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Can we get a wallpaper thread started? I think the wallpaper dimensions of the Captivate are different from other phones right? Also.. how do i go about deleting the stock wallpapers, and adding some to replace them?
You can download or put an image in the sd card. Open it up in Gallery, Select Menu, More, Set As
You can then set as Wallpaper (or Contact Icon) and it'll even give you a scaling box for cropping to the correct dimensions.
My favorite so far:
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http://www.androidzoom.com/android_themes/wallpapers/bezier-live-wallpaper_hchu.html
Dimensions
I think the wallpaper dimensions for the crop are ratios of 6:5. So that means 720x600 will fill up the entire crop box, as will 1080x900. Of course you do not have to use these dimensions for your wallpapers but then you get parts of it left out. Just what I have found playing around with it on my own. Hope that helps.
Here is what I made (Yeah Im a Rush fan)
Here are some I made yesterday after browsing the new uploads at Stock Exchange. I resized them to 960x800 at 96 dpi and they look pretty good on my phone.
the one i use. i organize the icons to follow the outside edge of the car so its unobstructed.
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what module is that for the clock?
there is a great app in the marketplace called, Backgrounds
its pretty much a full easy access web search of a ton of wallpapers, you can change category, apply directly from the app, or save the image and apply it later. I recommend you check it out.
yea that app is good has a ton of wallpapers
Does anyone know where the Captivate stores its wallpapers? I'd like to see what size/format the default options are, and put my custom ones in the same place, but I can't seem to find them. I'd be ok knowing where either the TouchWiz or LauncherPro wallpapers are stored.
Also, here's some wallpapers I cropped from images found through google image search (the originals got compressed by the forum, originals are in the zip file):
I'm currently using this one, got it of zedge
ibby03 said:
I'm currently using this one, got it of zedge
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That is awesome! lol thanks
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That is awesome! lol thanks
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Lol no problemo my dude! People at work always get a kick out of it
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I'm currently using this one, got it of zedge
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That is one of the best wallpapers I have seen.
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Does anyone know where the Captivate stores its wallpapers? I'd like to see what size/format the default options are, and put my custom ones in the same place, but I can't seem to find them. I'd be ok knowing where either the TouchWiz or LauncherPro wallpapers are stored.
Also, here's some wallpapers I cropped from images found through google image search (the originals got compressed by the forum, originals are in the zip file):
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wallpapers aren't actually stored in any directory they're actually in the app.
go fond the stock Rom and extract it.
go to the /system/app directory and find the home app.
it'll be in a .apk format
you can rename it to .zip and extract it.
the wallpaper will be somewhere in there
I use this picture as my background. I took it while in afghanistan.
Here's one I just made real quick:
• http://i.imgur.com/qAICih.jpg
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Here's one I just made real quick:
• http://i.imgur.com/qAICih.jpg
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That looks like the Launcher Pro without the gradient.
Anyway I +1 the Zedge suggestion. It's got some great ones, especially some darker looking ones that show off the Super AMOLED quite nicely
Hey guys,
after playing a bit with "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=810240" scrolling Wallpaper-Dock around, i got a nice idea for a interest android-homescreen-style. But to create the idea, i need 5 Homescreens with 5 different Wallpapers. That means on every single homescreen there will be a special wallpaper. Could it be possible to create on every homescreen a Wallpaper??
With best regards,
PainUchiha
I dont think that is possible since the wallpaper gets divided when you set the number of home screens
If you know your way around Photoshop/GIMP you could create it there.
Wouldn't be much of a problem.
You could use MultiPicture Live Wallpaper
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If you know your way around Photoshop/GIMP you could create it there.
Wouldn't be much of a problem.
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the problem is that when you scroll you still see the most of the left/right image.
yes, that would be not really fine :/ ... but well, if there is no another way right now :/ ...
how big should be the image be for 6 homescreens? 5 with different things and the last just black...
hm, if we will find a way, it would be awesome. Then i would ask you next question:
Would it be possible to give the wallpapers while scrolling a animation (a video or s.th.) :/?
check this out....this might be what you are looking for
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=701636
EDIT: OK no that's not what you want...sorry
no, it's not what i mean :/ . hm,got anyone any idea how big should be the wallapaper be? length and width?
