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[INFO] Blurry Wallpaper Solved!

I downloaded my own wallpaper
1920 X 1200
set it and its still kinda blurry
whos knows why?
Updates : 2560x1600 will work
Thanks to seshmaru!

it wont let just set it as is
it always make me crop them and the crop square is always smaller then the actual picture

Because you need a higher resolution image. It's a scrolling background you know.

seshmaru said:
Because you need a higher resolution image. It's a scrolling background you know.
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so how high?
1920 X 1080?
1920 x 1200?

higher, its its over 2000 px in width, if you want wallpapers 2560x1650 wallpapers are a pretty common format and scale much better.

that seems like a giant res

its 1200x1200 + homescreen scrolling and zooming, so yeah.

seshmaru said:
higher, its its over 2000 px in width, if you want wallpapers 2560x1650 wallpapers are a pretty common format and scale much better.
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so do we all agree on 2560 x 1650?
i'll try that

ok so its not blurry anymore
but it will shift down after you set it

i'm sure the minimum resolution of wallpaper in eee pad is 1920x1408

I had a terrible time finding the right res, then found walpaper wizardi app. Some glitches but takes anypicu throw at it and BAM perfect res!
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Hey guys, i've been downloading wallpapers non-stop from google images, i just typed in the resolution of "2560x1600" and found some really sick wallpapers.

Low resolution lock screen pic

When resizing a wallpaper to use as the lock screen pic, there is some severe resolution drop.
Are there some high res wallpapers in portrait mode at native sgs2 resolution, maybe that will help?
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If your wallpapers are 480 x 800, resolution is fine. Just increase the yellow frame to cover all the screen and you won't lose any resolution.

you can change the lock screen wsllpaprr ? how ?
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Settings\display\screen display ..

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=864749
Okay. I love the Earth wallpaper in the above thread. I have a cutdown version on my lockscreen. I can't get the yellow box to expand over the full pic. I absolutely want to take advantage of the screen and display the utmost resolution that I can on the lockscreen. What am I doing wrong?

bmstrong said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=864749
Okay. I love the Earth wallpaper in the above thread. I have a cutdown version on my lockscreen. I can't get the yellow box to expand over the full pic. I absolutely want to take advantage of the screen and display the utmost resolution that I can on the lockscreen. What am I doing wrong?
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The SGSII's resolution is 480x800. Since the Earth wallpaper is 960x800, you will only get the yellow box to cover half of it. You can't make magic resolution appear on a screen that is limited by 480x800.

Sleepycat3 said:
The SGSII's resolution is 480x800. Since the Earth wallpaper is 960x800, you will only get the yellow box to cover half of it. You can't make magic resolution appear on a screen that is limited by 480x800.
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Yeah, just choose some 480x800 wallpapers for lockscreen and you will be fine. 960 x 800 works for selecting background wallpaper when choosing extended view. Samsung's way of cropping/selecting wallpapers is a pain the @ss anyway. I gotta try at least 2-3 times until i am able to select the whole pic, most of the time i select a small portion which forces me to go back and select the wallpaper again

lower DPI?

I was wandering because I saw a windows 8 screenshot and when I looked at via the photos app it filled the screen. It had 6 rows and everything appeared smaller because thta screenshot was taken probably with a higher res display. My laptop is only 1366x768. And I googled but couldn't find anything but found out that lowering something called DPI makes things smaller. Any way to do so.

MsEvyLynch said:
I was wandering because I saw a windows 8 screenshot and when I looked at via the photos app it filled the screen. It had 6 rows and everything appeared smaller because thta screenshot was taken probably with a higher res display. My laptop is only 1366x768. And I googled but couldn't find anything but found out that lowering something called DPI makes things smaller. Any way to do so.
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Higher res screens are capable of more rows
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goldflame09 said:
Higher res screens are capable of more rows
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Its not just the rows. Mainly everything on the screen is smaller which I like.

