So today I came across a interesting problem.
I took a screen shot of my screen using the power+volume down combo.
I wanted to set that picture as my wallpaper but the gallery app would not allow me to crop the full size photo. It only covers about 1/3 of the photo.
How is this happening if I took the photo from the phone, which is the exact same screen size? Is this an issue with the gallery app?
I'm running cm9 kang w/ Franco kernel.
So could this be a trebuchet issue?
Please help and thanks in advanced
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If you want to be able to use the entire picture as your Wallpaper it should be cropped/resized to 1440x1280, or any other size with exactly the same aspect ratio.
Edit: My apologies, i misread screenshot as camera shot. The rest applies though. Basically you have a 720x1280 image that needs to be 1440x1280 to set it as a Wallpaper. You can do this using Multipicture Live Wallpaper from the Market:
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.tamanegi.wallpaper.multipicture
bluemoon1221 said:
So today I came across a interesting problem.
I took a screen shot of my screen using the power+volume down combo.
I wanted to set that picture as my wallpaper but the gallery app would not allow me to crop the full size photo. It only covers about 1/3 of the photo.
How is this happening if I took the photo from the phone, which is the exact same screen size? Is this an issue with the gallery app?
I'm running cm9 kang w/ Franco kernel.
So could this be a trebuchet issue?
Please help and thanks in advanced
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The wallpaper resolution is 2x the screen width by the screen height -- that is, 1440 x 1280. If you notice, when scrolling on your homescreen, the wallpaper moves. Hence, the wallpaper is larger than the screen size, so a screenshot isn't going to fit the required wallpaper aspect ratio.
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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.
voodoochild2008 said:
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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Ok so I have ADWLauncher and I've disabled wallpaper scrolling (I HATE WPS) and I can not find a simple method of using a photo as my desktop wallpaper that does not end up with the photo stretched across my home screens (I even killed all the extra home screens).
I've read all about the appropriate size for wallpapers (ex: 960x800) and re-sizing my image then expanding the canvas size, etc... but nothing seems to work. Anyone out there have any suggestions?
the only method i have gotten to work is resizing the picture and then expanding canvas. it can be a little tricky depending on how many screens youhave set. I personally only use 2 so i had the picture at (960x400) and then put it on a canvas of 960x800 this way when it stretched it was exactly right for 1 screen. doing this and turning off scrolling wall paper and it worked
Even when I remove all screens except the primary one it still "acts" as if there are more. What size should I use (for canvas) if I use 3 screens?
It should always be 960x800 regardless of the number of desktops. More desktops just scroll to the side less each swipe (under normal circumstances).
Download the app "wallpaper set and save "
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+1 on wallpaper set and save, it lets you set wallpapers at full res without cropping. must have for any rom
Success100 said:
+1 on wallpaper set and save, it lets you set wallpapers at full res without cropping. must have for any rom
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Weird I downloaded this and it still does not show me the entire pic. Gonna reflash a fresh ROM to see.
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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Not sure if anyone has noticed this, but I loaded several 720 x 1280 images onto my phone and set them as wallpapers on my home screen. I noticed that the image is not as sharp as when I view them in the gallery. I made sure it's not zoomed or anything, just that certain details in the picture are not as sharp until I click on the gallery app and view it in the gallery. Anyone notice this? or am I just being too nit-picky?
I was about to post the same thing. Not just the wallpaper, the icons are not sharp too. Somebody suggested to use a custom launcher but i like TW launcher
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Yeah, I'm already using Nova Launcher, and still having same problem ... anyone can help us with this?
Lol, the default system for setting wallpaper in Android is crap. It decreases quality drastically.
And Nova has wallpaper cropping issue, so it will be more worse than TW.
Solution: Use Wallpaper Wizardii to set wallpapers.
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mark_ol said:
Not sure if anyone has noticed this, but I loaded several 720 x 1280 images onto my phone and set them as wallpapers on my home screen. I noticed that the image is not as sharp as when I view them in the gallery. I made sure it's not zoomed or anything, just that certain details in the picture are not as sharp until I click on the gallery app and view it in the gallery. Anyone notice this? or am I just being too nit-picky?
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the same problem irritated me,mate here is the trick that worked for me,open the wallpaper in gallery--zoom it to cover ur whole screen n then take a screenshot,now set that screenshot as the wallpaper ,the sharpness will stay...ya i know u will end up with getting a potrait wallpaper but....n one more thing dnt forget to download the picspeed software,while setting the wallpaper select the PICSPEED n click the potrait mode...by the way m using go launcher
Same here
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sajadkhan806 said:
the same problem irritated me,mate here is the trick that worked for me,open the wallpaper in gallery--zoom it to cover ur whole screen n then take a screenshot,now set that screenshot as the wallpaper ,the sharpness will stay...ya i know u will end up with getting a potrait wallpaper but....n one more thing dnt forget to download the picspeed software,while setting the wallpaper select the PICSPEED n click the potrait mode...by the way m using go launcher
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thanks mate it worked for me..sry cnt thank,m out of thanks...may be tmrw
jujuburi said:
Lol, the default system for setting wallpaper in Android is crap. It decreases quality drastically.
And Nova has wallpaper cropping issue, so it will be more worse than TW.
Solution: Use Wallpaper Wizardii to set wallpapers.
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Cheers for the advice on the app mate working great
I had the same issue with my Motorola Xoom. I used the app 'Multi picture live wallpaper' which solved my problem. I imagine I'll be using the same app when I get my phone tomorrow.
I've tried 2560x1600 and 1600x2560 wallpapers but they look off if I tilt the tablet to portrait or landscape.
So, what resolution should I use?
2560x2560 The wallpaper app shifts to keep the image oriented properly that's why it clips off when switching orientation. When I started off with a larger image I was able to choose a "+" shaped section so it would fill the background at full resolution in both orientations.
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Thank you.
I still couldn't find an ideal wallpaper. Even 4K ones are short on horizontal pixels.
Run_dawn10 said:
Thank you.
I still couldn't find an ideal wallpaper. Even 4K ones are short on horizontal pixels.
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y u no try 8k wallpaper