I've had my new sprint hero for 2 weeks now and I can't figure out if this is a bug or what I'm doing wrong. Basically I have some images of friends, etc on my SD card. In my contact list, when I edit their picture, I crop the images with the square thing that comes up..and assign my friends their picture.
It looks great, sharp, etc for a day or so, but it seems like it always goes back to a distorted cropped image. Any ideas?? Thx in advance
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hi everyone. i'm having an issue which i'm sure you all will be able to help me out. i've looked through the wallpaper collection that many of the users have and i right click the image and "save image as" and save it to the desktop. then i connect my vibrant via usb. where should i be putting the wallpapers to get the right look? if i put them in my gallery, when i try to apply the wallpaper it makes me use the crop function then after applying the wallpaper, it's all blurry and out of focus. could someone please help me out?
thanks.
Is the wallpaper proper size?
Cropping a LARGE picture WILL make it blurry.
Just use your computer.
Use paint, a free program on your Windows PC.
Crop it to the area you want, Idk the EXACT dimensions of the wallpaper (someone wanna help me on this?) but crop the about right amount, and put it on your phone.
That should help.
Or maybe the picture is a bad format? (probably not)
You can make a folder call it wallpapers in the int-sd card, and put in there. if you size them first you usually do not run into the cropping problem. Also there are easy apps from the market that do this automatically, so you could use those as well. One of the error that easy to make is thinking that the home screen is the size if you are using 3 or 5 screens then it is 3 or 5 wide by 1 tall, just in case you had not thought about that.
ok, cool. i will try both ideas. i could be mistaken, but i think the correct size for the vibrant wallpaper is 400x800...could someone verify please?
thanks.
jon_yarbrough said:
ok, cool. i will try both ideas. i could be mistaken, but i think the correct size for the vibrant wallpaper is 400x800...could someone verify please?
thanks.
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You're correct.
ok. i tried both ideas and i'm STILL having issues with the wallpaper. i used GIMP to resize the images to 400x800 and created a folder on my sd card and named it "wallpapers", but when i go to apply the wallpaper, it makes me use the crop feature and after applying it, it's too big, blurry and out of focus and really starting to piss me off. the same thing happens if i try to use one of my pictures from my gallery as a wallpaper. can someone please help me before i lose the rest of my mind?
thanks all.
It's 480x900 I believe.
Just use the app wallpaper set and save.
Not sure why your having an issue using gallery though, works fine for me using the crop tool zoomed all the way out.
It's actually 960 X 800.
Both those sizes are obviously bigger than 400x800 so they wouldn't fix the croping problem.
jon_yarbrough said:
ok. i tried both ideas and i'm STILL having issues with the wallpaper. i used GIMP to resize the images to 400x800 and created a folder on my sd card and named it "wallpapers", but when i go to apply the wallpaper, it makes me use the crop feature and after applying it, it's too big, blurry and out of focus and really starting to piss me off. the same thing happens if i try to use one of my pictures from my gallery as a wallpaper. can someone please help me before i lose the rest of my mind?
thanks all.
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You know that box that appears on the picture, when you select using it as a wallpaper, is adjustable right?
Abu-7abash said:
Both those sizes are obviously bigger than 400x800 so they wouldn't fix the croping problem.
You know that box that appears on the picture, when you select using it as a wallpaper, is adjustable right?
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yes. it is adjustable. that's the cropping tool. (if we are talking about the same "box") i tried using a couple of wallpaper programs from the market and it looks a little better, but not as good as the pre-installed ones.
JediDru said:
It's actually 960 X 800.
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You would think I could have gotten that, since I'm making wallpapers. Holy oops.
Is there any way to change the camera photos to "newest first"? Right now my newer pictures are at the bottom and it takes a while to scroll down
Has anyone tried this, seems to be the for Nexus One though? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804161
+1 this drives me insane. i have a ton of pics and having to scroll through all of them to see my latest is just stupid
Try QuickPic
tubesaq said:
Is there any way to change the camera photos to "newest first"? Right now my newer pictures are at the bottom and it takes a while to scroll down
Has anyone tried this, seems to be the for Nexus One though? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804161
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Says you have to flash it... How could anyone try it? Or am I completely oblivious and we have S-off?
