Live Wallpaper is

**n0m0n** · 12-23-2009, 08:59 AM

I noticed a site that spoke about Live Wallpaper.
I have searched the Market Place and h ave not been able to find an app or anything in respect to this.

Can anyone shed any light on what it is where I can get it?

Thanks

**Chris Kerrigan** · 12-23-2009, 09:12 AM

Live Wallpapers are a part of the 2.1 Android OS, and as far as I know are not possible with anything below 2.1 (2.0.1, 2.0, etc).

**mclarryjr** · 12-23-2009, 09:40 AM

I have to say these live wallpapers are slick I hope more come out soon.

**Adiliyo** · 12-23-2009, 09:50 AM

yea, i am however hoping they clean up the code and minimize the battery use a little more, a 3% drain (for a day) is kind of high...

**mclarryjr** · 12-23-2009, 10:49 AM

Just noticed the battery drain after a couple of hours it went down 10% which was a little higher then normal.

**dagostin** · 12-23-2009, 11:11 AM

performance/battery can always be improved, but it's not too bad. While it's clearly just some sweet visuals, they are indeed SWEET. I'm running the smoke wallpaper, black and gray color scheme, looks amazing, almost like clouds rolling through the night sky. And my main home screen has the older style beautiful widgets clock which looks really cool against this color scheme. I dig.

**Adiliyo** · 12-23-2009, 12:37 PM

i agree that it's not terrible, but there's always room for improvement!

**RTaylor692** · 12-23-2009, 02:59 PM

But where do we find these

**dagostin** · 12-23-2009, 03:13 PM

you find these on the 2.1 custom rom

Roy Aguilera · 12-23-2009, 03:20 PM

Man I said I would wait but you guys are making it hard.

**Adiliyo** · 12-23-2009, 04:26 PM

the live wallpapers are what finally got me to make the leap.

mostly glad i did, you will definitely trade some stability for coolness though (with 2.1 in general), but i felt it was worth it.

**Sooks** · 12-23-2009, 09:47 PM

Originally Posted by Adiliyo

the live wallpapers are what finally got me to make the leap.

mostly glad i did, you will definitely trade some stability for coolness though (with 2.1 in general), but i felt it was worth it.

Looking to take the leap but scared bro lol , i have zero linux/unix/android skills lol, will u add me on gtalk and help a brother out lol

**mclarryjr** · 12-23-2009, 10:20 PM

its not that hard to do the update just takes a little time. If you follow the directions you shouldn't have any problem and I'll watch the forums if you need help.

**Adiliyo** · 12-23-2009, 10:28 PM

Originally Posted by Sooks

Looking to take the leap but scared bro lol , i have zero linux/unix/android skills lol, will u add me on gtalk and help a brother out lol

i thought you were already on my list?

but these are the directions i followed, really easy (with pictures!) and provided you make the backup before moving on to the flash step, you shouldn't be able to easily brick your phone.

today my phone has been giving me some grief with the launcher FC a lot and some freezing/reboot issues....

**largeselection** · 12-23-2009, 10:44 PM

Live wallpapers look great. any word on if they cause any slowdown? I just feel like these would cause lag like crazy.

**Adiliyo** · 12-23-2009, 11:14 PM

no slowdown, just a little higher battery usage than i would really like. but that's what optimization is for right?

**Sooks** · 12-24-2009, 12:07 AM

Got it ! , and i left the droid for a while and i lost all my contacts

, man i love it ! , but i really wish i could get the nexus one working thats the main animated wallpaper i wanted

Roy Aguilera · 12-24-2009, 12:12 AM

Should work on the official.

**Sooks** · 12-24-2009, 12:14 AM

ugh , after 10 min of use , its fast , but i get a lot of random *** crashes ..... then it reboots my phone ... ugh anyone else getting this , also , why is the new boot up an android pissing on an apple lol ? i thought it was supposed to be the nexus boot ?

**Kaus** · 12-24-2009, 12:42 AM

Don't give in to the dark side....To many bugs, but it is tempting for sure.

**Adiliyo** · 12-24-2009, 12:54 AM

Originally Posted by Sooks

ugh , after 10 min of use , its fast , but i get a lot of random *** crashes ..... then it reboots my phone ... ugh anyone else getting this , also , why is the new boot up an android pissing on an apple lol ? i thought it was supposed to be the nexus boot ?

the boot screen is differnt becuase what you installed isn't just the 2.1 rom, it's a custom rom with 2.1 in it, so that's the one they chose, i changed mine to the nexus one boot and it's not hard to do either.

**mclarryjr** · 12-24-2009, 09:38 AM

Where did you find instructions on changing the boot?

**Adiliyo** · 12-24-2009, 11:39 AM

it's on alldroid too

the nexus one boot animation is in that thread, and it's the one i'm using, but there was an issue when the person who compiled it so there is a hiccup in the animation, i haven't bothered to fix it and i haven't checked back to see if they did.

if you have the droid tools from the rom loading, all you have to do is copy the bootanimation.zip to the tools/bootwhatever folder on the sd card, run the app and click change boot animation.

pretty easy!

**mclarryjr** · 12-24-2009, 01:03 PM

Ok I have the new bootanimation in the tools folder where it should go but how do I run the app to click change boot animation? Not sure what app I'm suppose to run and from where.

Thanks for the help

**Adiliyo** · 12-24-2009, 01:21 PM

run the droid root helper app

in it there is a button to change the boot animation, click that and then reboot, you should now see whatever animation zip you put in the tools boot animation folder