Im sure this has been addressed before, but I just cant seem to find it.
I am currently running phiremod nook 6.3, whenever I attempt to set a wallpaper it makes me resize it in the gallery, it then looks awful, i only get a portion of the picture. Back when I was running stock you could just use the wallpaper setting built into nook color and it would display the whole picture. Any sugestions on how to get this effect with CM7?
wyliefox said:
Im sure this has been addressed before, but I just cant seem to find it.
I am currently running phiremod nook 6.3, whenever I attempt to set a wallpaper it makes me resize it in the gallery, it then looks awful, i only get a portion of the picture. Back when I was running stock you could just use the wallpaper setting built into nook color and it would display the whole picture. Any sugestions on how to get this effect with CM7?
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QuickPic (marketplace) works great to get the most out of your wallpaper in portrait mode. For landscape, Wallpaper Wizardrii (also marketplace) works ok. (It works for portrait mode too, it's just not my first choice.)
If anyone has other suggestions for landscape mode wallpaper, I'd love to hear them. WW has a couple of quirks that annoy me.
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I have been happily running CM 7.0.3 (with the default ADW launcher) for a month now and it was only now I thought about tempering with the wallpapers (hah !). Anyways, whenever I load a 1200 x 1024 wallpaper, it really zooms out in portrait and appears with two black stripes in the Landscape mode. Have gone through all kinds of solutions but to no avail namely:
- Apps like "Wallpaper set and save", Flickie etc. - all of them suffer with the same issue
- Restarted 5-6 times
- Saved the 1200 x 1024 .png files in EMMC / My Files / Wallpaper but doesn't help since CM7.0.3 doesn't have a "Home Launcher" or Settings > Home > Set Wallpaper or a direct Homescreen "Wallpaper Chooser" app like my Samsung Galaxy Pro for example.
Will be grateful if anybody can help me out - am also surprised I did not find this exact problem mentioned in the forums at all - I can't be that unique !
Thanks,
Ranjan
You can't just long press the home screen > Wallpapers > Select wallpaper from " " ?
Worked on every Android device I have owned, including my Nook Color. Perfect wallpaper size would be 600x1024.
Nburnes said:
You can't just long press the home screen > Wallpapers > Select wallpaper from " " ?
Worked on every Android device I have owned, including my Nook Color. Perfect wallpaper size would be 600x1024.
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No, CM7.0.3 doesn't give an option to "Select Wallpaper from"...Did you have a CM Nook color or stock-rooted one ? Wallpaper size I am sure of 1200x1024 works the best - have gone through multiple posts on this forum and others .
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No, CM7.0.3 doesn't give an option to "Select Wallpaper from"...Did you have a CM Nook color or stock-rooted one ? Wallpaper size I am sure of 1200x1024 works the best - have gone through multiple posts on this forum and others .
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Running CM7 nightlies. Have been since they were first released. Been setting wallpapers the same way for months now, even on regular android devices. It does give that option when you are holding down your finger on a blank spot on the home screen. It has too.
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Anyways, whenever I load a 1200 x 1024 wallpaper, it really zooms out in portrait and appears with two black stripes in the Landscape mode.
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That sounds like the behavior of the built-in gallery app. At some point when you set your wallpaper are you selecting Gallery? Or is Gallery the only picture viewer on your device?
QuickPic works a lot better for portrait mode, it lets you adjust the cropping. Iirc, it doesn't work well for landscape, because it puts in the black bars. Wallpaper Wizardrii is a little fiddly, but otherwise works well with both portrait and landscape.
This problem has been mentioned in the forums atleast once. I know because I asked it. lol No worries though its probably not tagged. Anyways like the poster above said Quick Pick does a much better job.
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Running CM7 nightlies. Have been since they were first released. Been setting wallpapers the same way for months now, even on regular android devices. It does give that option when you are holding down your finger on a blank spot on the home screen. It has too.
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Dunno why its missing on my device, it only gives me option to set "Cyanogenmod Wallpapers" / "Gallery" / "Live Wallpapers" - both Gallery and Cyanogenmod suffer from the issue I laid out above.
@akaCat, IFLATLINEI: Thanks for the help, doesnt help me though , want good landscape display. I think the issue is somehow the Wallpaper is not scrolling in portrait mode as well (it used to earlier), even though the option is enabled in the ADW launcher settings. Since it is not scrolling it is essentially showing a 1 portrait page image which it rotates in landscape and hence the black screen. I wish this could be resolved !!
