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Hi,
I'm fairly new to the Streak, although I've been playing around with android for a few months now.
I find all of the Stage UI widgets useless, but I do like the way the adjacent home screens "overlap" in landscape mode using Stage. It's the best way I've ever seen to keep the home screen distortion to a minimum when switching from landscape to portrait.
My problem is that the core 4x4 icon grid is stupid on a huge 5" screen like ours.
I'd love to run 4x5 or even 5x6.
I've tried several of the aftermarket home launchers like ADW and Launcher Pro, but I hate the resizing when switching to portrait mode.
I've also tried multicon on the stock Stage home launcher, but I'm not crazy about it either.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!
-Martin
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.
I'm not sure what triggers it, but my wallpaper will be full screen, then all of a sudden it'll just be a square in the middle, as in the sides get cut off, if I rotate it, it usually goes back to normal once it's horizontal again, but it randomly does this and it's driving me so crazy. It's rooted and I'm running Starburst... I've been searching for posts about this but I can't find anything, helpppp. SO annoying!
It doesn't seem to matter what launcher I'm using either.
Same problem for me... Any idea for fixing it ?
To be honest getting wallpaper set on this thing is way harder than it should be, I still haven't worked out a good way to do it. It just ends up cropped, or fugly, or both.
Way harder than it needs to be.
I can get a nice looking wallpaper cropped and everything, but when I'm doing things it randomly gets cut off and looks like crap.
insidli said:
I can get a nice looking wallpaper cropped and everything, but when I'm doing things it randomly gets cut off and looks like crap.
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Yeah I just saw the same thing happen.
So how does everyone get wallpaper to show up without it being cropped? Do you need to download WP larger than 1280x800 so that it can be cropped down to that, or is there an app that'll do it? I've tried several but none seem to work.
I have a thread here discussing how you correctly size a wallpaper to fit your tablet.
So far I've worked out how to do it for ADW Launcher, which selects wallpapers the same way it does for Android phones but I need to look a bit more into TouchWiz.
Other than that there are a number of apps that offer you more control over your wallpapers.Firstly there's MultiPicture Live Wallpaper which allows you to set different images on each page of your homescreen.
Secondly there's Wallpaper for Tablets which lets you set a different landscape and portrait wallpaper and will correctly display a 1280x800 image without cropping.
Last, there's Wallpaper Wizardrii but the controls are really poor and it doesn't offer you anything that one or other of the first two apps I linked-to can't do.
Hi all,
Is this new to Samsung? I had the Note 4 previously but it didn't have this issue where by when you set the wallpaper for both the lock screen and homescreen, the crop on the lock screen is exactly the dimension you have set but on the homescreen it is zoomed in.
avsquare said:
Hi all,
Is this new to Samsung? I had the Note 4 previously but it didn't have this issue where by when you set the wallpaper for both the lock screen and homescreen, the crop on the lock screen is exactly the dimension you have set but on the homescreen it is zoomed in.
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This is because the S6 detects small up and down motions when using the phone and moves the home screen wallpaper up and down to make it look like your view is changing. Fun little gimmick. Not sure what its effect is on battery life, but I've found no way to turn it off. But it does mean it has to crop the home wallpaper.
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This is because the S6 detects small up and down motions when using the phone and moves the home screen wallpaper up and down to make it look like your view is changing. Fun little gimmick. Not sure what its effect is on battery life, but I've found no way to turn it off. But it does mean it has to crop the home wallpaper.
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I've tried to tilt the phone to different angles but I see no movement of the wallpaper though, to me the phone just plainly auto-cropped the wallpaper on the homescreen for me.
It's pretty annoying at the moment
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I've tried to tilt the phone to different angles but I see no movement of the wallpaper though, to me the phone just plainly auto-cropped the wallpaper on the homescreen for me.
It's pretty annoying at the moment
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I've seen on here that some people's accelerators have malfunctioned. Does your screen rotate properly when it's supposed to? If not, it may be an accelerator issue.
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I've seen on here that some people's accelerators have malfunctioned. Does your screen rotate properly when it's supposed to? If not, it may be an accelerator issue.
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Hmm that's weird, I tested my phone apps and the accelerators are fine. Apps switched orientation as they are supposed to and snappy, but I still don't see any tilting of the wallpaper according to how I tilt the phone.
Not that I want this feature tho XD
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Hmm that's weird, I tested my phone apps and the accelerators are fine. Apps switched orientation as they are supposed to and snappy, but I still don't see any tilting of the wallpaper according to how I tilt the phone.
