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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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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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

[MOD] BRD Launcher 2.0 | 240dpi Optimized | 6x6 / 7x6 NoSearch | Resize ALL Widgets!

***Click Here for a tutorial on changing your lcd density***
Launcher now runs side by side with stock launcher!
I highly recommend flashing the stock launcher back to have as backup after installing this if you have used version 1.0 before.
Stock ICS Launcher: ZIP
Here is a modified stock launcher optimized for a modded lcd density of 240 dpi. While it will run on a stock 320 dpi Nexus, it will be so messed up it will be unusable. Landscape mode is fully working. Your feedback is appreciated!
I can make different icon grids based on request (5x5 or 6x5 for example). Eventually i want to make it so that the user can change this from the app itself.
Home Screens:
6x6 Icon Grid / 7x6 No Search Bar
7 Icon Bottom Bar (aka Hotseat)
Resize ALL Widgets (after adding a widget you have to pick it up and drop it again to enter resize more)
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
App Drawer:
6x7 App Icons / 9x5 (landscape)
2x4 Widgets / 3x3 (landscape)
Changelog:
Version 2.0:
- Added a 7x6 desktop no search bar version (for use in portrait only)
- All apps button animation has been modified to prevent seeing apps on the next homescreen over
- Moving an existing app/widget uses the tablet like overview mode
- Resize all widgets! (After adding a widget, pick it up and drop it again to enter resize mode)
- All apps drawer: 6x7 portrait / 9x5 landscape
- Now a separate app form the stock launcher, to allow side by side use
Version 1.0:
- Initial Release
Downloads:
Code:
adb remount
adb push C:\PATH_TO_APK\BRD_Launcher.apk /system/app/BRD_Launcher.apk
apks must be pushed to /system/app with adb!
Version 2.0: 6x6 w/ Search APK / ZIP
Version 2.0: 7x6 (No Search Bar) APK / ZIP
Version 1.0 (Old) ZIP
DO NOT INSTALL THIS UNLESS YOUR LCD DENSITY HAS BEEN MODDED TO BE 240 DPI or 241 DPI (DEFAULT 320 DPI)

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How do apps look at that dpi?
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theb1rdm4n said:
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Hey, great idea man. Does this have resize all Widgets? I will try tomorrow.
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joshnichols189 said:
How do apps look at that dpi?
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First of all, everything is going to be smaller of course. However some apps (only a few really) are reformatted and look a little different (and better imo). I am actually surprised how well apps handle this dpi (although mostly its because 240 is the dpi of many of the phones from last year). My old phone had problems with a few apps using a changed dpi, but with the nexus i havent seen much issues.
Some key differences:
- Market now has 2 columns instead of one when listing apps
- Contact pictures are much smaller in the favorites tab
- Contact info had a small icon of contact on left (static) with all of the contact info as a scrolling pane on the right.
- Launcher used to have small 4x4 grid in centered on screen, but fixed with this mod.
I would post some screenshots, but a lot of the stuff on my phone (contacts, email apps, etc) are personal, and i dont feel like censoring them. My opinion for you would be to just try it for yourself. You can always go back to 320 at any time if you dont like it.

itsjusttim said:
Hey, great idea man. Does this have resize all Widgets? I will try tomorrow.
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Unfortunately, no it doesn't have a widget resize feature like ADW or something like that. I would LOVE to have that feature for this launcher, but unfortunately with my current knowledge of android it would take a while before i could figure out how to get that working, so don't count on it.

landscape don't work on my sgn, why?

boostermbkking said:
landscape don't work on my sgn, why?
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You need to be running a ROM that has it enabled
(e.g. Modaco Rom: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1361108)

wow, this is perfect. One question: Do we face the same problem with the changed dpi as we faced with the SGS2 in the market with apps?

