I'm trying to use my own pictures as Today screen image
ISSUE 1: I've no idea why, but the images i download from here for wallpapers fit perfectly into WM6.5. Images i use that used to also fit perfectly in 6.1 are now tiled, the bottom task bar is showing the top of the same image instead. Just that small problem.
ISSUE 2: Images i use are tiled in landscape, any way to stretch it? I tried using Theme Maker X but that program has the same issue, only one image for Portrait and Landscape, hence Landscape is tiled. Weirdly i cannot place a different image for landscape in that program , i thought i could edit and resize it.
Any work arounds?
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images should be 640x640 to work best and eliminate tiled problem
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Did a search and found nothing. Was wondering if anyone else had a similar problem.
When I slide my keyboard open and it goes in portrait, the wallpaper is tiled and no longer stretches out a large image like it used to. Is there anyway to fix this problem?
can someone help por favor?
try changing the theme then set it back to first one
duke911 said:
try changing the theme then set it back to first one
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yes i remember i had a problem with this as well... and i remember swapingt the theme fixed the problem.
but i have always thought, would it be possible to use animated backgrounds?
do you mean changing the theme in the today menu? Cause that's not doing it either. It has only been doing this after I did a hard resete and didn't let the phone load all of AT&Ts stuff.
PLease help. I switched my theme between all of them and none fixed the wallpaper going into tile when I slide for the keyboard. It's still tiled
SlimJ87D said:
wallpaper going into tile when I slide for the keyboard. It's still tiled
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Doesn't this mean the wallpaper being used is not sized for landscape?
sahoopes said:
Doesn't this mean the wallpaper being used is not sized for landscape?
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No, my tilt used to zoom in on the picture. I have an image of captain america and then when I used to slide it open it used to zoom in on the top portion of his body.
SlimJ87D said:
No, my tilt used to zoom in on the picture. I have an image of captain america and then when I used to slide it open it used to zoom in on the top portion of his body.
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I can't say that I've ever actually seen wallpaper tile on WM5 or 6. I've seen poorly made themes that when switched to landscape create a border on the left and right of the wallpaper. All of the standard themes included with WM6 seem to work fine in portrait and landscape for me. Maybe we could get an attachment of the particular wallpaper causing the problem?
sahoopes said:
I can't say that I've ever actually seen wallpaper tile on WM5 or 6. I've seen poorly made themes that when switched to landscape create a border on the left and right of the wallpaper. All of the standard themes included with WM6 seem to work fine in portrait and landscape for me. Maybe we could get an attachment of the particular wallpaper causing the problem?
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Yeah, i'm starting to believe that the problem is an app that ATT installed. Cause this time when I hard reset, I didn't let the bloatcrap stuff from ATT install. And I only have the problem now. Either that, or it's the new ROM that ATT put out that is doing it, which I doubt.
But you're right, the Themed backgrounds don't have problems in portrait, only my pictures I set as backgrounds do. But note that I didn't have this problem before.
Are there any CAB fixes for this? Does anyone even know what the problem is?
Try this:
Your Today wallpaper is stwater_240_320.jpg (portrait) and stwater_320_240.jpg (landscape). They are found in the windows directory. Use an image editor to edit the images how you want them to look, and then replace them. I have to copy them to my device, then overwrite them on the device as copying them from ActiveSync doesn't seem to work.
You may need to define your today wallpaper manually before those files will show up.
can you elaborate on this more? I think there's a more simple fix to it from a CAB that is installed from ATT somewhere in the windows folder. Because like I said, this problem didn't occur before until I hard resete and didn't let any of the crap from ATT load.
My other speculation is that it may be the HTC home plug in.
i have the same problem
i have 2 formats of the picture i want to use
one in landscape and the other in portrait
but if i set one as the wallpaper how do i set the other format for when i open the keyboard up
well I have found a solution, but it's tedious without the ATT stuff that used to do it automatically.
First you slide your keyboard open, and then you set it as a wallpaper. Then it will ask you to select what part you want to be displayed in portrait. You can not open the picture and then slide the keyboard, it won't work.
1. SLide keyboard
2. select picture and then set as background.
