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Here is a collection of wallpapers I have, resized to fit the Motorola Atrix. Have fun.
Wallpaper Collection : Download and Preview
Another one here. lol
Noob question inc. I want to make a few wallpapers for the community, can you tell me what resolution I should build them in? I see the images here are 640x569, but the aspect ratio on that doesn't sound right...
Related question, I got the idea from another post somewhere else, that one wallpaper could span all 7 home screens if made 1080x960. Is this true? I will test it, but thought someone else might already know.
You are correct sir. 1080x960 is the size. Thanks for telling me it resized the thumbnails. I will make a zip file and attach it to the first post when back at my main PC which includes the original files.
Some of my favs
Below are some of my favorites.
Hi all, wondering if anybody could help me!!
Google has turned up nothing so far so im gonna ask away!!
I am currently using nobodyatall's cm7 2.0 on my x10mini and am wondering where and how I can save pictures that I want as wallpapers.
Basically I don't want wallpapers to show up in my regular picture gallery, I want them only to show in the wallpaper gallery when i go to change wallpapers.
Is there a folder on the SD card or the internal memory, or is there a way I can open an APK in winrar or whatever and drop the pictures in there?
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There are two ways that I can think of for you to do this. First, just create a folder in your SD card labeled wallpapers (or whatever you want). Then place all your wallpapers there.
Easy way: Use QuickPics. It has an option to hide a folder from the gallery. Just long press on the folder and you'll find the option.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alensw.PicFolder
Still easy (just not automated):create an empty file in your wallpaper folder with filename ".nomedia" without the quotes. This will prevent the gallery from scanning that folder. This also works to prevent music files from showing in the player.
To change your wallpaper, if using QuickPic, just press your menu button > show hidden > enter the folder and click the picture > use as wallpaper. If you don't want to use QuickPic, use a file manager to go the wallpaper folder then select your picture from there.
Great sugestions, especially the hideden folder option, however what I'm looking for (I wasn't quite sure how to explain this properly before!!) is to be able to add images directly to the menu of wallpapers like when you long press the screen and it gives you options to change the wallpaper I get a list of options, cyanogen wallpapers, gallery, live wallpapers, wallpaper gallery and wallpapers.
I would like to be able to add wallpapers directly to one of these menus, so I'm looking for the folder in which they are all kept in. I found one in one of the internal apk's, but i'm not sure if I can just inject them into the apk and also whether i need to include thumbnail size png's as the ones included with cyanogen seem to have these to.
Thanks for a great comprehensive reply. If all fails, I'll be looking at the hidden folder option!!
Cheers!
That's a bit harder. Sounds like it shouldn't be but it actually is since you'll be modding an apk. Here are a couple of links to get you started if you're really interested in doing this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=646424
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2915198&postcount=4
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f4/wallpaper-directory-11685/
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That's a bit harder. Sounds like it shouldn't be but it actually is since you'll be modding an apk. Here are a couple of links to get you started if you're really interested in doing this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=646424
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2915198&postcount=4
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f4/wallpaper-directory-11685/
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Thanks man, some great info, the first post really hits the nail on the head, I didn't think of checking the other forums (duh me, it's all android!!)!!
So it looks like I will have to take out the launcher.apk and recompile it after editing the xml file that contains the details of the names of the wallpapers. I'm guessing this is some sort of framework xml for the purposes of creating the horizontal table that you can swipe across to view the previews of the pictures.
This makes sense I guess, loading a table reather than using up memory to load a gallery style viewer that indexes the pictures seems much more streamlined seeing that is only for the use of wallpapers, however I do like the wallpaper gallery style that the xml framewrok brings.
I guess I'm going take the newer(and some older) wallpapers from other cm roms and rename them over some of the exisitng files. This way I shouldn't have to delve too deeply!!!
Thanks again for the help and info leftAlone, you are a star!!!
I am sorry if this is a noobish question or there is an easy answer, but I was looking at customizing my phone a bit and I saw the part about making your own splash screens (which is awesome), but I was wondering how to make custom boot animations - what tools I would need, type of files, etc. I thought there would have been a thread somewhere in the Themes & Apps section but I could not find it, and doing Google search leads me to just people posting their own custom animations.
Is there a thread someone can direct me to that has this sort of information? Any help would be appreciated - thanks!
