Hi all,
I asked this in Q&A and haven't seen any responses yet, so I'm hoping to get more traction in here. Anyway, I just upgraded from the Galaxy S to the SIII and am trying to keep the same icon's and theme that I had before, but with the new screen size, all of my icon's are too small. I'm using Launcher Pro so I know how to change the icons I want, I just don't know what size to make them this time. Can anyone tell me what the best size for icon's are for the SIII? I did a quick search here, but didn't see anything that was what I was looking for.
Thanks in advance.
Dave
I'm not sure who or how someone will answer this for you. Without knowing what you mean by matching your theme from your s2, how would anyone be able to tell you the best icon size? The default dpi is 320. That fits five or six across without looking too cramped.
On a side note, I can't think of any reason to use LauncherPro on an ICS+ phone. Nova Prime is only a quarter today. Give that a shot. It's built for ICS. LauncherPro hasn't been updated in over a year.
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dbs179 said:
Hi all,
I asked this in Q&A and haven't seen any responses yet, so I'm hoping to get more traction in here. Anyway, I just upgraded from the Galaxy S to the SIII and am trying to keep the same icon's and theme that I had before, but with the new screen size, all of my icon's are too small. I'm using Launcher Pro so I know how to change the icons I want, I just don't know what size to make them this time. Can anyone tell me what the best size for icon's are for the SIII? I did a quick search here, but didn't see anything that was what I was looking for.
Thanks in advance.
Dave
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I use go launcher for the reason they let you decide the icon size up to 200p i believe. To my knowledge there is no one else that does it unless recently.
Give it a go.
danjbry said:
I'm not sure who or how someone will answer this for you. Without knowing what you mean by matching your theme from your s2, how would anyone be able to tell you the best icon size? The default dpi is 320. That fits five or six across without looking too cramped.
On a side note, I can't think of any reason to use LauncherPro on an ICS+ phone. Nova Prime is only a quarter today. Give that a shot. It's built for ICS. LauncherPro hasn't been updated in over a year.
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danjbry,
Thanks for the response, I guess my questions it probably not asked correctly, and perhaps I am going about things they way I did when the Captivate was out. To sum up what I am asking, what is the size in pixels of the stock icons on the SGS3? My icons I made for my Captivate are 72 x 72 pixels with a resolution of 72. I hope that helps. If not, I guess I could just find one of the stock Icons and figure out the size myself, I just figured it would be a common question/knowledge.
Thanks again,
Dave
dbs179 said:
danjbry,
Thanks for the response, I guess my questions it probably not asked correctly, and perhaps I am going about things they way I did when the Captivate was out. To sum up what I am asking, what is the size in pixels of the stock icons on the SGS3? My icons I made for my Captivate are 72 x 72 pixels with a resolution of 72. I hope that helps. If not, I guess I could just find one of the stock Icons and figure out the size myself, I just figured it would be a common question/knowledge.
Thanks again,
Dave
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Ahhhhhhhhhhh... I get it. Everything I'm seeing says that 72x72 is the proper size for xhdpi, but I've also seen some icon size issues with LauncherPro in the past. I stopped using it on my Atrix 4g last year because it made every custom icon set I used look tiny. And that was on a 4 inch screen.
Sorry I can't be of more help.
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danjbry said:
I'm not sure who or how someone will answer this for you. Without knowing what you mean by matching your theme from your s2, how would anyone be able to tell you the best icon size? The default dpi is 320. That fits five or six across without looking too cramped.
On a side note, I can't think of any reason to use LauncherPro on an ICS+ phone. Nova Prime is only a quarter today. Give that a shot. It's built for ICS. LauncherPro hasn't been updated in over a year.
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danjbry said:
Ahhhhhhhhhhh... I get it. Everything I'm seeing says that 72x72 is the proper size for xhdpi, but I've also seen some icon size issues with LauncherPro in the past. I stopped using it on my Atrix 4g last year because it made every custom icon set I used look tiny. And that was on a 4 inch screen.
Sorry I can't be of more help.
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No problem. I've actually made a bit more progress. I did a restore of my Launcher Pro settings and it put some Desktop Visualizer shortcuts for direct dial back and those were small, in addition to the dock icons. I re-added the the direct dial shortcuts with Desktop Visualizer and they are the right size now. So it seems it was not a size issue so much as a data restore issue. I'm still going to look into the other launcher you mentioned, as soon as I get done setting things up.