Not that I want this feature tho XD
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Interesting. I wonder if it's carrier-specific. I have Verizon, not sure if other carriers disabled this feature.
Glad your accelerometers work though! :good:
is there a solution to add wallpapers to the S6 without having them zoomed in??? this is really annoying!
I asked this once too, nobody even glanced on my post or tried to help, so I found the solution by myself, just get the app dodol wallpaper maker and try setting a wallpaper using that app, it doesnt crop or zoom anything, the way u set it is they way it will be set on the homescreen, believe me, I notice every little thing on my wallpapers, so naturally, I immediately saw that crop issue, I think it was after the latest big update. Anyway, just try the app.
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I asked this once too, nobody even glanced on my post or tried to help, so I found the solution by myself, just get the app dodol wallpaper maker and try setting a wallpaper using that app, it doesnt crop or zoom anything, the way u set it is they way it will be set on the homescreen, believe me, I notice every little thing on my wallpapers, so naturally, I immediately saw that crop issue, I think it was after the latest big update. Anyway, just try the app.
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Hmm thanks for the tip. But I am not satisfied with this. The app just sets an image as live wallpaper. So there is no zoom, but having a service in background that uses 80 MB ram just for a wallpaper is not nice...
But it seems there is no other solution.
You dont need the app to keep the wallpaper, the app itself creates a wallpaper in your Gallery, I think it is in an album under the name Crop, then u just set that wallpaper the normal way, it will not have a zoom, I've tried and it works, you only need that app for the wallpaper crop, it's good that the app saves the wallpapers so that you don't have to use it, try it and tell me if it works.
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You dont need the app to keep the wallpaper, the app itself creates a wallpaper in your Gallery, I think it is in an album under the name Crop, then u just set that wallpaper the normal way, it will not have a zoom, I've tried and it works, you only need that app for the wallpaper crop, it's good that the app saves the wallpapers so that you don't have to use it, try it and tell me if it works.
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I think we are talking about two different things. My wallpapers are already cropped to the resolution of the display. But when I set them as wallpaper, they are a little zoomed in. If I take the image from the "crop" dodol folder, and set as wallpaper, it will also have a little zoom...
When I set the same image to lock screen and home screen and unlock my phone, I always see the the home screen image is a little bigger - you dont have this problem???
btw, I am using nova launcher.
i have this problem http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s6/534236-why-my-samsung-s6-wallpaper-smaller-home-screen-then-lock-screen.html
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I think we are talking about two different things. My wallpapers are already cropped to the resolution of the display. But when I set them as wallpaper, they are a little zoomed in. If I take the image from the "crop" dodol folder, and set as wallpaper, it will also have a little zoom...
When I set the same image to lock screen and home screen and unlock my phone, I always see the the home screen image is a little bigger - you dont have this problem???
btw, I am using nova launcher.
i have this problem http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s6/534236-why-my-samsung-s6-wallpaper-smaller-home-screen-then-lock-screen.html
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I believe it's the same problem, I would put a wallpaper using TouchWiz, and a high quality image (after being cropped and looking good on the preview window) would become pixelated thus I imagine it was being zoomed in, otherwise without zoom I wouldn't be seeing those dots in the middle of my wallpaper, after using dodol to crop the picture and set that one again using TouchWiz there was no deterioration in my wallpaper. I don't think that the picture was the problem, every other picture had the same thing, It's like I lost quality in my pictures, and I intentionally get high quality images to have everything look crisp. I looked over at the webpage you posted, they are talking about the Parallax effect, but for me it made no difference if it was on or off. Maybe not all phones have the same fix, or as you said we may not have the same problem after all, one thing is for sure, Samsung while fixing one thing sometimes breaks another.
Hi guys, recently this has been bugging me a lot. No matter which launcher I use (Nova, Action, Trebuchet, Themer), or ROM (Scrubber, Resurrection, crDroid) I use, many apps look kind of fuzzy in app drawer, but they look crispy on home screen. Any idea why?? It makes the great screen on XZU look pixelated, kind of..
Thanks in advance!
That depends on:
- Icon resolution
- Icon size set in options
- DPI
If the icons are low-res and you increase their size from the settings, the only thing you're doing is stretching the icons, making them blurry if they're stretched beyond their resolution.
DPI can also mess things up, but it's normally low-res icons that are to blame. I also believe that Nova has some issues with blurry icons on some ROMs/devices. I'm also experiencing a couple of blurry icons, while others are not. I installed Action Launcher 3 again yesterday, and the icons were somewhat sharper there. Icons are still the sharpest looking with the stock launcher though.
