I've never seen a dumber way of setting a friggin wallpaper in my life. They make you crop 75% of the picture out. I want something that is a once and done setting, not a stupid app that has to run in the background like I've seen other times.
berfles said:
... They make you crop 75% of the picture out...
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This obviously depends on the dimensions of the picture you feed it, and is not the fault of the device. If you want the sharpest image possible, edit your picture to 1920x1408 -- those are the dimensions ASUS is using itself on the stock wallpaper(s). I haven't tested the thickness of the launcher bar, but that shouldn't be too hard to figure out.
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berfles said:
.. not a stupid app that has to run in the background like I've seen other times...
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Oh, and err.... what's so bad about a small app running in the background anyway?
berfles said:
I've never seen a dumber way of setting a friggin wallpaper in my life. They make you crop 75% of the picture out. I want something that is a once and done setting, not a stupid app that has to run in the background like I've seen other times.
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When using Nova launcher, you have this option to use 'Nova crop' to set wallpapers. This allows you to set the entire picture instead of only a small part of it.
Ideal for those HD pictures (that due to the zoom wouldn't look HD otherwise)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1808045
It has to do with the aspect ratio of 1920 x 1200 both in portrait/landscape modes. In order to accommodate both screen orientations with the wallpaper, it has to be cropped that way and you end up only getting the middle of the image really. So choosing a picture that is sort of zoomed out on the middle target gives the best results as a wallpaper.
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I was wondering if it was possible to get have an un-cropped picture as your wallpaper and possibly not have wallpaper scrolling, I'm currently using Launcher Pro which allows you to disable wallpaper scrolling, but I'm really annoyed that android isn't allowing me to use the entire picture, It just makes it look really bad. Thanks for any help with this.
I found that when you go to crop the picture out gave me 2 options to crop to. One was square, other was tall. The tall one fit better for me
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I use wallpaper Casa, and sometimes HD wallpapers to set wallpapers on my cappy,but those walls seem really washed out and grainy on the transformer. Ne1 know of any honeycomb compatible wall paper app yet?
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I noticed that the stock wallpaper is VERY CRISP...and most of my efforts and finding wallpaper that looks as good has been unsuccessful.
Also guys other than the extra walls pack posted earlier,I never found anything else related to tf walls
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im glad im not the only one with these issues... EVERY wallpaper i have tried to load looks absolutely gorgeous and as soon as i set them as wallpaper they look grainy and ****ty
what are we doing wrong?
Are you using 1920x1280 images?
*Daedalus said:
Are you using 1920x1280 images?
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that i am not... i thought our screen resolution was 1280x800?
slowhatch said:
that i am not... i thought our screen resolution was 1280x800?
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You should use the suggested above or 2560 x 1600. It works well. try picturecasa app, it's not that bad but the website version has more links.
elnoxvie said:
You should use the suggested above or 2560 x 1600. It works well. try picturecasa app, it's not that bad but the website version has more links.
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I've been using 2560 images and none are as crisp as the stock "tree" wallpaper...
AFAIK, Honeycomb uses 1920x1280 images. The extra width is so it has enough room to shift the image when you change screens, and the height so that there's room to zoom the image out when you open the app folder, or widget srceen or whatever.
even when i use the suggested wallpaper dimensions none of the wallpapers ever look as good on the homescreen as they do on the browser... which makes no sense.
get the "wallpaper wizzardi" app. Its a bit buggy but it will take ANY image size, res, etc and make it look amazing on the TF.
Sometimes it gets black bars on the screen but all you do is switch it to landscape/horizontal and it will go back. Its really nice. Still buggy but nice.
i use wallpaper set and save with very large images that i find at wallbase.cc (at least 2560 x 1600) and i've got pretty crisp background images.
I use Flikie Wallpaper app, it auto sizes them for me and you get to pick from a bunch online, its worth it, great app
Guys check out this new app. Tablet wallpapers. Seems 2 b specifically for honeycomb.
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I'm trying to find the perfect dimensions to use so that Honeycomb's crop box will fill the entire picture, and none of the suggested sizes have worked. Interesting...
psycho2097 said:
Guys check out this new app. Tablet wallpapers. Seems 2 b specifically for honeycomb.
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Didn't see it on the market or a google search....got a link?
I used screen filter on my captivate for night time reading but on my note all it really does is wash out the colors. Is anyone else having this problem or have alternative apps that would work. screen is just too bright for night time reading even on the dimmest setting.
I think this is always how Screen Filter works. Maybe you just didn't notice before due to which setting you're using. Screen Filter works like if you turn down the brightness on a JPG photo, so you lose color depth.
There's no way around it - SF reduces the dynamic range of the screen, so you're going to have a correspondingly smaller palette of colors. The lower you go, the worse it gets.
