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Questions tagged [wallpaper]

The image displayed in the background on the home screen of an Android device.

The image displayed in the background on the home screen of an Android device. Can be manually set by the user, usually by long-pressing the background on the home screen.

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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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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 question is, if wallpaper is cropped wide so that…
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Where are app-provided wallpapers stored?

There are some apps on Play Store that provide some wallpapers that can then be set as home background from various launcher, such as Nova, Apex, etc. Where do these apps store the wallpapers? I looked in the usual locations, such as /data/data/, or…
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Android without wallpaper - is it possible?

I've just got new S22 phone and wanted to customize it. I wanted to have just a black screen as background, but I could not find any way to do it. On s22 one needs to choose some wallpaper- there is no option None. Then I checked my old phone and a…
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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 or the location on the Internet. Background info:…
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how to disable "choose wallpaper from" prompt in KitKat?

I have a new Acer tablet running v. 4.4.4 No Wallpaper (black) is selected , and I use this device for e-reading. The prompt to "select wallpaper from" constantly pops up and is an irritant. Can it be disabled?
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How do I make my wallpaper scroll on my Android?

To be specific, I have one page on my homescreen. How can I have just the wallpaper scrolling in the background and the icons staying still?
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How to make lock and home screen backgrounds separate

I have a Moto G 2014, and it's running 4.4.4. I cannot seem to find away to get my lock screen and home screen wallpapers different from each other. How can I go about doing this? I haven't rooted yet.
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HTC Explorer wallpaper display problem

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 image is not displayed. And now the main problem, the…
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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 when I make this widget as large as possible,…
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How can I change my wallpaper daily?

I am trying to set my android device's background image to change daily. I have been using Google's Wallpaper app but recently have been getting repeats. I am trying to use unsplash source instead. Is there a way I can do this, without root, using…
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Does anyone know, or know how to determine, the dimensions of the Samsung Galaxy S6+ screen in pixels?

The reason I want to know is because I want to make a wallpaper for my girlfriend that exactly fits the screen
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How to switch between scrolling and static wallpapers?

Two days ago I was a happy scroller, but the all of a sudden its just static, it switched into portrait mode. I've read over the internet that there are some apps to scroll, but I was wondering that, since my phone natively supports scrolling, is…
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