Hello, since yesterday I am using a Moto G5S Plus, as a successor of my Moto X Play. On the X Play I had a photo, resized to 1080x1920, as a wallpaper. I copied that photo to the G5S Plus, and set is as wallpaper. To my surprise, only part of the photo is shown (zoomed in), and when swiping to the right, to another page it, scrolls a bit to the left.
I want my photo to be full screen (it has the exact same size as the screen), and not to scroll. What settings do I have to change to achieve this?
When you set your wallpaper try zooming out when you're selecting the picture (Zoom out with your fingers, right before you would click 'set wallpaper')
If that doesn't work just get a different launcher.
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I've noticed poor quality of some images used for wallpapers and think I may understand why. Our phone's resolution is 320x480 but when you use a launcher with "x" number of screens, you seemingly need to multiply 320 by "x", since the image is stretched across screens.
Is that correct ?
From my understanding, you use the 320 x 480 for lock screen images and 640 x 480 for the Wallpapers. If it is any bigger than that, it won't do a lot of good because the Wallpaper selector only lets you use that much. Otherwise, let's say you have a 1024 x 768 picture or whatever, once you select that to use, it will give you a box that you have to expand to cover the picture. It will not expand large enough to encompass this, but rather will just do as much as it can and create more of a zoom in effect for your selection. This would also probably result in less than desireable picture quality.
the wall paper is not stretched to fit a specific number of screens......... the wall paper remains at 640......... the number of screens simply changes the distance of travel across the wallpaper....... this is why the wallpaper overlaps from screen to screen........ you do not see an entirely new portion of the wallpaper on each screen...... the amount of overlap changes with the number of screens
640 wide on a 3 screen layout..... main sees 160-480... left sees 0-320.... right sees 320-640
640 wide on 5 screen layout...... main sees 160-480... far left sees 0-320... near left sees 80-400.... near right sees 240-560..... far right sees 320-640
hope that clarifies it a little bit
copestag said:
the wall paper is not stretched to fit a specific number of screens......... the wall paper remains at 640......... the number of screens simply changes the distance of travel across the wallpaper....... this is why the wallpaper overlaps from screen to screen........ you do not see an entirely new portion of the wallpaper on each screen...... the amount of overlap changes with the number of screens
hope that clarifies it a little bit
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Ahhh, that does make sense and I do recall seeing "overlap", like you suggest.
Reasons I asked was that I had used a black-carbon-fiber wallpaper that appeared to be zoomed on the phone. It was pixellated and poor quality. When I look at it in the Gallery or on my PC though, it's nice looking. Also, I had downloaded a few wallpapers that were in fact 640x480, so silly me re-sized them to 320x480, then was disappointed in how they looked.
I do still wish it had the ability to down-size pics as needed. It could still use the selection rectangle to select what part of the image to use.
I am having trouble with using custom wallpaper and need some input from you fine people. I understand our tab has a resolution of 1024X600 so plain, dumb redneck logic tells me a wallpaper image of that size will fill the screen perfectly and completely. However, that is not the case apparently.
If I put a 1024X600 image on the tab and select it as wallpaper, I am presented with a photo-cropping interface that FORCES me to crop the picture. OK, no biggie, it is high-quality at 300dpi, so I do that and it includes the whole picture I want displayed.
The problem comes when you actually go back to the home screen, the picture has been blown up so damn large that it only shows a small piece of the image.
Does anybody have any real specs on what format the wallaper needs to be in?
I've searched forever regarding this as well...and can't find a straigt answer. What's strange to me is that if you click on a picture on the web, and select set as wallpaper, it will be formatted relatively accurately (there's a little cropping, but not much) if you save the same photo, and set it as wallpaper through the setup screen, it's all zoomed in and cropped horribly.
I've used an app called Wallaby to set wallpapers. you can tell it to NOT resize the image you select, and it works OK.
