I can't seem to get the wallpaper to change on the lock screen on cm6. If i use a live wallpaper its no problem but any downloads from my SD i use i end up getting a stock wallpaper like the grass or the colorful light spec, one only on the lock screen not the launcher. Its pretty weird and i can't figure out how to change it. Any ideas?
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i am experiencing the same problem...
same here on the CM6R1 lock screen it has a green grass background. not the live wallpaper swaying grass, but a photo of grass. i dont see a place to change it.
If you're using a launcher like adw, that has happened to me before. To fix it, I cleared the defaults, and loaded into the default launcher, changed the wallpaper, changed it back, and it was fixed.
Then again, this is on cm6, and I'm not using cm so I wouldn't know. Just a tidbit.
Okay so I was just looking at wallpapers on devianart because as much as I love my live wallpapers, sometimes I just want something easy on the eyes. So my question is how hard would it be to have a standard wallpaper on your homescreen but also be able to place a picture frame widget with a live wallpaper running inside it? Sounds pretty awesome in my head to be able to run a live wallpaper in a pic frame widget while having a regular old pic as your wallpaper.(black wall with a pic widget with the seed of life running inside) Anyways didnt know if this was possible for a dev to make adjustments to that widget for this to be allowed. Thanks for looking
As you guys might have noticed, whenever you set a wallpaper using the default android gallery, it kinda compresses it and results in a low quality version of the pic as your wallpaper. I've found a workaround for this by using apps from the market to set my wallpaper with BUT all of those apps can only change my homescreen wallpaper and NOT the lockscreen wallpaper.
So my question is if any of you guys can tell me how to manually change my lockscreen wallpaper? I have a rooted device 2.3.5 btw. Thanks.
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No, I know how to change the lockscreen wallpaper. But like I've said, when you use that way, it lowers the quality of the picture you use. If I use a hi-def photo and set it as my lockscreen wallpaper, the quality loss is very obvious. Which is why I was asking if there was a workaround for this.
When you're about to change the wallpaper and the square box pops up, tap it and expand it.
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no, that's not it either. regardless of how you crop it, if you use the default gallery app, the resulting wallpaper is compressed thus the quality loss
get a suitable hd wallpaper from the internet then save picture to gallery. When you set wallpaper to lockscreen choose gallery, find pic you have d/l and crop it accordingly. Remember to get the highest resolution wallpaper.
Hope the above helps
kebong said:
no, that's not it either. regardless of how you crop it, if you use the default gallery app, the resulting wallpaper is compressed thus the quality loss
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+1 to the question!!!
I wanna use the same wallpaper on the lockscreen & on the my launcher. I choose the picture, set it up as my wallpaper - in the laucher it's absolutely ok, but in the locksreen there are a lot of strange lines (bright & dark) over the wallpaper.
you need a wallpaper of atleast 1600*1000 resolution. If you can find one with an even higher resolution, better still.
Just follow instructions of my earlier post
spkrs01 said:
you need a wallpaper of atleast 1600*1000 resolution. If you can find one with an even higher resolution, better still.
Just follow instructions of my earlier post
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Of course I have a high-res wallpaper!
But the quality is much worse on the lockscreen than on the launcher's homescreen.
Maybe light wallpapers are ok, but the dark (like mine) is laggy.
anyone knows where the default wallpapers are saved to? cant seem to find the default lock screen wallpaper (of the pen and notebook)...
low resolution for a purpose
do you think the lock screen uses a lower resolution for a reason. that screen basically is displayed for just a few seconds and kinda floats on top of an already high resolution main screen. just a theory that it's supposed to be lower quality graphic.
You can use Quickpic which is free on the market to set the lockscreen. I don't see any reduction of resolution.
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again guys, the issue is not with the cropping or with the image quality i'm using. it's with android gallery app compressing the picture i want to use.
@holgalee
thanks, that was exactly what i was looking for!
How about WidgetLocker? A guy posted a screenshot of his completely black background that didn't have any of the ugliness many are reporting of. But it costs money, and i don't know how you feel about apps that cost money, but you're holding a device that cost almost $1000
same problem here.
tried to have a black background on the lockscreen.
tried with a 1200x1600 bmp, png and jpg...
always the same ugly green and black stripes
none of that with galaxy s1 and s2, just with the galaxy note
what can i do to have full black background? dont want to use crappy alternative lockscreen, want to use the native android lockscreen
It won't help with a 5500x3500 wallpaper as long as the default gallery app is compressing the image. It will still look like ****.
roucoups said:
same problem here.
tried to have a black background on the lockscreen.
tried with a 1200x1600 bmp, png and jpg...
always the same ugly green and black stripes
none of that with galaxy s1 and s2, just with the galaxy note
what can i do to have full black background? dont want to use crappy alternative lockscreen, want to use the native android lockscreen
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I had the same issue on my S2; completely stupid really. Now I have my lockscreen wallpaper automatically change when I modify my [active] wallpaper.
The Gallery app needs to be fixed.
It's still crap on the note 2, anyone who's found a solution?
If it is the black clipping problem? Note shows lockscreen wallpaper a bit darker than normal wallpaper so theres possibility you only notice it on lockscreen.
Found one that looks okay so i am using that
Hey all
My only grip with my Z3C so far is that I can't mirror my lockscreen wallpaper and launcher wallpaper. I sometimes crop the images and it's tough getting them both exactly the same at times. Does anyone know of a solution that'll automatically make my regular wallpaper my lockscreen wallpaper as well?
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Hey all
My only grip with my Z3C so far is that I can't mirror my lockscreen wallpaper and launcher wallpaper. I sometimes crop the images and it's tough getting them both exactly the same at times. Does anyone know of a solution that'll automatically make my regular wallpaper my lockscreen wallpaper as well?
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Please not that even tho the question is theme related, it should still be in the Q&A section.
The way I got around the problem was just to upload the image at a site like imgur and then use a browser on my phone and select use picture as wallpaper or lockscreen.
Oh alright, my bad - it was a bit of a toss up between the two but now I know.
Ah thanks, sadly that's not an option. I'd love some live wallpaper that just mirrors the current wallpaper, but I suppose that's unlikely...
I've been looking around a lot but can't find anything.
Any suggestions?
I love the minimalistic look of S8/N8 animated wallpapers, however the problem with them is that they can only be applied to both lock and home screen. You can't choose only one (at least I couldn't find that option). Applying infinity wallpaper on both and then a separate lock screen only wallpaper would break the infinity wallpaper on home screen.
Hit me up with some minimalistic live wallpapers
Don't need to be too flashy and I'm fond of blue-ish colors.
I dont know if it is what you are looking for but I sometimes use one called black live wallpaper, from the playstore
It's not bad but it's basically just parallax with sparkling effects and not really what I'm looking for.
I found an app called simply Motion by maxelus.net on Play Store. It's paid but one of the most beautiful live wallpapers I've seen and very much like Samsungs infinity stuff.