Guest John Hamelink Posted January 24, 2010 Report Posted January 24, 2010 Ok, I must be doing something insanely stupid. I know that android wallpapers should be at 640x480. I have some wallpapers I've downloaded especially for android at that size, I put them in /sdcard/pictures/wallpapers and open up the gallery app, then use "set as". Every single time I get a crop dialog which gives me no choice but to slice the image up into a third. I want the whole image to display over the 3 viewports I have (such as how androlib's wallpaper app does when it downloads wallpapers from it's database and sets them up on your phone). Any help would be greatly appreciated, John.
Guest Rem1x Posted January 24, 2010 Report Posted January 24, 2010 Drag the box so it covers it all? (hold one of the corners)
Guest RavemasterX Posted March 7, 2010 Report Posted March 7, 2010 Bumping this. I finally decided to cough up for Beautiful Widgets so I could get the weather and a nice clock. Got it working in the end although it crashed the phone a couple of times. Anyway, I decided that what would set it all off nicely was a crop of one of the night shots I took recently in Paris. So I cropped the horizontal picture into a vertical one of 320x480, loaded that onto the phone, and set it as my wallpaper. I set crop to max when it asked. But the picture's cropped. When you scroll to another screen it moves a bit, but in a sort of parallax scrolling effect to the movement of the main screen- which is admittedly cool, but not what I want. Is there a way of persuading it to show my original 320x480 pic mapped 1-1 on the main homescreen?
Guest John Hamelink Posted March 13, 2010 Report Posted March 13, 2010 Has anyone been able to fix this? (sorry Rem1x for never replying to your post - that doesn't work)
Guest biron_w Posted March 14, 2010 Report Posted March 14, 2010 Download photoshop.com mobile from the market.Just set your wallpaper through that and it should work.
Guest twrock Posted March 14, 2010 Report Posted March 14, 2010 Has anyone been able to fix this? (sorry Rem1x for never replying to your post - that doesn't work) That is what works for me every time. I'm not sure why it isn't working for you. So just to be sure, if you open Gallery, click-hold on the picture you want, choose Set As, choose Wallpaper, drag the edges of the yellow box to the full dimensions of your 640x480 image, click Save, then your image does not completely fill the standard three home screens? Are you seeing the arrows on the edges of the yellow crop image box when you click-hold on the edges of the box? If you touch the middle of the box, all you can do is drag it around, but if you hold on the actual yellow line, it should let you adjust the size of the box to include the entire 640x480 image. (Well, at least it does for me; YMMV.) Good luck.
Guest stupidm4n Posted March 14, 2010 Report Posted March 14, 2010 I had problems with this using t-mobile rom but vanilla rom ok seemed
Guest ogiogi Posted March 14, 2010 Report Posted March 14, 2010 Try "wallpaper set and save". Works for me. http://www.androlib.com/android.applicatio...ndsave-jzt.aspx
Guest John Hamelink Posted March 14, 2010 Report Posted March 14, 2010 (edited) That is what works for me every time. I'm not sure why it isn't working for you. So just to be sure, if you open Gallery, click-hold on the picture you want, choose Set As, choose Wallpaper, drag the edges of the yellow box to the full dimensions of your 640x480 image, click Save, then your image does not completely fill the standard three home screens? Are you seeing the arrows on the edges of the yellow crop image box when you click-hold on the edges of the box? If you touch the middle of the box, all you can do is drag it around, but if you hold on the actual yellow line, it should let you adjust the size of the box to include the entire 640x480 image. (Well, at least it does for me; YMMV.) Good luck. There are no yellow lines, but there are pink lines. I followed your instructions to a tee, but i get the same result. I reckon this is a tmobile rom issue (although I am using MCR 1.8) Wallpaper set and save works for me, but it still doesnt answer the question as to why the default method isn't working. Edited March 14, 2010 by John Hamelink
Guest biron_w Posted March 14, 2010 Report Posted March 14, 2010 There are no yellow lines, but there are pnk lines. I followed your instructions to a tee, but i get the same result. I reckon this is a tmobile rom issue (although I am using MCR 1.8 Wallpaper set and save works for me, but it still doesnt answer the question as to why the default method isn't working. I could never get the normal method to work for me either. No matter the size of the picture it would always be spread over all of my home screens rather than just centred on one screen.
Guest twrock Posted March 15, 2010 Report Posted March 15, 2010 (edited) There are no yellow lines, but there are pink lines. I followed your instructions to a tee, but i get the same result. I reckon this is a tmobile rom issue (although I am using MCR 1.8) Wallpaper set and save works for me, but it still doesnt answer the question as to why the default method isn't working. I guess I would conclude the same as you at this point. I'm using my phone's original ROM, a very "vanilla" Android v. 1.5. Maybe this is too "out there", but have you thought about working around it by making the wallpaper picture you want, but having a "border" on the original picture that you don't want of exactly the dimensions so that it is cropped the way you want it on the device? I have no idea if that is even possible, but maybe.....? On my phone, the crop box is always the same percentage of the picture when it first shows up, regardless of the resolution of the original picture. So I think that would work in my case. Of course, YMMV. Edited March 15, 2010 by twrock
Guest bellkevin Posted July 14, 2010 Report Posted July 14, 2010 Try "wallpaper set and save". Works for me. http://www.androlib.com/android.applicatio...ndsave-jzt.aspx Hmmm. It's not worked for me.. I clicked the link and where I thought to download the software but it keeps saying the page can't be displayed. I've tried this over 2 days now and the same thing. Any suggestions to where to find it somewhere else?? The cropped photo is just too small but zoomed in and not really what I want.. The options just aren't there.. Any help would be appreciated.. Kevin
Guest Whatever75 Posted February 17, 2011 Report Posted February 17, 2011 Has anyone been able to fix this? (sorry Rem1x for never replying to your post - that doesn't work) Download "Wallpaper Wizardrii" from Anrdoid Market. I had same problem and just few minutes ago find out about that software, works perfectly.
Guest sentroy Posted February 17, 2011 Report Posted February 17, 2011 ES File Explorer can handle wallpapers as nice as 'Wallpaper Set and Save', no quality loss; no cropping. Just open the image with file explorer and hold on the image, then choose set as wallpaper :D
Guest Fusion0306 Posted February 17, 2011 Report Posted February 17, 2011 Download "Wallpaper Wizardrii" from Anrdoid Market. I had same problem and just few minutes ago find out about that software, works perfectly. Can't you see that the last post was in march of 2010?!?
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