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Hey guys! Ill try to make myself clear ! Im encountering the following issue:
whenever im trying to use an image as a wallpaper for htc sense it`s been displayed somehow blurry (i guess it doesnt have anything to do with the transparency settings) .
I`ve tried to use the same image for lock screen and sense screen. The result is that in lock screen it looks very sharp and in sense screen its blurry!
Any ideas ?
What dimensions do you use? I noticed the animated ones are 480 x 696...
i didnt care much about the resolution ... i just used to download wallpapers and use them! Eventually, i tried to crop the images to 800/480 but that didnt seem to be a solution!
Are you trying to say that its something similar to that "contact pics thumbnails problem" ?
On a second thought, im encountering the same problem even if i use the stock set of images ! Another thing is that if im using the default ANIMATED wallpapers things seem to be ok ! So the problem occurs only when im using the "weather wallpaper"
Well, if the picture is anything else than the required dimensions (the word "resolution" is actually inaccurate), the system will try to either shrink or magnify it, a process which can cause various artifacts, including the blurry effect you are describing.
I would try an image with the dimensions I quoted in my previous post to see if that looks all right.
thanks! im gonna try now and tell you the result
nothing new ! Still the same problem! Wallpapers in lock mode are displayed correctly, the ones in weather mode are blurry!
Strange... I may try it myself this evening if I have the time.
*update* ... aften another day of "testing" i guess its all because HTC sense. Ive installed SPB mobile shell and things are ok there, so, luckily its not a problem with the display!
It's because HTC Sense compresses the wallpaper into this random format and stores it somewhere...
umm ... and what should i do about it ?
hi guys, when i goto crop my pics, they crop fine, but im left with a tiny picture..
how do i resize the pic to full screen...
this is one of the biggest problems about the x10,i have loads of pictures but most come out all small or fuzzy using the crop,why se didnt just allow full screen wallpaper is beyond me,however there are a few apps in the store that allows full screen wallpapers however must force close a lot and piece of advice dont use justpics it freezes the phone completely i learned it the hard way,if you find a better way to use full pics as wallpaper please let me know thanks
Bloody JOKING...
Yeah it seems there's some seriously dumbass software issues with the wallpaper option on the X10.
It seems there is no straight forward to way to simply select picture (either one you've take or one upload from cpu/bluetooth) and set the whole/full image as phone's background.
Cropping is forced and as far as i can tell MAX image is 2 THIRDS OF SCREEN!!
Hi
Does any one of you know how to add (even remove) the the original installed backgrounds?
Im getting tired of the stupid choices like the cat and flowers!
I am able use pics from my gallery, but i have to resize them and they kinda look stupid afterwards.. i even tried the 480x800 screens i still have to resize the pics!
Thanks in advance
-TB-
terrorblind said:
Hi
Does any one of you know how to add (even remove) the the original installed backgrounds?
Im getting tired of the stupid choices like the cat and flowers!
I am able use pics from my gallery, but i have to resize them and they kinda look stupid afterwards.. i even tried the 480x800 screens i still have to resize the pics!
Thanks in advance
-TB-
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Try to use "Wallpaper set and save" from the market. Works fine for me.
hi buddy
thanks it works
-TB-
I was wondering about an additional thing; would it be effective to add a completely black background with regards to saving battery life?
That depends on how long you are going to stare at your background.
But making everything black for a little bit of power is senseless. Using normal wallpapers and just using the phone in general will only consume 60% of the power of an LCD. Just dont use white walls and you are fine.
Hey didn't really read anything abouth this, but the os part of the phone from samsung is really getting to annoy me. It's pretty ugly and doesn't look good...
I am wondering if I am the only one with this. Is it the screen or is it just not well made? Because it also looks like some banding.
I will give some examples but you can see it everywhere...
Like the battery icon when your phone is off and you are charging, wtf is that? It's banded like wth...
Also these two next examples are bad. Can you check if yours is the same?
It seems with a screenshot it's pretty normal on my laptop screen. On my phone it's not like that. How are these examples with your phones??
In this first pick, look at the grey from every different alarm. On my phone it is very banded!! Not smooth at all like this picture, some pink lines in between and stuff...
Here you should lok at the grey of the keyboard. And the green telephone button. Doesn't look smooth in my phone.
I also have a question abouth, some burn in? When i pull down the pull down menu/notification bar, and I watch the bar where your thumb is up, it chancges slightly in color i noticed. When i look closer, i could see that what is behind the bar is visible for abouth 10-15 sec and than it fades. So i could read the word contacts pretty good, when i pulled it all the way down, so it's kind of a burn in for sometime? Is this normal and can ohter people check this on their phone? Thanks
Yes I agree it's pretty ugly, use go launcher, go contacts and go sms pro, much better looking...
godutch said:
Yes I agree it's pretty ugly, use go launcher, go contacts and go sms pro, much better looking...
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Yeah ok, the look is something else, everybody has it own taste.
But i was talking abouth the banding on the grey of the numeric keyboard, and the alarm for example...
At these screenshot they look pretty normal, but on my phone they don't look like that...
