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Where are wallpapers stored?

(yeah I searched) I have several 'dead' entries in my wallpaper picker probably from messing around with a2sd and such, and I'm wondering where they are stored so I can get rid of them.
Thanks

gunnyman said:
(yeah I searched) I have several 'dead' entries in my wallpaper picker probably from messing around with a2sd and such, and I'm wondering where they are stored so I can get rid of them.
Thanks
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Here....lol

I think i remember reading /data/data?
Or sdcard/wallpaper
Edit: saw a file under /data/data/com.android.settings/files/ called "wallpaper" it was a decent sized file

kyouko said:
I think i remember reading /data/data?
Or sdcard/wallpaper
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those look like standard unix preference files like on my Mac. Do I want to delete the one for com.Android.Wallpaper or com.htc.FilePicker?

whats under the com.android.wallpaper dir? btw check my edit from my last post
I'll try to delete that wallpaper file under /data/data/com.android.settings/files and see what happens. I'll post back in a little.
EDIT: haha deleting that wallpaper file just removed my wallpaper and set it to default. So, gotta try something else
Edit2: I've tried deleting a ton of things off my phone that have either album, or wallpaper as a part of their name. none of which have gotten rid of those wallpaper. i give up :-/

kyouko said:
whats under the com.android.wallpaper dir? btw check my edit from my last post
I'll try to delete that wallpaper file under /data/data/com.android.settings/files and see what happens. I'll post back in a little.
EDIT: haha deleting that wallpaper file just removed my wallpaper and set it to default. So, gotta try something else
Edit2: I've tried deleting a ton of things off my phone that have either album, or wallpaper as a part of their name. none of which have gotten rid of those wallpaper. i give up :-/
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Thanks for investigating I had no idea it would be such a mystery

kyouko said:
whats under the com.android.wallpaper dir? btw check my edit from my last post
I'll try to delete that wallpaper file under /data/data/com.android.settings/files and see what happens. I'll post back in a little.
EDIT: haha deleting that wallpaper file just removed my wallpaper and set it to default. So, gotta try something else
Edit2: I've tried deleting a ton of things off my phone that have either album, or wallpaper as a part of their name. none of which have gotten rid of those wallpaper. i give up :-/
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Just for fun I'm going to remove my dalvik cache and reboot.
EDIT: made no difference

Alright, so I couldn't give up
Where exactly did you go to select the wallpapers that have been removed? ie. Htc wallpapers, photos, wallpaper gallery?
Are you referring to the one's in the attached picture

it was in the extra entry just called wallpaper. I think its related to the aloyociois ROM because that's the only ROM I have that uses launcher 2
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[Live Wallpaper] Droid X Live Wallpaper - The eye is watching

So I can't believe nobody has posted it yet, but I have been looking all over for this, ended up finding it over at Android Central.
http://forum.androidcentral.com/motorola-droid-roms-hacks/19307-droid-x-live-wallpaper.html
Please check Britoso's post here for files, he did a much better job at this than me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6952878&postcount=13

ccunningham83 said:
So I can't believe nobody has posted it yet, but I have been looking all over for this, ended up finding it over at Android Central.
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Wont this replace the currently installed Live Wallpapers?

notxel21 said:
Wont this replace the currently installed Live Wallpapers?
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Looks like it does. I still have mine show up, but they force close when trying to select them. I don't care though. I love this one.

Here you go. Screenie!

If anybody wants to take this and load it into the stock live wallpapers, maybe even add the Samsung Galaxy live wallpapers in it, that would be awesome. That is beyond my capabilities right now though.

help
so i juss pushed the apk to the system but i cant see the livewallpaper

fliint said:
so i juss pushed the apk to the system but i cant see the livewallpaper
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Did you get any error message in ADB or did it tell you how much data was pushed? Also, I'm assuming you went ahead and set the wallpaper manually.

ccunningham83 said:
Looks like it does. I still have mine show up, but they force close when trying to select them. I don't care though. I love this one.
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This is probably a newbie question, but if I load up this APK, how do I get back my original live wallpapers? I use the HTC Droid Incredible, btw.

