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The application I want to talk about is PicSpeed Wallpapers.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...1bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5zcnNkZXYud2FsbHBhcGVycyJd
A promising application which offers pretty good wallpapers, in my opinion. However it is more than a simple wallpaper application... Not special in a sense where it gives you super exam cheating skills (which I so desperately need right now)... but it gives you MUCH better cropping for your wallpapers in the Gallery app .
So how do you use it and how much better is it? Well to use it start by getting a Wallpaper. So once you got that on your phone go ahead and open up the Gallery. Find and tap on the image. Now hit the menu button and select "Set picture as" (on ICS) or whatever you need to click to set a wallpaper. You will notice a pop-up comes up. The normal options would be contact photo and wallpaper (and maybe whatever else you have), but now we are introduced with the option of "Set as Wallpaper" - with the PicSpeed icon beside it. So tap it (of coarse). Underneath the image will be three images. The first (left) crops the image to use just the middle (based on dimensions) and is not a scrollable Wallpaper. The second (middle) gives you the traditional full-use of the wallpaper in a scrollable state. The one that is most interesting is the last (right) option. This one offers a custom crop. Which means you can make the wallpaper scrollable or not and perfectly set the crop to whatever you want. So once you use the right custom option go ahead and hit the set option underneath it to the far right.
I think that is amazing finally a way to break the terrible cropping options the Gallery gave us. At first when PicSpeed released an earlier version the wallpaper would auto resize and mess up the image. They have updated the app since then and I no longer have to re-set the wallpaper on boot. Another bug I noticed is I cannot set a Wallpaper 'properly' with the traditional set wallpaper function my phone offers me, after I use PicSpeed to set a "custom" crop. This is easily fixable. Go into Gallery and the set the wallpaper with PicSpeed (again) with the Wallpaper with the traditional (middle) option. Or you can just reboot your phone, either way works.
Well yeah I just wanted to share this new amazing application with you all . You're welcome all! No more terrible cropping options YAAAAY!
90% of it was written by 309041291a (thanks) in the nexus forum on xda.
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Simpler way
I found that the Galaxy app in the S3 only crops to portrait too. Simplest way I found was to extract the Galaxy2.apk from a Nexus and install it on the S3 (or replace it entirely) and us it to set the background. You then get the portrait and landscape cropping so you can then have a decent scrollable home screen wallpaper.
Ho there gents.
Has this file been uploaded somewere.
I dont have a clue on were to start to obtain this
Overmars_om1 said:
Ho there gents.
Has this file been uploaded somewere.
I dont have a clue on were to start to obtain this
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its in the market, link in first post
gouldy26 said:
its in the market, link in first post
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It is yes,
But Picspeed dose not make it scroll.
Overmars_om1 said:
It is yes,
But Picspeed dose not make it scroll.
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You have to install a different launcher to make the scrollable background work.
May you share that galaxy2.apk please?
Thanks !
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Or quickpic
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I use wallpaper changer to change my wallpaper, doesn't crop and allows for scrollable wallpapers without needing to change anything.
Set wallpaper with Zedge app works great No cropping.
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The most brilliant gallery is "fish bowl photo gallery".check it out, it's in the market and it's. Free,no adds.
Most cool features you're ever seen in a gallery app
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Dawnload ics gallery and you are finished
I dont know if this thread is still active, but I have been running into issues lately with pic speed. I have used it for a while (on my original vibrant) but now im getting issues. Im trying set an image as my background and crop it. Works fine. Crops for me I get it smack dab center and everything is nice. I turn on the scroll function because I just want the static image. Spits out the image and my wallpaper is great, but as soon as I turn the phone into landscape mode, regardless if im in an app or not the image gets distorted and its annoying as balls. Can anyone help me out?
No one know about this app
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...xoDIBA&usg=AFQjCNFv0rDOUgckqV5m9qLt6zcESlfbAw
The best one
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Been lurking for awhile so thanks for all of the great info to date.
I'm having problems with live wallpapers constantly crashing and having my background (home and lock) reset to the default feather image. I tried a search and could not find a related thread.
This is consistently happening with downloaded wallpapers Flurry Pro Live Wallpaper and Plasma Tree. Wallpaper crashes when in various applications and becomes apparent once returning to the home or lock screens. I suspected that my Handcent pop-up notifications were causing it and found a thread elsewhere that said to disable the "blur background" effect but this has not stopped the problem. Verrrry frustrating, any help?
