I'm having some issues with finding really good wallpapers to work with this screen resolution. My favorite app Zedge needs to update there pics are blurry. I want to get the most out of this screen.
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nothing exciting... just type in HD phone wallpaper android into Google... probably half a million variation available
got LGOG?
Try Wallbase HD Wallpapers App, they got high-res pictures with a HUGE variety :victory::laugh:
I have a map of Middle Earth as my wall paper. I'm probably a little slow on the up take, but it's an over sized image that the device loads using the middle as the main home screen. If I scroll to the home screen on the right, the map scrolls right. Scroll to the left and the screen scrolls to the left. For lock screen I have a death star image.
This one.
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I always noticed this but never paid any attention as to why when selecting a wallpaper from the sd card the crop is soo timy but i realized the wallpapers dont scroll with this new rosie which is why the crop is not as wide as the original evo. I wonder why this was omitted?
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i miss scrolling sometimes
Its omitted because of the carousel effect. Sense can't scroll the wall paper when you flick the home screen into carousel so they just made it static.
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Its omitted because of the carousel effect. Sense can't scroll the wall paper when you flick the home screen into carousel so they just made it static.
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Just thought of that after i posted lol. Im not really cookoo for the carousel effect. Id rather have scrolling wallpapers. Oh well just cosmetic.
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I don't understand the reason for the "carousel effect". It just spins around and comes back to the same panel.
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I don't understand the reason for the "carousel effect". It just spins around and comes back to the same panel.
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Its retarded and i personally hate it. Its just to look flashy and help sell the phone, i hope there is an option to disable it in the future
Anyone know the perfect size for a wallpaper where it won't get cropped. I think all my wallpaper apps assume we have scrolling wallpaper so its 960x540 resolution is cropped as if it spread throughout 5 screens.
Whats the perfect resolution to fit the whole wallpaper one screen?
When switch my nook it landscape mode on the home screen (by turning it horizontal) and then moving it back to portrait mode, my wall paper seems to zoom in. Im wondering if its just a go launcher thing or i messed something up somewhere along the line.
Can someone test for me? Im using the standard built in nook wallpapers.
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When switch my nook it landscape mode on the home screen (by turning it horizontal) and then moving it back to portrait mode, my wall paper seems to zoom in. Im wondering if its just a go launcher thing or i messed something up somewhere along the line.
Can someone test for me? Im using the standard built in nook wallpapers.
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Have you rooted and installed gapps on your device? I noticed immediately after rebooting that the wallpaper was being stretched, even before installing go launcher. I dunno what is up.
I have a wallpaper i downloaded, and i don't appear to have this issue.
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Have you rooted and installed gapps on your device? I noticed immediately after rebooting that the wallpaper was being stretched, even before installing go launcher. I dunno what is up.
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Yes i have. I even did a system restore to see if that fixed it, and it did not. Right now i just disabled auto rotate on the home screen and set the background to vertical mode (in the luncher settings).
This is the onlyway i can make it so itdoesnt zoom in.
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I have a wallpaper i downloaded, and i don't appear to have this issue.
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Is it a Hd wallpaper like the ones that came with the nook tablet? Do u mind setting your background to one ofthe default wallpapers and testing?
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Ive noticed that the NT's default pictures app does a pretty terrible job with wallpaper cropping. I have much more success when i set wallpapers directly from dolphin browser. The 1024x600 resolution also doesnt seem suited to alot of the wallpaper apps either. Ive had more success downloading 1024x1024 wallpapers from sites that tailor to the iPad.
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The standard Go wallpapers (like the vertical rainbow), seem to work fine for me. I too, have found images set directly from Dolphin seem too look the best though.
*edit* Just recreated what you're describing. Does it with nook wallpapers, but everything seems to work fine for me.
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Ricolando said:
The 1024x600 resolution also doesnt seem suited to alot of the wallpaper apps either. Ive had more success downloading 1024x1024 wallpapers from sites that tailor to the iPad.
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These are the dimensions I found to work:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19647527#post19647527
And I too, am seeing the zooming effect using 3 different launchers.
Had the same problem with custom wallpapers, Wallpaper Wizardrii (from market) seems to be able to properly size the wallpapers so there's no strange zooming. Use the 'stretch' option on a wallpaper that's larger than the vertical dimension (1024).
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I'm the kind of android user that always uses one home screen, I don't see any need for more. What I have found is that any wallpapers I set automatically crop their selves to fit the screen as if I would be scrolling left or right to view the full image. I'd like to find a way to make a wallpaper actually fill the entire single home screen rather than expand as if I have multiple home screens. Is their a particular resolution that it needs to be? Or any apps that would do this. Thanks.
I'm pretty sure the best walpapers app has that option if it is not in the from or launcher itself.
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Just checked, it doesn't. And no launcher to my knowledge will do this, and I've tried many.
MultiPicture Live Wallpaper might help
Thank you very much. This works perfectly!
Regina launcher has the ability to use different pictures on each home screen. Really neat option to have. You must also download regjna gallery. But i had 5 home screeja with all different pics of my daughter. It was my daily launcher until i switched to tsf shell.
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Just checked, it doesn't. And no launcher to my knowledge will do this, and I've tried many.
