While I patiently wait for root, I have the customization bug, most wallpapers don't scale up to the high resolution screen well,does anyone have any suggestions on some good, colorful, live wp's for this phone? I currently run digital hive and solar winds. Thanks!
Don't waste your battery! lol, I never use those things. You can find regular 720p images in Google Search, DL and use!
I think these are pretty nice:
Exodus Live Wallpaper Market Link
ICS Phase Beam Live Wallpaper Market Link
Light Grid Pro Market Link
Also grab a custom launcher if you aren't rooted and want to customize, customize, customize (Go Launcher EX is great as well as ADW , if you haven't already).
WP Clock on the Amazon App Store is my fav!
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I'm fairly new to the android seen with not much knowledge in this area at all i think the last time I played with a phone was a SE w810i when i flashed it :L, however i played a lot with a couple of iPod touches, jailbreaking them modding them etc.
So, i have no intentions of doing this whole ROOT thing to my phone YET but i will be when i have gotten used to the phone and explorered android enough to feel ok to ROOT it and explore and exploit my phone to my liking.
I do realise I could have took a smarter option when it came to buying an android but I always love SE phones so a combo of the two has me well chuffed....
so i'm just wondering
app wise
game wise
theme wise
accessory wise
I love them small addictive flash games like doodle jump, angry birds, i love my phones theme looking good/beautiful/awesome.
I love having lot's of wallpapers, abstract, carbon, matte and black mostly,
I love my music and SE's range of accessories
I love all those HTC widgets and the desire so any widgets that resemble them as much as possible would be much appreciated, for I.e. pre patched fancy widget that mimmicks the exact copy of HTC's weather widget clock, i have launcher pro plus for the messages, facebook and contact widgets, but are there others that mimmick HTC's interface almost exactly?
I love messing about with the cool camera effect apps
also what browser do you use on your android or Xperia?
You should find some extra info on http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Xperia_X10_Mini
Things I find very cool: Alarmdroid, led light, swiftp, terminal, busybox, sshd, original calendar, skype, gtalk.
Well done on your purchase, you already made the best first step by coming to XDA heaps of friendly helpful people on here.
I like "Beautiful Widgets" Clock and Weather widgets... you can download heaps of different Clocks and Weather icons.. (including HTC Sense style clocks)
Vignette is the best Image effects program I have found (funky old camera effects and frames)
Smartkeyboard Pro is a pretty good text input option
Z4root for rooting (really simple one click application to gain root) when your ready for that.. go on! don't be scared!
then.. Titanium Backup, Root explorer.. etc
You have already discovered Launcher Pro, thats a good step.. not as easy to theme as ADW Launcher but still the Home screen of choice by most people because of its speed and Battery usage. (I use Launcher Pro plus too)
The Music player on the X10mini/pro is a bit crap.. there are some good ones out there, I use Meridian but Cube (3) is also pretty cool, I am sure there are others if you look around.
And a few good games..
Angry Birds (of course)
Abduction
Fruit Ninja
Monkey Kick (simple but fun)
2 player Reactor is great if you want to play with your partner or friends when your bored.
too many to list but thats a start for you..
Hope that helps and welcome to the X10mini/pro threads! happy reading/playing.
What LWP do you guys use?
I prefer light ones one that does not cause my phone to lag like hell.
LWPs that I use:
Nexus Revamped Pro
aCircuit Board
Galactic Core Donation
Light Grid Pro
Mario LWP (BG render off)
dudin03 said:
What LWP do you guys use?
I prefer light ones one that does not cause my phone to lag like hell.
LWPs that I use:
Nexus Revamped Pro
aCircuit Board
Galactic Core Donation
Light Grid Pro
Mario LWP (BG render off)
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Where do you get these from?
Thanks.
this forums / android market
Nexus Revamped isnt exactly light. It lags with WildPuzzle. However, I found the ones by AOI Studio (Or something similar) extremely light (All less then 64kB), and, they work wonderfully well and smooth.
I adjust the particle spawn and the touch interaction it seems ok
I use the Connected Blobs Live Wallpaper out of the Market. It runs well and smooth.
Another cool LWP that I found, runs smooth with WF
- Skeleton Eye Live Wallpaper
Anyone else using LWP? What LWPs do you use?
