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[Q] Tablet UI on Galaxy Nexus?

Hi,
since ICS is now for phones and tablets, I was wondering if it would be possible to trick the system (pixel density?) to use the tablet UI on the Galaxy Nexus.
Despite the GN having a tablet-like resolution, it would be unusable out of the box. But hooked to a big screen (TV/monitor) and with a mouse+keyboard, it could be interesting.
What do you think?

pierreburel said:
Hi,
since ICS is now for phones and tablets, I was wondering if it would be possible to trick the system (pixel density?) to use the tablet UI on the Galaxy Nexus.
Despite the GN having a tablet-like resolution, it would be unusable out of the box. But hooked to a big screen (TV/monitor) and with a mouse+keyboard, it could be interesting.
What do you think?
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This is definitely possible with a custom rom. I don't think you'll have any chance unless you root though.

RTContent said:
This is definitely possible with a custom rom. I don't think you'll have any chance unless you root though.
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Pixel density is usually modified in the /system/build.prop file which is read only to non-root users. Once you have root access, the pixel density can be modified via root access.
If you don't want to load root access, at least have to oem unlock, but you can also modify this file through a custom recovery as most custom recovery's allow adb to use root access by default.
Hope that helps!

Thanks for the replies!
I was aware about root (not really a problem on GN), but do you think such a tweak, integrated into a mod like CM9, could be done without flashing, or even rebooting? Think about an "tablet mode" which could be launched on the go. Maybe even automatically when plugged with HDMI?

pierreburel said:
Thanks for the replies!
I was aware about root (not really a problem on GN), but do you think such a tweak, integrated into a mod like CM9, could be done without flashing, or even rebooting? Think about an "tablet mode" which could be launched on the go. Maybe even automatically when plugged with HDMI?
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Although I don't know about having a CM9 mod style thing, you might be interested in the LCD Density app. It lets you change the density on the fly, without rebooting

case0 said:
Although I don't know about having a CM9 mod style thing, you might be interested in the LCD Density app. It lets you change the density on the fly, without rebooting
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Nice! Did anybody tried on Galaxy Nexus? Haven't mine yet.

I've tried setting my pixel density to 190 but after a reboot all I get is a constant launcher and system.UI FC dialogs.
Edit: I've tried again at 220 and no longer get FC from system.UI(so get navigation buttons and status bar) but they look the same. The stock launcher still FC's but with a different launcher the device seems fully functional with all the stock apps scaling fine.
200 also works and seems to be the smallest I can go.

Thanks! So it seems that changing pixel density isn't sufficient to make the GN detected as a Tablet by ICS, so bad...

Kindle Fire root - screen size question

I recently found out that the NFL Game Rewind app (yet to be released) will only support "Android devices with at least a 10 inch screen and 2.3 or later". I subscribe to the service, and would really like to be able to run that app when it's released. Would a rooted device be able to load/run an application that has a physical screen size requirement?
If not, I'd love to hear a brief explanation why, as I'm trying to slowly learn more about these devices and how they work. Thanks everyone!

pitweasel said:
I recently found out that the NFL Game Rewind app (yet to be released) will only support "Android devices with at least a 10 inch screen and 2.3 or later". I subscribe to the service, and would really like to be able to run that app when it's released. Would a rooted device be able to load/run an application that has a physical screen size requirement?
If not, I'd love to hear a brief explanation why, as I'm trying to slowly learn more about these devices and how they work. Thanks everyone!
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A lot of android apps only support a certain resolution (LCD density). The Kindle Fire's 7" screen has an LCD density of 160, which is set in the build.prop. Phones will have a much higher number. There are a few apps that will let you change the LCD density pretty easily with little risk of screwing up your build.prop and "bricking" your device. For a 10" tablet, I would try somewhere between 120-130, or you could use Google to find out the exact number. The only problem with that is some apps may not work afterwards because they are dependent on the 160 setting. Luckily, it can always be changed back, but it requires a reboot. But it all depends on how badly you want to play that game.

[GUIDE] Enable Tablet UI on Samsung Galaxy S3 (And Others)

****WARNING, THIS BREAKS MARKET FOR SOME APPS AND CAUSES YOU NOT TO BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD SOME APPS**** see bottom of this post for the fix.
Example on my phone running in Tablet UI.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im9WV9GmQFc
Required:
ROOT
A file manager that supports root (Like ES File Explorer)
Wouldn't try this on stock software/launcher, but let me know how it goes.
Note: It makes things a bit hard to read, even if you make the font "Huge" in the settings.
1. Create a backup of your phone.
2. In ES File Explorer, go to the SYSTEM folder.
3. Open build.prop with the ES Note Editor.
4. Change the line ro.sf....LCD Density to =160.
5. Save. Reboot phone.
Ta da, tablet mode. This may work on other phones too, but as tested it requires a lower number for lower resolution phones which may make it impossible to read/use.
If you have a Nexus 7 Tablet, use =170.
To fix the Play Store if its an issue for you: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1839871