i flashed it and nothing has changed!! i am on stock

freebordjunky said:
i flashed it and nothing has changed!! i am on stock
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did you change the dpi and restarted before flashing this mod?
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thanks for the mod. I am liking it so much. only issue I saw is that the quick shortcuts in Gmail are missing
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chowdarygm said:
did you change the dpi and restarted before flashing this mod?
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This might sound a silly question, but how do you change the DPI? Its not mentioned in this thread.

jhericurls said:
This might sound a silly question, but how do you change the DPI? Its not mentioned in this thread.
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Use an app called "DPI Changer Utility" from market and change the dpi to 240, reboot and then apply the MOD
OP has the mentioned it in the first post to apply this only after changing the DPI
theb1rdm4n said:
DO NOT INSTALL THIS UNLESS YOUR LCD DENSITY HAS BEEN MODDED TO BE 240 DPI (DEFAULT 320 DPI)
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Thanks for this, was going to do it myself but haven't had time. Anyone else notice the launcher now has the cube effect that tablets have?
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Alekxxx said:
wow, this is perfect. One question: Do we face the same problem with the changed dpi as we faced with the SGS2 in the market with apps?
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I don't know for sure but I would guess at no as 240 is a standard dpi for many devices, whereas if your changing from a device that started at 240 then it will 9 times out of 10 be something obscure that apps dont list as compatible with even though most the time it is..

Hey guys, I will answer all of your questions later today. For now i wanted to let you guys know that i created a thread to discuss modded lcd density for the Galaxy Nexus. The discussion in this thread should be related to this mod, and if you want to discuss any other dpi related things (gmail, market, etc) they can go in the dpi thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1392089

Can i have another download link as my country has blocked megaupload, thanks.

Great job man. Does it also work on a density of 260 or 280? Or are things getting overlapped at a larger density.

appelflap said:
Great job man. Does it also work on a density of 260 or 280? Or are things getting overlapped at a larger density.
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I do not modify the size of the icons, i just allow for more on the screen. The 6x6 grid is pretty packed as is on a 240 dpi display that if you ran it on 260 or 280 my guess is the outer icons will be chopped off, or half showing (based on how it looks in 320).
240 dpi will definitely give you better compatibility across apps, but if that is too small for you i can see where you are coming from. If i made a 5x5 grid one it might work on 260/280.

[Quick TUT] How to change the DPI (LCD Density) to the way it should have been

Does it bother you that apps and menus look too big and sometimes not sharp as it should be ? Do you want to see more details and do less scrolling on web browsers, emails, file explorers and more ? Do you use a third party launcher ? If the answer to all of the above is YES, this is for you!
Please read everything carefully before you begin!
Requirements:
- LG Optimus G Pro
- Root
- Xposed Framework (excellent for other stuff too!).
- App Settings
- Build Prop Editor (you can edit the build.prop with root file explorer too).
- Some Root File Explorer - ES File Explorer (my favorite).
!Warning!
This mod is generally safe, BUT it can harm you device and cause your device to bootloop or FC apps. I'm not responsible for any problem cause by my instructions!
!Warning 2!
You have to have a third party launcher like Nova/Apex/Next/Go etc (as default) before you begin the processes!
1. Root your LGOGP (voids your warranty).
2. Make a backup of the build.prop TO YOUR PC. You can find it in /System/ directory.
3. Install Xposed Framework following the instructions in the link - Xposed Framework
4. Install App Settings from the link and enable it in Xposed Modules - App Settings (don't forget to reboot).
5. Install Build Prop Editor
5. Open Build Prop Editor (don't forget to grant it root privilege) and look for "ro.sf.lcd_density" the property value should be "480". Change it to "360" or "320" (I found it most appropriate, but you can change it to what ever suit you). Save and reboot.
Known Issues:
I did some testing and found 2 major issues.
1. The Home Launcher Force Closing. For now I haven't found a fix (If you don't use the original launcher you're golden). EDIT: I Found a fix. Open App Setting and look for "Home" (come.lge.launcher2), set in its options "xlarge res" (no need to change anything else) and save.
2. Camera view gets messed. This is where Xposed and App Setting come to play. All you have to do is to open App Settings, look for "Camera" (com.lge.camera) and set in its options the DPI to "480" and save.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

reserved for no reason...

