How to put your wallpaper on your Navi Screen TL 2012

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Old Jul 11, 2011 | 10:27 PM
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Cool How to put your wallpaper on your Navi Screen TL 2012

I found this online and it helps a lot.

http://owners.acura.com/Model/Featur...delid=UA8F5CKW
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Old Mar 4, 2013 | 01:27 PM
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Here's a better working link

owners.acura.com/vehicles/information/2012/TL/features/Wallpaper
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Old Mar 4, 2013 | 04:58 PM
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I find it funny that one can go through all the steps to choose and set a wallpaper (arguably diverting one's eyes from the road while doing so), but the system, for "safety" reasons", won't let you hit the final ""enter" button while the car is in motion. Seems to me that if safety is really the issue, it should stop the driver at the beginning of the process, not the end.
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Old Mar 19, 2013 | 01:09 PM
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Hi, new member here. I can't seem to find any information on what size the photo needs to be. The link says up to 6MB but what about the resolution? Do I have to shrink it on my PC before uploading it to the car or does the system automatically shrink it to size to fit the nav screen? Thanks.
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Old Mar 19, 2013 | 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by iamdk72986
Hi, new member here. I can't seem to find any information on what size the photo needs to be. The link says up to 6MB but what about the resolution? Do I have to shrink it on my PC before uploading it to the car or does the system automatically shrink it to size to fit the nav screen? Thanks.
It will automatically display the correct size, though depending on the photo, you may get black bars at either side.

I would size it down on your PC to the screen resolution, which is 800x480 (as per the manual) before uploading to the car, as the larger images take a lot longer to load.
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Old Mar 19, 2013 | 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by sockpuppet
It will automatically display the correct size, though depending on the photo, you may get black bars at either side.

I would size it down on your PC to the screen resolution, which is 800x480 (as per the manual) before uploading to the car, as the larger images take a lot longer to load.
Whoops, I may have overlooked that. Thank you very much! =)
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Old Aug 26, 2015 | 10:50 PM
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is it possible to use a .gif ????
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Old Aug 28, 2015 | 03:18 AM
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Nope - JPG or BMP only - just like it's the 90's
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Old Sep 9, 2015 | 06:39 PM
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The system always tells me the USB device is not connected. I cant figure it out. Any ideas?
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Old Sep 9, 2015 | 08:22 PM
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Use fat USB not ntfs formatted USB.
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Old Sep 9, 2015 | 10:26 PM
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I'll give that a try and see what happens. Thanks.
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Old Sep 25, 2018 | 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by sockpuppet
I find it funny that one can go through all the steps to choose and set a wallpaper (arguably diverting one's eyes from the road while doing so), but the system, for "safety" reasons", won't let you hit the final ""enter" button while the car is in motion. Seems to me that if safety is really the issue, it should stop the driver at the beginning of the process, not the end.
FOR YEARS this very comment verbatim has played in my head after reading this LOL you articulated my frustration so well...and you see my logic. hahahah I always come back to this thread to laugh about it.
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