I feel really stupid for asking this, but I have forgotten how to set images as wallpaper. I tried through the stock gallery app, but that only lets you set half of the image as the wallpaper. I've done it before, but for the life of me I can't remember how.
you can try a different gallery app. I use fishbowl and that works good just select the picture press menu, set as, wallpaper then whichever scale you want
You could also long press on an empty spot on your home screen, select wallpapers, then gallery.
eddieb1983 said:
You could also long press on an empty spot on your home screen, select wallpapers, then gallery.
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Yes thank you, that was what I was thinking of!
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If, hypothetically speaking of course, I had some pictures in a folder containing a .nomedia folder to hide them from Album, is there a way to use them as wallpaper? I have tried setting the wallpaper using Astro as the selector instead of album and I can browse to the image and select it but then it freezes and never gets to the screen where you crop the paper. Also, even when using "normal" images, I have noticed that when I go to change the wallpaper it will hang after I "Select wallpaper from" Pictures, necessitating me pressing the back key and having to restart the process. It always starts the second time but is quite slow.
Any ideas?
I think you can use those pics as wallpaper by browsing to them with a filemanager....
Then just push on the photo and select the menu button in the lower left corner.
Select set to background...
That should work...
I upgraded to Froyo yesterday and was sad to see that the native wallpaper selector for the streak was gone. You now have to crop your image and lose some of it in landscape mode. I happen to fool around with a couple of apps and have found a solution. You need to have ADW Launcher and WallSwitch, both available in the market for free. In ADW Launcher you can choose how the screen display is used. Check the function to disable wallpaper scrolling between screens, this will keep the image centered when you scroll left or right. That's pretty much it for that app. Next, in WallSwitch, make sure your settings are set to auto for Processing Method. That's it!! You can choose to have your wallpapers change automatically, and at different intervals if you like, just an added bonus if you like to have something different displayed frequently, or just turn off auto-switch to keep the same image all of the time.
oh! I almost forgot... very important... in order for your image to show up full screen with these settings, you need to have your image file resolution set at 800x378. I know it sounds weird, but after much fiddling, I have found that it is the perfect size so the app will auto crop and make the image full screen.
Hope this is of help to anyone who would like to try it.
actually 960X800 is the size I use and it fits perfectly....
cue_32 said:
actually 960X800 is the size I use and it fits perfectly....
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here's a couple I use
mine
How are you getting it to go full screen using the stock selector? I can only select a portion of the picture?
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I think I've figured this out, the stock selector selects images that are 960x800 (well of that ratio anyways) but when in landscape mode, you only see the top half of the image, thats because the stock selector is catering for both landscape and portrait, so if you turn your phone to portrait mode, then you'll see the whole picture (plus swiping to the sides).
While it is in landscape mode, it is only displaying an image that is 960x480 (if using an image that is 960x800), so if you create a wallpaper that is 960x800, but then have the main image of what you want in the top of the image that is about 960x480, then when on the phone, you select the whole image, you have the main part of the image appear in full in landscape mode.
Example, see the image attached, the area in the box and above the coloured line is what will appear on the phone in landscape mode....however when you turn it in portrait mode, for this picture, you have a white strip across the bottom. Hope this helps people.
The question is, is there anyway of getting the UI to show the bottom half of the image instead of the top? (Using Launcher Pro Plus)
I have more decent images with something that is along the bottom that I do that is along the top if you know what I mean.
Thought I'd Share
Thought I'd share my current wallpaper, managed to find these two images that has most detail along the top half of the image (bar the Aston, I had to mod it slightly ). Again, these are 960x800 images but I've made sure that the main part of the image is within the 960x480 of the image. Oh and for some reason, when the phone is locked or in the clock dock mode, the wallpaper shifts to the middle of the image too, proper weird!
Download JustPictures app from the market, it lets you set the wallpaper without any cropping, i am official froyo and its working perfect and so far I am able to set any picture as my full screen wallpaper, hope that helps....
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umair239 said:
Download JustPictures app from the market, it lets you set the wallpaper without any cropping, i am official froyo and its working perfect and so far I am able to set any picture as my full screen wallpaper, hope that helps....
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Just tried this app and I'm still stuck with the square crop box, is there anything in particular you are doing to change this? I find the picture I want, press the menu button, then choose "use picture as..." then "set as wallpaper" and then I have a crop box appear.
Keethos said:
Just tried this app and I'm still stuck with the square crop box, is there anything in particular you are doing to change this? I find the picture I want, press the menu button, then choose "use picture as..." then "set as wallpaper" and then I have a crop box appear.
