[Q] Wallpaper formatting - Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I am trying to format backgrounds for my Nexus 7 and I have tried
1280H x800W and Vise Versa, However the formatting tool, won't allow me to use the full picture, it crops at awkward proportions, I would like to be able to use the full picture for the clarity and crisp, instead of a bad pixilated, un-visually appealing picture. Is there a way to bypass this, like an app that formats pictures properly?
I would post image examples but I haven't posted enough threads

Quentarus said:
I am trying to format backgrounds for my Nexus 7 and I have tried
1280H x800W and Vise Versa, However the formatting tool, won't allow me to use the full picture, it crops at awkward proportions, I would like to be able to use the full picture for the clarity and crisp, instead of a bad pixilated, un-visually appealing picture. Is there a way to bypass this, like an app that formats pictures properly?
I would post image examples but I haven't posted enough threads
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I think quick pic lets you use full image
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder&hl=en

PicSpeed HD Wallpapers also has an option like that.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.srsdev.wallpapers&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5zcnNkZXYud2FsbHBhcGVycyJd

@Ghost Thats just a different version of Gallery
@Milkk That doesn't support Nexus

For stuff like this, I would just use Paint.net on my laptop and use the resize function. But you are going to experience stretching if the aspect ratio is not the same.

I am trying to format backgrounds for my Nexus 7 and I have tried
1280H x800W and Vise Versa, However the formatting tool, won't allow me to use the full picture, it crops at awkward proportions, I would like to be able to use the full picture for the clarity and crisp, instead of a bad pixilated, un-visually appealing picture. Is there a way to bypass this, like an app that formats pictures properly?
I would post image examples but I haven't posted enough threads
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Try crop image with dimension 1406x1280
Edit: just found this app and thats good https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shirobakama.wallpaper
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@korockinout13 I use Photoshop to format
@ucubz At least I can get the pictures full pictures into the screen, However I just have to work around the borders somehow

Just use higher resolution wallpappers and extend the margins to fit the full picture (by dragging the corners when setting wallpapper).
Worked for me! :good:

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images don't show full resolution

so whenever i want to view an image at full res I can't I always had this suspicion when viewing stuff on the net and zooming in it just didnt look anywhere near a nice as on my pc (or windows mobile phone)
I just sent myself an email with an image (png) high res (2xxx by xxxx) the image is a map with lots of small images and text on it, when viewed on pc you can read all text just fine but on the phone its looks terrible (at least with default image viewer and the image viewers I have downloaded)
Whats going on?
I remember reading somewhere before that the phone can only display/render upto a certain amount of pixels regardless of how large your image is.. Also I notice on the default gallery viewer when you swipe around fast the image is ultra pixelated and have to wait for about 1-2 seconds.
This is really annoying. I don't think there is a fix at least that I can find. What a shame our powerful phones can't do what older phones can. Is it an android fault you think?
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quite a shame endeed...
also when pinching into pics inside the gallery app, it won't load the full pix map
So I have been looking for a fix, b&b gallery does render the full image which is nice but not sure about browser. Do any of the browsers for android render full images or are all the same?
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Only 2 questions I couldn't find the answer to...

