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.
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Okay been running tnt two taps for about a week ive noticed that when using a non live walpaper it is streched and oversized cant seam to find a fix for this did see it was happening on the nook color but nothing on gtab. anyway anyone know of a fix for this thanks t.krein
Any ideas live wallpapers work just fine
Well when you set a wallpaper the tablet usually stretches it to fit all four panes on the classic home(when you slide left and right). Try to use one that's more landscape, I forget the actual resolution, and see if it looks any better
anyone know the solution to this this have been a problem on most roms that ive tested on
yes i used both 1024x600 and 1024x1024 and even started to use high res so it would look so pixelated
transitoyspace said:
anyone know the solution to this this have been a problem on most roms that ive tested on
yes i used both 1024x600 and 1024x1024 and even started to use high res so it would look so pixelated
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Quickpics (might be quickpix, can't remember, and tablet is off right now or I'd check) has been the best app I've found for setting background images. What needs ot be remembered for all image apps is that the wallpaper is NOT centered vertically in landscape mode, which most of us use regularly. SO, when cropping an image, you must put the "center" a bit higher than center...the best way I can illustrate this is that if you are using a completely black background with a red "X" in the middle, when cropping, position the "X" in about the top 1/3rd of the crop box...it will then be "centered" when you view the desktop wallpaper. Quickpics tends to not resize it like other apps do. Similar app is Wallaby (but it's finicky sometimes, depending on the image used.
The reason our "phones" resize and crop the images it to allow for better viewing in portrait mode...simple as that.
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.
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.
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.
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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 .
Hi all,
Is this new to Samsung? I had the Note 4 previously but it didn't have this issue where by when you set the wallpaper for both the lock screen and homescreen, the crop on the lock screen is exactly the dimension you have set but on the homescreen it is zoomed in.
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Hi all,
Is this new to Samsung? I had the Note 4 previously but it didn't have this issue where by when you set the wallpaper for both the lock screen and homescreen, the crop on the lock screen is exactly the dimension you have set but on the homescreen it is zoomed in.
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This is because the S6 detects small up and down motions when using the phone and moves the home screen wallpaper up and down to make it look like your view is changing. Fun little gimmick. Not sure what its effect is on battery life, but I've found no way to turn it off. But it does mean it has to crop the home wallpaper.
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This is because the S6 detects small up and down motions when using the phone and moves the home screen wallpaper up and down to make it look like your view is changing. Fun little gimmick. Not sure what its effect is on battery life, but I've found no way to turn it off. But it does mean it has to crop the home wallpaper.
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I've tried to tilt the phone to different angles but I see no movement of the wallpaper though, to me the phone just plainly auto-cropped the wallpaper on the homescreen for me.
It's pretty annoying at the moment
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I've tried to tilt the phone to different angles but I see no movement of the wallpaper though, to me the phone just plainly auto-cropped the wallpaper on the homescreen for me.
It's pretty annoying at the moment
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I've seen on here that some people's accelerators have malfunctioned. Does your screen rotate properly when it's supposed to? If not, it may be an accelerator issue.
joshrbux said:
I've seen on here that some people's accelerators have malfunctioned. Does your screen rotate properly when it's supposed to? If not, it may be an accelerator issue.
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Hmm that's weird, I tested my phone apps and the accelerators are fine. Apps switched orientation as they are supposed to and snappy, but I still don't see any tilting of the wallpaper according to how I tilt the phone.
Not that I want this feature tho XD
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Hmm that's weird, I tested my phone apps and the accelerators are fine. Apps switched orientation as they are supposed to and snappy, but I still don't see any tilting of the wallpaper according to how I tilt the phone.
Not that I want this feature tho XD
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Interesting. I wonder if it's carrier-specific. I have Verizon, not sure if other carriers disabled this feature.
Glad your accelerometers work though! :good:
is there a solution to add wallpapers to the S6 without having them zoomed in??? this is really annoying!
I asked this once too, nobody even glanced on my post or tried to help, so I found the solution by myself, just get the app dodol wallpaper maker and try setting a wallpaper using that app, it doesnt crop or zoom anything, the way u set it is they way it will be set on the homescreen, believe me, I notice every little thing on my wallpapers, so naturally, I immediately saw that crop issue, I think it was after the latest big update. Anyway, just try the app.
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I asked this once too, nobody even glanced on my post or tried to help, so I found the solution by myself, just get the app dodol wallpaper maker and try setting a wallpaper using that app, it doesnt crop or zoom anything, the way u set it is they way it will be set on the homescreen, believe me, I notice every little thing on my wallpapers, so naturally, I immediately saw that crop issue, I think it was after the latest big update. Anyway, just try the app.
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Hmm thanks for the tip. But I am not satisfied with this. The app just sets an image as live wallpaper. So there is no zoom, but having a service in background that uses 80 MB ram just for a wallpaper is not nice...
But it seems there is no other solution.
You dont need the app to keep the wallpaper, the app itself creates a wallpaper in your Gallery, I think it is in an album under the name Crop, then u just set that wallpaper the normal way, it will not have a zoom, I've tried and it works, you only need that app for the wallpaper crop, it's good that the app saves the wallpapers so that you don't have to use it, try it and tell me if it works.
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You dont need the app to keep the wallpaper, the app itself creates a wallpaper in your Gallery, I think it is in an album under the name Crop, then u just set that wallpaper the normal way, it will not have a zoom, I've tried and it works, you only need that app for the wallpaper crop, it's good that the app saves the wallpapers so that you don't have to use it, try it and tell me if it works.
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I think we are talking about two different things. My wallpapers are already cropped to the resolution of the display. But when I set them as wallpaper, they are a little zoomed in. If I take the image from the "crop" dodol folder, and set as wallpaper, it will also have a little zoom...
When I set the same image to lock screen and home screen and unlock my phone, I always see the the home screen image is a little bigger - you dont have this problem???
btw, I am using nova launcher.
i have this problem http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s6/534236-why-my-samsung-s6-wallpaper-smaller-home-screen-then-lock-screen.html
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I think we are talking about two different things. My wallpapers are already cropped to the resolution of the display. But when I set them as wallpaper, they are a little zoomed in. If I take the image from the "crop" dodol folder, and set as wallpaper, it will also have a little zoom...
When I set the same image to lock screen and home screen and unlock my phone, I always see the the home screen image is a little bigger - you dont have this problem???
btw, I am using nova launcher.
i have this problem http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s6/534236-why-my-samsung-s6-wallpaper-smaller-home-screen-then-lock-screen.html
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I believe it's the same problem, I would put a wallpaper using TouchWiz, and a high quality image (after being cropped and looking good on the preview window) would become pixelated thus I imagine it was being zoomed in, otherwise without zoom I wouldn't be seeing those dots in the middle of my wallpaper, after using dodol to crop the picture and set that one again using TouchWiz there was no deterioration in my wallpaper. I don't think that the picture was the problem, every other picture had the same thing, It's like I lost quality in my pictures, and I intentionally get high quality images to have everything look crisp. I looked over at the webpage you posted, they are talking about the Parallax effect, but for me it made no difference if it was on or off. Maybe not all phones have the same fix, or as you said we may not have the same problem after all, one thing is for sure, Samsung while fixing one thing sometimes breaks another.