The image displayed in the background on the home screen of an Android device.
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Do bright wallpapers spend more battery than dark ones?
I started wondering about this when I realized most websites I visit have white backgrounds, and I know that the screen is usually responsible for most of the battery usage. Since I can't change the ...
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What is the default resolution of a wallpaper that fits the homescreen exactly in an Android phone?
On an Android phone the wallpaper spans across all of the home screens.
So what size should pictures be to fit properly as custom wallpapers?
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What's a good “if found” wallpaper for Android?
This is where I saw the terminology "if found wallpaper".
Basically, since we're all locking our phones, you want a wallpaper that contains contact information, in case it's lost. Is there such a ...
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Where is current wallpaper stored on Jellybean?
On my Nexus S running 4.1.1, I am unable to find where the current wallpaper is stored. I referred to Where is the background image saved?, but my /data/data/com.android.settings/files folder is empty ...
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Where is the background image saved?
Here's my situation:
I had an image from a website which I set as my background inside the browser. I am wondering now where I can find the image in the file system, because I can't find it online ...
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Where does the 'set as wallpaper' feature save your picture in Gingerbread (2.3)?
I had an image from a website which I set as my background inside the browser. I am wondering now where I can find the image in the file system, because I can't find it online anymore. I already ...
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How to add wallpapers to Kindle Fire?
Where do I add/delete pictures so the Kindle Fire will randomly select it as a wallpaper for the device?
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How to set a solid color wallpaper?
My android comes with 3 different solid wallpapers. I have found more in the market but its paid. How to get a black wallpaper for free?
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Is there an application which let me crop a picture on my device into the correct size to use as wallpaper
Do you know of software which can crop a photo or an image into the correct size to act as wallpaper ?
Now, if I download an image from the net and try to use it as a wallpaper ( long pressing an ...
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How much battery does using live wallpapers drain?
I know they are unnecessary, but they look so cool!
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Loss of Image quality when set as lock screen or home screen wallpaper
This is my original wallpaper:
After setting it as Lock Screen wallpaper, its quality got reduced and this is how it looks:
Even when set as homescreen, the image quality is reduced.
How to ...
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Not able to select entire image for wallpaper
When I put the wallpaper in /dcim/Camera and go to change the wallpaper and choose Media gallery and I select the wallpaper I want, it asks me to choose only a small region of the image. What do I ...
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Enable wallpaper scrolling for HTC Sense 4+
My htc one x just got updated to HTC Sense 4+.
Just yesterday, there was another update but I don't quite know what that update was for. Anyway, with sense 4+, the wallpaper doesn't scroll when I go ...
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How to set my wallpaper from my Dropbox?
I have copied a bunch of images into my Dropbox on my pc and sync'd them to my phone. Does anyone know how to use these images for wallpapers on my phone?
The only way I can think of is that I can ...
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Why doesn't my wallpaper scroll?
At first, my question was why I had to crop my wallpaper wider than it seemed to be, but I saw that that question was already asked and answered here: Setting wallpaper - wrong orientation
So now my ...
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How can I configure my phone to show random background wallpapers from my pictures galery?
I know how to set a static picture from my photo gallery as a background wallpaper picture. However, I would like to see a new picture every time I turn the screen on. Is there a way to configure my ...
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How can I get the Android to use wallpapers sized to my screen resolution?
When I only have one "desktop" on my Android phone and I select one of my photos for the wallpaper, it asks me to crop the image. The cropping tool only allows an aspect ratio that has nothing to do ...
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Is there a way to save profiles on Motorola's Droid X?
When I had an HTC Eris I could change "profiles". Each profile was basically: wallpaper + screen lock image + all apps on your desktop. So, I could have a work profile that had my apps that were ...
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Where can I find hidden wallpapers on Nexus 7?
I used to have this picture as Nexus 7's wallpaper, but the desktop restored to a blank wallpaper after I killed the UI process a few weeks ago. I tried to bring back this picture but it was no where ...
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Can't locate wallpaper when saved from browser
I have read multiple questions on here but none seem to work for my phone.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 with Android 2.3.3.
I really need the photo that's my wallpaper. I can't locate it on the phone ...
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Personalize Text Wallpaper
Anyone came across a android application (preferably Gingerbread, 2.3) that allow you to set personalize Nice text as your wallpaper? (I know there are some not nice application around) I search for ...
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How do you change the screen background on Nexus S?
Just bought a Samsung Nexus S. No manual came with it. Apparently the moving default screensaver eats up heaps of battery life and I am not getting much battery life out of this new phone and I am ...
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Different wallpaper for each homescreen?
I'd like to be able to have a different wallpaper for each homescreen. I found a live wallpaper that lets you do this.
Is there a more efficient/less cumbersome way?
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Size a Wallpaper for Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the default resolution of a wallpaper that fits the homescreen exactly in an Android phone?
I want to be able to design my own Wallpaper for my Samsung Galaxy ...
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 2.7" home screen wallpaper
My mum has just got the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2.7" and was trying to set a photo as the home screen page. She did this but all it displayed was the middle section of the photo missing out the two grid ...
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Wallpaper changing randomly [closed]
I'm using HTC desire HD with sense UI. Lately my wallpaper is being changed by the system at random (the images are some random scenery). I have checked all the recent apps I have installed, all from ...
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Where are the 'stock wallpapers' stored on the htc Desire S?
I just bought an htc Desire S, which runs Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). I can connect to FTP via BLuetooth's OBEX file transfer, or download one of the many file manager apps on the app store. But one ...
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HTC Explorer wallpaper display problem [duplicate]
I have HTC Explorer, when I download a wallpaper from net and try to set it as wallpaper, the phone first asks me to crop it, so I crop it, but some portion from all the four sides of the cropped ...
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Setting wallpaper - wrong orientation
I'm trying to set the wallpaper on my Nexus7, and no matter what I try, the blue "crop" widget that lets you specify the area of the image that is the wallpaper is always in the wrong orientation. So ...
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HTC Sense live wallpaper picker
Is there a way to set the image preview for the HTC Sense 4+ live wallpaper chooser? Currently, it just scales my thumbnail to a much larger size, which makes it look pretty bad.
Here is an image of ...
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How to remove the time and date from the default lock screen wallpaper of Samsung Galaxy S II?
I just want the lock screen wallpaper to be shown, nothing else. How can I do this?
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Set wallpaper and lock screen's background as two different photos?
Current when I choose a photo to be set as wallpaper, my lock screen's background is automatically changed to be this new one.
I want the lockscreen to keep its old background, how can I do that?
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Wallpaper on Kindle Fire
I want to get rid of ads on my Kindle Fire and set some of my pics as my wallpaper without rooting it. Is this possible and how do I do it? I keep looking at different sites but none helps. Any ...