If your laptop was for some reason pre-configured for a low DPI, then you can adjust that in Control Panel (just type "DPI" in Start search and look under Settings). However, your laptop has a very low resolution (it is *just* higher than my phone...) so it's probably at 100% DPI and you just need a higher-res screen if you want to display more stuff on the screen at once.
Setting a <100% scaling factor, even if it were supported in Windows, would be a bad idea because some thin lines (such as, for example, text) would blur or vanish entirely.

Icons on windows are a fixed size. Don't know it from the top of my head but lets say its 64 pixels for a standard desktop icon (I like that number).
Take 2 laptops with 15" screens. One has a higher resolution (lets say a 1080p screen) than the other (720p). The one with a 1080p screen has more pixels in the same area, this is measured in either dpi or ppi. Dots/Pixels per inch.
Of course in the above scenario the 1080p screen is going to have a higher dpi.
Now lets assume we have a 64 dpi screen. This means in a row of pixels 1 inch long there are 64 pixels. Our lovely 64 pixel desktop icon is going to end up being 1 inch wide.
Then we get a 32 dpi screen. 64 pixels for our icon will end up being 2 inches.
Its a hardware issue. You can't just turn up the dpi of your screen. You can attempt to use software to output your desktop to a higher res and downscale it to fit your screen but this will distort text and give other issues. you can turn the dpi down on some devices, if you got your device new then the dpi will already be set to max.
If you expressly want smaller icons then your going to need a new laptop ideally, and I doubt you are quite that bothered about it

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Icons on windows are a fixed size. Don't know it from the top of my head but lets say its 64 pixels for a standard desktop icon (I like that number).
Take 2 laptops with 15" screens. One has a higher resolution (lets say a 1080p screen) than the other (720p). The one with a 1080p screen has more pixels in the same area, this is measured in either dpi or ppi. Dots/Pixels per inch.
Of course in the above scenario the 1080p screen is going to have a higher dpi.
Now lets assume we have a 64 dpi screen. This means in a row of pixels 1 inch long there are 64 pixels. Our lovely 64 pixel desktop icon is going to end up being 1 inch wide.
Then we get a 32 dpi screen. 64 pixels for our icon will end up being 2 inches.
Its a hardware issue. You can't just turn up the dpi of your screen. You can attempt to use software to output your desktop to a higher res and downscale it to fit your screen but this will distort text and give other issues. you can turn the dpi down on some devices, if you got your device new then the dpi will already be set to max.
If you expressly want smaller icons then your going to need a new laptop ideally, and I doubt you are quite that bothered about it
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you could get a new laptop/moniter or highlight all the icons on the desktop and zoom out and they will become smaller

Do It For Your Eyeballs :)

I implore you to go to www.wallbase.cc to download some of the wallpapers there. You can search random at the resolution of your liking. Here is a direct link to random wallpapers @ 2560 X 1600 which compliments this tablet perfectly:
http://wallbase.cc/random?section=w...x1600&thpp=32&purity=100&board=21&aspect=0.00
Do not save the thumbnail. Click the one you want, it will open the big picture in another tab, save that, then go view that in your gallery.
Prepare......your eyes will melt
Just trust me. I've been using wallbase for years on my desktop but nothing compares to a high res photo on the Galaxy Note 2014. Simply amazing!

They have some nice pictures. It amazes me how many people apparently have a picture of some scantily clad lady as their background, almost half of the pictures on random mode are of that variety. I never understood why you would want that on your tablet always, for everyone to see, when you hand the tablet to your mom, your co-worker...
Anyway, what I actually wanted to ask: Wouldn't you want the wallpaper to be wider than the screen resolution? Otherwise it would have to zoom into the picture to be able to scroll the image when you switch homescreen pages. Or did you disable that?

