I set a picture as my background but its not clear. Its like there is a milky screen in front of it. Any ideas? I changed the picture but same thing. I st it through Settings>Personal>Today>Appearance . I am not using TF3D. Its just the home screen.
thanks
tararura said:
I set a picture as my background but its not clear. Its like there is a milky screen in front of it. Any ideas? I changed the picture but same thing. I st it through Settings>Personal>Today>Appearance . I am not using TF3D. Its just the home screen.
thanks
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Go to pictures & videos then to where you have your selected background select the background at the bottom hit menu then set as Today Background. Here you'll find a % set it to 0 and come out of all that. You should now have a clear Background
Thank you grzegorz10
It worked perfectly.
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When I try to change the image on my Today screen background in WM 6, the image is all faded. How do I fix this?
u have to set the transparency level to 0% b4 applying it.
Windowsrookie said:
When I try to change the image on my Today screen background in WM 6, the image is all faded. How do I fix this?
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What Mr. Nike forgot to mention was you have to go and use the Picture and Videos Viewer application to be able to set the transparency level. There is an option under MENU section to set a picture as the background.
Hi,
does any1 know why the colour has got really
bright on this normal today screen it does it with all pictures i use as my
background pic
thanks
cryptkiller said:
Hi,
does any1 know why the colour has got really
bright on this normal today screen it does it with all pictures i use as my
background pic
thanks
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I think I know what's happened. It looks like when the background picture was selected, the transparency level was really low/high (whichever meakes it MORE transparent!)
The way to fix this is to go to Start -> Programs -> Pictures & Videos (I.E. the WiMo program, not HTC's version)
Then navigate to the background picture you want to set as the background and open the picture (view fullscreen) then click Menu -> Set as Today Background and change the transparency level to 0% and tap OK.
Fingers crossed that should solve your problem! Annoyingly you can only change the transparancy this way, not through Settings -> Today!
Awesome I knew something was there but couldn’t
remember where......
thanks for help
Note: This is a work in progress.
Note: All Image manipulation is done with GIMP.
Note: This guide is mainly for the A101 but can also be applied for the A70.
I was getting sick of not be able to take a good picture and use it as a wallpaper so that it looked good. I know there is an alternative "MultiPicture Live Wallpaper" but that thing is a memory hog.
PART 1
So I came up with this picture it's a PNG of 1200x1024. The different grids are the following sizes.
Blue: 8px
Green: 16px
Red: 32px
White: 64px
When this is set as a wallpaper we can finally see what is happening to the image.
Here are the screenshots for the 5 screens of the Stock Launcher of the Archos 101.
Screen 1
Screen 2
Screen 3
Screen 4
Screen 5
Since the status bar can not be hidden on the Stock Launcher we loose 32px at the top and on the right with the soft buttons we loose 40px. When positioned on the first screen we have a good view of the top left corner (1024x600) of the reference picture.
Now lets get to work with this picture below.
Size: 1680x1050
So what do we need to do. The result must be an image with a size of 1200x1024 for the A101 and 960x800 for the A70 where only the top 600px (A101) 480px (A70) will be visible in landscape mode.
Scaling the image to a height of 600px and keeping the aspect in mind. The result is a picture of 960x600
On the bottom add a 424px black border.
On both sides add a 120px black border.
and the result is
Size: 1200x1024
And the screenshot to prove it works.
This was tested with the Stock Launcher and ADW.Launcher.
PART 2
So this worked out because the original picture has a black background. So here is the solution for other pictures.
I made a multi layer xcf file with GIMP to address the problem. You can download it here for the A101 and here for the A70.
Open WallPaper_cropping.xcf in GIMP.
Select the "Background" layer.
File -> Open as Layer -> select the picture you want to crop.
Scale the layer to 1200px width and keep the aspect correct.
Position the layer so that the visible part looks good.
Turn visibility on/off so that only the layers "Background:, "The Picture", "Black Not Visible Part" are turned on.
Save the image as PNG with option "Merge Visible Layers"
Send to archos and apply as wallpaper with the Crop Wallpaper app and use the "Overall" button.
