[Q] Setting up wallpaper - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Guys ! Do anybody know how to set & crop a picture for wallpaper that doesn't move around whenever you scroll through pages on the homescreen?

I believe what you want is more related to the launcher than cropping your image. With go launcher I'd go to visual settings and turn off the option wallpaper mode. This makes your image constant regardless of what home page you are aka no wallpaper scrolling. Think this is what you're after.
It may be different for other launchers but to the date everyone I've seen has this option.
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[Q] wallpaper maker

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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[Q] How do you change the icon size in tablet mode?

I've noticed some people taking screenshots while in tablet mode and their icons are either normal or larger
I'm running cm9 at 213dip and I really can't understand how you could possibly change the icon size any larger- although if there was a way it would not only be very beneficial; but extremely convenient
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Have a look on your launcher settings, should be able to size them in there
My launcher doesn't have those settings. Is there something in the build prop I could edit?
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Doing that would change the size of the entire system... There is more than one launcher
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Doing that would change the size of the entire system... There is more than one launcher
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I have not tried Go Launcher EX yet - does it will allow you to resize homescreen icons, not just widgets? I have not seen this option in Apex or Nova. I would also like to see a launcher that vertically centers the icon in the grid square when icon labels are not used so they line up with widgets in the same row, not display them at the top to leave room for the label. Anyone know a launcher that will do this?
I'm stuck on ADW ex just for this reason. You can blow up your icons as big as you want. I haven't found a newer launcher that can do this as well as ADW.

Different instances of a live wallpaper? (Home + Lockscreen)

I'd like to set my lockscreen's wallpaper to a live wallpaper that's the same as my homescreen's, but with different settings. The LWP in question is Nexus Revamped - I'd like to have the particles in a different color scheme than those on the homescreen. However, I'm not sure if Android would allow two different sets of settings on an LWP to be in effect.
Can someone who has a ROM that supports setting individual LWPs for the lock- and homescreens test this?
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I'd like to set my lockscreen's wallpaper to a live wallpaper that's the same as my homescreen's, but with different settings. The LWP in question is Nexus Revamped - I'd like to have the particles in a different color scheme than those on the homescreen. However, I'm not sure if Android would allow two different sets of settings on an LWP to be in effect.
CAN SOMEONE!? who has a ROM that supports setting individual LWPs for the lock- and homescreens test this?
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I can't believe that nobody has answered this great question yet! I've been searching for "how to set 2 different wallpapers in home and lock screen" but it seems that nobody knows how. I replyed so that maybe someone smarter will see this and answer
I use Paranoid Android 2.54 based on CM 10 and I can not set a different LWP for the lockscreen even though I can set a different WP. If I have set a LWP in the launcher it is used for the lockscreen too by default. You could try an alternative locker app to achieve what you want. There are plenty of them. Make sure to check the comments before choosing one.
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Wallpaper Cropping

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.

Lock screen wallpaper not changing to the selected live wallpaper

Recently, I changed my lock Screen to a picture that I took with my camera, but now I want to have it show a live wallpaper, but whenever I try to change it to a live one, it only change the home screen wallpaper. Any help is appreciated
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Are you using a custom launcher? I had the same problem. Only the original Nubia launcher enabled me to change te lockscreen wallpaper.
If so, just use the Nubia launcher to change your lockscreen. As far as I know, that is the only solution for your problem.

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