I tried to set my Macbook wallpaper (1280x800) on the Xoom and it turned out very badly and it didn't fill the entire screen, when it asked me to corp.
I was wondering what is the res and the ppi.
I think it's full HD : 1920*1080
I was wondering if anyone know what is the resolution of the system wallpapers...
I'm trying to find them but couldn't locate it under the launcher2.apk
Did they change this in v3?
In launcher2.apk
res\drawable-mdpi\
res\drawable-xlarge-nodpi\
The nodpi has 1920x1080 images in and include the City Default Wallpaper
That's where the wallpaper's are from what I can see.
strifejester said:
In launcher2.apk
res\drawable-mdpi\
res\drawable-xlarge-nodpi\
The nodpi has 1920x1080 images in and include the City Default Wallpaper
That's where the wallpaper's are from what I can see.
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It can't be 1920x1080 because it fits the wallpaper crop perfectly. Where as my 1080 picture has too much width.
Thanks for the path anyways, I'll mail the pictures to myself and see what is the res of it.
Wo this is driving me crazy....
The resolution of the system wallpaper in 1980x1280... now the images look good
but, the top and bottom parts are cut off... I added 100 pixels on top and bottom...
Still about 250 pxls get cut from both end.
aarrrrrrgggggghhhhhhh
I found that if you get a 2560 x 1600 wide wallpapes it fits perfectly and its clear as well. You can get some 2560 x 1600 wide wallpapers at bestwallpapersite.com. Let me know if this works for you.
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1920x1408 works perfectly.
lasphyxial said:
1920x1408 works perfectly.
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yes 1920x1408 crops fits perfectly but still about 250 pxls are cut on either end
This happens on the default wallpapers too... look at the android flower wallpaper...
but the images are sharp now... but still if you have a vertical target in the picture... their head and feet are cut.
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... but still if you have a vertical target in the picture... their head and feet are cut.
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I don't personally own a Xoom, so I might be way off here, but aren't the images a little "taller" than the screen because when you open the app window it scrolls up a little? I'm guessing it would scroll down at some point as well. I seem to remember it doing that when I messed with my friends yesterday. Not sure if that is why, just a thought.
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I don't personally own a Xoom, so I might be way off here, but aren't the images a little "taller" than the screen because when you open the app window it scrolls up a little? I'm guessing it would scroll down at some point as well. I seem to remember it doing that when I messed with my friends yesterday. Not sure if that is why, just a thought.
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Your correct. This exactly why, I got the 2560 x 1600 picture, that way when the menu crops the wallpaper is still clear due to the picture being bigger than normal resolution, so when you zoom in to the picture it still clear. It work fine for me so it should for you also. When you crop the picture it fits the way you want it to as well.
I use 1920 x 1200 and it fits perfectly.
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Your correct. This exactly why, I got the 2560 x 1600 picture, that way when the menu crops the wallpaper is still clear due to the picture being bigger than normal resolution, so when you zoom in to the picture it still clear. It work fine for me so it should for you also. When you crop the picture it fits the way you want it to as well.
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Does everything in the square (when you set a wallpaper) fills the screen?
I tried 1280x800, 1920x1200, 1920x1080, 1920x1408 and 2560x1600...
in these only 1920x1408 fits the 'wallpaper square' perfectly but still the picture in zoomed and top and bottom cut...
Can you do me a fav and post your wallpaper and the screen grab with it set as wallpaper?
thanks a ton
Wrote up a guide on a trick I found to making wallpapers fit perfectly on the Xoom. Check it out here: http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/motorola-xoom-wallpapers/320-getting-wallpapers-fit-just-right.html
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Wrote up a guide on a trick I found to making wallpapers fit perfectly on the Xoom. Check it out here: http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/motorola-xoom-wallpapers/320-getting-wallpapers-fit-just-right.html
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Great guide...thanks for sharing.
Seems to me they would have thought of an easier way to apply custom wallpaper without needing to go through all of this.
While all of these hints will help, they are still not the actual resolution of the wallpaper. I played around in photoshop until I found the actual demintions.
