Hi:
I installed backgrounds.apk and used it to change the background photo every day. It looks every ok.But recently; I acquire some information form other way that it will cost my Ram room. So,how can I find these photos which have been downloaded or made as background?
Thanks!
shao
I'm not too sure where the application gets the images from (as I don't have it installed) but I vaguely remember that it uses flickr to run a search and then picks an image at random?
If so just pop over to flickr.com and punch in a keyword to find some fantastic images there to save and use as a wallpaper.
szszsu said:
Hi:
I installed backgrounds.apk and used it to change the background photo every day. It looks every ok.But recently; I acquire some information form other way that it will cost my Ram room. So,how can I find these photos which have been downloaded or made as background?
Thanks!
shao
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Backgrounds.apk? Is that "Wall switch"?
Changing your background won't eat your RAM, a background service the app is running might. Any RAM it is using will be minimal. You can save the currently applied wallpaper using the app "Wallpaper Set and Save".
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I've been searching, and have seen lots of threads about similar problems with the Evo and it's fairly low-color screen, but I was under the impression that the Droid X has a 24bit color screen so this shouldn't be an issue.
Anyway, I've got some wallpapers (cropped and resized for the Droix X from the originals at Ultralinx)
They look fantastic on the computer. They're the right dimensions. Tried saving as JPG and 24 bit PNG, but the outcome is the same. When I copy them to the phone and set them as wallpaper, the gradients don't look smooth; there is color banding all over the place.
I've got screenshots and originals up on the web, but can't link to them until my account is approved by a mod.
EDIT: Added attachments instead, but the forum super-compressing the images doesn't help their clarity at all.
Hey,
i've got the same problem.
That's not funny at all, I really don't know how to save it, that it looks like on my desktop pc!
4tticuz said:
Hey,
i've got the same problem.
That's not funny at all, I really don't know how to save it, that it looks like on my desktop pc!
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Sorry to be off topic but I cant help but stare at your notification bar. What theme is it?
It's my own notificationbar.
Have to search the files first
It doesn't seem to be the screen. I dropped those images into my dropbox, and opened them in whatever viewer dropbox opened by default. The image was smooth as I zoomed in, until I zoomed in far enough to see a moire pattern. I also opened it in Astra's built in viewer; again there was no banding. However, when I set the image to be my wallpaper, I see the same banding you are seeing.
Bad news is, I don't know what the problem is; good news is it doesn't seem to be a screen limitation.
Thanks so far!
But what's the problem than?
I really have no idea :/
Ah ha! Google turned up this app: "Wallpaper Set and Save" (Sorry, can't post a link because I'm new, apparently. I attached an image of the QR code instead.)
It says it hasn't been updated for 2.x, but it worked fine on my droid x (running the stock rom with launcher pro.) Using it to set the exact same wallpaper, I now see no banding (although I did in the preview screen.) It's worth a try, although I'd still like to know what is causing this issue (since it obviously isn't a hardware issue.)
I attached a screen capture so you can see for yourself.
Edit: The forum's image compression adds some artifacts; it looks even smoother on my screen capture. Even here it's a big improvement over the others though!
Its probably the gallery app that is re-compressing the wallpaper and creating the bands
My wallpaper changes by itself to some random picture that I don't even have. I use the Water live wallpaper with the autumn leaves and then at some point throughout the day I go to look at my phone and there is a random picture as a wallpaper instead. It has happened to me about three different times all different days. Has this happened to anyone else? If so how do I fix it?
I apologize if a similar question has been posted before but I looked and haven't found anything.
Any other phone... and I would say you're running out of RAM memory and phone pushes live paper out of the system (which would be replaced with your stock wallpaper) but this phone has so much memory that it hardly would be the case. 2 things I can think of:
1. Your live wallpaper may have some sort of bug in it and forcecloses every now and then (is this from the market? read comments!!!)
2. You're using a task killer/manager of some sorts and it's killing the live wallpaper process.
Does this help at all?
Good luck.
Hey Borodin1 Thanks for your quick reply. I feel like an idiot. I figured out the problem. It was an app called astronomy picture of the day. There is an option that enables the picture of the day to upload as your wallpaper automatically. I installed a bunch of apps at one time and I didn't really explore astronomy picture of the day so I wasn't aware it was doing that. lol So that explains the astronomy type pictures my wallpaper kept changing to every single day. lol
Ok, before I installed Android GB 2.3.2 nand on my Windows Mobile HTC HD2 I could take a picture with the phones camera or use a picture via Text and set it as wallpaper and it would use the whole picture without distorting the image. With GB 2.3.2 this isn't so. The quality due to cropping instead of being able to use the image as it was has made the quality of the photo go down. Any fix for this? Settings, app, etc??? I'd like to be able to take a picture or use a existing photo and use it as my home screen wallpaper without losing the quality. The phones pages, icons, etc look very sharp.
