Live Wallpapers Almost Working

[iLoveAndroid]

Ok so I have installed the Live Wallpaper packages in this order (extracted from this ROM....http://db.androidspin.com/androidspi...ase=166&type=1)
1) Live Wallpapers Picker
2) Live Wallpapers
3) Visualization Wallpapers
4) MagicSmokeWallpapers

So on Home++ or Home when you click Wallpapers>Live Wallpapers, and then when you try to choose a Live Wallpaper (even one from the market) it will say "The application Live Wallpaper Picker (process.android.process.acore) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again"

Any guesses?

 

[jrodjrxbox]

so any luck

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

They need some shared libraries that aren't present on the Eris, and you need root to add them.

Not going to happen.

 

[judasmachine]

My old LG dumb phone had animated wallpapers (which were pretty lame) and all they did was suck the battery dry. With the already shaky eris battery life I am not interested. That said, to each his own.

 

[Chaos5]

Wouldn't that take up a nice chunk of memory that's a bit scarce on the Eris anyway?

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

Wouldn't that take up a nice chunk of memory that's a bit scarce on the Eris anyway?

They actually don't eat at the system very much at all. Same concept as animated weather on Sense

 

[prometheus]

Kind of related / unrelated... I'm using a Moto Droid, rooted, overclocked, yadda-yadda-yadda... My live wallpapers constantly force closed. It seemed to lag the system and was too buggy.

I know that's not much help. But...., for what it's worth... I think live wallpapers are a bit overrated. So (in my opinion) you're not missing much.

 

[ChuckG73]

I agree even if I had the nexus one I doubt I would use live wallpaper. Why would I want to use up useful cpu for that.

 

[mitchell.23]

I think it would be cool to have the live wallpapers but I wouldn't put them as any kind of priority. Additional bonus only.

 

[prometheus]

If they were part of a stock OS, or they were stable on a ROM, I'd definitely use them. I'm sure they're stable on many hacked roms. I just haven't found one yet.

 

[mitchell.23]

The update to google maps {4.1} includes a live wallpaper of local traffic. Unfortunately the eris won't do live wallpapers so we are left behind again.

 

[mrfarinhight]

There are videos of LWP running on Eris.

 

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

Now that the Eris has been rooted, live wallpapers from the market can be used.

To use the Nexus Live wallpapers is a bit trickier. I was able to get them running well on the Hero using 2.1 framework and a custom build of the 1.5 kernel. Unfortunately this means that the camera doesn't function.