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Any way to fix wallpaper gradients??

It seems that any wallpaper with a gradient or any shading or glowing is displayed like in 8-bit style. What I mean by that is this.
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Its really making alot of wallpapers look hideous and would like to know what I can do to make it look the way it should. Thanks in advance.

Seems like a little help and a little research does wonders these days.
Just so this can be used as a reference, i'm gonna go a little in dept here.
newone757 said:
might try adding some noise to the pic. just a little bit. I used to have to do this on my touch pro 1+2 on some walls
let us know how they turn out
a quick google turned out this:Say Goodbye To Gradient Banding | Planet Photoshop
this looks promising too
How To Correct Banding In Your Gradients Using Photoshop - SloDive
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These methods work in getting rid of the banding lines but what I figured out was to keep the quality, you need to do alot of tweaking and messing around. What I found out was adding a gaussian blur on a new layer thats slightly transparent and adding a little noise on a overlay layer thats slightly transparent is the trick.
This took me 2 mins to do. (Its 6:22am on fourth of July, I'll put up better examples later)
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What got me thinking was some of my camera pictures and other pictures in the gallery look stunning but anything I transfer via pc had horrible banding. Didnt make any sense at all. I'm no expert but adding a little blur and noise almost tricks the evo's screen.

great idea! thanks, now i can finally get some good wallpapers onto my evo.

How about sharing the exact settings you used? Or even better would be to post a PSD template that only requires people to paste their wallpaper (or possibly copy a layer style)

Download wallpaper set and save from the market. It fixes this problem.

Question about Camera app

Hi, I was having a play with one earlier - and it appeared that when you take a picture there is no way within the app to see the picture you just took? You have to exit out and go into gallery?
Is there a way around this? Ta

There is an list of latest taken photos on right side... You can even expand it & then it shows all files in image-folder...
Take a look:
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Thanks, I thought it strange there was no way to do this. Buy the model I was playing with (three uk branded) definatly didn't have it - must be different rom versions?
Thanks anyway

Remember that you can flash a normal non-messed up rom from the dev section,
like my orange uk version, is now a on the global rom minus the orange bloatware

Scottland said:
Thanks, I thought it strange there was no way to do this. Buy the model I was playing with (three uk branded) definatly didn't have it - must be different rom versions?
Thanks anyway
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If you swipe the thumbnails to the right, they will disappear... if you swipe from the very right edge of the screen toward the centre.. they will come back!... same with the menus on the other side (but in reverse!)

Is it possible to remove compression from our phone? Try to take a picture and the size only around 700kb when i use 8mp setting.

you can use vignette off the market - but in the tests I've done it doesn't really improve the image quality very much at all.. and actually in some shots I preferred the stock camera's results.

yeah, i like the result of the stock camera apps. But when i transfer the file to my PC and zoom it, the quality still not too good because of the compression. that is why i'm trying to remove the compression.

Wait for my MOD once we get root
I will add photo preview too

Is there any way to have multi shots option???
To press camera button and take 3-5 pictures in a row...
I miss that capability....

vegetaleb said:
Wait for my MOD once we get root
I will add photo preview too
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will wait for that! thx!

Yeah but pray that we get root before the SGS2 get it, I will not keep a phone without root undefinitly

[Q] Desktop Screenshot Problems

Hi, i had the Xperia Play (800a) for 2 days now, it's rooted and with busybox. Today i was trying to take a picture from the phone desktop with PicMe, but the image was very bad! Like a transparent image with a pink or red color.... I try ShootMe too, but i obtained the same result. The last effort was making it with the PC with the SDK tools (ddms) but the same result shows up.
Bad photo
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Real photo (with camera)
Anyone with the same problem?
Can anyone help me with that? or just tell me what's the problem?
Thanks!

I can’t believe there is no way to do a screen shot with a stock phone. What the hell is wrong with Sony? It is so easy on the iPhone.

Not used it myself but I see lots of people using MPE to take screen grabs.
I'm rooted so just use a screenshot app from market.

try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12701006&postcount=3 just connect phone in usb debugging to pc open the asm.jar. Worked for me

I just use screenshotit

I've used screenshot with proper results. Still, it's a bit stupid to have to root the phone in order to get a screenshot. The Galaxy S, for example, allows you to do without.

I am not a fan of having to root to screenshot.