I came from an HD2, and what HTC wrote over in WinMo 6.5 I thought was great, especially the gallery app, which cleared up an image when you zoomed in. I've noticed that this phone does not do that. When I zoom in on a picture I took it just turns all fuzzy, like it's been compressed or something. I know the pics are high res cause they look great on my computer, but I just can't understand why they don't clear up when you zoom in. Anyone else experience this? The only other issue I've noticed is that every once in a while I'll open an app up, lets say the web browser, and it pops up and then just force closes. Several others I know with a Vibrant/Captivate are having this problem as well, and I was just curious if anyone knew the cause. I'm totally new to Android so please pardon me if these are dumb questions.
for the second half of your post you should get your phone replaced.
there have been a couple people on here that had that issue with "sticking" buttons so apps would randomly close or settings would popup.
As for your first issue, it sounds to me as though you are zooming into the thumbnail version of the picture. Perhaps the full high-res version is actually found in another pile/folder under the gallery. I don't think the thumbnails are generally viewable separately, though I do see a lot of other media gathered up from various apps which can be kinda annoying.
No I promise I'm not zooming on the thumbnails, I'm clicking the folder with all of my pictures in it, and it'll let me zoom in on them, but they never clear up. It's not the camera cause the resolution is right, just the zooming isn't working properly. it's weird, and frustrating.
I definitely don't have the camera problem. I tested it with photos I took as well as wallpapers in my gallery. I assume you are using the gallery app, right?
If you're getting FCs on stock apps you may want to just do a factory data reset (settings/privacy). It happens occasionally to all android phones and the only sure fix I've seen is a reset. Make sure you're not using task killers or home replacement apps (pandahome, openhome, etc) as they can cause a lot of FCs in my experience.
You might have your camera resolution on lowest settings. Try a higher setting and let us know. The default resolution is 640x480.
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Checked the resolution of the camera and the pictures themselved and they're both 5MP, so I really don't know what the problem is now. It is rather frustrating though, when I zoom I want to see the details of the image not a fuzzy picture. Another thing I've just had happen to me is trying to copy over a 4.5GB MKV file at 720p I got the message "The file 'Up' is too large for the destination file system" I don't get that cause I have 6GB free on the phone and 6GB free on the 16GB micro SD. My phone hates me :'(
the 4.5gb MKV isn't a Samsung issue. It's a filesystem issue, relating to the default filesystem used on the sd card memory. FAT32 has a file size limit of 4gb.
It might seem a bit frustrating that you will have to re-encode that huge MKV, but considering that you can count on the fingers of one hand the smartphones that would even be able to smoothly play the video in that container in the first place, it's a small price to pay.
I know the phone could play it, it chews through my 720p copies of Top Gear without so much as a hiccup, and they're nearly the same bit-rate. I think you're right about counting the phones that could do that though because my HD2 didn't have a chance. I didn't know fat32 had a file size limit though, that's very useful information and thank you very much for that. Any ideas on the gallery app problem?
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I had/have a HD2, and now a Vibrant that I am using.
I know what you are talking about with the pictures looking pixelated on the Vibrant when you zoom in, but look fine on the HD2. I too, would like a solution to this. Maybe another app does this.
I know exactly what you're talking about and it really is quite annoying. As if losing the flash wasn't bad enough, now even my old photos look bad on it. I've figured out firstly that the stock android gallery app has a 16 bit limit but that's not the issue I'd imagine. What I believe to be the culprit is that, as far as I can tell, what the image viewer does is it actually automatically downsizes all your photos which would explain the pictures' butchered quality. Of course it's just a theory but it seems to check out. Unfortunately I have yet to find a decent replacement app or a solution thus far. And not to dash your hopes but I hear the problem also exists in froyo. Kinda disheartening for such an awesome multimedia phone.
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+1.. I also know what you mean, I had the HD2 and zooming in on the pictures on this phone sucks!. I am sure there is an image viewer somewhere that would work well
Yes! Glad to hear I'm not the only one with this issue. I was beginning to think I was alone! I am by no means a developer, but I think it's probably the scaling algorithim, though it would be interesting to check it out on another phone running 2.1. Next time I activate a Captivate at work I'll check that as well, it'd be really weird if that one worked correctly!!
I've figured something out. When you look at photos in the actual camera app, and zoom in that viewer, the pictures look fine, it's only in the actual gallery app where the zoom doesn't work properly...
I definetly do not have the issue with zooming in on pictures (camera or gallery) and I have yet to have a FC on any app. You mentioned the browser, any other apps FC'ing on you?
Have you done anything (other than root if you have)?
Are you using a TK?
Can you give more details?
I know what you mean by zooming the pics. Try image viewer, its awesome and zooms in great
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Well it's only the browser that's done it, and it's only happened once to me, so I'm really not worried about that one. A power cycle took care of it right then and there. As for the zooming, like I said in the camera app itself it works fine, but in the gallery app it's not too good. I'm not rooted (yet), and I have no task killer because I've heard more bad things than good things about those. Idk how else to describe the problem, it just seems like when I zoom in it's like the file is a very low resolution and gets very pixelated and when I check the properties I know it's a 5MP picture, so idk what's going on.
Something I never noticed so I just tested and you're right!
It's the way the built in gallery app works. It creates a thumbnail of all images and that's what it displays. You can even see the thumbnail images if you explore the phone memory. The only way around it is to download and use a different image viewer.
I suggest large image viewer! It is a bit spartan in terms of features and ui but it has the best image viewing of all the apps I tried! Btw the default image viewer basically makes a lower res bitmap of all your pictures and it's impossible (I think) to actually view the original images from within the gallery app. Why it would do this? I have no clue, seems like poor programming to me. Perhaps it's the cost we pay for the nifty though relatively pointless 3d effects.
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Wallpaper Solved! (Using Gallery Cropping Tool)