[dodol] Custom Wallpaper Maker
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[dodol] Custom Wallpaper Maker
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????? write pls what you mean^^
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????? write pls what you mean^^
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A quick search and you would have found this. But don't bother, it doesn't do what you want anyway.
Can't be done with the default launcher, or any launcher that I know of (LauncherPro, ADW Rosie e.t.c). They don't work that way, and never can without the developer changing what a home screen is, or an app augmenting the background
Couldn't this be done with a live wallpaper, at least in theory?
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Couldn't this be done with a live wallpaper, at least in theory?
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if we would find someone who has any knowing with the live wallpapers ... hm, so i'm coming sunday back and then i will try to find out the perfect length etc. for for one homescreen wallpaper... then i will try a bit and try it with 2 and then with 5 ;-) ... wish me luck ... if you have time and wanna try it, then write pls then your result here
There was an app for this awhile back, I can't remember the name but I am currently trying to see if I can find it.
It's called Multi-Picture Live Wallpaper.
EDIT: You can get it here -> http://www.tamanegi.org/prog/android-apps/p/MultiPictureLiveWallpaper-0.4.7.apk
you could do it with just two home screens....
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you could do it with just two home screens....
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Yep, easy with 2
Here is a simple 'proof of concept'. Its not very good but proves it can be done.
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Heaven or Hell
How about this? Did it with the multi wallpaper app Pics don't really do it justice: from left of home screen it scrolls through hell and from right of home screen scrolls through heaven.
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How about this? Did it with the multi wallpaper app Pics don't really do it justice: from left of home screen it scrolls through hell and from right of home screen scrolls through heaven.
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Does your phone have to be rooted to do this?
Here is a link to hundreds of icons from several sources.
http://www.mediafire.com/?8whos3fp8v88o7o
I came across these by accident and figured I would share...
About half of these look like they were ripped from iPhone themes, but a good pack nonetheless. Fair variety, and they are all good quality PNGs, which makes it easy. Thanks.
If you are looking for manual instructions on modifying application icons, here is a decent post.
how to change application icons
If someone has better instructions, please link.
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If you are looking for manual instructions on modifying application icons, here is a decent post.
how to change application icons
If someone has better instructions, please link.
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That works if you care about changing what you see in the App Drawer. If you only care about what you see on home screens, a much easier way for the average user is to just download Desktop Visualizer from the Market. Combined with Launcher Pro for your dock, you are limited only by the PNG images you can find or make.
It depends on how far you need to take it.
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That works if you care about changing what you see in the App Drawer. If you only care about what you see on home screens, a much easier way for the average user is to just download Desktop Visualizer from the Market. Combined with Launcher Pro for your dock, you are limited only by the PNG images you can find or make.
It depends on how far you need to take it.
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Learning something new every day
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Learning something new every day
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That's why we're here
Actually I am interested in changing the app drawer icons. And though much appreciated, the above post to the directions seems like a long way to go to achieve this.
Is there an easier way? I actually bought an icon theme for ADW.launcher and I love the home screen icons, but for some reason the developer made the drawer icons completely different and I hate them. I have found some icons that I like, that match the home screen icons.
Surely there must be a way to change all the icons at once instead of the above directions.
Thanks in advance for any responses.
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Good.
How the HELL can I get myself closer to this?
Can anyone share ideas on how he did it?
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I love that dude's set up.
Mine is minimal and simple using a black back screen with very clean and small things on the main page.
I'd like to mix it up and try something different.
For reference, here's mine:
That's Launcher Pro with Desktop Visualizer. DV just lets you make a widget that is an app button for any app with any PNG image you want for the icon. Head over to the Launcher Pro website here for a good thread of homescreens with lots of info: http://www.launcherpro.com/forum/vi...d=f659d9b40749e84b4ca91213bea40038&start=2490
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That's Launcher Pro with Desktop Visualizer. DV just lets you make a widget that is an app button for any app with any PNG image you want for the icon. Head over to the Launcher Pro website here for a good thread of homescreens with lots of info: http://www.launcherpro.com/forum/vi...d=f659d9b40749e84b4ca91213bea40038&start=2490
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I thanked you, because I appreciate the reply and posting up a link for me, but it's the images that I'm most interested in.
