topic Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper in Z Series

Can't change lock screen wallpaper

ShreY — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:42:37 GMT

Hi ,
I brought Xperia Z last week ( India) . I changed Theme to Emerald .
I changed home screen wallpaper to my desired picture, home screen got changed.

But when I tried to change lock sceen wallpaper,settings -> Display -> Lock screen ->wallpaper -> Album selected random picture . I got pop out lock screen changed. But its not changed actually !!! The home screen wallpaper itself in dull pattern is showing for lock sceren wallpaper.

What could be the reason for this?? Have anybody tried this? Its only in my mobile or this is an issue/limit/bug??

ShreY

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

Samuel1 — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:20:42 GMT

Which type of screen lock are you using? Swipe or pattern/PIN/password?

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

a2k22010 — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 08:14:29 GMT

Hi,

I can change the Lock Screen Wallpaper, irrespective of the theme. The same can be changed from Settings>Display>Lock Screen

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

LondonCrystal — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:46:44 GMT

When i use PATTERN as my screen lock, the lock screen wallpaper doesn;t change!

Why? i tried to change the lock screen wallpaper in the Settings>Display>Lock Screen, nth change.

The lock screen wallpaper is the same as my wallpaper.

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

Samuel1 — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:01:53 GMT

The lock screen wallpaper is only changed when using swipe as lock method. When using pattern/PIN/face you will get the wallpaper as lock screen.

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

ShreY — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:39:14 GMT

Hi Samuel,
Yes, when I changed lock method to swipe I'm able to change lock screen wallpaper.

But its like that ?

ShreY

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

Samuel1 — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:27:08 GMT

The phone is designed like that, unfortunately nothing you can change.

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

noskr2310 — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:30:19 GMT

You can change you lockscreen wallpaper
First try shutting down developer option, and try to change you lockscreen wallpaper. Don't matter the lock method btw

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

gitzz — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:41:44 GMT

on 4.1 - lockscreen wallpaer work only with swipe.
on 4.2 - lockscreen wallpaper work on any unlocking methods.
it is as simple as this.

btw
no confliction with developer option or anything just depend on android version

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

Rakkozhi — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:39:05 GMT

I m using xperia m mdl., and I selectd swipe mode lock screen, and my versn 2.1 eventhough couldnt chnge lock screen wallpaper. kindly help me! Fixed this bug !

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

Rakkozhi — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 17:54:06 GMT

Amazing lock screen walpaper chngd done. . For that goto settings -> display -> lock screen. we can chnge the lock screen chngd dne. 😄

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

PG — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 16:08:36 GMT

Hey Guys,

Im using the xperia ZR AND when i try to change the lockscreen wallpaper in any way possible it goes well till the crop picture part but as soon as i hit crop it shows a message saying "could not set wallpaper"

i have this problem after the 4.2.2 update and its persistant in the 4.3 update as well

Please help asap

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

Htoo91 — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:11:23 GMT

I can't change lock screen wallpaper even using swipe methods. When I crop the photo to set up as my lock screen wallpaer, it shows "could not set wallpaer". I would like to know how can I shut down developer option. Please show me guidline noskr2310.

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

ojiea — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:05:05 GMT

i had the same problem as yours, like it shows "could not set wallpaper." what i did was, i got into Settings>Developer Options, then beside the "Developer Options" title there is a toggle which you can have it turned on/off. I tried to toggle it off then return to changing my wallpaper and it worked for me. I guess Developer options is supposed to be toggled off in order to change the wallpaper. Hope this helps you.

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

Aliase — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 02:00:52 GMT

but how come in xperia C we can chage the lock screen in parrten lock also no need of swipe ???

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

deepspaceburnou — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 01:42:12 GMT

Funny how a custom option can **bleep** people off. Me included. Why Sony?

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

toptop — Wed, 10 Sep 2014 12:13:55 GMT

Hi samuel i am using xperia m and i can't change my lockscreen. My wallpaper and lockscreen is the same. And i tried to change the lockscreen but nothing has changed. My xperia version is 4.2

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

Ibrahim1994 — Sat, 14 Mar 2015 21:07:59 GMT

You have to remove 'Xperia' live wallpaper from Applications. Then It Will change

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

Esti1369 — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:47:41 GMT

Hi I'm using Xperia Z1 and after after those methods I still can't change lock screen image. I'm running android 5.0.2 btw.

Re: Can't change lock screen wallpaper

RikBond1 — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 15:08:25 GMT

Go to developer options in Settings and uncheck the "Protect SD card" option. Then you should be able to change your lockscreen wallpaper.
The wallpaper/album module wasn't able to access the SD card files. But now it should be fine.