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LCD Density + Go Launcher

Having finally achieved root today (LOL - 24hrs after I received the device!), I tried to live with Touchwiz. However, one thing that was bothering me was the huge icons...having just come from an Atrix which has a 4" display and slightly higher-res screen, I wanted to use more screen real estate.
So I installed LCD Density.
Problem is, with TW, it's a complete was. The dumb "dots" that are normally at the bottom of the screen just "move up" and waste the extra space you've just won.
Solution - install a launcher such as Go Launcher. Results are that icons are smaller with more screen real estate. Magical!

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My G S II with 202 screen density

doesnt the top bar annoy you? on the notification screen lol

Guitarfreak26 said:
doesnt the top bar annoy you? on the notification screen lol
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Nah,
What annoys me is why my messaging icon is stock, and the others are themed! I can't seem to find the icon on the interwebs either to manually set it!

202 Density with 5 x 5 grid in Go Launcher makes this device WAY more productive!!!
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Doesn't the phone app annoy you when it doesn't fit the screen?

Wow this is very nice Thanks!
I am also coming from the Moto Atrix and the lower res on bigger screen was really bugging me.

happel92 said:
Doesn't the phone app annoy you when it doesn't fit the screen?
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A little, but I don't use the dialer much.
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LCD Density with the bigger screen make the phone much nicer. Found a way to permanently set it?

tomhoward said:
LCD Density with the bigger screen make the phone much nicer. Found a way to permanently set it?
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Get LCD Density changer and set to 202 and save. Then hit menu key, settings and tick "Set as my system density"" - it will now be that every time you boot, so max sure it's a density that works....
or, edit the build.prop directly and change the density figure there. Save, reboot....voila! Both need root.

Try changing font to Helvetica S from display settings. It fits better than droid font on higher res
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pictures do not look good at 200
240 is the correct dpi for HD at this screen resolution.

Was running 190 on my DHD looked better than 240. You need to edit build.prop once rooted for a permanent DPI change.

You can permanently chance the density using blade buddy, which it's free in the market.
Does anyone know why people are using 202?
I calculated the options by doing 800 * 240 and 480 * 240, then looking for numbers that left integers when devided by both. So the same number of sub pixels were used to make each pixel. Doing this gave me 200 not 202 as the best.
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192 (not 182) is another good dpi settings as it give you a 1000x600 equivalent res
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using 182 and it looks fantastic
Set resolution with Nitrality from the market. Using Go launcher.

Here's a well fitted 192 dpi screen with a 6x7 desktop grid and 'helvetica s' font
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Thanks broomfundel, blade buddy works a charm to permanently set it.
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This is mine at 192 DPI using launcher pro.
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Is there any way to stop dialer looking screwed up when you change the lcd density?
It makes the keypad smaller and off centre.
Also in the camera app the buttons become misaligned.

changed dpi, have some questions

I changed the screen dpi to 200 but now miui launcher looks weird.
So I'm using adw launcher with 1 extra row and looks nice, however I like the way miui launcher functions, like when I install a app it immediately puts it on desktop, just like the iphone.
Is there any launcher that acts like this and also allows to change number of rows and columns?
this is miui default, folders and other widgets look even weirder
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adw is perfect

out of interest, how did you change it?

with lcd density, app from market

Naffets said:
out of interest, how did you change it?
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You change the LCD density string in build.prop to set it permanently, or use lcd density changer from the market to do a temp change.
You can use a tool called "Absolute System" to edit the build.prop easily.
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you can use launcherpro which allows to change number of rows and columns

and what would exactly be the point in changing it?

may be engwee wants to see more apps at the same time without moving the screen up and down

Jiniko77 said:
and what would exactly be the point in changing it?
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changing the lcd density has the same same effect as changing the resolution on your pc monitor. the phone will fit more on the display, so smaller icons and text etc...

any of this apps are changing the phone dialer too ?.....???

None of the sammy aps like dialer change with DPI changes, everything looks smaller and a bit crap, you will either need to find a ROM with DPI changes built in for that or there might be a theme you can use maybe.