Bump - does anybody know? Also, the boot noise for the BAMF Sense 3.0 RC3 does not work, another reason why I want a new one, ha.
Have you opened one of the bootanimation.zips? What file types are in there?
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A PNG image and a series of JPG images that make the animation, but I was wondering if there was a program that took an animation to make it into a series of JPGs, or if there were certain requirements/specifics in terms of how to make a boot animation.
+1 on this whole post, I attemted last night to make my first animation, and if it is just the tedious task of re-saving the same picture over and over again with just minor changes on each one to create the animation, than ok, so be it.
It just seems that with some of the very cool animations there are, for example the boot animation to the new BAMF 3.0 has moving clouds in the background, that seems like it would be pretty hard to do manually moving the clouds a little bit for each frame.
It would seem pretty obvious to anyone that extracted the bootanimation.zip how the animation works, just more speaking on the creation of each of those frames.
Would be nice if someone with experience with this chimed on and offered some help.
Thank's in advance.
Does seem pretty tedious manually moving and saving them as you said but I'm guessing that's what they do.
Probably wouldn't take that long if you had everything on layers in photoshop and you could just move layers themselves.
Alternatively, if you already have a video, I'm sure there's a way to convert that to a series of png's as well.
Ok I'm on the phone so giving a tutorial is out of the question. All you really need is patience and a goal.
First download Gimp for editing. Forget PhotoShop all together unless your rich.
Download the following scripts or plugins.
Background overlay
Save all layers
GAP (video editor for Gimp)
Google the hell out of what you want. Chances are someone allready has done what you want.
Read, read, read (time to not be lazy, what ever your doing you can find some direction at least with some good internet research)
Google "editing Android boot animations".
Create images (JPG or PNG) in the same aspect ratio of 480x800.
JPG images will be significantly smaller in file size
PNG images will have a much better quality
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Use GAP to convert an existing video to images frame for frame.
Very useful if you find a good video.
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I actually do have Photoshop, do you know how I can use that instead of Gimp/GAP? Also, I am sort of confused at how you take an existing video and turn it into something you can use as a boot animation... I found this link (http://www.machackpc.com/how-to-changecreate-your-boot-animation-for-droid/) but I am sort of confused by it and wish I could find someplace with simpler instructions.
I just use others. I used the Call of Android animation and the mw2 style on my incredible, and I just edited the files to use the same ones on my thunderbolt.
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Ok, did a little research last night and today and tried a bunch of different programs for converting animations to a series of .png files and finally settled on one. I tried some free one's some trials and this is probably the best one I found so far.
Xilisoft Ultimate video converter. I was able to load an .avi, (or many other supported formats.) Program made it very easy using the "clip" feature to select out a section of the video I wanted, then converted that "clip" to a series of .png files. I was able to easily select the length of times between the extracted images "less time will obviously give you a smoother animation but require more pictures", also I could manually input the size of the outputted files (to match our phone's resolution).
I have only played with it a little bit but so far seems to be pretty good.
Also I have one other program I have been playing with to help with this. Jasc animation studio, which works with paint shop pro, has a pretty cool feature, which lets you copy into the clipboard all of your extracted image .png's, then "paste" them into animation studio as a new animation, you can then watch them from there, or load any indivual frame into paint shop pro. You can also save the clips as an animated gif. Very easy to make changes to individual frames and see the result's without having to flash to your phone.
Hope this helps.
Wow! Awesome, thanks, this is perfect and in great detail - what about sound? If the video has sound, will I try hope it gets synced with the series of .png images? And what else would I need for the bootanimation.zip folder? Will I need a .txt like when I change the splash screens?
I made some Note wallpapers and just thought I'd share with everyone.These images are not my works,I altered images I found on the great and powerful Google.I use Wallpaper Wizardrii to set them so they don't have to be cropped or anything fancy.Enjoy
*edit* fixed the one wallpaper
Nice but the first wp has a tiny line on the left side. Might wanna fix that.
-Once you go NOTE, you'd say 4 inches a Joke
[Lady]: "How do you carry that huge phone in your pocket?"
[Note User]: "I'm used to having huge stuff in my pants"
Thanks. Make some more with blue and white, and an android, would be cool!
