Please let me know how to remove wallpaper in my Android phone

[AC Question]

Please note that I do not want to replace one wall paper with another. I just want to eliminate it.

If you cannot NOT have a wallpaper, I would like to replace the current one with the default. Is that possible?

I accidentally opened a google map file and pressed on it and voila, it became my wallpaper just an hour ago. I have been desperately trying to restore the old status but to no avail. Please help

 

[mikelspencr]

Hold on the home screen (where there isn't an icon/app/widget) and it will pop "back" a little. Most androids (read:all that i know of) will have a "wallpaper" tab at the bottom. Tap that, change to what you'd want, voila!

 

[Rukbat]

You can usually find the original wallpaper in a file (google yourphonemodel default wallpaper download).

Or you can set a solid color as a wallpaper (there are many solid color wallpaper downloads for all sizes of screens).

(The screen has to be something where there are no icons - it can't be transparent.)

 

[Taha Lodhi]

Tap and hold an area on the home screen. Near the bottom, a wallpaper option should show up. You can set it to any picture you have saved on your phone. If you don't like wallpaper, I would recommend a pure black or single color wallpaper.

 

[alan5mith]

The answers all tell you how to change the wallpaper, not how to remove it which is what was asked. So How do you COMPLETELY Remove and disable them ? Thanks

 

[Deleted member 2609113]

The answers all tell you how to change the wallpaper, not how to remove it which is what was asked. So How do you COMPLETELY Remove and disable them ? Thanks

Having just checked it looks like there has to be some kind of wallpaper, so the only suggestion I have is pick a solid color that you like. Of course if there is a picture that you have in your phone you like you can use that. Maybe try taking a picture of a white wall or any thing solid white and use that.

 

[B. Diddy]

The answers all tell you how to change the wallpaper, not how to remove it which is what was asked. So How do you COMPLETELY Remove and disable them ? Thanks

Welcome to Android Central! See if this thread helps: https://android.stackexchange.com/q...e-images-from-the-wallpaper-folder-on-android

 

[alan5mith]

Thanks. I was wanting nothing at all to allow a program to use the background as a wallpaper. I have eventually managed but I'm not really sure exactly what worked as I went through a lot of associated and possibly associated type programs all at once resetting things to defaults, also deleting some of those never or little used programs that build up.

 

[RevJB]

I, like you, cussed out Samsung for making this hard. When you select image(s) to use as wallpapers the system creates a pointer list to the images. The trick is to just move one of the images from its current location to another....i.e. if in PICTURES move to DOCUMENTS. Don't do a copy, you have to move it so the wallpaper function can't find it. Then reboot. This resets the list to null and then all that's necessary is to use the WALLPAPER function to re-select the images you want to use and the function re-builds the image list.

Pain in the wazoo but works and requires no software or trickery.

 

[Deemarie607]

Hold on the home screen (where there isn't an icon/app/widget) and it will pop "back" a little. Most androids (read:all that i know of) will have a "wallpaper" tab at the bottom. Tap that, change to what you'd want, voila!

I can't make my pics disappear from there. There is no voila for me. No option to delete. I have an s10e

 

[Deemarie607]

I figured it out. you simply select the original wallpapers and they take over.

 

[William_50]

I have an Samsung galaxy A12 I want to turn off all wallpaper on my phone but it's not doing anything all I get is how to change your wallpaper but I want to turn this feature off its draining my cell battery faster if I charge up my phone and unplug it goes from 100% to 94% in less then 2 mins and I have ran a diagnostic on my cellphone it said the wallpaper is draining the battery life. I have to shut down the wallpaper but it will not do it it only install or change the wallpaper but nothing to shut it down. Turn off this feature I went to all the places the only told me but nothing to disable the feature and I even did the home screen push down to go to themes to delete no can't cause it preloaded and it will not be turned off it wants to install to the lock screen.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Can you show that diagnostic? A static wallpaper should be using no significant battery. Are you sure you're not using a live wallpaper? Or is it the Wallpaper Picker that's shown as using battery? Or do you have the Google Wallpapers app installed?

As far as I know, you can't not use a wallpaper. You could use a static wallpaper that's simply solid black.

 

[oxydize]

Having just checked it looks like there has to be some kind of wallpaper, so the only suggestion I have is pick a solid color that you like. Of course if there is a picture that you have in your phone you like you can use that. Maybe try taking a picture of a white wall or any thing solid white and use that.

So it's NOT possible. Thanks, would have saved us a lot of scrolling. It just seemed stupid that it wasn't possible to remove the PINK factory wallpaper.

Android: If it's not easy. it's probably impossible.
iOS: If you can't figure it out, we designed it that way.

 

[B. Diddy]

So it's NOT possible. Thanks, would have saved us a lot of scrolling. It just seemed stupid that it wasn't possible to remove the PINK factory wallpaper.

Android: If it's not easy. it's probably impossible.
iOS: If you can't figure it out, we designed it that way.

Just like with most stock or preinstalled apps/features, you can't completely delete a stock wallpaper from the system (unless you root the phone, which I wouldn't advise just for this purpose). It's like stock ringtones -- there are so many I don't want or need, but they're stuck on the phone. The amount of space they take up is negligible, at least.

 

[luk dik luk]

Finally, I got rid of this problem. I searched for an app that I am not aware of on my phone and I saw "Wallpaper Stack". I opened it and uninstalled. Now the annoying wallpaer and full of ads is gone.