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Hi Guys,
I'm looking for a specific background for my hero.
I've downloaded the 'backgrounds' app from the market and also had a search via google with no luck.
Any idea where I can get a Tottenham Hotspur wallpaper from?
Or if not, how I can convert a picture to use as a wallpaper?
Thanks,
B

errm..
http://www.tottenhamhotspurs.tv/tottenham-pictures-5/
or even here

whats the background image resolution on the uk tmobile g2 ?
i.e. not the physical screen resolution, but the resolution of the image that is scrolled in the background of the default 7 touchflo (android home?) pages. i dont think its simply 7x width of screen, as it doesnt scroll as much as the foreground
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Check the HTC site and see if it lists the dpi (dot per inch / dot pitch) of the screen... but a 72 dpi image should be fine, or use a larger size than 640x480.
As long as its the same aspect ratio it will scale nicely when cropped.

Cheers joe!
I've found something decent, I was under the impression I needed a specific android wallpaper, but the image I found from one of your links seems to work fine!
Thanks...

http://g1wallz.com/
this site will be usefull there are enough wallpapers. i like this site

Any 640x480 jpeg image should be fine for a home screen background, anything larger can be cropped down when you set it

Wallpaper resolution determined by number of screens? Formula?

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Alright so the screen resolution for this device is 320x480, and the default android home features 3 screens. Wallpapers are stretched across all 3 screens..so you would think 3x the width with the same height. However, most information I find says that the correct wallpaper size would be 640x480.. which would only be 2x the size.
It's easy enough to just say double the width, but that only works for 3 screens(?). I'm interested in the formula here so I can determine the correct wallpaper size for 5 or 7 screens.
Is it the obvious +1/2 width for each additional screen? For instance:
320x480 resolution, 3 screens. 320+(320/2)+(320/2)= 640, 640x480
320x480 resolution, 5 screens. 320+(320/2)+(320/2)+(320/2)+(320/2)= 960, 960x480
400x854 resolution, 3 screens. 400+(400/2)+(400/2) = 800, 800x854
Am I on the money with this?

I dont think it actually adds anything to the size with more screens. I think it just divides it differently. I have used the same wallpaper with 3/4/5 screens and the pic is always the same.

You have to remember the wallpaper doesn't get stretch rather the space on top of the displayed area gets divided depending on how many home screens you have. In all the final wallpaper is still 640x480 but it overlaps in 3, 5, 7 etc places.
Just think of each of the 'screens' overlapping to understand how the homescreen works.

So then the proper wallpaper size for any Android device is 2x width x height? Or is it device specific.

Celeras said:
So then the proper wallpaper size for any Android device is 2x width x height? Or is it device specific.
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i think now with the Tattoo being available it depends on the device.

i think i would go with 'device-specific'. i'm curious what resolution builds like the pulse version uses.
it's rather apparent that the current 320x480 devices just use a shorter pan across a 640x480 image when the number of homescreens goes up. i suppose we could all just use larger wallpaper images, since android will crop oversized images to the appropriate resolution depending on what device it's on.

jayzusfk said:
i think i would go with 'device-specific'. i'm curious what resolution builds like the pulse version uses.
it's rather apparent that the current 320x480 devices just use a shorter pan across a 640x480 image when the number of homescreens goes up. i suppose we could all just use larger wallpaper images, since android will crop oversized images to the appropriate resolution depending on what device it's on.
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I read the Pulse uses a 2:3 ratio, it uses two rows of three screens after all. I read something like 512x768 works well.

As Prash said.
For the G1, wallpaper is 640x480. If you had 50 screens, it'd still be 640x480.
However, different devices have different screen resolutions.

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Celeras said:
Search came up blank, sorry if this is mentioned elsewhere.
Alright so the screen resolution for this device is 320x480, and the default android home features 3 screens. Wallpapers are stretched across all 3 screens..so you would think 3x the width with the same height. However, most information I find says that the correct wallpaper size would be 640x480.. which would only be 2x the size.
It's easy enough to just say double the width, but that only works for 3 screens(?). I'm interested in the formula here so I can determine the correct wallpaper size for 5 or 7 screens.
Is it the obvious +1/2 width for each additional screen? For instance:
320x480 resolution, 3 screens. 320+(320/2)+(320/2)= 640, 640x480
320x480 resolution, 5 screens. 320+(320/2)+(320/2)+(320/2)+(320/2)= 960, 960x480
400x854 resolution, 3 screens. 400+(400/2)+(400/2) = 800, 800x854
Am I on the money with this?
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Just take the original width and multiply it by the number of screens you have. No need to do this /2 crap. Makes no sense....regardless of what you read. Now...if you wanted to have say 5 screens with less wallpaper scrolling when you transition from screen to screen...then you could implement your division tables as stated in your original post. It really functions no different than a desktop with multiple monitors....other than the fact that you have one screen and wallpaper scrolling on the Android device.
EDIT:....I guess I have been working too many hours....totally forgot about the fact that you have to crop images when setting your wallpaper. That being said....stick with 640X480. I am gonna go punch myself in the face now.