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technut said:
I made some Note wallpapers and just thought I'd share with everyone.These images are not my works,I altered images I found on the great and powerful Google.I use Wallpaper Wizardrii to set them so they don't have to be cropped or anything fancy.Enjoy
*edit* fixed the one wallpaper
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I'm not trying to rain on your day but just wanted to offer some ideas about making things fit on your Note proper. While Wallpaper Wizardii works, it doesn't work optimally (all the time) and tends to stretch and pull pixels causing the wallpaper to look distorted and funky IMHO. That said. The proper resolution for the Note should be
-1600x1280 for scrollable wallpapers
-800x1280 for fixed wallpapers
my advice is to use GIMP or Photoshop to adjust your wallpapers for proper fit. I also advise NEVER to use a wallpaper that is smaller than 800x1280 because blowing a wallpaper up just looks horrid.
Always find something that is larger than your target size....so bigger than 1600x1280 or bigger than 800x1280.
step by step
1. Save the wallpaper you want to resize to your computer
2. Open GIMP and create a new file (800x1280 or 1600x1280)
3. Open the wallpaper you want to resize
4. Adjust the size of the wallpaper that needs to be resized (most of the time you will not get a perfect size for example you may have a 2000x2000 pic you must resize to 1600x1600 otherwise it will be funked up, don't try resizing to Note dimensions).
5. Once it's resized COPY it and go to your new file and paste as new layer.
6. Use the alignment tool to align vertical and horizontal
7. You're done unless you want to add text or something else.
8. Save as a .jpg and send it to yourself, or save in dropbox or whatever.
Anyway, that's just a short bit of advice.....again, not trying to be a **** just giving advice as I have been doing walls for awhile now.
Good luck! :good:
Mortem
Mortem Tuam said:
I'm not trying to rain on your day but just wanted to offer some ideas about making things fit on your Note proper. While Wallpaper Wizardii works, it doesn't work optimally (all the time) and tends to stretch and pull pixels causing the wallpaper to look distorted and funky IMHO. That said. The proper resolution for the Note should be
-1600x1280 for scrollable wallpapers
-800x1280 for fixed wallpapers
my advice is to use GIMP or Photoshop to adjust your wallpapers for proper fit. I also advise NEVER to use a wallpaper that is smaller than 800x1280 because blowing a wallpaper up just looks horrid.
Always find something that is larger than your target size....so bigger than 1600x1280 or bigger than 800x1280.
step by step
1. Save the wallpaper you want to resize to your computer
2. Open GIMP and create a new file (800x1280 or 1600x1280)
3. Open the wallpaper you want to resize
4. Adjust the size of the wallpaper that needs to be resized (most of the time you will not get a perfect size for example you may have a 2000x2000 pic you must resize to 1600x1600 otherwise it will be funked up, don't try resizing to Note dimensions).
5. Once it's resized COPY it and go to your new file and paste as new layer.
6. Use the alignment tool to align vertical and horizontal
7. You're done unless you want to add text or something else.
8. Save as a .jpg and send it to yourself, or save in dropbox or whatever.
Anyway, that's just a short bit of advice.....again, not trying to be a **** just giving advice as I have been doing walls for awhile now.
Good luck! :good:
Mortem
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Oh no problem at all bro , I started using wizardii because the default wallpaper chooser on the note always wants to crop pics(even original note wallpapers)when you choose them.I appreciate the info and maybe this weekend I'll have another go at it.I used to have GIMP,I will re-download it and try it as my tool(I was in ms paint doing those lol) because I don't have photoshop and honestly I tried photoshop once upon a time and it was extremely confusing for me to try to figure it out.Thanks for the help,I really appreciate it.
no problem.....I'm here to help. And Photoshop is not all hard, GIMP is not hard either, especially if all you're doing is a resize or fit. Making your own stuff gets into a higher learning curve.
anyone is free to hit me up if they have questions, always willing to help.....just don't get mad if I don't answer straight away....I do have a RL with a wife and 4 kids in it so I sometimes get doing other things. LOL
Would love to see a slimbean wallpaper with some blue in it.
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borijess said:
Would love to see a slimbean wallpaper with some blue in it.