Basically, what I've found is that even though the resolution is 1024X640, you actually need an image that's more line 1024 wide by 1920...the reason for this is that when you are presented with the "crop" screen, you select a box, but it will only actually show the top 1/3rd of that box as your wallpaper. If you make the box smaller, it will select the top 1/3rd AND zoom in. the odd part for my is that the box is not axis specific...you are only able to crop vertically AND horizontally, not one or the other.
If you pull out a wallpaper image from a rom, you'll see that it's REALLY tall, and the bottom 2/3rds are pretty much blank...that's how it needs to be made in order to look right on the tablet.
so, if you can locate an image that's 1024X1920, it will not zoom in, but it will only show the top 1/3rd of the image on the screen as wallpaper...
Hit up the market for MultiPicture Live Wallpaper. Free app. Easiest way to get the most of your wallpapers back in landscape. Most of the current versions of android are based around Portrait orientation so it crops to fit across a few smaller windows.
For those with newer devices that are landscape oriented, we get screwed. lol But, gladly this app is free to get what you need done at the very least. Has some other interesting features too, need be, but a lot are paid features, I think.
Hope this helps.
Flick ur pics from the market does a really fine job also.
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Hit up the market for MultiPicture Live Wallpaper. Free app. Easiest way to get the most of your wallpapers back in landscape. Most of the current versions of android are based around Portrait orientation so it crops to fit across a few smaller windows.
For those with newer devices that are landscape oriented, we get screwed. lol But, gladly this app is free to get what you need done at the very least. Has some other interesting features too, need be, but a lot are paid features, I think.
Hope this helps.
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I actually have had multi-picture live since I first got the tab. It does something very strange with BoS. Multi-picture provides for screens 1-7 but the device shows screens 8-14 so it won't even configure correctly at all. I am sure it is the difference in res for screen.
Actually, I have been able to get both 1024X1024 and 1024X600 images to work with the regular wallpaper chooser. The problem comes after waking it up from sleep, the image is borked.
Tried Wallaby - absolutely worthless for me. Wallpaper Wizardrii is ok, but still difficult to work with.
I have recently installed a Parrot Asteroid Smart Android Headunit, running Android 2.3.7, and I would like to try and replicate an exiting launcher UI from the Volvo Sensus connected touch.
The sensus UI is essentially one large icon per screen (large and easy to touch when moving) each screen transitions continuously, with each screen having a subtle zoom effect zooming in as its selected and zooming out as it is swiped off screen. The closest I've seen is a cylinder transition, but it was the wrong way around, and as I recall it was on the app drawer rather than home screens.
But the thing I'm trying to replicate that I haven't seen any launcher do (they most probably don't see a use case for it) is that the previous and next screens are about 75% in view when on a particular screen, so you can see the what apps/screens are would come next if swiping right or left.
I have been using sslauncher so far, and have got a similar effect, but not quite right as the launcher can't replcate having the previous and next screens partly in view.
Heres a youtube link, skip to 1 minute in to see what I'm going for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VjPmstvBuE
There are some other touches I'd like, the particle emitter effect when a shortcut is pressed is quite nice, but they are nice to haves.
Any ideas?
Is there any way to change the megapixel setting the camera shoots? Some of the pictures I take could have smaller file sizes.
When you open the camera app open the settings by placing your finger on the left side of the screen and drag it to the right. Then you will see the settings menu and select the rectangle with the L to chose from widescreen (15.5mp) or Standard (21mp). Those are the only options I am aware of with the stock camera app. The Lenovo one mentioned here is much better. I use version 3.6.7 with the call/sms/contact etc permissions and the popup and the QR-scanner removed This is a good explanation of the different sizes.
Good day! I want to put my photos as wallpaper on my desktop. I took several photos, made their size according to the resolution of the phone, put it on the phone, and assigned it. But the problem is that they do not fit on the screen! Only a part of the photo is visible on the screen. I already made a white frame for them and set the size in millimeters as a screen on the phone. Nothing helps. Tell me what else can I do. I did not think that such a problem could arise in android. On my old Lumia 950, I just set the resolution in the right proportions and all the photos fit into the screen automatically.