question to those that have it ...are there settings in this lwp like change background or maybe the color of the eye ..or what i see is what i get from the pic shown

eolsgaard said:
This is probably a newbie question, but if I load up this APK, how do I get back my original live wallpapers? I use the HTC Droid Incredible, btw.
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Try this
Code:
adb remount
adb pull /system/app/LiveWallpapers.apk LiveWallpapers.apk
That will pull your old Live wallpapers. Put those where you can find them later and put the new LiveWallpaper.apk in your <sdk>/tools folder (because you can't have two files with the same name in the same directory).
Then proceed as directed in the first post.
speedogg410 said:
question to those that have it ...are there settings in this lwp like change background or maybe the color of the eye ..or what i see is what i get from the pic shown
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No settings. Just the option to save it. You can probably change the back ground though by pulling apart the .apk
** EDIT **
Okay, so I tried opening the apk and replacing the droid_bg.jpg only to find out whatever I replace it with comes up as a blank white screen (I even sized it to the odd 1025x1025 size the old one was even though both of them had large white areas in the .jpg). If anybody else wants to give it a try, I am attaching the wallpaper I was trying to use. It is the default regular wallpaper from the Droid X

ccunningham83 said:
Try this
Code:
adb remount
adb pull /system/app/LiveWallpapers.apk LiveWallpapers.apk
That will pull your old Live wallpapers. Put those where you can find them later and put the new LiveWallpaper.apk in your <sdk>/tools folder (because you can't have two files with the same name in the same directory).
Then proceed as directed in the first post.
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I'm a total newbie, so I haven't rooted yet. I don't think I'm considered a "power user" yet, so I didn't want to accidentally brick my phone. I came over from blackberry, so I'm still getting used to this new system. Soon enough I'll be getting my hands dirty with this rooting business.
Anyways, I don't have the ability to pull the original Live Wallpapers... would it be possible for someone else to pull theirs, and post the APK online for me? I've been using "AppInstaller" to implement all of the APK's I've downloaded. Just been playing around with the Galaxy S LWPs. If it's a hassle, don't worry about it. I'll figure root soon enough.
Thanks for the quick reply, by the way!!

Can someone upload a version thats not .apk so i can download it on my phone, im at work

standalone version
Credit to ccunningham83 for posting this.
Standalone version
This is what I did:
decompiled,
changed the package and app name,
removed LWPs that install by default,
rebuilt,
signed
updates:
1)removed unnecessary images too, file size now 1.1MB
2)added Blue, Cyan, Green and Golden eyes!
3)added a blue eye version with alternate background.
4) 7/15/10, added grey version by request.
5) 8/30/10, by request added a red version with black background. No smoke.
6) 9/15/2010, by request added a new red version with the smoked grey background
7) 1/20/2011, green eye with colored smoke
Screenshots:
To uninstall:
Code:
adb uninstall com.android.wallpaperx
APK attached, install as normal.
MediaFire Links:
[blue] [cyan] [gold] [green] [red] [blue-alternate bg]
[grey]
[red-greybg]
[green-colored smoke bg]
Here is a video by myghtymouse19 showing all versions on an EVO:

I had issues trying to remount so copied the file to the root of SD then used Root Explorer to copy and paste as R/W into /system/apps/ then click on the the apk and install it... then youll have it. Also even though you overwrite the default wallpapers, this file is the default wallpapers file with one file added the droid x eye lwp, thats all... so your not loosing anything.

Thanks Britoso! Works great!

Brilliant work guys, especially britoso.
Just adding that this also works fine on the Desire. I just used Astro to install britoso's .apk and it worked fine. It even kept all my current Live Wallpapers and just added DROID X to them.
Hope no-one minds but I made a post in the Desire forum pointing to this thread to share the love!
Thanks again,
Oz

Well it got 4 views, but now link to the attachment is broken....any particular reason, Britoso?
EDIT: Nevermind, back up. Thanks

many thanks to you, britoso! the file worked beautifully

I was able to push the apk just fine to my N1. I'm now running Samsung Galaxy S, N1, and this Droid LWP.

britoso said:
standalone version
ccunningham83 please link to the op if you want.
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Here is the OP I found it at, I will change my OP.
http://forum.androidcentral.com/motorola-droid-roms-hacks/19307-droid-x-live-wallpaper.html

[request] Themed 3G icon

can anyone post up a themed version of the stock or new MIUI rom flashable 3G indicator, themed to match this (or both):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788214
Thanks!

