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I'm a noob, here, and have just been exploring my new GN for several days.
Does anyone know how to stretch the browser to full screen in landscape mode?
It currently does not over-write the soft menu space as does the video playback.
I also note that the landscape keyboard appears limited to the same restriction.
Verizon support says it's a limitatio and they've had some complaints, but I've found that source is not always as accurate as the best forums esp for new releases.
Does this bother any of you as much as it does me?
Are there any other browsers that do use the full width?
(I've tried Dophin but can't finds a 'cure' there, either.
There is a browser setting for full screen under labs in the settings menu. And you're supposed to see the soft keys with the keyboard active.
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is there a way to make it fixed landscape mode?
joshnichols189 said:
There is a browser setting for full screen under labs in the settings menu. And you're supposed to see the soft keys with the keyboard active.
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Thanks - I had found and set that flag. It expands the browser real estate to cover the the phone status line at the top of the landscape browser space.
But the 3 soft keys for top level phone operation aren't removed.
That extra 1/4 inch of horizontal space would give minor but noticeable improved view space for web page reading, just as that expansion during video playback provides an impactful improvement.
I'd also welcome that for the landscape keyboard, since it would give my fat fingers some more room to type accurately.
Is it worth registering requests for possible changes here with Android development support, or am I missing something about why these limitations are positive in either case?
Always hated that Samsung set up such amazing devices and screen sizes for 320 dpi. I run 240 dpi and everything works great other than:
- Email (cuts off 1/3 right side of screen)
- SMS/MMS (fonts too big and don't fit)
- Camera (controls in the wrong place)
- Dialer (off to the left and small)
- Calculator (same as dialer)
I tried some of the 240 dpi mods from the N7000 and N7100 forums but not all work. SMS/MMS seemed to somewhat work and camera works but it's not as functional as the new JB camera. Anyone have the skills to decompile the stock ATT Note 2 APK's for multi DPI?
ookba said:
Always hated that Samsung set up such amazing devices and screen sizes for 320 dpi. I run 240 dpi and everything works great other than:
- Email (cuts off 1/3 right side of screen)
- SMS/MMS (fonts too big and don't fit)
- Camera (controls in the wrong place)
- Dialer (off to the left and small)
- Calculator (same as dialer)
I tried some of the 240 dpi mods from the N7000 and N7100 forums but not all work. SMS/MMS seemed to somewhat work and camera works but it's not as functional as the new JB camera. Anyone have the skills to decompile the stock ATT Note 2 APK's for multi DPI?
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+1. Love 240 but the samsung keyboard crashes and makes the system unusable
I would also love to get these apps in 240, the phone looks so much better at this setting.
If it helps, the secemail.apk found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984896 fixed the mail client for me.
trazbot said:
I would also love to get these apps in 240, the phone looks so much better at this setting.
If it helps, the secemail.apk found at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1984896 fixed the mail client for me.
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Didn't work for me. Kept crashing. Have to try again then.
280 works ..Samsung Keyboard still works but is shrunk down causing a gap on the right hand side
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280 works ..Samsung Keyboard still works but is shrunk down causing a gap on the right hand side
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Do you mean other Samsung devices or are you getting 280 on the Note 2 and if so, how? 280 was perfect on my S3.
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Chronzy said:
Do you mean other Samsung devices or are you getting 280 on the Note 2 and if so, how? 280 was perfect on my S3.
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On the note2. Editing the buildprop
In the attached picture is the build.prop at 280 and you can see keyboard is offset to left and you can see the buildprop settings
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ookba said:
Always hated that Samsung set up such amazing devices and screen sizes for 320 dpi. I run 240 dpi and everything works great other than:
- Email (cuts off 1/3 right side of screen)
- SMS/MMS (fonts too big and don't fit)
- Camera (controls in the wrong place)
- Dialer (off to the left and small)
- Calculator (same as dialer)
I tried some of the 240 dpi mods from the N7000 and N7100 forums but not all work. SMS/MMS seemed to somewhat work and camera works but it's not as functional as the new JB camera. Anyone have the skills to decompile the stock ATT Note 2 APK's for multi DPI?
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+1
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On the note2. Editing the buildprop
In the attached picture is the build.prop at 280 and you can see keyboard is offset to left and you can see the buildprop settings
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Ah, build prop.... Of course. Thanks! 280's about perfect on this phone as well.