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Getting the same thing, it still crops it.
Very nice download! Thanks for sharing!
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So my co-worker as a prank, took a picture of himself with the front facing camera and set the picture as the lockscreen. Now I can't seem to switch it back to the default since it only allows pictures to be selected out of the gallery. Any suggestions?
What happens if you just delete the photo?
norm2002 said:
What happens if you just delete the photo?
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lock screen wallpaper remains the same
hahaha factory reset?
Download a wallpaper you like and use it?
Menu - Settings - Display - Screen Display
You can change it to anything you like , also change the fonts
Or check out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o35QtzbRyUg
MuDvAyNeX said:
Menu - Settings - Display - Screen Display
You can change it to anything you like , also change the fonts
Or check out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o35QtzbRyUg
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???
That's what he did, but he can't change it back to original.
Did you even read the first post?
golf2vr6 said:
???
That's what he did, but he can't change it back to original.
Did you even read the first post?
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Not properly it seems... opps
No need to come across as rude
Take a picture of yourself on his phone and put it as his lockscreen. Then people will start thinking you two are lovers. xD
Jokes aside, when you long press a home screen, and you click wallpaper, you don't get like gallery, live wallpaper, wallpaper gallery? Doesn't picking a picture from say, wallpaper gallery, change the lockscreen wallpaper also? Excuse me if i'm wrong or you don't have a wallpaper gallery/live wallpapers.
Home screen > menu > wallpaper > gallary.
Choose the default red wallpaper, but press the portrait symbol. It will ask you if you want to use the wallpaper for the lock screen as well.
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You can put this file in your gallery and set it as lock screen.
FINALLY... I was looking for this one all over.
Thanks Dude.
MaelstromXC said:
You can put this file in your gallery and set it as lock screen.
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I was looking for this for a long long time
Rooted Helps.
If you want to remove Lock screen File Then,
You can use root explorer to delete the lock screen file in the system by :-
(i) search for (lock) or (lockscreen) in root explorer home.
(ii) then select the lockscreen image file present in the system search and delete it.
Don't forget toggle {mount as r/o}.
And when you remove the lockscreen file it will automatically turned to default or original lock screen.
On my S3, in the gallery, my friend who has the same phone has the delete icon in the top right corner when a picture is viewed in full screen, however mine is the slideshow button.
is there anyway to change it to the delete button?
my friend's came with her phone but mine didn't...
also next to it, i have the bluetooth shortcut and i was wondering if you can also change that.
Thanks
yooraii said:
On my S3, in the gallery, my friend who has the same phone has the delete icon in the top right corner when a picture is viewed in full screen, however mine is the slideshow button.
is there anyway to change it to the delete button?
my friend's came with her phone but mine didn't...
also next to it, i have the bluetooth shortcut and i was wondering if you can also change that.
Thanks
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The gallery will have a slideshow button when within a folder where there are a lotta images.. The delete button will be visible when u press on any particular photo so that it is the only one on screen...
For your second qn, there are two buttons in the middle. One for share which contains all the sharing options. The next one can be set to any particular share feature (bluetooth, wifi direct etc) You need to hold the second button with one finger to change it.
Try it out. Hope I helped..
hi all,
anyone has issues with magazine unlock? on my Mate 10, i choose only my own photos as the Magazine Unlock and it worked fine.
on the M20P, it seems that it doesn't even show the pictures and instead, choose the default theme wallpaper. i could choose my own wallpaper but it's not rotating between the images i've added under 'Added by me'.
symbiote28 said:
hi all,
anyone has issues with magazine unlock? on my Mate 10, i choose only my own photos as the Magazine Unlock and it worked fine.
on the M20P, it seems that it doesn't even show the pictures and instead, choose the default theme wallpaper. i could choose my own wallpaper but it's not rotating between the images i've added under 'Added by me'.
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anyone having this issue?
symbiote28 said:
i could choose my own wallpaper but it's not rotating between the images i've added under 'Added by me'.
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So the magazine aspect works, it just doesnt show your images?
Have you swiped through them all?
ItsMunday said:
So the magazine aspect works, it just doesnt show your images?
Have you swiped through them all?
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it shows my pictures but it's showing other pictures as well. i have untick all subscriptions so by right, only my pictures should be shown.
symbiote28 said:
it shows my pictures but it's showing other pictures as well. i have untick all subscriptions so by right, only my pictures should be shown.
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Have you tried deleting the photos from the magazine folder in the gallery
Yes, I've same issue. I solved it by disable and enable back the magazine unlock.
