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noncropped wallpaper?

for the life of me I can't figure this out. I'm trying to set a wallpaper from one of the many ones I nabbed from mobile9, however no matter the image, I'm forced to use a cropping box to select the wallpaper which never selects the whole image.
Can you set an image noncropped as wallpaper on the Nexus One? It's silly to ask, but it's been bugging me and I can't find anything on it.

Have you tried using the wallpaper set & save app? I know it works on G1's, but I've yet to try it on a Nexus since mine is due to arrive later today.

Resize your images to 960x800.

I tried the app and same deal. batch resized them all with irfanview Some look kinda weird, but I guess it will have to do. thanks.

alienmonkey said:
for the life of me I can't figure this out. I'm trying to set a wallpaper from one of the many ones I nabbed from mobile9, however no matter the image, I'm forced to use a cropping box to select the wallpaper which never selects the whole image.
Can you set an image noncropped as wallpaper on the Nexus One? It's silly to ask, but it's been bugging me and I can't find anything on it.
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Sadly, there is no way, as far as I know... I tried several different approaches, from going to the pic in the gallery to several others.
The reason for the croping is that the box keeps the proportions right so it covers the entire homescreen... so if the photo is too wide it kinda sucks, to say the least.
IIRC, there is a program that does some good work, but I haven't checked into it much.

Are you sure about the always forced cropping?
When I select a picture in the gallery (for example taken with the camera), More, Set as , Wallpaper I also get a 'default crop' but if you touch the orange crop border you can enlarge it to use more of the picture (you may get some cropping vertically or horisontally if the proportions aren't correct).

bjornbb said:
Are you sure about the always forced cropping?
When I select a picture in the gallery (for example taken with the camera), More, Set as , Wallpaper I also get a 'default crop' but if you touch the orange crop border you can enlarge it to use more of the picture (you may get some cropping vertically or horisontally if the proportions aren't correct).
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That would still be croping the photo.

There is an app called Wallpaper Plus on the market that allows for a non-cropped image, and when it sets it the background becomes stationary. It's $1.99.
Although with my experience using the app, it still requires some cropping on images on the horizontal axis. But for images that are close up and you only want a vertical version it does not require cropping and fills the entire screen with a non-shifting image.

Wallpaper Set & Save. free and it does just want you want.

pjcforpres said:
That would still be croping the photo.
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Yes, but if your image is 960x800 then you can get the orange box to cover the whole image. Just tried it after having this problem my self. kind of hard to figure this out with no help looove xda

[Q] Dumb question about wallpaper dimensions

OK so I have a picture of a friend of mine that I would like to set as the wallpaper. I don't want it to scroll as I swipe from one homescreen to the next. I want a static image that remains the same. I've googled this for over an hour and I'm starting to think I'm retarded. I've even installed some Wallpaper Set and Save app and its not helping either.
Any suggestions for how to do this? You'd think it would be dead simple. I want the wallpaper to look exactly how it does when I view the picture in the Gallery app.
Thanks in advance.

When you select a photo as a wallpaper, it gives you an option to crop what sections of the photo you want seen. Set it as wallpaper, pinch to zoom the box to get the maximum amount of photo. Then hit Save or whatever.

LauncherPro and adw.launcher let you do that. It also lets you do some other handy things.
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I have Launcher Pro and the only option I see is "Disable wallpaper scrolling" which sounds like it would be great, but each time I choose an image it still gets cropped in the Gallery. Maybe I'm not seeing another option?

Go to the gallery.
Select the picture you want.
Hit Menu, More, Set as, Wallpaper.
It will come up with a box overlay. Touch the edge of the box and drag it out so that it expands to encompass the whole or the vast majority of the image.
Hit Save.
Now you will have the entire image set as your wallpaper.

That did not work for me. I have a wallpaper to the specific size, and it still makes me crop it no matter how I go about it.

Well yea, you are going to have to crop a TINY bit off the edges probably. Is it that big of a deal? The wallpaper would look like garbage if it tried to cram a weird aspect ratio picture into the Epic's aspect ratio screen. Faces would be squished or elongated. But only a TINY TINY amount of the photo gets cut off when you do what I said.

Why can't you set a whole picture as your wallpaper!?!

Has anyone noticed what happens when you try to set a wallpaper?? It only lets you use a portion of the picture, WTF. I went and got some wallpapers from the "show your homescreen" thread only to find out that I couldn't set them properly. Was it like this before 3.1? Also does anyone know a way around this problem??

