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change evo screen ppi / pixel density?

i know theres a thousand of these threads but i really want to see this happen so what the hell
is it possible to change the evos screen density from 480x800 to its proper full size via a flashable package or a root required apk? i refuse to believe the true 1:1 density of the evo is the same as the n1 and others yet its AT LEAST .5 INCHES bigger than them all. i think that if we can increase the resolution it will help balance the the bleh factor of its not so vibrant lcd screen.
figures the biggest screen of them all is also be the most dull of them all (they probably did it for battery life or something, oh well).
im looking for the true resolution on the Internet but i haven't found it yet. i know ive seen it somewhere before, but it was forever ago.
if someone finds it before me please post the size and link the source. thanks!

I think you have a critical misunderstanding. The Evo's resolution is 800x480. That means that is has 800 pixels in one direction and 480 pixels in the other direction. The Nexus One has the same number of pixels in each direction, but each one is smaller because it has a smaller display. In general, the smaller the pixel, the more expensive the display because it isn't easy to make very small pixels. There is no application that can magically create more pixels or make your current pixels smaller. The native resolution of a display is absolutely fixed.
You can refuse to believe this or that they sky is blue all you want. It doesn't change the fact that it is true.

can i get some other answers than those of an unhelpful condescending little child, please?
im not a retard i know you cant physically change a screen to have more pixels. what i want is to change the resolution to something along the lines of 720p 1280×720. theres no need to try to put yourself on top of me like your better than me, its a waste of time for you to type me to read and space and bandwidth on xda's servers
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He answered your question and you're just not willing to accept that you have no idea what you're talking about.
The resolution of the screen (and therefore the pixel density) isn't changing. There isn't some magic hack to change it, or optimize it to be something that it's not. Perhaps you could get it to run at a lower resolution, but that would make the problem worse and not better.

you cant make 1280 pixels out of 800. on another topic if a dev would be kind enough to write a script to make my battery life double thankyou.

daktah said:
can i get some other answers than those of an unhelpful condescending little child, please?
im not a retard i know you cant physically change a screen to have more pixels. what i want is to change the resolution to something along the lines of 720p 1280×720. theres no need to try to put yourself on top of me like your better than me, its a waste of time for you to type me to read and space and bandwidth on xda's servers
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Aren't you really asking to physically get more pixels on to the screen? The only other way to interpret what you are asking for is if you're trying to get content of higher resolution to fit on the device? Pixels is pixels, if the screen itself was physically 1280x720 native and HTC limited the display resolution to 800x480 for whatever reason, then you can fix it.
As it stands, 800x480 is the native resolution of the panel, any higher resolution content that you try to play will be downscaled to the best of the software's ability so even if you use an app thats designed for the higher res (none that i know of) or a video / picture, it will be downscaled to fit 800x480 when you make it full screen or try to make it fit.
You can buy a 42 inch 1080p screen and a 42 inch 720p screen, and any 1080p content played on the 720p will be downscaled, and vice versa in the other direction. You're asking to transcend physical limits of a device thats not really possible.

daktah said:
can i get some other answers than those of an unhelpful condescending little child, please?
im not a retard i know you cant physically change a screen to have more pixels. what i want is to change the resolution to something along the lines of 720p 1280×720. theres no need to try to put yourself on top of me like your better than me, its a waste of time for you to type me to read and space and bandwidth on xda's servers
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He actually answered your question quite well and absolutely correctly. Don't be so defensive. There's a lot of smart guys on here and you're really bringing yourself down by (irrationally) not believing him.

Here's my question: when using our video recorder and set it to 720, that's obviously a higher resolution, so does the fone downgrade the quality until its played on a higher resolution screen? Or do we actually see it in 720 as its being recorded? Sorry if this seems like a weird question, the point I'm getting at is the if the fone is playing back the video that's 1280*720 then it wouldn't it be capable of higher resolution? Just wondering

th3_g00b said:
Here's my question: when using our video recorder and set it to 720, that's obviously a higher resolution, so does the fone downgrade the quality until its played on a higher resolution screen? Or do we actually see it in 720 as its being recorded?
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It wouldn't be able to be played in 720 so I would assume it is being downscaled when played on the EVO

063_XOBX said:
It wouldn't be able to be played in 720 so I would assume it is being downscaled when played on the EVO
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Ok thank you

There was an app for windows mobile that would allow you to change the dpi which made the screen look a lot bigger of course everything on the screen was a lot smaller. The way I see it is like the native resolution on a pc monitor usually lower than what it can support aka native might be 800x1024 but you could feed it video at 1280x1600 making everything look smaller but making the screen look much bigger.
So yes he was wrong changing the pixels is impossible but changing the appearance of the screen like stated above is possible. I think that this is what he was trying to say.