If this was done already than I apologize… I did make some effort to search the forum…. (little)
I tried many times to set custom wallpapers on my Tab... only to get frustrated with the Gallery Cropping Tool!
I tried many different wallpaper resolutions… some looked better than others.
The best results you get with abstract wallpapers since you probably do not care much if its crops things here and there…, but what if you want to center something in both portrait and landscape mode??
I decided to try a few things in Photoshop and was very happy with my results…..
(once again, If this was already done by someone in the past than I am sorry)
I created a Photoshop template that will help all in creating custom wallpapers.
The document has “crop areas” that match the Gallery Cropping Tool so that when trimmed you will get exactly what you placed in the “live areas” (with guides…etc.)
All is self-explanatory one you open it in Photoshop.
Do Not forget to save as a jpg
On the Tab,
Go to Gallery, choose the Wallpaper..... extend the cropping to maximum.
Attached is the PSD and a Sample Wallpaper.
I hope this helps..
Sample pics not showing, but sounds promising. I too have been frustrated by the stupid cropping of my wallpapers.
EDIT: Tried to download on my PC and says that zip is corrupted. Can you try a reup plz? Thanks
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Have you tried multi-picture live wallpaper from the market?
Yes I did.
I wanted a different .....simpler approach to set custom wallpapers. (No need for extra apps on my Tab)
+ the template gives me more control
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fixed and tested
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Loops...noticed a problem...not a big deal....
When I made and tested the template I had wallpaper scrolling turned off and only one homescreen. Upon enabling all home screens (7) And enabling scrolling I found that while scrolling it over shoots into the gray area in both landscape and portrait mode. This can be easily fixed by extending images on the template....
I'll try to edit the template and make more guides when I get the chance.
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All you need is 'Simple Image Wallpaper'! Seriously. I went though all of this garbage to get the wallpapers to fit correctly and everything was solved once I got:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ridgelineapps.simpleimagewallpaper
peterniez said:
If this was done already than I apologize… I did make some effort to search the forum…. (little)
I tried many times to set custom wallpapers on my Tab... only to get frustrated with the Gallery Cropping Tool!
I tried many different wallpaper resolutions… some looked better than others.
The best results you get with abstract wallpapers since you probably do not care much if its crops things here and there…, but what if you want to center something in both portrait and landscape mode??
I decided to try a few things in Photoshop and was very happy with my results…..
(once again, If this was already done by someone in the past than I am sorry)
I created a Photoshop template that will help all in creating custom wallpapers.
The document has “crop areas” that match the Gallery Cropping Tool so that when trimmed you will get exactly what you placed in the “live areas” (with guides…etc.)
All is self-explanatory one you open it in Photoshop.
Do Not forget to save as a jpg
On the Tab,
Go to Gallery, choose the Wallpaper..... extend the cropping to maximum.
Attached is the PSD and a Sample Wallpaper.
I hope this helps..
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I am glad that you were able to figure it out, and I think pretty much everybody went through the same process if not on the tab then on another Android device ( I know I did with my old Captivate ). But I hate that we have to do it like this to get the pic centered properly on the tab or need to download a new app to make it work properly.