My theme is built for changed DPI (shameless plug)
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da.trute said:
None of the sammy aps like dialer change with DPI changes, everything looks smaller and a bit crap, you will either need to find a ROM with DPI changes built in for that or there might be a theme you can use maybe.
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Yes, TouchWiz doesn't play nice with DPI changes. Use Go Contacts (includes dialer) for dialer - I haven't found a MULTI-DPI camera replacement yet tho.
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Changing LCD Density
Changing the density changes the whole phone - if you set density to a lower number everything will be smaller on the screen and then you can fit more items on the screen. A higher number will make things bigger and fit less.
An unfortunate side effect of changing DPI however is that quite a lot of apps don't like it and will force close when you try and open them. For example, I just set mine to 200dpi and Angry Birds FC's.
The Market is another app that seems to be fairly DPI sensitive, however in my case right now running CM7 nightly the Market is working fine at 200dpi.
Another effect can also be black bands around apps that are not written to scale to screen DPI but rather with hard coded sizes for LDPI/MDPI/HDPI.
Cheers!

ecips said:
Changing the density changes the whole phone - if you set density to a lower number everything will be smaller on the screen and then you can fit more items on the screen. A higher number will make things bigger and fit less.
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Gotcha!
You've got PM!!!
Big sorry for polluting the thread, but i can't seem to get a hold of ecips

ayk33 said:
you can use launcherpro which allows to change number of rows and columns
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like I said in my first post, I'm using ADW and it works fine with it, I was looking for a miui like launcher, with all the apps on desk and no app drawer, probably doesn't exist.
While I was on miui rom I didn't encounter problems with the apps I used, this goes from games to standard apps, like the market.
Now I'm on stock and I saw the dialer is small, but no problem otherwise, when I get called the slider works fine.
the advantage is it makes the screen seem like higher res, browser fits a lot more content, holding it next to a sensation it looks the same, one difference I encountered on sensation is a game megajump, doesn't fill out the screen while on sgs2 with dpi change it still does.
it probably looks so good because of the samoled + subpixel density stuff

It makes it look extremely hi-res. I can't, no, WON'T have my phone at stock DPI, ever.
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'Nough said...I switched to 200 and i'm in love baby. Only problem...dialler misplaced and camera screwed up. Any ideas?

my ideea is to live with them, my camera app is fine though
restarted phone today.. and it looks so ugly with the initial dpi

engwee said:
my ideea is to live with them, my camera app is fine though
restarted phone today.. and it looks so ugly with the initial dpi
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yes camera it's fine at 200 dpi in kg5

[Q] any issue wite non 1280x720 apps ?

im wonder, the nexus screen work at 1280x720, but still most of the apps on the market work with lower resolution, so all new nexus users will have some linited apps like the tablets that work with android ? and the lower resolution apps will still show like pixeld ?

Ics sandwich is supposed to address that so we will have to get one in hand or a knucklehead to write an in depth review. So far reviews are "ooo, look at the double rainbows."
I voided my warranty and your nexus.

I'm hoping so, games like those from Kairosoft ran pretty awful on my Honeycomb tablet.
Hoping it won't be the same issue on the phone as that's basically the only games i wanna play on my phone

Sensation is a higher resolution and apps look fine

esincho said:
Sensation is a higher resolution and apps look fine
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Sensation is an hdpi device. I'm not certain, but I think Galaxy Nexus is the first xhdpi Android device. As such, apps that don't have xhdpi bitmaps might look a bit ugly until they get updated with xhdpi bitmaps, and apps that are hardcoded to support certain densities and didn't include xhdpi won't appear in the Market for the GN, but otherwise we shouldn't have any problems.
See: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html

On the Atrix 4G (QHD) after the Gingerbread update apps seem to upscale (or whatever) just fine (looks great except the defective color representation by the screen itself); while is was still on Froyo some apps did not upscale properly and had black bars or borders. "Bonsai Blast" was one that had that issue for a while, but later had an update that addressed it.

s.m.knipe said:
On the Atrix 4G (QHD) after the Gingerbread update apps seem to upscale (or whatever) just fine (looks great except the defective color representation by the screen itself); while is was still on Froyo some apps did not upscale properly and had black bars or borders. "Bonsai Blast" was one that had that issue for a while, but later had an update that addressed it.
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Hmmm...I wonder if the Atrix 4G is hdpi or xhdpi, its actual density is somewhere in between those two target densities...

Apps will definitely look a bit soft until they update bitmaps as stated above.
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The system scales drawable resources to the appropriate size, based on the current screen density, if necessary
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They will work fine just won't look sharp until updated.

The system scales drawable resources to the appropriate size, based on the current screen density, if necessary
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They will work fine just won't look sharp until updated.
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Exactly.....

