Help Favorite Live Wallpaper gone with new Droid Turbo2 on Lollipop AOS5

[Android Question]

Old phone is DroidMaxx on Android 4 but since very first droid 5+ years back I have gotten used to my favorite "zen" live wallpaper which was the "Autumn Leaves" or "Water" where the autumn leaves are falling over a pond with trees in the background and you can make little ripples in the water by touching it or alter the leaves falling by touching them. Anyway I'm sure most Android users in the universe know this wallpaper as it has been there since the beginning and I just assumed it would be there on my awesome new Droid Turbo2 which ships with Lollipop 5. Wrong.

So there are a few minimal live wallpapers on the new phone but not the water scene I have come to love. With much searching, I have found others posting and lamenting about its absence and I have found links to apk downloads purporting to be this live wallpaper with instructions about rooting the phone to copy it into the right directory which I don't exactly feel safe about doing on my new expensive phone.

I do however still have my DroidMaxx still running AOS4 with the Wallpaper active. I am wondering if there is any way to copy the wallpaper file off my Maxx directly over to my Turbo2 and put allow it to become active without (preferred) or with rooting either/both phones. Anyone with skills who can step me through that would be much appreciated. I'd need to know...

1. Where and how to look for the live wallpaper file on my old DroidMaxx
2. Once I find it, where to copy it on my DroidTurbo2 and
3. How to make it active on my Droid Turbo2

Thanks Much in advance

 

[Hadron]

A live wallpaper is an app, and if it disappeared when the ROM was updated then it was a system app.

With root access on the old phone it would be easy enough to grab a copy of the apk, then you could try installing it on the new phone (as a user app, i.e. without rooting the new phone - I can't see why a wallpaper would need to be a system app in order to work). I don't know whether a backup app like Helium would be able to copy it without rooting though: it can back up user-installed apps, but I doubt it will back up system apps (because if you are not rooted there's generally not much point in doing that).

 

[mikedt]

"Autumn Leaves" wallpaper, don't really need to see that on my phone, see it for real out of my bedroom window. LOL

I remember my original Samsung Galaxy S had it, with Gingerbread 2.3. But can't recall seeing it since. You might be able to extract it from an old ROM image or from your old rooted phone, and sideload it, no guarantees it will work though.