Yea.. it is annoying.some say it is possible.
Tried and failed.

isjr said:
Has anyone noticed what happens when you try to set a wallpaper?? It only lets you use a portion of the picture, WTF. I went and got some wallpapers from the "show your homescreen" thread only to find out that I couldn't set them properly. Was it like this before 3.1? Also does anyone know a way around this problem??
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It *does* let you set the whole picture as your wallpaper -- it just doesn't show the entire wallpaper at once. That's by design, and for good reason.
Think about it for a second. When you rotate the tablet, you don't want your wallpaper sideways, so it has to rotate too. Unless the wallpaper gets stretched when it is rotated or has black bars at the edges (neither of which you would want), then there's no way around the fact that the tablet has to crop the wallpaper to fit it to the screen.
It's slightly complicated further by the fact that when you swipe between home pages, Android moves the "window" into the wallpaper slightly to give a sense of motion, thereby visually reinforcing the change between home pages. There's a setting to disable visual effects that *might* change that; I've not done so because I quite like it, so I can't say for sure whether it can be disabled.
It's easy-peasy to make good wallpapers for the TF, though. All you need to do is confirm the overall size, choose an image that works well for both landscape and portrait modes, and size it appropriately. (I don't remember the size offhand, but it's been mentioned in these forums before, so a search will find it.)

knoxploration said:
It *does* let you set the whole picture as your wallpaper -- it just doesn't show the entire wallpaper at once. That's by design, and for good reason.
Think about it for a second. When you rotate the tablet, you don't want your wallpaper sideways, so it has to rotate too. Unless the wallpaper gets stretched when it is rotated or has black bars at the edges (neither of which you would want), then there's no way around the fact that the tablet has to crop the wallpaper to fit it to the screen.
It's slightly complicated further by the fact that when you swipe between home pages, Android moves the "window" into the wallpaper slightly to give a sense of motion, thereby visually reinforcing the change between home pages. There's a setting to disable visual effects that *might* change that; I've not done so because I quite like it, so I can't say for sure whether it can be disabled.
It's easy-peasy to make good wallpapers for the TF, though. All you need to do is confirm the overall size, choose an image that works well for both landscape and portrait modes, and size it appropriately. (I don't remember the size offhand, but it's been mentioned in these forums before, so a search will find it.)
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I have used images with a high and low resolution but I keep getting the same results. The thread where I got some of them had the whole picture as the wallpaper not got the center. I will post some pics.

isjr said:
I have used images with a high and low resolution but I keep getting the same results. The thread where I got some of them had the whole picture as the wallpaper not got the center. I will post some pics.
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I have the same problem. I have tried it on the Xoom and the New Sammy 10.1 at the store...same thing. If your trying to use a picture from the gallery that you downloaded no matter the resolution it won't display the whole pic. To get a picture in the larger resolution I find one on the internet and long press and choose set as wallpaper. That's about the only way that works. I think it's a bug in Honeycomb..if it's not then its a poor way to do wallpaper from the gallery. I'm a photographer mostly for fun but it's not hard to see that it's only able to expand to a part of any resolution and then it is grainy looking because it's zoomed up too large on screen. I've even had it show the smaller crop as a smaller picture at the correct resolution on the screen with the black background around it...still not the whole picture. Sorry IMO ...BUG.

isjr said:
I have used images with a high and low resolution but I keep getting the same results. The thread where I got some of them had the whole picture as the wallpaper not got the center. I will post some pics.
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If you make it the right size, it *will* work. I know it will, because I made my own wallpaper and it fits perfectly.

If you set a picture as wallpaper using gallery it will ask you which part of the pic you want as the homescreen background and such. If you're thinking of stretching the picture, forget about it.
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knoxploration said:
If you make it the right size, it *will* work. I know it will, because I made my own wallpaper and it fits perfectly.
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Something is causing it and this isn't the only thread I've seen that people are having problems with it

Here is a example of what I'm talking about.. The first is the original pic. The second is a pic from another thread where you can see it set to full screen. The third is my attempt to set that pic to full screen.
This is the thread where I got the picture: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1050703&page=3

knoxploration said:
If you make it the right size, it *will* work. I know it will, because I made my own wallpaper and it fits perfectly.
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And if you would like to help by stating the resolution you use , methods of applying the wallpaper it would be great ...just saying

DilloDroid said:
And if you would like to help by stating the resolution you use , methods of applying the wallpaper it would be great ...just saying
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I have used like 10 different ones some that were like 1280 x 1000 to 2500 x 1500, or something like that.

