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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).

[Q] Wallpaper size / turning off panoramic wallpapers

I recently asked in the Themes and Apps forum about making wallpapers and was told that I should ask in this forum about the size to make a panoramic wallpaper, but I was also wondering if there's an option somewhere in android 2.2 to turn off panoramic wallpapers and even stop the cropping (i've made some wallapapers with the screen's size and it still crops)

I use Wallapaper Set and Save from the Market

Tried it and it didn't seem to want to work with my phone for some reason.

Sorry, i meant xda's android general forum =P. There are more modders there.
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As far as I know there is no option to turn off panoramic wallpaper in vanilla android. But in ADW Launcher there of course is this option. Google the needed size...I think I once did and found. But I'm not at home so I can't tell you right now.
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I google'd for the size and got lots of different pages with different sizes @[email protected]

Look for M2 on http://www.gsmarena.com
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I use Multi Picture Live Wallpaper to have different pictures on every screen. You can set a folder to rotate photos, or even a single picture on one screen... quite useful

It still wants me to crop the picture, even when I made an image at 25% of screen size on my PC. that's just annoying.

If you can use photoshop, you can do this:
Get the image you want as wallpaper, already trimmed, and paste it inside a square image with just a background color (preferably with a color from your image). When asked for cropping, crop the whole image and ask for no panoramic wallpaper. That should work for portrait mode. M2 screen resolution is 854x480. In order to get a perfect image, do this on a square image with dimensions bigger than 854
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it doesn't ask for cropping, it goes straight to cropping. but thank you for the advice, I originally did a photoshop image of 480x854

And all you need to do is create a folder called wallpapers in the root of SD card and install Wallpaper Set&Save.
Open the ap and press Set Wallpaper. It show the wallpaper from the catalogue you created above. You can scroll through them. Press Set Wallpaper when you see the one you want and it's done.
DO not say it dos not work for you, because it does work. I have been using this for a year and a half, first on my MS1 and now on MS2.

When I said it didn't work for me, what I meant was that it wouldn't run for some reason. I'll give it another shot (I reset my phone to factory settings after I screwed something up)

Setting Wallpaper in Honeycomb - The Right Way

I recently bought the Moto Xoom and I love it. However, when I wanted to personalize it and change the wallpaper I discovered that it has only a very limited number of wallpapers to choose from. I tried to set an image as a wallpaper nd it would either get stretched or cropped and the end result would be plain ugly. So I tried to find a solution online and it be ame obvious that other Honeycomb tablet users also have the same problem. There were three solutions offerd:
Using Wallpaper Wizardii. This method worked somewhat but the wallpapers se by the app would stil lack clarity and the wallpaper would behave strangely when turning the screen.
Setting a wallpaper with Waterize. I haven't tried this method but saw people reporting the same issues as with the first method.
Lastly, some people suggested using the write size fir the downloaded images before setting them as a wallpaper. Turns out the correct image size for a wallpaper for a 1280x800 screen is 1920x1408. The you would set the image as wallpaper by stretching the crop area to include the entire image.
Well, I tried the last method and it also rendered to be far from ideal as once you try setting the wallpaper by stretching the crop area to the entire image, it would cut off the top of the image. I read other people could not set the wallpaper right either. I was desperate until I found the solution, which works perfectly. Here it is:
Follow method three but in PORTRAIT MODE. That is, download your 1920x1408 image, press the plus button on the top right of your home screen, choose Gallery, then stretch the crop area to include the whole image. Again, the key is for you to turn your device into PORTRAIT MODE while cropping.
Hope this helps.

