Anyone know what is the optimal dimensions? I uploaded a few JPGs and along with one being upside down a few were in need of cropping and/or re-orienting. Wondering if anyone has messed with this at all.
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Custom clock background image
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I am wanting to do the same thing.
I haven't actually done it yet - my van is currently in the tow hitch installation hell at the dealer - so take my opinion with a grain of salt 
The manual specifies a minimum size of 480x234 and a maximum size of 1920x936, both suggesting the exact same aspect ratio of 16:7.8. The native resolution of the screen is 1280x720, with an aspect ratio of 16:9. The difference in aspect ratio is that the wallpaper does not cover the shortcut/status bar at the top. Using the 16:7.8 aspect ratio, the ideal wallpaper should be exactly 1280x624, that way no scaling (up or down) will be needed and you will get the best results.
The manual specifies a minimum size of 480x234 and a maximum size of 1920x936, both suggesting the exact same aspect ratio of 16:7.8. The native resolution of the screen is 1280x720, with an aspect ratio of 16:9. The difference in aspect ratio is that the wallpaper does not cover the shortcut/status bar at the top. Using the 16:7.8 aspect ratio, the ideal wallpaper should be exactly 1280x624, that way no scaling (up or down) will be needed and you will get the best results.
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Let us know how it goes.I haven't actually done it yet - my van is currently in the tow hitch installation hell at the dealer - so take my opinion with a grain of salt
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Great!Works as expected!![Image]()
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Finally got my van back last night and tried this today. Yes, it actually worked out as expected.
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Thanks for the proper dimensions. Just got my 18 yesterday so I created this template to help placing the pictures around the clock. I have the .psd photoshop file with layers if anyone wants it. I could not upload it here because it is over 1 MB????
It appears that custom clock faces are limited to the digital clock and can not be used with the analog style. Maybe I am not doing something right.
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It appears that custom clock faces are limited to the digital clock and can not be used with the analog style. Maybe I am not doing something right.
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Anyone have problems doing this? I resized a jpg file to the dimensions listed above, and when I add the files, it says they are transferred, but nothing is ever actually transferred. If I go to File Manager, nothing is there. I've tried formatting the USB drive and trying again, but no luck. Any advice?
I was able to get this to work today.
Needs to be FAT32 formatted.
I would recommend not having another other files on the USB flash drive other than the images you want to transfer - this shouldn't be a requirement but it prevent the system for trying to check other files which would not work with the van.
Dimensions should be 1920x936 - if you have something different it would never show me the screen to select some or all files, but just spin trying to transfer the files.
I would limit the size of each file to <400kB if you can - that should be plenty of quality and not too much for the system to deal with.
Format I used was .jpg
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Needs to be FAT32 formatted.
I would recommend not having another other files on the USB flash drive other than the images you want to transfer - this shouldn't be a requirement but it prevent the system for trying to check other files which would not work with the van.
Dimensions should be 1920x936 - if you have something different it would never show me the screen to select some or all files, but just spin trying to transfer the files.
I would limit the size of each file to <400kB if you can - that should be plenty of quality and not too much for the system to deal with.
Format I used was .jpg
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