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It wouldn't be able to be played in 720 so I would assume it is being downscaled when played on the EVO
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Yeah I would assume it just scales the video in the same way that Windows Media player does when you adjust the size of a video by expanding/contracting the window. The media player on the evo probably has some kind of pixel compensation going on.
Minjin:
I have to agree that you are right, but the 2nd comment was a little condescending. Not all of the people who peruse these forums are quite as technically inclined as some of us.
daktah:
Chill out dude. But to answer your question, no you can't. The size of the pixel is set in the screen, as you get more pixels on the same size display your density increases and the display gets to be more expensive to produce. Screens like the Evo's which are very large are sacrificing resolution for price.
As per your comparison, yes the N1 and Evo have the same resolution, but the N1 has a higher pixel density.
Generally you can't upgrade the resolution of monitors over the native resolution because the driver would have to start to selectively merge or delete lines of pixels to make it fit (or make a scrollable work space). When you downgrade resolution on a display it starts to merge pixels (IE if you put 800x600 on a 1600x1200 display, "1 pixel" is now actually 4 pixels merged to replicate 1

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Minjin:
I have to agree that you are right, but the 2nd comment was a little condescending. Not all of the people who peruse these forums are quite as technically inclined as some of us.
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When someone says "I refuse to believe", we're not dealing with a lack of technical knowledge, but instead a lack of maturity. My experience with people like that is that you can make the most logically sound argument in the world and it won't do a thing.

cant fix stupid.

QUOTE=daktah;7150273]can i get some other answers than those of an unhelpful condescending little child, please?
im not a retard i know you cant physically change a screen to have more pixels. what i want is to change the resolution to something along the lines of 720p 1280×720. theres no need to try to put yourself on top of me like your better than me, its a waste of time for you to type me to read and space and bandwidth on xda's servers
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There are so many stupid questions on here folks getting really tired of being nice
Sent from my Evo on on the Now network from Sprint
oh and duck Apple

I have another question. Does the resolution have anything to do with how vibrant the color of the screen is? Like how on a desktop u can change the contrast and so forth? It would be nice to have an app to adjust those settings

daktah said:
can i get some other answers than those of an unhelpful condescending little child, please?
im not a retard i know you cant physically change a screen to have more pixels. what i want is to change the resolution to something along the lines of 720p 1280×720. theres no need to try to put yourself on top of me like your better than me, its a waste of time for you to type me to read and space and bandwidth on xda's servers
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yes, you apparently are a retard. you know that you can't physically change the screen to have more pixels, yet you still want to change the screen to display more pixels. he gives you the answer to your question and you refuse to believe it. tell me, how are you not being retarded?

daktah said:
can i get some other answers than those of an unhelpful condescending little child, please?
im not a retard i know you cant physically change a screen to have more pixels. what i want is to change the resolution to something along the lines of 720p 1280×720. theres no need to try to put yourself on top of me like your better than me, its a waste of time for you to type me to read and space and bandwidth on xda's servers
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He is better than you though.

So apparently you can do this now... There's an app in the Market or you can edit your own build.prop file and reboot. Make sure you nandroid first.

Telus Desire with Sony Super LCD

Thats currently what they have listed on their spec page. Subject to changes though.
http://www.telusmobility.com/en/ON/htc_desire/index.shtml
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does that mean it comes with Froyo
Screen: 3.7", HVGA 800x480 Sony Super LCD
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I hope "coming soon" means some time within the next 2 weeks... so i can pick one up while im in canada.
(me needs 850mhz 3G)

HVGA 800X480? Isnt it WVGA?

XDA mark said:
HVGA 800X480? Isnt it WVGA?
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they have that wrong cuz hvga is 480x320 lol

need know something please help me

guys i want to buy the desire hd so i want to know that is every game and software willl run on DHD ????
is there screen resolution affect or not is there is the screen size matter on runiing application or game ???
i m asking this question because the DHD screen size bigger form other some devices
is there app or game for specific phone or the which is for android will run on all android phones
sorry for bad englis
thanks

Although the screen itself is bigger, resolution on dhd is 800x480 which is pretty much the standard for high end android phones and is supported by software and games developers
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Anything on the marketplace will work with the resolution of your DHD, however non-marketplace games will vary depending on the resolution.

Any current G3 owners try to drop the resolution to 1080p?

Some SoCs and displays do not work well with downscaling, but seems worth a shot to take some of the load off the G3's GPU and should result in better battery life and a lot less heat, throttling of chipset and display. Local video playback barely leverages the GPU, so if folks are using that to measure battery life, that only works if that is the main use for the device. Apps (games in particular) and web content will leverage the GPU.
Catch would be how well the G3 display scales to 1080p. Will it look like a native 1080p display, or something funky?
I find 1080p on a 27" monitor to look good and the Note 3 5.7" display to look amazing. Seems IF the G3 can be used at a 1080p "native' res, performance should jump up big time- and STILL look great.

that's exactly what i thought and i posted same question on other theard, i hope it can be done so the batterylife be at least near g2/s5/z2/m8

All depends on the 801 and the display. IF the 801 treats the display as native 1080p and the display simply looks like a native 1080p (no image issues), it should be a huge improvement for anything that leverages the GPU. The display still is lighting all the pixels, but the GPU would have a big load removed- IF again the 801 "sees" the display as 1080p after setting to 1080p.
Looking forward to tests, or I will test myself- if the Verizon version can be rooted easily.

so anyone who got the phone please test this !