I've tried all possible resolution of my pics and none fit the full screen without crop or loosing a quality.
But this works for me perfect
All u need is this app MultiPicture Live Wallpaper and its free
So how to ?
-long press on homescreen
-than go to Wallpaper->Live Wallpaper and select MultiPicture Live Wallpaper
-select Setting and set your folder with your wallpapers
Done
This app actually changing the wallpapers in particular time but u can also sett it to use only one picture if u don't like changing
There is a lot more settings what u can play with if u like
So enjoy

There are apps out there that allow you to use the full image.

thats what I mean
but not all apps works as it should or as u want it
ewitte said:
There are apps out there that allow you to use the full image.
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rikardo1979 said:
I've tried all possible resolution of my pics and none fit the full screen without crop or loosing a quality.
But this works for me perfect
All u need is this app MultiPicture Live Wallpaper and its free
So how to ?
-long press on homescreen
-than go to Wallpaper->Live Wallpaper and select MultiPicture Live Wallpaper
-select Setting and set your folder with your wallpapers
Done
This app actually changing the wallpapers in particular time but u can also sett it to use only one picture if u don't like changing
There is a lot more settings what u can play with if u like
So enjoy
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Awesome thanks. I hope with the next update Google or Asus will fix this.

ewitte said:
There are apps out there that allow you to use the full image.
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I have tried two apps HD Wallpapers and Tablet Wallpapers but they both still crop the center portion of the image.

what about the app what I've mentioned ? did that work for u ?
isjr said:
I have tried two apps HD Wallpapers and Tablet Wallpapers but they both still crop the center portion of the image.
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rikardo1979 said:
what about the app what I've mentioned ? did that work for u ?
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It works great.
I wonder if you can make a system folder that lets you add wallpapers to it so that they show up along side the stock wallpapers. I did this with notifications I made three folders on my SD card each inside of the next media/audio/notifications and that let me add sounds so that they showed up along side the stock ones. Another way would be to use the app Rings Extended.

isjr said:
Has anyone noticed what happens when you try to set a wallpaper?? It only lets you use a portion of the picture, WTF. I went and got some wallpapers from the "show your homescreen" thread only to find out that I couldn't set them properly. Was it like this before 3.1? Also does anyone know a way around this problem??
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Yeah, I load it into paint shop pro and increase the canvas to much larger. Ie, say the picture is 1280x800 i expand it to say 4000x4000 - then i can pick the area i want when cropping on the tablet

rikardo1979 said:
I've tried all possible resolution of my pics and none fit the full screen without crop or loosing a quality.
But this works for me perfect
All u need is this app MultiPicture Live Wallpaper and its free
So how to ?
-long press on homescreen
-than go to Wallpaper->Live Wallpaper and select MultiPicture Live Wallpaper
-select Setting and set your folder with your wallpapers
Done
This app actually changing the wallpapers in particular time but u can also sett it to use only one picture if u don't like changing
There is a lot more settings what u can play with if u like
So enjoy
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I'm using this too. However i noticed the latest version is abit laggy while switching the homescreen. Also when opening the app drawer, the background is black. I switched back to ver. 0.5.9.
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[Q] Wallpaper size / turning off panoramic wallpapers

I recently asked in the Themes and Apps forum about making wallpapers and was told that I should ask in this forum about the size to make a panoramic wallpaper, but I was also wondering if there's an option somewhere in android 2.2 to turn off panoramic wallpapers and even stop the cropping (i've made some wallapapers with the screen's size and it still crops)

I use Wallapaper Set and Save from the Market

Tried it and it didn't seem to want to work with my phone for some reason.

Sorry, i meant xda's android general forum =P. There are more modders there.
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As far as I know there is no option to turn off panoramic wallpaper in vanilla android. But in ADW Launcher there of course is this option. Google the needed size...I think I once did and found. But I'm not at home so I can't tell you right now.
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I google'd for the size and got lots of different pages with different sizes @[email protected]

Look for M2 on http://www.gsmarena.com
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I use Multi Picture Live Wallpaper to have different pictures on every screen. You can set a folder to rotate photos, or even a single picture on one screen... quite useful

It still wants me to crop the picture, even when I made an image at 25% of screen size on my PC. that's just annoying.

If you can use photoshop, you can do this:
Get the image you want as wallpaper, already trimmed, and paste it inside a square image with just a background color (preferably with a color from your image). When asked for cropping, crop the whole image and ask for no panoramic wallpaper. That should work for portrait mode. M2 screen resolution is 854x480. In order to get a perfect image, do this on a square image with dimensions bigger than 854
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it doesn't ask for cropping, it goes straight to cropping. but thank you for the advice, I originally did a photoshop image of 480x854

And all you need to do is create a folder called wallpapers in the root of SD card and install Wallpaper Set&Save.
Open the ap and press Set Wallpaper. It show the wallpaper from the catalogue you created above. You can scroll through them. Press Set Wallpaper when you see the one you want and it's done.
DO not say it dos not work for you, because it does work. I have been using this for a year and a half, first on my MS1 and now on MS2.

When I said it didn't work for me, what I meant was that it wouldn't run for some reason. I'll give it another shot (I reset my phone to factory settings after I screwed something up)

Background help

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

Matrix_2002 said:
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.