So is it the screen that make them look like that???
Do these things look the same on your phone screen as on your pc screen? Or do you also have banding on these things?
PC screen is not the phone screen stupid to compare them .
For what is worth I see no banding on Dialpad on phone likewise ringer volume .
jje
There is a topic about the banding, I think it's a software issue it probably doesnt use 24bit color depth, just use go contacts/dialer
JJEgan said:
PC screen is not the phone screen stupid to compare them .
For what is worth I see no banding on Dialpad on phone likewise ringer volume .
jje
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Yeah i know it's stupid. But you should think it is optimised for the phone.
On the dialpad I see banding on every number's grey "button".
And it is not the ringer volume, that was an accident when i made the print screen, I accidently pushed the ringel volume at the same time.
It's the grey from every alarm, very banding on my phone...
So if you don't have it, my screen is defect?
So if you don't have it, my screen is defect?
Factory reset first to clear any problems .
jje
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Hey didn't really read anything abouth this, but the os part of the phone from samsung is really getting to annoy me. It's pretty ugly and doesn't look good...
I am wondering if I am the only one with this. Is it the screen or is it just not well made? Because it also looks like some banding.
I will give some examples but you can see it everywhere...
Like the battery icon when your phone is off and you are charging, wtf is that? It's banded like wth...
Also these two next examples are bad. Can you check if yours is the same?
It seems with a screenshot it's pretty normal on my laptop screen. On my phone it's not like that. How are these examples with your phones??
In this first pick, look at the grey from every different alarm. On my phone it is very banded!! Not smooth at all like this picture, some pink lines in between and stuff...
Here you should lok at the grey of the keyboard. And the green telephone button. Doesn't look smooth in my phone.
I also have a question abouth, some burn in? When i pull down the pull down menu/notification bar, and I watch the bar where your thumb is up, it chancges slightly in color i noticed. When i look closer, i could see that what is behind the bar is visible for abouth 10-15 sec and than it fades. So i could read the word contacts pretty good, when i pulled it all the way down, so it's kind of a burn in for sometime? Is this normal and can ohter people check this on their phone? Thanks
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I am sure the screen response will loosen up over time. I noticed too initially but it's all okay now.
I remember first two weeks of my tv was almost painful to watch while the pixels caught up with the action. Maybe oled isn't much different to lcd in that respect
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Has anyone noticed what happens when you try to set a wallpaper?? It only lets you use a portion of the picture, WTF. I went and got some wallpapers from the "show your homescreen" thread only to find out that I couldn't set them properly. Was it like this before 3.1? Also does anyone know a way around this problem??
Yea.. it is annoying.some say it is possible.
Tried and failed.
isjr said:
Has anyone noticed what happens when you try to set a wallpaper?? It only lets you use a portion of the picture, WTF. I went and got some wallpapers from the "show your homescreen" thread only to find out that I couldn't set them properly. Was it like this before 3.1? Also does anyone know a way around this problem??
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It *does* let you set the whole picture as your wallpaper -- it just doesn't show the entire wallpaper at once. That's by design, and for good reason.
Think about it for a second. When you rotate the tablet, you don't want your wallpaper sideways, so it has to rotate too. Unless the wallpaper gets stretched when it is rotated or has black bars at the edges (neither of which you would want), then there's no way around the fact that the tablet has to crop the wallpaper to fit it to the screen.
It's slightly complicated further by the fact that when you swipe between home pages, Android moves the "window" into the wallpaper slightly to give a sense of motion, thereby visually reinforcing the change between home pages. There's a setting to disable visual effects that *might* change that; I've not done so because I quite like it, so I can't say for sure whether it can be disabled.
It's easy-peasy to make good wallpapers for the TF, though. All you need to do is confirm the overall size, choose an image that works well for both landscape and portrait modes, and size it appropriately. (I don't remember the size offhand, but it's been mentioned in these forums before, so a search will find it.)
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It *does* let you set the whole picture as your wallpaper -- it just doesn't show the entire wallpaper at once. That's by design, and for good reason.
Think about it for a second. When you rotate the tablet, you don't want your wallpaper sideways, so it has to rotate too. Unless the wallpaper gets stretched when it is rotated or has black bars at the edges (neither of which you would want), then there's no way around the fact that the tablet has to crop the wallpaper to fit it to the screen.
It's slightly complicated further by the fact that when you swipe between home pages, Android moves the "window" into the wallpaper slightly to give a sense of motion, thereby visually reinforcing the change between home pages. There's a setting to disable visual effects that *might* change that; I've not done so because I quite like it, so I can't say for sure whether it can be disabled.
It's easy-peasy to make good wallpapers for the TF, though. All you need to do is confirm the overall size, choose an image that works well for both landscape and portrait modes, and size it appropriately. (I don't remember the size offhand, but it's been mentioned in these forums before, so a search will find it.)
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I have used images with a high and low resolution but I keep getting the same results. The thread where I got some of them had the whole picture as the wallpaper not got the center. I will post some pics.
isjr said:
I have used images with a high and low resolution but I keep getting the same results. The thread where I got some of them had the whole picture as the wallpaper not got the center. I will post some pics.
