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I take it Google Reader isn't optimized for the 7" tablet size yet?
I have been using it for over a month and it works great.
Same here. I don't use it much, but when I do it works fine for me. What is it doing/not doing?
ummmmm............ could you repeat that?
Well, the tablet version has the topics on the left and articles in the middle when in landscape. mine looks just like the phone version.
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Yes. You are correct it is not optimized for the 7" tablets yet. However, if you change the density of the screen to that of a 10" tablet, it works as expected (not like the phone version, but like the tablet version should). I switched to gReader Pro because i dont want to change the density of my screen permanently just for google Reader.
Recently Google has optimized it, on mu A100 is perfect but I prefere ChannelsPro for my feed
****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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1839871 does work. Just needed to reboot again.
hi all
has anyone tried changing the lcd density on there stock rooted n2 ?
Hey ipguy, have you got your n2 yet?
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Hi,
Yeah, gone down to 240 using Rom Toolbox.
Mostly works OK but with the following problems
1. Samsung keyboard crashes all the time causing serious lag in the UI. Suggest installing swiftkey (which works fine at that DPI) and making default before switch, as is tricky to do with non-working keyboard!
2. Clock app crashes when setting alarms. Replaced with doubletwist alarm.
3. Camera app is a little kookie - the settings UI is a bit cut-off, but is just about usable in landscape orientation. Sticking with it for now as mostly OK and my other camera app (ICS camera+) doesnt work at all on N2/JB
other than that, no problems - dialpad works properly unlike note 1, and everything else works lovely.
George
DMax99 said:
Hey ipguy, have you got your n2 yet?
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Yup I have indeed and I'm loving it!!
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ripnetuk said:
Hi,
Yeah, gone down to 240 using Rom Toolbox.
Mostly works OK but with the following problems
1. Samsung keyboard crashes all the time causing serious lag in the UI. Suggest installing swiftkey (which works fine at that DPI) and making default before switch, as is tricky to do with non-working keyboard!
2. Clock app crashes when setting alarms. Replaced with doubletwist alarm.
3. Camera app is a little kookie - the settings UI is a bit cut-off, but is just about usable in landscape orientation. Sticking with it for now as mostly OK and my other camera app (ICS camera+) doesnt work at all on N2/JB
other than that, no problems - dialpad works properly unlike note 1, and everything else works lovely.
George
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Yeah had the same issue with the keyboard and did the exact same thing! I running at 280
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Yeah, thanks Sansung for taking beautiful stock Android and putting half arsed replacements on instead... i wish they would ship stock, then make APKs available for the "value-add" features per provider... might make updates quicker too
ripnetuk said:
Hi,
Yeah, gone down to 240 using Rom Toolbox.
Mostly works OK but with the following problems
1. Samsung keyboard crashes all the time causing serious lag in the UI. Suggest installing swiftkey (which works fine at that DPI) and making default before switch, as is tricky to do with non-working keyboard!
2. Clock app crashes when setting alarms. Replaced with doubletwist alarm.
3. Camera app is a little kookie - the settings UI is a bit cut-off, but is just about usable in landscape orientation. Sticking with it for now as mostly OK and my other camera app (ICS camera+) doesnt work at all on N2/JB
other than that, no problems - dialpad works properly unlike note 1, and everything else works lovely.
George
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Hello Goerge,
is TW launcher still running on 240dpi? How is the dialer? Contacts?? Could you please post some screenshots???
Could you please try to change into 213dpi - tablet mode?If the SystemUi will work as a tablet mode? (install NOVA before you do this, dont worry, it will boot and just might come some FCs and you can then revert back to 240dpi.
Can you post then some screenshots?
This is only thing holding me back from NII untill there will be proper tablet ROM ( i am very happy with the tablet mod on N1 from my signature but there are some bugs, but it seems that Samsung stock ICS apps got more compatible with tablet mod with every update - so i am very interested how Samsung handled the Jelly Bean (NEXUS 7 phablet) compatibility when changing stock NII JB to 213dpi.
Please please do this as i did not seen it anyone to try it, i believe more are interested in this.
This is for the D850 AT&T G3. I used Nomone to set resolution to 1080x1920 @ 480 dpi and observe two weird things:
1) Everything but the dock rescales correctly. This persists even after reboot and only happens in the stock launcher, Nova is OK
2) Several of the stock apps no loger work, and their icons change to generic Androids: calculator, calendar, clockemail, file manager, gallery, messaging, quick remote, tasks, voice command. Any attempt to launch these apps results in a FC. This happens both in the stock launcher and Nova, so I am guessing that they do not rescale correctly at the lower res.
Not a great loss, I would not be using most of these anyway, just curious if there is a workaround. I do not plan on running the monitor at more than 1080x1920. The only thing I will probably miss is the stock email app, I was planning on using that to access office mail via Exchange.
EDIT: Unfortunately it appears that I cannot set up an Exchange account with the lower res, on account of the stock app crashing instantly. This is a complete deal breaker for me, I absolutely need exchange and will need to run at full rez. Bummer, with the bootloader locked I probably can't downfreq the phone either to extend battery life.