Been using the AppSettings for awhile, and found 2 problems
1. Apps seems to delay a bit longer to load, dunno if it's because it redraws or it's just feels longer because you can see first the big interface then small.
2. There is a gap of a few pixels between the StatusBar and the HomeScreen/Apps that have it. FullScreen apps works like a charm.

Hi Kriggs,
With my instructions there isn't noticeable gap as in your screen shoot, I haven't notice any lag as well.

liamR said:
Hi Kriggs,
With my instructions there isn't noticeable gap as in your screen shoot, I haven't notice any lag as well.
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Yeah, I should've said I'm still using the stock launcher, haven't been able to change the "Android System" to 320dpi, it's him who FC the launcher, and probably who runs the top bar size.
I really like LG's stock launcher and the black line is a minus so I'm keeping it, for now. I'll change build.prop when CM10.1 is all working

I played around with this a few days ago and couldn't get anything to work well except a density of 400 (which also happens to be what the secondary density is set to in the build.prop). Everything seems to scale correctly with the stock applications except the camera. The camera has black on the side and bottom of the screen, but still works ok. On any other density, the launcher ended up being mostly unusable (seemed to convert to a 4x4 homescreen grid). I did not do anything with the xposed framework though, just direct edit of the build.prop file.

can anyone post up some screenshots for comparison .. whats the main benefit here ???
thanks

Is there a way to put apps in tablet mode, 240/213 dpis are unusable here...
zohaer21 said:
can anyone post up some screenshots for comparison .. whats the main benefit here ???
thanks
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More on screen thingys.
Stock dpi
320 dpi.
With Cyanogem it will look something like this, at leat for me:
draiko913 said:
I played around with this a few days ago and couldn't get anything to work well except a density of 400 (which also happens to be what the secondary density is set to in the build.prop). Everything seems to scale correctly with the stock applications except the camera. The camera has black on the side and bottom of the screen, but still works ok. On any other density, the launcher ended up being mostly unusable (seemed to convert to a 4x4 homescreen grid). I did not do anything with the xposed framework though, just direct edit of the build.prop file.
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That's the old way to do it, nowadays it's better to just edit everything with AppSettings, the build.prop is good just so you don't have to set every app to the desired density, but you can achieve all on the fly with xPosed.

@Kriggs : thanks ... really makes a huge difference

This is how it looks with my way 360 dpi (attachment).

I found a fix for the LG home launcher FC. OP updated.

liamR said:
I found a fix for the LG home launcher FC. OP updated.
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Almost all good, 2 things got messed up though:
Wallpaper gets cropped, not live wallpaper though
Transparente top bar in pop-up menus
Also, keyboard letter appears small in 320, setting font scale to 150 gets all back to normal

afaik, playstore won't support for dpi value except 320 - 400 - 480
i use 400 dpi and all look fit for my eyes using nova launcher (won't fit with stock launcher)

Can you guys post some screenies of your home screen and what settings you used. I did this work around a few days ago and my launcher screens came out all screwie especially any custom icons or widgets changed in nova or holo launcher. For example a email icon would be oversized but only 1/4th of the icon would be displayed same for widgets

ivantastic said:
afaik, playstore won't support for dpi value except 320 - 400 - 480
i use 400 dpi and all look fit for my eyes using nova launcher (won't fit with stock launcher)
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Download and flash the multi dpi play store from the apps and games section of xda, I use the inverted one.
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Also to OP you know all you need to do is use a file explorer that uses root to navigate to /system/build.prop open it in a text editor mode and change the dpi to whatever. Just really seems like the long way to download 3 apps when you can do it with 1 and learn a little about Android in the process
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Yeah, this is way too complicated for a 30 second process really. Just edit the stock build prop and reboot, all done.
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ballshanglow said:
Yeah, this is way too complicated for a 30 second process really. Just edit the stock build prop and reboot, all done.
Sent from my LG-E980 using Tapatalk 2
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Yes but then your LG camera does not line up properly with the new dpi, if you don't care about the camera then yes editing the build prop is all is needed. I have set mine to 400 dpi and the xposed module works great.
Erik
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Density at 360, jb 4.3
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Stock on 380 dpi with large font...minimum dpi stock launcher not crash...but only sky and water drop app wallpaper working in app drawer..
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[Q] Old Eyes, need help fixing

