I have my wallpaper fixed so it doesn't move when I move from screen to screen.
Since I'm using a fixed wallpaper why does it STILL want me to crop an image? I have an image on my phone that fits the screen perfectly but when I go to set it as a wallpaper it wants to crop it and cut the image pretty much in half which is really dumb.
I see you are a new Droid user. The wallpaper 'feature' was discussed and complained about a bazillion times back in November when the phone was launched. Is is one of those design decisions made by Google
Haha, I see I misunderstood your question...but it's because you misunderstood how the phone works
Your wallpaper will always span your screens, that's how Android is designed.
The correct resolution for a wallpaper would be 960x854
It's a FIXED wallpaper. Do you know what that means? If it's fixed it's not supposed to span 3 screen. Because I have it set to fixed the wallpaper never moves.
The correct resolution for a fixed wallpaper is 480x854 which means when I go into the gallery and pull up a picture that I set for 480x854 it fits the screen perfectly. I should just be able to set the wallpaper up with no cropping why? Because it fits the screen perfectly there is no reason to crop it.
There shouldn't be a crop feature when you have it set to fixed...
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FYI: I haven't tried it, but noticed a paid app in the Market. Wallpaper Plus / US $1.99. The description suggests it will kill the cropping business, while allowing you to dictate precisely what you want to see per screen. Description & screenies: Wallpaper Plus for Android - AndroidZoom.com
It's a FIXED wallpaper. Do you know what that means? If it's fixed it's not supposed to span 3 screen. Because I have it set to fixed the wallpaper never moves.
The correct resolution for a fixed wallpaper is 480x854 which means when I go into the gallery and pull up a picture that I set for 480x854 it fits the screen perfectly. I should just be able to set the wallpaper up with no cropping why? Because it fits the screen perfectly there is no reason to crop it.
There shouldn't be a crop feature when you have it set to fixed...
Fabulous is right. he always is.
how bout you just grab a wallpaper off your sd and put yours over it. then you know your right.
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It's a FIXED wallpaper. Do you know what that means? If it's fixed it's not supposed to span 3 screen. Because I have it set to fixed the wallpaper never moves.
The correct resolution for a fixed wallpaper is 480x854 which means when I go into the gallery and pull up a picture that I set for 480x854 it fits the screen perfectly. I should just be able to set the wallpaper up with no cropping why? Because it fits the screen perfectly there is no reason to crop it.
There shouldn't be a crop feature when you have it set to fixed...
FIXED: fastened, attached, or placed so as to be firm and not readily movable; firmly implanted; stationary; rigid.
Fixed doesn't mean that it doesn't span the 3 screens...it means that it doesn't scroll left/right.
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It's a FIXED wallpaper. Do you know what that means? If it's fixed it's not supposed to span 3 screen. Because I have it set to fixed the wallpaper never moves.
It is FIXED. It's fixed to the middle of your Home screen and you pan around it. The image does not move, you move around it.
I find it odd that damstr asks questions, but then knows all the answers at the same time. Some people just like to argue I guess...
See the thing is people don't understand the question I was asking.
I'll rephrase it. How do I set a wallpaper so it obey's the screens hardware resolution which is 480x854? In other words pretend I only have 1 home screen and can't scroll to the left or right....
i think i know what he means. he wants the image to just stay on one screen without it spanning across 3 screens, so when you scroll the screens, the wallpaper doesnt move and only the icons do. wallpaper stays the same and it would be the resolution of the screen 848x480. i believe there was an option to do this in home++ where you can just set a static image for the wallpaper so that it doesn't span the screens. i know theres a live wallpaper that does that.
so basically if you don't want it to span you will need some kinda app. but i don't think there's a way for you to NOT crop it anyway. i know what you mean because i have an image that fits the screen length and width perfectly but i still have to crop it so it becomes all zoomed in and doesn't look as sharp.
See the thing is people don't understand the question I was asking.
I'll rephrase it. How do I set a wallpaper so it obey's the screens hardware resolution which is 480x854? In other words pretend I only have 1 home screen and can't scroll to the left or right....
You can't, it's how the device is designed, you have 3 screens and they expect you to utilize them.
