What is the best custom dpi setting for the gnex?
I'm running 240ish and some things don't look right. Contacts ect etc.
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Running on 280 and looks bad ass with 6x5 set. But market is broken.
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240 and your market will work fine as well.
LCD, LED screen are optimized for a single resolution, unlike CRTs where pixels are created dynamically depending upon fps, MHz etc. Here pixels are fixed, changing the dpi is basically increasing /reducing pixels at software level which gets implemented at hardware level where number of pixels are fixed. thus blur picture.
that sharp and crisp display wont be there if you chance your dpi, you might wanna reduce/increase font size.
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Running on 280 and looks bad ass with 6x5 set. But market is broken.
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What ? i ran on 240,241,280 then had not met any problem with market at all
240 will make chrome beta to be FC
241 & 280 are better and not much more different but i prefer 241
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aish_varya said:
LCD, LED screen are optimized for a single resolution, unlike CRTs where pixels are created dynamically depending upon fps, MHz etc. Here pixels are fixed, changing the dpi is basically increasing /reducing pixels at software level which gets implemented at hardware level where number of pixels are fixed. thus blur picture.
that sharp and crisp display wont be there if you chance your dpi, you might wanna reduce/increase font size.
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Yes I understand this. If there were a "tiny" font size that would do. But small is too large.
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I run 192 without issues.
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lilude56214 said:
What ? i ran on 240,241,280 then had not met any problem with market at all
240 will make chrome beta to be FC
241 & 280 are better and not much more different but i prefer 241
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There are many apps that cannot be downloaded on 280 . one of them is franco's app .
aish_varya said:
LCD, LED screen are optimized for a single resolution, unlike CRTs where pixels are created dynamically depending upon fps, MHz etc. Here pixels are fixed, changing the dpi is basically increasing /reducing pixels at software level which gets implemented at hardware level where number of pixels are fixed. thus blur picture.
that sharp and crisp display wont be there if you chance your dpi, you might wanna reduce/increase font size.
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LCD, CRT, MHz, what are you going on about?
OP, try a custom tablet ROM if you want low dpi. Paranoidandroid is popular.
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There are many apps that cannot be downloaded on 280 . one of them is franco's app .
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Yep, I forgot it nevertheless 241 have this issue as well though I had followed steps in rom control ? Any idea ? or it was aokp's problem ? Some apps need to be switched to default dpi to update or install, completely inconvenient
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lilude56214 said:
Yep, I forgot it nevertheless 241 have this issue as well though I had followed steps in rom control ? Any idea ? or it was aokp's problem ? Some apps need to be switched to default dpi to update or install, completely inconvenient
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There are many modded market and gsf which claims to have a workaround but for me no luck with any .
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There are many modded market and gsf which claims to have a workaround but for me no luck with any .
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I have just tried out modded market, lcd density modder pro and nothing's changed =) 241 is still my choice, this issue is not a big matter at all
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Hello all,
I want to change the dpi setting, currently at 240dpi on CM7, how can I go about it?
Thanks ahead for any suggestions
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u have to edit build.prop in the System directory. when u open build.prop in text editor, u will see "ro.sf.lcd_density=240" a few lines down. change 240 to your preferred value. i think i read somewhere that going below 190 is not recommended. don't forget to reset the phone for it to take effect.
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I tried a miui with 220 and works well.. i think its rhe perfect value of density
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I like the crispness of other roms, to get a better crispy picture to i go higher or lower than 240 dpi?.
Or is CM7 dpi value best left at standard value for image quality?
thanks
admanirv said:
I like the crispness of other roms, to get a better crispy picture to i go higher or lower than 240 dpi?.
Or is CM7 dpi value best left at standard value for image quality?
thanks
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lower.......minor density value better image
There's an app that can do that lcd density or something like that. Check the market
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Changing density with a Sense ROM doesn't work wonders for me... Buttons are out of shape, phone app looks awful, etc. CM7 with ADWLauncher works fine though...
never tested with a sense rom...i´m going to try and post here the results
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Changing the build.prop file didn't work for me, however, the LCD density app from the market did!
Problem solved, thanks all
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Changing the build.prop file didn't work for me, however, the LCD density app from the market did!
Problem solved, thanks all
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I suspect that you hadn't set /system to read/write, I found that the apps didn't make the change permanent so now edit build.prop
Erm, yea maybe, LCD density app changes have remained permanent though, it'll do for now ;-)
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never tested with a sense rom...i´m going to try and post here the results
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i´ve tested it, with a sense rom and don´t works well.... i tried with 220 and 200 value)i don´t know why becaquse with AOSP works very well,,,,,
i did it manually and then i tried with LCDDENSITY apk from market... but if anyone try with this apk be careful and don´t go down 160 dpi....
the touchscreen doesn´t works!!!!!!!
i test change dpi to 200 and 190 on sense rom (on ViVO) - work good)
but some apps can`t use all screen)
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i test change dpi to 200 and 190 on sense rom (on ViVO) - work good)
but some apps can`t use all screen)
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yes that's the drawback, with CM rom's you can set compatibility mode (or maybe it's unset) in spare parts which sometimes helps.
I am running MCR Ir12 with the excellent Franco kernel.
I decided to have a play with the screen density in build.prop and, based on the fact that the gnex has a pixel density of 316 ppi I changed the default value of 320 in build.prop to match.
Apart from everything being only slightly smaller, I noticed a more interesting change: colour gradients seem more 'detailed' as in the white/grey on the twitter widget (standard twitter app) seems plain white at default ppi, but has a much more pleasant white to grey gradient at 316 ppi.
Has anyone tried this, or have any better settings, or interesting observations?
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I run 192, a it puts the phone into tablet mode. 241 is the lowest you can go and not have problems (unless you use tablet mode).
