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
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Ok i love my hero, but im starting to get a bit fed up of the laggy touchflo, and whats annoying is it completely random? one minute i can flick through the homescreens fine nice and fast next minute its lagging like crazy and skipping screens?
Also im finding that sometimes some buttons or keyboard fucntions will lag like mad, and i think i just didnt touch it properly and end up typing a load of rubbish or going back and forward thru the same menu lol,
Ive tried taskiller and the other task manager apps and make sure i have nothing running that doesent need to be but i still get random lag, and it always shows up when im trying to show how nice the phone is to people, its like its trying to show me up!!
mine was the same, removed the twitter widget helped a bit, but i switched of touchflo and just use the default android home screen, very smooth now.
I suspect this is application-specific
For example, if you go to Facebook Mobile and try to input into a text box (not to be confused with a text FIELD), you'd notice that the keyboard seems laggy as heck. Now open AK Notepad and try to enter a line of text into a new note -- notice the performance difference between browser and AK Notepad? The latter is MUCH faster, no idea why.
Turning off Sense UI seems to defeat the purpose of getting this phone. I have to admit that the widgets do work well for me, especially Mail and Messages, otherwise, I might as well go back to using my HTC Magic or my G1
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I suspect this is application-specific
For example, if you go to Facebook Mobile and try to input into a text box (not to be confused with a text FIELD), you'd notice that the keyboard seems laggy as heck. Now open AK Notepad and try to enter a line of text into a new note -- notice the performance difference between browser and AK Notepad? The latter is MUCH faster, no idea why.
Turning off Sense UI seems to defeat the purpose of getting this phone. I have to admit that the widgets do work well for me, especially Mail and Messages, otherwise, I might as well go back to using my HTC Magic or my G1
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Yeah. lol!
i sold my 288MB Ram HTC Magic to get the actual Hero device. im getting it today and i will see about performance. However i hope its not that bad cuz if it is then ill just go back to my Magic and install Hero as it will run about the same and or even better since developers seem to do much optimization to files.
fozzieb said:
mine was the same, removed the twitter widget helped a bit, but i switched of touchflo and just use the default android home screen, very smooth now.
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How do you remove these widgets completely?
qpop said:
How do you remove these widgets completely?
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I don't think he means deleting the Twitter app, just removing the widget from the Home screens. To do that, tap and hold on the widget until it vibrates a bit, then drag it down to the bottom of the screen onto the big red Remove button
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How do you remove these widgets completely?
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Ok, so i've actualy done this with previous android devices such as the G1 and HTC Magic, so i believe it should be the same here...
adb shell rm r- /path to whatever you want to remove..
Example:
adb shell rm -r /system/app/Camera.apk
adb shell rm -r /system/app/HTC_IME.apk
res: 240x320 works: sygic 2010 (copilot didn't work didn't work).
res: 320x480: ?
Igo Amigo or Igo MyWay for 480
Is there a program that works with original resolution (except sygic)? (320*240)
Hacked Igo MyWay. Its not perfect but usable.
You can modify iGo My Way to fit 240X320, but there isn't a guide that explains how to do this. At least nothing good anyway.
Sure?? Try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5742951&postcount=55. For the data.gro, if someone needed it pm me.
thebulletfromhell said:
Sure?? Try http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5742951&postcount=55. For the data.gro, if someone needed it pm me.
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Thanks, but I'm still suck. I'm guessing "adb push data.gro /data/local/bin/" is for the internal memory of the phone, cause there's a data directory but no local or bin in there. Nothing is in the data directory. Should I just make those directories?
I'm typing those commands in Terminal emulator btw.
Not sure what the adb commands are for. I just copied the data file to my sdcard, opened Terminal emulator, su to root, then copy the file off the sdcard to the data dir. ie
Start Igo, then close it off.
Open Terminal emulator
$ su
# cp /sdcard/tmp/data.gro /data/data/com.navngo.igo.javaclient
Start Igo and it now uses the new data.gro set for 320 res.
Steve
pasks said:
Not sure what the adb commands are for. I just copied the data file to my sdcard, opened Terminal emulator, su to root, then copy the file off the sdcard to the data dir. ie
Start Igo, then close it off.
Open Terminal emulator
$ su
# cp /sdcard/tmp/data.gro /data/data/com.navngo.igo.javaclient
Start Igo and it now uses the new data.gro set for 320 res.
Steve
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Thanks, that worked perfectly. The data.gro I have is cutting out the sides a little, but I can still use it. If you have a better data.gro can you send it to me pasks?
Dukenukemx said:
Thanks, that worked perfectly. The data.gro I have is cutting out the sides a little, but I can still use it. If you have a better data.gro can you send it to me pasks?
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Here's the data.gro I used. Not perfect but usable.
