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[Q] Is it possible to improve wallpaper resolution?

Ive got this beautiful wallpaper here that I want to use with MattedBlue setup I am working on but I cant get over the blurry the picture quality looks on my phone. Is it possible to improve the quality for picture? Any knowledge anybody can drop on me would be much appreciated!

use wallpaper set and save from the market to set wallpapers at full res instead of having to crop

Thanks Success. I actually do not have to crop this picture at all... the dimensions are perfect so WSS didnt make much difference. So I guess there is no way to improve image quality?

titans10 said:
Thanks Success. I actually do not have to crop this picture at all... the dimensions are perfect so WSS didnt make much difference. So I guess there is no way to improve image quality?
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It's because that wallpaper has a gradient which is made up of more colors than the 65k the EVO screen can handle..
Yes, WSS is better than the N1 3D Gallery app and better than the Sense Gallery app, but there's still a hardware limitation, unfortunately.
I've compared some of my wallpapers on my EVO to one of my friend's PalmPre and another friend's Epic 4G and I was blown away.
Some people say they can't see the difference.
I work with graphics all day so I notice all the banding and lack of colors and everything else.
Nonetheless, the EVO screen is still excellent, color capacity notwithstanding.

typeadam said:
It's because that wallpaper has a gradient which is made up of more colors than the 65k the EVO screen can handle..
Yes, WSS is better than the N1 3D Gallery app and better than the Sense Gallery app, but there's still a hardware limitation, unfortunately.
I've compared some of my wallpapers on my EVO to one of my friend's PalmPre and another friend's Epic 4G and I was blown away.
Some people say they can't see the difference.
I work with graphics all day so I notice all the banding and lack of colors and everything else.
Nonetheless, the EVO screen is still excellent, color capacity notwithstanding.
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Well that sucks But thanks sooo much for the response typeadam. I learned something today lol. Off I go to continue my quest of finding a perfect wallpaper to go with my MattedBlues theme!

NOTE: I was able to find a higher resolution picture of the image i posted above that looks much better on our Evos. Anyone who is interested, PM me and I'll get the wallpaper to ya

[Q] Nexus S Live Wall Papper On Galaxy Nexus Resolution

Since the Galaxy Nexus has a larger screen and a high resolution, does this mean my pre-existing live wallpapers won't look as sharp?

dman777 said:
Since the Galaxy Nexus has a larger screen and a high resolution, does this mean my pre-existing live wallpapers won't look as sharp?
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My old 480x800 wallpapers look just fine

Wallpapers that really bring out the HD screen

I thought I'd start a thread on wallpapers that really make you go 'wow' when you look at the screen.. They have to be at least 720p of course and preferably blend in well with the icons/ICS theme.
Allow me to start:
Edit: Added HD zipped version.

Nice! I just set it as my wallpaper.

There's some nice ones in the apps and themes forum. I think the title of the thread is something like black and bright colors wallpapers
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Here are a couple i have used on mine that i found on the net... they are both nice and sharp. The one with the blue cubes match perfect with the colors of the ICS theme...
EDIT: Someone made a good point that the forum compressed the images.. I updated them with the higher res versions of the images... look much better.

GinoSylum said:
Here are a couple i have used on mine that i found on the net... they are both nice and sharp. The one with the blue cubes match perfect with the colors of the ICS theme...
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The one with the blue cubes is great.

Red really pops on the screen. The Star Fish looks amazing

More. I have tons

None of these posted are high enough resolution for the screen. They should be sized to 1440 x 1280, and if you add them as attachments, you should add the originals to a ZIP archive before uploading, so that the forum does not compress them.
I've attached a few I've collected.

Here are some more

Phase Beam Still Image

Hey guys,
I did some searching and couldn't seem to find a "Phase Beam" Live Wallpaper STILL image. I like the design of it, but don't care for the live wallpaper aspect. Any way I can get a HD image from the live wallpaper? Thanks in advance.
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don't think theres any way to do it. closest thing would be a launcher that removes the statusbar and is totally blank and someone just takes a screen shot, but then you'd also need a custom launcher since you'd need to set no scrolling to get it to work.

Found one:
http://kovdev.com/images/wall_phasebeam.jpg
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and i'll just shut up now lol.
only downside to that is that it's a little small for the Gnex. our wallpapers need to be minimum smallest size 1200. thats 960. so you may notice some loss in quality. or possibly not. the advantage of the high DPI sometimes makes low resolution images still look good on the screen.