Thanks for the replies guys. It just seemed more drastic on the note. Maybe its the bigger size. Can't even do a comparison cause I already shipped my captivate off to my mom.
Try using a program with night mode, with opera, doing the red on black mod.
Screen filter also blotches up the blacks for me too.
Superdim is an app available in the market... I am using it happily on my sgs sl i9003... It works great...
Screen filter basically applies a graish filter on the screen whereas superdim allows you to turn down brightness from levels lower than stock!
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Post a link. Its not showing in market for me
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carhigh said:
Post a link. Its not showing in market for me
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I found it with no problem. Requires root, maybe that's why it's not showing up for you? I just did a search for Superdim.
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I just tried Superdim. Had no effect at all on my minimum brightness.
Anyone know of something to adjust the actual profile of the Autobright??
screen filter is a good app，i usually use at night for reading
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I found it with no problem. Requires root, maybe that's why it's not showing up for you? I just did a search for Superdim.
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I just tried Superdim. Had no effect at all on my minimum brightness.
Anyone know of something to adjust the actual profile of the Autobright??
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Im rooted. Shows in market from laptop and can install, but still doesnt show from phone market. weiord
vatanatips said:
screen filter is a good app，i usually use at night for reading
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i use it too
Screen filter is useful in the theatre when I don't want to disturb anyone, but other than that it just messes up the colors too much.
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Phytrax said:
Screen filter is useful in the theatre when I don't want to disturb anyone, but other than that it just messes up the colors too much.
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That's why super dim is better... It should work on rooted phones...
I haven't set profiles for it... I just usually work in that app by playing with the brightness slider
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hmm, never noticed any colour problem with screen filter but then again I don't dim it that much. Will give SuperDim a go though.
Link for people who can't find it -> https://market.android.com/details?id=mobi.pruss.superdim&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm1vYmkucHJ1c3Muc3VwZXJkaW0iXQ..
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That's why super dim is better... It should work on rooted phones...
I haven't set profiles for it... I just usually work in that app by playing with the brightness slider
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Like I said, Superdim doesn't do squat for me. Default minimum brightnes shows 20 on Superdim. If I reduce it to 1 nothing changes. Can you tell me your screen is actually dimmer on 1 than on 20?
Well i am trying to use a picture as wallpaper but only let me use part of the picture as wallpaper (crop)
Any one knows how to use a full picture!?
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The dimensions of the image have to be 1920x1408, and even then it'll get cropped vertically a little bit.
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The dimensions of the image have to be 1920x1408, and even then it'll get cropped vertically a little bit.
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It's actually 1920x1280 in ICS.
What I do is just get a 1280x800 wallpaper and increase the canvas size to 1920*1280 with Photoshop and disable wallpaper scrolling & rotation in my launcher. That way nothing gets cropped at all.
Nope. It's 1920x1408. Trust me. I searched long and hard. And if you find a wallpaper site with Android tablet wallpapers for 1280x800 screens, its real dimensions are 1920x1408.
Seriously, get a wallpaper in 1920x1408, and you'll see that you'll crop it a lot less.
Ok thanks guys
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Nope. It's 1920x1408. Trust me. I searched long and hard. And if you find a wallpaper site with Android tablet wallpapers for 1280x800 screens, its real dimensions are 1920x1408.
Seriously, get a wallpaper in 1920x1408, and you'll see that you'll crop it a lot less.
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hm really? I thought since when you go to the wallpaper crop in ICS theres no bars above and below the portrait view that it would be 1280. Guess I'll give it a shot.
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hm really? I thought since when you go to the wallpaper crop in ICS theres no bars above and below the portrait view that it would be 1280. Guess I'll give it a shot.
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Don't forget that the wallpaper has to scroll in both landscape and portrait mode. It requires a lot of extra wallpaper real estate.
can somebody explain this wallpaper deal on the 1X, i find a cool one that according to specs has the correct size. save it to the phone --then i either add it as wallpaper via the Gallery or Personalize and it shows me the wallpaper, with a green square on it that i can slightly enlarge but still it only uses about a third of the entire image, on top of that.. quite a few look like crap (to put it blunt), very pixelated.. what am i missing here.
(related, yesterday i found how to have a different wallpaper on the lock screen but can;t find the setting anymore...)
Use quickpic from the market.
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uhm... not quite the explanation i was hoping for ;] will this app allow me to set larger wallpapers ? someone else say it may be a Sense "feature".
Gotta use an app like the one above to make full res wallpapers. I think dodol wallpaper from the marketplace also works.
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can somebody explain this wallpaper deal on the 1X, i find a cool one that according to specs has the correct size. save it to the phone --then i either add it as wallpaper via the Gallery or Personalize and it shows me the wallpaper, with a green square on it that i can slightly enlarge but still it only uses about a third of the entire image, on top of that.. quite a few look like crap (to put it blunt), very pixelated.. what am i missing here.