Hi all,
I love my Tab S 8.4, it's light, elegant, fast with the replacement ROM Definitive ROM NF9. But my old eyes don't like the tiny fonts under icons, as well as in a variety of applications. I've changed the font size in the settings to Extra Large, but that doesn't really help in most apps. One of the reasons I switched to tablets and ereaders was to not have to put on readers every time I want to look at anything.
I've tried using Textdroider to increase the size of things, but it just created a SystemUI bootloop.
Has anyone figured out a way to make everything larger? Without crashing the system? I've also tried using Xposed module App Settings but nothing seems to happen when I use it.
Would love to solve this, otherwise a lower resolution tablet might be in my future. Wish there was something simple like the scaling option in Windows 7.
Thanks for the help.

android94301 said:
Hi all,
I love my Tab S 8.4, it's light, elegant, fast with the replacement ROM Definitive ROM NF9. But my old eyes don't like the tiny fonts under icons, as well as in a variety of applications. I've changed the font size in the settings to Extra Large, but that doesn't really help in most apps. One of the reasons I switched to tablets and ereaders was to not have to put on readers every time I want to look at anything.
I've tried using Textdroider to increase the size of things, but it just created a SystemUI bootloop.
Has anyone figured out a way to make everything larger? Without crashing the system? I've also tried using Xposed module App Settings but nothing seems to happen when I use it.
Would love to solve this, otherwise a lower resolution tablet might be in my future. Wish there was something simple like the scaling option in Windows 7.
Thanks for the help.
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You can try to change the DPI..
Basically, by setting a higher value everything will be bigger. (But too much and it will become ugly/unresponsive)
There are 2 ways to do this:
1) Change the DPI for the whole device:
This can be done by changing it in the file build.prop.
Afterwards reboot and you're set.
2) Change the DPI per app
Download + install Xposed Framework.
Then open XPosed, go to download and look for the module "App Settings".
Install it, activate it & reboot the device.
Afterwards you can change the DPI settings for each app individually with the App Settings app.
I would advice that you try option 2, as this gives you more options aswel as the changes are immediatly, and you don't have to worry about editing or messing up build.prop.

shifter7 said:
You can try to change the DPI..
Basically, by setting a higher value everything will be bigger. (But too much and it will become ugly/unresponsive)
There are 2 ways to do this:
1) Change the DPI for the whole device:
This can be done by changing it in the file build.prop.
Afterwards reboot and you're set.
2) Change the DPI per app
Download + install Xposed Framework.
Then open XPosed, go to download and look for the module "App Settings".
Install it, activate it & reboot the device.
Afterwards you can change the DPI settings for each app individually with the App Settings app.
I would advice that you try option 2, as this gives you more options as well as the changes are immediately, and you don't have to worry about editing or messing up build.prop.
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I tried both, as Textdroider changes build.prop. Also, App Settings doesn't seem to change anything. Even after I reboot apps like Opera, or Feedly, still have small fonts. What numbers should I use with it? I tried 400 for dpi and 150 for font scaling.
Thanks for any help with this.

As you found out, changing dpi will give you boot loop. Not a lot you can do.
Feedly is hopeless. The font size is tiny. Try using Amber or gReader.
As for the web, you are at the mercy of web coders. If they use relative font size, you can increase with text scale. If they use absolute font size, which so many of them do, you are stuck. You can try another browser like Firefox to see if its text scaling works any better.

