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for the life of me I can't figure this out. I'm trying to set a wallpaper from one of the many ones I nabbed from mobile9, however no matter the image, I'm forced to use a cropping box to select the wallpaper which never selects the whole image.
Can you set an image noncropped as wallpaper on the Nexus One? It's silly to ask, but it's been bugging me and I can't find anything on it.
Have you tried using the wallpaper set & save app? I know it works on G1's, but I've yet to try it on a Nexus since mine is due to arrive later today.
Resize your images to 960x800.
I tried the app and same deal. batch resized them all with irfanview Some look kinda weird, but I guess it will have to do. thanks.
alienmonkey said:
for the life of me I can't figure this out. I'm trying to set a wallpaper from one of the many ones I nabbed from mobile9, however no matter the image, I'm forced to use a cropping box to select the wallpaper which never selects the whole image.
Can you set an image noncropped as wallpaper on the Nexus One? It's silly to ask, but it's been bugging me and I can't find anything on it.
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Sadly, there is no way, as far as I know... I tried several different approaches, from going to the pic in the gallery to several others.
The reason for the croping is that the box keeps the proportions right so it covers the entire homescreen... so if the photo is too wide it kinda sucks, to say the least.
IIRC, there is a program that does some good work, but I haven't checked into it much.
Are you sure about the always forced cropping?
When I select a picture in the gallery (for example taken with the camera), More, Set as , Wallpaper I also get a 'default crop' but if you touch the orange crop border you can enlarge it to use more of the picture (you may get some cropping vertically or horisontally if the proportions aren't correct).
bjornbb said:
Are you sure about the always forced cropping?
When I select a picture in the gallery (for example taken with the camera), More, Set as , Wallpaper I also get a 'default crop' but if you touch the orange crop border you can enlarge it to use more of the picture (you may get some cropping vertically or horisontally if the proportions aren't correct).
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That would still be croping the photo.
There is an app called Wallpaper Plus on the market that allows for a non-cropped image, and when it sets it the background becomes stationary. It's $1.99.
Although with my experience using the app, it still requires some cropping on images on the horizontal axis. But for images that are close up and you only want a vertical version it does not require cropping and fills the entire screen with a non-shifting image.
Wallpaper Set & Save. free and it does just want you want.
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That would still be croping the photo.
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Yes, but if your image is 960x800 then you can get the orange box to cover the whole image. Just tried it after having this problem my self. kind of hard to figure this out with no help looove xda
Hi,
tell me how to set normal wallpaper 480 x 800?
The same for every desk or various for every desk.
Gallery keeps cropping them and streching for all 7 desks and its sooo retarded.
Hi Dexter, The streching over 7 desks is part of Touchwiz and i think its just how it works. As for the cropping, when you choose the picture for wallpaper it puts a red box over the picture. Stretch that using 2 fingers to get most of your picture in shot then apply it
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.
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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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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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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
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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.
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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 ?
isjr said:
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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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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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)
anyone notice than when setting wallpaper images scaled perfectly to the screen's native resolution, they get a bit fuzzier compared to the view in the gallery????
Here's an example, download this image.....
oops, can't submit links yet. Look for the starry night image at 1080X1920 resolution on google image search. It's a good example.
This is image looks pops really nicely when viewed in the gallery, amazing details and contrast. When set as a wallpaper though, a lot of the sharpness is gone. This happens independently of the screen settings. The same effect happens either with touchwiz or nova launcher, same happens when set with quick pic or stock gallery app. Same effect obviously with different 1080p images besides the one given in the link.
Anyone have any ideas about what's happening here? Kind of a shame cause the display is pretty awesome......We need a fix..
I am running a verizon s4, stock unrooted. I haven't not seen this issue reported as far as I know....
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anyone notice than when setting wallpaper images scaled perfectly to the screen's native resolution, they get a bit fuzzier compared to the view in the gallery????
Here's an example, download this image.....
oops, can't submit links yet. Look for the starry night image at 1080X1920 resolution on google image search. It's a good example.
This is image looks pops really nicely when viewed in the gallery, amazing details and contrast. When set as a wallpaper though, a lot of the sharpness is gone. This happens independently of the screen settings. The same effect happens either with touchwiz or nova launcher, same happens when set with quick pic or stock gallery app. Same effect obviously with different 1080p images besides the one given in the link.
Anyone have any ideas about what's happening here? Kind of a shame cause the display is pretty awesome......We need a fix..
I am running a verizon s4, stock unrooted. I haven't not seen this issue reported as far as I know....
