sdcard/data or anything else.
I assume you are rooted...what file explorer are you using?
I use ES File Explorer 1.6.1.0 from the Market (not Amazon because last I checked they were a version or two behind)
Then go into settings a scroll to bottom and select ROOT EXPLORER and when asked I think I selected the CM option (and for good measure select MOUNT FILE SYSTEM, although I don't think that is required unless you are working in the /system/ folder).
Now you should see the contents of the /data/ folder...
Hope this helps.
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I couldn't find anything from /data/. The folder is basically empty, what am I missing here? Can anyone help plz
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Had the same thing happen to me. Check out my post (#7) from another thread in this topic.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21188224#post21188224
Has anyone figured this out yet? There's a lot of talk in this thread about something entirely different. Most of us know how to make it so the wallpapers no longer change.
What I'm curious about is how to set a wallpaper and not have it extremely stretched and blurry. Neither of the apps listed on the previous page achieve this goal (Wallpaper Set and Save & Wallpaper Wizardii).
This is on the stock ROM (using Go Launcher EX).
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Has anyone figured this out yet? There's a lot of talk in this thread about something entirely different. Most of us know how to make it so the wallpapers no longer change.
What I'm curious about is how to set a wallpaper and not have it extremely stretched and blurry. Neither of the apps listed on the previous page achieve this goal (Wallpaper Set and Save & Wallpaper Wizardii).
This is on the stock ROM (using Go Launcher EX).
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Download Wallbase. It's a wallpaper app that I've had excellent results with. Not everything out there will work with tablets. This one does and has TONS of wallpapers in it, HD, and just about all of them look like they were made for tablets.
By the way, the mod that was given earlier regarding how to keep your wallpaper from changing WORKS.
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The no wallpaper happened to me one so I l looked on my sdcard Where i put em, in download folder I pressed and viewed in whatever gallery etc, then set as wall. Afterwards when back looking for /data/data/com.android.settings/files I saw wallpaper whose permissions in write column had to be changed.
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Heya, I've recently installed Khalpower's V4 rom. Pretty awesome job =) However, I wasn't able to disable the "slide to unlock" screen. Since I'm using the pattern lock, there is no need for the slide to unlock screen anymore. The original moto rom would disable the "slide to unlock" screen when lock pattern is enabled. Is there an option to do so in KP's rom?
Many thanks! =)
Also, have realised that the camera button is not working. Have anyone experience that? Also, is there a known issues/bugs thread to keep track of any problems on the custom roms?
Thank you!
AFAIK the slider issue is there on all of the Froyo ROMS here (Dexters, Xavwanteds & Kahlpowers). I've never seen a fix for this issue.
If your talking about the gallery button (small button next to the shutter) this is also a known issue.
Ohh ic, thanks for your reply
Any idea where to get the old ringtones cos i really like the meadow grass ringtone =P and also the 15% battery sound notification is quite creepy :S anyway to change it?
Thanks
I should be able to dig up the default ringtones when I get home.
Look in /system/media/audio/ui, I would think you could replace LowBattery.ogg with the sound of your choosing (IDK if it has to be an ogg file or not?) that should work but I haven't tried yet.
Oic, do i access there using root explorer? Anyway if you have the default ringtone meadow grass would be great =D cos i backed it up only with recovery so didnt have the ogg files.
Thanks again
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Ohh ic, thanks for your reply
Any idea where to get the old ringtones cos i really like the meadow grass ringtone =P
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Unzip the file & put it on your sdcard in /media/audio/ringtones
Thanks!! =D
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Unzip the file & put it on your sdcard in /media/audio/ringtones
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That reminds me... I've been meaning to ask someone for this ages ago. Do you or anyone else have all the ringtones from the 2.1 (there were a few I liked but I can't remember the names) and the wallpapers as well? (there was a really nice blue one with white swirls that looked great on the screen)
Would be appreciated.
teh ringtones
teh wallpapers
Many thanks
How can I put the wallpapers on so it shows up as an option to choose from like in 2.1? (I mean like if I would longpress on homescreen I could select from a little gallery of wallpapers in the normal wallpaper way)
Ahh cool Anyway, how to gain excess to the root files? Tried with all kinds of explorers but didnt work. Root explorer is paid app so didnt try that. Didnt work with su on terminal as well.