Just me?
I haven't had any problems with stock as well as having a 3rd party one (galaxy amoled). Do you have the ripple effect enabled?
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I've got the very same problem with my unrooted stock GN2.
It seems that LWP downloaded & installed directly from Play Store works,
while the ones I download to my '"SD card" from "other sources", & installed
from within my phone, doesn't. Sometimes they just won't start at all, sometimes
I can configure the LWP but it then revert back to the stock "feathers" background.
This is quite annoying, and I cannot seem to find any solution. So now we are two...
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xartic12 said:
I haven't had any problems with stock as well as having a 3rd party one (galaxy amoled). Do you have the ripple effect enabled?
GNoteII
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Ripple effect is disabled.
The live wallpapers crash whether I have it set as a wallpaper or lock screen / wallpaper.
It's bad enough that I have to reset the live wallpaper at least once a day and now no longer bother.
Anyone else using this with handcent popup notifications?
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I've got the very same problem with my unrooted stock GN2.
It seems that LWP downloaded & installed directly from Play Store works,
while the ones I download to my '"SD card" from "other sources", & installed
from within my phone, doesn't. Sometimes they just won't start at all, sometimes
I can configure the LWP but it then revert back to the stock "feathers" background.
This is quite annoying, and I cannot seem to find any solution. So now we are two...
Regards
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Ding ding ding that's it but mine happen despite where the wallpapers came from (all downloaded directly onto phone).
Wanted to bump it up and see if anyone has been able to solve this.
As we all know that the 4.2.2 update made our phone as fast as the 4.1.2. But it has a bug, at least for Maguro (not happening on my N7). Do you ever get a laggy scrolling on homesceen, when entering app drawer and scrolling in recent apps? I believe everyone has it. But only few people notice it. I have tried all 4.2.2 ROMs. AOSPA, AOKP, PAC, etc and all of them has this bug (I have done a clean flashing). And I have tried all launchers, Nova, Apex, Holo, Action Launcher, Stock, but the lag is still back!
The (systemUI) lag has to do with rendering (static) wallpapers. This can be solved by:
1. Setting a live wallpaper
2. Temporarily, by pressing the app switcher button, rotating the screen and pressing the back button
3. Disabling system autorotate
4. Making the launcher (instead of systemUI) handle the rendering of wallpapers. In Nova launcher, use the 'force scrolling' option, in Trebuchet (CM) use the 'wallpaper quick render' option
5.. Using an app to set static wallpapers as if it were a live wallpaper
Also, emptying cache for all user and system apps using Titanium Backup seems to affect the issue positively. Please note that this might result in some settings being set to stock (like the keyboard, snooze duration and some other minor things).
Well, this is only for temporarily solution for those of you that getting sick of this bug. Waiting for the fix from Google.
Thanks to Butter Smooth for summarizing
Tiny Kernel and Crossbreeder Mod = No lag for me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=37062006
AW: Solution for laggy homescreen and systemUI in 4.2.2 update
I've noticed the choppy transitions in 4.2.2. too and I'm glad I'm not the only one
Another finding is that changing the wallpaper makes the transitions smooth again. But the choppiness returns after a while. I'll try your tip tomorrow and report...
This thread needs closed.
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So, report it.
using xperia z live wallpaper with water ripple and it's free
I have notice this as well. Static wallpapers cause app drawer lag for me and when I use phase beam its lag free! Weird considering live wallpapers usually slow down the system..
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To me 4.2.2 seems the most stable version so far, it's very much consistent, and scrolling in the recent apps menu gets laggy after I scroll a certain amount, and ofc when removing the process it lags, but this was present in 4.2.1 as well, i would have to say that as far as performance say, it's much more consistent than previous versions,
Static wallpaper or live, i see no difference
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im using latest pa (4.2.2) with apex launcher with a few widgets and have no lag whatsoever. i use a solid black color as backround.
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As we all know that the 4.2.2 update made our phone as fast as the 4.1.2. But it has a bug, at least for Maguro (not happening on my N7). Do you ever get a laggy scrolling on homesceen, when entering app drawer and scrolling in recent apps? I believe everyone has it. But only few people notice it. I have tried all 4.2.2 ROMs. AOSPA, AOKP, PAC, etc and all of them has this bug (I have done a clean flashing). And I have tried all launchers, Nova, Apex, Holo, Action Launcher, Stock, but the lag is still back!