ka24e said:
Example on my phone running in Tablet UI.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im9WV9GmQFc
Required:
ROOT
A file manager that supports root (Like ES File Explorer)
Wouldn't try this on stock software/launcher, but let me know how it goes.
Note: It makes things a bit hard to read, even if you make the font "Huge" in the settings.
1. Create a backup of your phone.
2. In ES File Explorer, go to the SYSTEM folder.
3. Open build.prop with the ES Note Editor.
4. Change the line ro.sf....LCD Density to =160.
5. Save. Reboot phone.
Ta da, tablet mode. This may work on other phones too, but as tested it requires a lower number for lower resolution phones which may make it impossible to read/use.
If you have a Nexus 7 Tablet, use =170.
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Wont a resolution other then 160-240-320 break the market? Some apps will not show up for non standard DPI I think. Not sure.
Also I used this yesterday, as I tried to download Cut the Rope HD, even if that didn't work. I was surprised what 160DPI did to my phone. One X international.
Anyway confirming this works on the One X for me with CM10.
But if you find a way how to switch it without the use of DPI change let me know . Something like the paranoidandroid project.
I found few guides, but they do not apply to my phone. Or I do not know where those files are to decompile them.

PAGOT said:
Wont a resolution other then 160-240-320 break the market? Some apps will not show up for non standard DPI I think. Not sure.
Also I used this yesterday, as I tried to download Cut the Rope HD, even if that didn't work. I was surprised what 160DPI did to my phone. One X international.
Anyway confirming this works on the One X for me with CM10.
But if you find a way how to switch it without the use of DPI change let me know . Something like the paranoidandroid project.
I found few guides, but they do not apply to my phone. Or I do not know where those files are to decompile them.
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Use your regular DPI, download your apps, then switch the DPI. #winning.
Cut the Rope HD (Lite) shows up in the market for my Nexus 7 Tablet (DPI set to 170, stock is 270.. i think). Going to test with S3, i'll update in a few with my findings.
Changed DPI to 160 on the S3 and went to the Market, Cut The Rope HD lite is listed, installed fine and runs perfectly fine.
So i have a DPI of 170 and a dpi of 160, market working on both devices, unless you have a full list of apps I can test, doesn't seem to affect anything. If so, just do what I said above. Should get around the issue.

ka24e said:
Use your regular DPI, download your apps, then switch the DPI. #winning.
Cut the Rope HD (Lite) shows up in the market for my Nexus 7 Tablet (DPI set to 170, stock is 320). Going to test with S3, i'll update in a few with my findings.
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That did not work for me. Once market gets the wrong DPI, some apps wont show up. Last time I tried I ended up with Nandroiding back. Even clear Data and Cache didn't work.
The lite shows up everywhere ... Thats not the issue The one on sale HD doesnt and it says I have no compatible phone with that.

PAGOT said:
That did not work for me. Once market gets the wrong DPI, some apps wont show up. Last time I tried I ended up with Nandroiding back. Even clear Data and Cache didn't work.
The lite shows up everywhere ... Thats not the issue The one on sale HD doesnt and it says I have no compatible phone with that.
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Oohh gotcha... I'll have to do some more testing then I guess. I usually only use the Google apps and that's it. Maybe Facebook twitter and such. Personally haven't noticed anything else missing. Ah well lol
Yeah you're right. Even on play.Google.com it says incompatible. Argh. When you nandroided back did it fix it? Or is this still broken for you?

ka24e said:
Oohh gotcha... I'll have to do some more testing then I guess. I usually only use the Google apps and that's it. Maybe Facebook twitter and such. Personally haven't noticed anything else missing. Ah well lol
Yeah you're right. Even on play.Google.com it says incompatible. Argh. When you nandroided back did it fix it? Or is this still broken for you?
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Nevermind, still broken here....
I tried this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1839871
But no luck, anyone want to try it and report back?
I could be doing something wrong haha
Also could we put a list of apps together that are incompatible... everything else I look for seems to work fine... hrmm..
Comments on Cut The Rope HD:
Ahzi - September 16, 2012 - Version 1.4
No Nexus 7 Support
I love this game and it worked great on my old tablet but for some reason this version has cannot be installed on my Google Nexus 7. I tried the HD lite version and it says it's compatible but not the one I've already paid for.
That gets me wondering, because it says ALL my devices are incompatible (S3, Nexus 7, Nexus S and Nexus One). The Nexus S and One are unmodified. I'm wondering if this is one of a select few apps that are affected? I can download Asphalt 7 no problem at all on both devices (Nexus 7 and GS3)

