[Q] How to set a 1080x1920 wallpaper--without cropping?? - HTC Droid DNA

This is my first HTC phone, and I don't plan on rooting any time soon. Running Nova Launcher Prime. I keep running into all these tiny but frustrating issues, one of which is that I can't make custom wallpapers because no app I use will accept a full 1080x1920.
I disabled the notifications bar, so any 1080x1920 wallpaper I choose should, hypothetically, fit to a tee. The problem is, I can't for the life of me set it exactly. I know a bunch of people use Quickpic, but this is what happens when I try it:
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^can't expand the area, no matter what I do--all it does is contract to form a skinnier, longer rectangle. but the actual area of the crop never increases.
I tried the apps Image 2 Wallpaper and Wallpaper Wizardrii, but did not have success with either app. I edited every possible setting, I tried to manually fix the dimensions, I excluded/included the status bar, etc. Nothing worked.
Am I doing something wrong? Is there something bizarre I need to change with the settings in order to allow exact fit with wallpapers? I tried everything both with scroll on and off in Nova (not that it does anything, wallpapers can't scroll on my DNA).

Would like to know as well. Using nova as well although I used the "crop" feature and it got most of the picture in.
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Would like to know as well. Using nova as well although I used the "crop" feature and it got most of the picture in.
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As far as I know, there isn't a way to do what you are asking about without the use of an app. Might try Wallpaper Wizardrii. Or get a pic with height resolution of 1920 and larger width, so cropping doesn't affect final clarity.
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Spiral_ouT said:
As far as I know, there isn't a way to do what you are asking about without the use of an app. Might try Wallpaper Wizardrii. Or get a pic with height resolution of 1920 and larger width, so cropping doesn't affect final clarity.
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yeah try the "Image 2 wallpaper" app... sounds cheap and lame but it's perfect for setting wallpapers like you are looking for.

LOL I actually stated that I used Wizardrii and Image 2 Wallpaper . Unfortunately neither worked. Absolutely nothing I've tried has worked, even customizing the height/width in both apps.
Another random thing I noticed--I can't get any of my wallpapers to scroll--is that just HTC not playing nice with apps/launchers?

LoL you totally did. My bad for not fully reading. Smh.
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Use "Simple Image Wallpaper" app. Its what I use. Just be sure to look under live wallpapers as its not a static image technically. Thats why it works without having to crop.

Thanks so much! That's exactly what I was looking for . Funny thing is, I got Quickpic to work once, but it never worked after that.

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Anyone find any great looking Wallpapers for the Vibrant?

If so post them.
Just look for 960x800 images/wallpapers. They're all over the web. I've found lots! XDA, Google, etc.
Im using a nice looking Live wallpaper called Quads. Kinda has that line wave the default PS3 theme has. Makes the phone look really sleek
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Im using a nice looking Live wallpaper called Quads. Kinda has that line wave the default PS3 theme has. Makes the phone look really sleek
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Also using this one! It is really nice looking, yet simple.
Zedge , free app in the market has a lot of good ones
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Love the galaxy core live wallpaper. Would have liked to try the live wallpaper that comes with Weatherbug Elite app, but it won't load for me...
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Zedge
Thanks for mentioning Zedge. I was up 'til 4 in the morning goofing around with wallpapers. So much for being well rested!
wallbase.net is a good site for Wallpapers. They're all different sizes but if I like one I'll take the 5 seconds to resize it properly in PS. Also interfacelift, but I think everyone knows about that site.
I'm kinda bummed that I have a year's worth of VGA wallpapers collected and now I need to change sizes. Oh well.
romanonly said:
Thanks for mentioning Zedge. I was up 'til 4 in the morning goofing around with wallpapers. So much for being well rested!
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same here, the app is awesome.
Ive been using g1-wallpapers.com since the G1 came out! They have some of the best on the planet...specifically made for our android phones.
There is an awesome app called Astronomy Picture of the day.Changes your background every day to the NASA picture of the day.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.blork.anpod
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Heres my collection....
http://picasaweb.google.com/justin.wingate
I'm having trouble finding high quality wallpapers. Even if the resolution is 960x800 or higher the quality of the image itself may look jaggy when set as wallpaper.look at the preloaded wallpaper and it is crisp and clear and almost pops out of the screen, but all the "hd"wallpapers I have downloaded so far are not very crisp like the preloaded wallpaper once set as such. I'd like a black theme wallpaper too to take advantage of the supposed battery life increase.
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so I downloaded a couple wallpapers in 960x800 size. When I go in to set them as my wp it makes me select a cropped area and makes the wp look like crap. How do I make the entire image my wp?
By look like crap you mean it looks too zoomed in?
jkcheng122 said:
By look like crap you mean it looks too zoomed in?
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Yeah it was all blurry. I figured out how to properly crop though. I kept trying to pinch to zoom, but then I tried dragging one of the borders and it resized it properly. Looks good now.
On the app market search for "Backgrounds," it has a large amounts of wallpapers to select from.
here is a few variations...............from a wall from neffstarr​
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I have a small collection of mostly "babe" walls here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/shrivel
Me and a few friends all share a secondary dummy Gmail account on our android phones. Picasa is the only option set to sync on the phone, as such we can all dump wallpapers to this Picasa account and they will show up on all of our phones in the gallery. Its a pretty neat trick and one gigabyte of free space is plenty enough room for quite a few wallpapers.
Most of the galleries are 1920x1082 images, but they look great once cropped.
The first gallery is one of my favorite current artists, Audrey Kawasaki. These images are meant to be used with alternate launcher apps like ADW, that allow you to turn off wallpaper scrolling. If you hide the status bar in ADW with one of these images selected it will give your screen a nice rounded look.
http://picasaweb.google.com/wallshare/AudreyKawasakiWallpaper?feat=directlink
The others are all random, mostly high res wallpaper.
http://picasaweb.google.com/wallsha...authkey=Gv1sRgCIe31YzlwrfwyAE&feat=directlink
http://picasaweb.google.com/wallshare/KevinSWidescreenWallpapers?authkey=Gv1sRgCMeM_bnSnc1E#
http://picasaweb.google.com/wallshare/MatthewSWallpapers?authkey=Gv1sRgCNzr7-W3toGgtAE#