And I just found that the lag is gone when I use a livewallpaper. I use the phasebeam and get no lag until now (2 days).
Well, this is only for temporarily solution for those of you that getting sick of this bug. Waiting for the fix from Google.
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There's actually a lot of truth to the live wallpaper trick. Back on the Photon forums, we would use this technique to smoothen out the UI on our ICS and JB releases since we did not have a proper kernel and drivers, thus terrible onscreen performance. But this fix has existed since ICS! And it works!
Regarding the live wallpaper being smooth. It might have something to do with scrolling wallpapers too. How is everyone's feelings on a static, non scrollable wallpaper? Or is that what we are talking about?
I've had the choppyness too.
I am now using plasma beam and will report back. I also am going to try it on my nexus 10.
I'm telling you guys, try out the combo I posted in post 2. It really removes lag.
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Regarding the live wallpaper being smooth. It might have something to do with scrolling wallpapers too. How is everyone's feelings on a static, non scrollable wallpaper? Or is that what we are talking about?
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i use it like that(single homescreen no scroll)and i noticed the same lagging issue after a while
but i think it has to do with how you set the wallpaper, when i used zedge or image2wallpaper to set them the issue stated on the OP appeared
but if i use the stock gallery to set them and the problem is mostly gone
something else ive noticed is that the status bar lag only happens when on the launcher screen, open any app and pull the SB and its smooth, go back to the homescreen and pull it,its choppy
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still happens even after using the stock gallery
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Using plasma live wallpaper. So far so good.
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I've noticed the same problem with 4.2.2 ever since it came out. I usually use Phase Beam so I never noticed it. Only when I switched to a static wallpaper (one of the stock ones) for a day did I notice that the transitions into and out of app drawer and scrolling through home screens gets choppy. I never did find a way to reproduce it reliably, but I do know that if you use it long enough it will start to happen.
Immediately fixes itself by setting to any Live Wallpaper as OP had suggested.
Problem only started to occur with 4.2.2. Never had it happen in 4.2.1 or 4.1.x.
jsgraphicart said:
I'm telling you guys, try out the combo I posted in post 2. It really removes lag.
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Then try to swipe on lockscreen between widgets if you have some. You will notice that the lag is still there, but atleast its a better deal to have it on lockscreen then on homescreen.
greetz
vbauer86 said:
Then try to swipe on lockscreen between widgets if you have some. You will notice that the lag is still there, but atleast its a better deal to have it on lockscreen then on homescreen.
greetz
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I don't know man. I'm either lucky or just not as picky but I don't even notice lag there. I have a few screens of widgets on my lock screen too.
Set a static wallpaper, go back to home screen or lock your device. Then, swipe down the notification bar and notice how choppy it appears.
Now, go inside an application, like Calculator - swipe down the notification bar and notice how smooth it is.
Set a live wallpaper, go back to home screen or lock your device. Then, swipe down the notification bar and notice how smooth it appears.
I don't get it...
akira02rex said:
Set a static wallpaper, go back to home screen or lock your device. Then, swipe down the notification bar and notice how choppy it appears.
Now, go inside an application, like Calculator - swipe down the notification bar and notice how smooth it is.
Set a live wallpaper, go back to home screen or lock your device. Then, swipe down the notification bar and notice how smooth it appears.
I don't get it...
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Ok, I see what you're saying now. It was slightly smoother. Thats odd.
Hey everyone. I just got a M8, like today, and I'm loving it. I've been happily getting all my apps and everything sorted, but I've hit a bit of a problem with Nova Launcher. It's installed, set as default, I've ported across the settings from my old phone (HTC One X, Sense 5, 4.2.2) and everything looks good, except..... For some reason, when I hit the home button I get no animations. Just a little bit of lag and then the screen just switches to default. The Sense 6 launcher, however, does the nice scrolling thing back to my home page, which I want, but Nova doesn't.