Do you mean you're after:
A theme for MIUI which has the 3G icons from that theme
or
That theme with the MIUI 3G icons?
Josh.

fllash said:
Do you mean you're after:
A theme for MIUI which has the 3G icons from that theme
or
That theme with the MIUI 3G icons?
Josh.
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I would like the 3g icon from that rom to flash over SkyRaider 3.2

^Same^ but likt the one from the smooth blue theme that is a blue 3G indicator. Or JUST the stock HTC 3G indicator in blue if possible. Thanks

just pull it out of the framework and color it yourself, it's like 4 images

worm- said:
just pull it out of the framework and color it yourself, it's like 4 images
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How do I do this?
Thanks

Funny. I was just going to post asking anyone if they had it in red. I would also like to know how to do it.

Contempt4You said:
Funny. I was just going to post asking anyone if they had it in red. I would also like to know how to do it.
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I know. I really want it lol, because i kinda hate the 3G indicator in the theme i have currently, as it's hard to see the upload/download arrows, so i just wanted a flashable indicator so I dont lose the cool notification pulldown

I can edit it with photoshop if I can find it. Can anyone give me a hint to the file path?
EDIT: Hah...ok I suck and fail.
I found the apk and edited the images. Looked great. Put the apk back together. Unistalled the original apk and tried to install my modified apk. Would not install. I'm done with it for now. I guess I will read up on signing tomorrow although I thought I had read that system apps didn't need to be signed.
I'll play with it more tomorrow.

do adb pull /system/framework/framework-res.apk
And the images should n in the drawable-hdpi. Folder if not just look around until u find the images
Then pull the framework from your current Rom and replace your images with the images you want then repush your framework hack to the phone and reboot
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Contempt4You said:
I can edit it with photoshop if I can find it. Can anyone give me a hint to the file path?
EDIT: Hah...ok I suck and fail.
I found the apk and edited the images. Looked great. Put the apk back together. Unistalled the original apk and tried to install my modified apk. Would not install. I'm done with it for now. I guess I will read up on signing tomorrow although I thought I had read that system apps didn't need to be signed.
I'll play with it more tomorrow.
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If you figure it out can you pack a zip of just the 3g icon in blue as well for me?
Thanks man

Thanks for the tips. With a little help from google, I was able to figure it out.
Which icon did you need exactly? The 3g toggle or the notification bar?

well, i did it and replaced some old icons with cooler looking ones, but the 3g icons (along with similar data icons) did not show up. all of the other ones showed up. also, i read a thread where this dude got 4g icons from another rom and installed them on his phone to make it look like he had 4g, but then hours later, he experienced loss of mobile data... and now i think i am too... any suggestions?

I'm sorry I can't help you. I am learning all this myself and wouldn't pretend to know where to start on that. All I can say is that if you are going to make any changes then backup early and often.
The 3g toggle icons I was looking for were in system/app. I merely reskinned them and dropped them back in.

Contempt4You said:
I'm sorry I can't help you. I am learning all this myself and wouldn't pretend to know where to start on that. All I can say is that if you are going to make any changes then backup early and often.
The 3g toggle icons I was looking for were in system/app. I merely reskinned them and dropped them back in.
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i wanted notification bar icon

I'm running a theme and mine is already skinned. I think either way you would still have to adb push it onto your phone. I did some googling and took a crash course on changing system icons.
Once I figured it out, it made sense (i know that sounds stupid, but after i did it, I was like oh yeah I get it now). I know that's not a big help, but I'm new to this and wouldn't want to bork your phone. Maybe someone more knowledgable will come save the day.
Otherwise I would google in terms like editing apks and adb pull adb push etc. and maybe you will figure it out too.
Hell I can't wait to ruin my phone now that I am armed and dangerous =)

