hi, I searched before creating the thread and I found nothing.
I have this very beautiful and very wide image that I want to use as a wallpaper, but I would like to be able to see more of it when I scroll the panes.
for example, my screen's width is 480 px. I would want the wallpaper to scroll by 480 pixels when I scroll the panes, so I could see the whole image (or at least most of it. it's very very wide, I would need 16 panes to see it whole this way XD).
so the problems are two: managing to put the image as the wallpaper as it is, without cropping or adjusting it to the screen (I tried with wallpaper wizardrii but it can't do it) and changing how much it scrolls when I scroll the panes.
I don't mind modifying system files to do it.
many thanks to anyone who will help me.
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I really don't think what else to do with this issue - I'm on CM7 and I'm not able to set a crisp wallpaper, everything's blurry or pixelated. I've tried several methods from landscape to portrait, setting it with the gallery, but it always wants me to crop. The sizes I've tried:
1024x750
750x1024
600x1024
1024x600
1200x1024
1280x1024
1800x1024
NONE of those are working, they all seem zoomed Is any1 able to help? Can't be THAT hard to set a crisp wallpaper on that stunning screen, can it?
Use wallpaper set and save from the market
QuickPic works as well
1200x1024 and I've moved from Wallpaper Set & Save to QuickPic, both are free in the market, but QuickPic just seems to work smoother for me.
(edit: You beat me to it JINP!)
=)
fattymcdirty said:
I really don't think what else to do with this issue - I'm on CM7 and I'm not able to set a crisp wallpaper, everything's blurry or pixelated. I've tried several methods from landscape to portrait, setting it with the gallery, but it always wants me to crop. The sizes I've tried:
1024x750
750x1024
600x1024
1024x600
1200x1024
1280x1024
1800x1024
NONE of those are working, they all seem zoomed Is any1 able to help? Can't be THAT hard to set a crisp wallpaper on that stunning screen, can it?
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Just a guess... you are using ZEAM LAUNCHER right?
I'm having a similar problem. I CAN get wallpapers to load crisply and clearly by controlling the size of the image. A too large image will result in a small, blurry part of the image being all that's visible as wallpaper. I CAN'T get my rooted NC to show ALL of a wallpaper image that's specifically sized to take full advantage of the "panorama" you get by scrolling among the screens. I use LauncherPro and have five home screens. I used to run Nookie Froyo and had access to the original B&N Nook tools and settings. Using them I could load a wide screen wallpaper and see the whole thing. I switched to xe.nook.color.froyo (a great ROM, btw) and lost access to those tools. I've tried Wallpaper Set & Save and it works fine to locate and load wallpaper images but won't show the full length of the wallpapers I select once they're loaded. 1800 x 1024 images used to load and display completely. Now both ends are cut off no matter what program I use to load them.
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Just a guess... you are using ZEAM LAUNCHER right?
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nope.. adw ex 1.22
Download ES File Explorer, browse to your wallpaper folder and open the image you want to set as a wallpaper with ES Image Viewer,long touch and select apply as wallpaper. This is the only Way I've found to show wallpapers properly, you just have to make sure the image is 1200x1024.
My guess as to the reason is that nothing tries to apply the background at the proper size, they might be applying it at 960x800 or so on, which causes the image to get stretched and pixelated.
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dawynkoop said:
Download ES File Explorer, browse to your wallpaper folder and open the image you want to set as a wallpaper with ES Image Viewer,long touch and select apply as wallpaper. This is the only Way I've found to show wallpapers properly, you just have to make sure the image is 1200x1024.
My guess as to the reason is that nothing tries to apply the background at the proper size, they might be applying it at 960x800 or so on, which causes the image to get stretched and pixelated.
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Agreed except the original wallpaper size didnt seem to matter. Im using all the same wallpapers I use for my PC with a screen res of 1920 x 1080. ES seems to do just fine with them keeping things looking great.
EDIT: Using the correct aspect ratio did make a noticeable improvement.
Okay been running tnt two taps for about a week ive noticed that when using a non live walpaper it is streched and oversized cant seam to find a fix for this did see it was happening on the nook color but nothing on gtab. anyway anyone know of a fix for this thanks t.krein
Any ideas live wallpapers work just fine
Well when you set a wallpaper the tablet usually stretches it to fit all four panes on the classic home(when you slide left and right). Try to use one that's more landscape, I forget the actual resolution, and see if it looks any better
anyone know the solution to this this have been a problem on most roms that ive tested on
yes i used both 1024x600 and 1024x1024 and even started to use high res so it would look so pixelated
transitoyspace said:
anyone know the solution to this this have been a problem on most roms that ive tested on
yes i used both 1024x600 and 1024x1024 and even started to use high res so it would look so pixelated
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Quickpics (might be quickpix, can't remember, and tablet is off right now or I'd check) has been the best app I've found for setting background images. What needs ot be remembered for all image apps is that the wallpaper is NOT centered vertically in landscape mode, which most of us use regularly. SO, when cropping an image, you must put the "center" a bit higher than center...the best way I can illustrate this is that if you are using a completely black background with a red "X" in the middle, when cropping, position the "X" in about the top 1/3rd of the crop box...it will then be "centered" when you view the desktop wallpaper. Quickpics tends to not resize it like other apps do. Similar app is Wallaby (but it's finicky sometimes, depending on the image used.