EDIT2: You can work around every non-functioning LG app by sideloading the corresponding Kitkat stock app. Unfortunately the one exception to this is Email + Exchange, which is badly broken on stock Kitkat and Google has not bothered to fix it for many months now. For those of us that need Exchange for work this tends to be a deal-breaker issue
EDIT3: As others have noted, Swiftkey does not seem to play well with Nomone either
EDIT4: Nova is also exhbiting some minor issues, with our without Nomone. It does not break too many things, and the things it does break are mostly cosmetic - the icons of the above-mentioned apps turn generic, and the first group of Google apps in the drawer disappeears.
I changed the resolution, rebooted and got an android systemui fc loop that I couldn't get out of. had to factory reset
I then tried it again on a fresh device but wihtout rebooting this time. and like you said, a lot of things are not right...
so I'd say this is generally not recommendable
best bet might be paranoid android or something whenever that becomes possible
I agree, the display is draining the batt too quickly and I doubt underclocking the cpu is going to be of much help
Did you try changing the dpi from 480 to 530? Anything less than 500 dpi seems to force close most apps.. Change it to 530 dpi and hopefully most things should run ok
adrian_nene16 said:
Did you try changing the dpi from 480 to 530? Anything less than 500 dpi seems to force close most apps.. Change it to 530 dpi and hopefully most things should run ok
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will try that, thanks
With the changed resolution I'll assume that you're rooted. You could use XPosed with the "App Settings" Module to change the DPI for the crashing system apps back to 640. I did this, and it works nicely. It is a bit of try and error in the beginning, but once you caught all apps you use it looks great.
This will probably not solve the icons issue, which is caused by LG not including the icons for other resolutions than what they recommend for the G3. They are available for xxxhdpi (640), but not for xxhdpi (480).
FordT said:
With the changed resolution I'll assume that you're rooted. You could use XPosed with the "App Settings" Module to change the DPI for the crashing system apps back to 640. I did this, and it works nicely. It is a bit of try and error in the beginning, but once you caught all apps you use it looks great.
This will probably not solve the icons issue, which is caused by LG not including the icons for other resolutions than what they recommend for the G3. They are available for xxxhdpi (640), but not for xxhdpi (480).
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I'm running 530 without issues sofar. Would love to be able to go a bit lower though.
Does the Lockscreen works to you on lower then 640dpi?
latino147 said:
I'm running 530 without issues sofar. Would love to be able to go a bit lower though.
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How's your battery life so far, do you notice anything?
Thanks for the tips and replies, many of them quite useful. Running 530dpi with 1080x1920 is, IMO, kinda pointless, as it negates the benefits if the large screen., If we need to stick about 530 dpi (which seems to work nicely) the lowest settings that make sense are 1224x2176 with 544 dpi setting. This scales everything down by 25% from full resolution. With these settings I don't see the screen get notably warm and the icon and text proportions still make sense. With 1080x1920 @ 530 dpi things don't make any sense, it feels like you are using a 3" screen with high magnification.
So far there are only three things I have been unable to get working
1) Nova launcher to correctly display the custom icons for the above apps. Apex works fine so I have switched from Nova to Apex.
2) Swiftkey - it just gets mangled badly. I will try the "per app" setting in xPosed, but I can't see how it will help.
3) Kitkat stock email.apk with Exchange. This is a long-standing KitKat issue that Google has not bothered to fix. The LG mail works fine with Exchange but does not thread. Any good alternatives?
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How's your battery life so far, do you notice anything?
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don't know, went back to the default resolution as too much stuff was off, like Swiftkey
Hi everyone, I bought my G3 yesterday and today I proceeded to change the DPI as things were too monstruous even using small icons and minimum text size.
The stock DPI sets it at 640 and I changed it to 520 as a friend of mine did, but the result was that any of the stock android apps (camera, calendar, calculator, etc) were working, as well as any of the stock widgets.
I really loved how everything looks with that DPI but it's no use if no app works with it, so I got back to 640.
Anyone knows a pleasant DPI that gets everything working smooth? I'm using the stock ROM and I just rooted the terminal, thanks.
to have a decent size for the icons i recomend 580DPI or 590DPI, less than that and the icons are too small! try it.
Fuakuputu said:
Hi everyone, I bought my G3 yesterday and today I proceeded to change the DPI as things were too monstruous even using small icons and minimum text size.
The stock DPI sets it at 640 and I changed it to 520 as a friend of mine did, but the result was that any of the stock android apps (camera, calendar, calculator, etc) were working, as well as any of the stock widgets.
I really loved how everything looks with that DPI but it's no use if no app works with it, so I got back to 640.
Anyone knows a pleasant DPI that gets everything working smooth? I'm using the stock ROM and I just rooted the terminal, thanks.
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I used 550 when I was on stock and everything worked as normal. That was a while ago, but from what I remember it was when you got below 530 was when things got funky.
Thanks! At 550 looks great and everything is working fine.