Anyone know a way to set wallpapers correctly?
I've tried WallpaperWizardrii which used to work well for me before I hid my notification bar (Apex Launcher). Ever since I hide my notification bar, it seems like WallpaperWizardrii doesn't realize that I hide the notification bar so it doesn't cover that part of the screen with my wallpaper leaving a black bar at the top where the notification would be if it were not hidden.
I've also tried PicSpeed which does correctly cover the whole screen but the problem is that PicSpeed seems to have some problem with gradients in wallpapers. For example:
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This wallpaper's (and many others) gradient looks fine on WallpaperWizardrii (but doesn't cover notification bar) but looks like crap on PicSpeed.
Right now my temporary solution is to use this app called Zedge which is a wallpaper stash app kinda thing. However, there is no option to set a wallpaper using Zedge so what I have to do is download a bunch of wallpapers in the Zedge app and then connect my phone to my computer and go to the folder where Zedge keeps it's downloaded wallpapers and replacing those wallpapers with my own by renaming my own wallpapers with the names of the downloaded Zedge wallpapers. That obviously is a hassle and the wallpaper thumbnails and previews in the Zedge app are still those of the old wallpaper's so that makes it hard to keep track of which wallpaper is which.
Is it really this hard to set a wallpaper right?
Once you download wallpapers from Zedge (or anywhere else I imagine, including transferring files via USB) they should show up in the Gallary app. Go there and find what you want to use. Using the expand button there should be a "Set picture as" option that lets you use it as a Wallpaper or a Contact's picture.
Try "quickpic" from playstore. I had the same problem and quickpic worked for me.
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Try "quickpic" from playstore. I had the same problem and quickpic worked for me.
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Quickpic seems to work for now. Thanks
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Okay, so I got inspired to do this:
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...after looking around in this thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=761517
I especially liked the cleaner looking themes, but wanted something even more streamlined. So I started by doing the following:
I thought that the samurai wallpaper was awesome, so I found it via Google here:
http://www.outlawdesignblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/samurai_me_by_patleeart.jpg
..and hit it with the sepia filter in Photoid. That darkened it up enough for me.
The dock I found on Deviant Art here:
http://kimboprice.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2ydmvn
...and ran it through GIMP. The only part that remained was the app drawer icon. I made the borders on the app drawer icon bolder, erased the rest and made new text icons and the simple white upper border.
For clock I used the DigiTrans clock skin for Weather & Toggle Widget that is available for free on the Market, and modified the widget background (simple white border and clock underline with a 25% transparency), AM icon and PM icon in GIMP.
To use any of it, just put the clock skin ZIP on your SD card in the appropriate folder and select it through the widget skin wizard in your Weather & Toggle Widget settings menu; the wallpaper is a no brainer; for the dock, using LauncherPro select preferences>appearance>dock background>custom image and choose it from the gallery, then use the included blank icon for the app drawer, phone and task manager apps.
There are two docks in the ZIP, a black one for lighter wallpapers and a white one for darker wallpapers.
Mods, please feel free to close this thread or remove any of my attachments if anything is not in line or if I've left out any credits. Everything I used was found on the web or in the market for free, except Weather & Toggle Widget which folks will have to download from the market on their own.
Hope some of your guys will like this theme.
This is a small tutorial to show people the easiest way to customize (very basically) the "Pure music widget" background. It requires a basic knowledge (very basic) of Photoshop.
You need:
Pure music widget.
ADW launcher or Launcher Pro (I did it with ADW).
Widget Locker.
Multipicture live wallpaper
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For Lock screen:
Download the LS-Master resource.psd file from http://www.mediafire.com/?fyc4vcoug16cqeo and the Wallies.psd from http://www.mediafire.com/?7sysr37o7bs1gbc
Both are PSD files, that means you can modify the Music Widget BG, both files have an example of one Album art, keep the example, it work like a guide for your custom backgrounds. af course you can change the wallpaper too.
Edit the files until you meet your expectations and save it as PNG or JPG, put those files in your SD Card.
For the lock screen:
In the Widget locker preferences chose a 12x12 grid and hide the Status bar, choose your image for the background. add a 2x2 widget Pure Music Widget and match it with the background
For the desktop:
On the ADW settings (or Launcher pro) choose the 10x10 grid and hide the dock (extend desktop).
Using Multipicture live wallpaper choose your background file for one of your screens and setup the other ones (you can choose a different background for each screen, this is an awesome option isn't?). Add a 4x2 Pure Music Widget and match it with your brand new background.
That was easy, Right?
Sorry for my english.
How do you hide the controls?
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How do you hide the controls?
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Well, i forgot to tell you guys to edit the "Transparent Skin" in the Pure Music Widget Skins, using any image editor just make an empty file and rename it as all files in the transparent skin folder.
The skin folder is in your SD card ".org.koxx.Pure_music"
I'm trying the settings under “UI settings/Icons/New Icon Settings” and set them bigger to 130 instead of normally 100.
The Icons are looking very blurry now.
I tried different sizes 74x74 or 125x125, but no changes in quality.
When I'm using Desktop Visualizer 1x1 with 74x74 the icons are looking very sharp on my homescreen.
