I have a quick question... when I set the picture to be the wallpaper, once it is set, the image is magnified like the phone zoomed in.
Any way to keep it from doing that?
On some ROMs that I've loaded on my rooted epic, the wallpaper fits perfectly. But when I snap a pic and set it as my wallpaper, the image is magnified.
TIA
When you go to set the picture it sould pop up with a crop box in it. You have to stretch that box to the full picture then set as wallpaper.
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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.
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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.
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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
OK so I have a picture of a friend of mine that I would like to set as the wallpaper. I don't want it to scroll as I swipe from one homescreen to the next. I want a static image that remains the same. I've googled this for over an hour and I'm starting to think I'm retarded. I've even installed some Wallpaper Set and Save app and its not helping either.
Any suggestions for how to do this? You'd think it would be dead simple. I want the wallpaper to look exactly how it does when I view the picture in the Gallery app.
Thanks in advance.
When you select a photo as a wallpaper, it gives you an option to crop what sections of the photo you want seen. Set it as wallpaper, pinch to zoom the box to get the maximum amount of photo. Then hit Save or whatever.
LauncherPro and adw.launcher let you do that. It also lets you do some other handy things.
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I have Launcher Pro and the only option I see is "Disable wallpaper scrolling" which sounds like it would be great, but each time I choose an image it still gets cropped in the Gallery. Maybe I'm not seeing another option?
Go to the gallery.
Select the picture you want.
Hit Menu, More, Set as, Wallpaper.
It will come up with a box overlay. Touch the edge of the box and drag it out so that it expands to encompass the whole or the vast majority of the image.
Hit Save.
Now you will have the entire image set as your wallpaper.
That did not work for me. I have a wallpaper to the specific size, and it still makes me crop it no matter how I go about it.
Well yea, you are going to have to crop a TINY bit off the edges probably. Is it that big of a deal? The wallpaper would look like garbage if it tried to cram a weird aspect ratio picture into the Epic's aspect ratio screen. Faces would be squished or elongated. But only a TINY TINY amount of the photo gets cut off when you do what I said.
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)
I cannot get wallpaper set reliably in either landscape or portrait. Setting 1024 x 600 pics through Set and Save, Crop Wallpaper, or Wallpaper Wizardri usually just sets the top 300 pixels of the wallpaper. If I use Quik Pic or Gallery it forces me to crop the correct size down. The crazy thing is somehow last night I got Quik Pic to set the whole wallpaper without cropping it by opening the image then doing menu options set as quik pic wallpaper....but then a bit later it changed itself back to the top 300 pixels. Now doing the same sequence it forces me to crop the 1024x600 down.
I've been dealing with this problem ever since I got my Nook and I just can't figure it out. I've ran across a decent amount of posts but nothing works, or works for long. Any help would be much appreciated
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I cannot get wallpaper set reliably in either landscape or portrait. Setting 1024 x 600 pics through Set and Save, Crop Wallpaper, or Wallpaper Wizardri usually just sets the top 300 pixels of the wallpaper. If I use Quik Pic or Gallery it forces me to crop the correct size down. The crazy thing is somehow last night I got Quik Pic to set the whole wallpaper without cropping it by opening the image then doing menu options set as quik pic wallpaper....but then a bit later it changed itself back to the top 300 pixels. Now doing the same sequence it forces me to crop the 1024x600 down.
I've been dealing with this problem ever since I got my Nook and I just can't figure it out. I've ran across a decent amount of posts but nothing works, or works for long. Any help would be much appreciated
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try multipicture live wallpaper via market. it can fit to screen your pictures so that they would both look good in landscape or portrait.
Thoss said:
I cannot get wallpaper set reliably in either landscape or portrait. Setting 1024 x 600 pics through Set and Save, Crop Wallpaper, or Wallpaper Wizardri usually just sets the top 300 pixels of the wallpaper. If I use Quik Pic or Gallery it forces me to crop the correct size down. The crazy thing is somehow last night I got Quik Pic to set the whole wallpaper without cropping it by opening the image then doing menu options set as quik pic wallpaper....but then a bit later it changed itself back to the top 300 pixels. Now doing the same sequence it forces me to crop the 1024x600 down.
I've been dealing with this problem ever since I got my Nook and I just can't figure it out. I've ran across a decent amount of posts but nothing works, or works for long. Any help would be much appreciated
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Wallpaper Set and Save has worked for me. In Market and free I do believe.