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Many thanks
How can I put the wallpapers on so it shows up as an option to choose from like in 2.1? (I mean like if I would longpress on homescreen I could select from a little gallery of wallpapers in the normal wallpaper way)
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If you long press the home screen >> wallpapers >> media gallery you can browse pics on your sdcard. I believe you would have to decompile edit and recompile the home apk to get them in the default wallpaper gallery
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Ahh cool Anyway, how to gain excess to the root files? Tried with all kinds of explorers but didnt work. Root explorer is paid app so didnt try that. Didnt work with su on terminal as well.
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What didn't work?
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If you long press the home screen >> wallpapers >> media gallery you can browse pics on your sdcard.
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Yeah, but doesn't that usually crop the pictures too much?
I believe you would have to decompile edit and recompile the home apk to get them in the default wallpaper gallery
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Hmm, this one works as I would like it to without having to decompile anything https://market.android.com/details?id=com.gfxandroid.honeycombwalls&feature=search_result . I'll try out the first thing, maybe it won't recrop. Thanks
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Yeah, able to crop perfect size with these ones - maybe other times I had bad size images. Thanks
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teh ringtones
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Got the notification tones as well by any chance?
syrenz said:
Got the notification tones as well by any chance?
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I'll zip them up when I get back to my PC
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teh notifications
Pasting/editing/deleting any files in the phone's internal media audio folder didn't work :/ so couldn't get rid of the lowbattery notification.
Just got the TF, love it to bits.
Sounds a bit daft but how do you make a wallpaper fit??? I've download a few that look really when seen on other TF's but when I select it on mine you get that box to adjust then the image seems blown up and looks rubbish given its resolution!
Not sure if it matters but running 3.2 stock, dont have root. Have tried wallpapers from here and 4walled and tried different size images.
Sorry if this has been answered a million times! i tried looking but searching the term 'wallpaper' on here = nightmare!
cheers
eibbig said:
Just got the TF, love it to bits.
Sounds a bit daft but how do you make a wallpaper fit??? I've download a few that look really when seen on other TF's but when I select it on mine you get that box to adjust then the image seems blown up and looks rubbish given its resolution!
Not sure if it matters but running 3.2 stock, dont have root. Have tried wallpapers from here and 4walled and tried different size images.
Sorry if this has been answered a million times! i tried looking but searching the term 'wallpaper' on here = nightmare!
cheers
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wallpaper wizardrii is the only app that will help you. Its free on the market and its free. Simply choose the wallpaper and select the option scrollable for best results.
Note:
This still crops images slightly, but is far. far better than setting wallpaper via gallery.
Give me thanks if this helped you out. I use it all the time
I've used it, very nice app, but still the quality is not that good.
can u give me some wallpaper to test it?
think i've got it sorted. using multi live wallpaper and it works spot on.
just cant get it to display a different pic per screen as it probably should
just cant get it to display a different pic per screen as it probably should
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Just go into Multi setting, add individual setting (depend how many screen you have) on each setting you go in and choose folder picture (you should create a folder for each screen) and choose the path.
hope that helps
.png's are the only ones that work properly.
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.png's are the only ones that work properly.
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Not true. I have all jpg's and they display perfectly.
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.
alarien said:
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.
First off, big thank you to JRW 28 for the Lithium 1.2.1 Rom. I absolutely love it.
This is my first time rooting my phone and installing any kind of custom rom, and I'm very happy with the results.
However, I changed my wallpaper to a live wallpaper just to see what it was like, and I want to set it back to the default wallpaper that came with the rom.
When I go back to try and reset it, I cannot find the default wallpaper anywhere. I also tried browsing my sdcard etc on the computer, but wasn't able to find the image anywhere.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheekyfellow said:
First off, big thank you to JRW 28 for the Lithium 1.2.1 Rom. I absolutely love it.
This is my first time rooting my phone and installing any kind of custom rom, and I'm very happy with the results.
However, I changed my wallpaper to a live wallpaper just to see what it was like, and I want to set it back to the default wallpaper that came with the rom.
When I go back to try and reset it, I cannot find the default wallpaper anywhere. I also tried browsing my sdcard etc on the computer, but wasn't able to find the image anywhere.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Long-press home > wallpapers > wallpapers, click "reset to default"
Or if you wanna play with your new found root access, you could navigate to /system/framework/framework-res.apk, view the apk and go to /res/drawable-hdpi folder and copy/extract the default_wallpaper file to your sdcard for future personal use..
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So I browsed into the root directory, and am now swimming through thousands of png files trying to find the wallpaper ...any hints as to what it might be named? Thanks again
Also: when I long press home, I don't get an option for wallpapers, I just get a list of my recent apps. When I either long press the background or open up wall paper from settings, I only get options to browse my gallery or SD card. Thanks!