I've hit google, found nothing. Tried all the settings I can think of and nothing jumps out at me (the App Animation setting seemed the obvious, but that didn't seem to help). So, has anybody else had this problem? Am I missing something incredibly obvious? Or is this just the way it is with the M8 and the current version of Nova? It's not enough to really annoy me, but the lack of animation is a bit jarring.
Thanks!
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Hey everyone. I just got a M8, like today, and I'm loving it. I've been happily getting all my apps and everything sorted, but I've hit a bit of a problem with Nova Launcher. It's installed, set as default, I've ported across the settings from my old phone (HTC One X, Sense 5, 4.2.2) and everything looks good, except..... For some reason, when I hit the home button I get no animations. Just a little bit of lag and then the screen just switches to default. The Sense 6 launcher, however, does the nice scrolling thing back to my home page, which I want, but Nova doesn't.
I've hit google, found nothing. Tried all the settings I can think of and nothing jumps out at me (the App Animation setting seemed the obvious, but that didn't seem to help). So, has anybody else had this problem? Am I missing something incredibly obvious? Or is this just the way it is with the M8 and the current version of Nova? It's not enough to really annoy me, but the lack of animation is a bit jarring.
Thanks!
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try nova beta http://novalauncher.com/beta/
Te Kaihau said:
Hey everyone. I just got a M8, like today, and I'm loving it. I've been happily getting all my apps and everything sorted, but I've hit a bit of a problem with Nova Launcher. It's installed, set as default, I've ported across the settings from my old phone (HTC One X, Sense 5, 4.2.2) and everything looks good, except..... For some reason, when I hit the home button I get no animations. Just a little bit of lag and then the screen just switches to default. The Sense 6 launcher, however, does the nice scrolling thing back to my home page, which I want, but Nova doesn't.
I've hit google, found nothing. Tried all the settings I can think of and nothing jumps out at me (the App Animation setting seemed the obvious, but that didn't seem to help). So, has anybody else had this problem? Am I missing something incredibly obvious? Or is this just the way it is with the M8 and the current version of Nova? It's not enough to really annoy me, but the lack of animation is a bit jarring.
Thanks!
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If you go to App Animation and set it to Jellybean, this works for me
try nova beta http://novalauncher.com/beta/
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Thanks, but the changelog on the site suggests I'm using the latest version of Nova anyway..
If you go to App Animation and set it to Jellybean, this works for me
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Tried that, but does nothing
It really is weird, especially when I can't find ~anybody~ having the same problem on this device. It's almost like Nova freezes up slightly when it would normally be running the animation, as if it's conflicting with Sense 6 or some way the home button is rigged up.
Bizarre.
Right now, my options are either live with it (it isn't that annoying after all, it just bugs me) or go back to Sense (which runs lovely, but i can't get on with the vertically scrolling app drawer).
Te Kaihau said:
Right now, my options are either live with it (it isn't that annoying after all, it just bugs me) or go back to Sense (which runs lovely, but i can't get on with the vertically scrolling app drawer).
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Are you on Sense or GPE or another ROM?
I use Nova and leave the app animation on system default. The animation works just fine (not to say that you don't have an issue but just to let you know that it should work). Do you have animations on your stock launcher (sense/google now launcher)? If not, then perhaps there is an issue with your device that may require a reset and reinstall?
nycebo said:
Are you on Sense or GPE or another ROM?
I use Nova and leave the app animation on system default. The animation works just fine (not to say that you don't have an issue but just to let you know that it should work). Do you have animations on your stock launcher (sense/google now launcher)? If not, then perhaps there is an issue with your device that may require a reset and reinstall?
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Thanks for your reply.
I'm on Sense, completely stock. Nova was one of the first things to go on when I got the phone too. To be honest, I've just been using the Sense launcher in the last week and I'm getting used to it. Not as nice as nova, but pretty smooth and simple. Now, there are other things about KitKat that are annoying me even more. Really starting to consider rooting, althoughI've never done it before and I'm a little nervous. Maybe I should practice on my One X?
nycebo said:
Are you on Sense or GPE or another ROM?
I use Nova and leave the app animation on system default. The animation works just fine (not to say that you don't have an issue but just to let you know that it should work). Do you have animations on your stock launcher (sense/google now launcher)? If not, then perhaps there is an issue with your device that may require a reset and reinstall?
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Um. Okay. I just switched to Nova and now the animations are working..... No idea what I did. Only thing I can think of is maybe turning off fastboot last night before a reset, although I'm sure I tried that last weekend......