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ookba said:
Always hated that Samsung set up such amazing devices and screen sizes for 320 dpi. I run 240 dpi and everything works great other than:
- Email (cuts off 1/3 right side of screen)
- SMS/MMS (fonts too big and don't fit)
- Camera (controls in the wrong place)
- Dialer (off to the left and small)
- Calculator (same as dialer)
I tried some of the 240 dpi mods from the N7000 and N7100 forums but not all work. SMS/MMS seemed to somewhat work and camera works but it's not as functional as the new JB camera. Anyone have the skills to decompile the stock ATT Note 2 APK's for multi DPI?
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I know how to decompile and and recompile. However I do not know what to change in the apk to get us to 240dpi. I could care less about dialer, calculator.
I just want the camera correct. If someone know what to change I can do it.
hope it will help you
i tried it on My rogers Note 2 and its working well
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2001577
for clock take the 4.1.2 ..
for mms and email use Archive
I used the same OP linked above and the apps work great!!
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ookba said:
Always hated that Samsung set up such amazing devices and screen sizes for 320 dpi. I run 240 dpi and everything works great...
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Hey, can someone explain this to me? Isn't DPI dots per inch? So wouldn't 320dpi represent more dots per inch, which would look better? And since the PPI of the display is the hardware, I don't understand what changing this setting does at all. Can someone explain the advantage to picking a lower dpi? Like what gets changed that would look so much better?
Thanks.
It doesn't change the actual DPI, rather the reverse.
If you have it set to 320dpi (default) then the OS draws everything very big. Set to 240dpi then the OS draws everything smaller.
The resolution of the display doesn't change so it's not like in Windows changing the resolution.
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It doesn't change the actual DPI, rather the reverse.
If you have it set to 320dpi (default) then the OS draws everything very big. Set to 240dpi then the OS draws everything smaller.
The resolution of the display doesn't change so it's not like in Windows changing the resolution.
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thanks+=1
Working on the dialer now and then I will move on to the others for us so that we have stock note 2 multi-dpi mods
What other DPIs would people like to have these in?
Get xposed framework. It allows you to install mods as apk. You can then select what mods you want with what resolution. Very sweet.
There is also a call recording mod and a few others.
http://www.villainrom.co.uk/forum/forums/xposed_framework_mods/
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When I adjust the dpi to anything under a 300 touchwiz does not account for this on the homes screen the icons are smaller but everything is allocated towards the top of the screen based on the dpi. When I do 240 dpi the homescreen apps are all at the top of the screen leaving about half the screen blank and useless. Nova and Apex do not have this problem however I need the s planner widget for work. Is there a way around this?
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jthornton71707 said:
When I adjust the dpi to anything under a 300 touchwiz does not account for this on the homes screen the icons are smaller but everything is allocated towards the top of the screen based on the dpi. When I do 240 dpi the homescreen apps are all at the top of the screen leaving about half the screen blank and useless. Nova and Apex do not have this problem however I need the s planner widget for work. Is there a way around this?
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Do what the post above you suggested. Install the xposed framework. I'm using clean rom att version. It's all set at 210 DPI. Then I set the individual apps that don't play nice with low dpis back to original dpi. Which is 320. Like calculator, camera, clock, contacts and phone.
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Available on Play.
This is an small app that lets you crop an image freely when trying to set the wallpaper or lock screen background.
In the Jelly Bean stock and stock-based ROMs, is not possible to properly set the home and lock screen wallpapers, due to a nice new feature of keeping the crop box aspect fixed to a square, but the area to be cropped is a smaller rectangle.
When trying to set the lock screen wallpaper with a portrait image, the always squared crop box touches the lateral borders of the image, forcing you to select a much smaller area -possibly scaling the picture-, and thus leaving us in a less than optimal situation, unhappy with our powerful pocket computer that could do much better with such a trivial task.
This lazily done app comes as an option when you try to set a wallpaper, and just calls the stock Gallery app with a crop action without the aspectX and aspectY parameters that lock the aspect of the crop box.
Note: This app needs the stock Gallery or Note 2 Gallery.
UPDATE:
2013/16/22 [v1.51]
- Fixed character encoding error in image paths.
- Other minor fixes.
2013/06/09 [v1.5]
- Prevents hiding part of wallpaper behind status bar.
- Lock screen wallpaper can be cropped to any size.
- Can work with AOSP's Gallery.
- Launcher icon with settings for some of the above features.
- Fixed screen rotation bugs.
If wallpaper scrolling is enabled, it's better to select an squared area or wider, or else you will see black bars to the sides or a scaled image. This version lets you choose what happens in that case.
2013/05/06
- Works with Quickpic.
- Better lockscreen wallpaper size (checks status bar height).
- Home screen wallpaper maximum width is 960; minimum is 800.