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Long-press home > wallpapers > wallpapers, click "reset to default"
Or if you wanna play with your new found root access, you could navigate to /system/framework/framework-res.apk, view the apk and go to /res/drawable-hdpi folder and copy/extract the default_wallpaper file to your sdcard for future personal use..
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default_wallpaper usually a .jpg file, in the exact location listed above
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Alright so I moved the default wallpaper jpeg back to my sdcard/dcim...but when I try to set it as a wallpaper, it basically forces me to crop the picture, and now my wallpaper is super pixelated. Again, help appreciated, thanks
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Also: when I long press home, I don't get an option for wallpapers, I just get a list of my recent apps. When I either long press the background or open up wall paper from settings, I only get options to browse my gallery or SD card. Thanks!
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Sorry, i should have said "homescreen"..
If that, or through settings>display doesn't work, then i'm not sure... did you freeze or uninstall any stock wallpaper apps?
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Sorry, i should have said "homescreen"..
If that, or through settings>display doesn't work, then i'm not sure... did you freeze or uninstall any stock wallpaper apps?
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I don't think so, when I get to the wallpaper options like you mentioned, my only options are Gallery, GO Wallpaper, Live Wallpapers nothing to restore the default.
Also: The default_wallpaper file I extracted is only 518k...is that why the resolution is coming out poorly?
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I don't think so, when I get to the wallpaper options like you mentioned, my only options are Gallery, GO Wallpaper, Live Wallpapers nothing to restore the default.
Also: The default_wallpaper file I extracted is only 518k...is that why the resolution is coming out poorly?
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Riiight... Lithium doesn't have the stock launcher... You could try to install the BlurHome2.apk, (there should be some zips around)..
Might also need Moto Home Fix from Play Store if you wanna keep two launchers - but freeze or uninstall it if you stick with the stock Blur launcher as it's mainly to help switching between launchers and could mess with your home button a bit...
Also, that size of pic is normal.. it may be the wallpaper chooser that doesn't resize it properly. I think i noticed that when i was on go launcher, or with a different version of My Gallery..
Good luck!
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does anyone have the background wallpaper for valhalla black???
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does anyone have the background wallpaper for valhalla black???
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I had the exact same problem as you did trying to get that wallpaper back...
I really do like it a lot & I think it's the best of the entire bunch that is included in that ROM.
The long answer to your question is in this thread, second post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1480248, which states,
How i can get the blue eye (or any other) wallpaper again?
Which ROM was it in? Do you still have the .zip?
- Pull the system/app/Launcher.apk
- Unzip it. Yes, apk is a zip file.
- Look in res/drawable-hdpi folder.
Although I did manage to open the apk file mentioned above, I did not see that particular image at all. I even tried a bunch of other files, and of course, it wasn't there, either.
Needless to say, I managed to find the wallpaper I was looking for on another of lumin30's posts and I saved it to my harddrive.
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I stand corrected. If you follow lumin30's instructions, (written directly below this post), then you will indeed find that exact file. It is called, "default_wallpaper.jpg". From what I can tell, it's the only wallpaper that is in that file.
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I know that some images need to be resized depending on the launcher that you're using. I kept having problems with my wallpapers fitting correctly when I was using Go Launcher EX.
I read around on the Internet & found a post suggesting an app called Wallpaper Wizard ii. It's available on Google Play Store for free. The good thing about that app is that you can use it on whatever image you want.
Before you give up, perhaps you should give that a try.
The default wallpaper is found in the \system\framework\framework-res.apk.
Then in framework-res.apk --> \res\drawable
I tried the picture you posted but when I try to use it as my background, it's a blurry and not the whole picture
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I pulled it straight from the ROM for you.
I use this one...
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Got any more backgrounds? I'm looking for brighter ones since all icons in VB are kind of dark. Thanks!
does anyone know how to put the whole background in?? because it forces me to crop it and i dont want that
Whenever I used Wallpaper Wizard ii, I just set it to "scale" & it looked good to me.
I can't tell you for sure what all that did, but I was satisfied with the results.
Good luck & don't forget to let us know if you find something that works better for you.
Put the wallpaper in framework-res.apk in the res/drawable-hdpi folder then reflash the rom
i found it, do i just post it anywhere in the folder??
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Put the wallpaper in framework-res.apk in the res/drawable-hdpi folder then reflash the rom
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Couldnt he just push the .apk to /system/framework and boot to recovery and fix permissions? That would avoid having to reflash and download apps right?