ka24e said:
Nevermind, still broken here....
I tried this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1839871
But no luck, anyone want to try it and report back?
I could be doing something wrong haha
Also could we put a list of apps together that are incompatible... everything else I look for seems to work fine... hrmm..
Comments on Cut The Rope HD:
Ahzi - September 16, 2012 - Version 1.4
No Nexus 7 Support
I love this game and it worked great on my old tablet but for some reason this version has cannot be installed on my Google Nexus 7. I tried the HD lite version and it says it's compatible but not the one I've already paid for.
That gets me wondering, because it says ALL my devices are incompatible (S3, Nexus 7, Nexus S and Nexus One). The Nexus S and One are unmodified. I'm wondering if this is one of a select few apps that are affected? I can download Asphalt 7 no problem at all on both devices (Nexus 7 and GS3)
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I think you misunderstood me there completely or I confused you there a bit.
1. Forget the Cut the rope HD. It has nothing to do with the problem is anything of the problem. I just mentioned it because it was the reason for which I changed my DPI to test if can download it.
They have trouble with it on Nexuses etc. As said, I wanted to test it only with it, I couldn't download it before as well. (was for it also changing device name etc, making myself to Xoom, Eeepad etc)
2. Using not standard DPI indeed breaks market , but for example apps like Beautiful Widgets, HD Widgets that I remember.
3. I would rather go another approach, if not using paranoidandroid. And the tweaks to the java files. Maybe we could use bigger fonts. Not sure how that would look like though

PAGOT said:
I think you misunderstood me there completely or I confused you there a bit.
1. Forget the Cut the rope HD. It has nothing to do with the problem is anything of the problem. I just mentioned it because it was the reason for which I changed my DPI to test if can download it.
They have trouble with it on Nexuses etc. As said, I wanted to test it only with it, I couldn't download it before as well. (was for it also changing device name etc, making myself to Xoom, Eeepad etc)
2. Using not standard DPI indeed breaks market , but for example apps like Beautiful Widgets, HD Widgets that I remember.
3. I would rather go another approach, if not using paranoidandroid. And the tweaks to the java files. Maybe we could use bigger fonts. Not sure how that would look like though
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1839871 does work. Just needed to reboot again.

auto rotate the home screen in 4.2

Hello all,
I was able to add a line to the build.prop of 4.1.2 and have my home screen auto rotate on my Galaxy nexus. The line added was:
launcher.force_enable_rotation=true
With 4.2 I have this line in my build.prop and the screen does not rotate. Perhaps they changed the command? Any help would be appreciated.

None of the gurus know?

Well since I was not able to find the command to make this work, I just installed 'Ultimate Rotation Control' app, and it does the trick..
Ultimate Rotation Control App
Hope this helps others.
It even does the lock screen!

I'd still like to know the build.prop edit for 4.2. Guess I'll try the app for the trial period, at least.
EDIT: Yep, I like this better. Definitely appears to be worth $3.

ritchea said:
I'd still like to know the build.prop edit for 4.2. Guess I'll try the app for the trial period, at least.
EDIT: Yep, I like this better. Definitely appears to be worth $3.
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Indeed I am still trying to find the build.prop edit also. But yes this app does the trick nicely and I dont mind spending the money on it at all
*EDIT
I had tried to open the 4.2 nexus 7 OS but it is not laid out the same way as the phones. It unzips into several .img files. I have tried to mount those in both windows and linux and I have had no luck.. But I suspect the command in there would be ideal.

Changing the resolution without root

Ok, since I use my Galaxy Note Pro mainly for drawing, I found really frustrating to have so many useless pixels (they are not useless, but I always found my previous Galaxy Note 10.1 old version way more snappy) so today I found a way to change the resolution of my Galaxy Note Pro with adb and without root, just plug your GN on you PC and launch a cmd.exe with the admin rights. No navigate with (without the +) cd +where you adb.exe is+ now I'm far from being a pro so I did it in 2 steps, I wrote
adb shell wm size 1920x1200 (press enter the tablet will reboot, the 320 regular DPI WON'T WORK YOU HAVE TO CHANGE IT TO 240)
adb shell wm density 240 && adb reboot (press enter).
You won't notice much difference on screen, but trust me, what you do will be way more fluid !
to reset it's :
adb shell wm size reset
adb shell wm density reset && adb reboot
I just warn you, this is only for drawing purpose, most of the Samsung apps are scaled for 320dpi, for example the camera preview will be too big and so on but still it's functional !
Maybe someone more pro can make some fine adjustment !? I tried different dpi and it always crash...

Thank you. Much more space on screen indeed. Only keyboard is smaller and not resized to fill screen.
Very usefull post.

tin2404 said:
Thank you. Much more space on screen indeed. Only keyboard is smaller and not resized to fill screen.
Very usefull post.
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I guess that if you take a third party keyboard (like swiftkey) and third party soft that doesn't work "properly" everything should be fixed. Once again all you need is to write the reset and everything goes back in order~

leomon32 said:
I guess that if you take a third party keyboard (like swiftkey) and third party soft that doesn't work "properly" everything should be fixed. Once again all you need is to write the reset and everything goes back in order~
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That is exactly I did.

i am sorry is there an easy version to do that? i have been redirected from
http://forum.chuwi.com/thread-3806-1-1.html
Thankful for any help.

Thans
Very good method