11sec_lx

I am so sick of the little crop window you stretch to only see a portion of your photo and it's being reviewed at full screen size. I saw someone post that you grab the upper left and bottom right corners to stretch the window, but it did not work for me. Thanks in advance.

jds4000

Agreed. Android has a miserable means of formatting photos to fit the screen properly. I gave up trying when I had the Incredible. The whole process should be so simple. The whole process should be a one click affair. It is NOT!

GodCountryND

Look for an app called wallpaper set and save. Works like a charm.

SniperDroid

I haven't had any problems, put finger in center of box, slide to upper right corner of pic, move finger to lower left corner and slide outwards, I thought it was pretty simple.

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11sec_lx

Sniper, I don't know what size photos its working for you with, but it only gives me a portion of the photo when stretched all the way.

Godcountrynd, I dl'd wallpaper set save and the pics are still not fitting on the entire screen like when I preview a picture, this time it was huge. Am I missing something?

Thanks!

11sec_lx

Has anyone found a fix for this? Thanks!

11sec_lx

Anybody?

Vincent Law

Guys, the reason for the cropping box when you set a wallpaper is that the wallpaper you're trying to set is not the same aspect ratio of the device. If it were to ignore the aspect ratio, it would make your wallpaper appear "fat" or "tall", sometimes extremely so.

mikevember

Why not have a fixed image instead of one that scrolls with the changing of home screens?

11sec_lx

If photo resizing is required, what's the easiest way to resize them to the correct size, from my phone?

Thanks!

71Makaveli96

okay I figured out a way
1st - u need "andWobble wallpaper"
2nd - just add image from gallery (WITHOUT adding a wobble)
3rd - after adding pic just press "set wallpaper"
*** OG pics size = 480x800

Last edited by 71Makaveli96; June 10th, 2010 at 02:55 PM.

BetterMost

I AGREE, Its an awful process on Android. I took a photo with the phone of my corvette and framed it really nice and then selected it as wall paper only to find the program blows the photo up and now half the car is missing on the wall paper. I have NEVER EVER had a phone do this before. No matter how hard I tried to use the green frame thingy it didn't work. I ended up having to stand waaaay back from the car so the car looked tiny in the shot but when it was submitted for wall paper it was then up sized and looked close to my originally normal framed photo. Wall paper on this phone is REALLY F**KED UP!

lilsaphyre

Just isn't so. All of my wallpapers are 480x800 for my Incredible and it still makes me crop.

ekt8750

Wallpaper has to be 960x800 if you don't want to crop.

Vincent Law

As the above poster said, you need 960x800. The 960 comes in because the wallpaper scrolls left/right when you change screens on the home. If you make a 960x800 one, you can make it perfectly sized, no cropped off edges.

Also, for those that are lazy, 1280x1024 wallpapers for PCs are VERY CLOSE to the same ratio (very little is cropped).

lilsaphyre

Yep. Had to find this info elsewhere however. I'm going to thank your post though because it's important.

I resized all of mine I was having issues with.

11sec_lx

Just purchased and wobble. Heres hoping it works for me too. Thanks for the tip.

11sec_lx

Is there a program that you can do this with on our evo's?

11sec_lx

So i bought and wobble and don't see an option to make it wallpaper. I also downloaded the free and wobble wallpaper and it just throw up some blonde and i can't seem to findan option to change the image. Any idea where i am going wrong? Sorry to sound so helpless. Thanks in advance.

71Makaveli96

INSTRUCTIONS
1. on home screen MENU / WALLPAPER / LIVE WALLPAPERS / ANDWOBBLE WALLPAPER
2. Settings / MENU / IMAGE / IMAGE FROM GALLERY / FIND UR IMAGE /PRESS THE BACK BUTTON NEXT TO MENU / SET WALLPAPER!!! ENJOY

11sec_lx

Where do i start step2 from? I have tried over and over from a couple places, but didn't see the menus you reference. Sorry for sounding/being so inept. Haha. Thanks...

gsx62391

its been said twice in the beginning of the forum. There are apps in the market that do all of it for you. Pick the pic and it re-sizes it perfectly for you. I'm using "Wallpaper maker" and its working perfect.

jds4000

In addition to the pathetic browser, adding images to the home screen is also a painful, ridiculous process on the Android OS.

11sec_lx

Bought wallpaper maker and all is well. Thanks!

Mekstar

Great app! works perfectly. Simple to use and its FREE! Thanks!

kiratomic

what the frick, the iphone can do it and i can't..
i've tried all those apps you all have posted and nothing is working. does it matter that the picture i want to use as a wallpaper is portrait and not landscape? every time it crops my picture.

oh, and i can't find this wallpaper maker app you are all going on about. the set and save doesn't seem to like me..

Last edited by kiratomic; July 6th, 2010 at 05:11 PM.

drexappeal

YES, it does matter that the wallpaper you want to use is in portrait, not landscape. As mentioned in the earlier posts, the "perfect" aspect ratio / size of the wallpaper should be 960X800.

That means 960 (horizontal) X 800 (vertical). That is why you are having to crop the picture. HTC Sense UI is set in a format that the wallpaper extends through the 7 screens on the homepage. Find the wallpaper you want that is set in landscape and you'll find it is much easier than you think.

redninja

I use wallpaper plus for portraits, though it still crops alittle, and it kinda degrades the photo, coming from winmo's and palms the android wallpaper does suck, alot

drexappeal

I disagree. On my WinMO, if I used my own pics, it'd re-size the pics strangely...and on my Touch Pro, you had to install 10 million cabs in order for the phone to have the wallpaper show on all the different tabs in TouchFlo3D.

