Hello,
since switching to Android 15, I have had the following problem on my Fairphone 5: The wallpaper I selected myself changes to Fairphone’s default blue image after a few minutes. This phenomenon occurs both with the Nova Launcher I use and with the pre-installed Quickstep Launcher. Is this also the case for you? Is there a way to prevent this? I look forward to your feedback! I also submitted a request to Fairphone Support today.
Best regards
jazzlive
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Hi,
Are you using the same wallpaper for both Lock and Home screens?
If so, it might be worth trying a different one for each screen.
Which “method” or “settings route” did you use to set the wallpaper?
Hi,
thanks for the tip! I followed your suggestion and used two different images for the home screen and lock screen, and now it works.
I set the background images via “Settings”, “Background & Style”, “Lock Screen” and “Home Screen” respectively, and then “Change Background”.
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Does anyone have the issue that their background/wallpaper keeps resetting after the A15 update? It’s a tiny issue but a bit annoying. It might also have to do with Niagara Launcher, but the issue appeared since the Android update. The phone keeps going back to the blue default (?) wallpaper.
See above you are not alone whith this
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I use the lean launcher and my wallpaper stays the same.
Ah, apologies. I actually searched for “wallpaper” on the forum, but with the default search settings I only got old threads. Setting it to “latest” is a lot more useful 
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I have the same Problem.
The described solution didnt work for me.
I noticed that unlocking my phone via the lockscreen seemed to trigger the changing of the wallpaper. Just using the fingerprint reader didnt seem to matter.
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For a while now I thought the solution plus setting the different (live) wallpapers separately for home and lock screen from the device settings would help.. But no, still disappearing so no solution here so far. And yes I have the Android 15 update for FP5. This wallpaper disappearing also happened before in Android 14 but now the frequency is very constant.
P. S. Happens both with the default launcher and Discreet Launcher.
Edit: OK Now the wallpapers have stayed for almost two hours. Let’s see if the anomalies stopped… Not sure what was the fix. I did try to set the wallpapers from the device wallpaper setting settings again and separately different ones for lock and home screens. Also tried setting “normal” wallpapers instead of live ones. Now both are different live wallpapers.
EDIT 2: Aaand it’s gone. Both wallpapers reset to default stock image again.
After upgrading my FP5 to Android 15, I’m seeing the same issue with the Microsoft Launcher, which automatically updates my wallpaper every day. Even if I force a wallpaper update, it reverts to the default blue one after a while.
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I have that problem too, the wallpaper changes automatically.
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I’m having the same issue and the time it takes to revert seems to vary a lot, it seems to happen when I leave my phone with the screen off for a while.
I’m using smart launcher but have tried reverting back to quickstep and it kept happening. I was also using a daily wallpaper changing feature. Glad to have android 15 but I hope this bug gets fixed soon.
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Same–regardless of launcher, Microsoft Launcher or Niagara. The “solution” from post 3 does not solve anything.
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Did you try Leanlauncher?
@gekooktei, I used to experience it with Niagara, too, albeit on android-15 :
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Hi there,
I’m having the same issue. However, it only started after I changed my wallpaper (selected another one of my photos). Since the it keeps changing to the default blue wallpaper. I will try changing back to the wallpaper I had before, which, for some reason, seems to be saved in a specific folder. Yesterday, I got the impression that it doesn’t switch to default when I use this particular wallpaper (which I had set as wallpaper before the last Android/system update).
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I use Niagara as well and it only happened after Android 15 update..
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It actually does for me Which, uh, shows that it might be several issues, since there are multiple variations: people experiencing it in A14-A15 or just A15, and people for whom the solution works.
For the record: I just changed my launcher background and kept the lock-screen one the default. Perhaps it’s still silently resetting my lock-screen WP (I wouldn’t be able to tell), but my launcher BG is still my own picture. So it at least works for that.
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Same here, either with stock or Niagara launcher
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Yes same here. Since changing my photo non stop. Also assume it is android 15 but only after I changed the picture that I had quite a long time. Sometimes after few minutes I loose my background, sometimes after a day and every option in between. Can’t discover a trend why it changes to the blue default screen. Any of the instructions found on internet have not helped… any other ideas?
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