As your ask know the stock DPI on our phones is 320. Well I like to set it to 200, I feel the most comfortable with that resolution but one thing I've noticed is that my icons get blurry/pixelated and it looks really bad. Does any one know it's a fix for this that doesn't income me setting the DPI on 320 or 240
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Actionx1 said:
As your ask know the stock DPI on our phones is 320. Well I like to set it to 200, I feel the most comfortable with that resolution but one thing I've noticed is that my icons get blurry/pixelated and it looks really bad. Does any one know it's a fix for this that doesn't income me setting the DPI on 320 or 240
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Running CM10.1 nightly with a DPI of 210 and everything is sharp as hell. Must be something wrong with your screen. But what ROM are you on?
I'm on the same Rom. I've noticed it with different phones to. I'm about to try 210 DPI and see how that goes.
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I'm on the same Rom. I've noticed it with different phones to. I'm about to try 210 DPI and see how that goes.
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It's just a hair bigger. You really shouldn't be seeing any blurry anything with how high the resolution is on this screen.
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Sorry if this has already been posted before but I came across it and never heard about it before. It changes your screen size like you were changing the resolution on a monitor. I went from 240 default down to 200 and it seems like a perfect size without making everything too small
https://market.android.com/details?id=lv.n3o.lcddensity&feature=search_result
you can also change it from the build.prop...knowing how to edit it is a must for any android user imo
ugothakd said:
you can also change it from the build.prop...knowing how to edit it is a must for any android user imo
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I really never knew about this. To me at least having the smaller scale size looks and feels better than stock. How come we dont see rom/theme releases with this mod?
I think for Developers personal preferences, also I'm not quite sure they could change the build.prop with a theme, but in the case of a Rom I believe that keeping it on a basic level works out in the best for the general population, but also allows those who are more prone to making changes on their own to go ahead and attempt it for themselves.
Thanks for the thread though man, I've been iffy about whether this app would work for the Epic, I truly appreciate it.
Yep build.prop is the way to go.
I don't think I could go back to stock density. 172 looks excellent.
dpesnt the dialer get offset to bottom left when changing the density or is that only on themed dialers?
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JohnCorleone said:
dpesnt the dialer get offset to bottom left when changing the density or is that only on themed dialers?
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Yessir it does.
DialerOne and GoDialer are fantastic as a replacement.
darkierawr said:
Yep build.prop is the way to go.
I don't think I could go back to stock density. 172 looks excellent.
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Omg Darkie I love you lol. 172 looks amazing.:O
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Yessir it does.
DialerOne and GoDialer are fantastic as a replacement.
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Thanks for the heads up on the alterrnate dialers darkie! "Thanks" clicked.
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Freakin killer app.....
Thanx man
Very cool mod!...I'm not sure I can go as low as 172, but even a minor adjustment to 200 really makes a wonderful difference...I especially like the overall effect to the launcher.
One drawback though...I'm going to have to retrain my muscle memory because of the slight change in location of various things.
It'll be interesting to see if there's any way to make a minor adjustment to the default dialer so it can properly scale...Also, it looks like I'm going to have to take a look at the Wired Tether app because it looks fairly odd.
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Edit: I solved the wierd layout in Wired Tether app using appleflap's suggestion in this thread to turn off Compatibility Mode...However, I'm on SRF 1.2, so I did it through Settings-->Lockscreen Parts-->General.
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OK...After a data wipe of the Market app, I just noticed this density change caused the Market to identify 21 of the 102 apps I currently have installed as not compatible...Bummer.
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xanthinealkaloid said:
OK...After a data wipe of the Market app, I just noticed this density change caused the Market to identify 21 of the 102 apps I currently have installed as not compatible...Bummer.
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Sorry for not giving you the heads up.
With my density so low NOTHING works with the new ****ty market. I reverted back to the older market. Where everything is compatible.
What is the pixel density of the Evo 3D? (trying to mimic that if I can)
Also, does this app cause the New market to FC or something?
Hmmm, so does anyone know the step process to changing the density with my phone total crashing with fc? ?
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Sorry for not giving you the heads up.
With my density so low NOTHING works with the new ****ty market. I reverted back to the older market. Where everything is compatible.
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+1
I set my density to 180...still rocking the 2.3.6 market
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What is the pixel density of the Evo 3D? (trying to mimic that if I can)
Also, does this app cause the New market to FC or something?
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No...The issue is with the version 3x market because there's a new compatibility check in place which references the LCD density value, so this change can cause previously installed apps to appear incompatible according the the new market removing them from your installed list
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Hmmm, so does anyone know the step process to changing the density with my phone total crashing with fc? ?
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Are you using the stock TouchWiz launcher?...I've read it can be problematic when doing this mod.
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Well, I'm on my way to fixing the compressed dialpad...I did the widths to see if the pngs would stretch without looking like a 1960's color TV.
I'm gonna finish this up later, but now it's time for a RedBull break.
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xanthinealkaloid said:
Are you using the stock TouchWiz launcher?...I've read it can be problematic when doing this mod.
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I'm using zeam....
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Has anyone been able to successfully change the LCD density on the Nitro HD yet? 320 is a little too Preschool / Fisher Price for me. I've tried 160, but get stuck with a loop at the AT&T screen. I'm going to try some different sizes and see what I can do. I'm imagining the problem has something to do with the LG customized interface.
Might want to be careful there dbjungle, messing around with that could do some serious harm.
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Might want to be careful there dbjungle, messing around with that could do some serious harm.
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Very true. I use an app on the market called LCD Density and it has an option to use a density temporarily.
