Hello all,
I was just wondering one thing, as this happened to me whenever I tried an AOSP rom on both my SGS i9000, Captivate, and now my Desire HD.
When I have the stock rom on, or a sense rom, when I choose a picture as my wallpaper, or a picture to set in a picture frame widget, the box that pops up to crop the picture to fit your screen is a rectangle. A horizontal rectangle for wallpapers, which is correct, and a vertical rectangle for the picture frame widget, which is also just right.
In every version of CM7 I've used, or other AOSP-like roms on other phones, the crop boxes for setting wallpapers and picture frame widgets are Square instead of rectangles. I've asked in the CM7 thread, and someone replied to me saying they don't have that problem.
- Why does it occur?
- Could I be doing something wrong? I always use / flash the "Full Wipe" zip after factory resetting before I flash a rom to remove everything.
In short: Crop Boxes in CM7 are Square instead of Rectangle in Sense. Rectangles are what I want, as they make the pictures set crisp and perfect, instead of horrible and stretch / contorted.
Thanks again.
Anyone?
I know not everyone is experiencing this, what could be wrong?
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How do I get a full picture to set as my wallpaper? Whenever I try to use a picture from a different source other than what came on my phone it crops only a part of the picture even when I make the crop expand to its largest I loose alot of my picture. I sent wallpapers to my phone that specifically say they are for the Droid Incredible. I want the whole picture. Is their a way to do this? Thanx.
Images that are best suitable for use as wallpapers on the Incredible, without loosing any to the sides, should be 960x800 pixels or 1.2/1 pixel ratio.
Ok I have been looking everywhere and can't seem to find a app that will set the wallpaper as is without cropping or cutting the edges off. I know the best resolution is 960x800 but it still cuts off parts of the picture. I've tried wallpaper set and save and a host of other apps from market and various android freeware sites. None of them seem to set them right, any help would be highly appreciated. I have an HTC evo running cyanogen 6.1 stable and everything is so far so good and I want to thank this website because without it I was lost. This is my number 1 forum so I know ill get the answer, its out their please help me find it. Thanks in advance!!
flikie wallpapers hd is about the best ive seen at this. it still crops but i keeps most of the image quality
Only thing I can think of is to take the photo you want, make the actual photo whatever the screen resolution is (480x800 from what I've read) with black bars on the side to make the entire picture file 960x800. Then use launcher pro to freeze the background so it doesnt move when you swipe. Your picture should be centered.
When you select the image for a wallpaper, you see that little box in the center? Drag outwards on one of its edges.
dkelle4 said:
Only thing I can think of is to take the photo you want, make the actual photo whatever the screen resolution is (480x800 from what I've read) with black bars on the side to make the entire picture file 960x800. Then use launcher pro to freeze the background so it doesnt move when you swipe. Your picture should be centered.
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Thank you all for the speedy replies, I see what your saying. I have my desktop set to have only one screen already, but I went and got launcherpro cause of its features. But yea I downloaded a few pictures before that were 480x800 and it had the black bars on the sides but when I set it, it cuts off the head and feet, 960x800 however does not, it only cuts just a little off the sides. I'm guessing now that the picture is to wide and I wanted to know if I could make a picture keep its height and change its width. I don't know maybe keep the height from the 960x800 setup and the width from the 480x800 setup if that's possible.
My friends, friend has his set up so that when he sets a wallpaper it gives him the option to set as is, to crop, and i think the other one was to cut it. I don't know if its a application or if its the firmware (like cyanogen i mean) he uses, I would ask but he lives very far a few cities over. I have been combing the internet for this app or whatever, and I'm fairly new to android phones, but I got a pretty good history with computers so that definitely helps. But this one seems to be a common problem with a somewhat easy fix. Any ideas?
Are you sure you didn't mix up the 2 sizes lol. 960x800, and not 800x960. Not trying to be a jerk or anything, but I've done that before using Photoshop.
Hi, Just installed MIUI and i have a strange issue never had before with CM or Sense.
When I select a picture to use as wallpaper and decide to crop to fit, it uses a scaled version of the picture, therefore the quality is reeeeeally bad!
Changing wallpaper like everyday, this is getting annoying....
Any ideas how to fix this?