How would you go about doing that?

Good to know I'm not the only one wishing it had a lower resolution display.

Colchiro said:
Good to know I'm not the only one wishing it had a lower resolution display.
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add me to the count.
Until every apps support quadHD, I pick longer battery w/ 1080p anyday.

ayamgoreng said:
add me to the count.
Until every apps support quadHD, I pick longer battery w/ 1080p anyday.
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why not get a different phone then.

theraker007 said:
why not get a different phone then.
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Right...

partylikeaninjastar said:
How would you go about doing that?
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There are several apps in Play market that allow setting rooted devices to different display resolutions. it might work great with the 801 and the display and it might not. Most of the apps will first test the res and then let you cancel if not correct.

rushless said:
There are several apps in Play market that allow setting rooted devices to different display resolutions. it might work great with the 801 and the display and it might not. Most of the apps will first test the res and then let you cancel if not correct.
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Do you mean like changing the DPI with the build.prop?

theraker007 said:
why not get a different phone then.
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This lol.

partylikeaninjastar said:
Do you mean like changing the DPI with the build.prop?
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Yes

Looking forward to hearing more about this!

Colchiro said:
Good to know I'm not the only one wishing it had a lower resolution display.
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theraker007 said:
why not get a different phone then.
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1 obvious reason, LG has special pre-order price (in my home country;Indonesia)
for LG G3 which is $120 cheaper than Z2 or M8.

theraker007 said:
why not get a different phone then.
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I'd personally take a 1080p G3 over an S5, Z2, and M8.
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I have tried to change the resolution to 1080p with the app NOMone resolution changer but the UI is not shown well. It seems the G3 UI is designed to works in QHD resolution and the icons, widgets, etc are not shown correctly in a lower resolution. I attach an example.

From my understanding this does not change the native display which is shown on the screen but merely scales everything to a lower dpi. You are still pushing the same number of pixels.

rushless said:
Yes
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Changing the DPI is not the same as changing the resolution. You're merely assigning a different number of pixels per UI element.
Rubenban said:
I have tried to change the resolution to 1080p with the app NOMone resolution changer but the UI is not shown well. It seems the G3 UI is designed to works in QHD resolution and the icons, widgets, etc are not shown correctly in a lower resolution. I attach an example.
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Interesting.. I never knew resolution could be changed. Besides changing the resolution, did you change the DPI? It needs to be changed proportionally in order for everything to be in place.

MasK said:
Changing the DPI is not the same as changing the resolution. You're merely assigning a different number of pixels per UI element.
Interesting.. I never knew resolution could be changed. Besides changing the resolution, did you change the DPI? It needs to be changed proportionally in order for everything to be in place.
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Someone should try the terminal way of changed resolution ( xrandr -s 1024x768 <---- resolution ). It doesn't even have to be with this device try it with another device with root and see if it does anything
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[Q] QHD Stock LG G3 Theme?

Has anyone one worked redesigning the Stock LG G3 theme in QHD res? I would really like to see the default theme grasp the QHD display!

KingRoot said:
Has anyone one worked redesigning the Stock LG G3 theme in QHD res? I would really like to see the default theme grasp the QHD display!
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How is the default theme not already in QHD?

bigkevbosky said:
How is the default theme not already in QHD?
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The default theme doesn't use the full 4K resolution.

KingRoot said:
The default theme doesn't use the full 4K resolution.
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What good would 4K resolution do on a 2K display?

Prozac2502 said:
What good would 4K resolution do on a 2K display?
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Correction. 2K display with enough ppi to render 4K. Which is why the camera records in 4K and will play back in full 4K resolution.

KingRoot said:
The default theme doesn't use the full 4K resolution.
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So you're saying lg released a 2k screen and there ui isn't in 2k correct?

KingRoot said:
Correction. 2K display with enough ppi to render 4K. Which is why the camera records in 4K and will play back in full 4K resolution.
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Time to do some more homework bro

Pfeffernuss said:
Time to do some more homework bro
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I'm sorry. I didn't know Quad HD meant Daul HD. Totally my fault.

KingRoot said:
I'm sorry. I didn't know Quad HD meant Daul HD. Totally my fault.
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Nope, that's wrong, Quad HD means, Quad HD lol, thats 4 times 720p HD. You though HD was 1080p, wich is called FULL HD.