Did anybody know if the beautiful live weather LWP runs? It needs beautiful widget to run beautiful live weather but I want to know if it runs on one of the froyo roms like wildpuzzle or an other. I like this LWP so much and I hope anybody can give me a replay.
I used the Beautiful Live Weather LWP once and it works with Wildpuzzle Rom but its a bit laggy sometimes. But it runs but how good you have to check for yourself.
And i am using these LWP :
Connected Blobs, runs smooth
Starfield, runs smooth
Nexus Revamped Pro, somestimes laggy
Ionic LWP, somestimes laggy
aSpiritBomb, mostly smooth
Oh thats great :-D Thank you for your replay. I would test it when I receive my wildfire. Im still waiting and waiting and I search the forum for all the great things that I can do with
Oh I hope you will receive it soon
I wanted to give LauncherPro a try again which worked really well on my Evo 4g. My problem is that pictures that I've taken with my front camera wont display fullscreen and require me to crop them directly in the middle in order to use them which makes the image much bigger. When using Sense it does not do this and allows me to use the image fullscreen. I really do not like my background being stretched through tabs . Any solutions?? Any info would be great!
I've been googling for a good hour or so and have come up with absolutely nothing.
Just realized that it has nothing to do with LP in general, but any other launcher. They try to force me to crop the image and while cropping I can't select the whole image, but the image is already in proportion to the fullscreen.
Go Launcher does this for me too. I don't know how to correct it either.
I believe you are talking about wallpaper scrolling. In go launcher it's under screen settings-disable wallpaper scrolling. Launcher pro its appearance settings-disable wallpaper scrolling. I'm trying to decide between the two right now
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I believe you are talking about wallpaper scrolling. In go launcher it's under screen settings-disable wallpaper scrolling. Launcher pro its appearance settings-disable wallpaper scrolling. I'm trying to decide between the two right now
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Unfortunately, while you can disable wallpaper scrolling in the various launcher apps, you cannot disable the way in which it wants to crop the image. Even if you go from Launcher Pro back to Sense it will still try to crop images for the wider, scrolling format. A hot restart after switching back to Sense was the only way to solve this for me. I didn't try that after switching off the wallpaper scrolling option in Launcher Pro so it's worth a shot.
Ultimately, I just gave in and found or made a bunch of wallpapers of a 1080x960 dimension that look great scrolling in Launcher Pro.
I found a solution. Wallpaper Wizardrii allows you to set the wallpaper correctly! It's free on the android market and worked flawlessly.
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I found a solution. Wallpaper Wizardrii allows you to set the wallpaper correctly! It's free on the android market and worked flawlessly.
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Well I'll be damn. That app really worked! And the options on it are fantastic!
Is it possible to get the SGS3 Dandelion lockscreen on the SGS2?
I have installed the live wallpaper samsung dandelion for galaxy s3;it works for galaxy note but I have just discovered that works also for sg 2.If you want to install this live wallpaper click here ;http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1069205&stc=1&d=1337367259
I have got the live wallpaper installed but i was wondering if you could use it for the lock scrren aswell.
Thanks for the reply
Get Widget Locker from the Play Store:
http://bit.ly/MeUCC7
It's a lockscreen replacement that keeps your live wallpaper running. You can also adjust lockscreen brightness, so the LWP is always shining bright. And remember to set it to your task killer's ignore list (if you use one), else it'll keep getting killed.
if anyone knows of a better and/or free alternative, feel free to tell me.
devid801 said:
I have installed the live wallpaper samsung dandelion for galaxy s3;it works for galaxy note but I have just discovered that works also for sg 2.If you want to install this live wallpaper click here ;http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1069205&stc=1&d=1337367259
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big thanks!
Also search for it on market
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Xelasarg said:
Get Widget Locker from the Play Store:
http://bit.ly/MeUCC7
It's a lockscreen replacement that keeps your live wallpaper running. You can also adjust lockscreen brightness, so the LWP is always shining bright. And remember to set it to your task killer's ignore list (if you use one), else it'll keep getting killed.
if anyone knows of a better and/or free alternative, feel free to tell me.
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Thats Great Thanks
If anyone is interested...
I found a better way:
Get Go Locker from the Play Store (http://bit.ly/M7ryOv). Unlike Widet Locker, it's completely free. Not so customizable, but faster. The lag when unlocking the phone is completely gone.