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I have the same problem. I have tried it on the Xoom and the New Sammy 10.1 at the store...same thing. If your trying to use a picture from the gallery that you downloaded no matter the resolution it won't display the whole pic. To get a picture in the larger resolution I find one on the internet and long press and choose set as wallpaper. That's about the only way that works. I think it's a bug in Honeycomb..if it's not then its a poor way to do wallpaper from the gallery. I'm a photographer mostly for fun but it's not hard to see that it's only able to expand to a part of any resolution and then it is grainy looking because it's zoomed up too large on screen. I've even had it show the smaller crop as a smaller picture at the correct resolution on the screen with the black background around it...still not the whole picture. Sorry IMO ...BUG.
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I have used images with a high and low resolution but I keep getting the same results. The thread where I got some of them had the whole picture as the wallpaper not got the center. I will post some pics.
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If you make it the right size, it *will* work. I know it will, because I made my own wallpaper and it fits perfectly.
If you set a picture as wallpaper using gallery it will ask you which part of the pic you want as the homescreen background and such. If you're thinking of stretching the picture, forget about it.
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knoxploration said:
If you make it the right size, it *will* work. I know it will, because I made my own wallpaper and it fits perfectly.
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Something is causing it and this isn't the only thread I've seen that people are having problems with it
Here is a example of what I'm talking about.. The first is the original pic. The second is a pic from another thread where you can see it set to full screen. The third is my attempt to set that pic to full screen.
This is the thread where I got the picture: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050703&page=3
knoxploration said:
If you make it the right size, it *will* work. I know it will, because I made my own wallpaper and it fits perfectly.
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And if you would like to help by stating the resolution you use , methods of applying the wallpaper it would be great ...just saying
DilloDroid said:
And if you would like to help by stating the resolution you use , methods of applying the wallpaper it would be great ...just saying
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I have used like 10 different ones some that were like 1280 x 1000 to 2500 x 1500, or something like that.
I've tried all possible resolution of my pics and none fit the full screen without crop or loosing a quality.
But this works for me perfect
All u need is this app MultiPicture Live Wallpaper and its free
So how to ?
-long press on homescreen
-than go to Wallpaper->Live Wallpaper and select MultiPicture Live Wallpaper
-select Setting and set your folder with your wallpapers
Done
This app actually changing the wallpapers in particular time but u can also sett it to use only one picture if u don't like changing
There is a lot more settings what u can play with if u like
So enjoy
There are apps out there that allow you to use the full image.
thats what I mean
but not all apps works as it should or as u want it
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There are apps out there that allow you to use the full image.
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rikardo1979 said:
I've tried all possible resolution of my pics and none fit the full screen without crop or loosing a quality.
But this works for me perfect
All u need is this app MultiPicture Live Wallpaper and its free
So how to ?
-long press on homescreen
-than go to Wallpaper->Live Wallpaper and select MultiPicture Live Wallpaper
-select Setting and set your folder with your wallpapers
Done
This app actually changing the wallpapers in particular time but u can also sett it to use only one picture if u don't like changing
There is a lot more settings what u can play with if u like
So enjoy
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Awesome thanks. I hope with the next update Google or Asus will fix this.
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There are apps out there that allow you to use the full image.
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I have tried two apps HD Wallpapers and Tablet Wallpapers but they both still crop the center portion of the image.
what about the app what I've mentioned ? did that work for u ?
isjr said:
I have tried two apps HD Wallpapers and Tablet Wallpapers but they both still crop the center portion of the image.
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rikardo1979 said:
what about the app what I've mentioned ? did that work for u ?
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It works great.
I wonder if you can make a system folder that lets you add wallpapers to it so that they show up along side the stock wallpapers. I did this with notifications I made three folders on my SD card each inside of the next media/audio/notifications and that let me add sounds so that they showed up along side the stock ones. Another way would be to use the app Rings Extended.
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Has anyone noticed what happens when you try to set a wallpaper?? It only lets you use a portion of the picture, WTF. I went and got some wallpapers from the "show your homescreen" thread only to find out that I couldn't set them properly. Was it like this before 3.1? Also does anyone know a way around this problem??
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Yeah, I load it into paint shop pro and increase the canvas to much larger. Ie, say the picture is 1280x800 i expand it to say 4000x4000 - then i can pick the area i want when cropping on the tablet
rikardo1979 said:
I've tried all possible resolution of my pics and none fit the full screen without crop or loosing a quality.
But this works for me perfect
All u need is this app MultiPicture Live Wallpaper and its free
So how to ?
-long press on homescreen
-than go to Wallpaper->Live Wallpaper and select MultiPicture Live Wallpaper
-select Setting and set your folder with your wallpapers
Done
This app actually changing the wallpapers in particular time but u can also sett it to use only one picture if u don't like changing
There is a lot more settings what u can play with if u like
So enjoy
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I'm using this too. However i noticed the latest version is abit laggy while switching the homescreen. Also when opening the app drawer, the background is black. I switched back to ver. 0.5.9.
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