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[Q] set wallpaper w/o cropping?

I'm working on a new homescreen set up for my epic, and i've taken a bunch of inspiration from here. I've got my new dock how I want it, but my problem is the damn wallpaper.
i have a .png at 480px x 800px but the phone keeps forcing me to crop it. I need it to be full resolution and not scroll (which i have told LP to prevent).
How can i accomplish this?
(I'll throw in the wallpaper just for funsies...)

multipicture live wallpaper will do what you want

digger44 said:
multipicture live wallpaper will do what you want
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I've been testing that today; but i'm not happy with the results.
for starters, its slow. sometimes its as many as 10sec before my wallpaper renders (which defeats the shortcuts I built into it).
also, the registration is off. it isn't a complete deal breaker, but i spent a good bit of time tweaking the layout in Illustrator, so i want it to be *how* i designed it...
(screens attached for clarity)

Change the image size to 960x800. Wont have to crop.

I ran into the cropping thing when I first got my Epic, too. If you tap-hold in the cropping area, IIRC, you can drag it to expand the area it's using for cropping.
Just drag the cropping area's corners so it covers the entire 960x800 image, and you're good. =)

SemiGamer said:
Change the image size to 960x800. Wont have to crop.
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awesome. that got me where i needed to be!

riotkid976 said:
awesome. that got me where i needed to be!
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Your welcome
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Wallpaper! Wallpaper! Wallpaper!

The land of Honeycomb wallpapers is not heavily populated at the moment. There are bits and pieces scattered about out there, but I thought I might be handy to have a central place to keep some.
I am finding that 1920x1408 is the best size for wallpaper on my Iconia.
Attached a some that I have collected from all over the place. I cannot take credit for this work. Full credit must be given to those smart folk out there who created this work and were kind enough to share it. THANKS!
**Note: Images from this post and the next post can be downloaded from here.
By the way, so as to avoid posts blowing out to enormous sizes, if you would like to share your wallpaper (and I encourage you to do so )
please use the 'attach' feature so that a thumbnail is displayed rather than inserting/embedding the full size image.
A zipped file of the high res copy, or a link to an image sharing site is also handy for people to download.

More wallpapers ...

Very cool! Thanks Franwella

Thanks for these

Thanks for the wonderful wallpapers
I installed a couple but no matter how I crop, the picture is zoomed in on the screen.

FletchGeek said:
I installed a couple but no matter how I crop, the picture is zoomed in on the screen.
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How did you download the files?
Make sure the images are 1920x1408.
To do this, don't 'right click and save' on the images in this thread.
Instead, go to the Picasa link in the first post, select the image you would like, then click download (tool bar above the pic).

great
i dl all

cajl said:
great
i dl all
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Excellent! Enjoy!

Great, how do I get these into the Wallpaper folder as that one does not need to crop.

Thanks for this my friend. I have just purchased the iconia 32gb and am on the look out for bits to do to it lol.

Dark Wood
"Dark Wood" has been my wallpaper on all of my devices:
http://zygat3r.deviantart.com/art/Dark-Wood-58266349
I have yet to find a more subtle, understated wallpaper. It looks great on anything from a 21" monitor, to my A500, to my OG Droid.

OK, I dug into my wallpaper collection and picked a few goodies. I have resized them according to the original posters suggestion of 1920 x 1408 pixels. Some were downsized, some were upscaled, I tried my best to maintain proportions and aesthetics by some smart cropping were it was applicable.
Enjoy. There should be something for everyone.
Copyrightwise this it free commons stuff (free of rights). It has been grabbed mainly from artists subscribing to this free commons on Deviantart or on 4chans /wallpaper section. I hope the forum will not make any image dimension changes.
If you want to quickly grab them all in a piece download the archive here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16907038/walls iconia/walls iconia.rar

More of the same

psych0t1c said:
more of the same
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Maybe I find some more good ones tmw. Enjoy and remember it never hurts to hit the thankyou button.

bhageman said:
"Dark Wood" has been my wallpaper on all of my devices:
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That's really effective. I bet that looks fab with some customised icons.
psych0t1c said:
OK, I dug into my wallpaper collection and picked a few goodies. I have resized them according to the original posters suggestion of 1920 x 1408 pixels. Some were downsized, some were upscaled, I tried my best to maintain proportions and aesthetics by some smart cropping were it was applicable.
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Brilliant!
Thanks for all these. They're fabulous!

water live wallpaper from the Asus Transformer
I don't know if anyone is interested in the live wallpaper of the rising water with icecubes from the Asus Transformer. it works good and it seems the level of of water corresponds to the amount of battery the Iconia has left, which I like.
I tried to post the link, but it's not allowed till I post a few more times. But anyone interested can just google "asus transformer live walpaper apk." The first link brought me to the right page.
After you download use "My water_signed.apk."
I love my Iconia, but the Asus live wallpaper is pretty cool.

