What dimension to use for homescreen wallpapers? - Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

What dimensions [Aspect ratio and resolution] Should be used so that we dont have to 'crop' the pic before setting it as Homescreen wallapaper? I dont want to crop as it degrades the quality..I want the exact fit!

AW: What dimension to use for homescreen wallpapers?
2160x1920 thats perfect fit.

No i mean without cropping..you have to crop even 2160x1920

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vertical wallpaper

the screen for the N1 isn't squared but when selecting a picture as wallpaper...you can't select the whole wallpaper, only a square ratio of it.
anyway to select the whole wallpaper to make it look like in the gallery?
The wallpaper on a Nexus is 960x800. A LOT wider than the screen width of 400. Because the wallpaper shifts as you scroll from screen to screen.
So you need to get wallpaper in 960x800 size. (width x height)
ok thanks.
Clarkster said:
The wallpaper on a Nexus is 960x800. A LOT wider than the screen width of 400. Because the wallpaper shifts as you scroll from screen to screen.
So you need to get wallpaper in 960x800 size. (width x height)
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i have the option to not disable wallpaper scrolling (Launcher Pro) and i want the wallpaper to be 480x800. how can i do this?
cdmove said:
i have the option to not disable wallpaper scrolling (Launcher Pro) and i want the wallpaper to be 480x800. how can i do this?
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I haven't test it, but I think if the wallpaper if under 960x800, then it should let you select all of it, if not, then sorry, I don't know.

[Q] Size of pic required for adding apps to Golauncher

Hi, Ive only just stumbled upon Golauncher and editing my Desire HD.
Ive tried to create my own pics to add as a icon on my phone... I have looked at the different threads and dont know where to post this so here goes....
I am using Golauncher and desktop visualiser but when i add a pic to launch the icon i cant get the pics to fit the size of the space... i have tried editing them, making them larger, wider etc but cant get it right; i also tried resizing them with go launcher itself but the border doesnt fit tight to the pic. I have icons on my home screen but there are large gaps between them.
I need pixel sizes for all the different variations e.g 1x1, 2x1 etc
Any advice on what im doing wrong??
Thanks
I can't help with go launcher, sorry know not very helpful to original question, but I find desktop visualizer is ideal for this job. You can add an shortcut icon of any grid pattern size will add a box initially, just take a screen shot and edit on computer to match sizes exactly for your chosen grid pattern. It also resizes icons well to fit in anywhere, Im using it on launcher pro for a 7x7 grid cause standard icons always get cropped due to small space.

[Q] Low-res (bad quality) lockscreen wallpaper -- How to change it?

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

wallpaper always zoomed in

put a pic of my nephew as the wallpaper, it asked me to crop it and i did. But when the picture got applied it was zoomed in and was not what i had selected.
I have zeam launcher installed and tried it with the default launcher as well and same results. From what i can see when cropping the wallpaper you have to do it so it stretches to all 5 pages and scrolls, but still don't get why it zooms in. I installed zeam because i only want one page and one static image 800x400 but the zoom is really annoying making everything larger then it should be.
Anyone have a fix?
When you set it as the wallpaper usually you have to crop it and choose the size.
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jebise101 said:
put a pic of my nephew as the wallpaper, it asked me to crop it and i did. But when the picture got applied it was zoomed in and was not what i had selected.
I have zeam launcher installed and tried it with the default launcher as well and same results. From what i can see when cropping the wallpaper you have to do it so it stretches to all 5 pages and scrolls, but still don't get why it zooms in. I installed zeam because i only want one page and one static image 800x400 but the zoom is really annoying making everything larger then it should be.
Anyone have a fix?
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The phone is 960 pixels tall, so rather than 800 x 400, resize the image (if you have the original source) to something like 1440 x 960. (It may need to be wider if you have more than 5 screens, and if you don't want wallpaper to pan as you move between homescreens obviously you want 540 x 960, or, of course, just crop it.) The key thing, I think, is to get the height of the image to 960 pixels.
I used to have problems with stock changing my custom wallpaper to the default one when I had photos that were larger than that selected as wallpaper, but since resizing them I've not had that problem.

[Q] Resolution of Scrolling wallpapers?

I'm using Nova Launcher currenty ,and every time I want to set a background, it asks me to resize the image first, making my homescreen rather blury.
Does anyone know the right size for the XL?
marc0polo said:
I'm using Nova Launcher currenty ,and every time I want to set a background, it asks me to resize the image first, making my homescreen rather blury.
Does anyone know the right size for the XL?
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For the non-scrollable wallpapers dimension is 480 width 800 height
for scrollable i its 960 width & 800 height
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