Choose live wallpaper - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

Ok, I feel like a complete noob asking this, especially considering I am trying to learn how to develop an android app, but how the heck do you set a live wallpaper? I thought you just long press>wallpapers>live wallpaper, but I see no such option. I know I've done it before, and I do have a live wallpaper installed, I was just playing around and accidentally set a static picture as my background. What the heck am I doing wrong?
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Idk man. I have the live wallpaper option, not sure where yours went.
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That is odd... my option always shows
Can you at least get there by navigating from the home screen/ settings/ wallpaper?

Did you accidentally freeze live wallpapers picker? Can't imagine how the entire folder would disappear other than being frozen.
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Did you accidentally freeze live wallpapers picker? Can't imagine how the entire folder would disappear other than being frozen.
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As a matter of fact, I may have. I deleted all the apks I figured I didn't need (vzw, yahoo, etc) from system/apps and I don't see anything that says live wallpapers picker there or in my system>apps. Do you know the exact name of the apk, as I couldn't find it in the synergy zip either?

Wow, never seen that before.
Could it be that you... don't have have any live wallpapers installed?
Suggestion, try downloading a free live wallpaper from the market and see if the option shows up after that?

On my phone, these seem relevant to the OP's discussion:
/system/app/SecLiveWallpapersPicker.apk
/system/app/SecLiveWallpapersPicker.odex
/system/app/SecLiveWallpaperChooser.apk
/system/app/SecLiveWallpaperChooser.odex
All are set to rw-r--r-- permissions.
Were those deleted, possibly?
- ooofest

Yep, that was it. I was dumb enough to delete secLiveWallpapersPicker.apk. I must have accidentally thought it was one of the built in wallpapers I don't use and deleted it. Glad I made a backup of everything.
I added it back in and it worked perfectly. Got my lovely JB Live wallpaper back, thank you so much!

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[workaround] How to get transparent notification bar with launcher pro

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Currently there is no way to my knowledge to use clear or transparent notification bars with lp. But yesterday, I noticed that it would show through With a live wallpaper selected. I also recently downloaded just pictures which comes with a live wallpaper also.
So download Just pictures. Open it and select your favorite wallpaper(s) Long press it and add to favorites. Then go and select the just pictures live wallpaper. Then watch them shine through your previously installed clear taskbar.
I realize this is a live wallpaper and may use a little battery. Though I havnt Noticed any difference.
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Interesting. This gave me a theory on why and how to fix it.......I just don't have the time to work on it right now. FINALS /oh noes/
bluebeast213 said:
FINALS /oh noes/
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exactly how i feel
anyways, why can't this be done by editing framework-res.apk? i'm pretty sure i had a clear taskbar when i edited mine. i just didnt like the look of the fully clear taskbar because some apps' backgrounds would show through the area where the taskbar went...but the point is it worked? i only use launcherproplus as well
I'm sure if you rip apart lp's Apk you might be able to. However im not that Savy with all that and I'm sure if it was that Easy it would have been done already. Unless devs are just not sharing.
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launcher pro and live wallpaper don't work good together for me. it tends to be sluggish when scrolling through screens.
Do u have a quick link to setting up the battery indicator the way u have it displayed? I've been looking for something just like that.
edit: nevermind, found it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848803
Interesting. Are you saying that while using that program, I can choose non-live wallpapers and they would be transparent or only with live wallpapers? If using just images, it shouldn't really drain battery...I don't think...
I agree on the battery drain. And only live wallpapers will work
Supersonicly swyped while on the the pot at your moms house.

Massive EVO wallpaper collection. Over 1800! (Updated: 2/4/11)

Hi everyone. Here is a collection of wallpapers resized for for your EVO home screen (960x800), most of which are from interfacelift.com. ENJOY!
Original file names kept intact, so don't worry, they are indeed 960x800.
This is a very bare form. I hope to get some sort of site going in the future that is much more organized
I will be adding more as I find them.
Index of /evo/wallpapers
Index of /evo/wallpapers020411
zip file: http://www.freeza-inc.com/evo/wallpapers.zip
Update 2/4/11: http://www.freeza-inc.com/evo/wallpapers020411.zip
Also, to utilize multiple wallpapers on your phone, I use a program called WallSwitch, which you can customize to automatically change your wallpapers at a specified interval.
Attached below is a file that if put in the directory of your wallpapers, will hide them from galleries, and tells android not to index the files. Having tons of wallpapers in your gallery might slow it down initially as it tries to index and build thumbnails of them. Just go ahead and unzip and toss the ".nomedia" file into whatever directory you're trying to hide from gallery.
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Thank you!!
No problem
+1 on WallSwitch. Great app. That was actually the first type of app I sought when I got me EVO. I love change so I have something like this running on all of my machines...
And big thanks for all the walls. This will take me a while to go through.
Pretty excitied about this. Thanks.
DUDE! I've been wanting that nomedia thing forever. Thanks a TON!
Thanks, this is bangin.
For those who don't want to add another program, how do you add wallpaper to the system folder?
I tried and noticed it's locked up.
TIA!
Thanks, I'll Check'em Out
wicked! Cheers
Would it be possible to get this from somewhere that's a little faster than 6.7 K/sec?
All of these wallpapers seem to be distorted; as if they were resized to 960x800 regardless of their original aspect ratio instead of being properly cropped and then resized. As long as the wallpaper doesn't have anything circular in it like the moon, sun, or a ball, it's not too noticeable.
Updated OP with over 150 new wallpapers. ENJOY!
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Go Weather Widget Skins

