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[Q] Android Convert From Apple - Photos Question

What up peeps! I decided not to go with the iPad2 and wait on the galaxy tab and man am I happy. I love this device so far but unfortunately I have never worked with Android before so some things that I figured would be pretty self explanatory aren't quite that. I did some searching around this forum and havent seen the question asked so here goes. I connected my Tab to my PC and moved all of my photos into the the photos folder. However when I go to my gallery native app, my photos do not appear. I tried to go into the settings to see if I could map my gallery to the photos folder but to no avail. Where exactly am I suppose to load my gallery images to for them to show up when I launch the gallery app. Second question related to gallery, I can get to my photos folders using any one of the file explorer apps, and view my photos there but when I try to set them up as my wallpaper, they only take up a portion of the screen instead of the whole screen like the native wallpapers. Is there a way around this? Thanks in advance for any help! Much appreciated!

Reboot and your photos should show in gallery. I believe the only folder that is auto scanned for changes is DCIM/camera.
The wallpaper is an android thing, it sucks. There may be an app in the market to set wallpaper, but all the ones I have seen always crop and zoom. I think I saw something in the general section of the transformer forum for setting wallpaper.
BTW the resolution on the default wallpaper is 2135x1408.
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danielsjam said:
Reboot and your photos should show in gallery. I believe the only folder that is auto scanned for changes is DCIM/camera.
The wallpaper is an android thing, it sucks. There may be an app in the market to set wallpaper, but all the ones I have seen always crop and zoom. I think I saw something in the general section of the transformer forum for setting wallpaper.
BTW the resolution on the default wallpaper is 2135x1408.
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Thanks Daniel. You are the man! I thought it auto scanned each time you opened Gallery after I saw the images i moved into the DCIM/Camera. They are all where they should be now! I have to agree about the Wallpaper. Its pretty jacked up with the always crop and zoom. I'm going to head out to the market and see if I can find a better wallpaper app. I'll look in Transformer general section to see if I can pull the name of the app! Much appreciated!

Wallpaper Wizardrii is the answer to all funky cropping
Daniel-
You are the man. I found this over in the Transformer general section. Works like a charm.
Finally a Fix for your Wallpaper Re-sizing/Cropping.
1.Download: Wallpaper Wizardrii - Free on Android Market
2.Preferences: HD Image Size - Change to 1600
Image Compression - Change to 100% (actually equals 0 Compression)
3. Enjoy your full image.
For Fun turn off wallpaper scrolling when you set your Image and watch your Home Screen Fly!

I also use a feature in an app called Gallery Excluder that allows me to force a scan of all files at my leisure.
The purpose of the app is to exclude folders from the scan, but one feature is to force the scan of all folders. It works well.
https://market.android.com/details?id=de.mrfloppycoding.galleryexcluder&feature=search_result

vansmack said:
I also use a feature in an app called Gallery Excluder that allows me to force a scan of all files at my leisure.
The purpose of the app is to exclude folders from the scan, but one feature is to force the scan of all folders. It works well.
https://market.android.com/details?id=de.mrfloppycoding.galleryexcluder&feature=search_result
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vansmack..BTW luv the handle!
I will have to try this one out too! It hasnt been 24hrs yet and Im already down to 10gbs left on my 32gb GTab! LOL Im loving every minute of it.
Now the next question is do I root it so I can tether it to my iPhone! Still searching the forums for an alternate solution but so far every app I downloaded doesnt even see my iphone as a wifi hotspot! LOL

just try QuickPic instead of the default gallery , it has all these features inbuilt.

stat1124 said:
Now the next question is do I root it so I can tether it to my iPhone! Still searching the forums for an alternate solution but so far every app I downloaded doesnt even see my iphone as a wifi hotspot! LOL
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iPhone 4 or 3GS?
I don't think the 3 can create and infrastructure hot spot, only ad-hoc which takes rooting to connect to. I could be wrong about that though as I'm not an Apple guy.
If you have a 4, TetherMe is an app that should allow you to create an infrastructure hotspot and your 10.1 will connect to it.
Or you can just get a Nexus S 4G like me with infrastructure mode out of the box...

stat1124 said:
vansmack..BTW luv the handle!
I will have to try this one out too! It hasnt been 24hrs yet and Im already down to 10gbs left on my 32gb GTab! LOL Im loving every minute of it.
Now the next question is do I root it so I can tether it to my iPhone! Still searching the forums for an alternate solution but so far every app I downloaded doesnt even see my iphone as a wifi hotspot! LOL
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for 3GS if you have jailbroken you can try MyWi it can create infrastucture hotspot i believe/

An app that resizes and crops photos?