Dear Xda Community,
i recently swichted from Hermes to Kaiser and I have one issue with my wallpaper. Its some kind of semi transparent and I dont know where I can change the setting to be not transparent ?
Greetings
fire
go in file explorer and open the file you want to use as your wallpaper
then go to options and click "set this as today wallpaper"
then on the next screen, click on the transparency % and reduce it to 0%
hope this helps
I had this same issue... But even after setting it to 0% transparency, it still looks goofy. The color still seems lighter, and it's very grainy. I made the image on my desktop and cropped it to 320x240. I can't figure out why it looks so bad. Any ideas?
Post it and let someone else try it.
I think my problem has to do with the image size. If I look at the image in the picture viewer, it looks great blown up to fit the screen. but it's also a different size.
When I set it as my today screen, I think it's squeezing it to fit between my task bar at the top and the menu bar at the bottom. So if I create a new image that is the right proportions for that area, would it look better? What is that area?
I'll try to get a screen shot up here in a bit.
Here's a side by side screen shot via myMobiler.
On the left is my today screen, on the right is the same image displayed in the image viewer. These are very good representations of the difference on the actual phone too. You can see what it is I don't like the best if you look at the gradient from the orange to yellow around her knees.
Is my problem just the format I used for the image? I just noticed I saved it originally as a .gif. probably would work better as a .jpg or bmp I assume
well, ok, so it doesn't show as much after I had to lower the quality to get it to upload... site contstrints made me drop the jpg quality down.
Yup, saved it as a .BMP and set it as the wallpaper. Looks way better now.
Hi,
I've been playing around transferring files onto my phone, but I just can't get my lock screen to look right.
1. Does anyone know what the exact dimensions of the lockscreen image should be? I read 320x480 somewhere, but this isn't correct. I've also tried 360x380, 340x480. Maybe it's 345x480? I want to get this right because...
2. Whenever I set an image onto the lock screen, the phone seems to compress the image really badly and I see loads of jpg artifacts on the parts that should be solid colour. I'm hoping that if the image is the right size, it won't convert/re-sample/re-compress the file.
Any ideas?
japher said:
1. Does anyone know what the exact dimensions of the lockscreen image should be?
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The stock ones are 320 x 455, and I've had good results using those dimensions for my own images.
Im sure i read that converting your image to a png and using that instead of the png file gave better results also. Not 100% on that though lol
.png gives better quality than jpg.
320x455 px is the right size. But everytime you set wallpaper, HTC software it re-compress as JPEG in tragical quality. PNG or JPEG, that makes no difference.
Will be nice software like Wallpaper Set & Save for lock screen wallpaper. But I can't find something like that.
carnero said:
320x455 px is the right size. But everytime you set wallpaper, HTC software it re-compress as JPEG in tragical quality.
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Not my experience. My own images are usually desktop 'papers resized and/or cropped to 320x455 and saved as JPEGs, and provided I ensure the green 'crop box' is expanded to encompass the entire image when selecting the lockscreen they look just as good as the originals.
I've tried many images. At most (as you) cropped or resized desktop wallpapers. I prepare the correct size and copy to phone. I keep JPEG at 90 to 100% of quality and also convert it to PNG. And every image was resampled during setting up as lock screen wallpaper. Everytime its quality goes rapidly down. Even I used exactly the same way like you.
It is not good visible on landscape wallpapers with. But on artifical images it's very big problem. It blurs every contrast line on image.
Try it on this image: http://anowia.deviantart.com/art/Light-Blaze-HD-Wallpaper-129153930 If you don't notice any resample after setting up as lock screen wallpaper, please provide screenshot.
carnero said:
Try it on this image: http://anowia.deviantart.com/art/Light-Blaze-HD-Wallpaper-129153930 If you don't notice any resample after setting up as lock screen wallpaper, please provide screenshot.
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Here you go.... see what you think. View attachment lockscreen.zip
Not perfect, but it was a rush job. Resized from 1280x1024 to ???x455, then cropped to 320x455. Saved as JPEG @ 100% for use. Photoshop Elements 7 used. If I had more time I'd probably play with the sharpening to compensate for the downsizing.
carnero said:
I've tried many images. At most (as you) cropped or resized desktop wallpapers. I prepare the correct size and copy to phone. I keep JPEG at 90 to 100% of quality and also convert it to PNG. And every image was resampled during setting up as lock screen wallpaper. Everytime its quality goes rapidly down. Even I used exactly the same way like you.