I have made a simple wallpaper. Contains parts of my Boot animation you can find here
Bootanimation

Ahmazin said:
I don't know if anyone is interested in the live wallpaper of the rising water with icecubes from the Asus Transformer. it works good and it seems the level of of water corresponds to the amount of battery the Iconia has left, which I like.
I tried to post the link, but it's not allowed till I post a few more times. But anyone interested can just google "asus transformer live walpaper apk." The first link brought me to the right page.
After you download use "My water_signed.apk."
I love my Iconia, but the Asus live wallpaper is pretty cool.
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Thx for the hint, very cool live wallpaper! I've installed it immediately

Ahmazin said:
I don't know if anyone is interested in the live wallpaper of the rising water with icecubes from the Asus Transformer. it works good and it seems the level of of water corresponds to the amount of battery the Iconia has left, which I like.
After you download use "My water_signed.apk."
I love my Iconia, but the Asus live wallpaper is pretty cool.
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I tried it out but over time, found it destabilized my tablet (not rooted - no funky apps installed - well, except that one) so I stopped using it. No problems like that since.
[OT] The Asus weather app is nice though.

Wallpaper problem solved!!!!!!

Hey guys was looking around because I know we all have had problems with wallpaper sizes........I think I found the solution ( not sure if it has been mentioned ....just thought I might help) just try using a programme called multipicture live wallpaper that can be downloaded free from the market........ it automatically resizes any pic to fit and also has options to change wallpapers by double tapping and also have different pics on different screens.......hope I would have helped someone out there........enjoy
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yohanpra said:
Hey guys was looking around because I know we all have had problems with wallpaper sizes........
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No not really, i've posted on here about 10 times that 1610x1280 fits perfectly, people disagree and quote blah, then 2 days later they're back here again winging that their wallpaper doesn't fit.

hahahhaha oops, sorry man , obviously i havent seen it before, didnt mean to steal ur thunder ;P just trying to help

quick question, did you try the program? its pretty cool though

It seems to use Live Wallpaper. Can you make it work with just regular wallpaper?

I created a thread about this over at tabletroms and I also created a png grid overlay that allows you to center images on the screen. Also I have filmed video tutorials over there on how to use these files to create nd center your own wallpapers on honeycomb. enjoy
well becaus i am not a frequent poster, i cant post the link. can be found at tablet roms dot com and do search for wallpaper, thread is titled that. may also healp to search for albertwertz

I've tried this app...it works pretty good but as the other poster said....as long as the resolution is correct...then it's just nice to have and not a necessity.

Yeah ofcourse resolution would count......but yeah its not too bad
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any 1600x1200 wallpaper or higher will work just fine.
the actual size is 1980x1408

Personally I have no issue with the image scrolling left & right. It does annoy me though that honeycomb zooms the image and moves it up and down when you go into the apps menu or widget menu...

I posted this solution in the original themes and apps thread; it actually looks MUCH better from a clarity standpoint than cropped oversized wallpapers. Of course, if you're centering and resizing you will have identical quality BUT you will not have a giant black bar across the bottom of your screen when you switch to portrait. If you love switching wallpapers and you use high quality SLRs and such this is the only way to go.
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Share your Wallpapers

It's been hard finding good wallpapers that actually fit this phone correctly without making it look bad. So anyone want to share some wallpapers that actually look good on our phone?

I like the dog so much
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Feeshie said:
It's been hard finding good wallpapers that actually fit this phone correctly without making it look bad. So anyone want to share some wallpapers that actually look good on our phone?
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A good app that I use is Wallpaper Wizardrii from the market, and I believe it's free. Pick any of your wallpapers you have saved and it'll automatically set it to fit your screen size, and you can make it either scrollable or nonscrollable. Works perfect for me. In fact, my current wallpaper is sized for my computer, and this app sized it perfectly for my phone.
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Feeshie said:
It's been hard finding good wallpapers that actually fit this phone correctly without making it look bad. So anyone want to share some wallpapers that actually look good on our phone?
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try this apps :
https://market.android.com/details?id=wallpapers.santabanta.com&feature=search_result

