Bit of a different one,
I've just downloaded a wallpaper for my phone today at 1920x1080 and set it as a lockscreen wallpaper, however upon turning the phone on the resolution is much lower, grainy in fact. Now I tried in the gallery to zoom in as much as the lockscreen has and there is no grainy image, so whats up with the wallpaper tool on the GS3
any help welcome.
Luke.
Are you using Touchwiz? Try a 720 x 1280 wallpaper for the lockscreen. If you are using a 3rd party launcher use 1440 x 1280 wallpapers.
Also be aware that the lockscreen shows a slightly dimmer lower quality wallpaper resolution.
deactivate ripple effect and try again.
Thanks for the fix much better
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Guys when applying my fiancees photo as a wallpaper it streches over multiple screens, how can i apply to fit it to the whole screen and stop the scrolling, it isnt rooted etc its completly stock and new today.
If your pic is not 480 x 800 resolution you can't set the whole pic as wallpaper. Any 480 x 800 pic will fit perfectly for portrait wallpaper. Select the portait mode when setting wallpaper: you have 2 options when choosing the pic, to fit on all scrollable screens or just on one screen.
Thanks mate that's brilliant.
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Ah didn't know that about the stock launcher. I wanted to recommend you Launcher Pro that has an option to not scroll the wallpaper when switching homescreens.
use launcher pro plus,because its very good and it has that option you want
He asked about wallpaper, not your preference of launcher.
It is completely baffling to me why the standard Android launcher (and even launchers like Samsung's TouchWiz and HTC SenseUI) only has a 4x4 icon grid on the main home screen regardless of screen size. Whether the screen is a measley 2.6" screen (e.g. Huawei Boulder) or a huge 4.7" screen (e.g. HTC Sensation XL) the icon grid size is the same. Likewise, it does not appear make a difference regardless of the screen resolution whether 320x240 or a huge 540x960.
I know there are a few launchers that do allow this to be customised (e.g. Launcher Pro) but why do so many other launchers not handle proper scaling of the icon grid size or offer a configurable setting to properly utilise the screen size?
I'm hoping this is resolved in the standard Android launcher for ICS.
If 5x5, When you rotate the launcher, it is squeeze like butter... just try 5x5 in a custom launcher and you will know about it
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If 5x5, When you rotate the launcher, it is squeeze like butter... just try 5x5 in a custom launcher and you will know about it
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It doesn't need to be specifically 5x5 but just something that will scale appropriately for the screen size and resolution. If a 2.6" 320x240 screen can display 4x4 fine then a 4.3" (or higher) with 800 x 480 should easily be able to handle more than 4x4.
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It doesn't need to be specifically 5x5 but just something that will scale appropriately for the screen size and resolution. If a 2.6" 320x240 screen can display 4x4 fine then a 4.3" (or higher) with 800 x 480 should easily be able to handle more than 4x4.
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Yeah.. I understand. But problem happens when you rotate the screen...
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That's exactly what I'm saying, most current launchers have problems with how icons are arranged. The usable part of the screen for displaying application icons is generally not square. I'm not specifying how many icons need to be set out, but I think most large screen phones e.g. (HTC Sensation, Samsung Galaxy S2 etc) can take far many more icons. It may be appropriate for icons to be displayed in 4x5 grid in portrait orientation and then 5x4 in landscape orientation. Whatever is appropriate for the device (which will vary from device to device).
The fact that most launchers are fixed with an icon grid of 4x4 is what I'm saying the issue is.
No matter how I try it when I try to set an image as a wallpaper if never fits the screen right because of the layout (Zoomed vs Normal). Is there an app to make 2-Stage wallpapers work where I can see the whole image on the desktop display? (main screen and app screen zoom difference) If I explained that weird just ask for clarification
Multipicture live wallpaper
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Hi guys,
I notice when I set a lock screen wallpaper its quality gets reduced - the same as when normal wallpapers are set.
Using QuickPic to set normal wallpapers gets around this but as far as I'm aware QuickPic can't be used to set lock screen wallpapers. Is there a method out there that'll allow me to set full quality lock screen wallpapers?