(related, yesterday i found how to have a different wallpaper on the lock screen but can;t find the setting anymore...)
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The "green square" just shows where the home screen will be. Sense has scrolling wallpaper, so you will still see the area to the left and right of the green square as you scroll left and right n sense.
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Gotta use an app like the one above to make full res wallpapers. I think dodol wallpaper from the marketplace also works.
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okay i would understand that if i was using odd shaped or a different totally different size.
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The "green square" just shows where the home screen will be. Sense has scrolling wallpaper, so you will still see the area to the left and right of the green square as you scroll left and right n sense.
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understood, but it also cuts of the top and bottom while i used the right resolution which then makes (if it has something on the image...) pixelated, someone said it may just be Sense who causes that. i find it odd, i download the exact size and have to cut pieces.
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uhm... not quite the explanation i was hoping for ;] will this app allow me to set larger wallpapers ? someone else say it may be a Sense "feature".
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Do not ask a question without first making peace with yourself and knowing what you are looking for. If you want to fix that, use quickpic app from the market. Of not, good luck making your own gallery app
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Do not ask a question without first making peace with yourself and knowing what you are looking for. If you want to fix that, use quickpic app from the market. Of not, good luck making your own gallery app
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i guess i'm not understanding.. wasn't trying to come across in a wrong way. i downloaded/installed Quickpic and frankly not quite seeing how to use it. like i said i have a few which are suppose to be One X size wallpapers, do i resize them in Quickpic ?
thanks.
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okay i would understand that if i was using odd shaped or a different totally different size.
understood, but it also cuts of the top and bottom while i used the right resolution which then makes (if it has something on the image...) pixelated, someone said it may just be Sense who causes that. i find it odd, i download the exact size and have to cut pieces.
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You do realise you can expand the green box and stretch it to the top and bottom of the image?
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You do realise you can expand the green box and stretch it to the top and bottom of the image?
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yes, i can resize but only so far, and the green box resizes proportional.
Guys, don't be so quick to jump on the op. Its pretty clear what he's trying to say. I know because I experienced it. I'm gonna take a guess and say ur using stock ROM? I had the same problem when I was in stock ROM, he green square only stretches so far, it does not encompass the entire image, therefore the image it sets as your wallpaper becomes stretched and therefore pixelated. I also tried to find ways around this op but I couldn't find any, well that is until I flashed another ROM. I can't quite remember I it worked when I ran cleanrom, but any aosp ROM will work like aokp and cm9/10. With these ROMs the green square stretches out to encompass the full image therefore giving you the right resolution for ur home screen. Other than that I know of no way around the problem. Flash an aosp ROM op, you will thank me for it later
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The green box isn't supposed to stretch across the whole image. The green box represent one Sense tab, ie the homescreen. The area ot the left and right of the green box is still part of the wallpaper, when you scroll left and right through the Sense tabs.
I don't see the problem here?
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Guys, don't be so quick to jump on the op. Its pretty clear what he's trying to say. I know because I experienced it. I'm gonna take a guess and say ur using stock ROM? I had the same problem when I was in stock ROM, he green square only stretches so far, it does not encompass the entire image, therefore the image it sets as your wallpaper becomes stretched and therefore pixelated. I also tried to find ways around this op but I couldn't find any, well that is until I flashed another ROM. I can't quite remember I it worked when I ran cleanrom, but any aosp ROM will work like aokp and cm9/10. With these ROMs the green square stretches out to encompass the full image therefore giving you the right resolution for ur home screen. Other than that I know of no way around the problem. Flash an aosp ROM op, you will thank me for it later
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Thanks, rooting not possible yet, but glad somebody understands.
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Go to the picture u want to set as wallpaper click on options then go to set as and clicl on quickpoc wallpaper. What is there not to understand? I do not see any difficulties here
Well, just like Sense it shows a square which limits the use of the entire image, is that hard to.comprehend ?
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Yeah u right nvm
roeiboot said:
Well, just like Sense it shows a square which limits the use of the entire image, is that hard to.comprehend ?
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Download picspeed wallpaper and try that out. It gives you different crop options, including non scrolling wallpaper.
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will give that a try, thanks.
roeiboot said:
(related, yesterday i found how to have a different wallpaper on the lock screen but can't find the setting anymore...)
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i was using the clock lock-screen, to be able to use a different wallpaper on the lock-screen you must choose "wallpaper" instead of the clock lock screen.. can't have both i guess (#unrooted)
Myself I find pics in range of 1280x1440, that gives nice clear picture viewable over several scrolling screens.
Of course, Ymmv.
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