Low Quality Contact Images on Lockscreen

so anyone whos linked to facebook, when you get a text and you use the stock app, do you notice low crappy quality images on the lock screen? same with a call?
their actual fb images aren't this low of quality; i can see them in the people widget and the quality looks fine. however, they're much smaller and lower resolution on the lockscreen when you get a text. any thoughts on this? i just started using the stock messaging app again so i'd like to know
I have noticed. It looks horrible. I wish HTC would fix it.
Same here, they're nasty.
ok good, as long as its happening to us all. hmm, there's gotta be a way to fix that.
We can fix. We just need root
lol how? nobody fixed that on the incredible roms running sense 2.0 and above wtih the 3.0 lockscreen....it was always ****ty quality lol
I just had my girlfriend call and text me both. I am not having this issue.
And yours is linked to facebook for her, or is it her google image?
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3 users of this phone I know of have this same issue... I highly doubt any one with the pictures synced with facebook are not having this issue.
My wife's picture seems OK. Can't take a screenshot of the lock screen but it looks the same as her contact picture which was synced from facebook. Bottom contact
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You can take a pic of the lock screen just like you do for that. Hold home and power. It works.
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Everyone is either FB/Twitter/or G+
Wow, last poster has some nice image quality there. Mine's got that low-quality FB imagetag, however. Would really like to make it better.
My contact photos don't look so hot on the lockscreen either.
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Edit: Mine was shrunk when attaching but you can tell the quality is bad
If you use
jayochs said:
You can take a pic of the lock screen just like you do for that. Hold home and power. It works.
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hmm, tried several times and it didn't take. go figure
and here's my widget:
that's facebook. really ****ty quality. meh.

Question/help with customization?

Hope this is in the correct location. Im trying to find a way to have i guess a minimalist home screen. I just want to have whatever apps on my homescreen to have no icons just the label. But i want the apps in the draw to still have the icons. Not sure if i explained that too well. I had i believe ADW launcher with a minimalist theme. But it also took away the icons in the draw. Which i guess wasnt all that bad but it didnt change all of them. Some had just the label and others still had the icon so it was a mess.
Does anyone know a way i can have just the apps on my homescreen just show the label and no icon? Or
Manually change whatever icons in the draw didnt change with that minimalist theme?
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Try this https://market.android.com/details?id=de.devmil.minimaltext&hl=en
LiLChris06 said:
Try this https://market.android.com/details?id=de.devmil.minimaltext&hl=en
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Thanks. Ill take. Look!
Edit: just took a look. Unless im missing something this looks like its only good for like widgets, weather... Clock..
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Desktop Visualizer I think is the name of the app you want.
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Pirateghost said:
Desktop Visualizer I think is the name of the app you want.
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Thanks. Ill check it out!
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jasvncnt1 said:
Thanks. Ill take. Look!
Edit: just took a look. Unless im missing something this looks like its only good for like widgets, weather... Clock..
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You are missing something.
1. Add widget
2. Widget option
3. Predefined Widget (select custom)
4. Custom Layout
5. Add > Misc > Static Text > Text Here (app name in your case)
6. Go back
7. Start Another Activity or a Shortcut
Then your done, just repeat till you have everything you want.
Its really customizable so you can have the text in almost any way you want, explore it some more.
Simple text from the market. You must be using an alternate launcher other in than stock. You can make text only jpegs and assign them to use as an icon. The apps will look normal still in your app drawer.
See my dock icons in the picture below. Is this what you want?
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MOUSTRO!! thats what I want. Downloaded it and am playing around. Thanks! Thanks to everyone that answered!
Awesome! Glad I could help

