Hello guys,
I bought a new Wileyfox Swift and I'm really curious what dpi setting setting is the natural/standard one for a 5 " Display , especially for the wileyfox swift. It is said that the display has a natural of 296 ppi. which DPI Setting should I use in Cyanogen OS ? The standard of 320 DPI or a value near the natural ppi of the display? 300 DPI or less? I just want a setting the fit's the standard.
Does this value or setting has impact on other things or only the scale of things on screen?
Again, should the cyanogen os standard value of DPI be set near the standard PPI value of the smartphone display`?
thanks in advance for all helpful answers.
That is a neat little option.
Usually it affects the size of items which can be displayed. Depending on the apps you use, you'll find that their appearance and subtle part of functionality on the UX side will change a bit. Some layouts are available only for certain DPI settings. Play around with it and choose your favourite. With lower DPI you can get a bit more screen estate for content- text, icons, etc.
The difference between 300 vs 320 DPI is mostly unnoticeable. As you are looking for the natural look, you can leave it as either of the two. You can try with lower values as well. It is possible to have some problems here and there if you use DPI that is largely different than on the device (something like 240).
Pak0St said:
That is a neat little option.
Usually it affects the size of items which can be displayed. Depending on the apps you use, you'll find that their appearance and subtle part of functionality on the UX side will change a bit. Some layouts are available only for certain DPI settings. Play around with it and choose your favourite. With lower DPI you can get a bit more screen estate for content- text, icons, etc.
The difference between 300 vs 320 DPI is mostly unnoticeable. As you are looking for the natural look, you can leave it as either of the two. You can try with lower values as well. It is possible to have some problems here and there if you use DPI that is largely different than on the device (something like 240).
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Thank you very much I guess I should consider a mental doctor because I'm switching from 300 to 320 and back several times a day lol. Some applications looking better with 300 but 320 looks more clear?!?
Anyway, appreciate you took your time to answer and I guess I'll keep the 300..... Or?.... Wow... Hard decision lol.
Take a look in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xpo...2014-05-14-t2437377/post63835421#post63835421
I haven't tried this Xposed module to change the DPI on per-app basis. If you are on CyanogenMod instead of CyanogenOS, it is definitely worth a look.
Best case scenario- you won't change the DPI for the entire system and restart each time
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Has anyone tried modifiying the ro.sf.lcd_density from the default value of 240 to something else? like 300? If so, what were the results?
# density in DPI of the LCD of this board. This is used to scale the UI
# appropriately. If this property is not defined, the default value is 160 dpi.
ro.sf.lcd_density = 240
freeza said:
Has anyone tried modifiying the ro.sf.lcd_density from the default value of 240 to something else? like 300? If so, what were the results?
# density in DPI of the LCD of this board. This is used to scale the UI
# appropriately. If this property is not defined, the default value is 160 dpi.
ro.sf.lcd_density = 240
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its fairly easy to change if you have write access to system.
experiment with the value in /system/build.prop and reboot.
i dont know much about DPI so i can't give any great suggestions ... perhaps somebody more familiar with resolutions and DPI can get some more valueable input? or google DPI android and perhaps other people have experimented on other phones?
I played with this a lot on my Nexus, and while it does make stuff super tiny, and you can fit way more text on screen, a lot of UI elements don't draw correctly. Leading to a rough user experience.
Fun to play with, but unfortunately, unless you change it to one of the Android-standard DPI settings, you probably won't be too happy.
ultimind said:
I played with this a lot on my Nexus, and while it does make stuff super tiny, and you can fit way more text on screen, a lot of UI elements don't draw correctly. Leading to a rough user experience.
Fun to play with, but unfortunately, unless you change it to one of the Android-standard DPI settings, you probably won't be too happy.
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Heh, figured. I remember a program doing this on Windows Mobile as well. Ineresting. I wonder what the next standard setting is after 240? 160, 240, 320? :-D
We have a giant screen so maybe we can actually do something with this...any takers?
I'd love to, but I don't want to have anything broken.
/pansy
good call, OP! Defly goes back to android on my Vogue..anyway, I went ahead and tried a few densities and I'm running 218 ATM. Makes it a little crisper w/o messing too much up.
*Note: apps seem to remain relatively unaffected minus a few relics here n there while widgets, mainly Sense widgets, can get pretty distorted. I'm using ADW Launcher so I'm not hurtin atall
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good call, OP! Defly goes back to android on my Vogue..anyway, I went ahead and tried a few densities and I'm running 218 ATM. Makes it a little crisper w/o messing too much up.
*Note: apps seem to remain relatively unaffected minus a few relics here n there while widgets, mainly Sense widgets, can get pretty distorted. I'm using ADW Launcher so I'm not hurtin atall
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Nice. You know that 240 is what HTC set it at right? 218 is kind of going down lol. You should try the next standard step up, which is 320
Just to let you know, going higher will make everything bigger. I find 200 to be ideal for the EVO. Though Sense Rom's have problem if you change the DPI. CyanogenMod does not.
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Just to let you know, going higher will make everything bigger. I find 200 to be ideal for the EVO. Though Sense Rom's have problem if you change the DPI. CyanogenMod does not.
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I've never heard that before, but I don't Sense, what goes wrong in Sense when you change the dpi?
I used LCD density to drop the dpi of my screen, which is great because it allows much better homescreen customization. However, some apps look funky with the resolution lowered.