In Sense UI, it's like having a full sized wallpaper that I'd have on my computer, except it extends to all 7 pages on Sense UI (without any edits or any added files) and then you get to see a higher resolution picture, as well. I think it absolutely Destroys WinMO when it comes to this.

I'm a Lakers fan, so I have 2 wallpapers from the Lakers.com website that I basically just resized to 960 width and they fit PERFECT. It's cool being able to see different parts of the wallpaper as you scroll through the different home pages.

kiratomic

i don't really like that the picture moves while you scroll. i think that should be optional because it limits what pictures you can use unless you're super savy and know how to resize them.

drexappeal

???? The picture doesn't really "move." Think of it this way, imagine the 7 screens are just one big blank screen that you can scroll left or right to view the entire image. That's how it's set up.

And you don't really need to be "super savvy" to learn how to re-size pictures. Just save a picture you like that you'd use on your computer at a higher resolution. Then, open that picture in whatever picture editer/viewer you have on your computer. There should be a Edit tab on one of the toolbars and after clicking that, there should be an option to "re-size" the picture. "re-size" option, normally allows you to select parameters, so for the "horizontal" number, select 960 and the rest will fill in.

Simple.

Last edited by drexappeal; July 7th, 2010 at 02:28 PM.

kiratomic

tried it, i'm this close to giving up. it still zoomed in.. no matter what size i make it. maybe i'm doing it wrong.. i give up.
thanks for the advice though!

drexappeal

I think I understand what you're trying to do.

Do you want to see the same size portrait pic in each of the 7 screens? If that's what you're trying to do, Sense UI isn't really built to view the wallpaper like that (This is my first Android phone, so I couldn't even tell you if stock Android would let you do that).

If that's what you're trying to accomplish, the best I could say is create a custom wallpaper. In order to accomodate the 960X800, your picture would have to be 137 (wide/horizontal) and 800 (tall/vertical). If you put 7 of those in a row, maybe that'll accomplish what you're looking to do.

At least, this is what I think you're trying to accomplish.

Kaskimondo

Found this article, which might help if your looking for photos that are already on the web.
Find Perfect-Sized Wallpapers for Mobile Phones and Desktop with Bing

motoguy

What app/widget is that clock? I really like that one, it clutters the screen alot less. I don't think it is a preloaded one, or at least I can't find the options for it.

RickJ

looks like the redcashmere clock skin from Beautiful Widgets

flyjbaker

Thanks to Drex for his patience!!!

aljo1985

Saved me having to make a new topic.
Yeah this is a small but trivial problem on mobile phones.. I mean why does it not give u the option to crop or set as whole image.. I would imagine that should be as default in a mobile device.

420pr

just made an account so people could benefit from this app I found...

It works really good, opens your gallery and lets you set the picture just like you see it when it displays it as a preview(fullscreen) PLUS it gives you options when setting it so it dosen't scroll and if you want to crop it, it gives you more ways to crop it than the regular resizeable yellow box the name is

Wallpaper Wizardrii

as I said, I opened up an account just to post this beacuase it is a really good app for this matter

Maksin

Thanks 420pr for that great application.

I was really mad about wallpaper stupid settings in my Desire HD. The Wizardrii is perfect application and done the job brilliantly of setting one still image without cropping as background wallpaper.

Cheers

jameeler91

I made an acc just to say thanks! I appreciate the help

ddr2011

i tried this app but my pxels were all messed up.

ddr2011

It doesn't like me either!

samlit

Download "Wallpaper Wizardrill" from market place, its free. Your problem solved.

tracy90245

I just got my android phone too and purchased a couple of wallpaper apps and was able to use them just fine for a few days and then all of a sudden I have that crop square come up and want to "fix" all my photos- what's up with that, it was working fine in the begining but now it's not! Now all my wallpapers are real funky! I'll continue to browse for a solution.

Update-- Used Wallpaper Wizardrii, fixed the problem. Shouldnt have to do that though; thought I had a "smartphone", lol!

Last edited by tracy90245; April 25th, 2011 at 11:23 AM.

thegang820

thx wizardii works great

eddietse91

Thats really good thanks!

pzummo

hey guys,
I see this conversation is a few months old, and I've actually downloaded one or two of the suggested apps, but I still wanted to through a comment/question out there and see what you think...
Basically, I feel the same frustration many others did. It's May 2011 right now. I just got the Droid Incredible 2 on Version. It came with HTC Sense and Android 2.2.x.
Anyway, simply put, my frustration is this:

I took a picture with my phone's camera. When doing this, the entire screen represents what will be taken as the picture. After taking the picture I open it to review and the file opens and uses the phone's entire screen to correctly and proportionately display the image.

Why is it the phone can take the image, display the image full screen, but not simply use that very same image as a full screen wall paper?

I know where was some talk about resolution, but I'm saying ok if you open the image and look at it without zooming or anything that's essentially what I'd asking to render and display as a wallpaper, so what's the big deal??!??

what do you think?

celieste23

"Wallpaper maker" easiest app for this problem

DroidBerry_78

As far as wanting a full picture from your gallery and sick of the little cropping grap go to your market and download "dodol wallpaper maker".simple and fast.enjoy.