I haven't had experience of other Android phones so I don't know if this is limited to the Desire only.
Why can't I set a wallpaper full screen without selecting an area, usually your lovely pictures end up warped. It's very annoying.
Most other phones let you select full
Screen when setting up a wallpaper.
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This is not Desire specific, the thing you hv mentioned is possible only with some 3rd party launchers I think. Size of the image on other devices using static wallpapers on this resolution is 800x480 as well, but with android it must be 800x960 (so it covers all 7 homescreens)
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ChemicalKicks said:
I haven't had experience of other Android phones so I don't know if this is limited to the Desire only.
Why can't I set a wallpaper full screen without selecting an area, usually your lovely pictures end up warped. It's very annoying.
Most other phones let you select full
Screen when setting up a wallpaper.
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if you scroll trough your seven screens, you can see that the background will slightly scroll too. that's why the background has to be bigger than one screen (800 x 480px on the desire).
if you select a pictures, wich doesn't has the rights dimensions, your pic would be distorted. So the area, which you have to choose, is exactly the dimensions for the background. the background has to be proportional, so thats why you have this area, which you can scale up and down, but always proportional...
i hope i could explain it..
Indeed - you are dragging the corners of the box to scale up to the full desired size aren't you?
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if you scroll trough your seven screens, you can see that the background will slightly scroll too. that's why the background has to be bigger than one screen (800 x 480px on the desire).
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Correction.. pic size must be 800x960 (twice as wide than 800x480). 800x480 px is screen size/resolution of Desire. To make sure wallpapers cover 7 homescreens entirely, you should align your image to this dimension by selecting desired area and the size as well, here the system assists user by keeping aspect ratio based on the 800x960 standard.
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Correction.. pic size must be 800x960 (twice as wide than 800x480). 800x480 px is screen size/resolution of Desire. To make sure wallpapers cover 7 homescreens entirely, you should align your image to this dimension by selecting desired area and the size as well, here the system assists user by keeping aspect ratio based on the 800x960 standard.
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yes i know, i wrote the screensize of the desire, not the wallpaper size ("has to be bigger than one screen (800 x 480px on the desire)") i wrote the size of "one screen"
thanks anyway
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I just got a really good couple of packs of wallpapers i really like, all 480 x 800 (thinking that the screen resolution so that be fine)
I can display them on my phone perfect, but i cant set them nicely as a wallpaper !
always asks me to crop it when i dont want to!
anyone now a work around?
Scroll across different screens and you'll see it pans across the wallpaper, which means the wallpapers are wider than 480px. So if you give it a 480x800 image, it's going to have to crop it to get the aspect ratio right. I'm not sure what width it needs to be though.
Desire's wallpaper resolution is 960x800, i've been making my own recently but this site has a good selection ...
http://nexusone960x800wallpaper.blogspot.com/
If i email myself a jpeg of that size will it let me set it as a wallpaper without having to crop it?
Desire's wallpaper resolution is 960x800, i've been making my own recently but this site has a good selection ...
http://nexusone960x800wallpaper.blogspot.com/
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that's quite a fantastic page there, thanks for sharing
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Hello,
What is the resolution/dimensions of sliding wallpapper? ( similar to default wallpapper that you find on a new Galaxy s) because I want to make custom sliding wallpappers.
And what is the extension/type of the picture? and in which folder I should put it?
And What I should do different if I want to do non-sliding (Fixed) wallpapper.
Thank you.
would also like to know this?
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960x800
I made a custom one meyself last night and it's a million times better than using the crop tool in Gallery.
For a none slide use launcherpro, it has a setting that stops the wallpaper slide if you want that, its in the preferences/appearance settings.
Thanks for the info, I would rather a non-sliding wallpaper.
Is there no way to make it a different picture for each of the 7 screens?
Monkey101 said:
Is there no way to make it a different picture for each of the 7 screens?
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I thought of making a Live Wallpaper that did this (or just displayed a static image that didn't scroll) and fiddled with the SDK last night. Only problem is I suck at Java. If I could use Visual Basic I could have done it in about 10 minutes.
Maybe someone more competent at Android developing could take this idea and make it a reality.
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For a none slide use launcherpro, it has a setting that stops the wallpaper slide if you want that, its in the preferences/appearance settings.
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Thanks for the info, i ve missed that feature.
But any other launcher does support this? abw for example?
Tachikoma_kun said:
960x800
I made a custom one meyself last night and it's a million times better than using the crop tool in Gallery.
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Thanks everyone, but I tried 960 X 800 and used Gallary to set it like sliding wallpapper but it forced me to chose a part from the picture and I could not chose the whole picture.
ZeCoder said:
Thanks everyone, but I tried 960 X 800 and used Gallary to set it like sliding wallpapper but it forced me to chose a part from the picture and I could not chose the whole picture.
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Tap one side of the box and slide to choose whole image...