Ok I'm going to bring this one back because the same is happining to me now. It worked before! Is there a definitive fix for this anywhere? I see a lot of pleas for help but no answer???????
I started using the free app in the market: Wallpaper Set & Save. Goes in at the correct aspect ratio and resolution (assuming your wallpaper file is correct ahead of time and saved in png format).
I recently bought the Moto Xoom and I love it. However, when I wanted to personalize it and change the wallpaper I discovered that it has only a very limited number of wallpapers to choose from. I tried to set an image as a wallpaper nd it would either get stretched or cropped and the end result would be plain ugly. So I tried to find a solution online and it be ame obvious that other Honeycomb tablet users also have the same problem. There were three solutions offerd:
Using Wallpaper Wizardii. This method worked somewhat but the wallpapers se by the app would stil lack clarity and the wallpaper would behave strangely when turning the screen.
Setting a wallpaper with Waterize. I haven't tried this method but saw people reporting the same issues as with the first method.
Lastly, some people suggested using the write size fir the downloaded images before setting them as a wallpaper. Turns out the correct image size for a wallpaper for a 1280x800 screen is 1920x1408. The you would set the image as wallpaper by stretching the crop area to include the entire image.
Well, I tried the last method and it also rendered to be far from ideal as once you try setting the wallpaper by stretching the crop area to the entire image, it would cut off the top of the image. I read other people could not set the wallpaper right either. I was desperate until I found the solution, which works perfectly. Here it is:
Follow method three but in PORTRAIT MODE. That is, download your 1920x1408 image, press the plus button on the top right of your home screen, choose Gallery, then stretch the crop area to include the whole image. Again, the key is for you to turn your device into PORTRAIT MODE while cropping.
Hope this helps.
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I recently bought the Moto Xoom and I love it. However, when I wanted to personalize it and change the wallpaper I discovered that it has only a very limited number of wallpapers to choose from. I tried to set an image as a wallpaper nd it would either get stretched or cropped and the end result would be plain ugly. So I tried to find a solution online and it be ame obvious that other Honeycomb tablet users also have the same problem. There were three solutions offerd:
Using Wallpaper Wizardii. This method worked somewhat but the wallpapers se by the app would stil lack clarity and the wallpaper would behave strangely when turning the screen.
Setting a wallpaper with Waterize. I haven't tried this method but saw people reporting the same issues as with the first method.
Lastly, some people suggested using the write size fir the downloaded images before setting them as a wallpaper. Turns out the correct image size for a wallpaper for a 1280x800 screen is 1920x1408. The you would set the image as wallpaper by stretching the crop area to include the entire image.
Well, I tried the last method and it also rendered to be far from ideal as once you try setting the wallpaper by stretching the crop area to the entire image, it would cut off the top of the image. I read other people could not set the wallpaper right either. I was desperate until I found the solution, which works perfectly. Here it is:
Follow method three but in PORTRAIT MODE. That is, download your 1920x1408 image, press the plus button on the top right of your home screen, choose Gallery, then stretch the crop area to include the whole image. Again, the key is for you to turn your device into PORTRAIT MODE while cropping.
Hope this helps.
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Good info! I have been meaning to make a little something like this, as I have been doing the same exact thing for a few months now on my 3G Xoom. Indeed, the end result is a real high def wallpaper without all that cropping nonsense. This should be something that can be done naively on Android. We want high def wallpapers, not a cropped up one. Maybe they will do that in the near future. ICS anyone? Hopefully.
For me, the best way to set a high def wallpaper without cropping has to be from MultiPicture Live Wallpaper.
tried multiple times and it still does not work... Any other suggestions?
Same here the above method did not work for me either. Also multi live wallpaper does work but it lags alot and drives me crazy.
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johnny0911 said:
Same here the above method did not work for me either. Also multi live wallpaper does work but it lags alot and drives me crazy.
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I get no lag, xoom or glacier, i only use one picture but it is full screen.
cool thanks for the info
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I get no lag, xoom or glacier, i only use one picture but it is full screen.
