I'm sure everyone notices that the boot animation lags for the first few seconds before it smooths out. This creates some really choppy and ugly boot animations, especially if you use ones that are cooler looking than the stock X.
Does anyone know if it's possible to smooth out the boot animations, so it looks as good as it's supposed to?
No. Boot animation isn't given priority over boot process, and the lag is CPU busy with system boot.
You can use small resolution / low frame rate boot animations, they'll appear smoother.
so i did everything properly the Images, the size, the depth pretty much everything that IM supposed to do, But once I put it in the phone.. I get a blank screen =/ wth
EDIT: NVM I got it! I just had to change the compression!!!
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?
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.
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....
orangelight99 said:
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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