Cheers
I'm using this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wallpapers.backgroud.hd&hl=en
the quality is great ! :good:
Can anyone recommend a application that you can use in place of setting a wallpaper the stock way. I have tried Wallpaper Wizardrii which allows me to crop the picture the way I would like, but I still get a black bar on the bottom and the wallpaper doesn't extend behind the notification bar. Any help is appreciated as this is incredibly annoying.
The big thing is to make sure your wallpaper is the right dimensions
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This is incredibly annoying on HTC Sense. It doesn't support scrollable wallpapers, it doesn't rotate into landscape mode (without a mod) so then why does it insist that I need to crop a perfectly fine 720x1280 image that should otherwise fit the screen just fine?
What apps do you use to force such an image as a wallpaper, without any gratuitous cropping? I just want a static image on all the screens, no scrolling, I don't care for landscape.
What about a fancier setup with a different static image on each screen? Possible with Sense, without using a different launcher?
I've tired multiple apps but none of them seem to work long term. The "solution" I've come up in the mean is making a Photoshop file with the dimensions of the phone in landscape mode and putting the image I would like add the wall paper in the center. Then save the file as a jpeg and download it to your phone. I don't really consider this as a "solution" as it should not take this much work to apply a simple wallpaper. For now this is the best I could come up with.
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Try "Simple Image Wallpaper Free".
It works great for me.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ridgelineapps.simpleimagewallpaper&hl=de
What I use to apply images as wallpaper is an app called image 2 wallpaper. It's a free app and it's pretty good I hate how the stock wallpaper app does this weird zoom and splits the wallpaper 3 ways. Idk it's weird so I use that app and I'm pretty much happy with it
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I played with it a bit and it seems the key here is that at least when using Sense, the required wallpaper size is 1440x1280. Yes, that's 2 x 720 (the screen width). I'm guessing that's to allow for scrolling across screens and for landscape mode for launchers that support it. I looked at the stock Jelly Bean wallpapers and they are also exactly 1440x1280. Note that other launchers may have other size requirements and they have their own options to allow scrolling the wallpaper or not. The stock Sense launcher does not scroll the wallpaper or allow landscape and it has no preference to enable it.
So if you have an image that's exactly 720x1280 (as I tried to initially use), what apps such as Image2Wallpaper do is turn it into 1440x1280 by padding it with a solid color (border). You can play with the options and set a white border color for example and then save the image from Image2Wallpaper and look at it, it will be obvious what is going on. Of course, you can do all this yourself in a photo editing application and then set the wallpaper via the stock Gallery, making sure the crop rectangle is fully expanded.
I haven't tried "Simple Image Wallpaper" yet, that may work in a different way as it's implemented as a live wallpaper. I wonder if there's any impact on CPU and battery with using such an app as opposed to a static image.
There's also MultiPicture Live Wallpaper which allows cycling through an album and has plugin for some online services such as Picasa.
Bottom line is that the native wallpaper format is 1440x1280. Here are some nice ones in this size to get you started:
http://euphoricarythmia.com/showthread.php?t=31291
Image2Wallpaper is also valuable to see what the wallpaper and true screen size a device claims to have. Hit the "Info" option in the menu. E.g.:
HOX+:
Wallpaper size: 1440x1280 (with HTC Sense launcher)
Screen: 720x1280
Nexus 7:
Wallpaper size: 1406x1280 (with stock JB 4.2.2 launcher)
Screen: 800x1205
Weird numbers for the N7, I'm guessing because of the soft buttons menu bar.
Landscape Wallpaper is decent if you want to get scrolling wallpapers with the stock Sense launcher.
Here's what I settled on after playing with wallpapers for a couple of days:
Image2Wallpaper: the best app I found for dealing with static images. It has just the right options and lets you save a correct size image that you can later on set via a different app.
Landscape Wallpaper: great if you want scrollable wallpapers with HTC Sense launcher. Not perfect because of the Sense limitations, but good enough if you must have scrollable wallpapers.
MultiPicture Live Wallpaper: great app if you have a bunch of wallpapers and want to switch between them quickly to see what they look like (all you have to do is double-tap the screen in an empty area while your device is "live"). Also nice because you can set it to automatically change your wallpapers if you like that style of random wallpapers every few hours.
Every other app I've seen mentioned and I tried was not worth keeping installed.
I hope this helps someone. Unfortunately the only way to really understand how wallpapers work is to play with them for a bit.