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[Q] Grainy wallpaper?

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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Omnislash Live Wallpaper! Download link/instructions included!

Hello everyone! New to the forums here and JUST rooted my Aria over the weekend. In my personal way of giving back I'd like to make available this sweet Omnislash live wallpaper I put together. In order to use the wallpaper, you need the app LWP Creator from the app store. If you can't find it in the app store for what ever reason you can alternatively navigate to this webpage:
http://www.simproduction.com/lwpcreator.html
on your phones browser. Then click the link ownload me (Android only link)
This will take you to the application in the market. Download and Install.
Next you'll need to download my Omnislash folder which simply contains the live wallpaper frame by frame in .png format. You can download that here:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/orzyp29tk2w2rd9/omnislash.zip
After you download the folder, unzip it and move it to your phone's SD Card.
I recommend putting it in the Download folder on the SD Card to make it easy to find but you can put it anywhere you like.
Once it's on your SD Card disconnect your phone from your computer and let the SD Card remount on the phone. Then, on the main screen on your phone, tap and hold on any blank area. As if you were adding a widget or application, and scroll down to wallpapers on that menu.
Then scroll down to live wallpapers at the bottom of the next menu. If you don't see the live wallpapers option the livewallpapers.apk is not installed on your phone. If you need help installing that just post, I or someone here will help you.
In the live wallpapers you should see an option called LWP Creator. If you do not see this option you do not have the LWP Creator app installed (See above). If you do have the app installed, tap the LWP Creator. There should be some yellow text on the screen talkin some nonsense about folder paths. Ignore that.
Tap settings on the bottom right. In this menu make sure "Sd card?" is checked which it should be by default. Then tap folder path just below it. Navigate to where you put the Omnislash folder on your SD Card. After you find the folder, tap it.
You should now see several files named 01.png 02.png 03.png etc... Select the third option on the bottom of the screen called select all. There should now be a red X next to all of the png files. Now tap Submit, the left option.
It will now take you back to the main settings screen. Here you can edit the framerate of the wallpaper and the Placement and Sizing. I just set the frame rate to 60 fps and that looks nice. It still looks nice on lower frame rates and lower framerates are more battery efficient.
Then on the Placement and Sizing option, select Middle (No resizing). After setting the options tap the back button on the phone and you should see the animation playing! If so tap the set wallpaper button on the bottom left and watch as Cloud Strife rapes face behind all your awesome apps. If you didn't see the animation you did something wrong and need to read all this again -.-
I hope who ever uses this enjoys it, I know I do. And thanks again for all the people that helped me make my Aria as awesome as it should be,
Enjoy!!!

Here is a link to the video I used to make the wallpaper. The wallpaper plays from 1:02 to the end of the video. It does not include the little screen that the person put in that video if you happen to see that when you click at 1:02...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7ec6lcDnhQ

Since no one has commented id like to be the first to say that its amazing great job i just wish there was a way the images could fit the whole screen
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First off, thanks for the reply! I was beginning to think there were no FF7 fans on here... heresy I know... Secondly, it does in fact hit the whole screen! Return to the LWP Creator via the method explained above. When you enter the settings screen, look for a scaling option. I made the wallpaper to fit perfectly in landscape mode, I'm guessing it's not fitting because you use your phone in portrait mode, I still have all of the original files, I guess I can also upload a portrait version, will post a link soon. Thanks again for enjoying it!
Ugh, nevermind... Sorry, but resizing the video for portrait mode makes it stretch in an ugly way. It's basically the same as the normal wallpaper viewed in portrait mode, only stretched vertically a bit more, still has black bars on the top and bottom... Unless you REALLY want it I'm going to hold off on making it...
If you're using CM6, R01, you could do what I do and use the phone in constant landscape mode. The ADW allows for the actions on upswipe and down swipe motions on the screen. I have my phone set to only 1 home screen, so no scrolling.
Then, I have the 5 ADW action buttons over on the right, they also have no background and look very nice. (click link for pic!)
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?0e42r757wh26xsu
Then when I slide down, those 5 disappear and 5 new ones appear with the faded black on the right. (click link for pic!)
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?9p09c9d6con9297
Then sliding up on the home screen brings up my app drawer. (click link for pic!)
http://www.mediafire.com/i/?khy9fg14x56gldg
Also, I have the Power management widget with a transparent background off to the left. This setup makes it very easy to get to any of my apps without the need of multiple home screens, plus, the omnislash LWP looks amazing. I'm also running dumfuq's OC kernel at 806Mhz. This runs the wallpaper incredibly well, (plus it allows for 100% super nintendo emulation with sound! (doesn't help with PSX very much though -.-)) Check out these pics!
I really hope people, especially FF fans, check this out. From one fan to another, this came out REALLY well, and it's by far the best final fantasy wallpaper out there, and believe me, I checked...
Also, if you're feeling particularly lazy... feel free to post a youtube URL along with the start and stop times of a live wallpaper you'd like and I'd be happy to get it for you. They will be formatted to work with the LWP Creator app with the instructions provided in the first post. Try to pick short clips, for example, the omnislash wallpaper is about a minute long, the LWP Creator allows for 300 total frames, this allowed the video to be about 9.5 frames per second. The shorter the video, the more FPS, more FPS, the better it looks.
I look forward to your requests!

