N82 Query ....

memyselfandi · 18 May 2008 at 10:36

... got a black N82 yesterday as an upgrade on my Orange account. Had some fun working out how to do things as I haven't had a Nokia phone for a while and I'm more used to the way SE do things at the moment.

I think I've worked out most things but I have a query on wallpaper. If I put an image, of the resolution of the screen, onto the phone then it is squashed and doesn't cover the full screen. Reading around a bit this morning I think that to get wallpaper to cover the full screen i would need to create a whole new theme using something like Carbide.ui (assuming the Nokia site ever lets me download it :rolleyes:

). Is this correct?

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Nymins · 18 May 2008 at 12:42

Thats what i need to do with my Nokia 6120 Classic which runs on the same software as the N82. Tad annoying indeed.

ash_scotland88 · 18 May 2008 at 16:58

how about opening up photoshopping and creating a new canvas the same resolution as the screen?

GuruJockStrap · 18 May 2008 at 17:38

Just resize it to 320x240.

chiggz · 18 May 2008 at 17:51

yeah, only themes will allow fullscreen wallpapers

i had a program called themediy or something which ran on the phone and i could create any wallpaper into a theme there and then - it did mean i had to use one of their standard theme layouts for the other parts though

memyselfandi · 18 May 2008 at 18:08

GuruJockStrap said:
Just resize it to 320x240.

No ... that's the whole point, of you have an image of the correct resolution, 320x240, then it does not display it full screen and instead squashes it down so it only covers part of the screen ....

memyselfandi · 18 May 2008 at 21:34

Managed to convince the Nokia server to let me download the Carbide.ui program :rolleyes:

... created a new "theme" which just sets the backgrounds and installed it on the phone ....

Why Nokia have to make things so complicated I don't know ... :rolleyes:

edit: and then made another version of it as Nokia's definition of inactive and active backgrounds are the opposite to what i'd thought they would be!

Raymond Lin · 18 May 2008 at 22:26

That annoys me no end too, end up not bothering with custom wallpaper in the end.

Syph · 19 May 2008 at 13:49

I've found for such a powerful series of phones, some of the basics I liked so much from SE phones are completely missing. My biggest 'miss' is the way messaging works. With the SE phone I can press down to see a list of words T9 is offering, and it also predicts what would be used next if I use it frequently. This makes things like 'Love you x x x' literally a case of pressing L and next till it's finished. Saves loads of time.

Raymond Lin · 19 May 2008 at 15:40

Press the call button to bring up the recent contact list, else you do have to go into messaging.