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[Q] Setting Wallpapers

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

[Q]screen resolution

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?
Sent from my CM7 Nightly HTC Desire HD

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.

[Q] What size HD wallpaper should you use for one screen?

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...

br0adband said:
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.

elementaldragon said:
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.

[Q] Nexus 5 wallpaper resolution?

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.

Ryjabo said:
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.

How do I take non focused pictures?

https://photos.app.goo.gl/EKvnpp9ohD4zT45DA
I have a problem with both stock cam and Gcam, both pictures in the link are taken extremely close to the "first obstacle", a flower in one and plants in the other. In the flowers picture everything else gets blurred, in the plants picture where there is no clear focus object everything looks crispy.
I have noticed this with a lot of my photos, if there is something stealing the attention the camera blurs everything else too much, I want everything in my pictures to always be crispy ... how do I do that?
I just always use normal mode without touching anything else, don´t know much about photography, I just want the blurriness gone.

@AurioDK just use tap to focus, when you are taking a photo, tap the part of the screen you want to focus. Works for the front camera too if you take some pics there

manor7777 said:
@AurioDK just use tap to focus, when you are taking a photo, tap the part of the screen you want to focus. Works for the front camera too if you take some pics there
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But I don´t want to focus on anything usually, I just want the picture to be all crispy like the "plant" one. Should I just click on the sky or some object in the distance? The funny thing is that I don´t have this problem with indoor pictures, only outdoors.

AurioDK said:
But I don´t want to focus on anything usually, I just want the picture to be all crispy like the "plant" one. Should I just click on the sky or some object in the distance?
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You can use Pro mode (swipe up at bottom of camera app). It will take longer to get a shot, but if you were using a dslr I would expect the same. Its the 3rd option in pro mode, a focus wheel with very nice haptic feedback.

AurioDK said:
But I don´t want to focus on anything usually, I just want the picture to be all crispy like the "plant" one. Should I just click on the sky or some object in the distance? The funny thing is that I don´t have this problem with indoor pictures, only outdoors.
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You've got the terms reversed somewhat. What you want is everything in focus, not 'non focused'. If something is not in focus, it is blurry. You seem to be replacing the word "focus" with "crispy" which is just making up words and confusing the issue. I read the thread title to mean you want everything in the photo to be blurry (which is what it is saying in reality) which would just make it look like the camera is broken!
If your distance to the subject is very small, and the background is very far, you aren't going to be able to get both in focus. It's just the physics of how lenses/cameras work. If you change the focus point to a distant object, the subject (near object) will be blurry. You can't focus on both, if they are too far apart.
The reason you don't see this problem indoors, is due to the fact that the background is much closer. It's the distance between the subject and the background (particular outdoors, where the background tends to be much farther away) that is causing the background to blur. Find an indoor setting, with the same distance (between subject and background) and I guarantee that you will have the same result (blurry background).
The closer the objects in the photo are to each other (distance to the camera) the easier it is to get them both in focus. You can decrease the background blur, by increasing your distance to the subject (near object) but you may lose the intended composition. Using the "Pro" mode as another suggested, is also a good idea. Use a smaller aperture (higher f-stop number) and minimal optical zoom. Since both aperture and focal length (optical zoom) both affect the depth of field (which in turn determines how blurry the background will be). In fact, I can see from the photo metadata in your gallery, that the photos are taken at f/1.65, which is a very large aperture, and maximizes background blur. Force the f-stop to a larger value in "Pro" mode, and you will likely see the background blur decrease. Although distance to subject, and distance of the background are still major factors.
Also keeping in mind that changing the f-stop will also affect the shutter speed and ISO. They are all inter-dependent, and known as the "exposure triangle". So you may need to manipulate the ISO or shutter speed to achieve the desired results.
Note: Made some major edits to the post. I noticed the pics in the gallery are taken at f/1.65 (presumably on automatic settings), which may be a major factor in the background blur. Somewhat changed some of my thinking on how to get the results that are desired by the user.

AurioDK said:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/EKvnpp9ohD4zT45DA
I just always use normal mode without touching anything else, don´t know much about photography, I just want the blurriness gone.
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I little reading on how depth of field works may answer your question and also help you take the pictures with desired results. There is an easy read at:
https://digital-photography-school.com/understanding-depth-field-beginners/

redpoint73 said:
You've got the terms reversed somewhat. What you want is everything in focus, not 'non focused'. If something is not in focus, it is blurry. You seem to be replacing the word "focus" with "crispy" which is just making up words and confusing the issue. I read the thread title to mean you want everything in the photo to be blurry (which is what it is saying in reality) which would just make it look like the camera is broken!
If your distance to the subject is very small, and the background is very far, you aren't going to be able to get both in focus. It's just the physics of how lenses/cameras work. If you change the focus point to a distant object, the subject (near object) will be blurry. You can't focus on both, if they are too far apart.
The reason you don't see this problem indoors, is due to the fact that the background is much closer. It's the distance between the subject and the background (particular outdoors, where the background tends to be much farther away) that is causing the background to blur. Find an indoor setting, with the same distance (between subject and background) and I guarantee that you will have the same result (blurry background).
The closer the objects in the photo are to each other (distance to the camera) the easier it is to get them both in focus. You can decrease the background blur, by increasing your distance to the subject (near object) but you may lose the intended composition. Using the "Pro" mode as another suggested, is also a good idea. Use a smaller aperture (higher f-stop number) and minimal optical zoom. Since both aperture and focal length (optical zoom) both affect the depth of field (which in turn determines how blurry the background will be). In fact, I can see from the photo metadata in your gallery, that the photos are taken at f/1.65, which is a very large aperture, and maximizes background blur. Force the f-stop to a larger value in "Pro" mode, and you will likely see the background blur decrease. Although distance to subject, and distance of the background are still major factors.
Also keeping in mind that changing the f-stop will also affect the shutter speed and ISO. They are all inter-dependent, and known as the "exposure triangle". So you may need to manipulate the ISO or shutter speed to achieve the desired results.
Note: Made some major edits to the post. I noticed the pics in the gallery are taken at f/1.65 (presumably on automatic settings), which may be a major factor in the background blur. Somewhat changed some of my thinking on how to get the results that are desired by the user.
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I found out how, your post gave me the answer. It´s as you said, I need to keep a certain distance to the closest object and the margin between an "all focus" and "object focus only" picture is very small. I played a bit with a coke bottle on a lawn to get a feeling and I think I now have it. I finally managed to get the pictures I wanted, it´s just a matter of keeping the closest object a bit further away. Thank you.