ItsMunday said:
Have you tried deleting the photos from the magazine folder in the gallery
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yes i've deleted the pictures (the whole magazine unlock folder) to be exact but it's still showing those random nature images. now i'm wondering where did the pictures all come from?
e_mc_square said:
Yes, I've same issue. I solved it by disable and enable back the magazine unlock.
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i just tried. still having the issues. let me try rebooting the phone.
In the Lock screen. There is a lock icon in the bottom left.
Press it and it will lock and always show the wallpaper in magazine unlock.
1) in magazine lock screen, scroll left right to a random wall paper.
2) press the lock icon to lock the wallpaper.
3) press the power button to lock the phone.
4) press again the lock icon to release the wallpaper
5) press power button and you'll see your problem is solved.
Hi,
I have the same problem. My lockscreen is set as "unlock magazine" but I've no picture of "the magazine". I only have the default wallpaper linked to the main theme.
The lock is unlocked and I can't do anything to change that, even if I disable unlock Magazine / reactivate, or reboot the phone.
Btw I don't know if it's linked or not but my theme app is also empty, I can't load any new theme apart the preinstalled ones. And unfortunately there is no way of restaure these applications (just empty cache for theme and disable / reactivate ).
Sorry for my english btw.
iberr said:
Hi,
I have the same problem. My lockscreen is set as "unlock magazine" but I've no picture of "the magazine". I only have the default wallpaper linked to the main theme.
The lock is unlocked and I can't do anything to change that, even if I disable unlock Magazine / reactivate, or reboot the phone.
Btw I don't know if it's linked or not but my theme app is also empty, I can't load any new theme apart the preinstalled ones. And unfortunately there is no way of restaure these applications (just empty cache for theme and disable / reactivate ).
Sorry for my english btw.
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I have the same problem as well. I hope somebody will help us to this annoying problem.
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I have the same problem as well. I hope somebody will help us to this annoying problem.
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Because of the gluegate, they gave me a new phone. Fortunately Magazine Unlock does work.
I also found why theme app didn't work. Morocco wasn't recognized at first as a listed country for Huawei Services. I wasn't able to login Huawei cloud or any Huawei service included Themes. But the 122 previous update fixed it.
e_mc_square said:
In the Lock screen. There is a lock icon in the bottom left.
Press it and it will lock and always show the wallpaper in magazine unlock.
1) in magazine lock screen, scroll left right to a random wall paper.
2) press the lock icon to lock the wallpaper.
3) press the power button to lock the phone.
4) press again the lock icon to release the wallpaper
5) press power button and you'll see your problem is solved.
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e_mc-square Given me the idea of locking the wallpaper and to solve most of your concern on those downloaded Magazine picture.
To solve this issue just on the lock screen, each picture file that you don't want / flip to the picture &
On the bottom as you will see the lock, delete, love, share & setting (buttoms)
Just press the trash can which is delete the picture. this solve the issue of showing unwanted downloaded magazine file.
I am happy with it now...!!!
rayliew said:
e_mc-square Given me the idea of locking the wallpaper and to solve most of your concern on those downloaded Magazine picture.
To solve this issue just on the lock screen, each picture file that you don't want / flip to the picture &
On the bottom as you will see the lock, delete, love, share & setting (buttoms)
Just press the trash can which is delete the picture. this solve the issue of showing unwanted downloaded magazine file.
I am happy with it now...!!!
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After a lot of fiddling about trying to turn off all groups of pictures except mine, I stumbled into this method and it worked fine. Only took me a few mins to individually delete all the photos that I didn't want.
How to use only custom magazine album
symbiote28 said:
anyone having this issue?
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So for this problem follow these steps, I worked on it for 2 whole hours and finally worked it out (huwei p30 pro) i think it works for all android phones tho
Steps
1. Go to album - > more albums (others) and click on the magazine unlock album.
2. Delete all photos you dont want to have and put the ones u want to have on you screen in the album
3. Block that file (right above button next to the +)
4. Restart your phone
5, deblock that same album file and go to your unlock screen, than delete all the remaining photos (while you are on your lockscreen) of those old unwanted ones
6. And you are done!
Notice!!!! Be sure to diasble all the kind of grams you are following in setting - > begin screen and unlock screen - > magazine unlock screen. All those you'll have to disable. And one more thing, while your disabling these 'grams you' ll see 'my gallery pictures. Be sure to add the same photos you want to have on your unlockscreen so you have it twice! Once there and once in your original album of the 6 steps you did ( total twice!)