Was messing around with the stock browser and found that if I checkmark "Desktop View" from the menu the fonts and images in general are much sharper. Check it out.
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I started to get very annoyed with this problem.
When I use opera, and enter a web page with lots of images (eg. lifehacker.com), I can't seem to zoom in enough to have clear, NON-choppy, images. It seems like the more I zoom pass the double-tap, images just gets worse and more pixellated.
Is there something I am doing wrong? Is there a fix to this?
I've applied the tweak where I can see whole webpages instead of "zoomed-in" versions that came stock.
Don't know if this is the problem causer.
AFAIK, double-tap sets "zoom level" to 100% (1 image pixel= 1 screen pixel), any more is enlarging and inevitably leading to choppy images.
EDIT: Actually, double-tap seems to already be more than 100%, a 200pix wide image on my gallery is rendered as 350 pixels on screen after a double-tap.
Surprised no one has mentioned this, when I try to set a photo taken on the phone as the wallpaper, it asks me to crop a selection from the picture. After setting the wallpaper, it is blurry (in the same way a picture is blurry when you zoom in using gallery). I'm guessing this is just a bug that will be fixed in the next update?
When selecting the picture for wallpaper, Select an edge of the yellow box, and stretch it 'till you select the whole photo/as much as you want.
For some reason, multi-touch to zoom in here doesn't work, whilst it does on n1. (n1 running stock 2.2 [FRF91], and Galaxy S i9000 running stock XXJF3)
Rawat said:
When selecting the picture for wallpaper, Select an edge of the yellow box, and stretch it 'till you select the whole photo/as much as you want.
For some reason, multi-touch to zoom in here doesn't work, whilst it does on n1. (n1 running stock 2.2 [FRF91], and Galaxy S i9000 running stock XXJF3)
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Hahahaha. God damn. I was wondering why it would only let me select a tiny bit of a picture as a wallpaper and thought to myself - "why the hell didn't they add in the feature that Rawat has just described". For some reason I had never even tried, I just assumed it wasn't there.
So, thank you good sir I can now apply a whole picture as my wallpaper
It's a retarded system. You give it the exact resolution and it makes you crop it.
If you use .jpg it seems to end up blurry not matter what due to poor recompression.
I've found using .png of the right dimensions works much better.
My setup is a folder of .png of 960x800 and "Wallpaper Rotator" to switch between them every x time.
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.
Anybody else notice that images in Dolphin & stock browser appear somewhat blurry and pixelated, particularly on Honeycomb tablets? It appears that these browsers try to fit the page to the screen and end up stretching images out a bit resulting in a soft appearance. I've tested this on my own Web site which uses 900px images and no matter what I can't get Dolphin or the stock browser to render it 1:1 as 900px. Instead the images seem to stretch the entire screen on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 (1280px wide). The result is a soft and pixelated images.
Alternatively, Opera Mobile seems to do a better job at rendering the images. As they do appear 1:1 and look every bit as sharp as how I see it on my desktop monitor.
I tried disabling 'Fit Web page to screen' in Dolphin's settings but that did not change anything in regards to the image rendering. Is there any way to achieve sharper images using the stock browser or Dolphin?
The default browser (and Dolphin) try to scale images to fit the width of the tablet. I figured out that by going into the browser's debug mode and toggling "Use Wide ViewPort" it disabled image scaling. The result is you get sharp images that are at 1:1 pixels. I just wish that there was a way to have this permanent instead of always having to go into the about:debug mode whenever the browser is loaded.
I'm not sure how to go about doing this in Dolphin HD or Pad versions though, since I'm not familiar with how to get into their debug modes.
I assume you are on KG6, if so you could either modify the framework or since he seems like a nice guy you could ask froli13 to mod it for you to run wide viewport, there is a thread in the dev section that changes the user agent to desktop http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17437874&postcount=110
I use dolphin for pad exclusively and never had any problems (except some sites with drop-down menus don't work).
I love this device. In every way. Except I can't read text half the time. Kind of a problem, don't you think?
I am have an Lg GPE to on hand to compare/consider. I like the text size, but don't like the size of the unit or the awful, dim, discolored display.
Help me save my Nexus from being returned:
There are some web pages that don't allow zoom. Bigger deal is that my magazine text in the Playstore app is very small and zoom isn't supported.
The 7 allows magnification if you tap it 3 times. This gives me good sized text. But page scrolling is "frozen". You can pull over to the next column, but it bounces back to where you started when you let go of the screen.
Is there any way to make the magnification function work so that when you scroll on page it will stay where you put it?
I am rooted.
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I love this device. In every way. Except I can't read text half the time. Kind of a problem, don't you think?
I am have an Lg GPE to on hand to compare/consider. I like the text size, but don't like the size of the unit or the awful, dim, discolored display.
Help me save my Nexus from being returned:
There are some web pages that don't allow zoom. Bigger deal is that my magazine text in the Playstore app is very small and zoom isn't supported.
The 7 allows magnification if you tap it 3 times. This gives me good sized text. But page scrolling is "frozen". You can pull over to the next column, but it bounces back to where you started when you let go of the screen.
Is there any way to make the magnification function work so that when you scroll on page it will stay where you put it?
I am rooted.
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Chrome has a option to force zooming on unsupported pages.
Firefox has a little book thing in the right side of the URL bar that enables Reader Mode. Basically it inverts the site (black background and white text), increases text size, and does a couple of other things to improve reading quality.
I know it's more of a work around than an actual fix for what you're asking, but I love Reader Mode.
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