Ok so I have been searching around the forum for this for a while, and no precise answer presented itself. So I decided to just ask the question. HOW DO YOU FIX THE WALLPAPERS!?!?!?! They zoom in and get all buggy. I know you can use Mulltipicture live wallpaper but I think that drains the battery. I'm running BoS a4.0 if that matters.
quickpic wallpaper app works pretty good for me. The correct size, theoretically, is 1024X600. The reason it's cropped and resized is so that the system can translate it to portrait AND landscape modes, depending on the perspective.
Quickpic works the same way as loading from Gallery, but for some reason, doesn't resize as drastically. Just remember, that the center of the "crop" portion is slightly off center vertically...when cropping, position the portion of the image that you want "centered" in the top 1/3rd of the crop square.
While TJEvans is correct you can also choose a picture you want and crop it so the resolution is 1024x1024 (1024x600 is the original but if you crop a picture for that resolution and then turn your tablet in portrait mode it will not cover the screen)
I found the solution to this issue. Presently I'm using Flashback HC. It took me a couple of hours of downloading multiple apps and testing them and found that 'MultiPicture Live Wallpaper' is the key to getting the best results. Here's how...
Download MultiPicture Live Wallpaper from the market
Take a proportionate picture size of 1600x1200 or larger. Resize it to 1600x900 in Photoshop
Load the pictures onto your g-Tablet
Choose MultiPicture Live Wallpaper from the live wallpaper section.
Add individual settings from 6-10 as 6 being the left most screen and 10 being the right most screen.
Go into each individual settings and choose one of your 1600x900 pictures
Go to 'Crop/Resize Ratio' and select 'Fit to Fullscreen'
Hit back either once or twice depending on where your coming from and 'Set Wallpaper'
Viola! your picture in it's full glory. May be a little cropping but almost unnoticeable. Compared to original picture looks identical.
Cheers...
Wallpaper wizardrii fro mkt will fix your problems.
When I first got my tablet, a picture that I wanted to place as my wallpaper wasn't the right size and the cropping didn't work too well either. I downloaded a wallpaper app (can't remember the name, have since deleted it) and it worked for a little while. Now after I have deleted it, any picture I place as my wallpaper (even without cropping) does not fit on the screen properly. The top of the picture isn't even on the screen, and it looks like the picture is blown up to a much bigger size.
Is there a setting that I am just missing here?
There are 2 ways that I know of to fix this problem.
1. Use a picture that is at least 200 to 400 pixels bigger than what your screen resolution is, bigger is better. That way you can afford to loose some of the picture without cropping someones head off. The reason it's difficult to get the right size is because of the 16:9 res. Landscape/portrait problem.
2. Download from the market an app called Wallpaper Slideshow by birbeck. It's awesome and you can rotate through the wallpapers just by double tapping the screen.
Hope this helps
Thanks a lot. I didnt know that about the size, I will definitely try those things.
I'm not sure what triggers it, but my wallpaper will be full screen, then all of a sudden it'll just be a square in the middle, as in the sides get cut off, if I rotate it, it usually goes back to normal once it's horizontal again, but it randomly does this and it's driving me so crazy. It's rooted and I'm running Starburst... I've been searching for posts about this but I can't find anything, helpppp. SO annoying!
It doesn't seem to matter what launcher I'm using either.
Same problem for me... Any idea for fixing it ?
To be honest getting wallpaper set on this thing is way harder than it should be, I still haven't worked out a good way to do it. It just ends up cropped, or fugly, or both.
Way harder than it needs to be.
I can get a nice looking wallpaper cropped and everything, but when I'm doing things it randomly gets cut off and looks like crap.
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I can get a nice looking wallpaper cropped and everything, but when I'm doing things it randomly gets cut off and looks like crap.
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Yeah I just saw the same thing happen.
So how does everyone get wallpaper to show up without it being cropped? Do you need to download WP larger than 1280x800 so that it can be cropped down to that, or is there an app that'll do it? I've tried several but none seem to work.
I have a thread here discussing how you correctly size a wallpaper to fit your tablet.
So far I've worked out how to do it for ADW Launcher, which selects wallpapers the same way it does for Android phones but I need to look a bit more into TouchWiz.
Other than that there are a number of apps that offer you more control over your wallpapers.Firstly there's MultiPicture Live Wallpaper which allows you to set different images on each page of your homescreen.
Secondly there's Wallpaper for Tablets which lets you set a different landscape and portrait wallpaper and will correctly display a 1280x800 image without cropping.
