[Q] Problem with DPI and stock apps - G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

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.

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changing lcd density on stock rooted n2 ?

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.

[Q] DPI settings

Just picked up my new GS3 a couple of days ago. I have been searching for DPI settings. I have changed DPI settings before on my HD2 and Nook Color in system>build.prop. Is that still the method for this phone? I need larger fonts, etc. for my old eyes, and would use 240 on these devices, but the DPI is already set to 320 in build.prop on my GS3.
Can somebody suggest a good setting for me? Also, with these previous devices, certain DPI's had to be used it would throw off the apps available in the market. What are standard settings for GS3?
Thanks for any and all help.
k8108 said:
Just picked up my new GS3 a couple of days ago. I have been searching for DPI settings. I have changed DPI settings before on my HD2 and Nook Color in system>build.prop. Is that still the method for this phone? I need larger fonts, etc. for my old eyes, and would use 240 on these devices, but the DPI is already set to 320 in build.prop on my GS3.
Can somebody suggest a good setting for me? Also, with these previous devices, certain DPI's had to be used it would throw off the apps available in the market. What are standard settings for GS3?
Thanks for any and all help.
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Standard settings for DPI on the GS3 is 320. The android market DPIs are 160, 240, 320 and i believe one more. But dont worry about the market issues. Just flash my modded market and it will always work regardless your DPI.
Also, if you are running a Stock ROM, TouchWiz has issues with some modded DPIs so you will just have to use another home launcher instead.
But if you want things bigger, you will need to increase the DPI value. I think 320 is insane lol..
Where do I find your modded market? I don't see it in your signature links. Sounds like what I am looking for.
I am using mrRobinson's rooted stock rom with apex launcher.
NM I just found it. Looks good.
k8108 said:
Where do I find your modded market? I don't see it in your signature links. Sounds like what I am looking for.
I am using mrRobinson's rooted stock rom with apex launcher.
NM I just found it. Looks good.
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-.- *facepalm* sorry for forgetting the link. I feel retarded now... lol glad you found it.
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Everything is too small (icons, Status bar) HELP!

So i installed android 4.4.2 using http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/sprint-develop/rom-slimkat-toroplus-t2514380
and everything is all fine and dandy BUT everything is wayyyy too small almost like this is not a build for a phone but rather a tablet if that makes sense. i came from android 4.3 where everything was nicely sized and fit to the screen but on this build everything seems zoomed out how can i fix tthis?
Tokyogarden said:
So i installed android 4.4.2 using http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-nexus/sprint-develop/rom-slimkat-toroplus-t2514380
and everything is all fine and dandy BUT everything is wayyyy too small almost like this is not a build for a phone but rather a tablet if that makes sense. i came from android 4.3 where everything was nicely sized and fit to the screen but on this build everything seems zoomed out how can i fix tthis?
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Could be your DPI. You could go into build.prop and adjust the DPI to 320 like it should be.
Or find an app on the play store that will let you change it. ---MUST BE 320---

[Q] Some system apps not working after resolution change

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

[Q] LCD Density & LG Apps

After having a fairly low density on my previous phone I rooted the g3 immediately and attempted to change the density from the insane 640 to 520. Immediately after the reboot I noticed all the default LG apps had the green android for their logo, attempting to start any of them results in an immediate force close. This is a huge problem when the contacts app is required for the dialer to work.
Has anyone lowered their density successful and to what?
Yes I lowered mine to 590
530 is the lowest LG apps can do. I would love to use 480dpi all around, it seems perfect for the device. I have now used xPosed App Settings to force 480 other apps, but it would be nice tovhave systemui also use that dpi :/
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WizRd said:
After having a fairly low density on my previous phone I rooted the g3 immediately and attempted to change the density from the insane 640 to 520. Immediately after the reboot I noticed all the default LG apps had the green android for their logo, attempting to start any of them results in an immediate force close. This is a huge problem when the contacts app is required for the dialer to work.
Has anyone lowered their density successful and to what?
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Stick the DPI back to 640 and it'll restore the apps again, 600 works, it's OK but tbh I just use stock DPI these days. On this screen why not?
Yup I returned it to 640 and all the apps came good and the previous posters mention the lowest I could go. I don't entirely know how to explain it and I couldn't see a difference in sharpness on this phone or my previous phone no matter what dpi I set. To me the biggest difference was how much fitted on the screen, it's more a personal preference.
Thankyou to everyone that has helped!
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You can set 530 in build.prop and then use xPosed module to hack Play store to allow program updates
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Stock dpi looks like the phone is made for small children or elderly people.
So true! On every phone! Lowering DPI should be a built in option on all phones.

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