Hey,
I'm looking for an app that can re-size and crop photos. It's a pretty basic requirement, but I've yet to find an app that can do both.
Am I missing something that this staring me in the face, or does such an app really not exist?
-PW

You could use Samsung photo editor
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17146726#post17146726
Or you can search the market with "resize image" - gives lots of results.

This doesn't show up in market. I assume I need to get the app through an alternate source?
Or does it only work with the galaxy?

Forgot to tell you that Samsung photo editor requires root in order to install. I've updated my post with a link.

pacificwing said:
Hey,
I'm looking for an app that can re-size and crop photos. It's a pretty basic requirement, but I've yet to find an app that can do both.
Am I missing something that this staring me in the face, or does such an app really not exist?
-PW
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My favorite photo editor is PicSay. There is a free version. I got lucky the pro version was free on amazon app market a while ago.

drkalo said:
You could use Samsung photo editor
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17146726#post17146726
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Thanks for the link. It looks like it may be what I need, but unfortunately it doesn't appear to run reliably on my device. It is rooted, but it force closes after a few seconds.
drkalo said:
Or you can search the market with "resize image" - gives lots of results.
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Yes, I've tried a number of searches with many results. Unfortunately, very few of those results are actually useful. It seems the tablet is still a little behind when it comes to image software. Most of the results are toys and gimics.
Ideally, I was hoping for a simple crop/resize tool, and was very surprised to find so few applications that performed these two basic functions. I thought I might be missing something.
Guess I'll be waiting a bit.

NoHousePhone said:
My favorite photo editor is PicSay. There is a free version. I got lucky the pro version was free on amazon app market a while ago.
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I tried the free version. It didn't re-size or crop, from what I could tell. It seemed to just allow adding balloons and icons and stuff.
Are actual photo editing features included in the pro version?

Re size and crop is part of the pro. Sorry about that.
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pacificwing said:
Thanks for the link. It looks like it may be what I need, but unfortunately it doesn't appear to run reliably on my device. It is rooted, but it force closes after a few seconds.
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It seems only two of the lib files actually copied. After I recopied all of the lib files, the app started working.
Thanks again.
-PW

I have pic say.and image shrink.

currently im using QuickPic as my default pic browser..
i cant paste the link here as my post count is not enough yet.. so try to search it in market..
much much much better than stock pic browser..
you can easily arrange the filing and folder as you can copy, cut n paste pictures within the apps itself..
it also provides cropping for pictures if that is what you want..
try it.. to me its the best pic browser.. (and pic cropping tools)

Yeah, QuickPic is really nice - supports crop but not resize as requested from the op.

HTC Sense People Widget (Separate APK)

Hey all
I know quite a few people are unhappy about not seeing the People Widget on the new HTC 10, so I decided to extract the APK from my old M8 and installed it on the HTC 10.
For anyone else who is interested it getting the People Widget back, here is it.
It's been uploaded to my Google Drive, but if anyone can recommend a better place to upload it, I'll happily make it available for everyone.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_85IRTAZanZcTdfM1VxbDlZNlk&usp=sharing

Outstanding and thanks for the share!

Hi, great! Thanks.
I would like to extract some more widgets from my own old M8. Can you point me to the way of doing that? Highly appreciated!

deechte said:
Hi, great! Thanks.
I would like to extract some more widgets from my own old M8. Can you point me to the way of doing that? Highly appreciated!
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I've just installed HTC gallery ap from M8 and it works fine.
Just backup'ed apk with ES file explorer, transferred with Bluetooth and installed.

I miss the old HTC weather widget that would have animations on the main screen. gimmiky yes. but hell it looked great!

hija31 said:
I've just installed HTC gallery ap from M8 and it works fine.
Just backup'ed apk with ES file explorer, transferred with Bluetooth and installed.
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I suppose not every widget is in its own apk?

deechte said:
I suppose not every widget is in its own apk?
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No, not all of them.

I actually found many of them. So I've now ported over Wi-Fi widget, BT widget, Sync All widget, contacts widget, HTC Internet Browser and HTC Sense Input keyboard. Thanks!