Hi if you are still interested I have a solution. It's not so simple though.
Install the CM12 build (lollipop)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=57853197
It's very smooth and stable. Some hardware stuff are missing, because CM12 is new and also Samsung is not helping out the devs any with their lack of driver code release.
Anyway, changing the DPI on this Rom will work. Here's a screen shot of my tapatalk. You can see how big the fonts are at 400 dpi
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I tried it with DPI changer but it did not take. I just ended up changing /system/build.prop myself. Change permission to 666, open in any text editor, look for
ro.sf.lcd_density=320
and change 320 to 400. Save and reopen file to verify that the change you made sticks. Then change file permission back to 644.
There's another file /system/media/lcd_density.txt. It just contains the text 320. I changed it to 400. I don't know if that is necessary or not but did it anyway. Same procedure above applies.
Reboot and cross your fingers.
If that works, you can experiment and change to something other than 400 if you want. You'll want to do a full nandroid back up before doing this.

Thanks for a solution that isn't "wear readers"
barth2 said:
Hi if you are still interested I have a solution. It's not so simple though.
Install the CM12 build (lollipop)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=57853197
It's very smooth and stable. Some hardware stuff are missing, because CM12 is new and also Samsung is not helping out the devs any with their lack of driver code release.
Anyway, changing the DPI on this Rom will work. Here's a screen shot of my tapatalk. You can see how big the fonts are at 400 dpi
I tried it with DPI changer but it did not take. I just ended up changing /system/build.prop myself. Change permission to 666, open in any text editor, look for
ro.sf.lcd_density=320
and change 320 to 400. Save and reopen file to verify that the change you made sticks. Then change file permission back to 644.
There's another file /system/media/lcd_density.txt. It just contains the text 320. I changed it to 400. I don't know if that is necessary or not but did it anyway. Same procedure above applies.
Reboot and cross your fingers.
If that works, you can experiment and change to something other than 400 if you want. You'll want to do a full nandroid back up before doing this.
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Thanks, that is very helpful...I'm not clear on the hardware limitations of the lollipop build though. I don't care about the fingerprint reader, probably don't even care about the camera, but would want the sound system to work well. Wifi of course too, but bluetooth not so much. What are the limitations of the CM12 lolli build you are running to get the dpi to 400?

Wi-Fi works, it would not be useable otherwise It only seems to connect to my router on 2.4ghz and not 5ghz, but speed is good. Audio works fine. Camera works. When you take a selfie it says cannot connect to camera but it actually does work anyway. I haven't tried Skype. Blue tooth works but I don't have any device to test it with at the moment. I think things like IR and NFC don't work and may never do. No big loss as fat as I'm concerned.
Main issue right now is you need to disable hardware overlay for video to work. This means that you take a performance hit when it comes to graphics, and probably more battery drain than otherwise. Practically speaking, I notice a little bit more blurring with video. 3Dmark is like 5% lower than average score with hardware overlay disabled. Not a huge deal. Netflix, YouTube, Amazon video, MX player, BS player are all working for me.
Overall, the OS is smoother and less laggy than stock. You get all the lollipop goodness, too, of course. CM12 is in early beta and there's not even official CM support for this tablet yet so things can only get better.
If your eyes don't glaze over when you hear things like nandroid backup, recovery, etc, definitely give it a shot.

DPI App scaling

As the title goes, how do the stock apps (dialer and such) scale with lower dpi? I've had many Samsung phones and am very annoyed with having to have xposed app settings module to set dpi to stock values, or else everything looks wonky. I know not all phones have that sort of issue though.
My HTC 10 tmo is in the mail ?
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Your telling me out of 40+ people who looked at this thread, not one of you have changed your DPI?? You people are seriously missing out, kind of scary how many people keep stock DPI. If your one of those people than you really need to look into it.