The blurry look is terrible, does anyone have any solution?
Thanks for answers.
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I'm trying the settings under “UI settings/Icons/New Icon Settings” and set them bigger to 130 instead of normally 100.
The Icons are looking very blurry now.
I tried different sizes 74x74 or 125x125, but no changes in quality.
When I'm using Desktop Visualizer 1x1 with 74x74 the icons are looking very sharp on my homescreen.
The blurry look is terrible, does anyone have any solution?
Thanks for answers.
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You'd have to use custom icons with a higher resolution. Just resizing icons from small to large will look blurry. You can't add pixels that aren't there in the first place after all.
What you might be able to do is find the exact same icons on Google Images, or even in Android Market, but at higher res.
I already tried to use bigger icons, 125x125.
When I'm using DVR 1x1, even 74x74 are very sharp.
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The left calendar is created with DVR 1x1 (looks good) and the right is ADW with new icon settings.
Both are the same rseolution 74x74.
...same problem here...
...on ICS 4.0.3 / ADWlauncher EX 1.3.3.56... DV-Icons look sharp, ADW-Icons (same png) resized to 162 are rendered damn blurry...
I also tried to use double sized icons, Icons with 162x162Px, and so on... no change
would like to have some help too!
Is your phone MDPI? If so, that's the reason. This happens to me when I change the DPI aswell.
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Hey I'm looking for the HTC sense weather widget blue grid background(s) but I just can't seem to find them, I've downloaded two different sense ROMs that have them but can only find the icons.
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I have a feeling they could be located in a .m10 file called: Lockscreen_weather_bg.m10
Does anyone know where I can locate it, or if I can open up .m10 files and get the image I can only get the text of them so far, looking around for different tutorials.
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found a tutorial, but still having trouble.
For you
Day
Morning
Night
BTW you can use the Wallpaper Changer from the Google Play to change morning, day and night wallpapers according to the set times.
Does someone know the changing times of the lock screen wallpapers?
And just for the record: in the above post the day wallpaper is morning and vice versa.
Thanks for your help. For future reference in case someone is searching for the same question, the reason why it didn't work is because the M10 Editor that I was using can't decompile Sense 4.0 at this time - so I used Sense 3.0 files.
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BTW you can use the Wallpaper Changer from the Google Play to change morning, day and night wallpapers according to the set times.
Does someone know the changing times of the lock screen wallpapers?
And just for the record: in the above post the day wallpaper is morning and vice versa.
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I've been using Tasker to change the wallpaper at different time (can't do lockscreen wallpaper AFAIK), I only set up two wallpapers though but I made the wallpapers the right dimensions for my phone - HD2 obviously and I'm NexusHD2 with the DPI set to 192 (not sure if it makes a difference to wallpapers (don't think so).
So you just need to disable wallpaper scrolling.
This pack has the three wallpapers 960x800 4.39 MB
Thanks gonne try this with tasker for the nice effect what you got on your hd2
Hi guys,
I am using tasker, auto Dark theme ( awesome by the way ), but there is a problem with Emui, all of those apps got a feature that consist in changing wallpaper automatically, but it only changes the home screen, not the lock screen, and of course I've selected the both to change.
Any ideas how to solve this problem ?
Thanks ?
Same, have to use the stock wallpaper changer
Yep
It's a 'mess'.
Same behaviour/pb with alternative launcher like nova.
I could change the walls in it, but they're soon replaced by the ones configured in stock launcher/theme app.
I'll try to play with some settings and system file access allow/deny.. With no win.
Good luck
Edit :
Don't know why.. But
Just allowed nova to local storage in system application autorisation.
Reboot
And now my screens settings (both home and locked) stays.
'Cherry on the launch', the sliding home background back too.
Hope it's help on your side.
Ps : of course the magazine lockscreen auto update is off
Tapa'DoC'eD
O_DoC said:
Yep
It's a 'mess'.
Same behaviour/pb with alternative launcher like nova.
I could change the walls in it, but they're soon replaced by the ones configured in stock launcher/theme app.
I'll try to play with some settings and system file access allow/deny.. With no win.
Good luck
Edit :
Don't know why.. But
Just allowed nova to local storage in system application autorisation.
Reboot
And now my screens settings (both home and locked) stays.
'Cherry on the launch', the sliding home background back too.
Hope it's help on your side.
Ps : of course the magazine lockscreen auto update is off
Tapa'DoC'eD
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Ok thanks I will try that
O_DoC said:
Yep
It's a 'mess'.
Same behaviour/pb with alternative launcher like nova.
I could change the walls in it, but they're soon replaced by the ones configured in stock launcher/theme app.
I'll try to play with some settings and system file access allow/deny.. With no win.
Good luck
Edit :
Don't know why.. But
Just allowed nova to local storage in system application autorisation.
Reboot
And now my screens settings (both home and locked) stays.
'Cherry on the launch', the sliding home background back too.
Hope it's help on your side.
Ps : of course the magazine lockscreen auto update is off
Tapa'DoC'eD
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After reading your post I checked permissions on Nova Launcher, and the setting that allows it to change the lock screen background is "Write System Settings" from the info page for NL, no need for reboot
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