From the 3rd dimension in wireless...
Negrito said:
Says you have to flash it... How could anyone try it? Or am I completely oblivious and we have S-off?
From the 3rd dimension in wireless...
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It's in the market too but it won't display pics in 3d
I hate this problem too, a workaround is to open the camera app and click the preview box in the corner. That will allow you to view the most recently taken pictures first, and when you switch to grid view it will start at the bottom.
Did you know that, when scrolling through the photos, there is a function similar to what you get in the addressbook (People)? Once you start scrolling and the little scrubber/scroll bar appears, grab it and move it manually. It'll allow you to fly through the images in a second. As you're doing so, it'll even give you a pop up of the date of the photos where you'd be if you stopped scrolling. I hope that helps.
I think the other annoying thing I've seen in every Android phone (or not seen) is the ability to choose a folder before/as you're taking photos where it will save to. On top of this I don't like the HTC photo numbering scheme (image sequence) instead of time stamp as a name. I prefer the time stamp as you don't have to worry about duplicates, repeats, or conflicting names when moving and shuffling photos from phone to phone or computer for backup.
When i take pictures they don't show up on the preview square and when saved the go to the midle of the gallery help:crying:
Really no one has this problem just me??
rudyp9 said:
When i take pictures they don't show up on the preview square and when saved the go to the midle of the gallery help:crying:
Really no one has this problem just me??
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i have similiar problem, but it happened after i moved all the pictures around using a file explorer. Everything seems to be in some sort of order, just not the way it was before. I have no suggestions other than trying to rename the pictures after you sort them chronologicaly in windows
I'm using an International S3 in the US. I updated it to the Official JB via Kies this morning.
Everything is ok except the Gallery.
The Gallery doesn't go to full screen like in ICS, it now has the notification bar on top.
Even when I'm viewing individual photo in full screen, a black dead space is still on the top (like a place holder for the notification bar).
It means that I can not use the whole screen to view the photo. I tried zooming in but the black space is always there.
Do you guys experience the same problem?
I'm thinking of finding a new gallery apps, because it's pretty annoying (missing the whole purpose of owning a big screen)
P/s: the screenshot of that black space are in the attached file.
velkhan said:
I'm using an International S3 in the US. I updated it to the Official JB via Kies this morning.
Everything is ok except the Gallery.
The Gallery doesn't go to full screen like in ICS, it now has the notification bar on top.
Even when I'm viewing individual photo in full screen, a black dead space is still on the top (like a place holder for the notification bar).
It means that I can not use the whole screen to view the photo. I tried zooming in but the black space is always there.
Do you guys experience the same problem?
I'm thinking of finding a new gallery apps, because it's pretty annoying (missing the whole purpose of owning a big screen)
P/s: the screenshot of that black space are in the attached file.
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yea I have it too.. would be nice if someone could fix it. Tried to use quickpic but its just not quite that good.
I think it's not a bug. Samsung has changed that in JB. I don't know why.
So as we all know if you use your own images for wallpaper that the images turn out cropped and blurry. I was using Simple Image Wallpaper Free but a couple months back the application started to crash and not work prop. The app will no longer let me choose images from my gallery or SD card but instead only allows me to use images from a setup Google account which does not show all my images. When I do select an image it crashes every time.
So I'm now looking for a new app that will let me use my own images without cropping then to crap and making them look blurry as crap. I have tried Image to Wallpaper and I do not like it and it doesn't work that we'll.
Please help. I would love to make my own images for backgrounds. Thanks
QuickPic will do the job well. Its free on the play store.
Lyric Kayden said:
So as we all know if you use your own images for wallpaper that the images turn out cropped and blurry.
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Uh, no?
I've never had this issue as long as I've used an image with a suitably high resolution. Since the display resolution on the tablet is 2560x1600, I'd recommend using a source image at least that large. Preferably larger, since it will crop it a little by default to properly format it for both portrait and landscape orientations.