[Q] Hacking camera resolutions

Hi there.
I came from a previous HTC Inspire 4G phone. After a lot of custom rooms I ended up with one that had a lot of camera resolutions available for "hacking" the camera.
I'm wondering if there's a hack, code or something that can be changed on the S4 in order to get more camera resolutions.
What I'm trying to do is actually getting lower resolutions, like 640x480 or 1024x768 so I can take "snapshots" and avoid post-editing of the pictures.
To illustrate exactly the problem, I use the camera phone to scan big documents into pdf. Now the higher resolution of the default camera makes imposible to handle +30 pages scans, and the workaround (taking the picture, open the picture with a photo editor, resize the picture and save, then import picture on pdf scanner app) is not good enough, as it would steal the valuable time that you are suppose to be saving with this phone.
On the HTC the lower resolutions made it possible to just take a lot of "low res" pictures and pdf them really fast directly within the application.
I'm guessing that if you could pre-define lower resolutions to be selectable already on the stock camera application, maybe adding another ones could be as easy as "typing them" on the respective configuration file for the camera.
Any ideas?
Perhaps just take normal sized pictures at the nearest resolution and then write a bash script to crop or resize as necessary, and import that into the scanner app?
I'm not familiar with any hacks available to go beyond the usual stuff.
You can use InfraView (freeware) to batch resize all images. I do it for scaling boot animations all the time.

Wallpaper Aliasing and Compression. How to stop this?

I've been taking some 3840x2160 screenshots on my PC and transferring them to my phone uncompressed. They look really good when i look at them on screen through the gallery: Nice detail, sharp lines etc.
The images are taken in portrait so that when I download them onto my phone, I can rotate them 90 degrees so they fit the screen properly.
The problem is when I go to set the image as a wallpaper, the image becomes compressed ever so slightly. The once smooth lines are now noticeably jagged, even though there seems to be no stretching or scaling of the image. I am able to zoom in to the image to the exact same scale in the gallery and everything seems fine.
To me, there must some kind of process that is converting the image to a lower resolution or compressing the image in some way. My question is how do I stop it so the wallpaper looks nice and sharp.
Anyone know what is going on here who can tell me how I can prevent this?
+1
You've answered this yourself.
Your image is 2160p
The screen is 1440p
Or 1080p if like me you've realised that's m that it's virtually impossible to tell the difference and it's a negligible visual benefit for a significant battery hit.
So resize the image based on the screen you want to use or the phone will do it for you.
Depending on the launcher you're using you it may actually have a size limit and resolution so there should be they to take into account too.
Start by finding out what resolution you're using then get an image for it off the same resolution
dladz said:
You've answered this yourself.
Your image is 2160p
The screen is 1440p
Or 1080p if like me you've realised that's m that it's virtually impossible to tell the difference and it's a negligible visual benefit for a significant battery hit.
So resize the image based on the screen you want to use or the phone will do it for you.
Depending on the launcher you're using you it may actually have a size limit and resolution so there should be they to take into account too.
Start by finding out what resolution you're using then get an image for it off the same resolution
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I did some additional research into the issue.
The oneplus 8 pro is 3168x1440. It is perfectly capable of displaying a 3840x2160 image with no significant loss of quality. I was able to zoom the image in the photo gallery to cover the entire display (as a wallpaper would) and found the image still looked crisp as it should, yet setting it as a wallpaper caused quality loss despite scaling the same. Clearly the issue was to do with the wallpaper scaling process in android (what the exact issue is i am not sure).
Nevertheless, i downloaded an app from the playstore that was able to fix the issue. The app is called Image 2 Wallpaper on the playstore.

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