Size of the background does not matter. The ssytems will scale it when you choose the wallpaper. Or you can manually select what you see in the gallery.
If you need the background to look a specific way then yes the size matters.
Since the system will stretch or shrink as needed.
Proportion is more important. 640x480, 1280x960, 800x600 They will all scale to the same appearance.
As for screens:
What changes is the amount of the background that shifts.
On 3 screens the left screen see 0-50 of the picture, the right sees 50-100 the center screen sees 25-75.
On 9 screens: These numbers are off because it actually takes like 6.22 or something but this is close.
screen 1 = 0-50
screen 2 = 6-56
screen 3 = 12-62
screen 4 = 18-68
screen 5 = 24-74
screen 6 = 30-80
screen 7 = 36-86
screen 9 = 42-92
screen 9 = 50-100

I would be impressed if someone can figure out a way to make each screen a different wallpaper. A single image would be fantastic but probably unlikely.

bubonik said:
I would be impressed if someone can figure out a way to make each screen a different wallpaper. A single image would be fantastic but probably unlikely.
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bump for this post. is it really possible to use a single wallpaper without stretching in all homescreens? becuase i want my son's picture as wallpaper but i dont the picture to be stretched. wallpaper plus can do this fine but it isnt compatible with eclair 2.0. any idea guys. regards

no1 wants non-scrollable wallpaper?

any1??
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+1 for non-scrollable wallpaper...better late than never?

Tommmii said:
+1 for non-scrollable wallpaper...better late than never?
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Launcher Pro has a stationary-wallpaper option.

Best place for tablet/gTab wallpapers?

Where can I get some high resolution gtab wallpapers? What resolution do I need?

It seems like you'll want 1024x1024 since the device can be rotated. I just did a Google Image search with 1024x1024 as the parameters and found all kinds of stuff. I just got my tablet yesterday but it seems like it's working well.

You should try my new "Bouncing Clock" Live Wallpaper that I just stuck on the market today!! I'm loving it on my G-Tab and Nexus One right now.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.kmiller.livewallpaper.bouncingclock&feature=search_result

ntnunk said:
It seems like you'll want 1024x1024 since the device can be rotated. I just did a Google Image search with 1024x1024 as the parameters and found all kinds of stuff. I just got my tablet yesterday but it seems like it's working well.
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Best advice right here.
If you find they look blurry on your GTab, search the market for an app called "Wallaby".
Also Solar Wind and 3D Starfield are downright purdy live wallpapers that run smooth as silk on the Gtab.

Radon_22 said:
If you find they look blurry on your GTab, search the market for an app called "Wallaby".
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Good advice on Wallaby! I just grabbed it tried a couple of wallpapers and it definitely helps.

Ok, I am beyond frustrated. I am rooted w/Vegan and had zero issues doing that...but getting a wallpaper to actually look like it is suppossed to on my g tab...well that is a completly diffeerent story. I have tried the 1024 x 1024 as well as the 1024 x 600 options. But everytime I find an image I like from google, open it, hold down to bring up the dialogue box to "set as wallpaper" it takes the image and blows it up! It never looks like the image I found from google. I have also saved them to the gallery thinking that the cropping would help. Well, no dice! What am I missing? What am I doing wrong? I am bored by the plain color backgrounds that came with the Vegan rom...can anyone help? Thanks!
Kev

^^^^ Multipicture Live Wallpaper (app) allows you to set wallpapers properly. Thanks to Shadowhawk2020 for bringing this app to my attention. Even Wallaby did not work properly, so MLW is the only way I know of to set wallpapers properly on the gtab.
EDIT: OP - try seaching the market for HD wallpapers and Filke HD wallpapers.
EDIT2: Check this post out for what sounds like another app to help get wallpapers scaled properly: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13117070&postcount=361

Flick Ur Pics = Beautiful Wallpapers on Gtablet!
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^^^^ Multipicture Live Wallpaper (app) allows you to set wallpapers properly. Thanks to Shadowhawk2020 for bringing this app to my attention. Even Wallaby did not work properly, so MLW is the only way I know of to set wallpapers properly on the gtab.
EDIT: OP - try seaching the market for HD wallpapers and Filke HD wallpapers.
EDIT2: Check this post out for what sounds like another app to help get wallpapers scaled properly: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13117070&postcount=361
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re: EDIT2: Thanks for the link to my post. I would like everyone with a gtab to know about flick ur pics, it is da bomb! LOL

so with flick ur pics how do you make it change pics when you change screens? i dont see the option.