Have a look at my post here for a template PDF file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=974883
ritalin said:
While all of these hints will help, they are still not the actual resolution of the wallpaper. I played around in photoshop until I found the actual demintions.
Have a look at my post here for a template PDF file.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=974883
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you are a godsend, yes every other tip here makes the wallpaper crispier but they are still cropped.
You don't notice this if you set a abstract wallpaper.
What you posted is dead on the spot. Thanks a million
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Is it possible to mod Touchwiz to keep the wallpaper centered instead of scrolling it left and right?
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Is it possible to mod Touchwiz to keep the wallpaper centered instead of scrolling it left and right?
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Id love this or probably an application that handles static wallpapers better and does not crop it to pixelation hell!
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Id love this or probably an application that handles static wallpapers better and does not crop it to pixelation hell!
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There is no need to crop. you can pinch zoom your wallpaper to the maximum.
EarlZ said:
Id love this or probably an application that handles static wallpapers better and does not crop it to pixelation hell!
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Mine wallpapers doesn't look pixelated, but you can try Wallpaper Set And Save from the market. Even it says it wont work on 2.1, but it does. It works on my phone and keeps the picture sharp. Just remember to use only 960x800 wallpapers on it.
I miss the feature on the symbian phones that I just throw in any sized wallpaper and it scales them accordingly to the screen resolution..
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I miss the feature on the symbian phones that I just throw in any sized wallpaper and it scales them accordingly to the screen resolution..
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I wonder what Symbian phone makes that?? I have had dozen of Symbians (Nokia) and always you have to use a proper size wallpaper...
JuWa said:
I wonder what Symbian phone makes that?? I have had dozen of Symbians (Nokia) and always you have to use a proper size wallpaper...
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Nokia 5800
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Nokia 5800
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Not when I used it. Sure you can apply any size of wallpaper and it fits the screen. Is that good? Then it will look even more stretched/receded. Or how does it make the wallpaper to fit perfectly on screen, if you have 1280x800 wallpaper?
A new feature in new firmwares?
Anyone have a good source yet for wallpapers to fit our screens?
Thanks
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I've been making my own. 960x854 seems to be correct resolution to not have to crop the image when you set it inside the phone.
Essem said:
I've been making my own. 960x854 seems to be correct resolution to not have to crop the image when you set it inside the phone.
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Right on for the correct resolution size. I will make some wallpapers for the XOOM and Bionic and share them with you guys.
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That's not right, the correct resolution is 1080x960. Resolution for Android wallpapers as a rule of thumb is if you have HxW, the size for the wallpaper is 2*WxH
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I've been making my own. 960x854 seems to be correct resolution to not have to crop the image when you set it inside the phone.
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What program do you use to edit the resolution to 960x854???
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That's not right, the correct resolution is 1080x960. Resolution for Android wallpapers as a rule of thumb is if you have HxW, the size for the wallpaper is 2*WxH
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I second this. 1080x960 is definitely correct.
960x854 seems to work but if you scale it up to a height of 960 (correct background height) you will see that 854 scales to 1079. 1 px off.
EDIT: Photoshop is the best program to resize, but I believe MS Office Picture Manager can do it too...if you are on Windows
I use Zedge, works fine for me
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I've been making my own. 960x854 seems to be correct resolution to not have to crop the image when you set it inside the phone.
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Thanks for the right dimensions! Time to make some wallpapers not!
Sensei mods wallpaper resolution fits perfect
Wallpaper Guidelines?
Is there a certain guideline for creating wallpapers for the bionic? I've created wallpapers in the past for different devices and they look great, but they look like crap on my bionic. I've done some searching and it seems that a lot of people are noticing that too. Guessing its just a matter of the type of display the bionic has. Some images look great on the bionic, while some look terrible. So I'm wondering if there is some sort of specifics for how you create and save the image files to ensure they look great on the bionic's screen? Is it the image's pixel per inch? Is it the color profile? Is it the image mode as in RGB or CMYK? Or the image mode as in 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit? I'm trying to find the magic combo here.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Is there a certain guideline for creating wallpapers for the bionic? I've created wallpapers in the past for different devices and they look great, but they look like crap on my bionic. I've done some searching and it seems that a lot of people are noticing that too. Guessing its just a matter of the type of display the bionic has. Some images look great on the bionic, while some look terrible. So I'm wondering if there is some sort of specifics for how you create and save the image files to ensure they look great on the bionic's screen? Is it the image's pixel per inch? Is it the color profile? Is it the image mode as in RGB or CMYK? Or the image mode as in 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit? I'm trying to find the magic combo here.
