Noob here, so please be gentle...
I have Nova Launcher installed. I have verified that it is set up as the default launcher. Every once in a great while, I will experience my phone reverting back to TouchWiz. However, what is more problematic (more annoying than anything) for me, is when my wallpaper resizes itself (it will zoom in). The picture I am using as my wallpaper is from my Gallery, which I will crop down to size before accepting it as my wallpaper.
Has anyone else experienced this before?
I am at the point where I'm trying to edit my picture to the exact 1080x1920 resolution so that it never resizes itself again.
Thank you.
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Ok, this is driving me crazy. I can't seem to correctly resize a wallpaper to have if fit the Streak. No matter how I resize it or crop it, I always choose the picture to set as wallpaper and then I get the cropping box. I'm following the steps in this post, and I can't believe I'm having issues with something that is normally so simple, but I can't for the life of me get past this. I don't get the option to drag the corners, only to enlarge the box which crops out half the picture and messes it all up. Anyone have any ideas? Am I missing something simple here?
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What version of android are you running and are you using ADW or any other non Dell UI launcher?
I'm using adw launcher but I have tried all of the launchers, zeam, launcher pro, and dell stage. I'm on dj steve's version 2.2 1.4.6
Have you tried wallstreak?
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The post on the site your refering to was for 1.6 and with the native UI (dells own thing) where you could have images that are 800x444 (or of that aspect ratio) as this screen would remain in portrait mode hence a wide image. However, ADW and other launchers (like Launcher Pro) won't accept images that are of this aspect radio, instead you have to use images that are 960x800 (or of that aspect ratio) as this caters for when the phone is in both landscape and portrait mode, hence the fixed square-ish crop box. Check out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846339 on my last 2 posts for a bit more info on this.
As for finding a solution to change the aspect of the crop box....no idea.
Hey All,
I'm working with a Notion Ink adam, but based off a bunch of the Nook Color/Gtab/Galaxy Tab threads, this isn't isolated to the adam.
I'm running into an issue where the following occurs: from stock, I can set 1024x600 wallpapers in gallery/desktop/etc, and they'll be full screen, centered, and uncropped. As soon as I install any custom launcher(so far, I've tested with the new VTL.launcher, Launcher Pro, ADW, zeam) the wallpaper gets stretched as if it was going to scroll, but scrolling all the way to the side still doesn't display the whole wallpaper.
In fact, from that point on, I can no longer set a 1024x600 wallpaper as a desktop, as it thinks it's not the right height/width and stretches then crops it. If I try to manually crop in Gallery, it only allows me to expand it to a 4:3 square, instead of the full screen.
This does not resolve itself after uninstalling the other launchers, and in fact, the only way I've found to permanently fix it, is to factory reset.
I've been doing some tinkering, and discovered that under /data/system, there is a "Wallpaper_info.xml" which lists the wallpaper height/width. Since installing a launcher, it lists the height as 1024, and the width as 1200, which isn't really correct at all. However, if I manually change that to 600 and 1024, respectively, then hard reboot, the wallpaper I've set will display correctly until I go off of the homescreen and come back, or lock the device.
This makes me think something within the launchers are changing what android believes the resolution and/or wallpaper size should be. However, I have no idea what service I could clear the data on to make this revert without a factory reset.
Any insight on what would cause this type of change is greatly appreciated.
As a few extra asides: I've tried Wallpaper Wizardrii and Wallpaper set and save, set and save still shows a cropped image, Wizardrii makes black bars appear above the top and bottom.
Thanks,
-Eujin
I've ran into the same exact problem after installing, then uninstalling, MIUI Launcher. Anyone know a fix?
Im sure this has been addressed before, but I just cant seem to find it.
I am currently running phiremod nook 6.3, whenever I attempt to set a wallpaper it makes me resize it in the gallery, it then looks awful, i only get a portion of the picture. Back when I was running stock you could just use the wallpaper setting built into nook color and it would display the whole picture. Any sugestions on how to get this effect with CM7?
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Im sure this has been addressed before, but I just cant seem to find it.
I am currently running phiremod nook 6.3, whenever I attempt to set a wallpaper it makes me resize it in the gallery, it then looks awful, i only get a portion of the picture. Back when I was running stock you could just use the wallpaper setting built into nook color and it would display the whole picture. Any sugestions on how to get this effect with CM7?
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QuickPic (marketplace) works great to get the most out of your wallpaper in portrait mode. For landscape, Wallpaper Wizardrii (also marketplace) works ok. (It works for portrait mode too, it's just not my first choice.)
If anyone has other suggestions for landscape mode wallpaper, I'd love to hear them. WW has a couple of quirks that annoy me.
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.
ferganer said:
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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johnny0911 said:
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
mulletcutter said:
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.
Johnny
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johnny0911 said:
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.
Johnny
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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
I was glad to see that in KitKat they changed the wallpaper setter to simply set the wallpaper to full-screen without scrolling if you pick one that's the right resolution, e.g. 2560x1600. So you can see the entire picture, without using a separate app to set it. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn't even get this right. It sets fine initially, but after some time passes, the wallpaper randomly becomes zoomed in/cropped like it would have in the past. Setting it again fixes it, but only for awhile.
Does anyone have any insights into what's going on here?
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I was glad to see that in KitKat they changed the wallpaper setter to simply set the wallpaper to full-screen without scrolling if you pick one that's the right resolution, e.g. 2560x1600. So you can see the entire picture, without using a separate app to set it. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn't even get this right. It sets fine initially, but after some time passes, the wallpaper randomly becomes zoomed in/cropped like it would have in the past. Setting it again fixes it, but only for awhile.
Does anyone have any insights into what's going on here?
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I have the same problem on my wife's Moto X with 4.4. If you find a solution, please share it on here!