While testing I found that 160 is just unrealistic for this device. That's what I used on my Inspire which has a much lower dpi to begin with. I am working comfortably at 265 right now, but maybe I can go just a little bit lower. Hopefully all apps are still scaling properly.
Honest question here...
What is the purpose of lowering the LCD density and what would it do?
Basically you can fit more on screen. It's not that useful for the home screen, but it's pretty cool for your web browser, tapatalk, e-mail and texting. With the stock density you can only see like one line of your own text message.
I ended up only being able to get down to 264 for my lowest density.
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It's especially useful on a phone with a 720p IPS display.
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Has anyone been able to successfully change the LCD density on the Nitro HD yet? 320 is a little too Preschool / Fisher Price for me. I've tried 160, but get stuck with a loop at the AT&T screen. I'm going to try some different sizes and see what I can do. I'm imagining the problem has something to do with the LG customized interface.
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You can go below 264 if you turn this flag to "false" in build.prop before a reboot - tried it myself assuming you are using a different homescreen - these turn off the LG lock screen and stock lockscreen comes into play. 144 is too small but being 16X9 = 144, everything is properly aligned. 192 is also on the smaller side (144+16X3), 240 suits me....enjoy..
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Good tip. I feel like I finally have some room in my apps again now.
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OK I'm thoroughly confused.
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Well, As every1 knows HDPI Roms Wont work on Wildfires, But Theres some root apps that let u change ur resolution would that help them to work?
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Well, As every1 knows HDPI Roms Wont work on Wildfires, But Theres some root apps that let u change ur resolution would that help them to work?
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The problem is hdpi is well above our miserable 120 (I don't know the exact number between 2-300 I think, but as it higher there's a lot more leverage for changing it on hdpi) if you change it to a much higher number on a low res screen nothing will fit on the screen.
The apps allow you to change the density software side, but on the hardware side you'll still have a low res screen.
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Yep, the apps there just change the DPI of the device.
If you would want to get HDPI, you would need a DPI setting of around 200 DPI (look at the pic I attached) and I think that you would't really be able to see much on the screen at that DPI level.
Has anyone done this? I just set my density nd it looks gorgeous. The Samsung keyboard started crashing Instantly. Not a huge deal I switched to SwiftKey tablet and everything is okay. However here and there galls seems to crash now. This is keeping talk from staying logged in which is a problem. Has anyone else attempted the same thing and seeing different results? As much as I love the added screen real estate (especially the split with the keyboard and aide ide visibility) its not a better tradeoff to losing talk. Unfortunately logcat reveals no direct insight into what is causing the crash only that the process is stopping. Any advice is welcome, as I'd like to keep the rest change.. I set both density values to 240.
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Has anyone done this? I just set my density nd it looks gorgeous. The Samsung keyboard started crashing Instantly. Not a huge deal I switched to SwiftKey tablet and everything is okay. However here and there galls seems to crash now. This is keeping talk from staying logged in which is a problem. Has anyone else attempted the same thing and seeing different results? As much as I love the added screen real estate (especially the split with the keyboard and aide ide visibility) its not a better tradeoff to losing talk. Unfortunately logcat reveals no direct insight into what is causing the crash only that the process is stopping. Any advice is welcome, as I'd like to keep the rest change.. I set both density values to 240.
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reboot into recovery and wipe cache and dalvik...............im having no fc issues and im running at 240 as well. g-talk works fine for me as well.
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reboot into recovery and wipe cache and dalvik...............im having no fc issues and im running at 320 as well. g-talk works fine for me as well.
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Did you mean you're running at 240 as well? 320 is default.
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Did you mean you're running at 240 as well? 320 is default.
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yes, typo..........running at 240, 280 is nice as well
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yes, typo..........running at 240, 280 is nice as well
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Haha, okay. I switched to 240 and haven't had problems yet, other than the funky sized dialer and such.
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Haha, okay. I switched to 240 and haven't had problems yet, other than the funky sized dialer and such.
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yea, any of the stock apps need smali edits to fit the screens with different dpi
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Haha, okay. I switched to 240 and haven't had problems yet, other than the funky sized dialer and such.
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This fixed my dialer problem looks good! im on 240.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tb2Rvb2h1dC5kaWFsZXIiXQ..
I also flashed the 4.2 camera witch was full screen but FC because of the 360 view thing. But im going to flash this tonight and see if its fixed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996205
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t3project said:
yea, any of the stock apps need smali edits to fit the screens with different dpi
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Is this hard? Maybe link me and i can try it or hopefully someone can fix it.
t3project said:
reboot into recovery and wipe cache and dalvik...............im having no fc issues and im running at 240 as well. g-talk works fine for me as well.
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Ill give it a try. Good to hear you have no problems. There is still hope
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Anyone has any idea how to fix this? i changed dpi to 339, from 480, with adb, I'd like to hold out a little longer for root and do it proper way in build.prop.
but is there a fix for Swiftkey?
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Anyone has any idea how to fix this? i changed dpi to 339, from 480, with adb, I'd like to hold out a little longer for root and do it proper way in build.prop.
but is there a fix for Swiftkey?
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Change it back to 480 using adb???
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Id rather switch keyboard. 480 is way too much for this phone even 380 is large
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Id rather switch keyboard. 480 is way too much for this phone even 380 is large
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I have a z5p and find no problem with text size or anything, what is the problem with having a DPI that high?
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I have a z5p and find no problem with text size or anything, what is the problem with having a DPI that high?
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I just find it more natrual and pleasent to look at with a smaller text size.