Whatever. Happy now ?
Quick question, I have seen a couple of places how to remove the white frames from around the icons.
Should be Settings > Display > Icon frames.
However in my new T-Mobile Note 7, that option is greyed out. I can't click on it to change the settings.
Has anyone else seen this? I would love some assistance.
Thanks in advance!
Icon Frames - Only for Default Settings
blade061188 said:
Quick question, I have seen a couple of places how to remove the white frames from around the icons.
Should be Settings > Display > Icon frames.
However in my new T-Mobile Note 7, that option is greyed out. I can't click on it to change the settings.
Has anyone else seen this? I would love some assistance.
Thanks in advance!
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I think this option only works if you don't have a custom theme applied. If you switch back to the default theme, the option should be available again.
I've noticed the same thing using default thene.
cary328is said:
I think this option only works if you don't have a custom theme applied. If you switch back to the default theme, the option should be available again.
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Thanks for the reply. I haven't added a theme. the phone is brand new. I tried clicking on the default theme again just to make sure.
Icon frames is still unavailable.
Im having the same issue, and i got mine from tmobile
wahaaab said:
Im having the same issue, and i got mine from tmobile
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Maybe just download a frameless icon pack you like.
Having this problem too. Wonder if it's got to do with the system update that got applied on the first day?
Same possibly here. I'm on T-Mobile with default theme. I would like to remove the frame.
I have only been able to change this setting whike in easy mode (which i don't like). It is greyed out for me in standard mode as well.
Ok, I figured it out. I'm using Nova Launcher and Sammy doesn't like that. I changed to touch wiz for my launcher and suddenly Icon frames are available to change.
I changed back to Nova again afterwards, and the change stuck, so it seems to be a reasonable workaround.
Let me know if this works for you.
I don't have a custom launcher but I do have a theme. I deactivated the theme and it worked. I guess the theme locked the borders on. Sucks.
Yeah so I don't think it's launcher specific but rather theme based. Once you apply a theme it seems to lock in whatever the icon choice was. So I went back to default theme (which opened up the option again), changed to icon only, and then applied my theme again. Now it's locked again, but as icon only.
I have no theme and stock launcher and it is still greyed out. Switched to easy mode, made the change and went back and all is well now.
Dave
Has anyone had any luck removing the frames and using the Google Now Launcher? I can turn it off in TouchWiz and Easy Mode, but as soon as I switch back to Google Now Launcher they come back and the option to turn them off becomes I unavailable.
I might not mind these damned circles if it was consistent, but it only affects about half the app icons and the other half are normal. It's crazy to look at...
Yeah it seems like the only way to get them to stay TRULY off is to use touchwiz, using the standard them.
I know everyone is saying you can switch to off, then go back to what you were on - and it is "locked in off". I agree that it looks this way in the settings.
However the icons clearly have the frames around them still.
I have stuck with touchwiz for how smooth it is, but I think I am going to give up on it.
Also, the only reason why I say its smooth is because my initial setup was with "good lock" (needed to download an apk for that as it doesn't show up in store) and google now launcher and stuff - but there was a decent amount of choppiness and also the battery was not performing to my expectations. So I did a factory reset (which some people say fixes stuff like this) and sure enough, things got better. Battery better, smoothness better. However I have stuck with normal touchwiz since then... been afraid to change it since everything seems better now lol.
I hear you.
I had to try several different icon themes but i found one (that i like) that doesn't leave borders on the rest of the icons. I think it's some sort of default setting that goes unchanged when custom themes are created.
Trial and error. Good thing the Samsung theme store has a preview option. It reduces a lot of hassle.
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Yeah it seems like the only way to get them to stay TRULY off is to use touchwiz, using the standard them.
I know everyone is saying you can switch to off, then go back to what you were on - and it is "locked in off". I agree that it looks this way in the settings.
However the icons clearly have the frames around them still.
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Same here. I ended up going back to TouchWiz mostly because I couldn't stand the weird frames on some of the icons. It's not as good as the Google Now launcher, but it's good enough.
I've been searching for this answer for weeks, finally I found it, nearly started to think my device was faulty.
My option is unavailable and I have stock Rom and launcher.
But this option was available but not anymore. Can't understand why???