Android: Change Wallpaper
| The following instructions describe how to change your background wallpaper to an image (jpg or png) placed on the SD Card on your Motorola Droid (or other Android phone). For this example, the wallpaper image was placed into the following path on the SD Card, /LOST.DIR. | |
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| Be sure to check out our post relating to wallpaper resolution, dimensions, display, etc... | |
| NOTE: There are several ways to change background wallpapers using your Motorola Droid phone (or other Android phone). This method allows you to do so without additional installed apps. When browsing images through most downloaded apps, you can hit the MENU button and choose Set As and select Wallpaper. | |
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i'm sorry but the android
i'm sorry but the android sucks. cant do wallpapers. ur box dont spread enough.
Android Wallpaper Help
The box has a fixed ratio... You won't be able to expand it really wide in one direction without expanding in the other directions. You can help correct this issue by adjusting the dimensions of your original image to more closely match the dimensions required for the Android wallpaper.
Problem with the cropping
Is there anyway for the Droid to not box me in? I have a picture that I want top to bottom but it only gives me a square box and when I select set as wallpaper it is basically and "eyeball" (my childs face). I want it to use the whole picture as is and it wants me to frame to a square and will only expand so far not the entire screen. Any help???
Using photos for new Droid wallpaper
It sounds like the image you are trying to use isn't wide enough... If I had to guess, it sounds like your using a portrait orientation image. The image size that you would want would require you to expand beyond the edge of your photo.
Given the Droid wallpaper resolution, you may want to try selecting out a 480 pixel wide by 854 pixel high image and padding it on either side with black bars or other suitable equivalent. This would allow at least your home screen to display the image properly.
To do this you could use application as simple as Microsoft Paint (available on all Windows machines) or use another image processing application.
Once you have the bars on either side of the image, you should now be able to select the "larger" image as desired...
Easily done with Irfanview
I couldn't find a way to do this in Windows 7 Paint. But with Irfanview the "Change Canvas Size" works perfectly. My phone has a 480x800 screen size. A 480x800 wallpaper won't display properly as is. What I needed to do is resize the picture to 800x800 by changing the canvas size. What I did was add a 160 pixel border to the left side and a 160 pixel border to the right side of the picture. Leave the top and bottom border at 0. The square box in Set as Wallpaper will now capture the whole picture.
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