Last, there's Wallpaper Wizardrii but the controls are really poor and it doesn't offer you anything that one or other of the first two apps I linked-to can't do.
I played around with this in Photoshop for several hours the day I got my Nook Tablet. I found that the following dimensions will size your wallpaper images perfectly:
840 px wide x 1024 px tall
It's easy to test. Try sizing your wallpaper to these exact dimensions and copy them to your device. Then go to the *stock* Nook home screen. Press and hold to bring up the Change Wallpaper option. Navigate to your newly sized wallpaper image and select it. If it's like mine you won't even be given an option to size/crop. Like the stock wallpapers, it will only give you the option to Save or Discard because it's already sized correctly.
When using other dimensions I was always given the option to crop.
Hope this helps someone.
jdubr said:
I played around with this in Photoshop for several hours the day I got my Nook Tablet. I found that the following dimensions will size your wallpaper images perfectly:
840 px wide x 1024 px tall
It's easy to test. Try sizing your wallpaper to these exact dimensions and copy them to your device. Then go to the *stock* Nook home screen. Press and hold to bring up the Change Wallpaper option. Navigate to your newly sized wallpaper image and select it. If it's like mine you won't even be given an option to size/crop. Like the stock wallpapers, it will only give you the option to Save or Discard because it's already sized correctly.
When using other dimensions I was always given the option to crop.
Hope this helps someone.
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Google Image search has a nice feature that can limit results to a specific size, I find this useful for finding odd sized wallpapers.
Like so: http://goo.gl/yBPo1
I've found that using Zedge from the market and applying the wallpaper from Zedge itself sizes them perfectly as well.
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I think the dimensions are probably more useful to people resizing their own photos to use as wallpaper. You can crop them to the exact size in Photoshop before sending them to your tablet.
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If you prefer to use the Nook in landscape what would be the suggested wallpaper size?
1264 x 600?
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If you prefer to use the Nook in landscape what would be the suggested wallpaper size?
1264 x 600?
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I haven't played with landscape much. The dimensions I listed above take into account the default Nook Tablet home screen with the thick "daily bar" on the bottom, "currently reading" status on the top, and wallpaper scrolling between 3 home screens.
Since the device doesn't support a landscape home screen by default the wallpaper size will likely depend on the launcher you use, whether or not you have the status bar displayed and how many home screens you have if you set the behavior to scroll the wallpaper with the home screens.
Let us know what you find out.
I made several wallpapers at this resolution but, even after selecting the whole image with the crop tool, it still zoomed in on it. Has any one else experienced this?
Oh, and I'm currently using GoLauncher. I don't know if the wallpaper displays properly under the Nook Stock screen
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I've found that using Zedge from the market and applying the wallpaper from Zedge itself sizes them perfectly as well.
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I've got Zedge downloaded but I can't seem to select my own pics to use as wallpaper. How were you able to do it?
sonicdh said:
I made several wallpapers at this resolution but, even after selecting the whole image with the crop tool, it still zoomed in on it. Has any one else experienced this?
Oh, and I'm currently using GoLauncher. I don't know if the wallpaper displays properly under the Nook Stock screen
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I'm having this exact issue. Picture shows up perfectly on my lock screen, and if I go into the nook home screen from there it shows fine, but when I go into Go Launcher it zooms in again and stays that way until I reset it in the nook home.
Very annoying as it screws up the definition of my wallpaper...
I have been able to get mostly non-blurry wallpapers since I started using QuickPic to apply them. It's a great app, much better than the stock gallery app, so I'd recommend getting it in any case. And it shows up in the market without having to sideload.
For images I have just been getting ones from InterfaceLIFT in 1280x1024 resolution to make sure I have enough pixels in all directions and it works fine.
I think the difference I'm seeing (not sure if others are too) is between an image being set as Fixed (sorry, I can't remember the app I used to do this, but I did it via the main nook launcher rather than through Go Launcher) and having it switch to scrollable.
If I could figure out how to keep it as Fixed it wouldn't be an issue. It works just fine for an app I downloaded from B&N's market, but not for my own images.
sonicdh said:
I made several wallpapers at this resolution but, even after selecting the whole image with the crop tool, it still zoomed in on it. Has any one else experienced this?
Oh, and I'm currently using GoLauncher. I don't know if the wallpaper displays properly under the Nook Stock screen
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liquidzoo said:
I'm having this exact issue. Picture shows up perfectly on my lock screen, and if I go into the nook home screen from there it shows fine, but when I go into Go Launcher it zooms in again and stays that way until I reset it in the nook home.
