Does anyone know the resolution or ratio of the screen for the purposes of making backgrounds for this device? I know my phone is 800x480 and requires an 800x800 square picture to fit the crop window when I go to select an image to set as background. I'm trying to figure out the crop window dimensions including the 'crosshair boxes' so I can layout lines in photoshop to make sure what I put on the screen fits in the box.
Try 1280 x 720. 720 - 80 for the status bar.
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I used an image that was posted here on the forum for a background and found it was cut off in portiate mode so I made a background to match it that wsa 1600x1600 and pasted the image into the backgroung and it fits perfectly. So the size of the bg kind of depends on the image you want to use. I would suggest you try the image and when in gallery look to see how much of the image is cut off by the lines for cropping gallery supplies then make a background that will place the image into the rectangle in gallery.
Never mind I found the answer for myself upon a good bit of googling. To make a full background that fits both landscape and portrait the full resolution has to be 1920x1280 (1.5:1) and the image for both orientations has to fit within the cross-hairs of two 1280x800 images (see attachment)
Thanks anyway. I love communities like this and I look forward to the give and take for many years to come. Viva la Android!
I'd been struggling to find the correct resolution. Thanks for sharing!
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Hi guys,
So I was hunting around to figure out what the wallpaper size is for the Nexus One... most people seem to state it is 960x800, or 2 times wider than the standard 480 resolution.
I did a test to see how it would look on the device by creating a 960x800 image with red vertical lines every 192 pixels (which will divide it horizontally 5 times to match with the 5 home screens on the N1). Much to my dismay, it actually renders it differently (showing almost 3 of the 192px blocks on the center screen).
When swiping back and forth, it seems like there is some sort of parallax scrolling going on. You can see a full screen of apps/widgets (480px wide) scroll to the side, but you will see the background move some other amount of pixels. It's almost as though the background is scaled in some fashion horizontally. I was assuming it would somehow work like the home screens on the N900, where each screen has 1 block of 800x480 wallpaper space...
Anyone have some insight into what is going on here?
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Hi guys,
So I was hunting around to figure out what the wallpaper size is for the Nexus One... most people seem to state it is 960x800, or 2 times wider than the standard 480 resolution.
I did a test to see how it would look on the device by creating a 960x800 image with red vertical lines every 192 pixels (which will divide it horizontally 5 times to match with the 5 home screens on the N1). Much to my dismay, it actually renders it differently (showing almost 3 of the 192px blocks on the center screen).
When swiping back and forth, it seems like there is some sort of parallax scrolling going on. You can see a full screen of apps/widgets (480px wide) scroll to the side, but you will see the background move some other amount of pixels. It's almost as though the background is scaled in some fashion horizontally. I was assuming it would somehow work like the home screens on the N900, where each screen has 1 block of 800x480 wallpaper space...
Anyone have some insight into what is going on here?
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I'm not exactly sure what resolution the backgrounds are, but the "parallax scrolling" has been used in Android since the G1.
If you pick an off-sized background, the OS will tell you to crop it, and the height width ratio is almost square. Anyway, each panel of the home screen will share a bit of the background with the adjacent home screens.
Yup, each homscreens background overlaps with the ones on either side of it.
I believe the correct resolution for the N1 is 960x854
The resolution should be 960x800, because the Nexus is not the droid, it's 800 pixels not 854.
And for there to be 5 home screens on 960 wide, it's only going to scroll 1/5th of the image on each home screen. The parallax scrolling is a cool feature.
Of course it's going to show almost 3 of the 192px blocks on the center screen, because the center screen is 480px wide.
960x800 is correct. Additionally, you could've sorted this quickly by pulling the Launcher2.apk from /system/app, then extracting it and checking the size of the default wallpapers.
So here is another question. Does anyone think its possible to change the scrolling of the background (and size) such that it would be 1 480x800 size block PER home screen?
technogecko6 said:
So here is another question. Does anyone think its possible to change the scrolling of the background (and size) such that it would be 1 480x800 size block PER home screen?
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When I had my g1 the Photoshop app would set wallpapers without asking for cropping even 480x800 so I would use iPhone wallpapers cause we allow know most Mac useres are have some skill in graphics design. Anywho when I tried to use this work around on my nexus it did not work, I'm looking further into this!
jmotyka said:
When I had my g1 the Photoshop app would set wallpapers without asking for cropping even 480x800 so I would use iPhone wallpapers cause we allow know most Mac useres are have some skill in graphics design. Anywho when I tried to use this work around on my nexus it did not work, I'm looking further into this!
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Came across this. I want to disable scrolling on the background wallpaper too and have a static image. Any updates?
Wallpaper Set & Save is a basic free app from the market that works wonders with hi-res and off-sized images...
Me too
Also having issues with this
Only using one homescreen...and the settings either zooms or stretches the HOMEMADE wallpapers
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Wallpaper Set & Save is a basic free app from the market that works wonders with hi-res and off-sized images...
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Yes, you absolutely need this app if you want to change your wallpaper, the built-in gallery just doesn't work.
