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
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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
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Bought it, nice. "?" for weather icon when "cloudy"?
Developer responded immediately. Update coming later tonight. Nice app, accurate data, smooth transitions.
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Thanks, cloudy icon fixed, update is available. Was a little sleepy yesterday
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Hello, it could be nice to be able to use multiple pictures, and have it changed depending on the weather (and still keeping your weather animation)
for example, the ASUS tree wallpaper have multiple versions, it could be cool to be able to uses them and put your effects on top.
Regards
I don't really use live wallpapers...but love this one!
Quick question...how does the battery setting work? I have set it at 0% and I can't see any difference from having it at default.
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I like using live wallpapers due to bat3 drainage. But i had 2 giv dis a shot and its cool though i'll suggest in making it lighter to save Ram space and minise battery usage.
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Seems nice, I'll give it a go !
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Thanks, hope you enjoy it!
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Hello, is it possible to allow the user to define different wallpapers based on weather or time? For example, I have three nearly identical wallpapers, but one is at night and another have snow on the ground instead of grass, it could be nice to take advantage of that
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Sure
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i sent you an e-mail, here a pm, but you dont answer...i bought this app weather now, and i want to ask you, why the battery its draining more than before. I see a google service, nlpcollector have a big consumption. Do you know why, or what can i do? thanks
I'm a big fan of customizing homescreen and that's one of the reasons why i love android so much and never liked the scrolling wallpapers in android launchers, So i always stop the wallpaper scrolling and then the next thing is that it's always awesome to have model wallpapers once in a while as the wallpaper but then it's really hard to find a good collection of model wallpapers that fits nicely. So i always have to search alot to find good stuff, so i thought of sharing what i've found with yo'll.
I'm not sure if all the lauchers support "wallpaper scroll" to stop or allow but most 3rd party launchers like NOVA, APEX,TSF shell...ect supports this, So this is for all those who want hot model wallpapers that does not scroll
I'm using these on my Galaxy Note 2 and they look great not full HD but still it's all good quality.
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Here's something special for those who does not like to use the same wallpaper every single day. Most of you might know these apps already but this is for those who does not know about these amazing apps. So basically what they do is that they let you change your wallpaper automatically or with a simple click of a widget. so that you don't have to go through all the photos over and over again to select a new photo as your wallpaper. you can select a your folder or album with your favorite photos and then the app will change the wallpaper according to your settings. This is just the basic idea about these 3 apps you will understand what to do with it once you instal and check em out for yourself.
#1
Wallpaper Changer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.wallpaperChanger&hl=en
#2
Automatic Wallpaper Changer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.ohanasiya.android.flickwallnet&hl=en
#3
Multipicture Live Wallpaper
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tamanegi.wallpaper.multipicture&hl=en
I highly recommend wallpaper Changer #1 which is what i use daily.
> Low Ram use
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>Very simple
>2 modes - Live wallpaper and Stand alone app mode (if you don't tick the live wallpaper option it goes as a stand alone app
Multipicture live wallpaper is also great and has alot more features than my #1 and the best thing about it is that you can select different wallpapers for different screens it looks really cool. but make sure when you're in the settings you edit the memory consumption setting to LOW or Medium because otherwise it mat take too much of your ram.
I know it is available because I used it for a week.
But now my background doesn't move anymore and I can't find the option.
Thanks!
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To get the parallax effect you have to choose the parallax wallpaper from Samsung Themes or press and hold down on the home screen to enter into 'Wallpapers and themes'. There are only 4 stock wallpapers with the parallax effect anyway.
I haven't seen any stock wallpapers with parallax effects... are they the paint splash ones?
bat0nas said:
I know it is available because I used it for a week.
But now my background doesn't move anymore and I can't find the option.
Thanks!
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You can get it on any wallpaper. You just need to install it from the Samsung theme app and not from a 3rd party wallpaper app.
OK.. looks like I've found a workaround for my question and a bug and I hope Samsung won't fix it
Motion effect works only with static Wallpapers.
And I'm using Wallpaper Changer (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.j4velin.wallpaperChanger&hl=en_US) to have random wallpapers. And Wallpaper Changer needs to be set as Live Wallpaper.
But Motion Effect is not available for Android Live Wallpapers.
Workaround: Set static wallpaper with motion effect and then immediately set wallpaper changer live wallpaper. And bingo - parallax with live wallpaper and Motion effect for my random wallpaper gallery.
Problem solved.