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Hey borijess, here's a slimbeam wall straight from the slimbean rom thread (it was in the first post) it has some blue and looks pretty sweet. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6175502/SlimBeanWall.png
Here's a couple more blue/black themed I just found that come from zedge http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=30360928&postcount=4295
First thread, Yay!
I wanted to share with you a Theme for TWRP based on my new image from deviant art called Impact.
I am giving a lot of credit to JWhetstone02 as I mainly started from his theme and slowly but surely replaced as many icons as I could and changed the layout of some items.
If I could get some feedback, I would love to continue making these for every new image I come out with.
Instructions:
Open the TWRP folder and create a new folder called "theme" without quotes
rename the downloaded Impact-ui.zip to "ui.zip" and copy it to the theme folder
Restart into TWRP 2.4.1.0 and go to "Advanced>Reload Theme"
Enjoy!
Please notify me of anything wrong, I have only tested this on my DNA
I have also found the easiest way for me to test this every time I made a change was make a new ui.zip in my root folder and execute
"adb push C:\root\ui.zip /data/media/TWRP/theme/ui.zip"
Impact Alpha Theme is linked below, here are some mirrors:
Mirror 1:
http://d-h.st/cBx
Mirror 2:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ksrn6z8z0rjf75r/Impact-ui.zip
Added all the icons in the image:
http://i.imgur.com/vwLAnHV.jpg
Impact 1080p wallpaper:
http://i.imgur.com/QcHvC4c.jpg
impact theme on htc explorer
boushidosan said:
First thread, Yay!
I wanted to share with you a Theme for TWRP based on my new image from deviant art called Impact.
I am giving a lot of credit to JWhetstone02 as I mainly started from his theme and slowly but surely replaced as many icons as I could and changed the layout of some items.
If I could get some feedback, I would love to continue making these for every new image I come out with.
Instructions:
Open the TWRP folder and create a new folder called "theme" without quotes
rename the downloaded Impact-ui.zip to "ui.zip" and copy it to the theme folder
Restart into TWRP 2.4.1.0 and go to "Advanced>Reload Theme"
Enjoy!
Please notify me of anything wrong, I have only tested this on my DNA
I have also found the easiest way for me to test this every time I made a change was make a new ui.zip in my root folder and execute
"adb push C:\root\ui.zip /data/media/TWRP/theme/ui.zip"
Impact Alpha Theme is linked below, here are some mirrors:
Mirror 1:
http://d-h.st/cBx
Mirror 2:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ksrn6z8z0rjf75r/Impact-ui.zip
Added all the icons in the image:
http://i.imgur.com/vwLAnHV.jpg
Impact 1080p wallpaper:
http://i.imgur.com/QcHvC4c.jpg
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hi... this theme not working on explorer. device hangs after twrp logo. no icons appear...just the wallpaper appears.
twrp 2.3.3.0
vaib said:
hi... this theme not working on explorer. device hangs after twrp logo. no icons appear...just the wallpaper appears.
twrp 2.3.3.0
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These themes are resized for devices (HTC DNA) that have a screen resolution of 1080 x 1920
Your device, HTC Explorer only has a screen resolution of 320 x 480
This theme will not fit your device. hence why you only see the wallpaper, well probably part of it
JWhetstone02 said:
These themes are resized for devices (HTC DNA) that have a screen resolution of 1080 x 1920
Your device, HTC Explorer only has a screen resolution of 320 x 480
This theme will not fit your device. hence why you only see the wallpaper, well probably part of it
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ok... the theme however seems to be awsome. wish I could resize it for explorer but I don't have proper resources for that.
I am sorry that I don't have a theme formatted for your resolution, I'm sure I could cook something up for that resolution if more people were interested.
Theming this isnt hard but to get everything right requires going through that 4000 line xml document :S
I wish more people would tell me if this looks good on their DNA lol
Looks nice mate. Thank you, I appreciate it
keep up the good work! It's not that bad once you get with it
If you get the time and can be bothered, would you consider making the same one but having the buttons all about double the size and with no planet template behind them all. Theme is gorgeous it would just be nice to mix it up some days
uppon2 said:
If you get the time and can be bothered, would you consider making the same one but having the buttons all about double the size and with no planet template behind them all. Theme is gorgeous it would just be nice to mix it up some days
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Yes I'll upload some sample screenshots to see exactly what you mean to make it easier