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We understand what you are asking. The wallpaper will be stretched so it fits across three screens. Whether or not you view those other screens when you have your wallpaper "fixed" is up to you. If not, you'll just be looking at the center of the image.
Try creating an image that has what you want to see on all three screens in the middle with two blank spaces on either side of it. That should get done what you're looking for.
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It's a FIXED wallpaper. Do you know what that means? If it's fixed it's not supposed to span 3 screen. Because I have it set to fixed the wallpaper never moves.
The correct resolution for a fixed wallpaper is 480x854 which means when I go into the gallery and pull up a picture that I set for 480x854 it fits the screen perfectly. I should just be able to set the wallpaper up with no cropping why? Because it fits the screen perfectly there is no reason to crop it.
There shouldn't be a crop feature when you have it set to fixed...
Who wiped the frosting off your cupcake? Why the attitude when someone is trying to help?
i think i know what he means. he wants the image to just stay on one screen without it spanning across 3 screens, so when you scroll the screens, the wallpaper doesnt move and only the icons do. wallpaper stays the same and it would be the resolution of the screen 848x480. i believe there was an option to do this in home++ where you can just set a static image for the wallpaper so that it doesn't span the screens. i know theres a live wallpaper that does that.
so basically if you don't want it to span you will need some kinda app. but i don't think there's a way for you to NOT crop it anyway. i know what you mean because i have an image that fits the screen length and width perfectly but i still have to crop it so it becomes all zoomed in and doesn't look as sharp.
Thanks that's what I'm trying to do.
I think they do this because when you tilt the device sideways in landscape view the wallpaper doesn't get cut off because the widened wallpaper fits if that makes sense.
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You can't, it's how the device is designed, you have 3 screens and they expect you to utilize them.
I guess. I just wanted a wallpaper to obey the actual hardware resolution of the screen not the digital resolution if that's what you want to call.
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We understand what you are asking. The wallpaper will be stretched so it fits across three screens. Whether or not you view those other screens when you have your wallpaper "fixed" is up to you. If not, you'll just be looking at the center of the image.
Try creating an image that has what you want to see on all three screens in the middle with two blank spaces on either side of it. That should get done what you're looking for.
That's what I'm going to try tonight.
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Who wiped the frosting off your cupcake? Why the attitude when someone is trying to help?
I installed launcher pro so I could just have 1 homescreen. Then, I have to take a pic with my canon T2i @ 18MP, then crop, and then mount to the sd card where I can set as my homescreen image. I still cant get past the Wallpaper crop step, but this allows me to have enough resolution on the image so that my wallpaper on my hi-res phone screen doesn't look like it was taken with Logitech's 1st webcam they ever made.
Horrible design flaw/ OS issue with this. Just turrable.
A lot of people don't seem to realize that the crop box is resizable. If you enlarge the crop box you can use as much of the image as possible. Whether or not you can use all of the image depends on the dimensions of the image and whether they match the wallpaper size (not necessarily screen size) of your particular device. If the ratios match you can use the entire image and you won't lose anything.
I mean, for example, if the wallpaper aspect ratio for your device is 4:3 then the image you want to use has to have a 4:3 ratio as well or else you'll have to crop some of the image.
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Horrible design flaw/ OS issue with this. Just turrable.
It's not an OS flaw/issue. It's a user misunderstanding issue. It might be easier for people if the OS supported streching and scaling but then users would just complain that their wallpapers are all distorted.
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Hey damstr,
Don't know if you ever found what you were looking for, but I seem to be one of the few who really know what you're asking. No crop, fullscreen wallpapers can be used with the app called Wallpaper Wizardrii. Just set image to exact. Been looking all day for what I think you're trying to do. Hope this helps you all trying to use your pictures for wallpapers!
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i want to set a wall paper that will scroll as i switch pages on my home screen,
however whenever i set an image to wallpaper, it makes me crop it to fit 1 page and remains static,
i'd like to have a widescreen wallpaper that scrolls with the pages just like the default wallpapers, live wallpapers and the "ID" wallpapers provided by spring dlc packs,
i've checked settings and all i can find are adjust animations, adjust brightness, auto rotate screen and screen timeout,
if someone could please help it'd be greatly appreciated,
sine this thread is somewhat recent i'm wondering if it's a Froyo thing?
