Wallpaper

Hey guys here are some cool wallpapers that I found around, Looks nice on the X10. For the dark blue one I highly recommend that you use Wallpaper Set and Save, check it out here.

Personally I like the dark blue one it matches the X10's 2.1 firmware completely. Also click on the wallpapers to enlarge them.

Hubble Galaxy Wallpapers

A while while back XperiaX10iUser at XDA posted a link of some Hubble galaxy pictures. All resized to fit the X10 perfectly. All of the pictures are great to look at and are really cool as well, there is 48 in total. Not all of them are clear "HD", so I organized them and named the "HD" ones HDxxxxxxxxx.png. I am no super HD expert and I do not have superman vision but I rounded up the pictures that look clear and have the colors popping.

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Here are some of my favourite = )

Must Have Wallpaper Application

This is a issue that I noticed right away when I purchased my Xperia X10. The issue was that wallpapers come out distorted. Then I thought that it was a software issue (1.6 Limitations), then when I got 2.1 the issue was still there. But now there is a app that fixes this issue.

-Go to your market and download, Wallpaper Set and Save, install and open

-When you open the application select on set wallpaper

If your wallpapers are in a folder called wallpaper on your SD card then just set as default and select your picture

If not then select on settings/browse folders, select your folder, then save settings

Now you can select your picture, a cool feature is that you can swipe through pictures

Once you have selected your picture "Set Wallpaper"

The only problem that I have had with this application is that it wouldn't save your selected folder as the default. So every time you open the app you have to select your wallpaper folder again. Yeah its gonna kill a few seconds of your life, but who cares the app gets the job done lol.

Here are my results

Before with Banding

After with Wallpaper Set and Save, no more Banding!!

Note 

-The funny thing is I remember posting this issue on forums and stuff long time ago, and the responses that I got were "The X10 Screen doesn't support that many colors" "You need 2.1" etc etc. Well ha ha, LOL.  

Samsung Ocean Waves Wallpaper

The Ocean Waves live wallpapers was one of the reasons why I wanted to get live wallpaper so badly. It just looks cool. I tried it out on my X10 and it works well. For best performance I turned off wallpaper scrolling in Launcher Pro, I believe you can do the same in other launchers as well except in the default X10 launcher. With the wallpaper scrolling disabled the phone and the wallpaper works well without any major noticeable lag. The wallpaper is fully interactive, you can swipe to create like a streak in the water and click to create a circle wave.

BUT there is one problem with the live wallpaper, sometimes when your in landscape and then click your home button the wallpaper becomes distorted. Meaning only half of the live wallpaper would show. This has happened me to a few times and is really annoying. In terms of battery usage, this does take a bit of juice to run but I guess thats only if your going to be playing with it for an hour. Overall its a good live wallpaper and is nice to look at and to show to others, if only the landscape issue can be fixed.

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Wallpaper Sites

Here are some good sites for HQ Wallpapers

Droid Wallpaper-works with x10
Droid-Wallpaper-works with x10
Droid Wallpaper-works with x10
Zedge X10
IFullScreen-just select ipad or the full screen resolution
IPad wallpapers-still works with x10
Desktop Nexus-when you select and enlarge the image go to options and select standard 1024x768 or 800x600
XDA 171 X10 Wallpapers

Here are just some of my pictures that use for wallpapers that I found from the listed sites other places and some that I made/edited. Click on them to enlarge.

Wallpapers

Here is a quick way to resize pictures to fit the X10.

Here is a little app that will resize any image to set presets and custom sizes. Its Microsofts Image Re-sizer Power Tool and its tiny and free. Download from here. Install and your done. To use the app you have to right click on the image and click "Resize Pictures". Then a popup will appear in the popup select advanced and select custom. In the custom box set it as 960 x 854. Then select okay. A re sized copy of the original will appear on your desktop.

If that doesnt work out for you then you can download VSO Image Resizer 4.0.0.53, its free you can get it here. The only catch is that there is a 5 sec nagging screen. After you install and open it go to options.
-On the profile line there will be a button saying new profile. Click it
-For resolution put 960 x 854
-For mode select "retarget (seam craving)"

-Then click on the floppy save button and name the preset as X10 or whatever.
So when you want the pictures to be re sized just drag/drop, select your preset, set destination and click process and your done. Keep in mind that sometime some images can sometimes come out distorted so change the mode it may help.