Apps will start to be built/updated to scale properly.

martonikaj said:
Apps will start to be built/updated to scale properly.
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Yeah, the best apps will be updated fast. I guess it's time to once again make new artwork for the apps you care about and submit to the developers.

blunden said:
Yeah, the best apps will be updated fast. I guess it's time to once again make new artwork for the apps you care about and submit to the developers.
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Hopefully you submitted them as vector art in the first place so the developers of your favorite apps can just rasterize them into higher res images?

Chirality said:
Hopefully you submitted them as vector art in the first place so the developers of your favorite apps can just rasterize them into higher res images?
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I do keep the vector images for the ones I made that way. Many of them were created in photoshop though but in some cases I have a higher res version available.

Apps look fine on a tablet. Honeycomb 3.2 came with a feature that does what the iPad does and allows double pixels.
So when you launch an app not optimized for larger resolutions, a button will pop-up in the taskbar allowing you to change the render mode.
Most non optimised apps work great in higher Res... I've never used the double pixel mode outside of emulators, cause they look the same but run better at a lower res. Everything else I use normal mode.
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Transformer - 3.2 Revolver OC/UV

Easiest way to get 200 DPI on ICS/FD26?

I haven't been experimenting with any of the ICS leaks lately, mostly because earlier seemed incompatible with LCD Density Modder Pro. Now that we're on FD26 is there any simple, straightforward way too get 200 with a functioning Play Store. I'm not a coder so I'd really like to avoid anything involving terminals or editing scripts.
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Add a LCD density line in your build.prop

rom toolbox

** edit: well now that you guys answered the DPI question, he just needs the working compatible play store.
I'm sure he knows how to change the DP, guys. He is asking if their is a working play store that will show all apps. Try looking up the play store for different DPI's, OP. I've seen them somewhere, forgot where though.

What fonebone is asking is..
How do you switch density on ics (to 200, or whatever)? Everytime I've tried changing the build.prop (either manually or with an app) i get a bootloop on the opening Samsung logo.
[afaik, density hasn't worked on any ics leak, also doesn't work on cm9a3]

What you need for it to work is a modified phone.apk so it won't crash when you boot into the new dpi.
for cm9a3
there is this
https://hotfile.com/dl/153812628/17d0758/TabletUI_MOD_CM9.zip.html
You can flash that to enable both hacked phone.apk and tablet services.jar, or you can also just push the phone.apk only.
For hacked market
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=997062&d=1334160295
hacked to no update and native 240dpi

pbassjunk said:
What fonebone is asking is..
How do you switch density on ics (to 200, or whatever)? Everytime I've tried changing the build.prop (either manually or with an app) i get a bootloop on the opening Samsung logo.
[afaik, density hasn't worked on any ics leak, also doesn't work on cm9a3]
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Density changes have worked for me on both Touchwiz and CM9 ICS. I change mine to 160 with Rom Toolbox and it works fine once I copy over the modified phone apk. If you're only going down to 200, then you don't even need the modified phone apk.
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Febby said:
** edit: well now that you guys answered the DPI question, he just needs the working compatible play store.
I'm sure he knows how to change the DP, guys. He is asking if their is a working play store that will show all apps. Try looking up the play store for different DPI's, OP. I've seen them somewhere, forgot where though.
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Its a paid app, but this is probably your best solution.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.birdapi.android.dpipro

blackroseMD1 said:
Density changes have worked for me on both Touchwiz and CM9 ICS. I change mine to 160 with Rom Toolbox and it works fine once I copy over the modified phone apk. If you're only going down to 200, then you don't even need the modified phone apk.
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I am trying 200 dpi and my dialer is smaller than screen, is that what the modified phone apk fixes?
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The easiest way to do all of this all at once is flash AoKP milestone5 from the mirror link with the modded phone & app store, you won't be sorry! The sickest setup you'll try..
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I agree aokp milestone5 is the way to go. I use 160 dpi

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I agree aokp milestone5 is the way to go. I use 160 dpi
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Sweet, I was on 240 (stock) for a while, found I could lower to 190 without issues, that was nice, but I wanted more.. so I flashed modded phone apks got down to 160 and that was getting better too.. actually, 130+ is nice cause its the UI we are all familiar with on our phones but just smaller in size all around. Well.. I tried the tabletUI and haven't looked back since. Just the look of it being like a tablet on our phones is just sick to me.
So some are saying that the size of everything being so small is what keeps them from using the tUI as their daily, all you need to do is use 'big font' from the market and increase everything to something like 130, you will keep the tUI format but fonts will be easier to read..
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I am trying 200 dpi and my dialer is smaller than screen, is that what the modified phone apk fixes?
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Yeah, it fixes that, along with com.android.phone crashing if you go below 190dpi.