Retry2 said:
QuickPic will do the job well. Its free on the play store.
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Thanks, I'll give it a try.
blindmanpb said:
Uh, no?
I've never had this issue as long as I've used an image with a suitably high resolution. Since the display resolution on the tablet is 2560x1600, I'd recommend using a source image at least that large. Preferably larger, since it will crop it a little by default to properly format it for both portrait and landscape orientations.
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This is an issue and I think you need to take a look better. If you setup a 2560x1600 image for your wallpaper you will be pushed to crop the image. Now you easily make the image look clean and crisp by cropping the image to the size of the photo and it looks wonderful BUTTTTTT if you flip your tablet long ways you will see the image for the wallpaper does not cover the full screen and instead your left with a black top and bottom border cause you image doesn't fit.
Now,,,,,,,,, let's go back to choosing a wallpaper again and when we are left with the option to crop but instead we don't crop like before but instead we make sure our crop markers show horizontal and diagonal view so that the image for the wallpaper will be seen covering no matter what angle we are using the tablet,,,,,,,, well guess what?????? Now your image has been blurred and looks like crap.
I don't know how long you have had your tablet but I've had mi he since the day it was released in stores. When the tablet came out this was an issue everyone was b***hing about non stop but now one wants to help me here. I cannot even find the write ups and threads from this issue anymore. There were threads where others had the same issue but your telling me 136 stupid idiots can view my post and thread and ignore to help as if nothing is wrong or they don't care?
What a useless forum and group of people here. Thanks to the two who replied. But this is an issue that had been addressed by everyone in the beginning too. This was also an issue with the previous Note 10.1 and also the 2014 edition. Its by fault Android which makes you crop.
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blindmanpb said:
Uh, no?
I've never had this issue as long as I've used an image with a suitably high resolution. Since the display resolution on the tablet is 2560x1600, I'd recommend using a source image at least that large. Preferably larger, since it will crop it a little by default to properly format it for both portrait and landscape orientations.
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You say you've have not had this issue? Look here.
http://www.droidviews.com/set-wallpaper-on-android-devices-without-cropping/
And you say there is no issue and also 136 people ignore to reply that there is an issue.
I use to use Simple Image Wallpaper but it no longer works - app issue
Wallpaper Wizardrii and Image 2 Wallpaper are a waste.
Lyric Kayden said:
You say you've have not had this issue? Look here.
http://www.droidviews.com/set-wallpaper-on-android-devices-without-cropping/
And you say there is no issue and also 136 people ignore to reply that there is an issue.
I use to use Simple Image Wallpaper but it no longer works - app issue
Wallpaper Wizardrii and Image 2 Wallpaper are a waste.
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Relax brother, android can be a bit of a crap shoot when it comes to stuff like this. Even on the same device, we're all running different roms/tweaks/dpi settings/etc. I can vouch that your issue affects my setup as well, but it may be different for some of the others here.
Seriously though, did quickpic work for you? If not I'll see if I can find something else that will since I can replicate the issue.
Retry2 said:
Relax brother, android can be a bit of a crap shoot when it comes to stuff like this. Even on the same device, we're all running different roms/tweaks/dpi settings/etc. I can vouch that your issue affects my setup as well, but it may be different for some of the others here.
Seriously though, did quickpic work for you? If not I'll see if I can find something else that will since I can replicate the issue.
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Thank you for recommending the app but unfortunately it didn't work. With images your given three options for wallpaper cropping which are photo, Google photos and Quickpic. Tried all three and same issue, it crops the images to the point your left with a blurry image.
Simple Image Wallpaper was the best and I miss having it work. No worry of cropping and worked in landscape and portrait mode.
Thanks for recommending Quickpic but still no fix.
Guess what? Good news got it working with Simple Image Wallpaper but had to download the pro version for 99 cents to get it to work. Happy again. I recommend anyone having this issue to download it. You can now choose a different image for landscape and portrait separate or keep it the same. Doesn't blur the image, doesn't crop the image and uses the whole photo. I use 2560x1600 images which is the display is and I get a 2560x1600 wallpaper.