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Hi all. I just bought the Galaxy S Vibrant, and I love it. I wanted to change the wallpaper, so I made my own. I crop my pics in Photoshop (960x800) and the sizes come around 500-700KB. I then transfer them onto my phone via Kies. Then when I go into the phone to set the pic as wallpaper, I stretch out the orange crop square to include the full picture, then set as wallpaper. But the pics don't look sharp on the phone. They are not incredibly dull, but they definitely don't look as sharp as I know they are on my computer monitor. And I have a run of the mill $200 computer monitor. Even the factory wallpapers look sharper on the phone. Does anyone know why this is? Great forum, thanks for all the help!
**UPDATE**
Ok so here's what was happening, First off let me just say I finally got reconnected to my PC, don't ask me how, because it took half a day to finally connect, and I have no Idea why it decided to all of a sudden successfully connect to my PC after forever failing to connect. Whatevs....back to the topic at hand. So when I was transferring Pics from Kies to Phone, apparently Kies was compressing the image to save space I guess. I got hooked up as mass storage, looked at the pics on the phone and low and behold my 600+ KB pic was showing to only be a measly 60KB pic on the phone. Big time compression from Kies. So I quickly deleted that garbage off the phone, and instead dragged and dropped my original 600+KB pic on to the phone, it's still at the correct resolution of 960x800, took a look at it on the phone's display and VOILA sheer utter crispness. Just the way it should be. So there you go, DONT USE KIES TO TRANSFER PICS!!! Hope that helps anyone making their own wallpaper. Now to go and see if I can find a solution to this issue of hit and miss with connecting to my PC.
The Samsung i9000 has a resolution of 480x800. If a picture has a different resolution, the phone has to "recalculate" the picture, because the resolutions dont match. At first i would try to change the resolution of the picture to that one of the phone and see if its any better.
Tempott said:
Hi all. I just bought the Galaxy S Vibrant, and I love it. I wanted to change the wallpaper, so I made my own. I crop my pics in Photoshop (960x800) and the sizes come around 500-700KB. I then transfer them onto my phone via Kies. Then when I go into the phone to set the pic as wallpaper, I stretch out the orange crop square to include the full picture, then set as wallpaper. But the pics don't look sharp on the phone. They are not incredibly dull, but they definitely don't look as sharp as I know they are on my computer monitor. And I have a run of the mill $200 computer monitor. Even the factory wallpapers look sharper on the phone. Does anyone know why this is? Great forum, thanks for all the help!
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I tried everything from downloading 2560x1600 images to resizing them in photoshop to no avail - they always looked blurred once set as wallpapers on the SGS. Then I tried an iPad wallpaper(1024x1024) and lo' and behold - 't was sharp!
So to anyone looking for custom wallpapers for the SGS just download the ones meant for the iPad and then use the gallery to set it as wallpaper and you'll have a razor sharp wallpaper.
I allways use my photos (taken from digital camera) as they are, without changing resolution. Touchwiz automatically rezises the images/photos to fit the best way. Never had any blured background.
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TMReuffurth said:
I allways use my photos (taken from digital camera) as they are, without changing resolution. Touchwiz automatically rezises the images/photos to fit the best way. Never had any blured background.
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You must be kidding because on my galaxy they look like utter crap. Are you sure they are sharp(have you compared them to the ones that come pre-installed)?
Exellent tip toss3 with the iPad wallpapers! they are really sharp
Toss3 said:
You must be kidding because on my galaxy they look like utter crap. Are you sure they are sharp(have you compared them to the ones that come pre-installed)?
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Really don´t know what you mean! Every photo i use as background looks exactly as it looks on my Desktop Computer. No blur, no distortion, no unscharpening. They really look like the original!
I don´t understand why they should look different!? When i choose a background Photo or image, the Phone gives me the ability to select the part (with a rectangle) i want to see as my background. So the phone automatically crops the photo. I mean why to crop it manually on the home computer? Doesn´t make any sense.
BTW: i haven´t my SGS rooted and haven´t installed a different Launcher.
if you crop your pictures with the tools for setting wallpapers then i agree they are very poor, very blurry!
i cropped one of these images in PS to that reso, and it looks freekin awsome.
are you saving your PS image properly? max quality etc? .png i think is best also
My wallpapers are sharp, if they are in 960x800. Most of the other walls are also sharp, even they would be 1280x800. There is also an app on the market colled: Wallpaper Set & Save. This keeps the wallpaper sharp, but the walls must be the right resolution, cause it scales it to fit the screen automatic.
Metatron111 said:
The Samsung i9000 has a resolution of 480x800. If a picture has a different resolution, the phone has to "recalculate" the picture, because the resolutions dont match. At first i would try to change the resolution of the picture to that one of the phone and see if its any better.