Sorry that version doesn't have the date cropped, but should be easy to fix as you're setting it as wallpaper. Yes, it's an out of focus pic of the screen of a dvd player displaying r00t, but imo that's freakin awesome.
Forget where I found this 1 but sadbot is cool too.
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dingermtb said:
A good app that I use is Wallpaper Wizardrii from the market, and I believe it's free. Pick any of your wallpapers you have saved and it'll automatically set it to fit your screen size, and you can make it either scrollable or nonscrollable. Works perfect for me. In fact, my current wallpaper is sized for my computer, and this app sized it perfectly for my phone.
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I tried the app,but some wallpapers still look messed up. I'll upload a picture later.
I've been using this one for a while now:

Use the app called 'Zedge', It is the best app for wallpapers, ringtones and notifications. Check it out on the market

KaKkaR0T said:
Use the app called 'Zedge', It is the best app for wallpapers, ringtones and notifications. Check it out on the market
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That's where I got the dog from.
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Some of mine (I still have a lot more if you are interested)

Thanks, really looks very well

One of ma favourite
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Hot summer
feeling hot this summer chk this out ,for all walls download from the link below
http://www.multiupload.com/X0I8K2TK1W

Here's a quick collection I did and I assure you they will look great!!
* most of these images aren't mine, I just found them on the net then resized for our screens, sharpened, corrected colors, blabla... I take no credit for them.
You can download the pack from here: http://www.multiupload.com/TK3N8RQEVJ.
As a side note, some of these backgrounds actually have interesting... backgrounds.
For example, "deep field" is an image made by Hubble, showing the furthest reaches of the Universe (light emitted ~ 13.5 billion years ago), "cherenkov" is an actual picture of a nuclear reactor (nuclear radiation isn't green, like in the movies, but that very cool blue) and "vitruvian", if you didn't know already is inspired by DaVinci's Vitruvian Man.
I'm currently switching between staredad and vitruvian, I love them both so much!

Two of my favourite background. Very nice with Laucher Pro and default icon

Anyone have the stock HTC Sensation 4G Wallpaper? (not the unlocked HTC Sensation color wallpaper)

sholimar said:
Here's a quick collection I did and I assure you they will look great!!
* most of these images aren't mine, I just found them on the net then resized for our screens, sharpened, corrected colors, blabla... I take no credit for them.
You can download the pack from here: http://www.multiupload.com/TK3N8RQEVJ.
As a side note, some of these backgrounds actually have interesting... backgrounds.
For example, "deep field" is an image made by Hubble, showing the furthest reaches of the Universe (light emitted ~ 13.5 billion years ago), "cherenkov" is an actual picture of a nuclear reactor (nuclear radiation isn't green, like in the movies, but that very cool blue) and "vitruvian", if you didn't know already is inspired by DaVinci's Vitruvian Man.
I'm currently switching between staredad and vitruvian, I love them both so much!
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Thanks man, I'm gonna have a look at this

Vip_blast said:
Thanks man, I'm gonna have a look at this
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Hehe, thanks for the thanks!
Here's another wallpaper pack:
You can download it from: http://www.multiupload.com/WWMNADQR59.
Now, a little backstory: the pictures depicting the International Space Station are real (and pretty awesome), mars.png is an actual photo of a sunset on the planet Mars and atmosphere is an image made by the crew of the ISS (you can see the troposphere, stratosphere - more info here: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100623.html).
Hope you like 'em!
*Blabla, I take no credit in making these images... I just resized, sharpened etc.

Found Some New Here
here I found few New And Cool >>>check attachment

Master619 said:
Some of mine (I still have a lot more if you are interested)
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Thank u so much. It's awesome.

last 2 of mine

Wallpapers and wallpaper size?!

What damn resolution do i have to get for this thing not to crop out my image and make it look like poo! lol i hate the way android does its wallpapers

tried the same this morning (just got the phone ) and found that to have a pixel perfect wallapaper the size must be 1436x1196, then apply it using QuickPic from the Play Store (free): it will prompt a cropping window, but you can just press the save button and it will apply it full size :good:
CIAO

oh awesome , quality stuff cheers
also how did you work that out? would be nice to know for my N10

italia0101 said:
oh awesome , quality stuff cheers
also how did you work that out? would be nice to know for my N10
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look at the resolution of stock wallpapers! in case you need to extract them to figure the resolution out you should be able to do it using "wallpaper set and save" from the Play Store

Moved to Q&A
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