Ok, thanks for the answers, i try Screenshot It and it works, but it's not a free app, so i really don't want to pay for taking ss of my phone. Screenshot works well too, and it is free. I'm going to try the asm.jar solution today, later i tell you if this work too.
Thanks

duqueso said:
i try Screenshot It and it works, but it's not a free app, so i really don't want to pay for taking ss of my phone.
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duqueso said:
Screenshot works well too, and it is free.
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???
Please explain.

"ScreenshotIt" and "screenshot" are two different apps.

@ Logseman & @ matknny . Use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12701006&postcount=3 no need to root and if the screenshots colors are wierd you can just right click on the screen > adjust color

I have my phone rooted and I can use DDMS, but thanks anyway

Mozza2k11, thanks for this unrooted tip

Mozza2k11 said:
@ Logseman & @ matknny . Use this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12701006&postcount=3 no need to root and if the screenshots colors are wierd you can just right click on the screen > adjust color
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Thanks for the tip. Much appreciated. Can make a how to if anyone asks me to again.

Picture Slide to unlock

Hi all,
I was wondering. I would like to see an unlock screen with 6 (or 9/12) small pictures/icons in random postions. The user can make up a small story so he would know in which order he should slide/swipe to the different pictures to unlock the phone. Also a nice feature would be if the usere could pick the pictures which would be displayed on the lockscreen. The position of the displayed pictures/icons should always be random to ensure security.
Is there something like this out there for android??
Regards, RR69

I think it's too easy and fast to solve. Why not a lockscreen with something like this to solve?
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rr69 said:
Hi all,
I was wondering. I would like to see an unlock screen with 6 (or 9/12) small pictures/icons in random postions. The user can make up a small story so he would know in which order he should slide/swipe to the different pictures to unlock the phone. Also a nice feature would be if the usere could pick the pictures which would be displayed on the lockscreen. The position of the displayed pictures/icons should always be random to ensure security.
Is there something like this out there for android??
Regards, RR69
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Very good idea!!!
Anyone knows about something similar?
Regards.

Maybe go ask around at the WidgetLocker thread, the dev might pick it up

I'm ging to check the widgetlocker thread...
Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda app-developers app

its already done for the SGS2... the thing is called Dandelion S3 for S2.apk it has various live wallpapers one where you can set it to a screen with about 6 or 8 pics on one screen that change around.

Tangkapan said:
its already done for the SGS2... the thing is called Dandelion S3 for S2.apk it has various live wallpapers one where you can set it to a screen with about 6 or 8 pics on one screen that change around.
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Where?

E43JAP said:
Where?
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in the room of requirement
just focus hard on what u want

9505g wallpaper out of box

I just got 2 new 9505G's for me and my wife. Out of the box they had a simple blue themed wallpaper that looks kind of cool. I unlocked the bootloader on my phone which of course reset the data and for some reason defaulted to one of the live wallpapers, while my wife's is still on the blue one I mentioned before.
I cannot for the life of me find the blue wallpaper as an option on either phone (even on the one where it is actually being used). Any ideas where this file is stored?

The111 said:
I just got 2 new 9505G's for me and my wife. Out of the box they had a simple blue themed wallpaper that looks kind of cool. I unlocked the bootloader on my phone which of course reset the data and for some reason defaulted to one of the live wallpapers, while my wife's is still on the blue one I mentioned before.
I cannot for the life of me find the blue wallpaper as an option on either phone (even on the one where it is actually being used). Any ideas where this file is stored?
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Like this one????
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If so just save and set as background.

Jaquesels5 said:
Like this one????
If so just save and set as background.
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Yeah, that looks about like it. Thanks. Where'd you find it? :good:

The111 said:
Yeah, that looks about like it. Thanks. Where'd you find it? :good:
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Okay great! I know how it feels to want something and not get it! Glad I could help. Found it on google.

I take it back, that is not the right image file. It appears similar but it is of a lower quality with weird rendering artifact bands across it. No offense to the guy who posted it, but if anybody else still has any ideas, I am all ears.

I found it by searching inside the stock images in the 9505G development forum.
It is buried inside framework-res.apk\res\drawable-xxhdpi\default_wallpaper.png. Seems pretty stupid they would make the default wallpaper something the user can't select again once he's changed it.
I put it online HERE.