No matter what, even if I use a portrait picture, when I set the wallpaper there's no way of getting a high res background. It just stretches the image and only shows part of I on my background. Even in cropping you can only choose a small part of the pic and it becomes low res. Any way to get some actually good non-stock nexus 7 wallpapers that will actually look high res in portrait. Any body else hate this?
It will always display the image over more than one screen unless you use an app, if you want to display the whole image it has to be the correct aspect basically twice the width of the screen resolution in portrait 1600, if you use an image with a height of 1280 and width of 1600 your be able to select the whole image without cropping but it will still be displayed over all of your screens.
If you want to display a wallpaper on your home screen in portrait without any resizing cropping then make it exactly 1280H x 800W and use the app "Image 2 Wallpaper" which allows you to add the image without any resizing at all.
If you want to display an image larger than 1280H x 1600W over all your screens then there are also apps for this as well
If you use Apex or Nova launcher you can disable wallpaper scrolling and force your home screen to portrait mode. Then you could use an app like Wallpaper Wizardrii to set your image for portrait mode only.
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I did a Google search for Nexus 7 wallpapers. Found a bunch of nice ones that look fine.
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ExploreMN said:
I did a Google search for Nexus 7 wallpapers. Found a bunch of nice ones that look fine.
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Can't see the attached files, please update your post.
It appears that 1406x1280 (WxH) is what the stock crop tool likes for a full fit.
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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)
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.
I recently bought the Moto Xoom and I love it. However, when I wanted to personalize it and change the wallpaper I discovered that it has only a very limited number of wallpapers to choose from. I tried to set an image as a wallpaper nd it would either get stretched or cropped and the end result would be plain ugly. So I tried to find a solution online and it be ame obvious that other Honeycomb tablet users also have the same problem. There were three solutions offerd:
Using Wallpaper Wizardii. This method worked somewhat but the wallpapers se by the app would stil lack clarity and the wallpaper would behave strangely when turning the screen.
Setting a wallpaper with Waterize. I haven't tried this method but saw people reporting the same issues as with the first method.
Lastly, some people suggested using the write size fir the downloaded images before setting them as a wallpaper. Turns out the correct image size for a wallpaper for a 1280x800 screen is 1920x1408. The you would set the image as wallpaper by stretching the crop area to include the entire image.
Well, I tried the last method and it also rendered to be far from ideal as once you try setting the wallpaper by stretching the crop area to the entire image, it would cut off the top of the image. I read other people could not set the wallpaper right either. I was desperate until I found the solution, which works perfectly. Here it is:
Follow method three but in PORTRAIT MODE. That is, download your 1920x1408 image, press the plus button on the top right of your home screen, choose Gallery, then stretch the crop area to include the whole image. Again, the key is for you to turn your device into PORTRAIT MODE while cropping.
Hope this helps.
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I recently bought the Moto Xoom and I love it. However, when I wanted to personalize it and change the wallpaper I discovered that it has only a very limited number of wallpapers to choose from. I tried to set an image as a wallpaper nd it would either get stretched or cropped and the end result would be plain ugly. So I tried to find a solution online and it be ame obvious that other Honeycomb tablet users also have the same problem. There were three solutions offerd:
Using Wallpaper Wizardii. This method worked somewhat but the wallpapers se by the app would stil lack clarity and the wallpaper would behave strangely when turning the screen.
Setting a wallpaper with Waterize. I haven't tried this method but saw people reporting the same issues as with the first method.
Lastly, some people suggested using the write size fir the downloaded images before setting them as a wallpaper. Turns out the correct image size for a wallpaper for a 1280x800 screen is 1920x1408. The you would set the image as wallpaper by stretching the crop area to include the entire image.
Well, I tried the last method and it also rendered to be far from ideal as once you try setting the wallpaper by stretching the crop area to the entire image, it would cut off the top of the image. I read other people could not set the wallpaper right either. I was desperate until I found the solution, which works perfectly. Here it is:
Follow method three but in PORTRAIT MODE. That is, download your 1920x1408 image, press the plus button on the top right of your home screen, choose Gallery, then stretch the crop area to include the whole image. Again, the key is for you to turn your device into PORTRAIT MODE while cropping.
Hope this helps.
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Good info! I have been meaning to make a little something like this, as I have been doing the same exact thing for a few months now on my 3G Xoom. Indeed, the end result is a real high def wallpaper without all that cropping nonsense. This should be something that can be done naively on Android. We want high def wallpapers, not a cropped up one. Maybe they will do that in the near future. ICS anyone? Hopefully.
For me, the best way to set a high def wallpaper without cropping has to be from MultiPicture Live Wallpaper.
tried multiple times and it still does not work... Any other suggestions?
Same here the above method did not work for me either. Also multi live wallpaper does work but it lags alot and drives me crazy.
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Same here the above method did not work for me either. Also multi live wallpaper does work but it lags alot and drives me crazy.
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I get no lag, xoom or glacier, i only use one picture but it is full screen.
cool thanks for the info
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I get no lag, xoom or glacier, i only use one picture but it is full screen.
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Maybe lag is not the right word, when I use multi live wallpaper I use one pic, no transition, and auto memory. What drives me crazy is when I am switching screens either right or left it is jerky. If this is not happening to you could you share your settings? Maybe there is a issuewith my xoom. I am
Rooted running stock 3.2 3g rom and kernel . Thanks in advance.
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Maybe lag is not the right word, when I use multi live wallpaper I use one pic, no transition, and auto memory. What drives me crazy is when I am switching screens either right or left it is jerky. If this is not happening to you could you share your settings? Maybe there is a issuewith my xoom. I am
Rooted running stock 3.2 3g rom and kernel . Thanks in advance.
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try disabling memory, thats helped before on a phone. But i have my album and a pic change ever 30sec, i use adw ex tho not honeycomb launcher. but there is not lag jerky anything. im OC to 1.6 on demand
I tried multiple live wallpaper & I like it.Using Adw launcher I have absolutely no lag...thanks!!
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Your third method while cropping the wallpaper in Portrait Mode worked perfectly for me! The other methods I had tried to no avail. I had to set up a company background logo for our tablets and android would force me to crop them and here I was wondering why it asked me to crop an image that was exactly the dimensions of the screen. Thank you!
Simple Image Wallpaper Free is an app that solved the problem for me ...
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ridgelineapps.simpleimagewallpaper
Just curious if anyone has had a issue setting full sized wallpapers? i downloaded a few 2560x1600 wallpapers and the damn thing keeps making me crop them.. im using apex launcher and set to non scrolling wallpapers.. thanks guys
Ok.. i know i must be missing something easy. has anyone actually gotten any 2560x1600 wallpapers to work? Everyone i have tried only shows me about 1/4 of the picture...
May seem like a dumb question, but you are increasing the size of the crop box by dragging on the corners/sides, correct?
Wouldn't make any sense to FORCE us to zoom in on an image that is compatible with the device's resolution creating a less sharp background.
Try making the image 2560 × 2560 somehow. It needs to account for the orientation.
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wallpaper Fix!!
Download the app: "Simple Image Wallpaper". It will not install in the app drawer but to access it click and hold on your main desktop screen, select "Live Wallpaper", then select "Simple Image Wallpaper". Then click on settings and it will not crop any of those high res images that you use. Also, another benefit is you can use 2 different kinds of wallpaper if you choose; One for landscape and one that changes when put in Portrait mode.
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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