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Your telling me out of 40+ people who looked at this thread, not one of you have changed your DPI?? You people are seriously missing out, kind of scary how many people keep stock DPI. If your one of those people than you really need to look into it.
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I always lowered the DPI on my previous HTC phones, but I've read that if you change the DPI on the 10, then the HTC lockscreen becomes a huge mess.
Supposedly you need to uninstall or disable the HTC lockscreen in order for the DPI change to work properly (which will then give you the stock Android lockscreen). Will the fingerprint scanner still work then?
And I've read that a DPI of 600 works very well on the 10. Correct me if I'm wrong with the lockscreens.
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I always lowered the DPI on my previous HTC phones, but I've read that if you change the DPI on the 10, then the HTC lockscreen becomes a huge mess.
Supposedly you need to uninstall or disable the HTC lockscreen in order for the DPI change to work properly (which will then give you the stock Android lockscreen). Will the fingerprint scanner still work then?
And I've read that a DPI of 600 works very well on the 10. Correct me if I'm wrong with the lockscreens.
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Crap I haven't used anything higher than 480 in a very long time. I guess I can always use xposed app settings module but I hate the negative effects of installing xposed when most of those modules can be baked into the rom.
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Viper 10 and I believe LeeDroid are sty at 640. I changed my build.prop file to the supposed native of 565.
That solved some issues of games looking like crap but my home screen it's now shifted left.
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Use Solid Explorer or RootExplorer, go to your system/Priv-app and change HTCLockscreen.apk to xxHTCLockScreen.bak or something. Then DPI changes work fine for everything else, have mine set at 560.

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Use Solid Explorer or RootExplorer, go to your system/Priv-app and change HTCLockscreen.apk to xxHTCLockScreen.bak or something. Then DPI changes work fine for everything else, have mine set at 560.
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Thank you for your reply buddy. Have you gone any lower? Or does that already give you a fair amount of extra space? I run 440 on my note 4 but the screen is much larger so that would probably be insane on the 10

I found 560 to be my sweet spot on the Note 5/S7e/10. I also shrink down all my icons in Nova to basically the minimum, but text size seems perfect there for me. Here's a general example of how my phones are all set up at the moment:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

how much battery have people been saving lowering DPI? Seems to me the screen is sucking most of my power so in theory would be able to save a lot of power by lowering res/DPI

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how much battery have people been saving lowering DPI? Seems to me the screen is sucking most of my power so in theory would be able to save a lot of power by lowering res/DPI
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I have honestly never seen much of a difference but then again I'm usually always lower than stock. I can imagine it being a very minimal difference.

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I found 560 to be my sweet spot on the Note 5/S7e/10. I also shrink down all my icons in Nova to basically the minimum, but text size seems perfect there for me. Here's a general example of how my phones are all set up at the moment:
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Very nice job man. Your putting nova to much more use than I am lol. Would you mind posting a screenshot of the dialer?

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Phil750123 said:
how much battery have people been saving lowering DPI? Seems to me the screen is sucking most of my power so in theory would be able to save a lot of power by lowering res/DPI
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You're not lowering the resolution by changing the DPI. The screen is what the screen is, and lowering actual resolution would simply shrink the viewable area with a black box around it. Battery gains would probably be negligible, and that's only if you do a lot of gaming/3D performance. Nonexistant for everyday use.

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You're not lowering the resolution by changing the DPI. The screen is what the screen is, and lowering actual resolution would simply shrink the viewable area with a black box around it. Battery gains would probably be negligible, and that's only if you do a lot of gaming/3D performance. Nonexistant for everyday use.
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Honestly that looks like stock dpi lol. I'm just gonna have to root this thing already and see for myself, had to wait a couple days and make sure my hardware is all gravy ?
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entropism said:
Use Solid Explorer or RootExplorer, go to your system/Priv-app and change HTCLockscreen.apk to xxHTCLockScreen.bak or something. Then DPI changes work fine for everything else, have mine set at 560.
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560 is a sweet spot for sure, thanks for that recommendation. Have you tried using the fingerprint scanner after fixing the lock screen?

Yeah, works fine, why?