I'm going to search that thread to see where it takes me, but I wish there were just a theme I could bounce onto my phone with that type of layout pre-done.
I know that I'm going to get into it, not be able to make it as nice, not like the end result, and then not be able to get my current screen back to this way either.
Update: Found exactly what I was looking for and I know how to use it due to plenty of previous fooling around with Desktop Visualizer. Now I just need to find some time to go at it.
Here's the link for anyone else interested:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=831475
On my WinMo phone I could easily make custom wallpapers. On the Cappy, not so much. I made a few designs in 480X800 size, landscape and portrait, copied them to the phone, but when I try to use them as wallpapers I can only select a small area of the graphic to use. How should I size a jpg so that I can use it full screen as a wallpaper? Thanks.
would like to know that as well!
You need the full size of the image to be 960x800.
A single screen is 480x800.
I don't have my wallpaper scroll, so I create a 960x800 image canvas in photoshop with a 480x800 image that I place in the middle for the wallpaper.
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You need the full size of the image to be 960x800.
A single screen is 480x800.
I don't have my wallpaper scroll, so I create a 960x800 image canvas in photoshop with a 480x800 image that I place in the middle for the wallpaper.
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I'm going to try that, but here's the thing...when I go to select an image for a wallpaper from the Gallery the selection box is more of a square than a rectangle. Even if the center of my image is within that 480X800 area inside the 960X800 area, it will still be cut off because of this.
960x800 isn't that far off from square. At least, it's a lot more square than 480x800. If you have the right proportions, you can expand the box to the full size of the canvas.
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Expand the box to the full size:
Gets me this:
Yeah, but I don't want the image to take up the whole screen. I played around with dimensions and placement and came up with a 240X200 logo inside the 960X800 background that works the way I want it to. Got my Harley bar and shield working for me, now. Thanks!
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960x800 isn't that far off from square. At least, it's a lot more square than 480x800. If you have the right proportions, you can expand the box to the full size of the canvas.
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Like this:
Expand the box to the full size:
Gets me this:
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Nice setup. Got a link for the pinup pic? I got a thing for pinups
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i remember a while back, may have been stock rom... in the wallpaper chooser there WAS (not now) an option somewhere to set the whole image, not just set square shape.... cant find it, may have been a different gallery, or wallpaper chooser.... hmm...
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Yeah, but I don't want the image to take up the whole screen. I played around with dimensions and placement and came up with a 240X200 logo inside the 960X800 background that works the way I want it to. Got my Harley bar and shield working for me, now. Thanks!
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One of the other options is to use something like Flikie(Free in the market). It'll allow you to set a 960x800 as the wallpaper without cropping
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One of the other options is to use something like Flikie(Free in the market). It'll allow you to set a 960x800 as the wallpaper without cropping
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I use custom wallpapers too & Flikie does the trick for me too.
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there is also wallpaper wizardii
it lets u set portrait and landscape images as your wallpaper
with or without scroll and u can crop , i really like it
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Nice setup. Got a link for the pinup pic? I got a thing for pinups
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Me too. I've got three in the wallpaper folder:
http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/26242145/1/phone?h=3b8ba4
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Me too. I've got three in the wallpaper folder:
http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/26242145/1/phone?h=3b8ba4
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Sweet, thanks.
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doooo itttt
<<<ANDROID>>> wallpapers | lock screens <<<ANDROID>>>
This thread is dedicated to ANDROID wallpapers.