Is there a modified phone.apk for Touchwiz gingerbread?
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Best DPI for Galaxy Note 2

I was wondering what is the best DPI for my Galaxy Note 2, I tried other people's suggestions but it didn't work for me so I was wondering how Google decided on their DPI. Considering they're in charge of Android they must know the optimal level so I used the Nexus 7 and the Nexus 4 as reference:
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So if Google designed a 5.5 inch screen device with 720x1280 resolution, it would most likely be at 270 DPI
I know this won't help a lot of you how it helped me but just thought I'd share it just on the hunch that it might at least help the 1% :silly:

Disposable personal income?
DPI is for printer, you are suppose to use the PPI for displays...

FinancialWar said:
Disposable personal income?
DPI is for printer, you are suppose to use the PPI for displays...
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If you don't know what you're talking about, please please refrain from posting. Wikipedia and 2093718 threads in XDA are your friends
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joyo22 said:
If you don't know what you're talking about, please please refrain from posting. Wikipedia and 2093718 threads in XDA are your friends
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Obvious you didn't check Wikipedia yourself, not that's academically reliable in any way but DPI is a unit of measurement for printer resolution not for display resolution. It's like saying a football field is 100 litres long er something.
So take your own advice and refrain from further posting. We will appreciate it very much.

FinancialWar said:
Obvious you didn't check Wikipedia yourself, not that's academically reliable in any way but DPI is a unit of measurement for printer resolution not for display resolution. It's like saying a football field is 100 litres long er something.
So take your own advice and refrain from further posting. We will appreciate it very much.
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Ok. I gave you the chance to research, but well... DPI is the pixel density of your screen that can be soft-modded to make your display "look" different. There are many apps that can actually change your DPI. Note 2's DPI is 320 by default. 240 DPI is the best one IMO for this type of screen size.
With all due respect, there are thousands of forums in XDA where this topic is being discussed.
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FinancialWar said:
Obvious you didn't check Wikipedia yourself, not that's academically reliable in any way but DPI is a unit of measurement for printer resolution not for display resolution. It's like saying a football field is 100 litres long er something.
So take your own advice and refrain from further posting. We will appreciate it very much.
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Stop arguing and RTFF. You are basically saying something silly like: 'root' is for plants not for a phone.

downloaded texdoider DPI and adjusted to 240 DPI, look so much sharper.
See, I learn something everyday.

Well, the screen is physically 265 DPI, so this is the one I'm using. It looks good. Just set up your launcher to use a 5x7 grid in the drawer.
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Do you have before and after screenshots by anychance?

I'll provide them the next time I change nightly, as the setting gets overwritten when I flash a new version of my rom.
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With 265 dpi is the phone app all messed up.

Do you believe that the stock ROM will work fine with 26t dpi.
I'm rooted but once I tried to change the dpi setting in the build.prop file and after restart my display was great but I've got tooooo many FC's
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gondsman said:
Well, the screen is physically 265 DPI, so this is the one I'm using. It looks good. Just set up your launcher to use a 5x7 grid in the drawer.
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Hmm, I did it through the physical screen and I got 267.02 PPI, so we're still dangerously close to the same number mines just rounded lol, thanks a lot for the input though I really appreciate it :highfive:

nintendolinky said:
With 265 dpi is the phone app all messed up.
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With any DPI change the phone app loses proportions but with 270 it's easily passable only thing that changes is the dial pad is smaller and more to the left, but yeah nothing "all messed up" :fingers-crossed:
I suggest you try it though, give it some time and it feels premium
Edit: Oh and if it bothers you leave the phone app how it is, I use the Xposed Framework method so I get to pick what I want changed, very useful look it up

How about any other apps that have problems, I have heard there is a problem with the camera app, with a dpi change and the play store.

Change the system ui with the xposed app settings. Then you won't have to worry about apps messing up. You can choose which apps you want to change.
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So if we change the systemui to have the dpi of 270, what resolution shall we change it too, (default).

240 dpi, Nova launcher and icons set at 120 % on Nova settings, Look and feel, icons size .
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So if we change the systemui to have the dpi of 270, what resolution shall we change it too, (default).
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You don't have to change the resolution if you don't want to. I think that gives you tablet ui. Not sure though.
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Looks good thanks, I changed the resolution on the Gmail app too, 1280x800 and got the tablet ui, it looks great.
Nova seems to have a small gap between the top of the screen and the notification bar, that's with the systemui's dpi changed to 270 and Nova changed to 270, is this normal.