Most wallpapers i set on my home screen had horrid color banding. I found a free app on the market that not only sets any wall you want but improves the photo and removes all hints of color banding. I tried it today and i can confirm it works 100%.
The app is called: Wallpaper set and save.
works pretty good from what i can tell, but i dont see all of my wallpapers. i only see a few. any suggestions?
edit: ah found a way to change the folder directory. it in the settings options
Too bad it doesn't have a setting for lockscreen wallpaper...
gqukyo said:
Too bad it doesn't have a setting for lockscreen wallpaper...
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Yeah i know but the difference in the quality of the wallpapers when using this app is like night & day.
markus_del_marko said:
Most wallpapers i set on my home screen had horrid color banding. I found a free app on the market that not only sets any wall you want but improves the photo and removes all hints of color banding. I tried it today and i can confirm it works 100%.
The app is called: Wallpaper set and save.
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Nice find. I have noticed a lot of this color banding as of late, and using this app completely eliminates it. Every wallpaper looks great. Thanks OP
Leukay said:
Nice find. I have noticed a lot of this color banding as of late, and using this app completely eliminates it. Every wallpaper looks great. Thanks OP
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Yeah ive passed on soo many wallpapers i liked before i found the app. Im shocked it's a free tbh.
So I downloaded the Honeycomb wallpaper pack via Android Central ( http://bit.ly/eAyq0R ) and they displayed perfectly, high def, on my Galaxy S 4g. I just came back to Nexus S and all the pics with the purplish color- ONLY the pics with the purplish coloring- are extremely distorted and pixelated. I've erased, re-downloaded, rebooted, etc. Anyone know if this may have something to do with color calibration correction in 2.3.3? Anyone else have this problem?
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So I downloaded the Honeycomb wallpaper pack via Android Central ( http://bit.ly/eAyq0R ) and they displayed perfectly, high def, on my Galaxy S 4g. I just came back to Nexus S and all the pics with the purplish color- ONLY the pics with the purplish coloring- are extremely distorted and pixelated. I've erased, re-downloaded, rebooted, etc. Anyone know if this may have something to do with color calibration correction in 2.3.3? Anyone else have this problem?
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instead of downloading them to your nexus s from that site, see if sending them from your vibrant to your nexus by email makes a difference.
simms22 said:
instead of downloading them to your nexus s from that site, see if sending them from your vibrant to your nexus by email makes a difference.
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Tried that, also tried downloading directly to pc then transferring to NS via USB, all same result. It's really bizarre, as it seems to be only those select wallpapers. What's buggung me more than not being able to use those wallpapers, is wondering now if it's something bigger, like uncalibrated or mis-calibrated display... really weird...
lp1527 said:
Tried that, also tried downloading directly to pc then transferring to NS via USB, all same result. It's really bizarre, as it seems to be only those select wallpapers. What's buggung me more than not being able to use those wallpapers, is wondering now if it's something bigger, like uncalibrated or mis-calibrated display... really weird...
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im not registered for the site , so i cant download and try them. i used to be, but my password isnt working.
simms22 said:
im not registered for the site , so i cant download and try them. i used to be, but my password isnt working.
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Dropbox links: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7572145/HComb Walls/glow_wallpaper.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7572145/HComb Walls/city_wallpaper.jpg
I have the same issue. Its even like that with stock wallpaper...
SupaDupaFly24 said:
I have the same issue. Its even like that with stock wallpaper...
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Thanks- sorry to hear the issue exists for you as well but glad to hear it's not just me or my device. After playing around with display and different wallpapers further, it seems to be distorting (pixelating, for lack of better words) deep grays and purples that are of otherwise very high definition. It seems perhaps that 2.3.3 color fixes adressed some problems (such as purplish tint to grays in low-light, such as when dimming light with desk clock app up) but introduced some new issues with these distortion problems. *sigh* Very annoying...
Does anyone know if there is a way to adjust the "auto-brightness" so that it is a notch or two brighter than it is now? Currently, unless it's very bright where I am, the brightness stays at the lowest level.... I would like to use the auto-brightness, but it's just "calibrated" too dimly for my tastes... Surely there is some file that we can edit to change the brightness levels, etc...
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
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In case anyone else is interested, I found a solution to my auto-brightness issues... The solution is a $0.99 app called "Lux (Beta)". While it is still in beta, it works great - I can adjust exactly how bright the screen should be relative to the lux value from teh light sensor (plus much more!). As of right now, I'd highly recommend this app! It will even use the camera to determine the light level if the lux value isn't returned properly from the light sensor!
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Hey jtrosky, I'm the developer of Lux. I'm glad you're liking the app! If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to ask!
- Vito
hi
great site
I have never used auto brightness on any device. I always adjust it manually. I have found the auto brightness annoying and it drains my battery. I usually just set it as low as I can stand it. This lux thing found intriguing to me though. Thanks for the heads up on that. If auto brightness had a native way to set it for certain environments it may be useful, but the constant changing of brightness will drain the battery imo.