- Checks if lockscreen wallpaper is writable. If not, S2 Gallery handles it.
2013/05/05
- Handles all lock screen wallpaper process. Works on Note 2 Gallery.
MAY NEED ROOT. This works by saving the image directly to the Gallery data folder.
- Lock screen crop box is fixed to match the screen.
- No lateral black bars in home screen.
- Signed. You must uninstall the previous version before trying to install this one.
- Kick ass icon.
2013/04/23
- Processes and sets Home wallpaper to prevent zooming.
- Checks whether the Gallery activity exists.
Tested with the Gallery Note 2 and seems to be doing OK. However, when setting lock screen, the cropping rectangle has locked aspect, but still it lets you crop any image properly.
Please point any fault you find, I'll try to find time to work on them. And all suggestions are welcome.
Works great. Cheers.
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Works for me too!:thumbup:
"To err is human, to forgive is divine"
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Thanks
thanks.its great
Getting FC while trying to crop using the app...
Any suggestions?
You are much to humble, your simple app is great!
Get this into the Play Store a.s.a.p.
I bet you can make a lot of people happy with this.
Works in NeatROM Lite 4.6.1.
Thks.
Dude....u r a genius.....
This is what I got before your app...
And this is after....
Many thanks fella.....
And as someone else said.....get it on playstore asap.....
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Great little app, thanks! With a bit of polishing, this will be even better.
Well done... and get it onto PlayStore
thanks
its really works and i love this apk . but there is a problem that home screen zoomed BG but nice with lock screen . you have to provide it
Boss Thanks a Lot Work Likes A Charm. :good:
great job
i was searching for this kind of apps. , good job
ApriliaM3 said:
Great little app, thanks! With a bit of polishing, this will be even better.
Well done... and get it onto PlayStore
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Thank you! What do you suggest to make it better?
jay_badboy0 said:
Getting FC while trying to crop using the app...
Any suggestions?
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I'm sorry, I have only tested this in Neat Rom. It must work on WanamLite as well. The app requires the stock gallery apk (SecGallery2.apk, package name com.sec.android.gallery3d). I'll make it check for some possible errors.
I m using Note2gallery and this app is not working
Handy.....thanks
s2rootbox......
nchejuan said:
This is an small app that lets you crop an image freely when trying to set the wallpaper or lock screen background.
In the Jelly Bean stock and stock-based ROMs, is not possible to properly set the home and lock screen wallpapers, due to a nice new feature of keeping the crop box aspect fixed to a square, but the area to be cropped is a smaller rectangle.
When trying to set the lock screen wallpaper with a portrait image, the always squared crop box touches the lateral borders of the image, forcing you to select a much smaller area -possibly scaling the picture-, and thus leaving us in a less than optimal situation, unhappy with our powerful pocket computer that could do much better with such a trivial task.
This lazily done app comes as an option when you try to set a wallpaper, and just calls the stock Gallery app with a crop action without the aspectX and aspectY parameters that lock the aspect of the crop box.
There's still some problems: Sometimes the lock screen BG will be stretched, and the home screen will be zoomed if you try to select an area close to the sides of the image. But mostly works great for the lock screen.
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Many many thanks :highfive:
OP, are you planning to update the app top sort the small niggles it has?
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kranti2064 said:
OP, are you planning to update the app top sort the small niggles it has?
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I made some updates. Hope it's fixed for those who where having problems.
One of the first things I have noticed with the Tab Pro 8.4 is a severe imbalance between the font sizes of Samsung UI elements and non-Samsung. For example in Play Store when I enter text in the search box it's crisp but quite small. Yet the text in the Settings menus is a very comfortable size compared to the Google font size. If I increase the font size system-wide then the Google font size becomes comfortable and the Samsung font size becomes cartoonishly big.
Has anyone else noticed this and/or come up with a reasonable solution?
Perhaps one culprit is the fact that the true DPI of this device is 359 and Samsung has programmed 320 into the build.prop. That means it's lying to the OS that the screen is 9.4" not 8.4". So apps are drawing text and graphics a bit too small, but Samsung decided to jack up their own font sizes to a comfortable range. If I were to edit the DPI to 320 that still wouldn't be likely to help as then Samsung would just remain cartoonishly big.
I agree 100% with this problem and have tried changing the DPI in the build.prop. Big mistake as it causes crashes everywhere in Sammy apps.
The only work-around I have found was to use the Xposed framework with the App Settings app. This way you can adjust each app individually.