I don't have a solution for you. This is simply something that people, including me, experience, and I'm not sure how to solve it. What I can tell you is that it's not a ROM issue, so you can stop flashing ROMs to trynsolving the issue.
Edit: Make a backup of your homescreen setup, uninstall and install Nova again. That should fix it. If you change the DPI again, uninstall and reinstall.
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That depends on:
- Icon resolution
- Icon size set in options
- DPI
If the icons are low-res and you increase their size from the settings, the only thing you're doing is stretching the icons, making them blurry if they're stretched beyond their resolution.
DPI can also mess things up, but it's normally low-res icons that are to blame. I also believe that Nova has some issues with blurry icons on some ROMs/devices. I'm also experiencing a couple of blurry icons, while others are not. I installed Action Launcher 3 again yesterday, and the icons were somewhat sharper there. Icons are still the sharpest looking with the stock launcher though.
I don't have a solution for you. This is simply something that people, including me, experience, and I'm not sure how to solve it. What I can tell you is that it's not a ROM issue, so you can stop flashing ROMs to trynsolving the issue.
Edit: Make a backup of your homescreen setup, uninstall and install Nova again. That should fix it. If you change the DPI again, uninstall and reinstall.
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Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately that method did not work. Icons in dock look fuzzy and app drawer ones too. I even tried not restoring my layout backup but still it was blurry when I increased the icon size to "normal". Without increasing icons look tiny. I have my dpi at 340. I tried 360 and 380 too and they were all fuzzy. When I increase my icons in nova I set it to 130-140 depending on the dpi.
Maybe it's just a bug in Nova??? But in Action launcher icons were overly big and they were even more blurry. On the other hand on Google now launcher, even when icons were huge, they were crisp. Ahh..
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Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately that method did not work. Icons in dock look fuzzy and app drawer ones too. I even tried not restoring my layout backup but still it was blurry when I increased the icon size to "normal". Without increasing icons look tiny. I have my dpi at 340. I tried 360 and 380 too and they were all fuzzy. When I increase my icons in nova I set it to 130-140 depending on the dpi.
Maybe it's just a bug in Nova??? But in Action launcher icons were overly big and they were even more blurry. On the other hand on Google now launcher, even when icons were huge, they were crisp. Ahh..
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Yup, it is a Nova issue, and there are a few "fixes" out there that doesn't seem to work for everyone. This has been an issue for a long time though, so I'm not sure if it'll ever get fixed. I'm currently using a very high DPI of 480, since it's easy to use the device one handed then, and the icons look... well, some look very sharp, while some others don't. In fact, I see now that the ClickUI icons are the ones that are fuzzy, while the icons from Moonshine and the stock icons are sharp, so it could, in my case, just be some icon pack issue.
Moonshine is XXX-HDPI or 192x192, but I can't find ClickUI's resolution, but I think that maybe it's 144x144, so naturally it won't scale as well as higher res icons when I make them bigger, and it ends up making them fuzzy.
Download some 192x192 icon packs (just search for "192x192 icons" or something on the Play Store), apply them and see if they're fuzzy. If they're not, problem solved. If they are, then I have no idea anymore :silly:
EDIT: Just installed Elun, which is 192x192, and they're all sharp.
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Yup, it is a Nova issue, and there are a few "fixes" out there that doesn't seem to work for everyone. This has been an issue for a long time though, so I'm not sure if it'll ever get fixed. I'm currently using a very high DPI of 480, since it's easy to use the device one handed then, and the icons look... well, some look very sharp, while some others don't. In fact, I see now that the ClickUI icons are the ones that are fuzzy, while the icons from Moonshine and the stock icons are sharp, so it could, in my case, just be some icon pack issue.
Moonshine is XXX-HDPI or 192x192, but I can't find ClickUI's resolution, but I think that maybe it's 144x144, so naturally it won't scale as well as higher res icons when I make them bigger, and it ends up making them fuzzy.
Download some 192x192 icon packs (just search for "192x192 icons" or something on the Play Store), apply them and see if they're fuzzy. If they're not, problem solved. If they are, then I have no idea anymore :silly:
EDIT: Just installed Elun, which is 192x192, and they're all sharp.
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Thanks. Actually, I just tried dpi of 480, and it seems to make icons sharper. Especially in Themer, icons look so much better, where with lower dpi, icons looked pixelated and ugly. Thanks a lot. You've been helpful.