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Yes resolution of the screen is 480x800, but the wallpaper needs to cover the area of all 7 backgrounds. That makes it an area of 960x800. The factory wallpaper are all 960x800. For instance the factory wallpaper of the kitten is 960x800 and only 178KB in size. My pic I'm using for my wallpaper is a pic I took with my Nikon D90 cropped to 960x800 and downsized to 616KB. My pic definitely looks sharper than any of the factory wallpapers, but once I transfer it to the phone, it loses some the sharpness.
960 by 800 should be the resolution. Any resizing will produce a less than ideal image. I'm not sure why (probably the algorithm used in resizing the image?) but it's one those little things that hopefully gets fixed.
Try sending it via email to yourself instead of using kies, or uploading it via USB drive.
I've never had any problems with custom backgrounds on the phone.
Spybreak said:
Try sending it via email to yourself instead of using kies, or uploading it via USB drive.
I've never had any problems with custom backgrounds on the phone.
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or transfer via bluetooth if the laptop/desktop has that
You can just always send you files from pc to phone via bluetooth, while SGS having gps issue, its bluetooth connectivity rocks!
I had this problem which annoyed the hell outta me. Sure I could resize it, but on a modern phone I think it's quite silly that it's not able to auto adjust it automatically.
To get around manual adjustment, use an app called "Wallpaper Set and Save" from the app store. It will do exactly as you need. It's made my life a hell of a lot easier. Or, you could use a wallpaper app to download and set such as Backgrounds or Flikie Wallpapers which also work a treat.
Personally, I'd recommend getting WSS for setting your own papers, and using Flikie for finding new ones. The interface on Flikie is fantastic (similar to the native gallery app), and the range and quality of wallpapers on it are sensational
Edit: Oh, and just to add, if you want to add custom backgrounds to apps like Handcent, you'll have to manually resize them or you'll face the same crop-expand-horrid quality issues.
Quick question,
I went over the themes section and downloaded a football logo to save as my wallpaper. Well I always have this problem where I would like for the whole picture to be my wallpaper instead of a zoomed in blurred piece of it. I downloaded the Colts logo and you're forced to crop the stupid thing and i get a worthless part of the horseshoe. Is there a way to make it so that it doesn't crop every single image?
Stretch the frame within the picture...tried that?
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still crops it funny
Somebody was asking this earlier, never have any issues stretching the frame to get the full picture..?
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There's always a wallpaper app in the market that will set you wallpaper perfect if you're having issues..
It's called Wallpaper Set & Save I think.
When I was on fresh's rom, or any sense one for that matter, it seemed like when you cropped it, the picture was resized to fit the screen and still had great quality. With cm6, even if stretching the full frame, it zooms in on the picture and gives you a crappy blurred looking wallpaper.
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There's always a wallpaper app in the market that will set you wallpaper perfect if you're having issues..
It's called Wallpaper Set & Save I think.
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Downloaded one that worked quite well. Don't know why I didn't think of this. Thanks!
jkinnison90 said:
There's always a wallpaper app in the market that will set you wallpaper perfect if you're having issues..
It's called Wallpaper Set & Save I think.
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Interesting, thanks! For future purposes but setting a wp seems just the same with CM6 as before. Strangeness. :confusedface:
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At this point I don't even care if it will play a slideshow. I just want it to scale properly to a 5x4 area and not have blurry pics.
Try "Photo Frame Deluxe" by Big Ideas Software. It's in the market.
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Try "Photo Frame Deluxe" by Big Ideas Software. It's in the market.
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Didn't show up when I searched. I'm pretty sure my protected apps are showing.
Launcher pro plus had a great picture frame widget!
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Android Photo Widget
There is a free version and a paid for $2.
I just found it the other day. I think its fairly new.
Choice of various frames or no frame, sideshow from specific folders or all pics, choose how often to change pics.
It has a limited selection of widget sizes so its best paired with a launcher that resizes widgets like ADW EX or LP.
It does an excellent job rendering the pics. I think I'm going to go with the pro version.
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I use "Big Photo Frame", works perfectly. Has the options for 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, and even if you use adw, you can still resize to your homescreens layout and it'll look proper.
And if so, what the hell does the live tile do?
It says live tile in the options but there are no notifications that I've ever seen.
Anyone care to shed light on this?
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And if so, what the hell does the live tile do?
It says live tile in the options but there are no notifications that I've ever seen.
Anyone care to shed light on this?
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Yes I use it.
The live tile is supposed to show your profile picture and number of new messages.
love motweets but don't have live tiles turned on. My live tiles haven't worked in about a week and the only solution I have found is a hard reset which I don't to do until the nodo update (phone backup).
live tiles for moTweets for me. I see the number of mentions/dm's i get. but its pretty ugly. my 1st twitter choice is still birdsong. live tile coming soon.
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live tiles for moTweets for me. I see the number of mentions/dm's i get. but its pretty ugly. my 1st twitter choice is still birdsong. live tile coming soon.
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it is my standard tweeter app but live tiles dont go just show my photo profile no more i just like the way to beezz show the notification number
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live tiles for moTweets for me. I see the number of mentions/dm's i get. but its pretty ugly. my 1st twitter choice is still birdsong. live tile coming soon.
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The white MoTweets theme looks nice.
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The white MoTweets theme looks nice.
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I think Motweet is the ugliest designed twitter app I've ever seen of a mobile phone. Beezz on the other hand is over designed (i hate landing pages just take me directly to my timeline!)
Hence the reason I use the official twitter client and Seemic
I have to agree on the moTweets being ugly comment. It has none of the feel or beauty of the metro UI. It reminds me of an iOS app.
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ditto....I'm still stuck between 3 twitter apps...Rowi, birdsong and twitt....motweets is lacking the looks department greatly....
Well basically I use Twitter native which serves well.
As for MoTweets, I don't look for design - just for me, less graphics the better.
The white theme is just enough and this client has a good pictures display support plus built in browser for links.
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ditto....I'm still stuck between 3 twitter apps...Rowi, birdsong and twitt....motweets is lacking the looks department greatly....
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ditto! I wish I could combine the best aspects of all three...
Motweets beats bezz which I used to use because everything is all there. The less swiping the better. That and it's faster.
Agree. I'm so over the swiping from side to side, especially with how sensitive Microsoft made the touchscreens and the inability to change the touchscreen sensitivity or threshold for pane switching. There's just no playroom there. Any app that doesn't swipe side to side is better than one that does by default to me at this point.
I would buy this app but the facebook integration doesn't work, so I think ill stick with beezz
Huh, I've enjoyed using motweets. Using just the black metro UI, it looks fine to me. And it blows the others away in functionality.
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Is there a way to make the lockscreen wallpaper good quality like the homescreen one? It seems the lockscreen is allways a lower quality, also while im at it is there a status bar transparency mod for jedi x?
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Turning off "Ripple Effect" in Lock Screen Option will make lockscreen quality same as home screen. Of course, you won't have anymore ripple effect or ink effect but oh well
That gets rid of those dark blotches on the ls as well.
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make sure the wallpaper you're using is the right resolution, if you crop the photo it will stretch to fit and ruin quality
Finally found a thread where I can help out! Okay, so I have this problem ALL the time; not only is it a big deal finding photos with the right resolution for this gigantic phone but it is also a pain setting up the wallpaper because you're only subjected to a certain size by the system. Here is how I found my ways across this problem.
1. Use wallpaper wizardrii here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twistedapps.wallpaperwizardrii
Use this app to stretch the wallpaper to fit your launcher.
2. If your photo is too small of a resolution to where it'd look like a Super Mario SNES game on your background use this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.niksoftware.snapseed
Snapseed not only has a sexy UI but is very reliable and I use it for low resolution photos. Now what you do for things like this is adjust the sharpness of the photo, not to where it looks like it was drawn by a pencil but to where the blurs disappear. I also adjust the contrast and saturate my photos but only when it's a sexy wallpaper.
Finally, and this is the last of all resorts.. use Photoshop for your computer and literally adjust almost every single pixel to resize your wallpaper to a newer and bigger size. This is my last resort ever, I've done this once, it took 6 hours for that to be fixed and I'll never do that ever again.
If all else fails Google is your bestest friend or you can go here: http://www.wallbase.cc
Hit that thanks button! I wish you the best of luck in your wallpaper quest!
frostyroot said:
Finally found a thread where I can help out! Okay, so I have this problem ALL the time; not only is it a big deal finding photos with the right resolution for this gigantic phone but it is also a pain setting up the wallpaper because you're only subjected to a certain size by the system. Here is how I found my ways across this problem.
1. Use wallpaper wizardrii here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twistedapps.wallpaperwizardrii
Use this app to stretch the wallpaper to fit your launcher.
2. If your photo is too small of a resolution to where it'd look like a Super Mario SNES game on your background use this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.niksoftware.snapseed
Snapseed not only has a sexy UI but is very reliable and I use it for low resolution photos. Now what you do for things like this is adjust the sharpness of the photo, not to where it looks like it was drawn by a pencil but to where the blurs disappear. I also adjust the contrast and saturate my photos but only when it's a sexy wallpaper.
Finally, and this is the last of all resorts.. use Photoshop for your computer and literally adjust almost every single pixel to resize your wallpaper to a newer and bigger size. This is my last resort ever, I've done this once, it took 6 hours for that to be fixed and I'll never do that ever again.
If all else fails Google is your bestest friend or you can go here: http://www.wallbase.cc
Hit that thanks button! I wish you the best of luck in your wallpaper quest!
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Big thank you:thumbup:
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Thanks for replys!
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