Start Go Locker, activate it and set Background -> Launcher Background, so it displays the LWP on the lock screen.
If you like, install Fluid Live Wallpaper (http://bit.ly/LhvacK). It's a paid app, but well worth the money - the water effects are stunning.
Download the attached wallpapers (they're identical, I only reduced color saturation in No. 1) and set one of them as LWP background (via Live Wallpapers -> Fluid -> Downloaded Images).
That's it...
Xelasarg said:
I found a better way:
Get Go Locker from the Play Store (http://bit.ly/M7ryOv). Unlike Widet Locker, it's completely free. Not so customizable, but faster. The lag when unlocking the phone is completely gone.
Start Go Locker, activate it and set Background -> Launcher Background, so it displays the LWP on the lock screen.
If you like, install Fluid Live Wallpaper (http://bit.ly/LhvacK). It's a paid app, but well worth the money - the water effects are stunning.
Download the attached wallpapers (they're identical, I only reduced color saturation in No. 1) and set one of them as LWP background (via Live Wallpapers -> Fluid -> Downloaded Images).
That's it...
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Hmm... About that GO Locker no lag behaviour... As far as I'm aware - lag when powering up screen comes from device waking modem up from deep sleep state.
Could you download CPU Spy (free) and check if phone gets to sleep while GO locker is used?
Best part about the Note 2 is the awesome screen! However, one of my biggest issues is lack of high resolution content ! Seems like 95% of wallpapers, and clock widgets are low resolution and it drives me nuts. Any tips on where to get higher resolution widgets or wallpapers? Zedge is terrible, PicSpeed is O.K. but not great. Any others?
Have you tried HD Widgets from the Play Store? Or Beautiful Widgets?
ohiwastedmylife said:
Best part about the Note 2 is the awesome screen! However, one of my biggest issues is lack of high resolution content ! Seems like 95% of wallpapers, and clock widgets are low resolution and it drives me nuts. Any tips on where to get higher resolution widgets or wallpapers? Zedge is terrible, PicSpeed is O.K. but not great. Any others?
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For wallpapers, someone in the "screenshots of your note II" shared this:
www.ilikewallpaper.net/iPhone-5/Wallpapers/
Much easier than finding images that are at least 1280 in height and cropping, which I was doing before.
Beautiful Widgets is pretty terrible also. Like 95% of the skins are very low res.
I havent tried the wallpapers, but do those any work if you choose not to have your wallpaper scroll as you scroll homescreens? I thought the android wallpapers needed to be wider than they are tall for the best scrolling effect.
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spiff72 said:
I havent tried the wallpapers, but do those any work if you choose not to have your wallpaper scroll as you scroll homescreens? I thought the android wallpapers needed to be wider than they are tall for the best scrolling effect.
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What do you mean scrolling wallpaper? Mine does not have that feature, I thought they got rid of the scrolling wallpapers. I really want that feature back I hate having the static wallpaper its boring. The wallpaper selector gives you a cropping outline which shows 3 rectangles, with the left and right sides as if it still does the wallpaper scrolling but it doesn't.
spiff72 said:
I havent tried the wallpapers, but do those any work if you choose not to have your wallpaper scroll as you scroll homescreens? I thought the android wallpapers needed to be wider than they are tall for the best scrolling effect.
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Yes I use multi picture live wallpaper so my wallpapers need to be 720 width and 1280 height. The ones in that site work great.
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ohiwastedmylife said:
What do you mean scrolling wallpaper? Mine does not have that feature, I thought they got rid of the scrolling wallpapers. I really want that feature back I hate having the static wallpaper its boring. The wallpaper selector gives you a cropping outline which shows 3 rectangles, with the left and right sides as if it still does the wallpaper scrolling but it doesn't.
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My bad - it looks like you are right (at least with regard to the Touchwiz launcher). I had to switch temporarily to TW launcher to check this.
I am running Nova Launcher - which does allow for scrolling wallpapers.
I came from the OG Droid, to the Galaxy Nexus, and then to the GN2. This is my first non "google experience" phone. Even my Nexus 7 tablet has scrolling wallpapers with the default launcher - but that tablet is running Paranoid Android. Not sure what the stock Jellybean launcher behavior is...