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Monkey101 said:
Is there no way to make it a different picture for each of the 7 screens?
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I have searched and searched for a solution but my best find was this app:
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-creativecore-wallpaperplus-jmit.aspx
haven't tried it yet.
i think it will not work with touchwiz, but might work with launcher pro
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Tap one side of the box and slide to choose whole image...
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Thank you.
I found out that my mistake was making the longer dimension vertical while it should be horizontal. So the rotation of the picture for 90 degrees gave me the ability to select the whole picture as sliding wallpaper.
But what if I want to make non-sliding wallpaper that fit to the screen completely, what is the resolution for that?
um isn't it 480 by 800?
Because of the moving of the image when sliding to different homescreens it needs to be slightly wider, hence the 960x800 resolution.
slightly? thats twice the width lol
what file type do you think would be better?
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um isn't it 480 by 800?
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480x800 is the actual resolution of the screen, while the sliding wallpaper is doubling the width so that the wallpaper won't stretch and display the at native resolution when you slide through the home screens.
When you got some image with high resolution (higher than 960x800), selecting that high resolution image and crop to fit by the wallpaper selector, it will corp and resize the image for you on the fly but it doesn't look sharp as those TouchWiz and Launcher Pro wallpaper which is resized and optimized the sharpness on 960x800, I'm going to crop and resize my favorie wallpaper on a desktop imaging tool.
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I've made a couple of backgrounds in ps that were 960x800 resolution and then put them on my phone. Whenever I got to change the wallpaper, it has me select the file and then I have to crop the image. I'm aware that I can drag it out to make the crop zone large but it still only selects I would say 3/5 of the image. I've tried several different times over several different images and I cannot make it any larger. I'm using launcher pro if this has anything to do with it. Are you sure the resolution is 960 wide by 800 tall? Other than that, what am I doing wrong?
Would deleting all but 1 home screen make the wallpaper full-size/non-sliding?
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I'm using launcher pro if this has anything to do with it. Are you sure the resolution is 960 wide by 800 tall? Other than that, what am I doing wrong?
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It's what I use and is fine for both stock and launcher pro. When I chose the wallpaper the crop rectangle stretched to the wallpaper perfectly.
Hi. I tried 1280 x 1280 whoch I convert using samsung kies and the crop box fits 100 % and the wallpaper is perfect.
Hope this helps.
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I've searched and searched but I cant find it. I looking for the Incredible 2's droid eye to use as a wallpaper. Not the one that it boots up with, but rather this one: http://phandroid.com/2011/04/07/htc-incredible-2-bears-its-droid-eye-in-leaked-renders/
if anyone has it and could upload it, thanks!
I put this together from a few frames of the loading animation, it's not exact but it's close. Download the zip, when I uploaded the file as a PNG by itslef, it's automatically converted to a jpeg.
Thank you so much!!
edit: how do I make it my wallpaper as is? It s making me crop the image down for wallpaper use, even though its the same exact resulotion as the screen
Sorry, here it is the same aspect ratio as the scrollable screen. it'll still have you crop it, but just expand the crop area to the full size of the image and you should be good.
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beenz said:
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But the box is limited to the aspect ratio of the total scrollable area of the "desktop". The first image was 800 tall by 480 wide, so it would limit the crop box to the width. The new image is the same aspect as the crop box so it can be expanded to cover the entire image.
Try the app wallpaper set and save. You find the folder in the directory inside the app, and it will save the image as it, no cropping. I understand what your talking about too because that stupid thing would always drive me up a wall, and I think its because the wallpaper scrolls between Home screens, whatever. The app will also disable scrolling so its set as is for every homescreen
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what is the ideal resolution that we should use for the G2, so that the image will be displayed as best as possible? i have a lot of wallpapers on my desktop that i'd like to use that are 1280x____ or higher, so obviously those won't work. thanks
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what is the ideal resolution that we should use for the G2, so that the image will be displayed as best as possible? i have a lot of wallpapers on my desktop that i'd like to use that are 1280x____ or higher, so obviously those won't work. thanks
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960x800 works best for me and is probably the standard.
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There's an app called Wallpaper Set & Save free on the Market. It does a much better job than the native option. Highly recommend it. I usually use very high resolution images. 1200x____.
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I'm gonna have to disagree with the previous posters here - the best resolution for any display, whether phone, computer, or whatever is always the native resolution of the display, and in your case that would be 800x480 pixels.
just take any wallpaper you like that is larger than that and crop it until it is some multiple of that, i.e. the aspect ratio is 5x3 and then resize from there to the 800x480 size.
so, for example, a wallpaper that is say 1200x720 is already the correct aspect ratio and ready to be resized by any imaging program such as irfanview, takes about 5 seconds, and if it's a jpg, then convert to png file first so you don't lose resolution during the resize.
or you could just look in google images for "800x480 wallpaper" and you might get lucky and find one that is already the correct size that you like, and then you are ready to go.