Any help would be appreciated.
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I dont think any wallpaper will ever look "great" on the bionics screen, especially compared to other phones. The colors just look too far off to me.
Yeah, but still...would like to know the how and why. I can find and load some images that I find as wallpaper and they look great. Others look really bad...to the point where it is all pixelated and the color is off.
There has to be some kind of standards we can follow.
1080 x 960 is the best size, especially if you want your wallpaper to scroll with your desktop. 24 or 32 bit color depth also works well. Using smaller images and/or lower color depth can cause banding and dithering in wall paper images. I think that's part of the reason a lot of people complained about the Bionics display - Google pulled in wall paper from their previous phones back-up and those images got scaled to fit the QHD screen on the Bionic. Happed to me anyway. I had some favorite wall papers on my Droid 2 that were 960 x 854. When my Bionic pulled down my Google data it tried to scale those images and some of them looked like crap-easpecially if they had gradient areas. After re-sizing them to 1080 x 960on my PC and replacing the 960 x 854 versions they looked much better.
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1080 x 960 is the best size, especially if you want your wallpaper to scroll with your desktop. 24 or 32 bit color depth also works well. Using smaller images and/or lower color depth can cause banding and dithering in wall paper images. I think that's part of the reason a lot of people complained about the Bionics display - Google pulled in wall paper from their previous phones back-up and those images got scaled to fit the QHD screen on the Bionic. Happed to me anyway. I had some favorite wall papers on my Droid 2 that were 960 x 854. When my Bionic pulled down my Google data it tried to scale those images and some of them looked like crap-easpecially if they had gradient areas. After re-sizing them to 1080 x 960on my PC and replacing the 960 x 854 versions they looked much better.
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I've tried that and it doesn't work 99% of the time. Most of the time they still look like crap. In the past, if I've ever had a banding issue, all I had to do was add a little noise to the image to help break it up a bit. Seems like no matter what I try the images will look great on a computer screen or on other devices, but not on my Bionic. Still can't figure out why some images I find look good while others don't...
No need to write anything else hehe.
What's the resolution of the XZ wallpapers? 1920 x 1080 images aren't working out too good.
AW: [Q] Wallpaper resolution?
Provided you want a scrollable wallpaper, usually it's 1.5*width and 1*height. That would be... uhm... 1080+540=1620. So 1620 in width and 1920 in height.
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Provided you want a scrollable wallpaper, usually it's 1.5*width and 1*height. That would be... uhm... 1080+540=1620. So 1620 in width and 1920 in height.
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Nea 1920 x 1080 seems to be way too big, the phone wants to crop the image before it sets the image as a wallpaper.
Can't select the whole image, or I don't know how hahaha.
AW: [Q] Wallpaper resolution?
Well you need to enlarge the selection box. Which you cant if the image is the exact size of the screen. Apply logic: the pic needs to be wider than 1 screen width (scrolling wallpaper), it needs to be at least 1.5*width wide.
2160x1920 fit perfect on Homescreen, 100%.
regards
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Well you need to enlarge the selection box. Which you cant if the image is the exact size of the screen. Apply logic: the pic needs to be wider than 1 screen width (scrolling wallpaper), it needs to be at least 1.5*width wide.
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In the attachment you can see what I mean.
That image is 1920 x 1080, but I cant make a bigger selection then that.
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Oh man, give me a rest.
Ok, lets make it simple: just look at your phone, what it looks like. Learn about the technical details of your device, it's got a 1080 by 1920 screen, NOT 1920x1080. Or is your Xperia wider than it is high...?
The wallpaper needs to be HIGHER than it is wide. Roughly 1600 wide and 1900 high. Yours is wider than it is high.
What is the resolution for the wallpaper on the Z ?
