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'Whitewashed' Background Pictures on the Today screen

I find that when I 'Use this picture as a background' (WM6, Dopod D810) the image appears but it's always 'whitewashed'. By that, I mean it's faded to white - I'd prefer to see the photo in it's full colour with no faded look.
I'm certain that in the early days of WM5 this used to work fine?
Any ideas would be appreciated

use picture & video viewer to find the picture you want to use as your background. tap and hold for the context menu and select "Set as Today Background..." a screen will appear where you can select transparency. set it to 0% and you should be in business!!

Thanks cortezzi, I'll give it a go.
Any idea of XnView Pocket does it? I can't seem to find a 'set as wallpaper' option.
*can't find it*
Also tried out a trial version of Resco Photo Viewer and although it allows me to Save > Use as Home Screen then set the viewable image area and transparency (which I set to 0), however the new wallpaper never appears despite receiving the message 'Picture was correctly set as Today wallpaper'.
Settings > Today shows the background picture is currently set to 'Custom Wallpaper'
Is there a registry hack I can do to stop the default Today settings from adding transparency to new background images?

I had the same problem.. In my case it was caused by the theme I had installed. Try a different theme or modify the one you use.

as helpful as ever....thanks blitzwurst
i tried using a plain colour theme with spb menu but any custom today backgrounds i choose still come out with transparency. how exactly do you suggest i do this? i'm certain that it used to work fine (no transparency) under WM5....
i'm just eager to make use of the great backgrounds another xda user suggested on the Slide2Unlock topic (I think) at http://www.zuned.be !

That Zune site is pretty nice!
In my case I had to get a theme (.tsk) editor and embed the background I wanted into the Theme as opposed to selecting an image from the device to use as a background.

no worries, i might do the same...any recc's on a good theme editor to use?
does it run on the device or on a pc?

Today Background Not Working

I just uninstalled cLaunch, a couple of Zombienexus themes and dialer skins, iContacts and Slide2Unlock. (Gonna reinstall and start fresh)
I'm pretty sure that it has nothing to do with it but as I am choosing a wallpaper/BG from Settings>Today >"Use this picture as the background"; It is no longer giving me a preview of the wallpaper with the slider for the opacity.
Did I delete it?
Does anybody know what I can do to fix this as all my backgrounds are washed out.
Thanks.

Anyone have anything on this? I'm having a similar problem. I tried to install HTC Home on mine and it locked it up. Had to do a hard-reset, then reinstalled the WM 6.1 ROM and it still doesn't give me the slider or the preview.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This was the first thread to pop up in a Google search of the site. After some further investigation, let me answer my own question...
Hi guys,
When I put a picture as the today's wallpaper, the picture is lighter than normal.
Is there anyway to fix it and get the real picture colors ?
Thx
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If you set the image under settings/today, thats what you will get. For some reason it uses a transparency value (nowhere to change this here).
The best and easiest solution I have found, is to open the Camera, and view the Album. Browse to the image you want, click it and keep it pressed so that the context menu comes up, select "Set as Today Background...". This will show you the image, and allow you to set the transparency level. Set it to zero, and the image in the Today Background will look exactly as it should.
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From: http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-346530.html

Tlo3d

Hi, just wanted to know, how do I change the std background, what is the name for the manila file, if it is a manila file ofc. ?
Some1 can help me ?
/Danny

You want to change the background of the home screen or what?
I dont understand your question
Changing the background of the home screen is very easy --> tab settings and then background. But i think you dont mean this, right ?

You are right, I want to change to home screen. And it's not that way i mean. I am building a rom, but the home background is black. And i want to know the file, i shall replace to get a new one builded into my rom

REQ Original wallpaper in RED?

Hi. I have seen the Original wallpaper but not in black and grey but black and red. I now searching for hours but cant find it again.. Does anyone remember the link? Else a link for the clasic original . (I will paint it..) Thanks ,

you could take it off of your phone then put it into a program like photoshop and overlay it with red.

TF3D Wallpaper..
Something like this?

Not something like this, exactly this !
Thanks . I know i have download it some days before ,but now i have spend hours without finding it..

So how would you go about getting that to be the background on tf3d? Would you have to use a program or could you just put it in a manila file and if so which one?

TF3D wallpaper..
Easy, place the wallpaper in 'My Pictures' on your device. Scroll along in TF3D until you come to settings, choose Wallpaper and when a box opens saying 'Choose default yes/no' choose 'no'. This will take you through to your pictures and you can click on the one you want and it will change it for you to your homescreen. To go back just click the 'yes' in the default wallpaper box.If you want to make your own wallpaper the size is 480x640....
N.B. If you SEARCH on this site for mUn BackgroundMode.CAB and install this CAB to your device you can have your Homescreen Wallpaper on all of your TF3D pages.

Sweet thanks! I knew about the home screen I was looking for how to change all the backgrounds.

background wallpaper for the default Lock screen

Using HTC Touch diamond2 WM 6.5 official rom from HTC.
I want to change the background wallpaper for the default Lock screen. How to change it.. any help on this

michealjohn said:
Using HTC Touch diamond2 WM 6.5 official rom from HTC.
I want to change the background wallpaper for the default Lock screen. How to change it.. any help on this
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TF3Dsettings - Personalise - Lock screen wallpaper...

Lockscreen wallpaper
For me is : Settings tab -> Personalize -> Lock screen Wallpaper -> "No" for default -> set whatever you want

I don't have personalise option.
Settings >> Wallpaper (Home wallpaper)
This one change the home wallpaper. But I want to change the background for lock screen. any help..

I don't have personalise option.
Settings >> Wallpaper (Home wallpaper)
This one change the home wallpaper. But I want to change the background for lock screen. any help..

michealjohn said:
I don't have personalise option.
Settings >> Wallpaper (Home wallpaper)
This one change the home wallpaper. But I want to change the background for lock screen. any help..
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michealjohn,
Might I suggest you update your signature with your info for what ROM you are on etc, or at least state what ROM you are on before you post a ROM related question?
Otherwise no one can help you.

sorry for not providing enough info...here we go to my signature

For me is Start/Settings/All settings/Today/in Appearance tab , check box Use this picture as background and Browse. It changes picture in main windows menu and also lock screen.

max17,
Perfect.. this is what I want. thanks for you help.
And I have one more query when I browsed the files for setting the background, it's not showing up all the images. In type drop down, it has "Picture Files" and what are the format it will support like (jpg,gif....).
Since I have more files in one of my folder and when I searched thru' this option nothing is showing.. any clue...?