Contempt4You said:
I'm running a theme and mine is already skinned. I think either way you would still have to adb push it onto your phone. I did some googling and took a crash course on changing system icons.
Once I figured it out, it made sense (i know that sounds stupid, but after i did it, I was like oh yeah I get it now). I know that's not a big help, but I'm new to this and wouldn't want to bork your phone. Maybe someone more knowledgable will come save the day.
Otherwise I would google in terms like editing apks and adb pull adb push etc. and maybe you will figure it out too.
Hell I can't wait to ruin my phone now that I am armed and dangerous =)
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Lol, i actuallly finally figured out how to extract the png's, so i am going to edit in photoshop, then replace the current images with the app ninjamorph.
*didnt work* left a huge blank space on noti. bar and when I rebooted to see if it would show, I bootlooped*

Well. I spent last night learning to resign edited apk files, so literally nothing on my phone is safe now.

Contempt4You said:
Well. I spent last night learning to resign edited apk files, so literally nothing on my phone is safe now.
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Is there any way to pack the png's so that I can flash them or install as an apk?
Anyone know how I'd do this? I already have the edited png's.
Can I send any of you guys the folder with the icons and you can help me out with this?
Thanks again

It seems the easiest way to change or theme icons is to not unzip them. Just open them with 7zip and make your changes, then close it. They will stay compressed and all of the info and size will remain intact.
Once changed you will have to resign the apk or zip file.
I spent the better part of 2 hours reading up on it using these forums and google, but I do not in any way feel knowledgable enough to instruct you on the finer points. There are oodles of topics on editing apk's and signing them when you are finished.
The steps seem pretty clear:
1. download or pull apk
2. open with 7zip
3. make changes keeping sizes and file names the same
4. close
5. re-sign the apk or zip file (most likely have to delete the existing files to the original signing which will be replaced with your own)
6. push or install the zip or apk (make sure the original app is uninstalled prior to reinstalling the changed app)
There are various methods and tools. The most helpful thread I found on signing is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=473580
I hope this covers it all and is helpful to you. I am new at it and can only tell you to backup everything and if you are unclear on any of it, then don't attempt it.
Read all the posts related to it. There is great info and plenty of feedback on known issues or mistakes others have had.

[Q] replacing live wallpaper background

Hey guys and gals...I have a question (possibly favor if you have the knowledge and a bit of spare time)
I really like the "ocean waves" live wallpaper that came with the SGS phones and have found a free version in the market, however, I would like to replace the background to the one that I have attached.
can someone please tell me how this can be acheived...or if you know how to do it and have a few minutes, can you do it for me?
Thanks for the help

I have replaced the live wallpaper backgrounds in cm 7 live wallpaper using ninja morph, just replaced one of the stock backgrounds in the framework folder. Should work for waves too. You could also move the apk to your pc, open up APK Manager, decompile the apk on your computer, replace the file in the framework folder, compile & sign, move the apk back to phone, install. I will do it for you if you post the picture... There is nothing attached in your post.
Shoot me a PM!

brian.dore said:
... There is nothing attached in your post.
Shoot me a PM!
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oh sh!t...I feel dumb, sorry about that

You can try this, http://db.tt/eE3l7Jq this is a modified version of the free ocean waves I found on the market, it force closes on my phone even before I modified it, cm7 on tmo- G2. Let me know if it works for you.
*I had to resize and crop you picture.

If you upload the live wallpaper apk from your system/app folder I could modify that one, it would probably be better then using a market app.

How to properly apply wallpapers?

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.

skullunit said:
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/

t0mD said:
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.

Sjael said:
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

intoth3rainbow said:
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/ ??
CM7 Infuse - XDA Premium

marty331 said:
Are you sure you are at /data/ and not /sdcard/data/ ??
CM7 Infuse - XDA Premium
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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.

intoth3rainbow said:
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).

rolyatkcinmai said:
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.