It is not good visible on landscape wallpapers with. But on artifical images it's very big problem. It blurs every contrast line on image.
Try it on this image: http://anowia.deviantart.com/art/Light-Blaze-HD-Wallpaper-129153930 If you don't notice any resample after setting up as lock screen wallpaper, please provide screenshot.
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Also having this issue with this image..
I have problems with all images. But on this it's good visible. And as Shluggity's screenshots shows, it's not only my problem. I think it's not good
I'm not sure what's going on but there's definitely some sort of degradation visible, a softening of the edges. I honestly haven't seen it in my own wallpapers, but I haven't used images like this with lots of thin sharp 'light beam' effects. Maybe original image res is a factor, maybe screen dpi, maybe something completely different... If I have time tomorrow I'll do some tests.
how does wallpaper set and save work? maybe the wallpaper directory is similar to the lockscreen directory?
Have you tried HeroLockWall? (Market)
lockscreen wallpaper help..
i have the same problem i cant get lockscreen wallpaper to work every time i try i get a tile wallpaper and not a stretch wallpaper that i want can sum body help me plz??
I need some help with GIMP. I have a landscape launcher png that I want to rotate but every time I rotate it the gray and black checkerd background stays up and down and I only see a little bit of the picture.
create a new image with the dimensions flipped and then move it
thanks for the reply. I'm actually not gonna do this anymore. I put the portrait launcher on my phone and it looks like poop so I have no reason to mod the landscape.
mods you can close this if you would like
mgorman said:
I need some help with GIMP. I have a landscape launcher png that I want to rotate but every time I rotate it the gray and black checkerd background stays up and down and I only see a little bit of the picture.
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After you rotate it using Layer > Transform > Rotate, you have to adjust the canvas to fit the layer with Image > Fit Canvas To Layers.
I have been using GIMP for years and am willing to help you if needed.
or for future reference, just go to image>transform>rotate and it will rotate the whole image and not just the layer
Hi to all.
I cant find a solution to my problem and maybe someone can help me.
I have found some wallpapers for our Note in the right resolution (800x1280) to use these in my lockscreen.
The problem is that when i choose a wallpaper with lot of black color and choose it as lockscreen wallpaper i can see some horizontal lines on it.
If i choose the same image as phone wallpaper everything is ok.
Where is the problem?
Thank you all.
I have the exact same issue. Horizontal lines on lock screen, but looks fine everywhere else. I don't have the solution, but maybe I can help you out a bit.
I did some searching, it turns out that there's some sort of software bug that doesn't allow black images to be truly black but rather very dark grey. The thread is somewhere in this forum.
Also the native lock screen resolution is actually smaller than the screen resolution because of the notification bar. Per this forum: http://androidforums.com/htc-hero/37268-lockscreen-resolution-compression-issues-false-info.html
Also when you set an image to be the lock screen, it seems the picture is re-scalled and saved again (in another directory), which means compressed again.
Android phones usually don't display images in 24 or 32 bit color but rather 16 bit color, which means color banding. More on that information somewhere in this thread also.
My suggestion is:
1. Find out the native lock screen resolution. I'm also searching for the figure.
2. Edit your photo, change it to that resolution, and make sure the black areas of that image are truly digitally black (000000), and save it as an uncompressed image.
Maybe the horizontal lines are because the image is being re-scalled, re compressed, and the image being displayed at 16 bit color with a "true black but" is resulting in horizontal lines.
The solution is this. I'm using it and black is perfect.
LordManhattan said:
The solution is this. I'm using it and black is perfect.
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Not bad idea at all...I have used widgetlocker in my previous phones but somehow i had some little problems like small lugs or battery draining.
I dont know if in the latest version is fixed.
But ill try cause i love black lockscreen in our huge super screen...
edit:Not working properly for me cause i have lower destiny...
Ah, what a shame! But WL does work, so if you ever go back to the stock density i highly recommend you using it.
Magick locker is free so you can test that, get a theme and customize wallpaper, set any black image and its fine. so its samsung lockscreen software bug
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