How to Get Asus ROG Phone 3’s Live Wallpapers for Your Android

Asus’s ROG Phone 3 is a beefy gaming-focused device. Even its wallpapers are designed to animate when you turn on its high-performance “X-Mode.” The intent is to evoke that “extreme gaming” vibe (sometimes to a fault), but the animated wallpapers actually look pretty neat — and thanks to XDA Forums user linuxct, you can now install them on any phone running Android 9 or higher.

Linuxct even created a special X-Mode Toggler app that emulates the X-Mode button to enable the wallpaper animations. The companion app is required to use the wallpapers, but pressing the button is purely aesthetic; it doesn’t affect your phone’s performance.

You can download the ROG Phone 3’s live wallpapers and linuxct’s X-Mode app from XDA Developers, but you’ll need to do a few things to install everything on your Android phone. The process also requires a PC, a USB cable and an ADB tool.

How to install the X-Mode Toggler and ROG Live Wallpapers

1. Download the X-Mode Toggler app and wallpapers APKs to your Android phone from the link above.
2. Extract the files, then tap to install the X-Mode Toggler APK and the APKs for any wallpapers you want to use.
3. On your phone, go to Settings > About Phone, then tap “Build Number” seven times to enter developer mode.
4. Back out and go to Settings > System > Advanced > Developer Options. Scroll down and toggle “USB Debugging.”
5. Download and install an ADB tool to your PC. (This guide will help you if you haven’t done so before.)
6. Connect your phone to your PC with a USB cable.
7. Open your ADB tool or your PC’s command line window and run the following command: adb shell pm grant space.linuxct.rogcontroller android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
8. After the command runs, you can now use the live wallpapers.
9. Go to your phone’s wallpaper settings.
10. Select one of the ROG Phone 3 wallpapers.
11. With the wallpaper applied, drag down on your screen to open the Quick Access menu.
12. Tap “Edit.”
13. Add the X-Mode toggle to Quick Access.
14. Tapping the X-Mode button from the Quick Access menu will put your wallpaper into animated “X-Mode.”