I'm sure I'm not the only one that has this question but here goes anyways:
I have several wallpapers or pictures that I want to use as a wallpaper. But when I try to set them I have to crop it and when I do that the image is all pixelated and distorted. I want to set it and have it seen on my Kindle the way I see it in my gallery. Is it possible to set it so that it is set "fit height" or "fit width"? Maybe an "advance wallpaper setting" or something (stretch/fit/center/ect)?
BTW, already rooted and know the /data/data/com.android.settings/files/wallpaper permissions thing. Just want to know the above question about setting the wallpaper the proper image.
Might want to take a look here. Not directly an answer but you can see how he made wallpapers that work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1433192&highlight=wallpaper
I was about to post my thread. Thanks!
Thanks, but could you share what you did to make them "the right size"? I'd like to make some of my own as I have hundreds that I'd like to use! Maybe we can share and put it up.
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Have you tried setting the wallpaper through the Album? I'm fond of using the slideshow in viewing pictures because pictures look better in slideshow view, right?
Now, i want it to be set as wallpaper from the slideshow mode, is that possible? it just looks good in slideshow mode, and i want the wallpaper to look just as how it is displayed in slideshow mode. Is it possible?
sounds like the slideshow thingy have a better resizing algotitme then just using today picture have
i sugest that you take the picture to your pc and work on it there with resizing and such and take it back to the xda and use it as "wallpapir"
the slideshow on the device cant do anything "magic" which programs on a pc cant do much better
Thanks rudegar,
Whats the image size of XDA wallpaper/screen (pixels/inch)? So lets say I already have edited it on my PC and uploaded back to XDA. how will I set it as wallpaper? the last time I used the Today option, it made my picture translucent, why is that? is there any feature there where we could stretch the wallpaper to fit the screen?
there is some registry setting which remove the translucent thing
i dont recall it though try search the forum
i would try some of the today theme creator programs they make it all pretty easy
I just uninstalled cLaunch, a couple of Zombienexus themes and dialer skins, iContacts and Slide2Unlock. (Gonna reinstall and start fresh)
I'm pretty sure that it has nothing to do with it but as I am choosing a wallpaper/BG from Settings>Today >"Use this picture as the background"; It is no longer giving me a preview of the wallpaper with the slider for the opacity.
Did I delete it?
Does anybody know what I can do to fix this as all my backgrounds are washed out.
Thanks.
Anyone have anything on this? I'm having a similar problem. I tried to install HTC Home on mine and it locked it up. Had to do a hard-reset, then reinstalled the WM 6.1 ROM and it still doesn't give me the slider or the preview.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This was the first thread to pop up in a Google search of the site. After some further investigation, let me answer my own question...
Hi guys,
When I put a picture as the today's wallpaper, the picture is lighter than normal.
Is there anyway to fix it and get the real picture colors ?
Thx
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If you set the image under settings/today, thats what you will get. For some reason it uses a transparency value (nowhere to change this here).
The best and easiest solution I have found, is to open the Camera, and view the Album. Browse to the image you want, click it and keep it pressed so that the context menu comes up, select "Set as Today Background...". This will show you the image, and allow you to set the transparency level. Set it to zero, and the image in the Today Background will look exactly as it should.
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From: http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-346530.html
All,
Is there a way to do this? All i want is to browse to any picture in my internal storage and set it as a wallpaper on the TF3D Home tab.
I already have the Diamond Wallpaper changer program but pics have to be in a directory right?
Perhaps I've missed something very obvious?!
Thanks
Just go to the settings tab in tf3d, same tab as wifi, bluetooth and other stuff is, there you'll find an option to change the wallpaper aswell
Ha, I knew it was something easy, I'm still used to finding my way with the 'original WM' style interface.
Thanks!
but one thing...you need to downsize pic you want to 320 x 293 so it will look right on your screen.
I have so many wallpapers that look pretty good on my Pro2.
And it makes no sense always changing it. I was wondering if there's an application that can go through a set of wallpaper images say in a specific directory? Or have it so each time I switch the phone on it randomly selects a wallpaper image.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=550973
Thanks. Didn't realise they updated the list.
Thought I'd post this here since people in phone specific forums don't know.. how this is the right place....
With all the flexibility that Android OS is supposed to have, one restriction that is really aggravating me is the wallpaper size contstraint...
Is there any way to get rid of the wallpaper size restriction? My goal basically is to able to make a wallpaper as wide as the amount of screens I have so that when I go to a different screen it looks like a different wallpaper. To see what i mean, take a wallpaper and use 2 home screens only. When you switch between the two, it loads a half of the wallpaper, so if you made one picture with 2 480x800 pictures, it would look like two seperate wallpapers. What I would like to do is use 3 home screens, and a wallpaper created by using 3 480x800 pictures (1440x800), but whenever I try to set a wallpaper it forces me to crop it to a 960x800 area. Can anyone chime in on if this is at all possible?
Thanks!
I believe that it is dependent on the Home Launcher you choose, but there are alternatives.
https://market.android.com/details?id=org.tamanegi.wallpaper.multipicture.dnt
It does not appear launcher related. I now tried Launcher, Rosie (sense), ADW, GO Launcher, Zeam Launcher, Launcher Pro, and with all of them when you set the wallpaper it takes you through the default system for setting wallpapers, where you select the wallpaper and then get forced to crop it to a locked aspect ratio.
I'm looking for a way to either change that aspect ratio it forces you to crop your pictures to, or to get rid of it and let the damn picture show as is. I really don't understand how "the most customizable platform" has to have some stupid "this is the only size wallpaper you can use" restriction.
The multilivewallpaper will allow me to use a totally different 480x800 picture on each screen, but it doesn't have a random feature, which is what I really want...
Any devs out there know of a way to change the aspect ratio of that stupid crop tool for setting wallpapers? Or how to get rid of it?
EDIT: Just saw they updated it since last I used it and with multilive you can now have it randomly change. Thanks! Will give it a shot.
EDIT 2: Works like a charm! Never thought about going back to it, so thanks for linking it otherwise I probably would not even have bothered with it again.