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[Q]CM7 Wallpaper display issue

I have been happily running CM 7.0.3 (with the default ADW launcher) for a month now and it was only now I thought about tempering with the wallpapers (hah !). Anyways, whenever I load a 1200 x 1024 wallpaper, it really zooms out in portrait and appears with two black stripes in the Landscape mode. Have gone through all kinds of solutions but to no avail namely:
- Apps like "Wallpaper set and save", Flickie etc. - all of them suffer with the same issue
- Restarted 5-6 times
- Saved the 1200 x 1024 .png files in EMMC / My Files / Wallpaper but doesn't help since CM7.0.3 doesn't have a "Home Launcher" or Settings > Home > Set Wallpaper or a direct Homescreen "Wallpaper Chooser" app like my Samsung Galaxy Pro for example.
Will be grateful if anybody can help me out - am also surprised I did not find this exact problem mentioned in the forums at all - I can't be that unique !
Thanks,
Ranjan

You can't just long press the home screen > Wallpapers > Select wallpaper from " " ?
Worked on every Android device I have owned, including my Nook Color. Perfect wallpaper size would be 600x1024.

Nburnes said:
You can't just long press the home screen > Wallpapers > Select wallpaper from " " ?
Worked on every Android device I have owned, including my Nook Color. Perfect wallpaper size would be 600x1024.
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No, CM7.0.3 doesn't give an option to "Select Wallpaper from"...Did you have a CM Nook color or stock-rooted one ? Wallpaper size I am sure of 1200x1024 works the best - have gone through multiple posts on this forum and others .

ronjan said:
No, CM7.0.3 doesn't give an option to "Select Wallpaper from"...Did you have a CM Nook color or stock-rooted one ? Wallpaper size I am sure of 1200x1024 works the best - have gone through multiple posts on this forum and others .
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Running CM7 nightlies. Have been since they were first released. Been setting wallpapers the same way for months now, even on regular android devices. It does give that option when you are holding down your finger on a blank spot on the home screen. It has too.

ronjan said:
Anyways, whenever I load a 1200 x 1024 wallpaper, it really zooms out in portrait and appears with two black stripes in the Landscape mode.
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That sounds like the behavior of the built-in gallery app. At some point when you set your wallpaper are you selecting Gallery? Or is Gallery the only picture viewer on your device?
QuickPic works a lot better for portrait mode, it lets you adjust the cropping. Iirc, it doesn't work well for landscape, because it puts in the black bars. Wallpaper Wizardrii is a little fiddly, but otherwise works well with both portrait and landscape.

This problem has been mentioned in the forums atleast once. I know because I asked it. lol No worries though its probably not tagged. Anyways like the poster above said Quick Pick does a much better job.

Nburnes said:
Running CM7 nightlies. Have been since they were first released. Been setting wallpapers the same way for months now, even on regular android devices. It does give that option when you are holding down your finger on a blank spot on the home screen. It has too.
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Dunno why its missing on my device, it only gives me option to set "Cyanogenmod Wallpapers" / "Gallery" / "Live Wallpapers" - both Gallery and Cyanogenmod suffer from the issue I laid out above.
@akaCat, IFLATLINEI: Thanks for the help, doesnt help me though , want good landscape display. I think the issue is somehow the Wallpaper is not scrolling in portrait mode as well (it used to earlier), even though the option is enabled in the ADW launcher settings. Since it is not scrolling it is essentially showing a 1 portrait page image which it rotates in landscape and hence the black screen. I wish this could be resolved !!

Ok I'm going to bring this one back because the same is happining to me now. It worked before! Is there a definitive fix for this anywhere? I see a lot of pleas for help but no answer???????

I started using the free app in the market: Wallpaper Set & Save. Goes in at the correct aspect ratio and resolution (assuming your wallpaper file is correct ahead of time and saved in png format).

Why can't you set a whole picture as your wallpaper!?!

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 ?
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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.
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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.

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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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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Galaxy Note Screen Test (version 2)

Use this picture as a home screen wallpaper, lock screen wallpaper and look at it in the gallery. It looks different in each of those 3 places on my device.
Do not forget to touch the screen without unlocking in lock screen.
What is the lowest number you can see? 4? 1?
Do you see only black and white or also other colors on this picture?
This image is a 800 x 1280, bit depth 32, PNG.
So no scaling, no more excuses for not showing it correctly.
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9524/samsunggalaxynotegammat.png

Immediate drop off from 1 to 0

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Immediate drop off from 1 to 0
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So the lowest you can see is 1? Where? In the Gallery?

