Okay so I just got my android phone and its eh. I got the Sony xperia Ion 4g LTE. So how can I use the background picture fully without cropping? I mean even for my iphone 4 it works. Also the screen is bigger so I don't see why it can't fit fully on the android but it can on iphone smaller screen?Its asking me to crop and I don't want to crop the image.
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How can I use full picture background without cropping?
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chanchan05
The Doctor
It just means that the aspect ratio of the picture you are trying to use does not fit the aspect ratio of the phone and will be distorted if you do not crop. You'd have to resize the picture. As far as I know, IPhones actually crop the picture automatically without asking you. Androids just ask you to manually crop the area you like best.
Actually no it doesn't crop it out I just use the same image on my iphone 4 and its full sized picture without cropping needed.
chanchan05
The Doctor
I meant it does not show you a cropping menu, you just select it and it goes to the background, but you don't see the entire picture if the aspect ratio does not fit. For example, if I choose a widescreen panoramic picture as a background, the iPhone will crop out the center part. Otherwise if it doesn't crop out, then there would be huge black parts at the top and bottom because the background I chose is longer than it is tall.
But then there it is. Android does not allow backgrounds to not fit the aspect ratio of the screen as far as I know.
But then there it is. Android does not allow backgrounds to not fit the aspect ratio of the screen as far as I know.
Atleast I can see the picure fully instead of cropping out and I know the black part of the picture. I could still put any picture and I would be able to put the full picture instead of cropping out I don't care bout the black part. I know its just there because the picture can't put it full screen. But I can still see the picture fully is what I mean in android I can't do that and the resolution of the android sony ion is 720 x 1280 pixels where as the my iphone 4 is 640 x 960 pixels. So I don't see why the iphone can display the full picture but the ion can't because of android.
zuben el genub
Extreme Android User
Maybe not today - but years ago when cross platforming between Apple and Windows started, the resolution of an Apple monitor was 72 PPI and MS 96 PPI. This screwed up scaling of fonts. Apple is still using their own formula for scaling.
AnandTech - How the Retina Display MacBook Pro Handles Scaling
In this day and age it shouldn't matter, but you ran into the one place where it did.
It's not the pixels of the screen - it's where the program code ALLOWED the pixels of the screen. Maybe coding only allows an 800X600 jpg @ so many DPI. Your phone's camera does more than that, but the original size of the background jpg allowed hasn't changed. This is mostly the old-fashioned way.
Apple might have just coded their method of scaling for the wallpaper.
It's easier to remove pixels than add them.
Go check on how to add an avatar here, and you will see how this works. You are given a specific dimension for your photo/drawing/what have you.
Another reason - my Canon DSLR is a 10MP camera. If I check the pictures in Photoshop, the size is something like 24 X 36 @ 72 DPI. There's no way I'd want to print that, it's too big. Unless you have a really large monitor, you have to scroll to see all the picture. You have to either scale the picture which increases the DPI into a smaller size, or crop it to fit.
AnandTech - How the Retina Display MacBook Pro Handles Scaling
In this day and age it shouldn't matter, but you ran into the one place where it did.
It's not the pixels of the screen - it's where the program code ALLOWED the pixels of the screen. Maybe coding only allows an 800X600 jpg @ so many DPI. Your phone's camera does more than that, but the original size of the background jpg allowed hasn't changed. This is mostly the old-fashioned way.
Apple might have just coded their method of scaling for the wallpaper.
It's easier to remove pixels than add them.
Go check on how to add an avatar here, and you will see how this works. You are given a specific dimension for your photo/drawing/what have you.
Another reason - my Canon DSLR is a 10MP camera. If I check the pictures in Photoshop, the size is something like 24 X 36 @ 72 DPI. There's no way I'd want to print that, it's too big. Unless you have a really large monitor, you have to scroll to see all the picture. You have to either scale the picture which increases the DPI into a smaller size, or crop it to fit.
stop comparing... it is what it is..
you have decided to go with a new system. it is different.
accept the minor differences and move on. there are pluses and negatives.
making it harder for you to enjoy the big pluses that the new sys brings.
so it ask you to crop a pic.. to make it fit the resolution of the area.
that is a small issue... minor. it does not change the original file!
you have decided to go with a new system. it is different.
accept the minor differences and move on. there are pluses and negatives.
making it harder for you to enjoy the big pluses that the new sys brings.
so it ask you to crop a pic.. to make it fit the resolution of the area.
that is a small issue... minor. it does not change the original file!