Personalize your Lumia's Glance screen with Glance Background beta

[gajomau]

You're invited to try out the new Glance Background beta application, which allows you to customize the Glance screen on your Lumia with a personalized background image. Choose from several preloaded images or create your own.This trial is aiming to collect user feedback on overall usability of this feature, including quality of images, power consumption and editor features.
So, please give it a try and let us know how it works for you.
Note: The beta is provided as a stand-alone app for Lumia devices that support the Glance feature and that have the Amber software release. Check that your device is supported before installing.

source: Personalize your Lumia's Glance screen with Glance Background beta | Nokia Beta Labs

EDIT:

help the developers of this app, add sugestions, bug reports, etc --> https://betalabs.nokia.com/trials/Glance-Background/summary

 

[Kebero]

I love Nokia

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[gajomau]

i hope they just do a copy of the sleeping screen

Nokia Sleeping Screen [Experimental] (Nokia Beta Labs) - YouTube

animated notifications? yes please

 

[Blacklac]

I flipped out for a second because the 1020 was out of order. Lol! Thanks for the link man.

 

[sejgiul]

Oh my... Not seen that before. If only we could have that too! That'd certainly pull users of other OS'

i hope they just do a copy of the sleeping screen

Nokia Sleeping Screen [Experimental] (Nokia Beta Labs) - YouTube

animated notifications? yes please

 

[Ultimateone]

Glance seems harder to "wake" up now

 

[gajomau]

yes.. i see some "lag" on screen wake up.. this is why the app still is in beta

 

[martinmc78]

Works great on the 1020 got a couple of night time pictures taken on London bridge of the surrounding skyline. Most impressive.

 

[gajomau]

to everyone making your personal images, if you zoom the image and then hit "save" it will save the image zoomed..

 

[sejgiul]

I've been tinkering around a bit and found these images look extremely good on the glance screen



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[gajomau]

I've been tinkering around a bit and found these images look extremely good on the glance screen



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go to this post for the contest made by Rich Edmonds --> http://forums.windowscentral.com/no...test-submit-your-nokia-glance-background.htmlhttp://forums.windowscentral.com/members/rich-edmonds.htm

 

[nocial]

When u uninstall the app the background still stays ? How do i remove it?

 

[jiayit]

When u uninstall the app the background still stays ? How do i remove it?

I haven't tried uninstalling but to 'remove' the picture you can try reinstalling and setting a black picture as the BG then uninstalling.

 

[Jason Drum]

When u uninstall the app the background still stays ? How do i remove it?

Same issue...restart and soft reset didn't do anything.

Found this...https://betalabs.nokia.com/trials/G...eport/glance-still-running-after-uninstalling

 

[uselessrobot]

Has anyone noticed that images come out looking pretty bad? It looks like the app adds scanlines in addition to the excessive dithering.

I'm guessing it's all done to preserve battery life, but it looks like Nokia took the position of maximizing battery life on AMOLED displays. Battery drain for an LCD stems from the backlight, the state of the pixels isn't much of a factor. The whole screen could be white and the drain wouldn't be much different than having a single pixel lit. With AMOLED, however, there's an incentive to keep fewer pixels lit because each one does directly contribute to battery drain.

My point being that it would be nice if we had the option to disable that, even at the risk of increased battery life. But what I'm really waiting on are notification. That's the thing that will make glance really useful.

 

[gajomau]

Has anyone noticed that images come out looking pretty bad? It looks like the app adds scanlines in addition to the excessive dithering.

I'm guessing it's all done to preserve battery life, but it looks like Nokia took the position of maximizing battery life on AMOLED displays. Battery drain for an LCD stems from the backlight, the state of the pixels isn't much of a factor. The whole screen could be white and the drain wouldn't be much different than having a single pixel lit. With AMOLED, however, there's an incentive to keep fewer pixels lit because each one does directly contribute to battery drain.

My point being that it would be nice if we had the option to disable that, even at the risk of increased battery life. But what I'm really waiting on are notification. That's the thing that will make glance really useful.

well, it's the first version.. go to the beta labs website and submit that suggestion..

 

[Raivohetero]

When u uninstall the app the background still stays ? How do i remove it?

I just uninstalled Glance Background and then rebooted.