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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Hi,
Is there any way to chose live wallpaper only for lockscreen? I love GSIII flower with water effect I know I can set it for homescreen and then it will be on lockscreen, but I wan't it only for lockscreen. Any ideas, mods, 3rd app or something?
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not on a samsung rom...maybe aokp...
Hmm, I'm actualy using Wanam Lite 11.7, but I was very happy with Hydrog3n based on AOKP so maybe I go back. Could anyone confirm that is possible on AOKP?
samsung based roms support different lockscreen and homescreen wallpapers as well, see screenshot attached (LPD). i cannot tell whether both would let you choose live wallpapers and/or different live wallpapers from one another as i froze all live wallpapers and the live wallpaper picker with TB and couldn't be bothered to unfreeze to solve your problem which i have no major interest in
I know that, but in this menu you can only choose static wallpaper for lockscreen
ok thanks, i wasnt sure about that, as posted, live wallpapers are frozen on mine. but good to know.
Posted this on Rootz as well but I wanted to ask here.
My main wants are:
Ability to hide bottom dock and Notification bar and use gestures to bring them back. Would be nice to utilize all that wonderful screen landscape.
Use my ADW and LP icon packs if possible.
Easy to use shortcuts for moving between screens along with smooth transitions when doing so.
Long press icons to change icon image.
Hi-res display
Resizeable widgets
Keep in memory setting that works well and/or the ability to set custom wallpaper dimensions. It's a pain in the butt to have to reset my wallpapers with Wizardrii because LP got booted from memory and had ot restart.
Set non-scrolling wallpapers.
Do both Apex and Nova have all of these features? Guess I could consider ADW too. Is there one you would recommend over the other? Thanks in advance.
All the features that you want are there in apex dude.. Just try it out..
Icon packs I'm not very sure but definitely sure about the other features
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I've used both Apex and Nova, and I guess it's just a personal preference as they at least seem to be quite similar. They're both based on the stock launcher in ICS / JB, and basically have the same features. Only differences I noticed were very specific, but feature-wise they're quite similar. You should just try them out.
I prefer Apex though, if you wondered.
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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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.
Is there any way to have the wallpaper changed Everytime just like the ZTE lockscreen? It could mimic the ZTE lockscreen or be a different wallpaper of the daily ZTE lockscreen wallpapers. It would be nice to have that feature implemented in the home screen. And if there isn't any, is there a wallpaper app that would do this or change the home screen on a schedule? Any assistance would be much appreciated ?
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Yup, there sure is
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.wallpaper&hl=en
This app downloads qHD Wallpapers for you and changes them daily. You can choose a couple of different sets.
It's by Google.
I use both the one @iNaruX uses and recently rediscovered PhotoPhase Live Wallpaper. It's a CyanogenMod app built into the ROM but someone also pulled it out as a standalone app. https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.ruesga.android.wallpapers.photophase
I'll download wallpapers from ZTE lockscreen, drop them into a folder, and have PhotoPhase cycle through them. I have the PhotoPhase set to show just one, whole screen background so it does what you're saying basically.