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thanks for the tip on Lux...it seems like a great little ap!
I find that the auto-brightness is also too low for my taste in low light environments. Might give a try to the lux app. thanks for the info
Something that would be nice is also to be able to dim the screen based on battery level, like for example being able to set the different levels in cpu tuner would be great to try to save battery automatically
I thought light sensor was not working on my TF. Thanks, Will take a shot at using Lux.
Just a quick follow-up... Still using Lux and it's been working perfectly... I love it. I wasted a few dollars on a few other supposed "auto-brightness" apps before I tried Lux (I was initially put off by the beta status of Lux), but none of the other apps worked properly or did what I wanted, so I tried Lux - Lux is by far the best out there now - check it out for $.99...
I'm still not quite sure I understand all of the options, etc though.... Even the four icons on the main interface - can the author please describe what each one does?
Thanks!
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jtrosky said:
I'm still not quite sure I understand all of the options, etc though.... Even the four icons on the main interface - can the author please describe what each one does?
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No problem!
(I'll bold the app name Lux so you don't get confused with the unit of illuminance, lux. )
The first button merely re-acquires the lux reading, if for whatever reason you want a new value. This is handy if you want to use Lux as a light meter, or if for some reason your light sensor decides to return incorrect data.
The second button is the 'link' button. Basically, pressing this button links the display backlight value (as determined by the brightness slider) to the current lux/luma reading. This link tells Lux that you want to set the backlight to that brightness when the lux is that value. So whenever Lux adjusts the brightness too dim or too bright, you just adjust the slider then 'link' it to the current lux value, and Lux then learns to use that brightness. Also note that Lux will interpolate these linked values (aka 'linked samples') so you don't have to do much linking at all.
The third button is astronomer mode. This saturates the display in a red colour, to make the otherwise harsh white light of the display easier to look at in low light. Astronomers are known to cover their phones in red cellophane to achieve this, and thus stop their eyes from adjusting from the dark environment to a bright phone.
The last button is where all the settings lie. Each setting has a description which should explain its function. To save me writing out pages of explanation, just let me know if you need help with a particular setting.
Hopefully that all makes sense.
Oh, and also, you may find the apps FAQ helpful. It's based on an older UI though.
Perfect! Thanks for the descriptions (I NEVER would have figured out that the hell the third button was suppsed to do!!).
I'm still playing around with all of the options... One possible enhancement - maybe allow the user to specify special brightness values for when the battery level is below certain thresholds.... This would help to automatically conserve battery life when the battery starts getting low....
Thanks again - it's been working great!
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I've been meaning to add something like that. Will look into it.
Oh no - I've run into a pretty major issue with Lux - it seems that after I install and add the Lux widget, I can then no longer install any apps! When the app installer runs, the "Install" button is simply not selectable! As soon as I uninstall Lux, I can then install apps again. Just installing Lux doesn't break the app installer - the app installer doesn't break until the widget is added to the home screen. At that point, I have to un-install Lux to install any further apps....
Any ideas???
Thanks!
EDIT - I'm able to install apps from the Market, but not from .apk files (yes, I have 'Other sources' turned on).... Strange.... Hopefully, the dev can re-produce and fix this.
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jtrosky said:
Oh no - I've run into a pretty major issue with Lux - it seems that after I install and add the Lux widget, I can then no longer install any apps! When the app installer runs, the "Install" button is simply not selectable! As soon as I uninstall Lux, I can then install apps again. Just installing Lux doesn't break the app installer - the app installer doesn't break until the widget is added to the home screen. At that point, I have to un-install Lux to install any further apps....
Any ideas???
Thanks!
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You could simply be out of space. Have you tried looking? Don't mean to be mean or anything, but I've done that plenty of times on my D1
EDIT: Nevermind, I read that wrong.
@Cyb3rGlitch - Is there any way to see what current brightness/lux values that you have currently defined? I'd like to be able to review the values I've stored with the option to remove certain "samples"....If that makes any sense.... App oes work good though - just need to figure out the issues that casues me to not be able to load .apk files anymore (manually)! Market apps still install ok.
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Hiya,
This app sounds useful! One issue I had was that in a no-light situation, I find the screen far too bright. Astronomer mode sounds like the fix implemented in Lux to deal with that; I don't suppose the screen brightness can be further reduced in an attempt to preserve more battery life in these situations?
I have an app which adds a semi-transparent layer on top of the image, making it darker, but it would not conserve battery life as its just beaming out darker coloured pixels, rather than reducing the brightness of them.
lytnus said:
Hiya,
This app sounds useful! One issue I had was that in a no-light situation, I find the screen far too bright. Astronomer mode sounds like the fix implemented in Lux to deal with that; I don't suppose the screen brightness can be further reduced in an attempt to preserve more battery life in these situations?