Nice pic...
I can only see down to 4 (cannot see 3,2,1) in gallery. On home and lock screen I can see down to 1.My ROM is LA4.
Why is this??
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In gallery 0 and 1 is same not visible but when i set it as wallpaper/lockscreen 0 is black 1 is visible

So in how is this a screen test ?
The screen is still the same ...
You could ultimately call it a display driver test,
that shows that samsung screwed up the driver implementation

What should it ideally look like?
I can barely see 1 and 2 as too dark but I can make it out.I can start to see 3 clearly and then it gradually gets lighter to 21.
What seems not right is the big jump in brightness going from 10 to 11.

Guys guys guys, enough with the screen issue threads! seriously, its like you are forcefully looking for issues! There are 4 notes in my house, 3 black and 1 white, 2 bought locally and 2 ordered from handtec.com, and none of them have any issues! If u find the screen so disturbing why did u buy it?
oh, ok, so u found the so called issues after purchasing the device.
Here is an advice, SELL it!
Sent from my issue less GT-N7000!

I dont think this is a screen issue thread, but a similar thread already exists which is here
Sure you dont have issues, so why care about these threads LOL!
@legion1911
In the stock gallery: I can see upto 3 and 2 is a sharp cut off, Try to hold the home button to bring out the task switcher you would see the cut off start to creep down to #8.
On the lock screen it looks horrible lol! the transition to 0 is smoother but I see random black lines when I touch the screen.

Not really sure if this test means anything.On my notebook I can't see 0 to 3 at all.I can only see from 4 onwards.What does that say about my notebook?

Gallery - 4
Home screen - 1
Lock screen - 1

noteworthy said:
Not really sure if this test means anything.On my notebook I can't see 0 to 3 at all.I can only see from 4 onwards.What does that say about my notebook?
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This test is some what related to the black clipping, this is the reason why we get a sudden color clip to black.

gallery 4
lock and home screens 1

EarlZ said:
@legion1911
In the stock gallery: I can see upto 3 and 2 is a sharp cut off, Try to hold the home button to bring out the task switcher you would see the cut off start to creep down to #8.
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same here!!
another interesting thing: when you enter the pic in gallery you can sometimes (!) see for a very short time down to 1, then after i guess 1/10s it goes up to 4. this happens not every time opening the picture, it seems it is (cpu) load dependent. try it!
this perhaps suggests that it's an energy saving mechanism or any other kind of "optimization" which is the main cause of the cut-off!
although: the screen quality differs in big amounts between different units, as i mentioned in some posts before!

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Guys guys guys, enough with the screen issue threads! seriously, its like you are forcefully looking for issues! There are 4 notes in my house, 3 black and 1 white, 2 bought locally and 2 ordered from handtec.com, and none of them have any issues! If u find the screen so disturbing why did u buy it?
oh, ok, so u found the so called issues after purchasing the device.
Here is an advice, SELL it!
Sent from my issue less GT-N7000!
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Guys guys guys, enough with the "moaning about what other people are interested in talking about" comments! Seriously, it's like it bothers you that people are interested in discussing things on a forum!
There's a difference between finding things "disturbing" and "interesting". If you don't find it interesting, kindly ignore the thread. Personally, I don't have any issues with my screen, yet I still find some of the issues people have been having interesting.

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The same here. Except in the "Movie" screen mode, when the gallery image is displayed down to 3.
Perhaps somebody here is capable of cooking up additional screen modes with different settings...

Interesting test.
Gallery: can see down to 4.
Wallpaper: can see down to 1 (with 24-bit rendering)
Wallpaper: can see down to 3 (with 16-bit rendering)
Lock screen: can see down to 1
Web browser: can see down to 1
Another interesting thing this helped show me was when resizing in the browser (stock or Opera), it was using static dithering... which is just bizarre
Also, seeing down to 1 is a bit too far. I'm on a calibrated Hazro S-IPS monitor at the moment which can clearly distinguish down to #3. Shows that these Super AMOLEDs are too bright...

Gallery. Sometimes on 2 sometimes on 4. On homescreen 1. On lock screen i can see f...in lines!
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Gallery - 4
Lockscreen - 1 with lots of banding
Homescreen - 1
Browser - 1
But this is just Samsungs screen calibration.
Deeper blacks in the gallery, it's not a bug it's a feature.
Like Sony's Bravia engine for example.
IMHO Samsung did a bad job.

here are my results of this 'test' (i only count what i see when i look straight toward the device)
Galaxy Note
gallery 2
background 4
lock screen 4
PC
Samsung 22" @1680x1050 (display1 gaming setup) 4
LG 22" @1680x1050 (display2 office setup) 2
HTC HD2 Coredroid 3.6 (Gingerbread 2.3.5)
gallery 6
background 10
lock screen not tested
Asus EEEPC 1215N
5
but what is the meaning of this 'test'?

set full size wallpaper??