Shouldn't our wallpapers be 1280x720 or 1200x720 at least?
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i've seen many people say that if you want the best quality you need 1200+ on all sides.
possibly something to do with how android crops it. I've yet to try anything below 1200.
keep in mind, that though the actual on screen resolution is 720 wide by 1280 high, the real wallpaper resolution is 1480 wide by 1280 high because of how android handles wallpapers. so anything smaller will be lower quality.

neok44 said:
i've seen many people say that if you want the best quality you need 1200+ on all sides.
possibly something to do with how android crops it. I've yet to try anything below 1200.
keep in mind, that though the actual on screen resolution is 720 wide by 1280 high, the real wallpaper resolution is 1480 wide by 1280 high because of how android handles wallpapers. so anything smaller will be lower quality.
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I did not know that. Thanks for clarifying though.
Edit: Wait, did you get those mixed up? Shouldn't it be 1480x1280? Not 1280x1480.
You see, I only have one homescreen. So, I don't know if that matters. There obviously isn't any wallpaper scrolling.

natezire71 said:
I did not know that. Thanks for clarifying though.
Edit: Wait, did you get those mixed up? Shouldn't it be 1480x1280? Not 1280x1480.
You see, I only have one homescreen. So, I don't know if that matters. There obviously isn't any wallpaper scrolling.
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yeah probably.
height should be 1280 and width should be 1480.
even if you have one homescreen, android still wants to crop a square wallpaper. thats been the issue since the G1. so if you want a portrait image, you need to use a third party app.
now, if your using a custom launcher then thats another story, as some when you disable wallpaper scrolling it gives you a crop for a single screen.

1080 x 1920 Bootanimation

I've been looking for a new bootanimation for my Xperia Z for some time now, but I can't find one with the right resolution...
Can anyone make some for 1080 x 1920 resolution?
I guess I'm not the only one wanting something new!
Stock 434.
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My experience with 1080x1920 BA's has been hit or miss as far as them playing smooth. I've been using 720x1280 ones. They look great and play flawless.
Ps. When I do the 720x1280 ones, I edit the desc.txt and change the resolution to 1080x1920. So, it's using 720x1280 images, but playing them full screen.

Mi|enko said:
My experience with 1080x1920 BA's has been hit or miss as far as them playing smooth. I've been using 720x1280 ones. They look great and play flawless.
Ps. When I do the 720x1280 ones, I edit the desc.txt and change the resolution to 1080x1920. So, it's using 720x1280 images, but playing them full screen.
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Your idea is good but how bout quality huh?
I'm pretty sure the quality isn't the one which he wants
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sadiq23 said:
Your idea is good but how bout quality huh?
I'm pretty sure the quality isn't the one which he wants
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Quality's just fine IMO. I mean, it's only a 5 inch screen. Most people can't tell the difference between 720p and 1080p on a 42+" TV from only a few feet away. 720p images stretched to 1080p on a 5" screen, the likelihood of noticing any artificating or anything is pretty slim. Now, if you were to just grab one of the BA's apps in the play store and try to use ones from that, you'd be lucky to find a phone model one over 480x800, so those will probably look like crap.
Also, you can use much higher quality images and play the animation smooth when they're 720x1280; however, when you have the images at 1080x1920 you really have to sacrifice the quality of each from to get the file size down. . . and it's still rough getting it to play smooth.

Mi|enko said:
Quality's just fine IMO. I mean, it's only a 5 inch screen. Most people can't tell the difference between 720p and 1080p on a 42+" TV from only a few feet away. 720p images stretched to 1080p on a 5" screen, the likelihood of noticing any artificating or anything is pretty slim. Now, if you were to just grab one of the BA's apps in the play store and try to use ones from that, you'd be lucky to find a phone model one over 480x800, so those will probably look like crap.
Also, you can use much higher quality images and play the animation smooth when they're 720x1280; however, when you have the images at 1080x1920 you really have to sacrifice the quality of each from to get the file size down. . . and it's still rough getting it to play smooth.
Ironically, I spent the better part of Q1 of this year working on boot animations and optimizing them for work. So this is stuff I learned on the job.
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Well thanx for your info:thumbup:
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I will try!
Thx
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