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Lockscreen wallpaper... again

Hi,
I've been playing around transferring files onto my phone, but I just can't get my lock screen to look right.
1. Does anyone know what the exact dimensions of the lockscreen image should be? I read 320x480 somewhere, but this isn't correct. I've also tried 360x380, 340x480. Maybe it's 345x480? I want to get this right because...
2. Whenever I set an image onto the lock screen, the phone seems to compress the image really badly and I see loads of jpg artifacts on the parts that should be solid colour. I'm hoping that if the image is the right size, it won't convert/re-sample/re-compress the file.
Any ideas?

japher said:
1. Does anyone know what the exact dimensions of the lockscreen image should be?
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The stock ones are 320 x 455, and I've had good results using those dimensions for my own images.

Im sure i read that converting your image to a png and using that instead of the png file gave better results also. Not 100% on that though lol

.png gives better quality than jpg.

320x455 px is the right size. But everytime you set wallpaper, HTC software it re-compress as JPEG in tragical quality. PNG or JPEG, that makes no difference.
Will be nice software like Wallpaper Set & Save for lock screen wallpaper. But I can't find something like that.

carnero said:
320x455 px is the right size. But everytime you set wallpaper, HTC software it re-compress as JPEG in tragical quality.
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Not my experience. My own images are usually desktop 'papers resized and/or cropped to 320x455 and saved as JPEGs, and provided I ensure the green 'crop box' is expanded to encompass the entire image when selecting the lockscreen they look just as good as the originals.

I've tried many images. At most (as you) cropped or resized desktop wallpapers. I prepare the correct size and copy to phone. I keep JPEG at 90 to 100% of quality and also convert it to PNG. And every image was resampled during setting up as lock screen wallpaper. Everytime its quality goes rapidly down. Even I used exactly the same way like you.
It is not good visible on landscape wallpapers with. But on artifical images it's very big problem. It blurs every contrast line on image.
Try it on this image: http://anowia.deviantart.com/art/Light-Blaze-HD-Wallpaper-129153930 If you don't notice any resample after setting up as lock screen wallpaper, please provide screenshot.

carnero said:
Try it on this image: http://anowia.deviantart.com/art/Light-Blaze-HD-Wallpaper-129153930 If you don't notice any resample after setting up as lock screen wallpaper, please provide screenshot.
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Here you go.... see what you think. View attachment lockscreen.zip
Not perfect, but it was a rush job. Resized from 1280x1024 to ???x455, then cropped to 320x455. Saved as JPEG @ 100% for use. Photoshop Elements 7 used. If I had more time I'd probably play with the sharpening to compensate for the downsizing.

carnero said:
I've tried many images. At most (as you) cropped or resized desktop wallpapers. I prepare the correct size and copy to phone. I keep JPEG at 90 to 100% of quality and also convert it to PNG. And every image was resampled during setting up as lock screen wallpaper. Everytime its quality goes rapidly down. Even I used exactly the same way like you.
It is not good visible on landscape wallpapers with. But on artifical images it's very big problem. It blurs every contrast line on image.
Try it on this image: http://anowia.deviantart.com/art/Light-Blaze-HD-Wallpaper-129153930 If you don't notice any resample after setting up as lock screen wallpaper, please provide screenshot.
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Also having this issue with this image..

I have problems with all images. But on this it's good visible. And as Shluggity's screenshots shows, it's not only my problem. I think it's not good

I'm not sure what's going on but there's definitely some sort of degradation visible, a softening of the edges. I honestly haven't seen it in my own wallpapers, but I haven't used images like this with lots of thin sharp 'light beam' effects. Maybe original image res is a factor, maybe screen dpi, maybe something completely different... If I have time tomorrow I'll do some tests.

how does wallpaper set and save work? maybe the wallpaper directory is similar to the lockscreen directory?

Have you tried HeroLockWall? (Market)

lockscreen wallpaper help..
i have the same problem i cant get lockscreen wallpaper to work every time i try i get a tile wallpaper and not a stretch wallpaper that i want can sum body help me plz??

Boot Screen Help

I am making a new boot screen for my self that mimics an Ubuntu one. Problem I have, is durring the animation, as far as I can tell frame 2...crap hits the fan. The image distorts in a funny pixelated way. Not sure how to describe it other than an explosion of random colored pixels. Well not so random colored, they are the colors that are in the image.
So I guess my question is, are there certain ways the GIF needs to be formated? Color restrictions? Frame restriction? In all the image is 32 kb so its not huge. I have it formated is a Animated Gif WebSnap 128 - There is no transparency.

There are definitely frame restrictions. I made my own bootscreen a while back and ran into the very same issue. I downloaded an animated gif to base my screen on, and I tried a few things to fix it. The problem ended up being that all the animated frames need to be exactly the same size/shape/location. The frames don't have to take up the entire 320x480, you can just have a static background take up that space, and have the animation within smaller frames. In fact, the smaller your animation frames are, the smoother the animation will be. I initially tried making the animation frames take up the entire screen, but it was very choppy.
The gif I downloaded had the frames moving along with the animation, presumably to keep the file size down. I'm not sure what program the initial gif was made in, but I used The GIMP to re-create it.
BTW AFAIK, you can use transparencies... but it's been a little while since I touched that file, so I could be wrong.
Hope this helps! Sorry if this was a little long-winded :/

