I need some help with my custom lockscreen wallpaper (see wallpaper below) which is not showing correctly. It looks compressed (or is it banding?).
First this is how I select my lockscreen wallpaper:
I use the mail app (setup with Yahoo Mail) to download the image (a 36 bit png file). When I view the image (which looks great at this stage) I select "use as wallpaper" from the options menu. The image then shows up in a crop box (which now looks compressed) and select the check mark (crop). When I press the lock and unlock button the wallpaper looks fantastic. But the moment I go to the start screen then pess the lock and unlock button the wallpaper looks compressed (again maybe banding?).
What is weird is that when I open the Pictures, Marketplace, or Music and Video apps, and then lock and unlock the phone the wallpaper looks great again.
What am I doing wrong? Is the image too large? Is it because the image is 36 bit? Or is it some bug in the phone? Please help me. It's driving me crazy...
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I find that when I 'Use this picture as a background' (WM6, Dopod D810) the image appears but it's always 'whitewashed'. By that, I mean it's faded to white - I'd prefer to see the photo in it's full colour with no faded look.
I'm certain that in the early days of WM5 this used to work fine?
Any ideas would be appreciated
use picture & video viewer to find the picture you want to use as your background. tap and hold for the context menu and select "Set as Today Background..." a screen will appear where you can select transparency. set it to 0% and you should be in business!!
Thanks cortezzi, I'll give it a go.
Any idea of XnView Pocket does it? I can't seem to find a 'set as wallpaper' option.
*can't find it*
Also tried out a trial version of Resco Photo Viewer and although it allows me to Save > Use as Home Screen then set the viewable image area and transparency (which I set to 0), however the new wallpaper never appears despite receiving the message 'Picture was correctly set as Today wallpaper'.
Settings > Today shows the background picture is currently set to 'Custom Wallpaper'
Is there a registry hack I can do to stop the default Today settings from adding transparency to new background images?
I had the same problem.. In my case it was caused by the theme I had installed. Try a different theme or modify the one you use.
as helpful as ever....thanks blitzwurst
i tried using a plain colour theme with spb menu but any custom today backgrounds i choose still come out with transparency. how exactly do you suggest i do this? i'm certain that it used to work fine (no transparency) under WM5....
i'm just eager to make use of the great backgrounds another xda user suggested on the Slide2Unlock topic (I think) at http://www.zuned.be !
That Zune site is pretty nice!
In my case I had to get a theme (.tsk) editor and embed the background I wanted into the Theme as opposed to selecting an image from the device to use as a background.
no worries, i might do the same...any recc's on a good theme editor to use?
does it run on the device or on a pc?
when i change the wallpaper of today using the
default option (the box below theme selection)
the wallpaper get whiten (just like the theme set transparency to 30% or so)
i try different theme also have this problem
What can i do? thx
Browse to the picture you like to use as wallpaper with the file explorer. Open the picture and choose "Set as Today Background..." with transparency 0%.
use pictures and videos menu,>send to today bckground
change the transparancy there
or use a_cs s2v which is the best free image viewer and save to desktop
that prog allows you to save much higher quality contact pictures as well
Done, thank you very much ^^b
I tried searching the forums but could not find how to set the transparency of a JPG or BMP on the Today screen when Touchflo3D is disabled. Currently I get a greyed out background. Previously on earlier phones there was an option to set the transparency level when selectring a today background but the Touch HD does not have this option.
I wold appreciate any help in solving this problem.
Thanks,
go to pictures and video, tap and hold the image you want to set as background and select on the popup menu "set as background..."
there you can select the transparency of the image
Knew it had to be somewhere
crashDebug said:
go to pictures and video, tap and hold the image you want to set as background and select on the popup menu "set as background..."
there you can select the transparency of the image
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Great, Thank you. Tried in Album and Explorer but not there. Working perfectly now.
Hi all,
I was thinking how would be nice if someone could add a menu option for viewing pictures - use as touchflo3D background ( or maybe some picture viewer app which can do this ). Because always when you want to change the background you must slide across the screen to settings tab, select the wallpaper option, click on no ( no default wallpaper ), choose the folder and finally found a picture what you want in that so small thumbnails, click on it and go to the home tab to see how it looks like. But specially in the women pictures you find out (after this ridiculously long procedure) that she has a clock across the face xD.
Correct me if I am wrong. The app with the thumbnails is htc album right? Why there is no possibility to see the image in fullscreen before you select it as wallpaper (as it is in htc album tab) ???
this is so annoying for me, what do you think?
I want to place a picture I took in portrait as my background. I turned off scrolling desktop assuming this would allow me to not have to crop the photo to a landscape picture, but it still askes me to crop it everytime. I thought maybe it was Go Launcher, but it has the same menu in all launcher so it is part of CM7/Android2.3.
Does anyone know how to add a full (top to bottom) picture as the background without having to crop? Thanks in advance!
Ok so I guess I should try google before I ask...so allow me to do the honors.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=set+portrait+wallpaper+on+android
The answer: Wallpaper Wizardrii