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Maybe lag is not the right word, when I use multi live wallpaper I use one pic, no transition, and auto memory. What drives me crazy is when I am switching screens either right or left it is jerky. If this is not happening to you could you share your settings? Maybe there is a issuewith my xoom. I am
Rooted running stock 3.2 3g rom and kernel . Thanks in advance.
Johnny
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johnny0911 said:
Maybe lag is not the right word, when I use multi live wallpaper I use one pic, no transition, and auto memory. What drives me crazy is when I am switching screens either right or left it is jerky. If this is not happening to you could you share your settings? Maybe there is a issuewith my xoom. I am
Rooted running stock 3.2 3g rom and kernel . Thanks in advance.
Johnny
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try disabling memory, thats helped before on a phone. But i have my album and a pic change ever 30sec, i use adw ex tho not honeycomb launcher. but there is not lag jerky anything. im OC to 1.6 on demand
I tried multiple live wallpaper & I like it.Using Adw launcher I have absolutely no lag...thanks!!
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Your third method while cropping the wallpaper in Portrait Mode worked perfectly for me! The other methods I had tried to no avail. I had to set up a company background logo for our tablets and android would force me to crop them and here I was wondering why it asked me to crop an image that was exactly the dimensions of the screen. Thank you!
Simple Image Wallpaper Free is an app that solved the problem for me ...
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ridgelineapps.simpleimagewallpaper
Hi all.
I am having issues setting a background. Wondering if i am just crazy or if there is an app i should be using.
Everytime i pick a pic to us as a background it goes in and i have to crop it. I select the part where i want it to crop to and then it does it but it then zooms in on the area and it looks wrong.
Also if i have a bigger pic. The galery displays it on the screen and i would love to use it zoomed out like it is but it is not possible. Is there way to fix this?
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jonkers71 said:
Hi all.
I am having issues setting a background. Wondering if i am just crazy or if there is an app i should be using.
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Here's what I do.
First get Flickie Wallpapers HD.
Open the pic with your favorite photo editing program.
Resize it to 1280x800. You may have to crop the pic to keep aspect ratio that's just part of it...
Save a copy to sd/HD Wallpapers.
Browse to it.
Choose to add it as Flickie wallpaper.
Enjoy your wallpaper.
There's probably a better way. I look forward to seeing it here.
Or use Wallpaper Wizardrii
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Or use Wallpaper Wizardrii
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This works, as a lot of posts mention. But there's an even better way without needing any other apps. I think I read this in the Transformer forum (might have been elsewhere, I can't recall exactly), but what you need to do is apply the wallpaper with the tablet in portrait orientation. Simple as that Still need to make sure you got a high-res image though. 1920x1408 is reported to be the native resolution for wallpapers.
I've recently flashed Tytung's Beta10 rom and when I set a wallpaper(HD) it appears as its good, but when I reboot the phone (Turn it off) it turns blurry or somewhat zoomed in.... is this an issue or am I doing something wrong? (More specif I used a nonscrollable HD pic from an app. ) Thanks in advance!
I had a similar issue with beta10, the wallpaper was not covering the whole screen. I just chose another one from the ones that came with ICS and this solved the problem. Try changing the wallpaper.
My thing is that I set a wallpaper, when I do it's perfect I crop it so the scroll thing wont bother me, but when I reboot, it blurrys...or it seems zoomed in as if the whole wallpaper was set -_-
I have the same issue... chose a wallpaper and always it zoomed in...
I can only see the left side of my car
I was glad to see that in KitKat they changed the wallpaper setter to simply set the wallpaper to full-screen without scrolling if you pick one that's the right resolution, e.g. 2560x1600. So you can see the entire picture, without using a separate app to set it. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn't even get this right. It sets fine initially, but after some time passes, the wallpaper randomly becomes zoomed in/cropped like it would have in the past. Setting it again fixes it, but only for awhile.
Does anyone have any insights into what's going on here?
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I was glad to see that in KitKat they changed the wallpaper setter to simply set the wallpaper to full-screen without scrolling if you pick one that's the right resolution, e.g. 2560x1600. So you can see the entire picture, without using a separate app to set it. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn't even get this right. It sets fine initially, but after some time passes, the wallpaper randomly becomes zoomed in/cropped like it would have in the past. Setting it again fixes it, but only for awhile.
Does anyone have any insights into what's going on here?
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I have the same problem on my wife's Moto X with 4.4. If you find a solution, please share it on here!