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Every phone owner (especially if it’s just purchased) wants to make it as attractive as possible. To do this, we buy cases and other accessories, but an integral part that affects the overall appearance of the smartphone is the screensaver on the desktop. But not everyone immediately understands how to install them. Let's look into this.
How to set an image on Android desktop
1st method
- Go to the context menu (this button is most often found on Android phones and is located next to the “Home” button).
- In the context menu, click “wallpaper”
- After this, Android will prompt you to select the folder from which you want to install the screensaver. This could be a gallery that will contain saved images and photos, folders with pictures that were originally provided on your phone.
- Next, choose the picture that you like. To put it on your desktop, Android prompts you to crop it. Select the area that will be displayed on your desktop and click “ok”.
2nd method
- We go to the main menu.
- Click on the “screen” item.
- Next, click on “wallpaper”.
- Next, the steps are repeated from the first method - select a folder and install the desired photo.
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That’s it, now the selected image will constantly delight you on the screen of your smartphone. But sometimes a problem may arise that spoils the entire appearance of the device. By cropping a picture, it may become very stretched or a clear image may become barely visible. What to do in this situation? Here, too, there are several options for what to do with this.
Screensavers for Android are the best way to make your device stand out from others and get aesthetic pleasure from working with it. In order to increase functionality, developers of tablets and smartphones are constantly improving their devices, each time demonstrating new functions, unusual designs, and a more pleasant and convenient interface.
The Android operating system allows users to gain many advantages and is easy to manage, and can also be flexibly adjusted to each user. You can download live wallpapers to your device and make your phone or tablet stand out from others. If you consider that the choice of wallpapers for downloading is very large, then you can find an option for yourself that you won’t find anywhere else.
How to install a screensaver on Android?
In order to install wallpaper on Android, you don’t need too much effort or time, or any special knowledge. The Android operating system offers a choice of live wallpaper or standard (without animation). These could be various star systems, crawling insects, or a leaf that floats on water.
Such wallpapers are always located under icons and other elements of the operating system. You will need to perform a few simple steps with your tablet or phone, after which you will receive new original screensavers.
You can find live screensavers online. Now there are many sites that contain “decorations” for your device. These are both ordinary sites and the well-known Play Market. You can install live wallpapers on devices with an operating system no lower than version 2.1.
Installation process
You can install wallpaper by downloading and installing the file. The Play Market or any of the alternative stores can help us with this. If you download from a standard store, the installation will be extremely simple. On the desktop or in personalization, you will need to select “Wallpaper” from the menu and go to “Live”. If the download took place from an alternative source, then you can use a file manager: you will need to go to the folder in which you saved our file. To do this, open it, click “Install” and, if necessary, check for viruses. You can find the item in the same menu listed above.
You can transfer installation files to your tablet or phone and via PC. This option may work if your device does not have access to the Internet. This is a “just in case” option, but you shouldn’t forget about it. The first step is to enable USB debugging mode. Once you click on the UBS icon, you can select the drive mode. Immediately after this, you will see that the PC has detected a new disk.
Probably, for many, this entry will seem meaningless and useless, because installing wallpaper on the screen of an Android phone or tablet is a simple thing.
Only since we are not born with this knowledge, we need to learn how to make this adjustment for the first time.
There are 2 possibilities for this. Set an image from a series of pictures that come with the device or set your own photo that you took yourself.
These settings are available for all phones and tablets with the Android operating system.
In addition, the wallpapers themselves are also different. They can be live, like videos, changing, animated, on the home screen and on the lock screen.
Below you will find a description of these options, plus my favorite - using a special program.
Setting wallpaper on the screen of your Android phone or tablet
To set a picture as wallpaper that was already built into the Android system, this is done as follows.
In the main window, hold your finger on the screen until the following menu appears, as in the picture below.
Then click on the first icon in the list called “Wallpaper” to go to a menu where you can select the pictures you want.
When you decide on the choice of the desired image (pictures can be scrolled to the right), click on it to select it and at the very bottom click on the line: “SET AS WALLPAPER”.
If you want to choose live or animated, then download them from the play market, where you can find various live wallpapers in all areas.
If you want to put a picture that you made on your phone, then click on the “FROM gallery” icon there.
This option will take you to your personal photo gallery. Select a picture and then click set photo as wallpaper.
How to set wallpaper on your Android lock screen
For the lock screen, you can also put your photo or built-in image.
To do this, perform the same operation as described above, just click on the “Home Screen” line at the very top and select the “Lock Screen” option.
All further steps follow the instructions above. Everything should be simple and smooth. There is really one point.
In order to set up your wallpaper properly, sometimes you need to cut it correctly or make it smaller, otherwise it won’t fit on the entire screen.
To do this, you can use a computer, and then transfer it from the computer to your phone or tablet.
In the case of animated ones, this is a gif image. You can make a GIF yourself (you will need a special program) or download it.
NOTE: the recording used pictures from a Samsung Galaxy phone on Android 6.0. On Android 5.1 it is almost identical, but on older versions there may be some differences.
Another option to put wallpaper on Android
There is an excellent program called Image 2 Wallpaper, which you can download for free from the play market.