pqrs said:
so with flick ur pics how do you make it change pics when you change screens? i dont see the option.
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When you go into your wallpapers in flick ur pics, tap on the image you want on screen 1 first and a little #1 will show up on the thumbnail image. Same for screens 2 and 3. Screens 4 and 5 if you have them. I you assign more images than screens you have available it will rotate through them in order when you swipe from screen to screen.
EDIT: It seems that I told you wrong above. I assumed that was the way it worked. I had only 2 images assigned in mine and image 1 would show on my center screen, while image 2 would display on all other panels. When I just tried what I told you above, it randomized the images displayed for the individual screen backgrounds. What I mentioned above may be a good feature request to ask of the dev.
EDIT #2: I have sent developer an email regarding this and have pointed him to this thread. Hopefully he will respond soon, either via email or by dropping in on us here. It would be nice to have him here with us to find our specific needs for our tablets.
Sent from my GTablet

Getandroidstuff.com has some nice ones.

hitekredneck said:
EDIT #2: I have sent developer an email regarding this and have pointed him to this thread. Hopefully he will respond soon, either via email or by dropping in on us here. It would be nice to have him here with us to find our specific needs for our tablets.
Sent from my GTablet
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Hi All,
I'm Francesco, one of the Flick ur Pics developers
I'm glad to join you in this great forum.
Flick ur Pics allows to choose up to 9 images from your gallery and it shows a random picture when you change homescreen (or when elapse the refresh time, if selected).
Actually you can't set exactly an image for each home screens (i.e.: image1 in the homescreen #1, image2 in the homescreen#2), but we already investigated this feature and if there's a strong request, we'll be more than happy to add it as soon as possible.
Best,
Francesco

Fr4style said:
Hi All,
I'm Francesco, one of the Flick ur Pics developers
I'm glad to join you in this great forum.
Flick ur Pics allows to choose up to 9 images from your gallery and it shows a random picture when you change homescreen (or when elapse the refresh time, if selected).
Actually you can't set exactly an image for each home screens (i.e.: image1 in the homescreen #1, image2 in the homescreen#2), but we already investigated this feature and if there's a strong request, we'll be more than happy to add it as soon as possible.
Best,
Francesco
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Why only 9? I have a collection of hundreds of images that I would like to use, and would hate to be stuck to only 9. Especially since I can't get multipicture live wallpaper to install, so your app seems to be the only option I have.

Fr4style said:
Hi All,
I'm Francesco, one of the Flick ur Pics developers
I'm glad to join you in this great forum.
Flick ur Pics allows to choose up to 9 images from your gallery and it shows a random picture when you change homescreen (or when elapse the refresh time, if selected).
Actually you can't set exactly an image for each home screens (i.e.: image1 in the homescreen #1, image2 in the homescreen#2), but we already investigated this feature and if there's a strong request, we'll be more than happy to add it as soon as possible.
Best,
Francesco
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Hi Francesco,
Im very interested in the one wallpaper per page. I have brought this up in another thread as well. Someone had told me to try flick ur pic but I too found it wasnt setup this way. I think there are a lot of people who are looking for this feature. It works best when you have pages set for certain things. Like a movie page, a games page, a news page, and etc. That would be AWESOME!

Fr4style said:
Hi All,
I'm Francesco, one of the Flick ur Pics developers
I'm glad to join you in this great forum.
Flick ur Pics allows to choose up to 9 images from your gallery and it shows a random picture when you change homescreen (or when elapse the refresh time, if selected).
Actually you can't set exactly an image for each home screens (i.e.: image1 in the homescreen #1, image2 in the homescreen#2), but we already investigated this feature and if there's a strong request, we'll be more than happy to add it as soon as possible.
Best,
Francesco
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Francesco, so glad you could join us. I am sure you will find lots of people here in the gTab forum with several ideas to make Flick ur pics the best wallpaper app for this tablet. I am yet another that would love the ability to set images per screen. Of course you already knew that from my email.
Once again, really glad that you decided to join us. We are glad to have an active flick ur pic dev willing to take the time to get involved with the gTab community.
HTR
Sent from my GTablet using Tapatalk

