Where are wallpapers stored?

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So I am having issues with the way Gallery sets wallpapers.

Even though I have a high resolution photo, it insists on cropping the photo and somehow scaling it without zooming. So I end up with a really terrible zoomed in portion of my original picture. I would prefer to just dump my wallpaper in the touchwiz or launcher pro wallpaper chooser.

Thoughts?

Up, any ideas?

they are inside TwWallpaperChooser.apk and about setting up wallpapers is best if u use the correct res 960x800 that way it won't crop it or scale it.

When setting the wallpaper, you can grab the crop border and "pull it out" to fit the entire image so it won't be cropped.

I have done this but it still looks terrible even though the picture looks great on the computer

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Originally Posted by inku

they are inside TwWallpaperChooser.apk and about setting up wallpapers is best if u use the correct res 960x800 that way it won't crop it or scale it.

Hmm being new to android your statement about it being inside an APK confuses me. I thought APK's were containers to be installed on the phone. Do you have any insight on how to add/remove files from an APK? As far as the proper resolution, it continues to scale the picture from the size presnted on the screen will degraded quality.


Another question, in the android theming forum, Alot of themes are labled CM5/6, does this mean they can only be used with phones with CM? or just optimized?

I'm having this same problem. Anyone figure out a way add pictures to the twWallpaper chooser?

I take no responsibility if you brick your phone doing this. Modifying system files is always done at your own risk.

To modify an .apk (in this case TwWallpaperChooser.apk):

step 0: Make a backup!!!

adb shell
su
cp /system/app/TwWallpaperChooser.apk /sdcard/TwWallpaperChooser.bak

then get out of adbshell

exit
exit

(that's right, 2 "exit"s, one to exit root, one to exit the shell)

1) pull the file from your phone to your computer:

adb pull /system/app/TwWallpaperChooser.apk

2) Open the archive
a) If in linux just use archive manager
b) In Windows it might be easier to change the extension from .apk to .zip first

3) Add the files you want. Wallpapers go in the apk here: /res/drawable-hdpi/
3b)If you changed the extension to .zip change it back to .apk

4) Push the files back to your phone. Theoretically this command should work:

adb push TwWallpaperChooser.apk /system/app/

but adb (for me anyway) doesn't like pushing files into /system, so you might have to do this instead:

push the file to the sd card:

adb push TwWallpaperChooser.apk /sdcard

Then use root explorer to move the file to /system/app or use adb:

adb shell
su
mv /sdcard/TwWallpaperChooser.apk /system/app

5) reboot

adb reboot

Ta-da!

Tried the method above except I used Root Explorer to move around the file. Everything is fine except none of the wallpapers I added show up. I tried ADB but I get a Cross-Device link error when I try to move it.

Originally Posted by rob989_69

Tried the method above except I used Root Explorer to move around the file. Everything is fine except none of the wallpapers I added show up. I tried ADB but I get a Cross-Device link error when I try to move it.

Much easier method...workload justpictures from market and set resolution to miami maximum....nice pretty zoomed in pictures and clear wallpapers


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