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Try GO Launcher EX, it's among the best of the LauncherPro-alikes and it actually does this. So do most launchers, actually... but specific to GO, which is what I use and can verify right now:
Menu > Preferences > Visual > Backgrounds > Wallpaper mode. Choose Vertical Screen mode. Now when you go to set a picture as wallpaper, it will want to crop to 9:16 (16:9 vertical).
For the Photon/Electrify, the screen resolution is 540x960. Crop to this if you are using something like XnView to prepare the picture on the PC. Or larger but with a 16:9 aspect ratio (or 1.78 if it's noted like that) and it will scale down. Better to scale down (squeeze) than scale up (stretch).
Whatever you are using to pick the wallpaper (Android wallpaper picker, stock gallery, gallery replacement (e.g. QuickPic), etc.) will choose the aspect ratio. If you have it set in vertical wallpaper mode, as noted above, it will crop as such. If it's doing the horizontal thing, you'll want to double the horizontal value (540, in our case) so 1080x960. That's only if you want horizontal mode, which is what you say you're stuck with.
If you truly feel that you cannot get into vertical mode, simply create a 1080x960 canvas and drop a 540x960 right in the middle, taking care to ensure 270 pixels exactly on either side. Leave the sides black or color them however you wish, and place this as your wallpaper. If you've done it right, you will only ever see the middle.
So you guys prolly know what I am talking about. Is there anyway not to have it just take partial of the image? Depending on the image sometimes it's distorted
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Touch wiz doesn't allow scrollable wallpaper....
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Glad to here I wasn't the only one having this problem.... I love the galaxy s iii but hate touchwiz. Add this as a reason to the list.... Try using pic speed wallpaper to set your wallpapers as scrollable... Plus they have tons of great walls.
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Comando156 said:
Glad to here I wasn't the only one having this problem.... I love the galaxy s iii but hate touchwiz. Add this as a reason to the list.... Try using pic speed wallpaper to set your wallpapers as scrollable... Plus they have tons of great walls.
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+1 awesome app
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I actually don't mind touch wiz honestly. I haven't gone to another launcher considering I used apex on my 3d. But I'll try that app out. Thanms!
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Picspeed is a nice app for sizing your wallpapers the way YOU want them, haven't checked their wallpapers though. Also, checking "scrollable" in the app doesn't make the wallpaper scrollable in TW, unfortunately.
This is apple's fault. Apparently they own the patent to scrollable wallpapers in a home screen
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This is apple's fault. Apparently they own the patent to scrollable wallpapers in a home screen
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I'm fairly certain that this is misinformation. Nothing I can find indicates an Apple patent on this feature (and keep in mind that Apple themselves do not offer the feature), and Apple don't seem to be attacking the other Android devices that have offered this as part of the base operating system since day one. If anything, this makes TouchWiz behavor more like iOS.
(Apple did patent scrolling in the next picture in the gallery application and, the key part, snapping back to the current picture if the drag motion wasn't far enough. TouchWiz does exhibit this snap-back behavior on the home screen, but patents are very specific and using the same image and implementing it in an entirely different context means that Android should be fine here.)
I think it is more like Samsung took the feature out because their visual effect is now that you are scrolling a box of icons in the middle of the screen, not the entire screen. It would like kind of funny for the box to rotate and the background to rotate with it while leaving the other foreground elements in place.
Yeah I have been using zedge for a long time now. The only problem when using wallpaper apps and setting it within the application is that it only changes the launcher wally and the lock screen
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I'm fairly certain that this is misinformation. Nothing I can find indicates an Apple patent on this feature (and keep in mind that Apple themselves do not offer the feature), and Apple don't seem to be attacking the other Android devices that have offered this as part of the base operating system since day one. If anything, this makes TouchWiz behavor more like iOS.
(Apple did patent scrolling in the next picture in the gallery application and, the key part, snapping back to the current picture if the drag motion wasn't far enough. TouchWiz does exhibit this snap-back behavior on the home screen, but patents are very specific and using the same image and implementing it in an entirely different context means that Android should be fine here.)
I think it is more like Samsung took the feature out because their visual effect is now that you are scrolling a box of icons in the middle of the screen, not the entire screen. It would like kind of funny for the box to rotate and the background to rotate with it while leaving the other foreground elements in place.
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This effect was enforced with an update to gingerbread on Sprint Galaxy SII's a while back after it was working the same way with the same launcher therefore I can say with certainty it was not a decision for design. It was with that same update that the browser overscroll effect where the page would move away to reveal a dark background was removed. I'm sure it was to appease a court ruling so that the product could continue to be sold.
I believe this is the lawsuit that targeted Samsung in terms of scrolling effect
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...xs3yBg&usg=AFQjCNEjj-dngSVz13bD2L3Jgo4Sn6qGjA
Use QuickPic its in market and free.
Download Flikie Wallpapers HD. This lets you set wallpapers without cropping.
Just go to gallery or wherever your picture is located, press menu and press set as wallpaper using Flikie HD.
No resizing needed.
use the gallery2.apk from cm9, and when you set the wallpaper, use the gallery crop from the cm9 gallery (you can have both the touchwiz gallery and cm9 gallery on the phone at the same time) to set your background, which will do the background scrolling.
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?
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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.
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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...