Very annoying as it screws up the definition of my wallpaper...
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I had this issue and it even crashed my Go Launcher after switching from the stock Nook home screen to my Go Laucher home screen with the 840.1024 size wallpaper. It turns out that Spare Parts compatibility mode was screwing things up. I had compatibility mode unchecked to make some of my apps run at full screen and it was affecting Go Launcher. After checking compatibility mode, I selected the 840x1024 wallpaper on my stock Nook home screen and when I switched over to Go Launcher it was fine.
Do you guys have Spare Parts installed and compatibility mode unchecked as well?
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Do you guys have Spare Parts installed and compatibility mode unchecked as well?
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I do. I'll have to check and see if this fixes things for me as well. I'll post back this evening.
That was not the issue, however I did figure it out:
Go Launcher has a wallpaper setting for Stretch or Fixed, defaulting to Stretch. Once I adjusted that (found in Screen Options under Soft Menu Key > Preferences), my wallpaper went back the way it should be and all is well again!
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That was not the issue, however I did figure it out:
Go Launcher has a wallpaper setting for Stretch or Fixed, defaulting to Stretch. Once I adjusted that (found in Screen Options under Soft Menu Key > Preferences), my wallpaper went back the way it should be and all is well again!
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I don't have the stretch/fixed option, I've got "Vertical screen mode" and "Default mode" under soft menu option --> Screen Settings --> Wallpaper Mode...
That's it, sorry. I wasn't looking at the options on my NT when I wrote that.
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That's it, sorry. I wasn't looking at the options on my NT when I wrote that.
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I was able to keep scrolling and have a properly sized wallpaper by using Quickpic to set it. APKTOP was the market I used to find it. It worked for *most* of the wallpapers I had. No luck for the smaller wallpaper sizes.
ItsMeMasih, can you please explain "how" you used QuickPic to set your wallpaper. When I try to do this, and am in the QuickPic Wallpaper screen, it's giving me the option to crop it. I don't want to crop it, but it won't allow me to use the entire image. (My image is 1024 x 840.) The crop area includes the entire width of the image, but won't allow me to include the entire height. The crop area will only shrink or increase, in the same proportions. I'd like to just use the entire image, as this will fill the three home screens nicely.
UPDATE: No matter what I did in QuickPic, I could not get a 1024 x 840 wallpaper to fit the height of my NT. (And emailing the developer was completely useless... language barrier.) The wallpaper came with my DecalGirl skin, and it didn't line up with the skin because it was enlarged. So, I went back to my original wallpaper method I posted when I had my NC, which reminded me that I had to use the stock home screen to set my wallpaper. Now, it's perfect.
Hello, I just purchased a LG G2. Loving the phone, but there is one thing that is really bugging me. Perhaps someone here can help.
Why am I forced to crop an image that, when I view the image in the gallery, fits my phone screen just fine. I have this image that I downloaded onto my phone for my background. When I go to gallery and view it, it fits my screen beautifully. However, when I go to set that as my wallpaper, it makes me crop a small portion of the image. When I do this, the image now looks stretched and blurry. My question is, why can't I just fit the image to screen, like I can with every other phone I've used? It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me that I have to crop an image rather than just fit it to screen.
Thanks!
Wallpapers on 1080p devices need a resolution of 2160x1920 if you don't want to do any cropping. Otherwise there are some apps out there that let you utilize the full image. Try out Image 2 Wallpaper from the play store.
The wallpaper scrolls, so in order to not scroll to a blank background it must be made bigger.
TheRuckus said:
Hello, I just purchased a LG G2. Loving the phone, but there is one thing that is really bugging me. Perhaps someone here can help.
Why am I forced to crop an image that, when I view the image in the gallery, fits my phone screen just fine. I have this image that I downloaded onto my phone for my background. When I go to gallery and view it, it fits my screen beautifully. However, when I go to set that as my wallpaper, it makes me crop a small portion of the image. When I do this, the image now looks stretched and blurry. My question is, why can't I just fit the image to screen, like I can with every other phone I've used? It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me that I have to crop an image rather than just fit it to screen.
Thanks!
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use an app like wallpaperii wizard? sometimes if you set your wallpaper thru the setings/home screen/lockscreen sometimes it doesn't affect it so much =. I had the same problem on the nexus 4 and it seems to be a common problem with these phones I've no doubt the n5 does it as well but it would be good to be able to set the pic you see without it being distorted,anyhow I know use the above as it gives you lots of possibilities you can stretch the pics in portrait/landscape and nine times out of ten the picture that you set actually looks good .