I upgraded to Froyo yesterday and was sad to see that the native wallpaper selector for the streak was gone. You now have to crop your image and lose some of it in landscape mode. I happen to fool around with a couple of apps and have found a solution. You need to have ADW Launcher and WallSwitch, both available in the market for free. In ADW Launcher you can choose how the screen display is used. Check the function to disable wallpaper scrolling between screens, this will keep the image centered when you scroll left or right. That's pretty much it for that app. Next, in WallSwitch, make sure your settings are set to auto for Processing Method. That's it!! You can choose to have your wallpapers change automatically, and at different intervals if you like, just an added bonus if you like to have something different displayed frequently, or just turn off auto-switch to keep the same image all of the time.
oh! I almost forgot... very important... in order for your image to show up full screen with these settings, you need to have your image file resolution set at 800x378. I know it sounds weird, but after much fiddling, I have found that it is the perfect size so the app will auto crop and make the image full screen.
Hope this is of help to anyone who would like to try it.
actually 960X800 is the size I use and it fits perfectly....
cue_32 said:
actually 960X800 is the size I use and it fits perfectly....
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here's a couple I use
mine
How are you getting it to go full screen using the stock selector? I can only select a portion of the picture?
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I think I've figured this out, the stock selector selects images that are 960x800 (well of that ratio anyways) but when in landscape mode, you only see the top half of the image, thats because the stock selector is catering for both landscape and portrait, so if you turn your phone to portrait mode, then you'll see the whole picture (plus swiping to the sides).
While it is in landscape mode, it is only displaying an image that is 960x480 (if using an image that is 960x800), so if you create a wallpaper that is 960x800, but then have the main image of what you want in the top of the image that is about 960x480, then when on the phone, you select the whole image, you have the main part of the image appear in full in landscape mode.
Example, see the image attached, the area in the box and above the coloured line is what will appear on the phone in landscape mode....however when you turn it in portrait mode, for this picture, you have a white strip across the bottom. Hope this helps people.
The question is, is there anyway of getting the UI to show the bottom half of the image instead of the top? (Using Launcher Pro Plus)
I have more decent images with something that is along the bottom that I do that is along the top if you know what I mean.
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Thought I'd share my current wallpaper, managed to find these two images that has most detail along the top half of the image (bar the Aston, I had to mod it slightly ). Again, these are 960x800 images but I've made sure that the main part of the image is within the 960x480 of the image. Oh and for some reason, when the phone is locked or in the clock dock mode, the wallpaper shifts to the middle of the image too, proper weird!
Download JustPictures app from the market, it lets you set the wallpaper without any cropping, i am official froyo and its working perfect and so far I am able to set any picture as my full screen wallpaper, hope that helps....
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umair239 said:
Download JustPictures app from the market, it lets you set the wallpaper without any cropping, i am official froyo and its working perfect and so far I am able to set any picture as my full screen wallpaper, hope that helps....
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Just tried this app and I'm still stuck with the square crop box, is there anything in particular you are doing to change this? I find the picture I want, press the menu button, then choose "use picture as..." then "set as wallpaper" and then I have a crop box appear.
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Just tried this app and I'm still stuck with the square crop box, is there anything in particular you are doing to change this? I find the picture I want, press the menu button, then choose "use picture as..." then "set as wallpaper" and then I have a crop box appear.
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Getting the same thing, it still crops it.
Very nice download! Thanks for sharing!
Running 160 dpi which I believe is the default. I can't for the life of me find ANY wallpaper that actually fits the screen now. Everything is zoomed in to the upper half of the selected picture. I'm sure I'm missing something stupid but I can't find what. The wallpaper picker has no aspect control and the gallery app doesn't zoom all the way out.
What am I missing?
You're not missing anything. Thats how it is since you use the same image for both portrait and landscape. In landscape the bottom gets cut off.
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You're not missing anything. Thats how it is since you use the same image for both portrait and landscape. In landscape the bottom gets cut off.
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But it doesn't appear to have any valid use for portrait? Only displays the homescreen in landscape. Basically no way to get a wallpaper to "fit" correctly.
Hello,
I am using Go Launcher on Galaxy Note and it appears to redraw/reload all widgets and icons on the home screen if I rotate the screen i.e while going from Landscape to Potrait Mode and vice versa , all widgets/icons reload.
While rotating applications , this does not happen.
Anybody having this issue with Go Launcher?
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Hello,
I am using Go Launcher on Galaxy Note and it appears to redraw/reload all widgets and icons on the home screen if I rotate the screen i.e while going from Landscape to Potrait Mode and vice versa , all widgets/icons reload.
While rotating applications , this does not happen.
Anybody having this issue with Go Launcher?
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Yes, Same issue with me (HTC salsa).
Generally I am not using landscape mode. I always uses portrait mode.
If you want disable Landscape mode, then download Smart Rotator and set Go launcher as Portrait. Which will not rotate your home screen if you interested so.
Hi.
This is not a problem. It is natural to happen.
It has to do with devise display resolution.
My resolution is 540 x 960 pixels in Evo 3D so when i fleep the divise,
the resolution changes is 960 x 540 so the Go Launchers have to rearange the widgets and the icons to adapt and fit to the new resolution.
More a work around.
tired of it stretching my wallpaper. so the idea hit me. give it some dead space to stretch so the end result is "unstretched" effectively.
first I made my desired wallpaper 1920 pixels tall the same as the screen.
I then started adding "padding" turns out 240pixels top and bottom is what you need.
canvas the height by 240pixels (so you end up with letter boxing 240 on both top and bottom) and when you set the crop on android (encompasing the padding) the end result is the proper wallpaper unstretched
do NOT do this for the lock screen as it properly displays what you select without "blowing" it up.
I have Samsung tablet 4
4.4.2 KERNAL
Acheron_Rom_2.3..5.APAI Build
I did not find a thread of my tablet or style so I'm posting.
The wallpaper i choose(been changed a lot) will not go all the way across desktop, even when i turn it to the side or have it horizontal. It messes up the whole picture. I've tried to crop image, rotate the picture itself. I cant get it to fit.
I have my screen rotation constantly on because i use it in the side view(vertical?) Is there anything i can do that will make this work?
Also, can you lock the rotation?