Yes, those are in system apps.

hija31 said:
I've just installed HTC gallery ap from M8 and it works fine.
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Really? The HTC gallery app only provides viewing photos but does not save after editing... Very sad! I had to give up your favorite applications

Miha2e said:
Really? The HTC gallery app only provides viewing photos but does not save after editing... Very sad! I had to give up your favorite applications
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It does save them, but they have to be on internal storage.

hija31 said:
It does save them, but they have to be on internal storage.
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I know, but all pictures on external memory

deechte said:
Hi, great! Thanks.
I would like to extract some more widgets from my own old M8. Can you point me to the way of doing that? Highly appreciated!
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Is your M8 rooted ?
Forgive me if I am wrong, but I believe only rooted phones can get to the location of the APK files.

hija31 said:
I've just installed HTC gallery ap from M8 and it works fine.
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Can you upload that apk somewhere for others to use as well. Or send it to me and I will upload it for you.

TRLOS said:
Can you upload that apk somewhere for others to use as well. Or send it to me and I will upload it for you.
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It's already been posted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/help/htc-apps-t3357264/page4
P.S.
As I said in that thread, you can't edit photos on SD card.

TRLOS said:
Hey all
I know quite a few people are unhappy about not seeing the People Widget on the new HTC 10, so I decided to extract the APK from my old M8 and installed it on the HTC 10.
For anyone else who is interested it getting the People Widget back, here is it.
It's been uploaded to my Google Drive, but if anyone can recommend a better place to upload it, I'll happily make it available for everyone.
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I had to create a new account just to say thank you so much for this! I have been looking for this for a while. Really gutted/angry HTC got rid of alot of useful and helpful widgets. Has anyone got the HTC music player to work? The the mobile data widget?

rdeepsingh said:
I had to create a new account just to say thank you so much for this! I have been looking for this for a while. Really gutted/angry HTC got rid of alot of useful and helpful widgets. Has anyone got the HTC music player to work? The the mobile data widget?
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I have the HTC Music widget installed and working - don't remember where I got it(!), but this site might have it: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/htc-corporation/.

dlorde said:
I have the HTC Music widget installed and working - don't remember where I got it(!), but this site might have it: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/htc-corporation/.
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I tried extracting the HTC Music app and successfully installed it onto the HTC10, but every time I launched it, it would crash.
That is the reason why I didn't upload the file here.
The Google Play app takes a bit of getting use to, and you have to really stay on top of your MP3 ID3 tags, but once you get use to it, it isn't so bad.
Only wish it had the ability to sort by folder, but the HTC Music app didn't have that ability either

TRLOS said:
I tried extracting the HTC Music app and successfully installed it onto the HTC10, but every time I launched it, it would crash.
That is the reason why I didn't upload the file here.
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This one might be worth try: Fulmics HTC Sense apps.
The Google Play app takes a bit of getting use to, and you have to really stay on top of your MP3 ID3 tags, but once you get use to it, it isn't so bad.
Only wish it had the ability to sort by folder, but the HTC Music app didn't have that ability either
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I don't really use the HTC Music app much; for most music listening I use Neutron. For audio courses and other talk stuff I tend to use MX Player Pro or VLC, depending on suitable features (playlists, resume, etc).

dlorde said:
This one might be worth try: Fulmics HTC Sense apps.
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Thanks for the link. I will give it a try

zte locker apk

Hi, i was wondering if someone had an apk of zte locker. I would like to have the app on other devices as i love the app.
Thanks in advance

I'm not sure that's gonna work.
If we grab an apk from the Axon 7 system we'll need it's libs too and the libs are probably optimized for the Axon7 and nothing else.
Sorry mate, but you probably won't be able to get it running on another device without some tweaking.
It's possible we could port ZTE Locker to a different ROM on the same device but even that could prove difficult.

I was looking for the same thing, but what I really want its just the wallpapers.... does anybody know from where the ZTE Locker gets the wallpapers?

Google Wallpapers has a feature where it'll refresh the wallpaper daily.

lokenok said:
Google Wallpapers has a feature where it'll refresh the wallpaper daily.
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yes, but the wallpapers from the ZTE Locker app are way better (IMO)

Good chance I'll be diving into the ZTE locker apk to try and get some information on where the wallpapers come from, and with what encoding they're stored. I mean it has a way to save them so if I can reverse engineer that I could theoretically make a tool to download them all without even using ZTE Locker.
I think ZTE Locker is actually made by a different company, but I forget the name
Sent from my ZTE A2017U using Tapatalk

MelloZ said:
Good chance I'll be diving into the ZTE locker apk to try and get some information on where the wallpapers come from, and with what encoding they're stored. I mean it has a way to save them so if I can reverse engineer that I could theoretically make a tool to download them all without even using ZTE Locker.
I think ZTE Locker is actually made by a different company, but I forget the name
Sent from my ZTE A2017U using Tapatalk
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That would be amazing!