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I'm gonna have to disagree with the previous posters here - the best resolution for any display, whether phone, computer, or whatever is always the native resolution of the display, and in your case that would be 800x480 pixels.
just take any wallpaper you like that is larger than that and crop it until it is some multiple of that, i.e. the aspect ratio is 5x3 and then resize from there to the 800x480 size.
so, for example, a wallpaper that is say 1200x720 is already the correct aspect ratio and ready to be resized by any imaging program such as irfanview, takes about 5 seconds, and if it's a jpg, then convert to png file first so you don't lose resolution during the resize.
or you could just look in google images for "800x480 wallpaper" and you might get lucky and find one that is already the correct size that you like, and then you are ready to go.
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I was just stating my experience. I always use photographs that are very high resolution. I apply them with the application I mentioned previously, and they look sharp. I know nothing more about how or why it works, but it works. Images of lower resolution, for instance 480X800, the native resolution of our device, always appear somewhat blurry. Perhaps you can elaborate on this...
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960x800 works best for me and is probably the standard.
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Actually this is correct, because the vast majority of launchers support scrolling wallpapers the wallpaper needs to be larger than the native resolution of the phone.
But if you have wallpaper scrolling disabled or are running a sense 3 rom the best of bet is to use a wallpaper that matches your screens resolution
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Actually this is correct, because the vast majority of launchers support scrolling wallpapers the wallpaper needs to be larger than the native resolution of the phone.
But if you have wallpaper scrolling disabled or are running a sense 3 rom the best of bet is to use a wallpaper that matches your screens resolution
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Okay, that makes sense... I do have scrolling enabled. Thanks cjward23.
I put usually 1280x1024 and theyr very good.
If you're using photoshop, this will help:
http://intridea.com/2010/10/27/android-wallpaper-template-photoshop
Is there any way to set up a full image as a wallpaper?
What I mean is, every time I set up a wallpaper I have to go to the "cropping" (the little green square used to select the part of the image desired) process so that the image will fit the resolution.
I wanna know if there is a way to use a full photo like if it was a default wallpaper without cropping it.
I hope this makes sense. Thanks for the support.
Im afraid not You would have better luck with a custom launcher or maybe editing the image on PC/MAC first.
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Use Wallpaper Wizardrii..find it on Google Play and thank me later..
Quickpic from Play store works very well for me...
Open the desired image in Gallery, open the image normally via gallery app, click anywhere on image, and select the option in more to set as Quickpic wallpaper....
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"Image 2 wallpaper" allow you to make that too.
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I didnt know about these apps, you'd think HTC wouldhave the option
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As long as your wallpaper is the correct size (1440 x 1280) you should be just fine.
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Is there any way to set up a full image as a wallpaper?
What I mean is, every time I set up a wallpaper I have to go to the "cropping" (the little green square used to select the part of the image desired) process so that the image will fit the resolution.
I wanna know if there is a way to use a full photo like if it was a default wallpaper without cropping it.
I hope this makes sense. Thanks for the support.
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i read that you have to use a photo editor and make the picture 1440x1280 in size im gonna try it out my self and let you know
just took a picture from a backgroud of a rom the size in that is 960x854
To take into account the scrolling wallpaper, you need the following size wallpapers:
One X: 1440 x 1280 - HD
Atrix: 1080 x 960 qHD
Desire: 960 x 800 or 960 x 854 WVGA
Thank you for that info. Very useful.
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When i am changing my wallpaper trough Personalize/wallpaper/HTC Wallpapers then it puts the image as a wallpaper without cropping it. But when i want to choose an image from the gallery ( 1440x1280 ) then it asks me to crop it. And when i try to set the same image that was not cropped previously, directly from the gallery, it asks me to crop it . I was wondering if there was a way around this without using other apps to do it.
protosot said:
When i am changing my wallpaper trough Personalize/wallpaper/HTC Wallpapers then it puts the image as a wallpaper without cropping it. But when i want to choose an image from the gallery ( 1440x1280 ) then it asks me to crop it. And when i try to set the same image that was not cropped previously, directly from the gallery, it asks me to crop it . I was wondering if there was a way around this without using other apps to do it.
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If you expand the box out all the way, it should give you the WHOLE wallpaper over the screens. It's just asking if you want to choose part or all of the picture.
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If you expand the box out all the way, it should give you the WHOLE wallpaper over the screens. It's just asking if you want to choose part or all of the picture.
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I thought the same actually, but i tried with the stock wallpaper, the one that was on the phone when i got it, and when it crops it. Not a big deal because there are apps that can be used to go around it. It's just weird that we are not able to have the same picture full size as a wallpaper trough the gallery.
Wallpaper Set & Save free in Google Play Store is a good one. I've been using it for years, ever since the old versions of sense where the quality of the image used to be badly reduced if you set the wallpaper and cropped it through the phone's settings. WSS retains the full image quality and doesn't crop.
Really useful. Thanks!
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