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I run 192, a it puts the phone into tablet mode. 241 is the lowest you can go and not have problems (unless you use tablet mode).
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I ran my Rom at 240 without any problems. I currently run it in tablet mode though.
Running it at 316 shouldn't really change much of anything from 320. You will have issues with downloading apps from the market though.
You either need to go 320 or 240 for market compatibility, otherwise a modded market will be needed.
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241 is the lowest you can go and not have problems (unless you use tablet mode).
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That's not true, I ran/run 240 just fine with AOKP B27, M4 and B28.
A little off topic but what is tablet mode ?
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A little off topic but what is tablet mode ?
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Have a look here.
reyes.jr said:
A little off topic but what is tablet mode ?
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With a few tweaks and a density of 192 or below your phone will auto switch to run ICS the way it ships on a tablet and gives you the tablet UI and not the phone UI.
Just curious if any has been able to lower their dpi on this phone? If so, on what rom and was it done manually or with app?
I always love to make things as small as possible to get more screen size and have typically (in the past) used a great program LCD Density Modder Pro to do so.
When I first got the phone I did successfully use it once to do so but since then after many rom changes and mods I can't do it anymore. It goes through but after reboot it never makes it back to is and hangs. Would love to be able to do so.
If you do so please let me know how?
Thanks
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Rom toolbox pro best app out there for any rom changes
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Definitely Rom Toolbox Pro. I used to use LCD Density Modder Pro too. I current set my screen to either 220 or 240. Running 220 now with not too many issues. If you are on ICS, you will need a different dialer program such as exDialer. If you are on Jellybean, the stock dialer works just fine, though you will see some overlap issue in the recent calls list at 220.
ROM toolbox. The lite version works fine for DPI changes. Make sure you back up first.
I'm using 280.
Manually edit it. Open build.prop in your system folder. Go 20 or 30 lines down and you'll see:
ro.sf.lcd_density=320
Change 320 to whatever. Don't go too low or too high. It technically will boot but screen won't be visible. I don't know what too high or too low is. I run at 280. Lowest I've been
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Could I see some screen shots of this? I always ran my gnex at 280. Do you guys have market issues such as incompatible apps with a lower dpi?
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Could I see some screen shots of this? I always ran my gnex at 280. Do you guys have market issues such as incompatible apps with a lower dpi?
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I was just going to ask the same thing. In the past changing the dpi would cause compatibility issues in the market but Density Modder Pro had the fix built in and it worked great. It also allowed for testing changed settings first.
Is it just not supported on this phone anymore? Does Rom Toolbox have a market fix or a test first?
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Looks pretty messed up at 280 with touchwiz
Don't use lcd_density modder pro to change dpi. Just use it for the market fix.
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Don't use lcd_density modder pro to change dpi. Just use it for the market fix.
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Oh so I can still use density modder pro for the fix!?.. that's awesome if so. So just changing dpi manually is recommended? Or with rom toolbox as well? And then use modder pro for market fix?
And on this phone (north American S3) what's the lowest (successful) dpi it can operate at?
Thanks to anyone who can answer these.
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Oh so I can still use density modder pro for the fix!?.. that's awesome if so. So just changing dpi manually is recommended? Or with rom toolbox as well? And then use modder pro for market fix?
And on this phone (north American S3) what's the lowest (successful) dpi it can operate at?
Thanks to anyone who can answer these.
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You got it! As far as lowest dpi. I've went as low as 250 with no problem. But have heard numbers as low as 220.
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Oh so I can still use density modder pro for the fix!?.. that's awesome if so. So just changing dpi manually is recommended? Or with rom toolbox as well? And then use modder pro for market fix?
And on this phone (north American S3) what's the lowest (successful) dpi it can operate at?
Thanks to anyone who can answer these.
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I used ROM Toolbox Lite for the change, then LCD Density Modder Pro for market fix.
I reccomend Apex launcher which works well at other DPIs.
My SGY works fine and displays everything properly when I use a custom ROM. However when I use ODIN to flash back to the Stock ROM, the display remains the same but all the pixels are visible and it looks crappy.
Complete opposite here, I find the stock look much clearer on the screen than any custom launcher or a rom with custom icons.
don't know why but to me the stock rom looks better maybe the use of bravia tweak in custom roms has something to do !
Ppl it doesnt depend on the roms...basically this phone is a LDPI phone which is a low density of pixels
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Ppl it doesnt depend on the roms...basically this phone is a LDPI phone which is a low density of pixels
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Yeah we know that pixel density remains constant and being a hardware factor cannot be altered by software tweaks, but there is a noticeable difference between stock and customized roms maybe its just a feeling because of theme used or other modifications and we'll get used to it in due time!
Being an LDIP, But truly something happen with display when altering ROM, Don't know should i back to stock ROM or not ?
Been used to AOSP CM 10.1 lately with 241DPI. But i've got tired of bugs and I want to switch back to Sammy. Problem is that most Sammy ROM's are 320DPI which is terrible for eyes which got used to lower DPI.
Is there any ROM that runs @ 241 DPI without alignment problems?
Or any way I can set DPI @ 241 on a Sammy ROM and still choose 320DPI for some incompatible apps?
Check out my guide.
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Check out my guide.
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Dude to complicated and always some bugs or app problems!
icsterm said:
Been used to AOSP CM 10.1 lately with 241DPI. But i've got tired of bugs and I want to switch back to Sammy. Problem is that most Sammy ROM's are 320DPI which is terrible for eyes which got used to lower DPI.
Is there any ROM that runs @ 241 DPI without alignment problems?
Or any way I can set DPI @ 241 on a Sammy ROM and still choose 320DPI for some incompatible apps?
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Yes I think Alliance ROM should be good. I remember using it and reducing the DPI to 240 and there weren't any alignment problems.
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