Thanks again for the responses.
Dave
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Okay, this may or may not be in the correct forum, but it's a question. I think the icons are horribly ugly, especially the camera. I know it's not quite rooted yet and it's not super high up on everyone's list, but would anyone be able to help me out with getting better looking stock Android 2.1 icons on there or maybe make an icon pack that replaces the ones on there with 2.1 stock icons? Thanks in advance.
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Okay, this may or may not be in the correct forum, but it's a question. I think the icons are horribly ugly, especially the camera. I know it's not quite rooted yet and it's not super high up on everyone's list, but would anyone be able to help me out with getting better looking stock Android 2.1 icons on there or maybe make an icon pack that replaces the ones on there with 2.1 stock icons? Thanks in advance.
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BetterCut?
I tried Better Cut with mine and the stock 2.0 icon pack. The icons are low res and look kind of bad on the large Evo screen.
With the size of the Evo screen you will really want to get More Icons. Trust me on this, it is perfect for this phone.
I've never heard of BetterCut, but it seems like it won't work. My girlfriend has a Nexus and those icons are very classy and would work very well with the Evo, I think. And I just want to replace them completely, not have extra.
Hopefully this is in the right place to post, but I had to share this for those that never heard of this live wallpaper.
Its easy on the battery since there's not alot moving, and overall just a nice informative wallpaper to have.
There's a free and paid version 65cents? Paid version doesn't really offer to much more than the free one, besides choosing a background and different color fonts and making the font move. But at 65cents not a bad deal I suppose.
Its called WP Clock on the market.
i just love WP Clock..
May I ask if anyone knows what is the widget that looks like the wallpaper with the clock and the tine n stuff but its a widget instead of a wallpaper.
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cubanito151 said:
May I ask if anyone knows what is the widget that looks like the wallpaper with the clock and the tine n stuff but its a widget instead of a wallpaper.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=814054
Is this what you're looking for?
Been using this for a full month by now. It's by far the most useful/pretties widget replacing wallpaper I've yet to use.
And for its price, it's a steal.
this thing rocks... LOVE IT!!!
just bought wp clock and i must say it looks fantastic. one thing abt it though, i don't like how its a wallpaper so every homescreen's filled with the thing. really need the space on other homescreens for other stuff. if only they could make this into a widget. typoclock looks similar but i love the data connection and battery info. i tried using multi live wallpaper to have multiple wallpapers simultaneously but it doesnt support using a live wallpaper and a normal one from the gallery. so i guess im stuck, or has anyone found a solution for this yet?
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just bought wp clock and i must say it looks fantastic. one thing abt it though, i don't like how its a wallpaper so every homescreen's filled with the thing. really need the space on other homescreens for other stuff. if only they could make this into a widget. typoclock looks similar but i love the data connection and battery info. i tried using multi live wallpaper to have multiple wallpapers simultaneously but it doesnt support using a live wallpaper and a normal one from the gallery. so i guess im stuck, or has anyone found a solution for this yet?
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the developer is really good at taking and implementing suggestions... I asked for drop shadow, but he wasn't able to figure that out, so he did the outline so I set my text to white (40% opaque) and outline to black (4pt 80% opaque) and it's almost as good as drop shadow... definitely gives enough contrast to where you can read it no matter what your background is... tell you what, I would actually like the same thing, so I will request it as well, and maybe we'll get it twice as fast =)
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the developer is really good at taking and implementing suggestions... I asked for drop shadow, but he wasn't able to figure that out, so he did the outline so I set my text to white (40% opaque) and outline to black (4pt 80% opaque) and it's almost as good as drop shadow... definitely gives enough contrast to where you can read it no matter what your background is... tell you what, I would actually like the same thing, so I will request it as well, and maybe we'll get it twice as fast =)
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deal. noob question though, where can i make my request? market?
Im assuming that we would just have to change the size of the images and then just change the font sizes to fit the images. But has anyone played with the HDPI themes to get them to work on our phones and know the perfect size to make them?
They have some pretty good looking clocks but the images are just too big for our phones resolution and it cuts off corners.