We spend a lot of time customizing our phones - and a solid wallpaper is a vital ingredient of any theme worth its weight in tech geekness! Think about it, we painstakingly place our app icons and widgets with total precision so that they can be feng-shui with our wallpaper (and overall theme).. we change wallpapers often whilst working the same theme.. or we change our theme and spend plenty time hunting for the perfect wallpaper. It's a never-ending cycle of techy love that's plain and simply part of wielding a hot themed Android handset
The intention with this thread is to "not have to look much further to find happening Android wallpapers to instantly vibe up your phone!" ..not to mention getting a glimpse into the creative minds and tastes of other Android heads on XDA!!
Kicking things off with 40 Android wallpapers (20 in each attachment). Post your screenshots if you do anything cool with wallpapers from this thread Please remember to credit the artists if you have their details.. and remember that the max file size for a zip or rar upload is 8MB.
Peace.. from South Africa
Here's some really good multi-genre wallpaper threads on XDA:
>>What Does Your MIUI Look Like?<<
>>Post Your Home Screen<<
>>Widgetlocker Theme Collection<<
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Here's a few samples from the first batch of 40 wallpapers (see attched rars):
Android Wallpaper Pack #003
Here's some pretty decent Android-themed wallpapers, headed up with Android biting into an Apple!
There's 20 wallpapers in the attached rar, bringing the total wallpapers in this thread to 60 (and counting)..
Btw, the attached files don't have the androidboot.com URL engraved into them.. they're nice and clean
I believe there was already a wallpaper thread created since 2008...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544217
However thanks for uploading, some of them are pretty great.
Thanks fliparsenal! I've edited the intro blurb slightly.. so will keep this thread for Android-style wallpapers
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Keeping it Android
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I believe there was already a wallpaper thread created since 2008... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544217
However thanks for uploading, some of them are pretty great.
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Name of this thread changed to <<<ANDROID>>> wallpapers.
Removed non-Android wallpapers from the first 2 attachments (wallpapers 1, wallpapers 2) and replaced them with Android wallpapers.
So, in total, 17 wallpapers were removed and replaced (10 from wallpapers 1 and 7 from wallpapers 2). If you've already downloaded wallpapers 1 and 2.. re-download them for the new wallpapers!
fliparsenal.. thanks again for your input man! Android wallpapers it is..
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@Ryno_666 >> Loving the green bar-coded Droid paper you posted!
Thanx got a lot here.
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666 can u please link me to the VITRUVIAN ANDROID wallpaper ? tia
Android Wallpaper Pack #004
Here's another 20 wallpapers.. keeping it 100% Android
Some cropped samples below grab all 20 in the attached rar.
Hey man....Seeing that we south African....Is there any chance you can come up with a android south African type wallpaper? I'd do it but my crashed and I'm pc'less
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South African Android
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Hey man....Seeing that we south African....Is there any chance you can come up with a android south African type wallpaper? I'd do it but my crashed and I'm pc'less
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Good thinking will see what I can put together after exams (mid June).. can prob get onto something simple (but classy) next week some time!
So I have a question there is a Android wallpaper in the stupidfast rom for the mt3g that I loved. Can't find it anywhere on the net. Anyone here think they could break it down and get the wallpaper?
3D modelled stargate animation
And here is a wallpaper 980x800 (607KB)
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Taken from my bootani.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2BQJ4958QM
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Androidboot.com image streaming on XDA
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3D modelled stargate animation
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Hey guys, not sure if you know that images hosted on imageshack don't stream on the XDA mobile app. I've sent a request for this to be sorted but I doubt I'll get a reply.
I'd suggest using Androidboot.com http://www.androidboot.com/. Their server's a bit slow when you first put your stuff up, but it's pretty ok after that.. and it's free Plus they're dedicated to image streaming for forums like XDA.. so images show up on the mobile apps.
Some nice ones here
Android Wallpaper Pack #005
Some nice one's in this pack..
Here's a sample-set of 6 cropped wallpapers - the attached rar contains a full pack of 20 (not cropped).
Android Wallpaper Pack #006
More Android wallpaper goodness Full pack of 20 in the attached rar.
Android Wallpaper Pack #007
Double dose today.. the attached pack of 20 will not have the androidboot.com logo watermarked on the bottom left
Here are a couple.
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