ferganer said:
I recently bought the Moto Xoom and I love it. However, when I wanted to personalize it and change the wallpaper I discovered that it has only a very limited number of wallpapers to choose from. I tried to set an image as a wallpaper nd it would either get stretched or cropped and the end result would be plain ugly. So I tried to find a solution online and it be ame obvious that other Honeycomb tablet users also have the same problem. There were three solutions offerd:
Using Wallpaper Wizardii. This method worked somewhat but the wallpapers se by the app would stil lack clarity and the wallpaper would behave strangely when turning the screen.
Setting a wallpaper with Waterize. I haven't tried this method but saw people reporting the same issues as with the first method.
Lastly, some people suggested using the write size fir the downloaded images before setting them as a wallpaper. Turns out the correct image size for a wallpaper for a 1280x800 screen is 1920x1408. The you would set the image as wallpaper by stretching the crop area to include the entire image.
Well, I tried the last method and it also rendered to be far from ideal as once you try setting the wallpaper by stretching the crop area to the entire image, it would cut off the top of the image. I read other people could not set the wallpaper right either. I was desperate until I found the solution, which works perfectly. Here it is:
Follow method three but in PORTRAIT MODE. That is, download your 1920x1408 image, press the plus button on the top right of your home screen, choose Gallery, then stretch the crop area to include the whole image. Again, the key is for you to turn your device into PORTRAIT MODE while cropping.
Hope this helps.
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Good info! I have been meaning to make a little something like this, as I have been doing the same exact thing for a few months now on my 3G Xoom. Indeed, the end result is a real high def wallpaper without all that cropping nonsense. This should be something that can be done naively on Android. We want high def wallpapers, not a cropped up one. Maybe they will do that in the near future. ICS anyone? Hopefully.
For me, the best way to set a high def wallpaper without cropping has to be from MultiPicture Live Wallpaper.

tried multiple times and it still does not work... Any other suggestions?

Same here the above method did not work for me either. Also multi live wallpaper does work but it lags alot and drives me crazy.
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johnny0911 said:
Same here the above method did not work for me either. Also multi live wallpaper does work but it lags alot and drives me crazy.
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I get no lag, xoom or glacier, i only use one picture but it is full screen.

cool thanks for the info

mulletcutter said:
I get no lag, xoom or glacier, i only use one picture but it is full screen.
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Maybe lag is not the right word, when I use multi live wallpaper I use one pic, no transition, and auto memory. What drives me crazy is when I am switching screens either right or left it is jerky. If this is not happening to you could you share your settings? Maybe there is a issuewith my xoom. I am
Rooted running stock 3.2 3g rom and kernel . Thanks in advance.
Johnny
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johnny0911 said:
Maybe lag is not the right word, when I use multi live wallpaper I use one pic, no transition, and auto memory. What drives me crazy is when I am switching screens either right or left it is jerky. If this is not happening to you could you share your settings? Maybe there is a issuewith my xoom. I am
Rooted running stock 3.2 3g rom and kernel . Thanks in advance.
Johnny
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try disabling memory, thats helped before on a phone. But i have my album and a pic change ever 30sec, i use adw ex tho not honeycomb launcher. but there is not lag jerky anything. im OC to 1.6 on demand

I tried multiple live wallpaper & I like it.Using Adw launcher I have absolutely no lag...thanks!!
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Your third method while cropping the wallpaper in Portrait Mode worked perfectly for me! The other methods I had tried to no avail. I had to set up a company background logo for our tablets and android would force me to crop them and here I was wondering why it asked me to crop an image that was exactly the dimensions of the screen. Thank you!

Simple Image Wallpaper Free is an app that solved the problem for me ...
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ridgelineapps.simpleimagewallpaper

Nexus 7 wallpapers?

No matter what, even if I use a portrait picture, when I set the wallpaper there's no way of getting a high res background. It just stretches the image and only shows part of I on my background. Even in cropping you can only choose a small part of the pic and it becomes low res. Any way to get some actually good non-stock nexus 7 wallpapers that will actually look high res in portrait. Any body else hate this?

It will always display the image over more than one screen unless you use an app, if you want to display the whole image it has to be the correct aspect basically twice the width of the screen resolution in portrait 1600, if you use an image with a height of 1280 and width of 1600 your be able to select the whole image without cropping but it will still be displayed over all of your screens.
If you want to display a wallpaper on your home screen in portrait without any resizing cropping then make it exactly 1280H x 800W and use the app "Image 2 Wallpaper" which allows you to add the image without any resizing at all.
If you want to display an image larger than 1280H x 1600W over all your screens then there are also apps for this as well

If you use Apex or Nova launcher you can disable wallpaper scrolling and force your home screen to portrait mode. Then you could use an app like Wallpaper Wizardrii to set your image for portrait mode only.
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I did a Google search for Nexus 7 wallpapers. Found a bunch of nice ones that look fine.
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ExploreMN said:
I did a Google search for Nexus 7 wallpapers. Found a bunch of nice ones that look fine.
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Can't see the attached files, please update your post.

It appears that 1406x1280 (WxH) is what the stock crop tool likes for a full fit.

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.