Wallpaper Set & Save
downloaded, tried...no luck
Yea, it didnt work for me either. I formated some images to 480x800, but it just zooms in on them. Cant believe something so damn simple is so tough.
Guys, I found a solution. It is called Wallpaper Plus. Yes it is $1.99, but it is worth it. Not only can you do 1 static image with no scrolling, it will also let you pick images and "sew them together such that each screen is a different image! So right now I have 5 pictures that I choose, that the program formatted for the size of my screen and stitched together. Now when I scroll through my screens, I see a different image on each one, rather than one large image. But like I said, it can do just one static image as well! I highly recommend. I know the cost sucks, but at some time we need to support these developers making the things we want for our phones if they are gonna stay on the platform and develop more things!
I know you can make your own which I don't want to. Are there any fullsize Tab wallpapers (no live wallpapers) which I can download to my Tab and which I don't have to cut specially for the Homescreen before making it a wallpaper? Like the ones which come with 3rd party launchers)...
Thx.
http://www.google.ch/images?q=wallp...isz:ex,iszw:1200,iszh:1024&prmd=iv&source=lnt
Try "Flikie HD" from Market.
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I don't wanna save pictures from the net, as you have to cut them. I said that, rapax.
@AnttiV: Thx, man. Exactly what I'm looking for. A HD Wallpaper app which doesn't use your data (contacts etc.).
The google search I linked to only returns images that already have exactly the right size. No cutting needed.
1 - Guys, flikkie is very nice, but what's the resolution of the pictures it has?
2 - I have a folder with 1024x600 wallapapers and if I try to use them, the gallery crops them, how can I install them? My tab is rooted.
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2 - I have a folder with 1024x600 wallapapers and if I try to use them, the gallery crops them, how can I install them? My tab is rooted.
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I'm pretty certain you need 1200x1024. Scrolling left and right across the homescreens requires half a screens width to either side of the central screen. If you use a smaller image, what you're effectively doing is scaling it up and then cropping. You end up using a scaled up version of a 703(?)x600 section of your image.
1200x1024?? Where the hell are we going to find wallpapers in that res???
Did you try that?
There may be some different rules on size here since the entire UI supports portrait and landscape. If the rule for a panning static wallpaper is in fact double resolution, then you would need images in 2048x1024 reslolution so that the panning still works correctly in landscape as well.
EDIT: Nope, 1200x1024 appears to be what it prefers to use uses either way, the interface simply scales down the panning percentage when in portrait. Just make sure the subject of the photo is no more than half of the height of the full image or it may look a little funny in portrait.
Flikkie HD's wallapapers aren't so "HD", they look worse than my 1024x600 ones, but they work FINE.
Sigh..someone has to tell us for sure, I can't find any info on that.
Rapax was RIGHT. I checked the default wallapaper found at root / system / wallapaper / default wallpaper and it has the weird...1200x1024 resolution....damn...
@ Beestee - I just saw your edit. Yep..1200x1024 it is...
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I'm pretty certain you need 1200x1024. Scrolling left and right across the homescreens requires half a screens width to either side of the central screen. If you use a smaller image, what you're effectively doing is scaling it up and then cropping. You end up using a scaled up version of a 703(?)x600 section of your image.
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That explains a lot, thx. I always wondered.
To me the Flikie Wallpapers look good. It's not perfect, but good.
@rapax: Ah, ok thx. I thought because of the different resolution (compared to the display resolution) I had to crop them too. Will try it these days with these wallpaper size!
PROBLEM guys. Even if you try to choose a 1200x1024 wallpaper, it STILL CROPS IT.
The only method that works now is using the Flikkie HD app....
I reckon the only way to use them without being cropped would be to install them in the wallpaper folder.. ( launcher.apk ? )
But if you do that, wouldn't you need a cooked rom? It seems to me the phone would crash if you put any more walls in there..
Hi
I had the same problemes with croppy wallpapers so I wrote a small app to set an wallpaper on the galaxy tab. With this app they won't get scaled or cropped. Start the app, select Wallpaper wait and you have a perfect wallpaper Just be sure that the wallpaper is in the right size.
Have fun
Added some nice wallpapers with the right size.
Thanks hateman
Guys, just checked the Flikkie HD wallpapers : 960x854
EDIT: Flikkie HD will set the wallapaper even if it has a higher res. Just put a 1280x1024 wallpaper in Flikkie's folder and it worked just fine
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I had the same problemes with croppy wallpapers so I wrote a small app to set an wallpaper on the galaxy tab. With this app they won't get scaled or cropped. Start the app, select Wallpaper wait and you have a perfect wallpaper Just be sure that the wallpaper is in the right size.
Have fun
Added some nice wallpapers with the right size.
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What a great little tool to avoid bad wallpaper compression! Works very nicely, thanks for your generosity!
Preciate Ya hateman....really do
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Yeah, works fine, thanks a lot!
Here is a collection of my wallpaper 1200x1024. Hope you will like them.