I am currently running at 182. Ideally I would like to be a touch lower. ~170. Hower, if you go lower than 182, contacts will FC. Is there an updated contacts app that will allow it t run in a lower dpi?
The dialer app and onscreen keyboards become very small, are there any designed slightly larger for low dpi?
I will edit this post as I come across more things.
What are the pros of doing this vs what are the cons? One con would be that some apps are incompatible with this.
If your blind you can benefit by making it bigger. If you can see really well you can set a lower value for the density which gives you more real estate on the screen.
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If you run at 240 their aren't really any cons as it is still a native Android density. Other densities will give you market compatibility issues. Apps will work at other densities but won't download from the market.
There are modded markets that will make the market think you are running another density then you are so apps will download.
The Pro's are everything looks crisper and better at lower densities and you can get much more information on the screen.
I run my phone in Tablet mode at a 160 density and it looks great!
Just remember when making the density lower you can enlarge the text by going into the settings menu then display.
Stick with 240 and you'll be fine. I run 240 with small text and everything looks tack sharp.
Hi!
Just changing from my good old Note to a G3. With the immensly increased pixels I thought I'd get an even better usability - but so far it is much worse!
Many apps are so ugly as I have seen it only on smaller phones. For example in Hangouts or other such apps I have way less entries on the screen than on my old Note with 1280x800 and 240dpi setting. I can decrease the text size, but the overall extreme height of an entry, a menu line and even in the android system settings remains unchanged. Decreasing the dpi to below 530 has my phone almost stuck since "com.android.phone" keeps crashing and the dialog keeps popping ifinitely. But even with a dpi of 450 things aren't sweet as text goes really small but whitespace is still huge.
So, how come my old phone works so well and shows much more info with 240dpi? Are there other settings I can play with? Those "line heights" are just outrageous. Most apps are in direct comparison to my old Note way better on that one and show more info.
Any links to how android treats these graphic settings and which there are? Does it depend on the version? I use 6 on G3 vs 4.4 on the Note.
Thanks a lot!
Just out of curiosity what smallest width number are you guys running? I know you can make some adjustments to display size/font size in display settings but I'm talking about the number you set in developer options. I'm running 512 looks pretty good to me. The options in display settings didn't allow me to go as small as I wanted.
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Just out of curiosity what DPI are you guys running? I know you can make some adjustments to display size/font size in display settings but I'm talking about the number you set in developer options. I'm running 512 because that is the DPI listed on all the spec sheets for the screen. Looks pretty good to me.
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Do you mean DPI or PPI?
If you are referring to PPI (jea 512 is the P6 Pro max) this does not change the actual PPI of the screen (obviously), only sets DPI scaling (ability to adjust the size of on-screen content).
Decreasing the value will give you larger icons and make text easier to read.
Increasing it will make on-screen elements smaller and fit more content on the screen.
You can also achieve that with the Pixel launcher built-in font & screen size options, so I don't really see the point here. (Settings -> Display -> Font size / Display size).
Morgrain said:
Do you mean DPI or PPI?
If you are referring to PPI (jea 512 is the P6 Pro max) this does not change the actual PPI of the screen (obviously), only sets DPI scaling (ability to adjust the size of on-screen content).
Decreasing the value will give you larger icons and make text easier to read.
Increasing it will make on-screen elements smaller and fit more content on the screen.
You can also achieve that with the Pixel launcher built-in font & screen size options, so I don't really see the point here. (Settings -> Display -> Font size / Display size).
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The point is pretty simple, the adjustments in the display settings only go so far. I want on-screen elements smaller than those settings allow. Smallest options in settings gives you a minimum width of 484 and I wanted a higher number. Guess I should have just said the smallest width settings in developer options.
510 here and much preferring it!
Morgrain said:
Do you mean DPI or PPI?
If you are referring to PPI (jea 512 is the P6 Pro max) this does not change the actual PPI of the screen (obviously), only sets DPI scaling (ability to adjust the size of on-screen content).
Decreasing the value will give you larger icons and make text easier to read.
Increasing it will make on-screen elements smaller and fit more content on the screen.
You can also achieve that with the Pixel launcher built-in font & screen size options, so I don't really see the point here. (Settings -> Display -> Font size / Display size).
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Hi! I'm sorry to bother you but I have a question, that is, you see my phone is oppo f9 and I have 432 dp and I'd like to change it to 700. Can I change it to that number? if yes, does it affects my phone performances? The "developer options" is quite new for me, so I'd like to ask before taking action
I have been running smallest width 720 for a few years now, which I think translates to something like 320dp. I ran the same on my previous Note phones. It takes me a minute to focus in the morning but I enjoy the extra space and viewing websites in full desktop mode instead of fisher price mobile versions.
It's really up to you to fiddle with the number until you find something that works for you, but I can verify 700+ works fine without breaking anything.
FWIW I ran it at 1024 for awhile too, that didnt break anything either but was too small for me. I don't know what the exact cutoff is but at a certain resolution you'll notice that Android and apps will flip over to a tablet experience. I prefer this, but it may influence your choice.
592 dpi also with 6 pro and 7 pro
anyone using Poco X3 NFC ? any suggestion on your smallest width ?
Only tried up to 800 so far. Maybe try 1024 once i very comfy w 800.