With its help it is easy to install almost any wallpaper. The only bad thing is that Android doesn’t automatically adjust the photo to fit your phone or tablet.
You can change the photo resolution using Android applications - edit it.
Just first determine the screen resolution of your phone (look at the specifications on the Internet).
There are indeed surprises here too. If you change the resolution, the quality of the photo may deteriorate.
Alternatively, you can use the “HD Wallpaper” program. It has different options for setting wallpaper and even an option without cropping it to full size on the entire screen. Good luck.
When a person hears the word “wallpaper,” he immediately thinks of renovating a house or apartment, hanging wallpaper on a wall, and other scary things. Of course, they are not scary, because many families start repairs on their own and do it quite successfully. Some may not succeed, since not everyone is skilled. Either it’s a matter of installing a tablet. Even a child can cope with this, especially considering the fact that children grow up very quickly and at their age are able to do things that we only learned to do with age. But nevertheless, not everyone knows how to change the wallpaper on their portable devices, so we’ll talk about this today.
When choosing an image, you need to rely on the desired extension
Changing the wallpaper on the tablet manually
Setting wallpaper on your Android tablet manually is actually very easy. First, of course, you will need to download the desired background image on the Internet. It is advisable that the picture be with the same resolution as your tablet screen. That is, if the display resolution of your gadget is 1280x720, then the 640x480 image will be small. And if you try to put it on the whole screen, you will get a blurry image. Agree that this is not very beautiful. Therefore, when searching, clarify this point in the appropriate one. For example, in Google and Yandex you can easily control the resolution of images in the search results.
So, after a long and painful search for a suitable image, you can actually start installing the wallpaper. To do this, find the picture that you previously downloaded and click on it. In the picture options, select the “Set as wallpaper” option. The wording of this proposal may be different on different devices (depending on the manufacturer and system shell), but its essence remains unchanged. So instead of this wording you may see the following: “Set as background image”, “splash screen” and so on. If this option does not suit you, then you can use the next one.
Go to the settings menu of the tablet based on the Android operating system and select the “Wallpaper” category. Here you can choose a new wallpaper for your device from the native images provided. Or you can go to using the corresponding button in the home screen theme settings menu. Then go to your desktop and evaluate the work done.
Setting wallpaper using third-party programs
Of course, the manual method is not the only one. You can also set new wallpapers on your tablet using third-party software. To do this, you will need to download a special utility from the Google Play Market application store (HD Wallpaper program, Pumping Screen, etc.) and install it on your tablet. Let's consider how this method can be more pleasant and better.
- Firstly, such utilities provide a huge selection of all kinds of wallpapers and themes for your device. For convenience, they are most often so that you don’t have to look for certain wallpapers for a long time.
- Secondly, some programs have additional designs that will make your desktop much brighter. These could be widgets, various shortcuts, and so on.
- Thirdly, you don’t waste time searching for pictures in the gallery. By following the simple instructions that the application shows in its window, you can easily install wallpaper on your Android tablet.
- And, of course, the main advantage will be the installation of “live wallpapers” (if they are supported by your device). These are high resolution animated pictures that will make your desktop much more creative and interesting. So, you can install an aquarium where you can move your hand through the water. Or flying planets, opening flowers, a burning Christmas tree and much, much more!
Even the most beautiful wallpapers from the standard set of smartphones become boring over time. Luckily, replacing them on your Android desktop isn't too difficult. Here you can find out exactly how to do this.
Changing your wallpaper in Android is similar to the process in the Windows Phone operating system, with a few exceptions worth mentioning.
To begin, you need to press and hold your finger on an empty space on the screen for a while. In the menu that opens, you need to select the “Wallpaper” item, and then decide on its type in the proposed submenu.
You can choose from images suggested by the system, or use those that are in your personal gallery. You can also install “live” wallpaper - an animated image, which, moreover, can interact with external factors and change in response to them.
For example, if the screen depicts a night landscape, then touching the tree branches will “wake up” sleeping birds. There are also wallpapers that change depending on the time of day and the like.
Such wallpapers will undoubtedly “revive” your smartphone. But, for all their attractiveness, they have one drawback - they consume quite a lot of energy. This, accordingly, leads to much faster battery discharge. Therefore, if you need the “charging” to last for a longer time, it is better to choose a regular image you like. By the way, there are several methods to increase battery life on Android. You can read about them in the relevant articles.
There are also “live” wallpapers for Android that operate using an Internet connection, consuming your traffic.
Using the Android Market, you can select and install “live” wallpapers on your Android tablet or smartphone (just like regular applications). To find them, you need to enter “live wallpaper” into the search. After that, you just need to download the wallpaper you like, it will be automatically saved in the appropriate section in the phone system and ready for use.
But you need to choose “live” wallpapers very carefully, since some of them may contain advertising on the desktop, which requires an Internet connection and, as a result, additional consumption of your traffic.
Well, if even the most interesting of the ready-made pictures or animations do not attract you, and you want to decorate the desktop of your smartphone with an image from your personal gallery, then you should carefully choose its size so that during installation there is no distortion. You can calculate the correct image size by multiplying twice the screen width by its height.