craig0r said:
There are definitely frame restrictions. I made my own bootscreen a while back and ran into the very same issue. I downloaded an animated gif to base my screen on, and I tried a few things to fix it. The problem ended up being that all the animated frames need to be exactly the same size/shape/location. The frames don't have to take up the entire 320x480, you can just have a static background take up that space, and have the animation within smaller frames. In fact, the smaller your animation frames are, the smoother the animation will be. I initially tried making the animation frames take up the entire screen, but it was very choppy.
The gif I downloaded had the frames moving along with the animation, presumably to keep the file size down. I'm not sure what program the initial gif was made in, but I used The GIMP to re-create it.
BTW AFAIK, you can use transparencies... but it's been a little while since I touched that file, so I could be wrong.
Hope this helps! Sorry if this was a little long-winded :/
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I think I am going to try it again in GIMP, I wonder if Fireworks has a lot of overhead that is messing with the file. The image is pretty much static with the exception of a progress bar. 17-ish Frames/Slates.

Here is the GIF if you want to take a look at it.

it needs to be 255 colors. no more, no less. and instead of websnap, choose exact.

[Q] How to change the size of a picture?

As above, so that it can fit to scale of my HTC Desire HD as wallpaper?
Any ideas guys?

When you select an image to use as a wallpaper the phone will let you resize it.
Otherwise best bet is to change it on your PC in something like Photoshop or Gimp. You could also use one of the free online image resizers.
Image size should be 960x800 for best fit

I tried changing to 960x800 but when setting the wallpaper right, it doesn't let me use up the whole picture. Why is it so?

That's because the picture you are trying to use will have a different aspect ratio to the aspect ratio of 960x800 (I can't remember if it's 4:3 or 3:2).
Any resolution (640x480 etc) photo with the same aspect ration can be resized to fit without cropping any of the image. However, when trying to resize an image of a different aspect ratio some of it will get cropped.
In Photoshop, when you resize an image if you uncheck the box that says "Constrain Proportions" you can make the image fit 960x800, although it will look distorted.
Further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image)

[Q] Sony Xperia Z1 custom bootanimation not working, black screen

Hello. I have Sony Xperia Z1, Android 4.4.4, build number 14.4.A.0.157, unlocked bootloader, dual recovery, stock ROM with 4k video and timeshift video mod and I made my own bootanimation in Adobe Photoshop CC. What I have done:
Animation created in resolution 1920*1080, as Z1´s display resolution.
Animation created in JPEG image sequention (JPEG settings - tried quality 8, 9, 12 with optimalized and standard compressing)
Animation has two parts, first part contains 153 pictures (called part0), I tried making only 99 pics too, second part (called part1) contains one picture that stays until phone succesfully boots. I tried resizing the image to 1280*720 like i found that resolution in Jarvis custom animation and still nothing chnanged.
Animation zipped with WinRAR.
Animation called bootanimation.zip (I have NOT made that mistake with bootanimation.zip.zip)
Animation has 7.67MB zipped, unzipped 11.4MB.
As I read yesterday someone told me I have to make desc.txt file in Notepad++, make it ANSI coded and convert it to UNIX format and make there last blank line. Done
Permissions I tried to set was -rwxrwxrwx and -rw-r--r--
Here you can download the animation: http://ulozto.cz/x8RU4UJM/bootanimation-zip
The problem is when I power on the phone it shows me Sony logo, then it vibrates two times (as normally does) and then shows black screen. And then It asks me for PIN etc. and phone is succesfully booted. But why that black screen? I set (I hope) everything good, what I did not tried is change the resolution of all pics to smaller (HD or etc) because original bootanimation is 960x540 and that working Jarvis is 1280*720 (and shows smaller so it looks pretty weird and also with bad framerate so it looks laggy) and i do not tried changing image from JPEG to PNG but original bootanimation is in JPEG as mine so I dont think it will help. Thank you all for your help guys!!! And of course If you liek that and you will solve my problem I can do the same bootanimation for you with your own text but it must have 6 letters as mine
EDIT:
I tried bootanimation factory and now my bootanimation works but ends after the image about 100...

Can you create bootanimation for me

[Q] Bootanimation - Convert a 1080p to 1440x2560 N6

I have a bootanimation that is from the Scott Pilgrim video game. I used it on my old Nexus 5 and it was awesome, however I am unable to use this bootanimation on the N6 as the resolution is a lot higher on the N6. Can anyone tell me if its possible to convert it to the N6 resolution and have it work? I used Jrummy Root Tools and converted it to my phones resolution but it would not work, only showed a black screen.
I have attached the bootanimation file just in case. As I am not the original maker of this boot animation, if anyone likes to have it your welcome to. Id really love to have this boot animation to go with my phones wallpaper (also attached)
EDIT: Figured it out. Had to resize all the photos to the N6 screen resolution and then compress it as "store" only. Then copy to internal location for the stock bootanimation and BAM! All works. I have attached a link for the newly resized and working version for the N6. Enjoy yall
Link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6oz0OoWTiptazE2RkNoZkFvOEE/view

You should be able do it yourself without relying on an app. Unzip the boot animation. Change the first line in desc.txt using Notepad++ in Windows as follows and save the file. Zip the boot animation files, making sure to set compression to "store", then copy to the device and reboot.
Code:
1440 2560 15
The boot animation should have no problems upscaling to the N6 screen size. I use this upscaling on my own boot animation to keep the file size down, and I've been using the same boot animation for six years now. The original incarnation was scaled for a Dell Streak's 800 x 480 screen, then upscaled for a Galaxy S4 screen (1920 x 1080), and upscaled a third time for the N6.