EDIT: actually nevermind, i restarted my phone and the problem went away, but i'm still not sure why it was static before and cant make it do so again,
well anyway, i prefer the scrolling wallpapers, so i'm happy,
Last edited by Draykow; February 8th, 2011 at 11:32 AM.
Reason: problem resolved
I didn't want to ahve to go thru all that sizing resizing with photoshop so I went to the market & downloaded "Wallpaper Wizardrii". It's perfect for me. I have a picture that doesn't move when I slide the screen it's not cropped. The program gives you options as to how you want the picture to look . Really good & not too much memory space used. I suggest you try it. If you don't like it then judt delete it.
Check my Sigs - you don't need photoshop to resize images, but for the DROID the dimensions are 480 * 854.
Some of the images don't resize cleanly to those exact dimensions, so I've resized them to either one or the other (maintain the aspect ratio) so some will have bands either horizontally or vertically.
Any image editor will be able to resize easily, including Paint.NET, The Gimp, etc.
i want to set a wall paper that will scroll as i switch pages on my home screen,
however whenever i set an image to wallpaper, it makes me crop it to fit 1 page and remains static,
i'd like to have a widescreen wallpaper that scrolls with the pages just like the default wallpapers, live wallpapers and the "ID" wallpapers provided by spring dlc packs,
i've checked settings and all i can find are adjust animations, adjust brightness, auto rotate screen and screen timeout,
if someone could please help it'd be greatly appreciated,
sine this thread is somewhat recent i'm wondering if it's a Froyo thing?
EDIT: actually nevermind, i restarted my phone and the problem went away, but i'm still not sure why it was static before and cant make it do so again,
well anyway, i prefer the scrolling wallpapers, so i'm happy,
Yeah, same thing happened to me. I first wanted a non-spanable wallpaper, i.e one fixed view for every home. But had to settle for a spanned one. At this stage quickpic would only let me crop landscape.
Then one day the wallpaper became non-spanned, I was happy and even noticed that quickpic changed to a portrait crop for any pic-to-wallpaper.
I tried to change back to spannable. but couldn't find a way. It had me confused for hours, I even compared it to my mate's identical phone, uninstalled quickpic on both phones and re-installed again. No change, one phone was spanned, the other non-spanned. Finally reset mine and it turned back normal (spanned).
(I think prefer spanned now).
I'm a brand new member - only got my android yesterday - and had already come across the problem of cropping pictures. The Wallpaper Wizardii is absolutely brilliant! Thanks whoever first suggested it. Just what I wanted.
I see you are a new Droid user. The wallpaper 'feature' was discussed and complained about a bazillion times back in November when the phone was launched. Is is one of those design decisions made by Google
I just recently got an Android (the Samsung Galaxy Attain with Gingerbread) and was wondering if spannable walls were no longer possible with it. I tried cropping, been trying the Wallpaper Wizardrii, but it either is too large for the screen or not quite what I would've liked. Any assistance is appreciated, thanks!
i didnt read all of these posts but if u r still lookin for the answer...to span any pic from your gallery across all screens you:
1. Go to you gallery and select the pic you want
2. Select Menu, More, Set as
3. Make sure you select SET AS WALLPAPER (not wallpaper w/ gallery logo)
4. It should have 3 layouts and a checkbox that says "Scrollable Wallpaper"
5. If u want all three screens check it and just one leave it unchecked
At least that is for nexus s
Last edited by Vandalyz; January 31st, 2012 at 10:27 PM.
I had the same problem as the OP. I too found that app "wallpaper wizardrii" on marketplace and it's the answer to all your problems. All of the other apps I've tried don't give you a choice....you HAVE to crop the picture which sucks if you want the pic just the way you see it on screen.
Once you open up the app, find the picture and then touch "set" at the bottom of the screen. Next, you'll see another menu pop up and you'll need to select the "no scroll" option (it might give you an warning screen but say yes anyways) and then choose "exact" and you're done! That's it!
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Anyway to set a wallpaper without cropping it?
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