Cheers,
Steve
For me the Navigon 2.5.1 Software works perfectly. I´ve Myn´s Warm Donut RLS5 and kallt_kaffe´s NBH.
I turned to android one week ago. I´ve tested several android builds 2 months ago but i switched back to wm because wifi, bt, gps didn´t work. But now all these things work nearly perfect. I only have this Camera Bug (kernel) and it´s hard to get a stable USB connection to Windows 7 x64. But i think it needs only one more month and this bugs are fixed.
Best regards
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For me the Navigon 2.5.1 Software works perfectly. I´ve Myn´s Warm Donut RLS5 and kallt_kaffe´s NBH.
I turned to android one week ago. I´ve tested several android builds 2 months ago but i switched back to wm because wifi, bt, gps didn´t work. But now all these things work nearly perfect. I only have this Camera Bug (kernel) and it´s hard to get a stable USB connection to Windows 7 x64. But i think it needs only one more month and this bugs are fixed.
Best regards
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Which resolution?
Thanks everyone.
It´s 320x480 i think. My Android is runnin at 320x480 and scaled down to fit Kaisers screen which is only 240x320. This is the best for me because you´ve more "space" on screen.
highcoder said:
It´s 320x480 i think. My Android is runnin at 320x480 and scaled down to fit Kaisers screen which is only 240x320. This is the best for me because you´ve more "space" on screen.
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I can hardly read the txt on that resolution.
You can use Rogue Tools to adjust your Screen Density in DPI. I´ve no problem reading the text but everyone has it´s own favourite.
I've tried Eclair builds with 320X480 and it usually kills the performance and response time. Running them at 240X320 gives it acceptable speed.
I have Myn´s Warm Donut RLS5 and it's pretty quick, but I have my doubts running it at 320X480. Though, it would make iGO look better, and replace the data.gro file makes it scrunch up, and doesn't entirely fit on the screen.
And yea, I've gotten 320X480 looking good thanks to Rogue Tools.
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
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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
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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...
****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?
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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?
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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.
I have an Allshare Dongle and it works great with the Note 10.1-2014 but there are annoying black bars on the left and right of the image because the 10.1-2014 runs at 16x10 aspect ratio. I know the Nexus has some handles for forcing 16x9, but does anyone know how to do this on the 10.1-2014? Changing the display resolution might work if you could set it to 1920x1080.
-Ryan
ryanmcdonald said:
I have an Allshare Dongle and it works great with the Note 10.1-2014 but there are annoying black bars on the left and right of the image because the 10.1-2014 runs at 16x10 aspect ratio. I know the Nexus has some handles for forcing 16x9, but does anyone know how to do this on the 10.1-2014? Changing the display resolution might work if you could set it to 1920x1080.
-Ryan
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As of right now, no. The handles that the nexus uses can also be used for this device. But since Samsung is using a custom window manager, it causes the device to crash and boot loop into the boot Samsung intro when the device normally turns on. I am currently in communication with a developer who released an app on the play store that allowed anyone to change the resolution of their device. This device is currently not supported. But with my help, we are trying to figure out how to add support for the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014. Do not try to change the resolution yourself through terminal. You can change the resolution, but your device will need to be resetted.
You can run this command in terminal to change the resolution:
wm size 1980x1080
And reset with this command:
wm size reset
I do warn you that if you use that first one, your device won't be too happy.. and will end up frozen on the samusng boot logo.
davidhooper4 said:
Do not try to change the resolution yourself through terminal. You can change the resolution, but your device will need to be resetted.
You can run this command in terminal to change the resolution:
wm size 1980x1080
And reset with this command:
wm size reset
I do warn you that if you use that first one, your device won't be too happy.. and will end up frozen on the samusng boot logo.
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I very much appreciate your response, but looking at the quote above, I can't tell if you are saying that the wm size command will work or if it won't work. The way I read your post seems to suggest both. Sorry, I'm sure I'm just not following along correctly...
Can the methodology that will be used in the upcoming app you referenced be used in a script or adb right now?
-Ryan
ryanmcdonald said:
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Can the methodology that will be used in the upcoming app you referenced be used in a script or adb right now?
-Ryan
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Hi, Ryan. You can use the methodology (wm size 1280x800) with some caveats. Firstly, you'll have to be root to do it (so, su - first). Secondly, you'll need to reduce the density (use wm density 150 to do this; reasonably, anything up to 320 should work but I know that 150 does). Thirdly, you'll need a different Home than TouchWiz. I know that Apex works and I have read that Nova does, too. The status bar looks bad at first, but, after a reboot, you'll be in business.
To return to normal, execute wm size reset; wm density reset as root.
Note that, as with anything like this, you'll want a decent backup. Screw-ups result in flashing stock and factory resetting to get out of the boot loop.
Good Luck!