atg284 said:
I implore you to go to www.wallbase.cc to download some of the wallpapers there. You can search random at the resolution of your liking. Here is a direct link to random wallpapers @ 2560 X 1600 which compliments this tablet perfectly:
http://wallbase.cc/random?section=w...x1600&thpp=32&purity=100&board=21&aspect=0.00
Do not save the thumbnail. Click the one you want, it will open the big picture in another tab, save that, then go view that in your gallery.
Prepare......your eyes will melt
Just trust me. I've been using wallbase for years on my desktop but nothing compares to a high res photo on the Galaxy Note 2014. Simply amazing!
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Actually not........
2560 x 1600 is the best for viewing but if you want it for wallpaper the smallest resolution should be 2560 or as close as possible.
Interfacelift.com has photos up to 3840 x 2400, they have a dropdown box that you pick the size that you want from.

kkretch said:
Actually not........
2560 x 1600 is the best for viewing but if you want it for wallpaper the smallest resolution should be 2560 or as close as possible.
Interfacelift.com has photos up to 3840 x 2400, they have a dropdown box that you pick the size that you want from.
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I see...my wallpaper is stationary so that resolution works for me that's how the note 2014 came out of the box.
Thanks for the link will definitely check that out. Always good to have more options!

Thanks for sharing bro, This makes the tablet even better . This is really appreciated

i don't know if this is compatible with the new Note 10.1 but Samsung Display has released an app that has some awesome eye-popping wallpapers included in it
Play Store Link: Samsung Display OLED World

Thanks for sharing
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Thanks for sharing.

I stocked on some 1600p wallpapers just to have them resized, but then found this app, its a "fake" live wallpaper, allows to set a pic as wallp w/o cropping or resizing it one bit and big thankz to the guy who posted 2400p wallpaper link!
edit: teh app also allows to set a different/separate pics for portrait and landscape.

Resolution seems zoomed in?

I will try and explain this the best I can, it may also sound a bit stupid. I am coming from an iPhone 6, on the iPhone you have 2 displaying settings, normal and zoomed, zoomed is what it says it makes everything zoomed in and I never liked it much.
Now the issue I face is this Moto X seems to be zoomed, zoomed makes everything bigger but you are getting less information on the screen, I would rather icons text etc smaller and being able to fit more on the screen, you can do this on an iPhone with PPI of 326 so it should be possible on a display with of 403ppi. I went into Facebook for example, for a big display like this phone has it only managed to display 1 post on timeline, it should be able to display 2-3, its just zoomed in to far. Granted it would be great if you're half blind as it makes everything easier to read but I want it smaller. If you take an iPhone 6+ vs say the iPhone 5, you get 2 extra rows of icons. On this phone you get nothing more on screen than you would with say the original moto g with 4.5" screen.
Anyone know what I'm on about? I believe scaling is the term.

slugger09 said:
I will try and explain this the best I can, it may also sound a bit stupid. I am coming from an iPhone 6, on the iPhone you have 2 displaying settings, normal and zoomed, zoomed is what it says it makes everything zoomed in and I never liked it much.
Now the issue I face is this Moto X seems to be zoomed, zoomed makes everything bigger but you are getting less information on the screen, I would rather icons text etc smaller and being able to fit more on the screen, you can do this on an iPhone with PPI of 326 so it should be possible on a display with of 403ppi. I went into Facebook for example, for a big display like this phone has it only managed to display 1 post on timeline, it should be able to display 2-3, its just zoomed in to far. Granted it would be great if you're half blind as it makes everything easier to read but I want it smaller. If you take an iPhone 6+ vs say the iPhone 5, you get 2 extra rows of icons. On this phone you get nothing more on screen than you would with say the original moto g with 4.5" screen.
Anyone know what I'm on about? I believe scaling is the term.
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I think it's got to do with dpi. You can search Google about changing dpi with and without rooting options.
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Here's a video of changing the dpi.

Thanks all, DPI was 480, changed to 400, seems better now. Don't really want to go much lower as I believe certain apps start messing about

I set mine to 420. Mind you that SwiftKey will not be usable if you change the dpi from adb. The solution is to have root and change the build.prop file
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I've had to change the DPI back, I've ran into issue with certain apps, the camera would crash and ebay also