krazykevy said:
Ok, I am beyond frustrated. I am rooted w/Vegan and had zero issues doing that...but getting a wallpaper to actually look like it is suppossed to on my g tab...well that is a completly diffeerent story. I have tried the 1024 x 1024 as well as the 1024 x 600 options. But everytime I find an image I like from google, open it, hold down to bring up the dialogue box to "set as wallpaper" it takes the image and blows it up! It never looks like the image I found from google. I have also saved them to the gallery thinking that the cropping would help. Well, no dice! What am I missing? What am I doing wrong? I am bored by the plain color backgrounds that came with the Vegan rom...can anyone help? Thanks!
Kev
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This is what I’m doing for a landscape orientation with a wallpaper that correctly "scrolls" from left to right and is not distorted or zoomed in on (NON HONEYCOMB ROMs ONLY!!!):
Fist download and install the app "Wallpaper Slideshow" from the market (free). You’ll use that to set the wallpaper (or wallpapers, as it will automatically switch between multiple at intervals you desire. If you want it to show just a single wallpaper, just put that single picture in the folder you tell it to read wallpapers from.
Your wallpaper’s resolution should be: 2048 x 600. To be clear that's a width of 2048 and a height of 600. You may have to crop, pad and/or otherwise resize your image.
Using Wallpaper Slideshow lets you use landscape images in their native resolution (aka not cropped) that are scrollable. Wallpapers in portrait orientation are zoomed in on the center of the image and are scrollable as well.
Setting the same 2048 x 600 wallpaper via the Android (2.3.7) interface does the opposite: portrait looks clear and is scrollable, but landscape must be cropped and is displayed zoomed in, usually off center and extra pixilated. Since I primarily use my tablet in Landscape mode I think I’d rather have the landscape wallpaper looking sharp and clear.
Other apps allow you to set non cropped/zoomed images of the Gtab’s native resolution of 1024 x 600 but usually don’t have any options allowing them to be easily “scrollable”. Wallpapers that don’t have any transaction effects look stale and desktop-y, IMO.
I’m using Cyanogenmod 7.1 RC, but everything should work the same on other non-honey-comb ROMs.
You can use images with a width resolution that's smaller than 2048 and the app will still set them up as scrollable. However, it will zoom in on them the further and further you get from 2048, making them look more and more pixelated.
One more thing, if you have USB storage turned on and you images are on your SD card (internal/external) your wallpaper may not rotate or scroll correctly. Once you turn it off they’ll be fine.
Pics show the same image file as the wallpaper.

Problem when setting up a wallpaper from 'gallery'

I am having problem with the phone's wallpaper setting.
Just bluetoothed a 480x800 wallpaper to the phone, went to wallpaper > select wallpaper from > gallery > then selected the 480x800 pic I bluetoothed, but then a red crop frame came up, and it would not allow me to stretch it to full size. Even if I stretch the frame to max size, the image will magnify in and become pixelated when displayed as wallpaper.
Is there a fix on this? Anyway to display the wallpaper as actual size (480x800) without the red frame?

I think the wallpaper needs to be 960 x 800 - it slides with the different home screens. So the IS is prompting you to crop it. Can you resize it first and then send it across?

Yes 480 is not enough ... Its actually half really ... The phone will only crop the wallpaper propotionaly so that it dosent get stretched in a funky way when applied ...
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA App

knightrocker said:
Yes 480 is not enough ... Its actually half really ... The phone will only crop the wallpaper propotionaly so that it dosent get stretched in a funky way when applied ...
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA App
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True, or you could get a Sense replacement and set the number of home screens u have to a lower value as opposed to the HTC Sense ... i havent tested it, but that should be a standard check for all sense replacements ..
Even easier would be to get the proper resolution wall paper

[Q] 800 x 1200 wallpapers for portrait orientation

Does anyone know of a web site with wallpapers that run 800x1200? I'm not coming up with much via google for portrait orientated wallpapers.

1280x800 is the native resolution though. Try searching for that instead.

Perfect fit resolution (for scrolling wallpapers in launchers) in 1600*1280

daxmedflax said:
1280x800 is the native resolution though. Try searching for that instead.
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You are correct, I forgot the 80. WHO FORGETS THE 80!!!

1600 x 1280
in order to get a picture with a 1280 vertical width you need to look for pictures or wallpapers that originally are 1600 x 1280. then use most image editing programs to crop the image to 800 x 1280 pixels - width and height.
i for one prefer for my wallpaper to remain still while my icons are being swiped by. I also find most images i used have a center focus.
also i try to if possible to edit the bit rate to be 24 bit for the image. don't know if this helps to display the image better but since the note is reported to display at 24 bits why have images any larger.

Use wallpaper wizardrii. Works perfect!

use PicSpeed wallpapers... its free on the market