(just remembering i never had this problem with sense before)
Thanks
I recently got an Epic 4G Touch. I created some custom wallpapers and sized them to 480x800 to match the screen's resolution. The wallpaper has a single object (the HAL 9000 eye) which is a circle.
When I use the wallpaper as the lock screen, the eye is distorted slightly so that it's no longer a circle.
The gallery displays the image properly and the selection screen for the lock screen also displays it correctly.
I think I can compensate for this by resizing the image slightly, but I don't know how many pixels to remove from the image. I think the status bar might be a good starting point, but I don't know how many vertical pixels it uses.
Thoughts?
Lobo Droid said:
I recently got an Epic 4G Touch. I created some custom wallpapers and sized them to 480x800 to match the screen's resolution. The wallpaper has a single object (the HAL 9000 eye) which is a circle.
When I use the wallpaper as the lock screen, the eye is distorted slightly so that it's no longer a circle.
The gallery displays the image properly and the selection screen for the lock screen also displays it correctly.
I think I can compensate for this by resizing the image slightly, but I don't know how many pixels to remove from the image. I think the status bar might be a good starting point, but I don't know how many vertical pixels it uses.
Thoughts?
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Because of wallpaper scrolling, you need 800x960 wallpaper. In other words, double the horizontal dimension to allow for scrolling...
My wallpaper doesn't scroll anymore, I'm not sure why.
nabbed said:
Because of wallpaper scrolling, you need 800x960 wallpaper. In other words, double the horizontal dimension to allow for scrolling...
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I tried creating an 800x960 wallpaper using the same eye image and it didn't work. I used GIMP to create a black background image and then inserted the eye image as a new layer. The 480x800 images I created were done with the same method.
The 800x960 wallpaper is still distorted. So the problem is that the aspect ratio of the lock screen is not quite 480x800 or any multiple of those dimensions.
Through some experimentation, I think that changing the vertical dimension to something less than 800 seems to work. For example, I took my original 480x800 image and cropped 30 pixels off to make an image of 480x770. I then resized the image back to 480x800 while ignoring the aspect ratio. This results in a distorted eye, but the distortion is in the opposite direction. (The 480x800 wallpaper is distorted in the horizontal dimension. The 480x770 resized image is distorted in the vertical dimension.)
The 480x770 image is slightly less distorted so I think this might be the way to go. Short of guessing the right dimensions, I was hoping for a way to determine the best dimensions to use.
To help anyone else reading this thread, I'm attaching the wallpapers I've created. Feel free to download them and try them out.
galaxytabevo said:
My wallpaper doesn't scroll anymore, I'm not sure why.
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I think I read somewhere here that the latest Samsung stock update disabled the scrolling wallpaper.
home screen or lock screen?
Lock screen does not scroll.
For home screen you need 800x960 image or you may need to adjust your original 800x480 image to 400x480 and double the pixel size.
To scroll the home screen wallpaper, you need to change the option to make it scroll.
kobridge said:
home screen or lock screen?
Lock screen does not scroll.
For home screen you need 800x960 image or you may need to adjust your original 800x480 image to 400x480 and double the pixel size.
To scroll the home screen wallpaper, you need to change the option to make it scroll.
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I'm working on the lock screen. With most wallpapers, the difference in the aspect ratio is likely not noticeable. I just happen to see it because my lock screen image has only one component and it's very easy to see when it's distorted.
Lobo Droid said:
I think I read somewhere here that the latest Samsung stock update disabled the scrolling wallpaper.
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This really sucks. I also miss the bounce effect on the browser/when you reach the end of a menu. Was it due to the Apple lawsuit?
I'm not sure if this has been covered before, i've had a good search and it brings up no similar questions so thought it was time to ask..
Whenever i save a new image from the net and transfer it to my DHD with the idea of saving it as my homescreen wallpaper, or try and open it in either Quickpic, or ES File Explorer, i always get the resize box to crop the image to fit... But i don't want to crop it, i just want it to look on the home screen as it does on the preview screen that it's showing me, but obviously without the white outline crop box.. If i try and crop as little as possible, to try and save most of the image, it just zooms up huge and is pointless..
Can this be done?? Have i overlooked some settings? Does it have to be a certain pixel size in order for it not to crop?? I have some nice images but would like to see it all on the screen, not just half of it..
It needs to be same aspect ratio. Then you can remove cropping area by enlarging selection.
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