I have an app which adds a semi-transparent layer on top of the image, making it darker, but it would not conserve battery life as its just beaming out darker coloured pixels, rather than reducing the brightness of them.
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Actully, Lux allows you to lower the brightness to below the normal "lowest" setting as well, so it should do exactly what you want.... Well worth the $1 it costs!
jtrosky said:
Oh no - I've run into a pretty major issue with Lux - it seems that after I install and add the Lux widget, I can then no longer install any apps! When the app installer runs, the "Install" button is simply not selectable! As soon as I uninstall Lux, I can then install apps again. Just installing Lux doesn't break the app installer - the app installer doesn't break until the widget is added to the home screen. At that point, I have to un-install Lux to install any further apps....
Any ideas???
Thanks!
EDIT - I'm able to install apps from the Market, but not from .apk files (yes, I have 'Other sources' turned on).... Strange.... Hopefully, the dev can re-produce and fix this.
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Odd, I'll look into it. It's probably related to the issue some users are having with gmail. Unfortunately it's one of those issues that only a few people seem to have, so it's hard to reproduce.
jtrosky said:
@Cyb3rGlitch - Is there any way to see what current brightness/lux values that you have currently defined? I'd like to be able to review the values I've stored with the option to remove certain "samples"....If that makes any sense.... App oes work good though - just need to figure out the issues that casues me to not be able to load .apk files anymore (manually)! Market apps still install ok.
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You can see the linked samples by backing up the profiles to your SD card and then opening the file in a text editor. A sample editor is on my todo list, but really, you don't need one - Lux handles that for you.
lytnus said:
Hiya,
This app sounds useful! One issue I had was that in a no-light situation, I find the screen far too bright. Astronomer mode sounds like the fix implemented in Lux to deal with that; I don't suppose the screen brightness can be further reduced in an attempt to preserve more battery life in these situations?
I have an app which adds a semi-transparent layer on top of the image, making it darker, but it would not conserve battery life as its just beaming out darker coloured pixels, rather than reducing the brightness of them.
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Lux has a sub-zero mode which does this.
Cyb3rGlitch said:
Odd, I'll look into it. It's probably related to the issue some users are having with gmail. Unfortunately it's one of those issues that only a few people seem to have, so it's hard to reproduce.
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For what it's worth, I don't use the Gmail app at all (just get all mail through normal mail app).
Thanks.
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Hi:
I´d like to know, if it´s possible to get a background image as a widget on the low power screen.
Thank´s
charlyro222 said:
Hi:
I´d like to know, if it´s possible to get a background image as a widget on the low power screen.
Thank´s
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Yeah! It's possible! Firstly you need to mod the smart watch app either by using exposed installer and searching smartwatch in the modules section or by using this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2735718
Secondly you need the WatchWidgets for SmartWatch 2 app which you can find on the Play Store...
Then you need to find the background widget in the watch face editor and drag it on to the centre. Then drag on your other widgets whilst being careful not to pick up the background. Then go to the watch widgets app settings and set the wallpaper...
I hope I helped
danster3
Many Thanx.
Here is the result
charlyro222 said:
Many Thanx.
Here is the result
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Np... Awesome!
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I think that there's something wrong in this widget. Color pictures are normal but in low power they are wrong. Nobody noticed this?
I think It´s because of the grayscale that low power mode can show
Yeah I think this app doesnt handle the images very good on low power mode, if you try different resolutions of the picture or use the original size mode you may get better or worse results. This is because the conversion to low power mode resolution is not done properly by the app...
Does anybody know any other app which can handle this?
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Does anybody know any other app which can handle this?
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I'm waiting for the NeFa Studio Watchface widgets. The picture widget is still in development.
I have his first watchface app before widget mode and it is nice in low power mode
Sorry if this has been addressed before, I am new to this device and have had a quick search and can't find anything.
I would like to have a black background for my app drawer.....how do I do this please?
My wife has a black background on her Oppo find X2 neo and I set it up for her
Enable dark mode in settings.
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Enable dark mode in settings.
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Thanks. I was aware of that but, I just require black app drawer background to go with my black wallpaper, not system wide.
This has been possible on most of my recent devices and also on my wife's X2 Neo
Well I don't think it's possible to change the app drawer's background independently from the overall dark mode. But just to make sure I'd suggest you check back to your wife's Neo to see where the option is on that one and see if that works on the X2 Pro the same way. The OS should be pretty much the same anyway I guess. If there is no such option on the Pro then I guess there is no way to do this. IIRC I have seen other people ask about the same thing but to no avail...
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Well I don't think it's possible to change the app drawer's background independently from the overall dark mode. But just to make sure I'd suggest you check back to your wife's Neo to see where the option is on that one and see if that works on the X2 Pro the same way. The OS should be pretty much the same anyway I guess. If there is no such option on the Pro then I guess there is no way to do this. IIRC I have seen other people ask about the same thing but to no avail...
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There doesn't appear to be on. Think it's 'themed' with the wallpaper.