Edit: Well I guess if I go with 4x2 widget it works out right. I was trying 3x2 and 2x2 before. I would still like to be able to choose from all different size widgets and not be locked in to 4x2 but I guess it will do for now, until someone comes through with the settings to make them compatible at our resolution.
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Im assuming that we would just have to change the size of the images and then just change the font sizes to fit the images. But has anyone played with the HDPI themes to get them to work on our phones and know the perfect size to make them?
They have some pretty good looking clocks but the images are just too big for our phones resolution and it cuts off corners.
Edit: Well I guess if I go with 4x2 widget it works out right. I was trying 3x2 and 2x2 before. I would still like to be able to choose from all different size widgets and not be locked in to 4x2 but I guess it will do for now, until someone comes through with the settings to make them compatible at our resolution.
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Not really sure what it is that you're ultimately looking to do, but if you have a 3x2 widget already, you can resize it to 4x2 using either TW launcher and Launcher Pro, as well as others out there...
I guess that coulda been a little confusing. Basically the only way to see the whole clock is to make the widget 4 wide. The only problem with that is that it looks a little small. Like it only takes half the space that it should as a 4x2.
I'm moreso just trying to bring the clock to the max size it can be at each widget size. I'm at my girls for the night so maybe when I get home 2morrow ill try to make the widget show a little bigger to make myself happy. Just thought I'd ask incase anyone else found the mClock widgets to be sorta small
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I guess that coulda been a little confusing. Basically the only way to see the whole clock is to make the widget 4 wide. The only problem with that is that it looks a little small. Like it only takes half the space that it should as a 4x2.
I'm moreso just trying to bring the clock to the max size it can be at each widget size. I'm at my girls for the night so maybe when I get home 2morrow ill try to make the widget show a little bigger to make myself happy. Just thought I'd ask incase anyone else found the mClock widgets to be sorta small
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Did you fix the size problem..?? I want to make them bigger too, even 4x2 still kind of small.
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No I havnt had a chance to work on it yet. I will prolly have a little time to try some things this weekend. But Ive just used a different clock for the time being.
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No I havnt had a chance to work on it yet. I will prolly have a little time to try some things this weekend. But Ive just used a different clock for the time being.
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Cool if you find any solutions please share. Thanks.
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Ok so i would of posted this in the development thread of the rom but I don't have 10 posts yet. Anyways I downloaded the rom but for whatever reason it comes with nova launcher instead of apex which I see in the video review. It's really not that big of a deal but I want the themed app draw button from the screen shots lol.
I cant figure out why I just have the regular app draw icon, is this because they changed it with the newer updates/versions?
I know this must seem very silly but its frustrating the hell out of me!
Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!
agciv said:
Ok so i would of posted this in the development thread of the rom but I don't have 10 posts yet. Anyways I downloaded the rom but for whatever reason it comes with nova launcher instead of apex which I see in the video review. It's really not that big of a deal but I want the themed app draw button from the screen shots lol.
I cant figure out why I just have the regular app draw icon, is this because they changed it with the newer updates/versions?
I know this must seem very silly but its frustrating the hell out of me!
Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks!
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Yes its because I changed from apex to nova launcher. I didn't even start to theme Nova since it now supports custom icons and custom icon packs. If you want I could send you the blue image that I used on v1.0 and you can place in your SD card and change it through the launcher.
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IHey there, i'm not sure if this is the right category to post it, since it's a request/idea/theme related, but anyways here's the thing.
The Navbar, It's nice to use but it looks kinda horrid, not to mention the screen estate loss & Screen Burn-in effect, So i was thinking.
So the idea is :
Can it be that the navigation bar would change color to match that of the app you're running currently? is it attainable? please fill me in
If not, can anyone help me on getting it Transparent (regardless of performance drop, it's okay) because i looked everywhere and i can't find anything about it, Changing it color or making it transparent would do for now until that feature is available (in the next android update or in a Custom ROM like AOKP/PA/CNA.
Thanks in advance ;A;
[Fixed] : ParanoidAndroid added this feature and nailed it, thanks!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1882381
Try this
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Flashed it, but i was looking for a more..er..Universal solution, One that would make it transparent while using Apps but thanks anyways, let's see if someone can tell us more