Just curious if anyone has had a issue setting full sized wallpapers? i downloaded a few 2560x1600 wallpapers and the damn thing keeps making me crop them.. im using apex launcher and set to non scrolling wallpapers.. thanks guys

Ok.. i know i must be missing something easy. has anyone actually gotten any 2560x1600 wallpapers to work? Everyone i have tried only shows me about 1/4 of the picture...

May seem like a dumb question, but you are increasing the size of the crop box by dragging on the corners/sides, correct?
Wouldn't make any sense to FORCE us to zoom in on an image that is compatible with the device's resolution creating a less sharp background.

Try making the image 2560 × 2560 somehow. It needs to account for the orientation.
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wallpaper Fix!!
Download the app: "Simple Image Wallpaper". It will not install in the app drawer but to access it click and hold on your main desktop screen, select "Live Wallpaper", then select "Simple Image Wallpaper". Then click on settings and it will not crop any of those high res images that you use. Also, another benefit is you can use 2 different kinds of wallpaper if you choose; One for landscape and one that changes when put in Portrait mode.

Have You Changed Smallest Width In Developer Options?

I have mine set to 525 dp. I prefer having really small icons and text. Most of all I like forcing the tabbed UI in Firefox. I haven't noticed any real disadvantages.
I am curious to know what settings you all use besides the default one.

Yes. Using 702 dp

Is there a standard set of sizes that can be used that don't cause any display abnormalities? I see 525 and 702 and that I'm running 454 as per smallest OOS visibility setting. These seem like random setting but I'm sure they aren't.

Funkameleon5 said:
Is there a standard set of sizes that can be used that don't cause any display abnormalities? I see 525 and 702 and that I'm running 454 as per smallest OOS visibility setting. These seem like random setting but I'm sure they aren't.
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600 seems to be the point where it reads as a tablet, as Chrome starts to have tabs at that setting. There are some other settings the device doesn't seem to like and will jump to the next highest number it likes. Example: setting it to 598, will automatically make it set to 600. Did not notice any abnormalities other than icon placement, which can be adjusted.

I messed with it the other day and my launcher wasn't changing. Anyone else have that issue?
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I have mine at 550. I can't stand the default ones.

crzycrkr said:
I messed with it the other day and my launcher wasn't changing. Anyone else have that issue?
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You need to run a 3rd party launcher

That sucks. Thanks for confirming that for me
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You need to run a 3rd party launcher
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I use increments of 10 for some unknown reason, currently running 514p

I just changed display size to smallest option in display settings, and I prefer that

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600 seems to be the point where it reads as a tablet, as Chrome starts to have tabs at that setting. There are some other settings the device doesn't seem to like and will jump to the next highest number it likes. Example: setting it to 598, will automatically make it set to 600. Did not notice any abnormalities other than icon placement, which can be adjusted.
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Spotify calls my 6T as tablet even in smallest delault size. So I guess evvery app has their own definition of when a mobile becomes tablet.

phr0zen said:
600 seems to be the point where it reads as a tablet, as Chrome starts to have tabs at that setting. There are some other settings the device doesn't seem to like and will jump to the next highest number it likes. Example: setting it to 598, will automatically make it set to 600. Did not notice any abnormalities other than icon placement, which can be adjusted.
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I always used to set my phones to tablet mode, but at the moment it seems to break Google lens so I've had to set it just below. I don't really like the full width notification shade and lockscreen notifications, and miss chrome tabs.
Also, how does it affect the status bar \ notch?

it's dpi and screen ratio the wm command is easy way or get app that changes it

I use 600 in developer settings, font smallest, and screen smallest... I still have the original swype apk and prefer the 'tablet' version of the keyboard. This, and the fact i have a lot more 'real estate' are the primary reasons I set it to 'phablet' mode.

i mistakenly increased it to 600 and my device isnt working

I have changed it to 1200 and now pocof1 cannot load anything. Is there a fix to this?

hi can someone help me I recently changed mine by accident and i put it to 200 and now my tablet is on black screen if i hold the power button i can see the options to power off restart and lock it , i restarted it multiple time and power it off and on multiple times too . can someone help me