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SAMOLED Screen, Colors and you.

Been searching for a while trying to find some info on the color depth on the Super AMOLED screens on the Galaxy S line.
Reason being, I have to be very wary of what wallpapers I use on my phone, because many end up looking very bad. You see distinct lines in various gradients as if the color depth of the screen is just very low.
It's a little disconcerting, and confusing, given how great these screens are supposed to be.
For example, there is a new wallpaper Android Central (posted just the other day) featuring their new logo/mascot. The wallpapers looks fine on my LCD monitor on my computer, but when I put them on my phone, I see lines in the background gradient that shouldn't be there. It doesn't seem like the screen can render those 'in-between' colors.
Anyone have any insight on this? Is it in fact the screen? Are other phones like this too?
I did read something about the fact that Android 2.1 maxes at 16bit color but 2.2 remedies this limitation, but I'm not sure if this is accurate, applicable to the situation, or even true.
Thanks in advance.

Download the Acquarium free live wallpaper in the market. The colors look amazing on my phone. There's also the Avatar movie, in the bright scenes the colors really "pop".

Let's hope froyo adds that feature, I've noticed it too on some colors, but its a minor annoyance, I'm sure if android supported larger screen resolution like gingerbread will have, samsung would have put a 1280x720 screen in there. Maybe the S2
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As a photographer I put several of my Hi Res works on my Phone. I did not even downsize them and just moved them to the phone so they would not be downsized automatically. I found the Gallery displays them perfectly, all be it with a slight over saturation. But the depth is great, really really good. I have used it as a mini portfolio, its that good.
However if I make any of them a wallpaper the phone dummies the shot way down and I loose sharpness, pixel depth, contrast, even that over saturation I spoke of. Its seems to me the shots are forced down to a "good" wallpaper size to not drain resources maybe? If a large hi res photo is not down sampled in small increments a little at a time it looses a ton of quality. But should not shots made for wallpaper from the market work well too? Maybe the Vibrant dummies all shots down for the wallpaper since all screen sizes are different?
Now if I could only get the Gallery to stop hanging on start up after the Ji6 update...ugh

It could be the stock gallery app that is ****ing up the wallpapers. I recommend using an app called "Wallpaper Set & Save" which allows you to set any size wallpaper without ****ing up the quality. Zedge is another great app with tons of dope wallpapers and doesn't destroy the resolutions of your wallpapers.

SeanFloyd said:
It could be the stock gallery app that is ****ing up the wallpapers. I recommend using an app called "Wallpaper Set & Save" which allows you to set any size wallpaper without ****ing up the quality. Zedge is another great app with tons of dope wallpapers and doesn't destroy the resolutions of your wallpapers.
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Cool! apps like that I was not even aware of. thanks.
I just tried Photoshop Express app for Android to set a Hi Res pic to wallpaper. Fail. It down graded it substantially, It must use the crappy internal phone method also. Gonna check out the recommended apps thanks.

[INFO] Blurry Wallpaper Solved!

I downloaded my own wallpaper
1920 X 1200
set it and its still kinda blurry
whos knows why?
Updates : 2560x1600 will work
Thanks to seshmaru!

it wont let just set it as is
it always make me crop them and the crop square is always smaller then the actual picture

Because you need a higher resolution image. It's a scrolling background you know.

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Because you need a higher resolution image. It's a scrolling background you know.
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so how high?
1920 X 1080?
1920 x 1200?

higher, its its over 2000 px in width, if you want wallpapers 2560x1650 wallpapers are a pretty common format and scale much better.

that seems like a giant res

its 1200x1200 + homescreen scrolling and zooming, so yeah.

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higher, its its over 2000 px in width, if you want wallpapers 2560x1650 wallpapers are a pretty common format and scale much better.
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so do we all agree on 2560 x 1650?
i'll try that

ok so its not blurry anymore
but it will shift down after you set it

i'm sure the minimum resolution of wallpaper in eee pad is 1920x1408

I had a terrible time finding the right res, then found walpaper wizardi app. Some glitches but takes anypicu throw at it and BAM perfect res!
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Hey guys, i've been downloading wallpapers non-stop from google images, i just typed in the resolution of "2560x1600" and found some really sick wallpapers.

Background cm7

Hey guys i have pictures i cant get display the full pic because when you set a picture as a background it will only allow you select like half the picture to set as a background is there anyway around this?

The picture size you select must maintain the aspect ratio of the atrix's screen. Its 540x960 pixels, or a 9:16 aspect ratio. Either find wallpapers of this resolution/aspect ratio or be stuck "cropping" your wallpapers. I hope this explanation helped. If it did, hit thanks.
-omni
P.S. I use Quickpic for setting wallpapers because its crop tool is smooth, and it never degrades the photo quality like the stock Wallpaper Chooser does.