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I have a full HD wallpaper and I viewed it full screen in the gallery and then hit home button to revert to homescreen and I can't notice a change at all. Every pixel is identical to that of the gallery image.
When I hit the home button the only changes are my icons appearing on the background (obviously). but colour, contrast, sharpness etc all stay the same.
I haven't tried with you stary night picture you mentioned though.
Maybe that image just isn't full HD or the pixels are slightly wrong.
Have you opened that same file in Photoshop and double checked?
Or are you just taking Googles word for it beings the right res?
yea, the photo is 1080X1920. I double checked. So are the others I tried.
the effect is definitely not drastic but it is there and I tried a few images. I think the problem is in the loss of fine details most obviously seen in
highres textures or intricate wispy patterns. I've spent many a hour working with high res type images and when these types of jpegs are set as a wallpaper, it's like the images have been run through a couple degrees of a blur filter.
I would think quite a few users would notice though they may not be able to articulate exactly what's going on....it is less stunning imo.....
Me too. The wallpaper seems less clear. Used a 1920x1200 wallpaper.
You have to use an image that is 1920 high and 1080 wide, most 1080p images are 1920 wide and 1080 high instead. So whats happening is when you set the wallpaper, the wallpaper setter has to scale and stretch the image to fit the hight of the screen.
These phones are in portrait mode most of the time remember, where as most images on the web are in landscape wide screen.
I download all my wallpapers using Zedge app. Use Quickpic app to set as wallpaper. No fuzzy issue, the wallpaper looks sharp and crisp.
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yes, the images I am using are in portrait mode, they are not resizing. try using the a highly detailed image and toggle between the gallery view and the homescreen. maybe i am seeing things but i am pretty friggin sure I can't be the only one noticing this.
Try to turn off the automatic display calibation. This option change level of saturation and other display setting depending the app you are running.
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yes, the images I am using are in portrait mode, they are not resizing. try using the a highly detailed image and toggle between the gallery view and the homescreen. maybe i am seeing things but i am pretty friggin sure I can't be the only one noticing this.
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I have always wondered if android lowered the quality of an image when setting it as wallpaper for some pragmatic reason? But have never been able to figure it out.
This has been an issue on every Android device ive ever had - its obviously something at OS level. I use an app called 'Simple Image Wallpaper' it allows you to set an image at 100% quality as it works as a Live Wallpaper. Enjoy!
Use this.
thanks be to the previous 2 posters. I will check out those apps and see if they helped any....
Just want to confirm this issue. Having the same problem.
Looks super sharp and clear in Gallery, becomes blurry when set as Wallpaper.
Resolution is definitely 1080x1920 (W x H)
Issue here as well.
Our LCD resolution is 1920x1080. Wallpaper must be 1920x1920 in order to get a 1 to 1 mapping of wallpaper pixels to screen pixels. This is because our displays switch from landscape to portrait when we turn the phone and so wallpapers are displayed as a 1080x1920 cropping or a 1920x1080 cropping of a 1920x1920 resolution image. If you supply a 1080x1920 image as a wallpaper and the phone needs to display it across 1920x1080 LCD pixels, then it will crop out a 1080x1080 square, use that as a wallpaper, stretching 1080 image pixels across 1920 lcd pixels. This may sound strange, but it really does make sense as a solution to solve the problem of how to display wallpaper when the screen can be rotated. Ever notice that the stock ROM wallpapers are square, 1920x1920?
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Our LCD resolution is 1920x1080. Wallpaper must be 1920x1920 in order to get a 1 to 1 mapping of wallpaper pixels to screen pixels. This is because our displays switch from landscape to portrait when we turn the phone and so wallpapers are displayed as a 1080x1920 cropping or a 1920x1080 cropping of a 1920x1920 resolution image. If you supply a 1080x1920 image as a wallpaper and the phone needs to display it across 1920x1080 LCD pixels, then it will crop out a 1080x1080 square, use that as a wallpaper, stretching 1080 image pixels across 1920 lcd pixels. This may sound strange, but it really does make sense as a solution to solve the problem of how to display wallpaper when the screen can be rotated. Ever notice that the stock ROM wallpapers are square, 1920x1920?
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This makes perfect sense. Do u have any good sources for 1920x1920 size wallpaper? Much Thanks :good:
interfacelift.com/wallpaper/
Is one of my favorites for very hi-res photos. You could just google wallpaper.
You will need to use a photo cropping tool (like paint or photoshop or gimp) to crop or resample to desired size.
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