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On the left is the default 5800 wallpaper, on the right is customised wallpaper.

How to set the wallpaper on the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic

The 5800's wallpaper is the image behind the standby screen. You can set it to be any image stored on the phone, and you can even make it display several images in succession using a slideshow mode. If you don't like the images already on your phone, you can easily find more on the web.

Here's how to do all those things...

How to change the wallpaper

There are two methods, you can do it through the Gallery application or through the Settings application.

Here's how to do it through Gallery:

1. On the standby screen press the white menu button.

2. Select "Gallery".

3. Select "Images & Videos".

4. Double-click on the image you want to use as wallpaper.

5. Tap the screen to bring up the controls and select "Options".

6. Select "Use Image", then "Set As Wallpaper".

7. When the phone has finished loading the image, press the red button to close Gallery and get back to the standby screen.

Here's how to do it through Settings:

1. On the standby screen press the white menu button.

2. Select "Settings".

3. Select "Personal".

4. Select "Themes".

5. Select "Wallpaper".

6. Double-click on "Image", then select your wallpaper from the list (you can search for a file name with the search box if you want).

7. Press the red button to get back to the standby screen.

How to use several images in a slideshow as your wallpaper

Instead of just having one image as your wallpaper, you can set the phone to automatically change the image at regular intervals.

Here's how to set up a wallpaper slideshow:

1. On the standby screen press the white menu button.

2. Select "Settings".

3. Select "Personal".

4. Select "Themes".

5. Select "Wallpaper".

6. Double-click on "Slide Show".

7. Select "Images", which brings up a list of images on the phone.

8. Tick the boxes next to the images you want to include in the slideshow.

9. Select "Options", then "Select Marked Items".

10. Select "Change Interval" and choose how often you want the wallpaper image to change.

11. When you've finished, press the red button to return to the standby screen.

Warning: Using the slide show mode may cause videos stored on the memory card to stutter when you play them on the phone. Go back to normal wallpaper if you're having problems viewing videos.

How to get wallpaper from websites on the internet

If you're bored of all the images on your phone, you can try getting some images from the internet. This is very easy to do:

1. Using the phone's web browser, go to a web page where there's an image you want to use. (Alternatively, use the Search icon in the Internet folder to search for images.)

2. When the page has finished loading, select "Options".

3. Select "Display Options" and then "View Images".

4. Select the image you want to use as wallpaper, then "OK".

5. Tap the screen to bring up the controls, then select "Options".

6. Select "Use Image", then "Set As Wallpaper".

7. It will ask about saving the image, select "Yes", "Memory Card" and "OK".

8. When it's finished saving and loading the image, press the red button to return to the standby screen.

My image doesn't quite work as wallpaper, it looks wrong

If you're unhappy with the image (for example the sides getting cut off) you can edit and rotate images in the Gallery application, then set them as wallpaper. Just highlight the image by tapping it once, then tap the pen icon at the bottom of the screen to edit that image.

The image editor's "Add Effect" option includes methods for cropping and rotating images, which may make them more suitable as wallpaper. The cropping effect has a wallpaper option.

Help, my wallpaper disappeared when I took out the memory card/connected the USB cable!

If you use an image stored on the memory card as wallpaper, it will disappear if you remove the memory card or if you use the phone's USB cable in "mass storage" mode.

Don't worry, you can get the wallpaper back when you re-insert the card, or when you disconnect the USB cable (make sure you make the cable safe to disconnect first though).

If the wallpaper hasn't reappeared automatically, use the methods in this article to add it again.

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