Its not a perfect solution, but its the best I have found in the 5 days I've owned this tab.
cmstlist said:
One of the first things I have noticed with the Tab Pro 8.4 is a severe imbalance between the font sizes of Samsung UI elements and non-Samsung. For example in Play Store when I enter text in the search box it's crisp but quite small. Yet the text in the Settings menus is a very comfortable size compared to the Google font size. If I increase the font size system-wide then the Google font size becomes comfortable and the Samsung font size becomes cartoonishly big.
Has anyone else noticed this and/or come up with a reasonable solution?
Perhaps one culprit is the fact that the true DPI of this device is 359 and Samsung has programmed 320 into the build.prop. That means it's lying to the OS that the screen is 9.4" not 8.4". So apps are drawing text and graphics a bit too small, but Samsung decided to jack up their own font sizes to a comfortable range. If I were to edit the DPI to 320 that still wouldn't be likely to help as then Samsung would just remain cartoonishly big.
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tpowell.ca said:
I agree 100% with this problem and have tried changing the DPI in the build.prop. Big mistake as it causes crashes everywhere in Sammy apps.
The only work-around I have found was to use the Xposed framework with the App Settings app. This way you can adjust each app individually.
Its not a perfect solution, but its the best I have found in the 5 days I've owned this tab.
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Yep, I've used it before on other devices. I used the newly released FlashFire to take a backup of my system to external SD before installing Xposed. I currently have a dpi of 360 assigned to all of: Chrome, Dropbox, Gmail, gReader, Google Maps, Netflix, News & Weather, Nova Launcher, Plume, Root Explorer, Tapatalk, Titanium Backup, PressReader, and the App Settings app itself (as everything was a bit too small). That puts these apps in the same range of screen element size as on Nexus devices. Feel free to pick a bit higher for a bit bigger as we do tend to hold tablets further from our faces than phones.
In fact the Nexus 5 itself (which is my daily phone) has a build.prop that is too large for the real screen size, 480 instead of 445 (factor of 7.8%). But it does make the UI a bit more comfortable without sacrificing too much screen space. So theory if you want any apps on the Tab Pro to display their UI elements at least as large as they physically appear on a Nexus 5, you'd assign a DPI in the 380-385 range to those apps.
tpowell.ca said:
I agree 100% with this problem and have tried changing the DPI in the build.prop. Big mistake as it causes crashes everywhere in Sammy apps.
The only work-around I have found was to use the Xposed framework with the App Settings app. This way you can adjust each app individually.
Its not a perfect solution, but its the best I have found in the 5 days I've owned this tab.
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Old thread but thanks! My GF has the 8.4" model and in the latest Facebook app the font is like 1/32" and she cannot read it
I read here and there the forum, rooted the tablet, installed xposed, installed AppSettings and changed the DPI, it worked! :good::good::good:
Hi,
Can anyone let me know How to go full screen on videos in browser like chrome
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If you mean literally full screen, you can't. We have a weirdo aspect ratio that isn't fully supported.
showofdeth said:
If you mean literally full screen, you can't. We have a weirdo aspect ratio that isn't fully supported.
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Not possible in any browser?
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shyamprakash said:
Not possible in any browser?
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I doubt it but you can try.
i m also looking for a solution for this... this really shows that Android isnt optimized for an immersive fullscreen experience. which is a bummer with the new 18:9 displays and bezels getting smaller and smaller..
It becomes very apparent when using iphone x - iOS is designed to give a much more immersive feeling - no nav bar and only transparent status bar. Apps by default literally fill the entire screen - where do we ever have this? We only get this in certain situations for media and games, thats it. rest of OS is not really immersive.
i installed "Granular Immersive Mode" app to get rid of status bar in select apps and it already makes a big difference. i would recommend this for everyone.
I also experimented with "Swipe Home Button" to get rid of nav bar and really fullscreen apps, but there is no good way to maintain BACK button and RECENT button.
but that still leaves things like 18:9 video in Chrome which is just not possible. ah well.
Use Samsung's browser. That one offers support for video scaling by stretching or cropping.
Dariusdd said:
Use Samsung's browser. That one offers support for video scaling by stretching or cropping.
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thanks for suggestion, but not the version i found in the app store, at least not for the 2 pages i just tried. maybe i missed something..
either way, i rather wanted to make the general point about Android here ...
Yes, you need to activate the Video Assistant (or something similarly called) from its extensions list. Then it should be working fine. I just checked it using the official version of the browser (beta is a bit older).
Can u provide me the extension name
Men this browser is awesome. Solution for all issue. Recommended. It have all you need in super amoled and ratio 21:9