This is all for today. Next We'll see if we can do something with extending the background instead of cropping it.
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Worked fine for landscape But when I turn it portrait there is a black bar at the bottom - How do I get it to fill in that black space??
Using ADW Launcher if that has any effect on it...
Would put up a screenshot but the forum won't let me...
martinjh99 said:
Worked fine for landscape But when I turn it portrait there is a black bar at the bottom - How do I get it to fill in that black space??
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There is no way to do both landscape and portrait at the same time. So you have to choose.
ah ok- Thanks anyway.
Thanks wdl1908. It will be difficult for me to explain because of my poor english. But with your settings and my A70it it didn't (the image was too high). So I have set the top of my image at 183px and the bottom at 644px and now it's perfect. Maybe someone with skills could check those values cause I'm a newbie.
Thank you very much.
nikokroko said:
Thanks wdl1908. It will be difficult for me to explain because of my poor english. But with your settings and my A70it it didn't (the image was too high). So I have set the top of my image at 183px and the bottom at 644px and now it's perfect. Maybe someone with skills could check those values cause I'm a newbie.
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If you attach your original wallpaper I'll look at it to see what the best method is.
So this is my actual wallpapaper. In landscape I see everything of the middle layer and not the 2 others (normal). And in portrait I don't see the face of the guy on the first layer. But this is not important cause those layers are just there to fill the blanks in portrait mode.
The original picture was found on socwall and was 2500*1324px
nikokroko said:
So this is my actual wallpapaper. In landscape I see everything of the middle layer and not the 2 others (normal). And in portrait I don't see the face of the guy on the first layer. But this is not important cause those layers are just there to fill the blanks in portrait mode.
The original picture was found on socwall and was 2500*1324px
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Very nice wallpaper. I usually don't bother with the portrait mode as long as the landscape mode is shown correctly. I would just cut out the middle part and use that to fit into the portrait visible part of the template.
Call me odd but i don't want a background on my homescreen or lock screen. I simply want it plain black. But I see no option to simply pick no background which with every other smartphone I ever owned or messed around with resulted in a plain black background. How do I set no background? Thanks
StoneRyno said:
Call me odd but i don't want a background on my homescreen or lock screen. I simply want it plain black. But I see no option to simply pick no background which with every other smartphone I ever owned or messed around with resulted in a plain black background. How do I set no background? Thanks
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Just find a black image and use that.
Sent from my LG-H810 using XDA Free mobile app
go on google find a black background and set it as the wallpaper?
Take a picture on your phone in a dark room with your camera facing down on a desk and set it as the wallpaper?
I had thought of doing that. But I thought the idea of the no background was so that the background wasn't consuming resources. Every time I exit an app it has to load the background like android decided to turn it off while in the app. So even though the background image would be all black it's still going to have to go through that processing. I am not sure of the impact of that. I know with older devices having no background was recommended because it consumed resources. I don't know why there is a no background setting, it seems kind of stupid that it was left out.
When I set the lighting it doesn't move around the screen like it's supposed to, It's just a steady light. I tried different settings and it's the same on basic, multi(only the top left corner lights and it's steady also), and glow. The glitter one moves but yeah, not into that lol. I contacted Samsung and they said to do a soft reset and if that don't work to go into safe mode and check it that way. I did both and neither worked. I have the boost mobile variant, sm-g960u. Any help would be appreciated.
Go back to the edge settings and set width to wide, set transparency to low, and choose your effect, I'm using multi colour. You can change the colour for specific apps as well like blue for Facebook and green for whatsapp etc.
Click colour and then app colour.
Should look sweet now
BackDaws said:
Go back to the edge settings and set width to wide, set transparency to low, and choose your effect, I'm using multi colour. You can change the colour for specific apps as well like blue for Facebook and green for whatsapp etc.
Click colour and then app colour.
Should look sweet now
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I've tried that but still a no go. They're still steady and on multi it's only the corner that lights up
EDIT : I figured it out. I turned off the animator duration scale in developer options. Duh
All fixed now?
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All fixed now?
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Yeah it is, thanks