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MultiPic Live Wallpaper will use the whole image, and additionally you can set a different pic for each homescreen, have cool screen transitions, and a bunch more cool settings.
There's another app out there that will allow you to use the entire image, but sorry I can't remember what that one's called. But MultiPic LWP should do the trick for you.
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Hi,
Anexed, you will find the calibration profile for our phone. Well, for my phone at least, as you can have a different SP serie with a different display caracteristics. To install the profile on PC, double clic XperiaSP-Sat5.7+Tint50.icc, then it will appear named "latestDisplayProfile" in photoshop.
How I did that:
- First, I set the white balance (in settings) with : Tint=50 and Saturation 5.5. With that, my white point is near 6500K. Also, Bravia engine must be disable.
- Then I used my i1DisplayPro colorimeter with the free X-Rite ColorTrue app. This app is not available on Google Play as it is supposed to work with a few devices. But I was able to download it in a different way and it works on XperiaSP !
What can we do with this display profile:
- If your desktop monitor is calibrated, in photoshop you can simulate how an image will look like on the phone. Usefull for themers.
- In photoshop, you can convert profiled images (srgb or adobeRGB) to this profile. Doing that, you can visualize a photo on the phone as close as possible to the original. It can be usefull for a nice wallpaper.
An other possibility, is using x-rite app to visualize your pictures corrected on the phone. For that:
- installl QuickPic from googleplay, xrite does not works with SemcAlbum.
- download my xrite backup (titanium backup) : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32890756/XperiaCalib/TB-XriteCalib.zip
- extract zip and put the 3 files in your titanium backup folder
- restore ColorTRUE using TB
- Launch it: it will say it's not able to found a device (colorimeter) but don't worry. Just click the gallery icon and it will launch QuickPic forcing pictures calibration. You will be able to visualize better your photos.
- Don't forget to disable bravia and set white balance to the same values of mines.
That's it !
[EDIT] Added a color profile for native white point (when you use cm7 or any rom without the white point setting from sony). Using X-rite app you will have to replace overwrite the icc profile in /data/data/org.x-rite*/*icc*/latestDisplayProfile.icc
Thank you. I did the same with my Spyder. So if there are Spyder users out there you can do exactly the same with the SpyderGallery App. Also for free in the Play Store. Works with all Android devices.
rubencarmona said:
Thank you. I did the same with my Spyder. So if there are Spyder users out there you can do exactly the same with the SpyderGallery App. Also for free in the Play Store. Works with all Android devices.
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Thanks for this information. I have an old spyder3 and never saw that app.
Just missing the possibility on android to load the icc profile ine the gpu driver ... perhaps one day ...
Very good, continue their work and welcome
Muito bom, continue seu trabalho e seja bem vindo!
native white point icc profile added.
Hi!
Sorry for posting my message to this topic. I have Sony XPeria Z1 compact, not Xperia SP. But there are not so much people interested in making color profiles for their phones. So I hope you can help me here.
I have calibrated my phone display with ColorTrue. And I can watch my photos in QuickPic using ColorTrue. But the thing is that photos open very slowly when using ColorTrue. So I'd like to convert my photos to this profile in Photoshop. But I can not find *.icc file. I have only this:
/storage/emulated/0/xrite/iccprofiles/profileData.xml
Can anyone help me to get ICC-profile for my phone?
Horovod said:
Hi!
Sorry for posting my message to this topic. I have Sony XPeria Z1 compact, not Xperia SP. But there are not so much people interested in making color profiles for their phones. So I hope you can help me here.
I have calibrated my phone display with ColorTrue. And I can watch my photos in QuickPic using ColorTrue. But the thing is that photos open very slowly when using ColorTrue. So I'd like to convert my photos to this profile in Photoshop. But I can not find *.icc file. I have only this:
/storage/emulated/0/xrite/iccprofiles/profileData.xml
Can anyone help me to get ICC-profile for my phone?
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You need a root explorer and then you can pick up the profile in /data/data/com.xrite.mobile*/*icc*/latestDisplayProfile.icc
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You need a root explorer and then you can pick up the profile in /data/data/com.xrite.mobile*/*icc*/latestDisplayProfile.icc
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Thanks! I have converted my photos to my phones profile. Now they look on the phone exactly as I want them to see.
Hello,
Is it possible to make a live wallpaper with sat24 weather app as source ?
...any ideeas ?
You can do this with Tasker i think but not the moving picture.
Example:
You can take this link as a source: link
In Tasker create an action that runs every hour or something.
Do an HTTP GET and download the image
Then set the image as a background
Delete the older picture
That's the closest you can get i think
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You can do this with Tasker i think but not the moving picture.
Example:
You can take this link as a source: link
In Tasker create an action that runs every hour or something.
Do an HTTP GET and download the image
Then set the image as a background
Delete the older picture
That's the closest you can get i think
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Thanks.
Miles away from what I imagine.