MelloZ said:
Good chance I'll be diving into the ZTE locker apk to try and get some information on where the wallpapers come from, and with what encoding they're stored. I mean it has a way to save them so if I can reverse engineer that I could theoretically make a tool to download them all without even using ZTE Locker.
I think ZTE Locker is actually made by a different company, but I forget the name
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just FYI, im pretty sure the app save the wallpapers in a folder call "utooolockscreen", but the files are .uwp
Changing the extension to jpg, bmp or png does nothing.

yamils said:
just FYI, im pretty sure the app save the wallpapers in a folder call "utooolockscreen", but the files are .uwp
Changing the extension to jpg, bmp or png does nothing.
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Ah thanks!
Utoooo, that's what I was trying to think of. The package name is com.utooo.lockscreen something or other.
And thanks for the .uwp info.
Don't they have a way to manually save the wallpapers though? I imagine that just does a proper conversion to a more standard format, it was either PNG or JPEG, don't recall.
Hopefully I can get started on this tomorrow, but as for now I've a last-minute Valentine's day gift to worry about :/
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When you mark a wall as Favourite it gets downloaded in JPEG format. Seriously, can anybody export and patch ZTE Locker to work on other phones?

Yeah I'm working on it. I find it doubtful I'll be able to totally port it over to another device. It's more likely I can find the source of the wallpapers and implement it into a different lockscreen
Sent from my Axon 7

Poking around in my decompiled ZTE Locker, I've found 42 default wallpapers.
Some of them I've never actually seen in the rotation, which is curious. Others I've seen quite often. Doesn't seem like it's perfectly random.
And they actually misspelled the word "default" on two of them haha
I figured I'd upload them to AFH and link that here since I don't think this is worth a new thread. I suppose if someone thinks it is, you're welcome to start one.
In the meantime I'll keep looking into how they download the other wallpapers, besides these 42.
42 default wallpapers

MelloZ said:
Poking around in my decompiled ZTE Locker, I've found 42 default wallpapers.
Some of them I've never actually seen in the rotation, which is curious. Others I've seen quite often. Doesn't seem like it's perfectly random.
And they actually misspelled the word "default" on two of them haha
I figured I'd upload them to AFH and link that here since I don't think this is worth a new thread. I suppose if someone thinks it is, you're welcome to start one.
In the meantime I'll keep looking into how they download the other wallpapers, besides these 42.
42 default wallpapers
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Excellent progress for a day. Btw is your nickname reletad to Death Note?

skromnia said:
Btw is your nickname reletad to Death Note?
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Probably not; I've no clue what you're talking about
Sent from my Axon 7

Is there any progression so far? If not, no worries. I am allready gratefull for the 42 wallpapers you found

Found something very interesting:
From this web request "http://rms-deu.ztems.com/ZteLockScreenAPI/updateProgramList.json?model=ZTE%20A2017G&product=P996A04_N&device=ailsa_ii&brand=ZTE&version=7.0&userName=1234&screenSize=2560x1440&branch=TYPE_ABROAD&imei=<youremei>" you will recieve a json string. This json contains (if the request was successfull) a list of "resourceList" which contains some information about the pictures currently available like the url from where you can download the image.
I just created a small application which does exactly that and it is working perfectly fine.
This could be easily implemented into an Android app
Not sure though if permissions from ZTE would be required but I guess they are.