Yea i use my phone in portrait mode but no prob man i love the wallpaper.
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Good job, this works well. =)

can u make one of the live wallpaper on the htc flyer.. send your replly at my email..
[email protected]

hey, this is very cool. great job! love seeing creativity!

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 ...
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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 ...
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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

[TUTORIAL] Fit Wallpaper to homescreen

Hello everyone,
Have been seeing a lot of posts regarding questions on how to fit wallpaper to your center screen. As we all know, when trying to fit wallpaper, it ends up zoomed and the central object get's spread over all the homescreens. Haven't found an app that does not distort the image so I tried modifying the picture and found it's works great.
Just to be clear, I will show yo how to go from this:
To this
Requirements:
-Photo editing software. I use Photoshop but probably GIMP Paint.net or other software could do just fine. It's easier if it has guides and layers support.
Steps:
1. Get a wallpaper obviously. Any size will do since as we will be cropping and streching it. Got mine from here
2. I've attached the Photoshop template, which you can use as a guide. As far as I know GiMP opens psd files just fine. *
* If GIMP doesn't open it or using another image editing software:
- Create an image 960x800 px (default wallpaper size)
- Draw vertical guides/ lines at the 240 px, 480 px and 720px mark
3. Paste the image. Make sure that (in this case) the car fits between the first and last guide. this will ensure it fits to just one home screen
4. You now have to fill the rest of the image.
In this case, the background has a gradient so there will be no significant quality loss or obvious distortion if we warp it. Just select parts of the background, hit transform and drag.
If your image has a solid color background, just fill the rest of the image with that color.
If the background is more complex, and can;t use one of the methods above, you have to tediously use the clone stamp/heal tool to fill in the image.
5. You should be left with something looking like this:
Now just save the image, send it to your phone and set it as your wallpaper.
If you have any questions, I'm happy to try to answer them.
Cheers

Great tutorial .. Also had this problem many times .. Most of the time the app wallpaper set and save ( available in the market for free) did the trick.

Great tutorial. I like GIMP too for graphic editing without the expensive Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro.
However, I'm lazy at times to log on my lappie, so I'm using PicSpeed Wallpaper app (from the Market) to crop and set wallpapers.. While viewing a picture in Gallery, press Menu, select Set Picture As (this is for ICS, I forgot what the option reads in GB), look for the PicSpeed icon and the text Set as Wallpaper. It then brings up PicSpeed Wallpaper cropping tool. It's working great for me, besides PicSpeed also has lots of nice wallpapers. There are occasion zoomed wallpaper issues with some launchers, but so far I have not experienced it on GO Launcher EX.

Good stuff!

Damn. I can't do it lol. I followed what it said but the image still zoomed. I don't know what I did wrong.

Try picspeed or wizardrii
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denouncer said:
Try picspeed or wizardrii
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Wizardii? for real? U can only stretch them and they look like a **** ...

wallpaper stretching/cropping? want to put ios7 ipad type wallpaper but it stretches

i have to crop the picture and it uses a small portion
is there a way i can get the full image in landscape mode
i download the jpg and double select to add as wallpaper but it never works out properly, giving the full picture as i want.
please help

Try Simple Image Wallpaper. After installation you find it among the live wallpapers. It scales pictures really well to our screens
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It's android's way to stop you putting apple **** on your tablet