I created a desktop direct messaging shortcut to call my boss, with a pic of an angry boxer dog. Made the pic as a gif and png with transparent background, although it's showing up as black on the desktop for some reason.
I assigned the pic as the shortcut's icon using Gallery, and I suspect that it's converting the background to black, but I cannot find where app pics are stored either on the SD or /system.
Any clues?
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whenever I choose a different background for my pocket pc, it gets blurry and whitish. How do i change it so that I have a background that is exactly like the previewed picture?
I have tried some theme editors but I had no luck with it.
Open the Image via File manager then Menu > Set as Today background
uhhh, try transparency.
Is there a way to have full screen caller like on symbian?
i want a big picture of my contact during a call!
thaks!
This could only be done if you never sync your contacts again.
I remember both Xenio and Wysie working on this but it is found that google sync resizes the images to 96x96 pixels meaning the picture becomes horribly stretched and distorted.
ok thanks but how i can enlarge the square of the contact picture?
theres a thread in development that modifies the phone.apk so you can full screen contact pictures, however the image will only be clear if you never sync your contacts with google sync.
go here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=576310 and download the one that says fullscreen and push it to your phone.
Maybe I'm missing something? Whenever I go to set a picture in my gallery as a wallpaper, it becomes ridiculously zoomed in and grainy?
I haven't had my phone that long but I've looked and I'm sure I'm forgetting to check something somewhere or something... anyone know what i'm not doing?
The picture I set as a wallpaper always looks fine in the gallery..
I believe android only supports 16 bit wallpapers. You are seeing color banding. I noticed it too.
ya but why does it zoom in on the picture? the picture included in the crop box isn't even all there
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Have you tried holding the border of the crop box and expanding it as large as possible?
Also, the, "Backgrounds" app sets nice, clear wallpapers if you set them from within the app.
Wallpaper set and save fixed it for me.
go get a free app called flikie wallpaper and use that to set backrounds, even your own pics or whatever the pic may be, when the phone asks what program to use to set wallpaper, use this app ( you will see the icon there)
should help i have huge crisp wallpapers and love them
WeeklyWars said:
Maybe I'm missing something? Whenever I go to set a picture in my gallery as a wallpaper, it becomes ridiculously zoomed in and grainy?
I haven't had my phone that long but I've looked and I'm sure I'm forgetting to check something somewhere or something... anyone know what i'm not doing?
The picture I set as a wallpaper always looks fine in the gallery..
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In order to get the wallpaper to look properly without zooming in on part of the picture, the picture has to be resized to 960x800, then the wallpaper will look sharp. Try this wallpaper and see if it works for you if it does then the issue is the size of the wallpaper your using.
Ok I just downloaded the wallpaper I uploaded but the size changed. So forget about the idea lol. Just take a wallpaper with a high resolution and use paint the resize it and upload it the your phone. Apply it as a wallpaper and your done.
I tried to both of those apps and neither let me set a picture saved on my phone. I tried making the crop box small, big, nothing works
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I didn't see this anywhere while trying yo figure it out so I thought I'd share:
I took a new photo in portrait mode. I then resized it to 640x860. Then made a new blank jpeg in paint sized 1250x1000 and filled it in black.
Then I copied and pasted my 640x860 pic into the black box in paint and centered it, making sure it stayed 1250x1000 and no white areas.
So save that as a jpeg and put it on your phone however you do it. Now when selecting wallpaper from the gallery it let's you pick the entire pic with the little cropping box and the picture stays in proportion.
Set wallpaper scrolling to off and you have a great pic without it looking skewed.
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I open up jpegs via ES File Explorer, press and hold, and set wallpaper. I am not prompted to choose an area or anything like that.
What I'm saying is that a portrait pic that is of relatively small resolution will be stretched to fit the full width of the Epic screen to include the extra home screen scrolling. This avoids that stretching.
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Let's say I have a theme I really love except that the background for apps/widgets is plain black and I want background to be the same as the home screen wallpaper. Given that there is no setting for this, I assume I will need to learn how to open theme, replace plain background png files with appropriately named wallpaper png files and reassemble theme. Yes?
I unzipped the apk and found numerous wallpaper variations (resolutions and sizes) for home screen, messaging and so on, but not for app/widget backgrounds. Where in res folders would they be and what might they be called? Or are there none if background is black and I would have to either make them or edit xml to call appropriate wallpaper file?
I've searched and read but this particular task is not described...or at least I can't find it. Any info to get me started would be very nice.