yamils said:
just FYI, im pretty sure the app save the wallpapers in a folder call "utooolockscreen", but the files are .uwp
Changing the extension to jpg, bmp or png does nothing.
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In Android 6 it had the option to download them and they'd be saved as regular jpgs. So if anyone knows the address of the server, which is no doubt somewhere in the app, we could just directly download the files. My phone was wiped during my upgrade to Android 7 and I lost all of the ones I had saved. In Android 7 it doesn't seem to be working at all anymore, it comes with 21 and it never updates for me no matter what I try, and unlike the Android 6 version before you can't just force it to refresh and get all them you want.
Edit: Just saw the post before mine.
Cyb3rzombi3 said:
Found something very interesting:
From this web request "http://rms-deu.ztems.com/ZteLockScreenAPI/updateProgramList.json?model=ZTE%20A2017G&product=P996A04_N&device=ailsa_ii&brand=ZTE&version=7.0&userName=1234&screenSize=2560x1440&branch=TYPE_ABROAD&imei=<youremei>" you will recieve a json string. This json contains (if the request was successfull) a list of "resourceList" which contains some information about the pictures currently available like the url from where you can download the image.
I just created a small application which does exactly that and it is working perfectly fine.
This could be easily implemented into an Android app
Not sure though if permissions from ZTE would be required but I guess they are.
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I get "parameter illegal" or something like that when entering my IMEI and changing the G to U in the URL doesn't change that.

ikkeeuu said:
Hi, i was wondering if someone had an apk of zte locker. I would like to have the app on other devices as i love the app.
Thanks in advance
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Next by Microsoft is a very close lockscreen replace?
Lots of nice bing photos, good event organization.

Cyrus D. said:
I get "parameter illegal" or something like that when entering my IMEI and changing the G to U in the URL doesn't change that.
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Did you remove "<" and ">" in the IMEI parameter?

+1 to this. It is a a nice replacement for the ZTE locker on RR. Now it doesn't change wallpapers every time you press the power button, but it's better than nothing. Sucks, though, I can't seem to hide sensitive notification content?

OnePlus 6T Walls Changing on their own...again

I have to say thanks to everyone in advance. I have looked at sites and posts about this question to no avail...at least it did not fix mine
My wallpaper is changing on it's own every hour or 2...at least. It changes to these wallpapers, and the wallpaper is SORT OF "black and white'ish" I have rebooted the phone. I have looked into the accessibility settings and saw nothing and in the display settings and saw nothing. I saw that it says something about possibly having set the wallpapers from the selection "on OnePlus" Well, I didn't. The box is unchcecked.
In addition, the wallpapers that mine are getting changed to are all getting changed to that material typpe. Not only that, but they are being changed in a way that makes them look sort of black and white, while staying color.
Any help short of a factory reset would be appreciated.

eric0668 said:
I have to say thanks to everyone in advance. I have looked at sites and posts about this question to no avail...at least it did not fix mine
My wallpaper is changing on it's own every hour or 2...at least. It changes to these wallpapers, and the wallpaper is SORT OF "black and white'ish" I have rebooted the phone. I have looked into the accessibility settings and saw nothing and in the display settings and saw nothing. I saw that it says something about possibly having set the wallpapers from the selection "on OnePlus" Well, I didn't. The box is unchcecked.
In addition, the wallpapers that mine are getting changed to are all getting changed to that material typpe. Not only that, but they are being changed in a way that makes them look sort of black and white, while staying color.
Any help short of a factory reset would be appreciated.
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Is it any possibility that's it is an app that you have installed? I know it's most likely not the case but just thought I would ask just I'm case

You said that very nicely and that means as much to me as solving the problem so thank you very much.
I'm going to look into it in a little while or when I get up in the morning and I will get back on here and let you know thank you again. you give me too much credit anyway I don't even know the best way to go ahead and check that. Possibly just go ahead and take any apps off my phone that have to do with wallpapers and start from there putting one back on at a time?

eric0668 said:
You said that very nicely and that means as much to me as solving the problem so thank you very much.
I'm going to look into it in a little while or when I get up in the morning and I will get back on here and let you know thank you again. you give me too much credit anyway I don't even know the best way to go ahead and check that. Possibly just go ahead and take any apps off my phone that have to do with wallpapers and start from there putting one back on at a time?
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Just trying to help
But yes definitely start with wallpaper apps, those can definitely be the problem. Also are you using a different launcher? I know Microsoft launcher has a feature where it changes the wallpaper every so often. Let me know and I'll be happy to help as much as I can!

I normally use Nova but not at the time. As far as the wallpaper apps go I realized a better way to go would be for me to open up each one of them and look at the settings so I could find out that way. and also I picked out the names of the titles that had material in it as in material walls since the images were of that type. Thanks again. (how is the Microsoft launcher? is it just basically a launcher that looks like Windows phone?)

These look like wallpapers by the Tapet app, there is an option in there to change the wallpaper every so many minutes, I would check to see if you have that installed.

NBH (and everyone) that was the solution
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