Hateman is the MAN! That app kicks butt! Now i can load my Sprint wallpapers to my Verizon Tab correctly!
Hi,
You've certainly seen that each time you want to use a picture as a wallpaper, the operating system is resizing it and you're loosing a part of your picture.
Nobody from HTC has been able to answer about the right size of images to have it wallpaperized... so I tried some resolutions to finally find which fits the best.
Here is how to make a wallpaper for the QHD resolution of the Sensation :
I'm working with The GIMP, but every image software will be able to make you wonderfull wallpapers.
First of all, you have to crop your image to a 9:16 ratio. Easy to do : the tool for cropping can be forced to keep a fixed ratio, very usefull.
When this is done, resize your picture to the exact size of 540x960 ((width x length). If the picture is widened, don't hesitate to use a filter to soften it to your liking.
After that, create a new picture at the exact size of 674x1198 (to avoid white lines on the left and the right on the phone) --> copy and paste your picture in the new one, it shoud appear in the middle with big white margins.
Save this picture (i choose png but jpg shoud also work).
Finally, send this to your phone or transfer it.
When you choose your lovely picture to become a wallpaper, the cropping will only cut white margins ! \o/
it works! Thanks.
hey guys. we just got a Xoom for my wife and are having a blast so far. i know we're coming in late in the game.
I did a lot of searching and have come up with all sorts of answers as to what is the proper resolution for the wallpaper.
I don't care too much about the perfect format to include all of my image in the wallpaper...what I care about is once I choose an image for the wallpaper, that it look sharp and detailed and not blurry or full of artifacts because honeycomb is stretching the image.
no matter what size image i've tried this far, 99% of the time what ends up actually shown as my wallpaper is a zoomed in portion of my image, and because of the stretching to fit the screen it doesn't look too good.
your input is appreciated. likewise if there is anywhere to just go and get Xoom-sized decent wallpapers I would appreciate a link too
thanks!
Same for me! Whatever resolution, big or small, it just wants me to crop the image, I tried searching for this for a while but I came up with no solution. Hopefully someone here knows.
EDIT: TRY Wallpaper Wizardrii
If you click on the little + icon at the top right of the screen, you see the entire wallpaper. It zooms the wallpaper and i dont know why it was implemented in such a demented way. Everything you put ends up looking low res and washed out. There is a guide that shows how to add a black bar to the bottom portion of a wallpaper so it fits the screen properly and looks sharp, but this doesnt work well in portrait.
Check it out here: http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/motorola-xoom-graphics/320-getting-wallpapers-fit-just-right.html
Also see this app on the market: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.twistedapps.wallpaperwizardrii
I heard this app works well.
Hmm! I have the same problem but with movies... They look unsharp a little bit...also on the youtube app even in hd...
Hi there,
So i used some tools found in the HTC Section (which are actually from other devices, but anyway) and I tried to flash a new Splash Screen. The flashing itself works, but the picture is always not correctly shown. (See attachments)
EDIT: this is with every Picture I tried, png, bmp every one
Is anyone expirencing the same issue, or it would be even better, if someone knew what's wrong.
P.S. I'm a bit confused where this Thread should actually be, because it (splash screens) started in the dev section, but for me it's more like a theme
Thx
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Hi there,
So i used some tools found in the HTC Section (which are actually from other devices, but anyway) and I tried to flash a new Splash Screen. The flashing itself works, but the picture is always not correctly shown. (See attachments)
EDIT: this is with every Picture I tried, png, bmp every one
Is anyone expirencing the same issue, or it would be even better, if someone knew what's wrong.
P.S. I'm a bit confused where this Thread should actually be, because it (splash screens) started in the dev section, but for me it's more like a theme
Thx
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Hi,
Make sure you save it as a 24 bit bmp file, also the dimensions of the image should be 540 x 960.
It looks liek its a resolution problem, Isnt the Sensation the only one with qHD Screen?
it actually was the Resolution of the Picture, I still got it at 480x800, took one with 540x960 and it worked like a charm
Thx to both of you
darKpoiSonend said:
it actually was the Resolution of the Picture, I still got it at 480x800, took one with 540x960 and it worked like a charm
Thx to both of you
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so what did you do resize the picture? Mine is at 480x800 also.
No problem,glad to of helped.
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so what did you do resize the picture? Mine is at 480x800 also.
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depending on what picture you have, you might need to create a new one. Because the aspect ration is different.. That means, if you resize a picture with 480x800 to 540x960 then it gets distorted. If it has a simple background (black for example) then you could just add more black background to it.
The resizing itself could be done in paint, paint.net, gimp, photoshop etc.
darKpoiSonend said:
depending on what picture you have, you might need to create a new one. Because the aspect ration is different.. That means, if you resize a picture with 480x800 to 540x960 then it gets distorted. If it has a simple background (black for example) then you could just add more black background to it.
The resizing itself could be done in paint, paint.net, gimp, photoshop etc.
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ok thre pic that i have is 480x800 im gonna resize it to 540x960.