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.
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Hello, whevever I try to put a wallpaper from my storage card via gallery or file explorer, Andriod forces me to crop the picture. It will only go crop to a max size of about 1/3 of the picture making the end result blurry. How can I turn this off or be able to select the wallpaper without cropping it? Sorry if this gets asked often but, i've been searching for a while now with no solution.... Thanks in advace!
PurpleSmurfLlama said:
Hello, whevever I try to put a wallpaper from my storage card via gallery or file explorer, Andriod forces me to crop the picture. It will only go crop to a max size of about 1/3 of the picture making the end result blurry. How can I turn this off or be able to select the wallpaper without cropping it? Sorry if this gets asked often but, i've been searching for a while now with no solution.... Thanks in advace!
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Size them appropriately and use a png format before putting them on the phone.
All of them are in WVGA res. Most are also png.
PurpleSmurfLlama said:
All of them are in WVGA res. Most are also png.
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Your home screen is WVGA resolution "per screenful". Given that you have 5 screens side by side, it actually needs a wallpaper that is wider than a single screen. Google it and you will find a lot of wallpapers for the N1 that are 960x800 so it looks like you need a wallpaper that is sized to be twice as wide as the portrait WVGA size...
I think I had a similar issue, and I couldn't find any mention of it.
It might be you are having the same problem.
That box you see when selecting a wallpaper is resizable. I had no idea at first, I only moved it around. It should be documented somewhere, but it isn't.
Press and drag near one of the borders of the box. Then you can expand it to the whole image.
If you already know of this, then just ignore me. But I was shocked to find out
Clarkster said:
I think I had a similar issue, and I couldn't find any mention of it.
It might be you are having the same problem.
That box you see when selecting a wallpaper is resizable. I had no idea at first, I only moved it around. It should be documented somewhere, but it isn't.
Press and drag near one of the borders of the box. Then you can expand it to the whole image.
If you already know of this, then just ignore me. But I was shocked to find out
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lol, I could see how that would make a difference
Clarkster said:
I think I had a similar issue, and I couldn't find any mention of it.
It might be you are having the same problem.
That box you see when selecting a wallpaper is resizable. I had no idea at first, I only moved it around. It should be documented somewhere, but it isn't.
Press and drag near one of the borders of the box. Then you can expand it to the whole image.
If you already know of this, then just ignore me. But I was shocked to find out
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Yes this is my issue, but.... the picture cropper will only go the entire width of the photo but not the entire height. Hence, 1/3 of the picture.I do understand it's resizeable.
PurpleSmurfLlama said:
Yes this is my issue, but.... the picture cropper will only go the entire width of the photo but not the entire height. Hence, 1/3 of the picture.I do understand it's resizeable.
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That's to maintain the proper aspect ratio (800 high by 960 wide, I believe) to allow the background to scroll.
You might be able to find a third-party gallery app that would allow you to set a "portrait" sized wallpaper, but I don't believe that is a feature of the current Gallery.
Alright, well I do have some pictures that are 1200x1600 somewhere on my SD card. Just no where near as much as my other grahics. I have roughly 2,400 pictures total and about 2,350 of them are in WVGA res.... So this is a MAJOR inconvience.
PurpleSmurfLlama said:
Yes this is my issue, but.... the picture cropper will only go the entire width of the photo but not the entire height. Hence, 1/3 of the picture.I do understand it's resizeable.
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Ok, I see. Then like mentioned before, your images are not the correct size. Since the Android scrolls the wallapper as you slide from screen to screen it needs to be much wider.
The Nexus is 480x800. But the wallpaper needs to be 960x800.
Yes, but you see.... I'm using LauncherPro, and it gives me the option to stop the wallpapers from moving sideways when scrolling screens. Therefore, I only need them in WVGA resolution. It's not like the picture is going to be strectched because it will always stay in place. If only this option was able to be turned off.....
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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theclassicalgod said:
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.
Hellò,
I would like to know why some contact pictures are showed in full screen while other, with same size and resolution are displayed very small.
I have assigned 3 picture with same size and resolution to 3 of my contacts but only one of them, when called (or when he calls me) the display shows the picture in full screen mode.
Does this happen to you also?
I don't want to use any application for full screen caller, I don't like it..
thanks for help
fausto
Hi,
has anyone had a problem viewing images taken with other(older) phones and when they are transferred to 1+3 they don't show correctly?
I cannot post screenshots atm but it's like this: pictures taken in portrait mode are displayed stretched and pictures taken in landscape are normal. It's the same weather I rotate the phone or not but then I go to edit the photo (the pencil option at the bottom) it scales the image the way it should be(just in the editing software, not in gallery).
Hope I explained it, I'll try to post a screenshot.
greets,
Domagoj
I have a few hundred photos brought from my previous phone (ASUS Padfone 2) and everything is displayed correctly ...
Did you change DPI or anything else that could affect gallery?
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I did not change a thing, just transferred the images on my 1+.
The funny thing is that the images I had taken with HTC desire and had them stored on my last phone (LG G2) are all displaying correctly so only the ones I took with the G2 are messed up.