I am sick of putting wallpaper on having to crop it all the time.
What is the easiest/best way to get wallpaper chosen without having to crop it?
Thanks.
The res is 2160x1920. There you have some: [Wallpapers] Full HD Collection! 2160x1920! High Quality Wallpapers!
Stu308 said:
What is the resolution for the wallpaper on the Z ?
I am sick of putting wallpaper on having to crop it all the time.
What is the easiest/best way to get wallpaper chosen without having to crop it?
Thanks.
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obviously the resolution is 1920 x 1920
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obviously the resolution is 1920 x 1920
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No, it's 2160x1920, not the original full HD resolution.
The wallpapers on my thread was disabled due to "thread stealing" by another forum...sadly...but you can search on Google that resolution, or trying to resize an high resolution image to 2160x1920...
Sent from something from somewhere...
Okay, which is it?
The link you sent has been deleted (downloads).
What the size to resize to and easiest way to do it?
The easiest way to get wallpapers on the screen the way you want them (without cropping) is to download a free Play Store app called Image 2 Wallpaper: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwxLDEsImNvbS5zaGlyb2Jha2FtYS53YWxscGFwZXIiXQ..
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The easiest way to get wallpapers on the screen the way you want them (without cropping) is to download a free Play Store app called Image 2 Wallpaper: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...SwxLDEsImNvbS5zaGlyb2Jha2FtYS53YWxscGFwZXIiXQ..
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Thanks!!
Just times the width (1080) by two = 2160 for a perfectly fitted scrolling wallpaper.
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The easiest way to get wallpapers on the screen the way you want them (without cropping) is to download a free Play Store app called Image 2 Wallpaper:
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Thanks I'll give it a go. I really just want to have 1080 wide images and set them non scrolling on the screen, full width. The stock wallpaper selection drives me mad. It opens Album and I can't seem to even control which photos to use (eg, I have an Xperia Wallpapers folder I made). and then if you select a photo, it gives you a cross shaped cropper for scrolling wps. I just want a picture on my desktop...
I tried some of the wallpaper slideshow apps, but I'm having such bad trouble with choppy playback of music I uninstalled them. I may go back.
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Just times the width (1080) by two = 2160 for a perfectly fitted scrolling wallpaper.
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Okay, how do I do this? There are so many options and i have white bands at top and bottom.
Sorry , probably missing something obvious
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Okay, which is it?
The link you sent has been deleted (downloads).
What the size to resize to and easiest way to do it?
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The deleted link was mine...that was my thread...that was stolen and posted into another forum...so I've shutted it down...
The PERFECT resolution (for a better scrolling) is 2160x1920.
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You mean resize wallpapers? There's an app for that. Or at least there should be
This may just be me being dumb, but I feel as if the display on the Moto X isnt very sharp. I know its a 1080p display, but it doesnt look super sharp. I can see some of the outer pixels of some of my apps, yes if I am trying to look for said pixels, but It doesnt look crisp regardless. Also, a question about the wallpapers, I have many high resolution wallpapers I would love to use, but when I set them as a wallpaper, they look terrible. I understand the phone dimensions are not the same as the picture and that cropping and zooming in is needed, but it just looks more worse than what it should be (after going into the gallery and actually blowing up the picture myself. How do you guys feel about the Moto X's screen? Love it? Hate it? Suggestions for my wallpaper problems?
How are you setting the wallpaper?
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How are you setting the wallpaper?
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Photos>Photo>Set As...>More>Nova Wallpaper.
Also, how do i set it so the wallpaper isnt blown up, and it just has some of the black bars above and below the picture?
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Photos>Photo>Set As...>More>Nova Wallpaper.
Also, how do i set it so the wallpaper isnt blown up, and it just has some of the black bars above and below the picture?
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I just set my background in a similar fashion and the picture looks great. It had to crop the picture as well (since the picture was 16:9) and it still looked good. I just went through a few of my apps and looked very closely to see if there was any visible and I see a kind of grainy film over the whole screen that doesn't move with scrolling. Its hard to describe, it almost looks like a picture taken at too high of an ISO. Never noticed it until I was looking.