[East Bay Outlaw]

Im trying to change the wall paper on my screen of my BB Curve 8310. I transferred thye images to my phone via BB Device Manager. When I selected them to be the wallpaper on my phone, it only placed the image in the middle of the screen and left the top and bottom of the screen as the old feault (think widescreen TV with the black bars on the top and bottom). Am I doing something wrong?

[snowskier79]

Is the image formatted for your device, i.e. 320x240?

[East Bay Outlaw]

Well, BB Device manager conerted from my PC to my phone. Shouldnt that do it? Can I format image within my phone?

[cwichura]

There are two things that might be wrong here:

1) Some themes do not allow a user wall-paper to show behind the status icon area at the top. If this is what you are experiencing, then try selecting a different theme. The Zen theme definitely allows the wallpaper to fill the entire display area, if you want a theme to test with.

2) If the image is not the proper aspect ratio for the BB's display, then you will get bars like a letterboxed movie. The BB's aspect ratio is 4:3 (with a native screen resolution of 320x240). When Media Manager offers to convert images to the BB, it just down-rezes them, and cranks the JPEG compression level up through the roof to make the image file as small as possible. (In other words, don't let Media Manager mangle your images -- do it yourself in a proper image editing program.) Media manager will not, however, change the aspect ratio of the image. You would be better off using an image editing application like Photoshop to resize the image to 320x240 yourself. If the image is not natively 4:3 aspect, then you can use the crop tool in Photoshop to select the part of the image you want to make it 4:3. In Photoshop, you'd configure the crop tool to be 320 pixels by 240 pixels and then it will show you the proper 4:3 aspect bounding box for you to select from within your image. When you click crop, Photoshop will also automatically perform a resize operation to make the selected image 320x240 as part of the crop operation.

[snowskier79]

Originally Posted by cwichura

. . .2) If the image is not the proper aspect ratio for the BB's display, then you will get bars like a letterboxed movie. The BB's aspect ratio is 4:3 (with a native screen resolution of 320x240). When Media Manager offers to convert images to the BB, it just down-rezes them, and cranks the JPEG compression level up through the roof to make the image file as small as possible. (In other words, don't let Media Manager mangle your images -- do it yourself in a proper image editing program.) Media manager will not, however, change the aspect ratio of the image. You would be better off using an image editing application like Photoshop to resize the image to 320x240 yourself. If the image is not natively 4:3 aspect, then you can use the crop tool in Photoshop to select the part of the image you want to make it 4:3. In Photoshop, you'd configure the crop tool to be 320 pixels by 240 pixels and then it will show you the proper 4:3 aspect bounding box for you to select from within your image. When you click crop, Photoshop will also automatically perform a resize operation to make the selected image 320x240 as part of the crop operation.

I would bet it is the 2nd one.

Nice write up cwichura!

[Sith_Apprentice]

i second the second option. if that makes any sense lol

[zerog46]

Open the image, zoom in then set as wallpaper.