I upgraded to Froyo yesterday and was sad to see that the native wallpaper selector for the streak was gone. You now have to crop your image and lose some of it in landscape mode. I happen to fool around with a couple of apps and have found a solution. You need to have ADW Launcher and WallSwitch, both available in the market for free. In ADW Launcher you can choose how the screen display is used. Check the function to disable wallpaper scrolling between screens, this will keep the image centered when you scroll left or right. That's pretty much it for that app. Next, in WallSwitch, make sure your settings are set to auto for Processing Method. That's it!! You can choose to have your wallpapers change automatically, and at different intervals if you like, just an added bonus if you like to have something different displayed frequently, or just turn off auto-switch to keep the same image all of the time.
oh! I almost forgot... very important... in order for your image to show up full screen with these settings, you need to have your image file resolution set at 800x378. I know it sounds weird, but after much fiddling, I have found that it is the perfect size so the app will auto crop and make the image full screen.
Hope this is of help to anyone who would like to try it.
actually 960X800 is the size I use and it fits perfectly....
cue_32 said:
actually 960X800 is the size I use and it fits perfectly....
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here's a couple I use
mine
How are you getting it to go full screen using the stock selector? I can only select a portion of the picture?
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I think I've figured this out, the stock selector selects images that are 960x800 (well of that ratio anyways) but when in landscape mode, you only see the top half of the image, thats because the stock selector is catering for both landscape and portrait, so if you turn your phone to portrait mode, then you'll see the whole picture (plus swiping to the sides).
While it is in landscape mode, it is only displaying an image that is 960x480 (if using an image that is 960x800), so if you create a wallpaper that is 960x800, but then have the main image of what you want in the top of the image that is about 960x480, then when on the phone, you select the whole image, you have the main part of the image appear in full in landscape mode.
Example, see the image attached, the area in the box and above the coloured line is what will appear on the phone in landscape mode....however when you turn it in portrait mode, for this picture, you have a white strip across the bottom. Hope this helps people.
The question is, is there anyway of getting the UI to show the bottom half of the image instead of the top? (Using Launcher Pro Plus)
I have more decent images with something that is along the bottom that I do that is along the top if you know what I mean.
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Thought I'd share my current wallpaper, managed to find these two images that has most detail along the top half of the image (bar the Aston, I had to mod it slightly ). Again, these are 960x800 images but I've made sure that the main part of the image is within the 960x480 of the image. Oh and for some reason, when the phone is locked or in the clock dock mode, the wallpaper shifts to the middle of the image too, proper weird!
Download JustPictures app from the market, it lets you set the wallpaper without any cropping, i am official froyo and its working perfect and so far I am able to set any picture as my full screen wallpaper, hope that helps....
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umair239 said:
Download JustPictures app from the market, it lets you set the wallpaper without any cropping, i am official froyo and its working perfect and so far I am able to set any picture as my full screen wallpaper, hope that helps....
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Just tried this app and I'm still stuck with the square crop box, is there anything in particular you are doing to change this? I find the picture I want, press the menu button, then choose "use picture as..." then "set as wallpaper" and then I have a crop box appear.
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Just tried this app and I'm still stuck with the square crop box, is there anything in particular you are doing to change this? I find the picture I want, press the menu button, then choose "use picture as..." then "set as wallpaper" and then I have a crop box appear.
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Getting the same thing, it still crops it.
Very nice download! Thanks for sharing!
My device randomly changes the wallpaper crop selection from the tall rectangle like I want and the short fat rectangle like I don't want. I am using ADW EX and running viperROM. After reboots or even after just pressing home the wallpaper will go from the tall rectangle crap to the short fat rectangle crop. Sometimes it fixes itself after a few seconds and sometimes now. It just happened a few minutes ago and now the crop selection for the wallpaper is short and fat when it used to be tall rectangle.
Why does it randomly change back and forth? I am runnning ADW EX and it randomly switches crop boxes both when I have Sense and it's features frozen and when i have them present. it is currently staying in the short fat box, even after reboot and whatnot.
So I was effing with it a lot and I unfroze Sense, again, and launched sense and could get the tall rectangle when from the home screen I hit menu, wallpaper, gallery, folder, picture, then crop came up in the tall rectangle.
Also with Sense launched, if I went to Gallery, folder, picture, menu, set as, wallpaper, the short fat crop box came up.
wtf is this?
Lol idk its odd I've been messigg with this too, not as much as you have tho, I didn't think it was that big of a deal, prolly has something to do with adw, as when I moved on to cleanrom 2.9.5 I've never seen the short fat one again LOL
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I don't like the appearance of the default zoom buttons. They've opaque little tic-tacs that are hard to press and often obscure elements on the bottom right of the screen.
Does anyone know where to find the images for the zoom buttons? Is it in the SystemUI.apk? I have no problem unzipping and messing with it, but I just need some direction as to where they are.
If anyone is curious, I mm trying to get the transparent circle zoom buttons with thin black outlines from a ROM I used when froyo came out (Bionix for the Samsung Vibrant).
I removed all home screen pages on my S2 as you can see in the pic. The problem is, how do i get rid of the one white dot in the bottom of my home screen? It ruins my backgrounds and just irritates me.
Just stick a small piece of black insulation tape over it, or paint it with a permanent marker.
Now seriously i think it's not possible without modding.
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sinditdomo808 said:
I removed all home screen pages on my S2 as you can see in the pic. The problem is, how do i get rid of the one white dot in the bottom of my home screen? It ruins my backgrounds and just irritates me.
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Well that's an easy one. Just replace your launcher for something like Apex launcher (my fave). Search the play store for it and you won't look back because you can customise all those sorts of details
More a work around.
tired of it stretching my wallpaper. so the idea hit me. give it some dead space to stretch so the end result is "unstretched" effectively.
first I made my desired wallpaper 1920 pixels tall the same as the screen.
I then started adding "padding" turns out 240pixels top and bottom is what you need.
canvas the height by 240pixels (so you end up with letter boxing 240 on both top and bottom) and when you set the crop on android (encompasing the padding) the end result is the proper wallpaper unstretched
do NOT do this for the lock screen as it properly displays what you select without "blowing" it up.