The picture size you select must maintain the aspect ratio of the atrix's screen. Its 540x960 pixels, or a 9:16 aspect ratio. Either find wallpapers of this resolution/aspect ratio or be stuck "cropping" your wallpapers. I hope this explanation helped. If it did, hit thanks.
-omni
P.S. I use Quickpic for setting wallpapers because its crop tool is smooth, and it never degrades the photo quality like the stock Wallpaper Chooser does.
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+1 for Quickpic, its the best
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omni_angel7 said:
The picture size you select must maintain the aspect ratio of the atrix's screen. Its 540x960 pixels, or a 9:16 aspect ratio. Either find wallpapers of this resolution/aspect ratio or be stuck "cropping" your wallpapers. I hope this explanation helped. If it did, hit thanks.
-omni
P.S. I use Quickpic for setting wallpapers because its crop tool is smooth, and it never degrades the photo quality like the stock Wallpaper Chooser does.
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Well what is anoying is if you use cm settings to set a custom lockscreen it will set the picture correctly and show the whole pic

msd24200 said:
+1 for Quickpic, its the best
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Yep quick pic is the best for setting wallpapers. Default Android wallpaper manager always used to introduce bad gradients and I kept blaming Atrix for it but its actually the app.
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any videos or photos that show off s4 screen

i want some recommendations of videos/photos to show off the gorgeous screen of S4. And some places to find amazing wallpapers. Most apps dont have wallpapers for HD screen yet, all of em are upscaled and they dont look as good as default wallpapers.

www.interfacelift.com/wallpaper/ (choose new ipad resolution)
www.iwallbase.cc (in filter set up minimum resolution of 1080x1920)
www.ideviantart.com

Al Gore said:
www.interfacelift.com/wallpaper/ (choose new ipad resolution)
www.iwallbase.cc (in filter set up minimum resolution of 1080x1920)
www.ideviantart.com
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thanks im gonna try those

Do It For Your Eyeballs :)

I implore you to go to www.wallbase.cc to download some of the wallpapers there. You can search random at the resolution of your liking. Here is a direct link to random wallpapers @ 2560 X 1600 which compliments this tablet perfectly:
http://wallbase.cc/random?section=w...x1600&thpp=32&purity=100&board=21&aspect=0.00
Do not save the thumbnail. Click the one you want, it will open the big picture in another tab, save that, then go view that in your gallery.
Prepare......your eyes will melt
Just trust me. I've been using wallbase for years on my desktop but nothing compares to a high res photo on the Galaxy Note 2014. Simply amazing!

They have some nice pictures. It amazes me how many people apparently have a picture of some scantily clad lady as their background, almost half of the pictures on random mode are of that variety. I never understood why you would want that on your tablet always, for everyone to see, when you hand the tablet to your mom, your co-worker...
Anyway, what I actually wanted to ask: Wouldn't you want the wallpaper to be wider than the screen resolution? Otherwise it would have to zoom into the picture to be able to scroll the image when you switch homescreen pages. Or did you disable that?

atg284 said:
I implore you to go to www.wallbase.cc to download some of the wallpapers there. You can search random at the resolution of your liking. Here is a direct link to random wallpapers @ 2560 X 1600 which compliments this tablet perfectly:
http://wallbase.cc/random?section=w...x1600&thpp=32&purity=100&board=21&aspect=0.00
Do not save the thumbnail. Click the one you want, it will open the big picture in another tab, save that, then go view that in your gallery.
Prepare......your eyes will melt
Just trust me. I've been using wallbase for years on my desktop but nothing compares to a high res photo on the Galaxy Note 2014. Simply amazing!
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Actually not........
2560 x 1600 is the best for viewing but if you want it for wallpaper the smallest resolution should be 2560 or as close as possible.
Interfacelift.com has photos up to 3840 x 2400, they have a dropdown box that you pick the size that you want from.

kkretch said:
Actually not........
2560 x 1600 is the best for viewing but if you want it for wallpaper the smallest resolution should be 2560 or as close as possible.
Interfacelift.com has photos up to 3840 x 2400, they have a dropdown box that you pick the size that you want from.
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I see...my wallpaper is stationary so that resolution works for me that's how the note 2014 came out of the box.
Thanks for the link will definitely check that out. Always good to have more options!

Thanks for sharing bro, This makes the tablet even better . This is really appreciated

i don't know if this is compatible with the new Note 10.1 but Samsung Display has released an app that has some awesome eye-popping wallpapers included in it
Play Store Link: Samsung Display OLED World

Thanks for sharing
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Thanks for sharing.

I stocked on some 1600p wallpapers just to have them resized, but then found this app, its a "fake" live wallpaper, allows to set a pic as wallp w/o cropping or resizing it one bit and big thankz to the guy who posted 2400p wallpaper link!
edit: teh app also allows to set a different/separate pics for portrait and landscape.