Anyone else that using the Go Weather widget having problems where the themes for the widget aren't allowing you to browse for more? Seems to only be allowing me to select two - the default and a simple one.
I really want the lucid pro one, but even if I download it from the market it isn't showing up in the widget's theme section. I hate that default one with the flowers and green lawn.
I am having the exact same issue. What ROM are you on?
xak944 said:
I am having the exact same issue. What ROM are you on?
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My wifes phone is a Samsung Fascinate, with a Touchwiz debloated Rom, mine was running MIUI, now running Jermaine's Stock Plus from yesterday. Having the issue on all of them, including my wifes.
I'm having exactly the same issue. The missing themes are available in the Market, but if you download them for there they are not associated with the application and will not load...
Strangely, mine started working. I wish I knew what I did, but I didn't actually do anything that I'm aware of. Sorry I'm no more help.
I did notice a banner news update in the GoWeather app which talked about fixing the bug with the widget packs not being selectable, but I know I didn't install an update.
I believe they said it was a server issue
I still have the issue on my Atrix. Had on a stock ROM, now having still with CM7.
Doesn't seem to be server issue or at least doesn't seem to be fixed yet.
Ääähhh...did nobody of you guys realize that the widget doesnt actualize the weather and shows completely wrong weather data? I tried our big german cities like münchen, düsseldorf, dortmund, berlin...with the same result. when will goweather devs wake up and fix that?
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Ääähhh...did nobody of you guys realize that the widget doesnt actualize the weather and shows completely wrong weather data? I tried our big german cities like münchen, düsseldorf, dortmund, berlin...with the same result. when will goweather devs wake up and fix that?
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I gave up and switched to the Android Weather widget. Always accurate and goes nice with the stock Go launcher. I like that it has wind speed. I already have a calender widget so use the date tap to open the Weather Channel for a more detailed forecast. It also shows your exact address on the 2nd screen, which can be useful.
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bad post.
Do not Have this Problem

[Q]How do I set wallpapers without croping?

I have this wallpaper that I found somewhere:
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I want it to be my wallpaper just like it looks, but when I set it the phone forces me to crop it and I wind up with this:
How can I get the full image as a background so that its not zoomed in or cropped?
I was wondering the same thing ... I seems that you can't unless you put your wallpaper in the same destination the default ones are located which will make it like a stock one ....
Waiting for more experienced opinion ...
Hey man. I know what you mean it can be annoying. The reason why it asks you to crop is because of your phone's resolution or whatever, it can only show so much. What you could try is "PicSPEED Wallpapers" from the market. Download it. Then when you set a wallpaper (from your gallery) a new option to custom crop the iage will appear and you can freely manipulate what is shown as the wallapaper
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Hey man. I know what you mean it can be annoying. The reason why it asks you to crop is because of your phone's resolution or whatever, it can only show so much.
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no that's not correct....
I have the stock GB wallpapers and stil have to crop them when set as wallpapers...
Most wallpapers apps are crap low quality stuff...Plus tons of crap adds...
It asks you to crop because it slides the image over a little while changing home screens (for a static wallpaper). I don't believe there is a setting in the stock launcher to change that. What you generally want is a square, 800px tall and 800px wide, with the image you want in the middle. Then you enlarge the crop to the entire image, and voila.
I use "wallpaper set and save"
On market sets wallpaper without quality lose
Edit nvrmind stretches image
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium
To save me explaining it all again, have a read of this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1446145
Whoops! i guess i was wrong haha. They can explain it better, check the link above
Use wallpaper wizadrii from the market. I use it all the time.
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium

[Q] Asus Day Scene Full TF700

Hello All
I came across the Asus Day Scene Full live wallpaper today however I cant get it to run on my TF700 properly. It goes to a white screen a crashes. The device is unrooted, is this the problem? Its a lovely Live wallpaper and Id love to have it.
Isn't that the default wallpaper? As in, the one that is running straight out of the box? How did you manage to break the TF700's stock default wallpaper? Oo
Have you tried a cold boot? the procedure can be found on the forum.
If that doesn't help, try reinstalling it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638541
just extract the .zip, put it on your tablet and run the .apk.
ShadowLea said:
Isn't that the default wallpaper? As in, the one that is running straight out of the box? How did you manage to break the TF700's stock default wallpaper? Oo
Have you tried a cold boot? the procedure can be found on the forum.
If that doesn't help, try reinstalling it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638541
just extract the .zip, put it on your tablet and run the .apk.
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This isnt the default one this is the FULL version which has two additional scenes day winter, and snow winter as seen here http://androidnexus.com/guides/inst...xus-7-tablet/attachment/asus-day-scene-sunset. Ive already tried many time to install that apk you posted and others without any luck :crying:
Then why are both the Winter and Snow Winter selectable in my wallpaper settings?
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Open up the original wallpaper in your live wallpaper menu, toggle Display Mode to Wallpaper Mode and select any of them from the Select an ASUS Wallpaper setting...
This still leaves the question of how in the world the OP managed to break it. And no, you obviously do not need to be rooted. However, if you have tried to install both the apk file form the thread, and have not removed the system component, might they interfere with each other? Try Titanium backup or something alike to freeze the system-copy of the live wallpaper and see if that helps.

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