[Mod] HTC Sense 4/3.5 Launcher, Bootanimation, Lockscreen & Clock

Have anyone tried this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652355 on your Atrix. This is really cool!! i actually love the HTC Sense 4 clock...and it look awesome on my Atrix. [Please keep in mind that this is NOT my work, i just wanted to share this with you, so if anything screws up...don't blame me!!!]
Please Post your screenshots after applying the Launcher....
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"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
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"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
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if that's for a galaxy, how come you're posting this in the atrix forum?
android-DEP said:
if that's for a galaxy, how come you're posting this in the atrix forum?
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it actually works on other devices as well...i have installed the Flip Clock & Launcher in my Atrix...and its looking pretty awesome in my homescreen!! u should also give it a try.....[i didnt try the boot animation...so not sure about it]
The launcher doesn't seem to scale correctly and there are some other icons over the dock.
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you have to enter in launcher setting, now dock settings, then tap twice any option and back to launcher
Change the dpi to 270 and everything fits perfectly. I'd suggest an app like LCD Density Modder Pro so you can apply a permanent market fix. For the overlay on the dock I'd say turn on Tint AB and put the AB Scale to 1. Doesn't completely get rid of the overlay but it definitely makes it less noticeable like in my screenshot.
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Neroga said:
Change the dpi to 270 and everything fits perfectly. I'd suggest an app like LCD Density Modder Pro so you can apply a permanent market fix. For the overlay on the dock I'd say turn on Tint AB and put the AB Scale to 1. Doesn't completely get rid of the overlay but it definitely makes it less noticeable like in my screenshot.
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270 no way!
rancur3p1c said:
270 no way!
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Whatever works, right? Not much of a difference besides app icons look a bit bigger lol.
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Question regarding spacing between icons

Hey guys,
Sorry for the bunch of questions in recent days. I'm new a this while being fairly compulsive. Ok so let's make use of the ability to make screen shot. In the picture below, apps on the left are from stock touch wiz, and the second set of icons (more to the right) are from the TW SIII mod from pale horse. As you can see, apps on the right have much more space between them then on the left. Is there anyway for me to make it so apps on the right have the same space between them than apps on the left? It is very obsessive of me I know.
Thank you
Install the Apex launcher. Then you can change the grid of your desktop to any spacing that suits you.
And this is for caring about icon spacing. . .
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"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
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I know I know... But thank you!
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theinvisiblehand said:
I know I know... But thank you!
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What did you do to fix this?
Another thing Apex can do is let you resize icons. Maybe that could help?
And you know the CDO picture was strictly a joke - not trying to do anything here but assist.
That was a good one ranger...LOL
And yes....we need a sense of humor around here once in a while....g
Right? You know sometimes you can get someone's undies in a bunch by just saying hi.
Ahah no worries I can take a joke. I embed up doing nothing. Apex had the same problem so I just took a deep breath and accepted things as they are.
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Did you browse the Homescreen thread? Maybe you can see a solution there. Anyone there will share their setup with you.
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Ahah no worries I can take a joke. I embed up doing nothing. Apex had the same problem so I just took a deep breath and accepted things as they are.
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I use SSLauncher, and do whatever I like with the homescreen(s). Spacing, resizable widgets, etc.... SSLauncher=freedom!
from the looks of your photo something was changed other then just icons. your homescreen indicators and wallpaper dont line up. you can try changing your screen density to something larger to fill in the gaps. stock is 320. i use apex like ranger recomended and hide icon labels then change grid size. i use 8x5 and this makes all my icons very close(i also use text for icons rather then pictures). you should play around with it. pro version also lets you resize and overlap widgets so you can get icons close but still have widgets look like they should.

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