The reason our "phones" resize and crop the images it to allow for better viewing in portrait mode...simple as that.
Ok so I have been searching around the forum for this for a while, and no precise answer presented itself. So I decided to just ask the question. HOW DO YOU FIX THE WALLPAPERS!?!?!?! They zoom in and get all buggy. I know you can use Mulltipicture live wallpaper but I think that drains the battery. I'm running BoS a4.0 if that matters.
quickpic wallpaper app works pretty good for me. The correct size, theoretically, is 1024X600. The reason it's cropped and resized is so that the system can translate it to portrait AND landscape modes, depending on the perspective.
Quickpic works the same way as loading from Gallery, but for some reason, doesn't resize as drastically. Just remember, that the center of the "crop" portion is slightly off center vertically...when cropping, position the portion of the image that you want "centered" in the top 1/3rd of the crop square.
While TJEvans is correct you can also choose a picture you want and crop it so the resolution is 1024x1024 (1024x600 is the original but if you crop a picture for that resolution and then turn your tablet in portrait mode it will not cover the screen)
I found the solution to this issue. Presently I'm using Flashback HC. It took me a couple of hours of downloading multiple apps and testing them and found that 'MultiPicture Live Wallpaper' is the key to getting the best results. Here's how...
Download MultiPicture Live Wallpaper from the market
Take a proportionate picture size of 1600x1200 or larger. Resize it to 1600x900 in Photoshop
Load the pictures onto your g-Tablet
Choose MultiPicture Live Wallpaper from the live wallpaper section.
Add individual settings from 6-10 as 6 being the left most screen and 10 being the right most screen.
Go into each individual settings and choose one of your 1600x900 pictures
Go to 'Crop/Resize Ratio' and select 'Fit to Fullscreen'
Hit back either once or twice depending on where your coming from and 'Set Wallpaper'
Viola! your picture in it's full glory. May be a little cropping but almost unnoticeable. Compared to original picture looks identical.
Cheers...
Wallpaper wizardrii fro mkt will fix your problems.
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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Acvice said:
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.
If I have the default scrollable wallpaper setting from android, If i set a 2560x1600 image as my background, then I can not set it without it zooming and blurring correct? I have tried the auto cropping wallpaper apps with no luck, as in I got it to fit on one screen but when i scroll to other desktops it is just white. Can someone fill me in on my stupidity , since there are 5 screens or whatever, does that mean i need an image 5 times the size of 2560x1600?!!!!
Example --> http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/D47cd523/03134_firstlightofwinter_2560x1600.jpg
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If I have the default scrollable wallpaper setting from android, If i set a 2560x1600 image as my background, then I can not set it without it zooming and blurring correct? I have tried the auto cropping wallpaper apps with no luck, as in I got it to fit on one screen but when i scroll to other desktops it is just white. Can someone fill me in on my stupidity , since there are 5 screens or whatever, does that mean i need an image 5 times the size of 2560x1600?!!!!
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As far as I know, I think the size would be (5 x 2560) x 1600 to make it fit perfectly to screen. The alternative would probably using the app MultiPicture Live Wallpaper to make it fit your display.
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waltthizzney said:
If I have the default scrollable wallpaper setting from android, If i set a 2560x1600 image as my background, then I can not set it without it zooming and blurring correct? I have tried the auto cropping wallpaper apps with no luck, as in I got it to fit on one screen but when i scroll to other desktops it is just white. Can someone fill me in on my stupidity , since there are 5 screens or whatever, does that mean i need an image 5 times the size of 2560x1600?!!!!
Example --> http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/D47cd523/03134_firstlightofwinter_2560x1600.jpg
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There are several discussions on this already, check out the themes and apps section as well as do a little search ...
waltthizzney said:
If I have the default scrollable wallpaper setting from android, If i set a 2560x1600 image as my background, then I can not set it without it zooming and blurring correct? I have tried the auto cropping wallpaper apps with no luck, as in I got it to fit on one screen but when i scroll to other desktops it is just white. Can someone fill me in on my stupidity , since there are 5 screens or whatever, does that mean i need an image 5 times the size of 2560x1600?!!!!
Example --> http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/D47cd523/03134_firstlightofwinter_2560x1600.jpg
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I download the 2560 x 1600 papers from IFL. Then I use an app called Simple Image Wallpaper. It works wonderfully and even has an option to change to a different image when rotated. :good: