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[Answered] Wallpaper Quality on Archos 101

I have tried ALL launchers and right now am using MultiPicture Live Wallpaper. I am making a theme for the A101 but the wallpaper quality just doesnt look good. The pictures dont look sharp. Can someone tell em whats the resolution cause Ive tried almost all resolutions. No luck. My device is rooted and dont mind hacking.
Someone wanna shed some light?

SilentRazor said:
I have tried ALL launchers and right now am using MultiPicture Live Wallpaper. I am making a theme for the A101 but the wallpaper quality just doesnt look good. The pictures dont look sharp. Can someone tell em whats the resolution cause Ive tried almost all resolutions. No luck. My device is rooted and dont mind hacking.
Someone wanna shed some light?
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Make the resolution 1200x1024 that includes scrolling and use Crop wallpaper app from the market.

wdl1908 said:
Make the resolution 1200x1024 that includes scrolling and use Crop wallpaper app from the market.
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No luck. The colors just dont look sharp. You think we need to use a special type of pic with limited amount of colors? I even talked to the MultiPicture Live Wallpaper Dev. He said he cant do much bout this.

SilentRazor said:
No luck. The colors just dont look sharp. You think we need to use a special type of pic with limited amount of colors? I even talked to the MultiPicture Live Wallpaper Dev. He said he cant do much bout this.
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Could you post your wallpaper? The original format and the scaled one.
What program do you use to scale the wallpaper to 1200x1024?

wdl1908 said:
Could you post your wallpaper? The original format and the scaled one.
What program do you use to scale the wallpaper to 1200x1024?
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Thanks for following up.
I am using the following wallpaper:
Oraculum [email protected]
I am using Photoshop CS5 to crop. I am not using 1200x1024 as I am using MultiPicture Live Wallpaper. I have set it to Show Entire Picture.
After doing some testing about the resolution, I have found 1200x732 the most optimal resolution. If you go above it the width starts to stretch. I have removed the Dock on the right and the status bar on top. All thats present are the soft buttons.
I resize the wallpaper to 1200x732 and save it as a non interlaced PNG. Its the best quality Ive achieved yet. And it still looks ugly. Its pixelrated.
What I am trying to achieve: I am trying to make a custom homescreen for each homescreen. I am using two wallpapers, one for the other screens and one for the main homescreen. You know, like hubs. I have disabled portrait mode on Launcher Pro Plus.
Edit: I think the screen cant handle the amount of colors. Or something such...

SilentRazor said:
Thanks for following up.
I am using the following wallpaper:
Oraculum [email protected]
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Hmm the quality of that picture is not very good to begin with.
SilentRazor said:
I am using Photoshop CS5 to crop. I am not using 1200x1024 as I am using MultiPicture Live Wallpaper. I have set it to Show Entire Picture.
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Forget MultiPicture Live Wallpaper It's a drag on resources and it drags down the performance of the launcher.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Use Crop Wallpaper and use the button "Overall" then "Set as Wallpaper"
SilentRazor said:
Edit: I think the screen cant handle the amount of colors. Or something such...
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Oh yes it can try these.

wdl1908 said:
Forget MultiPicture Live Wallpaper It's a drag on resources and it drags down the performance of the launcher.
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Yeah it can be a drag on resources but I require different wallpapers on the screens. And you do have a point. I tested it and works just fine.
So I think we can rest this topic to an end. Thanks for your help. I'll post what Ive made in the themes thread later on when I am finished

SilentRazor said:
Yeah it can be a drag on resources but I require different wallpapers on the screens. And you do have a point. I tested it and works just fine.
So I think we can rest this topic to an end. Thanks for your help. I'll post what Ive made in the themes thread later on when I am finished
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One tip if you need MultiPicture Live Wallpaper the optimal resolution for a sinlge screen is 1024x600 mind you then you have to configure the live wallpaper to not do scolling.
Look here These are all wallpaper that have been scaled to 1024x600 and set with Multipicture Live Wallpaper.

I use Wallaby to get my wallpaper set with no compression or resizing.

Hubs Layout for Galaxy Nexus

HUBS FOR GALAXY NEXUS
So some of you may know if you have asus transformers or other tablets, but fliparsonal created the hubs layout and I have "ported it over to the galaxy nexus.
So thank you so much to fliparsonal for the wonderful idea and here is a video tutorial for fliparsonals meathod
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo0O1YbxClA&feature=youtu.be
sorry about the bad video quality
things you will need
https://market.android.com/details?id=de.devmil.minimaltext&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImRlLmRldm1pbC5taW5pbWFsdGV4dCJd
[url]https://market.android.com/details?id=org.adw.launcher&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5hZHcubGF1bmNoZXIiXQ..[/URL]
[url]https://market.android.com/details?id=org.tamanegi.wallpaper.multipicture&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy50YW1hbmVnaS53YWxscGFwZXIubXVsdGlwaWN0dXJlIl0.[/URL]
update
I have done a new version of the layout with the backgrounds having the hubs layout on them so that no widgets are used for all you intense flashers out there. here it is
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/59007827/Bethanensinger.jpg
if you liked this click thanks

it no longer does landscape

also I forgot to add if you would like to see this work with launchers like apex or nova to get more of an ics feel you should go vote on their suggestion sites
here http://novalauncher.uservoice.com/forums/145180-nova-launcher
and here http://apexlauncher.uservoice.com/forums/146396-general-feedback
and vote to have shortcuts to different homescreens (at this point it would be easier for it to work with nova launcher since it already has customizable icons but apex launcher should be getting that soon)

Wow that looks pretty cool!

Cheers for the guide, I have used this as inspiration for my home screens, I'm still working on a few bits but will post screenshots later.
Little preview
Landscape does not work at all with this setup though
Screw ICS, this messgae was sent from my DZ running CM6.1

I have hubs sets on my trasformer,it's the coolest thing ever!thanks another time to fliparsenal (thanks him people)and betaensinger too for the porting over gnex!
the only bad thing,is that i don't ever manage to backup this and reapply after a rom wipes.....anyone who can say more on it?i am a flashmaniac,and if i don't find a way to backup this,i don't try it also on gnex...very much times to sets..
HERE original 3ad,to take more sprout from...

sert00 said:
I have hubs sets on my trasformer,it's the coolest thing ever!thanks another time to fliparsenal (thanks him people)and betaensinger too for the porting over gnex!
the only bad thing,is that i don't ever manage to backup this and reapply after a rom wipes.....anyone who can say more on it?i am a flashmaniac,and if i don't find a way to backup this,i don't try it also on gnex...very much times to sets..
HERE original 3ad,to take more sprout from...
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This is why you need to go vote in nova launchers suggestions for nova launcher to have shortcuts to different home screens because nova allows some basic widget backup
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sert00 said:
I have hubs sets on my trasformer,it's the coolest thing ever!thanks another time to fliparsenal (thanks him people)and betaensinger too for the porting over gnex!
the only bad thing,is that i don't ever manage to backup this and reapply after a rom wipes.....anyone who can say more on it?i am a flashmaniac,and if i don't find a way to backup this,i don't try it also on gnex...very much times to sets..
HERE original 3ad,to take more sprout from...
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Working on a new work around for this, and it should also improve battery life, and possibly amount of time to set up (for everyone but me). The basic idea is this, instead of using a widget to cover up the home screen icons, edit your wallpaper to cover up the icons and have that as the style instead. I havent had much time to work with this yet but i will hopefully get this up and running soon. But i have tested and the shortcuts do survive a wipe if you just backup adw, so you shouldnt have to do any work to set this up after flashing things.

created a work around heres the background... image still needs some editting as it does not like up quiet right with actions
and an editable xcf ]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/59007827/monkeybuisness.xcf

cjward23 said:
Cheers for the guide, I have used this as inspiration for my home screens, I'm still working on a few bits but will post screenshots later.
Little preview
Landscape does not work at all with this setup though
Screw ICS, this messgae was sent from my DZ running CM6.1
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How did you get vertical text in large font size? Every time i use Simple Text to make Custom shortcuts in ADW Launcher, the text is small with no way to resize it = [

Jebus99 said:
How did you get vertical text in large font size? Every time i use Simple Text to make Custom shortcuts in ADW Launcher, the text is small with no way to resize it = [
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Minimalistic text
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus

cjward23 said:
Cheers for the guide, I have used this as inspiration for my home screens, I'm still working on a few bits but will post screenshots later.
Little preview
Landscape does not work at all with this setup though
Screw ICS, this messgae was sent from my DZ running CM6.1
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hi, if you wouldn't mind sharing, where is your ICS-style calendar and twitter widget from
EDIT: Found the APW theme for it, thanks anyways

I have updated the first post with my new layout if you would like a copy of the wallpapers i can post that too, and it you want a copy of the toolbar i can do that too

Heres the tool bar jpg that you can just copy onto your homescreen wallpaper

figured i would post my latest

I don't have the same adw actions as you? Does that matter?
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kbrian said:
I don't have the same adw actions as you? Does that matter?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk
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well you need to have the ability to switch between screens with shortcuts but as long as you have that it doesnt matter

I got adw and didn't have the same actions, I tried adw ex and made everything but I couldn't move the minimalistic text on the invisible space? Ha for some reason I can't get this
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kbrian said:
I got adw and didn't have the same actions, I tried adw ex and made everything but I couldn't move the minimalistic text on the invisible space? Ha for some reason I can't get this
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk
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What you have to do is resize it to cover over it and that is how you move it over. The youtube video is a bit better to see how to do this.

That's what I did and when I did it still wouldn't let me.
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Vertical scrolling launcher

I created some image tiles for my home screen; something similar to this:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
However I'm trying to make it function more like the Android Market home screen, where you scroll vertically as opposed to horizontally.
I'm using Go Launcher EX and as far as I've gathered none of the launchers I've tried have the option to scroll vertically.
Does anyone know of any launchers that have that ability?

Nice!
When you manage to get that thing together i will test drive the hell out of it for you. Windows 7 themed launcher moves up and down. There may be others though so don't quote me on it

Swyzzlestickz said:
When you manage to get that thing together i will test drive the hell out of it for you. Windows 7 themed launcher moves up and down. There may be others though so don't quote me on it
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I tried Win 7 Launcher previously but you're only limited to tiles 1x1 or 1x2 & some of the tiles that come preconfigured are locked onto the screen (i.e you can't remove them).
Actually what I'm doing is nothing really more then creating tiles & placing them onto the screen. I wish though that I did know how to create a launcher, I'm just using a pre-existing one, though none have the vertical scrolling feature that I would like.

Can you decompile it make the necessary mods repack sign and test? I know I am making it sound easy. I know nothing of developing so I can be of much help.

Swyzzlestickz said:
Can you decompile it make the necessary mods repack sign and test? I know I am making it sound easy. I know nothing of developing so I can be of much help.
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You got me there bro as I don't know jack when it comes to Android programming/code.
I'm just your basic android user

Dude have you already found yourself a vertical scrolling launcher? I want exactly what you described. It would be AWSOME with desktop visualizer.
Please let me know

No luck as of yet. Hopefully one off the existing launchers will incorporate that function in the future

Request
Why not send out some request to the devs of some of the launchers I am sure someone can make it for you.

Swyzzlestickz said:
Why not send out some request to the devs of some of the launchers I am sure someone can make it for you.
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Good idea. I just shot the dev team of Go launcher Ex an email.

hey, that's pretty cool. Will you post a tutorial on how you set that up?

Did you try google? Just search vertical scrolling homescreen launcher and found this link here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkMFyldgb94
xda thread here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1250523

im0rtalz said:
Did you try google? Just search vertical scrolling homescreen launcher and found this link here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkMFyldgb94
xda thread here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1250523
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Well it is a vertical launcher but after messing with it for awhile it does not allow me to remove the preset icons (you can only remove ones you create) & if using tiles you cannot get them to align in such a manner that they touch end to end. I was hoping to use the launcher to create tiles of my own using Desktop Visualizer. This is what I have created using Go Launcher, just want the home screens to scroll vertically. My ultimate goal is to create a home screen that scrolls vertically & create something that looks very similar to the Android Market:

I have send an email to the golauncher developers too and vot one back. But i think it's just a standard reply so i don't expect any luck there
EL TEJANO i want exactly the same thing. I've spend so many hours on the Internet searching with no luck. It's getting frustrating. I really hope golauncher or any other good launcher like ADW or Launcher Pro can add this function

So this thread is dead now?
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SS launcher in the market is what you seek...

Try lightning launcher in the market its a nice one for sometimes like this.
Sent from my SPH-D710 using XDA

Apex Launcher from the market also has vertical scrolling, and the option to change the transparency of the black background in the app drawer, pretty cool

wallpaper crop

I know, a real stupid question here... with the large SG3 display, how in the H*#@
can you set a wallpaper without it cropping the damn thing, ANY IDEAS would be seriously helpful.

Grab Wallpaper Wizardrii from the market
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twistedapps.wallpaperwizardrii&hl=en
Select your wallpaper using that app and choose the scale option. That's the only way I've had it work

Also, the picspeed wallpaper app works well. Just need to select the image in your gallery, choose set as wallpaper, and the use the app to crop it or not crop it as you see fit.

You can try multipicture live wallpaper from the market.
It will show the wallpaper full without cropping.
You can also try picspeed and use the option "use original" when setting wallpaper.

Thanks guys, you saved me from getting kicked to the street, it was for the wife's phone I will give both apps a shot.

I use wallbase. I move the picture in want as background, move it to wallbase/saved folder and reboot. Full screen pictures.

mulletcutter said:
I use wallbase. I move the picture in want as background, move it to wallbase/saved folder and reboot. Full screen pictures.
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Well I tried all of the apps listed above, same result, with scroll enabled, the images do not fit, to large, or cut offs, with the crop option. Hmm, time to use photoshop or something to try and do something. Oh well.
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TheAxman said:
Well I tried all of the apps listed above, same result, with scroll enabled, the images do not fit, to large, or cut offs, with the crop option. Hmm, time to use photoshop or something to try and do something. Oh well.
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Use quikpic on the market. When you go to change your wallpaper it will prompt you which app you want to use to find your wallpaper, choose quikpic, find the pic you want to use, save, and enjoy your full screen wallpaper
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Landscape wallpapers Hd
Works the same. Go into the app click on pics from sd and choose your wallpaper and boom you get the whole shebang.
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I've also tried several of these apps and none of them work. The wallpaper always gets cropped and zooms into the center of the picture. I had a couple wallpapers I downloaded from the Zedge app but they won't set fullscreen with the whole pic like I want. Any ideas?

Samsung's stock launcher does not support scrolling wallpapers. you need to use a third party launcher like nova or apex.

You can check out my workshop if you wsnt a custom wallpaper

I was having this same problem. Here is how I fixed it. I did use Wallpaper Wizardrii. But, you have to make sure you have a very high resolution image. If your image is low res, it won't work. I chose the image, then chose "crop scale". It opens with a square over your image. If you want your image to fill the screen top to bottom, keep the aspect ratio of that square when cropping. You can keep the aspect by stretching only from a corner, and not one of the sides. It's okay if you change the aspect ratio a little, but the more you do, the more you will start to see black bars on top and bottom. If you aren't worried about a little space on top and bottom, just choose scale. Depending on the aspect ratio of your image, it may fill the screen just fine. If your image is true HD, then it is 16:9 and it will have bars. But if it's closer to 4:3, just choosing "scale" should work. Just remember if it's really low res, you likely won't see the scrolling effect.
Hope this helps. If it did, hit thanks.
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jellydroid13 said:
Samsung's stock launcher does not support scrolling wallpapers. you need to use a third party launcher like nova or apex.
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This may be true. I was using Go Launcher.

I'm not worried about scrolling wallpapers. Just trying to get wallpapers to fit on the screen without being enlarged and cropped.
Here's one pic that I tried to set as my homescreen wallpaper.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Here's what it looks like when set:
It cuts off the sides of the picture and enlarges the rest. I want the full picture to show up as my wallpaper.
Here's another example:

Best Multiscreen Home Screen wallpaper app

Not sure if i am saying that correctly but looking for a app that you can put different wallpapers on each home screen...anyone know one that will not hog alot of resources and drain battery that works??? Thanks for anyones help!!!

Not possible on stock touchwiz
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Live or regular wallpaper?
Multi-live wallpaper - No idea.
Multi-regular wallpaper - Mult-Picture Live Wallpaper
MPLW didn't seem to have much of a drain on my battery when I was using TouchWiz. Of course, that's based on what I remember perceiving. It certainly doesn't show up on my list of top 10 apps that consume my battery power the most.

BlackPhantomX said:
Live or regular wallpaper?
Multi-live wallpaper - No idea.
Multi-regular wallpaper - Mult-Picture Live Wallpaper
MPLW didn't seem to have much of a drain on my battery when I was using TouchWiz. Of course, that's based on what I remember perceiving. It certainly doesn't show up on my list of top 10 apps that consume my battery power the most.
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I just installed it, not having any luck with it actually using different pictures yet, but will keep playing with it.
Thanks for the heads up!
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spycedtx said:
I just installed it, not having any luck with it actually using different pictures yet, but will keep playing with it.
Thanks for the heads up!
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It'll seem confusing at first, so here's a video that explains it: http://youtu.be/c39PXAr9_F8?t=7m4s
Keep in mind, he's talking as if you have Go Launcher EX as your launcher. How you go about selecting multi-picture live wallpaper as your live wallpaper at the beginning may be different. The rest of the instruction is correct.

BlackPhantomX said:
It'll seem confusing at first, so here's a video that explains it: http://youtu.be/c39PXAr9_F8?t=7m4s
Keep in mind, he's talking as if you have Go Launcher EX as your launcher. How you go about selecting multi-picture live wallpaper as your live wallpaper at the beginning may be different. The rest of the instruction is correct.
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It was easy to configure, but it's not working under tw and cleanrom 3.5 ace. I'll check the video later and see if I missed something.
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You can use multi wall paper app with nova launcher. Put the wallpapers you want in a separate folder and use that folder.
wallpaper
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Skwerl23 said:
You can use multi wall paper app with nova launcher. Put the wallpapers you want in a separate folder and use that folder.
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You can use MPLW with any launcher...

BlackPhantomX said:
You can use MPLW with any launcher...
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Are you able to get multiple wallpapers running under tw? :/ which rom are you using if so, and what odd settings did you have to use?
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spycedtx said:
Are you able to get multiple wallpapers running under tw? :/ which rom are you using if so, and what odd settings did you have to use?
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Didn't try it with TW, but I'm pretty sure it will work. It only relies on which image or folder of images is assigned to which respective homescreen. I mostly ran Go Launcher EX when I was stock and not even rooted. It does work with Nova, ADW and Trebuct(sp?) as well. I've ran it on CM10.1, AOKP, JellyBeer, JellyBam, ParanoidAndroid, LiquidSmooth and Vanilla RootBox. All worked fine. I'm running Vanilla RootBox with Go Launcher HD for tablets right now and MPLW is working perfectly.
The only thing I can suggest is if you do end up having problems making it switch properly between homescreens, try scrolling down to its settings and play around with the choices under "Workaround for some home application." I learned that "For Honeycomb Tablet" seems to work the best for my set up, which is landscape mode.
Here are some examples of my homescreens with various ROMs, stock to custom, with each running MPLW:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
MPLW also allows your lockscreen wallpaper to change separately from your homescreen:

multiscreen tutorial
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rockinandroid said:
Not sure if i am saying that correctly but looking for a app that you can put different wallpapers on each home screen...anyone know one that will not hog alot of resources and drain battery that works??? Thanks for anyones help!!!
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Hi,
Yes, it IS possible to get different wallpapers on different home screens. ( Assuming that each home screen has it own STATIC wallpaper.)
I've got SG Note 2 with Nova Launcher Prime.
The number of home screens is not critical (I personally have 7 of them.)
As was mentioned you would need MultiPicture Live Wallpaper (MPLW). So install it.
Here is the sort of the tut for this task.
1. Prepare the wallpapers you want to allocate and put the exact number of them (e.g. 7 wallpapers if you have 7 screens) in separate folder. (FYI, I haven’t experimented with the external SD card, since I already had those 7 pictures in the internal storage.)
2. Go to Nova Launcher’s settings and enable (use ON radio button) Wallpapers scrolling under the Desktop menu. Quit Nova settings.
3. Choose Wallpaper menu item under the Menu Key and then, choose the Live Wallpapers.
4. Chose MPLW and then, tap its settings button.
5. Then, Common settings > Picture Source > Picture folder. Set the path to the folder with your wallpaper images.
6. Under the Picture Folder menu set the Selection settings to specify on which wallpaper will be on what screen, etc.
7. Use SGN2 Back and set the rest of the Common settings options (BG color, Crop, transitions etc.) under the Screen Settings menu. Make sure that you select the NEVER radio button under the Picture change interval menu.
8. Use SGN2 Back key again and tap Set Wallpaper button. Voilà!
2 notes: a) It seems like NO workaround options that MPLW offers is needed... I just set it to NONE and it worked just fine for me; b) since I had earlier changed as I wanted the Lock screen using the settings SGN2 provides, I didn’t actually try hard to make the “Use lock screen settings” option work. At least simple selecting that checkbox and pointing to the specific image did NOT work – the lock screen wallpaper remained the old one.
I hope that this tut will work for you too and maybe not only for Note 2. Honestly, when you have the specific wallpaper for each screen, this is not just looking cool , but is helpful too (better icons/folders visibility).
Cheers,
Max